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**TheDraconicLord**

I have been trying to hold myself. I'm against pre-orders. I don't want to buy any PC game full-price either, I'd rather wait for a price drop or special deals and promotions.

But after watching the Launch Trailer? It's the final nail in the coffin.

Call me an hypocrite, 'cause I'm fething pre-ordering it on Steam!!!

**TheDraconicLord**

To me, all I really want is an improved version of Fallout 3, with a better collor pallete and a quest line I'll completely ignore until Lord knows when. Can't wait to start walking and go "WOOOOO, what's over there!" constantly

Curious to see what the first "dungeon" will be, in F3 that market and school were always my first "pit-stops".

**TheDraconicLord**

My game is pre-loaded since yesterday's night and I'm not shamed to admit I've clicked it more than once because of how much I wanted it to magically unlock.

Gods, why did they have to release it on a Monday's night.

**TheDraconicLord**

IGN review is up. I learnt something new:

On top of that, loot has been punched up in a very Diablo-style way: even better than the typical spoils of battle and foraging, every so often you’ll come across a Legendary enemy who will drop a uniquely named special weapon or item with a modifier. You might get a pistol that refreshes your action points when executing a critical hit, an arm piece that makes lockpicking easier, a flamethrower that deals extra radiation damage, or any of dozens of others.

... I have no words to express how much this feature excites me. I'll use a gif instead

I've ALWAYS loved finding unique weapons, my favorite will always be Lincoln's Repeater, but damn, literally "rare mobs"?!

**TheDraconicLord**

Silent Puffin? wrote:
It unlocks at 0100 tomorrow morning on Steam.

Oh dear, I am so heading to bed early today so I can rise and shine 2-3 hours earlier than usual tomorrow. I AM getting my Fallout fix before work. Again, I have no idea who decided it was a good idea to release this game on a Monday - Tuesday but screw him! D:

**TheDraconicLord**

Welp, my day so far:

- Wake up at 5am to play a decent enough bit before work

- Despair as there was yet another thing I had to download to be able to play. Several Gigs worth of something, even though the game was pre-loaded. Read more of the "Only War" rulebook as I did my best to wait for the download to finish ...

- 35 mns later, ready to start. At this point I was guffawing.

- 2 hours later, I'm throwing a mini tantrum in my head, thinking how I don't want to go to work, I want to stay home and play all damn week because this IS THE GAK. I haven't done much (in 2 hours!) but what I did, convinced me of the absurd quality of this Fallout. This Fallout 4 is to Fallout 3 what Skyrim was to Oblivion: Massive improvement of EVERYTHING.
Also, Dogmeat is the cutest thing ever.

So, here I am, at work, waiting for the day to end so I can return to the Commonwealth.

**TheDraconicLord**

Pete Melvin wrote:
TheDraconicLord wrote:

- 2 hours later, I'm throwing a mini tantrum in my head, thinking how I don't want to go to work, I want to stay home and play all damn week because this IS THE GAK. I haven't done much (in 2 hours!) but what I did, convinced me of the absurd quality of this Fallout. This Fallout 4 is to Fallout 3 what Skyrim was to Oblivion: Massive improvement of EVERYTHING.

That doesnt actually fill me with hope. Skyrim was style over the substance of Oblivion, just like Oblivion was style over the substance of Morrowind. Each iteration has got more hand-holdy and less RPG. Sure it looks a lot better but its got no crunch to it. So as I say, my hope drained a little there.

I guess this is a case of YMMV because I didn't enjoy Oblivion that much. It felt boring after a short while (except for the Thieve's and Black Hand quest lines. Those were awesome) but Skyrim felt so much better. It helps how every nook and cranny in Skyrim is a completely new experience, unlike Oblivion. I swear, every damn cave was the same as another cave on the other side of Tamriel. Morrowind I can't say, I never played it.

If you want crunch, wait until you see the Perk tree. Each perk has ranks, so, do you want a shiny new perk for that precious point you just got or are you improving a perk you already have? And damn, are there a lot of perks!

**TheDraconicLord**

I love how after talking about Fallout 4 and my morning with fellow co-workers they always suggest "You know you could have taken the day-off, right?" - I love working in a place filled with fellow gamers

**TheDraconicLord**

Alex C wrote:
I hear a lot about the "poor performance" on console, but I've been watching Screw Attack's 72-hour stream on PS4 and I haven't seen any problems there.

Not wanting to add more fuel to the #PCMasterRace discussion (c'mon Sigvatr, the humour is awesome but that's only that, humour), there ARE some problems I hope they fix:

Fallout 4’s performance on both consoles is tolerable, but sometimes disappointing. We’ve seen frequent frame rate slowdowns well below the target of 30 when simply walking around the world, and hitches of a second or more that arise mostly after loading a new save or fast-traveling. The PC version has been much smoother in that regard, running between 40 and 60fps on Ultra settings on my GeForce GTX 970, and maintaining 60 when I lowered only the anti-aliasing settings.

- IGN review

EDIT: Nevermind, I just read that you were just provoking the peasants

With that said

**TheDraconicLord**

Sigvatr wrote:
Aye. I don't want dialogues to be reduced to:

YES
NO
SARCASM

The only dialogue I had so far (after Vault) was Cogsworth, and I don't really mind the 4 options, but the fact I wasn't able to speak with him again and select OTHER options annoyed me.

But then I remembered this was exactly like Mass Effect, and I didn't dislike it there, I'm sure I won't dislike it here, just need to get used to it.

**TheDraconicLord**

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Getting an early dinner (4:30) and tidying the house up so I can play for the rest of the night uninterrupted. I'm hoping to get at least 6 hours tonight, from 6pm. I hope theres no Day 1 patch? It took me two days to pre-load it.

I'm not certain what it was, but I had the game pre-loaded too and I had to download something when I tried to run the game for the first time today. So... consider hitting that play button once you get home; hopefully it will be downloaded once it's 6 PM.

**TheDraconicLord**

Welcome to the Commonwealth!

**TheDraconicLord**

Avatar 720 wrote:
I'm afraid that, until a mod makes power cores infinite charge, I'll be treating PA very much like every other valuable resource in RPGs: valuable enough that you'll never use it in case you reach a point where you actually have to--a point which never actually comes.

Yeah, I was the guy who stashed the Elixirs in Final Fantasy and never used them

Ok, I am blown away with the quality of the voiced dialogues. The fact the NPCs mentioned and were amazed I took a Deathclaw out when I was escorting them and they walked by the corpse, wow, the attention to detail <3

**TheDraconicLord**

I was blown away yesterday when I found out my first custom paintjob for the power armor, a "Flames" one. Seriously?! Even more custom stuff?! Oh Bethesda <3

I have to admit, I like the "Sims" portion of the game FAR too much. I was genuinely having fun and feeling accomplished as I created the basic stuff for my settlers in Sanctuary.

So, did you guys have fun customising your weapons yet?

I spent most of my stuff crafting stuff for my 10mm. It's a small beast now

**TheDraconicLord**

BrookM wrote:
While the game hasn't crashed as of yet, I have discovered a pair of bugs with regards to saving and loading.

1. After I did my whole armour up in Vault-Tec blue I saved the game, exited it and when I later restarted the game, half of my parts were pre-upgrade again, with the resources used lost as well.

2. Same happened after I found a large military robot, saved the game, had it self-destruct, then reloaded the game to keep it handy, just in case. Only, upon reloading, the robot was still destroyed.

I'm assuming that large robot was found in a junkyard and you had to activate it through a tape, right? That thing was completely bugged for me. After activating it and ordering it to go to the USAF military base (there's a quest concerning the raiders there) it just stood there. No animations of any kind either.

Once I reach the base, it suddenly was there, it was being shot at and yet it didn't shoot back. When I ordered it to self destruct it didn't do so either.

**TheDraconicLord**

Conrad Turner wrote:
So you can leave and continue the rest of NV Brainless? I might just try that. I presume you need to just talk to Mobius and get told you can leave, or you have to break one of the forcefields.

However, I'm fully into F4 at the moment, can't wait to actually generate my character tonight. I'm going for a slightly modified version of the one I put up earlier

Str 3 for Armourer - access to base armour mods
Per 3 for Rifleman - increased chance to hit in VATS for 2 handed non-auto
End 2 for Lead Belly - less radiation from food and drink
Cha 2 for Lady Killer/Black Widow - increased damage and dialogue to members of the opposite sex
Int 6 for Science! - access to base energy weapon mods
Agi 6 for Avoidance
Luc 6 for better criticals.

Probably nabbing Science first, then better criticals, then avoidance, rifleman, armourer, LK/BW, then finally Lead Belly. After that will probably spend a few levels increasing Per, Str, And and Cha. I'll see what happens after that depending on what happens in-game.

Spoiler-less tip: Be sure to return to your home and search the baby's room. Be sure to find a very SPECIAL book.

**TheDraconicLord**

Ok, I absolutely love the Flame paint job:

Spoiler:

For the #PcMasterRace, there's a guide that helps unlock more options for further enjoyment of the game:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551069501

I'm currently trying to fiddle with the FOV, it's the one thing that's bugging me in Fallout.

**TheDraconicLord**

Yeah, I don't think Dogmeat will take any rad damage and he does know how to fetch,

Oh crazy Fallout scenes, how I love to find you. In an hotel room:

Spoiler:

Yep, Fallout

**TheDraconicLord**

Everyone's already exploring Vaults and finishing the main quest, I'm still trying to reach Diamond City and desperately trying to find a Hunting Rifle ...

Damned be my attention span of a poodle when walking in the Fallout world. ... and well, I did level up yesterday because of how much stuff I've been crafting in Sims mode.

**TheDraconicLord**

Hey guys, share away your characters. I'm curious if you are all looking wacky or going for a theme

I can't bring myself to get rid of my vault 111 suit. Since I can layer armor pieces on it, I can finally roam the wastelands as a Vault Dweller. Also, I remember it was mentioned in the prologue that she had a degree in Law. Welp, I sure as hell am doing my best

Spoiler:

My main weapon is called "The Negotiator". I'm pimping up That 10mm gun as much as I can and I want to continue improving it.

**TheDraconicLord**

Silent Puffin? wrote:
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Also, how do you recruit more settlers? I've built the radio beacon, powered it up, made sure we have ample supplies of food water and beds.

Just wait, I suspect that there is a new settler check every time that there is a loading screen/x in game time has passed as I have had a few people turn up.

Yeah, it must. Yesterday, a while after I got my first tower up I remembered "Say, let me check if anyone turned up already"; 9 settlers instead of 5.

@SilverMK2 - Nice

I'm still searching for a hunting rifle, but thankfully I love my 10 mm. I'm almost out of ammo after starting purging the Lexington car factory from the raiders, thou. Now I have to use their filthy pipe rifles D:

Also, this is a silly question considering I played a lot of F3 and some NV, but did it have a cover system back then too?! Against the raiders outside that same factory, I was having a huge (and fun!) firefight against several sentries, and I noticed that if I glued myself against the cover, the character would put away her weapon, BUT, if I pressed aim, she would lean out sideways or up (like the raiders) and I'd be able to shoot

**TheDraconicLord**

SharkoutofWata wrote:

I can't for the life of me find pencils for a lead coating on my armor... I'm ignoring the missions and searching for schools just to find some friggin lead. And plundering diners for their coffee mugs and ceramic. I'm worried about the 100+ hour game though because of it. Resources will just cease to exist if I try to 100% the game. I'm hoarding even harder because of that. I have a surplus of about twenty laser weapons just in case I need parts or caps later on...

Yeah, about that ...

Spoiler:

It's funny because it's true

If before I used to search around for loot in F3, in here, I'm always looking for loot AND hoarding all kinds of random crap

. Poor Dogmeat is being such a packmule, the poor guy is carrying pieces of power armor AND A FATMAN I got from the raiders at the car factory.

EDIT: And what was in the chest near the boss at said factory? An Hunting Rifle. HELL. YES. Now this was some fat loot!

**TheDraconicLord**

I have been having way too much fun with the Sims mode, making my home a most pleasant place.

Spoiler:

I am not proud of how long it took me to get the Colas inside like that

**TheDraconicLord**

The only good one I got so far was my first: Once you reach 20% or less Health, you enter in "Legendary Slow-mo".

Yes, my pistolier / sniper becomes Max Payne once she gets low enough on health. It's perfect

**TheDraconicLord**

Silent Puffin? wrote:
Necros wrote:
I've found lots of different kinds of clothing like a suit or tshirt and jeans, but when I put those on it unequips my armor :( guess I'll have to steal someone's long johns

The Vaultsuits and army fatigues work.

Not only that, you can further upgrade the Vault suit to up the defenses. It's the only cloth I found so far that allowed me to do that.

**TheDraconicLord**

No, no cheating yet nor do I think I will. Right now I've achieved Rank 2 Gun Nut and now I'm desperate to find more screws so I can create all the mods I'm missing for my 10mm, hunting rifle and sawed-off but I refuse to console create them

Btw, found this easter egg today! If you played Fallout 3, you might remember a certain "Gary"

Spoiler:

**TheDraconicLord**

Visited the Gwinnett Brewery. Found 2 Teddy Bears doing naughty things

I blame the alcohol.

Spoiler:

This one was in the same area, but he was just having breaksfast

Spoiler:

This is yet another thing I love about Bethesda's games. I just love finding these little easter eggs or "stories" you piece together by reading journals or looking at bodies as I'm literally searching everywhere.

(P.S: For those who don't know, Bethesday and Obsidian did lots of little scenes with Teddy Bears in FO3 and New Vegas too

)

**TheDraconicLord**

Necros wrote:
So, if I store items like steel in my workbench, will it always be available for crafting or do I have to have it in my inventory like in Skyrim? And.. if I have junk on me, will it use that for crafting or will I have to drop it on the ground and the scrap it first?

I learnt this the hard-way yesterday: It will be available for that Settlement only. If you want to build stuff in another settlement, you'll have to take the materials with you. But, in that settlement, you can use it when you crafting so you don't need to carry the crap around with you.

In fact, when you create a mod it will show you what itens will be destroyed and what piece it will use to build the mod.

**TheDraconicLord**

Hey look! My entire Fallout experience in one comic!

In my case, the only one not 100% true is"Yelling at my companions". That's why I love Dogmeat

**TheDraconicLord**

I'm guessing that will be modded in rather fast.