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I stopped reading this thread when the game was released as I wasn't going to get it until Christmas.

Christmas has come and gone (Happy Christmas everyone), new year has come and gone (Happy New Year everyone), and I've done nothing but play Fallout 4. This was expected (I did exactly the same thing when Skyrim was released).

Now I've caught up on this thread (although avoiding spoilers as I want to find the surprises myself) and feel that I can share where my character has gone... brace yourselves for stat-spamming:

In 39 hours of play I've reached level 13.
I ended up with fairly "balanced" stats with them all about 4 or 5 (and they still are).
The perks I've taken so far are:
Spoiler:
Aquagirl (breathing underwater is what sold me)
Awareness
Black Widow (although there does appear to be more females in this game compared to 3 or Vegas. This is the main reason I tended to play as a woman)
Gun Nut
Hacker
Locksmith (2) (I really dislike not being able to even attempt to pick a lock)
Lone Wanderer
Sneak (3) (I really like hiding)


I tend to ignore the main quest in these games until I've explored the majority of the map by myself.
The furthest south I've been so far is to Arc Jet Systems, but I have cleared Lexington and the Corvega plant.
The furthest East I've been is to Recon bunker Theta (though couldn't get inside) and have just cleared (and currently looting) the Grand Atomics Galleria.

I've pretty much explored everything in that top left corner of the map. There is likely to be a few small surprises still to find, as always.

In 30 in-game days I've found 38 places, 2494 caps, and collected 2800 items of junk.
Anything that I can pick up, I have picked up.
This game with the added breaking up of any item has really tickled my kleptomania/hoarder gameplay, I've not sold anything, it has all been carted back to Sanctuary Hills...

Speaking of which, I have only put effort in to Sanctuary Hills as a settlement.
Spoiler:
I'm surprised at how many places can be turned into a settlement actually, it seems that every second place I find has a workshop
But I am only going to focus on the one until it is built up to my satisfaction.
So far I've surrounded the place with fencing, mainly using the picket fences that were already there; plugging the gaps in the hedges, joining up all the houses around the edges and all the way down to the river.
I brought all the crafting stations together next to the house with the workshop in (removing the collapsed house there).
Food production is behind there and consists of Corn, Mutfruit and Tatos (that gets turned into Vegetable Starch aka. adhesive). The settlers can eat what they can between my harvesting moments
When I started I missed the note of what the calculation was for how much defence was necessary and so whenever I made some food, I added a turret...
This has led to 0 attacks as I have 16 food, 10 water, and 61 defence... for 5 people. Now I've seen that it's food + water, I don't think I need to touch defence for a while.

Should anyone attempt to attack anyway, assuming that they can't climb/jump/dig under any fences they can only come from a few set positions:
Over the main bridge, towards 2 turrets and can only follow the road into town, fences stop them spreading out to the left or right.
Over the small bridge, through a small single gate and straight between two fences (no going left or right again) towards a turret.
There is a small gate next to the house with the cellar, again covered by a turret.
Or around the bottom of the fence by the river, into an open, cleared kill-zone, covered by 2 turrets.
There's a couple more turrets about the middle of the settlement also... should anything actually get in.

Other than that and a bit of lighting, I've not built anything yet.


As for my character, Miss Bob (as Codsworth calls her. Bob is my standard name for almost any character in any game, and even my computer is called Bob), starting from the default face I went for "nice to look at" (the rest of the pre-set faces are hideous and would take a lot more work to get something nice) and ended up with this:
Spoiler:

I did give her a scar about her right eye just for a bit of "history".
It's a bit of a shame that the default emotion in-game is a bit too blank.
But she does look proper (and pleasingly) creepy when she smiles during conversations.

She currently has achieved:
Spoiler:
126 people kills
65 animal kills
140 creature kills
10 robot kills
20 turret kills

132 of those were sneak attacks.
1 Murder, but I couldn't tell you when that happened...

She's hacked 15 computers
and picked 48 locks
Stealing 64 items (which I can't seem to determine what is stolen or not? Certainly not as clear as Skyrim for example)


I've come across 3 legendary creatures:
The very first Ghoul (albeit followed by 3 more) was the first legendary creature I found (at that place with the blissed-out Mr Handy)
and have since had another ghoul and a Mirelurk razorclaw.

I have from them; a laser musket that does 25% more damage, a piece of raider chest armour that reflects 10% or all melee damage, and a knuckle duster that does some Rad damage. I still use the musket.

And my current set of weapons include:
Spoiler:
My original 10mm pistol
-Powerful receiver
-Long light ported barrel
-Sharpshooter's grip
-Large quick-eject Mag'
-Reflex sight (but I may remove that as I don't like it on a pistol)
-Compensator

Many of those things I've stripped off found weapons as I don't have the perks to make them myself yet.
Considering I have no points in any of the gun perks, this does 27 Dam and a fire rate of 46.
One of my main weapons.

I have a pipegun (.38) that is used as my "emergency" close quarters weapon (that is, if something jumps out at me it get's a face-full of this first)
-Hardened automatic receiver
-Short ported barrel
-Sharpshooter's grip
-Drum Mag'
-Reflex sight
-Muzzle brake

All geared towards reducing recoil. It may only do 13 Dam, but with a fire rate of 127 it'll kill anything small or unarmoured before I have to reload (48 rounds in the drum). Eats ammo though, so only for exploring confined spaces.

Usually, that job is for my Shotgun, but I've only found a double-barrelled job at the mo', and it doesn't always kill things before I have to (slowly) reload.
The one I have has:
-Powerful receiver (which I've only just added and not used yet, the added damage may help. It does now do 67 dam compared to 41 previously)
-Long barrel (to reduce spread and hence focus damage)
-Short stock
-Standard sights
-no muzzle

I'm holding out for a better shotgun in the future really.

I needed another "default" weapon as I kept burning though .38 and 10mm ammo and so added (found) a combat rifle (.45), which now has:
-Hardened receiver
-Short barrel
-Short stock
-Standard mag'
-Reflex sight
-Large Bayonet

The barrel, stock and mag' are all what it came with.
This is usually what I will be carrying at all times in the wasteland.
41 dam and a fire rate of 33, it'll deal with most things I run into (assuming I don't see them at range...)

If I do see them at range I have sniper rifles.
The first I picked up off a gunner (they shot at me first, I now kill them as soon as I see them) and is a standard sniper rifle (.308) and came with:
-Hardened receiver
-Long barrel
-Full stock
-Standard Mag'
-Medium scope
-no muzzle

When I found it, it dealt the most damage of anything I had (46 dam) and is waiting for Gun Nut 2 to get a power upgrade.

My main sniper rifle is another pipegun (.308 bolt-action) dubbed my "silent rifle" for obvious reasons:
-Powerful receiver
-Long ported barrel
-Marksman's stock
-Long scope
-Suppressor

With damage of 51, this'll kill anything from the "small" insects to dogs, molerats, radstags, ghouls and raiders etc. and being silenced it'll give me a second shot at anything larger. This is where all the sneak attacks come from.


You can see the first set of power armour I found in the picture above, I have a total of 4 skeletons:
That one full suit (currently painted in the flame paint as it's the only one I've found so far)
2 others that have a helmet, chest and left arm (I also killed a raider that was wearing power armour at one stage and retrieved a helmet, chest and left arm from him as well... there was much swearing )
and one more which had all but the helmet.
I also have some raider-modified parts laying about.

I don't really use the power armour at the moment and so am hoarding the armour and power packs (think I've only got about 12 or so).

And as a prize for reading thought all of that,
My travelling companion:
Spoiler:

Although he now has the light armour instead of this one. Together with a set of goggles and a camo' bandanna.

Overall, I like the game. I'm an adventurer/hoarder and finding new things to collect is what these games are good for.
Spoiler:
Couple of things I don't like;
Grenades being on the same button as gun-melee, and hold breath... I lost count of how many times I crippled myself by throwing a grenade at my feet.
Why-o-Why must they be on the same key, I have a whole keyboard that I could use.
I now only equip grenades when I want to use them and unequip them at all other times.

Taking parts from power armour.
The items appear just like any other container but you have to press "R" to open it (like a workshop) instead of "E" (as you would to take from a container).
The workshops don't give you the item list like a container and so you know to use "R", Why does the power armour flash up with a list like container that automatically makes me press "E" and I have to watch the getting in the power armour animation again and again and again...
Just a small niggle, but still.

I don't mind the conversation wheel, it certainly speeds up my decision making;
"Would you like to travel over to Far-away-ville to collect a special spanner that I need to do this?"
In my head during the speech: "Yeah yeah, whatever, better give me something nice for it"
YES, NO, What's a Spanner?, SARCASTIC
*Yes* Job done, on we go...

Although I do use sarcastic a lot.

The system reminds me of the conversations in Sam n Max with ? (question) ! (statement) rubber duck (funny) and the other one I can't remember.
Quick and simple decision, no reading loads to work out what you actually want to say (this may have a lot to do with dyslexia now I think about it...), and what is said is new as you haven't read them all last time.

The weather is nice (even when it's raining).
I like to see the bright sun streaming through the gaps as much as I loved to see things get wet in the rain.

The first time I saw rain was during the first conversation with Codsworth. As that conversation when on it got dark, started raining, and I noticed things getting wet and thought "cool, that's a nice touch", and then it got darker and greener and the thunder and lightning moved in and I started to get Rad damage (radiation storm), and I have to say that the rad' storms are really creepy and very cool. I'm caught between watching them and trying to find cover every time.

It's also nice that they have a roof or something above you, it stops the rain.
Although it doesn't stop things looking wet.
Plus and minus points there Bethesda.


Back to it then.

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 Dr H wrote:
Essay on my accomplishments in Fallout 4


Wow. Uh... how long did it take you to type all that out?

So I took some screenshots of my character, along with my buildings in Sanctuary.
Have a look
http://steamcommunity.com/id/GhaghkullThraka/screenshots

Feel free to pop me a friend invite too if you like

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Gargant Hunting

So, on my way to clear out some raiders, I saw a vertibird follow me and help clear out the surface. I was pretty stoked, having that be the first real time one got into combat with me. After a few seconds, I saw it spin out of control and cause a massive explosion.

My question is: are they always so flimsy? The thing died to small arms fire, only pipe weapons were used. Is there pilots inside that might have died? I couldn't find any bodies amidst the wreckage.

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My question is: are they always so flimsy?


When you shoot at it...no.
When every raider in a 1km radius shoots at it, yes.

Is there pilots inside that might have died?


No pilot NPCs, no. But I have seen bodies fall from the vertibird when I killed the gunners.
   
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Hyperspace

The Vertibird AI is the same as dragons from Skyrim. I once saw a random Vertibird flip reverse and explode when it tapped a tree.
For my BoS character, does anyone else try to collect as many BoS dogtags as possible? Whenever I see a BoS corpse, I always get the tags and sell them to Teagan. I RP it as him giving me a small amount of caps for returning the tags of the honored dead.



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Gargant Hunting

This one was trying to knife edge as it flew stationary, so I'm not too surprised that it exploded, but I'm surprised that a grand total of ~10 raiders could kill one. It did spin out before it actually crashed, after all. Unless the pilot took the expression "taking it for a spin" a little too seriously.

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 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 Dr H wrote:
Essay on my accomplishments in Fallout 4


Wow. Uh... how long did it take you to type all that out?
Yeah, I kept adding to it and then adding some more. Lost track of time just as much as I do playing the game. Hopefully there is something of interest in there for someone.

Very swashbuckling look you have to your chap.

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Engaged in Villainy

So, my list of "enemies I hate in fallout 4" now includes Assaultrons, Mirelurks of all types, laser turrets on ceilings, feral ghouls (especially the high-level ones) and gunners/raiders with Fat Man launchers.
But mostly its mirelurks.

I really love the vertibird summoning thing, I've only used it once, to take out a behemoth - just kept changing destination to stay "on station", and filled it full of minigun rounds. great fun!

Incidentally, I've been using Piper as my companion (ie pack mule), but I was wondering, does anyone know if dogmeat can carry more than Piper can? Frankly, they're both pretty useless to me in a fight, except as a distraction, but I don't want to waste a perk on the lone wanderer perk.

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Bristol

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
So, my list of "enemies I hate in fallout 4" now includes Assaultrons, Mirelurks of all types, laser turrets on ceilings, feral ghouls (especially the high-level ones) and gunners/raiders with Fat Man launchers.
But mostly its mirelurks.

I really love the vertibird summoning thing, I've only used it once, to take out a behemoth - just kept changing destination to stay "on station", and filled it full of minigun rounds. great fun!

Incidentally, I've been using Piper as my companion (ie pack mule), but I was wondering, does anyone know if dogmeat can carry more than Piper can? Frankly, they're both pretty useless to me in a fight, except as a distraction, but I don't want to waste a perk on the lone wanderer perk.


Well you can stick Piper in a power armour exoskeleton, which will increase her carry weight. Also, her companion perk can be really useful for levelling as it doubles the XP you get from discovering locations.

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Gargant Hunting

Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...

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USA

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


By the time I had to do that mission I had a Fat Man, three shots and down she went.

Speaking of mirelurks, I hated those things when I was pre-level 20. Then again, pre-level 20 I hated most fights, post 20 pretty much everything is a joke.

Has anyone else noticed, that even when running survival, once you hit that 'Bethesda sweet spot' everything just dies like a bitch? I mean, yeah, some of the legendary super mutants still suck, but I've gotten to the point where I'm not afraid of Deathclaws anymore.

My melee character though? Yeah, I die to a stiff breeze.

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Dogmeat can carry about 150lb of stuff. Can't say about anyone else as he's all I've used.

Today I popped in on that nice young chap at the quarry to see how he's getting on after I helped him get the pump working to empty all the water...

Spoiler:
...and found it full of raiders, farming mirelurks... I did not approve...

...and with anything in the wasteland that I do not approve of, everyone died, including the mirelurks


I also stumbled upon a graveyard and was disappointed to not be attacked by ghouls. I know that ghouls are living people that have degenerated and and not reanimated dead, but it was night time and I was up for a bit of night of the living dead.

Have also cleared a hospital of super mutants.

Many more legendary creatures showing up now I'm level 14, must have passed a milestone.

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 Dr H wrote:
I also stumbled upon a graveyard and was disappointed to not be attacked by ghouls. I know that ghouls are living people that have degenerated and and not reanimated dead, but it was night time and I was up for a bit of night of the living dead. .


Theres a graveyard in downtown Boston full of Ghouls. Made me crap myself because it was very close quarters and difficult to escape from.
   
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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


Oh please, I took that thing out with a the special Laser Rifle you get from Paladin Danse
I was wearing PA but even so, it wasn't that hard to just juke her out

 
   
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 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


Oh please, I took that thing out with a the special Laser Rifle you get from Paladin Danse
I was wearing PA but even so, it wasn't that hard to just juke her out


Well, what difficulty were you playing on? What perks did you have?

I tend to find Mirelurk Queens quite frustrating and bullet spongey too, but I play on Very Hard and prioritise crafting perks over weapon and defense perks.
   
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Engaged in Villainy

When I took the castle, (on my second try) I chucked all my mines down where the queen comes in, which did a good amount of damage, then I sneak attacked her with a few missiles to the face. Personally, I found the little spawnlings more annoying - at least the queen is a nice big, slow moving target!

IIRC, you can find a missile launcher and some ammo inside the Castle, if you need one.

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Hyperspace

I just encountered that traitor, Sullivan. He seemed so nice. I released all the Mirelurks, headshotted him with Deliverer a few times, and sat down and watching the crabs finish him off.
I also just got a sweet laser sniper rifle.



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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


Oh please, I took that thing out with a the special Laser Rifle you get from Paladin Danse
I was wearing PA but even so, it wasn't that hard to just juke her out


Well, what difficulty were you playing on? What perks did you have?

I tend to find Mirelurk Queens quite frustrating and bullet spongey too, but I play on Very Hard and prioritise crafting perks over weapon and defense perks.


Well... I was playing on Normal, I was level 20-25 and had like 2-3 levels in each of the guns perks. Most of my other perks then were Gun Nut and other stuff not really important to combat like Lockpick and Science!

t60 PA with all the minutemen still as backup

 
   
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Fort Campbell

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


Oh please, I took that thing out with a the special Laser Rifle you get from Paladin Danse
I was wearing PA but even so, it wasn't that hard to just juke her out


Well, what difficulty were you playing on? What perks did you have?

I tend to find Mirelurk Queens quite frustrating and bullet spongey too, but I play on Very Hard and prioritise crafting perks over weapon and defense perks.


Well... I was playing on Normal, I was level 20-25 and had like 2-3 levels in each of the guns perks. Most of my other perks then were Gun Nut and other stuff not really important to combat like Lockpick and Science!

t60 PA with all the minutemen still as backup


I just did that tonight on my melee character, and it was tough as balls. I probably died 5 times before I said eff it, and just Fatman'd the Queen to death.

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 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
 Overlord Thraka wrote:
 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I just took Castle. How the feth can anyone kill the big baddie there without a missile launcher or another heavy weapon? It was bad enough that mirelurks are everywhere, but the boss was frustrating me for a bit. Maybe I should work on being stocked on healing supplies before I do stuff like that next time...


Oh please, I took that thing out with a the special Laser Rifle you get from Paladin Danse
I was wearing PA but even so, it wasn't that hard to just juke her out


Well, what difficulty were you playing on? What perks did you have?

I tend to find Mirelurk Queens quite frustrating and bullet spongey too, but I play on Very Hard and prioritise crafting perks over weapon and defense perks.


Well... I was playing on Normal, I was level 20-25 and had like 2-3 levels in each of the guns perks. Most of my other perks then were Gun Nut and other stuff not really important to combat like Lockpick and Science!

t60 PA with all the minutemen still as backup


Switch to Very hard and then tell me its easy.

I brown my pants when I face a single Mirelurk.
   
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Gargant Hunting

I play on hard, and did that mission when I was level 19-20. I couldn't find any missiles at first in the castle, what with rushing around everywhere, but as soon as I stopped being stupid about it, then the queen got some things coming to her.

And yes, mirelurks suck, but with a point blank explosive shotgun to the face, they tend to die quickly.

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First time I went to The Castle the Mirelurk Queen was way too powerful for me. When I tried much later I really wanted all the Minutemen to survive but at least 1 always died, if not during the battle then during the cleanup.

So I prepared 4 complete suits of T-45f Minuteman Tesla Power Armor, a fifth being the one from the start of the game for myself and a sixth T-60f for MacCready. The Tesla to help them deal with the hatchlings and the T-45 since it's the only suit that can be painted in Minuteman colors. Put the suits in front of the positions they take when told we're going to lure the mirelurks out. Took a few tries since they randomly wouldn't enter the armor or would exit between fights, but when it worked, I got to enjoy a one sided battle at night with squad of high beam headlamps destroying the nest. Fun!.

The suits now stand vigil over the Castle, waiting for any other threat that dares attack.
   
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Hyperspace

I used a missile launcher to deal with the Queen. I had 20-something missiles for some reason, and I managed to only lose one Minuteman.



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Duxford, Cambs, UK

 Verviedi wrote:
Is it just me, or are the Assaultrons absolutely terrifying in this game? I was wearing my Paladin T60 (Haven't managed to repaint it) and walked around a corner into that one Gunner occupied junkyard. Suddenly, I see a red light and my torso, right arm, and right leg were gone.
And good Emperor, those arms...


Nope.
Perception of 11, a 50cal silenced recon sniper rifle, and some patience are all I need.

Pop in the head, wait for it to stop looking and my status to return to "Hidden" from "Caution", pop it in the head again, rinse and repeat. No power armour necessary.

No "Bloody Mess" perk and I can still make the head of most organics explode.

The only time it's failed me is on a "Defend _______" mission where there were a ton of super-mutants. Got the first in the head from maximum range, went straight from "Hidden" to "Danger" and must have ended up with around 15 of them on me. Was able to take out 5 at best before dying. By the time I decided to head back to Sanctuary for my power armour, I couldn't get back before I failed it.

Got to do some more lighting work in Sanctuary, then I'll try and get some pictures put up.

"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.

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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

I actually find mirelurks easier in this game than any other. The heads are so much bugger and easier to hit outside of VATS now

 
   
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Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:Theres a graveyard in downtown Boston full of Ghouls. Made me crap myself because it was very close quarters and difficult to escape from.
Oh good. I shall look forward to that one. I was in Wildwood cemetery. Although, reading the wiki, the ghouls may randomly appear there. Might be true of all cemeteries.

Verviedi wrote:I just encountered that traitor, Sullivan. He seemed so nice. I released all the Mirelurks, headshotted him with Deliverer a few times, and sat down and watching the crabs finish him off.
Good for you. That kind of thing shouldn't be allowed... especially if the player character cannot profit from it.

Now I just need to track down the person who it strapping mines to molerats...

Conrad Turner wrote:...Pop in the head, wait for it to stop looking and my status to return to "Hidden" from "Caution", pop it in the head again, rinse and repeat. No power armour necessary.
That describes 90% of my encounters.

As for mirelurks, I've found that my automatic pipe gun kills them quicker than anything else I have (excluding rifles from long range and miniguns and fat mans etc...). Uses a lot of ammo, but kills them quickly. Sometimes that is more important.

Also, useful thing I've found; If there is a piece of junk outside of your settlement zone, but you can pick it up to move it (but not put in your inventory), you can carry it into your settlement and junk it for parts.

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The army- ~2295 points (built).

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Strong just insta gibbed me when I was sword fighting with a raider...giving him a two shot missile launcher may not have been the best decision...
   
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Explosives on any companion is a bad idea

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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Gargant Hunting

Are all companions trigger happy, or is it just some? Like, I was clearing out a subway filled with ghouls, found one with ghouls sleeping everywhere, and one walking around, and I was hiding in a corner, waiting for a headshot opportunity on the walker.

Then Piper has the most brilliant idea I've ever seen. Let's shoot the ghoul with my pea shooter, while it's behind cover, so all I'm doing is making noise! Brilliant, innit?

Nick seemed a bit smarter, and I managed to sneak away from a death claw we having him with me, but it could've been luck.

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