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I have the game preordered, but its unlikely I'll be able to run the thing properly on my current rig. I mean it did for Skyrim, but I'm not confident in it. At least I'll have the art book though, um, but it might be a tad odd for a guy with a Fallout miniatures thread not to be actually playing the game...
I still have about $200 left to go on my planned rig, and I manged to get a free screen off of one of my friends, so that shaves a good bit off. Still, it might not be until after Christmas that I get to play it. Which is especially annoying, as it comes out literally on my birthday. Although I might start downloading onto an external hardrive, that why I can attempt to play on my laptop, and if not, I can play it as soo as I get my PC built.
Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
S 6 for Strong Back and both crafting perks
P 4 for Lockpick
E 7 for Adamantium Skeleton, Life Giver and Toughness
C 1 I'll increase it through level ups
I 6 for Science, Hacker and Crafting
A 2 for Gunslinger and Commando, don't need anything fancy
L 2 for Scrounger and Cap Finder, I want lots of loot and ammo since I basically always play melee builds but Fallout 4 has better gunplay so I want to give it a chance.
28/28
Gotta get all them crafting recipes, even if I make a different build I doubt I'll ever let Strength or Intelligence be so low I don't have their crafting perks ready to be unlocked, at least not for long. I do this in other Bethesda games, even if I don't do use the recipes, such as Mad Bomber, the explosives crafting perk in New Vegas.
Every other choice above is to just have higher offensive and defensive stats, not situational bonuses or fancy abilities. Though I still want Hacker and Lockpick. Don't want to miss out of something special, I want to be able to find secrets early and forever.
Anyone else here made a general plan for their first character?
Also, what do you think will happen with unique weapons? The game allows you to mod your weapons so much and even rename them, which makes having unique weapons seem to only be useful to people who don't have the crafting perks. New Vegas made the unique weapons more powerful than the modded weapons, but Skyrim had crafting so powerful that almost all unique equipment became useless aside from decoration or if you get them really early, before you unlocked better crafting.
I would like it if you could find special mod recipes to use and maybe a weapon with that mod already attached but allows you to otherwise mod it as you please. Though I guess the people who don't plan to do crafting would appreciate highly modded weapons lying around or being carried by enemies.
Now I'm wondering if raider's guns have random low level mods and stuff.
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as for S.P.E.C.I.A.L hmm.... maybe 5 STR PER 4 END 3 CHA 1 INT 5 AGIL 5 LUCK 4
That should do it. This is by no means a thing that I'll be definetly doing. something along those lines. Loads of guns. Some sniping, some Machine Guns, some Laser stuff, and if the game allows. A whole lot o' Wild West style Gunslingin'
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S 4 (crafting)
P 4 (lockpick)
E 2 (because it's all I had left)
C 3 (loner?)
I 9 (XP boost)
A 2 (commando)
L 4 (mysterious stranger!)
maybe I'll use a build closer to that, except take away luck and endurance for Charisma to get the Local Leader perk for better settlements. Who needs health anyway? As long as I have 1 HP I'm good to go, anything more is just padding. Plus Bethesda games have recently been generous in the HP department.
Overlord Thraka wrote: as for S.P.E.C.I.A.L
hmm.... maybe 5 STR PER 4
END 3
CHA 1
INT 5
AGIL 5
LUCK 4
That should do it. This is by no means a thing that I'll be definetly doing. something along those lines. Loads of guns. Some sniping, some Machine Guns, some Laser stuff, and if the game allows. A whole lot o' Wild West style Gunslingin'
Isn't using so many different guns a waste of points? That can't be too effective, could it? What are they for? Long range, medium range, short range and medium short-long range?
Now I wonder how good of a Laser Sniper you can make in the game. There's the Gauss Rifle, that's energy, right?
Impossible under the new stats. You only get 28 points to allocate initially, and as everything needs to be at least 1 you only really get 21 to allocate.
Impossible under the new stats. You only get 28 points to allocate initially, and as everything needs to be at least 1 you only really get 21 to allocate.
If you allocate them evenly, every stat will be 4.
for every stat under 4, you can raise another stat by the same amount.
"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.
Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
My personal build will probably be a variation on this.
S. 3 [Armour crafting]
P. 6 [Energy Weapons]
E. 2 [Lead Belly]
C. 2 [Lady Killer / Black Widow]
I. 3 [Gun Nut]
A. 6 [Avoidance]
L. 6 {Better Criticals]
Some of those stats are higher than the requirements for the perks, but that's because I have just listed the first perks I want in each stat.
I generally work on either an Energy Weapon gunslinger, or a charmer that can use a gun when necessary. For the latter I would swap the Luck and Charisma scores around.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And of course, it has been reported that you can use a perk to raise a single special by one point.
So if there is no level cap it should be possible to generate a character that can survive long enough to get to 10 in each special and have every level of every perk.
Don't know if there is a level cap - kinda hope there is, as I don't want to be tempted to just go around killing mole-rats until I can get a 10 Agility and Luck, then take on just about anything out there.
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"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.
Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
You can increase your SPECIALs through gameplay, right? It would fit well with the theme of the game (being some couch potato thrust into the wasteland), who later gets stronger and more powerful.
SPECIAL stats can be upgraded instead of taking a perk.
There is no level cap.
In other news, I thought I'd check out "No Mutants Allowed" to see what they thought about Fallout 4. Oh dear You'd think Todd Howard had personally kicked their pet puppy to death with the rest of Bethesda cheering him on. I guess that's true in a way...
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I'm thinking of doing a high intelligence and Agility chracter, too continue of route of long-ranged stealth. And it looks like silenced weapons are going to be easier to get a hold of, so that's good.
Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
I enjoy being able to use speech options to influence people. May go for a high CHA character with good INT and AGIL for hacking and lockpicking. Like being able to run settlements.
For my first play through, I'll play the wife, as I want to experiment with the speech dialogue and settlement building, so that'll be high CHA. High INT too because who doesn't want to craft your own guns?
For a second play through I'll play the husband and focus on power armour, melee and big guns.
Basically my head Canon is pre war, the husband was a power armour pilot and the wife is a Community Organsier.
Booked the day off for great justice and much playing.
