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I can't say I'll complain over it being missing. For some reason it put me off from being being a dastardly fiend. (Even in games like Red Dead Redemption I wouldn't be evil unless I was wearing a bandana so people wouldn't associate me with the crime). I don't think that'll mean me being am absolutely psychotic cannibal greedily staring at all of my new settlers, but I'm not going to be a saint, either.

I also must say that I was impressed with the options the Hearthfire DLC skyrim had, and this completely blows that out of the water.

Went to the museum of witchcraft.
Promptly ran away as fast as my legs could carry me.
Returned with my power armour and minigun.
Come get some....

Anyway, I've been trying to come up with cool weapon names.
So far my silenced 10mm is called "lullaby"
My combat shotgun is called "reason"
Anyone got any ideas for a name for my sniper rifle?

 marv335 wrote:
Went to the museum of witchcraft.
Promptly ran away as fast as my legs could carry me.
Returned with my power armour and minigun.
Come get some....

Anyway, I've been trying to come up with cool weapon names.
So far my silenced 10mm is called "lullaby"
My combat shotgun is called "reason"
Anyone got any ideas for a name for my sniper rifle?

I've also been to the museum, but the thing inside is still alive (I completed the quest without killing... Though I still wonder if I made the correct quest ending choice)


As for sniper rifles... how about "Cool Breeze" ?

All I can say is.. YAY!



It took me a lot of time I should've spent doing quests, but look at it, just look at it! All I need to do now is get Armourer 4 and I can turn this sucker into something durable and nice looking.

As for the naming of weapons, huh, I also named my combat shotgun Reason!

I named my unsilenced 10mm the Lawbringer, my silenced 10mm HUSH and my silenced .50 hunting rifle Whisper. I also have a special laser rifle, but I rather like the pompous name it was given by its previous owner.

Missing the arms and left leg of my own full set. So far it's on some Lead T-51d bits until I get the rest. I can't bring myself to tear apart my T-60 sets for the better stats. Got the old BOS and a Winterized one. Gunners and Synths beware! At this point I can just stand in the middle of a light show in the Winterized and not flinch. It's the definition of a Space Marine in Power Armor, and damn is it fun.

I named my Sniper Rifle : Diplomacy

My 10mm is: The Negotiator

My sawed off is (obviously): Boomstick

Also, BrookM, impressive collection of Bobbleheads, wow! I have only found 2 so far.

How did you get the bobble head rack at the red rocket garage?
I've got one in vault 81, where I have an owned bed, but I'm using RRG as my home base.
I'd like to have a rack there.

It's in the settlement crafting menu. Just collect the necessary components and place it in the Red Rocket somewhere.

Well, I just beat the game at level 44. Still a fair challenge if you pick bad equipment, but no trouble at all with the right stuff. So that's a typical Bethesda game for you there. Looking forward to that second playthrough in a different way.

I lost my dog :( :( :(

I did some mission where I had to rescue a guy from a radio station, and got the super mutant companion.. strong I think. I had Dogmeat with me at the time, but I wanted to bring Strong back to sanctuary to have him defend it so I let him join me..then I fast traveled back to Sanctuary and Dogmeat is nowhere to be found :( I even traveled around to all of my other settlements and he's not there either. I added bells everywhere and rang them so all the people would come, but the dog is just gone :(

That happens sometimes. There's a mission where Dogmeat needs to track something and he'll appear then, no matter what. The Companions are sometimes needed for the story quests and poof away. Piper poofed on my once in a full suit of T51 Military only to be waiting at the next story mission to say some things.

oh.. guess I'll try and do the next story mission. I keep getting missions for new settlements and I'm doing a lot of side quests .. I still haven't gone to that city yet and I've had the quest for it since day 1. So much other stuff to do.

Should I ditch my companion? I usually just bring them along to be pack mules anyway.

I've named a few weapons

Pipe Pistol = "Slummer"
10mm = "Sweetheart"
.44 Magnum = "Kiss Kiss"
.50 Sniper Rifle = "Sayonara"
Combat Rifle = "Rex"

As for the Witchcraft Museum

 Necros wrote:
oh.. guess I'll try and do the next story mission. I keep getting missions for new settlements and I'm doing a lot of side quests .. I still haven't gone to that city yet and I've had the quest for it since day 1. So much other stuff to do.

Should I ditch my companion? I usually just bring them along to be pack mules anyway.

I honestly don't see what you gain by ditching all companions. At least bring dogmeat with you so he can be a packmule. Lord knows how much loot he already carried for me, including a fatman and power armor pieces. Well, unless you want to be an absolute ninja and don't feel like using "stay there" orders.

Fun fact (according to reddit): You can keep Dogmeat as your companion and still gain the benefit from the Lone Wanderer perk.

Bobbleheads are fine and dandy, what I'm really after are the model kits!

I meant just send Strong away and have him guard the Castle or something, and then hopefully if I show up at Sanctuary and I'm all alone maybe Dogmeat will come back. He's the only companion I like, I like dogs better than people

Ooooh no! I'm annoyed that I've already got the Perception BHead, as I've heard that BHead bonuses are the only ones that'll stack once you have your SPECIAL at 10, so if you are already at Per 10 and THEN you pick up the bobblehead, you will get to Per 11, whereas you can't get Per 11 if you take the bobblehead at Per 9 or lower.

I'm really wanting to get all the comics and then put each one on its own stand just to show off my collections.

I named my weapons based on their roles:

Distance = Sniper Rifle
Closeup = Shotgun
Workhorse = Combat Rifle
Backup = 10mm pistol
Combat = Whatever melee weapon that I can get that does decent damage at a small weight. Pickmans Knife atm.

All but the knife, that I got last night, are upgraded as far as Gun Nut 3 can get them. I got silencers on all of them, because I like to sneak and love the sound of silenced weapons in games/movies.

I named the Walther PPK (Deliverer I think it was) a Walther PPK. And I named a Thompson a Thompson. I'm boring, yeah, but with all these fake guns I am going to name the real ones a real name.

Named a double shot pistol Double Tap. If I get a VATS improved sniper I'll rename the pistol Two To The Chest and the rifle One To The Head.

Anyone mess around with lightboxes? Having trouble figuring out why the cycle colors option isn't showing up.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Necros wrote:
oh.. guess I'll try and do the next story mission. I keep getting missions for new settlements and I'm doing a lot of side quests .. I still haven't gone to that city yet and I've had the quest for it since day 1. So much other stuff to do.

Should I ditch my companion? I usually just bring them along to be pack mules anyway.

I honestly don't see what you gain by ditching all companions. At least bring dogmeat with you so he can be a packmule. Lord knows how much loot he already carried for me, including a fatman and power armor pieces. Well, unless you want to be an absolute ninja and don't feel like using "stay there" orders.

Fun fact (according to reddit): You can keep Dogmeat as your companion and still gain the benefit from the Lone Wanderer perk.

Dogmeat for me constantly disobeys orders, gets in my way, pulls enemies, and often chooses to sit and watch me get mauled by a guy standing right next to him. If he wasn't a packmule he'd have gone a long time ago, because he's a constant liability. I have to order him to wait well outside anywhere that could potentially have enemies, and for some reason Wait commands act weird when reloading quicksaves, so I can expect to hear lots of gunfire and whimpering noises shortly after quickloading as he attempts to make his way through every enemy in the area go reach me. Wait also only half works if enemies are nearby, and I've had many instances of that split-second of "What the- DOGMEAT, NO!" watching as he charges into a group of enemies I'm trying to pick off.

Most of my quickloads have stemmed from Dogmeat being a complete tool, and I can fully understand why people don't use him, not least because if you want to move somewhere quickly, he will ALWAYS be blocking your movement, and he loves standing in doorways. "Sniped that guy, now I just need to move ba-DOGMEATGETOUTOFTHEFETHINGWAYYOUPIECEOFFETH!" Is something I find myself shouting far too much.

I put Dogmeat on the shelf until mods improve his AI or change his blocking problem after I got killed by a grenade blocked back by his fat doggy butt.

So uh, this happened:





Also, the bobbleheads: Perception, Medicine, Energy Weapons, Speech, Locksmith and Big Guns.



And my first model kit:

Oooh, where did you find the sentry bot? I've only found the Mr. Handy (completely forgot where though, it was awhile ago)

Surprised you haven't found the . It was the second I found.

 BrookM wrote:
All I can say is.. YAY!



It took me a lot of time I should've spent doing quests, but look at it, just look at it! All I need to do now is get Armourer 4 and I can turn this sucker into something durable and nice looking.

As for the naming of weapons, huh, I also named my combat shotgun Reason!

I named my unsilenced 10mm the Lawbringer, my silenced 10mm HUSH and my silenced .50 hunting rifle Whisper. I also have a special laser rifle, but I rather like the pompous name it was given by its previous owner.

I love Mark 1 Advanced Power Armor.
Its so iconic
Pity to hear that they dropped Karma. They are getting rid of quite a few role play mechanics it seems ;/
I don't like the look of the dialogue wheel as well. I never liked that system in Mass Effect.

So, if I tell my companion to stay somewhere.. will they always stay and guard that spot forever & ever like in Skyrim, so if I forget where that was they're lost? or will they come back home with me the next time I fast travel?

 Wolfblade wrote:
Anyone mess around with lightboxes? Having trouble figuring out why the cycle colors option isn't showing up.

Pfft that's way too advanced for me. I can't figure out where the wire is. Seriously, where is the damn wire?

Holy crap?! There's actually model kits?!

Oh, I so want to collect those!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Surprised you haven't found the

Spoiler:

Repair bobblehead

. It was the second I found.

Same... and it was only thanks to Dogmeat. That's the reason I like having him around, he literally found the bobblehead for me.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
They are getting rid of quite a few role play mechanics it seems

TBH I haven't missed karma at all. Such mechanics masquerade as complex spectra but end up being a binary (or more rarely trinary) with a lot of dead space between. The last time this was exciting was when KotOR launched. Moreover, I dislike the idea of an attribute tracked continuously (remember how you lost karma every time you stole an item in FO3?) but is infrequently and/or narrowly relevant.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I don't like the look of the dialogue wheel as well. I never liked that system in Mass Effect.

Yeah I hate this in BioWare games, especially because picking X rather than W, Y, or Z often has no effect other than gradually encouraging the player to pick and stick with one dialog approach. I have been a little alarmed/disappointed to see this imported to a Bethesda game (along with protagonist voice acting) but I guess it's not like it was replacing something better.


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Holy crap?! There's actually model kits?!

Yes, I have only found one so far -- an eyebot model -- and it popped out of one of those Vault-Tec lunchboxes that make a party horn noise when you click on them. I have only gotten plastic spoons and other items of literal junk out of them after that, however.