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Heh, snetry bot toy. IIRC, that was one of the planned wild wasteland things in NV, but never got activated (although all the files were in there), nice little homage.

Manchu wrote:

 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?

Gotta hit space (for KBnM) to attach wire while aiming at anything that take power, with a few exceptions (regular lights being one exception because they get power so long as a power source is close by)

 Wolfblade wrote:
Gotta hit space

Hit ... space? ::looks at controller::

Jump button perhaps? Space is pretty much universally jump on PCs.

Manchu wrote:

 Wolfblade wrote:
Gotta hit space

Hit ... space? ::looks at controller::

I like how you literally ignored the thing in parentheses right after that. I meant that whatever your using, there's a button assigned to attach wires to other things.

 Necros wrote:
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?

From what I can tell, it could be one of several things.

They might stay there forever and ever amen.
They might stay there for a while and then run off somewhere.
They might follow you through a random load zone and resume waiting at that zone's entrance.
They might stay there until you engage a nearby enemy.
They might stay there until they're engaged.
They might stay there until you load up a save.

I've only used Dogmeat thus far, but every one of those has happened at least once, and most more than that over the course of the playthrough. I can run back through several load zones and find him where I told him to stay, I could do that and find he's wandered off, he could appear next to me after a random load, he could charge past me at random to lick the face of someone I'm trying to shoot. It's been very much random chance.

Does anyone know how to set up trade routes between settlements?

Also, stumbled across a full suit of T51-b armour!

 BrookM wrote:
Does anyone know how to set up trade routes between settlements?

Also, stumbled across a full suit of T51-b armour!

I think it's the local leader perk, then you find a settler in a camp, then hit whatever it is (default Q for KBnM iirc) and chose the settlement you want to connect to. Haven't tried setting up a massive supply line yet though, I dunno if you can connect every settlement or not by using one as a hub.

Ok, so I'm on a hillside overlooking the damn south west of Sanctuary and I see a party of Super Mutants lead by a Legendary crossing it. One of them is flashing red - it's one of the suicide bombers with a mini nuke. I think "better target him first, don't want him getting close".

First shot...KABOOM!!!! The entire Damn lights up, mini nuke + 2 cars.

Easiest Legendary kill ever.

For wiring stuff, generally hovering over a generator or pylon whilst in build mode will show you the button used, in much the same fashion as hovering over any entity in the world tells you what to press to use it/take it/open it/put your di- hang on, wait, that one might be a mod...

A quick Google tells me it's default Y on XB1, and Triangle on PS4. Bear in mind that wires cannot intersect most objects, and they droop in the middle; they're not a perfectly straight line from point A to point B. Also bear in mind that wires use copper to build; they're not free, even though nothing warns you beforehand. It's also not 1 copper per wire; it seems to be dependent on the wire's length, although I'm not sure how to go about finding out the precise length you can make it without it needing another point of copper.

 Wolfblade wrote:
I like how you literally ignored the thing in parentheses right after that. I meant that whatever your using, there's a button assigned to attach wires to other things.

Me: How do you do X?
You: By pushing the button that does X, duh!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Triangle on PS4.

Thanks!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
it seems to be dependent on the wire's length

But the length seems capable of changing once the wire is built. (I played with the pre-existing wiring in Home Base.)

 Wolfblade wrote:
I dunno if you can connect every settlement or not by using one as a hub.

You can, it makes building settlements really easy.

Do civvies designated to supply lines ever get killed, cutting the line?

Well, according to Steam I have 29 hours of Fallout 4.

I've finally reached Diamond City

Manchu wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
it seems to be dependent on the wire's length

But the length seems capable of changing once the wire is built. (I played with the pre-existing wiring in Home Base.)

I'm still not altogether sure how it works. I know that when you reach a certain wire length, it uses up more copper, and that if you don't have enough you can't extended it farther than a point you can't really locate until you reach it. Testing it with pylons, if you try and move a wired pylon far enough away to generate a 'new section' of wire without the copper you need, you can't place it back down until you return to the extent of the last section, and the same goes for trying to extend an existing length of wire.

It's one of the aspects of building that the game never explains, and since it uses rather valuable copper, I'm loath to experiment.

Okay, some supply lines set up, maybe it's time to turn Sanctuary into a proper town instead of the gas station.

Also, has anybody managed to get a TV working? I get the prompt to switch it on, but it won't do anything.

 Alex C wrote:
Do civvies designated to supply lines ever get killed, cutting the line?

The don't seem to actually leave the settlement so probably not. In many ways the settlement building mechanics are very much tacked on.

for a TV, the way I did it was I put a generator outside, and you add a power thingy that attaches to a wall. I forget where it was called but it was under a connectors menu or something like that. Then you run a wire from the generator to that, and suddenly the TV will turn on and nearby lights too. but only stuff nearby, and the TV just says please stand by forever.

I wonder if you can do something with the satellite array areas to get shows to start playing? I had one where there was a terminal with all these options to connect to a database but it wouldn't work, seemed like there was something I was missing to make it happen.

Any of the wall connectors power an area, and they'll power TVs and lights and I would assume some other stuff but I haven't tried. A switch on the wall the TV is on in the living room will power it, and turn it off too.

Wires can go through holes in the sides of houses. The actual model for the texture has gaps a well placed wire can get through. Did that with a metal wall very nicely. Good way to get power inside the house.

Breaking down upgraded pipe rifles is a good way to get copper. I just got the scavenging weapon items perk on my main, so I'll try with her at some point to see how much and if I get better stuff with other guns.

Manchu wrote:

 Wolfblade wrote:
I like how you literally ignored the thing in parentheses right after that. I meant that whatever your using, there's a button assigned to attach wires to other things.

Me: How do you do X?
You: By pushing the button that does X, duh!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Triangle on PS4.

Thanks!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
it seems to be dependent on the wire's length

But the length seems capable of changing once the wire is built. (I played with the pre-existing wiring in Home Base.)

Sorry, but you also didn't mention what system you were using, and it DOES give a list of options/buttons on the screen.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Wolfblade wrote:
I dunno if you can connect every settlement or not by using one as a hub.

You can, it makes building settlements really easy.

Really? excellent, makes my CHA Luc character much easier when I get around to him.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Well, according to Steam I have 29 hours of Fallout 4.

I've finally reached Diamond City

I have no idea where it is..


Found me a space boat full of robots though.. and got drafted

Interestingly enough, speaking of "Tacked on", the whole RTS/Community-building thing was present in FO3 as a player-created mod. Buggy as hell and prone to crashing, but you could cut down trees, build walls and other buildings, and recruit random Wastelanders to live in your village.

It would also get randomly attacked by bandits or whatever else was in the area, so you either had to re-recruit after the schmoes got eaten by Deathclaws, or hand out some (lots of) guns.

Upgraded Kellogs revolver last night.
More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
I went around taking out gunners with one shot to the head.
Good times.
Spent quite a bit of time cleaning up Sanctuary too.
I'm finding that aspect quite enjoyable, and I went into the game planning to ignore that aspect.
I plan to keep my home base at red rocket and fortify it a bit.
I feel the need for a tower with turrets on the roof for my unused companions to live in.

I've been experiencing some crashes on startup, which is really disappointing because I haven't gotten to do much of anything. I'm currently looking for fixes, but not having a whole lot of luck. (Probably should've sucked it up and bought of for my xbone. That was more likely to run it.)

I've just set up a few communities. I'm loving the farmville atomic edition.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I've been experiencing some crashes on startup, which is really disappointing because I haven't gotten to do much of anything. I'm currently looking for fixes, but not having a whole lot of luck. (Probably should've sucked it up and bought of for my xbone. That was more likely to run it.)

Be sure to update your drivers, especially for amd users...I had that problem too and after updating all works like a charme...

Truth be told, I am utterly amazed at how stable the game has been. Over 40 hours in and not one crash, and no noticeable glitches for me apart from some odd pathfinding at times. I'm sure there are a lot of behind the scenes bugs regarding game mechanics and such, though, that I just can't see.

I've had a couple crashes on PS4, and one noticeable glitch where a dudes face when all Matrix on me while I was talking to him. All in all though, for a Bethesda game on the PS4 I've been very pleased.

Aside from companion path finding issues ( you're being chased by a deathclaw? I'll just stand in this doorway that you want to run through), I've had no problems at all.
That's on PC, although I do update drivers regularly.

Welp...

That was fast

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