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I found a legendary revolver that recovers all AP after a critical hit, Unfortunately I don't like the revolver part of it. got me killed a couple of times. Still not used to the slo-mo vats...ah well

The Institute is mind-boggling.

I managed to take out Vault 95 last night. Hopefully there were no quests in there as I left only naked corpses

 LordofHats wrote:
Don't know if it's been posted but I just saw this on Imgur;

Spoiler:

Good one

What's also funny is that I read somewhere that Pornhub, supposedly the biggest pornsite, had a 10% drop in traffic on Fallout 4's launch day.

I also wonder where Bioware got the Nuka-Cola since Target totally dropped the ball on that promotion.

On a slightly related note, I love the new Nuka-Cola bottles with the fins

Would love to get a few.

I'm happy. I finally found Dogmeat. He's been missing for so long, and it turns out the whole time he was just hanging out in my back yard, snuggled in his doghouse. Don't know why he doesn't come when I ring the dinner bell though. Maybe I need to get a dog whistle.

So, is there a "best" kind of power armor? I found one suit just sitting in the back of a truck, and I got another suit from a brotherhood guy I killed by accident... I was pretty far away, I saw him and some buddies standing around, I thought they were bad guys so I sniped em from real for away, took like 8 shots to kill the guy in the armor. They never tried to attack, dunno if I was too far away or what, but I got a 3rd suit out of it in the end.

Suits go by numbers. Starter crappy is T45, then T51, T60 and then XL-01 or something like that. T51 is equal to T45b or c though and the same goes for the others. They're only a couple marks ahead of standard. So a T45f will actually do you well until you can get T60d from dead Brotherhood corpses. XL-01 Mk5 is the best there is. Unless it goes higher than 5... If it goes higher than 5, the higher is the best. I'm not looking at my armoury right now.

Check the health and the defense of the suit parts and you should see for yourself the differences. Plus adding Lead or Prism Shielding might make an older mark your better bet. I still use my Winterized T60d instead of my XL-01 parts when I know I'm coming against laser enemies. Better energy resistance. And I'll go back to my T51d Lead Lined when I need to go to the Glowing Sea because I never bothered getting more lead for the other marks.

Always use VATS to ID long-range targets before opening up.

Armour goes up to mark 6 or F, depending on the type of armour used. X-01 or Enclave armour is the best, but also the hardest to get a full suit of.

How does the VATS thing work anyway? whenever I'm looking down a scope it never tells me what I'm shooting, but it will show me their name if I'm not aiming and they're kind of close.

I did find a new sniper rifle with some kind of electronic scope that puts a red diamond over my targets head, so that's good for tracking if I miss and they try to hide

 Necros wrote:
How does the VATS thing work anyway? whenever I'm looking down a scope it never tells me what I'm shooting, but it will show me their name if I'm not aiming and they're kind of close.

I did find a new sniper rifle with some kind of electronic scope that puts a red diamond over my targets head, so that's good for tracking if I miss and they try to hide

If you target something with VATS, it's name will be whatever colour your pip-boy's UI (mine is blue, so their names show up blue) is if it isn't hostile, red if it is.

That's how I check if those tiny specs are something I want to shoot with my sniper or not.

My Overseers Guardian legendary 2-shot combat rifle does 104 damage... that's like 208 dmg per click. I just point it at someone, and their head explodes. The hip fire accuracy is terrible (long barrel), but it's still more effective in close combat than my shotguns and pistols if I panic fire.

Also, is anyone else still using their original vault suit? I've never worn anything else, except to see what it looks like. The new Vault Suits and layered armour are fantastic.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
My Overseers Guardian legendary 2-shot combat rifle does 104 damage... that's like 208 dmg per click. I just point it at someone, and their head explodes. The hip fire accuracy is terrible (long barrel), but it's still more effective in close combat than my shotguns and pistols if I panic fire.

Also, is anyone else still using their original vault suit? I've never worn anything else, except to see what it looks like. The new Vault Suits and layered armour are fantastic.

Yep, I'm still rocking my vault suit and I love how NPCs comment about it.

I like reminiscing with other pre war survivors like Nick Valentine and Ghouls.

 Necros wrote:
I'm happy. I finally found Dogmeat. He's been missing for so long, and it turns out the whole time he was just hanging out in my back yard, snuggled in his doghouse. Don't know why he doesn't come when I ring the dinner bell though. Maybe I need to get a dog whistle.

So, is there a "best" kind of power armor? I found one suit just sitting in the back of a truck, and I got another suit from a brotherhood guy I killed by accident... I was pretty far away, I saw him and some buddies standing around, I thought they were bad guys so I sniped em from real for away, took like 8 shots to kill the guy in the armor. They never tried to attack, dunno if I was too far away or what, but I got a 3rd suit out of it in the end.

Raider < 45 < 51 < 60 < x01

I scrapped my vault suit early on cuz I didn't know any better, I went back but couldn't find another one in there, but I was able to find a new suit in vault 114. Are all the suits the same or do some vaults get better stats?


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Do you need to do something special or get some item to make VATS work? I googled for some pics and I've never seen any kind of target highlighting or anything like those examples are showing. Is there just some setting in my pipboy to turn it on? or is it only if you're in power armor? I pretty much never wear it, I've been saving my fuel for when I find a really awesome suit. I found some combat armor early on and that's been working great for me as far as protection goes.

I still wear the vault suit and gave Piper the "clean" version I picked up near the entrance of the vault.

I prefer wearing the T-51 power armor because I think it looks better than 45 or 60. I'll wear the X-01 when I get it because it looks even better.

But I may give up on wearing the vault suit and normal armor when I get the final upgrade for the Silver Shroud costume, as that will be 80-something DR plus the infinite style points.

By the way, if you haven't tried it yet, there's a console command you can use to go to a special dev room where you can play with ALL the guns and armor that are in the game.

Istthe rail road annoying and sanctimonious as Victoria Watts was?
She did not give me a good impression of her organisation.
I actually hate her more than McCready. McCready did not stalk me across the wasteland, shove an item in my inventory that I can't get rid of, and blow me off if I spoke to him without delivering the damned thing.
You know what the kicker is? In order to get rid of the item you have to end the quest the worse and lame way.
Its not even the most ethical choice if you think about it.

I'm talking about this quest by the way

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Replicated_Man

Also, according to a TFS playthrough of it (hilarious stuff), there are radiation storms.
That. Is. Awesome.
I want someone to mod in Blowouts. I want Stalker 2 dammit.

Well i launched the uss constitution

And a Laser rifle that increases my move speed.

0_o

Well this happened

NSFW

 Desubot wrote:
Well i launched the uss constitution

And a Laser rifle that increases my move speed.

just finished that myself!

hilarious quest!

 easysauce wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Well i launched the uss constitution

And a Laser rifle that increases my move speed.

just finished that myself!

hilarious quest!

It was weird but did you run into the glitch where if you
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 BrookM wrote:
Armour goes up to mark 6 or F, depending on the type of armour used. X-01 or Enclave armour is the best, but also the hardest to get a full suit of.

You can get a complete set o X-01 in the Financial district (a big green building near the north eastern coast), You need to be high 20s though as apparently if you go below that its a lower mark. Its also guarded by an assaultron and a sentrybot so its a fairly difficult fight.

Oh.. I think that's the one that I found. Is it near a satellite dish area? I killed those guys and found the armor in the back of a truck. I think I was probably level 19 or so :/ I'll check later, maybe the one I got from the brotherhood guy is better anyway.

 Necros wrote:
Oh.. I think that's the one that I found. Is it near a satellite dish area? I killed those guys and found the armor in the back of a truck. I think I was probably level 19 or so :/ I'll check later, maybe the one I got from the brotherhood guy is better anyway.

No, its a different one. Its just as basic suit with no upgrades so maybe the BoS one is better.

Just can't get into wearing PA; pack rat in me does not like spending fusion cores.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Armour goes up to mark 6 or F, depending on the type of armour used. X-01 or Enclave armour is the best, but also the hardest to get a full suit of.

You can get a complete set o X-01 in the Financial district (a big green building near the north eastern coast), You need to be high 20s though as apparently if you go below that its a lower mark. Its also guarded by an assaultron and a sentrybot so its a fairly difficult fight.

Yeah... That one is leveled... So when level 8 me lured both the Sentry Bot and Assaultotron off the building, jumped between skyscrapers to get out of range, put buildings between them and me and spent about twenty minutes putting .38s into their heads I got T45 armor. I shouldn't have gone anywhere near the place until I reached a high level.

WHat's the right level to go for that stuff? I think I'm 21 now

I'm saving my power armor cores and plan to only use it if there's a really nasty battle where I really need it. I was thinking I'd go there first so I can unlock the fast travel spot, run home, put on my armor, fast travel back and then kill everything.

I'm 35 or 36 and get by sans PA.

Manchu wrote:
Just can't get into wearing PA; pack rat in me does not like spending fusion cores.

Power cores are everywhere. I use power armour elusively and I currently have 40 cores that I have looted or found randomly. I find them faster than I can use them.

Calibrated leg armour should appeal to the pack rat in you as it adds about 50 per leg (ish)to your carry capacity