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And have you gotten all the damage perks? I've focused all but 4 of my 27 perks so far (lvl 27) on crafting, leadership/trade and lockpicking. Nothing in stealth.

Power gaming is not a priority for me.

Well, if you don't upgrade those trees to their max the game is still plenty fun. Level 50 and my 'best' gun does 92 damage with a 50% against humans increase out of a .45. My .50 does 120 and I don't bother carrying Gauss unless I'm trying to hunt Power Armor. I get plenty of challenge from high level Raiders to keep the game fun. Not really be in danger, but atleast keep it fun.

I'm not interested in the settlement stuff at all. If I want sims I'll play that.

Mind you, I still have fun with it, it's just not much of a challenge. Which is why my next characters going to be 100% melee

Pistols seem like the only weapon that don't scale up to the endgame levels unless you use the plasma pistol/flamer (w/ pistol grip) exclusively I think.

Really? I've gotten my fully upgraded 10mm pistol and .44 revolver up to ~50 and ~100. And I've only got 2 perks in pistols. Full perks will double the damage.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Really? I've gotten my fully upgraded 10mm pistol and .44 revolver up to ~50 and ~100. And I've only got 2 perks in pistols. Full perks will double the damage.

some of my rifles deal near double that, not to mention that rifleman affects shotguns too. (and has a lot of the stronger weapons, i.e. gauss rifle, overseer's guardian, any sniper weapons, etc)

Course, again, any weapon can really be made into a beast if it gets explosive damage, because it gets a bonus from demo and whatever else affects the weapon (i.e. a minigun gets a bonus from commando and heavy weapon's damage boost)

May Cthulu eat me last, I'm going in...

*boots up Fallout 4*

And just when I thought it couldn't get any better..

I've been shooting fusion cores on power armour yo get people to eject but it just treats the power armour frame as stolen so I can't really use it to hold my pimped out stuff. Are there any solutions to this?

 Wolfblade wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Really? I've gotten my fully upgraded 10mm pistol and .44 revolver up to ~50 and ~100. And I've only got 2 perks in pistols. Full perks will double the damage.

some of my rifles deal near double that, not to mention that rifleman affects shotguns too. (and has a lot of the stronger weapons, i.e. gauss rifle, overseer's guardian, any sniper weapons, etc)

Course, again, any weapon can really be made into a beast if it gets explosive damage, because it gets a bonus from demo and whatever else affects the weapon (i.e. a minigun gets a bonus from commando and heavy weapon's damage boost)

Commando doesn't affect heavy weapons. Nor does demolition expert work on anything other then grenades and mines.

Pro tip: shooting at a car when you're standing in the middle of a park is a bad...BAD idea.

Another pro tip: Giving your Companion a Fat Man and nukes is about the worst idea you can have.

 Soladrin wrote:

 Wolfblade wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Really? I've gotten my fully upgraded 10mm pistol and .44 revolver up to ~50 and ~100. And I've only got 2 perks in pistols. Full perks will double the damage.

some of my rifles deal near double that, not to mention that rifleman affects shotguns too. (and has a lot of the stronger weapons, i.e. gauss rifle, overseer's guardian, any sniper weapons, etc)

Course, again, any weapon can really be made into a beast if it gets explosive damage, because it gets a bonus from demo and whatever else affects the weapon (i.e. a minigun gets a bonus from commando and heavy weapon's damage boost)

Commando doesn't affect heavy weapons. Nor does demolition expert work on anything other then grenades and mines.

But it DOES appear to affect the explosive legendary modifier. If they don't, I have no idea how to explain a non explosive minigun dealing around 20 damage, while an explosive modifier on a minigun causes it to deal around 80 with the accelerated barrel.

So that's why I atleast assume it affects it (18 + 15 would only be 33, even doubled by JUST the heavy weapons perk that'd be only 66 damage, with demo doubling the explosive damage that'd be 81 damage)

 BrookM wrote:
And just when I thought it couldn't get any better..

Spoiler:

"For God's sake, use the accent, man!"

Yes, that is, so far, my favorite part of the game. Whoever it was that came up with the Last Voyage of the USS Constitution questline deserves a raise.

Maybe I'll have an unpopular opinion, but I didn't like it. The setup, payoff and interactions were great, but as far as gameplay I thought it was even more dull than a Minuteman quest. The actual missions could have been skipped and I'd have liked it more, or maybe I went in too gun-happy as I am prone to do, but it was another mission where I would have preferred reading it in a book instead of interacting and crowbarring fetch quests into it.

My weapon damage isn't quite that good yet, in only level 27 at the moment.
Doing the silver shadow quests at the moment.then I'm going looking for some enclave armour to mod up for the glowing sea.
I've been in a bit of a roll with armour. I've gone from one set to seven in a couple of days.
I'm going to have to build myself a suit morgue soon.
Just got the burning minigun too, it's a bundle of laughs.
Haven't tried my cannon yet, I've been stocking up on cannonballs before I use it in anger.
I'm only getting about 3hrs play per day, due to work, wife, and toddler, so I'm not as far into the game as I'd like.

Anyone know how to save Kent at the end of the Silver Shroud mission? The minute I set foot inside the hospital, sinjin kills Kent. Apparently it's because the hospital robots spawn which triggers the execution.

I'm not sure.
I'm in the middle of that quest myself, I'm with Hancock at the moment and he's offered me a side quest to take out some targets. I've done two, off to do the third after work tonight.
I've run out of ammo for the silver Tommy gun so I need to scrounge up some more from somewhere.
I'm quite caps flush at the moment so I may have to go shopping.
I'm loving the trenchcoat at the moment, it's a good look.
Need to find some sunglasses to complete the look.

You don't actually need to use the Tommy gun. Just have to wear the outfit.

I stopped bothering with the silver gun as its very weak (10) and was burning through my .45 ammo which I need for my overseers guardian combat rifle.

I love how Bethesda's level designers seem to have enjoyed the hell of their job. Another cute thing I found, this time in Vault 81.



Vault 81 frustrates me to no end. There's so many "plot hooks" here, so many potential quests and yet I don't seem to be able to do anything! The only quests I think I'm able to do is the Kitty one, and the guy cheating on her wife. Yet I have Charisma 9 and I still can't convince the damn woman to tell me anything about it, urgh!

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Anyone know how to save Kent at the end of the Silver Shroud mission? The minute I set foot inside the hospital, sinjin kills Kent. Apparently it's because the hospital robots spawn which triggers the execution.

I read somewhere that there is a bug regarding that. It didn't happen to me, though. But saving the guy is still very hard to do. I had to reload about a dozen times before I finally got the right combination of weapon, VATS, target point, and critical hit.

You probably have to clear the hospital first before getting to the stage in the quest when Kent is kidnapped, to stop the robots spawning and interfering with the script.


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I'm wetting myself right now. I was sent to retrieve some mutated flower from a flooded town. But there are dead things in the water. Lots of ghouls just rising up around me. I'm spinning on the spot, scanning for targets, then jumping out of my skin when one jumps on me from behind.

Oh, and the waters radioactive. Lovely.


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Must have killed around 15 in 60 seconds...


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They just don't stop coming, and night is falling...

Really? I just killed the raiders with well placed headshots from hiding and Kent was saved..

And now they're dropping down from the rooftops.


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 Soladrin wrote:
Really? I just killed the raiders with well placed headshots from hiding and Kent was saved..

I couldn't even get to that point. The moment i stepped through the front door, they killed him. Some bug with the robots spawning and triggering the script.


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Apparently the Gunners merc faction own Vertibirds. One came in and started starting me. I was scrapping myself thinking the Brotherhood of Steel had declared war on me.

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
Another pro tip: Giving your Companion a Fat Man and nukes is about the worst idea you can have.

Did Sulik and an SMG in FO2 teach you nothing?!?!

 Psienesis wrote:

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
Another pro tip: Giving your Companion a Fat Man and nukes is about the worst idea you can have.

Did Sulik and an SMG in FO2 teach you nothing?!?!

Or Ian with an SMG in the original...

*fires 6 rounds into your back*
GODDAMMIT IAN!

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
*fires 6 rounds into your back*
GODDAMMIT IAN!

DAMMIT IAN, HOW DID YOU MISS THAT DEATH CLAW IN FRONT OF YOU AND HIT ME ALL THE WAY OVER THERE?!



There needs to be an Ian / Horrible AI marksman meme

On another note, I saw the BoS Airship. It was pretty cool.
Not sure I like all the vertibirds, but it makes sense I guess.
The NCR has them, and the BoS appears to have advanced considerably.
I like how the BoS are more like the traditional BoS, and not the white knights in FO3.

Well, they are basically technophile hoarders, so it would make sense they'd go after them. IIRC, NRC nicked most of their's from the enclave.

 Psienesis wrote:

Did Sulik and an SMG in FO2 teach you nothing?!?!

Just set him to 'be absolutely certain not to hit me' and things went fine. Provided that you had no other close range characters of course