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Currently level 30-something and using a laser sniper rifle with a recon medium scope on it for most things (100+ damage, 12 shot capacitor, capable of shooting off all the shots in the capacitor in about 1 second when something pops up next to me ).

I use a maxed out hunting rifle for long range stuff and the laser rifle's scope is not letting me see clearly enough. The RoF is too low for using it in anything but long range

Starting to use my T60e BoS power armour a lot now, especially since it lets me carry almost 500wt of junk

I am now at the point in the game where...

I've been carrying around tons 'o guns but nowadays I just use my trusty assault rifle and 50 cal sniper rifle. Does ammo max at 1000? I just noticed I had 1000 power cells, been waiting for the perfect laser gun to fall in my lap, but so far my assault rifle is just better. Deathclaws are no problem, even the elite ones. Get my companion to tank it for 3 seconds and that's all I need to pump it full of enough lead to knock it down. since they're so big I don't even have to aim. I wish its meat wasn't so heavy...

Yeah ammo caps on 999 on screen even if you got more in your inventory. My 50 Cal. has over 1300 ammo. I now need to restart the game every so often because that gun bugs out and does no damage whatsoever.

Finally upgraded my sniper into a 50cal with suppressor and recon scopes.

love it to death

I need to find me a better pistol. i love my suppressed 10mm. but i haven't found a legendary prefix for it yet.

The ammo perk can be glorious for some types. I have huge quantities of .38, .308, .45, .50cal, and 5.56mm, but I have only a low hundred 5mm, 10mm, and shotgun shells, and only about fifty .44 bullets after a few tens of hours of gameplay.

I've no idea how ammo scarcity scales, but it just feels slightly off having over 1000 .50cal, and barely 5% as much .44, just over 10% as much in shotgun shells, and only about 50% as many .308 rounds. I also only have about 350 10mm, which has been a fairly steady value throughout most of the play-through.

It's incredibly weird having three times as much ammo for my .50cal sniper, or a .45 combat rifle, than my 10mm pistol.

So...what use does .38 have? The only gun that uses it is the Pipe rifle / pistol, and those guns suck.

Fine against raiders, useless against everything else.

I dont know i feel the scale is right. there could be way more higher caliber ammo around since not as many people run around using it.

one of the loading blurbs says that low caliber pistols are the go to in the wasteland as well.

.... my empire for more shot gun shells :(

the .38 would be fun if you got a never ending pistol or rifle with automatic receiver

I made one out of a legendary cryo pipe pistol.
Still kind of crap.
Maybe I need to find an explosive variant.

I found an exploding auto pipe pistol with 15 fire damage per shot. It tears Super Mutants to shreds. Might turn it into an smg.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
I found an exploding auto pipe pistol with 15 fire damage per shot. It tears Super Mutants to shreds. Might turn it into an smg.

I found an exploding 10mm pistol and made it automatic.
It was awesome. Tore everything up.
But then I ran out of ammo :(

Finished the main quest line. Bit weak I suppose, but eh, there's still plenty to do until the first DLC hits. I've put in 85 hours so far, which isn't anywhere near enough I think.

Did Obsidian confirm if they're working on a spin-off, or do they have too much on their plate right now (IIRC some of their members have gone off to work for another company too). I know Bethesda has already contracted another third party company to make a spin-off, so its unlikely then Obsidian will be making one as well, but a guy can hope. ...Because seriously, any opportunity to revisit the original, actual, plot is nice.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Did Obsidian confirm if they're working on a spin-off, or do they have too much on their plate right now (IIRC some of their members have gone off to work for another company too). I know Bethesda has already contracted another third party company to make a spin-off, so its unlikely then Obsidian will be making one as well, but a guy can hope. ...Because seriously, any opportunity to revisit the original, actual, plot is nice.

I hope so. New Vegas is way better than the Bethesda versions in every way. They also made Divinity Original Sin I think, which was one of the best RPGs to come out in a while.

So...what does a Legendary mutation do, exactly? I know it replenishes health, but what's that aura? Not sure I like the inclusion of legendary things. Makes it too much like borderlands.
I'm still enjoying it, more than Borderlands even, but I did not want Fallout to be like Borderlands. I wanted it to be like Fallout.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So...what does a Legendary mutation do, exactly? I know it replenishes health, but what's that aura?

Different strokes for different folks.... I fought a mirelurk that when it turned glowy, it got Hulk Strength. A Super Mutant gained exploding ammo.


Basically.... KILL IT QUICKLY!!!! You don't really want to find out

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Did Obsidian confirm if they're working on a spin-off, or do they have too much on their plate right now (IIRC some of their members have gone off to work for another company too). I know Bethesda has already contracted another third party company to make a spin-off, so its unlikely then Obsidian will be making one as well, but a guy can hope. ...Because seriously, any opportunity to revisit the original, actual, plot is nice.

I wonder though, if Obsidian is going to do a spin-off, will they in the process turn a surprisingly stable Bethesda game into one that will crash all the time at launch?

At level 58 I'm starting to get some significant lag on Xbone. Terminals to unlock doors just drag on after the correct code, it has crashed more times in the past day than in the entire time I have played it combined and frames are dropping WAY too much. But, when I load up my 'young' character at level 28, it's fine. Hardly any frames dropped and none of the other issues... It's starting to worry me about the amount of saves stored. Might need to delete all but the current, like New Vegas had the issue with the loading times with too many saves (Supposedly. Not first hand knowledge)

 BrookM wrote:

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Did Obsidian confirm if they're working on a spin-off, or do they have too much on their plate right now (IIRC some of their members have gone off to work for another company too). I know Bethesda has already contracted another third party company to make a spin-off, so its unlikely then Obsidian will be making one as well, but a guy can hope. ...Because seriously, any opportunity to revisit the original, actual, plot is nice.

I wonder though, if Obsidian is going to do a spin-off, will they in the process turn a surprisingly stable Bethesda game into one that will crash all the time at launch?

* Watches as his Fallout 4 game crashes every time it runs on his system.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 BrookM wrote:

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Did Obsidian confirm if they're working on a spin-off, or do they have too much on their plate right now (IIRC some of their members have gone off to work for another company too). I know Bethesda has already contracted another third party company to make a spin-off, so its unlikely then Obsidian will be making one as well, but a guy can hope. ...Because seriously, any opportunity to revisit the original, actual, plot is nice.

I wonder though, if Obsidian is going to do a spin-off, will they in the process turn a surprisingly stable Bethesda game into one that will crash all the time at launch?

* Watches as his Fallout 4 game crashes every time it runs on his system.

Wow, I guess I am the exception then, aside from one crash this is for me the most stable Bethesda game to date.

I've not had a single crash so far.

 marv335 wrote:
I've not had a single crash so far.

Same. It's so stable, it doesn't even look like a brand new Bethesda game.

No problems here either. I'm on a 2 year old Win 7 PC and able to play on "Ultra" settings comfortably with a decent enough frame rate that everything is smooth and gorgeous with no stuttering, freezing, bluescreens, or CTDs so far.

It's certainly more stable than most beth releases, but it really depends on what system you are using. And it has some really annoying bugs, like getting stuck in terminals randomly if you have changed the FoV. Over-all, I'd say it's better than 3, but not quite as good as skyrim in terms of stability/buggyness.

Yeah, I have it on PS4 and haven't ever had a crash. I have had some lags such as when I'm exiting elevators, but that's about it.

Speaking of framerates, anyone know how I can do the following?

1/ Find out what the frame rate is when playing?

2/ Find out what temperature my GPU and CPU are when playing?

Fallout 4 is the most taxing program I run, and I would like to know what my system is doing whilst it is under that load. Mainly to make sure I'm not starting to run into failures due to overheating, and see if my system is truly up to the Ultra settings I am using.

Thanks in advance.

 Conrad Turner wrote:


2/ Find out what temperature my GPU and CPU are when playing?

AFAIK, I've always needed temperature sensors and case add-ons to know how hot my system gets when doing things.

 Swastakowey wrote:
[ They also made Divinity Original Sin I think, which was one of the best RPGs to come out in a while.

That was Larian.

I'm not sure if Obsidian have the capability to work on a FO game at the moment. They are working on 4 games just now, although 2 of them are in partnership with someone else and a third is an expansion pack.

They could get InXile, then they'd have Brian Fargo, the man who both wasteland and fallout exist because. They just released wasteland 2 directors cut a little while ago so I don't think they are really doing anything right now. If anyone can bring back role-play and story/dialogue, it's them, especially as they got Chris Avellone to work with them on WL2, so I'm sure he'd be up to make another fallout game.

I'm starting to kinda feel like there was a lot more to do in Skyrim, quest wise. In Skyrim you had some kind of long quest lines between the main one, college of mages, assassin's club and more. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like there's mostly just the Minutemen, Brotherhood, Railroad & institute, and those just had a couple of unique quests to do followed by a bunch of repeatable ones. I generally hate repeating quests, so I just don't do them when it's obviously and endless loop of the same thing.

After about a week's time I feel like I'm nearing the end, but in Skyrim that killed my life for a good 6 weeks. Right now I'm up to the part where .. I dunno how much farther I have to go but it looks like i'm being forced to side with a faction once and for all so that makes me assume the end is near.

So I've been holding off trying to do as many side quests as I can find. Seem to be running low though. I'm level 36 now I think. Seems like I'll need to get up into the 50's to be able to unlock all of the different crafting perks I wanted, but I don't think I'll get there before the end :/

So...does anyone feel like Kellogg would have been a more interesting character to play as?
I played through the memory den sequence, and I thought that his story was much more interesting than the Lone Survivor's.