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Once you can mod the chest pieces with the good stuff, it's easier to just have full sets depending on what you're trying to do. For instance, my combat suit is a Winterized T60d/e with Medic Pump, Callibrated Servos and that Sensor visor that highlights lifeforms. Meant to take Lasers to the face without flinching and snipe away at enemies I wouldn't have seen otherwise. But my Exploring suit is a set of Shark painted X-01Mk5 with Jetpack, Calibrated Servos and increased Perception helmet. Increased Perception and Agility so I don't use up all my AP boosting around as much and I can locate enemies easier in the Wasteland via HUD instead of just by sight.

Also got Lead T60 for the Glowing Sea, and your Companion should have a set too because why not?

Just realized...does it, at any point, explain why power armor suddenly runs on an extremely short-lived battery?

Could be that post-war batteries aren't as reliable as pre-war ones.

 BrookM wrote:
Could be that post-war batteries aren't as reliable as pre-war ones.

This is what I reckoned, too.

All those pre-war fusion cores you acquire? They, according to in game lore, last ~100 years and you're finding them 200 years after the war.

So think of them as having lost some of their charge and reliability by now

Well I think I may have screwed up the railroad quest, I was doing a spot of exploring, found a sewer tunnel, then was attacked.
So I wade in and blast everyone that is shooting at me.
Lets just say that the town of covenant now is clear for new tenants.....
I have the feeling that place used to be important. Oh well, too late now....

 Sigvatr wrote:
Just realized...does it, at any point, explain why power armor suddenly runs on an extremely short-lived battery?

Probably not, it's quite possible that it's a pure game play idea rather than anything to do with the lore.

 marv335 wrote:
Well I think I may have screwed up the railroad quest, I was doing a spot of exploring, found a sewer tunnel, then was attacked.
So I wade in and blast everyone that is shooting at me.
Lets just say that the town of covenant now is clear for new tenants.....
I have the feeling that place used to be important. Oh well, too late now....

Only a side quest. Whilst it is Synth related, it's not part of the Railroad faction quest line.

And don't feel guilty, they totally deserved it.

 marv335 wrote:
Well I think I may have screwed up the railroad quest, I was doing a spot of exploring, found a sewer tunnel, then was attacked.
So I wade in and blast everyone that is shooting at me.
Lets just say that the town of covenant now is clear for new tenants.....
I have the feeling that place used to be important. Oh well, too late now....

I'll do you one better. They didn't shoot at me and I jumped a gap, made it into their facility while every guard I passed says 'Never had a stranger down here before'. Then Doctor Lady begs for her life and I friggin have no idea why. I just wander back out the way I came all confused and then Covenant doesn't have some guy I'm apparently supposed to talk to... Didn't even get my GOAT test. I was disappointed.

Edit: Got there with my second character and it was much more rewarding. Not important to any stories, but still a fairly interesting set.

Anyone got some weird deja vu in Fairline Estates with Vault 112? It fills me with dread every time I pass through...

Anyone else irritated that it's December in Boston in game, and while all the people are bundled up like crazy, there's no snow anywhere?

Or that the shacks you can build might work for the southwest, they've be little to no protection at all in Boston?

200 years of radioactive fallout may have altered the Boston climate somewhat.

It still rains, so it will probebly snow when it gets cold enough. After all, it's "nuclear winter" not "nuclear unseasonably warm".

So I wandered around the map yesterday and entered a town. It had defensive walls and all that and some of the messy gore sacks Super Mutants have, must've been a Raider or Super Mutant setlement but there was not a single npc in sight. No bodies, nothing. Well... except for the standard ones you find with the bloody gore sacks. So I wandered around and suddenly heard a Vertibird, it dropped off some power armored BOS guys and then proceded to crash itself, like they always do. But after a while they started to shoot some things... and yup, the town was absolutely infested with Deathclaws. At least 8 to 10 of them, or even more, they were spread out all over the place. It was funny to see Deathclaws attack in packs. When I killed most of them I ran around the corner and found that a bunch of raiders just spawned right in front of my nose, all bunched up. And so I threw a mine in there... it was the goreiest fireworks I have ever seen, limbs flew everywhere.

tl;dr: My Fallout 4 day was a fun clusterfeth.

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
Also got Lead T60 for the Glowing Sea, and your Companion should have a set too because why not?

Because they forgot to put in a suit for Dogmeat?

He's my only companion up to now,

Funny thing happened last night. I'm in my Red Rocket garage, crafting away (using the console commands for supplies since I was testing to see what each color of armor upgrade looked like, because I gotta be stylish in the wastes), and I hear something attacking. I ignore it, after all, I've got 4 companions there and 5 heavy laser turrets mounted on the roof. When I'm finally done, I come out and find bits of Deathclaw everywhere.

Also, I just learned yesterday that armor pieces come in three tiers: normal, sturdy, and heavy. I thought sturdy and heavy were just mods so I had been breaking down or selling all the extra armor I've been finding. Nope, they're separate armor pieces that are stronger and, visibly, cover more of the body.

With Enclave is gone. this time player character begins with a faction.... the Commonwealth Minutemen (a 18th Century themed army modelled after the actual American revolutionary troops). The Eastcoast Brotherhood of Steel got a new leader, the last Maxson.... and so its new policy, combining the original BoS with the tighter outsider recruitments (and also new ethical alignments, being less virtuous, more neutral). The Railroad (introduced in Fallout 3) becomes 'Good' and The Institute is Evil.

But what about the remainder of the Enclave, what happened to them? did they adapt with post-Enclave life? or hunted down? or assimilated?

Well, the enclave remnants in NV from the west coast seem to have integrated relativly well, so about the same I'd reckon.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Just realized...does it, at any point, explain why power armor suddenly runs on an extremely short-lived battery?

Probably not, it's quite possible that it's a pure game play idea rather than anything to do with the lore.

From a gamepla point of view, it makes no sense. Fusion cores are more than plentiful and you rather have too many than ever finding yourself in need of them. Why then introduce such a system? Also kinda breaks with FO lore. Not liking the kind of power creep going on. Power Armor feels "too early". To me, t's alwas been some kind of major scalig point, i.e. get Power Armor and you know you just started kicking major ass.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Just realized...does it, at any point, explain why power armor suddenly runs on an extremely short-lived battery?

Probably not, it's quite possible that it's a pure game play idea rather than anything to do with the lore.

From a gamepla point of view, it makes no sense. Fusion cores are more than plentiful and you rather have too many than ever finding yourself in need of them. Why then introduce such a system? Also kinda breaks with FO lore. Not liking the kind of power creep going on. Power Armor feels "too early". To me, t's alwas been some kind of major scalig point, i.e. get Power Armor and you know you just started kicking major ass.

Yeah, I think they wanted to make PA more available to appeal to the masses, but they then realized how OP it would be.
So they decided to break lore by incorporating such a tedious mechanic.
And then they realized that it made PA useless, so they just spammed cores everywhere

They should have given different suits of armor different energy uses.
Lore wise, T45 was supposed to be very energy inefficient, as opposed to the T51 which had a battery pack that could last a millenia.

Also, why is there not a .223? Such a weapon would have been perfect considering the game's story, as the .223 pistol is based off of the gun from Blade Runner, and the Synths are basically Androids.

Honestly, I'm glad that I no longer need to get power armour training first, that was always such a pain in the ass to get.


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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Also, why is there not a .223? Such a weapon would have been perfect considering the game's story, as the .223 pistol is based off of the gun from Blade Runner, and the Synths are basically Androids.

I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes part of future DLC.

 BrookM wrote:
Honestly, I'm glad that I no longer need to get power armour training first, that was always such a pain in the ass to get.

Yeah, that was also an arbitrary balance thing, introduced in FO3 as there was power armor everywhere.
That mechanic did not exist in the earlier games.
Jsawyer mod in FNV removed that mechanic. Sort of. You can wear power armor without the perk, but you don't get the strength bonus.
That's the proper way of doing it, imo.


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 BrookM wrote:
Honestly, I'm glad that I no longer need to get power armour training first, that was always such a pain in the ass to get.


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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Also, why is there not a .223? Such a weapon would have been perfect considering the game's story, as the .223 pistol is based off of the gun from Blade Runner, and the Synths are basically Androids.

I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes part of future DLC.

"Don't worry, mods will fix it! Lack of obvious and logical content is a feature!"
I hate that excuse. The existence of mods should not be an excuse for laziness.
The settlement mechanic is an example of said laziness. If they put some effort into that feature, it could have been more than a way of getting some free resources and caps.
Not that you get much.

Also, does it bother anyone else how there like, only 10 weapons?
I get that you can mod them, but you can also mod weapons in new vegas, and there were like 30 types.
The inner ork in me has a fever, and the doctor prescribed more dakka.

I would like to have seen more guns too.

possibly real world versions of the pipe guns. as a natural progression of arms.

I love my guns but dammit if those pipe weapons are UGLY

I like the little legendary quips though. would of liked to see more interesting ones or more variations.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Also, does it bother anyone else how there like, only 10 weapons?

Mods will fix it.

Seriously, though, this is what Bethesda does nowadays. Skyrim wasn't a good game at its core. Terrible story, terrible combat system, shallow world. What made it good were...mods. Fallout 3 and NV both only became as good as they did because of...mods. Bethesda is well aware of it and why do more than you have to if there's a lot of people out there doing your work /for free/?

My biggest problem with the current weapon design is that single shot weapons are far more preferably right now than full auto ones. Even my mighty minigun only does 10 damage per shot. I can empty an entire brick into something and it'll still walk away almost unscathed.

Also, New Vegas was done by Obsidian, not Bethesda...

 BrookM wrote:
My biggest problem with the current weapon design is that single shot weapons are far more preferably right now than full auto ones. Even my mighty minigun only does 10 damage per shot. I can empty an entire brick into something and it'll still walk away almost unscathed.

Also, New Vegas was done by Obsidian, not Bethesda...

Who worked under a contract for Beth, using Beth's engine and following beth's conditions and restraints.
It was still unfinished, but it actually felt like someone worked on it, rather than pouring a bunch of sand into a box, and letting their fanbase go nuts.

I will give Fallout 4 credit for its characters though; they are a bit better than the ones in Skyrim and FO3, who were pretty bland.
FNV companions weren't as bland, but they were still pretty meh. Can't think of one I really liked. Sharon was ok, but her dad was better.
Cait and Kellogg are my favorites so far. In fact, I kind of wish the game was about Kellogg rather than Lone Daddy.

There are so many weapons they could have added. The selection, although bolstered by the modding, is depressingly small. Especially explosives, in NV you had stuff like grenade launches, grenade rifles, and even grenade machine guns. As well as a rocket launchers (less powerful than the missile launcher but faster, 8(?) round capacity and built in scope) and specialized missiles for the missile launchers, with HE, high speed, and "hive" (9 smaller missiles) missiles.

They also had the ammo system with AP and hollow point rounds, and even more specialized hand-loaded round, like the Mach .50 cartridges. But no, now we just have magical guns that ignore armor somehow.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
There are so many weapons they could have added. The selection, although bolstered by the modding, is depressingly small. Especially explosives, in NV you had stuff like grenade launches, grenade rifles, and even grenade machine guns. As well as a rocket launchers (less powerful than the missile launcher but faster, 8(?) round capacity and built in scope) and specialized missiles for the missile launchers, with HE, high speed, and "hive" (9 smaller missiles) missiles..
They also had the ammo system with AP and hollow point rounds, and even more specialized hand-loaded round, like the Mach .50 cartridges. But no, now we just have magical guns that ignore armor somehow.[

Yeah, FNV added a lot of weapons, and FO4 has next to none. They even got rid of Small Energy Cells and pistol energy weapons, instead having that stupid system where nearly any weapon can be either a pistol or a rifle.
Why is the Commonwealth so special? What, did all of their laser and plasma pistols get blown up, along with SMCs, leaving only the rifles and MFCs? How does that work?

The lack of ammo types and ammo crafting was a surprise. I still don't quite understand why they didn't add those back in.
It gave the gunplay a strategic element, as you had to change ammo to match the situation, but now there isn't really any strategy at all.

I'm also glad they did away with weapon and armour durability.

 BrookM wrote:
I'm also glad they did away with weapon and armour durability.

Yeah, no argument there. That was pretty tedious.
It didn't even make sense. Why would my gun deal less damage? Guns don't work like that. The bullet doesn't hurt less when the gun is rusty.
It just might come out the right way.
Everything broke so quickly too.

In Stalker guns didn't get weaker, and they took a while to go bad. When it does go bad, it just jams and gets a bit inaccurate.
Armor also lasted a while, as if you try to tank hits like in FO3, you'd be dead

I would have liked a bit more variety of guns, too. But, at least they're all still useable as you level up. Half the guns in FO3 and FNV became useless once you got to the better ones.

I do like the new power armor, though, as it actually feels like I'm stomping around in a giant powered suit of metal. Annoyed about the constant need for fusion cores, though. Especially since it keeps auto loading a new one when it runs out. I'd rather manually reload them to use up the dozen partial cores I have, or at least be able to recharge them somehow.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
I would have liked a bit more variety of guns, too. But, at least they're all still useable as you level up. Half the guns in FO3 and FNV became useless once you got to the better ones.

I do like the new power armor, though, as it actually feels like I'm stomping around in a giant powered suit of metal. Annoyed about the constant need for fusion cores, though. Especially since it keeps auto loading a new one when it runs out. I'd rather manually reload them to use up the dozen partial cores I have, or at least be able to recharge them somehow.

Recharging should of been a major thing. and i feel it could of been an opportunity for bigger settlements.

One major quip i have is not being able to breakdown items without having to use it or dropping them in a settlement then scraping via the menu.

would of been nice for the pack rats and OCD people that hate looking at 200 items in the inventory