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To be fair, I rushed the second half of the main quest then started over. On my current playthrough i havent even got to diamond city yet. Maybe the attacks pick up the further along in the story you are.

As for the turrets, no, no glitches or exploits. If a settlement budget maxes out I just use the console to increase it. (PC master race yo). If anyone dares show their face before the walls of my settlement, they get drowned in lead (I just use the basic machine gun turrets, can't afford the high tech ones yet). Battles at my settlements resemble ww1 battles like Verdun or the Somme.

So, in my travels a raider got a lucky pot shot and did a critical on my head. I ignored it at first, and assumed it would go away, but my perception has been dropped to 1, and hasn't changed. I've seen suggestions on the Internet saying to load a save before it happened, but I've made a pot of progress after the fact and was wondering if there was a different option.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
So, in my travels a raider got a lucky pot shot and did a critical on my head. I ignored it at first, and assumed it would go away, but my perception has been dropped to 1, and hasn't changed. I've seen suggestions on the Internet saying to load a save before it happened, but I've made a pot of progress after the fact and was wondering if there was a different option.

Isn't that just a crippled head? Did you take a stim?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
So, in my travels a raider got a lucky pot shot and did a critical on my head. I ignored it at first, and assumed it would go away, but my perception has been dropped to 1, and hasn't changed. I've seen suggestions on the Internet saying to load a save before it happened, but I've made a pot of progress after the fact and was wondering if there was a different option.

Isn't that just a crippled head? Did you take a stim?

It might have been a crippled head, but either way, stimpacks didn't help either. I've tried adding another lvl to my perception as well to jump start it back to its actual level as well, to no avail. Sadly, I'm on console so I can't just add levels to my character either.

Have you tried using a doctor? That might help.

That's one thing I haven't done yet. (Still need to get to Diamond City, I kept putting it off to explore the wasteland and do tasks for the Minutemen)

So this game is awesome, But is anyone else having major load times? It sometimes takes up to a minute to enter a building or fast travel.

Yeah I've had a couple long loads happen, Im on PS4 if that makes any difference... probably not.

No long load times for me, but, you know, PC master race and a SSD as primary drive and all that.

Sadly, the doctor didn't help out for my perception issue. I guess my options are either deal with the low perception or load a save back from the start of the game.

Other than that dreadful decision, I got my first legendary gun. It's an explosive hunting rifle. I like it, but I've been melee oriented for the most part.

I despise legendary weapons. They make no goddamn sense. At least in TES you would have the excuse of enchanting, but there is no reason for the weapons in 4 to magically be better.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I despise legendary weapons. They make no goddamn sense. At least in TES you would have the excuse of enchanting, but there is no reason for the weapons in 4 to magically be better.

Oh now it's to much. Enchanted weapons. But everything else in the game seems real.....lol. I see them as weapons that were....yea no idea but I enjoy them.

Secretly modified to do those things? I know it doesn't explain a lot of the legendary effects (shooting twice, but using one bullet, endless clips, etc). What makes even less sense is how a radroach got its hands on one. I mean, it might be fluff breaking, but I won't shirk away from using it if I need to. Or if someone royally ticked me off and I want to put an explosive round into their chest.

Righteousrob wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I despise legendary weapons. They make no goddamn sense. At least in TES you would have the excuse of enchanting, but there is no reason for the weapons in 4 to magically be better.

Oh now it's to much. Enchanted weapons. But everything else in the game seems real.....lol. I see them as weapons that were....yea no idea but I enjoy them.

It's just really annoying to me when they had the new modding system and the ammo system from NV that they could do it realistically. But no, RNGed, magical weapons it it.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

Righteousrob wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I despise legendary weapons. They make no goddamn sense. At least in TES you would have the excuse of enchanting, but there is no reason for the weapons in 4 to magically be better.

Oh now it's to much. Enchanted weapons. But everything else in the game seems real.....lol. I see them as weapons that were....yea no idea but I enjoy them.

It's just really annoying to me when they had the new modding system and the ammo system from NV that they could do it realistically. But no, RNGed, magical weapons it it.

I really think they were trying to copy borderlands. Even the names and the skull icon for high leveled enemies are from borderlands.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

Righteousrob wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I despise legendary weapons. They make no goddamn sense. At least in TES you would have the excuse of enchanting, but there is no reason for the weapons in 4 to magically be better.

Oh now it's to much. Enchanted weapons. But everything else in the game seems real.....lol. I see them as weapons that were....yea no idea but I enjoy them.

It's just really annoying to me when they had the new modding system and the ammo system from NV that they could do it realistically. But no, RNGed, magical weapons it it.

I really think they were trying to copy borderlands. Even the names and the skull icon for high leveled enemies are from borderlands.

It's worse in that they tried to get a mix of the two. Boarderlands has 17,750,000 possible weapon combinations (according to the wiki).

Here is a list of every gun in FO4: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_weapons

For comparison here is NV: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_weapons

And FO3: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_weapons

It's pathetic. You have all of these weapons out there (and even more when you include 1,2, tactics) and this is what we get. And the assault rifle is a fething lewis gun. And the worst part is that they already had an untextured model for the Type 56 (Chinese assault rifle) sitting in the game's files.

Something has been really bugging me -

I found a gamma gun that deals 50% damage against super mutants.

But aren't super mutants immune to the gamma gun, as it deals radiation damage? How does that work?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Something has been really bugging me -

I found a gamma gun that deals 50% damage against super mutants.

But aren't super mutants immune to the gamma gun, as it deals radiation damage? How does that work?

It doesn't. I got one that deals more damage to GHOULS. If there was a ghoul mask, and I could have an army of ghouls, alright, that'd be kinda cool, but as it is, it's worthless.

So...Beth fethed up.
How hard would have been to program the game to NOT give a weapon that property?
There must surely be a list in the code that details all the permutations. All they had to do was leave that weapon out.

I bet they just Ctrl+C'd and Ctrl+V'd and shipped it.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I got my first legendary gun. It's an explosive hunting rifle. I like it, but I've been melee oriented for the most part.

I've got an Explosive Combat Shotgun, 2 actually. It creates an explosion on each pellet so it's ridiculously over powered. I can even fight enemies at ground level while I stand on top of skyscrapers since the explosive damage isn't lessened by the range. And it seems explosive attacks are really good at crippling enemies since I can aim at even high level (70+) Deathclaw's feet, fire a few shots and now they can't walk. The crippling is also great for stunning the hardier Super Mutants and blowing the shells off of Mirelurks. Plus it makes fighting those damn annoying bloodbugs simple, since their flying about won't help them avoid the explosions.

I also have a Super Sledge and Revolutionary Sword that deal double damage to enemies with full health, combined with player perks for 10x melee sneak attack damage, bumped up to 12x with a companion perk, blitz for a 10 metre melee V.A.T.S attack that deals bonus damage the further away I am results in one shotting even powerful enemies. And Blitz has this glitch where you can get caught on terrain but your character still swings their sword and kills the target, so it's like you're cutting down enemies with a wind slash, very nice.

Anyone else get Legendary Weapons they really like?

 Lotet wrote:


Anyone else get Legendary Weapons they really like?

I got an Explosive Minigun. It makes the game so easy that it just isn't fair. Nothing can stand against it, not deathclaws, supermutants, power armour, nothing.

I had a hard time getting a fat man off of a raider. The bugger was in an apartment building, and close quarters make it hard to avoid a nuke, it turns out.

The first time he shot me, all I heard as a whistling noise and my entire screen turned red as I got blown to bits. I had to jump out of the building to avoid the explosion, but it was pretty cool to see the upper section of the building covered in smoke.

...if only dogmeat made it out too.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I had a hard time getting a fat man off of a raider. The bugger was in an apartment building, and close quarters make it hard to avoid a nuke, it turns out.

The first time he shot me, all I heard as a whistling noise and my entire screen turned red as I got blown to bits. I had to jump out of the building to avoid the explosion, but it was pretty cool to see the upper section of the building covered in smoke.

...if only dogmeat made it out too.

Was that in Lexington? That raider is a royal pain. Uses the fatman even if you get right up to him.

I believe it was. I was hoping he would blow himself up with it, and then I would merrily loot his corpse, but that didn't work out. I had to put an entire clip into his power armored skull to finish the job. But hey, I've got raider PA and a fatman, so I can't complain.

Spent 10min crafting at sanctuary hills, then all of a sudden my settlers began Inexplicably killing each other. I lost two them and had to reload, losing the last 10min of progress.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I believe it was. I was hoping he would blow himself up with it, and then I would merrily loot his corpse, but that didn't work out. I had to put an entire clip into his power armored skull to finish the job. But hey, I've got raider PA and a fatman, so I can't complain.

Yeah, he won't blow himself up unless it is to take you with him.

Sits there shooting ghouls with a pipe gun but as soon as he spots you, out comes the fatman even if you're right up in his face

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I had a hard time getting a fat man off of a raider. The bugger was in an apartment building, and close quarters make it hard to avoid a nuke, it turns out.

The first time he shot me, all I heard as a whistling noise and my entire screen turned red as I got blown to bits. I had to jump out of the building to avoid the explosion, but it was pretty cool to see the upper section of the building covered in smoke.

...if only dogmeat made it out too.

Was that in Lexington? That raider is a royal pain. Uses the fatman even if you get right up to him.

What makes it more annoying is trying to get the equipment off him unless you close the distance. Out of the three characters I've made, twice his corpse simply despawned for some reason, as well as those of the other raiders up there with him. I could understand if I went far enough away from it, or took days to get to it, but I didn't do either of those things; after killing him I immediately went off to loot him.

It's a good job I didn't particularly want the nuke launcher or the raider PA for anything more than simply having them.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I had a hard time getting a fat man off of a raider. The bugger was in an apartment building, and close quarters make it hard to avoid a nuke, it turns out.

The first time he shot me, all I heard as a whistling noise and my entire screen turned red as I got blown to bits. I had to jump out of the building to avoid the explosion, but it was pretty cool to see the upper section of the building covered in smoke.

...if only dogmeat made it out too.

Was that in Lexington? That raider is a royal pain. Uses the fatman even if you get right up to him.

What makes it more annoying is trying to get the equipment off him unless you close the distance. Out of the three characters I've made, twice his corpse simply despawned for some reason, as well as those of the other raiders up there with him. I could understand if I went far enough away from it, or took days to get to it, but I didn't do either of those things; after killing him I immediately went off to loot him.

It's a good job I didn't particularly want the nuke launcher or the raider PA for anything more than simply having them.

I took that guy out no problem with a modded Bolt-action Pipe rifle. I'm just more annoyed with Ghouls now. They really lurch around and are hard for me to kill with the traditional zombie killing weapon, the Shotgun.

Still only about 10 hours in, but having fun so far. The gunplay is SO GOOD as is the modding system. My only real complaint is finding adhesive is difficult

Ghouls having that lunge ability where they full on super sprint at you is annoying, but also entertaining if you can time a baseball bat swing right. Homeruns all day.

Still only about 10 hours in, but having fun so far. The gunplay is SO GOOD as is the modding system. My only real complaint is finding adhesive is difficult

It can be crafted as Vegetable Starch at a cooking station using purified water, corn, tatos and mutfruit. All of which are renewable resources that can be grown or manufactured using settlements. The water and food needs of a settlements residents are prioritized, but any excess is deposited into the settlements' workshops once per day or so.

Set up water purifiers on bodies of water. I cram as many as I can into the river at Sanctuary Hills.
And assign settlers to farm the crops.
Tatos can be found at Abernathy Farm (Southeast of Red Rocket).
Corn and Mutfruit can be found at Graygarden, north of Oberland across the railway bridge and up the hill (you can't miss it, its a Greenhouse manned by handyman robots).