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 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Pilau Rice wrote:
I guess, but I think tackling the Mirelurk Queen at the level I was at, I think it was 9, with the equipment I had and with no perks was probably the wrong thing to do

I feel like a deserve a gold star for doing though so go me!

Guess you didn't find the rocket launcher in the Castle walls

No! I was looking around afterwards and came across it

I didn't want to be a coward and run away and hide whilst my allies died around me.

 Minx wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
(And on a related note, anyone know where Steam is hiding my screenshots? I can't find them.)

Steam - Library - Fallout 4 - right click - View Screenshots - Show on disk

And found the problem with that. No screenshots in my library. Now I've realised that I've been pressing the wrong button [Print Screen] they are now showing up in my steam page.



I've now started another new character, so will try and detail any decent sights I see with this one properly. Just up to the point where I'm getting my first suit of Power Armour, but have already built my first 5 story building in Sanctuary by cannibalising the truck stop. Am looking at outfitting it tonight for the 5 settlers that should appear when Preston and the rest join me back there. Then I'll look into getting more materials to work on the other 3 buildings I am going to put up.

 Pilau Rice wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Pilau Rice wrote:
I guess, but I think tackling the Mirelurk Queen at the level I was at, I think it was 9, with the equipment I had and with no perks was probably the wrong thing to do

I feel like a deserve a gold star for doing though so go me!

Guess you didn't find the rocket launcher in the Castle walls

No! I was looking around afterwards and came across it

I didn't want to be a coward and run away and hide whilst my allies died around me.

There is also the Fat Man that you can get fairly early on from the Robotic Disposal Ground and a mini nuke from Satellite Station Olivia nearby. The one mini nuke didn't kill the Queen, but it really messed her up.

81 Spoilers:

Console commands can fix that.

Unless you're a console peasant.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
PC master race yo!

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
(PC master race yo)

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Unless you're a console peasant.

Please stop.

 Gitkikka wrote:

 Pilau Rice wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Pilau Rice wrote:
I guess, but I think tackling the Mirelurk Queen at the level I was at, I think it was 9, with the equipment I had and with no perks was probably the wrong thing to do

I feel like a deserve a gold star for doing though so go me!

Guess you didn't find the rocket launcher in the Castle walls

No! I was looking around afterwards and came across it

I didn't want to be a coward and run away and hide whilst my allies died around me.

There is also the Fat Man that you can get fairly early on from the Robotic Disposal Ground and a mini nuke from Satellite Station Olivia nearby. The one mini nuke didn't kill the Queen, but it really messed her up.

Yup, guilty of that to. I found it but totally forgot about it ...

Rest assured, I'm a PC player. And I gave the vial to Austin. My character is a relatively good person.

Well, I killed a courser today. I used up 6 missiles, 4 frags, and 4 frag mines. Got him half dead. Thanks to various types of drugs, and the cryolator I went back for, he died in a heartbeat.

The Cryolator is that good? It took me two Fat Man shots to the face to kill the Courser!

Well, I was pumped up on every kind of drugs I had, but yes. I watched his life drop rather quickly. (Playing on hard, btw. Not terribly difficult for the most part, but it can add a challenge, which I like.) I'm curious to see what it can do if I upgrade my heavy weapons perk.

Ah, the Courser. I cheated.



Sweet dreams melon-fether.

You can do that?!

Obv.

 Verviedi wrote:
You can do that?!

Yup.

I prefer "ten seconds to unload my entire stash of mines", like what I did with the Railroad HQ.

I find it much more satisfying to deny it a proper fight and anything close to a fair shot at me. It's also the perfect anti-climatic end to all the build-up upon entering the location and finding the Gunners desperately trying to kill it.

Work smart, not hard.

 BrookM wrote:
I find it much more satisfying to deny it a proper fight and anything close to a fair shot at me. It's also the perfect anti-climatic end to all the build-up upon entering the location and finding the Gunners desperately trying to kill it.

Work smart, not hard.

It is also slightly ironic that you get this easy button solution when, if playing like my newest character, all you are trying to do is OD Mama Murphy . I wish you could validly in game without mods get rid of the Longs too. The whole concord group complain way to much.

 keltikhoa wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I find it much more satisfying to deny it a proper fight and anything close to a fair shot at me. It's also the perfect anti-climatic end to all the build-up upon entering the location and finding the Gunners desperately trying to kill it.

Work smart, not hard.

It is also slightly ironic that you get this easy button solution when, if playing like my newest character, all you are trying to do is OD Mama Murphy . I wish you could validly in game without mods get rid of the Longs too. The whole concord group complain way to much.

Couldn't you just ship the Longs off to a settlement you don't want to use, with no defences or resources?

Can't remember if they're stuck in sanctuary or are able to be relocated.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
Couldn't you just ship the Longs off to a settlement you don't want to use, with no defences or resources?

Can't remember if they're stuck in sanctuary or are able to be relocated.

No cant move or supply line them unfortunately, That said do they quit complaining if you reach 100 happiness at sanctuary? anyone know? or is there a quest you can get to shut them up. There are several mods on nexus to do it, Just curious if in game you can make them happy

 keltikhoa wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I find it much more satisfying to deny it a proper fight and anything close to a fair shot at me. It's also the perfect anti-climatic end to all the build-up upon entering the location and finding the Gunners desperately trying to kill it.

Work smart, not hard.

It is also slightly ironic that you get this easy button solution when, if playing like my newest character, all you are trying to do is OD Mama Murphy .

My character was super-desperate at that point to GET. BACK. HER. SON. She was going all Mel Gibson on everybody and everything whenever the opportunity arose. So, when an old lady with "visions" claims to find stuff out for her.. Open wide granny, here's another jar of Buffout!

Honestly though, it made for a fun bit of dialogue that made no sense at the time and was promptly forgotten about until I met the Courser and got the option to repeat what Mama Murphy said.

I was just thinking, although I love what they have done with them (and also despise with the heat of a thousand suns), why the hell are there rad-scorpions in the Commonwealth? They are mutated scorpions, but there aren't any in Boston to begin with. I realize this is just Bethsda going "oh hey, that enemy in NV was cool, lets use them", but I wish they would think. I mean, they already had giant ants that would have worked fine.

Probably released by the Institute. They were responsible for the Super Mutants and Mutant hounds running amok in the Commonwealth.

But why? AFAIK, rad-scorpions are just created by wacky radiation, not FEV. So they wouldn't be making them in the first place, or have any idea that radiation did anything to them.

Probably because radscorpions are the staple Fallout enemy since 1? The (most likely) first side quest you get in 1 is "kill all these radscorpions in a cave please".

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
But why? AFAIK, rad-scorpions are just created by wacky radiation, not FEV. So they wouldn't be making them in the first place, or have any idea that radiation did anything to them.

Boston has a zoo no?? But there are still problems with that idea, IMO. This is because, most zoos that I have been in, if they have an emperor scorpion, they only have one. So, naturally when the bombs went off, the cages/tanks broke, which freed many of the animals. The emperor scorpion would have had to have the ability to mate with another species of scorpion (I'm no biologist, so I have no idea how well/poorly this would work)


I think the problem is actually that they included deathclaws, which I don't recall ever seeing a definitive "deathclaws are radiated and mutated versions of X creature", but I would assume they are reptilian and need warmer climates to survive, similar to the same problem as the scorpions. BUT, because they included the scorpions, they sort of needed to have the DCs. IMO, they could have done better to make Yao Guai much more scary, as the loading screens do give you the back story on them.



Also, I don't think the Institute is actually responsible for creating FEV, we do know that they were working on a cure though.

Also, I don't think the Institute is actually responsible for creating FEV, we do know that they were working on a cure though.

They were also experimenting on Super Mutants trying to find ways to improve their GEN 3 Synths, who are for the most part synthetic flesh and bone.

Deathclaws are an out-of-control US military experiment involving genetically modifying Jackson's Chameleons to serve as shock troops.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Console commands can fix that.

Unless you're a console peasant.

Im pretty sure you can connect a usb keyboard for all your command cheating needs.

At least thats what i recall.