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I gave them a very special show and tell during my first playthrough, which was unintentional, but made for an awesome effect:

I just unmoored the USS Consitution for the robots..

Hilarious end to a long quest line. Didn't think it would end well, but also wasn't expecting what happened.

 nels1031 wrote:
I just unmoored the USS Consitution for the robots..

Hilarious end to a long quest line. Didn't think it would end well, but also wasn't expecting what happened.

I'd recommend travelling to it's new location and talking to them again.

 Goliath wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
I just unmoored the USS Consitution for the robots..

Hilarious end to a long quest line. Didn't think it would end well, but also wasn't expecting what happened.

I'd recommend travelling to it's new location and talking to them again.

Having just started up my power armour collection for the third time, I was reminded of how rubbish the minutemen paint is on the T45. I mean, come on, it should have been more like Preston Garvey's outfit than a steel blue boring scheme with the minutemen logo on the chest. Even the vault scheme looks better than that.

I like the military paintjob, just for the bonus to Strength - but I tend not to wear PA, because I get antsy about using up my fusion cores. Besides, I'm a stealthy character, so PA doesn't really fit with that.

I did some Railroad quests, initially just to get ballistic weave, yet I find myself quite liking these guys. They're naïve, definitely - but there are some synths I like more than people, and I'll do anything in my power to screw over the institute.
Funny really, I was planning to get the armour mods and then slaughter them like dogs!

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I like the military paintjob, just for the bonus to Strength - but I tend not to wear PA, because I get antsy about using up my fusion cores. Besides, I'm a stealthy character, so PA doesn't really fit with that.

If you do the right perks, you can install a stealth boy in your PA chest piece so that when you crouch you go into stealth mode

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I like the military paintjob, just for the bonus to Strength - but I tend not to wear PA, because I get antsy about using up my fusion cores. Besides, I'm a stealthy character, so PA doesn't really fit with that.

If you do the right perks, you can install a stealth boy in your PA chest piece so that when you crouch you go into stealth mode

How does it work? Does it use up stealth boys in your inventory? Act like the chameleon armour pieces that make you invisible when you sit stil? Or like the F3 Chinese stealth armour?

Honestly, I don't know, I haven't done it.... but I would think it would merely use up a tad bit more juice from your batteries.

The description just says you go stealth when you crouch.

From what I can find with a cursory Google, it acts just like Chameleon armour, so only works when crouched and sitting still. Seeing as you can sneak perfectly well in PA I can't think of any situation where I'd go for the Stealth Boy mod over something else.

Does anyone else find that the chameleon armour pieces mess with the pipboy screen? It's either too light, cropped badly and unfocussed or is invisible, I had to stand up every time I wanted to check my pipboy. Stopped using it after a very short time.

Just had a funny moment:
Woman: "Can you go to this training ground and clear out the ghouls?"
Me: "How many ghouls?"
Woman: "Could be quite a lot"
Me: "Sounds dangerous, I'd need more money to do that"
Woman: "OK, I'll give you more"
Me: "I've already been there and cleared it out, I'd like the money now"
Woman: "Great, here you go"

 Dr H wrote:
Does anyone else find that the chameleon armour pieces mess with the pipboy screen? It's either too light, cropped badly and unfocussed or is invisible, I had to stand up every time I wanted to check my pipboy. Stopped using it after a very short time.

Yup, it's why I don't use them at all. How they missed something as obvious as that during testing is beyond me.

So now with this beta patch making wires no longer uses Copper. Interesting....

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Dr H wrote:
Does anyone else find that the chameleon armour pieces mess with the pipboy screen? It's either too light, cropped badly and unfocussed or is invisible, I had to stand up every time I wanted to check my pipboy. Stopped using it after a very short time.

Yup, it's why I don't use them at all. How they missed something as obvious as that during testing is beyond me.

It was a problem in 3/NV, so I think it's more of a case of them not fething bothering to fix it. But hey "mods will fix it".

 keltikhoa wrote:

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
So, my list of "enemies I hate in fallout 4" now includes Assaultrons, Mirelurks of all types, laser turrets on ceilings, feral ghouls (especially the high-level ones) and gunners/raiders with Fat Man launchers.
But mostly its mirelurks.

I really love the vertibird summoning thing, I've only used it once, to take out a behemoth - just kept changing destination to stay "on station", and filled it full of minigun rounds. great fun!

Incidentally, I've been using Piper as my companion (ie pack mule), but I was wondering, does anyone know if dogmeat can carry more than Piper can? Frankly, they're both pretty useless to me in a fight, except as a distraction, but I don't want to waste a perk on the lone wanderer perk.

If you are using a companion pack mule, make sure every single piece of armor they wear is upgraded with either the Pocketed or Deep Pockets upgrade.
I personally use Cait, every armor piece is Deep Pocket, any Legendary armor I have that is +1 S&E. and she is in PA. She can haul nearly double what I can. I am going to guess its around 350-400

Companions have no carry limit if you tell them "Pick that up" instead of swapping items between your inventories. it can be time consuming but worth it when Deacon is carrying dozens of Desk fans, Aluminium cans and Typewriters for you.

Well, I've got a bit done:

Found the Railroad (hate their bossiness. Feth them, I show up and they immediately start telling me what to do. Besides, I wouldn't blink twice about seeing most synths die)

Killed Swan (loving that weapon you get from it)

Did Cait's personal quest. It was hard, but worth it. I even picked up a plasma rifle from an enemy there.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Well, I've got a bit done:

Found the Railroad (hate their bossiness. Feth them, I show up and they immediately start telling me what to do. Besides, I wouldn't blink twice about seeing most synths die)

Killed Swan (loving that weapon you get from it)

Did Cait's personal quest. It was hard, but worth it. I even picked up a plasma rifle from an enemy there.

Yeah, Cait has a pretty neat personal quest.
I think she's my favorite / least annoying companion.

So to those who can track it, (steam users mostly) How many hours have you played total? I've only had it since christmas and have played for about 7 hours

200 hours.

I got it at release.

90 hours myself. I got it at release, but find after having done the main store quest there's little more to do but wait for the first info on the DLC to drop in.

 Dr H wrote:
Now I just need to track down the person who is strapping mines to molerats...

It's OK everyone, I've found the individual that was duct-taping mines to molerats, and have put an end to that venture. We did not approve.

Also, recently fitted a recon scope to my sniper rifle; Loving that plenty.

As for time played, since Christmas... 120 hours. I've only recently started doing other things.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
So to those who can track it, (steam users mostly) How many hours have you played total? I've only had it since christmas and have played for about 7 hours

102 Hours spread across 3 characters.

200 hrs on Steam, because of leaving the game running constantly. More like 100 hrs actual gameplay, though.

 Verviedi wrote:
200 hrs on Steam, because of leaving the game running constantly. More like 100 hrs actual gameplay, though.

That's how I've racked up 269 hours on DotA 2. According to my stats, only 38 hours and 1 minute have been spent actually playing it.

After what I most recently did, I must say that the Minutemen ending is incredibly epic. Defend the Castle is absolutely awesome, and By Our Powers Combined is quite possibly the single best quest in the entire game. I loved the scene of the Brotherhood Apocalypse Now-ing the Castle with their Vertiderp army.

Never really liked the minutemen, felt just lumped into the quest series. It's just a "we gotta defend these people cause we are the good guys"

Where's the minutemen army? the groups of more than 3 or 4 people. You are telling me that a minuteman can hold off a technologically better brotherhood member, or a synth.

Yeah, whilst the minutemen are trying to do good, the brotherhood are trying to wipe out credible threats to the survival of mankind, AND stockpiling technology to enable the better part of mankind to survive.

If by better part you mean their selves, yes.

Of course they're the better part.

They got the guns and power armour to prove it!*





*Mind you, so have I as General of the Minutemen, so there may be a really tough fight in the future.
Don't forget that even now, history has been written by the victor in the vast majority of cases, so if you increase your chances of winning, you increase your chances of writing that history and casting yourselves as the 'good guys' and the enemy as the 'bad guys'. Happens all the time.

If only one could get the Minutemen and Brotherhood to become allies. It would be easy to have settlements providing food for the entire Brotherhood without them making problems. Then they can keep patrolling in their vertibirds and hoarding tech as they please.

The Commonwealth, who I lump together with the Minutemen, would have more of a chance if the Institute didn't have to be such a massive problem, kidnapping people, random mass shootings and assassination of the entire gathered group of representatives from multiple Commonwealth towns.

The Sole Survivor might not be a good leader, but they have plenty of personal power, able to deal with any significant threat one way or another and with the Mysterious Serum they're more than capable of living for hundreds of years.

It would help if they let you level up your settlers, all other places have their own local tough guys, along with a whole load of other things that premade towns (towns from any Fallout game) can have that you get none of. Plus let me give them their own suits of power armour for personal use on patrols, instead of having to leave suits standing around till trouble starts and the wrong settlers taking the suits.

You can still get the Minutemen ending without making the Brotherhood mad, but I really wanted Maxson's coat.