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

Sure, but I feel they're going to fight each other eventually. Maybe some settlers are harboring some tech or their spouse turns out to be a synth and they don't want to give them up to the Brotherhood. Maybe the Brotherhood starts destroying houses because they found out there's an advanced bunker buried beneath a town.

The Brotherhood of Steel, like the Institute, just don't see regular folks as people. Treating settlers better than they treat raiders only by giving them 60 seconds to comply or be slain.

I prefer the bomber jacket outfit myself.

Where'd you get that jacket?
Also, can you put Ballistic Weave on Maxson's Battlecoat? My next initiative will be fully stocking some pool tables for the Castle.

I think I got it from a dead Brotherhood Knight.

And with the right mod you can do just about anything. This one though, doesn't mesh with armoured pieces, probably because of the awesome jacket, unlike the regular BoS uniform, which does allow for the wearing of armoured components over it.

edit.

Now I remember, Verti-bird crews wear these.

I'll have to check the piles of dead Vertibirds in the Castle for a jacket then. Thanks!

Bodies are usually gibbed and scattered upon impact, but seeing as the average Verti-bird is made of tinfoil it shouldn't be too hard to down one and loot the pilot's corpse.

Or just wait for it to inevitably crash. Their pilots need better training.

Also, I met Father at the Institute. I somewhat expected what happened. I had a gut feeling after what Kellogg said. Still its nice to have it over.

 BrookM wrote:
This one though, doesn't mesh with armoured pieces, probably because of the awesome jacket, unlike the regular BoS uniform, which does allow for the wearing of armoured components over it..

That's what Bodyslide is for.

It's not a Tunnel Snake, but it'll have to do I suppose.

I really don't know how I feel about having Strong as my companion - if for no other reason than target recognition being a problem, I keep shooting him by accident whenever I go against Muties. I might just send him to live at one of my unused settlement sites, and let him stay there. I think he's my least favorite companion in terms of character so far.

I gotta say, the .50 rounds in this are pretty disappointing. Nowhere as powerful as they were in FNV. Now, I can reasonably see that they may be a different .50 round, not .50 BMG, but it's disappointing all the same.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I really don't know how I feel about having Strong as my companion - if for no other reason than target recognition being a problem, I keep shooting him by accident whenever I go against Muties. I might just send him to live at one of my unused settlement sites, and let him stay there. I think he's my least favorite companion in terms of character so far.

You kidding? He's my favourite.

I gave him a super sledge with 400dmg, a two shot quad missile launcher and a two shot mini-gun (I play with Mods) and just let him go ape-gak.

Its like having a 400 pound gorilla for a bodyguard.

Yeah, but a gorilla who talks like a moron!
I prefer an Irish accent, personally

I still very much prefer to go solo myself.

Also, I keep finding more and more power armour frames, I must be close to twenty now, with almost all of them holding a complete set of power armour, including three complete sets of X-01's, including one in sexy Institute white.

Same, although that is heavily influenced by my solo sniper build. It's just a pity there is no E-DE sort of character, small, quiet, adorable, and incredibly useful. And I'll probably have to wait until the creation kit it out to make companions. I miss that little robot by my side.

Dogmeat stopped, sideways, in-front of me once too often and now resides at Sanctuary hills.

I have not met/unlocked/activated any other followers, and have only just "joined" the BoS at level 36.

I've not ventured into central Boston yet. I'm going to check out the south-west before that.

I've not even done whatever it was that minuteman (I've clearly taken the time to learn his name...) sent me to do after I saved them from the Deathclaw reasonably early on.

Open world adventure/kleptomaniac game, I'm clearly not going to be following the main quest for a very long time.

I am a sneaky sort though, I sneak everywhere and only stand up to talk to someone... if I have to.
I'd rather take 5 trips back and fourth to cart the hundreds and hundreds of pounds of junk/weapons/armour/anything not nailed down back to Sanctuary hills, than have a "follower" get in the way and/or give away my position.

On that thought; How much stuff do you carry with you at all times (weapons, armour, chems, useful stuff)?
I currently have a minimum of ~253 pounds out of a maximum of 400 (without additional bonuses. It does include the "lone wanderer" perk).

I try to keep my must have gear down to a minimum of 100, going up to 150 when I'm a high level and have a larger inventory.

Yes, I really do carry as much as 300 pounds of junk home with me every time I visit Sanctuary.

I decided to explore some more and stumbled upon Vault 75, yaaaay.

I also found the alien.

Last couple of days I have:

hit level 50
killed the 5 behemoths
Got 10 bobbleheads.

Working my way through the other 10, got 3 to go I think. Normally I feel bad about looking on the internet for the locations of things but in this case they are so ridiculously small and in such stupid places I dont.
One of them is on the ground by a bin, on the ground! Feth you Bethesda.

I've gathered them all not that long ago. I also thought about collecting the model kits, until I found out that NPC's steal them. That does explain where that one kit I was so stupid proud of went then.

Not sure what else there is to do at this point, I've hit 62 and aside from maybe discovering the odd location here and there, there's not much else out there at the moment.

Well, there's Preston and his constant barrage of "these people need our your help" but ugh.

I have about 180 units of equipment, mostly my weapons and armour, and I can carry about 390-420, IIRC - yet I still end up encumbered every 10 minutes or so, because I can't just leave valuable junk behind!

I did the Salem museum of witchcraft yesterday - that was pretty scary, until I realized that I had my explosive combat shotgun with me... even so, that's a pretty nightmarish place, I'm glad I stayed away until I was high level.

I've been spending a lot of time making the lighthouse settlement lovely, so I'm now the proud owner of a seaside apartment! I do wonder what kind of enemies will attack it - I'm guessing mirelurks and ferals, judging by the local ecology.

Crikey! I'm almost up to 40 and that's all I've been doing.

Means I have almost filled out the Sanctuary house foundations with 5 story 'skyscapers', pulled all the workbenches inside except the main one, got power and lights in my minutemen HQ building and some in one of the others. My ground floor is where I have the workshops and my meagre collection of power armour frames, first floor is the recreation area, third will be the canteen and dining area, fourth will be accommodation for Preston Garvey and myself, with the fifth floor [or 'penthouse'] being for two of the residents. The other 4 towers will purely be residences for the settlers, 2 per floor. Each tower supports it's own power network to get lights on each floor, and has 2 missile turrets on a balcony on the top floor.

Once I have maxed my luck and got the requisite lockpick and science perk, that's when I intend to go get those power armours. I currently only have 2 complete suits of T-45, a single incomplete T-60, and 2 complete Raider 2 suits, with 2 empty frames left over. My plan is to get a vanilla basic suit of each class and a maxed version of the same. These will then take their correct places in my garage [ground floor of the minutemen building in Sanctuary].

The only other main thing I want to do is put the town's name in lights, literally. I am going to write "Sanctuary" in those light boxes on the balcony so all the wasteland can see the safest haven in the commonwealth.

Sounds impressive! I'll have to have a play around with light boxes, and see what I can come up with, I've not made much use of any advanced electrical stuff - just lights and turrets, for the most part!

I've yet to really delve into the building aspect of the game. The most I did was build a wall around the Red Rocket pump, put a shack on the roof, put an extra floor on that to act as my NPC-free workshop and left it at that.

I still need to find a good, quiet place to really settle down and set up a good workshop for my power armour collection.

Got Lorenzo's Artifact Gun. Was unimpressed.
Also managed to get 3 full T-60 suits without really trying, overnight. They now reside with the PA hoard, lit up by disco balls.

 Gitkikka wrote:
Got Lorenzo's Artifact Gun. Was unimpressed.
Also managed to get 3 full T-60 suits without really trying, overnight. They now reside with the PA hoard, lit up by disco balls.

Ya, I didn't care for the Artifact Gun either.

Too bad that unless you wait out the seven days before instead of making a lot of progress, you can't go back and choose Immortality and Super Strength instead of a gun I'll never use.

Fun thing is that if you choose the serum, the gun is just laying in the house anyway.

Pretty sure the gun in the house is the Zeta Gun and the one you get from Jack is the Artifact Gun. Though I don't know what the difference is.

 Lotet wrote:
Pretty sure the gun in the house is the Zeta Gun and the one you get from Jack is the Artifact Gun. Though I don't know what the difference is.

No, the Zeta Gun is what you get from killing the alien in his little cave once the UFO crashes.