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 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I do wish you could paint your armour different colours without giving it special effects - I use "Shadowed", partly for it's utility in a sneaky playstyle, but mostly down to the colour, I feel limited in the mods I'm willing to use on armour because I don't like walking around in bright white combat armour, even if it gives me a bonus I wanted.

Same here, I sometimes use maxed out combat armour, but I'm quite annoyed that it's white instead of green like the rest of the stuff.

No but I bet there are mods for it.

And here I thought Piper was a damned chatterbox...
Then I finally picked up Curie.
omgplzshutuplilfrenchsynthgirl

Curie is unbearable when you do the USS Constitution quest. She keeps saying the same bit of dialog, which was cute the first time, less so after the 20th. I honestly would rather have had Strong with me, it was that bad.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
And has anyone found that some of the Legendary weapons are useless?

Ridiculously often, if only for the fact that the weapon itself is usually so woefully underpowered for my point in the game that the mod on it can't even begin to make up for it. Other mods can just be so situational that they're functionally useless, such as enemy-specific weapons; especially if you've already got the same/similar gun with a mod like Instigator.

On the reverse, some mods are just so globally powerful that you might as well sell 90% of the other legendaries you get. Instigator is one of them, and Two-Shot quickly gets ridiculous on higher-end weapons, with explosive bullets also being rather strong.

Two words: Explosive Minigun. You shred power armour off the frame in seconds and can take down alpha deathclaws without them even having a chance to get up to you

I imagine Explosive Minigun is scary - but there's no more reassuring thing than an Explosive Combat Shotgun when you're in close quarters with an albino deathclaw - times like that, you don't wanna be waiting for your cannon to rev up!

I second the explosive combat shotty. With a drum mag. And a silencer. Because why not?

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I imagine Explosive Minigun is scary - but there's no more reassuring thing than an Explosive Combat Shotgun when you're in close quarters with an albino deathclaw - times like that, you don't wanna be waiting for your cannon to rev up!

But you also blow yourself up

Psssshhh, it's only a minor drawback - Tis' only a flesh wound!
(And the blowback tends to just cripple limbs, which is better than becoming lunch!)

You can get some beastly multi-kills with a Explosive Shotty too - against packs of ferals it's like switching on a blender, bits of zombie flying everywhere!

I think it's just down to how they have implemented the legendary items; you get a random weapon/armour piece and that gets one enhancement, at random, from a list. Sometimes you will get a nice combination, sometimes you can modify the weapon/armour to make better use of the enhancement, and the rest are just a bad combination.

The ones I have AND use are:
An explosive sniper rifle that is usually my first attack (it also has a recon scope so I tag everyone I can see and then pick them off one at a time). Silenced.

A kneecapper laser pistol (20% chance to cripple legs), that I modified to automatic, lots of recoil control and as much damage as possible. This is my close quarters, big/fast beasty gun. Anything that can and will close the distance with me before/after sniping them with the above rifle. A few bursts with this and anything is left laying on the floor for me to finish off at my leisure.

The laser musket I have does 20% more damage (currently does 40 dam per crank and can be cranked 6 times). I use this for isolated (as it's not silent) enemies that have lower energy resistance than ballistic resistance.

And there's the combat rifle that does an extra 10 dam of plasma per shot. I've now modified this up to automatic and armour piercing. Good for close combat armoured enemies. Silenced.

Every other gun I carry is just a normal weapon, although modified (and silenced).

10mm pistol: Semi-auto, high damage, large magazine, silenced. This is what I carry out and ready at all times (saves wasting ammo' for the more specialized weapons); a single head-shot will kill most human-sized enemies...

...while I don't have any perks for weapon damage (commando etc.), I do have the top level for sneak, Mr sandman, and ninja, so I do 5.3x sneak damage for all my guns.

My assault shotgun is generally in reserve for emergencies, as is usual for me and shotguns. Also semi-auto, high dam, and silenced.

I even still carry a pipe-gun. Automatic (sub-machine gun pretty much), lots of recoil control, silenced. I use this for low health, high numbers enemies (also anything that will duck and dodge). Close-quarters, spray and area with lead "dodge this!"

The assault rifle is the latest addition to my standard carry. Automatic, lots of recoil control, silenced. Works well on supermutants as I found out today. Silenced.

I do also have a .44 pistol. But it really doesn't get much use, so I may leave it. Only non-silenced weapon.

Something for every occasion, and no really big guns. It's working well so far.

Best Legendary weapon I have found is an exploding .308 combat rifle that I turned into a mean silenced sniper. Honorable mention goes to a flamer that does 25% more damage... that thing is brutal. Takes out MIrelurk Queens like they were regular raiders.

OOo, who was looking for concrete?! There's quite a few bags of cement at park street station/ vault 114. Just found it, not entered the vault yet.

Thanks Dr H. That was me, but given your tour of your build, I find I have a lot less interest in that for the moment. Your information has been logged, however, as I am sure I will need it for repairing the Castle walls when I get around to doing that quest.

Finished the stairs into the second side of Minutemen Towers in sanctuary last night. All I have to do now is finish up a bit of cosmetic work and some re-wiring and I can start on the wooden buildings in earnest. I have already run up a snap tool for the first one, but have not started on it yet.

I should be able to transfer the last of the contents from the last tower to be demolished tonight and get a good start on the first wooden structures I have ever built. Maybe even get around to the foundations of the great Sanctuary wall that I plan.


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And I have finished the Headquarters building. Still have the insides to furnish, but here are a couple of pictures of the outside.





And me setting up for the first wooden structure I have ever made., the first two steps in making a snapping tool. I have already run the large floors along the front of the house as tightly as possible, ensuring everything will be square to the existing building, then I build a row of the small floors 3 wide at the end of that. then just build up on top of that until you get this structure.



Then take away the un-necessary pieces so that each level up is one to the right of the one below, wrapping around from right to left. Like so.



This means you now have a method of setting anything at a desired height which is also square on to the building.

Huh, there's probably a mod which allows you to place things without collision, making that snapping tool redundant.

So you recon that just opening the console and typing "tcl" is a mod?

The snapping tool is so that you can generate something which gives you known heights that are also at known angles and square to your starting point.

Ok, you don't see any use for it, that's fine. Don't use it. Doesn't mean that others don't find it useful. I got it off Youtube after all.

And I would never have been able to build my Minutemen Administration Building in Sanctuary without it, and I presume it will also be priceless in repairing the walls in the Castle too.

I have also used it in placing my first ever wooden shack in Sanctuary on one of the first remaining houses as you enter the area, So I now have a diner and recreation building.

I will probably go back to the concrete foundation type of building on the empty plot closer to the bridge, as I want to use that for my armoury and that therefore needs to be a sturdy building. But the rest will be the shacks as inspired by Dr H. All of them will use that tool so that they look like there was at least some skill in them and I don't waste a lot of time placing stuff only to find I have the angle wrong and the last supports are hanging off the edge of the roof, or if I'd only gone that little bit higher I could have gone over the top of the chimney.

After all, how easy do you think it would have been to do this without it?


Or this?

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Best Legendary weapon I have found is an exploding .308 combat rifle that I turned into a mean silenced sniper. Honorable mention goes to a flamer that does 25% more damage... that thing is brutal. Takes out MIrelurk Queens like they were regular raiders.

I found a combat shotgun with infinite clip size. Silenced it, and now I walk around with a silent death ray that has 600+ ammo and no reloads

 Conrad Turner wrote:


Or this?

Spoiler:

How did you build the lions?

 gunslingerpro wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Best Legendary weapon I have found is an exploding .308 combat rifle that I turned into a mean silenced sniper. Honorable mention goes to a flamer that does 25% more damage... that thing is brutal. Takes out MIrelurk Queens like they were regular raiders.

I found a combat shotgun with infinite clip size. Silenced it, and now I walk around with a silent death ray that has 600+ ammo and no reloads

Now that sounds like fun.

I just got the Broadsider, and I am a little disappointed at how few modifications are available for that particular weapon and its relative lack of punch.

I thought the broadsider was a weird gimmick - and I think it looks ridiculous unless the person carrying it is A: in Power Armour, or B: Strong the super mutant.
Never used it, personally - another "trophy" weapon, for me.

I will say that the idea of using cannons is fun, but I feel they'd be better as a special type of turret for settlements, rather than a man-portable weapon.

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:


Or this?

Spoiler:

How did you build the lions?

Lions are a statue you can get from an issue of "Picket Fences" magazine picked up in the boss room at Saugus Ironworks. They just cost 20 Copper each. It was the stairs that were a royal pain in the backside.

Well, I started my second playthrough now, this one as an energy weapon based Institute gal. Just got to Nick Valentine so far, but knowing what my allegiance will be, I may not be his friend for long.

Also, I love how much the setting changes with the radio. Wandering through the wasteland without it is bleak, and saddening. However, you throw radio freedom on, and everything seems a little less bad, and a little more positive. It definitely changed a lot in New Vegas, for me anyway.

Just a quick couple of points:

I decided to experiment with plasma weapons as an alternate "emergency" weapon (something to pull out when all has gone crazy and there is an abundance of targets trying to kill you right now).
At first I tried an automatic, but the recoil was so mad that I couldn't hit something stood in front of me.
So, I tried the flamethrower version, and that is quite nice to pull out and bathe the vicinity in plasma. Also there's no reloading for at least 300 "rounds". Worth a look if you haven't yet.

AND, just now, on top of the Gwinnett Brewery, I came to a small "hut" which had a barred door and no other way in. On the off chance I took a shot at the bar... and the door opened. Keep that in mind for future uses.

Currently building an Institute base in Sanctuary using homemaker. I have just spent an hour setting my table. Send help.

 Verviedi wrote:
Currently building an Institute base in Sanctuary using homemaker. I have just spent an hour setting my table. Send help.

I'll send a frag grenade. Shall I leave it on the table or just post it through the mailbox?

Dude, that's not helping!

The explosion will shift the table and he'll have to start all over again!

But I need serious help. My colour vision has faded and I get a tunnel vision like effect, especially notable when I turn my head.

The colour of my pip-boy is still excellent, and I've just had a refreshing beverage, so it's not radiation or an addiction, but I can't build anything when I can't see the screen properly as the white is too bright and the black is too dark.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Dude, that's not helping!

The explosion will shift the table and he'll have to start all over again!

But I need serious help. My colour vision has faded and I get a tunnel vision like effect, especially notable when I turn my head.

The colour of my pip-boy is still excellent, and I've just had a refreshing beverage, so it's not radiation or an addiction, but I can't build anything when I can't see the screen properly as the white is too bright and the black is too dark.

Check the small print on the Nuka Cola bottles.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
But I need serious help. My colour vision has faded and I get a tunnel vision like effect, especially notable when I turn my head.

The colour of my pip-boy is still excellent, and I've just had a refreshing beverage, so it's not radiation or an addiction, but I can't build anything when I can't see the screen properly as the white is too bright and the black is too dark.

It could be one of the bugs (with solutions, if you are on pc) mentioned here.

Sounds like a bug, but maybe load another game (i.e, not Fallout 4) just to make sure it's not a hardware problem?
I'm no tech wizard though, hopefully Minx's link will help.

 Minx wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
But I need serious help. My colour vision has faded and I get a tunnel vision like effect, especially notable when I turn my head.

The colour of my pip-boy is still excellent, and I've just had a refreshing beverage, so it's not radiation or an addiction, but I can't build anything when I can't see the screen properly as the white is too bright and the black is too dark.

It could be one of the bugs (with solutions, if you are on pc) mentioned here.

If it is the bug where everything looks like it is in night vision (invertedish colours, blurryness when looking around) then I found turning off the "Wetness" setting fixed it. I got that bug before ever getting a night vision scope.

Thanks everyone.

It is most definitely a bug in the game. Everything my character sees is in B&W, but my HUD is still green [standard colour for me] and I don't have issues with any other game or program draining colour.

I should be able to get it sorted tonight thanks to Minx's links.

I have finally taken back the castle, so am now spurred on to finish my build for Sanctuary. I am missing my trader's hall, fencing to cordon off the area and funnel any attackers over the bridge, and the other wood shacks that I plan to build.

Then comes the restoration of the Castle. At least I have already been able to build all the artillery pieces there and put an extra one on the roof of the armoury in Sanctuary.


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Oh, and on the subject of weird legendries, I have a 6-crank laser musket that adds 10 points of FREEZING damage.

Still don't know how that works out?