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Found this fan film on youtube.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Found this fan film on youtube.

Wow! Great find! Not bad at all for a fan film. Got the costumes spot on.

The voice was pretty spot on too. My first impression was that they dubbed the film with sound clips of Lanius' dialogue from New Vegas.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
The voice was pretty spot on too. My first impression was that they dubbed the film with sound clips of Lanius' dialogue from New Vegas.

Mhm, they definitely captured the menace and deep voice of Lanius. If there's one thing that Fallout 4 definitely lacks compared to New Vegas, its a powerful antagonist whose name is a byword for fear. Kellogg is the closest to this IMO, but he kinda falls short given that you can take him out so early in the game.

Isn't he sort of possessing Nick Valentine now? Like he was able to download his consciousness from the Memory Den into Valentine.

I think a cool premise for a future DLC might be Kellogg transferring his consciousness from Valentine into a new Synth body and coming back for revenge. Much like how Valentine is a Synth copy of a pre-war Detective's personality and consciousness, this new Synth might be a copy of Kellogg, with all his memories and desires.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Isn't he sort of possessing Nick Valentine now? Like he was able to download his consciousness from the Memory Den into Valentine.

I think a cool premise for a future DLC might be Kellogg transferring his consciousness from Valentine into a new Synth body and coming back for revenge. Much like how Valentine is a Synth copy of a pre-war Detective's personality and consciousness, this new Synth might be a copy of Kellogg, with all his memories and desires.

Apparently him talking through Valentine was a mnemonic impression from him being grafted onto Valentine's cerebral cortex or what not, though I was caught completely off-guard when Valentine speaks in Kellog's voice after you go through the mind-trip. I would totally be up for a DLC rematch with Kellogg, hopefully culminating in a duel inside a cereal factory, if only to make his death with his gun (which I renamed Kellogg's Frosted Flakes) that much sweeter. It'd be the equivalent of the Lonesome Road I would think.

A settlement got attacked by the Institute today, with 2 synth infiltrators. One was a guard, the other was a brahmin, complete with synth component and institute laser pistol.

OK, here we are with the new, new look Sanctuary.

I started another character, but this time I kept almost all the furniture in the houses. So there is enough room for all the settlers just in that at the moment. The ruined buildings were demolished for materials, and almost all the junk stuff was too. I kept the standing streetlights for character. The only building I have built so far is this one.


It's a combination. The concrete level is my armoury. Power armour storage, weapon and armour construction, and collectable storage. Above that is the community centre. TV, two pool tables [most balls still missing], conversation corner, restaurant and bar. Above that is the Sun Deck, an open air space for when the weather is nice. 4 picnic tables, 3 of the round tables with the sunshades, 4 park benches and some coffee tables as a conversation corner. I'm not sure what to do in the other corner, but might end up re-arranging things to get a bowling alley in there somewhere.

The Armoury



Community Centre


Bar


Sun Deck


And just to finish off, the two most pointless legendries I have found in this play through. Shame I died shortly after finding both of them in the same location but before I was able to save, so lost the both of them - But from a scientific point of view, one is pointless, the other is impossible.

Lotet wrote:...the other was a brahmin, complete with synth component and institute laser pistol.

Damn them synth brahmin, what'll they have next, synth gorillas?

Nice start Conrad.
Yeah, sometimes the legendary effects just don't match up with the item. I've stopped worrying about it and ignore them (that is, store them at my settlement).
Sometimes though, you get a match-up that goes the other way in the scale of silliness:
What did I find the other day... oh yes, a minigun that does 50Rad damage... per shot... extra.
While Rad' damage is useless against some/most foes, just think about what that'll do to those that aren't...

Anyway, storyline has progressed, I've visited the Institute:

What, is it shooting Uranium bullets?

Aren't Depleted Uranium rounds explosive though?

Spent most of last night stocking the bar. Man, that's a time sink. Drop a single item, hold on to it before it bounces all over the place, transfer it to the bar top so it stabilises, crouch, pick it up again, and finally transfer it to the shelving. Rinse and repeat for every item on the shelves.

Not going to have much time from now on, prepping for a holiday starting on Saturday. Then got a week with no internet so I can't post, but may have a bit of progress to report when I get back. Might have the bar stocked by then if I get a lot of time in-game.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Aren't Depleted Uranium rounds explosive though?

Spent most of last night stocking the bar. Man, that's a time sink. Drop a single item, hold on to it before it bounces all over the place, transfer it to the bar top so it stabilises, crouch, pick it up again, and finally transfer it to the shelving. Rinse and repeat for every item on the shelves.

Not going to have much time from now on, prepping for a holiday starting on Saturday. Then got a week with no internet so I can't post, but may have a bit of progress to report when I get back. Might have the bar stocked by then if I get a lot of time in-game.

"Play Fallout, they said. It'll be fun, they said. They didn't tell me I'd be stacking shelves."

What's wrong with stacking shelves? I like stacking shelves in Bethesda games.

Fallout 4 has lots of good clutter, I'm a fan of Nuclear Material with it's radioactive glow, there's also some container for hallucinogens from some building, they have a fancy high tech style. Surgical trays with stimpacks, med-x and surgical tools. Wine bottles titled downwards for proper wine storage. 5mm rounds come in little ammo containers when you drop them in bunches. Equipment mods come in a nice wooden box. Helmets sitting on tables and guns leaning against things really fleshes out an armoury. I have a few of those 'shipment' pieces of paper just sitting on my general/mayor desk. So many nice pieces of clutter, especially things placed purely for clutter purposes, like the model robots.

Fallout 5 : Trouble in Wallmart

Enjoy the thrills of working as the last wallmart employee with a bad cause of dementia in post apocalyptic America

Lotet, like you, I do enjoy having the place look lived in. Stocks of drinks and snacks behind the bar, drinker's belongings on the bar, stuff not just stuffed in a TARDIS drawer but having a single item depicting what sort of items are in the container. It makes things so much easier having a cupboard that is filled with weapons next to an identical cupboard containing armour when you have a low level version of what is inside just laying on the top.

However, I am also now finding that I am spending more and more time tidying up after the game. I seem to be having extraordinary trouble due to the game spawning the shelf contents before the shelves. Last night I found my Gwinnet Stout had fallen completely through the shelf and had landed on my coffee cups. And my protectron model is always spawning half way through his shelf.

This is a little off topic, but I'm working on a few Fallout themed warbands for This is Not a Test. Heres my Raider Warlord. I think he's fit well in the Commonwealth.



And yes, that is Master Blaster with a chainsaw spear.

Yeah CT, I was going to have a modelling desk set up in my house with all the models laid out, a wonder glue, scalpel, etc. But every time I returned home all the models had fallen through the table (and if I didn't check on them every time, though the floor).

It would be nice to be able to "pin" items in place and not have to worry about it. Like you could do in Gary's mod.

Also, while I'm here. Update 1.4(?) has hit.
Don't get over excited about the additional items for the settlement; some new spiky poles, 3 raider tent pieces (that can only be place on the ground and don't clip though floors/roofs so just hover above any structures), some meat-totems, no meat bags, 2 piles of small cages (that don't do anything).

However, it's not all meh.
Some new doors, and more importantly some (most, maybe) of the original houses in Sanctuary can now have the doors installed in their proper places.

Also, the additional menu sections and items I have from mods are now tagged with a "+" in the menu: This says to me that Bethesda are happy to keep these things compatible and so not game-breaking.
Maybe, these things have been ok-ed to be used for the console users...

On the flip side, the recent update to that and my graphics driver means I can no longer fast travel from Sanctuary hills. I just crash to desktop.
Can fast travel all about the wasteland, just not from there...

I actually mistook the official new items for a mod I recently installed that expands the Settlements.

I really should let my game update, but I know that if I do, Macready's perk glitch gets fixed, and I won't get 95% to hit every enemy's head in VATS all the time - that's a hard thing to give up!

 Dr H wrote:
... no meat bags...

Tell a lie, I've just found them under decoration/misc' and not in structures/misc' with the other things.

Also there are many more signs and paintings. They are worth a look.

My character now has everyone believing that she is fully working for them:
Institute; Helped the courser capture the rogue synth.
BoS; Helped build and activate their secret weapon.
Railroad; Been doing everything they've asked me to.
Minutemen; Have helped all the settlements I've found, although I can't see anywhere that I'll need to betray them in the near future.

I'm aiming to get all the synths out of the institute and then set the BoS and Institute fighting. Possibly picking off the winner.

I could well be at the crossroads. Time to pick (or declare, as the decision has already been made) a side.


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 Dr H wrote:
...On the flip side, the recent update to that and my graphics driver means I can no longer fast travel from Sanctuary hills. I just crash to desktop.
Can fast travel all about the wasteland, just not from there...

...and you know what's better than fast travelling?
Taking a Vertibird and minigunning every car on the way.

That looks like a good update then. I got the update already, as I didn't have much time to play, but all I have been doing since has ended up working on the Silver Shroud questline. Gutted I didn't save Ken but I daren't have used Spray'n'Pray for fear of killing him anyway, and the other weapons I had on me didn't have enough grunt to take out the guy threatening him quick enough. I still have to actually finish it off by going back to Goodneighbour, but was overloaded and just went back to Sanctuary so I can drop off all the stuff I was schlepping. That then ended up with me staying up late adding stuff to the bar, and I still have more to do on that front tonight if I get some time.

Oh FFS, looks like my computer has fethed up again after the recent update. Every time I launch it I get a Crash To Desktop at point during the opening cinematic (the Vault Tec cartoon). No error message at all, no indication that the game has crashed, it just spontaneously returns me to the desktop.

I've tried verifying the cache.
I've tried updating my AMD Drivers, which took the better part of 3 hours because the AMD installer kept crashing at 2%. But the drivers are up to date.
I've tried disabling all my mods via Nexus Mod Manager.

But I'm still getting returned to desktop partway through the cartoon. So sick of this gak. Its really sapping my enthusiasm for the game. Anyone else have similar problems?

I'm updating NMM now and seeing if that fixes it.

Edit: looks like it did. Now I have to faff about re-enabling several dozen mods.

Conrad Turner wrote:... the Silver Shroud questline. Gutted I didn't save Ken but I daren't have used Spray'n'Pray for fear of killing him anyway, and the other weapons I had on me didn't have enough grunt to take out the guy threatening him quick enough...

I would have liked to have had the chance to save Kent but I had already visited that building and all the robots were activated and got in a fight with the raiders. He died in the crossfire before I even got to the lift, never mind the conversation.

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:... Anyone else have similar problems?

I'm updating NMM now and seeing if that fixes it.

Edit: looks like it did. Now I have to faff about re-enabling several dozen mods.

I think it's the start of the month everyone update their software issues.
I can now fast travel from Sanctuary hills after Steam updated itself; having broken after the windows, game and graphics driver updates.

Just completed the Battle of Bunker hill, and the best bit about that wasn't the mass 3-way fight,
nor that nobody in that fight considered me an enemy,
nor was it calmly sneaking about killing Institute synths and BoS soldiers,
nor was it even the vast quantities of loot I collected from all the bodies,
while it was amusing to see that the railroad heavies were trying to kill the immortal members of bunker hill, it wasn't that...

No, it was the opportunity to kill Trashcan Carla.
Aside from the fact that she's been spying on my settlements, it was mainly in retaliation for letting her Brahmin into my houses to sit on my tables.
Deserved everything she got, and what she got was a 2mm EM slug through her head.

I think it's the start of the month everyone update their software issues.

Was planning on spending the evening playing Fallout 4, instead I wasted the better part of 4 hours verifying my game cache, switching mods on and off, updating my drivers (the driver installer kept crashing) and downloading updates. Probably should have just played Fallout 1 instead. For a 19 year old game, its not crashed ONCE. Haven't seen any bugs either.


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No, it was the opportunity to kill Trashcan Carla.
Aside from the fact that she's been spying on my settlements, it was mainly in retaliation for letting her Brahmin into my houses to sit on my tables.
Deserved everything she got, and what she got was a 2mm EM slug through her head.

That treacherous b****! I'm definitely going to see her in a different light from now on...

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Was planning on spending the evening playing Fallout 4,

Yeah, it's always the way. Set aside time to do something and the gods decide that no, you're not going to be doing that.

No, it was the opportunity to kill Trashcan Carla.
Aside from the fact that she's been spying on my settlements, it was mainly in retaliation for letting her Brahmin into my houses to sit on my tables.
Deserved everything she got, and what she got was a 2mm EM slug through her head.

That treacherous b****! I'm definitely going to see her in a different light from now on...

Have a read of any and all terminals you can find in the Institute and you'll see many people differently.

One of those messages has me making plans for another of my minor settlements and one person in particular...

And while I was discussing FO4 with a friend I ended up typing up my current character stats, so I may as well copy them here:
My level 73 character has (with armour boosts etc.):
S=8 Perks: Armourer(4), Strong back(4)
P=7 Perks: Awareness, Lockpick(3, I have so many lockpicks and break them so infrequently that it's not worth the last level)
E=11 Perks: Lifegiver(3), Aquagirl(2), Adamantium skeleton(3), Solar powered(3)
C=8 Perks: Cap collector(1), Black widow(1), Lone wanderer(3), Local leader(2)
I=8 Perks: Gun nut(4), Hacker(3, like lockpick the last is not worth it), Scrapper(2), Science(4), Robotics expert(3)
A=8 Perks: Sneak(5), Mr Sandman(3), Ninja(3)
L=6 No perks at all.

So focussing on crafting, being alone, killing from the shadows, and staying alive.
But no damage or VATS perks. These will be what I focus on with the next character.

If I can stay hidden, I can kill pretty much anything easily.
However, it gets very difficult if I end up in a big fight, as all the damage bonuses are for sneak attacks and I have no perks for base weapon damage.
This is intentional for this playthrough.

Perk thoughts:
I quite like both the Lifegiver and Solar powered top levels, My health regenerates pretty quick between fights (so I'm only healing myself mid-fight if it goes wrong), and my Rads are removed during the day so I'm usually at full health (I used to save up my Rads until about 300 to make a RadAway worth it, so sometimes I would be entering a fight with significantly less health).

Robotic expert is nice, but probably only take up to the 2nd level, as once you've hacked a robot (and not shut it down), it'll follow you about the area as a "free" follower. Giving them orders from the 3rd level doesn't really achieve much more.

I probably won't bother with Awareness again (I've got the general gist for what is resistant to what and I tend to attack anything no matter what level it is).

I like the 4th level of Strong back, but not particularly the 3rd level (and that would be a no-go for a VATS playthough).

The 2nd level of Aquagirl is not great as you always stand up when exiting water; if I enter in sneak I would prefer to exit in sneak (same for terminals).

Lockpick and hacker I don't really see the point of now that I've opened everything in this playthrough. There's always a way around a door if you are supposed to get around it (for a quest), locked boxes only contain more of what every other box contains, nothing unique, and once you've read a terminal there's no need to read it again.

Sneak, sandman and ninja are all excellent together.

I look forward to trying out the VATS perks next time.

Oh FFS, looks like my computer has fethed up again after the recent update. Every time I launch it I get a Crash To Desktop at point during the opening cinematic (the Vault Tec cartoon). No error message at all, no indication that the game has crashed, it just spontaneously returns me to the desktop

@Shadow captain, same problem, it was the Homemaker mod that adds a thousand items to your settlement build screens. Turned it off and the game runs fine but all off the buildings I made with walls from that mod are F@#$@d!

Speaking of which, I've got that mod and I'm trying to build a greenhouse but i just cannot get the walls to join up at a corner.

Edit: actually its not home maker, i think its Snap n Build.

Snap n build has a greenhouse. Don't know about home maker.

Try putting a roof/upper floor on, that may help snap the other wall on.

Or are you saying that they don't meet in the corner even though they are "snapped"?

I'm saying I'm trying to get two walls to snap together at a right angle on the corner of the Snap n Build foundation, but they just refuse to.

I'll try and get some screenshots next time i play.

So I was just strolling along to kill some Ghouls on behalf of some of my settlers in Sanctuary and I happened to pass by Thicket Excavations for the first time since I completed the "Pull The Plug" quest.

It's changed a bit since I was last there, so I figured I'd have a look round but the new locals didn't like that very much.

Now the new locals don't like anything any more