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They're in the same category as your wooden and metal building components.

Quite a step up from those as well, my only lament is that the controlled door is set into a wooden wall sadly.

Thanks. I'll take a proper look tonight. Hope there are some half-height walls too. That would save me some headaches with my shopping mall. And if there are some whole width doors, that would be brilliant - I'm fed up of settlers crowding around the door when I'm trying to get in or out of a place!

Remember Far Harbor is just the last announced DLC. They have plans for more, which is why they raised the price of the Season Pass.

 BrookM wrote:
They're in the same category as your wooden and metal building components.

Quite a step up from those as well, my only lament is that the controlled door is set into a wooden wall sadly.

There are powered doors set in concrete as well, further along the menu. Looks like you can have red, blue and white doors on them (my under-construction "red vs blue" arena has got powered entry doors in the right colours for the teams' 'dugouts').

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Remember Far Harbor is just the last announced DLC. They have plans for more, which is why they raised the price of the Season Pass.

And then they pull a Skyrim and cancel the rest of the DLC. Anyone remember the Hammerfell expansion?

 Riquende wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
They're in the same category as your wooden and metal building components.

Quite a step up from those as well, my only lament is that the controlled door is set into a wooden wall sadly.

There are powered doors set in concrete as well, further along the menu. Looks like you can have red, blue and white doors on them (my under-construction "red vs blue" arena has got powered entry doors in the right colours for the teams' 'dugouts').

Ooh, thanks for pointing that out, I'll have a gander tonight and see if it's what I want.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Remember Far Harbor is just the last announced DLC. They have plans for more, which is why they raised the price of the Season Pass.

And then they pull a Skyrim and cancel the rest of the DLC. Anyone remember the Hammerfell expansion?

Did they have a season pass for TES:V? I can't recall.

Photo dump from my steam library.

(apologies, very large images)

Dogmeat being a poser.


My Personal quarters in Sanctuary. The ground floor is the house, which serves as a barracks of sorts. Its where I store weapons, armour and clothing for outfitting settlers.


First floor workshop


Second floor living quarters


3rd floor balcony and observation platform


Rooftop generators and robot workbench.


The view of the bridge from my roof. Thats Codsworth (now a bog standard Protectron) on the bridge, relocating to Red Rocket (which is going to be my primary robot factory.


I had way too much fun fething with Codsworth.

Playing the original Fallout again and just found Decakrds gun the .223 pistol in The Hub! Woo!

Always preferred the alien blaster myself, but you did need a certain amount of luck to get that one as it was a random encounter.

Just found a plasma pistol and the Watz Laser Rifle so I'm pumping up my energy weapon skill now. The Laser Rifle does great dmg but until I get my stats up, the .223 does more consistent dmg, a min of 20 I think.

Just returned the Water Chip. I actually had to erase several hours of progress of questing in The Hub (went up several levels guarding caravans alone) by reverting to an earlier save as I found out the hard way that theres a hard coded deadline for reaching Necropolis. Super Mutants attack and destroy them in March no matter what, so if you want to do all the quests and talk to the NPC's, you can't wait too long. You can still complete Necropolis, but it detracts from the experience I think. All the ghouls are dead, but their models are bugged standing up with arms wide in T shapes.

Now exploring The Glow. I've already retrieved the Holodisk for the Brotherhood, but I'm exploring the base to complete the rest of the quests and xp.

I tried taking down Decker in The Hub but Kane is insanely strong and carries an endless supply of stimpaks.

And god knows how I've managed to keep Ian, Tycho and Dogmeat all alive so far.

And the companions are of limited utility. You can't use them as pack mules like in later Fallout games, you have to barter with them. They're basically a walking shop. I gift them the items I can't carry, then have to figure out how to buy them back later, usually with ammo.



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Exploring the final level of The Glow now.

I've given Ian assault rifles, high powered pistols, grenades and maybe even a rocket launcher...and he opts for a fist fight with the robobrains.

Any news on the console release for survival mode? Chomping at the bit for that one.

grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Any news on the console release for survival mode? Chomping at the bit for that one.

Mid April was their plan iirc.

Nice job on the building, SCE.

And so, My first character has now been everywhere, done everything, found all the bobbleheads and magazines (although I had to "placeatme" one that had disappeared at Lynn Woods due to explosions), raised all the companions to their highest affinity (except Danse as I didn't decide to do this until after killing the BoS).

Special talk:


With that, this character is now just a settlement builder. I may drop in and build a new settlement from time to time, but I think it's time to start a new character...

But first:
Back to Sanctuary hills.
I wanted to bring my main settlement up to the standards of Finch farm, with all the mods working together and my new console command superpowers.
However, as it was, all the buildings alone had my computer pushed close enough to it's limit that I didn't want to just add more items. So I took this moment to streamline and improve Sanctuary hills.

This was done mostly by replacing many elements with less to do the same job. I then added more to areas that were unfinished (and therefore not shown in the earlier video), and finished it all off with the little details of floor/roof and wall boards and OCDecorator items.

All together, my version of Sanctuary hills is about 9 times the original build limit.
Enjoy the walk around and keep an eye out for all the small details...



Lots of mods involved; see the earlier list I posted, plus two more ("immersive vendors" and "where did I put that"), and gratuitous use of console commands (even to get the perfect weather at the perfect time of day for the video).

Speaking of console commands, I found another useful one; "lock 0" will lock any selected door (and probably container) with a novice lock. Want to keep your settlers out of your house? Lock the door.
note: if the door was previously locked with something other than novice then "lock 0" will revert to that level, if you want novice, then use "lock 1".

I think there's also an "unlock" command, but what's a little lockpicking practice...

Speaking of mods, I've also added a few more ready for the next playthrough:
immersive vendors - as mentioned above, replaces the empty vendor stands with ones filled with relevant items. There's also 3 types of the top level shop; one of which has no sign on top so that it can fit in buildings.

Where did I put that - again, you can see it in the above video. Gives you a number of signs to label boxes etc. Like what you get in the DLC, but different (stuck on with duct tape)... and free.

Targeting HUD enhanced - Changes the power armour targeting HUD upgrade to only be active when you have a gun out, AND enemies are in red (as usual), but friends are in green (so you don't shoot at the wrong person), AND dead bodies are in blue (so you can find them after a fight).

Don't call me settler - gives any new settler that appears in your settlements a name from Codsworth's name list. and a few other potentially useful things.

I may have a look at a few more before starting the next game, but that's me for now.

Are they... re-using point lookout's storyhook? Seriously?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Are they... re-using point lookout's storyhook? Seriously?

Um, who cares?

I do?

I think it's lazy. They can do better than this. I think they need to stop using people's family members as plot hooks in general, and do something more creative. It's old are tired at this point. And (from a different side) I think it will give some people the impression that they are just re-using stories, which will not help sales.

Unless they are deliberately drawing the comparison, which is possible a homage or something. Pretty weird part to do a homage to though.

Point Lookout was the best DLC for Fallout 3. Doesn't surprise me that they want to capture some of that. Even got the lever action rifles in there too.

Now if there's a spooky lighthouse, and old mansion and a Ghoul-infested base there, maybe that will be a step too far...

Wait and see I suppose, it's still early days.

Survival mode tomorrow too, wicked pumped for that.

I must give survival mode a try.
I found an infinite ammo .44 that should come in handy for that.

 marv335 wrote:
I must give survival mode a try.
I found an infinite ammo .44 that should come in handy for that.

It doesn't actually give you infinite ammunition, you just never have to reload it. I never bother with them because I just burn through my ammo too quickly.

the more I played this game, the less I like it, am I the only one that was massively disappointed with it?

 Formosa wrote:
the more I played this game, the less I like it, am I the only one that was massively disappointed with it?

Probably not, but certainly in the minority.
I'm 156 hours in and still playing.
Still finding new things, building settlements, doing the occasional quest.

I think if you listened to all the hype, you might be disappointed, or if you were hoping for a FO1/2 game (or, in my experience that's why people have been unhappy with the game)

Edit: not to say this is the best game ever or whatever, I was massively disappointed in the wasteland workshop dlc (aka mods repackaged if you're on pc), and the story missions had a problem like FO:NV's where they all felt too similar imo.

Looks like survival mode is a one shot deal.
If you select survival, and quit, you can't select it again.
Interesting...

 marv335 wrote:
Looks like survival mode is a one shot deal.
If you select survival, and quit, you can't select it again.
Interesting...

Wtf?

Downloading Far Harbour whilst I am at work so I can play it as soon as I get home tonight.

Then a kickstarter package turns up at work, I need to go shopping for picture frames and spend an hour or so watching the first truly new episodes of the original 1960's "Thunderbirds" in 50 years.

So I'm probably not going to get time to play tonight. :(

If you use Nexus Mods, make sure you check for any mod manager updates and install them. That always trips me up when new dlc or a new patch comes out. I spend hours installing the dlc, then find that my mods are "missing" and spend another hour trying to figure out what's wrong, only to realise the mod manager needs updating. And before I know it, my entire evening has been wasted.


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Anyone know how to start the far harbor dlc? Do I need to get to a certain point in the vanilla main quest first?