Fallout series

God I suck at this game, and I'm playing on Easy. But I guess that proves I'm not cut out for shooters.
 
R.A.E.L. said:
God I suck at this game, and I'm playing on Easy. But I guess that proves I'm not cut out for shooters.
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The first few levels I noticed are exceedingly tough I noticed. I'm not sure how you're playing it, but here's some tips:
  • I know when they say "go to Diamond City" near the beginning of the game, I strongly suggest you do not make a straight beeline for it, and instead focus on exploring the nearby vicinity of Sanctuary and level up your character. According to some maps I've seen, the enemies around Diamond City are usually level 15-20, so don't be in a huge rush.
  • One thing that become very quickly apparent is the need to mod your weapons. The 10mm you probably started with will help you through maybe level 5 or 6 before you need to mod it.
  • Bartering is your friend. I usually collect Pre-War money, cigarette packs and cartons and sell those to merchants for ammo.
  • When you first start out play a distance game and play it patiently. I found out the hard way early on that trying to go in CoD style will get you fucked up fast. If you can, get or mod a gun with a decent scope and pick off targets from a distance. Take a shot and move. It wasn't until I got some heavy combat armor around level 18 where I could really hold my own in a firefight
  • Use the right tool for the right enemy. Don't waste bullets on Bloatflies or Radroaches- use a melee weapon. For ghouls, use an automatic handgun. Being stealthy is kind of wasted on them- just eliminate them fast. Raiders and Super mutants, use rifles. Anything robotic, use energy weapons.
  • Don't play fair- cripple the bastards. Synths become useless if your strip their right arms off. Crippling a ghoul's or Deathclaw's leg totally destroys any threat they might have been.
  • Use cooking stations and cook all the meat you find- Yao Guai, Bug, Dog, Deathclaw, whatever. Usually just doing that will remove the rad penalty, increases how much HP you gain back, and will also give you additional perks.
  • Dogmeat can't die so don't feel bad about using him as a decoy. One mission where I had to go into a Deathclaw nest, I literally had him distract the Deathclaws so I could run past them, do what I needed to do and run out like a bitch. He teleported back to my side after a while happy as a clam.
Hope that helps some.
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
God I suck at this game, and I'm playing on Easy. But I guess that proves I'm not cut out for shooters.
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Choose a particular weapon or class of weapons that you like and stick with that for as long as you can. Each one has an associated perk to go along with damage boosts and other things. I like revolvers, so I picked up the Wild West perk or whatever it's called and have been leveling that up whenever I need a good damage boost. I'm running around the Commonwealth now with a tricked-out .44 revolver feeling like this Vine all the time forever.

 
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I've been doing pretty much all of the above, or at least I'm trying to. My problem is that I just take too much damage and tend to lose all sense of logic when under heavy fire, plus my aim is horrible. I have no idea how I managed to beat Swan.

Though I suppose I should collect more junk and either scrap it or sell it. I'm focusing on the main quest but also wanna help rebuild Sanctuary a little. And I know Dogmeat can't die, but I hate seeing him unable to move, so I always waste a Stimpack on him.
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
I've been doing pretty much all of the above, or at least I'm trying to. My problem is that I just take too much damage and tend to lose all sense of logic when under heavy fire. I have no idea how I managed to beat Swan.

Though I suppose I should collect more junk and either scrap it or sell it. I'm focusing on the main quest but also wanna help rebuild Sanctuary a little. And I know Dogmeat can't die, but I hate seeing him unable to move, so I always waste a Stimpack on him.
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Scrapping junk is a great way to get components to trick out your weapons. With a bit of work and a few ranks in Gun Nut, you can turn a piddly little pipe rifle into the right arm of the Grim Reaper.
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
I've been doing pretty much all of the above, or at least I'm trying to. My problem is that I just take too much damage and tend to lose all sense of logic when under heavy fire, plus my aim is horrible. I have no idea how I managed to beat Swan.

Though I suppose I should collect more junk and either scrap it or sell it. I'm focusing on the main quest but also wanna help rebuild Sanctuary a little. And I know Dogmeat can't die, but I hate seeing him unable to move, so I always waste a Stimpack on him.
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You might want to switch back to your vault suit and then put armor pieces over your limbs/chest. There are other outfits that let you add armor layers but I can't recall them off the top of my head. Your vault suit with modified leather pieces will give you better ballistic (bullets) resistance and some good energy resistance. Some pieces can also be modded to specifically help with explosive damage if explosions are giving you trouble. Later in the game you can take outfits that can't be layered and upgrade them so they can actually protect you worth a damn.
 
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Dear everyone complaining that Fallout 4 isn't a real Fallout game.
War, war never changes. Fashions in game design do. Fallout 4 isn't Fallout, it's not Fallout 2. It's not the nostalgia bait you wanted. Stop complaining that an enjoyable game doesn't meet your narrow nostalgia laden standards by not being exactly the same game again.
Love everyone sick of try hard games journalists writing sanctimonious shit about it.

P.S if you want a modern version of Fallout 1 and 2 go play Wasteland 2 you whiny twat. Oh whats that? You haven't heard of it because you've never PLAYED Fallout 1 and 2 but you like to appear fashionably nostalgic whilst being to boring to be anything other than mainstream? Oh ok, wankers.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Dear everyone complaining that Fallout 4 isn't a real Fallout game.
War, war never changes. Fashions in game design do. Fallout 4 isn't Fallout, it's not Fallout 2. It's not the nostalgia bait you wanted. Stop complaining that an enjoyable game doesn't meet your narrow nostalgia laden standards by not being exactly the same game again.
Love everyone sick of try hard games journalists writing sanctimonious shit about it.

P.S if you want a modern version of Fallout 1 and 2 go play Wasteland 2 you whiny twat. Oh whats that? You haven't heard of it because you've never PLAYED Fallout 1 and 2 but you like to appear fashionably nostalgic whilst being to boring to be anything other than mainstream? Oh ok, wankers.
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You sound like a stereotypical redditor.
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
Settler: (about Nick) What the hell is that thing doing here?
Nick: Isn't that what your parents used to say to you?

I love this guy. Why isn't he a romance option?
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I am so certain the Voice Actor refuses to do love interest voice acting because barely or none of the characters he voices in Skyrim are romancable. He did do the voice of Sanguine and they hastily asked him to voice marriage lines and he doesn't sound too into it.
 
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Valiant said:
I am so certain the Voice Actor refuses to do love interest voice acting because barely or none of the characters he voices in Skyrim are romancable. He did do the voice of Sanguine and they hastily asked him to voice marriage lines and he doesn't sound too into it.
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It's to do with Nicks Synth installed personality of a prewar cop that's still attached to his dead partner.
 
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This got put up on the Beth Forums and I thought I'd share it here. Cut dialogue from Danse about an ending where you can help him replace Maxson as Elder.

It's still retarded mind, apparently Eldership in the Brotherhood can be attained by challenging the Elder to a Trial by Combat.
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
Dear everyone complaining that Fallout 4 isn't a real Fallout game.
War, war never changes. Fashions in game design do. Fallout 4 isn't Fallout, it's not Fallout 2. It's not the nostalgia bait you wanted. Stop complaining that an enjoyable game doesn't meet your narrow nostalgia laden standards by not being exactly the same game again.
Love everyone sick of try hard games journalists writing sanctimonious shit about it.

P.S if you want a modern version of Fallout 1 and 2 go play Wasteland 2 you whiny twat. Oh whats that? You haven't heard of it because you've never PLAYED Fallout 1 and 2 but you like to appear fashionably nostalgic whilst being to boring to be anything other than mainstream? Oh ok, wankers.
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I've heard good things about UnderRail too. Arcanum is also solid since it was made by Timothy Cain and other guys who did Fallout 1 and 2. It had one of the best fucking manuals I've ever read. It has in-character overviews of the world, races, relationship between magic and tech, etc so if anyone buys it make sure to download that.
 
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I've heard good things about UnderRail too. Arcanum is also solid since it was made by Timothy Cain and other guys who did Fallout 1 and 2. It had one of the best fucking manuals I've ever read. It has in-character overviews of the world, races, relationship between magic and tech, etc so if anyone buys it make sure to download that.
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There's also Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's top-down isometric RPG inspired by Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Haven't played it yet, but I've heard excellent things. And worse comes to worst, there's always Planescape: Torment to fall back on. Goddamn, do I love me some Black Isle RPGs.
 
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There's also Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's top-down isometric RPG inspired by Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Haven't played it yet, but I've heard excellent things. And worse comes to worst, there's always Planescape: Torment to fall back on. Goddamn, do I love me some Black Isle RPGs.
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Pillars is bloody excellent. It's got so much going for it. I felt 14 again when I first played it. It has that kind of magic to it that's been lost in recent years.
 
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I'm selling my collector's edition Alduin statue to get money for Fallout 4
He was cool but I am running out of room for stupid bullshit
 
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