Fallout series

[Sniperwoof]

Well, i'm gonna play Fallout 4 again.
Is there a guide to do properly the settlement vanilla system? I never got into that and now i'm interested.

Are you dead set on a purely vanilla experience? Because the vanilla settlement system sucks absolute ass, it's so bad.

If you're character is good- install Sim Settlements 2

If you're character is evil - install Sim Settlements conqueror

I would recommend one of these instead.

Also be aware after Starfield bombed Bethesda is seemingly intent on ruining all their older games. They recently fucked up Skyrim SE breaking mods and adding a new paid mods system and allegedly they're going to do the same to FO4 sometime in the next few months so this might not be the best time to start a modded playthrough.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Are you dead set on a purely vanilla experience?

Yes.

Because the vanilla settlement system sucks absolute ass, it's so bad.

Don't worry. I don't like Sim Settlements.

Also be aware after Starfield bombed Bethesda is seemingly intent on ruining all their older games. They recently fucked up Skyrim SE breaking mods and adding a new paid mods system and allegedly they're going to do the same to FO4 sometime in the next few months so this might not be the best time to start a modded playthrough.

I know. Actually i'm playing Skyrim SE on a older version (the 1.6.640 on Steam to be exactly) and put the manifest file into only-read to don't getting updated with a modlist. Same shit i done with FO4.

 

[WonderWino]

There’s been a Large purge of bethesda and activision blizzard. Fallout 76’s community manager was sacked as well. Unfortunately Tod and Emil are staying

I have to wonder why they sacked the community manager for 76. That kind of thing normally either means they're folding that role into a position involving dual roles managing multiple communities or players better start getting worried they're moving toward maintenance mode or a shutdown. Though I can't see them making such a decision until they at least know how the tv series goes over and if it'll boost their numbers or not

 

[TheHarbinger]

I have to wonder why they sacked the community manager for 76.

It could literally be a "he made too much money" kind of a move. Where they just find employees who make anything above a certain mark who have worked a specific number of years and fire them and then find replacements who can work remote from a foreign country and outsource them. Or just get some naive college graduate who would be willing to work a senior level job for entry level money. And lure them into a dead-end job that will burn them out in a few years.

Most likely they are not abandoning Fallout 76 at all. They will roll out more and more updates to coincide with the series release and season finale of the Amazon Fallout show. It's the perfect game for Bethesda and its retarded fans. No NPCs, no dialog, no story, no RPG mechanics. Just reskin old Fallout enemies and make a dungeon or two and the new generation of Fallout fans will be happy playing Fallout 76 for decades.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

For NV just get the Tri-Beam Laser Rifle ASAP if you want to do energy weapons, it's insane in crit builds. Its only downside is that its durability is shit. The only energy rifle that can replace it imo is Elijah's Advanced LAER.

I actually preferred the lowly normal laser rifle with beam splitter (plus other mods) the few times I've played an EW build. Same crit chance and 1/3 the ammo use per shot at same mag capacity. Weaker, obviously, but could still effectively stunlock even the strongest enemies (from across half the map if necessary) and kill them in less than one mag. To not to mention you can get one by Novac if not earlier.

 

[Breadbassket]

Came across parts of a fan-made animation called Fallout Sunburst that is still a work in progress, it depicts the battle between the NCR and Brotherhood of Steel for the HELIOS One solar plant in the Mojave. Pretty well made.

Spoiler

 

[Fred Fuckstone]

Modiphius, a tabletop RPG company that Bethesda licensed, just got exposed for plagiarizing garbage from Nukapedia for their latest expansion book by an admin from another Fallout wiki. Their Discord is currently melting down over the revelation and the tardipedia editors aren't happy either.

Apparently Bethesda doesn't have a lore bible and just tells their licensees to pick shit from wikis and game guides and they do zero vetting on anything from before Fallout 3.

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

Modiphius, a tabletop RPG company that Bethesda licensed, just got exposed for plagiarizing garbage from Nukapedia for their latest expansion book by an admin from another Fallout wiki. Their Discord is currently melting down over the revelation and the tardipedia editors aren't happy either.

Apparently Bethesda doesn't have a lore bible and just tells their licensees to pick shit from wikis and game guides and they do zero vetting on anything from before Fallout 3.

The Fallout Bible is literally free to download as a PDF for fucks sake, every time I think I can't be more disappointed in Bethesda this happens.

 

[Fred Fuckstone]

Beth has taken from the Bible once or twice, but they are 100% willing to throw out statements from it. In a previous guidebook, Modiphius wanted to include talking Deathclaws in a premade scenario, and Beth shot them down simply saying "not now", and they gave the chinks the green light for them in Fallout Shelter Online. Quite a lot of Bible info got used in this last guide book since Nukapedia sources it a lot despite:

A: Chris Avellone being a faggot
B: Chris Provolone not working on Fallout 1 and just making shit up when emailed
C: Chris Homealone coming up with garbage lore either for the sake of a joke (the Master's original last name being Moreau and justified it retardedly) or decreeing that the more fantastical things like talking Deathclaws or Wanamingos went extinct because he takes Fallout too seriously (and anyone who's bitched about the Tunnelers being made out to be the inevitable death of the west knows this)
D: Chris Toblerone's Bible is, while from a developer, ultimately an unofficial source of work

Unlike TES, they do not have an in-house bible of events simply because they don't take Fallout as seriously and view it as a funhouse to stretch and pull around to fit whatever retarded idea pops into Emil's head. I guarantee you New Vegas had several binders just for the NCR and Legion because Obsidian was made up out of old school CRPG devs and they had a track record of doing that with previous games. Arcade Gannon, for example, was a decade old idea Sawyer had written at least two journals of details about ever since Van Buren fell through. Beth's ideas are likely little more than white board drawings saying "ok we need a SYNTH companion, what else? the mysterious stranger was badass, let's make him a DETECTIVE! i loved thief, get Stephen to voice him. NOTE TO SELF get flowers for valentines day GENIUS that's his name"

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

B: Chris Provolone not working on Fallout 1 and just making shit up when emailed

Is that part true? I figured he would of at least discussed things with his co-workers about it, then again knowing the kinda blowhard he is I wouldn't be surprised.

C: Chris Homealone coming up with garbage lore either for the sake of a joke (the Master's original last name being Moreau and justified it retardedly) or decreeing that the more fantastical things like talking Deathclaws or Wanamingos went extinct because he takes Fallout too seriously (and anyone who's bitched about the Tunnelers being made out to be the inevitable death of the west knows this)

That is basically my main reason for why I dislike the Bear and the Bull man but irl ngl.

D: Chris Toblerone's Bible is, while from a developer, ultimately an unofficial source of work

Pretty sure it would be considered at worst a second level source or so at least for its era sorta like how some Gundam works are such as the stuff with Yuu Kajima and his being retroactively added into Char's Counterattack. Either way I find it to be a pretty interesting read myself as much as I dislike sexpestolone and some of his statements in it such as the afformentioned talking deathclaws one.

I guarantee you New Vegas had several binders just for the NCR and Legion because Obsidian was made up out of old school CRPG devs and they had a track record of doing that with previous games. Arcade Gannon, for example, was a decade old idea Sawyer had written at least two journals of details about ever since Van Buren fell through.

Nevermind the parts of Van Buren he had held onto the notes for and reworked overtime such as with a certain fan favorite Mormon.


Side note: Anyone know where I can find info on the table top game, mostly curious on the mechanics.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

cant wait for the fallout tv-series. i just have this feeling its going to be an amazing shitshow.

 

[TVB]

cant wait for the fallout tv-series. i just have this feeling its going to be an amazing shitshow.

And for decades we've seen some forgettable slops or spectacular trainwrecks from movies and shows based on existing IPs, including those based on video games

 

[Rick The Stick]

Came across parts of a fan-made animation called Fallout Sunburst that is still a work in progress, it depicts the battle between the NCR and Brotherhood of Steel for the HELIOS One solar plant in the Mojave. Pretty well made.

Spoiler

This dude has some pretty good WH40K stuff as well.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

cant wait for the fallout tv-series. i just have this feeling its going to be an amazing shitshow.

Worse than the Halo series?

 

[Agent of Misinformation]

Beth has taken from the Bible once or twice, but they are 100% willing to throw out statements from it. In a previous guidebook, Modiphius wanted to include talking Deathclaws in a premade scenario, and Beth shot them down simply saying "not now", and they gave the chinks the green light for them in Fallout Shelter Online. Quite a lot of Bible info got used in this last guide book since Nukapedia sources it a lot despite:

A: Chris Avellone being a faggot
B: Chris Provolone not working on Fallout 1 and just making shit up when emailed
C: Chris Homealone coming up with garbage lore either for the sake of a joke (the Master's original last name being Moreau and justified it retardedly) or decreeing that the more fantastical things like talking Deathclaws or Wanamingos went extinct because he takes Fallout too seriously (and anyone who's bitched about the Tunnelers being made out to be the inevitable death of the west knows this)
D: Chris Toblerone's Bible is, while from a developer, ultimately an unofficial source of work

Unlike TES, they do not have an in-house bible of events simply because they don't take Fallout as seriously and view it as a funhouse to stretch and pull around to fit whatever retarded idea pops into Emil's head. I guarantee you New Vegas had several binders just for the NCR and Legion because Obsidian was made up out of old school CRPG devs and they had a track record of doing that with previous games. Arcade Gannon, for example, was a decade old idea Sawyer had written at least two journals of details about ever since Van Buren fell through. Beth's ideas are likely little more than white board drawings saying "ok we need a SYNTH companion, what else? the mysterious stranger was badass, let's make him a DETECTIVE! i loved thief, get Stephen to voice him. NOTE TO SELF get flowers for valentines day GENIUS that's his name"

Another thing to ponder also: The Enclave was hinted to be far, FAR more powerful than just Navarro and the Oil Rig. The Presidential level of the Oil Rig has both a war room table AND a situationship map. Both are filled with many dots. The dots are on both seas and lands. Bethesdas are such jackass paper shufflers (Emil Pagliarulo and Todd Howard) can't conceive how powerful they are. They're one-sided fascists that run on a death cult mentality (Richardson knew the FEV gas would kill his people, too). Then again, Neither Black Isle nor Interplay understood effective villains from how bad management got after the first release.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

The Enclave was hinted to be far, FAR more powerful than just Navarro and the Oil Rig. The Presidential level of the Oil Rig has both a war room table AND a situationship map. Both are filled with many dots. The dots are on both seas and lands.

Tbf, I think obsidian forgot. I don't remember hearing jack shit about the enclave being involved in Van Buren and we just have about a half dozen geezers in New Vegas.

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

Tbf, I think obsidian forgot. I don't remember hearing jack shit about the enclave being involved in Van Buren and we just have about a half dozen geezers in New Vegas.

They where supposed to have a space station or something in Van Buren if memory serves, it's why The Frontier did what it did even if it clearly would not of been anything like that.

 

[TVB]

Worse than the Halo series?

When the Fallout series does come out, we can only hope that it will make Paramount+ Halo or Netflix Resident Evil look good by comparison

 

[Lone Star]

They where supposed to have a space station or something in Van Buren if memory serves, it's why The Frontier did what it did even if it clearly would not of been anything like that.

I think it was Van Buren that was going to reveal that they wanted to go into space and the Vaults were a way to test humanity for space travel. There was an interesting video I saw that broke down how each Vault experiment would correlate to a space station.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Tbf, I think obsidian forgot. I don't remember hearing jack shit about the enclave being involved in Van Buren and we just have about a half dozen geezers in New Vegas.

They where supposed to have a space station or something in Van Buren if memory serves, it's why The Frontier did what it did even if it clearly would not of been anything like that.

The future of the Fallout franchise was supposed to be in space. Fallout 3 (Van Buren) and beyond would have you going to space stations. And from there they might even have humanity begin colonizing other worlds. And the main twist in a future Fallout game would be that the Great War was actually started by aliens from another world. You can bet that Bethesda seriously considered putting Fallout and Vault Tech references in Starfield and tying the franchises together but were either too lazy or too stupid to get it done.

But references to space would permeate their way through the series to other games after Fallout 2. Fallout 3 had Mothership Zeta (generally considered one of the worst pieces of the Fallout franchise). In Mothership Zeta the Enclave were rewritten to be founded on alien technology and Area 51. New Vegas would have a crashed UFO site (in Wild Wasteland) and the worst quest in the game Come Fly With Me. Mr. House talks about how in a century he has the technology to colonize other worlds with a fleet of starships. Fallout 76 is filled with references to space missions.

Another thing with modern Fallout is the obsession with androids and making the franchise into something like Westworld or Terminator. With some battle between the machines or robots and people being the centerpiece of the entire franchise and not the actual Great War and rebuilding society. The point is that the Fallout franchise is a lore mess. Every Fallout game after the first one has retcons or lore breaking moments or some sloppy writing in it. It's like Star Wars or Aliens where the parts are greater than the whole at this point.