Boston Bewilderings, The Fallout 4 "Where are you now?" thread Options

[SubRosa]

Que? Worked last night when I played...changed Luna's hair color.

Yeah, not sure what's going on with it (unless it gets disabled in survival mode?). Was trying to do the free camera thing to take a screenie of Ms. Nguyen after having left Vault111.

I believe the console is disabled in Survival Mode. I have seen some people complain about gun mods where the weapon was only available by the console, and they said that meant that Survival players could not get it.

[SubRosa]

I started up Annie Ley Oak last week, and adventured around a bit before going to Concord. This time around I scrounged up two power armor frames beforehand, and put together a complete suit before going in. That game actually accounted for someone doing that. There is specific dialogue from both Preston and Sturgis about it. Preston says something like you "came in like a metal saviour". Sturgis remarks that he was going to suggest going up on the roof to get a suit of powered armor, but since you already have one...

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I started up Annie Ley Oak last week, and adventured around a bit before going to Concord. This time around I scrounged up two power armor frames beforehand, and put together a complete suit before going in. That game actually accounted for someone doing that. There is specific dialogue from both Preston and Sturgis about it. Preston says something like you "came in like a metal saviour". Sturgis remarks that he was going to suggest going up on the roof to get a suit of powered armor, but since you already have one...

Lol, Annie Ley Oak? Is one of her distant ancestors Annie Oakley?

[SubRosa]

I started up Annie Ley Oak last week, and adventured around a bit before going to Concord. This time around I scrounged up two power armor frames beforehand, and put together a complete suit before going in. That game actually accounted for someone doing that. There is specific dialogue from both Preston and Sturgis about it. Preston says something like you "came in like a metal saviour". Sturgis remarks that he was going to suggest going up on the roof to get a suit of powered armor, but since you already have one...

Lol, Annie Ley Oak? Is one of her distant ancestors Annie Oakley?

Most of the time I name my characters after goddesses or people from myth and legend. But with the Fallout games I sometimes get away from that and look for names with a more modern feel: Like Holland Smith or Molly Hatchet. I first played Annie in New Vegas, so I was looking for a Western-themed name. I had already used Lonesome Dove, so that was out. I was looking for various female gun fighters, and came down to Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley. After a little magic on the last name, Annie Ley Oak was born.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I started up Annie Ley Oak last week, and adventured around a bit before going to Concord. This time around I scrounged up two power armor frames beforehand, and put together a complete suit before going in. That game actually accounted for someone doing that. There is specific dialogue from both Preston and Sturgis about it. Preston says something like you "came in like a metal saviour". Sturgis remarks that he was going to suggest going up on the roof to get a suit of powered armor, but since you already have one...

Lol, Annie Ley Oak? Is one of her distant ancestors Annie Oakley?

Most of the time I name my characters after goddesses or people from myth and legend. But with the Fallout games I sometimes get away from that and look for names with a more modern feel: Like Holland Smith or Molly Hatchet. I first played Annie in New Vegas, so I was looking for a Western-themed name. I had already used Lonesome Dove, so that was out. I was looking for various female gun fighters, and came down to Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley. After a little magic on the last name, Annie Ley Oak was born.

Well, she was badass! Great person to name a character after!

[Kane]

After playing this game for well over a year, I only just discovered the 4 or 5 gourd plants behind the first house on the way into Concord. I've always made my way to Abernathy farm for Tatos when I help out Sturges.

This post has been edited by Cain: Mar 3 2017, 05:52 PM

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

After playing this game for well over a year, I only just discovered the 4 or 5 gourd plants behind the first house on the way into Concord. I've always made my way to Abernathy farm for Tatos when I help out Sturges.

Lol, good ol' Bethesda games! So full of stuff to discover! Did you know there are a bunch of gourd plants behind the "Doomsday Prepper's" house, about halfway to the creek? Also there is a combat knife in the little boat on the lake front near Sanctuary (though sometimes it falls through the boat).

[Kane]

Dang, I didn't know about those gourds either! I think I did find the knife once, though. Not that it helped. I can't really get into melee in Fallout.

Too much fun with guns.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Dang, I didn't know about those gourds either! I think I did find the knife once, though. Not that it helped. I can't really get into melee in Fallout.

Too much fun with guns.

Well in my honest opinion, melee Combat in F4 isn't very good, period.

[Kane]

Well in my honest opinion, melee Combat in F4 isn't very good, period.

I think I just got bored of the weapons. None of them really made me embrace the lack of guns.

I prefer strutting around the Commonwealth with a sniper rifle, a second rifle with a reflex scope, and a pistol for close quarters.

This post has been edited by Cain: Mar 3 2017, 06:59 PM

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Well in my honest opinion, melee Combat in F4 isn't very good, period.

I think I just got bored of the weapons. None of them really made me embrace the lack of guns.

I prefer strutting around the Commonwealth with a sniper rifle, a second rifle with a reflex scope, and a pistol for close quarters.

Yeah or a shot gun!

[Kane]

Well in my honest opinion, melee Combat in F4 isn't very good, period.

I think I just got bored of the weapons. None of them really made me embrace the lack of guns.

I prefer strutting around the Commonwealth with a sniper rifle, a second rifle with a reflex scope, and a pistol for close quarters.

Yeah or a shot gun!

I keep a shotgun on hand for the dangerous places. Usually anytime I go into the Glowing Sea, or a place that will have a lot of baddies. Love the combat shotgun with a drum mag.

And if you have an incendiary, explosive, or wounding shotgun? Ho Lee Chit.

[Rihanae]

Well in my honest opinion, melee Combat in F4 isn't very good, period.

I think I just got bored of the weapons. None of them really made me embrace the lack of guns.

I prefer strutting around the Commonwealth with a sniper rifle, a second rifle with a reflex scope, and a pistol for close quarters.

Yeah or a shot gun!

I keep a shotgun on hand for the dangerous places. Usually anytime I go into the Glowing Sea, or a place that will have a lot of baddies. Love the combat shotgun with a drum mag.

And if you have an incendiary, explosive, or wounding shotgun? Ho Lee Chit.

Matty uses melee exclusively, but I do agree. I find melee strangled overpowered against most foes. These days Matty has a rifle on hand to add a bit of flavour to fights.

Currently Matty is working on Vault 88... which is a lot harder than I thought it would be! I think I might download far harbour soon and start on that.

[Kane]

Ooh, definitely need to get Fah Hahbah. So much win in that DLC.

This post has been edited by Cain: Mar 3 2017, 09:50 PM

[SubRosa]

Melee is very powerful, especially in VATS. When making sneak attacks with the Ninja perk, it is just insane. Elektra was doing about 5,000 point of damage that way in one hit.

But the blocking is where it really fails for me. They changed the way blocks work. Now you press the block key and it plays an animation of you blocking for a few seconds. Then you drop the block. So you have to time your block perfectly when people attack. If you get swarmed by multiple opponents (as ferals tend to do), you literally cannot block them all, as it won't last long enough. There seems to be a delay between pushing the block button and you actually blocking, so it is really hard.

It is strange, since this is not only the same company that gave us the Elder Scrolls games, but using the same engine (at least the same engine as in Skyrim 64-bit). So clearly they know how make a game with melee weapons. But they seem to forget everything they know between games.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 6 2017, 06:29 PM

[Rihanae]

Melee is very powerful, especially in VATS. When making sneak attacks with the Ninja perk, it is just insane. Elektra was doing abut 5,000 point of damage that way in one hit.

But the blocking is where it really fails for me. They changed the way blocks work. Now you press the block key and it plays an animation of you blocking for a few seconds. Then you drop the block. So you have to time your block perfectly when people attack. If you get swarmed by multiple opponents (as ferals tend to do), you literally cannot block them all, as it won't last long enough. There seems to be a delay between pushing the block button and you actually blocking, so it is really hard.

It is strange, since this is not only the same company that gave us the Elder Scrolls games, but using the same engine (at least the same engine as in Skyrim 64-bit). So clearly they know how make a game with melee weapons. But they seem to forget everything they know between games.

I agree. I get that they're obviously trying to emphasise guns more than melee for this game... but it still seems odd that they provide no challenge for being a melee fighter.

My vault 88 is going well. It's pretty basic atm as I'm still getting the hang of how building vaults works, but I'm enjoying it. I'll post a video of my vault once it's finished

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Backstory: Kim-Ly Pham Nguyen



This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Mar 5 2017, 03:26 AM

[SubRosa]

Very cool back story. Another Great War veteran, just like my FO3 character Holland Smith.

It might be easier to read if it was not all in one giant paragraph though...

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Very cool back story. Another Great War veteran, just like my FO3 character Holland Smith.

It might be easier to read if it was not all in one giant paragraph though...

Lol, yeah, Khajiit was going to do that but then he forgot (he had been working on that since 2:30PM because he kept getting interrupted). This one will fix it.

*Edit: Update*
Backstory now with easier to read paragraphs!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Mar 5 2017, 02:20 AM

[SubRosa]

There is a character topic here that you could update. Toward the bottom of the first page Renee posted a blank template to copy and paste from.