Necroing this thread for those who play Fallout 4.



I guess some of you still do it and if so you've been remiss in your reporting

Yes thanks for this, Crow. 🦅 Finally am playing some Fallout 4, finally sort of getting the hang of combat. Just discovered we can bash enemies with the butts of our guns!

10.30.2287 - day before Halloween. Aren't holidays recognized in this game? Maybe got this confused with Starfield. Anyway, FINALLY my gal Jenn X got a ferking quest done-- she retrieved a locket from USAF for some lady at Abernathy Farm,and also got to Level 4... pwned a bunch of raiders too.

Raiders in the Boston area seem to have appropriate Bahstahhn accents, unlike the wrong Jersey accents of Fallout 3. Folks in Maryland do not twalk like they's from Joisey!

Holidays are indeed recognized in Diamond City (Fenway Pahk). Pretty sure that’s the only location though. Also, I think it’s only Halloween and Christmas.

I'll get there eventually! I borked my install when I tried moving it to my new m2 drive and haven't rebuilt it yet.

Can anyone comment on the 10th anniversary update content? I want to get back into Fallout 4 soon to see how that stuff is, and I have had a bit of an itch to play the game again for a while. I want to try survival again, though at least modded so I can save anywhere--because I'm not going to deal with the BS of losing a ton of progress because I wasn't allowed to save for a long time.



Correct, unless some more was added in the 10th anniversary update. It is a nice touch, but would've been nice to have more.

Shoot that's correct, FO4 came out ten years ago, I'm in the habit of thinking it's "new'.

I think the latest update is just technical stuff; Some stability fixes, etc. I don't see anything about holidays, although " extra content" is mentioned.

My character is still hanging around Abernathy Farm, basking in the glory of completing her first quest: the retrieval of a Silver Locket which belongs to one of the farm hands. Some raiders at a USAF station stole it,which is weird. How would the farmers know which raiders took it?

NEW THINGS I NOTICE

1). Our character's got loads of idle animations; yawning, fidgeting, and so on.

2). -- Xbox controller hotkeys are hugely expanded. Instead of hotkeying just one item per D-pad direction we can put multiple items. So if I press the D-pad once and press A, a cheap 10 mm pistol is equipped. Press it twice now she's got a double-barrel shotgun. 3x = Glow Sighted Light Pipe Pistol, whatever that means.
Basically, the number of items per hotkey seem to be limitless.

Nearly every weapon in the game can be modded and customized to death at a Weapons Workbench. That weapon in particular is the basic Pipe Pistol with a light receiver and glowing iron sights.

There should be Weapon Workbenches at both Sanctuary Hills and Red Rocket - check them out when you are in the area and see what you can customize!

I really like the weapon modding systems in Fallout4 and Starfield.

That's something I've NEVER messed around with in Fallout3 or New Vegas: workbenches!!!
That's like an entirely new world of these games for me to explore.

10.31.2287 - Halloween 🎃 Although nobody celebrates costumes and candy anymore in Concorde, or anywhere else Jenn is aware of. She only knows the date because her Pip Girl® tells her so.

...and she spends this formerly festive day running atop the Museum of History, trying her best; taking .308 potshots at the giant deathclaw running amok on the streets of Concorde below, while Preston Garvey, on the balcony below the roof, also takes shots with some sort of energy weapon. Jenn X remembers this little town the way it once was: full of pleasant small shops she could drive to, just down the road from her former neighborhood. Maybe grab a burger and strawberry milkshake with one of her girlfriends before heading home. She keeps getting flashbacks of memories from her old life, remembering her favorite florist shop and so on, fluorescent lighting, some neon lights for the little corner pub; the very worst thing which she remembers occurring was a fender-bender between a Chryslus and a Ford Kinto (the latter owned by one of her son's teachers). She'd never expected the sounds of gunshots and ricochets would ever reverberate the walls and avenues of this tolerant, quaint little New England burg. ...and that SHE and a complete stranger would be causing such mayhem.

...now Concorde is strewn with corpses! Trash and rubble on the streets and in those formerly pleasant establishments. Rusty, ancient vehicles (one of which she and Garvey were able to explode from a safe distance, though this didn't slow the f---king deathclaw at all, even as the Corvega disintigrated right beside the monster.)w

Jenny's got a gun. A new gun, that is: a rifle with a bayonet attached. In previous days, she backtracked to Vault 111 and numerous other locations, looking for fusion cores so she can continue to walk her new power armor all across the map. Wasn't able to find any cores but she finally got this half-decent rifle, which is better for long-range action than her shotgun or pistols.

....but the deathclaw persists on the streets below. Worse, it's learned how to hide its massive self behind buildings and other large objects.

Jenn overheard the red-eyed woman from Boston talking to some Concorde survivors holed up in the museum about her plans to defeat a second deathie; oddly her idea seemed to be to face the damn things head-on, somehow.

Not sure how it works in Fallout 4 but in 3 the workbenches are indeed quite useful

Doesn't she have the minigun from the vertibird on the roof? You can take it, and it will work wonders on the deathclaw.

Workbenches in FO4 are quite useful. The weapon benches allow you to customize pretty much every weapon in the game. You can add parts to do more damage, make them more accurate, shoot faster, convert pistols to rifles, etc... It all depends on the weapons. How much you can do depends on your level in the skill appropriate to working on the weapon in particular. Science is for working on energy weapons, Gun Nut is for working on gunpowder firearms.

The same is the case for the armor bench, except it allows you to modify your pieces of armor.

The chem bench can be used to create all the chems in the game: Rad-X, Stimpacks, etc... The same with grenades and mines, and some other items too. Many item mods also use it as a way to make their items. You literally create them at the Chem Bench.

The cooking "workbenches" can be used to take raw ingredients like mirelurk meat and create meals, which of course do more healing and sometimes give other bonuses above what eating the stuff raw would.

Also all the workbenches in a settlement are linked. You can store all of your junk (and all items really) in any one of the workbenches. When you later use any bench in the settlement, all that stuff will be available for you to use. It is all safe storage, so you won't lose it. That way you don't have to carry it all around with you all the time, or store it in a container, bring it out to craft, and then put it back in the container once more.