QUOTE(Kane @ Jan 4 2026, 12:05 PM)
You can also build arches in settlements that remove rads, but I think you need Science 1 for that. And the resources.
Oh, neat. Didn't remember being able to build them in Fallout 4, though I have one built for my C.A.M.P. in Fallout 76.
QUOTE(SubRosa @ Jan 4 2026, 04:08 PM)
The dark humor is still there. I just came across a construction protectron guarding a site of a long destroyed military convoy. It said to me: "This day has gone... 0 days without a workplace injury." Then a group of Super-Mutants attacked.
Lol, protectrons have a way of making a lot of things funny or at least amusing.
QUOTE(macole @ Jan 5 2026, 12:43 AM)
Boasting never fails to bring on disaster.
Bethesda NPCs never learn.
QUOTE(RaderOfTheLostArk @ Jan 3 2026, 11:53 PM)
I think my favorite one is the Mr. Gutsy you can confuse into self-destructing.
"WiLl YoU cOmPlY?!" That's a great one! I just had one in my head that was a great instance that escapes me. Ugh. EDIT: Ah, I remember! A certain con artist who I won't name here. Even Piper doesn't care if you kill him.
QUOTE(Renee @ Jan 5 2026, 02:06 PM)
Good to hear it's not all doom & gloom in 4, that there is some humor left. Honestly I got rather bored with New Vegas due to its lack of humor/ entertainment. A lot of the Fallout 'purists' state New Vegas is the 'last true Fallout game' because Beth's versions aren't 100% serious
all the time but whatever. These are
videogames, and part of gaming, for me, is to enjoy the experience.
/Soapboxmoment
I also remember all those silly painted bots y'all used to post pictures of in the screenshots thread.
Even just their pictures had me rolling sometimes!
Jenn X is about to die, straight up, and maybe I'll even honor this with dead-is-dead rules, rolling somebody new.
Diamond City is too far, she'd have to walk there, hasn't Discovered it yet, so FT is out of the question. The heartbeat sound plays constantly in her game, which is annoying as [censored]; it's like: JEE
Ah, New Vegas fanboys. Basically the Fallout equivalent of Morrowind fanboys. Such goobers. Many of them haven't even played the games they idolize. But New Vegas does have plenty of humor, too. Sometimes a little too much, like the Old World Blues DLC (but it was still funny).
Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to re-roll (and not because I personally don't like dead-is-dead playthroughs). Try going back to Sanctuary and look in houses for containers. There will probably be some RadAway around there somewhere. There is also a ton of stuff there to scrap, which you can use to build a chemistry workbench that will then let you make RadAway. (At least, I'm pretty sure you can make the workbench and RadAway right away.)
Or, if you haven't been there yet, you can rush to the Cambridge police station and help out the handful of people there (I won't spoil who is there) who are fighting off feral ghouls. Might be tough because you are close to death, but the ferals might target the other people instead while you help kill the ferals (who should be marked essential at that point).
EDIT: Oh, also, pretty sure the rain itself isn't radioactive, though maybe I'm misremembering. It just happens to be radioactive where you are standing at the moment.
She walked in some rain for hours until I realized her Geiger counter was ticking nonstop, then finally she ate some RadX. It was too late for chems at that point though. Funny thing is, I got a mod for Fallout 3 for rain & snow (because DUH... it rains in the DMV!) 
