As I picked the Rumors option, I heard there were some who wanted an Update thread for Fallout 4.


And here it is!


So, wherever you are and whatever you do, tell us about it! If you want to include quest spoilers then that´s ok, but make sure to use spoiler tags

Oh no kidding. You got Fallout 4, crow? Sweet.

Thank you! But as I will be posting updates there will be some spoilers... So I will spoiler tag them!

Here is my current and most likely, perma-character.



His name is Matty Prior, he is 25 years old and ex-army. Before the beginning of the game he was in the military, but whilst out on tour with his brother a battle ensued. He accidently shot and killed his brother, which left him with severe PTSD where he found himself unable to use a gun. The thought of touching one terrified him to the point he couldn't breathe.

Because of his PTSD he was pardoned and returned to his girlfriend, Nora, who he eventually settled down with and married.

He is purely a Melee fighter, due to his PTSD, and he is very skilled. Maybe one day he will be able to use a gun again, but that is something we will have to explore.

His current companion is Piper, who I personally love. She his helping Matty with his mission...

No, Crow does not have 4, only 3. Crow just makes thread to help others


That´s ok, I guess. I´ll edit my post to say it´s ok with quest spoilers but only in spoiler tags

Wow. Matty is smokin hot. That's quite the look Piper is giving him!

Added: sorry, I had to run mid-post

Rihanae, I think Matty’s history lends itself perfectly to melee only. It will be interesting to see how he changes as he follows his purpose.

mirocu, thanks for the thread.

Haha thank you! I based his image on a person I know IRL who, ironically, is much less handsome than Matty turned out! (I think, by default, the males in this game are rather good looking!)

Piper and Matty really have grown to become great friends. I can't help but love how deep the companion system is in this game!

No prob


Ri, he does look quite handsome and I like his backstory. I´m sure he´ll do well around Boston

Well Matty has had quite the adventure in the Commonwealth...

Ha! Piper is the one follower I thought that I would not like after seeing the previews of the game. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when she turned out really cool. I love the outfits on her and she is not annoying at all. Matt is a lucky guy!


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I am back on Fallout 4 at the moment after running around on Skyrim for a bit. Just spent some time building up a new Sanctuary house for my female character. She is called Caroline Wisemann, or by the nickname that she prefers, 'Chalice.' I have only just started the female build after taking ages to get it just right. For some reason I am never happy with the chin and cheeks on the face.

Caroline is only level 8 at the moment. She is looking is start the long journey down to Diamond City.

I will post some pics soon!

Piper annoyed me at first, but it wasn’t long before I started to like her. Congrats to Matty and Piper!

Winter Wolf, good luck with Chalice.

Chalice sounds wonderful! I'm looking forward to mods to even out faces a bit better for females... but at the moment I don't see myself separating from Matty!

It's peculiar. Matty and I have quite a connection in game and I feel I am understanding him a lot better. his development over the past few days has been quite strengthening. He has gone from being a 'do-good' hero to actually growing a back bone. He now isn't afraid to speak his mind at times when he disagrees with a point, which occasionally Piper dislikes (but not enough to cause any problems for them). Matty still is, and always will be, happy to help people in need (he was a soldier after all), but he's not afraid to say no to a lost cause.

We have also finished the main storyline...

My character is exactly the same. I have no idea whether she will play the good role or the nasty role. Time will certainly tell. Growing 'back bone' is something that comes with eventually discovering their personality (as you have said).

Congrats on finishing the MQ. I will not click on the link as I am miles away from that point.

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Chalice is now following Dogmeat off into the western hills, seeking the owner of the unique cigars. We are charging through the Fort and bringing our own form of revenge to those who took Shaun.

Assassin's Laser Musket is awesome for destroying those turrents.

So I attempted to make my settlement impenetrable today by building metal walls around it... safe to say it works! Matty glitched out of the settlement and couldn't get back in! I had to remove a wall haha.

Gotta say, I love the settlement system in this game.

Also with Matty I downloaded a mod to give him an even younger face. He now looks the age he is supposed to be! I will edit in a side by side pic later!

Good luck Winter Wolf! Isn't Dogmeat such a super tracker dog?

I really love the whole settlement building in FO4. But then again I also loved Hearthfire and I read nothing but hate over on the Beth forums about that add-on. Skyrim was bland (for me) before they gave me the house building tools, now I can design and build a bit, go off and do some questing, come back and build some more. I really love the game pattern. Beth has now taken it to the next level here.

The settlements need some user friendly changes (especially with settlers, attacks and clipping) and hopefully that will come with the patches.

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Thanks Grits!

Exactly what Matty is doing! Although we RP that when something is 'built' he is actually making plans for something to be built, which wont be complete until he returns to the settlement a few days later. I'm hoping that future settlement mods will have settlement items that can be built over time. SO basically instead of the item appearing instantly, it will take XX amount of days to gradually build. Purely for RP purposes! Haha

Anyway this isn't an update... More a brief, story version of Matty's background. I'm looking to expand on it in a fanfic in the future...


Matthew 'Matty' Simpson is a 24 year old ex-army soldier.

He loved fighting with the U.S army. He had been with them since he was nothing more than a 16 year old boy with big dreams and a strong drive.

He was a good soldier, and many would say one of the best... until the day he went on tour with his younger brother, Shaun. He doesn't remember a lot of what happened, only that during a scout in a small village in southern Asia, he and his comrades where attacked. A fight ensued... and Shaun got caught in the cross fire; by a stray bullet shot by Matthew himself.

Shaun didn't survive the bullet.

Matthew can't remember a lot of what happened after that. He was sent back to base after the brief fight was over, and he was in a catatonic state for weeks, the only noise he made were his screams for his brother in the middle of the night.

Once his catatonia had eased into mild PTSD, Matthew was given medical discharge from his role in the army, and sent home to live his life peacefully. He found his PTSD left him unable to even hold a gun. He would break out in sweats and feel the extreme need to vomit. So, instead, he decided to focus on new skills. He learnt how to fight with Melee weapons, and he began to enroll in free-running to keep in shape... an activity he never ceased to participate in.

Matthew was 19 years old when he was given medical discharge, and he was sent to live with his mother in sanctuary. He found out his father left when news about Shaun's death arose. Matthew always noticed the pained look in his mothers eyes. Was it because of his dad? Shaun? Because Matty killed Shaun? Whatever it was... the look didn't stay with her for long. When Three weeks after Matty returned home he found her in the bathroom, lying motionless, fully clothed, in the running shower. She had several empty bottles of pills next to her.

"You didn't KILL her. She was grieving, for so many things. " Nora, his childhood friend and old high school girlfriend, always told him, the first time at Matty's mothers funeral. She lived next door to Matthew, always had.

And when Matthew received the deed to his house and a lot of money in his mothers will, he decided to stay in the house. Next to Nora. And it was because of that their relationship blossomed.

They fell in love, married when they were both 22 and had a child when they were 24.

A child called Shaun.

EDIT: Edited thanks to some genuinely helpful notes from SubRosa. I'm really enjoying learning more about Matty.

Very neat history. Though if the brother was Zach, then maybe he should be named Cloud Strife? Sorry, I could not resist a Final Fantasy VII hook.

It sounds like he would have gotten a Section 8/Medical discharge, given his mental issues. A pardon is for someone convicted of a crime. Given that his shooting of his brother was an accidental occurrence in the middle of a battle, I doubt he'd have faced criminal charges for it.

Perhaps after his discharge he became a boxer or MMA fighter? Or some other form of athlete?

Well...Currently about a hunnerd-fiddy hours into a chap called Michael Grey...which is not a sentence I'll often find myself saying out loud...

*Cough*...

Currently Level Fiddy-Six...Sorry...I'll stop that now...

Anyways...Michael Grey is, in my head of course, both distant family and contemporary of Arnaud in D.C./New Vegas...Because he can be...It's my story...I can twist whatever I like...

(Bishop/actress)...

So yeah...Level 56...though I admit that "an amount" of that has come from settlement building...

However...I've explored the entire of The North™...Everything above that road that runs East/West across the centre of the map...With predictable amount of predictability, I'm now moving The South™...East to West in sections, using the North/South roads as delineation lines...So as to keep track of what I'm doing...

I've tried to avoid quests as much as possible...Unless I happen to have fallen into them and I think they're worth doing there and then...

So I very much loved the one with the Chinese Ghoul in the submarine...Who was, by far, my fave character that I've encountered so far...

Well, Cricket excepted...*Fans self*...Be still my heart...Ooof!...No...Seriously...Hotness... ...Same effect as Cutter had on me in the Shivering Isles... ...

Oh, and the other fave quest that made me smile and all heart-warmed and everything...Kid In The Fridge...

Yup...

The game has more than its fair share of bugs...But most of them have been work-around-able...*Shrug*...Nothing's stopped me in my useful purpose of being vewwy vewwy quiet...Ahm hunt'n' Waider...Huh-huh-huh...

Although, being the level I am, there is the occasional laughing as yet another Alpha Deathclaw or Queen Mirelurk (which are actually genuinely unnerving, thinking about it...) tries to rip my head off and I give is some with my Han Solo-alike Scoped Magnum .44 hand cannon... ...Ye Gods I'm awesome in the game... ...

Much fun...

Excellent game... ...

Proper loving it...

Good to see you McB! Seems like you're having a blast with Fallout 4! I'm overly addicted to it ATM!

I'm not so addicted to settlement building, though. The whole thing breaks immersion from my RP, so once a gradual build mod is made Imma steer clear! Haha.

Looking forward to your updates

Ooh! McB is playing Fallout4! Another reason to call in sick, eh?

Rihanae!!... ...Yes...I think "addicted to" can be pretty fairly applied to my state with Fallout 4... ...

And yeah, the settlement thing will properly take you out of any immersion you try and get into...You have to go back and settle the bugs down so often...I was on it for a good couple of hours yesterday...At least two thirds of the time was spent FT-ing back to the various settlements to try and get the programme to remember what exactly the settlements consist of...Oy...

Nevermind...Proper excellent game though...

Besides...My RP-ing consists of being Nordy-Boy/Robert McWylde/J'Drell/J'Zirlo/Arnaud...Basically...I do the same thing over and over... ...

Crow-Boy!!...Me?...Take a sicky to play a game?...As if... ...

Without mods my RPing is all imagination, which, ironically, I find easier! Haha. I just think simple things like, 'Matty's been awake for 14 hours... does he really want to trek four hours to do a quest? No. He'll sleep." Haha.

I am looking forward to mods though! I'm looking forward to body mods too. I have a Unique Player Mod which only adds the effect of a appearance mod to my character. I want an HD body mod with some good tattoo designs. But, alas, I must wait

Yes, the easiest way to roleplay is indeed to just use your head

Just a quick update...Because I'm sure you care...

My save game has become too unstable to continue...(Like with much else these days... ...)...I ended up spending more time trying to fix the problems in the settlements than I was actually wandering and playing...

I gave up...

Sad for the hundred-odd hours I put into the game, but I'm not missing playing it and have no intention of starting again...So therein, I suspect, is a problem...

Hey-ho...

Sorry to hear that, McB. I hope you at least had some fun playing it

I'm sorry too I remember when Lissa's saves got corrupted on Oblivion. I had no interest in playing it for a long time. Hopefully you'll find that reason to play again... THE COMMONWEALTH NEEDS YOU!!

Quick question for console gamers (if there are any). Do we get our 8 hotkeys back on our controllers? or is it still like Skyrim in which there are only 2?

On console you can press each direction on the pad and load up items and weapons on it.
You get 3 item locations in each direction, so 12 items/weapons in total.

I use the bottoms ones for health and load up weapons everywhere else.

Si I haven't been active for a couple of weeks, or at least posting as I have been online. Kid stuff. Haha.

Recently I've been getting into Fallout 4 after purchasing it on steam and i am LOVING it!

I have a character named Andrea (original, no?) and she is a lot more like the character she was inspired from.

She primarily is a sniper/sharpshooter, but is is also quite adept in close quarters combat.

In her past life she was the army veteran instead of her husband, which to me explains her skill with a rifle.

Her current companion is Danse, as she is progressing through the BoS storyline.

I'll post a pic soon.

Ahhh!! Feels so good to be back into Fallout 4 with Matty!

As before i have Piper as my companion. Forgot how great she can be to have around.

I've been doing a lot more with settlement building too. Currently i'm putting all focus on Red Rocket and it's looking amazing. Once it's complete I'll upload a video showing you guys.

Any PS4 users here also?

I play(ed) Fallout4 on PS4. Haven't played it in a while since I've been gaming on my year old pc really heavy. I do enjoy it though, especially playing it on Survival mode.

I only play on the PC...

I liked Piper. But felt guilty about her being a companion, since she has both a newpaper to run and a little sister to take care of. She belongs in Diamond City, not following the Lone Wanderer around from one gunfight to the next.

I agree about Nat. I see Pipers decision to leave the paper as her way of seeing the world and the potential to do good. Comments she makes suggest that she is aware that with the paper she is potentially doing more harm than good, so she wants to try and rectify that by seeing of she CAN do good. A bit far fetched, but that's how I view it. Haha.

With Nat, I try to have Matty and Pipers return to diamond city every couple of days/once a week.I like to imagine Nat is quite self sufficient, and has a couple of people look out for her. Possibly the reverend in the church opposite the paper.

Also, Piper has serious doubts as to whether or not it is good for Nat to be around her (Piper).

Oh yes! I haven't reached that point in our affinity yet so I'd forgotten all about that! So yeah, she does quite blindly leave behind all her responsibilities... but maybe she knows that those responsibilities are not only bad for her as a person (the paper, bringing her a negative reputation she silently detests.) But also for Nat, as she doesn't want Nat to end up like her; a hated, ridiculed person with a needless passion that could get her killed for no good reason.

On a side note, while Khajiit has no doubt that Nat would probably miss Piper sooner or later, this one thinks that Nat could quite possibly take care of herself. It sounds like Piper is abroad a good bit, so Nat is probably used to having to fend for herself.

So I've come across a really annoying bug I can't seem to fix, but I've decid3d to use it would my advantage...

Urk, I wonder if that will throw the Far Harbor conclusion into disarray?

That hurts. Though after doing the main/faction questline once, I don't know that I will want to do it again. Maybe with the Minutemen, just to see what their questline is like.

MM isn't much to write home about. Best perk is that you can keep everyone but the Institute alive. Defending the Castle is fun, too.

Well I finally b38t teh g@m3 like a red-headed stepchild. After 107.5 hours Elektra has gone everywhere in the Commonwealth and finished the Railroad/Main Quest Line(s). I have not touched Nuka World or Far Harbor however. I could do one or both with Elektra. But she is telling me that her story is over, so I think it is time to move on to a new character.

I have been experimenting with a lot of the modded weapons I have used to replace the vanilla ones I hate. I especially like the AK-74 and M4A1. The AK has a winter camo scheme that would be perfect for Persephone. So I think I will save that for when I eventually play her. But I don't think it is Persephone's time yet. I have a lot of mods lined up for her. But I think I will have to create a new race for her to make her textures pale enough. I already created a skin color as white as possible (literally 255, 255, 255), but it does not look pale enough to be a corpse. Unless I am just in a place where the lighting is not good enough to tell for certain. But I also need to find a white or gray outfit for her to wear, which I have not done yet.

So I might bring Annie Ley Oak to Boston. She was an M4A1'er back in New Vegas, so the weapons I have been having fun with at the moment suit her to a tee. I am not sure abut her attire either. But she was a pretty down to earth kind of gal. Vanilla gear like Road Leathers and Leather Armor might work just fine for her. Plus hats, lots of hats, which thankfully are plentiful in the Commonwealth.

Annie just heard a Protectron say: "Warning, Union Violation! Last recorded break was nine thousand, nine hundred, ninety nine hours ago."

Bahahaha! Oh those protectrons! Khajiit still is fond of Deputy Weld.
"Welcome. To. Megaton. Friendliest. Town. Around."

I have a problem. As I play on console I can't use alternate start mods.

Basically I want to have Eva Bree do the main storyline, but as she is an established character from f03 and NV and I don't want to 'reboot' her character, I can't think of how to imagine this as we all know how the main quest starts and the ultimate goal. She can't be frozen for 2oo years when she was born in FO3s vault 101.

I was thinking of maybe memory wipe thing and having vault 111 as a virtual reality thing she woke from where she thought she was pre bombs and had a son, but obviously this won't work.

Any ideas? My head hurts 😂

I never do the main quest in most Bethesda games. But I always did the tutorial in Oblivion, and Vault 101 in Fallout 3. With characters not doing the main quest I roleplayed that it was simply a dream, and they woke up outside the vault.

An F4 character can put down the whole pre-war tutorial and Vault 111 as a dream as well. But the sticking point is Shaun. You could roll with the idea that the character did have a son who was kidnapped, or ran away, or who was lost the old-fashioned way. That might be the Shaun in the Institute. His age might be accounted for by some kind of accelerated growth program like the Republic Clones underwent. Or Institute Shaun could be crazy and fixated upon you, thinking that you are his real mother when in fact you are not. Or Shaun might be a Synth, who thinks he is your son, and no one else at the Institute knows any better!

Great ideas!

I was thinking this. Been on my mind all day:

After the death of a friend at the hands of a synth, Eva Bree finds a way into the institute ( not sure how yet) once there she causes a ruckus which attracts Father. Instead of killing her, he notices a striking resemblance to his own Mother (in this world both his parents died, not just SS spouse.) He decides to test her, to see if he could be morphed into the mother he never had, so he implants her with fake memories and sticks her in vault 111, to she is she could be the devoted, loving mother he never had.

That is a great idea!

I read a report in the Institute about them wanting to do a test on crops in the Wasteland. So they kidnapped the owner of a farm and replaced him with a Synth. That way the Synth could carry out the experiments in the Wasteland with no one the wiser, since everyone would think he was just the farmer. It could be that Eva was kidnapped and replaced as well, even from as far away as the Capital Wasteland. Then once she was back at the Institute Father sees her and does what you had in mind.

Hmm... as great as that idea is, I don't think I could do it 😂 the thought of my Eva Bree being a syth saddens me... as it means the real Eva would have died. But going along with your previous idea of Father being obsessed due to his mothers likeness is one i will play with. Thanks for the help SubRosa! It's all coming together now

No, I don't mean that your character was a Synth. But rather she was kidnapped and a Synth impersonated her in her old life, while the real Eva was put into Vault 111.

I see! And that is actually a great idea... her most recent escapades are in NV so I was going to have Veronica be the friend the synth kills... but I am very intreagued by your idea. It's logical and makes sense with what I'm trying to do.

Anybody get a weird bug where some of the faces in CharGen are overlaid with a brown skin mask?