Fallout V23: "I got another thread that needs your help." - Games

[QUOTE=_charon;49244633]I really like the mouse based system, it feels like I can control things a little more accurately. Plus, I can change little details without having to look through a big list of sliders. I would've liked sliders for colors, though.[/QUOTE] It's clearly taking inspirations from the sims 4 and while it's a decent concept for a system it's really clumsy because some of the areas and what they modify don't make much sense. For instance in order to change the nostril width you need to change both the nostrils and the full nose separately. To change parts of the eyebrows, you need to change the upper eyelids for some reason.

I miss the old gauss rifle that murdered shit

Hello everyone, Can someone help me out? I have money left and want to get myself a new game. Fallout 4 is high on my wishlist but I don't know if I'll be able to run the game. Will I be able to run the game at 1080p/60fps on the following specs? i5 2500k 8GB DDR3 MSI r9 270x HAWK 2GB Thanks in advance!

[QUOTE=iAmNumberOne;49244682]Hello everyone, Can someone help me out? I have money left and want to get myself a new game. Fallout 4 is high on my wishlist but I don't know if I'll be able to run the game. Will I be able to run the game at 1080p/60fps on the following specs? i5 2500k 8GB DDR3 MSI r9 270x HAWK 2GB Thanks in advance![/QUOTE] Doubt you'll even run the game past 30 fps with that rig

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49244400]The courier wasn't a total blank-slate though. People like to see it that way, but courier is still a menial job, and you're thrown in to the shoes of a menial worker. I was still more comfortable with NV's start though. You can't even choose between races in FO4 exactly, just the skin color.[/QUOTE] Courier isn't a menial job in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, though. It's a super badass job for super badasses. You gotta single-handedly go through huge swathes of wasteland full of mutants, monsters and madmen, and you have to do it quickly to boot. But yes it still restricts you to having been that. You can still decide "Fuck it, I just got shot in the head, I quit the courier business" though.

i found a huge empty bunker with living quarters n stuff and after exploring for like 10 minutes, two non-hostile synths just suddenly walk past me then as i'm backtracking through the place i see more and more synths that weren't there before, just standing still or walking around. it was the most bizarre and eerie thing i've seen so far. [img]http://i.imgur.com/4IdCeIy.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Nemisis116;49244627]There was literally no point to even doing it either because if you play in first person you would never see your face Thats why the cinematic conversations are 1000000x better, makes it actually worth it to put some effort into how you look[/QUOTE] Unless you went into the options and turned it off after the first conversation.

That made my skin crawl a little bit.

[QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;49244705]i found a huge empty bunker with living quarters n stuff and after exploring for like 10 minutes, two non-hostile synths just suddenly walk past me then as i'm backtracking through the place i see more and more synths that weren't there before, just standing still or walking around. it was the most bizarre and eerie thing i've seen so far. [img]http://i.imgur.com/4IdCeIy.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The Boston Mayoral Shelter is the best place in the game I've visited so far. It's really well designed, has some interesting backstory, and the fucking synth bait and switch is absolutely pants-shitting terrifying when it first happens. Oh also you get to fight a deathclaw in a basketball court.

[QUOTE=elowin;49244702]Courier isn't a menial job in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, though. It's a super badass job for super badasses. You gotta single-handedly go through huge swathes of wasteland full of mutants, monsters and madmen, and you have to do it quickly to boot. But yes it still restricts you to having been that. You can still decide "Fuck it, I just got shot in the head, I quit the courier business."[/QUOTE] Depending on how creative you get, you can easily make a pre-courier backstory too, seeing as you have full range to alter the age of your character. Most of the characters I've played in New Vegas had spent most of their lives doing something else, before 'settling down' as a simple courier.

[QUOTE=iAmNumberOne;49244682]Hello everyone, Can someone help me out? I have money left and want to get myself a new game. Fallout 4 is high on my wishlist but I don't know if I'll be able to run the game. Will I be able to run the game at 1080p/60fps on the following specs? i5 2500k 8GB DDR3 MSI r9 270x HAWK 2GB Thanks in advance![/QUOTE] I have the same thing but with a 260x, it runs fine on medium-high, 40-60fps. Oh, and 1080p too. You shouldn't have any problems.

Well fuck, no more Fallout for me fr good, somehow, my CPU got fried. As a consolation, Christmas is nearing, so maybe I can snatch a better replacement for cheap. Real big sucker tho.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244717]The Boston Mayoral Shelter is the best place in the game I've visited so far. It's really well designed, has some interesting backstory, and the fucking synth bait and switch is absolutely pants-shitting terrifying when it first happens. Oh also you get to fight a deathclaw in a basketball court.[/QUOTE] it was so great love moments like that

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244692]Doubt you'll even run the game past 30 fps with that rig[/QUOTE] I'm so sad right now. My PC is slowly approaching the edge as I can't play the latest games :(

See my post above, you should be able to run it.

The combat rifle the best once you get it chambered in .308 rounds.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244717] Oh also you get to fight a deathclaw in a basketball court.[/QUOTE] [sp]I just had codsworth take a beating from it in the corner while I snuck around using a stealth boy and yoinked right out of there with the fat man[/sp]

[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;49244718]Depending on how creative you get, you can easily make a pre-courier backstory too, seeing as you have full range to alter the age of your character. Most of the characters I've played in New Vegas had spent most of their lives doing something else, before 'settling down' as a simple courier.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the Courier backstory, even with Lonesome Road, isn't restricting. Funnily enough, neither is a "veteran" backstory for Nate, which allowed me to make up a semi-plausible* backstory for my Sole Survivor on the spot just now, but at the same time Nora is pretty much denied that same treatment. She's a lawyer, explicitly told two times in the game (at least). The amount of mental gymnastics you'd have to perform to think of any plausible backstory for female Sole Survivor? That's a [b]very strange[/b] decision, and it reeks of Mass Effect 1-esque femShep treatment. *annexation of Canada anyone? Perfect setting for a whole range of war crimes.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244590]Actually he only really cares if you specifically interact with Nora and insist on mentioning your wife's death during conversations. You're frequently given the ability to pretty much not give a single fuck about Nora's death and focus on Shaun, or the ability to not even mention either of them. The game lets you go through the first half of the main quest either to save your child, avenge your spouse, or both. You can just ignore the main quest entirely if you feel like the motivations behind it aren't fitting for your character, same deal as in New Vegas where it's made clear there is no rational reason behind you even following benny - it's either a matter of revenge (when you could just as easily not go for it and take the second chance to do literally anything else) or a matter of completing a very menial task for a pathetic amount of caps even though there is practically no drawbacks to considering the job over and wrapped up.[/QUOTE] what if I want to do the main quest because my character wants to secure him or herself a maximum amount of personal power and wealth in the wasteland, but I'm forced to go through several "searching for kid" quests to advance the story at all even if I don't care about the little vagina turd in new vegas I can just stumble out of goodsprings into any direction (if I'm relatively competent) and just stumble around killing shit and gaining wealth until I find Vegas and discover the political game going on around me which I can exploit to become king of the wastes "ignore the main quest" shouldn't be the answer to this shit [QUOTE=gudman;49244604]PTSD-stricken forcibly-conscripted soldier who was honourably discharged (to cover up multiple war crimes) and managed to make it home just barely before the lights have gone out. He was greeted by his wife pretending that there's nothing wrong and a baby who is obviously not his. His uncharacteristic unfitting behaviour we witnessed during the brief pre-war moments were his former, pre-army personality splitting off to cope with traumatic events.[/QUOTE] yet this apparently disillusioned war criminal still has to chase down his child if he doesn't want to just get sucked into the swamp of endless radiant quests to make it clear I don't completely agree with how NV set up player background, being a courier is fine as there are many reasons why you'd be doing it (maybe you took this job because you wanted to travel Vegas and figured you could earn a buck while at it? maybe you're a drifter who is fine with the lifestyle?). you could have been a courier on her first assignment ever or an experienced veteran who had braved the wastes for decades. then they implemented this extensive courier background for your character which didn't completely restrict your past, but did set the last few years of your life in stone. best system for establishing character background apart from your headcanon would be optional conversational choices. "have you been to the mojave before?" "yeah, a couple of times" "nope, never" "none of your business" "haha you know new reno that wacky gambling town like vegas but in the NCR?" "yeah, I lived there" "nope" "none of your business" "visited" you could even tell every character who has a conversation like this that you've been born in a different place, making your background quite shifty. maybe it'd even come up in quest! etc etc NV does do this in some conversations which is nice, but then there's that lonesome road bullshit

[QUOTE=Hatley;49244793]The combat rifle the best once you get it chambered in .308 rounds.[/QUOTE] I've got a .308 combat rifle that does 20 plasma damage and can vaporise people, and it's the best ranged weapon I have. Sadly I'm running out of .308 rounds, but I got another combat rifle that does bleed damage, so I have that set up with .45 rounds as my backup weapon, and it does the job almost as well.

[QUOTE=Hatley;49244793]The combat rifle the best once you get it chambered in .308 rounds.[/QUOTE] Except that you can't make it automatic then.

I just wish there was a more powerful variant of the hair trigger reciever for the Combat Rifle. .45 ammo is way more plentiful than .308

bethseda missed a massive opportunity by not having a synth relay grenade that [sp] spawns gorillas [/sp]

[QUOTE=simkas;49244866]Except that you can't make it automatic then.[/QUOTE] No need for automatic when you can 1-2 shot almost every enemy.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;49244844]what if I want to do the main quest because my character wants to secure him or herself a maximum amount of personal power and wealth in the wasteland, but I'm forced to go through several "searching for kid" quests to advance the story at all even if I don't care about the little vagina turd[/QUOTE] You can roleplay as a hypocritical ends-justify-the-means kind of guy who knows how to pull on people's heartstrings. Like honestly if you're really limited by "guy is looking for his kid" or "guy is looking for his dead wife's murderer" then you're just terrible at roleplaying characters. It's incredibly easy to dodge around any form of characterization and it's been the case since fallout 1.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244692]Doubt you'll even run the game past 30 fps with that rig[/QUOTE] He should do fine on high. My friends 270 bundled with a fucking AMD dual core can do high on 30 fps.

everytime I see this roll of duct tape when I walk downstairs at my place in real life my eyes avert to it it's all because of adhesive in fallout 4.. dammit

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49244899]You can roleplay as a hypocritical ends-justify-the-means kind of guy who knows how to pull on people's heartstrings. Like honestly if you're really limited by "guy is looking for his kid" or "guy is looking for his dead wife's murderer" then you're just terrible at roleplaying characters. It's incredibly easy to dodge around any form of characterization and it's been the case since fallout 1.[/QUOTE] there is no characterization fallout 1, just your background of "you were born in the vault"

[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;49244985]everytime I see this roll of duct tape when I walk downstairs at my place in real life my eyes avert to it it's all because of adhesive in fallout 4.. dammit[/QUOTE] I'm playing NV currently, and I feel so wrong leaving duct tape and wonderglue behind all the time. Each time I see them on a shelf I get excited before remembering I'm playing the wrong game.

[QUOTE=kapin_krunch;49245015]I'm playing NV currently, and I feel so wrong leaving duct tape and wonderglue behind all the time. Each time I see them on a shelf I get excited before remembering I'm playing the wrong game.[/QUOTE] You still need those for weapon repair kits dude.