2035

I have Sanctuary producing around 130 water and at 20 defense it’s yet to be attacked. Guess we’ll see how long that lasts because there’s no way I’m building that much defense.

2036

Roaming a city I had a tussle with some super mutants and severely wounded I retreat into a nearby alley. 3 high level raiders and a dog come down on me and as I’m desperately trying to balance healing and kiting I hear a beeping sound getting closer. I turn around to see one of the surviving suicide mutants coming in fast, so I sprint for my life and I’m rewarded with a wonderful BOOOOM! as all the baddies evaporate. Awesome!

2037

I’m finding combat much more challenging–and hence, satisfying–than before. I do abuse Dogmeat’s inability to actually die, poor bastard. Though I admit, I did give him a stimpak or two even though, technically, I don’t have to. I just can’t abide his whimpering! Also, I don’t have an overwhelming one-shot kill gun yet, except sniper stuff with crits and some luck from stealth. I’ve dispatched two skull-level bad guys though through judicious exploitation, er, tactics.

2038

I just started the game today and just had a big laugh when the pipboy booted up.

Anyone catch the old school computer reference there? (may have already been mentioned, but just got here to this thread)

Pipboy system specs

[spoiler]
64k RAM SYSTEM
38911 BYTES FREE

I knew I saw that like a million times before!

Commodore 64![/spoiler]

2039

RE: Settlement attacks, I think they actually DO get attacked, it’s just that the game never actually tells you this. I went back to Sanctuary at one point and there was a single raider corpse lying in the road and Settler informed me that WE SURE SHOWED THEM RAIDERS.

I’ve also maxed out the settlement building perk and have shops in Sanctuary, which sell absolutely piddly amounts of stuff and have yet to give me any money despite each shop costing 500-1000 caps (And materials) to build. Really don’t know about these settlements. I want to like it but they desperately need more going on. It’s also an absolute bear to keep track of who is working what when 70% of the time they just wander aimlessly on the street. I assign someone to the salvage station and then everyone’s starving since he was a melon farmer, but the game never actually tells you this or lists your workers anywhere. Even with a dinky population of around 10 it’s a pain. So far it’s a lot of effort for no payoff and not even really any fluff events, I just keep putting time and in-game resources in to it and all I have to show for it is a hell of a lot of melons and some seemingly useless shops.

2040

If in the night, idle people are in the bed. If daytime, they tend to beeline for a chair.

When you get attacked, you’ll get a notice DURING loadscreens in the upper left. Unless you notice, it’ll be in the MISC section of quests.

I learned recently you can toggle quest boxes on and off. You can also click on the quest itself to get more info or zoom into the map location.

2041

Two misc. tips:

  • Rename your good gear to something that starts with a . (a period). It then sorts to the top of the list
  • As you assign settlers to tasks, give them a hat or something, so you can see they have a job

Found a suicide mutant standing next to two others, including a legendary. Sniped him right in the boom. Then looted the corpses :)

2042

Both of these are really good advice.

But for #2, my kingdom (settlement) for a spreadsheet that says who is doing what and ability to assign from there.

2043

A ghoul scared the crap out of me. She’s apparently a new settler, but I yelped when I walked out my front door and a skull faced chick came up to say hi. Didn’t faze my guy though, even though he has never met a sane ghoul before.

2044

I’m still not ready to commit to a verdict on this game but holy crap is it big. I haven’t even been to Diamond City and I’m finding new places, people and quests all over the place. Every time I think I can finally clear my quest board, new ones pop up. And it isn’t all bad either, there’s some interesting small plots combined with good voice acting that really brings back the old Fallout feel. Even if the quests overall aren’t as interesting as you’d hoped, it’s really a slow burner and the further south you get, the more complicated things get. Screw the base building, imho. Tacked on and worthless. But there’s a lot of game to be found here still.

I stayed for the gunplay but the further I go, I keep meeting interesting people.

2045

If something is listed as “junk” and only breaks down into steel - is it safe to sell? Talking specifically about “Medical Liquid Nitrogen Dispenser”. I’d hate to find out I needed it for making some kind of mod.

BTW the game running on PS4, and even the interface feels fine. Having a ton of fun!

2046

That may be so (dunno for sure, I just started) but it the freeform building works on me. I find myself compulsively scrapping tires and fallen trees just to tidy up the place.

Screw the war on raiders and death claws. I’m fighting the war against post-apocalyptic litter!

2047

Is it just me or do all the terminals on the PC only have one page of information? I can only scroll down maybe two lines (using the mousewheel) before the text just suddenly stops and is obviously meant to continue.

2048

Not just you. I saw a lot of cut off text with no (obvious) option to scroll down. Yay Bethesda.

2049

If you click on your workbench at your base you get the option to scrap almost everything. Steel is not a scarce material. Stuff like screws, glue and springs are scarce. Let’s say you like to mod guns, go into a mod you have the ability to do but not the materials, there’s an option to “mark for search”. This will put a small magnifying glass next to items that consist of those materials when you encounter them in the world.

EDIT.

Stuff like toy cars contain screws, screws are the most scarce resource in my game but after I picked the perk that lets me get more resources from weapons when I scrap them, it’s really not a big deal anymore. Pick the perk and remember to carry useless weapons back to your base for scrapping (or for stealing mods)

2050

The UI becomes less annoying when you use the Pip-boy app on the iPad. I use it all the time now. But yeah the UI in the game is mostly atrocious and ripe for a complete overhaul by a modder.

2051

I pressed the Enter key and it scrolls the rest.

2052

On the ps4 at least, you click a button to continue to the next screen on terminals.

2053

I am now far enough in the main quest that things are starting to make sense, not so much from a story perspective but from a gameplay perspective instance why they show you power armor so quickly.

The story itself certainly isn’t Shakespear, but a Super-Mutant quoting Macbeth is worth a chuckle. I thought there were nice touches in the delivery of the story, even if it is pretty derivative but hey it’s tough to be original in the world of science fiction.

I haven’t got any a good drop from any of the Legendary battles, but they have all been exciting.

I guess some people are all concerned that instead of giving all talking NPC a name, many of them are called settlers. Oh well, I am having lots of fun.

2054

You can scroll down. I can’t remember exactly how – it was either the down arrow or ‘e’ on PC.