The Fallout Thread

[The Unhallowed City]

Just entered the Institute. God I want to murder everyone here so much. Gotta keep the friendly face on for Shaun, I suppose.
Also, shame on you, Dr. Li. I wanted some good FO3 references from you!

I, too, was disappointed by the lack of references.

Haven't got there yet. It'll be so satisfying to see it go down in flames.

Still wish you coulda captured it for the Minutemen or something. Rename it the CMS Freedum!

That would have been neat.

I wanted to capture it for myself and use it as a sort of settlement, but I guess there are limits to what shenanigans are allowed. Clearing out an entire base of knights and paladins would be pretty absurd.

I mean, from a progression standpoint, there's no denying Fallout 4 is probably the best one. It brings so much new life to the series that it makes NV look like a withered skeleton in comparison.

If Obsidian follows up with another game using Fallout 4's formula, though...

On-topic - now that everyone's used to it, what are your final opinions on the voiced protagonist? As someone who was skeptical at first, I've actually grown to love it. Not sure why. I guess it just helps with making the world seem that much more alive. Everytime I pick a lock and my character mutters "sweet" or "nice" to herself, I just smile.

Pretty much this. The voice acting has me actually listening to dialogue, rather than rapid fire clicking through it like I did in NV and 3. Well, mostly. There was the occasional quest I cared enough about to listen through.

It just occurred to me that visiting this thread, what with all the spoilers, must be like tip-toeing through a minefield.

[Novaya Tselinoyarsk]

I set up Sanctuary Hills like a star fort, it's been raided twice and each time the enemies get owned to oblivion and don't even make it inside for the booby traps.

My forts aren't anything fancy, Sanctuary hills is easily my most heavily defended but ive not really been going all out on the settlement building. For my next character though i plan on going all out on it and building fortresses everywhere, believe ill also play a female character next as well and see what that character's actress is like.

I'm hoping mods will make settlement building MUCH easier, because right now it's super fucking annoying in my opinion. I'm hoping for menus to be able to tell people what to do instead of having to run to them and do it. Also an automatic grid when laying down things like walls, or especially food.

[Occupied Deutschland]

On-topic - now that everyone's used to it, what are your final opinions on the voiced protagonist? As someone who was skeptical at first, I've actually grown to love it. Not sure why. I guess it just helps with making the world seem that much more alive. Everytime I pick a lock and my character mutters "sweet" or "nice" to herself, I just smile.

It weirded me out a bit at first, not being used to hearing a protagonist in Fallout. I was actually convinced it was beneficial the first time I picked a lock and muttered 'nice' under my breath only to hear the character say the exact same thing a moment later. I knew me and the voice actor for female vault-dweller were going to get along fine after that (the 'sarcastic' option in dialogue helped as well).

[The Huskar Social Union]

I like that the player character can speak, it did not bother me at all when it was announced and thought it was a cool idea, and i think its been really good so far, the male voice actor is quite good and its nice, as others have said to hear your character say things like "nice" and "sweet" when you pick a lock or something similar, so yeah big positive in my books

Also i was just talking to this guy at a place called Finch Farm, and a vertibird suicided into a bridge not that far in the distance, a giant fire ball near engulfed the farm and no one seems to care.

[The Huskar Social Union]

So i was fighting a group of raiders called the forged (obsessed with fire) and i found this list of people who "failed the forge" and just look at some of this madness:

YANCEY
Refused to change name
Fed to Forge

DUKE
Died without permission during Second Trial
Fed to Forge

HOOD
Caught stealing rations
Fed molten iron

RIPTIDE
Cried during final trial
Fed to forge

These guys are fucking mental, they even flayed a guy for giving meds to the enemy, the Boltons would love this.

[The Unhallowed City]

Also i was just talking to this guy at a place called Finch Farm, and a vertibird suicided into a bridge not that far in the distance, a giant fire ball near engulfed the farm and no one seems to care.

This is the only thing that genuinely bothers me. The Vertibird's AI is so derpy. I'll be taking a walk through near Boston and see three or four of the damn things before the day's out, and at least two will suicide into a building or tall tree because they're trying so hard to get a firing line on the muties.

[Transoxthraxia]

So i was fighting a group of raiders called the forged (obsessed with fire) and i found this list of people who "failed the forge" and just look at some of this madness:

YANCEY
Refused to change name
Fed to Forge

DUKE
Died without permission during Second Trial
Fed to Forge

HOOD
Caught stealing rations
Fed molten iron

RIPTIDE
Cried during final trial
Fed to forge

These guys are fucking mental, they even flayed a guy for giving meds to the enemy, the Boltons would love this.

The first two are fantastic; Yancey was fed to the fire for not changing his name, and Duke "died without permission".

Literally how I would run a group of Bandits

[Imperial isa]

Why must Paintwork take the place of something more useful like lead lining on power armour ?

[Occupied Deutschland]

Why must Paintwork take the place of something more useful like lead lining on power armour ?

You'd think you could at least use lead paint to get a partial benefit in radiation resistance!

[Transoxthraxia]

Has anybody gotten into the Medtek Research Facility's airlock? I can't find the key/password for the terminal. A brief research quest pointed me to the building to the South-East with the dead BoS guys, but I turned up nothing, unless it's in the one safe there that I can't pick yet.

[Benomia 3]

Such a bad poll.

Or you choose that is the best game ever, or that it sucks... What about "It's very good, but not the best fallout" option?

As a semi-professional poll critic, I think I know a bad poll when I see one.

And as I'm the person who made the poll in the OP, I can say with utmost confidence that it's terrible.

I like that the player character can speak, it did not bother me at all when it was announced and thought it was a cool idea, and i think its been really good so far, the male voice actor is quite good and its nice, as others have said to hear your character say things like "nice" and "sweet" when you pick a lock or something similar, so yeah big positive in my books

Also i was just talking to this guy at a place called Finch Farm, and a vertibird suicided into a bridge not that far in the distance, a giant fire ball near engulfed the farm and no one seems to care.

My biggest concern with a voiced protagonist was that it might end up causing there to be less dialogue over all, but as that isn't true I'm loving it.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Slaughtering level 1-5 raiders as a level 49 with a combat rifle is one of the most hilarious and one sided things i have ever seen.

Im literally just walking around and one shotting them as part of the settlement missions to deal with different threats.

[United Marxist Nations]

So im doing the silver shroud quest line, and im pretty sure im on the last section of it now.

And i decided to fast travel to the closest location ive discovered where i need to go.

And as soon as it loaded in it, i was surrounded by super mutants, including three suicide bombers. all primed and running towards me.

Didnt even bother moving

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>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

[The Huskar Social Union]

So im doing the silver shroud quest line, and im pretty sure im on the last section of it now.

And i decided to fast travel to the closest location ive discovered where i need to go.

And as soon as it loaded in it, i was surrounded by super mutants, including three suicide bombers. all primed and running towards me.

Didnt even bother moving

(Image)

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

Is that the fucker on the bridge with a nuke launcher? That guy was an utter pain.

[United Marxist Nations]

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

Is that the fucker on the bridge with a nuke launcher? That guy was an utter pain.

Yes. I just sort of walked into him at level three.

[The Unhallowed City]

So im doing the silver shroud quest line, and im pretty sure im on the last section of it now.

And i decided to fast travel to the closest location ive discovered where i need to go.

And as soon as it loaded in it, i was surrounded by super mutants, including three suicide bombers. all primed and running towards me.

Didnt even bother moving

(Image)

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

[United Marxist Nations]

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

>tfw no baneblades in FO

[The Huskar Social Union]

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

Well technically i did move at first and fired off a few shots as i moved for cover, then i saw the suiciders coming around a corner and realized i was surrounded with no way of moving, so i stood there and accepted my fate rifle in hand.

Is that the fucker on the bridge with a nuke launcher? That guy was an utter pain.

Yes. I just sort of walked into him at level three.

Yeah the bastard got me twice at a low level as well, first time i walked underneath him and just heard the whistling of the nuke as it flew down towards me.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

>tfw no baneblades in FO

A shipment of 100 baneblades had just went off to serve in Alaska you see.

[Wisconsin9]

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

Well technically i did move at first and fired off a few shots as i moved for cover, then i saw the suiciders coming around a corner and realized i was surrounded with no way of moving, so i stood there and accepted my fate rifle in hand.

Yes. I just sort of walked into him at level three.

Yeah the bastard got me twice at a low level as well, first time i walked underneath him and just heard the whistling of the nuke as it flew down towards me.

The one in Lexington, just south of the Corvega factory, yeah?

[The Unhallowed City]

Don't hold the line. Move it forward.

>tfw no baneblades in FO

Don't need tanks, got powered armour!

Well technically i did move at first and fired off a few shots as i moved for cover, then i saw the suiciders coming around a corner and realized i was surrounded with no way of moving, so i stood there and accepted my fate rifle in hand.

At least you died on your feet.

[United Marxist Nations]

Well technically i did move at first and fired off a few shots as i moved for cover, then i saw the suiciders coming around a corner and realized i was surrounded with no way of moving, so i stood there and accepted my fate rifle in hand.

Yeah the bastard got me twice at a low level as well, first time i walked underneath him and just heard the whistling of the nuke as it flew down towards me.

The one in Lexington, just south of the Corvega factory, yeah?

Yes, that is the one we are talking about.

[Wisconsin9]

The one in Lexington, just south of the Corvega factory, yeah?

Yes, that is the one we are talking about.

I must have died like fifteen fucking times, and then the bitch had the bad manners to go and kick from one fucking grenade.

[Transoxthraxia]

So im doing the silver shroud quest line, and im pretty sure im on the last section of it now.

And i decided to fast travel to the closest location ive discovered where i need to go.

And as soon as it loaded in it, i was surrounded by super mutants, including three suicide bombers. all primed and running towards me.

Didnt even bother moving

(Image)

>Not having the resolve of an Imperial Commissar
>Not just fighting to the death

Did I mention how, at level 3, I fended off some 20 Feral Ghouls, two turrets, and a power-armored raider while triggering mines? With only a 10mm pistol?

As a level 20, one of my go-to weapons is a heavily modded 10mm pistol. I call it "The Ripper" and primarily use it to deal with things like Legendary Bandits, Beasts, or Ghouls.

28 per-shot damage, 141 fire rate.

[Benomia 3]

The Ashmaker is way too fucking OP considering how easy it was to get.