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BAILOUT MCQUACK!
Nov 14, 2005

Marco! Yeaaah...
Was it ever true in fallout 3 or new vegas that playing music over the pipboy radio made sneaking harder? If so, is it still true in fallout 4?

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:

Was it ever true in fallout 3 or new vegas that playing music over the pipboy radio made sneaking harder? If so, is it still true in fallout 4?
keeping your light on makes sneaking harder

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Drunk Beekeeper posted:

I had some asswipe named Parker Quinn approach me while I was exploring the city. He tried to sell me a 'charge card' worth 100 caps. He said I would pay him 110 caps, with the extra 10 being a service fee to him. According to him, the card would be worth more than 100 caps to any merchant and that It was a great deal that I shouldn't pass up. Clearly a scam, dickweed. In mid-conversation I pulled out my double barrel shotgun, went into VATS, and blew his head clean off in one shot. Then I scavenged what I could off of his body. This moment finally made the game worth it to me. One of the dialog options alluded to being scammed, so I feel pretty good about it, even if I might have missed out on some lovely fetch quest.
nope, if you take his card he calls you a retard and then just stands there and i don't think there's any followup
you can murder him immediately afterwards to get your caps back

eSporks
Jun 10, 2011

El Diabolico posted:

The size limit is real small though. gonna wait for a non-cheat engine mod tho for increasing it. I wanted to build myself a bunch of sky scrapers and casinos.
Unless I misunderstand you.

wiki posted:

These commands only affect workbenches in settlements. The easiest way to modify a settlement is to travel there and target the workbench with the console open.

Size Budget Edit
The size budget is a combination of triangle counts and draw calls and is configured for each settlement. Each object the player creates in the settlement will use a portion of both in the budget, with more complex objects using up more. The budget itself is tracked as actor values attached to the workbench. Note that in order to use these actor values you must use the numeric id as they do not have a usable console name.

You can see your current usage with these commands. As these are calculated by the workbench, changing them with setav or the like is not recommended.

getav 348 - Gets the current number of triangles used by player.
getav 34A - Gets the current number of draw calls used by player.
These commands will let you change the actual budget. Increasing the values will allow you to build more.

setav 349 <value> - Set the maximum triangle budget for the settlement.
setav 34B <value> - Set the maximum draw budget for the settlement.
Note: The budgets are there for a reason, to keep players from building overly large settlements that could negatively impact performance. Using these commands to ignore the budgets could have consequences.

Monicro
Oct 21, 2010

And you could feel his features in the air
A wide smile and perfect hair
He had complete control of the rising tides
And a medicine bag hanging at his side

In the flowing blue world of the death-dealing physician
Buddy Cop Lesbians

Emy
Apr 21, 2009

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

keeping your light on makes sneaking harder

As the Stealth Suit mk II from Old World Blues was very keen to remind you.

Barnes
Jul 20, 2003
raeg agniast teh machiese

Barnes posted:

Anyone else having issues with the Workshop screen in the Pip boy? Several of my settlements are showing low defense/food/water values and when I go there to correct it, they're way higher than the displayed value.

Nobody else? Wtf

Goobish
May 31, 2011

Barnes posted:

Nobody else? Wtf

It has happened to me too but no idea if there's a fix for it :shrug:

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Hopefully it's just a UI bug?

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

Barnes posted:

Nobody else? Wtf

Okay, basically, the settlement stops being RED when its defense reaches a certain threshold, but for it to be truly secure you need the defense rating to be equal to the total water and food production of a settlement. Once you do that, the warning light stops appearing in the pipboy workshop menu.

Get ready to build lots of turrets and/or guard towers.

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014
I completed the Radio quest but Travis is still awkward. Is this a bug?

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Internet Kraken posted:

Institute question: Talked with all the division heads, didn't get any explanation for why they abduct random people in the Commonwealth. Is there any point you can address that with them? Cause that's the thing they do that seems unquestionably evil.

to either force recruit them or to replace them with a synth that works as their agent. Like how they replaced the Diamond City mayor with a synth. Then his replacement immediately calmed down the populace about the synth paranoia.

also poo poo isn't explained because Bethesda is poo poo at writing.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Nov 20, 2015

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

NESguerilla posted:

Is it too hard to put wearable stuff on skeletons or something? That's the type of stuff that Bethesda does that makes me laugh.
Are you saying that the last survivor was hiding in that bunker for 40 years? :crossarms:

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

to either force recruit them or to replace them with a synth that works as their agent. Like how they replaced the Diamond City mayor with a synth. Then his replacement immediately calmed down the populace about the synth paranoia.
Was there ever any explanation as to why that one guy's daughter was a synth, from the Covenant quest with Honest Dan?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Broken Cog posted:

One of Kellog's terminals mention that the orders they got was to kill everyone not related to the infant (Shaun), so I guess the scientist was setting up refreezing you and nobody else.
I think the reason you get unfrozen later is a genuine fault in the Cryo system.


No, Father unfroze you himself. He tells you this and if you check the terminal in 111 it mentions a remote access was used to free you.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



coyo7e posted:

Was there ever any explanation as to why that one guy's daughter was a synth, from the Covenant quest with Honest Dan?

Not that I saw. Could just be one of their earlier models or just alpha testing emotions_human.exe on some nobody instead of risking it on a high value asset.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Speedball posted:

Okay, basically, the settlement stops being RED when its defense reaches a certain threshold, but for it to be truly secure you need the defense rating to be equal to the total water and food production of a settlement. Once you do that, the warning light stops appearing in the pipboy workshop menu.

Get ready to build lots of turrets and/or guard towers.
That's a thing, yes, but the problem he had was that his food and water values were showing up all wrong in the Pipboy menu, where it says you have something like 3 or 5 food/water/defense when you actually have more than enough of each and your happiness just tanks as a result. This is a fairly common bug, and I ran into it earlier today as well.

Steam's forums have a thread about this bug, and the consensus there seems to be that televisions and/or jukeboxes are causing it somehow. Scrapping all of those in Sanctuary definitely worked for me, and the happiness rating is going back up again.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
So I guess Spectacle Island is unquestionably the largest settlement zone. Can you connect other settlements to it though? Wouldn't that require the provisioners to go, you know, underwater?

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Internet Kraken posted:

So I guess Spectacle Island is unquestionably the largest settlement zone. Can you connect other settlements to it though? Wouldn't that require the provisioners to go, you know, underwater?
they're invincible anyways, it's cool
just pretend they're fording their brahmin across the water

edit:


i loving love crit melee attacks, i hope there's a mod that lets you replace the gun bash with just 100% crit anims all the time
seriously just pancake flipping dudes or body tossing them or tripping them is so drat fun

the shove can go away though, why does it even exist

Fereydun fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Nov 20, 2015

Heithinn Grasida
Mar 28, 2005

...must attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel...

So in the spirit of this thread, I want to complain about something minute and pointless that damages ~my immersion~. That's the serrated upgrade on the Chinese Officer's Sword. They made this excellent, detailed, realistic model that beautifully captures the look and feel of a classic real world weapon. They gave it a name that not only suits the status of the weapon in its origin culture, but also gives it a good justification for appearing in the wasteland. Then you "upgrade" it by turning it into a loving bread knife.

Where's my verisimilitude Bethesda? Where?

Cirosan
Jan 3, 2012

Updated Full Dialogue Interface to Beta3, which fixes Lite version overflowing text and adds tonal notes along with other bug fixes. Translations coming shortly, now that all the groundwork for the English version has been laid.

Sleep? We don't need no stinkin' sleep.

Hammerstein
May 6, 2005

YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING !
So this randomly happened.

Go away from Sarah Connor, I mean from Piper, Arnold...!!

Hammerstein fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Nov 20, 2015

Shadowlz
Oct 3, 2011

Oh it's gonna happen one way or the other, pal.



Man my game is so hosed right now. I have a permanent +10 rads and my screen has some effect stuck on it that causes high bloom with a green overlay.

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!
Why do people hate the Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) song so much? I think it's a silly fun song. :shobon:

Also, what's the console command to spawn NPCs? I want to blow up 50 raiders at once with a Fat Man.

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Why do people hate the Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) song so much? I think it's a silly fun song. :shobon:

Also, what's the console command to spawn NPCs? I want to blow up 50 raiders at once with a Fat Man.

player.placeatme or click on place, placeatme
use "help raider 4" to find entries for raider ids to use, the bottom entries are all naked dudes and poo poo so scroll up a fair amount and just try some of em if it matters to you
and civilization is a fun song, but it ain't no 'anything goes' amigo

edit:
also crawlout through the fallout is probably the new 2nd best song

Fereydun fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Nov 20, 2015

DMW45
Oct 29, 2011

Come into my parlor~
Said the spider to the fly~
I pre-ordered this and have been playing it pretty heavily, but now I'm kinda stuck on The Molecular Level.

The official guide tells me that you can complete the quest on your own without joining any factions, but doesn't mention how--I don't have the Special tab to start building any of the parts.

Can someone help?

Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

Re: Jamaica Plain treasure I laid waste to a huge crowd of ghouls and turned off I don't know how many laser trip wires after telling my stupid dog to back the gently caress up, and all I get is 400 caps for a baseball bat that I had to go sell to some sports nerd? Where's my assload of Sierra Madre's finest 24-karat barbells? :argh:

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
So I went to do the Libertalia quest and the most gloriously stupid event unfolded. As I'm entering the area, X6-88 gets spooked by something. Turns out we weren't the only ones with our sights set on the raiders sovereign nation.




The Brotherhood decided to launch a midnight raid. Watching the vertibird fly around in circles while mininukes flew past it to detonate in the ocean was something. The vertibird even managed to drop off some knights who are currently rampaging through the trash boats and basically doing my job for me. One of them caught sight of X6-88 though and now the two of them are locked in an eternal struggle due to X6-88 being immortal but incapable of doing anything.

Anyways, the inevitable happened.



But the vertibirds sacrifice was not in vain, for the Brotherhood accomplished their mission; the successful deployment of the first aquanaut.



She's stuck at the bottom of the sea walking in circles because her AI has no idea what to do down there.

:911:

frajaq
Jan 30, 2009

#acolyte GM of 2014


The Raiders will never see it coming

Odette
Mar 19, 2011

I've stopped telling my companions to get in power armor because if the power armor has a helmet, it disappears completely once the companion gets in. :(

This game has some weird loving bugs.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Odette posted:

I've stopped telling my companions to get in power armor because if the power armor has a helmet, it disappears completely once the companion gets in. :(

This game has some weird loving bugs.

When I did that I just had to trade with them and re-equip the helmet

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Odette posted:

I've stopped telling my companions to get in power armor because if the power armor has a helmet, it disappears completely once the companion gets in. :(

This game has some weird loving bugs.

It should be in their inventory.

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

no really though does anyone ever do the power armor helmet toss/flip equip thing danse does when you first meet him beyond that point
can you do that

AgentJR
Jun 5, 2011

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Fereydun posted:

they're invincible anyways, it's cool
just pretend they're fording their brahmin across the water

I've seen the random "settler" provisioner go down and not die, but after the Forged quest I sent Jake Finch to do a supply route to my main at Starlight, where he was mercilessly slaughtered by attacking super mutants. I figured it'd be a good way to get him out of fighting with his family and maybe mature a little, but now he's a corpse I use to fill the gaps in my base wall (inspired by his death, actually). For funsies I tried resurrecting him with the console and he became essential again but unable to take on tasks, so that alternate universe never panned out.

AgentJR fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Nov 20, 2015

Endymion FRS MK1
Oct 29, 2011

I don't know what this thing is, and I don't care. I'm just tired of seeing your stupid newbie av from 2011.
Wait does this mean I can never have a helmeted power armor companion? What if I want Danse to not be Buzz Lightyear and put a drat helmet on?

NecroMonster
Jan 4, 2009

I melee'd one of those giant mosquitoes and it went sailing fifty yards through the air, through the open door of the nearby ruined house, and landed neatly among the pots and pans on the stove in the kitchen, without disturbing even one of them

that's my story

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot
So I feel really stupid but I am completely unable to figure out how to use a grenade during VATS..? I hold the RB button like I would outside VATS and nothing happens if I tap or long press it, or if I hold it and pull the trigger it just queues up a shot with my gun. What obvious thing am I missing? :saddowns:


Doc Morbid posted:

That's a thing, yes, but the problem he had was that his food and water values were showing up all wrong in the Pipboy menu, where it says you have something like 3 or 5 food/water/defense when you actually have more than enough of each and your happiness just tanks as a result. This is a fairly common bug, and I ran into it earlier today as well.

Steam's forums have a thread about this bug, and the consensus there seems to be that televisions and/or jukeboxes are causing it somehow. Scrapping all of those in Sanctuary definitely worked for me, and the happiness rating is going back up again.
Make sure that your stores of jet and whiskey aren't vanishing, maybe they wanna kick back, vape, and chill with some tunes.

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Fereydun posted:

edit:
also crawlout through the fallout is probably the new 2nd best song

the dj's response to it owns, it's something like

"That was, uh... Crawl Out Through the Fallout. That's... probably a bad idea? But it rhymes... so..."

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Fereydun posted:

player.placeatme or click on place, placeatme
use "help raider 4" to find entries for raider ids to use, the bottom entries are all naked dudes and poo poo so scroll up a fair amount and just try some of em if it matters to you
and civilization is a fun song, but it ain't no 'anything goes' amigo

edit:
also crawlout through the fallout is probably the new 2nd best song

I'm hoping URAAAAAAAAAAANIUM FEVER is your number one song as well as mine.

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Hammerstein
May 6, 2005

YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING !
Question:

Hardly a spoiler, but still...

Sarge, the sentry droid, below the minute man base, is he hackable and can you get him to guard the castle later ? Or is he just a normal mob ?

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