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Toriori posted:It's a shame because I found preston to be one of the more interesting characters, he just wants to make the world a better place! He trips all over his own words when you romance him and goes into detail about being suicidal. If you complete the main quests without talking to Preston, do you find his dead body? I'd like to think so.
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Toriori posted:It's a shame because I found preston to be one of the more interesting characters, he just wants to make the world a better place! He trips all over his own words when you romance him and goes into detail about being suicidal. Yeah, Preston's got issues. After a while you go like, look, Preston, I get it, right? You want someone else to be responsible, someone above you who can catch the uncaring world before it crushes you. I'm fine with being that person, don't get me wrong, but I want you to look at a few things, okay? I want you to look at all the grateful people showering you with gifts, all "thank you, noble Minuteman savior!" I want you to look at the people sidling up to me, all "took you long enough, nameless Minuteman stooge, now shoot these ghouls two zip codes over." I want you to look at who is telling who what to do here and think about who is actually the general.
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Jan 20, 2016 19:10
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wipeout posted:If you complete the main quests without talking to Preston, do you find his dead body? I'd like to think so. Guaranteed if you skip Concord entirely and came back there after blowing up the institute or whatever they would still be holding off that one raider attack. WE'VE BEEN HOLDING OUT HERE FOR YEARS. I mean I haven't tried it, but I just can't imagine Bethesda would have worked any kind of alternate scripting to that event. Also hilarious would be the fact that you would have like a decked out suit of X-01 and 300 power cores on you, and you could just jet back down and murder all the raiders and the deathclaw with like a pipe wrench or something because you out level them so much. McSpankWich fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 19:19
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Glazius posted:Yeah, Preston's got issues. I actually gave Preston the General coat and hat(and some cool patrolman shades) in my current playthrough, and consider him the face of the Minuteman. I'm just the person that kills stuff real good.
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McSpankWich posted:Guaranteed if you skip Concord entirely and came back there after blowing up the institute or whatever they would still be holding off that one raider attack. WE'VE BEEN HOLDING OUT HERE FOR YEARS. I mean I haven't tried it, but I just can't imagine Bethesda would have worked any kind of alternate scripting to that event. And! and!..... And! You could bring Hancock with you and your character would still go "what's a ghoul?" and then Preston tells you about the suit of power armour and your character would go "Power armour? oh wow that sounds amazing"
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Jan 20, 2016 21:15
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Minigun? Now we're talkin'! *holsters maxed-out legendary gauss rifle*
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I mean, you can also go back to Goodsprings after doing all the DLC and reaching the penultimate quest and then do the tutorials to learn about shooting things and cooking, then ask Trudy about the NCR and Legion.
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Magmarashi posted:I mean, you can also go back to Goodsprings after doing all the DLC and reaching the penultimate quest and then do the tutorials to learn about shooting things and cooking, then ask Trudy about the NCR and Legion. Yeah as a line of criticism it's pretty weird. Sequence-breaking is a thing that happens all the time in videogames. As an idea to riff on, eh, I've seen worse.
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!Klams posted:There's some mission near the end where you have to break into a town to get to some synths and either shut them down or kill them or rescue them or whatever. I guess it's meant to be this big three way war, and a climactic battle, but at this point I was friends with all factions, so I just walked through unimpeded. Your most definitely talking about the battle for bunker hill. Undoubtedly the worsed scripted battle in the entire series so far.
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Showing up to the Prydwyn for the first time wearing mkVI X-01 armor "oh boy I get t60 armor goody goody"
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MarshyMcFly posted:Your most definitely talking about the battle for bunker hill. Undoubtedly the worsed scripted battle in the entire series so far. I just walked through it because I was still friendly with every side. I did end up shooting a vendor by accident because the game give me a red bar for him but he didn't die because he couldn't be killed and there were no repercussions. He forgot about it.
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I'm sick of playing Fallout games as a high agility/luck gun shooting talky man. What are some other fun playstyles? Is taking explosives as your main weapon type viable?
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MarshyMcFly posted:Wow really you kept him alive? Danse even told you that you have to kill him. I didn't really even think twice about killing him. Its what a soldier in the Brotherhood would do in that situation and if you decide to kill him he actually says he's proud of you and that it's the right thing to do. In my playthrough I killed him by shooting him in the head, and his head exploded, and then while the chunks were flying in the air he told me how proud of me he was, despite not having a mouth or face or head McSpankWich posted:Guaranteed if you skip Concord entirely and came back there after blowing up the institute or whatever they would still be holding off that one raider attack. WE'VE BEEN HOLDING OUT HERE FOR YEARS. I mean I haven't tried it, but I just can't imagine Bethesda would have worked any kind of alternate scripting to that event. I did the Concord quest up to killing the Deathclaw etc., and the next objective was to go back inside where they're all waiting for you just inside the door. But I didn't go back in there until after the end of the game and yeah they were still standing there waiting.
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Greaseman posted:I'm sick of playing Fallout games as a high agility/luck gun shooting talky man. What are some other fun playstyles? Is taking explosives as your main weapon type viable? That would leave you without a way to deal with dudes who get close, which will happen. Also grenades are weak because you can't use them in VATS. Try being a Teleporting Ninja; Big Leagues, Blacksmith, and Blitz. Or maybe Power Armor All The Time Man: Nuclear Physicist, Armorer, Cap Collector (to buy cores cheaper) and Fortune Finder (more money to buy cores) .
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Gynovore posted:Or maybe Power Armor All The Time Man: Nuclear Physicist, Armorer, Cap Collector (to buy cores cheaper) and Fortune Finder (more money to buy cores) Don't forget the (ammunition efficient!) gatling laser.
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Greaseman posted:I'm sick of playing Fallout games as a high agility/luck gun shooting talky man. What are some other fun playstyles? Is taking explosives as your main weapon type viable? Idiot build and be Jimmy Wichard from King of the hill
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Preston's character is really disappointing. You meet this dude holed up in a building under siege, almost everyone he's even known has died recently including most of the people he pledged to protect. Everything he believed in has collapsed around him. He wants to die. He dresses up like a soldier from the 1800s. This dude should be completely off his loving rocker. We're talking No-Bark's long lost cousin here. Instead he's the guy from the neutral planet in Futurama.
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So you wanted the Long guy to be your companion instead?
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Pwnstar posted:Preston's character is really disappointing. You meet this dude holed up in a building under siege, almost everyone he's even known has died recently including most of the people he pledged to protect. Everything he believed in has collapsed around him. He wants to die. He dresses up like a soldier from the 1800s. This dude should be completely off his loving rocker. We're talking No-Bark's long lost cousin here. Instead he's the guy from the neutral planet in Futurama. that's what happens when you give one of your long-term 'random npc 431' voice-actors a lead role
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Greaseman posted:I'm sick of playing Fallout games as a high agility/luck gun shooting talky man. What are some other fun playstyles? Is taking explosives as your main weapon type viable? You could drop Luck for Perception and go full ninja mode on peeps, I've been having a good time with this: STR: 1 + You're Special PER: 7 END: 1 CHR: 3 INT: 5 AGI: 8 LCK: 3 It starts out as the usual stealth sniper, but once you get the agility bobblehead, take Blitz, upgrade your melee damage and teleport on some motherfuckers. Both Pistol and Rifle specializations work really well, but I'd recommend rifles on the first try because you can wreck things at longer range and gain the benefit of the Sniper perk.
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How decent are the luck perks' chances such as bloody mess, mysterious stranger, the backfire one at the end, etc? I thought it might be fun to make a character with tons of luck perks so enemies are constantly exploding into caps, having bloody mess chain to them, getting mysterious strangered, having their weapons backfire and kill them when they try to fight back against the most impossibly lucky woman alive. But it seems like if the chances aren't good enough it will just be useless, and most of those fun effects only come at the last rank of those perks, so it wouldn't be interesting until higher levels.
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I just wrapped up an Institute run, and Idiot Savant triggered when I turned in the final quest for the ending slides. I gained 5 levels. 
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So what offers the biggest XP bonus? Max intelligence + Savant or minimal intelligence and Savant?
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Zephyrine posted:So what offers the biggest XP bonus? Iirc the stars align at Int 4 + savant.
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Zephyrine posted:So what offers the biggest XP bonus?  Max intelligence + Savant if you don't mind dragging around +INT gear to put on every time you turn in a quest. Otherwise, min intelligence + Savant.
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Though I'll need 5 points in intelligence for the scrapper perk. 6 if I want to mod my weapons with the best scopes and such. Very helpful chart.
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Zephyrine posted:Though I'll need 5 points in intelligence for the scrapper perk. 6 if I want to mod my weapons with the best scopes and such. You can always reduce your INT with alcohol before any big XP gains. 
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Pakled posted:You can always reduce your INT with alcohol before any big XP gains. 
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Bethesda brought back active stat manipulation for min-maxing Like switching to a charisma outfit before selling stuff. Yuck no.
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Zephyrine posted:Like switching to a charisma outfit before selling stuff. Yuck no. My character is bald, but as fair as every vendor in the Commonwealth knows he has a full, luscious pompadour.
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Anyone have a settlement at Croup Manor? I just built up the mansion for myself there, but my settlers keep falling off the cliff into the water, and I cannot build down there to make steps for them to come back up. I built a fence there, but they somehow find themselves down there everytime I fast travel in.
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Normally this minigun ammo would run you 3 caps a bullet, but in that dress and that mismatched cowboy hat, it's 2 caps for you, baby
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Zephyrine posted:Like switching to a charisma outfit before selling stuff. Yuck no. Wear your +CHA stuff and always use power armor. Get out of the armor when you get to town.
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JawKnee posted:that's what happens when you give one of your long-term 'random npc 431' voice-actors a lead role Actually this looks like the first time he's worked for Bethesda according to IMDB. I would have much preferred had they actually done what you said and given the role to Michael Mack. (every Redguard until Skyrim)
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Greaseman posted:I'm sick of playing Fallout games as a high agility/luck gun shooting talky man. What are some other fun playstyles? Is taking explosives as your main weapon type viable? I played sneak Gunslinger, sneak Rifles, and sneak Melee and got tired of sneaking so I made a Commando/Explosives dude. Just pick up Spray n' Pray early while investing points into Demolitions Expert and you'll be wrecking poo poo. If you're lucky enough to pick up/willing to farm an Explosive Minigun, you can easily convert to a Heavy Gunner build.
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So I just beat the game for the 3rd time and I have to say that you get the best rewards for completing the game with the brotherhood than any other faction. With the brotherhood you get: a jet pack and a medic pump for your power armor. With the railroad you get: a railway rifle and a mod for beating the game. With the institute you get literally nothing. Besides the cool paint job that was useless on my full idiot savant character lol. But with all factions you get a unique paint job for beating the game as well. Is there really nothing besides the paint job you get from the institute for your hard work beating the game for them?
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MarshyMcFly posted:Is there really nothing besides the paint job you get from the institute for your hard work beating the game for them? Father's lab coat!
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What kind of bizzaro-fallout are you playing?? Jet pack and medic pump can be made by crafting . Vertibirds can be re-commisioned by the Minutemen or Railroad so you don't actually have to pick BoS to be able to use them. Institute gives you: - The best power armor paint in the game (and the only unique paint that can be used on X-01; BoS paint can only be used on T60, Minutemen on T51, and Railroad is too poor to afford PA). - Instant teleportation. Might seem stupid but if you're popping chems/buffs, it's the only way to maintain them while fast traveling (especially Well Rested/Lover's Embrace +xp% boosts). Plus it's annoying as gently caress to reach DC just as everything is closing. - Free medical care. All those other cheap fucks charge you to cure rads and poo poo. What the hell? - Maxson's and Brandis's unique outfits. - An opportunity to mass-murder the Railroad hippies. - The Classical radio station. Destroying the Institute removes this station. Institute #1 faction dangerous.hotdog fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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dangerous.hotdog posted:Vertibirds can be re-commisioned by the Minutemen so you don't actually have to pick BoS to be able to use them. How do you make this available
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