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Dr. Garbanzo
Sep 14, 2010
Started playing 76 again after only playing it for a short time a couple of years ago. Mostly enjoying it except I accidentally shot a drone at whitesprings and now they are being agressive but I'm sure a log off then in will fix that. Also took my first trip into the mire and spawned a sheepsquatch which I very much didn't quite survive.

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SettingSun
Aug 10, 2013

I'm knee deep in the final quarter of FO4 and my opinion of the game really elevated as I continued to play it. It's a technical mess and I don't think that will ever change, but I've been enjoying it. It's really interesting to see how they weave the factions together into the main story. I'm backing the Railroad this game and it's full of so much double agent nonsense I'm invested.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Arc Hammer posted:

You know it's pretty weird how Nate/Nora just leave their spouse down in Vault 111 with the door open so they can bring their companions down to visit a corpse. You'd think they'd at least want to do a proper burial.

they're keeping the body cryogenically frozen, waiting for medical science to advance to the point that a bullet wound can be cured. some sort of handheld needle like device that can instantly cure wounds, maybe.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Mantis42 posted:

they're keeping the body cryogenically frozen, waiting for medical science to advance to the point that a bullet wound can be cured. some sort of handheld needle like device that can instantly cure wounds, maybe.

Frozen spouse is actually fine they're starting a vault casino

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Arc Hammer posted:

You know it's pretty weird how Nate/Nora just leave their spouse down in Vault 111 with the door open so they can bring their companions down to visit a corpse. You'd think they'd at least want to do a proper burial.

Sorry I'm totally focused on ~MY CHILD~ *fucks around picking flowers and exploding random cars for the rest of the game*

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Mantis42 posted:

they're keeping the body cryogenically frozen, waiting for medical science to advance to the point that a bullet wound can be cured. some sort of handheld needle like device that can instantly cure wounds, maybe.

I hear there's a certain doctor who specializes in these things. Ain't like he's expecting a family history of getting shot, after all.

Besides as long as you're not playing on survival all they'd need to do is rest in a bed for a minimum of 1 hour to fully heal.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

When was their last save though

Are they trapped in an endless cycle of getting shot, or are they running in a parallel universe where they're the survivor looking for their kid rebuilding the commonwealth loving around in the Glowing Sea at level 1

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Oh God the blackouts when freezing probably hide an autosave so they're stuck fighting Kellogg at level 0 forever because they didn't reload a save and choose to be the protagonist instead.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
Found a guy in a bathtub with a toaster and fork

Also enjoying the many dudes I find dead in a chair with several beer bottles nearby

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

i have a 76 question. i know when you look at a workshop on the map it shows the number of extraction nodes but what are the food and water numbers there? theres no extraction point for those. is it just showing how many crops/water pumps are at a workshop?
im also wondering if theres any cool raider-esque outfits or armor. i got the raider pathfinder outfit which is ok but im hoping for something more punky/junk/anarchy. the checked a wiki and maybe the blue devil outfit? but it seems thats a rare drop from a rare event.

my bethesda id is SaltySteve44 if anyone wants to add me, im level 75 but still new and bumbling my way through.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

this one from FO3 will always be the best one

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
When the dick hits the fan

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
I like it when you find a baby and it's got a full sized skull. Rads, not even once.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
Found the diary of a Chinese Anne Frank

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

that sounds like a cumtown bit

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

I found a new chassis. Thank god. I also started pulling out my ultracite gat and doing extractions to get ammo and fusion cores.

Soon I will be unstoppable

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry
So I got back into fallout 4 again with this new patch and I'm going through the nuka-world DLC, since I never got around to it back in the day. I'm assuming that most of the content is connected to working with these raider gangs, and doing the whole "open season" quest kind of nixes 90% of the content in the DLC?

Entorwellian
Jun 30, 2006

Northern Flicker
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.



Arc Hammer posted:

You know it's pretty weird how Nate/Nora just leave their spouse down in Vault 111 with the door open so they can bring their companions down to visit a corpse. You'd think they'd at least want to do a proper burial.

If Fallout 4 is like an amusement park, treat Vault 111 like a carnival sideshow and bring each companion down there to shock 'em.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Bohemian Nights posted:

So I got back into fallout 4 again with this new patch and I'm going through the nuka-world DLC, since I never got around to it back in the day. I'm assuming that most of the content is connected to working with these raider gangs, and doing the whole "open season" quest kind of nixes 90% of the content in the DLC?

I mean, the content of that DLC is really the environments of the parks and that will be there regardless of how you handle the raiders, although you don't have to commit to that approach until you've done a good 3/4 of the raider faction interactions

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
Motherfuckers

This raider invasion poo poo sucks

I get a message that one of the settlements is getting attacked by raiders

I arrive, and nothings happening. Is it just some bs that happens off camera?

I get a message that Sanctuary was hit by raiders

I show up, my generator and turrets are destroyed, and they looted most of my resources! I’m having a dickens of a time trying to find junk that has screws in it

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry

Flesh Forge posted:

I mean, the content of that DLC is really the environments of the parks and that will be there regardless of how you handle the raiders, although you don't have to commit to that approach until you've done a good 3/4 of the raider faction interactions

Okay, thanks! Haven't left the starting hub, just had a hunch on how this thing was put together

e: oh, this DLC is A LOT bigger than I thought it was

Bohemian Nights fucked around with this message at 14:15 on May 5, 2024

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Steve Yun posted:

Motherfuckers

This raider invasion poo poo sucks

I get a message that one of the settlements is getting attacked by raiders

I arrive, and nothings happening. Is it just some bs that happens off camera?

I get a message that Sanctuary was hit by raiders

I show up, my generator and turrets are destroyed, and they looted most of my resources! I’m having a dickens of a time trying to find junk that has screws in it

The attackers can spawn in really weird places, but you have to find them and kill them to end the "event". The settlement system is stupid.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Entorwellian posted:

If Fallout 4 is like an amusement park, treat Vault 111 like a carnival sideshow and bring each companion down there to shock 'em.

close your eyes. ok now stick your hand in the hat.... yes what do you feel? hehe, that's my wife's brains.

haha now open your eyes. see, it was just a joke. it's actually just mole rat brains

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



sauer kraut posted:

You know you can put those SPECIAL respec things in your camps right? Real cheap, too.
Switching from combat to craft/vendor to home improvement and back to combat becomes second nature.

Bonus tip: make a copy of your commando spec, but squeeze in rank 3 of the 'cripple limbs with rifles' card.
I know it looks like weak poo poo and messes up your stuff, but it's really important for boss fights like the queen that *someone* take care of the wings (it's probably gonna be you)

Also remember you can change your perks anywhere at anytime. You only need the punch card thing for special stats and loadouts.

Kly posted:

i have a 76 question. i know when you look at a workshop on the map it shows the number of extraction nodes but what are the food and water numbers there? theres no extraction point for those. is it just showing how many crops/water pumps are at a workshop?
im also wondering if theres any cool raider-esque outfits or armor. i got the raider pathfinder outfit which is ok but im hoping for something more punky/junk/anarchy. the checked a wiki and maybe the blue devil outfit? but it seems thats a rare drop from a rare event.

my bethesda id is SaltySteve44 if anyone wants to add me, im level 75 but still new and bumbling my way through.

This reddit post is the best thing I've found about food and water at a workshop.

TLDR it appears that the number is a 'max capacity able to be generated every 5 minutes'. So if the food value is '5' you can plant 5 plants that will each generate a resource every 5 minutes. I suppose it is to stop somebody from capturing a workshop and planting 100 crops and just AFK farming them all day long... or something.

Also there is the 'Sunshine Meadows' workshop on the west side of the map which has a factory that produces processed food. I sometimes capture it and have it make 'Sugar Bombs' while I go Sugar Bomb farming.

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012
i go to wrap up whatever quest i'm doing, about to jump off, then i get sidetracked by daily quests or events. next thing you know i'm an hour or two past my bed time. how do i get off todd howard's wild ride???

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022

Entorwellian posted:

If Fallout 4 is like an amusement park, treat Vault 111 like a carnival sideshow and bring each companion down there to shock 'em.

"Hey, you've been travelling with me for some time, helping me get to the bottom of this deal with the Synths. You've been a good person to have at my side and we've seen a lot of weird poo poo go down along the way, but.. do you want to see something TRULY hosed up?:spooky:"

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Bohemian Nights posted:

Okay, thanks! Haven't left the starting hub, just had a hunch on how this thing was put together

e: oh, this DLC is A LOT bigger than I thought it was

Yeah. After you get done exploring the parks, the raiders will eventually ask you to go assault the Commonwealth. That's when I went Open Season on their asses and didn't regret a thing/didn't miss much plot. You do lose the raider companion though.

e: the other thing you want to do before killing them all is doing anything in the arcade games you want to, that's much easier with the raider NPC there I think.

Paying2Lurk
Sep 15, 2023

I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

the paradigm shift posted:

if that's all you want I wouldn't waste time on the SS just do the atlantic city content for the civil engineer armor and stamp grind

Hmmm, didn't know about that one. I'll check it out.

But I already spent the 2000-ish bullion to get the jetpack mod...without realizing you need to make that specific chest piece to use it. So I'm at least getting the SecSer chest piece plan. I think it's only 750 so not too bad of a gold grind.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Building something just to do it is its own goal, especially if it looks pretty cool, which it does.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Worst part is, if you have the jumping mutation the SS jetpack is kinda eh :unsmith:
I reinstalled ultralight after a day or two.

Paying2Lurk
Sep 15, 2023

I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.
FO76-

After scrolling through quests on my pip-boy I realized I never completed the Miner Miracles quest. Did it, so now I can finally build a power armor station in my camp and get to making some Ultracite parts. Well, when I find enough gears again. Used all the ones I had to complete the quest.

I know the BoS outpost near Vault 76 has bulk screws. Anything like that for gears? A place I can dip into and just grab like 40 real quick without needing to pick up pieces of loot and scrap them? Just hit 230+ hours played, you'd think I would know some of this stuff by now.

Thanks to that electric legendary perk I was able to refill all of my fusion cores so I've been running around in power armor more, switching between Final Word and an okay-ish laser gatling I have with Vampire, Tactical, and Mind's Eye. The Alien Invaders events became much easier, and I don't have to worry about ammo with the gatling. My camp is right by the water filter station, where you turn in the daily soil, etc data tapes, so I can just run down there and let the bots shoot me for a bit to top them all off.

Paying2Lurk fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 5, 2024

Kaddish
Feb 7, 2002
I realized I don't have a lot of plans available in the game. I still don't have a better bed, etc. I've completed the BoS quest and am working through the rest. What gives? Where plans? I don't even see a bed in the Atom Shop.

Paying2Lurk posted:

Thanks to that electric legendary perk I was able to refill all of my fusion cores so I've been running around in power armor more, switching between Final Word and an okay-ish laser gatling I have with Vampire, Tactical, and Mind's Eye. The Alien Invaders events became much easier, and I don't have to worry about ammo with the gatling. My camp is right by the water filter station, where you turn in the daily soil, etc data tapes, so I can just run down there and let the bots shoot me for a bit to top them all off.

That perk is ridiculous when against bots/aliens/etc. Great perk. No more fusion core problems. Or dying problems.

Kaddish fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 5, 2024

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Join events and daily ops for that stuff. Mostly events

A lot of legendary enemies drop plans too

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



Check vendors. The vendors at rail stations have a lot of plans. Whitesprings Mall vendors have a ton of plans.

Kaddish
Feb 7, 2002

drat Dirty Ape posted:

Check vendors. The vendors at rail stations have a lot of plans. Whitesprings Mall vendors have a ton of plans.

Yep, Whitespring had what I need! Thanks. Also picked up a Railway Rifle plan. Need to find an automatic receiver!

Kaddish fucked around with this message at 18:41 on May 5, 2024

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Kaddish posted:

I realized I don't have a lot of plans available in the game. I still don't have a better bed, etc. I've completed the BoS quest and am working through the rest. What gives? Where plans? I don't even see a bed in the Atom Shop.

You'll come across more Plans as you play the game. You'll often get them from Main/Side/Daily/Event Quest rewards, completing Daily Ops and Expeditions, capturing and holding Workshops, etc. As you explore the world, check every container, especially during main-quest locations, for randomized plan spawns. There are dozens of NPC vendors in various locations that have many plans for sale, either for caps, or other currencies - check all Train Stations on the map, as well as hubs like Whitesprings, Crater, or Foundation. Lastly player CAMP vendors but good luck finding anything good for cheap.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

There's a ton of players that love to put up spare plans, especially the real basic stuff, in their CAMPs for super cheap, like 1 cap. But there's also a bunch of dickheads who run around and snap them all up even though they have them all already so they sell them in their own CAMPs for 100 caps lol. You just gotta check every CAMP, especially the fancy looking ones, and see if you've beaten the second group to it.

Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 5, 2024

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

is there a "best" way to grind caps? ive mainly just been making sure to clean out the vendor caps every day then picking up whatever from events and the world. i went on a spending spree and im pretty low now though

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

last time I played it was cleaning out vendors every day, really. And sell stuff at your camp. Hope you get lucky with rare plans and cool legendaries lol

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Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
there is a way that isn't throttled (or at least, is throttled differently) - you can run around looting cap stashes, which are fixed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJd_Rip9tE

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