**** Official Fallout 4 Thread ****

[FTM]

like I said the floor option of concrete and timber floor section is much under rated, especially as it can go on uneven ground so you get a much better looking finish

you just expand it upwards until its a giant concrete cube..plugs gaps, builds walls over uneven ground..its brilliant

 

[Amraam]

like I said the floor option of concrete and timber floor section is much under rated, especially as it can go on uneven ground so you get a much better looking finish

you just expand it upwards until its a giant concrete cube..plugs gaps, builds walls over uneven ground..its brilliant

The best thing about this is that you can use it to clip other objects into places they normally couldn't go. Build your house/extension etc then look at the foundation in build mode and hold down E. It will group everything attached to it and select it as one meaning you can move the whole thing to your desired location.

 

[Krait]

and I have taken to building walls around the settlements using the concrete/wood floor foundation blocks..you can build them quite tall and they snap together...and come with a walkway on top that fences or walls will also snap to..and if you have varied levels due to terrain, the small stairs snap to them as well

so it makes lovely straight walls higher than a man, you can place cover or guard posts on top or just have a railing, and you can place turrets on top as well

AND you can then build inwards off them as well as other floor sections snap to them..they are ideal

and these also mean you can patch the holes in the castle wall much better as they can be varied in level over uneven ground..you can actually makie it look nice and seamless

I'll second that - I've built about 20 settlements and it took me until my 10th or so before I realised how good those concrete foundations are. Now I've got some huge fortresses scattered around the landscape.
I'm also having good fun creating "floating" buildings, that are way above the settlements, where I put all the extras along with heaps of lighting so they can be seen from miles away

 

[FTM]

I'll second that - I've built about 20 settlements and it took me until my 10th or so before I realised how good those concrete foundations are. Now I've got some huge fortresses scattered around the landscape.
I'm also having good fun creating "floating" buildings, that are way above the settlements, where I put all the extras along with heaps of lighting so they can be seen from miles away

nordhagen beach only has that one hut...now it has a small tower block balanced on the roof!

 

[Krait]

nordhagen beach only has that one hut...now it has a small tower block balanced on the roof!

Just remove the connecting block and it can float freestyle above it!

 

[5960xNvidiaGamer]

One of my friends online is having trouble running fallout 4 which I don't get. He has 2x 770gtx cards which is plenty for this game and says its offering him medium settings but its not smooth. Is this normal for SLI on fallout 4?

 

[Pighardia]

Does Danse have a companion quest? He's been my follower for ages but I've not had a quest from him. Nick Valentine gave me his companion quest quite quickly in comparison...

Kind of. It is part of the Brotherhood quest chain.

 

[Mariusz]

One of my friends online is having trouble running fallout 4 which I don't get. He has 2x 770gtx cards which is plenty for this game and says its offering him medium settings but its not smooth. Is this normal for SLI on fallout 4?

I don't think sli works properly in this. Ask him to try one card and report back.

 

[PayneUK]

While I've not messed around with the settings, simply turning on SLI makes my experience worse and I'm almost certain their is no profile or drivers for it out yet.

 

[Neil79]

As promised, Bethesda has released the first beta patch for Fallout 4. According to its release notes, this patch comes with general memory and stability improvements, and fixes a couple of bugs that were reported by the fans. You can read the complete changelog below.

Fallout 4 – First Beta Patch Changelog:

New Features

Number pad keys can now be used for remapping
Remapping Activate now works on Quick Container
Fixes

General memory and stability improvements
Fixed issue where equipped weapons become locked after completing Reunions
Fixed issue with When Freedom Calls where the quest would not complete
During Confidence Man, fixed issue where player’s health would continuously regenerate
Fixed crash related to jumping into water and reloading saved games
Fixed issue where Launcher would not save God Rays Quality setting properly
In order to gain access to the game’s beta patches, you’ll have to follow this guide.

Log into Steam
Right Click on Fallout 4 in your Library
Select Settings
Select Betas
A drop down menu will appear. Select Beta Update
Select OK.
Wait a few minutes and Fallout 4 should update.
When done, Fallout 4 should appear as Fallout 4 [beta] in your Library

From DSO

 

[billyboyd]

I've just got this game and I am confused about the building e.t.c

Do you HAVE to build houses and if so are they attacked now and again ?

I'd like to just run round doing missions ala Fallout 3 and forget all the building. Can I do this ?

 

[Mucky_Pup]

Spoiler

Found what I think is a crashed UFO, lol.

EDIT: Just found the alien whose ship it was.

 

[Neil79]

I'd like to just run round doing missions ala Fallout 3 and forget all the building. Can I do this ?

Yes

 

[chroniclard]

I've just got this game and I am confused about the building e.t.c

Do you HAVE to build houses and if so are they attacked now and again ?

I'd like to just run round doing missions ala Fallout 3 and forget all the building. Can I do this ?

Settlements get attacked but seems quite rare. Had 2 attacks in about 30 hours play.

 

[Angilion]

I tried building a wall at the entrance to The Castle last night. Got quite frustrated. AutoCAD it is not!

Building was obviously tacked on as an afterthought with only a trivial amount of development resources assigned to it, but I found it became far easier when someone earlier in this thread mentioned shack foundations.

You'd think they were the foundation for a shack, wouldn't you? Obvously not relevant unless you're building just a shack.

They appear in the menu to be a simple floor section, nothing more. In fact, they are the most useful and most versatile building piece. They can be any height from a few inches to about 10 feet. They will clip through almost anything, including solid ground (hence the variation in height). They will snap to each other. They are made from steel-reinforced concrete and are perfectly regular in shape. Floor and wall sections will snap to them. If variation in terrain height is steep enough to force you to put adjacent foundation blocks at different heights, stairs will snap to the adjacent blocks to form a traversable path.

So I'm surrounding Sanctuary with these "shack foundations" that are nothing of the sort. On the outer upper side, I have steel walls (that snap to fit neatly). At regular intervals, I use a steel wall section with a hole for a door instead of a solid steel wall section. These are my gunports for turrets. A proper walled town, thanks to "shack foundations" that aren't foundations and not used for shacks.

 

[Angilion]

Settlements get attacked but seems quite rare. Had 2 attacks in about 30 hours play.

I may well be wrong, but I think the frequency of attacks depends on the level of defence in the settlement and whether or not it's marked by the game as being high enough for that settlement.

I've been cautious about defence and I've had only 1 attack, when Sanctuary's defences were marked as having become too low for it as it expanded rapidly. I only noticed the attack because the next time I went to Sanctuary one of the settlers mentioned it as they walked past me.

 

[chroniclard]

I may well be wrong, but I think the frequency of attacks depends on the level of defence in the settlement and whether or not it's marked by the game as being high enough for that settlement.

I've been cautious about defence and I've had only 1 attack, when Sanctuary's defences were marked as having become too low for it as it expanded rapidly. I only noticed the attack because the next time I went to Sanctuary one of the settlers mentioned it as they walked past me.

Unsure, had 2 settlements attacked, both I have done nothing at all with.

Only built up Sanctuary a bit(15 or so settlers) and a few gun turrets.

 

[Boycey0211]

first beta patch is out, gonna try it in a min to see if anything seems better but adds a remappable numpad for those of you who wanted it

 

[D3K]

I've been getting a few more lockups recently, the ones where you have to restart because you can't interact with Task Manager.

Decided to use CMD blind. The following might help others if they crash and can't kill the game off:

Win+R
Type "CMD", Return
Type "taskkill /im fallout4.exe"

The "/im" is for image name, if it helps you remember.

 

[Cookeh]

HOW do you get things to line-up in the Castle? Trying to rebuild the walls using shack foundations (using shack foundations and then building rooms into the big main breach too), but I cannot, for the life of me, manage to align the foundations squarely with the walls currently there.

Also, any ideas why I cant open the console? (Was gunna give up on the above and use tcl to line it all up...).