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It's fun roaming around doing some side quests. Was doing a quest for Minuteman's yesterday, needed to find an item for someone. Went to the place and thought I take a look around before charging in, one side I was passing on had some Gunner's up on a bypass (or what they called), used V.A.T.S to check them out and realized they are lvl 30 ! Opsi, me only lvl 16 at the time but since I didn't see a easy way for them to get down I thought we can sneak pass them but totally forgot the AI is crap.. was taking out the opponents with sniper rifle when some shooting started behind me and wouldn't you know, my present companion, Preston was fireing up on the Gunner's ! :confused: :eek: Bloody fool, got us both killed ! :mad: So I put him in a shed I found and told him to stay put, then closed the door and went in on my own. :p Managed to sniper shoot the people outside but had to use some drugs to make it past the entrance once inside, Buffout, Med-X and Psycho was used (first time I sued buffs, probally not the last though ! lol). After that was fine until I found the main culprit, thought I could sneak in but nope, had to have a conversation with them before the shoot out ! :rolleyes: Which ended badly first time around, and second time. 3rd time used same buffs and loaded up Nuka Grenades instead of the Fragmentation one I was using, that went much better, i.e. they all died and I lived ! :D :p But I think next time around I wait until I'm a bit closer their level, expecially if you can't get the sneak attack bonus when shooting someone ! :cool: :p

If anyone wondering which quest it was, and not already guessed it:
Quest was from the people at Finch Farm, called Out of the Fire and location of the bad guys Saugus Ironworks.
I am seriously thinking of ditching Preston and take Dogmeat back with me, at least the dog wont start shooting randomly at others. :p

On a more serious note, those that using 34' 21:9 monitors, what FOV are you using ? I have 1st Person set to 80 but wondering if should change it (never using 3rd person so that one not to fussed about). Some input would be appreciated. =)
 
So I was walking around the brotherhood ship and my companion kept getting in my way when talking to people, bringing up the menu to give him orders and interrupting conversations which I couldn't repeat. Frustrated, I mashed the E button and ended up stealing some items off the counter from an NPC, needless to say things got a little bit messy......
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Good job I saved before I went in there....
 
Well found out a wee little bug with the Gatling laser:

The Gatling Laser has infinite ammo basically. Runs off fusion cores, but even if you have none it works fine :D Not that it matters too much, I think I have only found 3 in my whole time playing the game (150 hours) but still nice for those always low on Ammo :p
 
+1 They've done a great job with the world... I do not understand the early criticisms about the map being small because it is just a night-and-day massive improvement over both 3 and NV in my opinion regardless of the exact square-milage of the map itself...

I've not even gone to Diamond City yet but that area around the Corvega factory (Lexington?) already feels so much more like a real place (or rather what a real city would be like if destroyed in this way)

In fact at this point my biggest criticisms are:

- Not enough/badly planned tutorial on the base building aspect
- In some areas the texture work is a bit sloppy (mods will fix that)
- The story...

I may just not be far enough in to it yet but yeah the story is a bit underwhelming so far; I still just don't care at all about my characters supposed motivation for what he's doing. Join the minutemen? Sure I guess... Go help this settlement?... yeah alright might as well...

I think I'd have preferred the massively hands-off approach of NV (i.e. just shove you into the world without a lot of exposition and let you work out your own goals)... or for them to have fleshed out the prologue a bit more, get us more invested in the character (I've spoken about this already so won't repeat myself!)

That's not the main quest line though.

The "Go to Diamond City" mission pushes into the main quest. Pretty much everything else is just repeated mini quests for the Lols.
Haven't spoilered as it's.... not THAT obvious and some folks might spend time doing other stuff, it's possible to kill people the main quest needs later on sooo....


As far as chems go... I bumped things up to "hard" from day one. I make effort to craft chems/food/equipment/etc so I'm generally "well tooled". I do find myself using chems fairly liberally. It feels rather balanced/etc as big fights, I'm probably toast without med-x, psycho, some AP enhancing food, a nuka-cola and maybe a little jet (so I can charge while jinking around to get in their face with a shotgun/similar). Still loving the gun-fu perk too so once in their face I can drop a full pack before a reload :D
This mixed with some sneaky "wet-work" (I'll lob some trash around and wait with a silenced "two shot" .308 revolver around a corner for them to come find me) and .50 fully pimped sniper is providing enough variety to keep things interesting. The "fully chemed up" charge is just the icing on the cake.
 
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The "Go to Diamond City" mission pushes into the main quest. Pretty much everything else is just repeated mini quests for the Lols.
Haven't spoilered as it's.... not THAT obvious and some folks might spend time doing other stuff, it's possible to kill people the main quest needs later on sooo....

Soooo... at level 18 one should start moving towards Diamond City then ? :p And not roam around the country side and shooting and blowing up bad guys ? :o
 
Soooo... at level 18 one should start moving towards Diamond City then ? :p And not roam around the country side and shooting and blowing up bad guys ? :o

I hit 26 before heading to diamond city :p but the answer is still yes :D

I got a bit confused, ended up REALLY puzzled as to why I couldn't reach a certain leader in a certain fort so looked it up and realised it might mess up the story HAD I worked it out :)
 
I hit 26 before heading to diamond city :p but the answer is still yes :D

I got a bit confused, ended up REALLY puzzled as to why I couldn't reach a certain leader in a certain fort so looked it up and realised it might mess up the story HAD I worked it out :)

I get there eventually, have 2 side quests to finish of first, also not sure if I gonna join BOS or not, got "quest" to go back and rejoin if I wish. Then the quest from Preston, Taking Independence, which for some reason make me think that I probably need to be a tad stronger before starting that one, might very well be wrong though. Once I get to DC though I already have 2 Miscellaneous quests in that area to do. :p
 
Brotherhood version of the main quest done.

The ending makes it seem like you make the wrong choice by blowing up the institute?
 
So.....going by the above mention of maybe later in the main quest that some of the NPC's you encounter on side missions could be needed for later, is it possible in FO4 to complete the main quest and then after the ending credits roll, continue playing where you left the side quests off?

I've not been paying much heed to the main quest at all, rather I've been exploring and bouncing from one side quest to another. Don't wanna spoil anything for the main quest so maybe I should be heading to Diamond City now too......I'm at Level 31 at the moment.
 
Any hints and tips for performance?

I'm getting as low as 23-24fps at the moment when big gun fights or in a city/town. Running 1440p, 390x and a 8320. I did think I should be able to run this quite high at 1440p but it seems not?
 
So.....going by the above mention of maybe later in the main quest that some of the NPC's you encounter on side missions could be needed for later, is it possible in FO4 to complete the main quest and then after the ending credits roll, continue playing where you left the side quests off?

I've not been paying much heed to the main quest at all, rather I've been exploring and bouncing from one side quest to another. Don't wanna spoil anything for the main quest so maybe I should be heading to Diamond City now too......I'm at Level 31 at the moment.

Think the point of the "you can keep going after 40/finish" was that the side quests keep coming/can be completed after you finish :)

As for "taking independence", like most quests, I assume it's scaled to your level? I did that one before diamond city too :)
 
Any hints and tips for performance?

I'm getting as low as 23-24fps at the moment when big gun fights or in a city/town. Running 1440p, 390x and a 8320. I did think I should be able to run this quite high at 1440p but it seems not?

is this with FSAA on ?

I'm running my 290 - overclocked - with Fallout 4 at Ultra (except shadows) at 1440p downsampled to 1080p and its never dropping below high 30s - most of time is in high 50s
 
Any hints and tips for performance?

I'm getting as low as 23-24fps at the moment when big gun fights or in a city/town. Running 1440p, 390x and a 8320. I did think I should be able to run this quite high at 1440p but it seems not?

I thought FO4 was quite CPU dependent, though I'm not certain about that but make sure it's clocked to a reasonable level anyway. Turn down / off godrays as well as shadow distance - they really hog performance.
 
Anyone else having trouble with the menu hanging? In game is fine 60fps but when I press escape to go to save it always hangs for 5 seconds for each menu cluck. Even on startup the menu intro with the power armour etc stutters. This is running off an SSD.

I have disabled controller and vibration in menu.
 
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Very quick question from someone who's only an hour into the game.
Is setting up all the stuff in Sanctury that the Concord survivors are asking for before heading out to explore the wasteland a good idea?

I ask as I really don't enjoy base-building and lots of crafting
 
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