**** Official Fallout 4 Thread ****
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I've played it for hundreds of hours and I had the season pass (so all DLC on release day) and I haven't finished Far Harbor or started Nuka World. Or the vault DLC.
I do have some very elaborate settlements, though. I'm L128, which should give you some idea of how much building I've done. No cheating either, so the vast amount of resources I've used have been scavenged for or bought (mainly from the proceeds of scavenging).
I'm doing building until I fancy a change, then doing some scavenging (via repeat quests, mainly the clearance and fetch quests from the BoS) and popping off to do some quests when neither scavenging nor building appeals. All solo except for when I want companion quests, which I rarely want enough to stop soloing. I'm working on Macready at the moment because I remember him from FO3.
I now also have 2 DLC-style mods, i.e. extra areas and extra quests, but the only thing I've done with those is one of the quests from Tales of the Commonwealth. Superb quality on that mod. The only way you could tell in-game that it isn't official DLC is the NPCs' very crude swearing (which is more realistic for raiders, I think). It also comes with a lore-friendly radio station (Atomic Radio) playing hundreds of hours of 50s-style USA music and with adverts for pre-war products and media (although you download the radio and quests/areas seperately despite them being listed as one mod on Nexus - you just have to click into the files tab on the mod's page on Nexus and download each mod in there). All voice acted at the level that's better than many professional games. I think with mods FO4 will last me until the next Elder Scrolls game comes out
Best value for money from any game I've ever bought. It's already down to less than 10p an hour and dropping.
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Me and Fallout 4:
Nuka World is great and I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some of the reviews, bloody hard in places though.
I kind of wish I had more to do in Fallout 4 but I am officially done with it now.
It had its flaws but other than skyrim I think it's probably the longest I've spent playing a game thus far.
Really regretted not getting it on PC though as the FPS is god awful on XB1
There are some collectibles left but I cant find the will to carry on after 16 days of gameplay
It had its flaws but other than skyrim I think it's probably the longest I've spent playing a game thus far.
Really regretted not getting it on PC though as the FPS is god awful on XB1
There are some collectibles left but I cant find the will to carry on after 16 days of gameplay
Fusion City Rising is the one that I haven't looked at at all. It's the more usual format for such things - a wholly seperate new area and the beginning of the quest added to your quest list. Go to x, talk to y to start the new area. It's a new area expansion with new factions, locations, storyline, main quest and subquests all wholly contained in the new area. A DLC, basically. Quite a sizable one - they estimate 10-20 hours to complete it depending on how much you explore and how many of the numerous terminal entries you read.
Tales From the Commonwealth is the one I've done one quest on. It's different because it adds locations and quests into the Commonwealth, not as a seperate new area. Also, only 1 of the quests is automatically added to your quest list. The others...well, I don't know because I haven't found them. There's a website with a wiki for it, telling you what quests are where and suchlike. The production quality is superb. It's good enough to be official DLC and it fits seamlessly into the game. If you installed it on someone else's game and didn't tell them, they would probably assume it was part of the vanilla game.
Atomic Radio is from the same people. It's many hours of radio from the pre-war USA, i.e. in the style of the real 1950s USA. There's songs, radio plays, PSAs, trailers for films mentioned in the game or based on things mentioned in the game (e.g. films based on Grognak the Barbarian comics) and adverts for products and companies from the game (e.g. Cram, Fallons, etc, etc).
The Nexus mod page has them listed as one mod - "Atomic Radio and Tales from the Commonwealth". However, if you click on the download link on the main page for the mod you will only get Atomic Radio. You have to click on the "Files" tab and download 2 of the main files (Atomic Radio and Tales from the Commonwealth) and a 3rd one (DLC Commentary Patch for TFTC) if you have the DLC and want TFTC companions to have additional dialogue for it. The mod also adds a buildable radio tuned to Atomic Radio, so you can put them in your settlements.
Ah...I've just seen the voice acting credit list on Nexus for Atomic Radio and Tales From the Commonwealth. There's a couple of hundred people on it. That explains why the voice acting is so good.
I'd give you Nexus links for them, but this isn't the mods thread so I probably shouldn't.
Yeah it's probably great - I just get a bit put off by having to do all of the old content again to get enough levels. No cheats purist
Just started a re-play of FO4 having last played around May last year and having picked up the Far Harbour add on in Steam winter sale. Any non-spoiler hints about the best time to start this. After meeting Nick Valentine obviously, but what sort of character level is it aimed at? I know I did the robots DLC around L.30 and it was darned tough.
Yeah it's probably great - I just get a bit put off by having to do all of the old content again to get enough levels. No cheats purist
I'm kinda of the same apart from Carryweight which I modded from minute one.
On another note fro the wider public, I've done The Railroad, BOS and Institute stories now and am just starting out to follow The Minutemen storyline, is there anything useful to know before I do?
As soon as its done I'll be modding it to kill Preston Garvey as well as he's probably the single most irritating character in the history of gaming, and then Bethesda made him invincible!
It's worth doing the keep all factions (aside from The Institute) friendly but requires clever sequencing of the main story missions to achieve this - there's two or three PNR's which can trip you up if not paying attention.
Agree re Garvey, as per above just started a replay primarily to take in all the DLC but the grinding on settlements is awful on a fifth play through. You don't even get much XP even with a Savant l2 proc. I'm doing the minimum necessary to set each settlement up and running.
Problem is, regardless of what path you take, you pretty much need access to the Minutemen at certain points of the story. You can't even leave the radiant stuff hanging as at some point you get a warning you are running out of time to complete the mission.
Agree re Garvey, as per above just started a replay primarily to take in all the DLC but the grinding on settlements is awful on a fifth play through. You don't even get much XP even with a Savant l2 proc. I'm doing the minimum necessary to set each settlement up and running.
Problem is, regardless of what path you take, you pretty much need access to the Minutemen at certain points of the story. You can't even leave the radiant stuff hanging as at some point you get a warning you are running out of time to complete the mission.
As soon as its done I'll be modding it to kill Preston Garvey as well as he's probably the single most irritating character in the history of gaming, and then Bethesda made him invincible!
No, Mama Murphy is far, far, far worse.
I've played a fair bit, but not the DLC. I tend to spend a fair amount of time building. My current Sanctuary settlement has four huge redoubts and a defence of 407. I once built a 22-story tower (no mods) at Abernathy farm (you need to be down the Southernmost end). But the quests are all a bit dull, and I've done them too often. I mostly just kill and scav these days.
This game is overall fantastic 
It starts out slow & without Nvidia god rays enabled looks weak graphically but when you add Nvidia god rays & max the gfx out @ 4K it looks pretty decent.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=30152414&postcount=2448
I put in about 200 hours so far done all the quests & all the DLC found just under 400 locations think I found everything now just play now & again to see if I have missed anything
It starts out slow & without Nvidia god rays enabled looks weak graphically but when you add Nvidia god rays & max the gfx out @ 4K it looks pretty decent.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=30152414&postcount=2448
I put in about 200 hours so far done all the quests & all the DLC found just under 400 locations think I found everything now just play now & again to see if I have missed anything
You can just say no when Preston asks you to be the General and it stops the questline and doesn't give you any more missions. I find the game much more enjoyable that way because I've always hated the settlements.
Yeah the settlements annoy me too and you end up wasting resources just to build them up so you're not always having to defend them. I wish there was an option to not have to manage them at all.
Yeah but is tolerable because you can you ply her with chems (at her request as well) and she shifts off the mortal coil to much glee!
Quick query re Far Harbor. Is it possible to travel there and return without engaging the plot missions on the island? Reason for asking is that the second radiant mission for BoS tech collection has thrown up a location at FH, not in the main game area. I've got access to the boat having passed the little mission with the Japanese guy but nowhere near being ready to collect Nick Valentine, at least just yet. I don't really want to start FH proper until I'm at least L.25 and a bit tougher plus of course Nick. I presume despite the exhortation of the mission giver, there's no desperate urgency and if necessary can I just leave in the mission stack until ready?