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I had the same problem after changing the monitor. I'm fairly certain it was just the game protesting about trying to run a 1440 screen in Ultra. Once I dialled it back to Very High it was fine.
 
Finally got the Benevolant Leader achievement. In the end I had (all manned) nine clinics, two large general stores, two large bars, a hairdresser, eight lots of weight training equipment, and six cats. Just three achievements to go.
 
Also a weird one: my settlement in question has 22 settlers?

To cover all the obvious questions:
No mods.
No settlers moved.
Charisma is 10, and has never been inflated above that by any means.
I have a couple of articles of clothing which increase it, but none have been worn at any time, and are stored in box which is not part of the Junk stash.

The only thing I can think of that a couple of settler are wearing Tuxes, so maybe their bonus gets added to me? But I've had whole settlements in Tuxes before (there may have been an apocalypse, but that's no reason not to dress smartly) and not exceeded the cap. I am really puzzled by this.
 
Hi. Purchased the complete edition of this cheap and am trying to get in to it.... Have watched a few guides. Is it possible to play the game without being a 'loot whore'? Do I need to pick up every bit of junk I find or can I just kill stuff and make RPG like choices in terms of how I interact with NPCs?
 
rubberduck said:
Hi. Purchased the complete edition of this cheap and am trying to get in to it.... Have watched a few guides. Is it possible to play the game without being a 'loot whore'? Do I need to pick up every bit of junk I find or can I just kill stuff and make RPG like choices in terms of how I interact with NPCs?
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You're proposing a choice only between two extremes (pick up everything or pick up nothing), neither of which would serve you well in the game. In between those extremes there's a vast spectrum of how much you pick up. You'll need to acquire some resources, but how much is up to you and what you want to do.

If you want to ignore the main story and ignore the settlements aspect entirely and you want to try a self-imposed hardcore challenge mode, you could possibly get away with picking up only equipment better than you already have, ammunition and health items. No selling. No buying. No crafting.

At the other extreme, if you want to remove the building limit and build massive settlements you'll need to acquire lots of resources.

But in no possible scenario would either of your suggested absolute extreme choices work.

If you're in any way interested in any degree of RPG, I would strongly suggest installing the full dialogue interface mod. The vanilla game dialogue system has been dumbed down to a console controller to a horrible extent, giving you only "Yes/No/Question/Sarcasm" controller button layout options that don't even allow you to know what your character will say when you choose an option. The full dialogue interface mod restores it to show, unsurprisingly, the full dialogue. It also gives you the option of a proper dialogue choice box rather than an image of controller buttons.
 
I playing my latest game without settlement building - which is hard because that's the bit I like best. I'm picking up only those things which have parts I want for weapon and armour mods. But... you need to have played the game a fair amount to know what those bits are. If you are new to the game then aything glue-related is first choice, anything with screws second. If your SPECIAL stats allow then get h efirst tier of SAcrapper - it helps a lot. That way most of what you want (not glue!!) comes from scrapping armour and weapons. Remember that you can remove mods from one weapon and apply them to another of the same type. Not doing ANY crafting will make the game a fair bit harder unless you are very lucky with drops.
 
Just a brief thread necro to say that I finally got every achievement. It wasn't that they are particularly difficult (apart from Benevolent Leader where every guide about how to do it misses how the system works...) but that it involved gameplay I don't care about. But it's done now.
 
I've been revisiting FO4 in preparation for WW3 with the Russian/Chinese alliance (or at least, being too poor to pay my food & gas bill and having to live by scavenging wood & cockroaches from the local area) and have just visited Big John's hidden bunker. Him and his wife are laid there, arm in arm, and there's a little shrine at the back of the bunker to their child.

It feels silly when you put it down in writing in the real world. But in-game, the Fallout series have always been so very good at setting a mood, distracting you with a puzzle or battle and then smacking you in the chops with a bit of pathos. It's almost enough to make me have a look at Fallout whateveritis... the online thing. It's just the Other People thing that bothers me. If I wanted to be with Other People I wouldn't be in Fallout 4. :-)

Right, 'scuse me, I have to go unload bits of skeleton off my robot companion again. Or I could tidy the living room instead of some fictional wrecked brewery... but where's the fun in that?
 
Andrew_McP said:
I've been revisiting FO4 in preparation for WW3 with the Russian/Chinese alliance (or at least, being too poor to pay my food & gas bill and having to live by scavenging wood & cockroaches from the local area) and have just visited Big John's hidden bunker. Him and his wife are laid there, arm in arm, and there's a little shrine at the back of the bunker to their child.

It feels silly when you put it down in writing in the real world. But in-game, the Fallout series have always been so very good at setting a mood, distracting you with a puzzle or battle and then smacking you in the chops with a bit of pathos. It's almost enough to make me have a look at Fallout whateveritis... the online thing. It's just the Other People thing that bothers me. If I wanted to be with Other People I wouldn't be in Fallout 4. :)
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Unfortunately, that's not all that's wrong with Fallout 76. The gameworld is good, though not as well made as previous Fallout games. The graphics are a bit nicer, but that's not really the point of Fallout games. But the game itself is blighted by two fundamental design decisions. Firstly, it's designed as a mashup of single player and multiplayer and as a result doesn't do either very well. Secondly, it's designed with the freemium game design philosophy and that makes it much worse. It's not even "free to play", but it's designed with that philosophy. Building in FO76 is extremely bad, much worse than even vanilla FO4 without any building mods. Modding is very limited. The game is designed around getting players addicted to doing daily grind chores in order to be "rewarded" with ingame items almost all of which you won't want anyway. But some you might, e.g. companions who live in your camp. Or maybe not - the ones I had were more of an irritation than a reward. But if you don't grind all of your chores daily you'll be missing out! You don't want to miss out, do you?

FO76 still has something of the Fallout magic, but it's easily the worst of the series. And that's without other people. Other people intruding on your gaming is not much of a thing in FO76 because the only people playing it are people who like the Fallout series. Which are single player games. So almost everyone plays FO76 as a single player game, with interactions with other players generally being either waving to each other in passing or the few interactions forced on players by the devs (e.g. in order to get something important, I forget what, you have to revive another player who's unconscious before they die).

It's not terrible (any more, after all the patches), but it's not good either. I played it quite a lot to explore the world but stopped playing when I was unable to play for a few days and realised I was glad that I didn't "have" to do my daily grinding chores.
 
Angilion said:
It's not terrible (any more, after all the patches), but it's not good either. I played it quite a lot to explore the world but stopped playing when I was unable to play for a few days and realised I was glad that I didn't "have" to do my daily grinding chores.
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Thanks for that. I hadn't really paid any attention to it after writing it off as a multiplayer game. I may check it out at some point, simply to scratch the next bleak Fallout itch... though I worry I may enjoy the daily grind bit too much. I'm currently trying to see how rich I can make myself in FO4 by simply farming and sorting out settlement attacks (when I notice them). Rumours that I went up several levels just planting tatos and melons are, sadly, true.
 
Deffo check out 76 if you are a Fallout fan, it is the worst of the series but also there a lot to be experienced. Even without all multiplayer elements and the grindy stuff (non of which you have to do for the quest lines), as a single player experience there is easily 50+ hours of lore and content. There 3 main questlines to do with the original story then followed by Wastelanders followed by the BOS, there's also a shed load of interesting side quest stuff that allows for access to certain areas that are really interesting.

The microtransactions are for sure optional and there is no paywalls to any story content once you are in the base game. For me its a very interesting story thats told in a different way and is by far the best Fallout World space for exploration.

As a low to mid level player some of it is actually quite challenging but once you start getting to a Level 50+ charactor and your build starts to be more specialised you become very OP, again which can be good depending on your build.

If you subscribe to XBOX Gamepass its on there anyway so you dont even have to buy it.
 
Columbo said:
Deffo check out 76 if you are a Fallout fan
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I've never really thought about it until today writing it off completely as multiplayer. But Fallout is definitely my melancholy gaming "home" and I'm never happier than when wandering around murdering while listening to old music. So a bit of poking around this evening has made it much more likely I will eventually pick up a cheap key and explore. I may save it until I finally get round to shifting some of my Christmas spare tyre. Nothing helps distract me from the contents of the kitchen more than raiding virtual kitchens in the hope of finding a hot plate, a silver fork, and some dirty water!

Come to think of it, drinking dirty water in the real world would be a great way to lose weight.
 
Andrew_McP said:
Thanks for that. I hadn't really paid any attention to it after writing it off as a multiplayer game. I may check it out at some point, simply to scratch the next bleak Fallout itch... though I worry I may enjoy the daily grind bit too much. I'm currently trying to see how rich I can make myself in FO4 by simply farming and sorting out settlement attacks (when I notice them). Rumours that I went up several levels just planting tatos and melons are, sadly, true.
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I went down the modding route for the first time with FO4. Mainly for building settlements. I had some huge settlements (one of the mods greatly increased available settlement size). Place Everywhere was (and probably still is) the best building mod. It makes building in FO4 so much better it's not even comparable. So, for example, my settlement at Starlight Drive-in had 36 flats for settlers, each one individually furnished and decorated (thanks to the thousands of extra buildable items added by mods). Plus a huge trading centre with large shops, one for each of the tier 4 specialised traders. Each one appropriately decorated, e.g. the clothing shop showed some superbly done clothing from a mod that added various items of clothing from 1930s USA. Which could have been fashionably retro in pre-War Fallout as that was rooted in 1950s USA culture. Plus a pub. A very large pub with a pool room containing 4 tables. Plus a theatre, which I built because one of the mods I installed added posters and one of those posters was for "The Wasteland Players", a travelling group of actors. It also doubles as the town meeting hall. Plus a restaurant with a rooftop dining area because the town is called Starlight so dining under the stars is a good fit. Plus a power station. And an armoury. And a hospital. And a library. And I acquired every single resource necessary to build everything legitimately through playing, either by scavving or by trading the stuff I'd scavved. Plus, of course, the same for all my other settlements.

I built a whole new PC because of FO4. I was getting about 10fps in settlements, so it was either stop playing FO4 or build a new PC.

I think I probably played FO4 more than any other game I've played. It's still installed and I still have the savegame on a stick as well, just in case. I might go back to it some day. If Fallout: London is ever released I'll definitely be playing that.

When looking for any information on Fallout: London I came across an article examining the trailer video in detail. Part of it was speculation about the possible meanings of the phrase repeatedly used in the trailer - "Mind the gap". Was it referring to the gap between the factions? Or was it referring to an area in the game, maybe some sort of mysterious ravine? Obviously the writer wasn't from anywhere near London or else they would have recognised that the phrase is from the London Underground, which features so heavily in the mod that the loading symbol is the symbol of the London Underground.
 
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I put literally just shy of 1000 hours into Fallout 4, the base game is great but I love the ease and available mods.

You can turn the game into what you want, I setup my game so the bad guys do a lot more damage, basically kill you in 1-3 hits depending on what you are hit by.

But also up your own damage a fair chunk, you have to sneak around a lot more, be stealthy and use cover more, it's fun.

Put on war on the commonwealth so the frequency of spawns in the wasteland is increased significantly.

I then pick a settlement location, and just basically try to survive.

Great fun.
 
Kelt said:
Bethesda, just do this, and drop your crappy, ancient engine.
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How easy is it to make mods for games using Unreal Engine 5? Bethesda's ancient engine is excellent for mods and mods are a big part of the success of the Fallout series. One of the many reasons why FO76 is the worst of the series.

Also, what hardware can run UE5 in native 4K with that degree of quality at an adequate framerate?

That fan-made concept video does look superb, but I think the game is more important than the graphics. I'd be happy with a proper Fallout 5 game even if it was graphically identical to Fallout 4.
 
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