eLPuSHeR
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everyone complains about F4 AFTER you give your money to Bethe$da (sorry to all pirates
).... you will never learn..Even with my problems with FO4, I thought it worth the money I paid for it.
So what? I did and I feel cheated. Next time I am going to look for some reviews before buying.
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I am totally hooked up to this game. I keep trying builds over and over and over...
Nice review. Enjoyed reading it.
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I wasn't able to locate the place for that quest. I finished it the hard way... Not very satisfying though.
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I am having a very hard time after reaching railroad crossing. Now I am being one-shot killed by some enemies. I have almost 100% stealh/sneak but isn't enough. On top of that you are alone against the world, so sometimes it's pretty difficult to clear some areas (and you must do it). I am thinking about restarting again but with easy difficulty and normal xp mode. I think I am going to ditch crafting for the time being too. The reason is I am usually encumbered due to the massive amount of junk I hoarded.
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I am enjoying it a lot but I do agree that it's pretty difficult sometimes. My char is a sniping ninja. I have a gripe with weapons in this game. Most guns suck and Assault rifles feel specially underpowered (man, those frigging burrowers take a lot of damage to go down). Also, it seems there are no shotguns at all, as far as I am concerned.
Melee is okay but you cannot win with just melee.
As for someone talking about ventilation shafts earlier: you can actually eavesdrop through them even when opened: just use right mouse button + eye icon.
I am right now at the railroad crossing, core city (not visited yet), hathor camp, part. This is getting more and more interesting.
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Ventilation systems are always entirely contained to the room you're in, you can look outside each duct to see where you are, and you can always just exit a random duct if you're somehow lost.
Loving the game. Lack of map is annoying but the silver lining is the wonderful episodes when you get lost and try to make it out alive to some friendly settlement without dying.
I have started from scratch after completing quest 3. It seems there are no companions aiding you in your quest(s) and this game seems to call for a min-max character build. I had made a very generic vanilla character previously. Also the bartering system sucks big time and you will probably be getting out of ammo due to this.
If you persevere after the first couple of quests/areas, i.e. after reaching Junkyard, there's no conceivable way you can run out of anything. You start getting a lot of money, even when merchants don't buy everything (if they did, you'd have literally hundreds of thousands) - to the point where you're soon leaving a lot of loot on the ground and only taking what you want / what is great.
If you focus on one weapon style (Guns / Xbow / Throwing / Melee), and one defence style (high CON, heavy armour w/ STR, or dodge/evasion), then you'll be fine on Normal. And then you can throw in Psi, and crafting, etc., as you see fit. As long as you don't split your points across all kinds of weapon skills, or do something like pick guns and low perception, you won't be screwed, though of course you may not be optimal.
Agreed. Another year, another build. I have restarted again. This time I hope my char is more focused than before (too many skills covered). This time I am going to give crafting a go. It seems very useful. And yep, I restarted after reaching junkyard. Very solid game. Graphics quality doesn't bother me at all. The lack of map it does though. I get lost frequently or don't know where I am heading most of the time. Exploring on your own can be fun/rewarding too (and many times, deadly). I have discarded persuasion this time. I am looking at a sneaky ninja with guns this time.
As for ventilation shafts, they are pretty useful for evading enemies, snooping around and reaching certain areas.
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I have started from scratch after completing quest 3. It seems there are no companions aiding you in your quest(s) and this game seems to call for a min-max character build. I had made a very generic vanilla character previously. Also the bartering system sucks big time and you will probably be getting out of ammo due to this.
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I have completed the first mission but navigating those labyrinthic maps withouta MAP or MINIMAP is an utter PITA and a major letdown for me. Annoying to say the least. I can't even get my bearings all the time.
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It sounds like a few of us made the mistake of going to the rail area up high before the caves. Once I figured out I was exploring the wrong area, the game got a good deal easier.
Hmm. Maybe I made the same mistake and died early.
How do you make sure you are in the right area?
PS - I am not playing right now. Pretty busy with an NWN2 custom campaign.
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Well you do have a compass in your inventory. :D
Yes I do, but I am terrible looking at compasses... :D
Yes, I know the red pointer points north...
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oh lmao, my level 1 character with crappy weapon just got his ass kicked by the bandit in the lower levels. hurlshot is right, i feel this can be overwhelming and need time before i can grasp all of the features. but it is awesome so far
I ran away from them and got an achievement... I didn't even had a weapon then.
BTW: My main gripe with this game is that it seems it doesn't have any form of map/minimap right? My sense of orientation is awful to say the least.
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Got it (less than 14 €). Playing it now. Seems a very nice game, done with love.
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I am getting it too. And I think it will be released shortly.
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Food for my settlements always seems to be an issue. I grow a bunch of stuff, but they still seem to be in the red when it comes to food.
Water is easy since you can just build water pumps to raise your score. Same with defense. But food is giving me a hell of a time.
I also still don't really get the point of power. Unless I need some to run a water pump that's in water, or to raise a recruitment antenna, I've seen no point to power.
There is a shopping cart with melons and some gourd inside Super Duper Mart that respawns every now and then...
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Agreed. I also want more Fallout, but not Bethesda's...
I am keeping underrail under my radar (coming soon).
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I'm waiting for a mod to send companions "home".
You can send companions to their "home" place if you click cancel when asked for destination.
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The way the dialogue with the companions is set up just seems really ... robotic. Doesn't feel natural. Do some stuff they like, then you get a conversation with them where they open up a bit about their past. But you don't actually get to ask a whole lot. So it's just them performing a soliloquy and ending with "but that's it for the moment, let's get back to the task at hand". You can prompt a couple of times, but there's no big back and forth dialogue.
On a positive note since I seem to be focusing on the negatives in my posts, it is an addictive game. I don't even know why that is -- maybe it's the exploration, or the combat, or the overall "feel" of the world. But it's fun.
On another note, is anyone else a hoarder? I can't help keeping stuff and just dumping them in my storage unit back in Sanctuary Hills. I've got stuff that I've never even used and probably will never use, but I just can't bring myself to sell it.
Yes. I made three different trunks to store all kind of junk I came across: one for weapons, another one for armor and another one for misc stuff.
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After some 100+ hours I am finishing it. To me F4 is a shallow game with no soul at all. I would give it no more than six out of ten. And I am not buying any DLC or anything else that comes from Bethesda, sorry. I love RPGs and I have been playing on PC since the ms-dos days. Sure, I enjoyed the older Elder Scrolls titles (even Oblivion and Skyrim) but this casualized consolized poor pc port is overrated and overhyped in my humble opinion. I feel cheated by Bethesda.
I have encountered a good measure of bugs too. The main plot/story doesn't even make sense a lot of the time. The worst thing is that you don't really care about anything in this game. Everything seems forced on you, down your throat. There is no action -> consequence here. You travel the wasteland with your hand held tight all the time, probably by an iron hand. The only satisfying thing is to wander off alone and explore just for the sake of it. Yes, the companions are also annoying as hell.
The graphics sure look dated, but they are not an issue for me. Sound and music is okay too.
The things I dislike the most is the UI/interface/inventory management that are easily the worst controls ever made on a PC.
Shame on you Bethesda. Yes, you learnt how to milk the Fallout franchise but in doing so you ruined it.
Dunno... I don't want to be the one, but... yet you played it over 100 hours, so all in all it really can't be that bad. You could feel cheated by Bethesda if you bought it for 60€ and then stopped playing after 5 or so hours. But over 100? Even if the game is shait, feeling cheated at this point seems unreasonable unless someone had you play the game at gunpoint or something.
You can only judge a game after finishing it 7 times.
I have already finished it. And does it count I started it four times?
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Yes, you are right. F4 is not a bad game per se, but a mediocre/lackluster one. The main dissapointment comes from the fact that Bethesda had several years at its disposal to make a great game, but they didn't make a wonderful game, not even a great one. Too much experimentation I think. There is no account for taste as they say.
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This repetitive "save this community from attack" thing is getting annoying. It's also jarring from a story point of view because of the accompanying dialogue with Preston.
I've saved Sanctuary Hills 3 times now from attack. That's dumb enough on its own. But the accompanying dialogue from Preston makes it seem like it's some far away settlement. HE LIVES IN THE FREAKING PLACE THAT'S BEING ATTACKED!
Me: "I saved the settlement you mentioned."
Preston: "That's great. Every new settlement we can recruit will just make us stronger."
IT'S NOT A NEW SETTLEMENT, PRESTON! It's your friggin' settlement, and apparently all those gun emplacements I put up, not to mention you and all my other companions, can't fend off an attack without me present.
Yes. I have lost count about how many times someone was kidnapped on Abernathy farm or the same raiders attacked Finch farm IN A ROW!!!
Too much grinding here.
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After some 100+ hours I am finishing it. To me F4 is a shallow game with no soul at all. I would give it no more than six out of ten. And I am not buying any DLC or anything else that comes from Bethesda, sorry. I love RPGs and I have been playing on PC since the ms-dos days. Sure, I enjoyed the older Elder Scrolls titles (even Oblivion and Skyrim) but this casualized consolized poor pc port is overrated and overhyped in my humble opinion. I feel cheated by Bethesda.
I have encountered a good measure of bugs too. The main plot/story doesn't even make sense a lot of the time. The worst thing is that you don't really care about anything in this game. Everything seems forced on you, down your throat. There is no action -> consequence here. You travel the wasteland with your hand held tight all the time, probably by an iron hand. The only satisfying thing is to wander off alone and explore just for the sake of it. Yes, the companions are also annoying as hell.
The graphics sure look dated, but they are not an issue for me. Sound and music is okay too.
The things I dislike the most is the UI/interface/inventory management that are easily the worst controls ever made on a PC.
Shame on you Bethesda. Yes, you learnt how to milk the Fallout franchise but in doing so you ruined it.
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How do the enemies feel in this game?
I've seen some numbers and they seem quite strange to me. For example, reportedly Deathclaws - when leveled as high as possible - have 1390 HP and do 173 damage a hit. Meanwhile, if the player at least has pimped armor or any form of Power armor, the damage of the deathclaw should be reduced by 60-70% (somewhere in that area).
In New Vegas for comparison, the strongest Deathclaws got was 500 HP and 300 damage, if I remember correctly, and without drugs you could only hope to reduce their damage by about 50. 50 damage, not 50%. So they'd hit you for 250 still.
I've also seen people state you can get sneak attack damage up to x9 (x8 was the max for a sneak attack headshot crit before), silenced weapons boost damage by 50%, and Better Criticals is up from 1.5x additional crit damage to 3.5x.
If those numbers are true, I can't wrap my head around this. EVERY stat went up except for enemy damage. I've heard lots of raiders use explosives and I imagine those hurt, but it seems so odd leaving Deathclaws behind. Am I missing something? The numbers incorrect or...?
My current stealth sniper character does 5.9x sneak damage, but I have not invested in the "better criticals" perk yet. I think I am level 47 now.
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I saw the part about Lorenzo Cabot today. the whole quest line about the ancient artifact... man, I think someone at Bethesda wanted to sneak in a few quests from Skyrim, and this is one of them. so out of place... the Fallout universe is getting stupider with each new Bethesda release
There is also one Lovecraftian reference too. I did like the Cabot family quest though.
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I hear you. I have only completed Nick Valentine quest to obtain his perk. I think Nick is one of the few characters who actually has got a bigger background. And I find his remarks funny too. I also like his Bogart-esque style.
The other recruitable npcs just suck in my humble opinion. And yes, it's pretty lame why some npcs like or dislike any actions you do. I am now in my way of "romancing" Paladin Danse but, come on, the guy seems to be dumb as a rock.
BTW: Can you romance anyone of the same sex?
You get his perk after completing the "Eddie Winter" quest.
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That was "Dark Corners of the Earth". Another great Lovecraftian inspired extravaganza. But Bethesda was not the publisher I think. Developer was the extinct Horrorsoft (Elvira mistress of the dark, Simon the Sorcerer, etc).
Too bad they cancelled its sequel: Destiny's end.