# Fallout 4: Now Playing **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [November 9, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122 "2015-11-09T18:01:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/761 "2015-12-08T23:48:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Simply using the mouse to look away from the character seems to work just fine. I’ve inadvertently cancelled out of any number of conversations that way. Right, but can’t you pick it right back up if you focus on them again? Whereas Tab cancels it completely. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/762 "2015-12-09T00:41:00Z")
Question guys: Is there any use for pre-war money? I’m paranoid that there’s going to be some super store somewhere that only takes pre-war money, and I’ll miss out. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/763 "2015-12-09T00:46:12Z")
Nah, I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/764 "2015-12-09T00:56:17Z")
The first bed I built in Sanctuary was technically made out of woven dollars, as pre-war money was the only source of cloth I had at the time. Don’t think its useful for anything else, though. Never was in the last two games, at least. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/765 "2015-12-09T00:57:21Z")
Since Fallout 3, Pre-war money has been useful because it is a) weightless, and b) worth a decent amount. Now it has a new use, c) a source of cloth. I actually kind of hate that it dumps in the workshop, as I’d rather use it for b. I guess you could also d) use it as ammo for the Junk Jet. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/766 "2015-12-09T01:25:17Z")
How come I don’t get a well rested sleep in my Diamond City bed? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/767 "2015-12-09T02:27:56Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I guess you could also d) use it as ammo for the Junk Jet. Bring your Junk Jet to the strip club and make it rain! Note: Use only pre-war money for making it rain. Do NOT use caps. The Diamond City house annoys me. First of all, unless I took a poor dialogue path, she never even told me the cost. Just “Hey, we have a house. You want?” “Sure” “Ca-CHING! Two thousand caps deducted!” Secondly, it’s a lousy base since you can’t send companions there or leave them there. It’s good for playing a little Susie Homemaker in and that’s about it. Not worth 2k of my caps. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/768 "2015-12-09T04:21:13Z")
Nothing says dressed for success like a pirate hat, track suit and tacky sunglasses. I love the completely random fashion I end up in when I have to put on whatever +CHR crap I happen to be carrying to talk to someone. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/769 "2015-12-09T05:00:50Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > How come I don’t get a well rested sleep in my Diamond City bed? Known bug, mentioned in the Wiki. > [@Jophiel](#): > > The Diamond City house annoys me. First of all, unless I took a poor dialogue path, she never even told me the cost. I thought it said next to the dialog(ue) option? Are you using a dialog mod? > [@wolfman](#): > > Nothing says dressed for success like a pirate hat, track suit and tacky sunglasses. > > I love the completely random fashion I end up in when I have to put on whatever +CHR crap I happen to be carrying to talk to someone. Perfect for hanging out with Vadim! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/770 "2015-12-09T05:04:56Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I thought it said next to the dialog(ue) option? Are you using a dialog mod? Ah, you know, I am. Hoisted by my own mod petard! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/771 "2015-12-09T13:31:49Z")
When I restarted, to get the full value of the Actual Dialogue mod, among other reasons, I put into practice lessons learned from my previous playthrough and also things people said here. I started with high charisma right away. I got ahold of the Overseer’s Double Whammy as soon I could scrape together the wherewithal, and modded it up as a sniper rifle. I have collected mods from found weapons rather than buying the perks to create them myself. I have picked up Ninja, even though I had previously assumed it only applied to melee weapons. So far, it’s been a stronger start. The Overseer’s Guardian (now known as Gloria) uses .45 ammo, which is in absurdly abundant supply, and cheap. Even tricked out for sniping, I don’t have any trouble hip-firing it and I never need to resort to the shotgun when enemies close to melee range. At about 28th level, I am finding people who don’t go down from one shot, like when I stumbled into Quincy. That was actually kind of glorious because I had decided to go out sporting the whole Minuteman General outfit, so I was returned to avenge my brethren whom I’d never met. Of course, nobody acknowledges this, and then raiders move in afterward. Still, I knew. It was there in that battle that the possibility of knocking down creatures with the Sniper perk would have actually come in handy, giving myself more time to work my cover and stim up when the bosses came around. This time around, I didn’t even bother spending money on stimpacks. And sure enough, they’re plentiful pretty soon. Very early, I did find it useful to soften up enemies with found mines, but that fell away eventually and now I don’t even carry them, though I may regret that if I run into an Assaultron when I’m not wearing my power armor. I have a mod that adds to the items available in the workshop, but it’s got an .esm and the Fallout launcher keeps trying to nerf it, so I don’t want to actually build anything with it just yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/772 "2015-12-09T14:38:55Z")
The updated Nexus Mod Manager now prevents the Fallout launcher from editing/disabling the relevant files. No more need for workarounds. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/773 "2015-12-09T15:21:45Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Question guys: > > Is there any use for pre-war money? I’m paranoid that there’s going to be some super store somewhere that only takes pre-war money, and I’ll miss out. I usually vendor the money, although I see that the prewar cash can be used as a source of cloth in the crafting benches. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/774 "2015-12-09T15:26:17Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > On an only slightly related topic, the Nexus [announced](http://www.nexusmods.com/games/news/12675/?) that their user base got breached, based on seeing an old-ish database dump in the wild, so if you had an account at any of the Nexus sites before 22 July 2013, you’ll absolutely want to change your password and be aware that your email etc. is out in the open. You may want to update your password anyway, regardless of when you joined there. I apologize, but I have a stupid question. I logged in to Nexus last night, but I couldn’t figure out how to change my password? “edit account profile” isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/775 "2015-12-09T16:21:58Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > I apologize, but I have a stupid question. I logged in to Nexus last night, but I couldn’t figure out how to change my password? “edit account profile” isn’t it. The [site’s original announcement blog post](http://www.nexusmods.com/games/news/12670/?) (not the one I linked earlier, which was an update to this one) has a link to the Change Password doohickey. About halfway down the page. Looks like their password system is tied to their forums, and having an account on the Mods repository is managed through that. ETA: as far as I can tell, Nexus hasn’t figured out how the DB snapshot got out, so they still warn that it could happen again, as far as they know. So maybe be prepared to change your password again. And, in keeping with good password practices, don’t use the same password on any other site. ETAA: Well, the Nexus folks think it’s probably safe, due to how old the snapshot was: > [@Nexus News](#): > > Firstly, that it’s relatively safe to assume that whoever made this dump no longer has access to our database. Why? Because if they did, they’d have released a much more up-to-date dump of our member database. It would make sense they no longer have any access, considering we’ve patched up a lot of holes, applied countless security updates and switched to a far more secure database cluster system since July of 2013. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/776 "2015-12-09T17:22:38Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > The Diamond City house annoys me. First of all, unless I took a poor dialogue path, she never even told me the cost. Just “Hey, we have a house. You want?” “Sure” “Ca-CHING! Two thousand caps deducted!” Secondly, it’s a lousy base since you can’t send companions there or leave them there. It’s good for playing a little Susie Homemaker in and that’s about it. Not worth 2k of my caps. I know the cost was indicated, because I hesitated topay those 2000 caps, especially since it was all the “cash” I had. But it might have been in the first dialog I had, when I was randomly exploring the city. Maybe the dialogue options are different when it’s proposed following a quest-related interaction. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/777 "2015-12-09T17:36:21Z")
I’ll cop to the dialogue mod likely hiding the (2000 caps) part. But then I probably would have paid the 2k and expected a a base of operations where I could keep companions, etc so I reserve the right to be bitter regardless. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/778 "2015-12-09T17:42:37Z")
As long as there is such a thing as fast travel, is there a point to having more than one house that is “yours?” I had several villas in Skyrim and all I really accomplished was having my stuff scattered so that I never knew exactly where any individual item was. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/779 "2015-12-09T17:51:30Z")
Probably not. I bought the Diamond City pad because nothing in Sanctuary is “mine” and hobo settlers will crash on my couch and bed if available. I wanted a spot of my own to share with who I wanted. I’ve intentionally left my pre-war house bed-less just so I don’t have to see god damn crabass Marcy sleeping in my bedroom or something. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/780 "2015-12-09T17:58:56Z")
Probably more trouble than it’s worth, but you can assign villagers to specific beds. Useful for aesthetic purposes if you’re already playing dressup and you want your farmers to sleep in a designated bunkhouse but your guards in a barracks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=40)