# 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:** 49
**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 17, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/961 "2015-12-17T07:15:27Z")
I have loads of Fusion Cores so I don’t fear burning them by using the armor. But I’ve been doing well for a while without them. And the mod that lets me build robots to defend settlements uses Fusion Cores. At this point, I am just screwing around looting and leveling before I get to the point where I feel I can branch out to any faction allegiance and have a position from which I can go back without having to re-earn perks and stats. But doing it this way means I don’t know when I’ll have a chance to finally complain about the ending. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/962 "2015-12-17T12:47:52Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > The power armor _does_ use power while you’re walking…just much, much less than if you run. Other big power drains are VATS & the jump jets. > > Basically, if it uses your AP, then it drains the battery significantly faster. I have accumulated 20 fusion cores, so I intended to use it again for my next expedition (never wore it again since I first got it). However, my next objective is Salem museum, completely across the map from Sanctuary where I am. I don’t mind at all walking all the way (I enjoy playing this way, in fact and besides I’ll probably encounter interesting stuff on the way : that will be my second attempt to go there, since the first was interrupted by finding a new settlement which I had to organize…maybe I again won’t come nanywhere near Salem), but will I be able to do all this walking without using up tons of fusion core? ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/963 "2015-12-17T15:57:46Z")
What I’m finding extremely amusing is that when I give pieces of armor to my settlers, half the time they strip down to their underwear before donning the armor. Apparently they can either wear certain clothes or armor, but not both. I’ve got a couple of settlers running around Sanctuary wearing bra, panties, leg armor, arm armor, and a helmet. Extremely bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/964 "2015-12-17T16:00:00Z")
It’s kind of funny that one of the rarest things I’m always in need of is dirty water. I have lots of recipes that require it. I have hundreds of purified water, and the wasteland is utterly awash in dirty water, and yet I need to find random bottles of dirty water in a dungeon to make a mirelurk egg omelette or 50. ---
**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 17, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/965 "2015-12-17T16:26:59Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > What I’m finding extremely amusing is that when I give pieces of armor to my settlers, half the time they strip down to their underwear before donning the armor. Apparently they can either wear certain clothes or armor, but not both. > > I’ve got a couple of settlers running around Sanctuary wearing bra, panties, leg armor, arm armor, and a helmet. Extremely bizarre. There are three types of gear that you can wear. Armor, which is found in pieces covering the chest, arms and legs. clothing that you can wear UNDER that armor (long johns, leather riders, vault suits) and finally other attire that you cannot wear under armor, like suits, long coats, etc. So if you don’t have them put on some piece of clothing that can be worn under armor, and you give them armor to wear, whatever other clothing they had on will be taken off in favor of the armor. ---
**Author:** ![Norm66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Norm66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norm66)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/966 "2015-12-17T17:27:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > You can start the Silver Shroud quest by talking to the guy in one of the rooms at the Memory Den. > > [The Silver Shroud | Fallout Wiki | Fandom](http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Silver_Shroud) > > If you’re on the PC, you can always use the console to teleport him to you. > > [http://www.gameskinny.com/3dokq/finding-a-lost-dogmeat-or-other-npc-in-fallout-4](http://www.gameskinny.com/3dokq/finding-a-lost-dogmeat-or-other-npc-in-fallout-4) > > Otherwise, if you left him in sanctuary, you might want to check the three dog houses there. Or, more like you want to destroy two doghouses and move the last one to the main square of town. Thanks! I got the Silver Shroud questline going. Don’t know how I missed that guy before. Still can’t find Dogmeat though. I went to every settlement I have plus walked through Diamond City without finding him. So I grabbed Hancock and we’re cleaning up Goodneighbor. lol ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/967 "2015-12-17T17:32:22Z")
On the Silver Shroud quest: I finished mayor Hancock’s quests so now he’s available to me as a companion. The Silver Shroud quest line now says that I have to appear to Hancock in my Silver Shroud costume. When I talk to Hancock in the costume, he only acts as a potential companion. How fix? Also, do I correctly understand that all water and food are shared between settlements? So it’s more efficient to have the settlements near water concentrate on water, the settlements with lots of flat land concentrate on food, the settlements with high population concentrate on stores? Any other settlement specializations that make sense? ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/968 "2015-12-17T19:56:49Z")
For some people, taking Hancock as a companion, then talking to him fixed it. Food & water are shared IF there’s a provisioner link, doesn’t need to be direct. (and it’s dirt, not flat land or even sunlight, that’s needed for plants.) There aren’t really any other specialties. The scrap booth gives a random amount of a random material, so you may get really lucky, or just end up getting small amounts of steel. The brahmin trough doesn’t really require anything. The Bunker Hill trading booth just means the traders will show up periodically at that spot. The individual trading booths raise happiness & give you additional merchants to unload your loot. And AFAICT, there’s no point to having more than one Minuteman (spoiler) per settlement. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/969 "2015-12-17T20:40:48Z")
What’s the point of the brahmin trough? More food production? Meat and leather? Are brahmin meat or leather useful for any good craftable? ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/970 "2015-12-17T20:59:40Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > What’s the point of the brahmin trough? More food production? Meat and leather? Are brahmin meat or leather useful for any good craftable? It keeps them the hell out of the way, mostly. I’m surprised I don’t have Brahmin stuck in trees like cats. ---
**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 17, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/971 "2015-12-17T21:04:34Z")
I installed a few Brahmin troughs and the bastards still end up inside houses and clipped through power armor. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/972 "2015-12-17T21:41:24Z")
There needs to be a mod to take brahmin entirely out of the game. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/973 "2015-12-17T21:56:27Z")
I can’t tell if the patch fixed the vendor caravan brahmin on the roof in sanctuary, or the fact that I’ve started building stairs onto most roofs so I can put my turrets up high. Also, I’m starting the Sears Tower\* of Crappy Wood Construction on top of the roof of the Red Rocket. It’s up to 3 stories at this point. 14 beds. Not to code. It’s glorious. \*Showing my age - I don’t remember what the current name is. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/974 "2015-12-17T22:21:05Z")
I think I heard brahmin can translate into fertilizier for your settlement. Do you have to go around actually collecting their poop, or does it automatically become part of the workshop inventory? ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/975 "2015-12-17T22:53:40Z")
Pre-bagged, right in your workshop. Convenient, if you want to sell it for a loss to the lady in Vault 81 for some reason. Brahmin steaks (~100hp) are better than stimpacks (20% hp) until you get a few ranks in medic or level up significantly. ---
**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 18, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/976 "2015-12-18T05:32:30Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > Brahmin steaks (~100hp) are better than stimpacks (20% hp) until you get a few ranks in medic or level up significantly. I have a stupid amount of stimpacks. I use them for healing and food, mostly orange Mentats and squirrel stew, for benefits. ---
**Author:** ![Norm66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Norm66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norm66)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/977 "2015-12-18T14:13:31Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > On the Silver Shroud quest: > > I finished mayor Hancock’s quests so now he’s available to me as a companion. > > The Silver Shroud quest line now says that I have to appear to Hancock in my Silver Shroud costume. > > When I talk to Hancock in the costume, he only acts as a potential companion. > > How fix? I was using Hancock as a companion during the Silver Shroud quest and it did take several tries, plus having to listen to his whole story before it let me talk to him to complete the quest. Not a big deal, but it was weird. I think the Silver Shroud quest was one of the more entertaining ones I’ve done so far in the game. It was pretty neat playing a character who was playing a character. I wish it had been longer. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/978 "2015-12-18T14:27:20Z")
> [@Norm66](#): > > I was using Hancock as a companion during the Silver Shroud quest and it did take several tries, plus having to listen to his whole story before it let me talk to him to complete the quest. Not a big deal, but it was weird. > > I think the Silver Shroud quest was one of the more entertaining ones I’ve done so far in the game. It was pretty neat playing a character who was playing a character. I wish it had been longer. I’d have been content with just being able to deliver your remaining lines in the rest of the game in-character as The Shroud. ---
**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 18, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/979 "2015-12-18T14:43:45Z")
Silver Shroud was fun. Not sure what the male sounds like, but the female voice was amusing since she wasn’t taking it at all seriously (how could you?). Other favorites were Treasures of Jamaica Plains, Last Voyage of the USS Constitution and whatever the Witch Museum one is called. That one is short and it doesn’t take a lot of guessing about what the antagonist is but they still made it spooky. Valentine’s personal quest was good as well. ---
**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 18, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/980 "2015-12-18T14:44:56Z")
The male Silver Shroud voice was gloriously goofy. The actor did a good job of making it sound like he was giving it his all but still not always sure how best to go about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=50)