# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1261 "2016-07-19T21:31:27Z")
Most of the power armor is somewhat random, and only rarely do you find a complete set. It is also somewhat leveled (X-01\>60\>51\>45, generally speaking). You can google for a map of all the locations, but eventually you’ll be swimming in power armor. An easy one to get early on, aside from the one you get in Concord: Head east from Tenpines Bluff, down the hill (the second settlement, not counting Red Rocket). You’ll hit some train tracks. Find the abandoned train. Not a great idea to leave power armor lying around for settlers, they’ll leave it in weird places. They will only steal them if you leave a core inside. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1262 "2016-07-19T23:04:36Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Not a great idea to leave power armor lying around for settlers, they’ll leave it in weird places. They will only steal them if you leave a core inside. They can leave it wherever they want. I think I use the cores to level potting benches in my greenhouse. I collect the frames because the game keeps throwing them my way, and because I have an impulse to collect stuff, but the only time I’ve actually _used_ one is in the mission that compels you to. When I find a frame, I hop in it long enough to fast-travel home and drop it off at the workshop. I repair and upgraded pieces when I find better stuff, but I don’t use it. In the back of my head, I think of it as my character refitting equipment for the Minutemen to use, so they don’t have to keep calling on me to handle everything personally. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1263 "2016-07-20T16:57:12Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > They get pretty common eventually. I have a row of T-60s in Sanctuary for my settlers to use, in the unlikely event anything gets through my security. (I don’t like using the power armor myself. I’m a sneaky melee type, not a stomping artillery platform.) I’m a sneaky sniper for my first playthrough. I have three different sniper rifles: a .308, a .45, and a .50. Any ammo not one of those or 5mm usually gets sold off. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1264 "2016-07-20T17:07:13Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > An easy one to get early on, aside from the one you get in Concord: > > Head east from Tenpines Bluff, down the hill (the second settlement, not counting Red Rocket). You’ll hit some train tracks. Find the abandoned train. Yeah, took its core. Already had a full T-51 from a barge east of the Old North Church. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1265 "2016-07-20T17:58:28Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m a sneaky sniper for my first playthrough. I have three different sniper rifles: a .308, a .45, and a .50. Any ammo not one of those or 5mm usually gets sold off. I do a fair amount of sniping, because it helps keep annoying companion shenanigans to a minimum. After I pick off the easy ones and mark as many as I can with a scope, though, I close in for ninja action. It’s just ridiculously deadly with the right perks and weapons, and you can get one of the best melee weapons super early. I do keep some other guns equipped, though. I have a silenced 10mm for taking out spotlights and some “novelty” guns that I like to play with occasionally, like the Junk Jet and the Cryolator. As with its predecessor, it’s fun to load the Junk Jet with wacky stuff and go to town. I currently have it loaded with Pre-War Money, so I can actually _shoot_ money at problems, rather than just throwing it. I also like loading it with teddy bears, for the sheer humiliation factor. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1266 "2016-07-20T18:23:36Z")
I find that once you get Overseer’s Guardian, you can kind of stop bothering with any other weapon. Apparently, other legendary weapons with the two-bullet feature have holy-shitballs recoil, but the Overseer’s Guardian doesn’t. So, you can build it up as a sniper’s weapon, and it’s still pretty handy in close quarters, desperately spamming the trigger until nothing is killing you anymore. So I don’t even carry a combat shotgun anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1267 "2016-07-20T19:06:12Z")
Not all that far in yet. Only level 30 and just about to start tracking Kellogg. Picked up the .45 rifle off somebody I killed and added a large capacity magazine. Fires fast and the extra capacity makes it good for close quarters as well. For really close quarters, I have an incendiary .45 automatic rifle and the Broadsider if speed isn’t an issue. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1268 "2016-07-20T21:22:59Z")
I bought the Last Minute gauss rifle from what’s-her-name at The Castle. I carry it everywhere, just in case. It’s my go-to weapon for when I absolutely, positively must take down whatever comes at me. Upgrading it, and combining it with rifle shooty perks makes it a truly badass weapon. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1269 "2016-07-24T20:44:26Z")
I should start a female character to see the opening from the other perspective. And run around as the Silver Shroud. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1270 "2016-07-24T22:19:59Z")
The most badass weapon I ever found in the game, bar none, was a simple explosive shotgun found early on and upgraded along the way. I called it my Boom Stick, and I never found anything that took it more than 3 shots to kill. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1271 "2016-07-27T13:58:15Z")
The “Vault Tech” DLC went live a couple nights ago, which introduces Vault 88. The patch notes state that it will unlock in game when you hit level 20. I have cleared the above ground area, and it looks like there are extensive underground areas to look through (and eventually build settlement stuff in). For new recipes, so far, I saw some “vault” style passageway and room pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1272 "2016-08-16T21:17:42Z")
[Sequential Art has a nice parody going.](http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=941) ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1273 "2016-08-16T22:21:53Z")
Nuka World looks promising: [Fallout 4: Nuka-World Official Trailer - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIneiOpuS2M) Fallout is probably at its best when it’s doing this sort of half ghously, half goofy sort of mood, much like the Old World Blues DLC. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1274 "2016-08-17T00:17:53Z")
Does the season pass not cover Nuka World? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1275 "2016-08-30T17:38:33Z")
I assume somebody here must be exploring Nuka World by now. Gonna bring Cait over there, she likes jerkish interactions. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1276 "2016-08-30T18:58:13Z")
I’d like to see a standalone expansion in which one plays a raider from beginning to end. A Quincy Gunner recruit starting right after Preston and his band of refugees escape, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1277 "2016-08-30T20:55:56Z")
It’s going to be a while before I explore Nuka World itself. I’ve just started a new character, as I now have a world which presumably won’t change any further around them. Especially as the PS4 doesn’t offer modding. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1278 "2016-08-31T21:02:34Z")
I’m still hung up on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It’s a shame that for clarity I have to type all that. We should give a nickname, like maybe DeXMud. No, then people will think it’s a Multi User Dungeon. How about DEManDive? Anyway, who knows when I’ll get around to dicking around in Nuka World. But in the meantime, I’ve got a character level 60 or so who has hardly touched the main story line. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1279 "2016-08-31T21:32:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > How about DEManDive? DEx/Man? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122/1280 "2016-09-04T14:03:00Z")
OK, I’m playing Nuka World and I think it’s a lot of fun. Then agin, when it comes to video games, I’m easily amused. I have a squirt gun now! It squirts water, and does zero damage! The new map is much more involved than I expected. I am still on my original play through, so I’m like level 150 with every perk I could need, so even the new baddies aren’t too imposing. But I would think that a new playthrough from the beginning with Nuka World, Far Harbor, Vault Tec, Automotron etc. all active would would be interesting and very, very big. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-4-now-playing/737122.md?page=65)