Me too. Ordered a Vador PS4 for delivery on 11/17 and Fallout 4 with slow delivery so it would get there at the same time. Damn Amazon, Fallout 4 came in two days and I am just looking at it waiting for Tuesday. 
Okay, I started feeling badass around level 18 or 20. I practically live in my power armor, mind you. The only really tough encounter I’ve had recently was with a sentry bot. They are not to be trifled with.
I’ve just learned when a location “resets”, even the loot in and out of containers is reset. At least it happened when I got a mission from Knight Rhys to clear out College Square station (which I’d already done).
Now I have X-01 Mk III Power Armor and a Gatling Laser. Ho ho ho.
Codsworth spontaneously started whistling ‘La Marseillaise’ while I was playing yesterday. Creepy.
Damn, all the power armor I’ve found has been the T-series, starting with T-45 (the suit you get in Lexington/Concord), then I found a suit of T-51 and T-51b, and recently a few pieces of T-60 off a particularly tough raider. I didn’t even know there was another series out there, which I can only assume is superior. Good thing I’ve waited to make any modifications to any power armor pieces.
What difficulty level has everyone been playing on? I started off on Normal (default), but quickly decided that was way too easy and took it up to Hard. More recently, around level 18, I ratcheted it up to “Very Hard”. I’m pretty comfortable with that setting - have had to do several encounters multiple times but it’s not too insane. Most importantly, it forces me to actually use a variety of weapons and all the nifty tools they put in, including grenades, mines, chems/aids, mods, etc. (and of course power armor, but despite having ~15 full fusion cores I’m still ridiculously conservative about using it). Otherwise I’d just end up running around with a stock 10mm pistol the whole game and not even bother.
The only way I want to do Survival difficulty is on a second playthrough once I know all the ropes, having that setting from start to finish. Just doesn’t feel like it’d be genuine to change it mid-way through. But anyone who is playing on Survival now: props to ya.
I’m playing very slowly atm. I did change out Dogmeat for Cogsworth but now I can’t find Dogmeat. I sent him to Sanctuary but I do not see him.
Keep looking, he’s around. Sanctuary is kinda big and they roam everywhere. Easier to send them to a tiny settlement like Red Rocket or Starlight Drive-In so you can find them right away.
I haven/t got the game, bu am watching a Lets Play. I heard a female raider say “Come on out, I’ll show you my gun” which is another Jack trademark. 
So on the Lets play I’m watching, the player chose not to
Join the Brotherhood of Steel.
Does the game change much if he did? Does he still run the Minutemen?
I’ll tell you where I found it if you like, on the coast due east of Diamond City you’ll find the Custom House marker, a little Southwest of that is a building called Court 34, enter it and take the elevator. You’ll have to fight a Sentry Bot and Assaultron that come out of the walls, press the buttons where they came out and it will unveil the full set of power armor. It’s leveled loot though, I was around level 40 to pick up the Mk III.
Look in the dog houses behind houses. I moved all dog houses in sanctuary to a central location because i got tired of hunting for the damn dog.
Is anyone else finding that Dogmeat is just frustrating, blocking doorways and hallways, jumping between you and the corpse you’re looting, and generally just being a pest?
Also, how the hell did he survive running through the Glowing Sea with me?
Plus you don’t get a nice perk for maxing him. I switch to Preston while doing anything Minutemen related, Danse for the BoS quests, Strong otherwise.
The glowing sea is truly awesome. Mysterious and oppressive at the same. You want to explore every inch and at the same time you need to get out of there as soon as possible. Seeing a mysterious structure slowly emerge from the radioactive mist was really cool.
An instant classic like the Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 3 or Ravenholm from half-life 2.
Yeah, I had to move the dog houses so I wouldn’t have to hunt up the damned dog. So far, I haven’t really traveled with other companions much. It didn’t seem like they had their own story arcs like in New Vegas. But while working with Piper, there was a moment where she seemed to have something on her mind, and when I talked to her I think I was given the opportunity to influence her development.
I love the storms. One of the things that I found so compelling and immersive long ago in Morrowind was the sandstorms. And now we have something similar, only with radiation.
Do things like walls and fences actually help during attacks or is it just your settlements defense score that matters?
Dunno - so far, I’ve only had one “attack.” It wasn’t noted to be an attack, it was one unnamed settler getting shot up by everybody else. If I hadn’t noticed she was using an Institute pistol, I’d have thought it was just a bug.
Doesn’t seem like perimeter fences matter, since the attack consists of enemies spawning randomly all over the place, and they’ll spawn within them just as easily. I read something that said power generators get targeted during an attack though, so I have a small fenced-in area for the generators, but that’s the only thing I use them for.
It’s much easier to keep track of your settlers if you junk/store all of the furniture in Sanctuary (dog houses included) and then only put creature comforts in a few areas. I built a kind of bunkhouse in the center of town - the NPCs tend to hang out either there or in the “main” house where the power armor rack is.
I found a spiked muzzle, put it on Dogmeat, and then felt bad about muzzling him and took it off.
My generator is on the roof of the bunkhouse, and has some turrets surrounding it. I dare raiders to try and take it out. Dare them!
Have to go out of town for a week. What will the wasteland do without me?
So…(main quest spoilers)
[spoiler]If you haven’t been presented with a choice between three things, play until you have.[spoiler]…who are you siding with? I joined the Railroad for the extra quests then the Brotherhood because I thought they’d have a better chance at striking at The Institute, with an airship, power armor and Liberty Re-Primed than some guys in a church basement. Then the Brotherhood asks me to wipe them out, apparently common enemies is not enough. Kinda wishing I hadn’t joined the Railroad so I don’t feel like King of the Douches gunning them down, playing through the Railroad questline to see what comes of that - the Prydwen going down in flames, I imagine.
Or you could go with The Institute, but son…I am disappoint.[/spoiler][/spoiler]