Hmm, that would make a nice trap with all my machine gun turrets. Better than having them spread out randomly since the enemies spawn inside.
Yeah, I went to town scrapping EVERYTHING in Sanctuary that wasn’t bolted down (figuratively, to the game engine - regular bolts were scrapped :)) and did something similar. But as soon as I liberated The Castle settlement, I made that my primary base of operations. It’s way, way better and cooler than Sanctuary.
If you don’t have Castle yet I highly recommend getting it by:
Doing the Minutemen quests you get from Preston Garvey. After a couple of them you get the quest to liberate the old castle which used to be the Minutemen HQ.
I understand assigning settlers to build stuff would just add another level of tedium but I really resent that I, THE Sole Survivor, has to build every hut, every bed, every fence, defensive position, etc… At least give me a “building animation” of the settlers actually doing the work.
The community building/resource management “mini-game” is totally OCD evil. I kinda resent it, but it is brilliant.
I was afraid that the low capabilities of my computer could prevent me to play, but it worked just fine in general on low settings.
BUT I was plagued by several problems. First, random crashes early in the game. That was caused by the default resolution.
Then, mouse lag. I tried several proposed fixes, modifying the ini files and windows settings, to no avail. I’m already very clumsy with games (I’m essentially unable to coordonate the use of keys, mouse, etc…), which is an issue in general, but this mouse lag, makes fights extremely difficult in targeting mode (I spend my time trying to click on some part with a signifant success %age, and by the time I succeed, the creature is on me, ripping me to pieces : the early deathclaw took me a couple hours, going in and out of the museum door, sometimes managing to do some damage, often having no more power for the armor before I could kill it and having to start all over again. But anyway, even a mere mosquito or botfly is normally a death sentence), and essentially impossible for me without targeting. With a gun, I’m yet to hit anything that moved this way.
And on top of this, I’m unable to move in building mode. After assuming it was a feature, and trying to understand how for instance you’re supposed to affect people to project, I found out it was a known bug : to be able to move in building mode with a keyboard your keyboard must be QWERTY and you must keep the default key mapping for movement.
I don’t know if the game is any good at this point. I spent all my time trying to fix issues, and it’s mostly a pain to play. The moving while building can be fixed (or even ignored, I guess I don’t need to create colonies), but the mouse delay is an absolute killer (and besides fighting, it of course makes many ordinary actions less straightforward : moving around, opening something, etc…)
mouse lag in bethesda games is usually tied to their Vsync implementation.
Did you turn it off in the ini files?
I heard that the physics and gameplay are tied to the framerate which means that going above 60fps can turn on Benny Hill mode and hurt you because the game thinks you ran into objects a lot faster than you otherwise would have. Is this true?
I don’t think so. I did these two changes for the mouse :
bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0 to bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1 and bMouseAcceleration=0
and this other change not knowing what it means or does : iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0
Apparently yes. While searching for my own issues, I saw a video where this was demonstrated. But it was the other way around : the protagonist was hitting much much quicker (but I guess it works both way).
That last one is supposed to be vsync.
Assuming you’re playing in full screen mode and you aren’t turning vsync via the Nvidia/AMD driver panel, you shoudl eb able to confirm by the presence of screen tearing.
I turned off in game vsync with that ini tweak, turned it on via Nvidia control panel, and play in full-screen mode. Borderless window mode performance is more inconsistent for me.
I’ve been using the steam gamepad though, so I haven’t tried mouse yet, but maybe make sure you’re running in fullscreen mode.
Man. Tried to liberate The Castle at level 11. I got my ass handed to me, embarrassingly so.
Not sure what “screen tearing” is. It seems that now I sometimes see through walls when I’m close to them. Is it this?
I’m playing on Normal because at my age, my twitch reflexes are pretty bad. With Cogsworth it feels like cheating, he basically cleared Corvega by himself. I’m thinking of restarting on Difficult but I hate recreating the faces (I do the spouse and Wanderer 
) and ammo is limited as all hell.
I was dead two minutes after leaving the Vault because I made a wrong turn. I am having fun though, collect junk, return to Sanctuary, build, repeat. I might get to the plot sooner or later.
Usually, these Fallout games are not about twitch, but there’s a bit of trickiness in the battle for The Castle.
I myself kept the radio tower between me and the Queen, and didn’t bother trying to kill the hatchlings that were gnawing on my power-armored legs. Instead I would just keep hopping over them. It was an exciting battle, but very FPS-like.
I’m not getting this Local Leader business. I had the perk, but had to run to Sanctuary to get the materials necessary to set up the radio tower. Do I share the workshop materials across these settlements or don’t I?
I just got my hands on a gatling laser. Good thing I’m swimming in caps, because the thing runs on fusion cores.
Incidentally, I think that one’s barter ability caps out at buying for base value +20%. I was planning on tracking down all of the copies of “Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor”, but I’m already at the point where I can reach this cap if I take some grape mentats.
Picked it up yesterday and have only played about an hour but like it so far. I am starting to get some crashes to the desktop which worries me.
Not sure if its a memory issue or what as I dont get any error message just blink and the game is closed.
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Am I the only one who is not loving power armor?
I mean, I like the power it gives me, and the fact that I can carry a lot more.
What I don’t like is if I run out of whatever the hell they use… fuel cores? Cells? in the middle of being out & adventuring, you’re screwed. And the cores are expensive, and don’t seem to be turning up while looting much. So as much as I like it, I’m tending to leave it back at Sanctuary (or wherever) until I have enough cash to buy more cores. And that’s assuming I’ll find them at vendors.
Am I doing something wrong?
My Lone Wanderer is at level 20. I’m not using any companions. They, especially the dog, get in the way more than they help. If it turns out that there are cool companion quests like there were in NV, I may reconsider.
I dumped a lot of points into hacking and lock picking, as I was getting stalled too much by things I couldn’t open. Getting into stuff is more fun than not getting into stuff.
I put most of the other points into modding skills. Modding is fun in and of itself, but I haven’t noticed too many gigantic improvements in performance over vanilla guns. One notable exception is the most useful gun I own: a modded up 10mm pistol. It’s full-auto, armor piercing, has the large quick change magazine, the long/light/ported barrel, the marksman grip, a suppressor, and a reflex sight. It tears synths, mirelurks, and suchlike hard targets apart in very short order. I have a very similarly modded “powerful” variant for the softer targets that is also quite useful. Least useful gun is my assault rifle. 5.56 ammo is so scarce and expensive that I don’t even bother carrying the rifle. I have a napalmer, a missile launcher, and a cryolator that I’ve never even fired.
There is a lot of power armor out there just waiting to be driven home, most all of it incomplete. In my wasteland, there is an odd shortage of right legs of any model for power armor. I have four sets and only one, a set of T45-D I modded up from the basic set you get in the vertibird, is complete. I’ve found several extra arms and a helmet or two, but right legs for any model just aren’t to be had. I hope it will become possible at some point to fabricate pieces from scrap.
In 3 and NV, I grew fond of combat armor as it offered excellent protection at a very reasonable weight. I upgraded a set into polymer combat armor in 4, but it is proving to be rather lackluster protection. Also, the burnt orange BOS uniform I am wearing under it looks silly with the white polymer armor…I am the Creamsicle of Death!!!1…I need to find something else. Headgear is scarce too. I’ve been wearing the same army helmet since near the beginning of the game as nothing better has ever become available.
Most of the quests, so far, have been amusing. I wasn’t too thrilled to be sent out looking for a dead BOS recon patrol, as I didn’t enjoy the almost identical quest in NV. It was blessedly short this time around, at least. One quest made me actually want to taint punch everybody who works for Bethesda. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I won’t go into too much detail, but I must tell you all that the Covenant quest where you search for a missing caravan is an enormous pile of bollocks. It hinges on several difficult locks and a difficult hack, leads to an uninspiring shootout, and then a resolution that is just plain dumb. The reward is a rather meager sum of caps. “Honest Dan” seems rather too full of himself, too, for a guy who was unable to handle the job on his own.
I need to go back to Ft. Hadley. I thought I had been through the entire place, but the quest to find my crotchspawn still shows as open. Either the quest is bugged or I missed something. It’ll be fun to shoot up a bunch of those ugly-ass synths either way.
Have you looted all those hostile gun turrets? They seem to all have 5.56 ammo in them.
Yes, but there is never more than a tiny handful of rounds in any turret. I’m awash in .45 ammo, .38 ammo, .308 ammo, and fusion cells. I even have a pretty good stash of .50 cal ammo, though nothing worth shooting it from. I have less than a hundred rounds of 5.56. Wish I could do that NV thing and reprocess ammo I don’t use into a variety that I need.
As I wrote previously, my own crashes were coming from a screen resolution issue (my screen resolution and the screen resolution used by the game were different). Not sure it will help.
In any case, I have less RAM than you (12 gb) and didn’t experience crashes since, so that at least isn’t the problem.