I sided with the robots on that one, and thought it was one of the more awesome things ever.
Yep, did the same. The end of the quest was a serious laugh-out-loud moment for me. I haven’t yet tried to find out if I can follow up with what happened afterwards.
I found a legendary combat knife yesterday that has reduced AP cost. I upgraded it at the weapons bench. It is rapidly becoming a favorite weapon. In VATS, my character can strike about a dozen or so times with it and do some really appalling damage. He tore apart a legendary raider survivalist with it last night while I hooted and screamed in delight.
Thank you to those who explained the armor system to me yesterday. I am now wearing a set of sturdy polymer armor that sports various buffs. Under it, I have a fully upgraded vault jumpsuit. The whole ensemble is still, IMO, butt-ass ugly. Keeping my eyes peeled for one of those black BOS unis.
I’m kind of stalled on the main quest. I have the courser chip but I don’t know where to even begin looking for The Railroad. Anybody got any hints?
Yep. Go to Boston Common and look for clues.
More concrete hint:
You’re looking for the Freedom Trail, which is a real-life path (marked with red bricks) through Boston that goes past a bunch of historic landmarks. The Railroad is at the end of the trail.
There’s a mod that allows you to wear any outfit as a layer under your armor. Tuxedos, dresses, jeans & flannel shirts and so on. You could get cheaty with it by using the Shroud or Kellogg’s suit I suppose but I mainly use it just to mix stuff up now and then by wearing something besides army fatigues, road leathers or the vault jumpsuit under my armor plates.
There’s clipping issues with some outfits and obvious clipping issues with obvious outfits (say, chest plate over Piper’s leather coat) but if you pick your outfit with some common sense, it’s not that bad. Heck, even the allowable stuff from the unmodded game clips sometimes.
So after 48 hours of gametime I might actually go to the Golden Sea now. I may have got distracted by other stuff.
I’ve been wearing the courser outfit and it fits under x-01 armor
Err, power armor fits over everything. What they’re talking about is the non-power armor pieces (leather, metal, combat, and synth), which you can fit over only a handful of “base clothing” in the vanilla game, namely the Vault jumpsuit. Which doesn’t give you a lot of style (I did love wearing the Silver Shroud costume for that questline, as it was much more stylish).
Of course, when you wear power armor most of the time, everything else is irrelevant. My stats with X-01 Mk VI armor are: 1880 ballistic defense, 1445 electric defense, 1050 radiation defense, and +5 STR / +1 PER / +1 END / +1 AGI (from paint job). I do agree that it’s unfortunate that this means you don’t get to really see your character at all, especially since I made mine a hot-ass woman. But you are gimping yourself so severely by not using the power armor, that I just can’t justify that purely in the name of fashion.
I finally got through it. Apparently my Spray and Pray gun was accidentally hitting the robots and killing them. I love that gun btw. And I loved the reward from finishing! Apparently so much so, when I was upgrading it at the bench I accidentally scrapped it. I was trying to leave the bench in a hurry and must have pushed the wrong buttons and I didn’t even notice till like an hour later when I decided to try it out. Oh well…I’m on PC so I can console it back if I really want lol.
As for going back, I did immediately after the result of the voyage. There’s no more quests but you get something neat to wear.
I got a legendary melee weapon which has the same effect of the rooted perk - if I stand still, I have damage reduction. That seems like a really boring/stupid mechanic - one of the pinacles of the strength tree and melee characters is that you get to sit still and swing swing swing. That’s anti-fun.
Does anyone else enjoy the earlier stages of the game where our characters are much more vulnerable?
Im restarting on FO3 and gonna play up till FO4. Trying to clear the raiders out of the Springdale Elementary School with only a 10mm was really a blast. The adrenaline was pumping. Is it still that way in FO4?
Fusion Cores, for me, are rarer than Deathclaws. 
The only ones I’ve found, I pulled out of machinery.
Is it possible to take Power Armor off a dead body? I’ve come across two so far and I could only harvest the pieces not the frame.
On the plus side, I killed a Legendary radroach, that was kind of awesome.
How long does it take to recruit new settlers? I’ve had a radio beacon up at sanctuary for 4 or in game days, 18 food, 45 water, 70 defense, and 78 happiness with the up arrow, which I assume means trending up. Shouldn’t some settlers show up?
For each beacon that I have set up, one or two settlers show up immediately. Things slow down considerably from there, generally. It took many days of game time to get Sanctuary up to 11 citizens. Hangman’s Alley, OTOH, jumped up to 15 so quickly that I was taken by surprise.I wonder if how quickly the recruits arrive is influenced by how close the settlement is to already populated areas.
Does the physical beacon placement matter, since it has a limited range? Maybe sticking it near the end of sanctuary near concord will be more effective. Would multiple beacons at different ends of sanctuary work? I assumed it was just a generic “I want settlers” toggle, not an actual physical simulation of a radio signal vs populated areas.
Why won’t anything happen once I get into the Institute? I put the holotape into the first computer and listen to Father. I get to the room with Shaun(?) in it and then nothing happens. The doors need a key and there is nothing to be interacted with.
Is this because I am wearing BoS power armour?
Talk to Shaun and go through all the dialogue options and then Father will come through the door. Same thing happened to me.
As noted upthread, there are many sets of power armor with frame scattered around the map that you can jump into and go. You can also buy frames from merchants. Frames cannot be scavenged from kills, only pieces of the armor. Those pieces will typically need considerable repairs before you can use them, as they will be damaged in the fight where you won them.
Its placement doesn’t matter, and you do not need (or gain any benefit from) more than one. At first I wondered the same thing, thinking I seemed to be gaining settlers really slowly, but it’s a watched pot kind of issue. Once I forgot about it and went off to do other stuff, before I knew it I’d look at my settlements with beacons and they’d be at max capacity (10 + your CHR score, unless you have the perk that lets you get even more but I see no reason at all for that).
Thank you. I had been banging my head on the wall…