I determined that my potato of a laptop, which isn’t even all that old, has been deemed obsolescent by Microsoft, i.e., Windows 11 cannot be installed on it. So I made a stand and upgraded to Linux, specifically Pop OS. Everything works great, including games.
Pickups in F4 are a tradeoff between sale price and weight. Early on you have no money and little else to carry, so yeah, you need to pick shit up and sell it because you need to scrape up caps.
Later on you’ll be carrying a lot of weapons - basically you’ll want your best weapon for every common ammo type - so you can’t afford to carry two pounds of weight to make two caps. You’ll also start to want specific materials for crafting recipes.
This is where settlement workbenches and companions come in handy. Offload a bunch of stuff to whoever is following you around, go to a nearby settlement, get the stuff back, and deposit into the workbench there.
Once you’re able to connect settlements with supply lines, any settlement on a shared supply line will share whatever crafting components are in their workbench. DLC settlements can also be assigned a supply line, including the Red Rocket outside Nuka-World. Schlep all the junk from Nuka-World over there instead of all the way back to the Commonwealth. One of those raider gangs love paint cans, which are quite heavy.
Thanks RickJay. I’m currently stuck in Concord getting repeatedly killed by a DeathClaw. I think I need a better weapon to kill it. There was a railgun behind glass in the vault that the game said I needed a bobby pin to open, but when I found some bobby pins in the ruined neighborhoods and went all the way back into the vault to try to get at it, the game said I needed to be master level or something as well. Bah.
I’m also playing Control, which is probably my favorite game right now-- it’s very creepy and atmospheric- like being immersed in an interactive horror movie. But I’m stuck at a level there too-- where I jump over the balcony from the Central Executive offices into some big red-lit arena and try to clear it of zombified guards. Which I’ve come close to clearing, but there’s a super soldier who materializes and keeps killing me. Bah. And what’s up with the radio in the one Central Executive office? Everything I’ve found has been some sort of clue or helpful in some way except that radio, which plays some weird 60s-sounding song when I turn it on. I’ve listened to it for awhile to see if it eventually gives up a hidden clue but if it does I’m missing it.
The Guardians of the Galaxy game I got free with the video card that came with the computer I recently bought is pretty fun to play. Since I seem to suck as a gamer I said screw it and put it on the easiest setting. So I’m able to progress through scenes and levels without too much difficulty.
I’m currently downloading GTA V because it’s Friday, I had a stressful week dammit, and it was on sale for under $15 on Steam. God help me; I have little free time for gaming, except for after my wife and kids go to bed. Fortunately I don’t seem to need too much sleep myself these days.
If you have Amazon Prime, Star Wars: Squadrons, Ghostrunner and Alien: Isolation are all available for free until the end of the month. That’s “free to keep forever” and they switch out after the 31st. On Monday, the free games will switch to Control (heh), Dragon Age: Inquisition and Rise of the Tomb Raider. All very solid AAA games to have in your collection for free.
There’s also a bevy of more indie titles for free but I was just listing the big names.
No, that is not a railgun. That is an experimental weapon based on the same technology that the vault uses and requires special ammo.
What you want is the minigun on the museum’s roof. Grab that and duck into the restaurant across the street; that monster won’t be able to reach you in there and you can shoot it through the openings.
Alternatively, find yourself a Fat Man launcher and a couple of mini nukes.
If you’re short on caps, make sure to explore all of Sanctuary. There are a pair of doors which can be easily missed, behind which is some rather valuable junk.
The guys in the museum should be directing you to the power armor and minigun on the roof.
I got that far and they did, also said I needed to get a battery or something in the basement, but so far I haven’t figured out how to get to either the roof or the basement. I’m wearing a mecha-suit, which protects me if I fall, but I’m wondering if it’s hindering me from jumping to where I need to get to.
I’m probably hopping around different games too much and I need to stick to one at a time, focus and commit to it. I started dabbling around with GTA V last night. Pretty fun. Only got as far as the two guys stealing the sports cars and I’m supposed to keep up with my friend but I’m not too good at using the mouse and keyboard controls to drive yet.
Thanks for the tip! Damn, coulda got Control for free if I had just waited, eh? I paid full price. Oh well.
Fallout 4 isn’t really a jumping puzzle type of game. You’re missing a door somewhere.
There’s a perk called V.A.N.S that I highly recommend. It gives you a new command that has your pip-boy draw a line to your nearest quest target. Invaluable for finding doors and stuff. It’s wonky sometimes, but overall is well worth the perk point.
No jumping involved. A collapsed floor leads to the generator in the basement, which contains the power supply you need, and roof access is through a door behind Mr. & Mrs. Long. Follow the hallway to another door and you’ll be on the roof.
If the suit you’re wearing already has power, there’s no real need to go to the basement.
Although there is one place on the exterior of Diamond City which can’t really be reached without a jet pack.
It does have power, but the game told me my core was running out of juice. I spent a lot of time tromping around in it, helped out a lady and her son in a diner, etc. lollygagged a bit too much in other words. Contemplating starting a new game from scratch so I can avoid all the mistakes I’ve been making…
Yeah, that could be your best option.
Aside from the additional carrying capacity which allows you to pick up that minigun on the museum’s roof, I’ve found that there’s no real reason to wear power armor unless you want the extra radiation protection. Which you will need later in the story line and in Far Harbor.
Without the power armor, keep a supply of Rad-X on you and pop one when a radiation storm rolls in.
Thanks, sounds like good advice!
I tend to think of power armor as my black tie combat outfit. If a mission seems like it might be particularly difficult or pivotal or even just worth being especially scary, I’ll stroll over to my power armor bays and pick one out.
Yeah, I should have qualified that. There are definitely places you can only get to with clever jumping and/or jetpacking. Just none I can think of that are mandatory for quests.
Maybe. I’ve never worn power armor in the games much, though FO4 required it for an early story mission. I don’t like the power armor. I think I had a radiation suit at one point, perhaps a bunch of rad-aways and so forth.
I think I used power armor once because it was required for a quest. The rest of the game, I just collected suits to decorate the town like a bunch of gargoyles but I never used them. Preferred the light stealth sniper style gameplay instead.
I also did the whole power armor museum thing. And tried to get a power armour suit model with every paint job available in game, and came close. (A couple of the rarest suits didn’t appear enough to get every paint. And a few oddballs.) I forget if you actually had to break enemy power armor parts off to get them, I am quite sure the suit/ chassis part that holds pieces doesn’t ever drop from random enemies.
One tip I haven’t seen mentioned about power armor and fuel is that you can fast travel without apparent cost to fuel useage. So you can go places without it and then bring it by if you need it without wandering and spending as much fuel. (Just take out the power cells when not in use)
Halloween Sales!
The Halloween sales appear to run until noon on Monday.
Here are some classic title deep discounts, all of which were similarly discounted during Summer Sales a few months ago so probably will be again soon: (I picked up all three then.)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Steam
$8 (80% off $40), 35 GB, May 2015
Can alternately get the Game of the Year edition for $10
Hitman - Game of the Year Edition Steam key from HumbleBundle
$12 (80% off $60), 50 GB, Nov 2017
Also on sale on Steam directly for $13
Hitman 2 Steam key from HumbleBundle
$9 (85% off $60), 60 GB, Nov 2018
Here’s some decent steam sales on games from my wishlist I don’t own yet. Probably gonna pick up one or all of these tomorrow:
Tomb Raider on Steam
$2 (85% off $15), 12 GB, Mar 2013
Never played any of these, videos look maybe decent, steam user rating is “Overwhelmingly Positive”, worth a shot for $2.
Project Wingman on Steam
$12 (52% off $25), 16 GB, Dec 2020
I worry that I might quickly tire of Microsoft Flight Simulator, or never even manage to take off. But I do like more arcade-y flight games. This one’s more arcade than simulation, and you fly fighter jets with rockets and whatnot. I normally like to hold out for 75% off or better, but this is the first significant sale I’ve seen on this since I wishlisted it in early March. (But then, it had only been released for 3 months at that point.)
The Forest on Steam
$8 (60% off $20), 5 GB, Apr 2018
While watching new seasons of both Alone and Naked & Afraid: XL this past summer, I started wondering if there were a sandbox shelter-building game. There is not, but apparently this is the closest thing to that. This is more of a “build a shelter to protect from the monsters that come out at night” horror game. But supposedly it has shelter building. I only wishlisted it in July, but this is the first time I’ve seen a sale. Not a great sale, but tempting.
Plus there are also modest steam sales (20% to 35%) on Red Dead Redemption 2, Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, and Madden NFL 22, but I’m waiting for much bigger sales before picking up any of those. Also Control Ultimate Edition is on sale for 60% off, but that’s not enough to get me to re-buy it just to consolidate titles on steam. (I got the base version for free on Epic Store.)