Fallout 4

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

spronk_sl said:
Fallout 4 ships 12 million copies, $750m in sales. By comparison Skyrim was 7m copies, although I believe GTA5 and COD:Ghosts still beat Fallout 4
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fal.../1100-6432277/

Wow, 12 million is huge. How many day1 sales did GTAV do?

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

Vorph_sl said:
Yeah, I was looking into whether it's possible to give them unlimited ammo for all weapons and then just not cheat. My definition of "cheat" anyway, which would be only giving them a gun of the same caliber/cell type as their default weapon. Since ammo is weightless, giving them a ridiculously large supply with the console is the next best option as you said. I just will pretend it's not there as far as my character is concerned.

Speaking of the console, there's two things I change every time I start the game:
setgs fXPDeathRewardHealthThreshold 0.0
setgs iTerminalDisplayRate 1000

The first makes it so you get xp from things your companion kills even if you don't shoot them yourself (a requirement I think is really stupid) and the second fixes the ungodly slow text display on terminals.

Someone on reddit posted a great way to make caps and take advantage of the Local Leader stores: fill every possible inch of water in every settlement with water purifiers. You'll end up with hundreds of bottles of purified water which can be sold for up to like 20 caps each. Not sure I'm going to bother going to that extreme, but it seems worth throwing down 7-8 in Sanctuary, maybe a couple at the drive in etc. The best part is that when you sell the water to the settlement vendors you get to collect tax from the transaction.

Thanks for those two settings, the terminal rate was unbearable and I thought I noticed some shenanigans with companion XP.

xzi · Nov 13, 2015

There's just so much content in this game and I still have only ran into one bug so far, where I could walk through a door and fall through the world lol. Bethesda really outdid themselves with this one.

Bondurant · Nov 13, 2015

Pimp my dawg.

Needless · Nov 13, 2015

Dogmeat is best, dogmeat is love.

Is there a reliable way to find ammo? I need sniper rifle ammo so badly hnnghh

Urlithani · Nov 13, 2015

Needless_sl said:
Dogmeat is best, dogmeat is love.

Is there a reliable way to find ammo? I need sniper rifle ammo so badly hnnghh

Take the scrounge perk for ammo. Keep all the extra .308 ammo, sell off all the .38 ammo and buy more .308 ammo with it.

Vaclav · Nov 13, 2015

aaron_sl said:
My only real complaint about the game so far is the god awful annoying radio host of Diamond City Radio. I don't know what they were thinking going with that personality. Is it supposed to be funny? Immersive? Tragic? I don't know but I hope someone mods him out, or sets up another radio channel with only the music and no voiceover. Damn

Three Dog was awesome.

Hah, I find him hilarious - like Justin Roiland's TV hosting stuff he does in the background on some of the Rick & Morty episodes.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

Needless_sl said:
Dogmeat is best, dogmeat is love.

Is there a reliable way to find ammo? I need sniper rifle ammo so badly hnnghh

Buy it.

Vorph · Nov 13, 2015

Tuco_sl said:
Thanks for those two settings, the terminal rate was unbearable and I thought I noticed some shenanigans with companion XP.

Forgot to mention before: if you stick them into a fixes.txt file in the same directory as fallout4.exe, you can open the console and just type "bat fixes" instead of having to remember those long ass variable names.

a_skeleton_03_sl said:
Playing this on PC instead of console is good.

Is console less buttons though for all the salvaging? I guess I could plug a 360 controller into the computer and see.

It's good because of being able to actually use a SSD to full effect, having console access, and being able to do at least some rudimentary modding already, along with SweetFX/ReShade. Gamepad > M/K by far though imo, regardless of platform. At least at this stage without a port of something like DarNified UI or SkyUI anyway. Doubt we'll see anything like that anytime soon too, since there's so much more UI stuff to redo in FO4 compared to 3/NV/Skyrim. Would have been nice if the game would let you switch from pad to m/k on the fly like, you know, practically every other game made in the last decade, but it doesn't.

I have the PS4 version running side by side with my PC right now. Graphically, the difference is not nearly as large as I would like it to be, because no matter what extra bells and whistles the PC version has on Ultra, the whole game is held back visually by some shamefully low resolution texturing.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

Vorph do you know if you can set them in one of the .ini files?

high rez fallout map:
Fallout 4 HiRes2K world map, found in the game files - Imgur

Vorph · Nov 13, 2015

Tuco_sl said:
Vorph do you know if you can set them in one of the .ini files?

Nope, until we can make .esp mods changing variables like those has to be done every time you load the game. Making a batch file is the only way to streamline it a bit for now.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

at least for now FO4 is rock solid. I've only had one crash in some ~20hrs.

Vorph · Nov 13, 2015

Finally got a legendary weapon of one of the types of guns I actually use:

Sadly, "fuck yeah, explosive shotgun!!" swiftly became "motherfucking explosive shotgun just blew me up AGAIN". It's 15 damage per pellet so unless you fire at longish range (for a shotgun) you just kill yourself with it. Hopefully I can fix it with Gun Nut 3, when I'll be able to put a long ported barrel on it to increase the effective range.

Skanda · Nov 13, 2015

Tuco_sl said:
Wow, 12 million is huge. How many day1 sales did GTAV do?

According to the Wiki it sold 11.21 million in the first 24 hours. So Fallout 4 is right there and that has to be a huge win for Bethesda.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

15dmg per pellet? lol. How many pellets are there, cause that seems insane.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

Skanda_sl said:
According to the Wiki it sold 11.21 million in the first 24 hours. So Fallout 4 is right there and that has to be a huge win for Bethesda.

Do those figures include PC sales when GTAV released on PC?

Skanda · Nov 13, 2015

Tuco_sl said:
Do those figures include PC sales when GTAV released on PC?

No, that would have been PS3/360 only. The Wiki says the PC and xBone/PS4 versions sold another 10 mil together.

khorum · Nov 13, 2015

Bondurant_sl said:
Pimp my dawg.

So I tried out a different companion and told dogmeat to hang out in sanctuary but I havent seem him since to switch back. Any idea where he normally hangs out at?

Skanda · Nov 13, 2015

khorum_sl said:
So I tried out a different companion and told dogmeat to hang out in sanctuary but I havent seem him since to switch back. Any idea where he normally hangs out at?

He likes to hang out in the various dog houses in my game. I think there are two of them in Sanctuary.

Tuco · Nov 13, 2015

check the backyard doghouses. that reminds me, I want to remove them and build a doghouse in the center.

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