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Fallout 4
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Tuco
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I'm in Winston and TWC has been saying "You're getting bumped from 50Mb to 300Mb any day now" for a year and a half. The city agreed to put in "gigabit", which is in quotes because their agreement with AT&T is for about two dozen buildings in the entire city. Good job civic leaders. That's exactly what we've been asking for...
As for FO4, that tiny file size makes the super low res texturework make more sense. They have some 100x100 textures strewn about on player facing areas for some reason when they really need to be fuckhuge textures to match the world's aesthetic and game design. That texture on the destroyed diner looks like it should be on a doorjam or maybe the backside of the fps model of a weapon. Not a world face that is square meters.
Still super hyped. Will likely put another 200 hours into this one if it's anywhere as fun as New Vegas was. If it's more FO3 part two then that estimate gets cut in half.
As for FO4, that tiny file size makes the super low res texturework make more sense. They have some 100x100 textures strewn about on player facing areas for some reason when they really need to be fuckhuge textures to match the world's aesthetic and game design. That texture on the destroyed diner looks like it should be on a doorjam or maybe the backside of the fps model of a weapon. Not a world face that is square meters.
Still super hyped. Will likely put another 200 hours into this one if it's anywhere as fun as New Vegas was. If it's more FO3 part two then that estimate gets cut in half.
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Stream of PC version.
EDIT: Make sure you pre-load on your SSDs. Dem loading times.
EDIT2: Fairly sure it is the Xbox One version, not PC as was claimed when I found the link. Looked at the VOD, and he gets xbox one achievements.
For the Min maxers..
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Skip to 13:30. From then to 16ish minutes he goes through SPECIAL stats. Then skip to the 48 minute mark. From then to around 1 hour 20 minutes in he goes through every single skill. It mutes at 1:20 until he is done with it.
Stream of PC version.
EDIT: Make sure you pre-load on your SSDs. Dem loading times.
EDIT2: Fairly sure it is the Xbox One version, not PC as was claimed when I found the link. Looked at the VOD, and he gets xbox one achievements.
For the Min maxers..
Twitch
Skip to 13:30. From then to 16ish minutes he goes through SPECIAL stats. Then skip to the 48 minute mark. From then to around 1 hour 20 minutes in he goes through every single skill. It mutes at 1:20 until he is done with it.
Preloaded and ready to go. I shall just sit here and dribble impatiently for the remaining 63.33 hours. 
hodj
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My SSD is pretty small (250gb) so I never install games on it.
Cleaned up some space on it though, got it up to 80 gb free by deleting the old Win7 files (I'm not going back to Win7 anyway, I like win10 enough, its not perfect but I don't hate it) so I decided to delete the preload and reinstall it on the SSD.
Should be interesting to see how fast it unpacks and loads, considering Windows boots up so fast I have about a two second window to access the BIOS if I need to.
Cleaned up some space on it though, got it up to 80 gb free by deleting the old Win7 files (I'm not going back to Win7 anyway, I like win10 enough, its not perfect but I don't hate it) so I decided to delete the preload and reinstall it on the SSD.
Should be interesting to see how fast it unpacks and loads, considering Windows boots up so fast I have about a two second window to access the BIOS if I need to.
Ya, my SSD is only 250 gigs too. I only use it for my OS and World of Tanks (my most used program). Everything else is on other drives.
However, given that the SSD I'm using is the one in this torture test (http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178...ate-1-april-10) maybe I should think about giving it more to do since I've only used about 3% of its demonstrated lifespan in 5 and a half months and I tend to upgrade every 4 or 5 years...
However, given that the SSD I'm using is the one in this torture test (http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178...ate-1-april-10) maybe I should think about giving it more to do since I've only used about 3% of its demonstrated lifespan in 5 and a half months and I tend to upgrade every 4 or 5 years...
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I just read that too lol. Makes me happy since I did want to be a smooth talker type. Having money early to buy good gear will make up for not having the SPECIAL stats to use it at full capacity. I always liked having companions too, especially Dogmeat. Sounds like the dog will be near invincible like it was in FO3, which is nice.
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First "review" is up.
edit: Nvmd looks like they took it down after they realized the review embargo wasn't up yet or something
I use the term loosely, I'm fairly certain the person reviewing it is either trolling for click bait, or functionally retarded.
Frankly in my opinion, the STR stat is THE dump stat this time around UNLESS you plan to build a melee centric character.
There is simply no reason to raise it past a 1 to start. Each level only lets you carry 10 more pounds of gear, Strong back takes a 6 str to get, I can't see any reason to level the stat up that high personally.
It just seems like the weakest tree all around.
edit: Nvmd looks like they took it down after they realized the review embargo wasn't up yet or something
I use the term loosely, I'm fairly certain the person reviewing it is either trolling for click bait, or functionally retarded.
STR of 4 and lvl 39 is what you need to access the max rank of that perk. I'd just put STR at 1 or 2 and then use bobbleheads and SPECIAL books and shit to level it up. Watching the stream posted a few posts up, the YOUR SPECIAL! kids book that is on Shaun's bedstand at the start of the game allows you to pick any one stat to level up at the very start of the game right after you leave the vault, so I'm betting there are several of those books in the game, and if not, well, now you know you can get away with a 1 STR, taking a bobblehead, using that book, and then plugging 1 level worth of perk points out of the first 39 levels into STR to get access to the top level armor mods by the time you can unlock that ability.
Frankly in my opinion, the STR stat is THE dump stat this time around UNLESS you plan to build a melee centric character.
There is simply no reason to raise it past a 1 to start. Each level only lets you carry 10 more pounds of gear, Strong back takes a 6 str to get, I can't see any reason to level the stat up that high personally.
It just seems like the weakest tree all around.
Going to try to get the skills I go for in every RPG that has em.
- Lockingpick
- Science/hacking
- Dialog options
- Repair / crafting
- Surgery/health
All of those would be prioritized over any sort of combat skill. Combat is combat, can always find out a way to kill a thing or tweak the encounter after dying a few times. + crit or damage or combat abilities will hardly ever be required to activate content.
However, not being able to lockpick, science/hack/repair and poor dialog skills can outright keep you from content. Might also end up meeting NPCs that require your surgery skill.
Only way I will skip lockpicking is it works like Skyrim, where you can try locks even if you don't have the skill. Save/load can get you into master locks at level 1 skill. However, guessing Fallout 4 will do what previous games did, and not let you try if you don't have the skill. EDIT: Just checked. Confirmed that you can't activate locks without the skill points. So priority skill for me /End edit
Sneaky, slow moving, sniper/ranged with above abilities will be what I try to make.
- Lockingpick
- Science/hacking
- Dialog options
- Repair / crafting
- Surgery/health
All of those would be prioritized over any sort of combat skill. Combat is combat, can always find out a way to kill a thing or tweak the encounter after dying a few times. + crit or damage or combat abilities will hardly ever be required to activate content.
However, not being able to lockpick, science/hack/repair and poor dialog skills can outright keep you from content. Might also end up meeting NPCs that require your surgery skill.
Only way I will skip lockpicking is it works like Skyrim, where you can try locks even if you don't have the skill. Save/load can get you into master locks at level 1 skill. However, guessing Fallout 4 will do what previous games did, and not let you try if you don't have the skill. EDIT: Just checked. Confirmed that you can't activate locks without the skill points. So priority skill for me /End edit
Sneaky, slow moving, sniper/ranged with above abilities will be what I try to make.