FALLOUT 4

[Melbosa]

This is really neat: http://ca.ign.com/videos/2015/11/10/fallout-4-real-life-vs-in-game-boston

[Melbosa]

Damnit I could have used this today: https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/663430608090226688/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Mr. Analog]

This is really neat: http://ca.ign.com/videos/2015/11/10/fallout-4-real-life-vs-in-game-boston

That was so good! I can't wait to visit some of those places

Damnit I could have used this today: https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/663430608090226688/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

hahaha well I'm taking the rest of the week off due to actual medical reasons


...though I'm sure I will be playing some therapeutic Fallout 4

[Tom]

Damnit I could have used this today: https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/663430608090226688/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

hahaha well I'm taking the rest of the week off due to actual medical reasons

YAY!

[Melbosa]

Thought this was interesting list for some game flavour: http://ca.ign.com/wikis/fallout-4/Character_Names

I like how these names make the list but no variant of my actual name does:

• Badass
• Bastard
• Boob
• Boobies

But hey I see almost everyone else save Thorin (although Thorn is there for at least something spelled close) is in the list of the members I know from RW.

[Thorin]

Thorn is as close to Thorin as Bryant is to to your real name...

Also, there's @%&#face and Titties.  So not exactly a high-brow list.

[Mr. Analog]

At least you can be GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN hahah

Some common names are also missing, when I usually play TUFF MELEE I pick a female and name her Judy

But yeah, I guess @%&#face will have to do? hahaha

[Mags]

Strange none of the avatar names are in there, but all eight names I use for my tallywacker are. Odd.

[Mr. Analog]

Hey so, I've been playing a lot (28 hours on record) and man this game is SO GOOD and @%&#ing HUGE

There are two nasty bugs I have fixes for one not spoilery but other somewhat spoilers

Fallout 4 Getting stuck in elevator
There are a lot of elevators, but the buggiest of all is the Trinity Tower one, so what you want to do anytime you see an elevator in the Commonwealth is quicksave (F5) if you enter and it takes you to the next part, congrats, if it doesn't if it just stops you are in trouble and will likely lose a bunch of progress. From what I can tell the scripts for the next events have failed to load and the only way to fix it is to exit the game and re-load from your quicksave. Reloading quicksave without first closing and re-running the game will NOT WORK. Anyway, it will save you some frustration (anyway this is a Bethesda Fallout game, you should be hitting F5 every 10 minutes you are alive lol)

Y'ARR SPOILERS BELOW BUT ANNOYING AS HELL

Spoiler

How to power the Signal Interceptor
OK, this one had me stuck for a while because I didn't really get into the crafting / settlement building aspect of the game at all but at some point during the main quest the game forces you into it. Building the equipment itself is pretty easy (I did mine in Sanctuary) THE THING IS this @%&# requires A LOT OF POWER, this is what I was screwing up

Step 1:
Clear a lot for your build, make sure there is room for a bunch of generators nearby

Step 2:
Build all the pieces of the Signal Interceptor, try to build the console, the dish and the tower more or less in one line or an "L" shape

Step 3: @%&#IN' POWERHOUSE
I had built a Large Generator thinking it would be enough, LOL NOPE, you need to build a lot of power, here's what I did (it might be more power than was needed but too lazy to experiment)

Plan your generators in a line, I started with the Large Generator and then 5 Medium Generators, just build them next to each other, making sure one of them is in line of sight of the Signal Interceptor console

Next run wires (not obvious, but when you mouse over a generator there are a list of options that show at the BOTTOM, on PC the button to add a wire is SPACEBAR)

You run a wire from one generator to the next, once all your generators are connected, run a wire from one of them to the Console, then from the Console run a wire to the Dish, and from that run a wire to the tower

You now have power and you don't have to dick around for 30+ minutes trying to figure out the clumsy interface!

[close]

Anyway, good times! Hope people are having a good time with it as much as I am

[Mr. Analog]

When Fallout 4 launched it resulted in a 10% drop of visits to PornHub apparently

http://thenewstelegraph.com/2015/11/16/bethesda-touts-fallout-4-milestones/

LOL

[Melbosa]

OK having your Pip-Boy app running on your Tablet while playing the game - WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!  Makes life so much easier on the PC for me (might not be for everyone).

[Lazybones]

OK having your Pip-Boy app running on your Tablet while playing the game - WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!  Makes life so much easier on the PC for me (might not be for everyone).

Apparently it is an amazing way to troll your friend while they are playing as well since there is no authentication... A guy on reddit was discussing how he kept changing his brothers inventory while he played.

[Mr. Analog]

OK having your Pip-Boy app running on your Tablet while playing the game - WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!  Makes life so much easier on the PC for me (might not be for everyone).

Apparently it is an amazing way to troll your friend while they are playing as well since there is no authentication... A guy on reddit was discussing how he kept changing his brothers inventory while he played.

Really! Wow that would be annoying!

Drop item over and over... !

[Melbosa]

OK having your Pip-Boy app running on your Tablet while playing the game - WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!  Makes life so much easier on the PC for me (might not be for everyone).

Apparently it is an amazing way to troll your friend while they are playing as well since there is no authentication... A guy on reddit was discussing how he kept changing his brothers inventory while he played.

Really! Wow that would be annoying!

Drop item over and over... !

Don't tell my Wife that...

[Mr. Analog]

OK having your Pip-Boy app running on your Tablet while playing the game - WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!  Makes life so much easier on the PC for me (might not be for everyone).

Apparently it is an amazing way to troll your friend while they are playing as well since there is no authentication... A guy on reddit was discussing how he kept changing his brothers inventory while he played.

Really! Wow that would be annoying!

Drop item over and over... !

Don't tell my Wife that...

Waits until you are sneaking

Turns light on