Hey!
The Fallout series was on sale on steam so I bought a few of them. I'm currently playing Fallout 4 and have comments/questions please note that I am only 4 pages into this thread, so some of my questions might have been answered but I have chores to do and this is faster than going through 300+ posts:
Comments:
The landscape seems empty and boring. Cities are more exciting and dangerous feeling. I haven't been to diamond city, so there's that.
The area around your starting point is intended to ease you into things, so the density of encounters is fairly low. Still, there are a variety of nearby farmsteads, stores and small towns.
Questions:
-Are there followers that aren't annoying? The dogs footfalls are constant, Preston and the robot guy are annoying and judgy.
Each of them have their likes and dislikes (aside from the dog). The fact that Codsworth dislikes collecting junk, which is, like, 40% of the gameplay, always ruled him out for me as a companion.
There are a couple of companion characters in Diamond City who can be good company. My favourite is Curie, she's a little harder to find.
- Is there a way to remove mods from items and put them on something else? If I scrap them, I get mostly common stuff (not screws or adhesive which seems to be the least available stuff). If I re-modify them, the old modifications seem to go into my inventory but I can't figure out how to put them on new items.
Mods can only go back on to weapons of the same base type as they were removed from. If you remove a scope from a Hunting Rifle, you can only attach it to another Hunting Rifle. If you have a mod available in your inventory or workbench when modifying an item, then when you scroll down to that mod in the menu, the default action will be Attach rather than Build.
-When scrapping things on PC, is there a quick way to do that? I've been collecting stuff and then, when I get back to a base, drop it on the ground and scrap it all. It's annoying and slow.
You don't need to break down junk items. When accessing the workbench or any crafting station in a settlement, you can store all junk items in it (there's even a quick-key to dump them all) and then, when you're crafting, any junk items containing the materials needed will be broken down automatically, and any remaining unused materials will be stored.
-Is there a reason to not always wear power armour? you get it fairly early. I guess it's bad for stealth builds?
Power armour is powered by fusion cores. In the early game it's possible to burn through cores faster than you can find new ones.
Also power armour overrides the stats of any clothing or non-powered armour your character is wearing, effectively causing them to become inactive. This isn't so bad for raw defensive capabilities, but many items of clothing provide stat bonuses (like Agility for military fatigues, or Charisma for a tuxedo) that are also removed when in power armour. It's not uncommon for players to carry around entire spare outfits specifically for the bonuses they'll get in social interactions.
This becomes even more an issue once you start picking up armour pieces with Legendary effects. You can be getting huge cumulative bonuses to mutliple abilities, boosts to movement speed, better Action Point regen and a variety of other effects, all of which are lost the moment you don your power armour.
Also you clank around in it, which I find more annoying than some skittering dog footsteps.
