fallout-general-chat

[umbral sable]

All it does is let you craft 3 new types of nuka colas that are basically performance boosting chems. You can still find some in the game without the perk, but they’re rare

[granite charm]

im sure this has been done but ive genuinely found my favourite build for fnv, i usually use a cowboy build without focusing on vats but on this one i took every single vats perk and every crit perk and i basically have inf ap and do crazy damage 😭

i can reload lucky twice in vats

[granite charm]

im thinking about changing traits to get even more ap

[warm locust]

W night

Crap I don't got media perms

[cerulean roost]

hola

[flat jetty]

sup

[little seal]

I'm so nostalgic for the gothic decay and Art Deco vibes Fo3 and Dead Money had I hope Bethesda brings that back in future Fallout games

[quasi sentinel]

Why no NV chat??

[wanton fjord]

Because NV is not a BGS studios game. It is obsidian.

[quasi sentinel]

Ah… makes sense. Thanks

[wanton fjord]

Everyone discusses it here in this chat

[little seal]

It’s the same on why they ain’t no eso chat

[dry current]

x02 kinda looks like that one robot from reel steel

[dry current]

idk if thats the correct spelling though

[uneven ingot]

I’d watch a movie called Reel Steel. Instead of a robot boxing competition it’d be about a robot fishing competition

[mossy bolt]

somehow I found a IRL wakemaster, at least its the same shape as one

[umbral sable]

Real Steal and it's just robots doing heists

[vital glen]

guys my fallout 4 wont load up😭 im playing on xbox and im worried that its unplayable now.

I cant lose all my 23 suits of power armor

[little seal]

has there been any official word on Bethesda's plan for the future art direction of the fallout series going forward?

I'm asking cause personally I'm hoping they return to a blend of what Fo3 and New Vegas where. with retro-futuristic 50's Americana stuff being mixed with a nice strong blend of industrial and gothic art deco stuff for its architecture and retaining a moody and sometimes eerie atmosphere

[flat jetty]

Simple. Uninstall and reinstall

[flat jetty]

I don't know if they have, I would like it to be more dark like fallout 3. I know the Bethesda ceo talks about fallout 5 though.

[tribal rampart]

There has not. I don't see them straying too far from what's already established for the franchise. Fallout is a certain vibe, and they definitely know how to create the right atmosphere for it.

[umbral sable]

given the pattern of 76 and the series id imagine the opposite is true

[vital glen]

alr it worked thxs

[flat jetty]

Whenever I have trouble with a game I always do that

[umbral sable]

90% of all tech related issues can be solved by the hard reset

[short basin]

My lads I after all these months finally got a variety pack of the jones soda fallout collab drinks

I’d say it’s well worth the wait

[uneven ingot]

My dad got me a pack of Sunset Sarsaparilla as a gift. They’re chilling up in the fridge right now

[umbral sable]

im glad they released just the Sunsets

i liked the way the quantum looks but that and the grape just kinda tasted bad imo

[twilit parrot]

wait wouldnt that be a choice that you would have to make, that would have lasting implications for your playthrough?

bgs: we cant have that

[twin nymph]

For Fallout London, Anyone know if they ever made a Automatic junk scrapper mod like they did for Fallout 4?

[lone crypt]

You'll have better success posting in #fallout-4-mods or #1067505929534320700

[little seal]

that's a shame because the pure oversaturated soft and bright look of FO4 and 76 always felt to shallow and lighthearted for a fallout game it lacked the immersive apocalyptic atmosphere of older games with the exception of Far Harbor and Burning Springs. The art direction really needs some spice added to it. The Retro-Future stuff is undoubtedly a core ascetic of fallout but it needs to be balanced out with the grit and grime of darker atmospheric tones that really convey the despair of the post apocalyptic wasteland while reminiscing of the old world prosperity.

[uneven ingot]

I’m pretty partial to the Mire region in 76. The lighting in that games makes for some really great swampy aesthetics if you catch it at the right time. The abandoned settlements of Harper’s Ferry and Berkley Springs have a more grounded look and architecture based off their real life counterparts instead of the colorful retro sci-fi look present in the newer games.

Too bad like 85% of the time it’s either too dark or too bright

[little seal]

fr

[sterile sage]

hello everyone

[fallow panther]

i respect your opinion. Personally, I agree on 76, but F04 felt "just right" to me. I really liked seeing some things fairly intact, but destroyed/rusted. I wouldn't argue that it's thematically on-brand in comparison with someting like F01, F02, or F03, but I thought F04 was a well-balanced change to that formula, better than what NV did anyways.

[fallow panther]

I also loved the vibe of diamond city, but i think it needed to be a bit larger.

[potent flume]

It's within the confines of a baseball stadium.

[fallow panther]

yeah sure, I realize that.

the physical footprint of the stadium when outside it in world is larger than the version which is loaded in when you enter it btw.

[potent flume]

I'd imagine Diamond City, if it existed in real life, would certainly be bigger than it is in-game, keeping in mind the games are not 1:1 scale.

[dusty walrus]

I hope there will be npc kill animations based on the skill of the character in fo5

With maxed out stealth you break someone's neck from behind (unarmed)

With maxed out strength you hold enemies by their necks and break them

And i hope there wont be repeated gun animations

🙄

[fallow panther]

I think your expectations may be met with dissapointment.

[potent flume]

I mean... that's several years away. Anything is possible. We don't yet even know what engine they're going to use for it.

[torn ore]

Melee in general is sad and boring in fallout 4

3 or 4 different moves that you repeat ad nauseum and thats it

I hope 5 gives us something like dying light melee, or at least dead island melee

[dusty walrus]

as if there is no such melee weapons in fallout 4...

tbh melee gameplay does suck in fallout 4

Parry hit parry hit hit parry and it takes hours on enemies that dont die easily

[little seal]

I agree its not the level of physical building destruction that bothers me thoe in 4 and or 76 its more so the almost cheery like weather and ambient music, I prefer the polluted eerie atmosphere an ambiance of fallout 3 and the brown filter of New Vegas, The ambient music for both older games was also a lot more subtle and quiter often allowing for ambient wasteland sounds to be more audible while building up a sense of despair and or desperation as opposed to FO4 ambient music which always tries to do an epic orchestral thing like its trying to constantly hype you up for every little thing. Ive played vanilla Fallout 4 with some classic fallout ENB and ambiance mods that make a huge difference and make it feel like classic fallout with minimal change. Its less of the physical map and architecture that's wrong with 4 and more so the actual lighting/weather along with some of the ambiance make it feel to upbeat and less gritty

its honestly crazy how a simple ENB and wasteland ambiance/music mod can make FO4 feel like an entirely different game more akin to the classic fallout

[ebon terrace]

i always wondered why there is a huge hate for having possible humanoid deathclaws in fallout? I mean the close thing i can see is litterally Killer Croc from Batman Arkham Asylum
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arkham-asylum-game/images/f/f2/KillerCrocB-AA.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100123025444

since there is a prolific deathclaw race in post war america, i'm surprise if there is a possible variant or strain where these mutants evolved into lizard people, loose some of their feral traits but is very aggressive like angry lizard cave men

but it could also be a very isolationist lizard people society as urban myth told by the local wastelanders

unless is actually just another enclave failed experiment for super soldiers after the wipe out of the talking deathclaws from vault 13

[fallow panther]

Generally I think we agree. Although, I really dislike using any mods that change atmosphere etc. i think the most i did that way was adding dynamic weather that afaik uses normal weather but allows you to adjust it to be more frequent/varied etc. I found that made it feel more "wasteland" like, more rad storms etc. I respectfully disagree about new vegas, i often feel as if im playing a western rather than any sort of post-apocalyptic setting, but thats just my opinion.

Hot-take but as someone who built a few maps for Halo CE back in the day (custom of course) New Vegas feels like you're still half in the world editor like it's just a big sandbox with assets dropped in. I don't really want to debate about new vegas though, i know how heated that kind of conversation gets, just dropping my 2 cents on my personal thoughts.

[ebon terrace]

I'm not suggesting cute, adult-modded anthro deathclaws in japan maid costume (like an argonian maid). All I'm saying: take Fallout 2's Talking Deathclaws (canon since 1998, created by John Deiley) and push them further with FEV, exactly as their creator intended. FEV is a virus that forces adaptation to the environment (we see it on super mutants who continue to grow and mutate). A rare strain of intelligent deathclaws that have lived for generations in human ruins (cities, vaults, areas with pre-war tech) must evolve to survive: a more upright posture to use objects, more agile hands, and language to intimidate or negotiate. It's not "I want a waifu lizard." It's biology since FEV is changing them because the human environment forces them to adapt.

[fallow panther]

those in the #fallout-lore chat can speak more conclusively, but I understand that deathclaws were not the result of FEV, instead they were genetically engineered by the US government BEFORE the bombs dropped, this is re-inforced in the fallout TV show.

I do understand that the master and others experimented with using FEV on deathclaws post-war. Just remember this is a creature genetically engineered to kill and it's features were carefully selected by humans, not any evolutionary process. they are a "Designed" species. Intelligent deathclaws exist, I'll acknowledge that for sure. I just don't see bethesda changing them anytime soon, they're currently their popular "big bad" that symbolize the series to newcomers.

[little seal]

all good I always just personally preferred the blend of western and post apocalyptic vibe NV had it was unique and I liked it personally as the wild west and post-apocalyptic genres are weirdly more similar to each other than not and low key work well with each other but I get it

[fallow panther]

fair enough friend. I really enjoyed it back in 2010. I feel a bit spoiled by 76's recent burning springs addition as it has so great western vibes and imo is really well done for what it is. It's been a kinda painful playing burning springs then hopping to New Vegas, even with tons of mods. I almost wish they didn't do burning springs haha 🤣

[little seal]

NV just suffers from dated graphics and gameplay if it where to ever get a remaster im sure it would become a popular top seller in the franchise

[fallow panther]

amen to that. it's been a long time coming, bethesda!!! lol.

[ebon terrace]

the vault 13 deathclaws are a unique experiment done by the enclave

[lone furnace]

Please do not discuss rumors, leaks, or misinformation as it is againt the #rules

[little seal]

mybad

[fallow panther]

i think the last time i checked steam charts db, new vegas is the most played fallout currently.

[little seal]

wouldn't surprise me it has a HUGE cult fallowing and is praised seemingly everywhere you look by both old and new fans

that and its massive modding community prolly help

[fallow panther]

eh crap i think im wrong. Just checked charts and looks like fallout 4 is ahead of NV now. my bad. Maybe i was thinking sales

[little seal]

That also wouldn't surprise me, as 4 is the latest game in the main series, and with the TV show bringing in millions of new fans, most will probably default to the newest game in the series as their first pick simply because it's the newest and has the most up-to-date gameplay and graphics... that and Fo4 marked the beginning of the franchise fully entering the mainstream, along with that and the initial hype surrounding it on its release; it probably has the highest sales and player count of all the games simply due to those factors alone.

[potent flume]

On Steam, FNV peaked at 45K players in April 2024, and about 28K in February this year. Else it's maintained 5-10K.

FO4's numbers are certainly much higher.

76 is maintaining 10-20K.

Those figures are Steam only.

[flat jetty]

For an almost 16 year old game, that's not bad.

[potent flume]

Multiple endings for replayability, and modding certainly help.

[flat jetty]

Yeah

[flat jetty]

In my opinion if fallout 4 had a better dialogue system it would be better in my opinion.

[torn ore]

Not just dialogue, better script in general. What we have is very low quality

Thanks god you can just add like 300 weapon to the game, dozens of monsters and have fun liek that

[flat jetty]

yeah, the death claw should be harder to kill. also I don't get why they went with finding your son. they could have made it something else.

[torn ore]

The story had actually some interesting stuff but Emil and the gang dont have the talent to make anything good with it

[flat jetty]

i just think they could have changed it from finding your son

[torn ore]

Your son being an old man and the leader of the bad guys was good enough imo. But then he makes you leader of the organisation, doesn't explain anything and also there are 0 emotional moments between you and him

I still don't know what the motivations of the institute are

[flat jetty]

I'm on my 4th fallout new vegas playthrough. Made a rule where I can't use commands, but can use mods

[fallow panther]

i think ive used console commands maybe twice over the course of 10 years, with multiple playthroughs of f3,f4 & nv. I do have lots of mods on second playthroughs though.

[flat jetty]

Well, I've had fnv for 4 months and have used console commands loads of times 🤣

[fallow panther]

that's maybe not the best way to experience the game the first time, but who am I to judge? If it works for you, have at it(*I apparently can't read). What are you doing with these console commands, typically?

[flat jetty]

No my first playthrough didn't have any commands, my second one did because I wanted to use power armour earlier and my third one was only commands

[fallow panther]

Oh sorry I'm not paying enough attention, my bad. What commands are you using the most?

[flat jetty]

Missile launcher, god mode, power armour training, toggle collision, speed and a bunch others

[fallow panther]

oh boy that sure is a lot of commands. I only ever used the one to unlock a terminal when i failed it too many times and got frustrated, and the second time was to unlock a door i also failed to pick haha.

[little seal]

tbh I would of preferred if the player characters wasn't voice acted and had their past left somewhat ambiguous... don't get me wrong the voice actors for Nora and Nate are top tier voice actors but just having the player character be given a canonic face, voice, and backstory takes away from the role playing and character creation elements fallout is best known for... FO4 gave off the impression that more effort was being put into new mechanics like base building and gunplay over the story and writing it also was clearly being used as a testing ground for new ideas and concepts Bethesda was trying

[torn ore]

They tried to pull off a commander shepard 2.0 without any of the talent to make it work. At least some of the lines are funny

I mean, the writing talent. The actors did their best with what they got

[little seal]

yea its better to just leave those things up to player interpretation sometimes especially for a game like fallout the relies heavily on both character creation and immersive roleplay interactions. The VA's did a fine job and it was clearly just Bethesda experimenting with something new ideas. Some of them just didn't land well in the end with the greater fandom

that and FO4's dialogue felt to linear

FO4 peaks in gunplay and action.

FO3 peaks in its atmosphere and art direction.

FNV peaks in its writing and world building.

with these takeaways Bethesda has the base ingredients to make an amazing Fallout game if they study what each game did and didn't do well in. Then Fallout 5 has the potential to be the best game of the series.

[torn ore]

Fo3 art is so superior to fo4 is sad to see. The main artist actually died...Man if he was still around for fallout 4 we could have got something really special

[little seal]

yea Adamowicz was one of if not the best Lead designer Bethesda ever had its a tragedy he was taken from us so soon and is possibly the greatest loss to Bethesda in the companies history

it wasn't just a loss for Bethesda it was a loss for the industry and community as whole honestly even his work for Skyrim and Oblivion and inadvertently Fallout New Vegas is Iconic

[muted pasture]

is there one for fallout shelter?

[flat jetty]

A channel #fallout-shelter-chat

[rare escarp]

When is the update for mod storage increase gonn come out

There hasn’t been any update on it and Bethesda you have time to pump out the paid creations but no time to update on the mod storage increase for consoles

[stone otter]

Yo i'm looking for fallout 76 players from PlayStation DMS me if someones interested

[amber plinth]

Might have better luck in #76-lfg

[stone otter]

Huh I dont see it anywhere on this server

[amber plinth]

You may need to select id:customize

[stone otter]

Yeeah now I see it
Its been a while since I joined here and I dont use this server actually lol

[flat siren]

I’m still not getting how fallout 76 hasn’t got a Xbox series X|S 60 fps 120fps I think the ps5 doesn’t have that either it’s the last game title they need to do correct? After get a certain amount of the fallout staff make fallout 5 your fan wants answers including myself.

[potent flume]

76 is getting native porting to series X/S and PS5.

It was announced on the Fallout Day stream last year.

[uneven ingot]

iirc the timeline they gave when they made that announcement was early 2026. Haven’t said anything about it since afaik

[flat jetty]

I think Bethesda aren't that good with times.

[narrow perch]

Have we all given up on expectations of an announcement anytime soon? I have.

[proven notch]

Right up there with Funcom.🤦‍♂️

[flat jetty]

I'm bored, so here's my favourite places out of the fallout games I've played.

1. Freeside (fnv)
2. Goodneighbor (f4)
3. Megaton (after you nuke it) (f3)
4. The wayward (f76)

[fallow panther]

what do you like about megaton after you nuke it? interesting list. Freeside & goodneighbor I really disliked. I love the wayward too though.

[flat jetty]

The radiation! I like freeside because of the kings and because it wasn't in control of mr house. I like goodneighbor because I think of it as freeside in fallout 4, it also has some good quests.

[fallow panther]

I'm assuming that wasn't a ranked list, here's my shot

1. The Strip (NV)
2. **F4 **i can't think of just one place, the whole map is peak imo
3. Little Lamplight (Tenpenny tower a close second) F3
4. Watoga (F76)

[flat jetty]

Nice, I very much dislike the strip. I can say that the one thing fallout 4 did better was the map.

[dusty walrus]

Goodneighbour was less lively and less ghetto

Melee is awful in fo4

Most locations in fo4 are cool but i hate mazes and labyrinths in each warehouse/abandoned facility

[lone crypt]

Here are a few of my favorite Fallout locaqtions:

Boston - Fallout 4
Rivet City -Fallout 3
Megaton (intact) -Fallout 3
Oasis - Fallout 3
New Reno - Fallout 2
Alpine Lake - Fallout 76
Diamond City - Fallout 4
The Boneyard - Fallout 1

[flat jetty]

Megatons better when it's full of radiation

[crude parcel]

Defending my home

[sudden nova]

It's truly beautiful in it's true form. And to think I did something as good as releasing the millions of children of atom at the same time. Never felt so good & divine! 😎

[dawn halo]

goodneighbor is amazing imo, probably my favorite location in the whole game

[fallow panther]

Did i miss something there? I think there are like... 4 explorable buildings in total? Seemed small and not quite lively imo. I didn't spend much time there, though.

[dawn halo]

eh for me more so the quests/story that comes with it and what goodneighbor is all about. but in terms of just layout other areas would make it seem underwhelming i guess

[fallow panther]

ah yeah i guess there are shops https://game-maps.com/Fallout4/img/Fallout-4-Goodneighbor-Map.jpg

[dawn halo]

also the memory den + inclusion in the main story

[fallow panther]

yeah that was the best part. Hancock got on my nerves, sent many invisible bullets through him haha.

I kinda thought oh so hancock can just blast away dude he doesnt like no problem but I can't do the same to hancock.. dudes a savage!

[dawn halo]

aw how come he got on your nerves lol?

[fallow panther]

just kinda seemed like a crappy mayor & that intro bothered me. Interestingly:

Cut dialogue lines from the first encounter with Finn mention Hancock as being deceased, indicating that at some point in development, Hancock would have been able to be killed.

likely unfinished content that got scrapped for release. I imagine there was a bigger plot of humans vs ghouls, siding with the ghoul or human(finn). That could have been... pretty juicy! imagine the options it would add for the side-quests that spur from that. Come to think of it, this means we missed out on a whole companion too.

[dawn halo]

ah i guess that makes sense, i find him to be really well developed and despite how annoying the gameplay aspect of the big dig is i find it to be a really great quest to set up his conflict and of course, companionship. definitely a character that a lot of thought went into and i also especially enjoy his story growing up with mcdonough and such

[dawn halo]

that would be interesting to see

i never knew about the cut dialogue that’s actually very interesting

[edgy barn]

This channel needs to be active more

[flat jetty]

Yeah I love goodneighbor. I think the reason is it's like freeside from fnv but more colourful and dark while also having a more lively population.

[dawn halo]

the community is shown so well in goodneighbor like through how maccready and daisy interact i feel like

[surreal veldt]

Can anybody tell me what the best Melee weapon is in fallout 4

[uneven ingot]

idk but Atom’s Judgement is pretty sick

[surreal veldt]

I kinda killed the children of Atom..

[fallow panther]

fists & grognak outfit

[torn ore]

Pickman's knife for stealth build, fully upgraded rocket bat for general use. Also that ripper from far harbor that has the staggering effect for 1 vs 1 combat

[fallow panther]

man i loved my rocket bat.

[west tapir]

how does one get the enclave role?

or any faction role tbh

[wanton fjord]

#server-roles

[west tapir]

thanks choom

[sharp pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/67-meme-tiktok-67-angry-bird-gif-15351561574302588345

[edgy barn]

Cool

[fallow panther]

This me with BULLY lol

[surreal veldt]

Thank you

Also guys is t 45 good? Cuz it my fav

[torn ore]

No it isn't lol, its ho is so low it will break all the time

At least it's very cheap to repair but thats all it has

[surreal veldt]

I got t 45 on model f

And I used the armor plating on it

Plus I also use 2076 series world bat

[twin nymph]

Fallout London is so much more fun with the industrial salvager

[surreal veldt]

Ok guys I’m really new to fallout 4 but what’s the best melee and gun to use 🙂

[sterile sage]

depends, are we counting named legendaries or regular legendaries

[surreal veldt]

Just normal

[sterile sage]

so nothing like spray n pray?

[surreal veldt]

Just regular guns without legendary effects

[sterile sage]

id say gatling laser is pretty good

[surreal veldt]

Ok I know I’m a pain

But is the 10 millimetre good?

[sterile sage]

as a starting weapon yes but it starts to get outclassed by other weapons pretty early into the game

[surreal veldt]

What’s the best companion is in ur opinion

[sterile sage]

curie maybe

[surreal veldt]

Mines mcready

I use t 45f power armor it my favourite:-))))

[sterile sage]

i use t60

[surreal veldt]

Nice

Do you play on PlayStation 4?

[sterile sage]

Yea

[surreal veldt]

How rare is a chameleon deathclaw?

[flat jetty]

Not T-51b 😠

[surreal veldt]

Relax it’s my opinion

[flat jetty]

Alright

[surreal veldt]

I can say t 51b is good 2

[flat jetty]

I just like the look of it

[surreal veldt]

Fair

[twin nymph]

My go to machine gun is the Spray n' Pray, a explosive round Tommy gun you can buy from that crazy chem chick Cricket located in the recreation area outside Vault 81, directly west of Diamond City

[flat jetty]

The name "Jamanthian" isn't unique to bethesda.net 😠 😠

[twin nymph]

Beef up your explosion damage and you'll practicly be firing micro granades in bullet form

[twin nymph]

I prefer the T 51 because of resources, other higher Power Armor needs a ton of aliumunium to repair, a material that is hard to find

[flat jetty]

Why doesn't it comply with your terms of service?

Wait maybe someone took it.

[twin nymph]

They either hate flowers or some pale skinned human male used it in a joke and is now considered hitler levels of evil

You could also just use Jamanthi, or Chrysanthemum

[flat jetty]

I used Jamanthian.

[twin nymph]

Jamanthian The Conqueror of VAULTS!

[modest grove]

Damm still no 100GB mod update

How long that been now since they said about it

[grizzled rain]

Anyone know how to add the skip sierra madre dlc mod to new vegas

[surreal iron]

They annouced it last year

[modest grove]

Yeah

[surreal iron]

Said we had to wait till this year. Nd still havent got nun

In February said they was gonna give us more info in the coming weeks its been 2 months

[fallow panther]

https://tenor.com/view/info-information-brain-smart-gif-8626049

[vital glen]

guys give me a random magazine form fallout 4 and ill find it (No dlc magazines)

[uneven ingot]

Tesla Science #5

[grand cedar]

When is the 100gb mod update coming?

[surreal veldt]

Wait so your saying t 45 is bad?

[uneven ingot]

t-45 has comparable stats to raider pa until you upgrade it

[surreal veldt]

My t 45 is model f

[uneven ingot]

and even fully upgraded it is only slightly better than mid-grade T-60

[surreal veldt]

I’m using it rn in far harbour

[uneven ingot]

it's not bad if you don't have anything else. it just breaks faster and protects less than later models

personally i'm a fan of T-51. i'm a sucker for the classics

[surreal veldt]

But I like it because it looks tanky but I know it’s crappy tho but I like it in my opinion

[uneven ingot]

100% wear what you like and make it work

I run around in MacCready's duster and VATS my way through

[surreal veldt]

Thanks for being positive and thanks for the tips really appreciated

Wait you use Macreadys clothing?

[uneven ingot]

yep. you can apply ballistic weave to it increase its stats

[surreal veldt]

I use the vault suit and pop some leather armor on

I upgrade the vault suit and the leather armor stuff Dw

[uneven ingot]

leather's great. i especially like the sturdy and heavy versions you start finding at later levels

[surreal veldt]

I’m level 83

[uneven ingot]

nice! i'm lvl 1400 on 76 lol

[surreal veldt]

Don’t take offence or anything but I’m gonna say no life lol

[uneven ingot]

it's much easier to stack exp buffs there. and they added an end-game raid which gives a TON of exp so levels are kind of meaningless there

life in 76 is great ngl

[surreal veldt]

I have every power armor all the way to x-02

And I have the sugar bomb vim abraxo and nuka cola

[uneven ingot]

those ones are awesome

[surreal veldt]

I have all dlc except for anniversary edition

I’m not spending 100 bucks for a flipping dlc that does bog all

[uneven ingot]

i rarely use PA but when I do I use this raider version https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1096178191300829244/1477463084388978759/image.png?ex=69e2d0b9&is=69e17f39&hm=de2b5f9a42d5aede32eb36ae0872f3f82b01ca971d3933cfc21624535921c100&

[surreal veldt]

How do I put image ij

[uneven ingot]

it's a mix match of different raider pa parts in 76. most of it I got for free. only paid part was the helmet and left shoulder

i linked it from https://discordapp.com/channels/784542837596225567/1096178191300829244 but you can probably do the same from https://discordapp.com/channels/784542837596225567/784546058381688912

[surreal veldt]

Bro the raider power armor looks wayyyy beter then fallout 4d one

#screenshots-and-video message

S rhat how u do it

Yes I play on PlayStation..

[uneven ingot]

right click, copy image, then paste where you want it

[surreal veldt]

I’m mobile sorry

[uneven ingot]

ah then idk then

[surreal veldt]

#screenshots-and-video message

[uneven ingot]

try holding down, share, then copy link

[surreal veldt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784546058381688912/1494549669127131177/IMG_1199.jpg?ex=69e30358&is=69e1b1d8&hm=ab84e49c50e34d6349a0d41790fecb9e4014558587a4b4aaa4acaf934a601e6d&

Their we go

[uneven ingot]

needs some drip. try finding some paints for it

[surreal veldt]

I’m using titanium plating

[uneven ingot]

i think there's magazines that lets you apply a paint job

without sacrificing stats

[surreal veldt]

I got all 3 lemme go do that I will message here in a bit

[uneven ingot]

i may be confusing it was 76's power armor crafting system

[surreal veldt]

Fallout shelter was my first game now it’s fallout 4 i want new Vegas and fallout 3 bad

I’ll be right back just putting some drip on it

[uneven ingot]

end-game 76 is all about finding the best drip https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1096178191300829244/1490897049263280238/Screenshot_2026-03-16_170713.png?ex=69e2e894&is=69e19714&hm=d9be7d02f42776a7ad544fd705d2f5fc20dba6b78661a4abe6dea7f46a80ef11&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2024&height=1265

[surreal veldt]

Im back Gimme a sec

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784546058381688912/1494552484801155113/IMG_1201.jpg?ex=69e305f7&is=69e1b477&hm=8726b733e36f2b4bc2dc4be92066fff8b003e8beba58c89cd1b5178a782eeeed&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784546058381688912/1494552484427993241/IMG_1202.jpg?ex=69e305f7&is=69e1b477&hm=ecc588f92b9ba5664fbe3a31a179fb67165bf91747a0a60f8ddff87b659c89c5&

Their

[uneven ingot]

Very cool! The shark paint is one of my favorites

[surreal veldt]

Same ngl

I think it took me about two weeks to get all of the armor

[uneven ingot]

For future reference, be sure not to overdo it with the pictures. Mods don’t like it when you do that too much.

use this great power sparingly

[surreal veldt]

Oh am I gonna get banned?

[uneven ingot]

Nah they’ll just delete the posts if screenshots leak too much out of the screenshots channel

[surreal veldt]

Oh ok

Rn I’m just tryna get steel for my power plant I’m building in sanctuary

[uneven ingot]

A great way to do that is to grab as many guns from dead enemies as you can carry, bring them all to a settlement and drop them on the ground

Then go to build mode and scrap them one by one. Be sure to have scrapper equipped

[surreal veldt]

I know it will reduce the build limit

[uneven ingot]

That’s also a bonus benefit

[surreal veldt]

Is scrapper a perk?

[uneven ingot]

Yeah. My bad. In 76 you equip perks lol

[surreal veldt]

YOU CAN?

[uneven ingot]

Yep. You can only have so many perks active at one time so you can’t go god mode at later levels

But what perks you do have lets you do some wacky stuff with it. I have a Guass shotgun that does 35k dmg on a VATS critical

[surreal veldt]

That would be unfair to other players but my main question is that can u play by yourself in fallout 76?

[uneven ingot]

I play 100% by myself

I have players on my friendlist that I join the same server on

[surreal veldt]

Good cuz I don’t like playing with other people much

[uneven ingot]

But we never get into a voice call or anything like that

[surreal veldt]

I need one more trophy then I get platinum in fallout

[uneven ingot]

Congrats. Hope you get it soon

As for me I gotta hit the hay. Got work tomorrow 💀

[surreal veldt]

I need 100% settlement happiness on it that’s why I’m building in sanctuary

[uneven ingot]

Gn and have fun!

[surreal veldt]

I’m still a minor lol

Cya man gl with work

[potent cipher]

Help, not sure where to go. Playing fallout shelter experimental vault. Didn’t do the initial start up trainer thingy since I know how to play. Now can’t get a dweller since one of the items is to have completed that. Now have no idea how to find that and do it after the fact. Any help appreciated.

I see this may be the full on game. Maybe someone can point me to the appropriate group for fallout shelter.

[sudden nova]

Scroll up like 3 or 4 channels and you'll see "Fallout Shelter"

[potent cipher]

Thank you

[sudden nova]

And if you're out of dwellers, you can create one by putting a male and female together in the lounge room till they make love and make a baby (pregnancy first). It works faster if they have high charisma stat.

[rugged quarry]

what.

wdym 35k damage?

https://tenor.com/view/wait-what-wait-a-minute-huh-gif-17932668

[uneven ingot]

It’s only against a certain Raid boss enemy who has like 1m+ hp

Other weapons actually beat it in dps. Guass Shotgun requires a whole lot more work to reach those kind of numbers than other weapons

Most times I’m doing closer to about 11k per crit against regular enemies. That Raid boss just has a big weak spot.

[fallow panther]

https://i.imgur.com/fNTGGnh.png
Finished fallout 1 today. Ian, Katja, and Dogmeat made it all the way through!!

[violet lichen]

Nuclear winter almost makes you wish you were patrolling the Mojave.

[edgy barn]

My Ian was brutally murdered by the super mutants in Necropolis

[fallow panther]

He's not exactly the strongest haha. I spent more time reloading saves to save Ian than the time he spent shooting enemies that's for sure. Plus that bugger shoots me in the back all the time! Oh well, it's all over now. Neat to see that they all come with you to the end scene with the overseer.

dogmeat can be trapped behind doors at least, and katja runs away when she realizes she's outmatched

[flint laurel]

i have problem with fallout 4 creations i come back to game after a year and i cant activste any of my owned creations what should i do? i play on ps4

[fallow panther]

All I can say is I hope you didn't update the game & head on over to #fallout-4-mods for better advice.

[flint laurel]

i needed to instal newest updste bc i dont have it downloaded

[fallow panther]

I have no idea. I've never used creations stuff. Fallout 4 modding chat or #fallout-4-chat probably know more.

[flint laurel]

i use only creations made by bethesda

[fallow panther]

I can't help you.

[twilit parrot]

bro bgs doesnt have the source code for fallout nv...

[vast trench]

FALLOUT 5 SHOULD BE BASED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA so much good lore

https://youtu.be/bV12bVatem4?si=2Iq8UDr9kO8ecZgO

Change my mind

[tired adder]

bethesda please restock the nukacola glass bottle on the gear store

[fluid sedge]

I started playing Fallout New Vegas again, but on a Hardcore mode for the first time. And there were rough starts that I ran into and hopefully I get that part through without my courier kicked the bucket or I quit the game. So pray for me that I get it through fine and beat the hardcore mode for the first time.

Now I saved Goodsprings from Powder Gangers (without me killing the Powder Gangers,) have Sergent McGee as a Sheriff, and I started the I Fought The Law quest and to hope the NCR take over NCRCF.

[fluid sedge]

Meaning I have to side with the NCR and have the Powder Gangers wiped out and have Eddie survived the assault. So I’m assuming you were thinking “I” should kill Eddie, that’s why I will not kill Eddie for that.

[edgy barn]

hardcore is actually not that hard

its more about inventory management and farming food and water, I beat it pretty easily

[potent flume]

Yeah hardcore isn't entirely to do with mob difficulty. It's about micro management.

[rugged quarry]

“Powder gangers rule!” people when i press R (how i unholster my weapon) and a AMR round with their name on it ((They got turned into bloody mess either way.))

[fallow panther]

imagine fallout nv lets you have a canon death without beating main story & included alternative end slides

[sudden nova]

Fallout Remaster summer 26'???

[fallow panther]

nah probably more like 2028

[potent flume]

There was a team who were doing a complete fan remake of FO1 with FO4's engine, titled "Vault 13". They shut it down towards the end of completion a couple of years ago due to burnout.
Someone else in the meantime apparently made a FPS variant of it.

[potent flume]

This is interesting news.
https://frvr.com/blog/obsidian-thought-wed-be-able-to-do-fallout-new-vegas-2-new-orleans-setting/

[quasi sentinel]

hi

[fallow panther]

is it though? or just avellone yappin

[sudden nova]

I meant any Fallout, but I'd take that too!

[fallow panther]

I'm getting kinda excited for fallout 2. it's the only "mainline" fallout game i havent finished yet.

[steady bison]

Source code for a remaster is lost and the war between the two studios is on

Just the similar case with blizzard wanting to remaster diablo 2

[next hound]

Hope you enjoy it! Imo it’s the 2nd best in the franchise.

[sudden nova]

New Orleans? Aw man, that would of been the best Fallout of all time.

So disappointed it got scrapped.

[dry current]

where do yall want fallout 5 to be set in?

[lone crypt]

I would love to see it set in (and around) Chicago. It offers a major city next to a large body of water. It has connections to the creation of the atomic bomb. And they could play around with a retro-gangster armosphere (similar to the cowboy atmosphere in New Vegas).

[young latch]

Hey friends, will me having the plague walker mutation mess up my goul build in any way?

[fallow panther]

I'll always want a Fallout in Canada or closer too it, since well that's where I live. Realistically, they could do some place like Chicago, with a "canada" DLC type excursion that takes you to london ontario or sarnia, maybe even Toronto.

ou actually no i think detroit would be better. could really amp up "The Pitt" style aesthetic, they already know it works

personally, i think they will choose a location that allows for introducing/recounting some pre-war lore about US's relations with the outside world, and in my opinion the easiest way to do this is to base the setting out of a location where it'd be reasonable for those connections to occur. Although the "better" answer is that Todd has kept san fran off the table for fallout games for a while now, so, it's probably going to be there.

[balmy plover]

Cruelest joke that could ever be played is a fallout set in Detroit and somehow Detroit is the most advanced state we would see in any of the games after the war

[fallow panther]

well you know, they do have the factories!

[balmy plover]

I kinda hope we eventually get a fallout game involving somewhere in Europe, there’s a lot of potential but realistically it makes sense why it wouldn’t

Not exactly a lot of vaults there now are there 😅

[fallow panther]

im not sure that would happen, but I could see like a DLC flashback to a situation that unflolded in europe

it would be amazing for example if the main character has some backstory in the war that we get to use to explore conflict zones

[balmy plover]

TRUE, honestly I could accept a situation where the enclave set up some kind of special operation specifically in other countries so they can also spy on (and experiment on) the people outside of America

Enclave vaults instead of vault tec ones

[balmy plover]

Yeah!! Kinda like the Alaskan dlc for fallout 3 (if that was what it was called I don’t remember LMAO)

[fallow panther]

hmm. that would be pretty heavy lore-implication wise. The resource wars happened, could just explore those?

i'm not sure that enclave cares about other countries

yes exactly like the fallout 3 operation anchorage dlc

[balmy plover]

you never quite know with the enclave honestly, lore wise they seem pretty in it just for themselves and America, but it doesn’t mean they can’t have ways of gathering/ monitoring people in other countries maybe..

I’d reckon they’d have at least some surveillance on what goes on across the pond on some level

[fallow panther]

well yeah i suppose, but the resource wars directly involved europe

"The Resource Wars is an umbrella term referring to over 25 years of conflicts from the war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East in April 2052 to the Sino-American War and the Great War on October 23, 2077. Some of the conflicts included the annexation of Canada by the United States and the Chinese invasion of Anchorage, Alaska."

[balmy plover]

It would be def cool if they explored more prewar stuff, seeing how it looked in Boston in 4 was great, though (in my opinion) there was a huge missed opportunity to have Nate/nora flashback to old memories in some way

[balmy plover]

Ahhhh okay okay

[fallow panther]

yes this was a fat "L" they took with fallout 4's story. so many things they could have done

but thats bethesda's problem for making the player-character in an RPG have a detailed & fixed backstory. really, that should just be like via a companion or someone you DONT have control over.

[balmy plover]

that’s about par for the course when it comes down to how Bethesda makes games, trust me, I absolutely ADORE Bethesda’s stuff, I wouldn’t be here otherwise and I wouldn’t have played fallout 3 all the way up until 76 and Skyrim, but they’re more focused on telling a story with their games, it’s why it’s so confusing that Skyrim works, when fallout 4 (AGAIN, IN MY OPINION) doesn’t, because fallout 4 is really confused on what it’s trying to do with itself

[balmy plover]

YEAH

It’s not that I dislike Nate or Nora, I think they’re perfectly fine, but if they wanted to tell a story they should’ve just fully stuck to that instead of pretending the game they made was an rpg

[fallow panther]

we're likeminded on this for sure. They did a good job with the kellog flashbacks exposing lore on the NCR, but it was like a drop in an empty bucket. need more of that kinda exposition, it can work to have both, just needs a lot more careful thought & planning.

[balmy plover]

It’s why courier 6 works and Nate/nora doesn’t, specifically because obsidian at the time knew to make an rpg you have to give your player full control over everything they want to do, it just doesn’t make sense to have an “rpg” allow you to level up infinitely and get every perk and trait in the game

Plus yeah, like you said Kellog was REALLY good, I loved him as an antagonist/villain, and honestly? He should’ve been the endgame guy

[fallow panther]

i sorta thought he would be on first playthough. the momentum died down a lot after that for me. Shaun is such a rigid fool. i feel like the institute as a faction & the storyline with shaun were originally 2 seperate ideas that got merged together to create the main storyline.

I mean, we already had synths & institute ideaology from fallout 3.

[balmy plover]

Fallout 3 works in the aspect that it hints at it, like wink wink nudge nudge, the problem is Shaun like you said, if anything, kellog should’ve remained all the way up until you meet with Shaun, like first of all, why would the leader of the institute, a man who’s letting a wastelander (even if it’s his mother or father) inside, after tormenting them and numerous communities they potentially liberate from robots from HIS institute, expect not to be immediately shot down? After all, first thing the dude says when seeing the surface for the first time in person is that it can’t be saved, for such a prominent figure in the game, the dude you’ve been hearing about all this time, from in the shadows.. lurking.. waiting.. he is really stupid like really really stupid

Huge paragraph but it really tells just how foolish Shaun actually is that he lets his best man for the surface just casually get shot down instead of having him act as a body guard just in case something went wrong when introducing himself

[fallow panther]

completely agree. when shaun said that voice line on the roof i immediately murked him, and not because it was a "story decision" (i reloaded) but because it's just so dumb i had to make it stop lmao

[balmy plover]

Like ah yes, of course, the surface can’t be saved! You’re right Shaun! You know why? Because you unleashed a tidal wave of robotic murder machines and brutish Super mutants that actively hang MEAT BAGS from RUSTY CHAINS

No wonder the surface sucks so bad you’re just the cherry on top dude!

In all honesty, if they really wanted a BETTER twist reveal atp just reveal the enclave was behind the institute, controlling how it goes, how humans and scientists react and respond when given unlimited power over others, have Shaun be their little guinea pig that has no idea he’s not the real one in control, but a game that’s been rigged from the start, ever since he was born

Maybe that would be stupid, but it really isn’t above the enclave to do stuff like that

[fallow panther]

oh i really like this idea

[balmy plover]

Thank you! It just makes so much sense more sense than some weird random encounter with “enclave remnants” you find in fallout 4

[fallow panther]

to be fair i believe that was not a launch-day thing, kinda "non-canon"

[balmy plover]

Wasn’t it with the fallout show when it came out iirc

If so then even for a non canon encounter it makes zero sense.. the enclave actively are alive and well considering the show

[balmy plover]

Oh also, kellog revealed to be enclave, come on, it’s right there

[fallow panther]

i have a feeling that NCR knows about the enclave and have active measures to try and block them from inflitrating their society

I think that thought will be answered in the upcoming fallout tv show's future episodes

[balmy plover]

Yeahhhh true NCR was big enough to have recon on these sorts of things THEN AGAIN though in fallout new Vegas there’s a legion spy in the NCR you can actually meet

Though, I’d assume that’s because the NCR were spread pretty thin in Vegas

Considering literally everyone pretty much knows about the enclave now it would be quite difficult for them to easily be able to infiltrate certain institutions like it was before the war

[uneven ingot]

The Enclave is best when they’re relying on spies and subterfuge. Whenever they bring a show of force some random tribal or vault dweller just nukes them

It’s what made prewar Enclave so scary. They were THE government boogeymen

Can’t wait for the Enclave lore dump in S3. Fans of the TV show but not the games have a lot to catch up on

[modest night]

It would be nice if Bethesda would fix their game I mean I joined this discord because I do support Bethesda but I think it's kind of crappy that fallout 4 the quest tradecraft is glitched or bugged I've tried everything and I mean everything to get Deacon to use the computer to open the vault so I can get the prototype and nothing's working I've even went to far harbor and even nuka world to try to reset the cell area and all that I'm not going to restart my whole game just because of one quest but I wish Bethesda would really honestly fix their game I paid for the game and I paid for the DLC I shouldn't be having these problems but I'm just wondering is it about money I mean do they need money to be able to fix a game I mean how much does it cost to fix a bug in the game so I can play it

[balmy plover]

YEAH

So far, I’m loving what the show has been doing, no spoilers, but all I’ll say is despite what they did with Vegas, I can see it happening, I like that they’re truly doing the enclave some justice instead of making them some kind of joke

Personally, I like when fallout sticks to the enclave being behind a lot of what happens, I like variety but it just makes too much sense to have them be behind so much of what makes fallout.. well.. fallout

[balmy plover]

Sighhh it’s fallout 4 magic

[uneven ingot]

For what the Enclave represents, it makes sense that they’d be the cause of so much suffering in the wasteland

Corporatization of political greed and corruption

[balmy plover]

It shows just how much of a threat they are when they even get big players in the franchise to not know to what extent how many steps ahead they are

years of planning before the war, 200+ years of exerting just a fraction of it

It’s why FO4’s institute will always (to me) feels like an excuse for an enclave like faction, without any of the actual payoff of it being an enclave like figure

Also wow I yapped a lot 😅 sorry I just love talking about fallout lore

[modest night]

There's nothing magic about a broken game I mean you know the funny thing is Bethesda releases content that makes us want to buy it but they don't want to back it up with constant updates to make sure the game is working properly I mean of course I'm going to complain about something I paid money for

[potent flume]

Sometimes it's best to just let people express their grief, lest unwittingly trigger an argument you didn't expect or want to get involved in due to some sort of disagreement or misunderstanding.

[sudden nova]

Ah, those were the days, grief mode on BO2. Long Summer nights filled with grief and zombies.

[balmy plover]

It was a joke TRUST me I know first hand how broken fallout 4 is

[potent flume]

That's the point.

[balmy plover]

I wish it wasn’t as broken as it is 💔

[potent flume]

Misunderstandings can occur when no one sees the joke.

[balmy plover]

Oh trust me I’m not invalidating what you’re saying! Didn’t mean it like that, I paid for all the dlc stuff too and it just sucks fallout 4 didn’t in my opinion live up to what it could’ve (or should’ve) been

[modest night]

Yeah I mean I just started playing it again I mean I played it in the past a lot but I decided to play it again with survival mode and I got a few of the content that's achievement friendly I mean I don't use mods that disable achievements at all I only use the ones that you can still get achievements because on Xbox I'm an achievement hunter but the thing about it is I just want this company to fix this I mean I can't get to the ballistic weave because I can't get past that first mission in the railroad I mean how long is it really going to take them to fix this It just makes you not want to play

[modest night]

Oh it's not about stress at all It's about a simple thing that if you pay for a game that the developers should update it I mean come on you got a quest that is bugged You got the virtibird with the brotherhood of steel that flies through mountains and telephone lines I mean I remember back in the day when I used to play it I used to really enjoy it I mean I played it when it first came out and it was great but whatever update they applied the last one it just messed up a bunch of stuff

[potent flume]

I get it. My point being is that things can be misread if you don't know the other person well enough.
But I have unwittingly been involved in some topics of people who explode in anger over the mere questioning of what they express their grief about.

[modest night]

I mean I'm frustrated I'm not going to lie but I won't explode over it I mean it's still just a game but it's the inconvenience that you go to work and you come home and you want to relax to play one of your favorite video games and then you're playing it and a bug in the game stops you or the game freezes and force closes on you that's just frustrating

[potent flume]

not wrong

[night tapir]

I just made some progress on my Fallout fanfic story

[sudden nova]

https://media.tenor.com/bXpuq8vDXgUAAAAM/dave-chappelle-yeah.gif

[sudden nova]

Totally relatable and very maturely put. There's always going to be some bugs, but it's frustrating when you work and put part of your paycheck into a product and an entire questline of content is broken.

[fallow panther]

sounds like it's time for some noclip or console commands setting the stage for the quest back to either the starting point or skipping to the end if you're over it by now.

[modest night]

Yea it just sucks

[fallow panther]

yeah, it suck. i remember having to replay campaign missions multiple times due to bugs though, all the way back to call of duty modern warfare (the og) and world at war

bugs & games will always coexist as much as we don't want that unfortunately

[fluid sedge]

And this is why I will make a Fallout Fanfiction story about my characters that I made in Fallout series like Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas.

[fluid sedge]

And that mostly happened on my Fallout 4, where I thought no good games would have frequent crashes and frequent freezes.

[fallow panther]

well hey, at least it's a singeplayer game. competitive online game bugs can ruin entire servers, throw matches, etc.

[spark onyx]

Guys i have fallout 76 pringles

[fallow panther]

Oh shiitake mushroom, what they taste like?

[spark onyx]

just ready salted 😔

[sudden nova]

Are you a radiated ghoul Pringle now?

[rugged quarry]

Hello there guys

[sudden nova]

For sure, if you're PC masterrace. But even so, players shouldn't have to do that and some with PC don't actually understand console commands either.

[rugged quarry]

Can anybody help me? I have 2 scorpions on my tail and im at 1 hp ((fallout 2 trials))

[sudden nova]

Damn, you really are in a pinch.

[spark onyx]

yes i am a radiated ghoul pringle

[rugged quarry]

Yeah i really am and i dont know what to do

and armor class isnt really working out either. Not even it being at 12 helps me

[sudden nova]

I'd help you, but I don't even know what to tell you brother.
Run like hellfire?

[rugged quarry]

gemini gave me the most ahh build

[rugged quarry]

I just started a new game and im NOT trusting google gemini again. had me choose small frame and gifted

Ok grabbed gifted now what

[fallow panther]

Man yeah that’s a good point, you just gave me a flashback to when I wanted to use console commands on Skyrim for Xbox so I transferred the save to usb then usb to PC and downloaded Skyrim on my pc (back then, integrated graphics crappy desktop) and suffered through like 1fps so I could use the commands then transfer it back to Xbox

[twilit parrot]

hearing chris talking about the fallout nv source code and the potential of bgs not having it is crazy

i dont have any expectations anymore with bgs after starfield, since they dont know whats fun like they arent playing their games anymore, so i atleast hoped they could remake the best game in the franchise

[indigo prism]

I mean… to each their own but despite not hitting my initial expectations, experiencing Starfield on its own is a great experience.

[twilit parrot]

as a bgs rpg? I dont think so, the pois are boring and copypasted, they dont even have this Environmental storytelling bgs did so well in fallout 3, characters are bland, and the story is very poorly written

[fallow panther]

Don’t take Chris too seriously this guy has been yapping negativity about every studio under the sun since he left. There’s a reason he went freelance. He comes off as quite bitter, honestly. No offence or anything, the guy knows how to work an angle/leverage media attention, I’ll give him that.

[smoky fern]

Maybe he has a point. Shouldn't judge too soon.

[sudden nova]

It's said that there is some truth in everything

[twilit parrot]

not sure if i trust the creative director of the game falloutnv more than you...

[balmy plover]

No kidding, I was playing fallout shelter right, and someone in my athletics room said “we’ve expanded so far down we’ve struck lava!” And as SOON as I see that that SAME ROOM CAUGHT ON FIRE.

what did you do Sarah? What did you DO?

[next hound]

Small frame and gifted are great starter perks lol. Although I’d probably switch out small frame for fast shot.

[next hound]

Agility and intelligence: 9
Charisma: 1
Fast shot/small frame and gifted
Skills: speech, lockpick, small guns/science

The rest is up to you. The trials are known to be a nightmare to get through regardless, but the game should be slightly more forgiving after you pass it. Have fun!

[fallow panther]

Well that’s good, because I don’t expect you too.

Tim Cain & Leonard Boyarsky actually you know.. made the game.. but of course, Avellone worked on new Vegas, so how dare I say anything against him 🙄 fallout 2, yeah .. ok.. there was a reason Tim Cain basically cancelled Van Buren. Cope cope cope

[rugged quarry]

Thanks

[vital glen]

I found 4 and 6 but not five yet lmao

[next hound]

Tim Cain left during Fallout 2s development. And no, he didn’t cancel Van Buren. The reason why it was cancelled was because Interplay was having financial issues, so they could no longer fund the project.

Chris Avellone and Josh Sawyer were both the lead designers and writers to Van Buren. The same guys who used parts of the game in NV, so yeah. That’s your reason for why it was cancelled. Even Tim Cain said it was because of Interplay.

[spice zenith]

Fallout 4 anniversary edition Xbox series x does unofficial patch run well with other mods and don’t really have any issues

[twilit parrot]

you cant really say anything about chris because he has a track record of games that he worked on that are fantastic, hes very harsh with what he says online, but there wouldnt be a reason as to him lying about the source code for nv

[fallow panther]

I’m quite aware. https://youtu.be/OwoWRj0cfag?si=oPDZUpe1d3zvoXzD

[next hound]

Okay, so I don’t know what you mean by “there was a reason Tim Cain basically cancelled Van Buren”. That sounded more like Tim had something against Chris or didn’t think the game would be good rather than the actual reason.

[next hound]

I don’t know why people think Chis is lying about Bethesda in general lol. Like yeah I guess you can be weary, but Bethesda hasn’t treated NV in the best of ways.

Look at the TV show. They could’ve made a show based on their games they wrote, but they chose NV, the one game they didn’t write or participate in developing. And obviously, they retconned the lore.

Heck, Obsidian wanted to make another Fallout game, either NV2 or one based somewhere else.. even a new Elder Scrolls game, and Bethesda totally ignored them. Now ES6 will be in development for the next 10+ years. Where does that leave Fallout? 20 years?
They need to at least let someone else make another Fallout game. The show isn’t enough, and nobody should wait a few more decades for a new entry. What they’ve done is cruel to the ES and Fallout fans.

[fallow panther]

A) You’re free to feel however you like about Chris, in the same way anyone is free to feel differently. I’m sure you don’t mean that literally..
B) I never said anything about lying or source code. I made no argument about this in particular, please don’t misconstrue what I said.

[fallow panther]

Understandable, my apologies, that video doesn’t address that, rather was meant to provide context on the reason it was cancelled — specifically that he was brought in and asked to essentially give a yes or no on if the game should be continued to completion, or cancelled, in which Tim Cain chose the latter.

In another video about fallout lore & fallout 2, from Tim Cain’s youtube channel, he goes on about the changes that were made to the game in fallout 2 and explains all the things that lead up to him leaving fallout 2 very early in development. Lore wise, there were a few decisions he talks about being uncomfortable with and I don’t summarize it well surely.. but it’s not hard to understand why fallout 2 was the start of a departure, things like pop culture references, etc.

I do find fallout new Vegas to lean more towards the type of game design choices & lore that Tim Cain is vocally against. Of course, Tim would never say that openly, at risk of being annihilated by the New Vegas fandom, but it’s not hard to conclude either.

[next hound]

Its fine! Really It’s a double edged sword with the modern fans as well. Tim Cain came out and said Fallout was never about capitalism, to which Chris also agreed with and said in a post, and Redditors said the developers of the game are wrong about.. their game.

I really don’t know where the anti capitalist argument came from when China were the ones who canonically dropped the bombs first.

[night tapir]

That reading is probably due to the existence of Followers of the Apocalypse. That could have been one of the reasons why Fallout is seen as anti-capitalist

(it's not only communism and socialism that can be seen as anti-capitalist, it's also anarchism)

Plus a nuclear war would have altered any kind of economic structures of post-apocalyptic societies

That would likely spark such a reading of Fallout

[twilit parrot]

who has the source code to nv then if its not bgs?

imagen the sourcecode is lost 💀

[fallow panther]

Honestly, the whole "who has the source code thing" is not going to be a major problem for bethesda, in my opinion. They still have fallout 3, and I think Obsidian would be willing to help. Josh Sawyer, Scott Everts, Charlie Staples all worked on New Vegas & are still with Obsidian. With that excuse aside, bethesda is absolutely capable of remastering New Vegas themselves, let's be honest -- it would just need a leader who wants to do it. Bethesda isn't controlled by the fans. I can honestly understand why Todd has this kinda beef with NV, just think how many times people ask "where new vegas chat" in this discord, for example.

[potent flume]

Bethesda owns the IP, but BGS did not make NV, hence at the very least there's no dedicated chatroom here for it.

[fallow panther]

I understand this, I'm not sure you got the point I was making; it's that most people don't even know this. If I were Todd, that would bother me too.

the irony is this chat is so used to that ignorance, you just assumed someone just talking about it was ignorant to it as well. Talk about conditioning, haha. That proves my point quite nicely.

Obsidian did not make the game engine, that's for sure. That's why this entire thing just makes my eyes roll.. of course Bethesda could remake New Vegas. Chris really gets in peoples heads, it's impressive.

[potent flume]

Hold on. The game's source and engine are 2 different things.

Which thing is the discussion about?

Because FO3, which was in fact made by BGS, is documented to be made on the same engine as NV.

[next hound]

That’s so weird. When I played the classic games, I never once thought it was being anti-capitalist.

I get it, Fallout is political, but.. come on, it’s in the literal intro of the game. “War never changes”.
Humanity, no matter what, will continue to cause conflict. The point of Fallout isn’t to side with one political party or ideology, but to critique man. But to also to show that, despite humanity and it’s never ending wants of war and chaos for power, we also rebuild and grow, even through the harshest circumstances, hence the post apocalyptic setting.

Simplifying Fallout down to politics just shows that some people have completely missed the point of the games.

[next hound]

Don’t know. I don’t want them to get the source code anyways 😭 they’re probably going to change the entire game to fit the show

I’ll only trust a remake or remaster of some kind if it’s made by the original developers.

[fallow panther]

Man why do you keep restating what I say… Yeah I made a mistake typing my thoughts too quickly and not proof reading, and went to correct it, which you’ve clearly noticed, I typed engine in the first part of one of my comments when I meant source code, so I edited it to correct my mistake. I then made a separate comment about the engine specifically, to make it even clearer that the former doesn’t preclude the latter.

Either way, I’d appreciate a more thorough read through of my comments if you’re going to keep restating my points as if I didn’t just make them.. please & thank you.

This is further to my point, it’s juvenile to think Bethesda couldn’t remaster New Vegas themselves, but “Bethesda bad” narratives generate more clicks and thus more ad revenue for those pushing that kind of sensationalist media. Chris is not above this, despite his accreditations, which is clear since he’s all over these outlets. Actions speak louder than words. I respect Todd a whole lot more for simply not speaking on it to avoid any sort of stir or implications that this frothing fanbase will eat right up, at least that shows maturity on a professional level, regardless of whatever may or may not have happened behind the scenes.

If Bethesda wants to remake new Vegas, they will, but I know that’s a bitter pill to swallow for the fandom. Again, If I were Todd and saw these kinds of sentiments widely spread on the internet, then why would you want to entertain a fandom so obsessed they think they hold the keys to literally remastering a game they don’t own? I don’t want to get too invested in this, I stand behind what I’ve said. I feel my point has been made, so there isn’t really much sense continuing this line of questioning, I’ve already written a dang novel in here haha. I’ll take a page from Todd’s book now and say less. I’m more interested in hearing other people’s points of views on this discussion, I’ve said enough.

[potent flume]

Are you ok mate?

All I've asked was for clarification, to stop these misunderstandings from happening, yet you're making it personal.

Not going to continue this. bye mate.

[fallow panther]

https://tenor.com/view/mad-max-tom-hardy-max-rockatansky-thats-bait-bait-gif-4987723

[next hound]

I mean dude I was confused as well

I think he was questioning how they’d make a remake/remaster if they don’t have the source code for the game, since source code ≠ game engine to which.. I also had the same question?

[next hound]

People say “Bethesda bad” because they’ve ruined Vegas with the show. Why else do you think it generates clicks? Why do you think half of the Fallout community are split? And why respect Todd lol? Dude loves to lie and has Emil as the main writer of modern Bethesda games..

You can criticize Chris all you want for his “bitterness towards Bethesda” but what from what I’ve heard about how they treated Obsidian and Fallout, I’d say there’s a reason why people still respect and listen to him and not Todd so much 🤣

[sudden nova]

Tacos.

[next hound]

Anyways, I don’t know if Bethesda would go through remastering the game from the ground up if they don’t own the source code. And even if they do, it’ll be years down the line.. and Fallout 3 still needs that remaster lol

[night tapir]

I haven't missed the point. I am not arguing to defend or refute, only pointing out how such a reading could have came about. Description is not wholesale endorsement of what is stated. And you telling me that I missed the point, well, that does not make want to engage any further on this topic with you.

[next hound]

There was a misunderstanding. When I said “you”, I wasn’t actually referring to you 🤣 I was referring to the people who argue those points instead. I’ll change my wording 👍

[twilit parrot]

they probably are doing what they did with oblivion for that they need the source code tho

[potent flume]

Precisely.
It's up to Bethesda Softworks the publisher, not Bethesda Game Studios the developer.

That in itself might be an over-simplification.

[polar raft]

Hey is there anyone that can help me get new vegas running smoothly on windows 11 i have nvidia gpu it kinda stutters and crashes every now and then i have it installed on epic

[calm osprey]

Exactly. Todd has said he's anti-remake and prefers remasters that preserve the core DNA of the game so you experience it as it was originally intended. Oblivion Remastered did this by modifying the existing source code and I just don't see them diverting from that formula for New Vegas.

[twilit parrot]

tbf new vegas could use a remake, big parts of the map are empty or could have more intressting pois

but a remaster is what everyone wants

[next hound]

Time crunches do that. It would be a neat idea to use cut content for a Vegas remaster.. remake thing. But they should absolutely not add anything new that wasn’t originally going to be in the game.

[steep sluice]

No they will wreck it

Protec da New Vegas

[twilit parrot]

yeah another studio should do a remake, but i think if they do a oblivion like remaster its gonna be fine

[steep sluice]

Didnt like that remaster, not enough bloom to make my eyes bleed

Skyblivion is the true remaster

Cant wait to play it

[twilit parrot]

yeah yeah skyblivion coping

fallout 4 new vegas coping

projects that will never see the light of day

[steep sluice]

It's on the brink of release 🤣

[normal fox]

Anyone use the iOS Companion & Guide app? Thoughts?

[compact solstice]

Fallout 🙂

[next hound]

Half of the characters in the oblivion remaster look horrendous

You can’t even try to make high elves look nice without mods

Most of the eyes look bloodshot for some odd reason

[floral swan]

What is playing Fallout like now? I haven't played Fallout since middle school

[next hound]

Well first of all, which Fallout games did you play?

[floral swan]

Fallout 3

[next hound]

You.. missed out on Vegas. Play it right now.

I feel bad for you 😭

[steep sluice]

Where?

[steep sluice]

My first Fallout

[steep sluice]

The best Fallout

[next hound]

~~ Meanwhile my first Fallout was 1 ~~

[steep sluice]

That was my 5th

[next hound]

TRUEEEE

[next hound]

Playing 1, 2, and Vegas all in order >>>> so satisfying

[steep sluice]

The holy trinity

[next hound]

Literally the best ones in the franchise by FAR

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/true-correct-dwight-schrute-rainn-wilson-right-gif-23822659

[next hound]

@floral swan my man you gotta play 1, 2, and Vegas. That is the absolute peak Fallout right there.

[compact solstice]

Over there!

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-what-nani-เอาไงดี-gunkun-gif-8067161216381491543

[compact solstice]

You missed it smh

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-screaming-cat-scream-meme-red-eyes-gif-26345204

[compact solstice]

[floral swan]

https://media.tenor.com/HLqLFIfdBe8AAAAM/that-sounds-accurate-norm.gif

[next hound]

Hope this interaction does not lead to any fallout between us…

Fallout New Vegas.

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[next hound]

🤣

[steep sluice]

Rn I'm trying to mod the worst Fallout

[next hound]

Fallout 4.

Well that’s the best you can do to make it somewhat enjoyable lol

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-a-wizard-hagrid-afirmation-magic-magical-gif-16533730

[next hound]

LOL

[steep sluice]

Yea, just gonna take awhile to do lol

[next hound]

When I try to choose any other faction aside from the BOS and institute in 4 (the rest are literal ants compared to the two)

[steep sluice]

Railroad are embarrassing lol

Institute is cool in concept but Father is a literal moron

[next hound]

They were embarrassing ever since 3 lol and the institute are comically evil

[steep sluice]

He is no son of mine, I disown him!

[next hound]

Yeah we’re all killing the guy

[steep sluice]

If I play raider I side with them simply so I can inherit a synth army lol

[next hound]

I don’t understand the synth plotline. I’m not too invested in 4.. but what’s the point of synths? To repopulate?

[steep sluice]

To kill randos then pretend to be them

Father is like "The commonwealth shouldnt fear us!" Then has commonwealth folk killed, replaced and then does shocked pikachu face when everyone calls them mean names

How he rose to the top of the institute hierarchy is beyond silly

[next hound]

So kill humans and replace them with robots. Doesn’t even sound like fallout, but that’s besides the point. Since they have free will, can’t they just.. eventually find out who the institute are and kill them if they disagree with how they run things?

Like isn’t the institute basically shooting themselves in the foot here?

[steep sluice]

What makes me laugh is they make the newer synths have self awareness and free will yet treats them like crap and make them slaves then complain when they naturally flee

Just keep making the normal ones bruh

And Father discontinued research into cybernetics that literally give life extension eg Kellogg, just to do his little synth project because he watched too much Westworld

Like seriously Father has the idiot savant perk to be given control of a powerful faction with such a low IQ

[next hound]

RIGHHTTT!?!? That’s why I thought the mission in 3 with the runaway synth was so silly 😭 so you give your BEST version of a synth free will, treat them poorly, and is somehow surprised that he ran away despite giving him what he needs to make that choice. You wouldn’t be on a wild goose chase if you limited them in the first place!

[steep sluice]

He is such a goofy goober

[next hound]

I don’t understand the thought process behind their decisions.. they’re so technologically advanced, yet they’re so stupid… ||at least the Enclave in 2 were silly at times and technologically advanced, WHILE having a good plan to rebuild America (gassing all wastelanders) || spoilers for Fallout 2

[steep sluice]

I'm already familiar with Fallout 2, I spoiled the story for myself before I even played it

Back in the days prior to me owning a computer that could run it

[next hound]

I’d still say it’s worth it since many of the quest lines are better in 2 than 1.

Like side quests and such

[steep sluice]

Fallout 1 had the best atmosphere

[next hound]

It technically did if you’re looking for a atmosphere sort of fresh from a nuclear warfare, but the worldbuilding in 2 is definitely better imo

[steep sluice]

Agreed

[next hound]

Although I’ll give it to 1, it has the best antagonist in the entire franchise (again imo)

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/the-master-fallout-fallout1-gif-25672301

[next hound]

The Master!

[steep sluice]

Great guy, beautiful guy

[next hound]

||Dumping my fellow vault dwellers in FEV for the master fr! ||

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/book-of-boba-fett-the-mandalorian-this-is-the-way-the-book-of-boba-fett-mandalorian-gif-24825263

Cant forget the big man himself

The 3rd great villain

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-gif-21817646

[next hound]

Ave! True to Caesar!

[steep sluice]

Always start with a Legion Run when I return to New Vegas

[night tapir]

Let's not forget Frank Horrigan

[compact solstice]

Ima keep it a cap with you smooth skin Frank Horrigan is kinda trash

[night tapir]

Right, I was speaking in the context of the most villainous characters in Fallout's franchise. But whatever, be rude.

@steep sluice @next hound I am not endorsing Frank Horrigan

Just pointing out his villainy

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-frank-horrigan-gif-13237660488323759286

[night tapir]

Yeah. That's him being evil.

[steep sluice]

Evil is fabulous

[night tapir]

Right.

[next hound]

I’m endorsing Frank Horrigan. Go Enclave!

Frank is a good antagonist, but I do think he gets too much attention. He was underdeveloped, and you really only learn about him at the very end of the game.

Whereas you learn about the master throughout the entire game in fallout 1. The notes he leaves behind in the glow, Harold, stuff like that. It was easier to connect to him and understand the tragedy of his character.

It would’ve been interesting to get more of an in depth analysis of Frank while playing through Fallout 2 as well. But still, I like him and still think he’s one of the best antagonists, regardless of the flaws within his character writing.

[strong pecan]

What minutemen became lmao

[floral swan]

Sooo something really funny happened when I was at a Steakhouse restaurant I overheard people talking about Las Vegas about the areas there and one of the older people said "Well you know? The house always wins."

(Internal fan enthusiasm and joy 💯.)

But I didn't want to misinterpret....As that phrase might mean different things I didn't want to look socially awkward basically because of bad middle school memories of embarrassment.

It was funny though because it reminded me of the Fallout show. 😆

[ebon terrace]

So since it's confirmed Todd hated Fallout New Vegas, does this mean the whole assassination on the whole lore for the west coast is done on purpose as just intentional sabotage?

Is a shame since Mr. House and New Vegas, the legion, the NCR used to be interesting as faction

[lone crypt]

Todd Howard does not hate Fallout: New Vegas.

[ebon terrace]

Still is a hard way to see that, destroying those contents makes difficult to understand a positive view on the relation of interest for New Vegas by Todd in person

can't deny he left a mark but the damage is done

[next hound]

Probably. At the very least, they clearly didn’t do enough research on any of the factions which is disrespectful in itself to the original game.

[ebon terrace]

Wich is a pity, we could have much more interesting development instead of what we got today, including 4, 76 and the tv series

[next hound]

Well remember, obsidian wanted to make another fallout game after NV release, but Bethesda ignored them,, we could’ve had a sequel to NV or another fallout game that took place somewhere else. So that really doesn’t help the whole “Todd hates New Vegas” arguments.

They admitted they were jealous of NV success in an article

I initially felt a little touchy about it, because I was like, 'We made 90% of the art, we built the engine.'" We did all that stuff [and] we did it in a very limited window of time and they got to just work on the stories."

[ebon terrace]

yeah, maybe was better if bethesda let obsidian handle fallout so they could have focused better on The elder scroll. Sure Skyrim was great but after that, we saw the downfall

[next hound]

Their engine is known to be a nightmare to work with
NV made their own art and most of their assets are custom made obsidian
Wow story is more important than gameplay, what a shock.
They had 4+ years to work on Fallout 3 by using the same engine they used for ES, while NV only had 18 months

[ebon terrace]

Don't get me wrong but Fallout is not a the elder scroll game

despite is treated like that doesn't mean it has to face the same kind of humor and game loop.

But now everything must be a rollercoaster

i only see a childification of both fallout and tes titles

and i mean, not mature but immature

[next hound]

Even then Skyrim is known to be a complete downgrade from Oblivion and especially Morrowind. Obsidian had the same developers as the classic fallouts, so yes, Bethesda should’ve focused on ES while Obsdian worked on Fallout. Then fans would get the best of both worlds, but Bethesda doesn’t want anyone to touch Fallout. It’s what makes them money, and they don’t want to be embarrassed again by NV blowing the rest of their games out of the water.

[ebon terrace]

Indeed, Skyrim and so, Fallout 4, are a simplification of both games

[next hound]

Thing is, I want Bethesda to do better. I want them to thrive, but they’re so greedy that they make everyone else suffer for their choices.

[ebon terrace]

The thing is, the gaming industry is a huge market, if the same bethesda can't succede with the demand of making actual RPG games, the audience move to better games with appealing storytelling and gameplay mechanic innovative

But so far seems too focused on making rollercoasters, not RPG

[next hound]

Right, and unfortunately they’re one of the biggest game companies of the RPG genre. I just wish they would give fallout to obsidian (old obsidian/classic fallout devs) again. Let them make a game. It’s such an easy way to make money. All they do is gain from it besides inevitable slander.

[next hound]

Fallout 4 being a disgrace and misunderstanding the entire point of the 50s aesthetic never ceases to amaze (disappoint) me.

Let’s hope they sober up one day 👍

[ebon terrace]

more like the death of rpg for a general audience trying to please everyone

[next hound]

It doesn’t please anyone though 😭 Starfield was a complete disaster and its DLCs are even worse. I don’t know WHO they’re trying to please nowadays

[ebon terrace]

who knows, but with those results on starfield i feel it is better to stop making massive open world lgames like a galaxy and focus just on a well defined location

but maybe is better if bethesda stop to use the Keep it simple silly logic and return to their roots by making good complex role play choice

[next hound]

As long as Emil is the lead writer, nothing will change.

[ebon terrace]

same

i get it, for some people is very personal the bethesda question but we must be realistic, in this current state we don't have much roleplay innovation by bethesda

[next hound]

People are only personal from nostalgia

They will only defend their choices because “Fallout 3 gud”

[ebon terrace]

and blame those who liked new vegas the "supremacist elitist"

as if fallout 1 and 2 didn't exist 😂

[next hound]

If NV didn’t exist, I’d still say Fallout 1 and 2 are better than 3, 4, and 76

[ebon terrace]

I miss new Reno and the car

heck, i want vehicles come back in fallout so bad

[next hound]

I’m telling you, Fallout 2 probably has the best worldbuilding out of any of the games hands down.

[ebon terrace]

it has a lot of variety

and also a lot of actual adult entertaiment

because was actually a game for adults, now is just a game for teenagers

[next hound]

Fallout 2 is definitely the most brutal game out of the franchise. NV is a close 2nd

[ebon terrace]

dead money and old world blues 👀
Lonesome roads too

[next hound]

Oof yeah if we take those into account, then.. idk, that’s a hard choice!

[next hound]

My lovely highwayman.

[ebon terrace]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5tx6WvYa8RU/maxresdefault.jpg

[next hound]

So sick

[ebon terrace]

best car in the whole franchise, if only we could have again drivable vehicles like the highwayman

[next hound]

Isn’t it implied that some people use vehicles in fallout, we just don’t ever see them?

Like the NCR or something?

[ebon terrace]

seriously, maybe bethesda could change their next games if they finally introduce cars in fallout

i mean, starfield got the moon buggy, so, how about to refine the driving system so we can see npc using cars and other vehicles too

i'm quite tired of the vertibird spam in fallout 4

[next hound]

Yeah but even in fallout 2, having a vehicle is extremely rare and required a very specific part to fix up the highwayman. Vehicles would be cool, but a good idea? It’s hard to tell.

[ebon terrace]

the easy solution? a new industrial revolution. It would have make sense the pitt start to mass produce cars and other vehicles in the east coast, and even the NCR on the west coast

we could still have tech factions using vehicles for their own purpose

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/a/a1/Legion.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20050224150755

the van buren caesar legion show perfectly how they adapted vehicles for their own vision of ancient roman cosplayers

the only limit is just the creativity but somehow bethesda seems stuck in pre war tech. Just with the institute i can see they try to develop something but we have reach a point where it's time to stop focusing always on the pre war excuse and focus on post war tech

[next hound]

Hot take (or cold) I don’t think the institute is good for fallout. I think the synth storyline oversteps technology in the games and waters down the wasteland storyline into a generic “robots taking over the world” sort of narrative.

Ever since 3 it was problematic, but 4 really pushed the plot forward.

[solemn patio]

Hi I just recently bought the AE of FO4 and had mods that were working last night the load order is practically the same but I can’t load into my game anymore w/out crashing is there sum PSN CC wizard lol who can help me perhaps? Or sumbody who knows where I can ask?

[ebon terrace]

me too, i found hard to understand the reason of using synths if the whole society is in ruins. Synths can't repreoduce like regular humans, all they need is pre war DNA and a huge 3D printer . Sure gen 1 and 2 synth are fine as functional androids but it makes no sense because the robots are just tools and the self awareness is explain in a very weird matter. The game push too much the "Institute bad rethoric" with a very bidimentional narrative like everyone is a saturday morning cartoon villain. And the fact the game (and the tv series) push the pro BoS rethoric as the "poster boys" as if this is what is supposed to be.

I feel the institute could have a different type of story, not the blade runner story because it doesn't fit in a post apocalypse setting because for how the institute is setted in term of plot, is more a waste of potential

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-meme-gif-16600799326842403384

[potent flume]

Synths can't repreoduce like regular humans, all they need is pre war DNA and a huge 3D printer

This is the whole plot point of why Shaun was kidnapped.

[ebon terrace]

and when shaun dies, who will replace him? Technically we should be the one who took charge of the institute

but since the canon ending seems BoS won, makes the institute a defeated faction

[potent flume]

Shaun wants us as his parent to succeed him.
If we don't, the Institute will cease to exist.

It also borrows on the concept of man inventing machine, and society seeing machine as a threat on livelihoods, and machine going out of their way to defend themselves.
The Railroad helps machine to stop being threatened by society by finding them sanctuary.

In terms of the TV series, we don't know yet if the Institute still exists. All that's known so far is it seems the Commonwealth BoS are still a thing.

[night tapir]

I was thinking of the degree of sheer unrepentant evil when I mentioned him. However, about the Master, you're correct, he's a better villain

[night tapir]

Where's the source for Todd Howard hating New Vegas? I'm not asking to be hostile, because I'm curious

[potent flume]

Yeah I'd like to know this too.
People seem to mix "heavily implied" or some other event/thing said as absolute confirmation.

[night tapir]

Yeah, I don't appreciate him in that sense

[steep sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/nothing-ever-happens-nothing-look-at-the-time-nothing-clock-nothing-ever-happens-clock-gif-4518983960573307132

[night tapir]

Yeah, also because people like to meme on him so much so it's not easy to know what's going on lol

[ebon terrace]

yeah i know that part. That's why for Shaun is more important for him his dad/mom will took his role

[potent flume]

If "we" don't succeed him, the Institute will end up no longer existing, 1 way or another.

[urban crag]

Please keep the conversation civil chat

[floral swan]

I'm a fairly new player to Fallout games.

[night tapir]

It's okay, I'm not too stressed about the Fallout games nor the show. It's all my preferences and you have yours

[potent flume]

People can get very "invested" into the games and how they see them and the franchise overall. I'd say more, but... best to move on on the topic before it triggers a debate of its own.
If ever in doubt, if you feel some things being said are uncivil, report it via @muted cobalt

[mild rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1500136676603728065/1500136677971067000/D522B164-DAAD-43A1-A8B1-4E1AC150C957.jpg?ex=69f756a7&is=69f60527&hm=1bb2d966c5803327bc32d0602e51f7ed15384ae68e3e1316e8102738f11f4503&

this power armor cosplay at the Jamboree was crazy - he’s like 7 feet tall and full voice modulator - he was able to bed his knees too to get past doors

[floral swan]

(?Little Advice) about playing Fallout?

[potent flume]

War. War never changes

[umbral wind]

Hello! I just got a pc like a week ago, what is the go to site for mods and such? I wanted to add some to NV

[steady bison]

There is a meme of someone shouting Fallout 5 towards Todd in a game award. And his expression was so mad or upset. I don't know if that happened

[steady bison]

Vortex mods website

[next hound]

The Institute are way too evil to the point it’s hard to take them seriously. What they fail at is being agreeable as the Legion.
Yes, the Legion are a very brutal faction that does awful things, but they’re anti drugs and are known to keep the trade posts and roads safe, something the NCR is very poor at doing. They’ll make sure to be strict once they take over Vegas to build empire, but it can work. That’s why even if they’re the most evil out the bunch, they can still be argued to be the best for Vegas.

Institute cannot do that. A very small minority of people would agree with them, but they’re just… stupid. There’s nothing to agree on. Replace humans with robots.. like who’s gonna think that’s a good idea?

Also about the BOS.. insane when in New Vegas, the BOS isn’t even a main faction and are in fact very close to dying off. They are hated by, Caesar, Kimball, Yes Man, and House especially. Most of their endings are negative with an exception of 1 or maybe 2 with the NCR and even then that’s “decent” at most.
The point of their faction is to show isolation and refusal to adapt will be the end of the road.. as the classic games point out before its retconned they’re a huge faction in the TV show.. which completely misunderstands their story in the games.

[next hound]

I meant to respond to this message lol

[steady bison]

I found the meme

For some reason the screenshot subchannel doesn't load

[next hound]

I thought the meme came from Todd never talking about NV

Ignoring its existence for years

[ebon terrace]

this is why the institute is just more as a faction joke, too comical evil but most player choose it just for convenience, because they want the high tech facility
And is a pity to see how the writing in 4 and 76 is hollow in some moments, is more about actors pretending to be someone instead to be actual characters who live in that world. Is still giving me the idea of the theme park experience. vs people who actually live in that world

[steady bison]

My mistake. Someone shouted Fallout 5

[vestal citrus]

one id recommend is Nexus but they dont support their creators much i heard.

[vestal citrus]

wait. that signature on it. is it signed by one of the people who worked on one of the fallout games?

[mild rose]

Oh yeah didn’t see that - next time I see him I’ll see if I can get a better angle

[vestal citrus]

dont worry bout it. its a good enough angle. what ya needed was an american flag in teh background. hoist thy colors for the enclave.

[uneven ingot]

Did you see the Assaultron cosplay?

[vestal citrus]

Finished a lil design i was working on for a lil minifigure suit of power armor inspired off of a person deathclaw moc. thoughts on the suit?

[mild rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1500136676603728065/1500194195036573766/MVI_1875.mov?ex=69f78c38&is=69f63ab8&hm=56711ba0e5f3dd2482eba71ebb0556733fbe36840b6766e2141d6c2416920a43&

[vestal citrus]

beutiful.

[mild rose]

The voice modulators here are next level

[potent flume]

Even motorised rotating claws!

[umbral wind]

I found a nuclear winter mod pack that essentially remasters NV, but I have to use wabbajack?

[vestal citrus]

Never used it. Sorry.

[mild rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1500136676603728065/1500490602561929256/image0.jpg?ex=69f8a045&is=69f74ec5&hm=0215c1bd8a081876d1474d095d9807b47dbc65c33086b62feb4105f720933fa7&

[mild rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1467376356424810507/1500471701128085695/PXL_20260502_225307578.jpg?ex=69f88eaa&is=69f73d2a&hm=ef9dba4292d2c41559286f03b338e29d0a2503cddcae71a51c93190f5e5f01b4&

[vestal citrus]

cool.

[twin nymph]

I fear if fallout 5 is a pre fallout era or something that takes place way at the beginning, it will simply be an excuse to rewrite everything into Bethesda's narrative of the fallout lore

[fallow panther]

bethesda has released 3 games + NV if you count it since Black Isle made the original Fallout 1. Fallout 2 alone, was a departure from the "narrative of the fallout lore". There are more games that have changed lore than there are which established them. At some point you have to let go of the notion that bethesda doesn't control the narrative of fallout, it's been 29 years since fallout 1 released, I think its ok for bethesda to rewrite things at this point.. whether or not they do a good job of it, is what we should judge imo.

[wanton fjord]

NV was obsidian not bethesda

[fallow panther]

Why don't people read what I say? " NV if you count " i said that intentionally

[wanton fjord]

I did read it! but thats like saying water is milk if you count it as milk. Wanted to clarify for people who did not know. We have to clairy the NV thing like every day for people lol

[fallow panther]

No, its not, what I said made perfect sense and assuming people are too stupid to understand it is crazy work. I intentionally drew a distinction between the 3 bethesda games and New Vegas. Tired of getting "corrected" on things I was never wrong about in the first place.

[steep sluice]

Bethesda needs to bring in chris avalone and gonzales for fallout, put Emil in the office closet and boom, truly good fallout again

[ocean folio]

When is the next update for fallout 4

[steep sluice]

2035

[zealous echo]

Are we allowed to ask/talk about the Fallout Shelter (working title) show? I haven't seen anything about it in here, or anywhere else really for that matter, and I'm super curious about it.

[lone furnace]

It's fine to talk about, just ensure that any information being discussed is information that is officially released.

[zealous echo]

Well that's the thing, I've only seen the application itself, so I'm wondering what information has been released officially, where can I find more info about it?

I did find it interesting that a few of the questions on the application were different just before it closed from when I applied back in February. 🧐

[lone furnace]

I'm honestly not sure if anything else has been announced. So it's okay to speculate a bit, just don't present anything as fact to avoid any misinformation. I'll see if I can find anything.

I think anything you find in this article is safe to call official information https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/fallout-shelter-competition-series-prime-video

[zealous echo]

Thank you!

[potent flume]

I don't think reality formatted shows give away much info until closer to launch day.

[zealous echo]

That's understandable. I am curious about what kind of challenges they have in mind in this sort of setting, but yeah, that makes sense to keep that kind of info under wraps; though it would be nice, as someone who applied, to have a decent idea about what we'd be getting ourselves into.
And how many people they're expecting/wanting to participate versus how many actually applied; what kinds of characters/personalities they're looking/hoping for, qualifications and such. Especially considering how many questions there were and how in-depth they were; I was honestly a little intimidated and felt kind of rushed so some of my answers weren't as comprehensive as they could've/should've been, thinking I'd run out of time and then the closing date kept getting extended.. 🙃
From what I've seen, there's much more skepticism/hate about the idea than excitement. I'm definitely on the excited side, since I did apply, having been a fan of Fallout for two decades, starting with the first game back in high school, but I am also curious about what others think about it. As I'd said, I haven't seen much in here but I feel like this would be the best place to talk about it (maybe not this channel specifically but the server being for fans of the franchise).

[next hound]

That would go so hard

[next hound]

The TV show already did that

[rain pawn]

Fallout 5 opening scene starts with Raiders fighting a guy in power armor. Zooms out over a field. Continues to zoom out.

Suddenly we see green, red, blue pixels as it continues to zoom out. We see an OLED TV.

Continue to zoom out. Camera settles over the shoulder of a teenager sitting on a plush sofa.

"Time for school!"

A voice calls from upstairs. The teenager grabs their backpack and runs out the door.

Title card as the camera follows the teen out onto a misty suburban street.

Bully 2

[uneven ingot]

The bombs better drop 5 minutes into the intro sequence like FO4

[zealous echo]

Is the voice upstairs Ron Perlman?

[rain pawn]

School... school never changes.

[twin nymph]

Not going to lie, the first run through I didn't run to the shelter and just stayed in the neighborhood to watch the chaos. Then years later realized the ghouls I fought in that neighborhood WERE my original neighbors

[twin nymph]

Yea, yea you're right.

[drifting veldt]

ghouls in sanctuary??

[twin nymph]

Feral ghouls when you find them

[steep sluice]

I ran into them twice already

Immortal ghouls apparently, everytime I bonk them to death they come back to life

Crazy stuff

[sudden nova]

If they won't go to other countries. Maybe they could bring some of it to here? Some faction of Europeans that either traveled or got stranded here, with their own style and weapons and maybe even their own radio station to provide some foreign music in that time era.

[lone furnace]

Wait you can do that? Why did I never think to do that.

[drifting veldt]

i mean i never seen ghouls there where do they spawn?

[fallow panther]

for a minute i thought you meant the (crappy)nuclear shelter in that one residents back yard, i guess you meant the vault?

Now that has me curious if you can enter that neighbour's bomb shelter in that intro part.. hmm

[slow steppe]

Where can I enter suggestions in for FO76? Like more Alien items. Flag, PA, Actual suits & others

[lone crypt]

Here you go: #76-suggestions

[slow steppe]

@lone crypt Thanks Bro

[mild rose]

https://x.com/BPEventsNV/status/2052489766369701979

Buttered Popcorn Post Nuclear Fan Events (@BPEventsNV)

☢️Your event.
☢️Your cosplay.
☢️Your music.
☢️Your films.
☢️Your creations and artistry.

What was your favorite moment from last weekend at #WastelandJamboree?

▶ Play video

X · May 7, 2026, 8:44 PM

Recap video from the West Virginia Wasteland Jamboree

Video seems to be embedding fine

[potent flume]

Try
https://vxtwitter.com/BPEventsNV/status/2052489766369701979

Buttered Popcorn Post Nuclear Fan Events (@BPEventsNV)

☢️Your event.
☢️Your cosplay.
☢️Your music.
☢️Your films.
☢️Your creations and artistry.

What was your favorite moment from last weekend at #WastelandJamboree?

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 7, 2026, 8:44 PM

For some crowds, embedded videos from x.com domain don't work. vxtwitter is the workaround.

[mild rose]

oh neat, thanks!

[potent flume]

Well there's more than 1 workaround domain, but vxtwitter is one of the more common ones known.

But yeah, if in doubt, use vxtwitter domain.

[noble fox]

Ok hear me out. Both Vegas and 4 are good

I wish Bethesda would add the mod menu and creations menu to new Vegas

It would make the game 100 times better

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-new-vegas-mr-house-house-mmm-gif-9760494764755111271

[potent flume]

You'd probably need to raise that with Obsidian.

[next hound]

Do NOT put the words Fallout 4 in the same sentence as New Vegas buddy 😭

Looks like someone is picking a fight today. You better watch out pal…

[steep sluice]

Amen

[next hound]

[potent flume]

I mean... if it's just his opinion, he's entitled to it.

[fallow panther]

Fallout new Vegas & spinoff go very well together, however

[fallow panther]

https://tenor.com/view/caesar-kaesar-fallout-fallout-nv-fallout-new-vegas-gif-12083686841340003537

[nocturne pilot]

fallout 4 has better combat than new vegas.

fallout 4 was better optimised at launch than new vegas was.

[zealous echo]

Why not? I like both of them.

[steep sluice]

New Vegas was a far better RPG, which is what Fallout is supposed to be, generic shooter combat is nothing special

[steep sluice]

So do I but Fallout 4 was vastly inferior to what came before, even 3 and 76 is miles ahead of 4

Yes New Vegas barely functioned but when it finally did work it was a masterpiece, like Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 1

[zealous echo]

Oh, wait, I've not even played 4, what am I saying? My brain was thinking 3 maybe? 🤷 😅

[nocturne pilot]

far better is a stretch. it certainly has more options.

[nocturne pilot]

it still needs mods to work right. the crash on loading was never fully fixed and its optimization is still bad.

[steep sluice]

Ok sure 😂

[steep sluice]

Yes but the game is still near perfect when it decides to actually work, Fallout 4 may work properly but the content is very weak

[steep sluice]

Ah ok, 3 is much better than 4

[steep sluice]

And Fallout 4 needs mods to actually be good

Though I will give bethesda credit for presentation

[nocturne pilot]

fallout 4 content isnt weak. it's exploration and side quests are equal to new vegas. the only real issue is the second half of the main story was ok at best and its rpg needed more complexity.

[nocturne pilot]

NV is very good but near perfect is over selling it.

[steep sluice]

No the side quests are vastly inferior, yes it desperately needed more complexity

[nocturne pilot]

hard disagree on the first part.

[steep sluice]

Some of the side quests are fun but very meh compared to NV

[nocturne pilot]

NV's side quests are no diff from 4's

[steep sluice]

Most had multiple endings and ways to tackle them, 4 was mostly just shooty shooty gun gun

So yes NV quests were very different not the same at all

[nocturne pilot]

you must have a bad memory. NV's side quests were very much "shooty shooty gun gun" most of the time. only a few had any complexity. just like 4.

[steep sluice]

Wrong, either you didnt play the game or you are a bethesda fanboy

[nocturne pilot]

I played it more than 40 times end to end all over the map. try again.

[steep sluice]

Look at Veronica's companion quest, you had the option to just shoot and shoot, or gather evidence the peaceful way and deliver it to the NCR to sort the issue out, the quest with free side siphoning water can be done completely peacefully

[steep sluice]

That is obviously a lie 😂

[nocturne pilot]

why? just because I'm not glazing NV like you are? NV is good. but that doesn't mean your opnion will be shared by everyone who plays it.

you accuse me of being a fanboy but you are the one doing that with NV.

[wanton fjord]

This is turning into an argument so let's move on please

[steep sluice]

Arcades quest alone had alot of different outcomes, you can make the enclave remnants fight for the NCR which causes one of the members to throw a hissy fit and you can fight him or talk him down, make them fight for Caesar and make Arcade leave for good, and after the battle plan is decided you can determine if Arcade stays in new vegas during the battle or fight along side his companions during the battle, that's six options right there

[nocturne pilot]

understood.

[steep sluice]

Fair enough

[steady bison]

Fallout 4 is far bugger than NV and the studio you love, made it worse to play in PS4 with the next gen/anniversary update. Also it is annoying to help another settlement

[nocturne pilot]

we were told to drop this subject by a mod.

[wanton fjord]

[steady bison]

Sure because here is not obsidian ok

[next hound]

Yes, compare a game that was developed in 18 months to a game that was developed in 4-7 years. I hope Fallout 4 has better optimization and combat compared to a game made in 2010.
But may you introduce you to the Fallout 4 anniversary edition? Known to be a disaster and near unplayable from the sheer amount of bugs despite the game being over a decade old by now?

I don’t really understand the combat argument when Fallouts core part is story and RPG

[steep sluice]

Thankfully I never upgraded to anniversary edition

So I still have Fallout 4 working properly

[next hound]

Even then Fallout 4 is still buggy, but good on you for not getting it. How the anniversary edition added MORE game breaking bugs to unplayability is a mystery 😂

[steep sluice]

It just works

Had my first crash though today after about 60 odd hours

Ps4 version I suffered with constant crashes, especially in the city area

[next hound]

What version do you play on now?

[steep sluice]

Steam

It overheats my steam deck and guzzles the battery like a thirsty alcoholic at a bar but apart from that it's been pretty smooth

[next hound]

🤣

[steep sluice]

It's on charge right now, literally just finished Far Harbor

Glory To Atom

[next hound]

How is that DLC? I hear it’s one of the few good things about 4

[steep sluice]

Atoms Judgement is the best melee weapon in Fallout tbf, it just looks fabulous

[steep sluice]

Bit too short

I did enjoy the Atoms side quests though dispite being pretty basic

I do hope the children of atom become a major join able faction in Fallout 5

Now that I've returned to the common wealth with my new hammer I'm gonna pay swan a visit before I go back to building my raider castle

Had to bump the difficulty upto very hard because I'm just too op now

And I'm playing with the ghoulification mod from CC so now that I've gone feral my hammer does about 500 damage plus 400ish radiation damage so... yea

[next hound]

Ngl and no hate, but I do not like the children of atom they’re a shallow faction that don’t really make much sense imo

[steep sluice]

They need more fleshing out, which is what Fallout 5 should do, just saying Todd, I know you are watching us

The children of atom give very good loot in far harbor

I had Ada with me carrying my loot back home so now I'm gonna finish the Automatron DLC then begin Nuka World

Shawn can wait

The prick

[next hound]

“I have to find my son!”

Builds settlements instead

[steep sluice]

Literally

[rain pawn]

Not to mention killing, sometimes indiscriminately those who have nothing to do with Shaun missing or spouse dead.

[steep sluice]

It's a great life in the wasteland

[latent pollen]

What is up fellas

[steep sluice]

Nick Valentine

He never sleeps

[nocturne pilot]

the sky.

[maiden cobalt]

Cues some fallout music

[steep sluice]

Todd

Todd never changes

[mild rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/699707976461844590/1502762311788789962/image0.jpg?ex=6a00e3f7&is=69ff9277&hm=63ac40041cb8639293f22a24379553c5450de8379c1a0ac28f94f8598658b025&

seen in West Virginia 😀😀

Hoping it’s non- partisan enough mods - if not , sowwy 😞

Unsure who that’s supposed to be on the left tho - big foot?

[steep sluice]

Pfft

[mild rose]

Otherwise that’s flatwoods, graft. And mothman

[uneven ingot]

Bigfoot for city council!

[mild rose]

Was wild how similar Sutton was to the real Sutton

One lane town next to a river

[bronze zealot]

it'd be cool if unarmed in fallout 5 were secondary weapons like grenades so when you gun bash with an unarmed weapon equipped you use it, so unarmed has more difference from melee

also it'd be cool if you could double click secondaries to use them as primary weapons

[steep sluice]

Would be nice if unarmed weapons in fallout 5 were actually good unlike in Fallout 4

Only two good weapons

Power fist and Deathclaw Gauntlet

Even then the F4 Deathclaw guantlet doesnt look as cool as the F3 and NV one

[mossy gust]

using unarmed weapons with PA would also be beautiful

[steep sluice]

Yes

[shadow bronze]

I'm only really thinking about it rn but does anyone find it kinda odd The Wand Company gave the TV Pip-boy the video game flashlight and the NV Pip-boy the TV flashlight. ?

As in the TV show Pip-boy has the Screen glowing bright.

And the NV Pip-boy has a flashlight that isn't the screen itself.

It's the one thing that bugs me about The Replicas, other than that they're terrific. I wonder if the wand company will do the fallout 4 Pip-boy and remake their fallout 76 one as a working model

[potent flume]

The FO4 replica pip-boy already exists.

It was released as part of the collector edition when the game launched.

[shadow bronze]

Yeah I know but that's ThinkGeek I'm talking about The Wand Company's shot at it

Maybe not, I could see it's existence maybe a little redundant

[potent flume]

Yeah it'd be a bit pointless just for the sake of them making it.

Info I'm finding, and even the replica itself that I have, does not say who Bethesda commissioned to make it.

Ok so it may have actually been Thinkgeek.

If yet another replica of it is made, Bethesda then also need to re-publish the smartphone app.

[shadow bronze]

Why? If the wand company made one it would be it's own thing not reliant on a phone

[potent flume]

Actually that makes an interesting point. It could become an IoT device.

Because the one that was made back in 2015, worked with the FO4 companion app that worked while you were in-game, for that level of immersion.

The app has since been retired, officially.

An IoT pip-boy would be neat.

Would probably need to run on a Pi.

[shadow bronze]

I have a downloaded apk of it but it doesn't work with fallout 4 for obvious reasons

[steady bison]

The apk sincronizes pretty well with the PS4 version

[shadow bronze]

Oh I don't have that one

[steady bison]

It was cool when it was at the google store. Now the apk is pirated to download

One or two years after that the studio decided to close the pc client server

[haughty lake]

Hello

[shadow bronze]

I forgot, does the Wand Company's 3000a Pip-boy have an in game radio like Radio NV? Or three dogg?

Or is it just FM

[vapid maple]

Is Bethesda ever gonna fix the Bunker home pack for Fallout 4? Or how do I go for a refund if not

[next hound]

🤣

[maiden cobalt]

Plays Heartaches by the Number

[sudden nova]

It won't be an easy adventure, and there is potential for dismemberment, or worse.

But a vault cracker should do the trick.

https://media.tenor.com/1P8pchyvWxQAAAAM/vault-ludwig-dieter.gif

Speaking of which.. I look forward to cracking the highest-security vault, of all time, in a future Fallout game.

Thieves guild, meet vault-tech artists. Tune up those ears.

[nocturne knot]

PLease Bethesda make the Enclave Plasma Core Recharger available in the Atomic shop this weekend ❤️

[fallow panther]

mmmmmmmmmm fallout 76.....mmmmmm

[quaint zealot]

How to farm caps on that game???

[uneven ingot]

Every NPC vendor shares the same cap limit of 1400 a day. You can sell weapons and meds you find to easily reach that every day. Outside of that, Public Events reward a few hundred caps each and smaller Activities reward smaller amounts as well.

If you have stuff people want to buy, opening a vendor stand in your camp is also pretty effective

Expeditions and Daily Ops also rewards a fair number of caps

[quaint zealot]

Yes

[sour burrow]

Yes

[fallow panther]

what i said (without the spam filter catching letters) is that i come here in respite of the fallout 76 chat, and that fallout 76 is certainly a game

[sour burrow]

I really tried getting into FO76. I like the DLC stories. But by God, it is just so...horrid

[fallow panther]

it's odd that fallout 4 feels more "fresh" or higher quality to me.

[sour burrow]

Because FO4 is concentrated

[fallow panther]

inb4 "but 76 is online" yes I know. f4 still looks really good.

ahhh i wasnt fast enough

[sour burrow]

FO76 is not concentrated. It's dilated and then having content added. Not to say the content is bad, it's actually good. But FO76 as a game itself isn't

[steep sluice]

Fallout 4 on it's own is pretty weak but the DLCs really help the game out

[fallow panther]

I'd agree with this yes

[sour burrow]

You know, even without DLC, it's actually good in terms of writing, just not the mainquest, but all the other quests together with the companions is genuine gold

[fallow panther]

fallout 4 is still the best looking fallout in my opinion. Fully modded NV can't even touch it.

[sour burrow]

Bethesda did manage to turn FO76 into a success story though, in the end

DLC after DLC, content after content

[steep sluice]

Bethesda cooked with the Prydwin arrival scene

[fallow panther]

oh sure. big moneymaker for bethesda. pretty much keeps the lights on for them it seems haha.

[steep sluice]

All the fallout games have great graphic mods

[fallow panther]

It sure should when you charge your users on a subcription fee. Kinda like how EA works.

[quaint zealot]

Fallout 4 but is a zombie virus scenario

[steep sluice]

Theres a mod like that

[wanton fjord]

it is ok to say you do not like it, but please do not bash.

[quaint zealot]

Yeah there is an entire modpack

[sour burrow]

It's not bashing per se

[quaint zealot]

Collection* on Nexusmods

[quaint zealot]

People of the Commonwealth this is the Brotherhood of steel.

[steep sluice]

Lol, even the vault exit scene in F3 was awesome

As much as I love New Vegas they kinda fumbled their recreation of that when leaving doc Mitchell's house

[fallow panther]

https://tenor.com/view/feel-the-force-yoda-star-wars-gif-10721160

[quaint zealot]

Nah.... I prefer the Enclave in fallout 3...

[sour burrow]

I can't be the only one who wanted more villains like the guy from Los Angeles in FO4 though

[steep sluice]

When they arrive at the water purifier when you are in the sewer pipe thing?

[sour burrow]

The villain, the companions, and the brotherhood entrance were the top tier parts of FO4, and Railroad

[quaint zealot]

Los Angeles???? Fallout 4 is in Boston area

[quaint zealot]

No, Raven Rock.

[sour burrow]

The guy you hunt down is from LA, when you enter his brain

[steep sluice]

Ah

[sour burrow]

Or well, see his memories, rather

[quaint zealot]

??? I don't remember

[steep sluice]

Oh Kellog cornflakes in the memory den?

[fallow panther]

it felt a bit out of place imo, but not after learning about the unfortunately scrapped underground vault. what you mentioned was well done considering though

[sour burrow]

Yep

[steep sluice]

I wont lie, Kellogs outfit is sick

[quaint zealot]

Ahhh yes Kellogg. For a moment I was thinking about DiMA in far harbor

[sour burrow]

Kellog as a villain actually was good

[steep sluice]

His puzzle game section still urks me, I both liked it and hated it, its weird

[fallow panther]

ah disregard my reply i thought you were talking about that gangster in the vault

[sour burrow]

Bethesda would've really had a great 10/10 fallout 4 if they had more of that throughout the game

[quaint zealot]

That legendary flamethrower they sell there is just OP (sergeant Ash)

[quaint zealot]

MODS on Nexusmods

[sour burrow]

I'm well aware from several years already, friend

[quaint zealot]

Ok

[steep sluice]

Yea that flamethrower is broken, really makes up for the fact base game flamethrower are trash

Also the Incinerator from CC is pretty damn strong

[fallow panther]

that.. world though. it was fantastic (F4). with dynamic weather even better. fallout 4 the kinda game i could spent time in just for the ambiance, soaking in the world. 76 when it tries this... you either get static todd rays or bugged out specular effects etc. there were a few close moments. whitespring brings that vibe. but as a whole, it just doesn't hit for me the same. you're so constantly reminded that the game is about the grind.

[sour burrow]

I did more stuff in fallout 4 with Nick than I did with anyone else tbh

[fallow panther]

https://tenor.com/view/shreks-meme-gif-14773907558805575638

[sour burrow]

Nick is just my kinda guy

[quaint zealot]

Bro.... I'm dirty minded

[steep sluice]

Most of my runs I just go with Cait, Curie and Piper until I've romance them all then go solo for the perk

[wanton fjord]

nope, let's move on from that please

[quaint zealot]

YEAAAAAHHH

[sour burrow]

So are we all, but Nick kinda earns respect from a writer's perspective

[steep sluice]

I would do the same with the lads but none of them are cute 😔

[quaint zealot]

Cait is better

[sour burrow]

Actually well written companion with real impacts

[quaint zealot]

Ahahhaha

[fallow panther]

i did not like nick, his character confused me a bit writing wise. good voice actor, and his scripted quests do make sense, just never felt connected to any backstory.. i mean the dudes not real. idk. not trying to hate

i'm kinda synth hater though so theres that

[sour burrow]

Dude not being real was what sold me on it. Pragmatic robot just trying to figure things out, one bullet at time

[steep sluice]

I love Nick's design

[quaint zealot]

A synth?? Hell nah.

[steep sluice]

His quest sucks tho

[sour burrow]

Not sure why we couldn't have someone like Nick in Starfield

[quaint zealot]

I kill synths

[steep sluice]

I like having a synth army at my beck and call via the institute

[fallow panther]

I'm sensing i missed a companion quest.. i never brought him anywhere. left him at any given chance. To me, its like unplugging AI

[sour burrow]

Nick's okay with killing synths. So there's that

[fallow panther]

the funny thing is most are and do it with no question

[quaint zealot]

I think Nick stands with the Enclave as a scout.... (It's a theory that I have for some years).