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BaconCopter
Feb 13, 2008

:coolfish:

:coolfish:

DeathSandwich posted:

You still have to go into steam settings and change your region info iirc

I do this every single time.

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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

projecthalaxy posted:

Huh. Neato! Two more hours of breaking necks and cashing checks tonight than I expected.

Did it just download a 4.5 gig file for you? I'm wondering how big our download will be at release. Hopefully not something stupid.

Brightman
Feb 24, 2005

I've seen fun you people wouldn't believe.
Tiki torches on fire off the summit of Kilauea.
I watched disco balls glitter in the dark near the Brandenburg Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like crowds in rain.

Time to sleep.
I feel like this is a solid build mainly for getting all the modding perks: http://www.nukahub.com/tools/special?build=7f.6.4.3.2.6.3.4

S:6 P:4 E:3 C:2 I:6 A:3 L:4

Charisma and Luck are mostly whatever, but getting all the perks to break down poo poo and get all the mods in int and str seem like a good way to go, also I like strong back because I am a loving pack rat in these games. Going through the perk ranks I end up at level 72 though, so hopefully magazines/books/bobbleheads/whatever help with that or leveling is just quicker.

anatomi
Jan 31, 2015

Are there no options for brightness/contrast?

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
I like how owlofcreamcheese is so loving stupid that he's citing IGN (of all things) as his definitive source.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Volkerball posted:

Did it just download a 4.5 gig file for you? I'm wondering how big our download will be at release. Hopefully not something stupid.

I'll check my storage in a couple hours, it started a download last night and I just assumed it was the whole game. I know when I preordered Arkham Knight it had the whole game ready to patch and go right at midnight, and I'm like 99% sure Madden did too.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

sector_corrector posted:

I like how owlofcreamcheese is so loving stupid that he's citing IGN (of all things) as his definitive source.

Sorry your fantasy of jerking off to how bad fallout was fell through. Maybe next time!

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
"You can place 21 stat points when creating a character. However everytime you level up you can choose between placing another stat or choosing a perk. Note you can save your build by bookmarking the URL with your choices."

Wait, so can you choose to put another point in a SPECIAL stat every time you level up, or does that mean something else? Also leveling is infinite now, right? If you can choose to put a point in special, every time you level up there's basically no locks on your character.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Volkerball posted:

"You can place 21 stat points when creating a character. However everytime you level up you can choose between placing another stat or choosing a perk. Note you can save your build by bookmarking the URL with your choices."

Wait, so can you choose to put another point in a SPECIAL stat every time you level up, or does that mean something else? Also leveling is infinite now, right? If you can choose to put a point in special, every time you level up there's basically no locks on your character.

You can choose to level a SPECIAL stat (up to a max of 10) instead of investing in a perk, yes

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Sorry your fantasy of jerking off to how bad fallout was fell through. Maybe next time!

You are so goddamn salty, it's hilarious.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


It seems that way, yeah. Every time you level, you get a point that can buy either a stat or a perk. You can also hoard them up if you want to say skip level 9 and then buy two level 10 perks immediately. I think someone figured out that at level ~270 you run out of options to buy.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Ah, max of 10. Gotcha. Skill points are gone right? If they weren't, it'd be pretty smart to bulk up some other SPECIAL stats first, and put your first couple levels into your intelligence to boost your skill point output.

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

I don't understand why time zones are set up the way they are. The fact that EST isn't the most ahead time in the universe is absolutely inexplicable. If you don't live in EST you are likely incredibly poor and a scumbag.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Volkerball posted:

"You can place 21 stat points when creating a character. However everytime you level up you can choose between placing another stat or choosing a perk. Note you can save your build by bookmarking the URL with your choices."

Wait, so can you choose to put another point in a SPECIAL stat every time you level up, or does that mean something else? Also leveling is infinite now, right? If you can choose to put a point in special, every time you level up there's basically no locks on your character.

You can spend a perk point to increase a SPECIAL stat, yes. The only real limit to your character is your tolerance for grinding, I suppose, because there's a finite amount of quest XP available in the game. Eventually your only source of XP will be just killin' poo poo.

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Sorry your fantasy of jerking off to how bad fallout was fell through. Maybe next time!

I honestly don't know what they expected. There's a lot more than IGN to cite if you want to bring up the game's near-universal acclaim so I don't know what he's talking about.

Volkerball posted:

Ah, max of 10. Gotcha. Skill points are gone right? If they weren't, it'd be pretty smart to bulk up some other SPECIAL stats first, and put your first couple levels into your intelligence to boost your skill point output.

Yep, skills are gone. Stuff like weapon damage, stimpak effectiveness, etc. are determined by perks now.

DirtyTalk
Apr 7, 2013
stupid glaring question:

how are people playing already? doesn't it release tomorrow?

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

projecthalaxy posted:

It seems that way, yeah. Every time you level, you get a point that can buy either a stat or a perk. You can also hoard them up if you want to say skip level 9 and then buy two level 10 perks immediately. I think someone figured out that at level ~270 you run out of options to buy.

Unless they rescaled the game, you'll probably be like level 40 by the time you beat the game, so that's good. If there was an end perfect character that every build ended up becoming, it'd make replaying kind of boring.

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

I guess I missed the info or something, but when do I unlock perks other than the SPECIAL ones? Or am I doing something wrong? Lvl 5 right now.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

DirtyTalk posted:

stupid glaring question:

how are people playing already? doesn't it release tomorrow?

Some people are using VPNs to get access to the game early by pretending they're in a different time zone.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


It would be cool if they patched in the Mad Libs style quests from Skyrim to make grinding easier. You know the ones where you go talk to an NPC and they are like "Go to RIFTEN and fight the BEARS and recover the AXE" for a few hundred xp.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

projecthalaxy posted:

It would be cool if they patched in the Mad Libs style quests from Skyrim to make grinding easier. You know the ones where you go talk to an NPC and they are like "Go to RIFTEN and fight the BEARS and recover the AXE" for a few hundred xp.

I can't 100% confirm but I'm pretty sure those are in. The various Factions have quests which amount to "Go to (PLACE) and talk to (PERSON). Kill some Raiders."

The Minutemen quests for example seem to devolve into that. After a while I stopped doing them because of that so I can't say they last forever but they at least seem to respawn somewhat.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

sector_corrector posted:

You are so goddamn salty, it's hilarious.

Who are these people? Where are they from? What do they do? How do they survive? I don't understand why so many people are so invested in proving a video game they've never played is bad. They were around before we even had a trailer ffs.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Mods, can you change the thread title to Fallout 4: People are playing using VPNs in southeast Asia


Time zones are funny.. if it had some glaring game-breaking bug to be patched, you'd say they started in New Zealand so they'd have time to fix it by the time it went live in the Americas. If it's running fine, AMERICA #1 WHY THE gently caress WE GOTTA WAIT FOR THESE STUPID FOREIGNERS?!

(I'm in America and I hate all of you playing right now oh god why isn't it time to go home so I can VPN and get the loving game working???)

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

projecthalaxy posted:

It would be cool if they patched in the Mad Libs style quests from Skyrim to make grinding easier. You know the ones where you go talk to an NPC and they are like "Go to RIFTEN and fight the BEARS and recover the AXE" for a few hundred xp.

Definitely saw some people talking about radiant quests earlier. They're in.

Scoss
Aug 17, 2015
I'm a little confused about how my Power Armor works.

Do I just have the one suit? What happens if I get out and leave it in the middle of nowhere?

The "workshop inventory" is also super confusing to me. If I "transfer" junk from my inventory like toasters or mugs into the Workshop's store, does that automatically make the resources that come from those items available for use in crafting if I should try to make something that requires it?

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!
Makeup Simulator 2015 GOTY

Make your waifu look like a porn star only to die in a nuclear holocaust!

Is there a way to display frame rate? I tried the command from FO3, and it didn't throw up an error message but it also didn't display anything.

BlackFrost
Feb 6, 2008

Have you figured it out yet?
I know the minimum and recommended specs, but about where is a 2GB GTX 760 gonna get me with this game? Like should I expect to run on Medium? Should I just get it on PS4?

ShadowMar
Mar 2, 2010

HERE IS A
GRAVEYARD
OF YOU!


i like how there's a 50/50 chance the subtitles won't work

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Scoss posted:

I'm a little confused about how my Power Armor works.

Do I just have the one suit? What happens if I get out and leave it in the middle of nowhere?

The "workshop inventory" is also super confusing to me. If I "transfer" junk from my inventory like toasters or mugs into the Workshop's store, does that automatically make the resources that come from those items available for use in crafting if I should try to make something that requires it?

You can get multiple suits of power armor if you want by buying Frames from vendors. If you get out you are leaving it but it is marked on the map. You can fast travel with it so there is little reason to do that.

If you transfer junk to your inventory it is put into the inventory. It is not broken down into resources yet but the game recognizes you have those resources in storage and will automatically break them down when the time is right.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Harrow posted:

You can spend a perk point to increase a SPECIAL stat, yes. The only real limit to your character is your tolerance for grinding, I suppose, because there's a finite amount of quest XP available in the game. Eventually your only source of XP will be just killin' poo poo.

That's where console commands come in my friend.

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!
Also, how do I make the mouse not feel like poo poo?

code:
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingXScale=.021
fMouseHeadingYScale=.021
It feels like mouse acceleration is on

E: It uses the windows settings for "enhance pointer precision" which I turned off. The setting being on hasn't bothered me in other games. I also found...

code:
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0400
in X:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Fallout 4\Fallout4

... and bumped it up to 0.0400 (default is 0.0300)

waffles beyond waffles fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Nov 9, 2015

Robhol
Oct 9, 2012
There seem to be some pretty bizarre control decisions in this game. The quick item selects are mapped to 3, 4, 9, and 0 and there doesn't seem to be any way to change them. I cannot fathom why these particular numbers would have been chosen; it doesn't even map to anything on a numpad.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Relevant INI tweaks:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551069501&tscn=1447077828

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Perk 6 under Charisma, Local Leader, could very well be infinite money.

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
Why is there no Vsync option in the game menus whatsoever? It's lurching all over the place on my 750ti and it's pretty horrible. Also, the museum really brought my fps crashing down for some reason, even though it was pretty smooth outside.

Frankston
Jul 27, 2010


Anyone on PC playing or intending to play this with a 360 controller?

Fat_Cow
Dec 12, 2009

Every time I yank a jawbone from a skull and ram it into an eyesocket, I know I'm building a better future.

Anyone else getting stuck in menus with no way to tab out and stuff, and no way to bring your pipboy at times?

virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004

Frankston posted:

Anyone on PC playing or intending to play this with a 360 controller?

no

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Hope there's no implant mechanic based on endurance, because it looks like endurance is the biggest dump stat.

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Soho Joe
Aug 11, 2006

the torment of existence
weighed against
the horror of nonbeing
Nap Ghost
Soma spoilers

todd you loving lied to me, you said we were going to play a good video game! [fo 4 crashes] todd? todd please dont leave me

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