Whitespring is not a place I'd go to unless you have a PA set tbh. That place is wild.
Fallout 76 | OT | Almost Heaven, Waste Virginia
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Whitespring is not a place I'd go to unless you have a PA set tbh. That place is wild.
Bought this yesterday on PS4 as I want to give it a genuine shot....asking my question here because I dont want to wade through the review thread, etc.
Basically all things aside is the exploration fun? That was the main draw of the game for me so it's what I'm most curious about.
Basically all things aside is the exploration fun? That was the main draw of the game for me so it's what I'm most curious about.
Personally I find the exploration incredibly boring. The goal of it is to just collect as much junk as possible and haul it back for crafting. But others(Certainly not reviewers) disagree.
I think it's fun. There's a lot of really cool locations to discover and (personally) I like that there are "hints" as to where on the map those locations are.
Fastest way to sell caps to me is selling off excess meds. Even with how crappy traders are at giving you any money, lot of meds are worth decent money. I don't use tons of the stuff to avoid addiction, so all those menstats, pyschos, etc can quickly add up to lot of caps.
Don't waste time with the Hard Bargain perk card, it's a huge waste of perk choice, I've got a maxed out version of it and still get jack for my trades, it feels like its broken or something.
After playing Fallout co op I don't want to go back to playing without it. Exploring with friends is too much fun.
Sweet...this is what I was hoping for.
The location and lore of West Virginia was a huge draw for me.
I'm in the same boat. i think the next multiplayer Fallout needs proper NPCs though so quest and world design can benefit.
Fallout 5 needs to have co op. They can have all the single player NPC stuff plus cities but still have co op.
Well, now I know first-hand! Thanks for the advice.
I'll definitely take that into consideration. Thank you!
Also level up charisma a bit and get the perk that makes vendor prices better. Swap it in when you wanna sell.
The varying enemy levels is probably the thing that's hurting my enjoyment of the game the most. Going to an area and fighting level 9 ghouls then going back later and running into level 66 ghouls is really frustrating.
You can go to 15 on multiple stats, I have strength and int maxed with most others at 5 or so.
Levels are also weirdly meaningless. I took on a camp of 4 38-40 level supermutants at around 20.
A level 21 deathclaw destroyed my ass at level 22 tho.
One of the reasons I like shotguns for primary is the Enforcer perk making limb crippling basically instant. A lot of the more dangerous enemies in the game are very melee-oriented, so you can just start the fight with a blast to the leg, shoot the other leg while they are staggered from that, and they can no longer fight effectively. Things like Deathclaws and Hermit Crabs are especially vulnerable, as are all forms of robots due to their reduced limb health (their limbs actually come off so you can choose which element of their skill set you want to remove).
I didn't word that very well. I should have said any stat can only go to 15.
I've been away from the game for holiday travel, so hopefully there will be a substantial update to welcome us back home.
Just fought a Wendigo for the first time, had no idea what it was but it was fucking me up big time. Thank god I have the perk that just feeds me stimpacks because I would've been dead a few times. Was about 9 levels higher than me and I had no idea how to kill it until I got higher ground and "cheesed" it.
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Jesus, there are cazadores in this game. Well, not cazadores, but the Stingwing Skimmers are obviously based on them. Small, black exoskeleton and orange wings, and poisons/blurs vision on each hit. Shit.
Only thing that's saving me from Radscorpions, first time encountering them and this glowing one that's 6 levels higher than me is kicking my ass. Good thing they don't have that mole rat power to burrow and appear anywhere and everywhere.
I just started that today. It's fantastic. I also dread finding out how things end.
I'm trying to play a Melee character but it feels like the cards are stacked against me. Even taking every melee perk I can constantly eating pot shots from enemies who are a hassle to physically reach and there are so many enemies who punish me for being in melee range with diseases and shit. Has anyone managed to make a pure melee build work yet
Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4 had the same lockpicking as 76. BGS' last game with a different mechanic was Oblivion. Even Obsidian used it.
Strength, Endurance and Agility are the go-to stats for that. Do running attacks and let your high HP pool and armor tank the incoming damage.
Is it me or are the radscorps way harder on this Fallout.
I guess I must have remembered it the other way around, then. My goof. Anyway, I much prefer the current lock-picking minigame to the pain that was Oblivion's.
I mean, the lockpicking mechanic isn't exactly a concept that you can innovate on too much lmao. It's one of those things that is fine as is really.
Just got to The Top of the World, out of curiosity...is it supposed to be overrun with Super Mutants that are about 20 levels higher than me?
Got an automatic Handmade and it eats absolutely everything...but damn is it expensive to keep fed. 5.56 is hard to come by so I've got to forge pretty much all of my ammo, I'm constantly running out of lead.
I finally settled down and made a nice camp on a lake right next to Top of the World, a little home away from home :)
Got an automatic Handmade and it eats absolutely everything...but damn is it expensive to keep fed. 5.56 is hard to come by so I've got to forge pretty much all of my ammo, I'm constantly running out of lead.
I finally settled down and made a nice camp on a lake right next to Top of the World, a little home away from home :)
Hell, even Techland used it in Dying Light. I'm sure they use it because it's fast and easy.
It was one of my first introductions to what appears to be a truly higher-level zone. I even backed away from completing Rose's quest for a bit because getting one of the parts needed meant getting past a Level 30 sentrybot armed with an assault weapon. I was not nearly ready for that the last time I tried.
Levels feel more damage oriented. I could melt a lvl 59 supermutant with a few shots no problem, but the damage output they put out was nuts. It almost feels like like they apply the lvl number based on their weapon/damage potential and not exactly a true level.
High level scorched always seem to such and easy to kill no matter how high
This is one of those oddly designed areas, they give you an early game quest to go to the top of the world, the bottom of the top of the world by the elevator is covered in bad ass rad scorpions. First time I went it had 2 lvl 46 rads, and a elite one as well in its 50's. Everything in the area is around lvl 20, but these are basically blocking the elevator for me? The scorpions aren't always there depending on other players or if the ai thought each other, but its random encounters like that which are weird in this
Ahhh, good to know. I feel like I've gotta spend about 150 rounds just to clear out and make way through the village before the top of the world, I wouldn't mind so much if it was Scorched, but damn to Super Mutants take a licking and keep on ticking.
Still looking for a handmade rifle plan so I can craft some better parts.
Most places seem to rotate between enemy factions, but I think the Super Mutants hold the lodges near there most of the time.
Ammo economy wasn't really my biggest issue with the handmade. Those things weigh more than my minigun.
On a side note, don't worry about all of the ammo types right now. I'm giving friends 5-600 5.56 at a time now. My biggest tip to newer players that feel like they're not doing a lot of damage is to make sure that you're updating all of your weapons when you hit the level milestones. Pipe revolvers can hit like a truck as long as you carry the highest leveled one available to you..38 and .45 ammo are all over the place too.
I carried a pipe revolver, hunting rifle with a scope and a pump-action shotgun around with me. Every other weapon got scrapped until I was ~45-50. By the time I was getting the guns that I wanted I had a ton of mods to build for them.
14 pounds is heavy...but it's worth every pound for the damage it puts out. I shred through even high level enemies like a hot knife through butter.
I had a generator, some workbenches and crops built at my CAMP. Spent an hour or two away from it, and then got stuck in an infinite loading screen. Had to Alt-Tab out and kill the game. I restart the game, and on the map my CAMP is gone. When I re-place the CAMP, the shack with my stash box and a turret on the roof is stored in the CAMP, but nothing else. Why? Did someone destroy that stuff? Now I have to go find stupid gears and aluminum just to rebuild them and inventory management already takes up a ridiculous amount of time in this game. Plus the food I would've gotten from my crops is gone.
I wish the mini-game was different based on what you were lockpicking. A safe should have a different mini-game from a door. lol
My camp is currently in hostile territory with frequent Scorched spawns, but I've fortunately got plenty of defense for the time being. It's funny what some fencing and about six turrets will do.
Is it really an issue? I put my camp on the edge of a cliff and surrounded it with turrets. If I ever get attacked it's over quick.
The attacks I'd worry less about. The fact that your progress is almost gone when you log out and the tiny area you can build in, however....
I built my camp in the middle of a farm and I get attacked from all angles and my turrets can't keep them all away. It's so annoying.
And yes:
This is also pretty bad!
For me, the camp should be a relaxing area but instead it gives me anxiety when I have to protect it. I'd rather just not deal with that.
My camp hasn't been attacked yet, if it does then I am fucked cuz I don't think I have enough turrets at good spots. How do you get to level 2 homestead to be able to build heavy turrets?
Would not be surprised. I remember Deathclaw were easy to kill in 3 then they got super hard in NV and even harder with all the different types in 4. I'm just screwed with anything that gets up close which is why the Wendigo just brutalized me today.
I wish my camp got attacked more really, it seems like it never gets attacked or damaged. If you got a fence around it and a single turret it pretty much seems to be pretty safe.
I wish there was more of a meta game to the camps, protecting them and such. Camps just feel so half assed in how they were implemented in this.
I wish I had your luck. My camp seems to get attacked even when I'm not there. Each time I load in, half the fences are broken, and I got tired of having to repair all of my turrets everyday, so I just got rid of them. And when I load in, I'm being attacked by enemies on both sides. And because I can't choose a fast travel target, the game puts me in a river. (Just moved camp because of that, though.)
Even when I put my camp in an area that seems to have no enemies, they will show up as soon I build something and each time I travel there. So, I've been using workshops as my base because they get attacked way less and with way weaker enemies, and I'm just using the camp as a fast travel point.
I really would like to build something really nice, but it's not fun to constantly repair it and deal with waves of enemies. I've gotten to try out a lot of different layouts and such from building on workshops, though, so that's nice.
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