Fallout 4
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Rest their pancreas 
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Simple ini tweaks to make the mouse/camera feel better.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Don't think so
Although I've been informed theres no multiplayer, so its not worth paying a premium to play it whilst its new
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Still haven't started it. Been in to set up my options, but been researching how to create custom resolutions in my driver, and then realising that's not necessary because I can use the hotsampling tool I use for other games. Just not for hotsampling.
If anyone wants to downsample, follow this guide. It's for Skyrim or the earlier Fallouts, but the same applies.
If anyone wants to downsample, follow this guide. It's for Skyrim or the earlier Fallouts, but the same applies.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
alternatively, if you've got a recent Nvidia card, you can enable the downsampling function in the settings, choose what resolutions you want to be available, and you're good to go
DSR | Technology | GeForce
It works like a charm.
DSR | Technology | GeForce
It works like a charm.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
have to say the crafting thing is putting me off a little
looks amazing though.
looks amazing though.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
As far as I can work out, the crafting is optional side-entertainment, so ignore it if you just want to stomp around shooting stuff! I mean you may want to modify your gear a bit, but just ignore the settlement stuff if it's not to your taste
EDIT: Husband's PC issue turned out to be the fuse in the plug, 30 seconds to fix. PHEW!
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
A lot of aspects of fallout you cab just completely ignore if it's not your bag. New Vegas had gambling which I completely ignored. And crafting which I mainly ignored until I found out about the unique 44 magnum with hand loaded ammo. With the right perks you could damage a deathclaw
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Vintage Paw (or anyone else using the pipboy app) - I don't have the pipboy, but is it worth putting the app on my tablet?
BigTom
Well-Known Member
I've played a couple of hours this morning before work, and a few hours tonight after work and unsurprisingly I'm hooked. Feels like a cross between new vegas and skyrim, more than fallout 3, which means I'm also going to be bored by all the crafting (and so not bother with it) and there being too many gun/ammo options/combos, but the end result of that is the settlement stuff which I haven't really tried yet but will do once I've played out the story in the game (or at least some of it) and am very much looking forward to. I did give it a look though but I couldn't work out how or where it actually placed the thing I built so I gave up and went exploring cos I love this world, always loved post-nuclear apocalypse sci-fi stories and fallout does that really well.
I haven't had any bugs yet, the mouse is a bit flaky in VATS and the Pip Boy screen and dogmeat keeps getting in the way of course but that's not exactly a bug. VATS works a bit differently, didn't it used to pause entirely rather than just slow down or is that my memory?
I don't do screenshotting but just for Vintage Paw this is the view out of where I'm spending the night, both in game and irl:
I don't like to travel at night, not yet anyway with just a few bits of scavenged raider armour and a pipe pistol (with 10mm pistol and a double barrel shotgun for when my ammo runs out shortly), so I'm going to stop here for the night, there's a sleeping bag here and it's well protected, the person's skeleton that's here, they died of natural causes obviously. Tomorrow, onwards to wherever I find next... probably more fucking rad roaches and mole rats.
I haven't had any bugs yet, the mouse is a bit flaky in VATS and the Pip Boy screen and dogmeat keeps getting in the way of course but that's not exactly a bug. VATS works a bit differently, didn't it used to pause entirely rather than just slow down or is that my memory?
I don't do screenshotting but just for Vintage Paw this is the view out of where I'm spending the night, both in game and irl:
I don't like to travel at night, not yet anyway with just a few bits of scavenged raider armour and a pipe pistol (with 10mm pistol and a double barrel shotgun for when my ammo runs out shortly), so I'm going to stop here for the night, there's a sleeping bag here and it's well protected, the person's skeleton that's here, they died of natural causes obviously. Tomorrow, onwards to wherever I find next... probably more fucking rad roaches and mole rats.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not sure why VATS got such a kicking in the previous games. I liked using it. Pausing the action and planning your shots was a good thing not a bad thing.
It was the only way to kill deathclaws.
It was the only way to kill deathclaws.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
It's actually simpler than it looks, once you realise that you don't have to (and nor should you) stand at the workbench. You can either activate the workbench and then walk around the settlement with the build menu up, or hold V anywhere in your settlement to bring up the workbench interface. Then when you select an item in the menu it appears in front of you - in green if it can be placed there, in red if you need to move a bit or rotate it (rotating is done with left and right mouse buttons on PC, and you move it just by moving your character).
While the menu is up but no item is selected to build, hovering the reticule over an already placed item will highlight it, and you hit TAB (on PC) to select it, so you can move stuff that you already placed, or store it in the workbench if you want to do a drastic redesign of an area. There is a different button (R I think?) to break down items in the environment for scrap.
So it's nice and easy to put stuff where you want it
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
No good if you want custom aspect ratios, unfortunately.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oh, quick tip for those who plan on doing a lot of settlement building - there is a perk under Intelligence which is required to get rare mats when scrapping stuff - take that perk as early as possible so that you start building up a supply of rare mats early on.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
First screenshot, just of my character, who I hate, and am going to remake
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Not got far, just met the dog and finished for the night... er... morning
My first three semi-okay-ish screenshots. Discounting that one up there. I didn't keep her.
^ That one's at 4K on ultra with ReShade for custom shaders, ssao (better than the in-game ssao for most things except through distant fog), etc. I had no problem bobbling around in the intro at 4K, but I'm sure it would have cried out and about.
The next two are 1440p, which hasn't given me a single problem, everything feels smooth.
Going to sort out a better way of downsampling tomorrow (I used a custom resolution through my driver for the 4K one), and try different ARs.
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I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm always shit with knowing where to put my points. I'm just going with whatever makes sense at the time and we'll see what happens.
Fucking mole rats though
My first three semi-okay-ish screenshots. Discounting that one up there. I didn't keep her.
^ That one's at 4K on ultra with ReShade for custom shaders, ssao (better than the in-game ssao for most things except through distant fog), etc. I had no problem bobbling around in the intro at 4K, but I'm sure it would have cried out and about.
The next two are 1440p, which hasn't given me a single problem, everything feels smooth.
Going to sort out a better way of downsampling tomorrow (I used a custom resolution through my driver for the 4K one), and try different ARs.
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I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm always shit with knowing where to put my points. I'm just going with whatever makes sense at the time and we'll see what happens.
Fucking mole rats though
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Had a proper go with the settlement building this morning, thanks Epona I can see myself spending much time building up Sanctuary, knocked down a couple of ruined houses, build a new shack and put some beds in it, got some water and plants on the go, some defenses and am going to head off scavenging (following a mission, I'm sure I'll find enough stuff along the way) and hope that when I come back there's a new settler and that my little encampment hasn't been destroyed by raiders.
Some annoyances with the settlement builder but for something that is basically an add-on to another game it is awesome, I think it'll leave me hankering for a first person post-apocalyptic city build and scavenge game. Must be something like that out there, zombies or nukes or whatever, anyway I've got ages to play with this yet.
Some annoyances with the settlement builder but for something that is basically an add-on to another game it is awesome, I think it'll leave me hankering for a first person post-apocalyptic city build and scavenge game. Must be something like that out there, zombies or nukes or whatever, anyway I've got ages to play with this yet.
