Fallout 4

[Vintage Paw]

The first ENB is out. Just the binary. It does a couple of fixes for stuff. The latest one has ENB Boost, which can help maximise performance if that's an issue for you. It was very effective in Skyrim for helping you utilise all your VRAM efficiently.

It also lets you turn off that weird character lighting. Go into a dark place where there are no lights shining on your character (or on any other characters, companions, whatever). See you're still illuminated from above. It makes it look like they are pasted on top of a background, rather than being part of it. Anyway, you can toggle it off, and the effect is more realism.

I'm about to try it out. People report different things about whether it'll work alongside ReShade or not. ReShade is more important atm, so I'll sacrifice that weird character lighting.

 

[D'wards]

"I lost my family, the world is in ruins, and people keep trying to kill me. But hey, I found this lovely sequinned dress!"

Is this you in real life? Mine kind of is - hard to get the facial features right on games though innit. Male pattern baldness, and laughter lines are on the money though

 

[Orang Utan]

I always make mine look as much like me as possible, no flattery. I play on third person so i can see it's me playing.

 

[Epona]

Is this you in real life?

Good grief no, I wish...

 

[D'wards]

I like being referred to as Mr Edwards by Codsworth too.

I'm with you on the no flattery thing. If anything i make mine even more gaunt and worn out than i actually am, which is quite a bit.

Want to go home and play now, ruddy work...

 

[D'wards]

A pal of mine made his character as ugly as possible, with exaggerated features. I think i saw an Adolf Hitler on Facebook too

 

[Epona]

I always make mine look as much like me as possible, no flattery. I play on third person so i can see it's me playing.

I found it very amusing that the Vault-Tec rep at the start of the game is pretty much Todd Howard. I reckon it is possible to create faces that look like whoever you want them to look like, but it probably requires a bit more artistic talent than I have.

 

[Orang Utan]

Who is Todd Howard?

 

[sim667]

My housemate bought a PS4 with this and the new COD.

So I can have a go after all.

 

[Epona]

Who is Todd Howard?

You're playing his game.

Todd Howard (video game designer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Epona]

Oh and just as a comparison...

Todd Howard:

Vault-Tec Rep:

 

[Epona]

PRESTON FFS!!!!! I don't think he is good at this romance lark.

Had a Minuteman quest to defend one of our settlements, so we headed there. I spoke to one of the settlers who told me they had been having trouble with raiders demanding money from them, and they were due to turn up any minute to either collect cash or spill settler blood. I told them "Don't worry, we're from the Minutemen and we will protect you" (or words to that effect), which is a big turn-on for Preston.

It flashes up in the corner of the screen "Preston Idolizes You". He comes over and engages me in a romantic conversation AS THE RAIDERS STORM IN, so we are standing there with him declaring his love for me amidst a hail of enemy bullets.

The quest completed without me doing anything while I was telling him I felt the same way. Good job that I had installed turrets, or it could have been a tragic end.

 

[8den]

You are a post apocalyptic Sam and Diane

 

[Vintage Paw]

The map, contextualised:

 

[Voley]

I have just bought a PS4 and Fallout 4.

It was nice knowing you all.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

freeing up some diskspace now

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

....my phone is too big.


where the fuck is my old phone...

 

[ruffneck23]

I have just bought a PS4 and Fallout 4.

It was nice knowing you all.

Join us

 

[8den]

Bonus points for an obscure Gilmore Girls reference.

 

[tommers]

Yeah, I know... It's only a minor gripe.

I'm not sure it is to be honest. I went and met the settlers at some bluff or other and there was one bloke, and he had a house with no roof and a bare mattress on the floor. Mate, you need to sort your survival skills out. At the very least patch some walls up and keep yourself dry. I got attacked by endless mole rats and a fucking rad scorpion on the way over and you haven't even got a blanket.

Does nobody do any DIY?

 

[Epona]

I'm not sure it is to be honest. I went and met the settlers at some bluff or other and there was one bloke, and he had a house with no roof and a bare mattress on the floor. Mate, you need to sort your survival skills out. At the very least patch some walls up and keep yourself dry. I got attacked by endless mole rats and a fucking rad scorpion on the way over and you haven't even got a blanket.

Does nobody do any DIY?

It's people living in places with a skeleton laying around that get me - I mean surely even in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, if you decided to move in somewhere and found a skeleton you would find a spare hour to bury or dispose of it in some way rather than just leaving it there?

 

[Vintage Paw]

I just met a yaoi bear (ok, I can't remember what they are called, yaoi bear will do). I died.

 

[8den]

I just met a yaoi bear (ok, I can't remember what they are called, yaoi bear will do). I died.

Yao Guai

Ugh ghost of She...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I just met a yaoi bear (ok, I can't remember what they are called, yaoi bear will do). I died.

was he uke or seme?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Seme, without a shadow of a doubt.

 

[chemn]

I just met a yaoi bear (ok, I can't remember what they are called, yaoi bear will do). I died.

Ha! Me too! Thought it was ignoring me.... nope!

 

[Epona]

Just encountered a Diamond City guard with a very pronounced Boston accent - he actually said to me "Did you park your car in the yard?" (a phrase often used to demonstrate the pronunciation - or lack, thereof - of the letter 'r' - as in "did you paak yaw caa in the yaad?").

 

[ohmyliver]

I've met my first glowing one. And it killed me fairly quickly. It seems much tougher than earlier games.

Energy weapons seem to be better than in Fo3/NV. My gun of choice is the unique laser rifle that you get from the BoS person. Double critical damage, and 15% more criticals ftw.

Also, luck. Does it have an impact on the world other than better items? I've had some 'lucky' events (i.e. first word I click on unlocks the terminal, clear out the remaining raiders in that factory by their automated gun shooting an exploding thing and them dieing in the blast, that sort of things) but I'm not sure if that's high luck related.

 

[8den]

Luck also effects the frequency of critical hits.


I had a very elaborate dream about buying a ps4 and F4 last night.

 

[ohmyliver]

yeah, that too, but does it affect the game world in wider ways?