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[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Huh, I found vault 81, seems interesting, certainly more stable than every other vault I've seen, wonder if this is the control group of all those experiments vault-tec performed.
Naaaah, who am I kidding, there's gotta be a dirty secret around here, let's see what I can find out about it.

[scriver]

So I only played for about two hours yesterday with my crappy old craptop but these are my main impressions so far.

+ It runs surprisingly well for a computer below the minimum requirements so far. I'm not sure why they put the specs so high, but hopefully I won't find out by my laptop sparking on fire or anything. Maybe the once there's a bunch of NPCs around it will start to show more.

- The game is pretty clunky. I can't judge the flow of the game itself as my computer is probably below minimum requirements, of course, but the pip boy menus are already a bit annoying.

- Fucking dialogue wheel, man. Couldn't they at least gone through the trouble of binding it to the keys you actually have your fingers on?

+ It's a bit early to say yet, but so far I've noticed that there seem to be a lot less random crap items lying around. By which I mean there's not a hundred tin cans and abraxo cartons in every single ruined house. I guess now that you can profess what items are made of you can make individual items more sparse? I'm carefully optimistic. Still, maybe nukacola bottles are just the new tin cans. Coffee cups do still seem to be everywhere too :v

- I didn't get military fatigues in my destroyed house

[Putnam]

Huh, I found vault 81, seems interesting, certainly more stable than every other vault I've seen, wonder if this is the control group of all those experiments vault-tec performed.
Naaaah, who am I kidding, there's gotta be a dirty secret around here, let's see what I can find out about it.

there are 17 control vaults

Vault 3 in New Vegas and Vault 8 in Fallout 2 are the only two to definitely be control vaults that appear in-game; Vault 3 was massacred by the Fiends and Vault 8 ended up becoming Vault City due to the GECK. Vault 17 mentioned in New Vegas may have been a control vault; all that's known about it is that it was taken over by the Master's army (I guess Lily's from there). Vault 76 mentioned in 3 is also a control vault.

[Flying Dice]

- Fucking dialogue wheel, man. Couldn't they at least gone through the trouble of binding it to the keys you actually have your fingers on?

+ It's a bit early to say yet, but so far I've noticed that there seem to be a lot less random crap items lying around. By which I mean there's not a hundred tin cans and abraxo cartons in every single ruined house. I guess now that you can profess what items are made of you can make individual items more sparse? I'm carefully optimistic. Still, maybe nukacola bottles are just the new tin cans. Coffee cups do still seem to be everywhere too :v

1. I think it's Shift + WASD as the secondary keys for the arrow keys?

2. Oh, there's cans all over the fucking place; three kinds, too: 'can', 'tin can', and 'aluminum can'. Of course, you're going to be grabbing all of that random stuff that was once useless clutter, because now it's valuable and often scarce crafting materials to make your guns and armor shinier and better. If I had to identify a new successor to the can, it's either be (as you said) empty bottles, or possibly wrenches--both are fucking everywhere, heavier than most miscellaneous items, and yield only extremely common materials.

[Virtz]

- Fucking dialogue wheel, man. Couldn't they at least gone through the trouble of binding it to the keys you actually have your fingers on?

1. I think it's Shift + WASD as the secondary keys for the arrow keys?

Actually for the dialogue wheel it's: 1 - UP, 2 - LEFT, 3 - RIGHT, 4 - DOWN. Shift + WASD works only for the construction interface.

[scriver]

Ah, that's really nice to know. I tried all the shift/control/alt+wasd combinations but obviously they did nothing. Also thanks for the heads up about the construction menu (yeah I'm not far in yet, it's basically my veryveryvery first impressions. Didn't want to mention a bunch of other stuff because of how early it is).

2. Oh, there's cans all over the fucking place; three kinds, too: 'can', 'tin can', and 'aluminum can'. Of course, you're going to be grabbing all of that random stuff that was once useless clutter, because now it's valuable and often scarce crafting materials to make your guns and armor shinier and better. If I had to identify a new successor to the can, it's either be (as you said) empty bottles, or possibly wrenches--both are fucking everywhere, heavier than most miscellaneous items, and yield only extremely common materials.

Heh, yeah. I remember in that space ghoul facility in NV how when you walked through the utility tunnels how there were tin cans and misc shit absolutely everywhere. Really made one wonder who the hell had been tracking all that shit down there.

[BFEL]

and making it so that there isn't one "best" armor that you feel obliged to use.

So far the best armor I found was a metal chestpiece. It has WEIRD perk requirements to upgrade though. It has like 6 different levels, and the last 4 ALL require max armorer perk. Very odd.

Also, mods I want to see:
1. ALL CLOTHES BEING GODDAMN LAYERABLE.

2. No level requirement for perks. You should be able to fucking specialize in shit without hitting level 50

3. Base gun/armor construction.

Those are the ones that pop out at me off the top of my head. I'll probably think of more later.

[Chiefwaffles]

Wow.
Walking into Diamond City in third person while walking with no radio on is just amazing. They really perfected the atmosphere. Feels like an actual town!
Fallout 4 has one of the best ambiences I've heard, too.

1. ALL CLOTHES BEING GODDAMN LAYERABLE.

Welcome to Cliptown. Population: You.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, I've already spotted some bad clipping just in vanilla. Mainly the synth chestplate.

On the bright side, they have cloth physics in vanilla, as evidenced by the distinctive outfit of THE SILVER SHROUD.

[Guardian G.I.]

Apparently my machine can run the game smoothly on Ultra settings and 1920x1080 resolution, nice.

Spent the first in-game day rummaging through Sanctuary Hills, found plenty of loot and bugs (mutant and technical - Dogmeat was stuck in a mid-leap animation when I first met him). Overall impressions are quite positive.
Gotta complete the game with the default character, then maybe I'll start a specialized playthrough.

Edit: Classical Radio is a surprisingly good thing to play in the background while fighting enemies or looting stuff.

[silverskull39]

2. No level requirement for perks. You should be able to fucking specialize in shit without hitting level 50

I think this one's already up on the nexus, though I haven't tried it. There's a bunch of hacked together mods already, mostly cheats, tweaks, fixes, or character saves.

[SOLDIER First]

No level requirements for perks would, in essence, allow you to get the max rank of that 10 Luck perk that can insta-kill enemies, whatever it's called, at about level 4. Which is completely ridiculous, so.

[Flying Dice]

You know, the funny thing is that it would have been far more fitting to include the Enclave in the faction pileup in FO4, but Bethesda were likely wary of that after they cocked up in FO3 and made them beyond cartoonishly evil with only the vague semblance of an agenda.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here's the sell: Vault 111's experiment is definitely one of the more important ones from the Enclave perspective, as it dealt with one of the pressing mechanical problems of the "GTFO of Earth" plan. So, around a week after you leave the vault, they dispatch a recon team to investigate. If you happen to be in the area, you see a vertibird fly in and can choose to go meet the recon team as they emerge from 111.

Obviously, something's gone wrong--most of the people are corpsicles, but there's one pod which was logged as being manually opened containing a body dead of excessive lead poisoning in the brain, and another open pod with no corpse inside. When you encounter the Enclave recon team, they press you to see if you know anything. Option 1: "Yeah, that was me." branches out in obvious ways. Include a speech challenge, "Well, I do in fact know something about where that guy is, but my memory's kinda hazy..."--failure makes them go hostile, success gets you caps and the choice between option 1 or a new cheeky option. Option 3 is another speech challenge to lie and say you know nothing about it, which leads to the end of the dialogue (and negative repercussions down the line). Option 4 is whatever.

You as the PC have obvious motivations both to help and avoid the Enclave. If you don't encounter them at 111, you instead start getting contacted by something akin to Skyrim's couriers, except not idiotic, offering pay for information if you come to such-and-such place. If you kill them or ignore them, you start getting mercs after you--go long enough and the Enclave sends their own retrieval team. If you killed the recon team, it skips straight to that last step. Additionally, once you progress to the second step, sleeping ends with you waking up in a holding cell, as does "dying" to their mercs/retrieval team.

After the Enclave have all the information you can give, they have their own extended motives--they can offer an alternate path for the main quest line, or simply add optional objectives to it, because they want to know if the experiment was interfered with. That drags them into conflict with the Institute, not only because of that direct conflict, but also because of ideological issues with them apparently seeking to get rid of human beings in favor of thinking robots.

Regarding the Brotherhood, the Enclave don't need to come into direct conflict with them at all. However, if you're too obvious pursuing Enclave objectives (or, y'know, walk up to a BoS member wearing Enclave gear), the BoS is twigged on to the fact that they're operating in the Commonwealth. If you're a member of both, you can play both sides, either legitimately betraying the Enclave or cooperating with them to lead the BoS into believing that they're being dealt with while the Enclave continue to pursue their own goals.

Spoiler: Actual, game/lore related BoS spoiler: (click to show/hide)

At some point there's dialogue regarding the BoS in the Commonwealth being involved with an Elder Maxson, aka a descendent of their founder -- I'm guessing that another expedition reached the east coast and gobbled up whatever was left of the Capital Wasteland chapter and the Outcasts; this would also explain the presence of the airship.

[scriver]

Oh! I forgot the single most greatest impression from last night: CLOTHES THAT AREN'T GENDER LOCKED!

This alone makes this the best Beth game since Morrowind for me. Possibly game of the year even.

[motorbitch]

THO THIS IS TRUE AND GUD MY DUDE HAS NOT FOUND A SINGLE BRA YET SO FUCK THAT!