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[Twinwolf]

I got an achievement recently: "Touchdown". The description for it is just "Score a touchdown" which left me really confused because

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I thought I had just died of a mine. When I reloaded, I found out that the thing that actually killed me was a mini-nuke-carrying super mutant suicide bomber that killed me from behind. Is this supposed to be a jab at American Football or something?

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probably part that, and part something related to nuke launching being dubbed the "nuclear football".

[forsaken1111]

I got an achievement recently: "Touchdown". The description for it is just "Score a touchdown" which left me really confused because

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I thought I had just died of a mine. When I reloaded, I found out that the thing that actually killed me was a mini-nuke-carrying super mutant suicide bomber that killed me from behind. Is this supposed to be a jab at American Football or something?

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You get the achievement by being hit directly with a mininuke. It has to collide with your player model iirc.

[miauw62]

I think most people weren't able to appreciate kill loot return when I made it thread title the first time, me included.

[scriver]

EDIT: By the way, I've started finding logs of people who left their bunkers (or whatever place they survived the bombs) only 1-3 months after it happened.
How could these people even survive? Wasn't there a nuclear winter that could kill you in weeks/months?

The story of what happened after the bombs fell has always been a little... inconsistent. In both the old fallouts and the new.

[Leyic]

I got an achievement recently: "Touchdown". The description for it is just "Score a touchdown" which left me really confused because

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I thought I had just died of a mine. When I reloaded, I found out that the thing that actually killed me was a mini-nuke-carrying super mutant suicide bomber that killed me from behind. Is this supposed to be a jab at American Football or something?

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You get the achievement by being hit directly with a mininuke. It has to collide with your player model iirc.

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That's strange. I got "Touchdown" before finishing the Concord questline, and well before meeting anything that carries mininukes. I don't know the circumstances in which I got it as I only noticed it after I'd quit the game, and figured it to be a glitched achievement as there were people on the official forum confused about it as well. Unless I'm misremembering the exact point at which "When Freedom Calls" completes and the corresponding achievement earned.

[Gabeux]

I think most people weren't able to appreciate kill loot return when I made it thread title the first time, me included.

Not to its completion, no. I liked it because that's pretty much the process on Beth games, found it really fitting..however, when you wrote it, did you know that:

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There is a Super Mutant that carries a piece of paper with his orders, and in it it says "Kill, Loot, Return"?
Maybe there are more, and maybe you saw it in a trailer...I don't know. But I had a great laugh when I found it, because of the thread title. 

[sprinkled chariot]

Probably those guys getting out of bunkers were part of military with access to power armour and antirads in standart med aid kits. Just like on sierra base holotape logs

[BFEL]

So, time to talk factions.

Which one are you guys planning to support?

After testing the waters a bit with each of them I'm pretty firmly going Railroad.
Minutemen are pretty much neutral and don't really seem to have any stake in the plot aside from just "being there"...maybe they're intended as this games "wild card" ending?
Maxson is a fascist maniac, so while the BOS at large is MOSTLY ok...ish, I can't see myself actually siding with them in any serious capacity.
The Institute is definitely nicer then one would expect and there ARE RP reasons to join, but this is a Bethesda made Fallout instead of an Obsidian one so there isn't gonna be any opportunity to sit them down and shake sense into them about the sentience of their creations.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I'm probably gonna go railroad too, though I have to ask, can you officially join the brotherhood of steel or are you just limited to initiate?

[BFEL]

I'm probably gonna go railroad too, though I have to ask, can you officially join the brotherhood of steel or are you just limited to initiate?

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You can officially join after they bring THE ZEPPELIN into play.

[Chiefwaffles]

That's kind of spoiler-y, BFEL. I'd spoiler it if I were you.

[Teneb]

I'm probably gonna go railroad too, though I have to ask, can you officially join the brotherhood of steel or are you just limited to initiate?

Yeah, you can.

Also, it should be spoilere'd, yeah.

[Sirian]

My settlementing interface keeps telling me to "build something that requires power" despite having built a whole lot of stuff that does so (and powered them).

It's annoying.

I had that too, I fixed it by building one of the powered turrets and linking it to the grid, then storing it away for later use.

[GiglameshDespair]

How many people are playing on PC with an nvidia card and not crashing randomly? ("Display driver stopped responding and recovered") Happens pretty randomly - could be five minutes into loading in, could be hours in.

Apparently it is a thing, which explains my own problems. Found lots of suggested fixes but none of them work; I'm not sure if it's because of multiple factors causing the same problem, or if the people posting them think they work just because they got lucky and went a few hours without crashing, but didn't report back to their own post to say that the fix didn't work after all. Read at least one post saying that he seemed to run fine with a 770 versus the 680, though that doesn't help me with a 660 TI.

Nvidia Geforce 720m here. I've encountered no crashes at all.
I've encounter three bugs so far in my 26 hours.
Two were graphical - the glow from a laser turret remained in place in the air after it was destroyed and a water ripple was a foot above the water.
The last glitch was a radroach stuck inside a wall.

[Gabeux]

Hmm I heard before release you could join as many factions as you wanted (as long as no conflicts occured, I guess?)

So I'm interested in listening what the Railroad has to say, but haven't bumped into them yet. So I currently think they are people who have fetishes for robots.
I mean, I don't see the point of that faction just by hearing a tape and reading a note from them. Probably there's a whole lot more to it, though.

I joined the Brotherhood as initiate and I'm doing their stuff. As you can hear in probably the first holotape about them, you'll hear that:

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The leadership is "misguided". They are too violent, and probably lost much of their vision.
As my character is thinking highly of himself because he's a "natural leader", he wants to fix that.

I also joined the Minutemen. I think they are a basic foundation for the future of the Commonwealth.
But they seem overly stupid (Hey, let's save the world by walking around looking dumb with some flashy guns and protect people! We don't know what tactics or strategy are, though, but that's pre-war stuff!). Seem like it needs a dose of a Lone Survivor to get them on the right track.

Still don't know a whole lot about the factions though, and BoS/Minutemen is really the ones I have contact with.
I didn't do many quests yet, as I always go around exploring and building.
And by the way, the first time I saw someone walking in a T-60 was pretty awesome. It looks great!