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[alway]

So in one of the bathrooms inside a building, I found a teddy sitting on the toilet, with glasses on its face, and holding a newspaper open in front of it like it was reading. Twas great.

Then I tried to screenshot it and photobombed myself. Protip: don't use alt+printscreen to try taking screenshots in a game which binds 'holding alt' to 'throw grenade' action. Literal photobomb.

[Tack]

On the same list of "little mistakes".
Power armor isn't airtight. Whilst it feels really cool clomping around the ocean floor- you are actually holding your breath there.
So... Don't stay down too long. Or get the perk.

[Cyroth]

So in one of the bathrooms inside a building, I found a teddy sitting on the toilet, with glasses on its face, and holding a newspaper open in front of it like it was reading. Twas great.

Then I tried to screenshot it and photobombed myself. Protip: don't use alt+printscreen to try taking screenshots in a game which binds 'holding alt' to 'throw grenade' action. Literal photobomb.

When it comes to teddies nothing beats the two I found humping, surrounded by various bottles of booze. I laughed way too hard when I found them.


Also I found a female skeleton sitting on the toilet in an outhouse, with a paddle in her hand and a male skeleton drapped in a butt-upwards position over her lap. Quite hilarious.

[stabbymcstabstab]

I'm pretty sure the only reason they didn't kill him is because, one he's with you and Bethesda probably felt that wouldn't end well for that storyline, and two he openly a synth and isn't trying to infiltrate and replace people. 

It would still be interesting to see a Bethesda game where racism/specism/technophobia has more of an effect than just what NPCs say.

It would be, sure we do see a little bit like Tenpenny's tower or goodneighboor but it would be nice if you know the 200+ year old survivor reacted differently to seeing his first none feral ghoul instead of just... nothing.

[Tack]

Well, the first person he asks about them replies with "most are just like you and me, but butt ugly, and usually really old."

If I was a man out of time, and I came across Daisy, hell I'd be weeping. Screw racism.

[forsaken1111]

On the same list of "little mistakes".
Power armor isn't airtight. Whilst it feels really cool clomping around the ocean floor- you are actually holding your breath there.
So... Don't stay down too long. Or get the perk.

Just get the perk that lets you breathe underwater somehow

[Rolan7]

I eventually met some travelling ghoul trader NPC and one of the dialogue options was basically, "Woah, what's wrong with you?"
It was just weird because my first settler was a ghoul, heck the first non-robot I met after leaving the vault.

Would probably work better if he hung out near Sanctuary and was hard to miss, and maybe that dialogue option didn't appear if the PC has met a ghoul already.  Well, it'd have to be *different* not gone...  The dialogue system is still ridiculous.

On that note, I really need to learn to use 1,2,3,4 for the dialogue options instead of reaching to the arrow keys.  I kept trying to trade with Dogmeat, who loves to run around at random because he's a delightful little scamp.  But that's a problem when I need to track him with my mouse, then also hit an arrow key (which I naturally use the same hand for).

It was kinda cute though, like a dog playing keep-away with my loot.  Accidentally realistic.

...  Haha, I just looked up the number bindings:  "1 is Up, 2 is Left, 3 is Right and 4 is Down"
why?? XD

On the same list of "little mistakes".
Power armor isn't airtight. Whilst it feels really cool clomping around the ocean floor- you are actually holding your breath there.
So... Don't stay down too long. Or get the perk.

Just get the perk that lets you breathe underwater somehow

Emphasis added
Though I assumed the power armor is water tight, it just doesn't have a dedicated air supply, so you only get a minute or two of air from what's trapped in there with you.

[forsaken1111]

Whoops, missed that.

It would be nice to have a few upgrades for underwater activities on the power armor, like turbines that let it actually swim. But there really isn't much down there so I guess it would be a bit of a waste.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, I bet a mod will add a rebreather option for the helmet.  Turbines sound awesome too.

[Flying Dice]

Could basically just do a reskin of the jetpack which only works underwater for that.

[Tack]

Does the jet pack work underwater?

[BFEL]

I'd also say the BoS is right to fear synths. Having entities that can infiltrate you with minimal chance of detection and are easy to program to think or do anything (to a point where a bunch of sewer-dwelling morons were able to do it) sounds incredibly dangerous. Like do you imagine something like that existing in the real world without legal regulations?

We have those, actually. They're this thing we call "people"

Yeah, all those undetectable programmed people out there that suddenly just replace other people without a trace.

If infiltration couldn't be done by humanity, we wouldn't have the concept of it to put into games.

And since this game takes place in a universe where any human can get perfect plastic surgery at roughly a moments notice (Deacon for example claims to change his face every month or so) its far from impossible to do without resorting to synths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure on where I stand about Synths and AI in the first place. The game really threw me off since I had never put any thought into those questions.
I'd rather have synthethic life never be developed. I never see the point. Aren't the Mr Handys, Protectrons and Assaultrons, and Gen 1 Synths enough?
But once the mistake is already made, I wasn't given a reason to feel like terminating them.

I think the most interesting story is Deacon's. I'll put a separate spoiler for that, but it made me less prone to run for a gun when synths where involved.
It's not their fault they were made, and if there was a way to guarantee that they couldn't be reprogramed, it would be fine.

I also found the choice to keep or abandon the child synth Shaun really cool. The reactions were awesome. Some people just got enraged and went "I'm not your father!", some went with their protective instincts, etc.
In my case, I kept him because he was a gift from the real Shaun. It was not him - but it was part of him and of his work (that even twisted, was still sincere..and was still the protagonists' son).
I found it funny that Shaun says that on the holotape he tells the child to give you, which I suppose you only get if you keep him.
But it was a hard call to make...such a fucking perversion of technology, science and everything human.

Anyways, my opinion is a bit weird. Even though they are just machines, there are evidence of free will, feeling, etc.
I don't want more to be made (I don't think they should've been built at all), but I don't think they all should be destroyed either.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are many points to developing synthetic life. The first and foremost being the simple "so we aren't quite so alone" emotional one.
More logical reasons being that while synthetic life would be intelligent as humans it would provide differing viewpoints and strengths from organics, its thought processes being based on an entirely different system and all.
Granted some people likely find this idea threatening, but different viewpoints often result in an enhanced rate of scientific and cultural progress.
For proof of this look at the difference between America and the Middle East. One traditionally accepted pretty much everything different it could get its hands on, while the other has been following the same creed for the past few thousand years. Which of these places would YOU rather live?

[Flying Dice]

Does the jet pack work underwater?

Nope. If it's really shallow and you're not totally submerged, you can jump and trigger the jetpack, but once you're fully into the abyss you can't use it.

[scriver]

...  Haha, I just looked up the number bindings:  "1 is Up, 2 is Left, 3 is Right and 4 is Down"
why?? XD

Top down, left to right.

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Makes perfect sense to me. No different than reading any other text in English.

[BigD145]

...  Haha, I just looked up the number bindings:  "1 is Up, 2 is Left, 3 is Right and 4 is Down"
why?? XD

Top down, left to right.

Code: [Select]

  1 
2   3
  4 
Makes perfect sense to me. No different than reading any other text in English.

It's obviously not a radial menu.