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[Gabeux]

So, uh. If you need something dead yesterday, full-auto plasma does the trick. Burned through a Deathclaw Matriarch in about three or four seconds.

I use the alien blaster for the same purposes.

Anyway, I came here because I just saw a loading tip that informed me "When the Institute released its first batch of synths, they tried to work with people in the commonwealth, but mutual mistrust ended that relationship quickly"

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS IS EVER HINTED AT. A RANDOM LOADING TIP.

I noticed this. There's really no mention of this at all from anyone, it makes no sense.

Anyway, the BOS's reasoning for making you kill Virgil is...actually pretty decent. I mean considering everyone else it and the other factions want you to kill is given the reasoning of "BUT I WANT TO SEE THEM DIIIIIIE!", "because he has the knowledge to create a supermutant army" is fairly well reasoned out.

Spoiler: Virgil (click to show/hide)

Not really, their only reasoning is "because he's big and green" - as soon as you tell them he's cured (IF you cure him), the captain backs off and drops the murder request.
Virgil saw the shit his work can do and, instead of just rolling with it like the other scientists, he tried to shut the program down and Father rejected it. So he ran away.

BoS doesn't know anything about him and decides to murder him because he's green.
Unless they also psychically know everything about Virgil, much like Maxson psychically knows everything you do.

PS: Also, being able to tell him to kill himself was pretty random.

[Virtz]

Jesus Christ, the melee is not very enjoyable at all, to say the least. You cannot constantly block, your block is timed. Some enemy attacks, like those of feral ghouls, on the other hand, have basically zero wind-up time. They don't attack predictably either. So good luck timing your block against that shit.

Also, your attacks do have a wind-up. And they just get cancelled if anything thumps you. So in between the time you start your attack and when it lands, generic feral ghoul gets to randomly decide to instantly tackle you from beyond your own reach with an attack multiple times faster than your wind-up with a medium weapon.

Like what am I missing here?

[DoomOnion]

Mods. You are missing mods.

[SOLDIER First]

Your first mistake is using melee weapons against feral ghouls.

[Cyroth]

Does anyone else spend maybe too much time dressing up their settlers with funny hats and giving them back stories?

I have one guy I call Rusty. He guards the gate of Sanctuary and wears a captain's hat.

I don't give them backstories, but I spend waaaaay too much time making sure all my settlers have unified equipment.
Guards get a minuteman outfit and militia hat, a set of white combat armor (second best upgrade I think), fully upgraded semi-automatic institute rifles (because blue pewpew is best pewpew).
Caravans get road leather, BoS combat armor and fully upgraded automatic combat rifles.
Farmers get farm clothes and 10mm handguns.
Shopkeepers get a variety of dresses or tuxedos and a snubnosed .44.
Doctors get a labcoat and a red laser pistol.
Scavengers get a drifter outfit and a pipe rifle.

You don't even want to know how long and how much junk it took to get all settlements unified.

[AlleeCat]

I made the mistake on my melee-focused character of trying to use melee for absolutely everything. Now I just use melee for most things and use all the ammo I save to murderize anything I can't kill with my serrated sword of death.

[Knave]

Does anyone else spend maybe too much time dressing up their settlers with funny hats and giving them back stories?

I have one guy I call Rusty. He guards the gate of Sanctuary and wears a captain's hat.

I don't give them backstories, but I spend waaaaay too much time making sure all my settlers have unified equipment.
Guards get a minuteman outfit and militia hat, a set of white combat armor (second best upgrade I think), fully upgraded semi-automatic institute rifles (because blue pewpew is best pewpew).
Caravans get road leather, BoS combat armor and fully upgraded automatic combat rifles.
Farmers get farm clothes and 10mm handguns.
Shopkeepers get a variety of dresses or tuxedos and a snubnosed .44.
Doctors get a labcoat and a red laser pistol.
Scavengers get a drifter outfit and a pipe rifle.

You don't even want to know how long and how much junk it took to get all settlements unified.

That is commitment! I dunno if I could do that with how fiddly assigning things to people is currently. If only there was an overall settlement assignment screen. Assign x people as guards, x as farmers, x as shop keepers etc. Then uniform assignment function. All guards by default are given y weapon and z armour as long as stocks allow unless superceded by something you give them.

[Teneb]

Does anyone else spend maybe too much time dressing up their settlers with funny hats and giving them back stories?

I have one guy I call Rusty. He guards the gate of Sanctuary and wears a captain's hat.

I don't give them backstories, but I spend waaaaay too much time making sure all my settlers have unified equipment.
Guards get a minuteman outfit and militia hat, a set of white combat armor (second best upgrade I think), fully upgraded semi-automatic institute rifles (because blue pewpew is best pewpew).
Caravans get road leather, BoS combat armor and fully upgraded automatic combat rifles.
Farmers get farm clothes and 10mm handguns.
Shopkeepers get a variety of dresses or tuxedos and a snubnosed .44.
Doctors get a labcoat and a red laser pistol.
Scavengers get a drifter outfit and a pipe rifle.

You don't even want to know how long and how much junk it took to get all settlements unified.

That is commitment! I dunno if I could do that with how fiddly assigning things to people is currently. If only there was an overall settlement assignment screen. Assign x people as guards, x as farmers, x as shop keepers etc. Then uniform assignment function. All guards by default are given y weapon and z armour as long as stocks allow unless superceded by something you give them.

Looks like a mod idea, though it might need one of them script extenders to be made first.

[PTTG??]

Man, I could play a whole game where you have dozens of workers under your direct command, building a fortress of some kind... except, why stick with an apocalypse theme? I'm thinking maybe fantasy. We could call it Hobbit Hill... or maybe Elf Tree City...

[Flying Dice]

Does anyone else spend maybe too much time dressing up their settlers with funny hats and giving them back stories?

I have one guy I call Rusty. He guards the gate of Sanctuary and wears a captain's hat.

I don't give them backstories, but I spend waaaaay too much time making sure all my settlers have unified equipment.
Guards get a minuteman outfit and militia hat, a set of white combat armor (second best upgrade I think), fully upgraded semi-automatic institute rifles (because blue pewpew is best pewpew).
Caravans get road leather, BoS combat armor and fully upgraded automatic combat rifles.
Farmers get farm clothes and 10mm handguns.
Shopkeepers get a variety of dresses or tuxedos and a snubnosed .44.
Doctors get a labcoat and a red laser pistol.
Scavengers get a drifter outfit and a pipe rifle.

You don't even want to know how long and how much junk it took to get all settlements unified.

White combat armor is the best material upgrade, at least.

It pisses me off to no end because when you gotta optimize you gotta optimize, but it looks like crap both on its own and in combination with damn near anything else.

It took helmetless headshot damage in Project Nevada to get me to wear helmets in NV, and something similar is going to have to happen here. I love the look of the gas masks, but they don't mesh with much higher-tier gear. First thing I want in terms of item mods are military fatigues and an assault gasmask with stats equivalent to BoS outfit and a mid-tier helmet respectively, because that STALKER look is baller and everything after it (save power armor) looks like rubbish.

[Cyroth]

I was really sad that you can't upgrade gas masks, flight helmets, glasses and most other headgear. Also upgraded civilian clothing would be awesome.

Why can't I put something into my glasses or flight helmet that gives me the effect of the recon scope?
Why can't I use ballistic fibers to armor my coat or fedora?

Why must Beth torture me so?

[AVE]

Why can't I use ballistic fibers to armor my coat or fedora?

Actually you can. The battered fedora (and trilby hat) can be upgraded with ballistic weave.

[Cyroth]

Wait, what?
Pretty sure I have had several hats (including some type of fedora) that could not be upgraded.
So it works for some pieces of clothing but not for others that are almost completely identical?

What.

[Aseaheru]

What really makes me sad is that the flight helmet removes your facial hair and glasses.

[Gabeux]

Wait, what?
Pretty sure I have had several hats (including some type of fedora) that could not be upgraded.
So it works for some pieces of clothing but not for others that are almost completely identical?

What.

Certain clothes can be upgraded if you follow the questline (I believe its through it's sidequests) from one of the factions.
Tip: Choo choo

What's funny is that I only realized I could do that AFTER I finished and stopped playing (taking a break). I believe one of those stealth-tips-that-if-you-don't-read-you-don't-know-what-you-can-do are at fault for me not realizing it.