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[BFEL]

Well the issue has resolved itself at any rate. I'm PRETTY sure the problem was that somehow the game was updating or somesuch while I was playing it, as when I quit in disgust steam had a blue 10% next to it.

most likely, in this case, you have faulty drivers or hardware.

Considering I got this computer on the 9th, that rate of failure would only be precedented by the original Xbox 360

[umiman]

Well the issue has resolved itself at any rate. I'm PRETTY sure the problem was that somehow the game was updating or somesuch while I was playing it, as when I quit in disgust steam had a blue 10% next to it.

most likely, in this case, you have faulty drivers or hardware.

Considering I got this computer on the 9th, that rate of failure would only be precedented by the original Xbox 360

I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. I'd say every time I buy a new piece of hardware, it has like a 30% chance of being a lemon or it doesn't work with my setup or it fails for some reason or other.

[scriver]

Well the issue has resolved itself at any rate. I'm PRETTY sure the problem was that somehow the game was updating or somesuch while I was playing it, as when I quit in disgust steam had a blue 10% next to it.

It was syncing. With the steam cloud, or whatever it's called.

[motorbitch]

so, shadows where troublesome for me, from what i read not only for me.
on low settings they look awful and already cost some fps, on medium settings they can cause servere fps hits and have some ugly popup effects.

i messed around with the ini settings a lot, and finally found settings that look realy good and are quite fast, too.

fallout4prefs.ini:

iShadowMapResolution=1024
uiShadowFilter=1
uiOrthoShadowFilter=3


fallout4.ini:

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=1024


so, for some reason the game uses quite large shadow resolution even on low settings. i dont realy know what uiShadowFilter does (aside of causing some major fps hit on anything higher then 1 and introduce these popup effects).
uiOrthoShadowFilter is the soft shadow filter. for me, it is quite cheap performance whise, and makes the shadows look good.


hope it helps.

[Gabeux]

This thread got slow on the fanboy/what-if side of things, so I'll give a slight piece of my starting experience:
Not really saying any spoilers, but saying what IS NOT a spoiler regarding the old psychic lady, which might be a "spoiler by exclusion" or something.
If you managed to avoid spoilers to the point of not knowing what happens in Vault 111, might wanna avoid it too.

Spoiler: Mama Murphy (click to show/hide)

 When I started playing, I doubted everything people would tell me regarding time and what happened while cryo went on, or what happened to the boy, etc.
One of the lines Mama Murphy says is "You remember me of an old boy who never looked for trouble but would always find it". (or something like that).
Given that she's one of the few old characters I encountered, and that she's curiously more detailed than the average person, I thought:
"Dude, Shaun was her boyfriend and that's why she knows so much. I need to keep her alive because he's probably 60 years old."

5 minutes later she had a heart attack and I had to load a previous save.
It would've felt good if I had nailed that.

[Neonivek]

There is a computer that has information all about her which sheds light on a lot of things.

[motorbitch]

challange lost, i used vats

stupid bloodwing skimmer assholes. they are almost impossible to hit without vats, and im running low on ammo.
takes 100 5.56mm without vats... or 2 plasma rounds with.
aw damn. made it so far without, but these bugs are just broken, tanking like a deathclaw and killing me with 2 stings (well, some of them. poison is REALY bad on survival

[Flying Dice]

Three tiers I know of. Standard (no prefix), Sturdy, and Heavy. Mods can change the name though, so even that isn't too helpful.

IIRC for any given class of armor (i.e. Raider, Combat, &c.) the baseline Sturdy is slightly superior to top-modded Standard, and baseline Heavy is slightly superior to top-modded Sturdy.

I mean, it's not exactly an onerous task to look at the resistances on the item, considering that it takes all of a second to determine whether it has +, ++, or +++ beside both physical and energy. If it does, it's a tier or two up or has much better material mods. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

[AoshimaMichio]

I visited Massachusetts State House yesterday.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Damn Mirelurk Queen. Guess who forgot to save lately?

[MarcAFK]

Anyone else following the adventures of fort ginger?
Spoilers in the videos I guess but idk I've read through this thread.

[Tack]

I don't use VATS- not because of the challenge, but mostly because I didn't in any previous games and don't really see the point.

[Neonivek]

I don't use VATS- not because of the challenge, but mostly because I didn't in any previous games and don't really see the point.

There are a lot of powerful Vats builds that are far better then anything else.

You REALLY REALLY cannot use VATS to circumvent the challenge because if you don't have the abilities, then you don't have a great vats advantage.

[motorbitch]

meh, game is easy enough as it is...
some targets are almost impossible to hit without vats. this stupid mosquitoe thingy. had a different name then all the others, and didnt do to much damage. but it was FAST and never stood still for a second. would do a full circle around me and hit once, then circle again.
i havnt picked any perks or attributes to make vats effective, and fairly low perception.
still, in vats i had +90% to hit that thing with a plasma rifle (with had way to low firerate and projectile speed to hit the bug without vats)
that said... i just could have use jet i guess.

in other news: weapons with explosive brand do twice the listed dmg.
instead of weapon damage on direct hit + explosive dmg as aoe they do  weapon damage + explosive damage as aoe. so, its twice the listed dmg. plus the aoe does bad things to limbs.
very op. cant imagine this is intended.

[Tack]

Yeah, against those I generally just pull out a melee weapon (Pickman's blade yo!) and start furiously swinging.

[motorbitch]

note to self: dont use explodifying weapons to perform close range sneak attacks. bring more stuffs to repair the power armor.