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[Mech#4]

Anti-radiation is Vodka. Drink enough of that and it'll remove all radiation from your body. Maybe some kind of vodka mini-nuke will help the ghouls...

[Rolan7]

Well there is no "radiation" in the Fallout sense   Fallout's radiation is a combination pulp "sci-fi" ideas and misconceptions.  So an energy ray (particularly a very rare one) which counters radiation would fit just fine.  Or just... nice friendly radiation which fixes cells (and causes ghouls!  I like my theory)

[Rolan7]

Has anyone had a bug where can't load the game at all?  Apparently it's just stuck loading forever, every time, for a friend of mine.
They have 8GB RAM (more than me) so it isn't that.  Verified the game files and updated video drivers.
Hoping that someone else has encountered this and may have advice.  I had infinite-loading "soft" crashes in NV, but this is every time on startup.
Also tried launching the game as admin, and also launching Steam as admin, no luck.

Unrelated, but I just met the Railroad and...

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I brought Nick of course, but it didn't affect *anything*.  He had no comments, and they didn't acknowledge him.  I'm actually pretty annoyed that I had to contact them at all, being a proud BoS member.  Is there really nobody in the Brotherhood of fucking Steel who can analyze a piece of technology?  We had to go kowtow to synth-lovers?

(yes my relationship with synths is complicated, by which I mean hypocritical.  Nick is one of the good ones see- oh jeez)
And yes I know you can just shoot them up.  Although they're mysteriously marked essential for the first encounter, so you have to kill them all twice??  Technically you only have to kill the techie guy.  Because he has the DUMBEST deadman-switch I have ever seen in anything.

I have no idea what Nick's reaction to that would be, since I apparently accidentally told him to stand in a corner somewhere.  Had to leave and fast-travel to get him back.

Also I really didn't like following a red line that spent many long stretches obscured, sometimes changing direction while obscured.  I had a lot of trouble noticing it in the dark, which washed out the colors.

I liked the puzzle once I got all the clues though.  On that note that, I hate that there was no way to solve the Eddie Winter puzzle for myself.  It was literally just find the tapes, hand them to Nick.  No Nick don't give me the answer, I literally took some paper and figured it out for myself...  Ugh fine.

And of course the game doesn't let you input the code yourself even if you find the hideout, which you have all the information to do.  Argh.

[NullForceOmega]

Railroad related spoiler:

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Yeah the BoS being unable to decode a freaking chip when they can hand manufacture power armor and other virtual miracles of science really irritated me to no end, to the point that as soon as lead bimbo mouthed off I just opened fire with Dirge (and yes, they die, you just have to shoot more).  So when I got sent back to kill them, it took a matter of seconds to wipe out the guards that spawned, and then I was done.  I did actually do a bunch of their missions with another character, and dear hells are they selfish and incompetent, they Have a freaking predictive engine with 80% accuracy, some of the best tech in the Commonwealth, and they use it to liberate toasters.

[AoshimaMichio]

Finishing on Institute's side and reactions from Nick:

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Freaking none. Granted, I didn't travel with him anywhere. But even after having my voice on radio explaining how The Institute is the best he says nothing about it. Absolutely nothing. Only Piper had something to say and even that reaction took a week.

Is it even possible to ask the Institute guys why they are making copies of people and killing originals? And why they did experiment with FEV?  Seriously, why would they even have any of it? Does everybody have FEV stored in their pockets?

[Rolan7]

That's possible?  Huh, definitely not reading that, but I hope it's cool.  Has potential.

Sounds kinda like the

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Poor fool who's feeding ghouls.
That quest also bugged me because there was no way to explain the difference between feral and sentient ghouls.
I mean, he kinda insisted that they're all "human", which makes him a dangerous idiot really.  (Though of course they did eat out of his hand for some reason)

To be fair though he was suffering from some understandable trauma, and the FO4 BoS seems to irrationally hate sentient demihumans too.
Heck...  They weren't attacking him, and I was able to pacify about half with my charisma.  Maybe he had a point.
(well no the pacification perks are completely absurd and broken and signify nothing)

By the way, the third and second tiers of the pacification perks should really be switched.  The progression should be:
1) Stop attacking me!
2) Okay, now let me loot you.
3) Kill your friends!

It should also give at *least* partial XP credit, too.  I'm already hard-pressed to justify walking instead of fast traveling, the last thing I need is for my 10-CHA ability to rob me of XP AND LOOT

I've kinda given in and started murdering people after they surrender, occasionally, depending on mood (mostly animals/super mutants).  The game mechanics strongly encourage it (loot AND XP, no penalty whatsoever).  And again, stealing from a surrendered person makes Nick complain.  Murder them in cold blood, he doesn't break a sweat.  Not that it's an option.

[TheDarkStar]

Is it even possible to ask the Institute guys why they are making copies of people and killing originals? And why they did experiment with FEV?  Seriously, why would they even have any of it? Does everybody have FEV stored in their pockets?

Actually yes - basically everyone on the planet is infected with some form of FEV iirc.

[Krevsin]

Is it even possible to ask the Institute guys why they are making copies of people and killing originals? And why they did experiment with FEV?  Seriously, why would they even have any of it? Does everybody have FEV stored in their pockets?

Actually yes - basically everyone on the planet is infected with some form of FEV iirc.

Isn't that why the Enclave was so hell-bent on the whole human purity thing?

[Teneb]

Found that during the start of the game, if you go straight to the tv after making your character you can see an ad for the Fat Man.

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[Neonivek]

I find it unusual given the weapon the Fatman is based off of was a niche weapon.

Though in Fallout 4 it seems like everyone had a Fatman....

THEN AGAIN this area was the area where the Fatman repository was... so if any play is going to have a metric ton of them it is here.

[BFEL]

Hey, anyone know the story behind that maze in Fallons Department Store's parking deck? I just discovered it by accident and its fascinating and is there a quest connected to it or something?

[Grim Portent]

Found that during the start of the game, if you go straight to the tv after making your character you can see an ad for the Fat Man.

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'Well hello there Timmy! What's that you got there?'
'It's my Fat Man mister!'
'What's it for? Does it help you throw baseballs further?'
'No mister, it helps me blow up communist invaders!'
'Ahahaha, Timmy you rambunctious patriotic scamp.'

BUY FAT MEN TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM THE RED MENACE! ONLY NUCLEAR BOMBS CAN SLAY THE CHINESE! PRAISE DEMOCRACY OR DIE!

[Krevsin]

Hey, anyone know the story behind that maze in Fallons Department Store's parking deck? I just discovered it by accident and its fascinating and is there a quest connected to it or something?

None that I could find, but I found it a very cool little side thing.

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I dun goofed and blewed up both of the reward rooms tho

[MarcAFK]

I've had fallout lock up on loading very frequently, I assumed it was just steam being bullshit. I force quit steam and try again.

[BFEL]

Hey, anyone know the story behind that maze in Fallons Department Store's parking deck? I just discovered it by accident and its fascinating and is there a quest connected to it or something?

None that I could find, but I found it a very cool little side thing.

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I dun goofed and blewed up both of the reward rooms tho

HA! I got the mini nuke and fusion cores flawlessly on the first try.

In other news, am I the only one who really REALLY likes Travis (Diamond City Radio host) better while he's spineless? On the radio I mean. After THREEEEEEE DAWWWWWWG and Mr. New Vegas I feel having a total ditz as the host to be refreshing and also ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.

Favorite has to be when he's introducing Magnolia's "Train Train" and then immediately regrets it
That's also gotta be my fav song in this now.