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Eldriken

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Another tip for you wonderful folks:

If your companion can't carry any more items, there's a way around it! Drop whatever it is that you don't want and order your companion to pick it up. They'll have it in their inventory despite the fact that they're "full". You can have like 90 Power Armors, Fatboys, etc.
 
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Eldriken

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Here's a wonderful tip for all you thieves out there:

You can suspend an item in the air by HOLDING X. This lets you grab items in the environment and lets you move them around. So, how does this help you sneaky little bastards and your sticky fingers? Find a bucket or anything that can cover up someone's head and fiddle with the physics (move it against the NPC's head to try and rotate it) and set it on their head. Since they can't see, you remain undetected when crouching and can steal freely.
 

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
Here's a wonderful tip for all you thieves out there:

You can suspend an item in the air by HOLDING X. This lets you grab items in the environment and lets you move them around. So, how does this help you sneaky little bastards and your sticky fingers? Find a bucket or anything that can cover up someone's head and fiddle with the physics (move it against the NPC's head to try and rotate it) and set it on their head. Since they can't see, you remain undetected when crouching and can steal freely.
hahahhaha
 
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GAV

Resolution through knowledge and resolve.
Here's a wonderful tip for all you thieves out there:

You can suspend an item in the air by HOLDING X. This lets you grab items in the environment and lets you move them around. So, how does this help you sneaky little bastards and your sticky fingers? Find a bucket or anything that can cover up someone's head and fiddle with the physics (move it against the NPC's head to try and rotate it) and set it on their head. Since they can't see, you remain undetected when crouching and can steal freely.
Wish I had known about this before The Massacre at Diamond City.
 

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
I myself am inches away from.murdering everyone in the Railroad.

Tinker Fuckhead Tom has given me one too many Milla's and is about to get his skull.bashed in.
 
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The Slaj Jazz

TIckle my sweet salty nips
Do you guys know how to find out your companions armor stats? I can tell by using vats on everyone else but they dont show up for my companions
 
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SaltShaker

In Zoning We Trust
Did anyone not take Strong when you meet him? I didn't but I went back to get him a little after so I can use someone big to distract the Queen for the castle thing but I don't see him anywhere lol. Only a bunch of super mutants to kill. Is he in the area or did he just walk off forever? Lol -.-
 

fr stack

Noob's saibot or noob saibot's?
Here's a wonderful tip for all you thieves out there:

You can suspend an item in the air by HOLDING X. This lets you grab items in the environment and lets you move them around. So, how does this help you sneaky little bastards and your sticky fingers? Find a bucket or anything that can cover up someone's head and fiddle with the physics (move it against the NPC's head to try and rotate it) and set it on their head. Since they can't see, you remain undetected when crouching and can steal freely.
i used to do this in skyrim haha
 

fr stack

Noob's saibot or noob saibot's?
tip for power armour wearers: pick up any overdue book you find as theres a book return machine which sells fusion cores , its located at rivett (i think) beach subway station 50 tokens = 1 fusion core
 

SaltShaker

In Zoning We Trust
Quick questions.

1) If you do something that a companion hates, but you were solo when it happened, does it effect your standing with that companion or do they have to be there with you for it to effect them?

2) Are all the companions goodie goodie in this game? Are there any dark morale companions? Don't need to know who, just if anyone has found one who isn't all about being a shining role model.

3) Has anyone been offered to do morally grey or dark quest?
 

Pterodactyl

Plus on block.
Quick questions.

1) If you do something that a companion hates, but you were solo when it happened, does it effect your standing with that companion or do they have to be there with you for it to effect them?

2) Are all the companions goodie goodie in this game? Are there any dark morale companions? Don't need to know who, just if anyone has found one who isn't all about being a shining role model.

3) Has anyone been offered to do morally grey or dark quest?

1.) As far as I can tell they only care if they're around. This includes if they are wherever you are even if they aren't your active follower. Like if you send them to a settlement and you start crafting at that settlement, any companion that likes crafting and is nearby will like it.

2.) Without telling you too much about them, unless you want to know(i'd give descriptions, but no spoilers of course not that they have anything worth spoiling): Cait, Strong the Super Mutant, John Hancock, and Dogmeat(technically because he doesn't care what you do).

3.) The quest I did to get Curie required me to choose between a permanent handicap or saving a kid's life. Fortunately I found an exploit so I didn't have to lose out on anything.
 

SaltShaker

In Zoning We Trust
1.) As far as I can tell they only care if they're around. This includes if they are wherever you are even if they aren't your active follower. Like if you send them to a settlement and you start crafting at that settlement, any companion that likes crafting and is nearby will like it.

2.) Without telling you too much about them, unless you want to know(i'd give descriptions, but no spoilers of course not that they have anything worth spoiling): Cait, Strong the Super Mutant, John Hancock, and Dogmeat(technically because he doesn't care what you do).

3.) The quest I did to get Curie required me to choose between a permanent handicap or saving a kid's life. Fortunately I found an exploit so I didn't have to lose out on anything.
Perfect! Thanks for the info! Exactly what I wanted to know.
 

Pterodactyl

Plus on block.
GROGNAK!





Got Strong as my back-up. Can't imagine using him with many other types of builds and play styles. Dude dislikes most normal things and only really likes, well, a barbaric style of play. Strong doesn't like crafting, lock-picking, hacking, doing exceedingly nice quests(he does like it when you help people though), and he likes being violent, murdering people who get in your way, stealing, and cannibalism amongst other things. He's also apparently voiced by the same guy who does Goku's english voice work.

Dude is tanky as hell and hits like a truck, just like Grognak. Swole Patrol is real.

Sidenote: Gronak's gear gives some juicy buffs to damage and endurance but I don't think you can upgrade them, but it's a fair trade. His axe has the most stagger of any weapon in the game IRC and does bleed but can't be modified, not like you'd need to. Basically I don't need much and can go balls out with all the crazy chems and food and sell pretty much everything I pick-up for money. I might up to survival for the sake of challenge later.

"Grognak" (honestly I was shocked that Codsworth actually has the name in his repertoire) feels waaaaay beefed than my first character, i've been face tanking and obliterating most things without having to cheese it out, whereas I remember being super squish on my alt. I even bodied the Swan on my first go with him.
 
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GROGNAK!





Got Strong as my back-up. Can't imagine using him with many other types of builds and play styles. Dude dislikes most normal things and only really likes, well, a barbaric style of play. Strong doesn't like crafting, lock-picking, hacking, doing exceedingly nice quests(he does like it when you help people though), and he likes being violent, murdering people who get in your way, stealing, and cannibalism amongst other things. He's also apparently voiced by the same guy who does Goku's english voice work.

Dude is tanky as hell and hits like a truck, just like Grognak. Swole Patrol is real.

Sidenote: Gronak's gear gives some juicy buffs to damage and endurance but I don't think you can upgrade them, but it's a fair trade. His axe has the most stagger of any weapon in the game IRC and does bleed but can't be modified, not like you'd need to. Basically I don't need much and can go balls out with all the crazy chems and food and sell pretty much everything I pick-up for money. I might up to survival for the sake of challenge later.

"Grognak" (honestly I was shocked that Codsworth actually has the name in his repertoire) feels waaaaay beefed than my first character, i've been face tanking and obliterating most things without having to cheese it out, whereas I remember being super squish on my alt. I even bodied the Swan on my first go with him.
What perks/SPECIAL stats do you recommend for a pure melee build?
 

Pterodactyl

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What perks/SPECIAL stats do you recommend for a pure melee build?

Honestly it's become very apparent to me that you can play pure melee in a variety of ways given the diversity of perks, skill benefits, and unique and legendary items. So I don't think I can give you a recommendation of stats for a pure melee build. Aside from obviously Strength(should be high of course) and the Iron Fist and Big Leagues perks(which increase damage to melee attacks) and Bloody Mess (which is also increased damage), you can pretty much freestyle what you want to do without being corn holed into having to pick specific perks.

For example,

Survivability-wise: My first character is a glass canon that makes use of Cannibalism and Ghoulish to heal on the fly, where as ol'Grognak up there is pure tank with Toughness, Life Giver, and Adamantium Skeleton to eat attacks.

And,

Weapon-wise: My first character uses medium to fast weapons with bleed and cripple proc's mostly, so she's a hit and run type of melee character that can wither down a group fast as long as i'm on top of things. Grognak uses only the axe and my skills, perks, and approach to enemies is designed entirely around that. It has increased stagger on hit, hits hard as hell, and proc's bleed so basically as long as I get the first hit they're dead. Putting points into Endurance skills makes it so that the times when I do trade the first strike, it's always in my favor. Endurance and Agility kind of synergize in the fact that the axes running swing(as seen in the gif above where I decap that guy) is the best way to start any conflict as it pretty much decimates anything it hits, even beefcakes like Super Mutants, so being able to go from enemy to enemy with it without running out of AP quickly is important.

So it gets down to what kind of weapons do you want to primarily use.

And these are only two possible ways of playing, there are many more you can come up with.


If you had something specific in mind I could probably give you something more solid, like sneaking, or only using fist weapons, or only using slow weapons, or melee weapons that DoT, etc.
 

RoboCop

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I've been using power armor almost constantly. I only really leave it to sleep or craft. I also believe the bonuses stack with whatever you have on under it. I'm wearing a full suit of stealth gear and enemies still have a rough time finding me while I'm in my power armor.

As far as speed goes, you can mod both legs to reduce sprinting cost and you end up being able to sprint way longer than you can out of power armor.

I've got so many cores now that I don't even pay attention to them anymore.
 

The Slaj Jazz

TIckle my sweet salty nips
I've been using power armor almost constantly. I only really leave it to sleep or craft. I also believe the bonuses stack with whatever you have on under it. I'm wearing a full suit of stealth gear and enemies still have a rough time finding me while I'm in my power armor.

As far as speed goes, you can mod both legs to reduce sprinting cost and you end up being able to sprint way longer than you can out of power armor.

I've got so many cores now that I don't even pay attention to them anymore.
Same here, I usually roll out in one everywhere I go with my companion in my other suit. I just made a new character thats focused on INT to RP something similar to a Gundam pilot
 

jharris

I'm not surprised, motherfuckers
completed the main quest, was underwhelming. all the side stuff is the most entertaining by far