Fallout 76

[Tommy_Hawk]

Thanks Tommy.

I don't have a headset, nor totally understand what I'm doing with trade and whatnot.

I must have been digging out my headset when you were playing. I found Tommy, but you'd already left. We should all play through a few quests sometime here. I've never done that before, I usually just fly solo when I'm gaming, sounds kinda fun to try something different.

So what in the hell is the deal with Alpine rivers cabins? Screaming ladies, earthquakes, holotape talking about some kinda haunting? It's weird.

Lol, yeah. I caught a door slam out of the corner of my eye, so I walked over there thinking it was a ghoul. When I opened the door....

Spoiler:

Nobody was there

Lol I think I saw a picture spin on the wall too. Cool idea for the game

[jffl_commish]

I'll have to go find that haunted cabin and take some molotov cocktails with me to torch those demons.

[jffl_commish]

Hacking really sucks in this game.

[Tommy_Hawk]

My character's Intelligence is in the teens and had lvl 3 hacking. I guess what that does is allow me to hack all terminals, but the high level makes it so there are fewer words to choose from. Usually there's only around six, so you get a 66% chance even if you're merely guessing.

[jffl_commish]

I just bang through the 4 tries and wait the few seconds to try again. Previous versions you could at least tell if you were close. Now it's 0 or 1 right on every try. That isn't real helpful.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Sometimes... People in massive X-01 power armor are dicks.

This gentleman is a dick, too.




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[jffl_commish]

So, what is the point of a workshop?

[Tommy_Hawk]

If you were to create a wall between the deathclaw, or any enemy really, and the players you trapped, couldn't you keep them trapped in definitely or until they quit and reload their game? Wouldn't the enemy keep the players from being able to fast travel?

Lol, yeah probably. You could destroy the wall, then the deathclaw or die.

[jffl_commish]

I've been getting my ass whooped the last 2 days. I need to figure out how to upgrade my weapons and armor already, or to at least be able to create better stuff. I can still only create level 1 garbage.

[Tommy_Hawk]

I have stuff to give you guys sometime. What level are you on? Or if you want, I can craft stuff too so you're not getting dominated when you're just trying to find stuff to build your C.A.M.P. Honestly, taking over Workshops and defending then against waves of Scorched/Mutants/Mongrels is a great way to level up, get stimpaks, junk, and ammo. Following the story a little bit also levels you up. There are some fun, fairly easy quests to do for you guys.

Also, to upgrade your armor/weapons, you have to get the Perk Cards, and its under 'Intelligence'.

[jffl_commish]

I've done that, and it says something about combining two cards and then it never upgrades me. I'm doing something wrong there, obviously.

[jffl_commish]

Like you crafted me the level 10 combat knife, I can only craft level 1 stuff. I haven't figured out how to boost that yet. I'm level 17 for my player level.

[Tommy_Hawk]

I have stuff to give you guys sometime. What level are you on? Or if you want, I can craft stuff too so you're not getting dominated when you're just trying to find stuff to build your C.A.M.P. Honestly, taking over Workshops and defending then against waves of Scorched/Mutants/Mongrels is a great way to level up, get stimpaks, junk, and ammo. Following the story a little bit also levels you up. There are some fun, fairly easy quests to do for you guys.

Also, to upgrade your armor/weapons, you have to get the Perk Cards, and its under 'Intelligence'.

The workshop defending is kinda fun, but then some dick with X-01 power armor skinned to look like an X-Man shows up, waves, gives you a thumbs up, and smacks you in the face with a big fucking ax and then leaves your loot bag there for you to try to come back and get over and over and over again until you just shut the fucking game off for a couple days and post on Rube Chat for a while.

Dude..I have the funniest/weirdest story about me and a workshop from Sunday night.

Also, next time you claim a workshop, you can build stuff there like you can at your CAMP. It doesn't use your CAMP budget, but the work shop has its own budget. BUT you need the junk to create that stuff, and when you leave you lose it, unlike your CAMP.

What I do, is if I go to let's say the Poseidon Wokshop so I can mine Fusion Cores. I hook a generator up to the existing Fusion Core extractor. I'll then place a Stash Box down. And the rest of the budget, I use on Turrets. I put the turrets up all over that way when the hordes (of whatever) comes, my turrets will mow them down and I complete the 'defend the workshop' quest without using my own ammo, and I get all the spoils.

The stashbox is there, so whenever I collect junk from the extractors or fusion cores, I transfer them to my stash box right away. That way if some dick head comes, I'm not out anything if he kills me. I just reapawn and let him kill me as I stand there not doing anything until he gets bored. If they destroy my shit like extractors or whateber, I leave and go somrwhere else or skip servers.

[Tommy_Hawk]

I've done that, and it says something about combining two cards and then it never upgrades me. I'm doing something wrong there, obviously.

I think what you aren't doing is pressing 'Square' when you have more then one of the same card Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, or anything really, and "Ranking Up".

[jffl_commish]

Thanks, I'll try that tonight and see if I can figure it out. I have a couple of level ups saved as I wanted to figure that out before proceeding.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Thanks, I'll try that tonight and see if I can figure it out. I have a couple of level ups saved as I wanted to figure that out before proceeding.

Yeah man. When you 'rank up', it shows the two cards of the same type combining, and goes to a level-2 card. Then you can pick the same card again, rank up, and it goes to level 3.

This applies to other cards as well. So if you like the 10mm, like you said you did for FO4, you can rank up different 'pistols' card (cant remember what they are all called). Some allow better accuracy and reloading spees, some increase damage by 10% each time.

THEN, after those are maxed out, there are "Master Pistols" so you can rank that one up three times, so your weapons you like using increase up to like 60%. So if you have a level 20 10mm pistol, that does 60 damage, it will end up doing like 95 damage after the perk up cards.

My guy is shotguns and melee, so I rank those two weapons up often, and then my Intelligence stufd is high so I can make high level weapons and armor. I have to start ranking up Melee' crafting next.

[jffl_commish]

I figured out how to upgrade and equip cards, but that's different than level up card use? Seems weird.

My camp is near deathclaw island. I've tried a couple times to beat that damn thing. I am not ready.

[jffl_commish]

I found my first chassis and couple pieces of power armor. So that's nice I guess. Still rather confused with the leveling up system. Oh well, onward we go.

[jffl_commish]

My stash is constantly full now. That sucks. Anything that can be done of that, short of throwing a bunch of stuff away?

[Tommy_Hawk]

My stash is constantly full now. That sucks. Anything that can be done of that, short of throwing a bunch of stuff away?

Not really. You can scrap or sell you unused stuff.

Fast travel to the Overseer's Camp or Vault 76 and stash stuff there for noobies.

[jffl_commish]

Sounds better than just dumping it. I have about 15 extra plans too.

[salamander]

This game sucks unless you have people to play with.

[Tommy_Hawk]

This game sucks unless you have people to play with.

How come?

[jffl_commish]

I started what seemed to be a pretty fun mission sequence. The one with the mysterious veil thing. Well, that went from fun to getting annihilated real fast. All of the areas that quest takes you too are way too advanced for a lowly level dude like mine. Level 68 bots and super mutants aren't to be messed with. Then the massive horde of high level glowing ones are a game ender. I didn't even bother going back to collect my things after that death. Sheesh.

[Tommy_Hawk]

I started what seemed to be a pretty fun mission sequence. The one with the mysterious veil thing. Well, that went from fun to getting annihilated real fast. All of the areas that quest takes you too are way too advanced for a lowly level dude like mine. Level 68 bots and super mutants aren't to be messed with. Then the massive horde of high level glowing ones are a game ender. I didn't even bother going back to collect my things after that death. Sheesh.

Some high-level must have been around and spawned those guys in there. It's a good quest.

[jffl_commish]

I started what seemed to be a pretty fun mission sequence. The one with the mysterious veil thing. Well, that went from fun to getting annihilated real fast. All of the areas that quest takes you too are way too advanced for a lowly level dude like mine. Level 68 bots and super mutants aren't to be messed with. Then the massive horde of high level glowing ones are a game ender. I didn't even bother going back to collect my things after that death. Sheesh.

Some high-level must have been around and spawned those guys in there. It's a good quest.

I hope so. It got off to a decent start.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Some high-level must have been around and spawned those guys in there. It's a good quest.

I hope so. It got off to a decent start.

I ventured off into the more advanced areas of the map just to check it out. I found out real quick where the high level missions must be because my low leveled ass was running and dying a lot.

Also, I assume it's part of a quest, but why does it seem like people are only dropping nukes in the same two or three spots?

I'll have to dive back into fallout this weekend. I've been spending a lot of time messing around with my new PC, but maybe it's time to go back to the PS4 for an afternoon. I'm loving this PC thing though. My only bitch is getting used to the keyboard over a controller for games that don't support controllers. I'm assuming there is a work around for that, but I'm just figuring it all out.

One spot is part of a mission. The other ones have a lot of Legendary enemies there. They drop legendary gear. When it gets nuked, the enemies are stronger and more of them drop legendary stuff.

I guess once you finish the main questline, there's not much else to do until more DLC comes out.

[jffl_commish]

I've made it a little further on the quest that I was working on. Now I have to infiltrate a ski lodge that is swamped with level 68 super mutants. I've gone there a couple of times and no luck getting easier enemies. Damn.

[Tommy_Hawk]

I've made it a little further on the quest that I was working on. Now I have to infiltrate a ski lodge that is swamped with level 68 super mutants. I've gone there a couple of times and no luck getting easier enemies. Damn.

Yeah, that part is hard. You almost need power armor and a buddy to get through it.

[jffl_commish]

I got that one done finally. Now I'm on to building the excavator power armor. I just need to find enough black titanium now.