Fallout 4

Aren't Eastern and Pacific times 4 hours apart, not 3? Because I'm in the Central time zone and it is 2 hours ahead of Pacific and 2 hours behind Eastern.

 

Nope.

10PM EST is 9 central, 8 mountain, and 7 pacific I believe

 

Appears you are correct. My mistake

 

*internet nucks*

 

Damnit so now I gotta wait til 7pm. I was thinking it would be available in 22 mins

 

I wonder if they are doing evening launches instead of the noon(ish) launches to reduce the amount of people that skip work lol

 

Doubt that. They want as many people to be available to play at launch.

Much like the reason that your favorite TV show doesn't air at 3 in the morning.

 

G-String Divas?

 

Updating now.

 

Yep. 3.1GB, so...gimmie like 10 mins

 

Late to the party. I just started playing this weekend and have no idea what I'm doing. Still figuring out the controls. Once I'm up and running a bit more comfortably (read: not getting killed all the time), I'll check in again.

 

Welcome to the party!

It's a huge, deep game and really easy to get yourself kilt. F5 is your friend.

Feel free to ask any questions ... LOTS of folks in here love to help. Heck, feel free to DM if you don't wanna ask aloud.

You're prolly gonna have a good time

 

Thanks! I usually don't do online gaming for that reason, except for Destiny, that was actually kind of fun. I'll be up to speed in no time.

 

"How to start Nuka-World"

https://community.bethesda.net/thread/77724

 

I played for about a week and have a hard time enjoying playin since I keep running out of ammo so I cant go places I want to cuz a bat just doesnt do the same as a rifle. I also dont understand the super suit thing. I have a suit in some old gas station hanging up, but dont know how it works really haha.

I picked up destiny instead, lvl 27 as of now, trying to refigure out how to play that since I was bored. anyone else play destiny and not beaten it yet? @GHOST SHIP ?

 

OK, quick hits:
Finding ammo means two things

1. Exploring and digging around, finding ammo in openable containers, and/or
2. Killing bad guys of various flavors and taking their wallets (which have ammo in them quite a bit)

Go out, mouse over stuff close up, and you'll see if there's things in it to take. Often that is ammo.

Kill things and explore. Go into buildings and poke around. Get CLOSE to stuff and you'll start seeing containers to get stuff out of.

Now: If you're burning through ammo hella fast, start using VATS. It might be a bit of a hard time at first, but it DRASTICALLY reduces your ammo use per dead asshole. Put some points into perception and agility, and as you get even small levels, start improving your +to hit and +to damage perks. It won't be long before you're killing enemies in one or a few shots each total, rather than spray 'n praying your budget away

Also...hide/stealth is your FRIEND. You get a really nice damage boost to taking shots from a hidden position. Fuss with sneaking and sniping on early first-play toons and you start oneshotting a lot of weaker enemies to get XP and loot fairly easily at low levels.

 

thanks, sounds good.

I guess since I just came from beating Dark Souls III, going back to the fallout type playing is a huge change of pace. Ive been enjoying destiny the past couple days but I remember fallout 3 and really enjoyed beating in...just havnt gotten that same enjoyment with the 4th.

ill have to come back around to it, and do a better job at finding ammo. I think ive been exploring too much (possible??) and geting myself in too dead which uses up all my ammo as I stalk around hideouts trying to kill all the big guys for their stuff.

 

There's a lot of times (especially in the early game) where if you just run around all gung-ho and charge in, you're going to be killed...or use a shit-ton of ammo to an otherwise comparatively weak set of critters. Slow down just a wee bit, take your time, and use the game geometry to plan out some attacks a bit.

Hide and peg one in the head...dead. The rest come running at you...so, if you scout a bit, put down a couple frag mines along obstacle pathing lanes, you take two more down by removing a leg each. Also in so doing, you have a full action points bar (AP), so when the last dude comes around the corner, you can snipe his left leg from cover in VATS with a damage cover bonus (did I mention that part? you get that too). Now you've used like 5 bullets and 2 mines...and the gang of 4 even leveled enemies is dead, legless and no danger, legless and no danger, and legless & no danger.

You can now walk up with a baseball bat, brain the 'survivors' to death with no damage taken, and loot their wallets. Plus their hideout.

Relax and play it like a stalker-type game rather than an FPS and you'll see the combat system open up and get complex and interesting. If you play it like HALO, well... you die a lot and run out of ammo constantly.

 

Wow. Nuka World DLC for me is super buggy. I may have to start my game over cause of it.

 

haha noted.

I also have NEVER played halo cuz I hated how everyone was drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

Dark Souls is def more my type