Fallout 4

I have 2 playthroughs. One of them I'm a sneaky sniper and one I'm a beast that never exits power armor. I keep only full auto and explosives. Really fun but you gotta find a lot of fusion cores.

Enter workshop mode, scrap all the barrels in the water and around it, then scrap the car that isn't rusted. Then no more rads.

 

There's barrels in that pond ?

 

Yep! At the drive in right?

A lot of people remove the barrels but forget the car. The reason it has t rusted is because it is radioactive.

 

so i got caught picking a lock in diamond city and the guards started shooting, i ended up leaving without killing any of them. if i go back will they still try to attack me or will everything go back to normal?

 

I spend 99% of my time in the field in sneak mode. As such, with the Freedom Trail pistol and a suppressed .50 Sniper rifle, I rarely get into close combat that isn't "VATS crit cinema"

Seeing them before they see you changes *everything*.

Sneak perks are, frankly, overpowered right now

 

If this title is like the priors, so long as you didn't get any neg hits (i.e. shoot them, kill any, etc) you might be OK

I haven't heard if aggro is different in FO4 as of yet

Personally, I quicksave before EVERY lockpick and hack attempt on reflex for exactly this reason, regardless of need.

 

Lol I shot a guy in the face, he looked at me, then walked away and said "must have been the wind."

Sneak is unreal.

 

Yup. I don't even have the perks and, now that I have a couple of weapons putting out over 180 dmg with common ammo, it's easy to one shot most common enemies. I picked off Liberia (I think that's what it's called) without a single shot fired at me. Even the mini nuke lobbing SOB was easy to pick off.

 

^This. It's fallout 101.

 

Really? All open world fallouts I've never done that, as long as you're out of sight while picking or hacking no ones gonna care. And if you're in an area that you shouldn't be typically npcs will stare you down for a short while until you're out of the area, that or they'll become hostile.

 

I found an Institute laser rifle tonight , so far my best weapon

I found the radioactive barrels in the pond at Starlight Theatre and scrapped them , not sure how I missed them before but that allowed me to store the fence I had built around the pond and I added a 5th water purifier and no Rads there now

I have 16 settlers there now and 12 at Sanctuary plus a half dozen each in about 8 other settlements

 

This is how I play as well, plus tack on the rifleman and better criticals perks and it's way easy, even in survival mode.

 

Terminals might lock you out and, if you're having a bad day, sometimes you end up using more bobby pins on a lock than you want to. Saving let's you go back and undo the damage easy peasy.

 

That's why you back out of the terminal before you use your last guess and I can't fathom how easy lock picking is. Haha maybe it's just me.

 

I'm pretty sure terminals in FO4 unlock after 10 or 20 seconds. I know if you have Nick Valentine, that time is cut in half. And yes, I agree, lockpicking got is really easy.

 

Yup, call it force of habit. Saving has always been easier to me than messing around with that last chance on hacking. Lock picking has become easier, but only because there is now no way to lock pickup above your lockpicking perk level. It's a trade off... honestly I don't like it.

 

I have so many bobby pins it doesnt even matter. And then theres the unbreakable bobby pin perk, practicaly useless.

 

Okay guys, I get it, you don't save before hacking and lock picking because you have all the badass perks that stop lockouts and bobby pin breaking. It was just a comment. A lot of people who have play the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series under Bethesdas leadership save before doing either. Call it stupid time wasting, but it has worked out well for me in my very humble, clearly insignificant to you, opinion when hacking. I agree, for the lock picking, it's become a bit of a waste. For whatever it's worth to you I find the new lock picking rules stupid. I'd rather bust 10 lock picks getting into a master lock than have to try and mark all the safes I bypass because the game won't even let me try those locks until I have the correct maxed out perk. You only get to level 30-40ish on average, and yes many of you might be level 100 because of all your crafting and hours, before you finish the main quest and with all of the perks you need to just modify weapons plus have decent settlements I'd rather not waste half a dozen try to max out my lock picking and hacking skills.

To each there own.

 

I went through the other day and got food, water, beds, and defense up on every settlement, all 17 of them.

One settlement was up to 22 people last I looked. All but Sanctuary are up in the teens.

Sanctuary is 'stuck' at 9. I was at 10 for forever, and I sent a settler to the Castle when I took it. Still won't go up from 9 for some reason, even though everything is high green with 80+% happiness and lots of resources to spare.

 

Think you got a little excited there...