SallyNasty's Game Club - Fallout 4! Open format for the month of January! Game on!

What happens at the end of the month? Do we migrate over to the Fallout thread or continue here for a few months? I'm in for the long haul and may need a pep talk every now and again to keep going

Ha! Continue here or there. As you wish!

I kinda like using the game club threads. The Catch-Alls tend to move too fast and have too many people to have the kinds of conversations we have here. Participation will certainly drop a bit, once the month is over though, since fewer people will be playing.

K, figure i'll stick around here. What's the record for the single longest running monthly game club thread btw? I may be here a while

Bubblefuzz, if my experience with Skyrim is any indicator, I will be here with you.

Is there a place/thread where people discuss/choose next month's game? I missed the boat on Fallout, but am thinking I might be able to join next month's group, depending on the game of course.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Is there a place/thread where people discuss/choose next month's game? I missed the boat on Fallout, but am thinking I might be able to join next month's group, depending on the game of course.

yep. here you go: https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/...

Purchased Stardew Valley for the ps4 last week... This has not helped my Fallout 4 progress at all.

I have been stuck on a quest.

Well, not really "stuck", but sucked into the time-vortex that is settlement building and crafting. I start up fully expecting to knock out a few quests and move the story along, but my exitsave was in a settlement and maybe I need to just build more onto my perimeter wall real quick. Then I realize that I am walking around at 75% of my total carrying weight, so maybe it's time to upgrade some guns and break the mods off of others before I scrap them. Then I realize I am rocking a nice leather armor set but I probably have enough bits of metal armor to build a new suit.

Then it's 11pm and I have to go to bed. '

I'm never going to "finish" this game.

I'm having a hard time even finding the time to jump in to play >< The amount of reading this semester has been brutal, barely enough time to get that done after work.

Last night, I started exploring the middle section of the map. Using the highways for boundaries has continued to help me focus and not get overwhelmed by the scope of everything. The area outlined in red here is my allowed territory now:

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Except for a quick stop in Diamond City, I haven't actually explored south of the river in that new area, though.

In the first game, the Necropolis was a different zone depending on when you encountered it. I have no idea if this game has world events that unfold differently depending on when you encounter them, but there have been a few things that made me wonder. As I was heading south across the border into the map center, I came across a raider encampment that had been overrun by ghouls. If I had come there earlier, would I have found the raiders instead of the ghouls? Elsewhere, I found a dead trader and his retinue. Could I have once encountered them alive? I also got swarmed by a large group of ghouls with names, like they had been NPCs who had turned. Did they turn while I was busy doing something else?

Most likely, no, but it creates a sense of the world as a living place that's in flux. Which stands in such stark contrast to other parts of the map where things have apparently been untouched by wind or weather for hundreds of years, so that two skeletons who sat and watched the world end can still be surrounded by wilted flowers. It's a weird balance that isn't always struck well.

One thing that's surprised me with this game is how little I care about anyone in it. I like the gameplay itself for the most part, but I'm more emotionally attached to my upgraded pistol than to any character I've run into so far. If a quest pops up, I have no interest in fulfilling it, and if I see friendly NPCs, I tend to just avoid them. I'm not normally a story person, but my lack of interest here is more pronounced than usual. If every settlement was monsters and mutants, I'd probably be happier.

I got to Diamond City last night, saw all the NPCs, saw all the quests, and was just like this:

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Where can I get dirty water?

Flint

Spoiler:

Sorry

If others don't mind, I'd be happy to continue chronicling some of my adventure, especially with the new high rez pack coming out which I'll actually be able to play with my new beast rig.

Here's my character so far - Brock Samson III. Only fights with melee weapons and the occasional mini-gun. Lone wanderer turned grudging good guy, he's also super sarcastic to those who slightly annoy him. Those who majorly annoy him however...

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I am still playing, too, JD. Going yo start Far Harbor tonight.

SallyNasty wrote:

I am still playing, too, JD. Going yo start Far Harbor tonight.

Ooh post screenshots please! I'm going to try and get up towards Salem as my understanding is there's some cool Lovecraftian storylines over there.

I may get to Diamond City this weekend...

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Where can I get dirty water?

I've had trouble finding much. Pretty sure the most I've found in one place was a at a water treatment plant guarded by several super mutants, west of the Oberland Station settlement across the river. Rough area marked with a tiny star on your map:

Spoiler:

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Thanks. I've been trying to solve my problem of never, ever having enough adhesive for crafting. I've set my settlement up to grow a regular harvest of the vegetables I need to make vegetable starch, but I'm now constrained by the need for purified water. You can make purified water from 3x dirty water, but I can't figure out how to get dirty water. I apparently can't just take a bucket to the river full of irradiated water. (It's also frustrating that you can't get purified water from the water purifier you can build.)

I caved and looked at a wiki. Apparently in the normal game, dirty water is extremely scarce. In survival mode, however, you can fill glass bottles at streams and rivers to get dirty water.

Really need to get back to this...

... but for now finally got round to USB-ing a few pics....

Mr Huck Fuzz, deeply scarred, but with a roguish charm...

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... and a power suit to match...

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ClockworkHouse wrote:

Thanks. I've been trying to solve my problem of never, ever having enough adhesive for crafting. I've set my settlement up to grow a regular harvest of the vegetables I need to make vegetable starch, but I'm now constrained by the need for purified water. You can make purified water from 3x dirty water, but I can't figure out how to get dirty water. I apparently can't just take a bucket to the river full of irradiated water. (It's also frustrating that you can't get purified water from the water purifier you can build.)

You can also put a water purifier in one of your settlements. This will produce a fairly steady stream of purified water. Also, if you have Codsworth as your follower, he will occasionally give you purified water when you talk to him, but I don't know how high his affinity towards you has to be. (I have the max affinity bonus with him).

@Bubblefuzz - he reminds me of Ian McShane in Deadwood, albeit with a few more radiation scars.

Well, I managed to squeeze in enough time to finish Far Harbor after finishing the Robot DLC earlier in the month. The robot companion being able to hack terminals made her > all other companions for a sheer laziness factor. Far Harbor definitely had some interesting plot points, but over all, I just felt the constant fog obscuring vision made it a real downer. Was fun to play through, but I think will set it aside for a while before playing the other DLCs.

Abu5217 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

(It's also frustrating that you can't get purified water from the water purifier you can build.)

You can also put a water purifier in one of your settlements. This will produce a fairly steady stream of purified water.

How? I tried interacting with the water purifier, and all I did was turn it off.

I feel like I'm coming across much more purified water than dirty in going through the main plot missions. Which is great...except I just want to cook some damned soup. WHY IN THE NAME OF THE GLOWING ONES CAN I NOT MAKE SOUP WITH $%@*&#! CLEAN WATER??

Love that dirty water...

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

(It's also frustrating that you can't get purified water from the water purifier you can build.)

You can also put a water purifier in one of your settlements. This will produce a fairly steady stream of purified water.

How? I tried interacting with the water purifier, and all I did was turn it off.

I believe that it automatically adds purified water to the workshop inventory of the settlement in which you have the purifier. This is similar to the Salvage Stations (which add random materials to your inventory over time).

Vendors sometimes have dirty water. The junk seller in Diamond City is usually good for it.

Abu5217 wrote:

I believe that it automatically adds purified water to the workshop inventory of the settlement in which you have the purifier. This is similar to the Salvage Stations (which add random materials to your inventory over time).

Neat! Thanks.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

(It's also frustrating that you can't get purified water from the water purifier you can build.)

You can also put a water purifier in one of your settlements. This will produce a fairly steady stream of purified water.

How? I tried interacting with the water purifier, and all I did was turn it off.

I saw something about some arcane math around the ratio of settlers to water pumps/purifiers that puts surplus water in your workshop inventory every 24 in-game hours. But there's a low cap on it, and maybe settlers randomly consume it periodically, and it might increase the likelihood of settlement attacks? It seemed complicated enough that I haven't bothered with it.

benign1 wrote:

Love that dirty water...

I lol'ed.