I have to say I'm surprised at all the negative feedback in here. I definitely think the dialogue options are thin, but that aside I loved this for every minute. Quests, locations, fighting, I thought it was brilliantly done. I love the weapons and armour modding, and think it's so much better done than it was in New Vegas.

The settlement building sure, it's pretty pointless other than the couple of points where it directly affects the main quest line. I found it a load of fun to do though.

I think I wanted to love it more than 3. I tried hard. But I can't. It's like the Phil Neville of games.

truly thought that the DJ on FO4 was actually a fucking joke and at some point he would fuck off and Three Dogg or some one with a bit of personality would come back. But no, just some whiny fucking cunt with a voice reminiscent of a teenager with a voice that hasn't broken yet.

I'm going to assume you bypassed the quest chain where you help the DJ to 'man up' then.

They haven't created any new anything, outside of small hi-tech enclaves. That's kind of the point of the whole series, man!

Beethoven wouldn't have been banging out corking tunes if he had to use his piano for firewood.

Well I decided to try this DLC. Firstly, it's fucking hard. Like seriously hard and my weapons seem to do no damage at all to the bigger robots who just seem to steam into me and blow fucking steam at me. Very annoying!

It wants me to build a robot but it hasn't explained how in any shape or form as usual with the construction in this game.

So your unmodded weapons aren't working out after all then? Seriously: mod your weapons. I blew through the DLC with no more trouble than I had with the rest of the game and am currently sitting on a stockpile of about 300 stimpacks because I never use them.

In the 'special' section of the workbench you'll now have the ability to add a robot workbench to any settlement. Once you've built that just click on it and you can select to either mod any existing robot companion you've got or build a new one from scratch.

No I'm not wearing any armour because the power armour needs cells.

I didn't say power armour, I just said armour. You know you can mod all the non-power clothing in the game as well right? Seriously, at least look into the ballistic weave I mentioned.

Or, y'know, don't; and keep moaning about how hard the combat is and how many stimpacks you're using. Whatever works for you.

I didn't know that no. Maybe the manual... Oh wait.

My selection of weapons work really well on absolutely everything but these new robots, dude. I've got a modded 50 cal gun with sights that can take out pretty much anything, as well as a special shotgun etc etc. Yet on these fucking robots I may as well be chewing up tissues and spitting them at them through a straw.

Only some of the clothes, sadly. However that some includes Piper's leather overcoat, so that made me happy.

I very much prefer the look of a character with old-school ballistic firearms and no real armour, so being able to mod weapons and clothes is super awesome.

I've been running about dressed as Grognak

Shot a wandering low-level raider in the head from the top of a building tonight, and almost didn't bother looting her body because it was a bit of a pain to get to.

I'm glad I did, because she had a "Never ending 10mm pistol", which doesn't run out of bullets.

Cor.

I prefer my Fallout kinda old school. Laser weapons and power armour are for those who have no faith in a good worn duster and a steady eye. I was pleased that there's a good range of gunpowder weapons with decent punch, and the ability to mod them is great. As the difficulty ramps up though and the enemies get tougher, I started to despair of being able to look cool and still soak up a decent amount of damage on the armour side of things

However!

After a long break ( I stopped before the first DLC dropped) I've gone back to this. In the last few days of play I've:

1) turned Piper gay (my Sole Survivor is a woman)
2) went from level 14 to 22
3) agonised over every Perk choice
4) unlocked the ballistic weave, which is amazingly good
5) didn't even do one main quest line mission (my next task is to find Nick Valentine)
6) got my settlements humming along finding me scrap and growing stuff to make adhesive, because there's never enough adhesive
7) crafted loads of stuff - I have GunNut 2, Armourer 2, and Science 1

Piper's dialogue and voice acting is great, she's a great character. I immediately dropped her for Deacon because I had some sneaky missions to do (Covenant) but feel vaguely guilty whenever I see her in Sanctuary now, so that's some pretty decent writing there.

Piper is indeed great. I think I mentioned a while back that I was so pleased with the ballistic weave.

I also discovered I can ballistic weave the red sequin cocktail dress I wear for tough negotiations

Hmm, I really dislike sniper rifles. A sniper scope and you get the wavy wavy hold-your-breath zoom whereas with a reflex scope over the same range your accuracy is pretty insane. Unless you're going for extreme range headshots I'm happiest with my hunting rifle rechambered for .50cal.

And a .44 revolver for close-in work, obv. Like backing away in circles around something from an angry deathclaw.

Hmm, I really dislike sniper rifles. A sniper scope and you get the wavy wavy hold-your-breath zoom whereas with a reflex scope over the same range your accuracy is pretty insane. Unless you're going for extreme range headshots I'm happiest with my hunting rifle rechambered for .50cal.

And a .44 revolver for close-in work, obv. Like backing away in circles around something from an angry deathclaw.

Hmm, I really dislike sniper rifles. A sniper scope and you get the wavy wavy hold-your-breath zoom whereas with a reflex scope over the same range your accuracy is pretty insane. Unless you're going for extreme range headshots I'm happiest with my hunting rifle rechambered for .50cal.

And a .44 revolver for close-in work, obv. Like backing away in circles around something from an angry deathclaw.

I hammer stuff in the face.