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Yes, exactly. I'd have to move all my junk which is a massive undertaking. I wish the game went a step further and just had a true shared inventory between all workbenches; I don't really see why it doesn't. I imagine there's a mod to fix that but no mods on PS4, of course.

Story spoilers to the start of The Glowing Sea:

Mods on PS4 are supposedly coming 'soon'.

I'm at exactly the same point as you in the plot (though this is my second run through) because that's the point where you can start Far Harbour.

Although I've just read that on Xbox they disable cheevos entirely, which seems like a shame (although understandable.) I wish Bethesda would go the extra mile and allow some mods that don't affect game balance to be used without doing that.

I have this and I still haven't played it. All this talk is perking my interest so maybe this could be the next game I get my teeth into?

Further updates as they occur....

Means you've got to put in place a huge QA operation to ensure that nothing in a mod makes it easier to get a cheevo or trophy though, that's a big undertaking.

True enough, I guess.

I spent a few minutes on an "Fallout mods for Xbox you should get right now" site and there's loads of useful ones in there. I think I'd happily sacrifice trophies for some of these.

Oh my. Even just 'Scrap Everything' would be the greatest thing.

"Companion Infinite Ammo and Unbreakable Power Armour" ::gives Piper all the weapons::

Finished Far Harbour yesterday. That's great DLC - huge new area, new monsters, locations, factions, and interesting quests. Also a lovely set of armour to grab and a few new weapons.

Speaking of armour, I got my X-01 on yesterday. Also reached the first affinity conversation with Paladin Jurj Clooners and stomped around the BoS a bit sneering at their inferior armour. And I got Gun Nut up to 3, so promptly upgraded my sniper rifle to .50 calibre and put a more potent receiver on Overseers Rifle.

Oh, and killed my first Behemoth. He was a big boy.

I really dislike power armour in this.

I hacked a terminal to open a huge set of double doors in a factory. All that was inside was an angry behemoth. That's cheeky.

It's my favourite Fallout power armour because

1) it consumes resource, so I'm not tempted to lazily wear it all the time
2) it makes my HUD funny and it makes my character enormous in cutscenes and it makes my voice funny [1], so I really feel it when I'm in it
3) it costs lots of energy to sprint, so I have to stomp around slowly instead, which is fitting as I'm basically a walking tank now
4) because of all the above, there's a sense of occasion when I put it on
5) I think, because of the above constraints, it's much more powerful than in the other games (just a hunch but I seem to be untouchable when I'm inside it)

Or to put it another way: power armour in Fallout 4 feels like much more than a set of really big numbers on my character sheet. And I think that's ace.

[1] I actually remove my power armour helmet when I'm talking to people!

Whenever I'm wearing armour, I never wear the helmet. I very much feel you look a lot more like a donkey wearing the full armour suits.

I wear a helmet & patrolman sunglasses because it makes my toon look like Ferro.

I wear a militia hat and patrolman sunglasses. I don't know what a Ferro is.

I hate you.

I did know that, in hindsight. Wasn't readily brought to mind without context though.

We talked about this in cliquechat, like, a week ago.

Yeah, but I retain pretty much nothing you say, ever.

Case in point.

With Deliverer, I get... quite a lot... of attacks in VATS.

Whoah. I do love Deliverer.

Nuka-World is impressively huge, and has amazing locations.

So's your face.

Over the weekend I reached level 49. I have built multiple Emporiums in my base (Sanctuary) and started selling off the hojillion tons of random crap I have. I am sitting on 10k bottle caps and I've barely dented the stuff I have to sell. I guess I can stop scrounging and just buy shipments now. To that end, I've started to pivot my character to more of a solo stealth build -- plus I'm running out of interesting companions anyway. (I have the affinity for Piper, Deacon, MacReady, and Preston. I'm partway there with Danse and Curie. I also have Strong and Hancock but I don't care so much about them, although Hancock is quite funny.) I've taken Lone Wanderer I, will probably get II and Sneak soon.

I have Gun Nut 4 so my guns are now fearsome: I have a Violent .50 cal sniper rifle with long range recon scope for very long range work, Overseer's Guardian with a reflex sight and a silencer for close up, and The Last Minute (silenced, short recon scope) for serious shit-hits-the-fan moments eg. Surprise Deathclaw.

Silver Shadow was a great questline!

In the main quest line, I've reached...



In the mean time, I went off and started Far Harbor, as I wasn't sure what to do.

I really should play this some more. I sort of stopped and realised that a low INT build isn't as fun as I thought it might be.

Due to half five wake up times, I've picked this up again and gotten as far as getting into, and out again, The Institute. I am trying to have a bit of an explore, too, and found a Very Angry Sentry Bit this morning, and a robot racetrack. The Robot Racetrack pleased me, as I remembered life still goes on (unless I poison sword it) if a little crazily.

I am much enjoying it again and might buy DLC.

Smashy McBash has been hittimg the books and is now level 36 with INT 5, as you need science to tie things to a baseball bat.

Anyways, last night I had to . How on earth you could do this as a stealth build I dunno.

After that GREAT VICTORY, i went exploring and one hit a load of Supermutants with my hammer. I think i am almost done with main quest now, then on to something else for a while until i play the DLC.

Finished main quest by causing a big explosion after sword fighting through robot hq.

Felt underwhelmed.

Is this worth getting? Bear in mind I cba to finish new Vegas.

For the money, now, yes. It isn't as good as 3 or NV, it seems to lack some of their charm, dialogue choices are rubbish, but you can attach a sawblade to a hammer. And then,another.

Depends on what you didn't like about the previous games. It's a lot more focussed on combat this time around and like 99% of quests boil down to 'talk to someone, go to a place and kill the people they want killed, return to original person for reward'. So it's more streamlined in a way but it lacks in variety and I personally didn't feel anywhere near as compelled to spend time exploring the world as I did with previous games.

I should probably play Fallout 4.

After Dark Souls.

I honestly fell out of love with Fallout 4 pretty quickly after the initial OMG Fallout! reaction...the story just didn't engage with me and I just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible (or find away of destroying all the factions).

I loved it. The base-building and manufacturing I thought was excellent, the story was okay (it's not like they're ever great) and the only real disappointment to me was the lack of weapon customisation like in New Vegas.

I liked it. It was good fun.

Wait, what am I talking about? It had loads of weapon customisation. Idiot.

YOU COULD STRAP A CIRCULAR SAW BLADE TO A SLEDGEHAMMER

By the by, Ps vr is going to £199 in June with wipe out or something that I don't care about.

COR!

That's within my budget if it comes with techno dicks and if it doesn't it'll only take a couple weeks to get there. Psvr soooooon

joinnnn usssss

Thanks, mate

I began to make noises over it last night. We shall see.

You don't need techno dicks except for a few games.

There are some where they aren't technically needed but significantly improve the experience though - such as Star Trek.

Feex.

none of the games I've really enjoyed so far have needed them, I'd like some to try Superhot but that's it. Ultrawings, Skyrim, Resident Evil, Farpoint, Doom VR, GT Sport and the best PSVR game, Wipeout none of them need them. They're absolutely not a necessity.

Feexed by the guy who refused to engage with the entire multiplayer component of Bloodborne.

Mind you, I agree that if you’ve got the cash for VR it does provide unique experiences for games despite not being “necessary” (whatever that means in the context of entertainment) so those without VR can still enjoy the vanilla experience.

No one's said they're a necessity; the fact that they're technically optional isn't up for discussion.