Be Excellent To Each Other

I might have bought this. And a PS4.

I might have bought this. And a PS4.

Yeah good choice Cras

I am now at level 30 and have been working on my strength.

How do you set up supply lines between settlements?

Having spent some amount of time fiddling with it (i.e. getting the first three settlements up to their minimum level on all factors) I'm considering ignoring the whole thing entirely because the idea of micro-managing fucking bits of metal and glue and other bullshit really doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Even to do that bare minimum I had to revisit a few locations and painstakingly search loads of junk for materials I was missing and it's just not interesting as an activity. When I could be out exploring and/or murdering instead I just can't ever see me choosing that as something to do. I'm already concerned enough that I'll hit a point where I can't really progress without spending time fiddling with gun crafting and doing the same for water and beds and other nonsense would be even worse. None of which is helped of course by the utter impenetrability of the entire system and the need to 'waste' upgrade points to make it slightly less time-consuming.

OK, now it's starting to piss me off. Help needed please.

So I have supplied fresh water and beds, now I need to supply food. I designated Water Melons as food and they are planted and the game was happy with that, but how the fuck do I assign people to do the work? I've tried using the workbench and they glow green but I can not command them

Clearing locations all the time starts feeling a little grindy.

So I need to be in workbench mode yes?

You can craft in this game, but, like… craft towns? What I said at lunch was that I resented being made to do level design also, but by that point I was just lashing out because nobody was feeling my flavor. I don’t need this to be as granular as it is. The interface for this is… not an interface. That’s me being diplomatic. This is Steam Greenlight, Survival-Game-Of-The-Week shit. None of this should work the way it does. Assigning people to jobs is frankly insane, grids are real and useful, there should be an aerial view, we can do this for a long time.

Well, Workshop Mode, but yes.

FALLOUT 4 Easter Egg Makes An Obscure Reference to ALIEN

While Easter Eggs in video games are designed to be rare finds for the observant player, it is more rare now to find a game that omits them these days. Open-world RPG titles like Fallout 4 provide all of the room for a developer to hide a little something special within that game’s environment. Players will find all kinds of references to movies, comics, and video games throughout the wasteland, and some can be more obvious than others. While we all know exactly what games “Red Menace” and “Pipfall” are referencing, some Easter Eggs are a little more obscure. One such reference was found by an Imgur contributor that goes by the name 1Times.

Throughout the game, players are able to collect junk items called Flux Sensors from all across the wasteland. 1Times discovered that one of these Flux Sensors has an interesting serial number marked on it.

It turns out “CM-88B 180924609” is, in fact, a serial number for a CM-88B Bison starfreighter named the Nostromo; the setting of the 1979 film Alien. For those unfamiliar with the film, the Nostromo is the ship that Ellen Ripley and crew work on, and where they are hunted by a lone Xenomorph alien. 1Times included a screenshot from the film to prove the serial number matches.

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It turns out “CM-88B 180924609” is, in fact, a serial number for a CM-88B Bison starfreighter named the Nostromo;

You Likely Never Heard of the Best-Selling Game of 2015

Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is no longer the biggest entertainment launch of 2015.

Bethesda’s Fallout 4 sold 12 million copies and generated over $750 million in its first 24 hours at retail on Nov. 10. Those numbers obliterate the over $550 million in 72 hours that Activision-owned developer Treyarch earned with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.

Yet while Activision ATVI 2.08% has done a great job of turning Call of Duty into a mainstream game franchise that most people, including nongamers, recognize, the Fallout franchise is one with dedicated gamers but little pop culture crossover.

In Fallout 4, gamers play the sole survivor of Vault 111 and enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. The game has been designed as an open world adventure, allowing players to craft their own character and embark on a unique exploration of the New England Wasteland.

SuperData Research CEO Joost van Dreunen has been a fan of the Fallout franchise since day one because of its unique aesthetic and experience.

“Its popularity seems to come from an odd blend of narrative and action,” van Dreunen says. “As the franchise has grown more mature over the years, it has inevitably attracted a larger player base, but its popularity among livestreamers on Twitch and YouTube has further accelerated its momentum.”

Fallout 4 set the record as the most viewed game launch of all 2015 games, according to Twitch.

Mike Schramm, video game analyst at EEDAR, says the Fallout franchise has three main audiences. There are the old-school PC gamers who remember the original turn-based games. There are fans of Todd Howard’s Bethesda Game Studios, whose last three games (Elder Scrolls III: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim) were hailed as games of the year on their respective releases. And Fallout 4 is also attracting fans of the new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles as well.

“Bethesda announced the game as a surprise back at E3, and the title has squarely remained high on ‘most anticipated’ lists since then, matching up to other big names like Microsoft’s Halo 5, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Syndicate,” Schramm says.

The game was one of the most preordered titles of the year at retailers. And digital sales were also strong, with sales over $100 million across Valve’s Steam platform and Sony and Microsoft’s digital stores. Van Dreunen says the game sold over 1.2 million PC and over 640,000 console digital copies at launch.

Van Dreunen says the digital success of Fallout 4 launch sales shows more gamers are willing to forego disc-based copies of big game releases. In North America, SuperData Research reports that full game downloads on PC and console generate $4.4 billion in annual revenue.

Fallout 4 established a concurrent play record on Steam with over 470,000 PC gamers playing at once.

The companion app, Fallout Pip-Boy, became the No. 1 game on the iTunes App Store, and the mobile Fallout Shelter app has been a success on both iOS and Android mobile devices. Schramm says Bethesda is likely to expand its mobile strategy. The company already is developing a mobile Elder Scrolls game.

Van Dreunen says this launch is a “slam dunk” for ZeniMax. He believes the financial gains will likely go toward maintaining the company’s creative independence, especially now that the games industry has entered a period of consolidation.

ZeniMax Media divisions include Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Tango Gameworks, MachineGames, Battlecry Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, ZeniMax Europe Ltd., ZeniMax Asia K.K., ZeniMax Asia Pacific Ltd., and ZeniMax Australia Ltd. The company has a large suite of game franchises, including Elder Scrolls, Doom, Quake, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, The Evil Within, and Rage.

Schramm says the company’s new strategy of officially announcing Fallout 4 after four years of development and then shipping it five months later could impact both the way ZeniMax markets franchises in the future as well as the entire games industry.

“ZeniMax and other companies may build AAA schedules in the future to surprise players with more finished titles from trusted studios, rather than showing relatively unfinished work early,” Schramm says.

This is a bit great, isn't it? Agree with some of the complaints on settlements - the way you assign people to tasks is rubbish, and placing structures is a bit of a pain in the arse. The rest of it works pretty well though

It doesn't seem to show in the game world, unless I'm missing something - only when it's in your inventory?

It doesn't seem to show in the game world, unless I'm missing something - only when it's in your inventory?