So I figured it’s about time I gave this game a shot.

I’m familiar with the series, but never really loved it, have played all previous titles but most of my time is on F3 and FNV.

I think the reason why I didn’t pick this up earlier was because I didn’t feel like going further into the Fallout universe, it felt like Bethesda were milking the golden cow.

Of course I’m trying it now as I picked it up cheap and the TV series has come along, of which in almost at the end of. It very much feels like the TV show is Fallout 4 on TV, but then I’ve never played F76.

The game is nice, very familiar to what I remember of F3 and FNV, I wonder how open it is with the perks system, or will I have to put levels into gunplay at some point?

I’m trying to stick to the main quest to start with, I’ve helped out the Minutemen, and then made a b-line to Diamond City before setting off to find the private detective so still pretty early on. Dogmeat is a fine companion for the road.

Any tips or suggesting for a good start, and play through?

There is a patch landing at the end of the month, so I haven’t experimented with any mods just yet.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Ah same here.The series triggered me to get the GOTY on the cheap and dive into it. Have been hooked non-stop for the past days.

    As is tradition, Bethesda games are not even worth playing without mods. FO4 inv management is just pull-nails-out attrocious and mandatory to play the game at non-braindead difficulties. So better inventory management is a must for me.

    And if you want to do anything with the settlements that doesn’t waste infinite amount of time, Sim Settlements 2 just dropped and it’s great!

    Myself I’ve been mostly doing sidequests until now and only started going into the main quest now, still quite impressed how well the difficulty scaling holds up.

    I’ve set up half a dozen settlements and spend way too much time equipping the settlers there. Hoping this will be more useful later. Haven’t had to use flares yet though, need to get into the habit of doing it instead of relying on chem and stims to get through combat.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 months ago

      Mods are 100% required for so many things. Inventory, crafting, settlement management, companions staying out of the way, and making encumbrance less annoying.

    • Donut@leminal.spaceEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      And if you want to do anything with the settlements that doesn’t waste infinite amount of time, Sim Settlements 2 just dropped and it’s great!

      I dunno man, I installed Sim Settlements and I wasted the rest of my playtime building settlements instead!