#Fallout 4 Gameplay

[lastarvek]

[SPOILER WARNING for FALLOUT 4]

I am honestly so disappointed that we can't romance X6-88, and before you go "he's a courser and he is loyal to the institute and he has no emotions blah blah blah" LISTEN!

Paladin Danse is basically the same as X6, when you think about it. Both are blindly committed to their duties and responsibilities, and unwavering in their loyalty to the Brotherhood/Institute, respectively.

When Danse learns that he is a synth it obviously crushes him, and destroys his entire concept of reality. Yet you can teach him that he is an independent and sentient being, deserving of love.

Now, X6 already knows he’s a synth, and so he believes he’s nothing more than a machine, because that’s what the Institute has told him.

But we already know X6 has emotions! He has independent thoughts/quirks. And just because he is a Courser, that doesn't make it any different. You think he was programmed with a fear of heights? Does that seem tactical? Of course not! This, and his deadpan humour, are some obvious signs of individuality.

Thus, if we can convince Danse that synths are beings capable of emotion and love, we should be able to convince X6 as well.

A side note - the game is really lacking in black love interests, and POC companions in general. There’s literally one black man you can romance, Preston, and in my humble opinion he’s lame af. X6 is cool, funny, suave, and he would have been a great addition to the roster. We also could use more female LIs buuut that’s a rant for a different day. 💀

[caelumroxas]

TIME TO RETAKE QUINCY!! | Fallout 4 - Part 18

Part 18 of Fallout 4 is available now!!

[unholycourier]

danse babygirl you just nuked your husband. hope this helps

[nerd-thing60]

I just wanted to get a kill with one of the mines, was that to much to ask, at least one dead head came.

[patricksteel]

Fallout 4 Mods Nordic Europa Research Facility (Dungeon) and Easter Egg Granade Intro

https://youtu.be/U8FJeyFFZC8

[cozylittleartblog]

8th annual nick valentine post! fallout 4 npcs Love sitting. they'll see a chair and ask "is anyone gonna sit here" and not wait for an answer. its like nick is on a personal quest to sit in every chair in the commonwealth. if he sees a chair its on sight

its because his joints are bad, obviously. he's like 140

[scaradeus]

john hancock i will defend you with my life

UNCUT VERSION BELOW

[ghostly-smiles]

Noticed when you first talk to hancock in the statehouse and asking about him, goodneighbor, the institute etc he constsntly directs the conversation back to you. Even saying "enough about me, what about your needs?"

Makes me wonder 2 things:

Either anytime someone visits him, its a need, hes the mayor, and clearly is trying to help his people best he could, whether its food, caps, chems, you name it. So he assumes if youre there visiting him, you just need something from him. Nevermind how youre trying to know him better, or get some information or just talk to him.

OR

Hes absolutely enamored by you and looking for any way to help you out, wants to learn more, figure you out, etc etc.

I could see both working in this case too?

Also, this probably just a gameplay tactic to redirect the conversation since most npcs will do that but i like to pretend things sre purposeful 😤

[sp-writes]

Paladin Danse

[superchat]

we should make up a term for when a widely loved game gets a "spiritual successor" title announced and its advertised to be made by "the original creators" but its just like, two of the directors and none of the 50+ original staff of artists, programmers, animators, writers, sound design engineers, composers, etc.

[lastarvek]

i love nick

[caelumroxas]

TIME TO HUNT DOWN A COURSER!! | Fallout 4 - Part 17

Part 17 of Fallout 4 is available now!!

[radioactivespacebug]

Sugar bombs, 100 percent daily value of sugar!

[weepingcherryyy]

No thoughts just my FO4 protag and her ghoul husband

Turn volume up all the way if you wanna hear it.

Also probably gonna make a drawing of those two on the couch liek it showed in the beginner. Stay tuned for that.

[nitrozem]

War never really changes...☢

[robobrainmurdermysterytheatre]

I see the same question/argument about why there's so much garbage in Fallout 4 pop up bianually, but I think a better question is WHERE is all of the garbage coming FROM?!

The loose garbage that's sitting in the streets has to be from *after* the war. Source: when you live in a place that gets windy and rainy ever all that shit blows around and blows away and gets buried in the dirt. We've had bricks in our yard get buried in 1 season by the soil.

Maybe you could argue the city where the ground is primarily concrete that stuff didn't get buried. But then you have to consider a couple of other things. 1 - Concrete poured on the ground is susceptible to breaking up in places where there's seasons, like Boston. Cold, snowy winters, wet springs and falls, and dry, hot summers do a number on concrete that's not maintained. I'm imagining the most vacant lot where I live - which has similar seasonal weather - being like 5-10 years vancant and unmaintained where I can see the concrete breaking up and desinigrating and nature reclaiming it then multiplying that by 20-50.

Maybe they used special, hardier retrofuturistic concrete in the Fallout universe, and we can dismiss the idea of the ground being somewhat dirt where there used to be road, which brings us to 2 - Boston sits on a river and I'm guessing multiple other waterways that feed it. The garbage is going to go there. The same seasons that mess up concrete would eventually carry the trash into the waterways when it's windy or rainy or the snow melts.

So the 200 year old garbage should be gone. Where is it coming from?

The average contemporary American generates a fuckton of garbage because we buy everything from the store and everything from the store needs to come in some type of packaging or container for loss prevention and/or hygenic purposes that we then throw away. A little over 100 years ago, that wasn't the case. It's only with modern manufacturing technology and supply chains that we're able to package every god damn thing we consume in a way that is financially feasible for the companies manufacturing those things.

210 years after the bombs drop in Fallout, society is not back to that level of manufacturing and consumption. There appears to be a limited amount of manufacturing occurring. They're probably not manufacturing products with packaging that is going to create really persistent garbage, namely plastic. Plastic is a byproduct primarily of natural gas refinement, which is not something we see happening in Fallout - correct me if I'm wrong, though. I haven't played the first two games.

The lifestyle most people seem to be living in Fallout wouldn't generate a lot of garbage. Like people did 100-200 years ago, people likely use everyday items until they truly wear out then repurpose them until they're next to nothing. Clothing is a good example: wear it til it wears out, then cut it into rags to use until those get threadbare or gross. They can go in the fire that warms your house or that you cook on when that happens. Heck, I'm not 100-200 years old, but I grew up poor, and my dad did that! Waste from creation, for example, if you build a table out of wood, likely gets repurposed as well. Scraps big enough to use for smaller projects get used, smaller ones go on the fire. Containers for food storage likley get reused and repurposed if they get gross not thrown away in the streets.

So yeah, there is no reason for garbage to be there. Bad job, Bethesda 🙄 /s

The real, secret, answer is that the garbage piles are there to hide the janky edges of the sidewalks and buildings and other objects that dont sit level or sink into the ground or don't have textures when you look at them from the side or whatever. You can see this in the settlements when you have the scrap everything mod and remove a lot of those leaf and garbage piles on the edge of buildings, roads, etc. Or you can walk up to a suspect garbage pile in downtown, open the console, click the garbage pile and tyle "disable" and find all sorts of fun jankiness. Just make sure to type "enable" to put it back unless jank is your thing, lol.