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Loving that you get xp for building things. I gained an entire level just building a fence around Sanctuary Hills today. Place is a fortress now. I've also begun a mutually beneficial partnership with the Brotherhood of Steel. I'm liking them much more than I did in previous games.

I made my house and connected it directly to my watch tower. The third floor of my house will be my sniper spot. House is pretty empty and shit. I made a quick video of it below. Not sure if it's embedded or not.

Even what they carry, bonus.

Sanctuary is where you start dude. That's a no-brainer. Built it up for the XP and side missions. My Red Rocket Gas Station is already built up like Megaton. Filled up the Comic rack there, then moved them all back home. I need a new Comic rack as I have doubles of most of the comics. I'm working on Tenpines, near the Boomer, as it gets hit harder than the others. Abernathy Farm is easier, but the Drive-In is giving me growing problems and the folks need to eat. The Drive-In is going to be huge, with a dozen sniper nests for lookout. Already have Flamer defenses set up all around, like 50 of them. I love watching Raiders and Mutants get fried. That shit never gets old. Yeah, didn't want to say that, but the initial meeting and subsequent mission with him, is awesome. I haven't accepted yet, but will get back to him. That base outfit is also, almost as badass as the Cage Armor. His special weapon does have its attributes. Can be used well in the right circumstances. Lots of loot in that mission, and the way that I met the Synths. Over-encumbered again from ArcJet Systems.

Level 20 Whoever said a few pages back that there's not much to scav is out of their mind. After playing since release night about 40 hours straight, sneaking with the dog, taking everything, and then stashing, re-exploring, and re-stashing. Everything you kill adds XP, everything you craft adds XP, it wasn't hard to level up without really doing anything. But the dog got under my feet so I switched to the Bot. After maxing out his companion perk, back to solo sniping and looting. Built about 5 houses fully loaded with power, defenses, gardens. To get key components out of junk, I had the Sanctuary streets lined with dozens of generators and structures large and small. Just lining them up in the street to break them down added XP, but I tore them down for vital components. Move to the next site (I only have 4 sites right now) and build up. Tagged copper, adhesives, gears, and antiseptics for making everything including Radaway. Took a few weird paths unknown from the release trailers, and ended up early on crafting snipers and shotguns, tactical miniguns and such, but the real wealth is in the scrap. Raid every raider as well. Favoring the pocketed armors along with strong back perk, but before I favored the shadowed armors for stealth. A few spoilers I won't mention, but some old friends give you some great stuff in various locations, if you find them before doing the main story which I have been avoiding. I have lots of the rare weapons thanks to those missions and killing so many "Legendary" creatures and bad guys. Once you find the base snipers, combat shotguns, hunting rifles, energy weapons you're home free. Still love the basically un-modified Calibrated Sniper Rifle. Could've found that thing anywhere. Can't remember. These people and creatures are blind if you're in stealth mode, simply by sneaking. I should try hard mode I guess. Now sniping everything has become a job, and the power armor looks nice in the various paint but this game I'm just not using it that much, just storing it everywhere. Haven't asked the Wiki or anyone for any answers but have had to figure out the perk chart and basic operations, like how to spin stuff around and connect things. The only question I have is back to basics, but I think Captain Kirk said it best: "Dammit Bones, how do you pick things up like the toys, (Mr.Gutsy Model for example) and place them on my trophy shelves?" Hope you guys are enjoying the game. Some crazy stuff here.

I think I want this game.

You can send them back to their original town. When it asks you where would like them to go just cancel it and they will return to where ever they were at first.

Me too, massacre. Doing heaps of exploring and side missions ATM. Enjoying the diversity. Jumping from base building to standard RPG stuff to crafting. To making my dog look fucking badass. I'm loving this game.

45 hours in, and I still haven't set foot in Diamond City.

the ghouls are hard to adjust to at first, but man o man did they totally improve them!! i love the new ghouls!!

I have two jobs here: provide the eye candy and to regale you with drinking stories(not been many of those lately).

My sanctuary. Still a bit of a junk heap, but cosy inside with all i need for now...

i don't recommend going into the super duper mart, unless you want to freak the fuck out... i am now nearly out of stimpaks and food... yea, it's the one from the trailers, and yea, they're everywhere... make sure you bring a melee weapon... jesus christ, i get the feeling this game is gonna be a lot harder than in the past... every battle right now feels like a struggle... and i am having a hard time adjusting to the controls, i am shit at VATS right now.... but other than that, i'm enjoying it! also, fuck bloodbugs, if i run into a legendary one, i'm shutting off my game and go cry in the corner... i get the feeling these are gonna be the new cazadors of the commonwealth... and i hate mosquitos, soooo greeeaaatt!...