ViceMan

That's the problem (or one of many problems) with Bethesda games, one faction rarely acknowledges your allegiance to another faction. At least FO4 made you choose one side over another in the end.

Nuka World is great but i've played it several times now and it sort of dictates that your character in the wasteland be a raider type not affiliated with any of the other factions. I was going to try and do it with a brotherhood character and kill the raiders, but that just seems like saying to yourself "ok lets do the boring thing, skip all the quests and simply kill these guys instead." I might pick Fallout up again and dust off that character when i'm done in Skyrim.

The only news I hear about the next Bethesda games are stupid sites claiming they're either cancelled or blaming a previous Bethesda game for its delay - it's Fallout's fault that ES games are 'delayed' and it's ES' fault that Fallout games are 'delayed'. Basically if a developer isn't talking non stop about their next game - even if it's release is a long time away - then it's been cancelled and we should all give up hope. Same with R*, it's Red Dead's fault that GTA VI is 'delayed' (nothing to do with R*s new found love for microtransactions of course.) I wish I could smack these overexaggerating, drama seeking, sensationalist editors.

Bethesda games don't need help crashing, they can do it perfectly well by themselves.

Do you have a mod that gives you unlimited building materials or makes it cost nothing to build? Because otherwise fuck that.

Yes it's on PS4. I think I have a mod that just sets the build limit to always be empty. If we're talking mods there's a weather redux one I like that adds some nice atmospheric radiation storms too. The sky goes a deep rusty red, quite eerie.

I think in every one of my playthroughs my settlements have been built out of wooden structures and junk fences, so this time for Nordhagen Beach I endeavoured to use something else - concrete. I still ended up using the junk fences mixed with tyres and the spiked barricades from Far Harbour. The USO mod adds so much shit to use, you can places faction NPCs, different merchants, animals, it's pretty nice.

I always keep him so he can chill all of my nuka colas.

I'm curious, has anyone actually ever delivered Drinkin' Buddy to the Hotel Rexford? I never have, it just means you've got the quest stuck in your list for ever more.

We've been asking this for three years or more, never gonna happen now. The Hermes and Hustler are returning, probably in a few months as part of the dripfeed. Plus lots of other 'normal' cars, shame you won't be able to drive them for more than five minutes without being vapourised.

And they're going to ruin 90% of them by adding pointless weaponry and other gimmicky features to them and charging 3 mil + per vehicle, wish they'd give us the option for a standard version at a reasonable price. I just want to buy nice looking cars without machine guns and jet boosters protruding from every panel.

Everything is just reskinned crates, only partly unique one was I/E. Dunno how crates will factor into this though, perhaps we'll have to steal vanloads of baked beans and other tinned goods for doomsday. It seems like most people will be spending the majority of their freeroam lives underground after this update with the amount of stupid shit in addition to the stupid shit already available. Will we have to buy a new bunker though or will it be an addition to our existing bunkers? I don't know how many bunkers I need or want. I remembered we have the snow to look forward to over christmas, so I might log in just for that. Probably get boring after 5 minutes of being blown up by jetpacks and rocket artillery though.

It could be the last big update, but I don't think they'll stop adding bits here and there... Too much lost profit if they do. Drip feed content will probably carry them into February and then the microtransaction-funded hype train for RDII begins. I was thinking of coming back and grinding for a Hunter or Nokota, but this has made me completely disinterested.

Yep - jetpacks, flying cars, some shitty looking futuristic tank...quite a snorefest. Won't be returning for this. (One thing I did see was the Deluxo is making a return, but it'll probably be fitted with dual railguns and a warp drive and cost 7 mil.)

I find it funny that in most Asscreed games you spend the entire story searching for a PoE, in this game you get one at the very start and have no idea what the fuck it does. The "final" boss fight is kinda weird with the PoE - it took me a few attempts to master it, but I won't go into specifics.

Another tip for phylakes, fight them on horse/camelback with a spear or axe weapon. Take long passes charging up the R2 power attack, i've changed the spear for a legendary axe that poisons on hit and it seems to work just as well.

The phylakes are really easy with a spear, use the R2 power attack to charge at them from afar and break their defense, then get a few hits in, retreat, repeat and defeat. Also fire bombs before you start the fight itself. Took down my second just now, was raiding a camp in Sapi-Res and the guards alerted him to my location, I considered retreating as I wasn't sure if I could take him, but the spear took him down easily, even with other guards nearby. Also the flesh decay is awesome and can wipe out smaller camps quickly if you can place a body in the middle in plain sight of everyone. And you can restore your beard and hair by pressing R2 + triangle and L2 + triangle in the gear screen.

And i'm taking my time, doing side quests and exploring locations. Chariot races can fuck off though, came 3rd and 4th in my two attempts at the first tourney.

I've had a few bugs, but not consistently enough to be of any concern. Took photos of most of them; guy half in a wall, one when trying to air assassinate a captain on a ship it somehow glitched due to the rigging getting in the way and as a result I was stuck unable to move in the hanging animation while the guards shot at me. Funny/annoying things, Bayek is a pussy magnet - cats seem to flock to his feet, first happened mid battle with some guards, three cats rushed towards me and I panicked thinking they were trained attack cats set to lick my face off with their raspy tongues. Secondly the moment you dive into any large body of water the game sees fit to spawn a homing boat that will lock onto you and chase you down incessantly. Presumably the helmsman is some fanaticist who loves mowing down casual swimmers, they lurk out of sight but as soon as you turn your back - WALLOP! prow in the back of the head. If you somehow avoid them they proceed to stop next to you and abuse you, usually in Greek. (I'm assuming this mechanic is so you're never stranded far from a boat, but damn, these people are true menaces of the seas.)

Bought this last Thursday while it was cheaper, wasn't expecting it to be delivered until today but Amazon's overefficient delivery service decided to get it to me by Sunday evening, (and that's using the free cheapskate delivery, dunno why you'd ever bother with the first class option.) Anyway just leaving Alexandria; taken down the first phylake, which i'm assuming would be pronounced as "fee-LAH-kay"? He wiped me out a few times due to other guards interfering but once I had him alone I just lobbed 6 fire bombs at him and rushed him with my spear, he only managed to get in one attack before he died. I'm off to see some geezer in Giza. The whole level system makes you do more side quests and actually explore, which is nice.

I thought you'd already conquered Solstheim. I hear there's also an island up north full of synths and crazed people worshipping atoms... i've seen it in a vison but I do not know what the words mean, it definitely sounds like a job for the last dragonborn. I'm currently stuck in 19th century London which is apparently a real place, i'm also simultaneously stuck in other strange places that I warp between at random. It's so confusing living in the matrix. I hear the faint galloping of horses and gunshots ringing out like some ill omen, a portent of things to come perhaps. I also see the words "microtransactions" and "extortion" everywhere, how this relates to anything I don't know. I just don't know.

Fuck, it's nearly a week later and you only just got it. Still playing Syndicate and don't feel in the slightest like i'm missing out on anything by not having Origins. From the little i've seen of the game the protag sounded like another dull, characterless Altair type.

I'm not getting it at release, i'll wait a bit until it goes down in price. I'm still replaying Syndicate and i'm in no rush to finish.

My go to settlement locations always end up being either Starlight drive in or Egret Tours - mainly for it's lovely views of the glowing crater to the southwest. My last character was my second Nuka World raider, she ended up with the Operators... I never actually finished playing as her, I just quit playing Fallout for some reason. The thing that always bugged me was the settlement system where attacks were tied to how many resources you made and the defense of the place, I always heavily fortified my bases which meant you never really got attacked, making the defenses pointless. To counter that you had to produce masses of water to make the number higher than your defense, but you still never really got attacked, and when you did it always happened when you were over the other side of the map balls deep in a super mutant stronghold. I think in the end I started using the traps to force the Gunners to attack me.

I just wish I could skip the whole story of 4, the whole opening Vault bit especially. It's as bad as Skyrim and Helgen at this point, you've done it so many times you have to psyche yourself up to get through it, get outside and then you're free to explore the world. Then you shout "fuck you Shaun, i'm off to build a battle arena" into the gentle breeze and head for somewhere far far away from Concord and Preston "i've just got word of another settlement that needs our (our as in your, not my) help" Garvey.