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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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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.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Iwonder how open it is with the perks system, or will I have to put levels into gunplay at some point?

It's fairly open. You can take any perk's first level so long as you have the necessary SPECIAL for it, and then each additional level of every perk has its own level requirement.

You will probably want some gunplay perks though, just because it's the only way to increase your damage and as things start scaling up, shit becomes hella bullet spongey (unless you play in Survival mode).

And don't disable the cinematic dialogue camera; there are two points (one of which is in the main quest; specifically the conversation between Piper and the Mayor the first time you go to Diamond City) that have been bugged from launch and never fixed in the official game or unofficial patch that will prevent you from progressing because you literally get locked into place and the inputs stop responding so all you can do is open the menu and load or quit (which doesn't fix the problem). Having the dialogue camera on is the only way to not experience this bug.