8 Things You Might Not Know You Can Do in Fallout 4
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Good luck reacting to a thrown grenade or projectile in time, i usually only know about them when the vague indicator tells me i need to run from the beepy thing. Though i did find out that trick the hard way, as an attempt to throw a grenade towards a minigun wielding super-mutant ended up exploding instantly in my freshly roasted face.
Did you know there is a "sort" button on every list that sorts between, errm...i am guessing weight, power and value, maybe another probably. It isn't as helpful as it likes to think it is though.
One list addition...well, two perhaps, seeing as today is carebear day;
Did you know you can take off mods from found weapons you can't build yourself? All you do is go to a workbench with any weapon you need a mod from and build or install a weaker (preferably the weakest) mod, so the better mod you are unable to build goes in your inventory and can be placed on another weapon of your choice, at the expense of no added experience. Handy, no? How much do i get paid for th...ooh, one more;
The dog does not yet count as a companion for the lone wanderer perk, so you can have your canine storage cake and eat it too! Not...literally. Though he does look splendid in his dog armour that would probably make a fashion critic die inside (and mostly outside too, if dogmeat takes it personally again.) I gotta get paid now, surely? I take all forms of freshwater fish, some mainstrean (lol) salt-water fish and most ice-cream.
Did you know there is a "sort" button on every list that sorts between, errm...i am guessing weight, power and value, maybe another probably. It isn't as helpful as it likes to think it is though.
One list addition...well, two perhaps, seeing as today is carebear day;
Did you know you can take off mods from found weapons you can't build yourself? All you do is go to a workbench with any weapon you need a mod from and build or install a weaker (preferably the weakest) mod, so the better mod you are unable to build goes in your inventory and can be placed on another weapon of your choice, at the expense of no added experience. Handy, no? How much do i get paid for th...ooh, one more;
The dog does not yet count as a companion for the lone wanderer perk, so you can have your canine storage cake and eat it too! Not...literally. Though he does look splendid in his dog armour that would probably make a fashion critic die inside (and mostly outside too, if dogmeat takes it personally again.) I gotta get paid now, surely? I take all forms of freshwater fish, some mainstrean (lol) salt-water fish and most ice-cream.
You can scrap weapons right out of your inventory as well. Just check the buttons, one of them does it.
BUT FIRST before you scrap anything but a generic '10mm Pistol', remove all the mods from it at a weapons crafting bench! You can get tons of stuff that's really expensive to make this way, like spiffy grips and barrels better than you can probably make yourself.
BUT FIRST before you scrap anything but a generic '10mm Pistol', remove all the mods from it at a weapons crafting bench! You can get tons of stuff that's really expensive to make this way, like spiffy grips and barrels better than you can probably make yourself.
A pretty good list.
But why would anyone waste their time trying to hack a terminal? The system is stupid broken, don't waste your time and XP. Just go in, choose the first three random words, and if they don't pan out, just exit out and try again. You've got infinite retries, and the password is randomized, so it HAS to be one of the first three words at some point. Perfect method for dumb dumbs like me.
But why would anyone waste their time trying to hack a terminal? The system is stupid broken, don't waste your time and XP. Just go in, choose the first three random words, and if they don't pan out, just exit out and try again. You've got infinite retries, and the password is randomized, so it HAS to be one of the first three words at some point. Perfect method for dumb dumbs like me.
After putting nearly 100 hours into Fallout 4 I just found out you can pickup items like in Skyrim by holding down X/A. I don't know if you could do this in Bethesda games before Skyrim, but either way it never occurred to me to try this in Fallout 4.
Actually hacking the terminal takes way less time than sitting through the animation to access the terminal multiple times.Zetatrain said:
Yeah, there's a lot of obscurity here that serves no purpose other than to give me thing to tell people about.....Wait a sec. THESE TUTORIALS ARE FINE.fluxy100 said:
I think you could VATS grenades in 3, and I know the hacking thing was in there, but I also figure there are a lot of people playing Fallout 4 that didn't play Fallout 3.Sampler said:
I played FO3 and know for a fact you could target enemy grenades midair.ffronw said:
The same goes for the thing about hacking computers: there were those same kinds of strings of symbols that could be selected that would have various effects. I never bothered specifically looking for them, though, since it generally was easier to just back out and try again.
I was aware of the ability to shoot down grenades through VATS because it was in Fallout 3 - but I haven't done it in VATS in 4 yet. Rarely any point wasting time and ammunition to have a chance at shooting down a grenade when you could just as easily run away.
I did shoot down one molotov cocktail by accident though - just as it left a Super Mutant's hand. He looked very angry, confused and on fire.
I did shoot down one molotov cocktail by accident though - just as it left a Super Mutant's hand. He looked very angry, confused and on fire.
He actually switched to his melee weapon, then tried to retreat behind cover, but his mate had tried to rush me at the same time, so they bumped into each other and the gunman ran backward and the flaming bruiser just stood there. Burning and screaming while clutching his board in fury and open-mouthed confusion.ffronw said:
You could VATS grenades (usually preferable to do it while they're still holding them rather than from mid-air) and remove duds/reset guesses while hacking since Fallout 3. And while you may not be able to have stolen fusion cores to get around power armor, you could still reverse-pickpocket explosives for an insta-gib for the same effect since 1 (albeit the armor will receive some damage if you plan to loot it). I actually forgot I could do that when I first played 3 until I heard about it on the radio.
Part of the fun in Fallout is discovering all of those things that you can do while playing. If Bethesda had extensive tutorials for all of the features in their games it might last about as long as the Halo 5 campaign to explain them (hey-ooo!) I've seen lots of people griping about the fact that hints and brief snippets of text are about as much help as they can expect from Bethesda experiences, but that seems to be the point. Starting with a blank slate and slowly learning the rules of the world you are in is crucial to the overall immersion, and makes the games more fun, in my opinion.
Imagine if Fallout 4 had Codsworth floating around behind you for the first 5 hours or so while saying things like "Shouldn't you scrap those radiation barrels in your drive-in settlement, sir?"
On the other hand, lists like this do come in handy. If I may add two more juicy fun facts:
1. Want to shuffle the radio? Find the perfect song for that new highrise full of Supermutants you're about to massacre? Quicksave your game with the radio off, then reload and turn on either the classical or Diamond City station. Don't like what you hear? Rinse and repeat. As long as you didn't have the radio playing when you saved, you will get a fresh song selection every time!
2. .38 rounds are a fantastic secondary currency. I had about 1500 of those suckers in my inventory before I thought to use them as bartering chips (kind of like the Metro games, except way more abundant!) This one might be super obvious to some of you, but I didn't think in those terms until about 25 hours in.
Imagine if Fallout 4 had Codsworth floating around behind you for the first 5 hours or so while saying things like "Shouldn't you scrap those radiation barrels in your drive-in settlement, sir?"
On the other hand, lists like this do come in handy. If I may add two more juicy fun facts:
1. Want to shuffle the radio? Find the perfect song for that new highrise full of Supermutants you're about to massacre? Quicksave your game with the radio off, then reload and turn on either the classical or Diamond City station. Don't like what you hear? Rinse and repeat. As long as you didn't have the radio playing when you saved, you will get a fresh song selection every time!
2. .38 rounds are a fantastic secondary currency. I had about 1500 of those suckers in my inventory before I thought to use them as bartering chips (kind of like the Metro games, except way more abundant!) This one might be super obvious to some of you, but I didn't think in those terms until about 25 hours in.