IceForce said:
Must say, I'm a little confused about people complaining about the difficulty curve. Because if we go back to previous Bethesda games, an extremely common complaint was that the games were far too easy, even on the hardest difficulty. The Nexus is full of mods for Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 that increase the difficulty of the enemies in those games. Hell, the Skyrim mod that makes dragons a LOT harder to fight is one of the most popular mods on the Skyrim Nexus.
There's a difference between 'this is hard, yo,' and 'So, I just died, and I don't know who shot at me, or what was shot at me, or why, or from where, or what the hell if going on.' There's hard, and then there's 'I was going to die here no matter what I did.'
Zydrate said:
Yet again, part of the difficulty is I spent the first two hours of the game just trying to find a goddamn vendor. I spent a better part of those two hours at 230/250 carry weight because I couldn?t sell anything. There was no ?Megaton? starter town, it was just Sanctuary for you to build on with no real vendors. Just five minions to farm melons.
Just so you know, junk is no longer junk, and guns and armor can be broken down into fun stuff. There's not as much of a reason to sell as there used to be - Find a place with workshops (Red Rocket Gas Station is a good place right at the beginning) and just store your stuff, don't sell it.
Zydrate said:
I found Hancock (A potential ghoul follower), whom made me go scout out a gallery that was apparently held by some kind of serial killer. Hancock thanked me, paid me 200 caps, and that was it. No further interaction. No hunt for the killer of his scouts (He?s a mayor). Just ?sup?, no further conversation. So I fucked off and continued the Railroad quests to plop scanner things across the highest points of their area (Which led to the aforementioned fun gunplay moments).
There are 'Acts' in this game, or so I'm told, and a lot of the side quest lines are tied to it. If someone stops progressing story wise when you think there should be more, its probably because you need to move the main story along. I spent 6 hours trying to 'get my rep' up with a faction before I resorted to google and found that out.
Zydrate said:
I visited Diamond City and had a few brief interactions with Piper (My main follower) and Valentine (Meeting him was also a fun shootout, also I?m pretty sure he?s voiced by the same guy who did Mercer Frey in Skyrim, plus dozens of other NPC?s there surely). Some political drama with synth infiltrators but nothing has (yet) come of it.
Follow the Freedom Road for more Synth stuff (Check your Misc log in the quest page).
Zydrate said:
I wanted to do the quest to give a confidence boost to the Diamond City Radio guy. This quest has a couple of prerequisites of visiting the bar there, and then having a guard tell me that the proprietor is looking for me. After talking to the guy inside, I spent the next five minutes clicking on a guard. Gave me a few points on my map and some rumors, but never the one I wanted. Maybe some time has to pass?
You shouldn't have to talk to a guard for Confidence Man. Have you talked to the brothers? If you've agreed to the plan, you have to come back to the bar after 6pm.
Zydrate said:
So you see my confusion. Nothing I do? goes anywhere. 11 hours on a single save and it?s just the BEGINNING of stuff. I feel like I?m missing grand adventures and sweeping plotlines but I can?t seem to actually locate them.
have you done the Minutemen quest? I hate the Sims aspect of it, but they'll send you out all over the Wasteland. The quest themselves are boring, but you'll stumble upon stuff as you go.
And, as I said above, a lot of the side quest are tied, stupidly, to the main story line, so you have to progress the main story, which is pretty lame, to get the side quest lines to budge.
Zydrate said:
I understand I?m going through a learning curve. Eventually I?ll know all of the ?priority? places to visit, people to speak to, loot to nab in the early game. But 11 hours is one hell of a time to start with.
Loot everything, hoard adhesive. Repeat!
Zydrate said:
Make no mistake. I?m still going to play the SHIT out of this game, for as long as my computer can handle it. (It overheats my computer and it shuts down after a couple hours). But I?m just wondering? Where?s all the stuff?
...you may need an upgrade. Or turn down your graphics. Or clean out your cooling vents.
DeadProxy said:
I've been playing for about 30 hours now, and I'm rarely finding any cores in my exploring, and they're too expensive (around 500 caps at 4/5 charisma) to buy when ever I see them...AND you need 3 spare cores in order to enter a vault, which cut my supply in half when I went through with it.
Whenever you see a large building, explore it. It will likely have a power generator that has a power core. I'm 30 hours in, and have 30+ power cores, not counting the 3 I gave up for the
