Fallout VIII: Another Thread Needs Your Help General

[Triaxx]

Oddly, I get almost no attacks, despite having a mod to remove the storage limits on food, water and scrap.

[Avilan the Grey]

Oddly, I get almost no attacks, despite having a mod to remove the storage limits on food, water and scrap.

How are your defenses?

[RagingKrikkit]

If I may butt in and derail the conversation, I've recently been modding the hell out of my copy of New Vegas, and I've found myself dearly wishing for a mod that replaces the slave collars with the Reverse Bear Trap from the Saw franchise. A cursory check of Nexusmods and Google has failed to return any results, so I am instead left to remark wistfully about the idea and hope that somebody here knows where I could go to plant the seed in a modmaker's head.

[Brookshw]

If I may butt in and derail the conversation, I've recently been modding the hell out of my copy of New Vegas, and I've found myself dearly wishing for a mod that replaces the slave collars with the Reverse Bear Trap from the Saw franchise. A cursory check of Nexusmods and Google has failed to return any results, so I am instead left to remark wistfully about the idea and hope that somebody here knows where I could go to plant the seed in a modmaker's head.

Go back to nexus mods, double check the forum. It's there

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.p...-mod-requests/

[Triaxx]

25 is the highest defense at level 27, so it's not too high.

[Avilan the Grey]

25 is the highest defense at level 27, so it's not too high.

Point is, if you have a defense rating that's the same as the sum of your water and food production at that specific place, the chances of attack drops drastically.
This is what people usually want .

[Avilan the Grey]

One of my mods, I think, messes with my leather textures? They are way too... detailed? They look like suede, not leather.
I really hate the look but I can't find the culprit among my mods.

Edit: found it: Project Variance. A mod that is great, it adds more than 200 random equipment combinations for raiders and settlers. Unfortunately in the fine print the guy said he had added 2k leather retextures. They stunk, so I had to uninstall the entire mod.
Extra unfortunate: it ate all equipped leather armors. Including the legendary ones i was wearing.

[DigoDragon]

A tip btw... No need to build gun turret bunkers... Just put a scaffolding up, put a rocket launcher 10 meters / 30 feet up in the air... And you have secured your entire settlement in seconds.

And the rockets don't blow up your own settlers/settlement? I expect minor damage, but...?

[Triaxx]

Rather than Gun Bunkers, I put gun turrets up on the scaffolding so they can see and shoot at the various angles.

Yeah, looks like the way I've got stuff distributed means I don't need defenses and so don't get much in the way of attacks.

[Avilan the Grey]

And the rockets don't blow up your own settlers/settlement? I expect minor damage, but...?

Rocket launchers has a VERY long detection range and EXTREME fire rate.
One (1) rocket turret can take out a group of Rust Devils in seconds. Especially from up high, where they have a very hard time shooting back.
Two rocket turrets usually means you won't have any enemies getting close to your settlement.

[Avilan the Grey]

Mmm the deliciousness that is the Spray'n Pray.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Mmm the deliciousness that is the Spray'n Pray.

Until you realize that an Explosive Automatic Pipe Pistol is in every way superior, having equal damage for a quarter of the weight and firing .38 ammo instead of .45

[Avilan the Grey]

Until you realize that an Explosive Automatic Pipe Pistol is in every way superior, having equal damage for a quarter of the weight and firing .38 ammo instead of .45

I have to find one first.
An explosive 10 mm pistol is also superior.

[Anteros]

And then you realize that between the ridiculously overpowered guns and the ridiculously overpowered armors that you're tearing through every enemy in the game with no challenge at all and throw them all into a dumpster to never look back.

Seriously, none of the Fallout games have been particularly difficult, but it seems like breaking the difficulty curve in this one was just way too easy. You're basically immortal in power armor as long as you don't tank explosions (even though I play minimum endurance characters). You can aggro entire towns and stimpack faster than they can kill you. Plus, enemies feel like they're made of paper mache once you get the better guns.

[Triaxx]

I've really taken to Rapid as my preferred Legendary. Being able to shoot that little bit quicker helps if I'm fighting a big group.

[Avilan the Grey]

I don't mind tearing through enemies as long as I can die if I fudge up.

I got close this morning; I am lvl 15, with no combat skills worth mentioning but with a fairly buffed Codsworth. So far he has cut through everything... He died rather quicky against the Glowing One in Hubris Comics.

I need to find better weapons for him pronto.

[Triaxx]

Glowing ones are always nasty. Is he still using the base torso?

[Avilan the Grey]

Glowing ones are always nasty. Is he still using the base torso?

Yes.
Because I like Codsworth and ADA to stay their original models.

Edit: Trying out the Better Settlers Mod.
Also, trying to come up with a Provisioner's Equipment list.

[Avilan the Grey]

Robot Provisoner Bug UPDATE:

DUH. I hope this works:
I read today that if you make a robot a companion and THEN dismiss it and THEN sets it as provisioner, they won't suffer from the bug. AND they will be flagged as companions, meaning they're unkillable by anyone but you. Just like regular provisioners.

Gonna try this out!

[Avilan the Grey]

Don't you love the feeling you get when you're lvl 22 and has to start over because there's nothing wrong with the robot provisioners this time... Sanctuary is completely corrupted so no NPC can enter without being teleported (by following you in Fast Travel or by Console). Leaving works fine though.

Oh well. Already lvl 7.

Spoiler: 1. She prioritized her head. Clever. 2. The pony-tailed menace is about to die!

Show

[DigoDragon]

Sanctuary is completely corrupted so no NPC can enter without being teleported (by following you in Fast Travel or by Console). Leaving works fine though.

Well, that's weird. Although... could you exploit that? Do attackers get in or are they blocked too?

[Avilan the Grey]

Well, that's weird. Although... could you exploit that? Do attackers get in or are they blocked too?

No idea. I did start over
I think it was the "Unlock Automatron workbench at lvl 1" mod that did it; turns out all saves after the bombs fell had the same bug but when I loaded any save with a different character (after removing the mod) theirs worked.

[Triaxx]

Sounds like someone borked up your Navmeshes.

[Avilan the Grey]

Sounds like someone borked up your Navmeshes.

Not sure how. But then Sanctuary is notoriously buggy as is.

[Triaxx]

Hasn't really been my experience, but okay, sure.

[DigoDragon]

Hasn't really been my experience, but okay, sure.

That's the "fun" part of Bethesda games. Not everyone experiences the same bugs, so you have these differing play-throughs and everyone is left scratching their heads on what is in one game build that isn't in another. Like this one play through I had in Fallout 3 where I was up on a cliff with a sniper rifle taking out raiders at Evergreen Mills. For whatever reason when I shot them, they'd go flying straight up in the air, doing cartwheels and back-flips as if struck by a Skyrim giant.

But it only ever happened on that one play-through, none of my other characters could recreate it. I think I still have a screen capture of a raider flying off from that.

[Caelestion]

That bug occasionally happened in Oblivion too. I remember my first long-term character (a pugilist) was coming out of the Mythic Dawn's cave hide-out when I spotted someone waiting outside on the cliff-edge. After my character rushed over and delivered a good punch, my victim suddenly shot backwards as if he'd been hit by a rocket and zoomed off through the air out of sight!

[Triaxx]

Team Rocket's Blasting off Again!

I wonder if that was the inspiration for Unrelenting Force.

[Avilan the Grey]

So... I have added some very small challenges to this playthrough.

1. No item farming. And what I mean with that is no "save, enter, save" thing. If I go back to a place later that once again have spawned a legendary, that doesn't count obviously.
2. No vault suit. For RPG reasons Stephanie refuses to wear the suit, since she is smart enough to know Vault Tech's betrayal is what caused all this (well except the bombs).

[Anteros]

So... I have added some very small challenges to this playthrough.

1. No item farming. And what I mean with that is no "save, enter, save" thing. If I go back to a place later that once again have spawned a legendary, that doesn't count obviously.
2. No vault suit. For RPG reasons Stephanie refuses to wear the suit, since she is smart enough to know Vault Tech's betrayal is what caused all this (well except the bombs).

I didn't realize that was a thing.

What's the point of even using the vault suit? I always trash it for the first armor I see.