Topic: Fallout 4 --OT--

This might be a dumb question, but do you need to fill all the stars in order to get a perk or does it just get stronger as you add more points to it? For example, I'm doing a melee build and I am taking big leagues as a perk. It gives me 25% melee damage bonus. Does this work from one point into it or does it need to be filled? Sorry in advance if this is a noob question.

It gets stronger as you add more stars.

@Splat: Thank you. Now to find the super sledge.

Anyone going to replay Fallout 4 once the mods come out? I am late to the game and finally getting to it from my backlog. Really enjoying it. I'm doing a melee beefcake and so far so good. I usually play sniper distance in these types of games, but I wanted to try a different style to change it up a bit since the world is simular to the old ones.
Looking at the possible mods coming out the one I am most looking forward to is the chest with 1000 of each supply for town building. I figure I'll use that after I beat most of the game and just want to build a town.

@Elodin: Yes, I am going to play around with it some more once mods are out. I had considered doing some more side quests recently, but I figured at this point I would wait for the mods.

So I finally picked up this game from Gamefly for $5 figuring that's a good price to try it out. So just a couple of questions.

1. For someone who has never played a Fallout game except for 1 and that was years ago. Is this a good game to start at or does playing the previous 4 mandatory?

2. Is melee builds a good thing for a beginner? I read from a few places that melee builds are hard to play for beginners.

3. How open world is it? Like can I just wonder around for hours exploring and doing things or do I have to do the story to unlock more parts of the map or something along those lines.

4. Should I get the DLC?

1.You will be totally fine having not played the others.

2.I have never played a melee build so I can't help you there.

3.Wondering around and exploring is when the game is at it's best IMO.

4.That depends on how much you like settlement building. There are 6 DLC packs but I would only recommend two of them which are Nuke-World and Far Harbor.

@Tasuki: I'm playing now. It is literally 100% Skyrim re-skinned. That's the best explanation I can give. So totally open world and the primary quest can easily be forgotten next to side quests.

You'll probably end up just playing like an fps though, it is the path of least resistance and combat isn't hard enough to bother with vats.

Me lee could totally work though, if you want.

I regret not getting enough charisma.

Cary capacity is a big deal. Make your dog carry stuff and get the line wanderer perk, which doesn't count your dog.

Carry around a suit/hat/glasses with + cha to wear when talking/selling.

Make your settlement produce a ton of excess water and it'll deposit the excess and let you take it, free healing items.

Well, I never played Skyrim it just didn't grab my attention, however the setting for Fallout I like. I will keep those tips in mind.

@Tasuki
1. You can surely enjoy FO4 even if you never played 2 and 3.
2. Never tried a melee build because sniping and mining is too fuch fun, and I'd say it's even mandatory on hardest difficulties!
3. You can go everywhere, everytime you want. I think there are very few areas (Institute and Prydwen are the ones I can recall now) that you can visit only after beginning a certain quest.
4. 2 of the dlcs will unlock new maps if you feel the Commonwealth is too small, but if you are a real wanderer (no fast-travelling, exploring every single inch, taking care of the settlements) than the vanilla game will be fine for +100 hours.

I'd recommend Fallout 4 even more if you haven't played the other games in the series. It's a very unique game and experience and in no way requires any background.
Melee is a really viable way to go. There are a few enemies in the game that will be difficult to beat by melee alone, so keep that in mind too. If you are smart choosing your perks you'll be good.

And don't get the DLC. It won't add any extra value to the base game per se. Only consider getting after you finish the game and are desperate for more (which is 150 hours in).

@Tasuki: melee build is great fun, make a b line for diamond city and when you have enough caps pick up the Rockville Slugger, its kinda slowish but once its upgraded + 40% less action points its a beast.

@Mega-Gazz:
It's not 'literally' Skyrim re-skinned its just using the same same engine pretty much. The fact that Fallout 4 can be played as an FPS and also has the V.A.T.S mechanic fundamentally changes the way the game plays out in comparison to how you tackle Skyrim.

@Tasuki:
If you enjoy a challenge go with Survival Mode, although you might not find a melee build very effective.. Especially at lower levels. I'd say ignore the DLC's, except for Far Harbor.. and mess around with some mods instead. They're free after all. Just remember you cant pick up any trophies while they're active.

The fact that there is an inventory tab called "My Junk" is much funnier to me than it should be.

Just finished the game, and have run into a post-game breaking bug.... rest in spoiler tags

@Mega-Gazz: I ran in multiple occasions where I needed something from an NPC and they started having this random kind of behavior. Only thing I can recommend - but you probably already tried this - is (if possible) load an earlier save and shut down Fallout 4 completely and restart. It worked out for me eventually every time, sometimes after a few tries, but I do consider myself lucky in that regard. Hope you somehow can fix it.

Oh Bethesda... the game is really rough around the edges from time to time. I also remember a quest that finished itself right after it started.

So started this game today, and so far I am enjoying it. Only thing the settlement building is very overwhelming for me right now. So anyone have any tips or advice and how I should construct a settlement?

Sorry for the noob question but I am wondering all this stuff that I am picking up and see laying around does it serve a purpose other then to be broken down for crafting materials? I don't want to end up breaking something down only to discover I may need it later.

Just a quick question which I hope someone can answer. So all this stuff that I am carrying around for crafting, I am wondering is there somehow or somewhere I can like break down the items so I just have the crafting materies?

Why bother? If you deposit it in your settlement at any crafting station it will get automatically broken down as needed when you build stuff. No need to carry around. You can link settlements too if you have enough charisma for local leader, then they all share inventory