Fallout 4 - Completed

It's an enjoyable game but feels all too familiar, the main campaign is not that satisfying especially the ending & only a few of the sidequests offer a new experience.

It's a much more reliable release though, I had a few crashes & graphical glitches but much less than the previous games on the 360.

I've completed the ending for Brotherhood of Steel & part way through the Railroad ending not sure I can muster the enthusiasm at the moment to see it through, after playing it for quite a bit over the xmas break I need to just step away from gaming at the moment.

Overall not bad but certainly not game of the year.

Fallout 4 - Companions

I've put in nearly 60+ hours into the game now & barely touched the main questline, I do however have quite a few companions in Codsworth, Dogmeat, Garvey, Piper, Valentine, Strong & Danse.

I used Codsworth for a while because I liked his sense of humour, did not get on with Garvey because he was giving me too many new settlement quests & accuracy was poor with his laser rifle. Valentine is good but you can't give him any armour to equip, he will only wear his detective outfit. Strong is a Super Mutant & I've not really used him at all. Danse I hate, in fact the Brotherhood of Steel seem like real twats in this game. I've stuck with Piper for now & given her my combat rifle & old combat armour. Also she seems to be built like a Terminator who can survive explosions.

I've moved my home base & all companions to Red Rocket to limit the amount of time I spend on settlements having to deal with settler related issues. I'd rather spend my time exploring the wasteland.

Fallout 4 - Combat

I've done quite a few quests now & have switched out my companion to use Preston Garvey. I've made a quick video to show the combat against a group of raiders,

I like the way the enemies now flank you but with a high perception & agility my accuracy on the weapon is very good so I very rarely tend to miss any shots. I always use vats to attack, I'm not playing it like a FPS game but an RPG & like decide which part of the enemy to attack. For raiders I tend to go for head & on ghouls legs to slow them down.

Settlement building & management can become a bit of chore so I've toned that part of the game down a bit to focus on exploring the wasteland & completing quests.

I will do a video shortly showing the two houses I have built in Sanctuary for the settlers & myself.

New Game - Fallout 4

Sorry MGSV will have to wait for now, Fallout 4 feels very familiar to the previous Fallout 3 & New Vegas games which is not a bad thing because I enjoyed both of those games.

Some slight refinements in control & level upgrades with the introduction of a minecraft style settlement base building mode are the only changes I have noticed so far.

Console sharing with the boys has limited my time in wandering the wasteland, there seems to be a lack of a tutorial so I have been following the in-built help menu & various tips on youtube to figure out base building, not sure if it plays an important part in the game but I have been clearing up Sanctuary Hills & building new homes, power, defences & resource gathering food/water.

My character is level 6 at the moment & focused on perception & agility to increase the vats accuracy & ap points. I have gone for the lockpick, hacking & gun nut perks the other points I have spent on upgrading the SPECIAL stats.

Will get back to questing this weekend & head over to Concord.

Fallout Shelter - Completed (iOS)

Having reached the 200 dweller limit, I spent some time on moving rooms around the vault & below is a screenshot of my full vault. Just got a bit more charisma training to go on my character before he is fully maxed out on all stats.

Fallout Shelter - Vault Limit (iOS)

I've hit the 200 Dwellers vault limit, with not much else to do I'm focussing on levelling up my character to max in all stats & re-organising my vault into sections for electric, food & water production.

Hopefully a future update might add more to the game.

Fallout Shelter - Level 50

Still playing but only really spending five minutes in the morning & evening checking in to see how my wasteland wanderers are doing & if I need to recall them back to the vault. I managed to hit the level cap of 50 with Dr. Li so she is now just looking after the vault door ensuring it is regularly serviced & keeping the raiders away.

Fallout Shelter - Nuka Cola Factory

Finally made it to 100 dwellers & built a Nuka Cola Factory, annoyingly you need high endurance to work in the factory so I have sent off four dwellers to the training room & only have two working in the factory at the moment. Not much else to do now except upgrade the existing rooms & increase the number of dwellers in the vault, game could really do with an update.

Fallout Shelter - Preston Garvey

I managed to get Preson Garvey from a lunchbox, just look at those stats, I've stuck him in the training room for now to improve his luck. Currently up to 84 dwellers & at least 10 wandering the wasteland collecting loots & caps.

Fallout Shelter - Wasteland

Exploring the wasteland is the best way to gain new weapons & armour, I usually send dwellers out in the morning armed with 10 stimpacks & 5 radaways. Monitoring their progress during the day a few times & then usually before bed if they are down to a few stimpacks I recall them back to the vault.

Currently I'm on 62 dwellers now & I have 4 dwellers constantly wandering the wasteland for loot.
I've unlocked all the training rooms & just saving the caps to start building a nuclear reactor.

Fallout 4 - Oh! Why Not?

Fallout Shelter - Vault 101

One of the many surprises to come out from E3 was the release of Fallout Shelter. An mobile/tablet game which has you looking after your own vault managing the people, resources & challenging the wasteland. It's similar to any resource management game like tiny tower etc but it's FALLOUT !! & it's free. You can if you wish spend money to purchases lunch boxes which reward you with resources, caps, armour, weapons or new dwellers.

I currently have 35 dwellers, some equipped with armour & weapons. I decided to go for the layout below because when building an adjoining room you can merge three of the same rooms together to make a larger room which produces more & stores more of the resource. 

I have two dwellers who I have equipped with the best armour/weapon to wonder the wasteland looking for loot. It is a fine balancing act of dwellers & resources to ensure you can easily manage your vault. My next target is to build another power plant to reduce the pressure on that resource. 

Fallout 4 "Let's Go, Pal"

Completed - Fallout New Vegas - Honest Hearts

Another DLC completed, Honest Hearts has you joining the fight of the Sorrows & the Dead Horses against the White Legs.

The two tribes have a mutual understanding against each other but the Sorrows are generally a more peaceful tribe & the Dead Horses are happy to kill if needed.

By doing various quests you eventually end up at a crossroad where you have to decide if you want to help the Sorrows leave Zion or go and attack the White Legs so the tribes can live in peace.

This would be a good point to save the game if you want to see both endings. I won't say any further want happens in the game but I played both endings before leaving Zion & returning to the Mojave wasteland.

I am going to take a break before starting the next DLC to go & play Uncharted 2.

Fallout New Vegas - Honest Hearts

I've just finished Dead Money so why wait straight into the next DLC for Fallout New Vegas. Honest Hearts starts off with you escorting a caravan to Zion in Utah. you are only allowed to carry with you a certain weight limit & no companions.

Upon arrival in Zion you are ambushed by a tribal gang called the White Legs. After killing them I looted various weapons & items I needed before checking my map to find a nice big world map. Lots of exploring to do & locations to find.

The scenery is set like the Zion National Park in Utah http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm lots of big cliffs & ridges & flowing streams.

You are given a companion Follows-Chalk straight away after you have taken care of the White Legs attack, very useful for helping you carry the extra loot.

I like that this DLC let's you use the fast travel on the map markers & sleep at any beds you find unlike Dead Money.  

Your companion leads you to Joshua Graham who seems to play a big role in this DLC. You learn a bit about him from the caravan merchant at the start of the DLC. He sends you on a fetch & retrieval quest which gives you a perfect opportunity to explore the area & also run into some Giant Geckos !!

Completed - Fallout New Vegas Dead Money

After recruiting the three members of the team it was time to set off the gala event which unlocks the entrance to the Sierra Madre. You escort each member of your team to a location in the villa to trigger off the opening gala event. There are lots of ghosts now to kill but I found the best weapon to use was the bear trap fist, firstly it does not need any ammo & wih usually 2 or 3 kills you would either kill the ghost or make them unconscious & then shoot them with the shotgun.

With the gala event triggered you could now enter the Sierra Madre. Upon arrival you are knocked out by the security holograms & your team members are moved to different locations. You then need to track them down & along the way find out why the casino was built.

There are a lot of speakers & security holograms in this section but you can hack these via the nearest computer or destroy the speakers if they are blue or a radio.  I won't spoil the game much more but once you have all the information you need then you can break into the vault. You then are giving the option to confront Father Elijah who I obviously killed. You get some nice loot in the vault which with some careful planning and a possible game glitch you can take with you back to the wasteland.

I enjoyed the DLC but I think this was mainly because after completing Fallout New Vegas in 2010 I've had an 18 month gap before playing the DLC, next up is Honest Hearts.

Fallout New Vegas Dead Money - Dean Domino & Christine

Walking around the villa you find suitcases full of ammo & stimpacks. These belong to Dean Domino who uses them when he is short on supplies. I managed to find Dean in the residential district but he wanted me to help him get the treasure of the casino instead of Elijah.

Not sure what this treasure is that everyone wants to get but having Dean with me means I can walk into the poisonous cloud for short periods without any damage to health.

Having recruited Dean I then went looking for Christine in the medical district. Just like the main game you can only have one follower so I sent Dog/God back to the fountain and went with Dean.

Dean has a weapon so the ghost people I encountered were easily dealt with. The medical district also had some speakers which I had to destroy on the way to the clinic. The clinic has a hologram guard who you cannot destroy but by using stealth I was able to make it to the emitter on the wall & deactivate it to turn the guard off. I found Christine in one of the auto-docs on the second floor, she has no vocal chords so conversation was difficult.

Anyhow with the last member of the team recruited it was time to return to the fountain to talk to Elijah & break into the Sierra Madre

Fallout New Vegas - Dead Money

It's good to back in a fallout game, Dead Money is the first dlc for Fallout New Vegas and takes place in an abandon casino the Sierra Madre.

You start the game getting kidnapped & are taken to the villa outside of the casino where Father Elijah wants you to gather a team & break into the casino.

All of the weapons & items you were carrying are taken from you and you have to start from scratch searching every corner & house for any weapons or healing items you can find.

Dog or God (a split personality super mutant) was the first person I recruited. He was locked up in the police station cell, you have to be careful because when you were kidnapped Elijah fitted you with a bomb collar which if you go near any speakers will explode. Your collar emits a beep when you are close to a speaker so best to search & destroy it before you carry on wondering.

Having Dog/God with me made combat much easier against the ghost people because he charges in & uses his fists to rip them apart. It also means I have some extra carrying capacity because you don't have any house or safe location where items can be stored.

I'm now off to look for the next person Dean Domino.

New Logo - Fallout New Vegas

New Logo - Back to the Mojave

Old Logo - Still waiting for adventure

Fallout New Vegas has shipped, hopefully it will turn up tomorrow ready for me to enjoy the DLC Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues & Lonesome Road.

With Uncharted completed time for the logo to be changed once again.

Fallout Nuka Break - The Series

Back in June I posted about the Fallout Nuka Break Fan Film. I f you have not watched it yet what are you waiting for !!

Anyhow the reason for this post is that the team behind that film have now released a series of 5 episodes follow this link to their website