Fallout Megathread

Fallout Megathread


Thread Resources
Videos

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Announcement Trailer
Complete E3 Presentation
Combat Montage
Exploration Gameplay
Why Details Matter
Player Freedom in an Open World
Customisation, Crafting and Modding
Behind the scenes with Dogmeat
Dogmeat & other Companions
Fallout 4's Character System
The Wanderer Trailer

Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L Series
Strength
Perception
Endurance
Charisma
Intelligence
Agility
Luck

Images

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Screenshots

Pretty much all of these are from trailers. If anyone has any that aren't feel free to post them.

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Artwork

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Memes

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Music

Not much here, yet.

Main Theme
Atom Bomb Baby
It's All Over but the Crying
Inon Zur plays the Fallout 4 theme

Dog

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The dog is a dog.

Sole Survivor

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The Sole Survivor is the player character in Fallout 4. At the beginning of the game, in 2077, they are living peacefully with their spouse and newborn son, Shaun. It is speculated that they are a soldier, as in the E3 presentation they appear to be preparing for the "Veteran's Ball". When the alarms ring out for nuclear attack, they go with their family to Vault 111. After 200 years, they emerge from the Vault as the Sole Survivor.

As with previous Fallout games, the player has full customisation ability over the Sole Survivor. They can select gender, race, body type, and the facial customisation system has been completely overhauled to replace the sliders with a cursor to mould the face to the player's liking.





For the first time in a main Fallout game, the protagonist is fully voice acted, with the male Survivor being voiced by Brian T. Delaney and the female survivor being voiced by Courtnay Taylor.

Locations

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Vault 111



Vault 111 is one of the Vaults to be featured in Fallout 4. The Sole Survivor enters Vault 111 at the beginning of the game, after watching the first bombs fall. At some point over the next 200 years, all residents except the Sole Survivor die due to circumstances not yet known, and the Sole Survivor leaves the vault after this time. It's speculated that the Vault has a cryosleep pod, however this is not confirmed. The Vault is different from other Vault in that it uses an elevator in addition to the standard Vault door.






Boston



Boston and its surrounding areas are the setting for Fallout 4. It is a part of the Commonwealth, and home to the Institute, an organization that possesses advanced technology including androids. The Institute were briefly mentioned in the Fallout 3 quest 'The Replicated Man', which involved an escaped android. Robert House, a major character in Fallout: New Vegas, attended the institute when he was younger. It is actually what remains of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr Zimmer, in Fallout 3, described the Commonwealth as being "a war-ravaged quagmire of violence and despair," and it is assumed that this includes Boston, as it is apparent from footage of the game. Many landmarks of Boston are expected to appear in the game, including the Paul Revere Monument, the USS Constitution, the Massachusetts State House and Fenway Park.

Diamond City



Diamond City is a post-war settlement built within and around what remains of Fenway Park. First seen in the announcement trailer, it appears to be one of the main hubs in Fallout 4, being home to several merchants. Apparently, the city has a shortage of supplies, and so the Sole Survivor enters disguised as a trader with enough supplies to sustain the population.

Weapons

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Guns

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10mm Pistol


Pipe Pistol


Pipe Rifle


Assault Rifle


Minigun


Junk Jet

Energy Weapons

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Laser Musket


Laser Pistol


Laser Rifle


Plasma Pistol


Plasma Rifle


Plasma Scattergun


Plasma Sniper Rifle


Plasma Thrower

Explosives

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Fat Man


Missile Launcher

Melee

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Baseball Bat


Power Fist

Gameplay Features

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Dialogue
The dialogue system is a complete departure from previous Bethesda games. Introduced in Fallout 4 is what is being called a "dynamic dialogue system", similar to what is seen in Mass Effect or Telltale games. Players are given four dialogue options which lead to a fully voiced response from the protagonist. Players can leave a conversation at any time.

Combat
Admitting the gunplay in Fallout 3 was "mehhh", Bethesda claim to have completely overhauled the combat system. Enemies are now more responsive to your hits; for example, a shot in the leg will cause the enemy to stumble or a shot in the head will blind them. VATS has also seen some changes, the most notable one being that it no longer completely stops time but instead slows it down. Players also have the option to execute a "critical hit" if they have enough action points.

Power Armour is now a full-on suit rather than just being an inventory item. Upon entering, players are given a different HUD and a heavy weapon. Gameplay demonstrations have also shown jetpacks to be available for power armour.

Crafting
Fallout 4 features an enhanced crafting system which essentially allows the player to create any weapon they desire. Demonstrations have shown that parts of completely different guns can be put together to create a wide range of weapons. In addition to weapons, players can also customise their armour, as well as a suit of power armour. Rather than simply having a head piece and body piece like in other Bethesda games, players can now equip customise more specific areas of the body.

Settlement Building
Fallout 4 offers the opportunity to build settlements in pre-defined locations. They must collect resources to be able to build and have a lot of choice in what they do. Players can also set up defence systems and have caravans travel between settlements. However, settlements can be prone to raider attacks and other events. Within the settlements, players can manage crops and run electricity lines to power different facilities.

Skills
Skills have also seen a major change from the system used in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Now, skills will be based off of the SPECIAL system. At the start of the game, as usual, the player will distribute a certain number of points between each of the seven statistics. The difference is that now, there are perks tied to each SPECIAL stat, which are upgraded or unlocked when the player levels up. Each SPECIAL stat will have 10 perks, giving at least 70 base perks in the game. However, as the player progresses, newer upgrades will unlock, and it is said that there are many things to unlock. It is also confirmed that there is no level cap.

Companions
A feature shown at E3 was the ability to give commands to companions in a similar way to Skyrim. The demo showed the player telling Dogmeat to fetch something for him. Bethesda have confirmed that there are around a dozen companions in the game, and the player can form relationships with them that may even lead to romance. Known protagonists include: Dogmeat, the Sole Survivor's Mr Handy, Codsworth, Preston Garvey and Piper.

Additional Content

Technical Information

PC Specs

Minimum
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent

Recommended
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent

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Pipboy Edition

man fallout is really shit

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

Hype

Imma go play Fallout 3 now.

>not hype about any of these upcoming games
>not even street fighter v anymore

Sigh.

>not hype about any of these upcoming games
>not even street fighter v anymore

Sigh.

Save me from the nothing Ive becoooooome

>not hype about any of these upcoming games
>not even street fighter v anymore

Sigh.

Save me from the nothing Ive becoooooome

Oh, I see you're one of the maybe twelve other people who've heard of Red.

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

>not hype about any of these upcoming games
>not even street fighter v anymore

Sigh.

Save me from the nothing Ive becoooooome

Oh, I see you're one of the maybe twelve other people who've heard of Red.

Who? >.>

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

>not hype about any of these upcoming games
>not even street fighter v anymore

Sigh.

Save me from the nothing Ive becoooooome

Oh, I see you're one of the maybe twelve other people who've heard of Red.

Who? >.>

Exactly.

Digitally preordered last week because I'm a fucking degenerate who's toxic to the gaming market.

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

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i want the pip boy but tfw game ran out

Codsworth > Dog

"War. War never changes."

anyone else think this might be the most over-referenced quote of all time
at least in gaming

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

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The constant quoting, text colour changing, text size changing, and the sheer effort in researching images and other sources. I commend the work of all of you.

"War. War never changes."

anyone else think this might be the most over-referenced quote of all time
at least in gaming

The answer is no...unless it is yes....

YouTube

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Ironically the video reminds me of how I think you see most FPS games

Lets see if this works.....

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Throw one of those in the OP....I will now click Post....hoping that it worked.

We should have a Hype tag so that we know where to find these.

Hype or Info.

I can't wait to see what type of mods people are going to come up with.

I can't wait to see what type of mods people are going to come up with.

that is such a dumb reason to anticipate a game

I can't wait to see what type of mods people are going to come up with.

that is such a dumb reason to anticipate a game

The fuck up, go back to jacking off to Anita Sarkeesian videos

I can't wait to see what type of mods people are going to come up with.

that is such a dumb reason to anticipate a game

The fuck up, go back to jacking off to Anita Sarkeesian videos

Verb, Verb never changes.

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

?

The constant quoting, text colour changing, text size changing, and the sheer effort in researching images and other sources. I commend the work of all of you.

i had to redo half of it because i broke a bunch of spoiler tags

70 days makes it seem longer than it actually is.

Two months and a week is shorter imo, but for formatting purposes it's understandable >_>

I've still yet to get a solid answer from my friend about if he wants the spare pipboy edition, but i'm seeing him this weekend so I should be able to find out for sure.

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

?

The constant quoting, text colour changing, text size changing, and the sheer effort in researching images and other sources. I commend the work of all of you.

i had to redo half of it because i broke a bunch of spoiler tags

Hell while we're at it.....how do you give names to spoiler tags?

We should have a Hype tag so that we know where to find these.

Hype or Info.

or a countdown tag

I'm glad these threads are a thing now

I hit quote, look at all the effort, and cry that I'll never be that bothered.......it just looks so, tedious.

?

The constant quoting, text colour changing, text size changing, and the sheer effort in researching images and other sources. I commend the work of all of you.

i had to redo half of it because i broke a bunch of spoiler tags

Hell while we're at it.....how do you give names to spoiler tags?

[spoiler =like this, but remove the space between "spoiler" and "="][/spoiler]

okay lets try dis

Nothing to see here

Oh Boy you are some kinda Wizard, cheers.

Confirmed Hyped.