Alright, assuming you were doing something significantly more than remaking FNV. Like a rewriting of sorts.

-How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with?
-Or, if you find the Legion to be a bunch of skirt-wearing pansies, what would you create in their place?

>>563179580
>-How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with?
You would have to put women in some sort of role of authority. Like natural medicine doctors or something that doesn't show them as wholly evil

>>563179580
>-How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with?
Wouldn't really rewrite them, but expand on the cut content idea of seeing Legion controlled territory, and at least one Legion aligned companion.

>>563179580
Aren't they supposed to be providing order and security? You could probably start with that so that rather than just crucifying and enslaving people as we see in the game, have it where people in the Legion are more akin to serfs. They have to work, but the Legion will feed and protect them. Meanwhile in the NCR you have your freedom, freedom to starve to death or have a pack of geckos tear apart your village

>>563179580
Show what life is like in the Legion territories for non-combatants. Caesar talks about permanent Legion settlements but since we never get to experience them we only really have the perspective that comes from the most aggressive militaristic parts of their culture. It would be like your entire impression of Americans being living in Afghanistan and meeting soldiers off base.

My issue every time I attempt a Legion playthrough that you go to the camp and meet people there and it's just "hey look at slaves suffering" and if you play as a female courier there's clear rape threats happening to you. Makes it very hard to sympathize. In general the game makes a sort poor attempt showing the Legion punishing people who are genuinely evil. Raul makes references to how the Legion wiped out gangs in Arizona and while I understand why the Legion would leave the fiends alone to cause chaos in the NCR, if some similarly horrendous gang was killed by Legion it would kind of soften their image.

The general setting of the game also gives the NCR bonus points right off the bat because they are the already established force in the region. The Legion are invaders, bringing their military force. That instantly makes most people critical of them before the intro slides even end. The fact you never visit any Legion settlements or even really talk to more than a single Legion settler, does the faction no favours. Something as simple as like some sort social hub for support personnel in the Fort where civilians/traders/caravaneers were staying and could tell you even more about life in the Legion would help massively.

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>>563179580
1) there should be a significant explorable civilian area so that can actually see the results of the legion's brutality (i.e. safe roads, perhaps good commerce, stories of tribes being uplifted, but also potentially a sense of unease among the lower classes)
2) while i don't think it's completely terrible writing, it's pretty cheap for caeser's successor to be so obviously worse and more extreme than him (and to have this straight up told to the player). it's like they wanted to put in a failsafe so that no one would ever have to lose an internet argument about hating the legion - "oh it doesn't matter what they've done, lanius is gonna ruin it as soon as caeser dies"

>>563179731
Cracks me up that the only two women you can encounter in the Legion that I can remember off the top off my head are the healer at the fort who's beaten like a dog and not given access to anything, and the little girl who tends to the brahmin. And I guess there's also the generic slave women. It's like they really wanted you to know being a woman in the Legion is AWFUL. They couldn't even bear the thought of having a woman have anything positive to say. Just flat out saying 50% of the Legion population are treated like dogs lmfao. Especially strange when you think about how women in Rome actually had a pretty decent deal when you compare them to the rest of the world at the time

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>>563183245
>Just flat out saying 50% of the Legion population are treated like dogs lmfao
It really highlights why the Legion is losing to the NCR. They're 100% against the Legion and will use anyone who wants to fight or support them.

You know I'm starting to think they might just be done with the Burning Springs at this point. (I did really want them to make the river area buildable)
The sparseness of the recent updates feels like they're just focusing on their big finale update for Summer 2027 (almost certainly the Capital Wasteland).
We know at some point there's going to be a little something for Skyline Valley, but these recent updates have been a new low for 76 so I'm really not expecting anything

>they actually remembered the cannery exists in the next update

>>563179580
Legion child brides

>>563190673
*boy brides

>>563191018
a boy is a type of child

>>563179580
>How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with?
Bring back the original ideas from Van Buren like the Daughters of Hecate and have them engage in a civil war with Caesar. If you side with Caesar, the Legion stays a misogynistic, patriarchal military dictatorship. If you side with Hecate, the Legion becomes the female-dominated inverse.
Make it so that Caesar's (or Hecate's) plans for the Mojave isn't to turn everyone into slaves, and highlight that the only people who get made into slaves are usually lawless tribals and raiders with no moral code, rather than civilized types.

Have it so that Caesar breaks character around you more often. If you pass an INT check, he could take you to a secret hideout away from the eyes and ears of his Praetorians, and tell you something like:
>Hey, these fucking retards think I'm a god or some shit, but I'm only using them for my own goals.
>If you help me win, we could rule this shithole together. I'll mint a coin with your face on it, you will become my successor and after that you can reshape the Legion into whatever you want.
>Once we plunder the NCR and Vegas, you can even turn the Legion into Space Romans or Roman Cowboys if you want.
So it slightly mirrors the Elijah ending, two guys just plotting to take over the world with a bunch of smooth-brained simpletons instead of fart gas.

>>563192078
>Have it so that Caesar breaks character around you more often.
The problem is that Cesar is a smooth brianed idiot that huffs his own farts

>>563179580
>How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with
I'd probably tone down the misogyny. The Legion comes across as hateful towards women, when I feel like the Legion should view women akin to children, in that a child doesn't know what's good for them.

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>>563179580
Double down on the Roman-ness. Full priestesshood with an emphasis on fertility. Not for the lewd potential, but because Caesar needs soldiers for his global conquest. As the Son of Mars, he needs soldiers. Simple as.

Give him a High Priestess wife. Whether they actually love each other or not is irrelevant. Having her as a character involved in "civilian affairs", rather than militaristic ones helps to provide a different perspective. The religiosity also helps to show WHAT and WHY people believe in Caesar more than a few lines about "his will is law". Also, there's a certain power in "The power of Juno/Minerva/Venus shall return fertility to the ground of the wasteland." It also helps to ground the female enslavement in a purpose and ideology rather than cruelty for cruelty's sake.

>>563181586
Legion civilian infrastructure is a MUST. I'd kind of love a few simple Fable-esque "jobs" you can do. It'd be the kind of thing players wouldn't do for very long, but it'd show how Legion territory is stable enough that you can just... have a day job.

>>563182364
#2 is simple. Have a questline where you assist Caesar with sorting out the succession. After you help in (in secret) deal with the cancer, he realizes his mortality and works with you to sort it out. (Or the Priestess wife does.)
>Lucius
>Vulpes
>Lanius
>Player (Big Skill checks required)

>>563182483
I've thought about posting that so many times, but thought the cameltoe would get me in trouble. Lol.

>>563184072
Legion really isn't losing, though. NCR is overextended and, without player intervention, is losing every battle in the Mojave. That isn't to say that they wouldn't have lost the big battle, but they're winning when the game starts.

>>563192078
I'd say less him "breaking character", but more "you're capable. I'm bringing you into the decision making." The issue with Lucius, Vulpes, and Lanius is that each is 1/3rd of what he needs his heir to be. The player can exemplify all of it.

>>563193436
>pic
did they even value caps in vault 111?

>>563192078
>Have it so that Caesar breaks character around you more often
I never felt like Caesar was playing a character, unless you're talking about your new version of Caesar.

>>563193775
That's Vault 101, judging by the Tunnel Snake jacket. And no, there's no reason caps should be brought up, unless they're both cap collectors, which is a stretch.

>>563193775
>>563194053
Could be after they opened the Vault

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>>563194165
Makes sense. The Vault goes on shopping runs to Megatown every now and then. Or caravans travel to the Vault.

>>563194371
Everything about it looks like a mod skin.

>>563194371
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fill_%27Er_Up_Power_Armor

>>563182407
>There's nobody more racist and sexist than a white woman
White women are the least likely to engage in interracial dating. Which makes their big talk of diversity hypocritical. Also, women tend to be the ones that spout the woes of capitalism, despite women making up 80% of purchases. The double talk of women is a bit annoying, to be frank.

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>>563159038
House is hot. god forbid I post an attractive man while half the posts are these literal blow up doll bimbo whores.

but you're a faggot

>>563195951
>>563195990
Thank you. As a 40kfag it looked real close to space marines, but if it costs atoms then I'll pass for now.

>>563200604
>40faggot
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Plague_Rider_Skin
save up seasonal welfare atom bucks

If I was gay or a girl I would definitely fawn over the King.

>>563193436
>>563193810
>I'd say less him "breaking character", but more "you're capable. I'm bringing you into the decision making." The issue with Lucius, Vulpes, and Lanius is that each is 1/3rd of what he needs his heir to be. The player can exemplify all of it.
It definitely is "breaking character", the rest of the Legion doesn't see Caesar as Edward Sallow. Only Joshua knew about Caesar before the Legion because he co-founded the Legion with him. The Legion see Caesar as the Son of Mars, blessed to lead a great triumph over the west. Even doubting Caesar's divinity can get you killed.
If instead, Caesar knew you weren't dumb enough to buy into the religious mumbo jumbo he teaches his soldiers, he should've been able to level with you and explain that he's making the best out of a bad situation and using an army of retards to bring peace and stability to the wasteland. It's lame that Caesar is able to have more in-depth political discussions with an enslaved Arcade than a high INT courier.

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>>563200604
4 > 76

>>563178819
The Republic collapses without the dam and Lake Mead, so yeah, that was the NCR.

>>563204169
>The Republic collapses without the dam
The New California doesn't need the Dam. The NCR already won the first Battle of Hoover Dam with their most forward and undermanned force. The Second Battle is getting Ranger reinforcements and support from their homeland political class.

I hope that the next Fallout game focuses more on romance with anime girls

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>>563205456
Only if they have anime boobs

>>563179580
yeah I would have to agree with the rest of the anons saying to turn down the misogyny
the women should be treated way better but not as equals but also not as slaves, they can't be soldiers necessarily, with the very few exceptions of some being spies for the legion
as for an authoritative position, I can only see a "mother" type of role where someone is teaching the other women and girls of the legions roles
and only this " leading mother" character will be capable of punishing or disciplining another woman, so if a legionnaire has a problem with a woman, instead of beating her, he must restrain himself and report to the "mother" or he will be punished

>>563208229
I like the Legion being misogynist, I think it makes them unique. That being said, it's still evil what they do and it makes them an unsuitable faction for general gameplay since it alienates the player and most characters. I think it would've been better if they gave more options to a female courier that made siding with the Legion worthwhile, like having a quest to replace Caesar with Hecate as I said before and/or explicitly suggesting that the Legion becomes slightly more progressive and less misogynistic as a result of the courier's actions.
You don't have to tone down the misogyny but simply have it so that the player can explicitly change it somehow. What would've been cool is if they kept the post-game content and added an NPC that thanks the female courier for inspiring Caesar to give women more rights and privileges.

>>563178354
Why did FO4 modding scene become mostly tacticool shit?

>>563209873
As opposed to what?

The Legion is right about women.

>>563179580
>How would you re-write the Legion to make them more appealing as a faction to side with?
mostly by showing the negative side of NCR frankly which is barely portrayed
1.
lean into their strong points, traders praise legion for safe travels, give the jackals/scorpions/Khans more active role in disrupting NCR supply lines, NCR is powerless to stop them until you help in various locations
if Legion takes over show those tribes are defeated or absorbed (would be pretty kino to have entire stretch of road full of crucification victims like macabre Spartacus' punishment) without preamble
2.
Heck(nice name bud) Gunderson or other big wig Brahmin Baron is escorted by NCR troops, they are passing near a settlement, group of mutants are rounding up locals like cattle, you're just an extra escort
NCR squad is about to intervene but they are ordered to not engage by Baron and leave locals to their fate, if you intervene the quest is failed
unbeknownst to you single local witnessed everything before fleeing
later legion party arrives and kills off mutants and rescues what remained of the locals, each of the locals swore to join Legion, rare example of Legion honor and NCR's failure
3.
NCR refugees denied food supplies due to bureaucracy

>>563209964
their treatment of women is why half of the legion is full of homosexuals.

Would the Fallout 3 family be cooler if they wore black makeup and had goth girls?

>>563210424
Sort of curious about this point. There's obviously the historical reference part of it, and Cass makes some jokes about it. But is homosexuality ever mentioned or even implied from the Legion side? I know people joke about Vulpes being a femboy, but are there any members of Legion who make any references? It's been a long time since I've done the Legion route...

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>>563198227
if house was a woman with a botched bbl they wouldnt be acting like that bro

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https://nukaknights.com/articles/mini-season-rip-daring-weapon-expert-april-2026.html
>5 tittles
>1 photomode decal
>3 camp items (one reskin)
damn Todd, putting Scrooge McDuck to shame

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>>563198227
>literal blow up doll bimbo whores.
problem?

>>563201587
I do, he's definitely husbando material

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>>563197530
i want to give this veronica an apple

>>563178518
CUTE!

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>>563223117
How about a dress instead?

>>563211336
there is that one male whore in westside who says that he escaped the legion after there were suspicions that he and his master were too close. so yeah, it happens

found the loli mods

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>>563214643
that's not even the worst one I've seen. I don't have an issue with it, I just find it funny how someone can be attracted to such absurd body proportions

>>563209964
Everyone hyperfixates on the Legion's misogyny when their treatment of men is just as bad.
Like sure, Legionaries can treat women as poorly as they like and it's handwaved by Caesar, but they can do that to anyone, including traders. Even the one trader in the game that fellates the Legion because they don't tax him as much, admits that a Legionary killed one of his pack brahmin and he was powerless to do anything about it.
Even Legionaries don't get a fair deal. Legionaries in Ancient Rome got service terms, pay, cash pensions, etc. They could retire peacefully after service with land granted to them from the state. Legionaries in FNV are expected to live for Caesar and die for Caesar, they cannot leave. They are effectively slaves, just like the women are — the only difference is that the men are valued for their combat prowess, and the women are valued for their reproductive potential. The Legion is a utilitarian society, almost exaggeratedly so.

I think realistically the Legion would be much smaller at the time of New Vegas because it's unrealistic that Caesar could conquer an entire state and everyone under it just decides to die for him, while their sisters and mothers become breeding stock for men of different tribes and ethnic makeup.

>>563227919
People only care when bad things happen to women.

Now that I think of it, I don't think there's been any instance of a fart taking place in-game or in-lore.

>>563213753
I really think the recent updates are concerning. They're completely phoning this stuff in now

>>563229867
I disagree. I like this shit, like how I like gay porn. Though, all 76fags watch gay porn.

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>>563228671
>People
It's mainly men. Most men are completely unsympathetic to other men. Women can be terrifyingly sadistic to each other, but they'll still feel more united with each other than with a man who isn't in their immediate family (and even then sometimes they'll side with each other over their own brothers or fathers). Men would torture and kill their own brothers for pussy, it has happened many times in the past throughout history and it will continue to happen because men are instinctually programmed to be simps.
The Legion replaces simping for women with simping for Caesar, which is probably the most significant indirect cause for homosexuality running rampant throughout the Legion. If your whole identity is being submissive to a guy, being dommed by a guy, your closest relatives being cum receptacles for a buff nigger, then yeah you'll probably become a cocksucking twink slave because you'll learn to get off on it, just like cuckolds do.

I think the solution to the Fallout question is that everyone smokes crack. There would be no wars if everyone smoked crack.

>>563228671
i think the most retarded thing is that they're having women haul backpacks full of shit, where are the male slaves? it's just not efficient

>>563233859
The male slaves are busy having sex with legionnaires.

tried the loli mod in the pastebin and the little brats just raped and robbed me
they left the fucking dirty water and prewar food

>>563236512
hot

>>563236512
>they left the fucking dirty water
better watch out before that rapes you too

Enclavefags are homosexuals with short, fat cocks.

>>563239225
>>563236512
So on topic, very riveting discussion

>>563240426
haha rivet
like the townboat that somehow is still floating after 500 years of rusting

>>563240538
I need to replay 3 and fuck around there more, I kinda speedran my way through that town

How do I into screenshotting in 4?

>>563243307
OG:
>https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/49997
AE:
>https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/88106

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>>563202914
I don't think that he sees himself as Edward Sallow anymore. He has fully assumed the identity. Even if he is completely aware that he is not actually a divine being, he has abandoned his former identity to the degree of attempting to murder anyone who knows of it. He is Caesar.

I agree that I'd of liked more high INT interactivity, but I think we can all agree the Legion got hurt the most by time crunch.

>>563227919
I appreciate your point, but I think you've missed the implicit answer within your own criticism. The men of the Legion get their pick of the litter, so to speak. That's the difference between being a civilian in Legion territory and being a Legionnaire. And, in a post-apocalyptic world much more like the iron age than our own, I can see Caesar finding men willing to leave their families behind for the glory of battle and the prizes (both wealth and flesh) to be had. Especially if you consider the fact that he's had 2-3 decades to religiously indoctrinate people.

Realistically, we should see Centurions returning to tents where they've got a handful of slave women in their bed and gelded manservants to pour wine.

>>563226304
Agreed. I like some busty blondes, but the sheer plasticness of it just ruins it, imho.

>>563224007
Always a dress for Veronica.

>>563210201
Having a more dynamic map would've been a great way to show it, yeah. Having the player run through the area around Nipton, facing several different tribes of savages, only to later find it eerily safe among the crucifixions would definitely feel it, I think. However, I imagine fast traveling would undermine that setup. I think it'd need a more comprehensive map control system that what is achievable in the game, imho. And making it dynamic would completely ruin the story pacing. (IE: Player fully conquers the map for one faction, but quests still act as if the ball is up in the air.) A few set piece territory exchanges would be a huge game changer, though.

>>563257763
>I can see Caesar finding men willing to leave their families behind for the glory of battle and the prizes (both wealth and flesh) to be had.
Except that never happens. We never see any instances of someone volunteering to join the Legion, because there aren't any logical reasons to do so. Every soldier in the Legion is conscripted, their tribes conquered and their kin enslaved. They are not mercenaries.
There are maybe a few reasons for the player character (still way less than the other factions) to join the Legion but those are heavily dependent on your RP, and those reasons are typically exclusive to the player character like the Legion fast tracking you through their ranks, if you were a nobody the Legion wouldn't give a shit. These reasons are not applicable to 99% of the Legion.
Legion ideology states that the individual has no value to the state beyond what they offer to Caesar; as stated before, they are not rewarded with land grants or pensions. While they carry Legion coins, these coins can only be traded within Legion territory, and the things you can trade them for are minuscule and usually only basic things necessary for survival. I think it's clear these coins are mainly used to trade for provisions such as consumables — hardly living the life of luxury.
>we should see Centurions returning to tents where they've got a handful of slave women in their bed and gelded manservants to pour wine.
This makes it sound like everyone in the Legion just loooves Caesar because he provides whores for their sex addiction. In reality (and even in Fallout), most of the value in owning slaves comes from the ability to trade them. If every slave is property of Caesar, who exactly are Centurions trading slaves to? Quite simply, they aren't. So slaves don't really provide much value to a soldier that he can't get on the battlefield. Since the Legion are rapists they could just end up raping a random tribal or NCR trooper they find in the wastes anyway.

>>563257763
>he has abandoned his former identity to the degree of attempting to murder anyone who knows of it. He is Caesar.
For the retarded tribals that live under him, sure.
For individuals he sees as useful like the Courier, not at all.
Arcade, as well as many of the Followers, know about his identity as Edward Sallow and yet Caesar not only keeps Arcade around as his personal physician if you enslave him, but also grants the Followers free exit out of the Mojave, something not offered by Lanius.
He also talks about his time in the Followers to the player, so he's not fully disconnected from it yet. It's clear that the "Caesar" act is just a front, he enjoys talking with other intellectuals like Arcade more than he does with any of his lieutenants.

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>You see a hooded woman shrouded in the dust.
>*click*
>*sound effect*

>>563261687
*VATS sound effect

>>563183245
>the little girl who tends to the brahmin.
Something that made me laugh my ass off was the fact that you get Legion fame for tearing up that little girl's teddy bear in front of her.
Like it's not enough to show that the little girl is a slave that gets treated like shit, you have to make it so that the Legion loves it when you rip apart the only source of comfort she has in front of her.
But hey, safe roads I guess...

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>>563178354
>fallout is dying edition
maybe if you put bethesda annnnywheree in the op people might actually show up here you know

i will kill you

you won't do shit indian

>>563269580
its literally 4 am in india stop thinking everyone is indian you goddamn child

>>563270510
you know what they saying anon
early Indian catches the train and all that

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>>563179580
I don't have much to add really other than what the anons before me have already said. FWIW, Legion priestesses are canon thanks to the official guide, so them existing and being near the front lines raising the child legionnaires alongside their instructors makes sense within the established lore already. I'll bring up one thing nobody here has yet though, the Legion is in dire need of actually likable and charismatic characters. Nearly everyone is either a gruff asshole and/or a complete sociopath, which makes it hard to sympathize or empathize with them. The Legion needs a Bitter-Root type character who has legitimate reasons to support Legion beyond what he was told during indoctrination. One of the Legion quest mods I recently played, Retribution, did this excellently.

Wouldn't the Legion consist of hot guys due to its eugenics? Spartans were known to be physical attractive due to their eugenics.

peak foreskinfags posting hours

No one cares about the legion
No one cared back then no one cares now

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why can't we find vending machines full of Nuka Cola XL?

>>563287179
The only good things about the Legion are Caesar, Lanius, Joshua, and Ulysses.

>>563295416
Also vulpes, and silus, and the beast master guy. Pretty much all the named legion members.. hmm

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BEAR-BULL!!
BEAR-BULL!!

>>563298456
How did obsidian gaslight people into thinking bear bull man was a well written character?

>>563298583
How isn't he a well-written character?

>>563298583
he's not, he's mostly just a mouth piece for Avellone to complain about Obsidian fumbling the bag with Fallout as an IP. The Bear dying is representing Obsidian and a rampaging Bull encroaching on everything is Bethesda.

>>563298583
nobody outside pseudo intellectuals believe that

>>563298583
I'm not sure what you mean by well written, but I like Ulysses. His character makes sense to me. His tribe would tie knots in their hair that had meaning, so it would make sense that he would place emphasis on symbols (the bear and bull meme). I guess you could say he's "symbol" minded.

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>>563305460
Josh needs to leave Obsidian.

>>563305460
Knowing Sawyer, that's probably piss mixed with cum with a touch of lemon.

>>563262408
Yeah it really feeds into the issue of what the Legion really is. Is it just an "evil" faction for evil characters, or is it supposed to be the ultimate "the ends justify the means". Because this sort just being mean for the sake of being mean seems sort of silly and over the top.

>>563308556
Yeah, people like that have NEVER existed… *cough* Communists *cough*
I mean… who would lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want?…

>>563308806
Perhaps I worded it poorly, but having animosity towards groups that you've dehumanized like citizens of the NCR makes it easy to brutalize them sure. And hating fiends, gangs, etc makes sense. But abusing a child just for the sake of it, is such an incredibly "hey look these guys are BAAAAAD, get it they abuse kids" moment.

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I honestly love how much of a seething, petty bitch Dean is. It's so funny.

>>563308806
The Legion's evil is sometimes over the top and almost performative. Some of this is writing, some of it is voice acting direction, and some of it is implementation (i.e. repeated/shared idle dialogue). Obviously some people do revel in the power they hold, but most people treat their lives fairly nonchalantly, all things considered.
Exaggerated example:
>The slave quarters are right over there.
versus
>Over there you will find the SLAVE quarters, where we keep the subhuman FILTH that are barely worthy to dig our trenches! Make sure to BEAT a few of them if you go in there, since they deserve it, and maybe give the females some *special* attention.

>>563309137
>>563310763
Jihadists rape women into submission to use as suicide bombers. That's worse than anything the Legion has ever done, which the Legion are essentially Jihadists.

sawyer poopdick

cain AIDS

Talking to Preston at Concord may have fucked up my save. He turned to Sturges, turned silent, and then it didn't give me any further dialogue options. I quit the conversation and now my character's head is always facing north on the map, and I can't speak to any companions.
Fuck this buggy as shit game.

I saw that alastair fishing faggot again today during a radscorpion event. He caught a fucking axolotl.

>>563310740
I have a problem because I just want to bully and be mean to him but also keep him on a leash

Is grunt a good perk?

>>563316638
>A few years back, we get a tip that some Legion slavers were holed up in this burnt out house a few klicks from where we were stationed. We get there and it's deserted. No sign anyone's been there. I mean nothing. As we're leaving, I hear something behind me. I turn around and there's this kid, just skin and bone, and he's looking up at us and he's scared half to death. Been hiding in a closet. I go to grab him out of there and I notice he's holding something in his hand. Something metal. He shuts himself back inside the closet and that's when I see the grenade he's left by my feet. They do it a lot, the Legion. Using kids. They know we'll hesitate.

my last FO4 modded playthrough was close to 2 years ago. have there been any new sexo mods since then? or is just the same old animation packs still the only thing out there?

>>563331586
Some animation packs but nothing to Skyrims level

>>563329613
That's Jihadist tactics, so I was right. People who believe they're righteous will do all sorts of twisted shit to achieve their agenda. Like when Charlie got Kirked, and those progressives cheered.

>Caesar's Legion
>Senator Armstrong
>Adachi
>Loghain
The quadfecta of "ackshually they were right all along" *mutilates a baby*.

>>563335541
That's the problem with the "ends justify the means" approach. What is a couple of war rapes and murdered children in the grand scheme of things? Those are merely means to a great and good end. Just make sure you actually win and the plan works.

So when playing fallout 4 are you just expected to waste a few levels every playthrough on special stat upgrades?

>>563343157
What makes you say that?

>>563343274
You don't get many starting points and going below 3 on any SPECIAL stat heavily gimps your character

>>563344301
It encourages you to plan out your build. It's never been a problem for me.

>>563343157
Use PRKF and the New Vegas perks and skills mod, Fallout 4's perk system is lame

>>563343157
Yeah, but it's fine because you get perk points every level
>>563346554
I like S7 way more

From Piper, Curie, and Cait, Cait most likely has the stinkiest vagina.

>>563345161
Metagaming fallout 4 of all fucking things is a level of autism I will never understand.

>>563355840
Brosky, are you fucking high? RPGs are built with replay in mind. Sure, the first playthrough should be done without meta knowledge, but the other times should be done with knowledge from previous playthroughs.

If Super Mutant can't shit cum from their dicks, how did The Master not catch on that is plan was a bust?

>>563358932
Yeah it's strange he never tried making two super mutants breed at all, or enslaving a vault as part of his plan

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>>563358932
They can, based on Marcus fucking a prostitute in F2. He comments on worrying if he got her pregnant. So, the lack of viability isn't apparent.

>>563359316
That's, honestly, a bit more egregious.

>>563343157
If you're on an INT build, it doesn't matter

>>563359490
Chris Avellone said Marcus was joking about that. Though, it comes across as backtracking by Avellone. Which I'm not complaining about, because it would've ruined the plot Fallout 1.

>>563327364
25% damage is nothing to scoff at - if you're pretty sure you'll be using those weapons. Chance's Knife benefits from both Grunt and Cowboy for a double dip

>>563358932
Super mutants can definitely have sex. Reproducing is something else entirely. They shoot blanks.

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my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2E6yZJ7-Ig

>>563343157
Not if you plan out your build properly

Have you ever made a character whose race is different from your own? I tried just for a normal playthrough but couldn't really get into it, I project onto my characters too much.
I only see white OCs in these threads so I guess it's a common phenomenon? Maybe I'm just autistic

Does anyone else think that Bethesda always take two steps forward and four steps back with every design decision they make? Fallout 4's perk system would've actually been great if the game itself offered more opportunities to roleplay, and of course if the UI wasn't just a 10x10 grid. I feel like if you ported that system back into New Vegas removing some shitty perks like VANS, having Charisma replace Speech and if you brought back the NV flavor perks (like Terrifying Presence, Sneering Imperialist, etc), you could've actually had a pretty intuitive system for an FPS/RPG.

There's no real reason for there to be four orientation perks either, or even to have them as perks. You could've had one trait called "Sex Appeal", and that could've given you all of the flirty dialogue options but instead of just passing them, their success rate is gauged by CHR. Just because you have access to all of them doesn't mean you should pick them all the time, and maybe, just maybe, percentage-based speech checks (while awful in most scenarios) do have some justified application in certain contexts, just not for every speech check.

>>563368842
>10x10
Should've said 7x10.
I'm getting tired.

>>563368842
I mean, sure, Bethesda could do it, but I don’t think it’d be any good. It’s still modern-day Bethesda, they’re absolutely terrible at writing. I’d much rather have a game that doesn’t pretend to be a deep RPG and is just a fun sandbox like Fallout 4 than a pathetic attempt at an RPG like Fallout 3.

>>563369367
>Hey, chef! My lasagne is undercooked! Can you bring me a pile of literal shit to eat instead?!
This is what you sound like.

>>563369673
Your analogy doesn't work. You’ve been served lasagne by a chef who’s been making nothing but lasagne for the last 20 years and suddenly you start bitching that you want pizza because some other chef made you a pizza once. I mean, they used to make pizza here, but now they make lasagne. If you like, you can go to that new place where that old chef still makes pizza

>>563370342
It's more like if the place that once served lasagne started making progressively shittier lasagne up until they started serving it without the sauce or the cheese. When people start complaining that the lasagne isn't really a lasagne anymore, there's retards like you that go "It was never really lasagne to begin with, just sheets of pasta! Sure it used to be something resembling lasagne 20 years ago, but hey, it was still pretty shitty" like that just excuses the fact that instead of making better lasagne, the restaurant just decided to serve pasta instead, while still calling it lasagne.

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>food analogy

I want Frank Horrigan to destroy me

>food analogy

Bro can't even spell lasagna. Tf is with millennials and misspelling words

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Does anyone know if the very subtle auto-aim system in 3 and NV is affected by weapon skill?
I mean, is the game more likely to cheat with your shots if you have a higher skill?

>>563374989
>I mean, is the game more likely to cheat with your shots if you have a higher skill?
yes, especially in VATS

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>>563371956
BoS runs in 4 are always fun. Guaranteed PA and heavy weapons are a blast. Fallout 4 should've just been an FPS spinoff.

Think about Fallout as a lasagna from a local Italian restaurant. The sauce is a bit too sour, but it’s otherwise what you might expect. A few years pass and the restaurant is bought out by a fast food chain. Everything from the sauce to the pasta to the cheese is changed and everybody knows the reason is the “cost of the ingredients” despite the chain having much more money and time than the previous local owner. All of the locals quit going but the recognizable chain offsets the losses with its own larger consumer base. Then the chain releases the New Lasagna, a highly controversial menu item that uses processed insects in place of ground meat, and features vegan pasta and cheese. In addition, the sauce is much too sweet and flavored with artificial sweeteners. This abomination of food tarnishes the chain’s reputation and makes many customers angry but is ultimately not pulled from the menu. The New Lasagna simply exists alongside the “classic” menu items, items that have already been modified beyond recognition. Then the chain quietly pulls the “classic” lasagna from the menu entirely and begins advertising its bug lasagna as lasagna. A longstanding customer of the chain points out that the lasagna isn’t really lasagna, it’s artificial, tasteless, and low quality factory food to its core. The vegans reply that for people who want to eat meat, McDonald’s has a restaurant on the same street.

>>563190673
I will now join the Legion.

>>563204169
What, are you high? Why would the NCR need water millions of miles away from their capital?

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Raider are eating good

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/103535

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/101986

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>>563391775
Very nice Armors

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>>563391775

my life got a lot better after i stopped caring about this series, the games are actually dogshit once you stop and think about it

my life got a lot better after i stopped caring about this series, the games are actually fun once you stop and play them

>>563305515
Josh leaving Obsidian for Bethesda would be hilarious.

>>563379950
This but with AR2

>>563214643
big one...

>>563366885
turns out . . .

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.

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representation matters

>>563412580
Based sawyer putting that foid in her place

>>563412580
Replaying FNV for the umptheenth time recently this sort of stuck out to me. It's one of very few games that mentions rape as explicitly as it does. Like you talk to members of First Recon and they don't use some euphemism or avoid specifics. It's one of many tonally weird things about Fallout 4. Fallout 4 feels incredibly sanitized, and has a very odd cartoony almost child friendly vibe. It's stuck in my mind for a while but I can't really formulate what makes it so important to the universe feeling real, without making it sound like "I want rayp in fallout"

>>563308556
Didn't Josh Sawyer say as much?

>>563209873
Because the base game guns suck and the only people autistic enough to make mods are also autistic about guns

>>563416241
>without making it sound like "I want rayp in fallout"
Faggot

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OWB is so reddit as a dlc and the quests suck ass, but it's still peak. i love these lil niggas like you wouldn't believe

>>563416241
4 is mostly sanitized
76 is completely sanitized
Starfield couldn't get more bland if it tried
Wonder what's next

>>563419556
what do you guys actually mean when you say sanitized? can you provide some examples? i'm not trying to argue i'm genuinely curious

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>>563419556
there is no rape in 76
there is however something similar, you can help out vault overseer gain full mind control over his family and vault denizens, you can hear spark of resistance in their voice

>>563416241
Fallout 3 had rape in it too. Not always as explicitly as New Vegas, but you had things like:
>Clover and Crimson, both sex slaves for Eulogy
>Silver and Nova, both Moriarty's prostitutes. One of whom Moriarty won't pay a fair wage or even let go of, even asking you to track her down and kill her (so she's effectively a sex slave), and the other is simply repaying a debt to him (but it's heavily implied that she will have the same fate).
>Moriarty's terminal mentioning that Jericho tried to rape Jenny Stahl
>Sydney's mother, who was raped and killed by raiders
>Paladin Kodiak mentioning that the Pitt pre-Brotherhood was filled with "rape gangs"
In Fallout 3, you can even kidnap kids for the local sex slavery gang. Flash forward to Fallout 4, Cait's parents had to wait for her to turn 18 before making her a raider onahole.

>>563420147
4 just has a bunch of weird little quirks where they seemed like they pulled back at the last minute
>3 has rape and even sex slaves, there's not a single instance of that in 4
>The servants of Nuka World are called "Traders" instead of "Slaves"
And of course the big one
>Cait's parents waited to sell their daughter until she was legally an adult by the old world standard

76 just doesn't really have any edge to it. The "Raiders" might be one of the worst written factions in a Bethesda Fallout. They're not even that evil ffs because Bethesda must not have wanted you to join the bad guys. The pre-wastelanders stuff was at least a little better in this regard, but all the new content is just so watered down

And Starfield doesn't even let you take enemy clothes and has no gore whatsoever.

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>>563421112
You know what I never really payed attention to it but you're right the traders at nuka world arent called slaves. Mckenzie is a qt i can just imagine how many times colter had his way with her.

In Fallout 3, there's even environmental storytelling in Evergreen Mills pointing to the idea that the raiders there were using child sex slaves as strippers (you can find teddy bears and toys alongside stripper poles and stages). That same dungeon has cells that they were clearly holding slaves in. There's nothing like that in 4.

dead money is the best dlc

>>563422320
wasn't Cait's sobstory about her being a fucktoy as a teen?

>>563422301
Another small thing that fortunately gets reverted in 76 is that they use shock collars instead of explosive collars
However 76 continues 4's "Trader" trend by calling the Pitt slaves "Laborers". At least 76's version makes more sense, but they're still clearly afraid to say the scary word in a game that's supposed to be about the apocalypse

>>563422915
>as a teen
When she was eighTEEN.

>>563423257
because god forbid the raiders are pedophiles

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Don't care if pipe weapons are objectively garbage and that the incendiary legendary effect is also garbage. Shooting out flaming bullets is fucking cool.

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>>563424356
pipe weapons are awesome as fuck
not a fan of the fire rounds tho

>>563420147
>>563416241
what I meant by this post is that Fallout 4 and onwards feels almost pg13. Sure you still have over the top violence and gore, but it never actually feels horrifying in any way. Part of it is art-style of course, but it's also just the balance of actual suffering to comedy ratio. Fallout has always had great comedic moments but they've existed within a world that has been pretty horrifying. There's always existed characters who don't take things seriously, or are in some way wacky. But those have usually been treated as an anomaly. Meanwhile in 4 and onwards nearly every character is some over-exaggerated stereotypical wacky personality.

I really can't place my finger on why it just doesn't work to set a tone. You can describe a lot of things that you see and that happen that are horrific, but it all just feels very plasticky and fake.
>>563421112
As this anon also mentioned, it seems like Bethesda frequently went into a dark direction before pulling punches.

>>563424356
Just get retexture and remesh for them and they will look great

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The laser musket might be the worst fucking gun in the whole series. It literally NUKES the lore harder than Tenpenny nuked Megaton.

Laser weaponry was cutting-edge in 2077 and incredibly rare, although since F3 it's never really been treated as such — a subject for another discussion. In Fallout 2, you find out the Salvatore family carries laser weapons because of a secret deal with the Enclave, and it's treated like a big deal. Laser weapons in F1-FNV are mainly carried by super mutants, Enclave/BoS, or in FNV, Fiends (although it makes sense given that they harass the NCR for the Van Graffs/Legion). All in all, energy weapons are clearly restricted to all but those who are either given them by wealthy suppliers, or acquired them through salvaging pre-war ruins.

In Fallout 4 however, you have the Minutemen who:
>are poor as shit farmers who can't even afford to defend their own settlements
>are living in the middle of nowhere
>there are no trader caravans that sell energy weapons
And to top it all off, they have somehow disassembled existing laser rifles to repurpose into a shitty makeshift musket for some reason — instead of just repairing the existing laser rifles which they shouldn't even have. How do they mass produce these things?

I also just realized there's no prostitution in Fallout 4, and though I never played it, I doubt F76 is going to have it. FNV had lots of them around Vegas, and even 3 had Nova in Megaton, that one chick in Tenpenny Tower, and plenty of other references to people selling sex. What an odd omission

>still no mod to change incendiary legendary to direct damage or at the very least compress the duration

>>563426396
we already had this argument
it came down to
>West was technologically less advanced / shipped out most good stuff to the chinese/alaskan front and left with mil. surplus
>power armor wasn't common, same with energy weapons
>also got hit the hardest due to proximity to China

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>Wondering why I'm constantly struggling with weight
>Go to check my treasury notes
>See this
Oh.

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>>563428696

>>563428696
Nice inert flux bro.

>>563430383
Thanks bro. I started 2 months ago and I didn't realize it was so heavy. I was carrying 30 pounds of it after I picked a bunch up from a brown bag on the ground.I'm gonna be chugging down that garbage for a while. Between the mystery bags and the flux at least my weight issue is solved now.

>>563432110
>came back recently after not playing since 2023
>"wtf why am i having so much weight problems?"
>discover 11 gorillion improved bait taking up half my total weight

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>Fallout 4 mod ported to NV
>It looks better than the original
Every time

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Should I blow up Megaton? I'm low on caps, 500 is kinda nice!

>>563439912
Yes, but only if you side with Ghouls at Tenpenny Tower

>>563439912
hand out 8 purified waters to beggers to balance out the karma loss

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>>563439912
Looks like your character's a little short there, huh?
Should've gone with an unarmed build. It's pretty silly.

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Can anyone help me fix this problem with my B42 Optics scope having some sort of bad cubemap reflection blocking smoke and fire effects?

>>563443960
You'd have to open it up in Blender or whatever software it was made in

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>>563343157
there's no need for it unless you're minmaxing

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>adds over 40 ammo types to pollute the loot pool
For what purpose?

>>563343157
i have not done that in years
check what you want from the special system and then factor in the stat bobbleheads + free book and you wait this is
i got a mod that puts all mags and bobbles at the start nevermind me good luck bro

Playing Fallout 4 for the first time. Is there anything else besides the unofficial patch I should get in terms of mods? I'm, just looking for bug fixes. I want my first playthrough to be as vanilla as possible.

>>563443180
I hate ghouls!

>>563443314
Lol, never have any in my inventory.

>>563443853
I'm trying to play with BB gun only! Wish there would be special versions like in FNV.

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>>563448556
For me it was the Industrial Hand when I did it in New Vegas and Frontier. Just running up to people and sawing them in their legs
All the cutscenes in the Frontier didn't play nicely with the mod though

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>>563448046
You can check the OP for the must have basic mods or just use the Wabbajack
http://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/index.html
Or see which collection suits you best here
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/fallout4/collections?sort=downloads

>>563445339
Why does she have her boobs out?

The Brotherhood's racism gives me the ick. Imagine your enemy has the power to shit super mutants into existence and teleport across the Commonwealth at will, and you go to war with them because you want to purge the wasteland of a cute French scientist and Buzz Lightyear.
It would be like if in New Vegas, Caesar didn't want to kill House to stop him from being a competitor, but simply because the Securitrons make him scawwed.

>>563452336
It's known that Bethesda has shit writing and worldbuilding.

>>563450420
I think I'm just going to use the unofficial patch then

>>563452336
>>563452502
The institute is so poorly written it drags the other factions down out of sheer stupidity. It's like a black hole of retardation, devouring the games plot from the inside out.

>>563454586
That's smart but do get a few mods that fix some common bugs and stuttering
https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/bugfix.html
Community Fixes Merged and Previsibines Repair Pack (or PRPFX Merged) at least will make the game run smoother

>>563178518
Grok, make this tranny fat and disabled.

>>563455207
Is there any overlap with the fixes from the UoP?

>>563454826
It's not the Institute's fault in that case, it's because Bethesda needed the game to end with a big boom.
The real Brotherhood would just kill everyone inside and study the tech

>>563455489
Nah Community fixes other stuff and Previsibines increases performance

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>>563428696
>inert flux
>Mutated party packs
Bet you still have a fuckton of fusion cores too.

>>563455821
I have 12 fusion cores I was saving for when I build up my some power armor.

>>563455595
>It's not the Institute's fault in that case
It is, the single-minded obsession with having gen 3 synths exist in a way that defies all logic warps the entire narrative into a clusterfuck of nonsense. There are countless better ways to give the ending a "boom". Just like there were countless different ways to write a better plot, that wasn't based entirely off a retards take on blade runner.

>>563455646
Thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for.

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synths broke you

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>>563456130
>12
> at 3 pounds per
the amount of shit that sneaks up on you for weight, like grenades and stimpaks is nutty.

>>563456492
The synths themselves could have been made to work. Its specifically the nonsensical blade runner stuff that ruins everything

>>563449461
Lol, she smol! Is that some special dress btw?

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The idea of synths is so fucking hot. Picture a perfect 10/10 android chick — she doesn't need to sleep, eat, or drink and she's immune to disease. Her beauty emanates like a full moon at midnight, she's way out of the league of common wasteland bitches, and no matter how hard they try to emulate her charm, they fail.

But here's the kicker — she's a slave. She was designed to lure powerful men into her bed to practice "gentle persuasion" for the Institute. After finally facilitating the replacement of a mayor from a powerful settlement on the outskirts of the Commonwealth, she finds herself promoted to Courser. From here, her duties mainly revolve around finding escaped or "defective" synths and recalling them back to the Institute.

Despite being conditioned since birth to believe that she's a mindless husk, she knows deep down that she isn't. Bottled up inside her heart, she knows that she's just as conscious as everyone else. She feels sorrow when one of her friends gets their personality wiped after a "glitch", she feels happy when her master tells her that she's succeeded expectations, and last but not least, she feels thankful for the gift of life, no matter how hard it may be.

But we never get told these kinds of stories in Fallout 4. Despite being the focal point of the game's plot, they're a complete afterthought, and not even the characters in the game can properly convey what they even are or why they were built to be this way. I like synths as a concept (because they make my dick hard), but I hate how they are written.

>>563458556
personally i just fap to yorha 2b anims

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>>563457309
The Frontier forced me into that ugly outfit when your character gets force-captured by the Legion
Typically she rocked this awesome coat

>>563459190
That thing's face is melting

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>*gets one shot by me in a chinese stealth suit*

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>>563459236
I'm not quite sure what went wrong, but at least you don't typically see your own face in a first person game

>>563443960
Do you have Real Time Reflections and a patch for it?
>>563446147
So that other mods can use it.

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>>563445036
>>563465036
I went DEEP into this and it's caused by the AttachExtraCamera method culling things inside it's frustum. There is no actual fixing it. Pic related, look how the "mask" is not a 2D image, but an actual invisible 3D object being rendered in front of the smoke.

To (You)

Synths aren't really robots they are just clone / clone adjacent humans with genetic enhancements, that also have a implant that makes them "programmable".

>>563460670
>Freestates are referred to as communist by the devs
I can't wait for the actual revolution to happen so all these socialist can experience the fruits of their stupidity.

Did they make this season and the backwoods update shit just to not take away attention from Starfield?

>>563468395
If you think this update was bad you're not prepared for the next one

>>563469208
What are they gonna do make the servers less stable and the content more stale?

>>563467748
>Don't need to eat
>Don't need to drink
>Don't need to sleep
>Immune to disease
>Immune to radiation
Synths are by all means an objective enhancement over humanity. However, it is these things which make them unfit for purpose. They aren't particularly well-fitted spies, and even if they were, the Institute doesn't need spies, it needs reasonable leadership.
The Institute would've been more believable if they were using synths as a slave race to rebuild the Commonwealth. You could've had synths providing labor for an Institute city above ground or synths providing healthcare for patients in Institute settlements. Their long-term plans would involve creating a new generation of synths that could have children of their own.
That could've been where the player comes in. Since you're Shaun's father, and the Institute created the synths from his DNA, you could've had it so that in order to develop synths that could reproduce freely, the Institute needed DNA from two close relatives i.e. a father and a son.
Then you could put Curie into a Gen 4 synth body and have children with her, as Father intended.

>>563454826
The Institute is a masterpiece of bad writing. A true work of art that transcends all rational thought. Everything they do is so utterly pointless it renders all attempts at serious analysis moot.

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>>563470346
You forgot
>Don't have a soul
And there's no upgrade they can do to fix that

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>Somebody had two 4-star sawbone mods for sale in their vendor for 7k each
Took all the money I had but I got both of them.

>>563470739
Play and have fun on a highway.

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>>563470739
The Dichotomy of fallout enjoyers

>>563472396
Nice, i've been hoovering up cheap 4 stars in hopes to learn effects.
so far only polished, but the list gets smaller every day.

>>563472396
Why two

>>563472649
Jfc a tranny HERE?

>>563472889
What's the problem?

>>563472637
bro can't have a little fun

>>563473241
I've seen what your kind calls fun.

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>>563472649
I learned Battle Loader off an armor piece from Bigfoot. I don't think Battle Loader is worth much to other peeps though. This mutation week has been a godsend, I must have learned like 4 mod recipes for 1 and 2 stars.

>>563472738
Once I get Brotherhood recon armor from Minerva this week, I'll craft a set. I have one sawbone rusted metal piece right now, so I just use it for QOL. So one will go on the BOS recon chest, the other I'm going to give to my little brother so he has one too

>>563472396
I recently grabbed 3 ranger's 4 stars off some dudes vendor for 4k each.
I don't like vats so I'm not doing limit breakers I don't care how much more damage I could be doing I already blow the shit out of ultracite snake solo.

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>>563473373
what dat mean

>>563472396
Sawbones comes from ultrasnake so they're the rarest of the mods

>>563473650
How long have you been posting here? Been quite a few years and you still have no self-awareness.

>>563474021
on and off a few years, idk man, I post sometimes and it isn't a big deal. It's mainly when I'm bored

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>>563473740
>Sawbones comes from ultrasnake
I totally believe you, but I've never done gleaming depths before and yet somehow I got this armor. The only thing I know drops 4 star armor is bigfoot, so it had to have come from him, unless it was another 4 star event invader.

>>563474179
Not a big deal? Do you have any idea where we are? How you are talking to?

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>>563474284
am I talking to father fog, Mr. Fog. Am I gonna get a bad grade in posting.

Hey guys! TrainWiz here,
I have news. I'm getting a vasectomy.

>it's another raid farm day without vulcan jetpack, calibrated shocks or gimbal bracers dropping

>>563474917
How do you not have any of that I've only run the raid like a handful of times. I'm pretty sure I have everything.

>>563474284
>How you are talking to
Good morning saar

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>>563473492
>This mutation week has been a godsend, I must have learned like 4 mod recipes for 1 and 2 stars.
Good to hear, never hurts to throw in a few grunt hunts/ head hunts for variety.
>>563473650
Interesting pivot of style, from heavy linework to no lines.
>>563474917
You'll get it at some point, but in the meantime try again.

>>563446147
you can configure which ones you want added in your game. some weapon mods toggle the ammo injection for the ammo they use, but otherwise, it's left up to the player.

>>563474284
At least s/he is drawing and doing something creative thanks to Fallout unlike you dumb bastards complaining all the time, because you can't handle a little cringe. The art is cute anyway.

>You've ruined humanity's last, best hope for the future. Leave me alone now.
*Echo from distance*
>ALLL YOU HAAAAD TO DO WAS TELL ME YOUR PLAN, SHAAAAAAUN.

The tonal shift between the Point Lookout mod and the Commonwealth is striking. One is somber, desolate, and full of little things to find. The soundtrack, while not great, feels fitting when put over the top of scavenger hunts.
The other burns your retinas with its oversaturated color palettes reminiscent of the Jetsons, has swathes of generic super mutants or raiders every quarter mile, more explosions than a Michael Bay movie, and the same prefab shacks everywhere. The soundtrack is basically the same shit everywhere you go, with a massive accordion that goes VUUUUUM VUUUUM all the time, because you gotta know that this place you're exploring is DANGEROUS... like the fucking super mutants you shat out everywhere didn't make us aware of that already.

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>>563479757
>Could have leveraged your advanced tech, immense material wealth, and position of near complete safety to secure long term diplomatic and territorial goals literally whenever you wanted
>instead spend 50+ years on a brutal terror campaign against innocent civilians, dedicate all your time and resources (plus more dead civilians) into the production of synthetic humans that are uncontrollable by design and are such an obvious and immediate threat to your own security you have to gaslight yourself into pretending they can't do the things you specifically built them to do, all so you can slowly KILL EVEN MORE RANDOM CIVILIANS and carry out basic tasks that most certainly did not require the reinvention of chattle slavery. With the end goal of finally doing the things you could gave already done at any time, only now everyone REALLY hates you, because you decided LARPing as evil wizards was more important than sensible trade and diplomacy.
One nuke was NOT enough

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>>563479757
>You wouldn't get ittttttttttttttt....it....it....it...
>>563484686
I watched the film adaptation of A Boy and His Dog recently and it reminds me of what good post-apoc writing looked like after having to deal with dogshit stories like Fallout 3 and 4. There's so much you can do with the Institute as a concept that is just wasted on Emil and his paper airplane of hack writers.

>>563418094
Can't be more reddit than the base game because arcade isn't present

>>563422320
Hot

>>563422765
Only for the rewards

>>563439912
A FO3 character that doesn't look like shit? Mod pls

>Point Lookout
>Plant mines in Calvert Mansion to blow up the attacking tribals
>One of the mines somehow clips through a wall and blows up the tribals before they bust down the door
>I am now stuck in Calvert Mansion and have to figure out which console commands fix this (or reload a save I guess)
fuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzxie2mYBA
Is Kilball the George Bush senior or junior of Fallout?

black man

>dicking around with a tse broadsider
>i can't seem to actually hit anything in vats
95% hit chance my ass. Fucking cannonballs just go right through the target or massively overshoot.