Octopus Overlords

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 6:48 pm Damn golf club. I had to go in there to get a holotape for a quest so figured Id use the sword from another quest. I have to kill 6 different enemy types with it for the quest. But good Lord I kept getting killed. Something in there is nasty. I finally gave up and went in with my shotgun..which broke on me..yay. But I killed the thing. Some kinda higher level thing. Its corpse was gold colored to stand out and the loot was a special shotgun..had a star on on it. Came in handy since my other shotgun just broke. Nice.

I have about 900 shotgun shells but only 150 of energy and 10mm now. I will try and see how to craft more ammo tonight when I log in later.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 12:23 pm I wish I knew what to do with the npc I found in the world and sent to my home camp. She just sits playing that annoying guitar all the time. I cant take her with me or anything which is kinda sad. Id love to have a companion to travel with and help fight. After I got one in ESO the game changed for even better than.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 4:55 pm Ive seen some mutation boxes pop up when Im diseased or radiated. Im not sure what they gave me good or bad. Ive looked at stats / effects but it really doesn't show me what im looking for.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 4:55 pm Is there an easy way to jump worlds / servers to find new player camps or is it the old log out log in thing?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 3:40 pm Ive found ammo making to be a pain. Theres always one or more ingredients that are heavy as f or hard to find. I found a good place to farm either lead or steel..cant recall which it is ottomh...at the fire station. Its the weights in the firehouse gym. I gather all them up and then right around the corner in another room is a workbench I can scrap them all.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:56 pm First I was running low on ammo but kills and looting have kept that pretty even at about 150 rounds. Now all my weps and armor are breaking. Ive been switchin out armor and Ive kept the good stuff you make me in my stash for when I get repair kits. They seem far in between though. I need wep and armor repair kits. My table seems to let me use it to repair but only once every so often.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:51 pm Without being in game I dont know. I think I have some shotgun one. Dont think I have any really. Not paid attention to weapons perks..been more concerned with not taking radiation, stims working better, weight carrying more and stuff weighing less to hacking terminals and one of my favorite type perks .....finding more ammo and healing chems in loot places..I see it pop off all the time..Ill pass a bathroom with a medicine cabinet and my perk pops and I know theres stims and rad x in the medicine cabinet..that kinda thing.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:51 pm [Stuff]

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:55 am Some other quick early tips:

~Concerning perks: Don't actively spend your choices on the 'Find Extra' perks. If you get them and have extra points feel free to equip them, but you'll generally find more than enough of everything without them.

~Don't plan on having the lockpicking/hacking perks equipped on your actual build. That would take 6 SPECIAL points. What most people do is get the perks, but leave them unequipped (or only equip one) until they actually need it, as you can change your perks on the fly. In other words, you come up on a lock/terminal, unequip one of your combat perks, and equip lockpicking. You pick said lock, then put your combat perk back on. (Personally, I dumped my first legendary perk on the one that gives you 3/3 so that I don't have to worry about it anymore.)

~Particularly good perks: Blocker, Concentrated Fire, Fireproof, Lone Wanderer (a must if you're solo), Scrapper, Gunsmith (keep it equipped for the reduced wear and tear), Action Boy (unless you're avoid VATS entirely.) At the end game, Starched Genes and Class Freak are a must.

~Until you max Starched Genes and Class Freak, don't keep any mutations (RadAway removes them.) The downsides are pretty heavy. Once you have those perks, though, you can keep the mutations without the penalties.

~You'll generally want to specialize in a single weapon. You can carry as many as you want, and you can fire them, but you'll only have enough perks to really make one of them fully effective (in my current build, I have 12 perk points out of a max of 15 in Perception dedicated just to rifles.)

~At level 25 you'll get access to a card machine that will let you save multiple builds and change your SPECIALs at will. I have separate builds for combat and a generic 'crafting' build that's for both CAMP building and crafting. If I make another, it will either be a farming build or a power armor build.

~The soft cap is level 50. After that you'll keep leveling, but you'll only get perks, not SPECIALS. You also gain access to an alternate 'Legendary Perks' set, one choice every 25 levels starting at 50.

~An excellent build planner. Once you have a build, the leveling roadmap button on there is invaluable.

~My current build. Note that this is a single shot weapon/stealth/no power armor build. It isn't the most effective build in the game (if you wanted to make it more effective, you'd switch the single shot perks for Commando.) I find the game easy enough that I don't feel the need to optimize, however.

~My crafting build. Yes, it's got more perks than points. I swap the perks I'm not using for the ones I am using (IE - if I'm working on energy weapons, I swap out something else for the energy weapon perks.)

~Keep your eye out for train stations. They have vendor NPCs (whose stock is almost always over-priced), they always have a crafting bench and a legendary exchange. It's a machine that lets you turn old legendaries into a special scrip. Save that scrip until the endgame - you can turn it in for new, on-level legendaries then.

~You learn attachments for weapons by scrapping the same sort of weapon. What you get is random, and what you get slows down over time (it doesn't remove what you already learn from the pool of options, and getting one you already know just results in not learning anything.)

~A convoluted, but very useful tool for determining prices and rarity for items you find.

~If you do set up a shop, note that most legendaries do not sell unless they're priced low and people are buying them for turning into scrip. Pretty much all ammo sells for 1 cap per.

~Weapons and armor have levels, rounded to 5 (IE - you can find level 5 pipe pistols, level 20s, level 35s, level 50s, etc.) You'll want to make sure that you don't let your gear fall behind - it's easy to have a weapon that you love, say a combat rifle, keep scrapping the combat rifles you find later, only to realize that you're level 40, the combat rifle you're using is level 15, and you've been scrapping the level 40s. Or that you're wearing an armor piece that's 20 levels below you. During the leveling, it's expected that you'll recreate the same gun every few levels.

~You start with a low-level backpack with +5 carry weight. You can craft new backpacks at an armor bench every 10 levels (10, 20, etc), all the way up to a level 50 backpack. Each upgrade increases the carry weight by +5.

~You can craft with the materials in your stash. Store all junk.

~Weight warning: Scrap your junk before you store it. Unscrapped junk takes up a ton of Stash space. You might want to check to make sure you haven't deposited any junk already. Scrapping it is easy - any workbench (except a brewing station) will have an option for 'scrap.' Once you hit it, you'll have an option for 'scrap all junk.' Just hit that, walk up to your stash, and you'll have a button for 'deposit all junk.'

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Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:30 pm As for my special stats ive done what I never ever do in single player and thats just spread points evenly. In single player Ill put most into PER and INT with some in END and STR. But right now I have mine about 5 across or 6 in some. Dont feel right doing it though. I think Im lvl 31 or so.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:42 am Got an ammosmith card. Maybe I can get more and fuse them.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:01 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:42 am Got an ammosmith card. Maybe I can get more and fuse them.

Just to be certain, are you aware that you can choose any card every time you level up, as long as you are high enough level for it?