Why do laser muskets need ammo if you have to charge the shot

It just works.

Yeah I was real confused and disappointed the first time I ran out of ammo with one.

>>386805401
the crank transfers the power from the cell to the chamber. thats why you can crank like 6 cells worth of energy before firing

>>386805401
The ammo may not actually be ammo, but rather just a component of the weapon that gets burnt-out with each shot, like maybe they're lenses that can only focus so much energy before warping.

>>386805401

They had some really nice concept art but they had to give it all to third party developers to finish off, so that's why they didn't add any cool looking complex models.

Their shitty programmers that are todds friends wasted more time trying to work with the bungled code.

Eventually they ran out of time and money and the game was finished by Chinese and Vietnamese developers.

This is the state of the industry.

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>real world
>take some scrap and try to assemble it into something that may or may not resemble a gun
>Bethesda
>take a gun and make all the components look like crap

>>386805401
>Why do super soakers need water if you have to pressurize the shot with a pump?

>>386805401
The "ammo" could be any sort of resource that is consumed by firing, even if all the electricity is provided by the cranking, you could be burning out lenses, burning out a light or fuse, using up some sort of gas the light needs to be shone through, any number of possibilities.

Honestly the laser weapons are the least offensive in terms of bad design because with the mechanical guns you can just straight up see that the mechanics would not function at all.

Is it just me, or is Fallout 4 stupidly fucking bright with no way to turn it down? It hurt my eyes after about ten minutes.

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>>386805401
oh it's one of these threads. okay.

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>>386805401
If the minutemen are a bunch of wasteland hobos then where do they get so many laser rifle parts to create makeshift laser rifles?

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>>386805401
Because

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>>386806779
lel

>>386807775
>firing and reloading animations needed to be shared
How can people look at this and go "Yeah, Bethesda is a good developer"?

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>>386805401
They get a lot of things wrong. Just look at the intro.

>>386808296
What else got retconned? I know they fucked up the "lore" of jet and the like with that drug vault.

>>386806169
shut the fuck up todd

>>386808296
What's wrong with their bricks?
Did they just greenscreen the people in and model the background with clay?

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>>386808409

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>...resulting in the T-51b power armor. This is the pinnacle of power armor technology before the Great War.
*inhales*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>386807775
>firing and reloading animations needed to be shared with the laser rifle

Holy fucking shit, $200 million or thereabouts to produce the game and they've got to recycle animations like half-competent modders. Fuck. I hate them so goddamn much.

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AND MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE

"What do ghouls eat?"

>>386808874
Good lord, save that as a jpg

>>386805401
I thought the idea of a home brew laser weapon was pretty cool. Then I found out it's literally an antique musket with a laser on it. Kind of reaching too hard to go with the colonial theme.

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We need to get CPS on Todd, he's molesting my baby.

>>386808735
>>386808587
But why do this? What does this possibly add to the game?

>>386808735
Not trying to defend shit, but isn't it possible that that statement is technically correct? That T-51 really was the best power armor available BEFORE the war, during which the T-60 was developed?

>>386808874
I'm not Todd, I promise, but I thought the gist of it here was that he was feeding feral ghouls? As in, they don't actually need to eat since they're ghouls, but he likes to feed the ferals? Also don't forget how stupid fridgeboy is.

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>>386806779
>Chris Avellone knew little of firearms as well, but gave enough of a fuck to study them to make their representation in the final game as satisfying as possible until it became one of the most /k/ games there is
>the Fallout 4 development team had significantly more time and resources but couldn't even be assed to look up a basic single-shot rifle mechanism

>>386809295
>dislikes guns
>still spend time studying them and at a firing range so they can be good in your game
Knowing Avellone will never touch Fallout again makes me sad.

>>386809152
The war only lasted two hours.

>>386809426
>>386809295
That was Sawyer. Avellone did basically dick all for New Vegas outside the DLC

>>386809295
>why isn't this game with radiation zombies and supermutants realistic?

Autism speaks

>>386809152
So you're saying that they managed to invent and mass-produce a new variant of power armour in the 4 hours or so that the great war lasted? Nice.
The resource wars and the great war are different things, great war is the apocalyptical nuclear one, the war against China is part of the resource wars.
Beth just don't give a fuck about the lore is all.

>>386809485
Shit, you're right.
I even had Sawyer's face in my head and still got it wrong.

>>386809473
Well, fuck me then.

>>386809150
Who fucking knows. Probably a mix of laziness and lack of care/knowledge about the universe. Why not just have T-60 armor be developed by the Institute over the past 200 years underground? Enclave did it with theirs (before being retconned), why not do the same while not piaaing off fans who've been paying attention?

Gunplay-wise, is FO4 ok? was waiting for a GOTY edition so that i can get it with all DLCs

>>386809295
Reminder that all bolt action guns in Fallout 4 are left handed.

>>386809646
It feels slightly better than 3. But I sure hope you enjoy fucking pipe weapons all with the same reload animations.

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>>386808957

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>>386809646
>Gunplay-wise, is FO4 ok? was waiting for a GOTY edition so that i can get it with all DLCs

>>386809586
Most retarded logic. Just because there are some fictional elements doesn't mean all sense of reasoning goes out the window.

>>386809630
Because Bethesda wanted their T45 design to basically shit on everyone who knows the lore by making the T60 the new best power armor

>>386806169
Still why would it use your E-cells?

I could buy it having a unique number of shots before requiring repair/replacement. Hell that'd be cool, make it powerful, but limited.

Instead it's just not a great gun

>>386809825
Jesus fuck

what about mods? can it fix most of the problems or should i just stick to F:NV?

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>>386809748
>It feels slightly better than 3.

>>386809907
You can get new guns but I don't think there's anything to fix the existing ones. It would need to be a major overhaul

Why do guns need ammo if you have to reload them?

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>Enclave Power Armor locked in Pre-war Vault

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>>386809907

>>386809907
Stick to New Vegas, Fallout 4 is impossible to fix. Once you download a mod to fix something broken in the game, you find more shit thats broken and the process repeats.

>>386809752
"Two hundred years before it was fashionable" wouldn't that imply 200 years before 2077? or at least 200 years before 2161? Fuck you writers.

>>386809947
You should post this on /k/

>>386809748
I deliberately never picked up a single fucking pipe weapon, on any of my playthroughs because i hate them so goddamn much

>>386809646
It feels fine. If you're not interested in lore like me and the rest of the cynics on this site, it's a good game, but my autism for the fallout world prevents me from enjoying it fully

>>386809426
Been a while since I played but why was legendary weapons so unbalanced.
I got a explosive double barrel shot gun and it was op but well its only good at close range.
I got explosive perks and the got a explosive laser gun and well its super accurate compared to the shotgun and full auto with no recoil and the ammo is the most common thing in the game.
Then I unlocked the beam splitter.
I can kill a deathclaw in 2 vats 3 burst to the head at long range. It also one shots humans.
I stoped using it after the game got boring.

>>386810036
Two hundred years before 2277

>>386808296

intro was aesthetic as fuck though

and i didnt even play the game

>>386810070
I tried so fucking hard to make them feel good but FUCK is it difficult. I never even got far enough to make a combat rifle that fires .38 because I never reached the level requirement

>>386809825
I like that this isn't a bug, there's a screentip that warns you about it. So like, someone sat down and thought, I'm going to make a magic reloading gun and because I know how stupid that sounds, I'll program a warning that you might not even see.

>>386810016
I mean, mythbusters proved you can polish a turd, but I sure as hell wouldn't, for the most part.

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>>386810123
how is being wrong and pissing all over your predecessors considered aesthetic?

>>386810173
>I like that this isn't a bug, there's a screentip that warns you about it.

what

>>386809150

They don't care, one of the devs on twitter literally said this when asked on lore and the discrepancies.

>>386807775
I think the worst part was for how bulky the Institute laser weapons were and were considered "advanced" they actually did less damage than the regular laser weapons.
200 years of undisturbed scientific research and all they learned was how to make the laser blue at the cost of less damage.

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>>386810173
>>386810239

>>386810070
I ran with a modded pipe revolver rifle in Survival until I could find a great gun. That shit was like double hard mode.

>>386810234

because something can look cool, but have the lore/canon all fucked up.

specifically i'm talking about the cinematography, props and wardrobe of the intro.

>>386810025
>>386810016
>>386809965
alright ill start another F:NV but its been a while

recommend me some weapon and weapon-related mods

>>386810173
>isn't a bug
It is a bug and the worst part is, Obsidian fixed it in New Vegas

>>386810403
I could say that about so much in fallout 4. I mean, FUCK why did they go so far backwards

>>386810239
Yeah, it can pop up on those loading screen tips. Just like the one that tells you Lone Companion works with Dogmeat, even though people thought that was an unintended bug too.

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>>386810123
>No Ron Pearlman
It's shit

>>386806779

I liked the idea of the pipe rifles, but they were so useless as a weapon than even at the beginning of the game I never used them unless I ran out of ammo.

In fact, I liked the idea of the workbench until I noticed that they just added around 10 guns and told us "YOU CAN MAKE 50 GUNS OUT OF THESE 10 GUNS" and the entire game became very boring and you had little reason to scavenge for stuff.

The only fun part of the game was when I was weak as fuck and shitty weapons enemies dropped were useful to me, so I could disassemble them and put them into good weapons.

>>386809586
There's "realism" and then there's consistency. Fallout gives us a reason to expect ghouls and supermutants. It doesn't give us a reason to expect guns to work in a totally different way where the mechanism no longer makes sense.

>>386810403
It's not a bug, it's a feature!

>>386810101
People who like the new weapons system in it's entirety (from subtypes to attachments to legendary drops, the new perk system, and power armor with the durability of wet paper need to be gassed.

>>386810401
Project Nevada adds pretty much everything you'd want.

Only thing you may want to change is how damage, threshold, healing, and levelling are in the mod menu

>>386805401
Is this the most useless weapon in any game?

>>386810595
>The only fun part of the game was when I was weak as fuck and shitty weapons enemies dropped were useful to me, so I could disassemble them and put them into good weapons.

Exactly this. After I took down a group of bandits in a long grueling fight during my 2nd hour everything else was a boring cakewalk.

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>>386806169
But you never put in new cells or anything. All you do is crank it, you never reload it.

>>386810009
>implying the enclave doesn't just break into vaults, leave incredibly valuable armor laying around and then leave while hiding any trace they were ever there

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>>386806779
I love shitty homemade guns

>>386809889
Not defending the gun, but
>Still why would it use your E-cells?
It would take at least an hour of pure cranking to get enough energy to match one cell.

The gun sounds good in theory, but it's mediocre in execution.

>>386810772
It's not useless, it's the most powerful (and unwieldy) sniper before you get access to the Gauss Rifle or one of the DLC weapons.

>>386810595
I had a two shot that I used a lot
that said, the sights for them are pretty useless
Borderlands 2 did the junk gun thing a lot better

>>386811094
>Crank for an hour to reach fusion cell energy levels
What kind of magic crank is this

>>386811070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA

>>386810772
No, it's actually pretty good. I've taken a few deathclaws on 1 on 1 with this no problem.

>>386811223
Considering I've punched a deathclaw to death with my bare hands by abusing a shitty AI loop, Deathclaws aren't the metric they used to be.

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Did you know that laser muskets are safe to hold by the laser?

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>>386805401
I hate to bring 'Obsidian vs Bethesda' into this but I need to make a point.

>>386811380
>Didn't hear about the blacks immune to energy weapons lore

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>>386810116
>two hundred years before 2277
so after 180 years or so of ghouls walking the earth, over a hundred years since ghouls had their own entire cities, about 90 years since ghouls started coexisting with humans, only just now being a ghoul is a normal thing?

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>>386810234
Ok the fat man is kind of neat though. I'm not sure if the developers intended to base it on the Davey Crocket, but it's quite similar.They were in service for a couple years. If they (and other nuclear weapons) continued development and atomic warfare were notmalized, I've no doubt we would have IRL fatmen today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs

>>386811380
Don't worry, it's powered by cold fusion so it doesn't get hot.

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>>386811483
I didn't write this, senpai

>>386808527
Seems like the original brick structure didn't have a proper seat / lip / overhang thing like they wanted so they slapped some weird looking plastic shit on their

>>386811441
>The grips on the handle are backwards on the plasma pistol

>>386811094
Fair enough I suppose. It just irks me that your cells are not involved in the animation in any way

The game literally has mutants and ghouls it doesn't need to be realistic, i'm considering buying Fallout (tm) G.O.T.Y myself.

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>>386810101
The weapon its doing 15 exposive damage x4 and then it has perks to buff the damage more.

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>>386811605
I'm not asking for realism todd, just some level of consistency

>>386811441
>comparing plasma to laser

>>386809586
>why isn't this game with radiation zombies and supermutants consistent?

Fucking nuclear fallout fucking up gun mechanisms m8

>>386811714
Shut up pussy. Use either the glitch or mods to add anything to any weapon. Then crash your game with an automatic that fires cluster bomb missiles.

>>386810101
Legendary weapons really suck. They're either mild damage boosts that don't feel meaningful, or way overpowered superweapons that tear through everything.

i have not seen someone make a black character in the longest

>>386811776
Mods can fix that.

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>>386811441

>>386811857

I got this legendary saber or some shit early on, it was ripping everything to shreds.

>>386811572
>It was literally meant for shooting yourself

dude just turn ur brain off lmao, it's just a f*cking game anyway what's your problem

>>386811890
But we shouldn't need to rely on mods to make the game passable.

>>386811972
One of my first was an explosive combat shotgun. It's great for anything, and it's not even one of the best legendaries.

>>386811890
>>386810016
Pretty crap excuse.
A game should be judged before mods, not with them

>>386809586
because fallout 1 did it better already, and fallout 4 has no excuse

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>>386811714
i love how they still never fixed the grip and trigger placement on the laser rifles

>>386812032
Dude explosive combat shotgun is right under bleed Minigun in terms of crazy powerful legendaries.

>>386812161
Bleed minigun is still a whole tier above it just because of how broken it is.

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>it just works

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What did he mean by this?

>>386805401
>>386806779
>>386807345
>>386808296
>>386807924
>>386808587
>>386808735
I sometimes imagine that F3 and newer are just bad fanfictions

>>386812414
Better to die free than live a slave. Only one way to make sure that happens.

>>386812417
They are.

>>386809586
Why is this youtube comment tier argument so prevalent? How hard is it to understand the difference between "realistic" and "grounded in reality"?

Laser weapons are unrealistic, but if you don't put any effort into making them seem real, or at the very least, look like it was designed by a human being with non-alien fucking hands in the case of this >>386812131 shitshow, then the suspension of disbelief is broken, and it just looks retarded.

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>>386810101
>instigating gauss rifle
>explosive combat shotgun

>>386812417
They LITERALLY are.

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>>386810567
>No Ron Perlman
>No tribals
>No prostitutes
>No traits
>No skills
It's not even a Fallout game.

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>>386812631

>>386812414
The
>Danse hated that
Was the icing on this shit twinkie

>>386812794
kino

>>386811714
>Wheel up)
>Wheel down)
Is it too hard to have icons?

>>386813759
You have to remember that their target demographic is mentally handicapped. If they can't handle dialogue choices, how will they handle pictograms?

>>386808874
i always found this to be an odd complaint. characters are allowed to be wrong

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>>386811972
Or you can get the exact opposite like me and never find anything other than elemental damage guns and shadowed leather armor

The legendary system was so badly executed in this game because you either find the most broken weapon in the game on one of the first raiders you find or you find said weapon at mid to late game when it doesn't matter because you can already get or buy one of the broken named legendary weapons in the game

Why couldn't they make it so certain prefixes show up only after a certain lever or are more common at a certain point in the game? You know, maybe at that point when enemies become fucking bullet sponges that take 1000 shots to kill?

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>Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
>10 ending slides, 9 of which are variable

>Fallout 2
>20 ending slides, 13 of which are variable

>Fallout: New Vegas
>30 ending slides, 28 of which are variable

>Fallout 4
>5 ending slides, 1 of which is variable

>>386813976
The best are the things like rolling pins that do more damage when you have withdrawal effects. Letting us pick the legendaries (or at least transfer them to better items) would be better if they insist on both making them rare/annoying and also having complete shit ones.

Why does almost nothing happen in the Commonwealth until you come out the vault?

>>386814298
Once you're out nothing happens without you being around. It's just how Bethesda does it, you're the only agent of change in the world.

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>>386814298
self-insertion, and writers are hacks.
>takes years for teleportation to become a thing when the scientists at Big Mountain already have this shit made and lying around
>the same madmen who've destroyed the sierra madre and created two of the worst animals known to Nevada
>created a teleportation technology that requires no fancy gimmicks, only that you stand outside

>>386814196
At first I thought this was the intention, to be able to remove a legendary effect from a weapon to use in a different one, as I was almost exclusively getting pipe guns and leather armor while already level 30 and the fact that you can sorta do it with Khremvs tooth or whatever was called
I installed a mod that let you do that, and the game only became more of a cakewalk, making me feel like this whole system was always since the beginning just a waste of time

>>386814298
Why does everything still look like shit so long after the bombs dropped?
Why do the towns you're building right now look like they've been hit by bombs?
Why are there buildings 2 minutes away from large settlements that haven't been looted for many years?

>>386814684
>takes years for teleportation to become a thing when the scientists at Big Mountain already have this shit made and lying around
To be fair, the Institute can't be expected to have known about everything made at Big MT, and I'm not sure they consider the DLC as a thing, let alone different choices in it.

>>386815292
You'd think smaller craters would've totally eroded by then at least. It still rains, even if it's radioactive now.

>>386814684
>actually trying to compare Big MT to the outside world

>>386815292
Questions people were asking way back in FO3

>>386805401
i'm guessing you put the cell in and the crank feeds power from the cell to the chamber. So you shoot, crank, shoot, crank until you're out of juice in a power cell and then you get a new one.

>>386815292
Don't forget "what do they eat?"

>>386815438
>consider the DLC as a thing
Bethesda made Zeta canon, so, in all, OWB should be cannon too

>>386815553
But there is no reload on Laser musket.
Only cranking.

>>386815292
Because it's a videogame
>b-but bethesda!
It was the same case in 2 and NV, if there's nothong for the player to loot then why play at all?

>>386815756
Bethesda doesn't care about non-Bethesda games. As far as I know, there are two references to NV in 4, and one is a New Vegas sign. The other is them saying House exists, but not as a shriveled up little man.

>>386815756
Of course its canon

They don't need to reference something every 12 seconds for it to be canon
>but they hate obsidian for doing better!
No.

>>386815990
And NV also referenced 3 with Col. Autumn wanting all assets for the Eyebot MK II Duraframe model to be relocated to the Hellfire armor project

If anything, NV is still cannon, and so's 1, 2, and Tactics.

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>>386807548
Fallout is just disappointment. So many neat ideas killed by Gambryo
sad!

>>386816398
>They don't need to reference something every 12 seconds for it to be canon
>>but they hate obsidian for doing better!
I never said that, though.

>>386810595
>The only fun part of the game was when I was weak as fuck and shitty weapons enemies dropped were useful to me, so I could disassemble them and put them into good weapons.
I remember i thought it would be fun to roleplay a character who was bad at everything and was a mechanic who maintained / needed their power armor because i thought power armor cells would be scarce enough to make using power armor as my main source of protection / damage a risk.

After about 5 hours of play time I had like 20 fusion cores and I could basically use my power armor indefinitely.

Do you think the game will be fixed in fallout 5? and should obsidian take another crack at it?

>>386816424

IIRC Bethesda described Tactics as canon "only in broad strokes"

optics major here
it's red, so you can argue that this is some sort of doped ruby material based laser
the energy cells maybe contain some medium that amplifies laser energy but becomes depleted on use, the energy produced by the crank is the trigger voltage required to produce the laser charge

I don't fucking know fallout 4 was a shit game

same reason why you only replace the microfusion cell in gauss rifles even though it fires actual projectiles

FO3/FNV of course

>>386810567
Ron Perlman is in the game, just not the narrator. He's the newsman.

>>386816737

I think Bethesda won't make a Fallout 5. When you look at how much of Fallout 4 was just "Fallout 3, remixed edition" it gives the very really sense that they're creatively starved regarding the IP.

But, that does not mean Obsidian will be making the next Fallout. When Zenimax likes a third party devs work for them, they tend to strong arm them into a buyout. Obsidian was not bought by Zenimax. Zenimax, presumably, does not wish to work with them again.

I think the IP will sleep in the Zenimax backlog (with occasional merchandising) alongside Rage until someone buys it in a few decades.

>>386806267
Any sources on this?

>>386805401
What is the difference between a laser musket and a laser rifle?

>>386807548
>having a mister handy chair is distracting
Why would they care about how distracting a character is cosmetically when they already made her a psyker?

>>386817314
>I think Bethesda won't make a Fallout 5.

Then you're retarded. Fallout 4 wasn't great and got its fair share of criticism but they still made fucking bank on it. And they're still making bank on Fallout Shelter. They'll make more just for the sake of brand recognition.

>>386817343
Musket lets you manually draw out and store energy from the ammo to be discharged all at once rather than one shot at a time.

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>>386817343
The musket uses a hand crank and thereby mechanical power while a laser rifles gets its energy from a battery.

>>386817440

Because that text entry of the art book was covering up engine limitations.

Fuck I was thinking about downloading this game just to pass the time shooting at stuff, but looks like I can't even do that properly.

>>386805401
>hand cranked laser
Nice Futurama reference

>>386805401
Todd approves whatever looks "cool enough" without even thinking about practicalities

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What two guns should I stick with when giving survival mode a try?
Been watching and reading up on it and the carry capacity doesn't allow for much more than two guns.

Just the classic rifle and pistol?

>>386808409
Ghouls. Bethesda can't decide if they have to eat and drink to stay alive or not.

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>>386808409

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>>386814298
>>386815292

>>386816446
The engine had nothing to do with it, what killed the idea was Bethesda's willingness to do it, see: ladders.
Ladders are easily possible, they've just never tried nor do they see the need to.

>>386806267
actually, nearly all studios have chinese development farming studios do nearly all of the work for practically nothing, then do some refining when they get it and call it their own, then spend copious amounts of money on advertising and paying off "journalists" for good reviews. this is the modern state of video games

>>386818112
deliverer is really useful, so is righteous authority. crits are where its at in survival

>>386807924
The thing about Bethesda and all of their developer tools since Morrowind is that all objects rely on something called "tagging". That is, you assign tags in order to define an object's properties and it relies solely on what these tags for every thing about it. For instance, in Skyrim an NPC can have tags for its race, sex, hostility, and other such things.
The problem with this system is that you're limited by what an object's primary assignment is as well as the number and variety of additional tags you can add on top of that. When it came to Fallout 4, Bethesda heavily stripped down tagging to the point that every single weapon's animation set is dependent on its weapon type and not what that weapon actually is. Very few weapons actually have a unique animation set such as the musket.

tl;dr lazy cunts

>>386815990
>House exists

Like, they are implying House is still alive in FO4? Do you have a link to that specific dialogue?

>>386809278
feral ghouls don't eat either, they have simply succumbed to the radiation poisoning their brains and lash out violently at anything that comes near them.

>>386806779
>>386810595
This really could have been a nice part of the game instead of a throwaway class of weapon.

Have the pipeguns normally be a class underneath the prewar weapons, then with a ton of scavenging and upgrading, make them about equal in effectiveness to prewar weapons. By late game, be able to build pipegun monstrosities that completely outclass prewar weapons.

>biological beings don't need to eat
i knew /v/ was dumb but maybe I overestimated their intelligence

>>386819323
>caring about logic in a game w/ ghouls and walking mutants
How pretentious.

>>386819009
Whatshisname claims he won House's personal RobCo security override code while gambling

>>386819197
This entire thing is moot because they had a reason to keep the protagonist alive, he was a backup in case Shaun died/was a failure.

>>386812794
And this is why New Vegas is still my favorite Fallout game even counting 1 and 2. It's got that deeper level of writing and thematic choice that you can't get from any other of the games.

>>386819716
It's not any deeper than Fallout 1 or 2, don't overinflate it.

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>some random modder made better animations on a shit engine than bethesda

this is at half speed, at full speed it's faster.

>>386819887
>this is at half speed, at full speed it's faster.

That's pretty redundant.

>>386819545
Why not thaw everybody in the vault then and have them escorted to the Institute?

>>386819887
it's not a mod animation. that's the default 357 pistol reload animation.

>>386819887
>crying about the engine while proving yourself wrong

>>386820018
really? Wow I thought it was apart of a animation mod I installed. Looks better than f4's reload by far.

>>386816978
>I don't fucking know fallout 4 was a shit game
Fallout 4 is a shit game, I can tell you that.

>>386819887
Holy shit is the pip-boy not solid?

>>386819545
Why did they kill everyone else then?
Why would they not take everyone when they have teleportation?
Why did they shoot your wife?
Why would they have kellog be there looking threatening instead of dressing as pre war scientists?

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>>386820116
Cause that is a poorly ported armour from a mod. There is no pipboy

>>386820116
A lot of armour isn't actually very solid in these games, it just stretches

>>386819887
>>386820018
It's the 357's reload animation from New Vegas which was cut from FO4 due to their new tagging system not allowing separate firing and reloading animation sets.

>>386811972
I got a lever action rifle that shoots an additional bullet but have no bullets for the rifle.
Fuck

>>386819996
>>386820191
That's actually another mistake, if I remember correctly. They didn't intentionally kill everyone in the Vault, the life support fails and kills them.

As for why they didn't take everyone, they wanted a baby. They kept the protagonist around since being related would make him a better backup than someone completely different.

>Why would they not take everyone when they have teleportation?

They may not have had teleportation at that time. I don't recall if it's ever said when the teleporter was completed.

>Why did they shoot your wife?

Because Kellogg is a dick and knew they only cared about having one backup. Also for narrative purposes.

>Why would they have kellog be there looking threatening instead of dressing as pre war scientists?

I assumed he was acting as security for the actual scientists who were dressed as scientists.

I'm not defending the game, it's a pile of trash, but I don't like calling out plot holes that aren't there.

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>>386812414
>this is part of the job I love
>danse hated that
KEK

>>386820097
>see good animation knowing it's by bethesda
>people call it shit
>see good animation thinking its a mod
>surprised when told it's not
I should try this in other threads, maybe it'll finally shatter the illusion that Bethesda can't do anthing right.

>>386820213
Holy shit what mod is that?

>>386812414
he's pretending to love it to hide that he's a broken man inside, it's called good writing

>>386820826
but it was made by obsidian though, this is ttw

>>386820936
pip pad

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I had to mod the fuck out of this game to basically be stalker in freeplay mode to have any lasting enjoyment. The only appeal it has to me now is that modders make decent shit for it and I can make it look real pretty, but other than that I'd rather just actually play stalker.

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>>386820936
gunnetwork mod, just use the pipboy 2500 mod. It'just a remodel of that

>>386812131
Why would a laser weapon need a stock in the first place?

>>386821884
No idea. Then Fallout 4 makes it even worse by giving laser weapons gunshot noises and recoil

>>386821884
My guess? To make it more familiar to soldiers [or whoever else] trained with conventional rifles that have stocks

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I have a lot of problems with Fallout 4, but my main issue is that the guns just don't feel like guns. Mods help but it's always there you know? Always feels like I'm shooting some sort of toy or something.

>>386808296
I always thought that the upper picture was the Sole Survivors mother showing him a picture of his great-grandfather. What the anon in the pic described sounds really stupid.

>>386822286
Better than 3 and New Vegas imo

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>>386819452
>make Deacon my favorite companion, become best bros with him
>side with institute eventually
>still never read the letter he gave me
>HEY DON'T OPEN IT, ALRIGHT (I really want you to open it)
>have to kill him and the rest of the railroad
>finished the game
>decide to finally open up the note that he gave me
>"You can't trust everyone you meet"
>>this was his idea of a joke
Worst companion, next to the irish junkie.

>>386805401
you charge the firing capacitor from the fusion battery. more cranks for more charge. firing depletes the capacitor in full.

try not to be a brainlet.

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>fallout 4 starts
>they say "WAR NEVER CHANGES" like 6 times in about 3 minutes

>>386820520
>They kept the protagonist around since being related would make him a better backup than someone completely different.
How? If shaun had a hereditary illness than the Institute would have beed fucked.

>They may not have had teleportation at that time.
If they didn't shaun would have his dna slightly damaged defeating the purpose

>Because Kellogg is a dick and knew they only cared about having one backup.
This isn't consitent with his character.

>I assumed he was acting as security for the actual scientists who were dressed as scientists.
Kellog could have been wearing a lab coat and still easily restrained the one threat in the room. There is still no reason for him to be just standing in view scaring your spouse.

>>386821884
aiming stabilization. having the butt against your shoulder keeps your aim from wandering as much as a pistol style would.

>>386814142
God I would kill for a fallout game in the early 90s 3d art style in the pic.

>>386820826
It was made by Obsidian not Bethesda

>>386806119
>OP's retarded question answered in the 3rd post
>people still talking about it
/v/ niggers are so fucking dumb jesus

MEMBA when ghouls were products of radiation poisoning AND FEV?

Somebody else was annoyed that killing bandits in their camps took them few hours to respawn at the same position with the same weapons?

>>386824758
>There is some controversy, even among the makers of Fallout games, about the origins of ghouls. While Tim Cain said explicitly that ghouls are only a result of radiation, consistent with an understanding of the science of radiation as it stood during the 1950s, Chris Taylor said that a mix of both radiation and FEV was involved. While Chris Avellone initially supported the latter view in his Fallout Bible,[5] he was later convinced to support the radiation-only version.[6]

No, I don't remember that at all

>>386823071
So would I.
It'd also make things like Centaurs creepy again

>>386825817
>when the dog takes a bite at the human head
Nope