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[Venari]

Oh no no no, don't give up on D3 that easily if you haven't put in the time! I have 3 copies of that game still after giving one away and I've played it since it's release. It's a beautiful game. The point is to work your way up. Once you can handle Torment 1, the loot game will pick up. There's no need to rush it, finding the gear is the whole point. As you gain paragon levels, you'll become much more powerful anyway, especially around paragon 100 which comes a lot faster than you'd think.

If you absolutely feel the need for better gear, the quickest thing to do is blast through some bounties. The horadric cache from Tyrael can give you some really great rewards; the Royal Ring of Grandeur is the most sought coveted item from the cache. The biggest thing however, is using the shards to gamble at Kadala. With a little luck, she'll give you a few set pieces and you'll be well on your way into torment levels.

Damn you. Now I want to go get another 50 paragon levels or so. They had just added some huge updates last time I signed in too..

I have my wizard running around at T7, with paragon around 250 or so (seasonal char). I had the Ring of Grandeur in the Cube (so I can wear Focus/Restraint), which helped me get the 6 set bonus for Tal Rasha's. I also had the boots in the cube that double/quadruple the Tal Rasha's meteor's damage. I've been hunting down Ancient gear from Kadala and Rift Guardians (I find the four bonus chests from Tyreal to be disappointing, I just use that for the legendary crafting mats that are specific to each Act).

I can't find any decent gear, and the best I can solo (within the time limit) in Greater Rifts is around level 25.

Get the ammo scrounging perk. I believe it helps with finding cores too. Look for the generator things in buildings and remove them from those. Steal from brotherhood. Swap cores out when you are < 5-10% charge. They still sell for the same rate. Buy them from retailers whenever you see them. Max the intelligence skill that makes them last longer (goes up to making them last 2X as long). Oh, kill all robots, especially the big strong ones. I think that I got 3 off of one of them.

Even if you're in the Glowing Sea, always exit the power armour when there's less than 5% left in the Fusion Core, and swap it out for a fresh one. You can get up to 200 caps for those near-empty cores.

The Nuclear Physicist perk, which requires 9 Intelligence, helps a lot with their duration.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I can't find any decent gear, and the best I can solo (within the time limit) in Greater Rifts is around level 25.

Ah, nevermind. You made it sound like you weren't even in Torment and were giving up, that's all. The best I could do with P300 was on a monk and had to stop at GRift 28 I believe but I only play hardcore. Maybe he could've done more, but I only risk so much.

I might have to just go hide under a pile of blankets in my retro game room and funk around on PS3 tonight with some of the old mindless killing games. Not even sure what it was, but I have a cheap action RPG that I downloaded on it for like $5 and never played through. Just one of those nights.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Ack!

Spent HOURS last night dinking with scrapping a literal crapton of weapons and apparel and finally got myself back to actually playing the game. I am not very far in at all and still only Lvl 14. Thought I was going to take the Fat Man out to hunt mutants at the reactor (?) facility across the river near Oberon station. I get there and decide to not waste a nuke. Rather, I decided to plink mutants with a marksman sniper rifle. Sneak attack 2x damage plus consistent headshots makes for easy kills. Except what I thought was 2 turned out to be more like 5 plus some kind of mutant dog.

Finally unalive the last one and swoop in to recon loot. Walking the catwalk, turn the corner and BLAM! Fvcking trip wire booby trap and I forgot to save.

bless!

 

[m_c_zero]

Saving is a tough thing to remember to do. Luckily it autosaves every time you open and close your Pip boy menu which I do quite often.

 

[Venari]

Sneak attack 2x damage plus consistent headshots makes for easy kills.

Best way to take out Queens and Behemoths/Swan is to have a full crit meter (filled by successful hits in VATS), Sneak, use VATS to fire a Mini-Nuke (as long as you have at least 1% chance to hit, you're ok), and just before the weapon fires, press Space Bar (or whatever the equivalent is in the console versions) to execute a critical. The fact that I've never missed even with 3% chance to hit leads me to believe that the critical makes that one shot 100% chance to hit. (may want to QuickSave just in case)

Sneak damage bonus plus crit on a FatMan means you just one-shotted that giant.

Saving is a tough thing to remember to do. Luckily it autosaves every time you open and close your Pip boy menu which I do quite often.

I set mine to autosave every 5 minutes instead of the default 10. I'm slowly learning to quicksave more often than that.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I know, nobody cares unless its FO4 at moment but I'm bored and need to waste at least two minutes typing. Destroyed people on Black Ops this weekend with double xp. I tried out the Firebreak: Heat Wave specialist for the first time and fell in love. Nobody seems to use it for some reason, and when people get hit by it they lose their minds. Getting shocked by heat wave causes this black and red, fiery tunnel vision and stuns them really hard. After I started using it, I received 3-4 private messages saying I was "reported for cheating".

Wife picked up Star Wars: Battlefront for me as an early xmas gift, for some reason. I was intrigued, so I tried 4-5 different game modes out. Aside from walker assault, I was ending rounds with approx. 35 kills and 5 deaths. The game is extremely straight forward. There's not much to it at all. Aiming is unnecessary, which is pretty sad. Advancement doesn't even seem to unlock anything too interesting. I'm surprised with the lack of content from DICE after having such interesting Battlefield games. At best, it would make for an entertaining couch game if you're drinking with friends.. play a round, pass the controls, etc..

 

[drainbamage]

At best, it would make for an entertaining couch game if you're drinking with friends.. play a round, pass the controls, etc..

Back in college, we did die-die-pass on Battlefront 2. 2 deaths and you pass your controller to the next guy. When the beer started flowing, things got pretty chaotic.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

At best, it would make for an entertaining couch game if you're drinking with friends.. play a round, pass the controls, etc..

My kids play this way. Minus the drinking.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I know, nobody cares unless its FO4 at moment but I'm bored and need to waste at least two minutes typing. Destroyed people on Black Ops this weekend with double xp. I tried out the Firebreak: Heat Wave specialist for the first time and fell in love. Nobody seems to use it for some reason, and when people get hit by it they lose their minds. Getting shocked by heat wave causes this black and red, fiery tunnel vision and stuns them really hard. After I started using it, I received 3-4 private messages saying I was "reported for cheating".

I play BO3 with the kids a lot. Usually Local Multi on the Nuketown map. Have played the firebreak specialist and liked it. The one the makes the most sense to me is the guy that self revives on death. I forget the name.

I mostly struggle with loadouts and "try" too much.

 

[TheCADJockey]

The one the makes the most sense to me is the guy that self revives on death. I forget the name.

Nomad: Rejack specialist is the one that can revive himself. My buddy and I toyed around with that one a little while ago on one of our drinking nights. It is really interesting and can make for some fun situations... if you do it right. Since you drop a smokescreen when you die before taking the nano-injection, most people in multiplayer just stand there ADS at you waiting for an easy second kill. However, if you die behind something and they don't notice, the revenge kill is sweet. The only other option, aside from not reviving, is to quickly jump out of the smokescreen. So far, it is the best option I've found to catch people that wait for the kill off guard.

I'm doing pretty well with the game, and when I play I do try pretty damn hard myself. I am big on completing the challenges though, so once I pick one I want, my stats often suffer immensely while I try to get it. Humiliation Master was one like that. Getting 50 double kills with frag grenades was a hard one to forcefully complete. Right now I'm just trying to finish the camo challenges for the SVG-100 sniper rifle and I'll have them all complete. After that, I'll probably just work on finishing the last few armor challenges for the specialists. Most of them are finished up to the classified hero armor with Glitch/Scythe/Psychosis being the exception. I haven't touch those yet. Heard Glitch is a pain.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I went on the PS Store two nights ago in search of some mindless killing game; looks like I found it. Gauntlet: Slayer Edition is a free download for PS Plus members ($19.99 otherwise) and it isn't disappointing. It's the perfect drinking game. I played for an hour while making dinner and so far, it is true to the original. There are a lot of little things that happen, triggering memories from childhood. They also seemed to add just enough ways to advance your character to keep it interesting. At first I thought it was way too easy, then I made it to around the 15th floor and just got absolutely punished. Looking forward to rocking it with a friend or two.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

I went on the PS Store two nights ago in search of some mindless killing game; looks like I found it. Gauntlet: Slayer Edition is a free download for PS Plus members ($19.99 otherwise) and it isn't disappointing. It's the perfect drinking game. I played for an hour while making dinner and so far, it is true to the original. There are a lot of little things that happen, triggering memories from childhood. They also seemed to add just enough ways to advance your character to keep it interesting. At first I thought it was way too easy, then I made it to around the 15th floor and just got absolutely punished. Looking forward to rocking it with a friend or two.

I remember getting the original for the NES with the hub to hook up 4 controllers. We played for days on end. " warrior needs food badly"

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Anyone else seeing FO4 glitch out?

I made a run on Trinity Tower. Was not expecting to be taken all the way down at the end and needed to go back and collect my stored loot. Got to the top again, thinking I'd work top down this time, and the console glitched to the dashboard.

I'd been saving consistently this time but I was too annoyed to continued playing.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Oh. Almost forgot. Took my son to allergy clinic yesterday for a shot. On the way out I spied a couple wearing oddly familiar blue and yellow colored jackets. Then I spied the number 111 on the back of each. I am not that guy but :rockin:

 

[TheCADJockey]

I remember getting the original for the NES with the hub to hook up 4 controllers. We played for days on end. " warrior needs food badly"

Lucky! We didn't have the fun gadgets growing up; just whatever grandma sent our way. God. I wanted the PowerGlove SO bad.. so so bad. There was definitely a night that I went to my friends house, you know the one with the cool mom that let you stay up late and drove a gorgeous yellow trans-am. We stayed up all night trying to beat that game. Kind of hard when Red Elf keeps shooting the damn food.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Lucky! We didn't have the fun gadgets growing up; just whatever grandma sent our way. God. I wanted the PowerGlove SO bad.. so so bad. There was definitely a night that I went to my friends house, you know the one with the cool mom that let you stay up late and drove a gorgeous yellow trans-am. We stayed up all night trying to beat that game. Kind of hard when Red Elf keeps shooting the damn food.

I knew her in high school. Except hers was the black firebird with T-tops.

He stopped being friends with me after he learned how well I knew her.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

Lucky! We didn't have the fun gadgets growing up; just whatever grandma sent our way. God. I wanted the PowerGlove SO bad.. so so bad. There was definitely a night that I went to my friends house, you know the one with the cool mom that let you stay up late and drove a gorgeous yellow trans-am. We stayed up all night trying to beat that game. Kind of hard when Red Elf keeps shooting the damn food.

Never had the power glove, but I did have that waste of money known as R.O.B.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I knew her in high school. Except hers was the black firebird with T-tops.

My dream car.

 

[Roland_deschain]

Anyone else seeing FO4 glitch out?

I made a run on Trinity Tower. Was not expecting to be taken all the way down at the end and needed to go back and collect my stored loot. Got to the top again, thinking I'd work top down this time, and the console glitched to the dashboard.

I'd been saving consistently this time but I was too annoyed to continued playing.

Im playing on XBOx One and I have had VERY few glitches. One that made a bathroom wall a portal to 'beneath' the world, and another that makes Bhramin able to climb onto rooftops. Beyond that I've been pretty lucky. I attempted to take on Trinity Tower but I cant seem to find the door(LOL)
Are you looking for X-01 power armor in the Tower? I found a complete set by accident just sitting in a building. I don't want to spoil for anyone so PM me if you want the location.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Are you looking for X-01 power armor in the Tower? I found a complete set by accident just sitting in a building. I don't want to spoil for anyone so PM me if you want the location.

I have two set of Power Armor already and have been through the tower, never saw power armor in the tower.

To ascend the tower you must elevate yourself.

 

[drainbamage]

I have two set of Power Armor already and have been through the tower, never saw power armor in the tower.

To ascend the tower you must elevate yourself.

I missed it too. Is it something that shows up in every game, or just a randomized loot find?

 

[DrunkleJon]

I missed it too. Is it something that shows up in every game, or just a randomized loot find?

Thats in a different tower I think than the supermutant laden one. Spoiler highlight to read [The full suit is in the tower way to the east with all the dead robots outside of it (there is a sign on the front of the building saying unit some number or something like that) . The roof has two hard robots that you need to kill than hit the button in the room on either side to open the door containing the suit. Know that the suit is leveled so you want to be in the 20s (I got it at around level 23) to get the X-1]

Lucky! We didn't have the fun gadgets growing up; just whatever grandma sent our way. God. I wanted the PowerGlove SO bad.. so so bad. There was definitely a night that I went to my friends house, you know the one with the cool mom that let you stay up late and drove a gorgeous yellow trans-am. We stayed up all night trying to beat that game. Kind of hard when Red Elf keeps shooting the damn food.

Borrowed/Used one of the power gloves. Never worked. Was Pissed.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Borrowed/Used one of the power gloves. Never worked. Was Pissed.

Doesn't matter. I would've just worn it around being awesome. If I turned around to find one on my desk right now, I'd wear it at work. I don't even care.

 

[NateLTB]

Pip-Boy > Power Glove

 

[TheCADJockey]

Pip-Boy > Power Glove

 

[m_c_zero]

I really dig the stealth/sniper aspect of Fallout 4 but it sucks on PS4 because your distance only goes out so far I've noticed. Enemies don't actually populate on-screen until you are really close to them. Kinda defeats the point of being a sniper...

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I really dig the stealth/sniper aspect of Fallout 4 but it sucks on PS4 because your distance only goes out so far I've noticed. Enemies don't actually populate on-screen until you are really close to them. Kinda defeats the point of being a sniper...

I usually rush up to an area so it populates, and then fall back into the deep to pick off targets.

 

[m_c_zero]

I usually rush up to an area so it populates, and then fall back into the deep to pick off targets.

That's a good idea... I was thinking of giving up and just focusing on close-range melee.

 

[m_c_zero]

I really love the PS4 but they could have put a lot better hardware in it... Or maybe tuned it better.

 

[Psylocide]

That's a good idea... I was thinking of giving up and just focusing on close-range melee.

Yeah, or you could play a game that was meant to be a FPS, if you like the sniping aspect.

 

[Rhetorik]

Wow, I'm late to the party on this one!

I'm playing with a melee/semi-automatic rifle build for Fallout; currently level 31 with about 45 hours in. I'm playing on PC since I don't own any current-gen consoles (and PCs are better overall, of course).

My current weapon of choice is an aluminum bat with the circular saw blade mod. Hits like a truck. I don't use the power armor personally as I feel it's a cop-out.

Once I'm done with FO4 I'll be loading up Witcher 3 and running through that. I've also been playing a fair bit of GTAV and Vermintide.

My PC:
CPU
i7 4770k @ 4.6ghz
ASUS Z87-Pro mobo
16gigs HyperX FuryX 1866
Gigabyte G1 GTX 980 Ti OC'd @ 1450mhz boost
Fractal Design Define R5 case
ADATA 128gb SSD and Seagate Barracude 2TB HDD
EVGA 750W Gold+ modular
ASUS PA238QR. Being replaced shortly with a GSync.
Xigmatek SD1483 Frostbourne Edition

 

[m_c_zero]

Yeah, or you could play a game that was meant to be a FPS, if you like the sniping aspect.

That or just take advantage of this bug:

http://kotaku.com/the-best-perk-in-fallout-4-is-completely-broken-1748490463

 

[Venari]

I'm currently level 48 (a hair away from 49), and have this to say:

I can't wait to beat the game, then I can move to Survival mode (I like to beat the game on Normal before I go to the highest difficulty). I suppose I'll have to actually be strategic in selecting my perk points in that mode. As it is, i'm selecting whatever will be handy for the next hour or so, depending on what I plan on doing, or where I plan on going (back to the place with a Master lock? better up my lockpicking, or bring cait and a stack of bobbypins).

I think I'm going to try an all-melee build for the survival playthrough. And perhaps pick the female character.

Without getting into spoilers, i've just discovered somebody, and having doubts on what my ultimate goal should be.

 

[Rhetorik]

I just wish there was a karma meter since I tend to kill first and to hell with questions later.

 

[Venari]

I just wish there was a karma meter since I tend to kill first and to hell with questions later.

One thing I've noticed: Do the quest for those settlements so they allow you use of the workbench. Then kill them. You get the exp from the quest, and after they're dead, they can't prevent you from having access to the workbench. More exp than simply killing them up front.

It's not like there's a karma meter to stop you from doing it.



Unrelated game:

I've begun playing Ark Survival: Evolved.

Kinda like minecraft, but you level up, and there's dinosaurs. Kinda graphics heavy, because even on Low settings, my alienware gets slow after a few hours of playing it.

 

[TheCADJockey]

My friends won, again. I was browsing the PS Store while soaking labels off some bottles and found the upgrade package for Destiny is $40 instead of $60. So, I picked up The Taken King, expansions 1 & 2 and a level 25 boost for a character for $40. I only cruised around Mars for a half hour or so, but it was a really nice change of pace. It had been probably a year or more since I put that game in, I forgot how much I loved the atmosphere. The planets are absolutely gorgeous. I'm looking forward to exploring a few more.

 

[EcuPirate07]

My friends won, again. I was browsing the PS Store while soaking labels off some bottles and found the upgrade package for Destiny is $40 instead of $60. So, I picked up The Taken King, expansions 1 & 2 and a level 25 boost for a character for $40. I only cruised around Mars for a half hour or so, but it was a really nice change of pace. It had been probably a year or more since I put that game in, I forgot how much I loved the atmosphere. The planets are absolutely gorgeous. I'm looking forward to exploring a few more.

I really like destiny, the only issue I have is doing the same missions over and over just to get better gear. I like the idea of a never ending game. But I feel like a hamster in a wheel sometimes.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I really like destiny, the only issue I have is doing the same missions over and over just to get better gear. I like the idea of a never ending game. But I feel like a hamster in a wheel sometimes.

I survived the level grind on EverQuest, so I can appreciate repeating missions. If the game hooks me again, I'll be spending a fair amount of time funking with people in the Crucible anyway. I much rather ruin peoples day in PVP than kill monsters/aliens, whatever they are.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I've begun playing Ark Survival: Evolved.

My son has been watching this game for a while. And we noticed it's now up to purchase for XBox One.

... and a level 25 boost for a character for $40.

I too love destiny, but don't like this pay to win model they've evolved into.

 

[Rhetorik]

I too love destiny, but don't like this pay to win model they've evolved into.

Paying to skip levels (without reaching MAX level) is not P2W in my opinion. It is a strategy employed by many MMOs (ex: WoW) and really does not have any adverse effects for the playerbase. In essence, all it really does is save the player in question some time from levelling a portion of their character; they still need to get to the max level on their own, and obtain their own gear. Lower-tier gear that is picked up while levelling is largely irrelevant as max-level gear blows it out of the water; as such, it can hardly be considered as pay to win.

Giving the option to pay for level boosts is also beneficial for the playerbase as
A) it reduces the barrier to entry for the game for newcomers, and
B) for established/veteran players with money to burn that REALLY don't want to grind through levelling a new toon for the Nth time, it allows them to avoid some of the slog.