Good to know! Take out Glowing Ones first if possible!
Try and get your hands on everything - the 10mm pistol, .38 pipe pistols and rifles, .308 sniper rifles, and laser pistols that run on fusion cells. There's also .45s, .50s, and 5.56mm out there, but I haven't encountered any weapons that just yet. And there's the minigun that runs on 5mm ammo, but it's incredibly heavy.
I came across the same place a few days ago, getting sidetracked just as you did too (but how easy is it to do that in Fallout?) and thankfully for me, all the ghouls got stuck behind this fence/gate so I threw a plasma grenade over there and that was that.So I was happily inching my way across the cityscape to get to a quest destination and like always got side tracked and came across this crater that is heavily irradiated. Hell I was getting +2 to +5 rads on the edge of it...
There was a lot of ghouls here, like 10+, most were level 3 and 9, with one level 9 legendary.
And one level 40 Putrid Glowing One.
They immediately saw me upon cresting the crater edge, and charged up the other side of it to get to me, but they must have encountered a raider group because I heard a ton of gun fire, then silence and then boom they were on me, front and back.
At level 23 I didn't stand a chance, noped out of there!
My 100+ damage combat shotgun, plus grenades didn't do much to the Putird Glowing One!
Just before I died
I also just picked up some other sniper rifles that had higher-than-me level mods, it's got some of the best gear now. In fact, now I think of it I should probably stop carrying the Cryolator with me since I can freeze enemies with a critical hit anyway (I had it for tight situations). I'll have to see how a rocket launcher or something compares for weight.
Apparently the dog you purchase from the trader Gene simply acts as a Settler and gives the settlement he is assigned a +5 Defensive rating. There's actually a third dog you can find randomly in the wild that can become a companion.
It's what I did from the off, experience from past Fallout games, took ages to find a 5.56mm weapon as I never buy things only sell. Apart from near the start of the game I have not used a .308 weapon and now have just over 10,000 rounds, very surprised when I noticed. I don't use automatic weapons either, also saves ammo.
So I was happily inching my way across the cityscape to get to a quest destination and like always got side tracked and came across this crater that is heavily irradiated. Hell I was getting +2 to +5 rads on the edge of it...
There was a lot of ghouls here, like 10+, most were level 3 and 9, with one level 9 legendary.
And one level 40 Putrid Glowing One.
They immediately saw me upon cresting the crater edge, and charged up the other side of it to get to me, but they must have encountered a raider group because I heard a ton of gun fire, then silence and then boom they were on me, front and back.
At level 23 I didn't stand a chance, noped out of there!
My 100+ damage combat shotgun, plus grenades didn't do much to the Putird Glowing One!
Just before I died
Combat Shotguns can get to over 100 damage @CoolColJ? I'll have to double check mine, I think I have some. I've been rolling with an Enraging Double Barrell.
Yeah I did do that pretty early on actually, but the pipe pistol is pretty damn useless and I haven't used it in ages because my 10mm ammo has been going good. I do have a decent laser rifle, though again haven't used it in a while because it's not as good as my Combat Rifle which I think uses .45? Anyway ammo on that has been good for a while as well. I love using my .308 caliber sniper rifle as it is a Freezing edition which does 10 additional Cryo damage and freezes enemies on critical hits. That freeze has gotten me out of some tight situations.
.50 Cal is a mod you can do on the sniper rifle, I haven't seen a use for it on anything else. I have no idea what 5.56mm ammo is for but I always get it from auto turrets. I think there's also a .44 ammo?
In fact, typing this made me check the Wiki.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_ammunition
Edit: Has anyone ever bought a 2nd dog? Is it the same as Dogmeat I suppose?
Edit 2: Never mind, Wiki had the answer again!
Combat Shotguns can get to over 100 damage @CoolColJ? I'll have to double check mine, I think I have some. I've been rolling with an Enraging Double Barrell.
Edit: Has anyone ever bought a 2nd dog? Is it the same as Dogmeat I suppose?
Edit 2: Never mind, Wiki had the answer again!
I have an extensively-modified pipe rifle; I was fortunate enough to find a few with high-end mods, so I crafted basic mods and moved all the good stuff to one rifle. The same thing happened with my laser rifle; I stumbled into the Vault under Malden Middle School, which was occupied by a group of gunners, and somehow survived long enough to get a heavily-modified laser rifle. It chews through ammo like there's no tomorrow (which is why I renamed it "No Tomorrow"), but it has been very handy during "The Lost Patrol" as it reduces radscorpions and Glowing Ones to ashes.
So wait, after the story you can still explore the wasteland?Just finished the main story (sided with the brotherhood) and again Fallout delivers , only Heavy rain has given me such a headache when multiple choices and actions exist, loved every minute of it.
Now to fully explore the commonwealth and invest another 40 hours into it
) So I will just list my other mods that I use (excluding the first two) to enhance the games graphics. These are found in Nexusmod Site for those who doesn't know.
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I use this one too, along with the Darker Nights mod and the Realistic Lights mod. Stays really close to vanilla, but looks a lot better because no weird fake lights and no LOD texture pop-in.
