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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So I figured it's about time I gave this game a shot.

I'm familiar with the series, but never really loved it, have played all previous titles but most of my time is on F3 and FNV.

I think the reason why I didn't pick this up earlier was because I didn't feel like going further into the Fallout universe, it felt like Bethesda were milking the golden cow.

Of course I'm trying it now as I picked it up cheap and the TV series has come along, of which in almost at the end of. It very much feels like the TV show is Fallout 4 on TV, but then I've never played F76.

The game is nice, very familiar to what I remember of F3 and FNV, I wonder how open it is with the perks system, or will I have to put levels into gunplay at some point?

I'm trying to stick to the main quest to start with, I've helped out the Minutemen, and then made a b-line to Diamond City before setting off to find the private detective so still pretty early on. Dogmeat is a fine companion for the road.

Any tips or suggesting for a good start, and play through?

There is a patch landing at the end of the month, so I haven't experimented with any mods just yet.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can follow the quests of SS2 to unlock more stuff, but I think some of them unlock on their own? Don't have quite enough experience with it. But it provides enough out of the box that you would do the basics and then have pretty well maintained settlements anyway.

Not sure what you mean by " install all the chapters". IIRC it's just one file.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

what I meant was that their site (https://simsettlements2.com/) lists 3 different chapters as different downloads, each newer requiring the previous ones.

haven't delved in their documentation yet, I'm assuming these are stacking changes/quests somehow, but.. dunno. I'll read into it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Huh, I didn't even realize. Thanks!