Is it This Desert Eagle? I just downloaded it to save for later. Along with a Healthier Brahmin mod.


Springtime for Hitler, and Germany... I see our old friend the Chinese Assault Rifle makes a reappearance in FO4.

The waterfront looks really neat in the Warmer pic. What is that thing that looks like the Washington Monument in the background?

Raider sunset would look really nice. If not for the suspended body!

A vaultgirl bobblehead! I love it!

The swamps look pretty barren, like it's winter.

Doggies!

Someone has been having too much fun with the mannequins...

What a great plug! Is that from a mod you made? Or can you spell out anything with the neon lights?

Commonwealth looks much more alive with new mods you're using but also less creepy because of better visibility.

Looks like raiders aren't hanged only in Capital & Mojave Wasteland. Is it possible to board that zeppelin?

It's the Big Guns Bobblehead - a girl edition. Do Boobleheads change according to the PC's gender?

Good to see that Chorrol survived the Great War!

I believe the zeppelin is the Brotherhood of Steel's base, which you do board if you join/ally with them. I have seen vids with people on it.

I think the vault girl bobbleheads are a mod.

Wolf, your game looks great, but I wouldn’t know what FO4 is supposed to look like anyway. The Raider sunset looks fabulous – and eerie. Chalice found a bobblegirl – did it join the others in her ChorrolCollection? Oh, I have seen FO4 dogs before and they look incredible. A mannequin orgy!

Whoa, vertibird attack! Rad storms look gloomy as hell.

Warmer weather / springtime does look prettier for sure. I am glad it's not too much like "our" springs here in this century. I like that there is a difference.

Whoa, how did you get the Chorrol.com pic?

Holy Cow! If you hadn't told me this was FO4; I would have sworn it was Point Lookout!

Warmer Weather is an Awesome shot!!! Now THAT is a weather mod I don't mind at all!!!!

Raider Sunset = Eerie!!!!


WOO HOO! Girl Bobbleheads !!!


That swamp is gorgeous! I could reallly like this place looking like this!


Dogmeat has a girlfriend !!!!



BWAAHAA!!


OMG, That is AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!

SubRosa- Yes, that is the Desert Eagle! You will love it. I recommend all the gun mods from that author except the M1911. It just feels too small in the hand. I also like that Brahmin skin you found. It looks sweet!

The Washington Monument type building is Bunker Hill. It is a trader post that you can drop into when you decide to take a break. I spend a lot of time either going to or from there.

The game has heaps of neon signs, light boxes, writing etc, and you can spend half the game just playing with the settlement features. I have rarely touched it but thought a Chorrol sign would be neat!

Lopov- Yes, the Commonwealth feels so different now that winter has left. I really love the grass mod and give it a thumbs up. As SubRosa has said, the zeppelin is the home base of the Brotherhood of Steel. I have boarded it only a few times just to confirm that they are still pompous fools. Chalice is mainly working for the Railroad and testing the water with the Institute. She is planing to make life very hard for the Brotherhood!

The bobbleheads are only male in the Bethesda game. I grabbed the mod as soon as I saw it. It just makes more sense for a female character to care about the female ones. Besides, they do look like mini versions of Chalice.

Acadian- Thanks! Do not worry about not having played the game. Beth games are Beth games. Just a few more explosions here. Chalice is not as precise as Buffy. I did add the Bobble to the stand collection, I think I have about 9 or 10 out of the 20 now.

Renee- The rad storms are sensational with Vivid Weathers. I hear that the other mod, True Storms, will be coming out soon on Xbox. I cannot wait to test that. The game has really cool neon signs and letters and you can write over all the walls of your settlements if you choose!

mALX- Thanks! I am glad that you are enjoying the Fallout journey towards summer!

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I have a spare weekend this weekend so will post some more pics!

Darker Nights mod is really neat. The dark is dark so you need to use either your pipboy light or a flashlight when you explore. The pics probably do not do it credit, but in game it is spot on for what I was looking for. Each light, whether a settlement or drink machine becomes a beacon of shelter in the claustrophobic dark.

A beacon in the night

Flashlight

It is dark outside the light!

Sunset at Sanctuary

Here comes a problem!

Job done!

Where is the Deathclaw?

Moving in

Another view of Chorrol!

Those nights are really dark, I wouldn't like a ghoul creeping on me from utter darkness.

Chalice is (more dangerous than) an alpha deathclaw.

Nice house but if it rains, it'll wake you up when sleeping.

How many homes can you have in FO4?

Heh, my theory on why Beth doesn't make their vanilla nights overly dark is that doing so hides the great graphics. Those dark nights are neat, but the day shots really show all the graphic goodness. Are the windows in game see-through to outside?

That is really dark and creepy. I wouldn't like playing with it that dark though. Besides my eyes not being as young as they used to be (eyestrain), I like seeing the game I am playing. I always think that when developers hide their games in fog (like Morrowind) or darkness (Doom 3), they must be ashamed of their game, since they don't want me to see it.

That is an amazing Sanctuary sunset!

Uh oh, Alpha Deathclaw, and is that just a 10mm Pistol that Chalice has!

Oh I guess it is an Explodo-Deathclaw Pistol!

It looks like the end of Jaws!

This must be a great game for Red Sox fans! I wonder how New Yorkers feel about it?

It's back to Casa Chorrol! Neat picture of the ballpark on the wall.

Wow wow wow you got your self a Sox pad. I agree, Darker Nights is worth it.

That was fun seeing that deathclaw eat it.

Of course my favorite is the explosion!

But it was tied this time by the house you made with the Boston Red Sox stuff! that place is Awesome !!!!!

Third favorite is the Sunset shot.

Holy Cow, is it ever dark around that flashlight !!!



What a great update !!!!!

Couple of quick shots of post-Nuka World Alice and Alice's Workshop.

She and Cait live at Red Rocket Truck Stop. I really need to get some screenies of it.

Post Nuka World Alice looks like she belongs in Canterbury Commons!

Nice armor there. I love the purple animal wrapped around her leg. I have yet to download Nuka yet so I have no idea what that is. Lol.

Do post some pics of Red Rocket. Who many levels up have you built the settlement? Do you have a gated fence around the perimeter?

I am too busy playing Witcher 3 at the moment but want to get back to FO4.

I think she needs to change her name to Ganesha!

And she has Warhammer armor!

Bwaahaa! The bear, and helm both !!!!! Love that workhop!!


** Yes, get those screens! (or I'll say it didn't happen, lol.)

View from Corvega

Preston and Co.

Boom

Ummm...what?

Walk quietly...

Wow, Preston looks amazingly good. In fact your whole game looks great. I've never touched a Fallout but it is fun to see the games of those who do.

Oh, and welcome again to Chorrol!

Thanks! It's only vanilla on PS4, but it's a beautiful game regardless. I have no qualms about the graphics in Fallout 4.

This is Evelyn, my new PC and first FO4 story.

Evelyn is looking good. She reminds me of the reporter? I don't have FO4 yet, so I forget her name.

View from Corvega is stunning! Wow! Looks like you captured the entire town.

Lovely family pic. Despite its horrid consequences, the explosion in the background makes for the great lightning.

It's Thing from the Addams family!

Evelyn looks great, I especially love her beret.

Thanks!

Lol....Med Tek.

These are great shots!!! I don't have FO4 yet, but love seeing the screens of it!










She is pretty!

This one is my favorite too. Just looking at this landscape gave me that old feeling of a brand-new place to explore.

I wish we could do panoramics on the console, because that is only one part of the map, lol. You can see essentially the entire Commonwealth from there, if you rotate around.

Here is Shi, my Glargg character I rolled to get to know Fallout 4 with. Until I work up a more permanent character.

You got Fallout 4 ???? Awesome !!!! She is beautiful !!!

Howdy, Shi. Looking good, are we? Shi looks seasoned like she's seen her share of adventures. If Shi were in TES, she'd be a Redguard, wouldn't Shi?

mALX: F4 is on sale right now. It was only $50 for the game + all DLCs. I am just hoping there won't be any more patches, seeing that it has been out just over a year now.


Lopov: Shi is technically Asian. Though I gave her a bronzed skin and dyed hair. Asians do look better in this game than any other Beth game.


Time to give Shi a break, now that I have a sense of what the gameplay is like and I have had time to mod up some.

Say hello to Hecate (who is not wearing her glasses because the game won't let me give her any yet)

Good thing Hecate signed up for the Vault

Last Light

Make the elevator go faster!

Home sweet vault

Escaping Vault 111

Geared for Wasteland adventure

Awesome pics! That bomb scene happens so quick so it is really neat to see the 'paused' version.

Hecate looks sweet. Dark ponytail and nice slim physique. And those eyes....wow!

And such a different look in that last one all kitted up! Look out wasteland!

Welcome home indeed, Hecate.

She's still as pretty as in the Mojave. Her black armor in the final pic reminds me of Chinese Stealth Armor. Is that a dead Ghoul behind her or a skeleton in torn clothes?

It's the mushroom cloud! You plan on doing the MQ with Hecate?

With Shi having paved the way, it is nice to welcome Hecate to FO4. She looks fabulicious and certainly resembles her prior incarnation. Your game/graphics and especially the sky look wonderful - although I understand from your reviews that mods play a role in that.

Love the ponytail (of course) and she does indeed look very sleek and ready for business in that last shot.

I think that is the Halle Berry preset with some special SubRosa touches and a different hairdo = same preset I used for my starter character last night. I didn't get any further than the starting scene in the bathroom, going to start over again and do a better job making her the next time my son is gone to work.

Can you change both the couple's looks or only the one you want to play? I was afraid to fix up the bum man, afraid I'd be stuck playing him when I wanted to only play the female.

You can edit both the male and female faces. I read somewhere that your son ends up looking like a cross between the two of you, so I think you are expected to do them both. You can change the sex of the person you are editing at any time. Just be sure you are editing the one you want to play when you exit the character creation, as that is the one you end up with.

Lopov: As far as I can tell F4 does not have Recon Armor. Or much black armor at all. Most things seem to be brown. So I had to hunt a little for mods to find something that looked similar to her old black recon armor.


Winter Wolf: It was kind of nice to actually see the Pre-War world for a bit. I tried running around a bit to look everything over, but when I ran past the army truck that is blocking the road out of Sanctuary Hills, the bomb went off and killed me. I think it is set to do that if you try to leave the area.

her eyes are from True Eyes


Lopov: Her armor is from the Sirius Assault Armor mod

That is a pre-war skeleton behind her. There are a lot of them outside the vault entrance.

I think I will do the MQ with Hecate. I usually do it with her. I guess she is my *official* character that way.



Acadian: I did not really change the daytime sky much at all, except to disable to godray effect. I think the vanilla daytime sky looks really good. The night sky is the most different, with a new moon and star field.

I could not find her signature ponytail in any mods. Thankfully Ponytail Hairstyles has migrated from Skyrim to the Commonwealth, with a lot more hair styles.


mALX: I used Gorgous Vault Girl, which replaces the first female preset. Then I tweaked that for about twenty minutes. LooksMenu made it a lot easier.



No one is prepared for this future

Lining up a shot with her Mk 14

Bloatfly go boom

Guns and Coffee

Fixin' up some vittles

The future still has cats

and dogs

Not just Hecate, but bloatflies made it to Fallout 4 as well! And just like in previous games, they don't net you lots of XP.

Are you using vanilla skies or some mod? From what I see, there isn't any "tint" over the wasteland like it is in FO3 (green) and FNV (yellow). That's nice.

Guns & coffee & Hecate - deadly combo.

There's a pot and a chef's hat, if it weren't for Hecate's modern armor, I'd think it's Skyrim.

Nice to see our four-legged friends survive any cataclysmic event.

What a wild billboard!

Is that a pipgirl she’s got on?

Kewl rifle.

Love the Starbuckshot coffee sticker.

Is that summon Jerric stew she’s making?

Aww, so nice there are cats and dogs – both look great.

Lopov- Yeah, the sky is a real vivid blue in this game which is a nice change from the recent Fallout games. It does make sense as it is 200+ years since the bombs, and more importantly- few businessmen to pollute the atmosphere with factories and vehicles.

Surprising though- I do not like the look in FO4. I really hate the over-the-top cartoon look that the bright blue baby sky gives when it contrasts with the dead ground. Hence I use 'Spring in the Commonwealth' to fix the ground or a weather mod to add more variety to the sky.

SubRosa- Love the chef's hat! Just make sure the wildlife doesn't steal any rat stew from your plate.

Cooking is really neat and is much better than Skyrim (where it achieved little). Add some tea mods!

Hectate almost looks like that lady on Friends,. Um......... Courtney Cox., in that first set of pictures. But then after she gets her outfit, she is definitely Hectate.

She looks as though she'll fit right in with Boston nightlife, hee hee.

Lopov: The Bloatflies are more dangerous in F4 than the other games. The barbs they shoot at you are now radioactive! They also have Bloodbags now too, giant radioactive mosquitoes.

My daytime skies are pure vanilla. I think the clouds and lighting in the day sky is far better than previous Beth games. I am using mods for my night sky though, a larger moon, new moon textures, and a new star/galaxy field. The weather system is a big improvement too. The rain is the best of any Beth game. And it doesn't fall though solid objects! The ground even looks slick and wet when it rains. Best of all when it is cloudy or rainy, all the color in the world is not desaturated like in Skyrim. It is just cloudy, but if you are wearing a red bandanna it is still just as red, not grey.

I think there is actually a slight baby blue tint to F4, but I could be wrong. It does look much better than the other games, where Beth and Obsidian put their annoying green or yellow tints on everything. It looks more like a real world. In fact, I am often reminded of walking through the woods near my home in November.


Acadian: It is still a Pipboy, but I am working on that!

I thought the Starbucks sticker was a fun little surprise. That is one of the things I love about modded items. You never know what people are going to do with them. Plus of course, they are often higher quality than the vanilla items.

I think it is Mole Rat Chunks that Hecate was making. So that probably is a Summon Jerric potion!


Winter Wolf: I like F4 sky and weather much better than the previous games. It looks much more real and believable. I think there should be much more life and vegetation on the ground to go with it. 210 years is plenty of time for new growth to have replaced all those dead trees, just like all the land around Chernobyl and Hiroshima.

The first time I tried using that cooking station in Sanctuary Hills a radroach ran out of the nearby house and attacked me right in the middle of the cooking animation! It drove me nuts, because I could not get out of cooking mode until after it had bit me half a dozen times!


Renee: Hecate is mostly inspired by Megan Fox. But the face creation in F04 is not very good. Not nearly as good as Skyrim's. It would not let me shape her jaw the way I wanted to. And the glasses in the game and mods suck balls. But she came out well enough.





Hecate has unleashed the beast

Now entering Concord

Hecate has a Raider in her sights

Time for the big gurl armor

The quick way down from the roof

Hecate is here to chew bubblegum and kick ass

...And she's all out of bubblegum

Raider spaghetti

The dragon awakes

He does not like Raiders either

Except perhaps for lunch

He does not like Hecate either

Dragonslayer

Last one standing

Hecate leads Garvey and company to safety

Hecate is cutting her own swath across Boston.

Big gurl powered bionic armor!

That is so neat how the barrels on her minigun are smokin’ red hot.

That dragon thing is one ugly mothe- er, monster (inspired by Arnold’s line in The Predator).

Hecate took down that dragon with nary a shout.

Wow! That is such an epic pic with the Deathclaw right behind the Raider. I have only had a glimpse of that from afar as I moved up the street. I love that you can show that close up pic on PC.

Smoking hot barrels on that mini-gun!

Isn't it neat that the Power Armor shows missing parts where the frame is? I think that was a neat touch that Beth added to this game.

Concord re-spawns both indoor and outdoor so you can go back and wipe the Raiders out wherever the urge hits! Unfortunately I haven't seen the Deathclaw come back, which console command can probably fix anyway!

What are your thoughts on Dogmeat? Do you see yourself using him much?

Oh, and what makes you think the Deathclaw is male? Aren't women more cranky when they wake up?

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And just a tip. If you go too far down the Minuteman Quest you start to generate attacks on your settlements when you are away in the field. 'Your base is under attack will appear on the HUD' when you least need it.

For that reason I stopped doing that quest line once I got the group back to Sanctuary, and have not had one attack in 250+ hours.

Oblivion Gates, Dragon attacks, Vampire attacks, Feral Werewolves- Thank you Beth but I would not prefer to not have that in this game.

Hecate looks like some boss character from Wolfenstein 3D game wearing that super duper power armor. Armor itself looks like some enterable 'robot' to me. I like its rusty looks, though. So you can wear PA without training?

Deathclaws look different, they still look ferocious but since I'm used to their brownish look from past games, the ones in FO4 remind me more of some Jurrassic park creatures.

I really do like raider armor and helmets, though. Knowing that it's possible to combine them all, I bet one can come up with interesting outfits. I also like Garvey's outfit, assuming that he's the African-American in the pic.

Gaah...giant bloodbag mosquitos yuck!

As awesome as power armor is, I love Hecty in her custom-made body suit.



Interesting. Last I heard this was still the same. Beth must have finally found a way to fix this.

Renee- Both Fallout 4 and Skyrim SE do not have rain-snow under shelter, so the latest engine they are using has sorted out the problem. In Skyrim you can now walk around a corner of a building on the lee side and be sheltered from the wind and snow (none appearing on the screen). Once you head around the other corner the snow appears once again. It is fantastic!

Lopov- I agree with your comments on the appearance of creatures. One thing that has gone backwards (IMO) is that the creatures look more 'Jurassic' and less scary. I still remember running from the Giant Raddies, Albinos, Deathclaws and Yao Guai with my heart pounding. I never feel that in FO4. Perhaps it is the coloring and art design.

The creatures have a plastic look to me. Like a dinosaur toy would. I don't know if it is something in the base textures, or maybe a lack of bump mapping, or the specular mapping, or some combination of the three.

Acadian: The powered armor was fun. It was really underwhelming in FO3 and NV. But they really get it right in F4. It is like being superhuman. Bullets just bounce off, and you can actually fight hand to hand with the Deathclaw. In fact, you have to.

I thought it was neat the minigun barrels turned red with heat as well. Until the blasted thing overheated on me and would not fire. Something that happens all to quickly. It is really not a very good weapon, since it cannot sustain its fire for very long. I spent as much time bashing the Deathclaw with the minigun as I did shooting it.

There may not have been a shout, but I guarantee there was plenty of yelling and cursing! I do love the Deathclaws in the FO universe. They are such awesome monsters.


Winter Wolf: That Deathclaw threw a truck at me! I am not sure if it was scripted, or if they will do that now with handy vehicles.

I am liking the Powered Armor. Though it is not entirely Hecate's personal cup of tea. I like how you can modify it, and even change the paint. The same with all the armor and weapons.

I kept Dogmeat for a little while. But I kept accidentally commanding him to do things just because he was in front of my mouse cursor that it drove me nuts. So just like in FO3, I eventually left him at home to watch the house. Or in this case at Sanctuary Hills to watch the neighborhood.

Well, I already went too far in the Minuteman quest! Hecate just finished up helping out a settlement that was being menaced by a Raider band in the Corvega Factory. That was a very cool place! The outside was paradise for a sniper like Hecate, and the inside had plenty of places to sneak around at get headshots upon unsuspecting Raiders.


Lopov: It has been ages since Wolfenstein 3D! Didn't that have Hitler in a suit of powered armor at the end?

There is a lot more options when it comes to armor in F4, which I am still getting used to. First all clothing and armor comes in two layers. There is the base layer, which is your basic outfit and might not be armored at all. Then there is an armor layer that goes over that. The armor layer is not one piece, but rather a separate piece for each arm and leg, plus the torso, and then the head. So you have a total of 7 articles of clothing/armor that you can mix and match however you like.


Renee: The giant skeeters creeped me out at first too. But at least they are not too hard to kill. The 10mm Pistol you start with will take care of them.

I prefer Hecate in the bodysuit. And so does she. She's more the sneaky type, than the clomping around making a lot of noise type.



Not even the cat picture could calm these two

Boston skyline

Zoomed out

Hecate protects herself

Moonlight

Corvega Factory at night

Highway signs

Protectron

Not sure about that Deathclaw. Perhaps I was too busy laying the smackdown with the mini gun to notice that he was throwing around vehicles. I haven't noticed others do that either. Mostly they just pop up out of the ground.

Great to hear you had fun inside Corvega. That is actually one place that I have never been inside, despite walking past it around 100 times. Lol. I decided to leave one part of the game unexplored until the end. A treasure reward for the finally.

Sweet moon and elevated view from up there!

Hitler is indeed one of the bosses in Wolftenstein 3D.

I hope that whatever was in the safe, was at least worth being killed over.

Is the entire area you see in Boston Skyline shot, like those tall skyscrapers, actually reachable or it's like in FO3, where a bunch of distant buildings can't be reached?

Hecate obeys!

Acadian's going to love highway signs.

The cutest Fallout robot returns.

Outstanding screenies, Sub! I love the weapon swung over her back. It kills me that weapons just vanish GTA style in vanilla.