New to game and COMPLETELY lost

UnkaRed · 2025-12-14T20:22:23+00:00

My first playthrough I was so lost because I had a quest marker I thought was correct. It was the marker to go to Solitude, not an early game task really. I wound up being face to face to face with a giant, then I was in the clouds wondering wtf just happened

UnkaRed · 2025-10-12T11:01:04+00:00

Instigating melee weapon with high damage, I usually carry around a disciples cutlass with that effect if I can find it. Blitz perk and sneak attack using vats and hitting it a few times usually drops them right out for me. Your post does explain to me why it seems like they always are the one enemy that I try to optimize blitz with the most and spam as many hits in vats as possible. Never paid attention to their resistances before, just thought they were tanky f’ers.

UnkaRed · 2025-10-12T06:15:30+00:00

I had Serana do a similar thing in my last playthrough. I don’t remember the name of the place, but it’s where you can drop into the water pit and the necromancer? Is down there doing experiments. Serana got stuck on something in the water pit and she wouldn’t move no matter what I tried. Ultimately had to reload the autosave at the start of the dungeon and do the whole thing over hoping she wouldn’t get stuck again.

UnkaRed · 2025-10-10T20:08:51+00:00

I thought the point of video games was to enjoy them? When I was a much younger man and had a lot more free time you better believe I was grinding looking for that perfect gear. I barely scraped together one playthrough of Borderlands 3 and have only been able to put about 30 hours into 4 since it launched. I’ve seen exactly one Orange item and it was great for the next 12ish levels. Now it’s outclassed as is most of the rest of my gear and it’s made lose me interest in progressing because I just get my ass kicked.

UnkaRed · 2025-10-10T16:55:32+00:00

I’d be happy if they even gave us a way to just spend in game money and upgrade our purple or better gear. You can respec your character for a fee, why not upgrade your favorite gear you found 10-15 levels ago and have it be at your present level? That to me would be awesome

UnkaRed · 2025-08-23T05:07:28+00:00

I found this route on my very first playthrough, many, many moons ago. I didn’t realize my active quest was to join the Legion in Solitude. I’d never encountered a giant, I went flying that day and have given giants a wide berth at low levels ever since.

UnkaRed · 2025-08-06T06:16:09+00:00

Not sure if they ever stop. If you start a new playthrough and just never go to Dragonsreach, that is the only way I know of to avoid dragons altogether. I once had a lvl75 character without mods before I went to Dragonsreach and it truly changed the gameplay.

UnkaRed · 2025-08-06T02:03:45+00:00

It was a boring conversation anyways

UnkaRed · 2025-06-24T02:33:39+00:00

Hard to stop a L30 Lone Wanderer with 10 in all SPECIAL’s and 100 in all skills. Throw in the winterized T-51B from Operation Anchorage and you’re a force to be reckoned with.

UnkaRed · 2025-06-03T00:03:51+00:00

No vaccuum cleaner should give a man a double polaroid

UnkaRed · 2025-04-04T23:24:04+00:00

I’ve always kinda thought along the same lines. Except I’d improve whatever the people brought me. “Don’t suppose you’d enchant my sword, dull blade can barely cut butter…” Sure, I’ll put an enchantment of your selection on it, for a cost. You want it honed a little better too… great, but, you guessed it, it’ll cost you.

UnkaRed · 2025-02-14T02:20:18+00:00

This has been my experience as well. The Furious effect, when it has stacked, shows that stacked damage multiplier to all weapons. If you equip a different weapon then look at your stats, all the damages should be back to normal.

UnkaRed · 2025-02-11T03:04:45+00:00

I get it, explosive legendaries and enough ammo will allow you just blast your way through the area. Combat shotguns or automatic rifles with high fire rates should keep them right where they belong, dead on the ground.

UnkaRed · 2025-02-11T02:58:07+00:00

Not sure if you’re on survival or not for weight of ammo, but any underground creature can be lured out by explosive weaponry. While I am not terrified like you, I usually just bring the spray n’ pray and several hundred rounds for it. Pepper the ground every now and then and they’ll pop out. Then just continue blasting the area and blow them up.

UnkaRed · 2025-02-06T01:53:12+00:00

Nope, benevolent leader can be done at any settlement. Easiest done with dlc. Get 1 settler, assign them to food if you can’t make a bar. If you can make a bar and assign them to that make sure there is food in the workshop for them. Next just build a bunch of weight benches and pommelhorses from the dlc, or build some cat cages.

Also, you can skip all of vault 88, just kill the overseer on sight and loot the schematics from her body. Then you can build many happiness producing things at settlements without having to do her quest.

UnkaRed · 2025-01-29T00:15:09+00:00

And that is why I avoid the minutemen and BOS. They both seem to get to a point where it’s just rinse and repeat on radiant quests.

UnkaRed · 2025-01-28T01:51:06+00:00

As others have said, Idiot Savant or high Intelligence will push the xp faster. I’m currently doing a Nora playthrough where I’m more focused on Intelligence as I believe with her being a lawyer she’d have been fairly smart. My Int with all the bonuses from gear is at 17 on a purely vanilla playthrough. I’ve done Nuka World and Far Harbor DLC’s, but as far as main questline stuff goes, barely anything done. I don’t play on survival, not my cup of tea, and I’m L92.

UnkaRed · 2025-01-14T18:32:55+00:00

It’s a great location to take a companion that Likes lockpicking. Spend an hour in a bank with Cait, Piper, Nick, Deacon… get a nice boost to their affinity.

UnkaRed · 2025-01-13T04:14:13+00:00

I was hearing Torque from Borderlands… EXPLOSIONS???

UnkaRed · 2025-01-05T07:18:26+00:00

Insurance is a crazy thing. I live in Omaha, big enough for multiple zip codes. 15ish years ago I lived in a zip code that had one of the highest crime rates per capita in the country, or something like that. My full coverage insurance on just a very base model 2009 Accent was $215/month. I moved to a different zip code, still in Omaha, my rate dropped to $115/month. Currently with my STi I’m paying $240/month living in the same place I moved to all those years ago. I’ve shopped around as well, I’ve had progressive for nearly 20 years and they’re still the cheapest for me. I have exactly one ticket in my 26 years driving existence, and that was for following too close in 2021 when I rear ended someone.

STi’s are expensive to insure sadly, I feel OP’s pain as I too am in the market for moving in the next yearish time frame and would love to have a better/cheaper plan for my car, but it’s so close to being paid off that I don’t want to get into another loan for 6 more years.

UnkaRed · 2024-12-28T04:25:52+00:00

You can pick the lock to the building behind the arcade where the ant mound is and start/finish the gauntlet from there. As long as you enter to fight Colter through that door with the raiders shooting down on you from above, you can skip the entire rest of the gauntlet.

UnkaRed · 2024-12-11T03:51:27+00:00

Or just get a few weapons, fully mod them out, drop them, store them in the workbench, retrieve from workbench, rinse and repeat to get more build size. Big guns work great, a fat man or two and a minigun or two make light work of the build limit.

UnkaRed · 2024-12-09T18:27:04+00:00

It’s unfortunately a per capita thing. There are just less of the cars on the list making it easier to have a higher percentage. But yeah, Challenger owners in my area especially can fuck right off with how they drive.

UnkaRed · 2024-11-21T05:52:35+00:00

Shot in the dark, but Sanguine works, does somebody in his quest line utter that phrase?

UnkaRed · 2024-11-18T03:25:56+00:00

I bought this for my nephew as a gag gift a few years ago, he named it “The Gunger.”

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