🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 08:49:41 -0800 (PST), Justisaur
<just...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>I think part of the problem is I was using VATS quite a bit before, but
>this time didn't as I now knew if would drain my power armor.  Frankly 
>VATS sucks this time around, the chance to hit anything at a distance 
>is terribly poor, far worse than I can aim without it. And it drains 
>power armor.  I only use it for scouting and up close an personal 
>where turning and getting a bead on someone is difficult - although 
>even that's pretty poor, I had problems with a raider in power armor 
>last night doing that, and just didn't bother with VATS the 2nd time 
>and took him out with the sword much easier.  
>
>I'm hoping someone comes out with some mods for VATS to make it 
>better, otherwise I'm not going to be using it anymore, which makes me 
>sad, as that was one of my favorite aspects of FO3.  It's just 
>another shooter to me without it.
>
>As to skipping Museum of Freedom altogether, I'll have to try that next, 
>as I've read someone say it seems like it was tacked on at the last 
>minute as an intro, and some of the later things work out better, and
>make more sense if you don't even meet Dogmeat or go to Museum of
>Freedom. 
>

I find VATS vs normal is better balanced than in FO3.  In FO3 normal
mode became accurate as you leveled up and the game progressed, but at
start normal mode can only be described as broken.  Not the case in
FO4 and it's much more enjoyable considering how to encounter new
situations, with or without VATS.  The way I've spent my points, on
sneak and non-auto guns and sniper, I use VATS most when I'm being
swarmed.  It's a ridiculous stop-time system when coupled with my
already lethal capabilities but it works.

I like how FO4 deals with the branching storylines.  I figure the
Brotherhood are a bunch of dicks, like you'd expect at a Donald Trump
rally and I can't say how I've been dealing with them  without big
spoilers, except that I've made collecting holotags my business.
Except in the case of the Brotherhood I've been delaying making any
final commitments toward the plot, having fun leveling up.

This is a beautiful game and I've been playing it with an
under-minimum-spec video card and so have had to deal with major
hiccups, at times,