Fallout 4 Automatron is out

PossibleCabbage said:
The $50 season pass thing is especially amusing, since we're something like 18 months away form being able to buy the complete edition for like $25.
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If I could go back and do it again I'd wait until the whole game with all DLC cost a total of $10 on a sale, and then decide not to buy it anyway because it's not even worth that.

Worst money spent on a video game ever. I really didn't think they could dumb down their games any more than Skyrim but I was sure wrong about that!
 
^ I think you will be surprised again with Fallout 5 aka ''Callout 55'' lol Or even sooner with TES VI..
 
These reviews really aren't making me want to rush out and re-buy Fallout 4. Thanks for throwing yourselves under the Beth bus folks.
 
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Ragemage said:
Only 1 fucking mission and hardly any customization when it comes to the actual robots outside of their armor. You can't slap a Mr. Handy body on some Robobrain legs and give it Assaultron parts and a protectron head. You can only put the Mr. Handy body on some legs with Mr. Handy parts. They didn't even get the customization right.
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What? Yes you can. You can put all sorts of bodies on all sorts of legs with all sorts of arms. Not right from the start, though, but you'll unlock all the parts after the "main quest". Pro tip: Put an Assaultron head and body on a Mr. Handy thruster, give him one melee weapon, the Assaultron head laser and a gatling laser and it's a super fast murder machine.
 
Hassknecht said:
What? Yes you can. You can put all sorts of bodies on all sorts of legs with all sorts of arms. Not right from the start, though, but you'll unlock all the parts after the "main quest". Pro tip: Put an Assaultron head and body on a Mr. Handy thruster, give him one melee weapon, the Assaultron head laser and a gatling laser and it's a super fast murder machine.
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Didn't work for me but it may be because I used the console to get the Armorer perks. A lot of them are still grayed out despite the fact that at the end of the quest is says, and I quote, "All customizations unlocked!" I'm assuming I have to do the radiant quests to get more parts to build with or something. I know I'm not missing the materials to build these items, they're all in the green and I have the perks needed unlocked. So I don't know.
 
Bugs? I mean ... yeah I know, how is that even possible with a Bethesda game, but apparantly, they do seem to exist and are not just crazy rumors.
 
Ragemage said:
Didn't work for me but it may be because I used the console to get the Armorer perks. A lot of them are still grayed out despite the fact that at the end of the quest is says, and I quote, "All customizations unlocked!" I'm assuming I have to do the radiant quests to get more parts to build with or something. I know I'm not missing the materials to build these items, they're all in the green and I have the perks needed unlocked. So I don't know.
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Yeah, it might be buggy (because Bethesda). Once I built left leg armor, everything was peachy, but the right leg armor was grayed out despite not requiring any different perks and none of the parts being grayed out. Weirdness.
Either way, I didn't do any radiant quests, either.
 
Hassknecht said:
Yeah, it might be buggy (because Bethesda). Once I built left leg armor, everything was peachy, but the right leg armor was grayed out despite not requiring any different perks and none of the parts being grayed out. Weirdness.
Either way, I didn't do any radiant quests, either.
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Well for the good of everyone's curiosity I guess I'll go try some of the radiant quests and see if they unlock anything. I'll get back to you on that. Here's hoping I don't get an aneurysm.
 
Hassknecht said:
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As an update, yes, that's what you have to do. All those greyed out robot parts must be found by scavenging through the radiant questline. Which, if I may add, only yields a single robot from the looks of it (I've done 3 of these so far) and the loot is completely randomized. The only new thing I got was armor for a Protectron right arm. So in other words, not only do you need perks and lots of junk items to make these robots, you also have to basically find schematics.

I wouldn't find this so tedious and obnoxious if there were more ways to obtain the schematics, but as far as I can tell, the parts are linked to these radiant quests. And every time you finish a radiant quest you have to go back to the Mechanist and talk to her to get another one, every single time. And since the schematic loot is also randomized, you may end up getting something you already have.

So in essence, you're going to waste hours of time trying to unlock all the schematics because they bullshit you by funneling these new parts through a radiant quest that only yields one robot at a time. Unless the Mechanist's robots randomly spawn elsewhere in the wastes, these seem to be the only way to get parts after completing the "main quest" portion of the DLC. It's a time sink, meant to make the player spend hours grinding away at this one mission to get robot parts, in order to create the illusion that the DLC is actually really really long with a ton of quests. That's what it seems like to me anyway.
 
Ragemage said:
As an update, yes, that's what you have to do. All those greyed out robot parts must be found by scavenging through the radiant questline.
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That's odd, the game explicitly displayed the message that all the robot mods are unlocked after I finished the main quest line.
 
Hassknecht said:
That's odd, the game explicitly displayed the message that all the robot mods are unlocked after I finished the main quest line.
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Yeah, it did for me too. That's what's so strange about it. I can even see all the parts, see I have the perks for them, AND see I have all the materials to build them, but it won't let me. I guess it meant that it SHOWS you all the upgrades instead of being hidden, but in order to make them you have to find the schematics yourself. That's my take on it anyway.

As an update, I just got a radiant quest that actually took me to a small group of these robots. So sometimes there CAN be more than 1 robot, though whether this = better loot or not, I can't say.
 
I made the mistake and sent Ada back to the Mechanist's lair and now I can't find her anymore.
Oh well.
 
Hassknecht said:
I made the mistake and sent Ada back to the Mechanist's lair and now I can't find her anymore.
Oh well.
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I did that a minute ago and she's there for me. She's back in the Mechanist's bedroom for me if you care to check.

Anyway, I did a couple more radiant quests. Out of the 2 I got that consisted of more than 1 bot, the first one didn't even drop a single part. Only things like steel and enhancement cards. The 2nd swarm only yielded me an Automaton leg, which I already have. So yeah, it's just pointless. I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to unlock schematics when at this rate it would take me literally all day to unlock them all. I guess that's the whole point though, it's meant to make you sink hours into it, filling you with a false sense of completion as you gather all the different robot parts by doing the same quest over and over. Plus it'll also inflate playtime.

I just hope that most players will see through this ruse and not keep doing the same radiant quest over and over in the hopes of getting all the parts.

At least now I can stop playing it once more. My work here is done.
 
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Important question though, can you bone the mechanist? Yeah I consider stuff like the walking simulator portions and the pointless radiant quests to be padding or filler as they call it. The only purpose is to extend gameplay and allow people to say "SEE it takes a while to finish the DLC!", I mean I would honestly take three hours of really good engaging gameplay over three-six hours of boring gameplay that makes me want to slam my head into my desk. Then again I'm not a fan of DLC unless it's done well and not just for the sole purpose of nickel and diming customers.
 
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