Zuhl3156
I finally got an official game patch through Steam tonight. IDK how big it was but it only took 3 minutes to download. I found my first railway rifle too. Body parts go flying when hit with that thing.

 
Thanks for the heads up. D/L it and it was quite small. A little over a minute.
 
I have the rifle but very little ammo. I'll have to try it and see the damage to determine the value for me.

whiskers54

Zuhl3156
I finally got an official game patch through Steam tonight. IDK how big it was but it only took 3 minutes to download. I found my first railway rifle too. Body parts go flying when hit with that thing.

 
Thanks for the heads up. D/L it and it was quite small. A little over a minute.
 
I have the rifle but very little ammo. I'll have to try it and see the damage to determine the value for me.

The railway rifle is steam powered and chugs away while blowing little puffs of smoke out of it. LOL  It has a really slow fire rate but I think you can recover the rail spikes from the corpse. Accuracy isn't that great from a distance but it shreds those ghouls up close and sends arms and legs flying about the room. Ha-ha. I found a silenced .50 caliber Sniper Rifle that has a decent fire rate and is doing a great job of picking Raiders off from a distance. I just don't like that the 'Alt' key is used to hold your breath. Left 'Ctrl' is used for Crouch so I don't think I can bind it to holding my breath too.

Zuhl3156

whiskers54

Zuhl3156
I finally got an official game patch through Steam tonight. IDK how big it was but it only took 3 minutes to download. I found my first railway rifle too. Body parts go flying when hit with that thing.

 
Thanks for the heads up. D/L it and it was quite small. A little over a minute.
 
I have the rifle but very little ammo. I'll have to try it and see the damage to determine the value for me.

The railway rifle is steam powered and chugs away while blowing little puffs of smoke out of it. LOL  It has a really slow fire rate but I think you can recover the rail spikes from the corpse. Accuracy isn't that great from a distance but it shreds those ghouls up close and sends arms and legs flying about the room. Ha-ha. I found a silenced .50 caliber Sniper Rifle that has a decent fire rate and is doing a great job of picking Raiders off from a distance. I just don't like that the 'Alt' key is used to hold your breath. Left 'Ctrl' is used for Crouch so I don't think I can bind it to holding my breath too.

 
 
All I have at the moment in the 50 cal range is a sniper rifle and pistol. I love the long range shots that cause a head to explode. Plus the advantage of a bit more time to do another target before switching weapons. The recoil is a slight problem time wise making it harder to reacquire target and rechamber a round before engaging another target.
 
I use both keys. Generally I am crouching (I like sneaking) and then I use the alt key to hold my breath. Because the holding of breath uses AP's I release the alt key right after I shoot so as to save as many AP's as possible. It's a challenge but one that I like.

I keep having to clean out that car factory to save one of the settlements. I getting a little tired of constantly having to go back there to rescue them. I have the entire settlement surrounded by machine gun turrets and the last time I was there the Raiders set up two turrets of their own and they were firing at each other killing my turrets while my turrets were killing them. OMG, how stupid can it get?

I'm a bit peeved at Bethesda for disabling mods with the patch.
 
 

fearpoint
I'm a bit peeved at Bethesda for disabling mods with the patch.
 
 

Yeah, I'd seen that warning but my console commands still work. No biggie to me.

Zuhl3156
I keep having to clean out that car factory to save one of the settlements. I getting a little tired of constantly having to go back there to rescue them. I have the entire settlement surrounded by machine gun turrets and the last time I was there the Raiders set up two turrets of their own and they were firing at each other killing my turrets while my turrets were killing them. OMG, how stupid can it get?

I don't know if you noticed it but for me, after I have cleaned a place out, it is marked on the map as "CLEARED". After a period of in game time has gone by the "CLEARED" word is gone and you have to start over there.
 
 
I also wish that Bethesda would grant more time to the settlement under attack warning. I missed/failed another one that I didn't see the warning on.

fearpoint
I'm a bit peeved at Bethesda for disabling mods with the patch.
 
 

If memory serves me correctly that has been a long standing tradition. I seem to remember that once a patch was issued the mod's developer had to make a change to the mod to make it work again.

I'm getting tired of rescuing those settlements. After all, I am a General, aren't I? Why don't some of the Grunts take care of my 'light work'? Once some areas are cleared they stay cleared. Only some areas need to be cleared more than once. I think I'll rescue some Synths just for kicks before I round them up again for the Institute. LOL

I got another one of those rescue settlement missions. This time I was very early. When I got there it was quiet and there was no attack. So I looked around and saw nothing. Then magically the horde of ghouls appeared. Game on. LOL