December 10, 2015

Fallout 4

Date played: December 9th
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 9/10

I did a mission for the Brotherhood of Steel where I had to escort a field scribe from the Boston Airport all the way to a military checkpoint far south of the city. It was a pretty long walk where I had to fight quite a few raiders, Super Mutants and wild animals, but we made it safely.

The Brotherhood ship, Prydwen, hovers over the Boston airport
I stumbled upon a deserted town called Jamaica Plains, where I had a mission for the Minutemen. There was a cool little story to find here as the town's leaders decided to build a small exhibit in a basement that would be some sort of museum. The computer terminals had cool little bits of this story where the janitor complains that there is no money for maintenance due to the exhibit. It was kinda weird and fun.

The rest of my time was spent completing side missions for the Railroad where I found another pre-war cache and installed about 5 or 6 weather vanes for Tinker Tom. The weather vane missions were fun because I often had to figure out a way to reach the roof of certain buildings, and it wasn't always obvious. In one case, I even had to battle a glowing Deathclaw, a very powerful enemy. Thankfully, my luck/critical build works very well. I shot the fucker in the belly with my .44, doped up on chems, and destroyed the monster.

For my efforts, I was rewarded with clothing that is armored and can be worn underneath normal armor, boosting my protection quite a bit. I'm now level 50 and I have been spending most of my perk points on skills that increase my critical chance and damage.