Foul ENT

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • News shorts
  • About
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • News shorts
  • About
  • Contact

5 Things To Do in the First Hour of Fallout 4 (30 Days of Stuff)

11/11/2015

 
Fallout 4 finally came out yesterday to the meaty sound of a million nerds whacking off over their new Pip Boys (If indeed they even got them, more on that here). I played it pretty much all day yesterday and I've got to say that I'm enjoying my time with it. But Fallout 4 is a huge game that hardly anyone has seen through to the end, so you may have to wait a while for a full on review from us. And even then, I think I'd rather take the game at a pace rather than power through it. But what of the start of the game?
Picture
Not everyone will see the end, but everyone will see the start. Here are 5 things you'll want to do in the first hour of your Fallout 4 campaigns.

WARNING: For those who haven't started Fallout 4, this article will contain minor spoilers

1. Reclaim Your Wife/Husband's Wedding Ring

Picture
Image Credit: gamespot.com
During the opening moments of the game, your Vault Dweller will be separated from your spouse as you make your way into Vault 111. After a fairly brutal scene when you enter cryo-stasis, your spouse will be killed and your son stolen. Once you're free, you may think to open your spouses' cryo-stasis pod to say goodbye. What you'll also want to do is loot the corpse and reclaim their wedding ring. By default, you will be wearing yours, but you can take back your partners as well, and it's highly advised that you do. The ring will be worth a hefty sum of caps early on in the game so you may want to consider trading it off, or you may want to keep it in hopes that you can present the ring to the main antagonist as you press a laser rifle to his head/crotch. 
​

2. Build a Fort/Destroy Your Home

Picture
Image Credit: youtube.com/robbaz
After emerging from Vault 111 and coming across a small band of soldiers in a nearby town, you will be given an optional quest to make your old hometown of Sanctuary a livable community. Do it. Settlement building is one of the biggest new aspects of Fallout 4 and missing out base building would be a dumb thing to do. The control in the construction mode are admittedly clunky, but creating a safe settlement of your own is really quite rewarding. As you cart about Sanctuary making scrap into beds and radios, you can also demolish old furniture, appliances and even entire houses in order to remake the town as you see fit. So, what will it be? Preserve the pre-war town and make it habitable again? Start afresh with a blank slate? Or will you build a three story death fortress laden with traps, with nothing but a toilet guarded by five sentry turrets and a selection of cat portraits on top? You can probably guess what I did.
​

3. Have Codsworth Call You 'Mr Boobies'

Picture
Image Credit: fallout.wikia.com
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. Don't grow up for goodness sake, because Bethesda have put some hysterical, immature voice acting into Fallout 4. At the very beginning of the game, you will be prompted to select your preffered SPECIAL set-up as well as enter a name for your dweller. If you happen to name yourself 'Boobies', your robot butler Codsworth will forever refer to you as 'Mr Boobies' or 'Miss Boobies' in a wonderfully enthusiastic manner. As it turns out, over 1000 names are recognised by the game, but a large selection of them are completely immature. As well as 'Boobies', the following names are also fully voice acted for Codsworth:
  • Cock
  • Boob
  • Assface
  • Dong
  • Erectus
  • Sexy
  • Fuck
  • Fucker
  • Fuckface
  • Titties
  • Nipple
You may also want to try out a number of first and last names from popular sci-fi and apocalyptic movies. You may be plesantly surprised.
​

4. Kill the Worlds Easiest Boss/Get a Pet Killing Machine

Picture
Image Credit: youtube.com/MrSmartDonkeyLP
As you take your first few steps out into the Commonwealth wasteland, you'll no doubt feel the need for exploration. Heading north-east from Sancturary will bring you to the USAF Sattelite Station Olivia (You can also head here during the early quest 'Returning the favour'. From here, head north-west to the Robotics Disposal Ground. Here you'll find a small statch of useful items, chief among which is the Combat Sentry Proto MKIV. He's the big green robot sitting at the back.

You've actually got two options here. You can either use the holotape located in the control shack in your Pip Boy to send the sentry into combat zones to clear enemies out, or you can use the holotape in the terminal inside the shack to activate him in defense mode for an easy boss kill. Not only that, but he'll drop a few useful items like fusion cores, which you will want for...
​

5. Make like Tony Stark and have a Hall of Armour

Picture
Image Credit: youtube.com/robbaz
Head south east from the Robotics Disposal Ground to find your first (Well, potentially first, it depends on your exploration) Power Armor of the game. It's pretty beat up, but a fusion core will get it moving again. Making headway into the main quest line of the game will bring you to a full suit of Power Armour and a minigun in the town of Concord. There's even a suit of armour waiting for you at the bottom Covenant Lake just south east of the vault. If you have the cores handy, you'll want to make a small collection of Power Armours for use later on in the game. Or, more importantly, you can use your newly built toilet tower of death to store all the armours and make yourself look like Tony Stark. A crazy, dirty, 200 year old Tony Stark. Who just wants his toilet defending.

There you have it. You've clocked your first hour of Fallout 4, and you've got a secure homestead, a selection of metal evening wear, some spare jewellery and a humorous name. What more could you want? No need to thank me.

Picture
By Mike Owen
@ThatMikeOwen

The Editor in Chief of Foul Entertainment, Mike edits most of what you see on the site. He runs the production of our podcasts, and currently pens Pop Culture Club and The Death of Video Games


Comments are closed.

    Blogs

    You can find all of our articles right here. Use the menus below to sort by date, author or series.

    Also, click the buttons below to explore our social network antics.

    Articles

    All
    30 Days Of Stuff
    5 Days With...
    Articles By Abdurahman
    Articles By Darren
    Articles By Frank King
    Articles By Jary
    Articles By Joe
    Articles By Mike
    Ask Jary
    Code Club
    Danke-bitte
    Deaf To All But Metal
    Death Of Video Games
    E3 2015
    E3 2016
    Foul Fantasy Devblog
    Foul-To's
    Friday The 12th
    General Foulection
    Jary Files
    Plenty Of Catfish
    Podcasts
    Pop Culture Club
    Rider Report
    Site News
    Star Wars Week
    #Tagurday
    WWE Stats 2019

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

© Foul Entertainment, 2015 - 2022
​
​