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?
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
WARNING: For those who haven't started Fallout 4, this article will contain minor spoilers
1. Reclaim Your Wife/Husband's Wedding Ring
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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
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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'
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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
4. Kill the Worlds Easiest Boss/Get a Pet Killing Machine
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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...
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
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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.
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.
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
@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