Many a True Nerd. A YouTube channel run by a fellow named Jon, who, unlike his Westeros counterpart, knows a whole lot about the mechanics of Fallout. He’s done all sorts of themed playthroughs of 3 and New Vegas: pacifist runs, kill everything runs, no healing runs, etc.

I’m down with this, but I’m not so down with the dust storms. It doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me - there’s plenty of vegetation cover in the Commonwealth, so dust shouldn’t be blowing like that. Not sure if there’s a way to disable dust storms yet - if there is, I’ll install this in a heartbeat.

They are flat out the most evil faction. Massacring villages, abduction, murder, slavery, brainwashing...

On the other hand, they also have the greatest capacity for doing good in the Wasteland with you at the helm. So... ends or means?

Two. You can side with two factions (Railroad and BoS) at once. Unless you mean they have the option to side with three factions in total, in which case, true.

Wait, seriously? You’ve decided never to read his stuff again because... he quoted someone else saying something you disagree with? Something that he then addresses sentences later?

Well, alright then. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Presumably, yes. There are still functioning ships, and Tenpenny specifically says he came from the UK. Which means it’s likely that Ireland still has people, too. (Actually, Ireland’s probably more or less in one piece. They weren’t a military target, after all... no nukes.)

You’re supposed to put foundations down before you place prefabs. Foundations can be found in the Wooden Structures>Floors menu.

You’re familiar with the stairway trick, yes?

In case you’re not: place a foundation. Then place a stairway (through the floor panel, not the stairs panel). It’ll snap to the floor, and then you can snap another foundation to the top of the stairs, meaning two foundation blocks perfectly stacked.

I strongly recommend Survival Mode. It makes everything much more scarce, and fights are a lot more challenging on account of Stimpacks working very slowly. Plus, enemies do a lot more damage, so A.) you’ll need to pay attention to your armor choices and B.) you’ll actually be using Stimpacks fairly frequently.

The…

You don’t “use” bobbleheads. When you pick them up they give you a permanent bonus to your stats. That’s the only mechanic to them. You can put them on a bobblehead stand if you really want.

In the graf right after the Twitter quote from Notch, last sentence, it reads “but many plans aren’t pleased,” which should probably be “but many fans aren’t pleased.” Unless plans are sentient and capable of preferences now.

Also: Anything that has eyes. And you should. Always. Extra damage and a chance at blinding? I’ll take it!

Yeah, I seriously struggled with this. I really, really didn’t want to destroy such a magnificent piece of machinery. Plus, there’s a cat on board. I will not blow up an airship if I have to blow up a cat.

He tells the best jokes.

Your head canon unfortunately does not trump the fact that Bethesda now controls what is and isn’t canon in-universe, even if bringing up the Enclave just to kill them again in FO3 was definitely zombie horse beating. Sorry.

Yeah... but the problem with that is that for 2.5/4 endings*, the BoS are completely annihilated in the end game. They could create a “post-MQ” DLC like FO3 did, but more than 50% of the MQ play through options would close off that DLC. That seems too exclusionary to be a good idea - don’t want to actively drive…

Well, they’re sort of similar in that both have walls around them, and are centered around... well... a center. Diamond City is built out of a baseball stadium and is much, much larger, though.

You mean you liked the new BoS? Because the Fallout 3 BoS were the only heroic BoS chapter. The BoS in Fallouts 1, 2, Tactics, and New Vegas have all been much more similar to Fallout 4’s BoS.

Yeah. They’re really, really terrible at not crashing their Vertibirds at the slightest provocation. Some raiders with pipe weapons? I better get the fuck outta the way, because that Veritibird will be crashing down on me any second now.

The Minutemen. They’re the only faction where you can have three out of four factions survive the end game. I didn’t want to completely eradicate the Brotherhood of Steel - their leader may be a bag of dicks, but the rank-and-file members aren’t so bad, and they really do have a lot of useful technology and expertise…