I remember one of the first reviews I read, the author loved the game but was rather disgruntled because he couldn't get an ending he liked.  I think he said something about being frustrated because a better ending should have been possible, it just would not give him the obvious options to get there.

Personally, I'm fine with that, I don't really need endings and I often avoid them.

I'm regretting going pistols with Very Hard.  There is no pistol that equals a combat rifle.  Also, not having the rifle perk means a downgrade for the shotgun, which is often a necessity regardless of your medium- and long-distance choices.  Doing the Forged quest against the skull-level, power-armor wearing boss, nothing I had would even make a dent in him except getting up in his face and spamming the combat shotgun.

I'm in the yellow at Starlight and not even close to finished.  Arhg.  

Well.  I can't believe no one else thought of this.

"This took months to build and my framerate drops to a crawl whenever I go near it, but hopefully it will help my search."

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3z4r8o/this_took_months_to_build_and_my_framerate_drops/

I just started Fallout4, and it's the first Fallot Game that I play.
One question : it's very easy to find wood, steel, cement, but not so easy to find copper, and I need it to build several
connectors for electricity, so that lights in the vicinity of my line of connectors and electricity cables are powered. So, where can I find good amount of copper ?

Also, once you get more weapons, how can you assign a slot to them ?

Also, why it's so laborious to put a simple door into the door frame of an existing house ? I should just select the door and place it into the door frame. Easy as that. But look at that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4Oq3-6jjw
 

Am I missing something? I can't believe that.

Thanks in advance !

Copper is your life's blood if you work on settlements.  You can buy it in Goodneighbor and Diamond City, though you'll want to have high Charisma and/or clothing that boosts it as much as possible unless you've been playing long enough that caps don't matter.  As for finding it in the wild, I remember a few electronics stores that had a good amount.  Watts Electronics was somewhere below the Boathouse settlement, if I remember right.  Factory type places often have a fair amount.  

Beyond that, there is a Perk that lets you scrap guns and armor.  Pipe Rifles almost always give you copper when you scrap them, if you have that Perk.  Also, switch to raw materials mode in your inventory and tag copper so that anything that contains copper will have an icon next to it when you mouse over.  You see anything with that icon, you grab it.

Copper is definitely the most scarce resource.  I value it over anything else when I'm scrounging.  I buy up everything with copper in it from the traders, like hot plates and fuses.  I've spent more caps on copper than everything else in the game combined.  Of course, it's easy to become rich so it's not that big of a deal.

Oil and adhesive can also be hard to find but you can make items that contain those in cooking and chemistry stations so they soon become no problem.

I don't know what you're playing on but on PC pressing Q lets you assign a weapon or a healing item to a slot.

Building settlements can be ... tricky.  You get a lot better with practice but there are things that will frustrate the heck out of you even after 100 hours.  Personally, I don't use doors because they can be a pain and the NPC leave them open anyway.  I also tend to ignore existing houses and build my own, as existing houses can cause some buggy behavior.

HAHA That's brilliant! How much copper went in that thing lol. At least only the lit pixels require wires and power.

I got sucked back into Elite Dangerous, another time sink of epic proportions. I just checked my play time, coming up on 985 hours. Most of that is while multi tasking at least, eg it's running right now in a window behind my browser, on the long way back home. If ED ever lets you build your own bases on distant planets I'll be doomed forever :/ Must make a sign you can see from space!

Best to always buy the items containing copper from Trashcan Clara and from Goodneighbour. Always pick up old lamps on the way and check electronic stores.

On ps4 it's R1 to assign a weapon to a slot from the inventory menu.

Forget about doors in existing frames, they only want to snap into the door frames you built yourself and those are finicky enough to place already. Inside hallways with doors don't seem to be possible. Or maybe I missed something too.

I seriously suggest googling some beginner's tips.  Almost all the major websites have published one or more.  It's also kind of amusing that some give contradicting information, which means there is no one right way.

I'd suggest looking at a list of Perks and planning out where you want to spend your points.  The settlement perks under Charisma are pretty valuable if you want to build, especially the one that lets you have supply lines.  The best guns, in my experience, are rifles, so the rifle perk is great, but you can also go pistols.  There is another perk that covers automatic weapons of either type.  The perk under Strength that lets you carry more is good for picking up raw materials.  

Gun Nut perk lets you customize your weapons and make the stronger BUT you can also take parts off weapons you find even without it.  However, you can get the best parts a LOT faster with it, which makes winning easier.  If you have to take parts from enemies then that means they have better gear than you.

You will learn to hate Preston Garvey.

Sneak perk + Ninja perk is very powerful.  Some people say melee builds are very powerful.  VATS is your friend--spam it and it will locate enemies you can't see.

Lone Wanderer perk makes you a lot stronger without a companion BUT you can still use it even with Dogmeat, a dog that you ... meet.  However, other companions give you great abilities when you form a strong bond with them (they have to Idolize you).

Some items, like Oil, Adhesives, and Copper are really rare and useful.  Pick them up anything that has these components and put it in your settlement stash so they can be broken down.

Really, you'll lean to hate Preston Garvey.

Look for Legendary items.  Take the components off the gear you're using and put them on the Legendary gear you find.

Cigar Boxes, Cigarette Cartons and Packs, and Pre-war money will be broken down if you put them in your main stash.  They are a lot more valuable if you sell them instead!  I put them into a separate container until I talk to a trader.

There is an early access game on Steam called Eden Star that I might pick up.  It's an FPS/base-building/resource-mining/tower-defense game that has a Very Positive rating thus far.  That sounds perfect for me, assuming it delivers.

Did the Vault 81 quest WITHOUT contracting the Mole Rat Disease (MRD).  Yay!  It was nerve-wracking and I saved every few seconds.  Never had to re-do any sections, though.  So glad I read that you have to leave your companion outside and NOT hack the robot.  Turns out that if THEY get the bitten, YOU get the disease.  Yeah, even the nameless robot.  How that works, I have no clue.  Used a suppressed combat shotgun for most of it or my suppressed 10mm.  Dropped a lot of frag mines, too, especially for the last fight.  Sneaking lets you start the fight on your terms (mostly), though there are a few tough ambush sections.

Found and Instigating (2x damage if the enemy is at full health) combat shotgun later on, which I'd had it then.  It's a monster.  Overseer's Guardian would have been fantastic, too, but I don't have the rifle perk this play-through (using pistols) and it doesn't have a silencer.

Some random shots:

Suddenly all my brahmin are afraid of water--which makes you wonder how they got to these little islands in the first place.

This guy had on a hood.  I can see why.

Me and Piper role playing.  Really, though, she floated behind me in this pose for like an hour.

My wannabe raider girl.

You're starting with the right mindset! That will liven up the conversations. But I'm afraid half your effort was wasted :p

Don't go hand to hand with ferals in the beginning, use vats to keep them at a disatance. Radaway is hard to come by at the start, as well as a doctor. Also be careful what you drink and eat. It sucks having to play with only 20% of your health bar left.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-12-cool-bioshock-infinite-themed-fallout-4-settlement-puts-columbia-in-the-commonwealth


Fallout 4 has been out for a few months now, but players brave enough to suffer through the unintuitive base-building continue to create impressive settlements. Now, a dedicated Fallout 4 tinkerer has put the flying city of Columbia in the skies above the Commonwealth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxiGlP1sjhE

The article says that was created with 99% in game objects if you want to build something like that yourself. Yet how do you use all those objects...