I had considered it, but I want to do the BoS thing this time no matter how much I'll hate it and stealth is really not their thing (at least in PA).

Something different. Besides, if I get frustrated I still have my darling Melinda to fall back on.

Have you tried playing how I suggested? It works fine if you can't aim for crap.

Are you referring to the Cryo gun from Vault 111? If not, I'm not really in far enough for any major stuff, but I want to give it a try when I get it.

For the moment, my missile launcher and my mini-gun do the trick too.

No just find a nice legendary freezey laser rifle or similar and mod the crap out of it. I added fire damage plus all the other mods I listed so it can also be used for sniping, saves switching weapons all the time. Then at some point get hip fire accuracy for extra insurance. Because it is able to hit so fast you can do loads of damage, more than hitting one big hit at a very slow rate (and possibly missing anyway, if you're not good at aiming). You can wipe out several enemies at once with all the fast hitting, just stay mobile. Can do like 400+ dps with mine, probably more.

The one you get from Danse will work fine for now.

Well... I'm off to meet Danse tonight anyhow, so I will definitely give it a try!

Make sure you add all the right damage perks.

Will do!

Don't feel bad, I svck at FPS and having a hard time with Fallout 4 as well. I think the problem is it's a big resolution. The gun is so high up above the waist it's almost like the bottom half I can't see so when the enemy is apon me, especially dogs and mole rats, I can't see them and almost 1/2 my health is gone before I can spot them. I end up using V.A.T.S all the time just to find where they are and hit them when they are up close.

I too have never been an FPS player. I am just not interested usually in twitch gaming. I've long been of the opinion that I would svck at FPS. An RPG such as Fallout however is a different story. I find VATS breaks my immersion and I never use it, ever, for anything, including finding enemies. I play as if VATS did not exist. I do play stealthily however, and I am not sure how well I would fare if I did not. Oddly I find I am 'not' svcking doing this in Fallout.

I would recommend you concentrate on your rifle and a combat shotgun (ditch that double right fast), this mainly so you don't have to spend twice as many perk points keeping your damage maxed. For the rifle, trick that out for long range aimed fire. For the shotgun, give it a short barrel and no scope, just a reflex sight (also anything to reduce recoil). You want a short barrel because you 'want' the wider spread. You don't really need more than this. You might want to keep a melee weapon for riffraff you don't want to waste ammo on, and a fatman for behemoths and the like, but a rifle and shotgun should do the job in 99% of the situations. The rifle obviously is for when you can engage at a distance. The shotgun is for when things are close and moving fast.

Other things you want are a very good framerate and a good mouse. If you are not getting a solid 60 FPS in the thick of battle, you should be lowering your graphics settings until you do. Some FPS gamers would insist on 90 FPS. As I said before, I am not any sort of seasoned FPS player, but by having a good FPS and responsive mouse, I am able to resolve most fights with just my rifle, even while the enemy is charging me.

if you can find a trader that wanders the waste named Cricket I believe. she has a shotgun called pray and spray which does base damage + 15 area effect damage. If you mod it you can raise it's base damage up. It cost a little over 2000 caps.(depending on your charisma and perks.)

Only part is you can go through ammo fast.

I believe that is a submachine gun firing .45 ammo, not a shotgun. Still though, the area effect combined with a high rate of fire would indeed make short work of most things, while the ammo lasts. It would be nice if you could mod it to use .38 ammo though. There's probably a mod for that on Nexus somewhere.

What? Shotguns are ideal for up close and personal encounters. Whenever I'm in an indoor location with narrow space, I always switch to my combat shotgun.

As for tips, the only thing I can suggest is practice shooting dogmeat as he moves around and won't leave you or attack if you shoot him.

Yup, the reflex sights on a pipe pistol with the big magazine and as many points in gun slinger can be managed is the way to go for close in early. Very close I use the whole sight rather than the aiming point and shoot as fast as I can pull the trigger. The .38 pipe pistol can do some decent damage with the best possible receiver and it will have enough ammunition to keep it going. with a suppressor and it will carry the OP through till she gets the hang of FPS.

Lol...I was only half serious..just blurted out CoD for a reaction...point was to maybe practice with other FPS games...but you also said you won't play FPS games so eh,...you could try Far Cry 3 or 4 tho..


Also could point out there is a gun sold by Cricket at bunker hill, sometimes she's outside diamond city...it's a sub-machine gun with explosive .45 rounds...appropriately named Spray n Pray...

Fully-auto + explosive rounds, don't have to be accurate at all really..

haha, no. On PC with the crosshairs turned off I hip shoot a couple on the way in and then with the muzzle of my long suppressed assault rifle pointed down cut them off at the knees. Early game I do the same thing with a pipe or 10 mm pistol with the best receiver, reflex sights and suppressors. The assault rifle with the suppressor has zero recoil so it's very easy.

The only thing I get surrounded by is mole rats, and who cares really.

There are a lot of FPS that are single player and infinitely less camp/homoerotic/testosterone soaked than CoD or it's like. Max Payne was my first shooter (third person in its case) and a glorious time was had. Max Payne 2 is even better and should be dirt cheap these days. Half Life 2 is classic FPS that is like a linear Fallout game, though expect far better writing and mechanics.

Or Far Cry 2. That game is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Africa. 3 and 4 are just weird.

I find hit detection to be pretty clunky when you are sniping enemies from afar, but other than that I would say the FPS is comparable to most FPS games of late albeit much slower.

This is the first time I would say Bethesda made a good combat system for when the game was released, the other being when Oblivion was released in 2006 although Dark Messiah's combat far surpassed Oblivion's later on that year.

I found Wolfenstein the New Order to have been a good single player shooter. The control scheme has a Quake feeling to it which also created nostalgia for me.

THIS!


I'm not fantastic at FPS but nowhere have I felt as bad as here. I've had my super sniper rifle miss easy shots so many times! Sometimes even when they are closing and I couldn't possibly miss. It has to be glitches / lag. I too am on the PC.


So, don't beat yourself up about it but you may have to make some adjustments to account for it.


Good luck.

Agreed. My last Wolfenstein game was Enemy Territory, and the [censored] you could do in that was absolutely hilarious, largely due to how the movement/control scheme was.

there is an .ini fix for that ^^

the game has mouse acceleration and you can completely remove it... I felt like the game was unplayable with it

but after you change a few values in the .ini it becomes as smooth and direct as any other shooter on PC

just google for it

For me the culprit would be the game pad. I find it fairly easy and enjoyable to aim with a mouse but with a pad it's terrible. I will never play a FPS on a console and I would only buy a console if a mouse could be used.

1) Really??? I'll have to check it out, thanks!

2) Why the heck do devs keep doing this? Mouse acceleration... just why?

It's for consoles. Because they're using a anolog stick it's a lot easier to navigate the mini-map with mouse acceleration. If you turn it off you'd be stuck having to nudge the pointer around because it'll feel like it's glued to a grid.

The fact that they don't turn it off (literally just putting 0 in the ini file) really speaks volumes about their stance on PC.

Whaaa? Different battles call for different strategies? I guess some of us are different and don't need this.

Anyways, best tip:

Be calm, and aim for body shots. You're in power armor for crying out loud, don't be afraid of idiotic raiders and an oversized iguana.

If you REALLY wanna test your FPS skills and become a pro like others, play games like Killing Floor 1 and 2, those will basically break your back and see if you can handle hairy situations all the while training your eyes to focus on important targets that you will learn THE HARD WAY~