Has anyone ever actually seen a BOS VBird Land?

Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:11 am

Happened one time when i helped them out. It actually didn't blow up at all! ONE TIME! There is a mod that makes them more sturdy, which i intend to use later on

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Nathan Hunter
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:08 am

Brotherhood squad landing just over from the Red Rocket Settlement, with a dog along.

http://imgur.com/8xfo80m

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Lynette Wilson
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:30 am

Well I'll be......*Hands kralore five bucks*

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Jack Walker
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:46 pm

They land sometimes. The first time I saw them land was at the Weston Water Plant. It was obviously a scripted event as I was there to do a mission for the robots at Gray Garden. BOS and the Gunners were going at it. During the chaos, one of the Gunners hijacked the Vertibird and used it against the BOS. I shot it down. That was that. Sometimes if you go back to the water plant, you'll see BOS and the Gunners battling again. The game seems to repeat the event as if it had never happened. I discovered a similar incident near the Amphitheater where a Vertibird is circling around a nearby building before it gets shot down and lands on or near the Amphitheater. It's happened at least 4 times in my experience.

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Tai Scott
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:11 am

Seen them hover then BOS usually drop out. The birds tend to try to run fire support and inevitably end up getting shot down.

I wonder where the hell they are getting all these birds, considering the Predwyin only has 4 docks..

They are also ruining all of my fire fights.
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Micah Judaeah
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:22 am

yea everytime im in a fight out in the country side - and i hear that Vbird coming - i think to myself "omg i better clear this area quick before that thing kamikazes right into me"

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Stephanie Kemp
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:01 am


Yea im thinking with my next character, I am going to start hitting them with nukes..
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Travis
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:20 pm

Well if by land you mean smash into the nearest building & explode into several large fiery pieces then yes I have seen them land thousands of times

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Neliel Kudoh
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:31 am

Only at the city edges I ever see them get to land but in the city areas the poor things get slaughtered even by raider groups that only have pipe weapons! Buff the vertibirds please! They are a sad sight!

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Emily Graham
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:34 am

Ive seen plenty crash, i swear they all take a hit of chems before they fly. Also they look like humming birds when they attack a enemy.
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JUDY FIGHTS
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:05 pm

I've seen them land many times.

Just because it happens to be accompanied by an absence of lift and thrust does not mean it isn't a landing.

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Charlotte Henderson
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:06 pm

Probably from all the liberated armories and depots the Brotherhood has found throughout the US. I'm guessing the Prydwen has a supply chain since their operation in Boston is considered a battle. It's supposed to be like the much fabled Pittsburgh, so a long and costly campaign.

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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:18 am

It would be more immersive in my opinion if they came in shooting, dropped the troops and then left the area. At the moment it seems once they spawn they just circle around shooting until they are destroyed. I mean I have seen them both drop in power armoured troops from a height and land to drop off non-power armoured troops but once they take off again the will continue attacking enemies until destroyed as if they are on some sort of suicide mission...

I guess part of the problem is that the ai never runs away. Well I have sometimes seen an enemy say something like "I have had enough of this" and retreat a short distance and hide behind a tree or something. But then if you wait they come back. I have never seen them actually run away despite me cutting through them like butter, if you cut butter with a gauss rifle... :)
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:11 pm

You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life.

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The Vertibirds should retreat when damaged enough. Dragons in Skyrim did that sometimes.

They're cool though, even if they drop like flies. Foggy streets of Boston, visibility very low, Raiders and Super Mutants behind every corner, sounds of battle in the distance, Vertibird giving fire support somewhere in the sky, me and BoS-Knight in Power Armor rushing down the streets trying to kill enemies before they shoot the Vertibird down... 'Twas awesome, if futile.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:25 am

I would assume that they actually establish defended localities, and leapfrog the main vertibird forces from staging camp to staging camp, with the Prydwen flying command and admin/log support...

The game lost a bit of the 'awesome' factor, when I first landed on the Prydwen and a vertibird flew through me, the Prydwen, and the vertibird I had just arrived in...I seriously regret not recording the moment for posterity and youtube comments.

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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:36 am

I've seen it land a few times with a BOS squad emerge, i've also seen a fair few shot down as well, its a cool feature for me.

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Lisa
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:39 am

I've seen roughly a dozen vertibirds so far and have yet to actually witness one land safely. Onedid majestically fly off into the sunset after killing some ghouls but all the others suffered a fiery death. Somewhat annoyingly I've only found a small portion of one corpse from one crash. It's like most wrecks are so violent it destroys the bodies or something lol.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:55 am

I've seen plenty land just fine. Problem seems to be the bird's low health but there's a mod for it (I don't have it installed but I've heard good things about it) http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2857/?

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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:13 am

Yes, several times. Once I went to a landed Vertibird (I'm losely associated to the BoS) to help and discovered that the plane was manned by Gunners. There were dead BoS troops on the ground. The Gunners started and hunted me with the bird and on the ground, I died several times before succeeding. I thought the Gunners conquered the landed Vertibird or do they have planes of their own?

What is really astonishing btw for me is that the BoS has such an abundance of Vertibirds with weapons and ammunition and skilled pilots given the fact that so many planes crash all the time.

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Isabel Ruiz
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:36 pm

BOS having guard dogs would explain that dog that was non-hostile wandering about an area where I was fighting Super Mutants (it could also have been the dog that guy was trying to sell).......I assume it was BOS like the Pilot who turned up at one of my settlements.

Having spent a lot of time flying in a Vertibird lately I can honestly say I'm not surprised they crash so much since they seem to pretty regularly fly through and attempt to land on structures when I'm in them.

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Vickey Martinez
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:24 am

I've seen a one manage an air drop but never actually land (well...not the right way up). I'm assuming that each one has a Fallout equivalent of Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses as navigator.

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April
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:20 am

I've seen one hover-land to drop off troops.

Going by what people are saying here, either the pilots are really terrible or the design is seriously flawed for them to be crashing so much.

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Darlene Delk
 
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:04 pm

Yeah, your average BOS pilot has crashed more times than a ZX81.
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Raymond J. Ramirez
 
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:31 am

LOL the purpose of power armor is to be able to eject from the bird before it explodes, yes it also give protection against enemies who is an nice bonus.

I once saw an BoS in power armor jump from large height and hit the river.

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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:26 am

I read somewhere that someone saw one get hijacked by Gunners.

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