http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1059928

As the quote clearly states, this thread is for all matters related to the speculation and suggestions for fallout 4. Enjoy.

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I'd love to see the daedric princes with spiky hair and effeminate personalities.
Anyway thread limit. Somebody make a new one please. "

XD

Re: Weapon and item degredation - I'm a fan of the mechanic, at least in concept; but I'd agree that there's still plenty of room for refinement in that area. You probably should be able to repair items without having to find an exact match, for one. Or at least have a number of other salvage items (like scrap metal, etc) that could be used up for the same purposes to repair anything at all. And certain unique items probably shouldn't suffer degredation, or at the very least to a lesser extent (or through some sort of algorithm tied to your Repair skill.)

More than anything, what I thought it brought to the table was more emphasis on the Repair skill in the first place. That was one of those highly underutilized skills in the previous games, I always thought. I'd made a number of characters with Repair skill tagged in Fallout 1 and 2, and you don't really find as many things you can do with that skill as you would with some of the other secondary skills. Having item degredation opened up a whole new world for that skill - in Fallout 3, that's going to be one of the more important skills you can raise up.

We talk about the "realism" associated with the concept until the cows come home, but none of that really has much bearing on a game filled with Supermutants, "Radiation!" and Ghouls. The Fallout universe is just as much a fantasy world as Middle Earth ever was. It's just set in a different timeline - using "Science!" in place of "Magic" doesn't make the thing any more reality-based.

Since this is an "official thread" please in the future report it when full and allow a moderator to start a new one please so we can better keep up with it.