Someone leaked gameplay footage -- I didn't watch it since I don't want to pine after it for another week. God, only eight more days. Wished it came out closer to the weekend instead.

 

Another leak (or possibly the same one, doesn't really matter) with some interesting bits.

Complete perks list:

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STRENGTH is a measure of your raw physical power. It affects how much you can carry, and the damage of all melee attacks.

1. Iron Fist – Channel your chi to unleash devastating fury! Punching attacks do 20% more damage to your opponent. (5 Ranks)
2. Big Leagues – Swing for the fences! Do 20% more melee weapon damage. (5 Ranks)
3. Armorer – Protect yourself from the dangers of the Wasteland with access to base level and Rank 1 armor mods. (4 Ranks)
4. Blacksmith – Fire up the forge and gain access to base level and Rank 1 melee weapon mods. (3 Ranks)
5. Heavy Gunner – Thanks to practice and conditioning, heavy guns do 20% more damage. (5 Ranks)
6. Strong Back – What are you, part pack mule? Gain +25 to carry weight. (4 Ranks)
7. Stead Aim – Stay on target! Hip-fire accuracy is improved when firing any gun. (2 Ranks)
8. Basher – Get up close and personal! Gun bashing does 25% more damage. (4 Ranks)
9. Rooted – You’re part tree! While standing still, you gain +25 Damage Resistance and your melee and unarmed attacks deal 25% more damage (3 Ranks)
10. Pain Train – Choo choo! All aboard! While wearing Power Armor, sprinting into enemies hurts and staggers them. (Robots and oversized enemies are immune to stagger.) (3 Ranks)

PERCEPTION is your environmental awareness and “sixth sense,” and affects weapon accuracy in V.A.T.S.

1. Pickpocket – Your quick hands and sticky fingers make picking pockets 25% easier. (4 Ranks)
2. Rifleman – Keep your distance long and your kill-count high. Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 20% more damage. (5 Ranks)
3. Awareness – To defeat your enemies, you know their weaknesses! You can view a targets specific damage resistances in V.A.T.S. (1 Rank)
4. Locksmith – Your nimble fingers allow you to pick Advanced locks. (4 Ranks)
5. Demolition Expert – The bigger the boom, the better! Your explosives do 25% more damage, and you can craft explosives at any Chemistry Station. (4 Ranks)
6. Night Person – You are a creature of the night! Gain +2 to Intelligence and Perception between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. (2 Ranks)
7. Refractor – You must be part mirror! Instantly gain +10 Energy Resistance. (5 Ranks)
8. Sniper – It’s all about focus. You have improved control and can hold your breath longer when aiming with scopes. (3 Ranks)
9. Penetrator – There’s no place to hide! In V.A.T.S. you can target an enemy’s body parts that are blocked by cover, with a decrease in accuracy. (2 Ranks)
10. Concentrated Fire – Stay focused! In V.A.T.S. every attack on the same body part gains +10% accuracy. (3 Ranks)

ENDURANCE is a measure of your overall physical fitness. It affects your total Health and the Action Point drain from sprinting.

1. Toughness – You now have +20 Damage Resistance (5 Ranks)
2. Lead Belly – Your digestive tract has adjusted to the weirdness of the Wasteland! Take less radiation from eating or drinking. (3 Ranks)
3. Life Giver – You instantly gain another +20 maximum Health. (3 ranks)
4. Chem Resistant – All the rush without the hassle! You’re 50% less likely to get addicted when consuming chems. (2 Ranks)
5. Aquaboy – Water is your ally. You no longer take radiation damage from swimming, and can breath underwater (2 Ranks)
6. Rad Resistant – Exposure to the Wasteland has made you more resilient, instantly granting +10 Radiation Resistance. (3 Ranks)
7. Adamantium Skeleton – Your skeleton has been infused with indestructible metal, reducing limb damage by 30% (3 Ranks)
8. Cannibal – Feast on mortal flesh to heal your wounds! Eating human corpses restores Health. (3 Ranks)
9. Ghoulish – Sure, you’re still human – on the outside! Radiation now regenerates your lost Health. (3 Ranks)
10. Solar Powered – Catch some rays! Gain +2 to Strength and Endurance between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (3 Ranks)

CHARISMA is your ability to charm and convince others. It affects your success to persuade in dialogue and prices when you barter.

1. Cap Collector – Buying and selling prices at vendors are now much better. (3 Ranks)
2. Lady Killer – You’re charming… and dangerous. Women suffer +5% damage in combat, and are easier to persuade in dialogue. (3 Ranks)
3. Lone Wanderer – Who needs friends, anyway? When adventuring without a companion, you take 15% less damage and carry weight increases by 50. (3 Ranks)
4. Attack Dog – Your faithful canine companion can hold an enemy, giving you a greater chance to hit them in V.A.T.S. (3 Ranks)
5. Animal Friend – Commune with beasts! With your gun, aim at any animal below your level and gain a chance to pacify it. (3 Ranks)
6. Local Leader – As the ruler everyone turns to, you are able to establish supply lines between your workshop settlements. (2 Ranks)
7. Party Boy – Nobody has a good time like you! There’s no chance you’ll get addicted to alcohol. (3 Ranks)
8. Traditional – Because you lead by example, your companion does more damage in combat, and cannot hurt you. (3 Ranks)
9. Wasteland Whisperer – Master the post-apocalypse! With your gain, aim at any Wasteland creature below your level and gain a chance to pacify it. (3 Ranks)
10. Intimidation – Time to show everyone who’s boss! With your gun, aim at any human opponent below your level and gain a chance to pacify them. (3 Ranks)

INTELLIGENCE is a measure of your overall mental acuity, and affects the number of Experience Points earned.

1. V.A.N.S. – Let Vault-Tec guide you! The path to your closest quest target is displayed in V.A.T.S. (1 Ranks)
2. Medic – Stimpaks now restore 60% of lost Health, and RadAway removes 60% of radiation. (4 Ranks)
3. Gun Nut – Shoot first, kill first, with access to base level and Rank 1 gun mods. (4 Ranks)
4. Hacker – Knowledge of cutting-edge computer encryption allows you to hack Advanced terminals. (4 Ranks)
5. Scrapper – Waste not, want not! You can salvage uncommon components like screws, aluminum, and copper when scrapping weapons and armor. (2 Ranks)
6. Science! – Take full advantage of advanced technology with access to base level and Rank 1 high-tech mods. (4 Ranks)
7. Chemist – Any chems you take last 50% longer. Far out. (4 Ranks)
8. Robotics Expert – Machines will always serve humans, if you have anything to say about it. Hack a robot, and gain a chance to power it on or off, or initiate a self-destruct. (3 Ranks)
9. Nuclear Physicist – You’ve learned to split the atom… and command it. Radiation weapons do 50% more damage and Fusion Cores last an extra 25% longer. (3 Ranks)
10. Nerd Rage – Genius. Is. ANGRY! When your Health drops below 20%, time slows and you gain +20 Damage Resistance and do 20% more damage while the effect lasts. (3 Ranks)

AGILITY is a measure of your overall finesse and reflexes. It affects the number of Action Points in V.A.T.S and your ability to sneak.

1. Gunslinger – Channel the spirit of the Old West! Non-automatic pistols do 20% more damage. (5 Ranks)
2. Commando – Your automatic weapons now do 40% more damage, and improved hip fire accuracy. (5 Ranks)
3. Sneak – Become whisper, become shadow. You are 20% harder to detect while sneaking. (5 Ranks)
4. Mister Sandman – As an agent of death itself, you can instantly kill a sleeping person. Your silenced weapons do an additional 15% sneak damage. (3 Ranks)
5. Action Boy – There’s no time to waste! Your Action Points regenerate 25% faster. (2 Ranks)
6. Moving Target – They can’t hurt what they can’t hit! Get +25 Damage Resistance and +25 Energy Resistance when you’re sprinting. (3 Ranks)
7. Ninja – Trained as a shadow warrior, your ranged sneak attacks do 2.5x normal damage and your melee sneak attacks do 4x normal damage. (3 Ranks)
8. Quick Hands – In combat, there’s no time to hesitate. You can reload all guns faster. (2 Ranks)
9. Blitz – Find the gap and make the tackle! V.A.T.S. melee distance is increased significantly. (2 Ranks)
10. Gun-Fu – You’ve learned to apply ancient martial arts to gunplay! Do 25% more damage to your second V.A.T.S. target and beyond. (3 Ranks)

LUCK is a measure of your general good fortune, and affects the recharge rate of Critical Hits.

1. Fortune Finder – You find even more bottle caps in containers (3 Ranks)
2. Scrounger – You find even more ammunition in containers. (4 Ranks)
3. Bloody Mess – You now inflict +10% damage in combat. (4 Ranks)
4. Mysterious Stranger – Who is he? Why does he help? Who cares! The Mysterious Stranger will appear occasionally in V.A.T.S. to lend a hand, with deadly efficiency.. (3 Ranks)
5. Idiot Savant – You’re not stupid! Just… different. Randomly receive 3x XP from any action, and the lower your intelligence, the greater the chance. (3 Ranks)
6. Better Criticals – Advanced training for enhanced combat effectiveness! Criticals do 50% more damage. (3 Ranks)
7. Critical Banker – You’re a patient battlefield tactician, and can save a Critical Hit, to be used in V.A.T.S. when you need it most. (3 Ranks)
8. Grim Reaper’s Sprint – Death becomes you! Any kill in V.A.T.S. has a 15% chance to restore all Action Points. (2 Ranks)
9. Four Leaf Clover – Feeling lucky? You should! Each hit in V.A.T.S. has a chance of filling your Critical meter. (5 Ranks)
10. Ricochet – What goes around comes around! An enemy’s ranged attack will sometimes ricochet back and instantly kill them. The closer you are to death, the higher the chance. (3 Ranks)

And some other misc notes:

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– Weapons will never decay, and will never require any repair.


– Fusion cores are required to power the Power Armor. These fusion cores have a finite amount of energy and will run out. There’s a perk that will extend the length of time that each given fusion core will last.


– While inside your power armor, you can carry significantly more weight and your damage resistance is also significantly higher, however you move considerably slower. You can also enter buildings with your power armor equipped.


– Dialogue : You will often be presented with two options in dialogue to deal with various situations. You can either choose to deal with the situation diplomatically or aggressively. Some dialogue options if chosen will prevent you from going back and choosing other options / dialogue themes.
Some dialogue options will be color coded – Green, Orange & Red – to indicate the chance of success depending your Charisma level.


– There are six difficulty Levels and now hardcore mode similar to what was present in Fallout New Vegas. These difficulty levels however not only affect your enemies’ resistance to your damage, but also the chances of encountering legendary enemies which will be designated with a star in their avatar. These legendary enemies will drop unique loot.


– Stealth mode is quite similar to Skyrim’s but is slightly improved. There are a lot of perks in the game related to stealth and theft.


– There’s a new weapon type in the game aside from regular guns and elemental weapons that outputs “radiation” damage.


– In the character creation menu you will be allowed to customize your body type but not your height.


– The cover system in the game is contextual so you don’t have to actually press any button to enter cover. By simply walking towards the object that you want to take cover behind you will automatically enter cover. You can engage in and out of cover by aiming your weapon. The system is quite similar to that of Metal gear.


– The color of your heads up display – HUD – will be configurable via red, green and blue sliders.


– The lock-picking and hacking minigames are identical to those in Fallout 3.


-No in-game indicators for reputation.


-Settlement building very in-depth, possibly excessively so, with 'nearly endless options.'


-Very short loading screens, smaller buildings don't have any.


-Great NPC diversity.

 

I know I might be setting myself up for disappointment, but I am hyped! I bought the Vault Dweller's Collector's Edition and I have everything pre-ordered for I can get it day one. Even though, I can't do the midnight release.

 

Heh, I work at GameStop currently and I'll be working the "midnight" release. On top of that I'm getting the Vault Dweller's Guide the morning of launch from Amazon, and I'm getting the art book once it's out.

I ended up not playing through 3 or New Vegas because I was worried about burning out on Fallout (at the suggestion of a number of you wonderful DLPers)

 

So my Steam preload has begun. The waiting is now almost physically painful, but on the bright side, have the intro DLP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCHoiWEIp9w

 

Man... Of course I'm not jealous some of you guys got the pip boy edition. I'm not. I'll just go buy a smartwatch. Did anyone also snag the Anthology series with the Fat Man Nuke thing? It looks awesome.

 

You can download the Pipboy app on your iOS/Android It's great to look at and get a feel for, and you can play the minigame in the meantime.

 

As a side note, you all might want to avoid fallout forums and/or youtube comments, or at least read them carefully, as people have been intentionally leaking spoilers for the ending of the game.

 

I would hope that people on DLP aren't that stupid, or at least not actively malicious.

I've heard that people that have commented on the fallout reddit have been getting private messages that contain nothing but story spoilers. So be careful of that too, I'd say.

 

Genius. My friend got his hands on a copy of Fallout 4 -- apparently it's already being sold on retail at a specific store. He says he's hesitant to play for fear of being banned. Any word on this being true?

 

A lot of stores are selling early, yeah. Pipboy editions are being sent out early, and I've heard bestbuy has been sending out all preordered editions. Some people have gotten an early copy through Amazon, paying for overnight delivery.

There's been streams and a few other things, though Bethesda has been quit to shut down most of them.

 

I would assume it's linked to Steam and is unplayable until it's unlocked.

 

Console versions work, probably won't get banned if you play offline, no idea otherwise. PC won't work until the 11th because a large chunk of the game has to be downloaded for the install to complete.

 

Shame. I shouldn't have paid for my pre-order last week.

Forgot to mention it's the PS4 edition.

 

Well I got the ending spoiled. No I'm not going to ruin your day as well.

I will say it at least isn't horrible. I'll even put the next but in a spoiler though it's just my feelings on the ending no real spoilers.

Spoiler

The lead up to the ending is pretty cliche but the choice at the end, because it's fallout of course there's a choice at the end, is actually not lame like 3 was.

 

How Fallout Proves Morality Is Arbitrary - Escort Mission.

Recently Cracked is very hit or miss with their stuff, but this one really got me laughing.

Also, I was quite surprised to discover that there was a completely different Fallout 3 being made and how much is known about its content.

 

Apparently some people broke the review embargo, if anyone's interested. It was taken down fairly quickly but Google Cache has a version. I haven't read it myself since it apparently contains some spoilers for the early game(though I don't know how much), so I don't know if it's a good review.

WARNING SPOILERS
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.ibtimes.com/fallout-4-review-dangers-hype-video-2174132

 

Damn that was interesting. Definitely the best ending to any Fallout game I've played.

Spoiler

Snape kills Dumbledore.

It was fantastic.