Suppressing Fire?

[Dixon Sider]

So I am noticing that the enemies are responding to suppressing fire. I like that a lot. Their accuracy seems to be a lot lower while your shooting at them with an automatic rifle as opposed to me staring at them with a sniper trying to line up my shot. Anyone else notice this? I think this was the first game i ever played where I actually noticed the AI responding to suppressing fire.

[Minty]

I've had some great shootouts in Fallout 4. No doubt. Melee NPCs will still just run at your face and start swinging, but that's all you can really do with melee AI. I can't remember if I've ever seen a super-mutant or raider take cover with a board or a bat. But they at least switch cover and respond with spray of their own if they are carrying guns.

People often complain that they can just stand there shooting at an NPC in the open while they soak up each other's bullets or blasts, but I never have this problem. Because I use cover. And peek. And flank. And just generally play the game as if I were, you know... roleplaying my character.

[Dixon Sider]

Ya, I have to be super careful, and plan my attacks when enemies are reloading, use suppressing fire when im retreating to another position with more reliable cover. Its like incredibly fun.

[Minty]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Ya, I have to be super careful, and plan my attacks when enemies are reloading, use suppressing fire when im retreating to another position with more reliable cover. Its like incredibly fun.

Executing a good tactical retreat is one of my favorite things to do. Sounds weird, I know. But it's strangely rewarding.

I was recently near Goodneighor when I got pinned down by super-mutants. I use the Redux mod that makes them smarter, tougher and adds Nightkin to the game. So the hounds come in and they take their toll, and now here comes the Legendary and his boys moving from wall to wall, hammering me with suppressing fire of their own. I had to jet throw several frags at them and slink away through the rubble around the old church, then book it over the bridge.

I didn't win the fight. Not even close. But I lived through it. And it was fun. That's what got my blood pumping. I made it out. And I couldn't help but feel like I could have done the same in Fallout 3 or New Vegas, but it wouldn't be quite the same. Bethesda does suck in a lot of ways, but the gunplay is miles above where it used to be.

[Dixon Sider]

I just had a fight to save the synth guy (just started, last time I played was 2015) and I had two guys chasing me down a hallway after a very long and brutal fight, they were about to kill me with automatic weapons as I was backstepping. They got around all my cover and I was a sitting duck. But I started spraying with the pistol and they started missing shots, so I ducked around the corner and medicated so I could turn back and spray and pray to kill them both. I was squeezing my ass so tight it hurt!!!