Why Aren't My Vertibird Grenades Working?

[danconnors]

They are listed as weapon number 4. The other 3 weapons equip when I hit their number, but for number 4 nothing equips, even though a sign appears on the screen showing 8 grenades sitting in the air. When I go to throw my right hand makes a punching motion, but no grenade is thrown. I guess I'll try assigning other numbers, but sorta doubt that will help.

Beginning to have a sneaking hunch that Bethesda is shipping bugs from Fallout 76 into Fallout 4. Why? Hell if I know. Spread the joy? Make FO76 look better by making FO4 look worse?

[Incunabulum]

1. Grenades don't show up as 'equipped' like weapons. You select which type you want to be able to throw and you still have your equipped weapon in hand.

2. Are you holding the 'T' key down? A quick tap of 'T' is quick melee - you have to hold it down for a second or two in order to throw a grenade.

[danconnors]

Holding T down did nothing.

[danconnors]

This is the second thing that has screwed up royally in this game. I couldn't get the radar beacon equipped in ADA, and now I won't be able to summon a vertibird in the Brotherhood. If I join the Institute 5'll get you 10 their damned teleporter won't work.

Well, Bethesda you can make it where NOTHING works in this game, and I'm STILL not going to buy that abortion of a game.

[Chuuny]

Tried the ALT key?

[danconnors]

Alt key doesn't work.

[Chuuny]

Equip them using the pipboy, then hold the melee button until you hear a click/beep and then release

[danconnors]

Not sure what you mean there. You mean just go to the item and click on it. Then hold position and wait for a click? Then when I try to throw a punch I should throw a grenade? Why the Hell couldn't they just give us a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ grenade launcher?

[danconnors]

No click. No grenade. I've played to level 38 in a game that is totally screwed.

[Chuuny]

I can't think of anything else except if you rebinded your keys then that may be the problem .

Did you change the bash key?

[danconnors]

No. The last game I played BOS the grenades worked fine. I don't think the vertibirds are mission essential. But the longer this crap goes on the more respect I lose for Bethesda. I think I'm overdo for some Fallout New Vegas.

Also I keep having a hard time posting comments on the forum, especially if there is criticism of Bethesda involved. Keep getting those little red notes....."a "problem occured".....

[DouglasGrave]

If you've got the number of grenades available showing on your screen, the grenades are equipped. I can't say I've ever had a persistent problem with grenades not working at all, but the game does mess up sometimes, which is one reason why I keep frequent saves. Most of the few troubles I've had have been sorted by shutting down the game and restarting it (the program, not a character).

As for the comments, that seems to be some problem with the forum losing track of the post being written. You can refresh the page and post exactly the same thing immediately afterwards, and it posts just fine.

[danconnors]

You can only have one save on survival. This character has found many odd items, including one that increased her luck by +2, but neededd a +2 skill in a skill I never use, right under armorer I believe, to improve. She makes fantastic speed across water with one leg that makes her faster, one that doubles her action point recovery.

On the other hand the problem with ADA has completely ruined that DLC, and being unable to summon a vertibird has ruined the BOS experience. I'm really starting to think Bethesda is gunning for FO4 to take some of the negative spotlight off FO76. At this point I wouldn't trust Bethesda with a burnt out match. Time to start a new character I think, and see how many of these problems repeat themselves.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by danconnors:

You can only have one save on survival. This character has found many odd items, including one that increased her luck by +2, but neededd a +2 skill in a skill I never use, right under armorer I believe, to improve. She makes fantastic speed across water with one leg that makes her faster, one that doubles her action point recovery.

Survival is definitely limiting in that regard. I've only ever dabbled in it for the purpose of exploiting the "You're SPECIAL!" book.

Originally posted by danconnors:

On the other hand the problem with ADA has completely ruined that DLC, and being unable to summon a vertibird has ruined the BOS experience. I'm really starting to think Bethesda is gunning for FO4 to take some of the negative spotlight off FO76. At this point I wouldn't trust Bethesda with a burnt out match. Time to start a new character I think, and see how many of these problems repeat themselves.

The wiki entry for the "A New Threat" quest suggests a couple of possible fixes for the radar beacon problem, but I've no idea if they're of any help to you. It suggests both storing/scrapping and then replace/rebuilding the robot workbench, and "killing" and reviving Ada; I've no idea whether survival mode makes any difference to that.

Punching is a weird result for the grenade part; a throwing action with nothing in hand would make sense, but a punch makes it sound like it's doing a bash instead of a grenade throw. If you do it with someone in front of you, does it bash them?

[danconnors]

i don't know, but this new character I just started can't throw the grenades she found in the mailbox in Sanctuary. Something wierd is going on here.

[danconnors]

It's the F5 key. I can't believe I forgot that since the last time I used a vertibird grenade. I NEVER use grenades to fight with, so I forgot. Just wasted half my grenades, but maybe I can get back to my previous game.