Robots racing? Should i shoot them?

[RandalMcdaniel]

Im at easy city downs and robots are running around in circles

They were green at first when i vats targeted them, now some are red? But they are still running

Am i supposed to shoot them? I just read the entire wiki page on it and it doesn't say anything about killing them

[Grendalcat]

You can shoot them. There is also another way to deactivate them.

[RandalMcdaniel]

Originally posted by Grendalcat:

You can shoot them. There is also another way to deactivate them.

ok i will look before i shoot. Thanks man

[ZaggRukk]

You can find a terminal and reprogram them as well. They aren't hostile until you shoot one, if I remember correctly. Other than that, they will just race around the track. So no, you don't have to shoot them.

On a side note: This was a missed opportunity to have a unique settlement where the player could open up the track under "new" management and earn caps off of the races.

[RandalMcdaniel]

i just figured there might be some major questline tied to them or something. I imagined betting on them or something. It's quite a spectacle to behold

[Xilo The Odd]

yeah its bandits gambling on robot races. its supposedly safer than racing most other creatures of the wasteland, and they play nice with eachother.

BUT THEN someone hacks the teminal and makes everything explode. good times at east city downs.

[RandalMcdaniel]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

yeah its bandits gambling on robot races. its supposedly safer than racing most other creatures of the wasteland, and they play nice with eachother.

BUT THEN someone hacks the teminal and makes everything explode. good times at east city downs.

yeah i dont see anything wrong with that, just some harmless metal racing around

the whole "synths are humans too they have souls" thing is so dumb. The whole jaded cop valentine thing goes way over my head

[fitzifatz]

How do you take it over?

[Zee_]

Originally posted by fitzifatz:

How do you take it over?

You can't. Thats why many people consider East City Downs to be a huge missed opportunity.

[Ēarendel]

You'd rather shoot them down, because if you're spotted by the raiders the robots can become hostile. You can activate backup robots for racing on the terminal.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

i just figured there might be some major questline tied to them or something. I imagined betting on them or something. It's quite a spectacle to behold

You and everyone else buddy. Except Todd Howard. He imagined it would just be yet another 'lolrandom' shooting gallery.

[READTHEE]

I played this game when it came out, never finished it, but remember this area and remember thinking, "Wow, really? No quest related to this place? This whole thing exists for no reason basically."

Years later, trying to finish this game and just blew up everything, because there is no point to this place. The lack of imagination when it comes to Bethesda is incredible, the fact that this company makes millions on these garbage RPG's is even more astounding.

The only thing I enjoy in F4 is settlement, building and shooting loop that goes with it. It isn't exceptional, but it crosses an itch with slightly higher production values than an average indie "survival" game doing the same (not much higher).

Anyway, searched the topic about racetrack wondering if I was wrong or there is some hidden obscure quest for this area, since I was sent to rescue another f**ng captured settler here (all the way from other end of the map).

At-least Starfield finally woke people up to the truth about Bethesda. Last reasonably acceptable game that came out of them was Oblivion, and even that game was ruined because of level-scaling genius idea from Todd.

There you go, 2024 bump for this rant. Now you can stop reading.

[Zekiran]

Only 88 hours into the game and you're casting such aspersions.

Yes it was in fact a missed opportunity. However there are plenty of fun backstories there, as well as a number of settlement mods - some do work better than others there.

I love how they lack imagination and yet this game averages 400 hours for many people, per character run... Not every place needs more questing.

[READTHEE]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Only 88 hours into the game and you're casting such aspersions.

What are you, the time police?

Which part of "I played this game when it came out" was confusing? How many hours do you think I played this back then if only 88 hrs later I'm coming back to the same area as before?

As a developer myself, nothing makes me sadder for the gaming industry more than gamers who have zero imagination, who then proceed to debate pointlessly, defending slop Bethesda pushes out.

This is why you get garbage like MP Fallout and Starfield. People spend 1000 hours in MTX ridden garbage as well, doesn't make them superior games.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by READTHEE:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Only 88 hours into the game and you're casting such aspersions.

Which part of "I played this game when it came out" was confusing? How many hours do you think I played this back then if only 88 hrs later I'm coming back to the same area as before?

Exactly 36.2 hours. Perhaps you were not aware that Steam keeps track of how long you've played recently-- 51.6 hours-- and how long you've played in total-- 87.8 hours.

As a developer myself, nothing makes me sadder for the gaming industry more than gamers who have zero imagination, who then proceed to debate pointlessly, defending slop Bethesda pushes out.

Imagine sounding like an unknown art critic who is jealous of a famous painter.

[paladin777]

You get a quest to kill the raiders there. Then from the terminal, you can blow up all the robots. There is some good loot there.