Cover.

[Blinkybubs]

How do I lean out of cover? Google says q and e but that isn't working.

[Zekiran]

You can't lean in this game without a mod as far as I know?

It's literally not in the vanilla game.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/56789

That is the lean mod in question.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

You can't lean in this game without a mod as far as I know?

It's in the vanilla game. I use it at wall corners. When facing the wall at the corner, you press the iron sights or aim key (whatever you have that setting as) Your character will lean out. Releasing it, and your character returns to face the wall.

[Sabaithal]

When you're in first person mode, while aiming at the cover in front of you near an edge, you character will duck out of cover while aiming, and will go back behind the cover when you release.

Unless you move too far away from it while aiming.

I have no clue what Q and E are supposed to do, never used them.

EDIT: I'm not going to argue this, this is technical information. I don't care about your personal definition of whats "really leaning" and nobody asked.

[Zekiran]

That is not 'lean using q/e' in any way. Cheezing what looks like a lean isn't the same. If you wanted to call that leaning you can just be in 3rd person and move your camera...

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

That is not 'lean using q/e' in any way. Cheezing what looks like a lean isn't the same. If you wanted to call that leaning you can just be in 3rd person and move your camera...

It's not cheezying. It's how cover works in the game. Very important technique to use.

[Zekiran]

In the entire 3k hours I've played this game I have never *needed* cover. This ain't deus ex...

[Voltaic Fire]

It happens automatically, at least in first person. You get close to the cover and take aim then it automatically leans until you stop aiming.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Voltaic Fire:

It happens automatically, at least in first person. You get close to the cover and take aim then it automatically leans until you stop aiming.

That's also my understanding; there's an automatic lean if you explicitly aim with a ranged weapon from the right sort of position near the edge of a wall, but no other specific controls for it.

I usually find it more trouble than it's worth since I can handle the adjustment of sliding out of cover to fire more easily than adjusting to a sudden change in view as your perspective shifts sideways on its own.

[UwU Owne]

Originally posted by Blinkybubs:

How do I lean out of cover? Google says q and e but that isn't working.

you can not do leaning controlled by you unless you use a mod
the game has a build in lean system but you have to be first person and hugging a corner and it auto leans you around the corner if you pull away from the corner you stop leaning