Help with Vertibird.

[Shpen9487]

I know i have more than 100 hours of this game played, but i recently started over a new character and this time i joined the brotherhood of steel, i need help figuring out how to use the virtibird. i know i put a marker on the map, and i did but he just sits there is there another thing i have to do? a key i have to press to make him go? Please help

[watchdog79]

If you mean how do you call and ride the BoS Vertibirds, it is simple. After the No Mercy quest you get Vertibird call grenades. When you want to use a Vertibird, you use a call grenade and wait for a Vertibird to fly to your location. You then board it and select the target destination on the map in your Pip-Boy as if you wanted to fast travel there. The pilot will take you there.

No additional markers involved.

[Shpen9487]

Thats weird i did all of that. threw a thing down and one came and im on it. maybe its because i have a mission marked on my map AND i have a custom marker, could that have the effect im having?

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Sailor GoodLake:

Thats weird i did all of that. threw a thing down and one came and im on it. maybe its because i have a mission marked on my map AND i have a custom marker, could that have the effect im having?

I do not think it should have any effect at all.

You do have to have the target location discovered already, not just have its outline on the map, though.

[Shpen9487]

Thats why. i had a custom maker nowhere near a place i discovered.
To be honest thats kinda crappy. Bethesda needs to make it take you whereever whenever, not just places you discovered. the virtibird is useless since there is fast travel.

[MageThis]

Originally posted by Sailor GoodLake:

Thats why. i had a custom maker nowhere near a place i discovered.
To be honest thats kinda crappy. Bethesda needs to make it take you whereever whenever, not just places you discovered. the virtibird is useless since there is fast travel.

Not in Survival.

[Dick Caught In Fan]

get in the bird then you go into your map and have to select (i think) fast travel there. IDK i only used them once

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Sailor GoodLake:

Thats why. i had a custom maker nowhere near a place i discovered.
To be honest thats kinda crappy. Bethesda needs to make it take you whereever whenever, not just places you discovered. the virtibird is useless since there is fast travel.

I like it this way.

Note, that if you fly over undiscovered parts of the map, the locations you fly over will get discovered. Quite useful.

[Shpen9487]

Originally posted by MageThis:

Originally posted by Sailor GoodLake:

Thats why. i had a custom maker nowhere near a place i discovered.
To be honest thats kinda crappy. Bethesda needs to make it take you whereever whenever, not just places you discovered. the virtibird is useless since there is fast travel.

Not in Survival.

I was thinking of playing survival, knowingly i defeated the game several times. So i can access a custom marker in vertibird on survival?

[Eagle_of_Fire]

" the virtibird is useless since there is fast travel."

Have you not considered the option of picking carefully the area where the Vertibird land and where you ask it to go and then use your power armor "don't take fall damage ever" feature to just drop from the sky on some point of interest you might have trouble reaching? Or just for fun to drop on a group of enemy and lay waste on them?

Use your imagination. ;)

[Shpen9487]

Not sure how to do any of that, it doesnt work for me.
Which really sucks i think they would be cool to use.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

You can get off the Vertibird at any time. Of course normally that's a huge issue but power armor negate all fall damage...

It is all about what _you_ do with it, not about it being useless.

[Shpen9487]

i would most likely need to discover about the majority of the map to drop me anywhere in that way

[Eagle_of_Fire]

If you say so. I myself used this technique to actually scout places I didn't go yet when I was playing on normal.

[Shpen9487]

i play on only normal, any harder difficulty enemies become bullet sponges.
even on normal some super mutants (depending on level) are serious bullet sponges.

[Zulu]

Originally posted by Sailor GoodLake:

i play on only normal, any harder difficulty enemies become bullet sponges.
even on normal some super mutants (depending on level) are serious bullet sponges.

You only play on normal but you are thinking of playing on Survival? Good luck with that.