In keeping true to its Bethesda heritage, Fallout 4 allows players to choose a companion from a wide variety of NPCs, each with their own benefits and drawbacks. As a follow-up to our guide on the French robot Curie, here's our companion guide for Piper Wright.
Piper appears in Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, and Fallout: The Board Game. Behind the scenes Edit. In the Creation Kit, the road goggles have the editor ID ClothesPiperGoggles. This indicates that she may have been meant to wear the goggles with the rest of her outfit. Dec 16, 2019 This mod adds a new craftable item to Fallout 4 named Birthday Suit. You can equip it onto other NPC’s such as Companions or Settlers to remove the outfit they are wearing, leaving them in a semi-nude state (their underwear). You can craft the Birthday Suit item at a Chemistry Workbench. Jan 01, 2019 This mod replaces all of the vanilla outfits in Fallout 4 for the female model. Specifically with sexier/skimpy outfits, with there being a 130 outfits in total. Not only does it change the main character, but also NPCs, enemies and follower outfits. These outfits also have high heels and will require CBBE and BodySlide to use.
Piper is a renegade journalist operating in Diamond City, one whose tenacity and penchant for publishing the unfiltered truth often gets her in trouble with her fellow citizens. The player will meet Piper outside the gates of the town, either alone or with Mayor McDonough, depending on whether they've already met Nick Valentine.
To gain Piper as a companion, visit her office after first meeting her and agree to an interview. This will start the very short 'Story of the Century' quest. After you complete the interview, she will be available as a companion.
Piper's General Affinity
Meeting Piper after arriving in Diamond City.
As an investigative journalist, Piper is a moral person, but she's also a bit of a hothead. She values generosity and peacefulness, tolerates meanness, but hates greed and violence.
When Piper is your companion, choose generous, mean dialogue choices or those that de-escalate a situation. Avoid those that are selfish (such as asking for a higher reward) or that might lead to a fight. Stealing or pickpocketing should be avoided while Piper is around, as she disapproves of both.
Below we've listed a variety of specific, repeatable actions that will improve your relationship with Piper, as well as those that will hurt it.
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Actions that affect your relationship with Piper
Focus on these actions to IMPROVE your relationship:
- Heal Dogmeat in Piper's presence
- Modify your armor
- Pick a lock that is NOT owned
- Choose a generous dialogue option when speaking to another character
- Choose a 'mean' dialogue option when speaking to another character
- Donate items gained from Miscellaneous Quests
- Help innocent civilians
Meanwhile, AVOID doing these repeatable actions:
- Steal, pickpocket someone, or pick owned locks
- Lie to other characters (members of the Brotherhood of Steel are an exception)
- Choosing a 'violent' dialogue option (e.g. intimidating another character)
- Choose a 'greedy' dialogue option (e.g. bribing or demanding caps from another character)
- Eat a corpse
- Murder a non-hostile character
- Help the Institute in any quest
These are not the only ways to affect your relationship with Piper. During the course of many quest lines, you will have to make choices that will affect Piper's opinion of you, should she be your companion during the quest. Below are actions that you can only perform once, or that are connected to a specific quest. *As usual, possible spoilers ahead depending on where you are in the game.*
One-time actions with a POSITIVE effect:
- Give the Vault-Tec Rep a new home
- Join the Minutemen faction
- Join the Railroad faction
- Reply sarcastically to Finn in Goodneighbor
- Convince Mama Murphy to stop taking chems in the Museum of Freedom
- Refuse to join the Brotherhood of Steel faction when Danse asks
- 'Emogene Takes a Lover' - Give Emogene the mysterious serum you just got from the previous 'Special Delivery' quest
- 'The Disappearing Act' - Talk Doc Crocker down peacefully, causing him to commit suicide
- 'The Devil's Due' - Return the deathclaw egg to its nest
- 'Tradecraft' - Tell the truth about Deacon when speaking to Desdemona
One-time actions with a VERY POSITIVE effect:
- 'In Sheep's Clothing' - Give Danny a stimpak before confronting Mayor McDonough
- 'In Sheep's Clothing' - Demand that Mayor McDonough stand trial for his actions
- 'Hole in the Wall' - Give Austin the cure to the mole rat disease instead of keeping it/asking to spilt the dose
- 'Human Error' - Side with Honest Dan/Amelia Stockton and kill Doctor Chambers
- 'Confidence Man' - Convince Travis to stand up for himself
- 'The Silver Shroud' - Save Kent Connolly at the end
- 'Diamond City Blues' - Stop Paul Pembroke from shooting Henry Cooke
- 'Mystery Meat' - Discover what's causing the food poisoning
- Random encounter - Save Jules (the Synth) from being killed by Fred and Angie (the humans)
One-time actions with a NEGATIVE effect:
- Join the Brotherhood of Steel
- Give drugs to Mama Murphy
- Gain entry to the Covenant
- Encourage Tinker Tom's paranoia (in The Railroad HQ)
- 'Diamond City Blues' - Take more than 50% of the cut
- After 'Diamond City Blues' - Lie to Malcolm Latimer about killing his son
- 'The Secret of Cabot House' - Kill or release Lorenzo Cabot
- 'The Devil's Due' - Come back to the nest after returning the deathclaw egg and steal it.
- 'Tradecraft' - Go along with Deacon's lie when speaking to Desdemona
The following one-time actions have a VERY NEGATIVE effect:
- 'Diamond City Blues' - Kill Trish at any point
- After 'The Glowing Sea' - Convince Virgil there was no serum, tell him that he should commit suicide, or give him the serum and then return later and kill him
- 'The Secret of Cabot House' - Kill Edward Deegan
- After 'Diamond City Blues' - Promise to Malcolm Latimer that you will kill Marowski for the death of Nelson Latimer
- 'Blind Betrayal' - Kill Paladin Danse
- Decide to destroy The Railroad faction
- 'Duty or Dishonor' - Kill Initiate Clarke
Maxing out affinity, romance option, and the Gift of Gab perk
Gaining the 'Gift of Gab' after romancing Piper.
Piper is a slightly more difficult companion in that her side quest, 'Story of the Century', is insignificant and is a prerequisite to her becoming the player's companion. So you'll need to put more work into using the above actions to raise your affinity with her. Continue asking her about her backstory and her journalistic ambitions using any new dialogue option that comes up, and be sure to look out for those 'admire' and 'idolize' notifications as your relationship improves.
Piper is a companion that the player can romance (regardless of their character's sex), but romance is NOT a requirement for reaching max affinity and unlocking her perk.
Once you see the 'idolize' notification, you can go one of two routes:
1) If you choose NOT to pursue romance with Piper, you will need to continue taking as many of the above actions as you can. Find the quests on the list you haven't done and do them, especially the ones that have a very positive effect. If you're able to modify many different armor pieces, then use that for small increases. Keep working at it, and eventually the hidden relationship counter will max out.
Eventually you will get a notification saying 'you have achieved the highest level of affinity with Piper' (see the photo for an example). This means you've unlocked the 'Gift of Gab' perk. This perk gives double XP for successfully persuading other characters or discovering new locations. It is in effect regardless of whether Piper is your current companion.
2) If you choose to romance Piper, you will need to take advantage of the 'Flirt' and 'Relationship' dialogue options at every opportunity. Your relationship will improve rapidly should you focus on these options. The Flirt options are speech checks, so make sure your Charisma is adequately high enough to pass them. If you have a lower Charisma, you can temporarily boost it with various items: clothing like Reginald's Suit and Agatha's Dress, or consumables like beer, Day-Tripper, or Daddy-O (those last two give big boosts, but are addictive). If you have a spare point or intend on romancing multiple opposite-sex companions, the 'Lady Killer perk' is very useful.
Once you've raised your affinity enough with the 'Flirt' dialogue options, the 'Romance' option will appear. Again, be sure that your Charisma is high enough to pass this speech check. If you succeed, Piper will express her love for you and you will have maxed out your affinity with her. The achievement will pop up on your screen, announcing that you've unlocked the 'Gift of Gab' perk (see above for the perk's effect).
Don't forget that with romantic companions, you can get an extra bonus. Sleep in an unowned bed for any length of time, making sure that the companion is nearby (they don't need to be your current companion). When you wake up, you'll gain the 'Lover's Embrace' perk. This perk grants a 15% boost in XP for 12 hours, and replaces the 'Well Rested' perk that beds normally provide.
Like most Bethesda games, Fallout 4 is practically made for modding and has a relentlessly active community tinkering with every aspect of the game. It's not unreasonable to say people have spent far more hours playing with modded content than with the base storyline, as there's everything from mods that turn Fallout 4 into a horror game to of course an absurd number of NSFW nude mods.
After some serious hiccups, Fallout 4 mods have finally made the leap to console, and while it seemed like Sony fans were going to be left in the lurch, Bethesda has made good on its promise, as the PS4 now gets in on the modding extravaganza!
There are more than 600 mods currently available for PS4 users, and that number will only continue jumping skyward. PC gamers looking at what's available may have noticed a curious lack of a certain kind of mod, however..
Fallout 4 Piper Outfit Mod
While games like Watch Dogs 2 come straight out of the box with full frontal nudity of both the male and female variety, for some reason Bethesda remains opposed to nude mods for Fallout and Elder Scrolls games on consoles.
Sadly, that means staples like Caliente's Beautiful Body Enhancer won't be available (at least not yet) -- but if you look hard enough, there are still some solid NSFW mods that get us at least towards nude-ish.
Birthday Suit
At the moment with the sad state of the selection currently available, this is the closest thing we're going to get to a PS4 Fallout 4 nude mod.. for now anyway.
The Birthday Suit mod allows you to remove both follower and NPC clothing, having them prance around in just underwear, and ensures they don't put back on different outfits over time. They also get a slight boost to Agility, probably due to dropping all that bulky armor.
It might not be Lover's Lab or the Nude Armor Replacer, but for now it will have to do.
Sexy Nuka Girl Rocket Suit
A functioning version of that sexy pinup Nuka Girl outfit is available and you can jet pack around in the air? Double score!
A second version of the mod listed above does the same idea slightly differently, adding flames to the jet pack and making the outfit appear even more like the base image seen on billboards throughout Fallout 4.
Shirtless Outfits
Similar to the Birthday Suit mod, this one creates a vendor who sells shirtless outfits for you, your companions, and NPCs. Of course it's not full nudity, but at least its a little more risque than the usual tattered post-war outfits. The second mod adds in support for all the various new models added with the Nuka World DLC.
Super Lady Grognak
Well, it's not exactly NSFW, but this Lady Grognak costume is at least sexier than a suit of full mechanical power armor.. so that's something.
This mod puts a Super Lady Grognak bikini outfit next to the workbench in Sanctuary, offering high armor and total reduction in radiation for those who want to run around fighting super mutants and raiders while still getting a tan!
Dismemberment Mayhem
We'd be remiss if we didn't include a few NSFW mods that are more of the blood and guts variety than the TNA variety, and that's where these enhanced dismemberment options come in.
While the base Fallout 4 experience lets you blow off heads and limbs, these mods change the mechanics, altering the appearance of dismemberment and making it occur more frequently for a head and limb-strewn wasteland experience.
No Essential NPCs
A must-have for any Bethesda game experience, this mod now available for the PS4 prevents any character from being invincible, so that everyone can be killed.
You can gripe about bugs with non-killable NPCs breaking quests all you want, but we all know what you really use this one for..
There's a new truism of the Internet becoming almost as ubiquitous as the all-encompassing Rule 34: if a Bethesda game is released, someone will immediatelymake a mod letting you kill the annoying little kids.
If there's one thing we can be sure of, its that the incredibly clever modding community will figure out a workaround to get nude or mostly nude characters in Fallout 4 for console players.
While the options are now are incredibly sparse and don't give nearly the range of features available on PC, give it time and body replacement mods like Busty GRRL and less fully nude versions of the various body enhancer mods will arrive on PS4. Dell inspiron 5520 drivers for windows 10.
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Perhaps even one day the Sony fans will get the Glorious Female Nude Mod.. but for now, you'll have to be content with shirtless NPCs.
Looking for more PS4 Fallout 4 mods? Check out our list of the best (non-NSFW) ones right here.
Published Dec. 1st 2016