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I spent all day at the Mall, and it was awesome. I liberated the Lincoln Memorial from slavers, took the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta (why is it even there?) from the National Archives, and got a sweet custom 10.mm pistol from some relic hunter who got whacked by Super Mutants.
And I've had zero crashes on the 360 version. GOTY.
Truth. The sledgehammer kills those scorpions without much trouble, although I've spent a nice amount of points for melee combat. Hit em with V, back up/circle-strafe till your AP refills, V, repeat. You can get a sledge early from the sheriff's house in Megaton. You have to steal it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
No crashes for my 360 version yet.
Anyone else using the Deathclaw Gauntlet? Unarmed weapon, ignores enemy armor DR, high crit % + damage. You can make it with wonderglue, medical brace, leather belt, and a deathclaw hand. I think it's the best unarmed/melee weapon in the game...at least that I've seen so far. I don't use the Shish at all anymore with this thing equipped. A high Luck really gives you a better chance at melee critical hits - I'm getting them with regularity.
I didn't use guns much at all at the beginning, just melee and unarmed weapons. Saved up a ton of caps and ammo that way, and now I'm never short of either.
Easily the best game I've played this year. In fact, F3 is right there with Deus Ex, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't have that weapon yet, but I've been quite partial to the Ripper. One-handed chainsaw FTW.
If I have one critique of this game, it's that the Friend A.I. is terrible. It feels like more of an afterthought than anything else and, though you can store things on them and in effect double your carrying capacity, they don't heal themselves, they don't follow too well and they run in, go /emo and get killed far too often.
I'd much prefer an option to say "Stay within 10 feet of me and attack what comes near".
Yeah Melf, that thing's great! Reminded me of the dual mini-saws from Dead Rising. I like the other weapon a bit better since it's faster and quieter - perfect for a stealth character like mine - and uses like a third of the ripper's AP.
when you get your weapon skill high enough, you can play it more like an FPS. V is still where its at though.
PS, The Rock-it launcher is a fucking classic, and the perfect weapon for all you ammo deficient noobs out there.
It still doesn't play quite like an FPS though. I have my small guns maxed out, and even though most of the time my shots will hit where I'm aiming, you can still tell that there's still a dice roll going on in the background to determine your hit/miss/damage. But like you said, VATS is where it's at.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
I'm having great fun with this game.
I started a bit of a ninja character last night, evil as all hell. Having trouble taking anyone on that has a automatic weapon though. Granted, a lot of the levelling up can be done with lock picking. 30xp a pop at the moment.
With my first character, he's a smooth talking mofo goody two shoes. I think though putting 10 in any of the SPECIAL's was a bit of a waste. Sure it makes the things I do a bit easier, BUT I'm missing out on so much hacking and lock picking with him.
Lincolns Repeater (A .44 Magnum rifle with a 5-bullet clip) has been so f'ing good. I hate that I thought small guns only applied to pistols for so long at the beginning. It's in the Museum in a display case in the offices if anyone is interested.
God, I want to play this right now.
EDIT: How good is the VATS view when it follows a single bullet? BEST. AND how good is the name of the Fire Ants quest?
Only if it hits :p
I'm thinking about starting another go as a brawling melee fighting mother fucker, with harcore strength and endurance. anyone done this?
The Museum of Technology made me sad, seeing the Wright Brothers' Flyer crumpled on the main floor. :(
What, seeing the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the rest of the civilized world reduced to ash didn't do it for you? Pinko.
Lol, yeah. Seeing the Mall totaled actually saddened me. To think that such a scenario is possible really makes you think.
I am thinking about restarting with a character with great intelligence skills but lacking in physical, like 8s and 3s in SPECIAL. What do you guys think?
I was thinking along the same lines for my second playthrough. I want to put it on Very Hard and make an evil lab scientist guy. Like 5/9/5/1/9/5/6 in SPECIAL with Energy Weapons, Explosives, and Science for tagged skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I really want to do this too - but I'm scared of not having some way to combat. Some of the intelligence/medicine/hacking based stuff I've missed out on looks really COOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I think it's not a bad idea. I think 8s about as high as you need to go, well 7 is the highest any of the perks rely on. It effects the starting points in the SPECIAL based skills I'm sure. Not sure what kind of effect they have if you have 100 already in a Skills? Anyone answer that?
I want to play as a stupid reaver that has skills in the energy and melee since now I'm doing big guns. AND I want to play as a smooth talking evil bastard.
I don't know how to load it. Am dumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Perception helps with Lockpicking, Energy Weapons, and Explosives... which makes it a good one to boost behind Intelligence, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by luek
http://techoffensive.com/wp-content/...01/shotweb.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Seriously how do I load it?
I don't think I could deal with a dude who can't carry all the garbage I normally lug around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Nobody tell him!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
He'll never learn if we do.
Bloody Mess is so fucking fun. I have been raping people with the combat shotgun. I just picked up a scoped magnum, now I will be putting out some serious hurt.
Holy shit the main line is short. I destroyed the Enclave with my ONLY successful speech attempt with one line of dialoge. LOL
lol oops.
You am fail!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Do not complete the main quest if you plan on continuing with side-quests, or rather, make a save right before you start it. It ends your game for good. Fucking stupid. I still had so much I wanted to do, and I figured that much like Oblivion, you would just continue the game after finishing the main quest. Nope. Now I have to start all over and there is no way that is happening any time soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
EDIT:Holy shit did I get lucky. I accidently saved over the auto save slot, so I can still play all the sidequests. HOOORAY!!!!!
Intelligence is the most important stat in every fallout game.Quote:
Originally Posted by køda
Intelligence = more skill points every level, and since this game has no fun shit for you to do with low intelligence (seriously only speaking in grunts in the past games was awesome, why did they remove that?) then every character you ever make should have high intelligence.
So I watched my buddy play the PC version tonight, I showed it to him once on 360 and he knew he had to play it. I watched the game crash on him 3 times (and he's running a beastly system), and I've never had a single problem with it on 360. My other friend had similar issues except his store bought PC copy failed to even recognize his cd key and had to used a crack version of first friends. I didn't read this whole page because I don't want to read about what I haven't gotten to yet, but any other pc users having trouble with it?
Only other question, has anyone who didn't put their first couple sets of points into things like Small Guns and Repair had any trouble fighting stuff? I watched the first friend, who put a lot of his points into sneak and did 2 gun nut perks (level 4) get raped to death by a pack of (lol) 3 molerats. I was killing those with no problem with a bat at lvl 2. I'm almost lvl 9 and have put a big deal into small guns, explosives, repair, science and medicine, and I'm having no problems with anything I've encountered, now or before.
And I REALLY need to find a motorcycle handle and fuel tank so I can make this damned Shiskabob that people have been mentioning (I bought the schematic off a trader before I found it in Blood Ties, which is now telling me it will be 10% stronger when I make it cuz I have 2 blueprints, awesome).
The game gets pretty easy if you focus in one area. I've bumped up the difficulty. A guy with high sneak + snipe skills is probably the deadliest player in this game.
I'll probably run out the sidequests, then play a bit as an evil character just fucking about, and then return it. It's getting stale already. The main questline, while a serious tribute to the fallout series, is kind of disappointing.
Equip it and press reload, move your junk into the right hand side of the screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Ah I was trying to load it from the menu. Awesome.
Fucking about in this game > the questline a million times.
Diffused the bomb, got my house, melee'd down a supermutant with a baseball bat, looking for evan, and still playing as a good guy but I robbed this chick blind in her house in springfield
I <3 this game
Aw, they removed the hilarious alternative dialogue for dumbasses that was a staple of the Fallout series? So much for my plan on making an evil retard as my next character.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
Yeah, my next character is going to be a morally righteous int-based one. High science, repair and maybe energy weapons.
The Nerd Rage perk at level 10 (or 12?) looks like it would help that kind of build quite a lot.
Meanwhile, my Reaver is as evil as fuck and don't take shit from nobody. I do, however, wish I had spent points in repair. Fucking extortionist NPC's.
Also, the Mr Sandman perk is fucking awesome.
Also, I'm not sure if I'm going to take the Explorer perk at lvl 20, as I really enjoy just stumbling onto new places. But it would save some time.
It doesn't get better than putting a hockey mask on and chasing a hooker around with a knife.
Do you get a red bandana somewhere?
I have this huge combat knife that looks like the one Rambo had, and it's awesome. Cover like half of my screen when it's armed.
Having epic fun all around. Gonna be hard putting this down for Gears 2 :cry:
I killed a guy who had one, but didn't bother claiming it from his corpse, so it's in the game. Don't remember at all where I was at the time though.Quote:
Originally Posted by GKM
Thanks, gonna keep my eyes open for it. At least I know it's in the game now.
Got a sniper gun also, but need to find one in a better CND, to repair it and need ammo for it also of course.
I must say I also like the part, where sometimes the enemies tries to run away from you and you shoot them in the leg, hilarious.
Reapers Sprint > Explorer imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Detour
Repair is by far the most useful talent I have.
I want to do the high int character next, but as a bad ass, I'm going to have like towns on my ass. So yeah, I guess I have to find some energy weps before I mow asses.
I keep forgetting about that level 1 perk 'Intense Training' that allows you to just up a SPECIAL skill point. Could come in handy.
LOL, you just gave me the inspiration for my next build.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Which gun shoots the Mini-Nukes?
ACCIDENTALLY SAVED OVER MY GO YAY
The Fat Man. It rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
This is exactly what I am playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Detour
Luckily for you, Yoshi, you can purify the land of both poor people and mutants
I've already killed most of the poor people in my game.
I've been watching my friend play on PS3 and it's a bummer that he's had it crash at least once every night he's played. My 360 copy got played to hell and back and never froze up or acted weird. Why the disparity?
Probably programed for 360 and then booted to PS3.
Anyone that asks me for water gets a shotgun blast to the face. I think I have killed most of the wandering traders/docs by now too. They were talking about my evil exploits on the in-game radio. Fuck Three-Dog, I hope I can kill him too. I love this game so much.
I saved a guy from raiders, he thanked me profusely and offered me purified water, but I had a shit ton from my in house robomaid so I blasted him dead in the face.
I think when I start up the next game, I'm going to shotgun dogmeat, that fucker is annoying.
I never even got Dogmeat. I'm almost glad I didn't after the shitty things I have heard about him.
Here is what he does;
Barks after you get attacked dead on by a super mutant
distracts the weakest member of the party you are fighting
dies
I am a faggotes
Spoilers you unlubed assfuck ;)
the game has been out long enough, noob :P
Spoilers = Banned from now on. I don't like having to edit peoples posts while attempting not to read them.
Fuck no.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
You read this thread, you take the risk.
Really? The game has been out for a week man. I mean were not discussing halo 3 here.
Some people may want some informed opinions on the gameplay, I'll grant you a "shame on them" for coming here, but you have to relent on the iron fist here, just until december if you would.
ok fine! i didn't really think i was spoiling anything, that's why i didn't mask it
Dude, not for anybody who has had this for a while, But noobs who don't log in are getting all kinds of serious spoilers.
Here at TNL we desire and cater to new members :)
Suuuuuure we do, lol
I want a Republic of MVS.
:(
Also, I am double :( by the lack of main regulator chick. She bailed that one time and never came back. I suspect she got kilt, and somethings wrong, but I can't put a finger on it.
Spoilers for real, bitches = I ain't got the time to play as much as I want + I explore everything for no reason (slow progress) + I like surprises.
Dogmeat <3 If he wasn't worthless he wouldn't be
The better I get with the weapons the more satisfying VATS is. I love this game.
I started a second character as a redneck with an addiction to bashing people's heads like ripe melons and lobbing high explosives. No guns whatsoever. They all get sold or just tossed to the ground. I love using VATS with the flaming sword to hit two different targets. That's some sick martial arts shit right there.
I love the shit liberty prime spouts off.
What a fucking sorry ass excuse for an ending. OH HEY, YOU PLAYED THE GAME 20 HOURS BUT HERE IS WHAT YOU DID
For real.
One thing I'm not liking is the lack of organization in the Wasteland. The trade caravans are just one fucking dude and a bodyguard. I realize that it may be because of graphical limitation but what happened to the huge caravans from the previous games? My only real thought is that the East Coast was just ass-fucked way worse than the West Coast in the games. In Fallout 2 there was already large scale trade and governments popping up.
Think about what you just typed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Maybe his garbage can have levels and compartments.
IKEA FOR A NEW WORLD
Yeah, and then think about the two previous games. When I say organization, I mean among humanity. It's not 2 years after a war, it's 200. Like I said though, maybe in the game world, the East Coast just couldn't get it's shit together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Regardless, I like this game, a ton, but it lacks the Black Isle touch.
A nuclear war would have a far greater impact on the Eastern Seaboard than the West Coast. It's reasonable to assume that it would take longer for civilization to recover.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
I'm having problems with robots. Any suggestions? They laugh off small arms fire, and energy weapons don't seem to do jack either (although it doesn't help that my energy weapons skill is complete shite). Pulse mines work great. Are there pulse grenades, too? I haven't found any yet.
Yes there are.
I am waiting for Biff to confirm that he had lived through a nuclear war/fallout and how F3 is pretty close to the real thing. :p
I threw your mom in a microwave before I fucked her once, does that count?Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Also, the shotgun is the best way to blow people to little bits up close <3 <3
Depend if you're dick's radioactive and glow in the dark
I managed to find a used copy of this game yesterday. Someone probably bought it thinking it was an action game or something and got rid of it quickly. I'm loving it so far. It's the mix of Fallout/Oblivion/STALKER/Vampire Bloodlines I hoped it would be.
Man I was all set to finally blow up Megaton and I ended up needing an explosive skill of 25. I'm gonna have to waste an entire level just to blow up that stupid town. Burn.
In other news, seeing sometime die via bloody mess while in real-time non-vats is hilarious.
Oh, actually, I have a question. I haven't tried this yet but is it like Oblivion where if you kill someone in their house with no one around to see, the town will still know you murdered them somehow?
Walking through Minefield was the most emotionally intense moment in the game thus far.
Searching though those old houses, finding a pair of charred corpses lying together, spooning on their bed, dead children with toys strewn on the floor...pretty stunning attention to detail.
Germantown police HQ was also very well done. The basement and the survivors' computer log were particularly chilling.
Minefield may in fact be the highlight of the game.
There's another good moment south of those at a raido tower.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeve
I find circling them and emptying a combat shotgun into their combat inhibitor the quickest way to put them down as a small arms character.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeve
don't be such a noob, pop some men-tats, they boost your skills and thus lets you complete the quest. it's what i had to doQuote:
Originally Posted by Super Cobra
I'm hating the local maps. Walking into a three-story building and seeing all floors placed over each other on the map really sucks when you're looking for a door in the dark. Individual floor maps, please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
i'd buy that for a dollar!
I saw those two skeletons as well, I was sad for a moment. Then I slept in their bed, heh. Minefield was awesome for me because I was just walking down the street when all of a sudden a car blew up right next to me and not only did it kill me but it blew both my arms off.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeve
The guy even tells you where to go to get some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkino1
damn noob
Completed the main story, spoiler free thoughts. What a fucking ride. The few quests leading up to the end were fantastic. Esepcially the last part, such a awesome way to finish the game. I also love how the decisions you made throughout the game play into the ending that you get.
Spoilers about the ending:
Marching behind the giant robot on the way to the Project Purity when fighting off an army of Enclave soldiers....WOW. And the decisions they force you into once you reach the rotunda are really great. I ended up letting the Colonel go, and then blowing his head off when he tried to walk away. But that dumbass bitch soldier was like "oh, I can't believe you let him walk away like that". Hey lady, HE'S DEAD ON THE GROUND WITHOUT A HEAD!. Also, there was no fucking way I was going to sacrifice myself in that chamber instead of forcing a dumb woman who I didn't care for to do it.
I've decided that my next character will be Blaxploitation queen Coffy. Heres hoping i can get the hair right (no fro's :( )
OK, so I'm nearing the end of my rental, and I'm curious to know just how far I have to go till the end of the game. I'm in Vault 87 drinking from fucking toilets to try and heal up from battling it out with the damned Super Mutes.Speaking of super mutes I find it ironic that I now have an adimantium skeleton. Where's my claws bub? More importantly, where's my fucking healing factor?
Error, you're about an hour, maybe a little more, from the ending.
Thanks.
Liberty Prime glitched out my first time through, and you don't have to do shit on the march really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
I don't know what you mean by letting the Colonel go, I killed his ass way before the ending.
You can see like six endings with quick reloads. They all suck.
When I was marching with the robot at one point there were like 10+ guys shooting at us from buildings and behind barriers and all over the place. I ended up having to take them out since Liberty Prime was too busy getting barraged by mortar fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
As for letting the Colonel go, I had a speech option of convincing him to go on his way and stop trying to be a douche. Most likely because my speech was at 100 at that point. He agreed, started walking away, I took out my magnum and blew his head off in one shot. It was glorious.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkino1
Good call. I've yet to even use them for anything yet. :bang:
<3 Spoilers. Thanks! =D Going to play now after the election crap.