Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

still working the basic weapons template mostly, even though i'm 40+ hours in, mostly because of my steadfast avoidance of the main quest i suppose (although the modded chinese pistol i have that shoots flaming 9mm is great for laffs and sneak shots.)

also, shooting tenpenny in the face was well worth the slight tweaking of that quest. plus, i got good karma for it!

OK so I ended up w/the WORST outcome of the replicated man quest

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you probably thought you were being all "good guy superhero" and protecting people's identity by giving fake machinery to the hunter. ha! serves you right for trying to be altruistic!

I wasn't, I just couldn't be bothered dithering about out on the wasteland, finding pinkerton, etc. laziness more than moral fortitude!!! story of my life

Oh, Pinkerton is in Rivet.

now do I need to wait for the enclave to turn up before I can get a plasma rifle or is that it?

yah, tht's the annoying thing, I went and found him afterwards anyway

this game is so great; I was really vacillating for a while there (cos there's so much going against it, talked about at length elsewhere tho not least the v.clunky engine) but I have been pouring time into it; something v/satisfying abt trawling the wasteland helping individuals out w/their stories.

the kids in little lamplight don't seem to mind tht I sold one of their pals into slavery

how does it work, if I've already killed everyone in paradise falls (+50xp for eulogy jones' ladies? yes pls)

what happens to the grown-up kid when you first hit lamplight? I refused to escort him and then he just turned up loldead

the one who wants to go to big town? if you escort him, I think you can then have him as a side-kick

the side-kicks are a bit useless (I ended up bagging charon the ghoul) but the mysterious stranger is badass (and pretty useful)

charon tried to catch one too many of my grenades.

i tend to leave dogmeat at home because he's such a stimpack sucker and it makes me nervous he's gonna get killed every time.

Dogmeat lasted approx 3 minutes for me, killed in crossfire between talon Mercs and Regulators while i hid. fuck that dumb mutt.

So when you play as evil does Three Dog broadcast about how much of a bastard you are? I hate it that this game demands that I replay it again. Im saving a bunch of things on my first play so there will be some newness for game 2.0.

Fawkes the Super Mutant has been a pretty helpful companion. That laser minigun thing does some decent damage.

I also typically leave Dogmeat at home. I like the idea of having a dog in the game and all that, but dude gets killed too easily in combat.

My dog survived my whole first game! I just reloaded whenever he died. (I saved ALOT.)

so I've just left ravenrock, if I report to the citadel is that it all over?

Yes.

i'm playing as a scientist/repair/medicine type. am i a moron?

Medicine + Repair were pretty worthless for me. But they'll probably be cool for you (and let you make cool custom weapons.) I think the only concern might be combat skills.

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Escapee from the Wing-Nut Right-Wing Cartoon blog?

hah the funny thing is that i was going to recommend maxing up repair and medicine while boosting strength luck and agility as the strategy that worked best for me, although i i find myself wishing i had started science and lockpick higher.

yeah, science and lockpick seem pretty essential (though I maxed the perk that adds +5 to science, rather than plowing points into); put my points into small guns, sneak (don't use it much), lockpick and repair

also, fuck one fire ant

anyone know where my old room is in vault 101? I can't find it on any of the levels : /

someone please explain that cartoon to me.

I think its a lorelol.

it's essentially old-school political cartoon style "omg, they be rapin' my fav game franchise" shit with, as far as i know, little to no irony. funny thing is Fallout 3 is at least as good as the original games if not better. so JOKE IS ON THEM.

ah, it's from the purists

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217529/

Erik Dellums, voice of Three Dog, played Dog 3 in She's Gotta Have It

I did not know that.

Chick who plays Amata was the reefer girl in Walk Hard:

http://www.inbaseline.com/Images/27214/27214_small.jpg

liam neeson's your pa

so much blood on my hands

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NMA's review

That review is ridiculous in some many ways.

do not read if you suffer from hypertension

It's weird, because I'm a huge Fallout fan and I played the first two games many, many, many times over the years. (I've even beaten Wasteland a few times.) And I loved Fallout 3 and think it is, in many ways, the best game in the series. So when I read a review like that, I have to wonder whether these people are the Star Trek-equivalent of video game fans. They are more obsessed with canon than with fun.

I finally turned HDR on to see if I would get a performance hit. It worked fine, and all the glowy bits now look even better. Turning a raider into a disintegrated solution of green globules is one thing, but liquifying adude's head and having it glow in the dark is another.

I've stated it before, but the NMA guys are almost entirely unpleasable, anal-retentive fuckwits. I'm a huge fan of the original games too, I've played through the first game in particular several times, but I don't understand these dudes.

Mordy, I'm kinda right there with you on all accounts.

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anyone stumble on the mad preacher surrounded by mines and nukes? how did you, uh, 'handle' it?

also what armour/clothing get-up do you dudes have?

reading about everyone's abundance of stimpaks, ammo and cash makes me think I should maybe have picked those perks ('scrounger'?) that increase the chance of finding those things lying around : /

also, still loving forks' soundtrack but thinking about compiling one of my own from the other end of the century to switch it up a bit... thinking vangelis and other 'futuristic' music... what else?

i didn't have any of those perks and still found a lot of meds and drugs. Sniper rifle ammo was hard to maintain.

I never went power armor b/c I liked to be sneaky. mostly recon + the stealthy hat.

I am slowly going through again as a big, drug addicted thug.

where do you find the time?

I take a lot of Jet.

never liked the sniper rifle. just got the plasma gun and, with seven levels to go before 20, am planning on putting much of my skill points into energy weapons. In the meantime it's combat shotgun, ghoul mask and talon armor all the way.
I never loaded my own soundtrack!

And just found vault 112 last night before going to bed.
WHAT SECRETS LURK WITHIN??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I could maybe make a second soundtrack of FUTURE SOUNDS if there's interest?