Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

still love-love-loving this game, and trying to take it slowly as i don't know if i'll get a chance to play through again, and i don't want to miss anything: eg, i still haven't gone to track down the radio station, am just playing side missions for as long as i can. but disaster struck yesterday - wandered thru the jeffersonian monument thingum place, and collected a load of holotapes, and somehow managed to complete Following In His Footsteps - DAMMIT. can i still try and find the radio station?? i want to meet 3 dog.

also, i botched the android mission i think, by convincing someone it was dead. ;((( is there no point in finding pinkerton now?

You can still do the radio station quest, I'm pretty sure. You just need to get there.

For the android mission I have no idea.

Android quest wasn't particularly amazing anyway -- I wouldn't worry about it (tho you can get one of the best early guns in the game out of it)

am i still "early on" in the game? is there still tonnes of the main mission to complete? and is any of the dlc worth investing in, or should i just go ahead and get new vegas once i'm done?

the main mission is really insubstantial and does not make up much of what the game has to offer imo. i'd exhaust the side missions, maybe check out that dlc that raises the level cap (don't remember the title atm) and then move onto new vegas

thanks mordy

I just started going through this a week or so ago myself, lovin' the hell out of it

Point Lookout and Broken Steel are the two main DLCs worth getting, you might want to get Broken Steel when you get close to level 20 or the final mission (it raises the level cap and lets you continue playing after finishing the game). Although if you're just getting one I'd get Point Lookout.

I managed to screw up the early missions too the first time round by looking around the wasteland and accidentally triggering a later mission. It looks like you can do the Galaxy radio one at any time though, but not the other one.

Arrrrrgggghhh first corrupted save game in new Vegas fuck you game booooooo

lol. i found dad by accident

hoping that doesn't happen to me.

bear in mind i was like level 17 and about 40 hours into the game, and decided a while ago to just put off doing the main quest and wander around the wasteland instead. it's been good!

also lol at your post above, since i never actually went into the Jefferson memorial, that's exactly when I stopped pursuing the mainline quest

this game is just so incredibly massive! i still haven't even touched about 20% of the map or any of the DLCs. gotta say i'm finding myself amazingly satisfied 12 years after Fallout 2 - i was still a little skeptical after all this time that this would live up to those expectations, the FO games being some of my all-time favorites, but it pretty much does

I put a lot of time into new Vegas today. Really clicking for me now (and only two total lockups! Improvement!)

bear in mind i was like level 17 and about 40 hours into the game, and decided a while ago to just put off doing the main quest and wander around the wasteland instead. it's been good!

this is where i'm at too - lev 17, at least 40 hours in. though i sought out 3 dog the other day, having accidentally progressed past his point in 'following in his footsteps' but wanting to meet him anyway.

met my first deathclaws last night. fucking hell. i go through stimpaks like a crazy person anyway, but jesus they're terrifying.

also lincoln repeater <3 <3 <3

So, I finally completed the main quest. This game really blew my mind, tbh - I don't think I've ever been so moved and impressed by the story of a game, by its dramatic component, as this, nor its immersiveness of world and mood. like, i would seriously be thinking about stuff in the game hours and days after my last go through.

this is probably more a reflection on my experience of video games than FO3; i have broken steel installed, so will play through the extra missions, and then purchase new vegas at some later date, but are there any other games like this (pref xbox360) i should check out, with a similar ambition, sweep and mood? i'd say this was the first video game i've played that was an experience akin to a great novel or movie, in its effect.

Fallout 1/2?

or i dunno mass effect or something

get the point lookout expansion for sure. most similar looking game is probably oblivion.

bioware/obsidian stuff?

i just got the official strategy guide (for Fallout3), wow it's huge.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/pipclock-lite-survive-apocalypse/id418842110?mt=8

NOTE: To activate the Geiger Counter and the Magnetic Compass, touch and drag the main screen down.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: While the PipClock functions show real accurate datas (day night stats, weather and so on), the geiger counter is just for entertainment, it does not really work. There is absolutely no way to measure radiation with an iPhone.

if your touchscreen is melting, you should take that as a sign tho

fun times with an idiot character:

http://lparchive.org/Fallout-2/

have spent the day in DC, my first time ever, and going down into the metro stations is a way eerie experience thanks to playing shitloads of fallout 3 earlier this year...

xp them trogg chronicles are classic

got Fallout 1 from GOG for like $6 tonight. My shite work laptop can run it, so I can play it on the road.

ok so i mentioned this on the other thread, but i am currently banging through FO3 in some sorta ultracompletist rampage and i am still finding quests i didnt know existed (altho some of them like the aqua cura quest must generate thx to broken steel i guess). also still finding all sorts of weird non marked areas with weird little tableaus in them like the sewer evil kenivel or the dead hazmat dude hidden behind the radioactive lake (also lots of obv suicides). this game is still one of the most content loaded things ive ever seen. so awesome.

thinking that the hit all the levels with neutral karma is going to be a huge pain in the ass though, not sure if i will bother with that.

sorta ultracompletist rampage

wikia my friend! don't miss anything

im trying to avoid using wikia, just living off the perk that shows you all the marked locations. also how did i never get to the head of state lincoln memorial quest until now?

this is very out of character for me because normally when like shoot all the pigeons type shit comes up i shut down that urge but this game seems to bring it out in me.

just living off the perk that shows you all the marked locations

you fool!!!

hahaha

i do have to find all the bobbleheads tho, so i am thinking i will be checking online for that one rather than revisiting EVERYWHERE I HAVE BEEN

this is pretty much the only game i've been playing for like the past 6-7 months but i'm doing it very slowly since i can't/won't play it around my daughter. just now trying to get down to the ship or whatever in the southeast corner. haven't seen any deathclaws yet, i don't think.

there's one down in the basement of a wrecked building with a lovecraft vibe iirc. one of the add-on quests makes you go there, it was just a standalone location in the main game.

can't believe i remember all this shit :/

xp er a bobblehead that is.

nah i got that one, i also got the one in the arlington cemetary house. i think i have 15 of them already, but iirc there are 20?

yeah one for each stat and skill i think

seriously just look this shit up. all the fun, none of the hassle!

I think the Lovecraftian building was called the Dunwich building? I remember enjoying the hell out of it.

kinda want to play this with a cheat so i can just explore without worrying about dying/killing. the battle mechanics are the most boring part of this.

lovecraft building was AWESOME

dont worry n/a once you hit rank 15 or so and have 300 stimpacks u will never die again

n/a - check out fo3 nexus for mods. i doubt there's any that completely remove the horrible bullet-sponge Bethesda™ combat (a mod that just despawned every enemy in the game would be good), but there's probably some that increase player damage massively so you can get the crappy combat over with as fast as possible.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/

It was way, way too easy but the end of FO3 and (especially) the Broken Steel DLC were entertaining in that there were some pretty wide-open bases and the energy weapons were such that you could do the combat FPS-style instead of going into VAT and just snipe soldiers halfway across the base.

i've thought for probably waaay too long about the combat in fallout better. i get that way about just about every game i get into tho. i could go on for pages...

there's an odd kind of dead zone at medium range; at long ranges you can snipe, at close range your vats chances

I got to the point where there would be enough enemies that VATS was just kind of irritating in slowness (which makes me sound like I'd never love FO1/FO2, but I really do!) and I'd just sit there burning through ammo instead

lol i didn't even finish that sentence. "your vats chances... are good!" or something

apart from combat/gamebryo gripes my biggest complaint with FO:NV is how underpopulated it is. i know, lol wasteland, but come on. vegas is supposed to be a booming casino town. the NCR is supposed to be running big army bases. the legion is supposed to be a legion. the slums like freeside are supposed to be overrun with refugees. but there's only ever about nine people on screen at a time. (i have no idea what the system limitations are, maybe they were running up against them)

rivet city felt like it was dense and busy. the NV environments could have been made a little tighter, to give it that feel. idk i just like to complain.