Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

I thought it was a bit dull and boring until I'd sat with it for 3/4 hours, then you start to get invested and it clicks

my last victory was completing the fire ant quest with that funny doctor

i science'd and intelligence'd his ass

ok so just when i was getting to the "well this is kind of all a bit samey" point i got to the capital mall and nvrmind everything is exciting and new.

starting to feel a little silly about my intentional make no progress in main quest angle, because there is just endless shittons of stuff to do in this game, and being 50+ hours in with no progress on the main quest and only 57 locations map located is kind of ridiculous.

also, without spoilering, can someone tell me whether the nukacola girdershade quest is going to be rewarding or piss me off?

oh yeah also, has anyone fucked around with buying interiors for their house in megaton yet? i am turning into a bottlecap miser.

You get a Nuka-Cola schematics and an achievement if you're playing on the 360.

Nuka grenades are pretty bad ass but somehow I got the schematic before completing the quest in the first place.

I bought the scientist theme for megaton house. Nothing to write home about but at the very least you pump caps back into the local economy.

ok, am i playing this right? I've just spent my first five hours pretty doing the same thing - fighting zombies and raiders in the underground system. I'm supposed to be looking for a museum but it's just endles endless ENDLESS subway battles.

I've just turned it off because I'm bored shitless.

Where are all the cool things you guys have been talking about?

Seriously I think I've died already over one hundred times.

Are you following the map directions? There is no reason why you should be in the sewers for five hours (unless you are just exploring the sewers).

I was following the indicator on the radar, which to be honest seems screwy

I might start again, after a catastrophic start i came out of vault 101 with 1 hp, and have pretty much been playing the game with a constant heart beat sound lol.

I found a place called 'Foggy Lane' or something, but the super mutants there were just too much for my hunter rifle bullets.

The combat seems a bit strange, I can blast raiders in the face with about 3 bullets at close range and they dont' die. But sometimes a head shot from miles away kills them instantly.!!
and the China pistol is almost useless, the nail board is a far more effective weapon.

Still, I played it all night and so I must be enjoying it on some level, I was just expected more of an open ended expericence rather than a 'half life' sort of game.

Did you head straight into the guts of DC? That could be your problem. Its best if you explore the wasteland until you're around level 10.

ie, i was expecting less combat and more of other stuff to do. It's hectic right now!

xpost, oh that might have something to do with it. Yes i came across some suited people who said this was DC. This was quite early on.

starting again then, it won't let me 'fast travel' out of there.

(i kicked ass in the subway btw)

It's amazing how many items you can pick up too, I've hoarded soooo much trash I feel Steptoe

if you are fighting ghouls and wandering through subways in the first five hours, i think you might be a few steps ahead of yourself (not that they're super hard to kill, but going off my own memory of what quests seemed to fit level points.)

i would recommend completing at least a few chapters of the book in megaton before launching off into anything too over the top. it's as close to a sort of tutorial/ease you into the game thing as you are likely to find.

also re: getting killed a bunch - are you using VATS? it seemed to me that it was kind of hard to get killed in this game.

xpsts probably covered most of this but whatever

ha later on you will be surprised at how often you are managing your inventory because there is NEVER ENOUGH ROOM

yeah i managed to get to grips with VATS, which was essential. What happened was I escaped Vault 101 with no hp due to BBing Butch in the face and he knifed me a whole load of times. But I really didn't like him and saw no reason to help him and his mother, seriously.

So I think getting killed was due to having zero HP for pretty much all the time. I also meant to buy stuff at Megaton before I set off to the radio station but kinda forgot.

wow it's a pretty involving game thinking about it.

the third person view is dreadful on ps3, moonwalking all over the place. Is it the same on PC and 360?

Why didn't you heal up your hp?

third person view is universally AWFUL. and thankfully completely pointless AFAIK.

I didn't heal my hp because i had nothing to heal with.

it seemed to me that it was kind of hard to get killed in this game.

seriously, how so? i get killed all the time, and i'm pretty much crippled 90% of the time, it's like part of the game now. those crab things are pretty strong, and those fire ants just destroy me.
Health packs seem pretty hard to come by

it's crashed heavily twice already

Drink the water.

Ste, please keep with the updates because I find this amazingly entertaining.

oh i didn't know water could heal too.

i did manage to take out four super mutants at the same time - it helped that they all tried to run at me down the same escalator, so they just queued up to get shot.
The giant scorpion on the other hand proved too much for me.

oh yeah and are bottle caps money? i've not been picking them up.

yes they are money!

dude don't go anywhere near the fire-ants till you're at least level 10/12, same with the mirelurks; you should probably just run away from radscorpions and super mutants till you're about level 6/7 too

even at level 20 a super mutant/fire ant/mirelurk or two can still hand you yr ass

in fact stuff it, ste go see if you can find some deathclaws and be sure to report back w/yr findings

lol, no offense ste, but it's surprisingly funny that players can be ambitious and have the world completely shrug them off! Head back to Megaton and work some of the simpler quests out there and you'll build up resistance and find more interesting stuff that you'll be able to deal with better. And RTMFM!

i'm back at megaton, i'll play it properly now :)

I had a horrible glitch where my rifle just kept randomly firing itself, i had to restart the whole game.

dude you suck at this game!

cutty sayin what the rest of us were thinkin

Semester is wrapping up, so I am finally set to begin playing this is the next few days. SO PUMPED

dude you suck at this game!

lol i won't dispute that, although i did just clear out that school of raiders successfully.

yeah I'm getting this in a couple of weeks too and cannot wait; this thread has definitely helped pump me up.

ste, are you aware that sleeping in a bed (even for an hour) will heal you? this will be v v helpful

this game is crazy addictive.

Bah. I lent my copy to a friend and his apartment (with the game) was robbed over the weekend. :(

whoa, that sucks.

Yeah. I can't afford a new copy right now. I'll have to wait until price comes down on it a bit.

Ouch, Mordy. Bad luck.
Found the downed UFO!

So, I'm finally playing this! I'm in Megaton (newb).

One question - I accidentally tried to lockpick the armory before it was open for the morning. The robot inside tried to kill me. Then everyone in the entire town tried to kill me. Is there any possibility that things will ever return to semi-normal, or should I just reload an hour back (I forgot to save like a dumbass)?

If you wait a couple of in-game days things should be cool. The select/back button brings up your "wait for how many hours?" option if you didn't know that already.

Actually, I've been actively searching and failing to find the "wait for __ hours" button. I'm playing it on PC, so there is no select/back button. I will check out a FAQ really quick.

Oh right. Yeah, I've got no idea what the button is on the PC.

hit "T", which is the wait key. Tells you so in the controls screen.

My main problem lately is not finding people easily. A couple people I needed to talk to in Tenpenny Tower were hiding outside and I eventually gave up on finding Ted Strayer in Rivet City (even though I've seen him before) and am going to go back there later to complete that quest.

Is there any quest in the main plot that really changes your ability to do other quests? I've been avoiding the main plot but finally made it to the point where I can get inside the Citadel.

haha hte fireants was one of the first i did.

i'm playing it kinda screwy... just now getting into the main quest.

lots of wandering and stumbling into weird quests.

love it!!

yeah settled into it now, doing a lot of 'running away' lol

lol you suck haha