Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

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

lol i call it 'survival'

(and ammo saving because i'm a miser)

I'll tell you what I do suck at though, lock picking. I have no idea.

i am king of the lockpicking so feel free to ask whatever you want. btw, if you use a light touch, you should get about 5 or 6 tries out of a single bobby pin, and the mechanics are actually a lot simpler than they seem at first.

actually wait, if you are playing on PC, i can imagine that the lockpicking might be a total fucking nightmare, unless they have some crafty rumble function translation worked out.

i'm on ps3, but with no rumble. does that help?

I don't know how you could do the lockpicking without rumble.

oh that's just GREAT

yeah that would really really suck.

just watch for the twitching

that sounds like a nightmare.

I finally found the mall, went to the Lincoln memorial and went in the backroom to meet the head guy aaaaaaand.... nobody there. No way to talk to anybody to give you permission to enter. No way to get into the memorial, cuz they shoot you if you go up the stairs. So fuck it; I killed everyone. Took about a half hour of heavily fortified firefighting. Meanwhile my girlfriend googles the lincoln scenario, because I'm bitching about "what weird bug is this where you can't even try to talk to them" and tells me that I just missed a big quest tree of stuff that involves putting lincoln's head back on. Great. Restart. Why won't this asshole show up in the back room so I can talk to him?

Forks, that quest involving returning Lincoln's head actually requires you to wipe out those guys anyway. You get the quest from The Temple of the Union which is a ways north of DC, kind of along the main road.

Er, at least the "good" resolution to the quest involved killing those guys anyways.

fuck this game for it's crashing, at critical times. seriously fuck it forever.

i think you're just so bad at it it's literally crashing your system

damn dude u can't even operate a game

i have still only had this crash once (LOUDLY KNOCKING ON WOOD HERE), but it was at one of the worst possible times.

in the "act"?

wow did i just spend a ton of time finishing the reillys raiders quest

That's an amazing quest.

ya that's a fun one.

are yall playing on hard?

Absolutely.

Okay, I need to make a second disc of electronic THE FUTURE music when i get home tonight and then load both on xbox hd. I will post here once i get my gumption right.

Can't...get it...out of...my head!!

The roads are the dustiest
The winds are the gustiest
The gates are the rustiest
The pies are the crustiest
The songs the lustiest
The friends the trustiest

Waaay back home (back home!)

The trees are the sappiest
The days are the nappiest
The dogs are the yappiest
The kids are the scrappiest
The jokes the snappiest
The folks the happiest

Waaay back home
Dont' know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I'm a weary exile
Singing my song of lone-li-ness

The grass is the springiest
The bees are the stingiest
The birds are the wingiest
The bells are the ringiest (the hearts...)
The hearts the singiest (the arms...)
The arms the clingiest

Waaay back home

(What about the sun?)
The sun's the blaziest (and the fields?)
Field's the daisiest (and the cows?
Cows the graziest (and the help?)
The help's the laziest.
The boys (are the witiest)
The girls (are the prettiest)

Waaay back home

(The pigs are the snootiest)
(The owls are the hootiest)
The plants the fruitiest
Stars the shootiest
(The grins the funniest)
The smiles the sunniest

Waaay back home
Dont' know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I'm a weary exile
Singing my song of lone-li-ness

The food is the spreadiest
The wine is the headiest
The pals are the readiest
The gals are the steadiest
The love the liveliest
The life the loveliest

Waaay back (Waaay back)
Waaay back Home (No place like home)
Sweeeet home

Mmm. Love the music from this game.