Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Didn't even know the enclave was going to capture me!

I'm taking it megaslow though, no worries.

oh no probs, that's cool.

im in 112 now - great stuff.

how do i play this game for hours and manage to make no progress on my quests

ok so the level cap at 20 makes post capping play a little frustratingly pointless. doesn't help that i have the star paladin as a sidekick right now, w/charon waiting in the wings, probably never to be used.

think im going to just power through the main quest in order to do it all over again with a full on evil bastard character. or maybe play one of the other games i have been completely neglecting since i got this.

tesla armor + terrible shotgun/lincolns repeater/a232523535whatever pulse rifle/the modded smg's from the merc NPC from the constitution quest = no worries about anything killing me ever.

btw, how the fuck does the mezmo whatever work? every time i tried it, it just made whoever i was pointing it at pissed off.

I got the gatling laser Vengeance from the Deathclaw Sanctuary. Can kill a deathclaw with one headshot on sneak.

I think you can only mezz minor characters without proper names, like wastelanders, security guards, etc. aside from the VIPs in the Paradise Falls quest. If theyre not one of these people they just attack you.

You can play the main quest until you escape from the Enclave. Then do no more of it.

― Mordy, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:07 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do you mean when you escape to the citadel?

Yeah. Once you get to the citadel, do no more of the main quest. You can walk around and chat people up, get training in Power Armor and whatnot though. You shouldn't accidentally fall into the last part of the quest if you're paying attention to the dialogue. One of the NPC's is essentially "ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE READY AND PREPARED TO DO THIS BIG THING?" Y/N.

right. is that the last quest???

it's kinda crazy how much i THINK i've done but you guys are all talking about weapons and techniques and shit i've never even heard of yet!!

Yeah, that's the last part of the main quest. The lady that runs the elite BoS faction gives it to you.

ok so the level cap at 20 makes post capping play a little frustratingly pointless. doesn't help that i have the star paladin as a sidekick right now, w/charon waiting in the wings, probably never to be used.

think im going to just power through the main quest in order to do it all over again with a full on evil bastard character. or maybe play one of the other games i have been completely neglecting since i got this.

― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:36 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kinda feeeling the exact same way... i know there's a ton of shit left to do but w/o more levelling the carrot is off the stick as it were

Just clocked twenty myself after the Reilly's Raiders (free spoillerific tip, kids: don't start the Reilly quest without having a fission battery in your on-hand inventory; it'll save you a lot of pain).
The carrot for me now is to visit all the places on the map that the wanderer perk opened up. I'm going through by quadrant and the main hassle is fear of running out of ammo; the alien blaster has been a real consistent life saver and I don't think there's any more ammo to be found for that weapon. As soon as that starts to wear, I'll certainly head to the end. I'm expecting to be done with this game in the first week of the year and then put it in lukewarm storage in anticipation of the DLC.
Still finding surprises round every corner tho! Button Gwinnett robot! Nukalurks!

The carrot for me now is to visit all the places on the map that the wanderer perk opened up. I'm going through by quadrant and the main hassle is fear of running out of ammo; the alien blaster has been a real consistent life saver and I don't think there's any more ammo to be found for that weapon. As soon as that starts to wear, I'll certainly head to the end. I'm expecting to be done with this game in the first week of the year and then put it in lukewarm storage in anticipation of the DLC.
Still finding surprises round every corner tho! Button Gwinnett robot! Nukalurks!

― Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 22, 2008 2:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya i am kind of doing the same thing but i'm worried it's going to be a bit joyless w/o gaining xp! battles suddenly become sort of a chore. should i just restart as evil and THEN visit those places, im wondering?

never found that alien gun!! where is it?

i feel like i maybe did most of the major side-quests really early on?

what's the point of capping it at 20 anyway?/

Point of capping it at 20 is to sell DLC that includes leveling booster packs. Blizzard set the standard with that shit and I think it's gonna be de rigeur in the future.

****SPOILERS AHOY****

alien gun is North east on the map in the open plain; doesn't show up as a marker, even when you find it. you'll know you're near when you get an alien radio signal. There's a downed ufo, a dead alien and a blaster with about 120 charges. Blaster consistently one shot kills super mutant masters.

****AVERT YER EYES****

This is creepy; i'm on hold with Delta Airlines, and their hold music alternates between the GNN-style ancient christmas pop tunes or whistled/flute music a'la Enclave Radio.

It's like i've dialed into one of those abandoned yet still active terminals you find in the bowels of some bombed-out office. The phone lines inexplicably still have power, but no one has been there to answer them for two centuries.

the fact that the music is lo-fi mono enhances the effect.

"free spoillerific tip, kids: don't start the Reilly quest without having a fission battery in your on-hand inventory; it'll save you a lot of pain)."

There's one of these right on the top floor.

Yeah, I know; I found it after I spent a half hour searching the entire building when I missed that one closet.

i don't really have much to say except this game is awesome and it's taken over my life

the railroad gun is awesome and hilarious

some of the v/o is super awful

it took me a long time to figure out that shooting 'live' doesn't take AP (bought it used, no book)

speaking of no book having: what are the little triangular pips on the bottom of your compass? i thought at first it was a mine indicator but that's not right (i don't think) (ps how awesome is laying mines?)

has anyone played a melee-dominant character? might be fun...

hollow triangles are places you haven't discovered yet, filled in ones are places you have.

how close? that seems basically useless.

i'm ok with the local map function on your pip boy being basically useless as part of the character but basically it's useless

i set a waypoint from one place i'd been to another one i hadn't been seemingly close by (just to keep myself oriented) and it offered this crazy path through all these different (undiscovered) locations on the other side of the river! i dunno if this is a feature or a bug but lol

btw i totally love the object condition mechanic as a way to keep the same items fresh and interesting and increasingly powerful as the game goes on, shades of my beloved darklands from days of yore

when they show up on your radar, they're close enough to travel to fairly quickly. i used them a lot actually, i am currently wandering around busting into satellite dishes that i would never have found if i wasn't doing that. i just wander towards one and sort of follow terrain and pretty soon what do you know new place woot! often not the new place i was expecting, but whatever!

oh also if you are enjoying the chinese assault rifle (which is, in fact, fucking awesome), you have many insano killtastic suprises waiting for you.

i found the unique one!! i sorta cheated but yeah it's rad.

i have found that the railroad rifle to disable arms, then close with the ultra smg is very satisfying vs super mutants.

and mines!! mines are just wonderful, i really can't stress that enough.

i am at level 15 and have yet to go into the NW part of the map or get very far in finding my dad. partly that's amazing and partly it's like, level 20 limit? why??

oh another unashamed cheat on my part: an algorithmic terminal hack solver, total godsend

why would anyone play as a melée or unarmed character??

I kinda wanted to try unarmed character and build up sneak and all the perks and be a kill crazy ninja.
Kinda stalled out on this last week; maybe it's time for a go at the main quest...

xpost. My bro played as a melée character, apparently worked for him.

just so you can all laugh at my pain, not realizing that the level cap was 20, i managed to get my lockpick skill up to 98, which means i get to get really angry at myself every time i run up against a "very hard" door.

use mentats!

oh shit dude why did i not think of that before ._.

there's also certain clothes that boost your lock by 10 and your science by 10 that have become permanent parts of my ensemble.

Game has sold 4.7 million copies so far, so bring on the sequels

kingfish as an OG fan of the game what are your thoughts on this iteration

Needs more funny. Does wonders in expanding the world and backstory. Not only do you get to see more of their ruined society, you get to investigate museums to see how their ruined society spun off.

Some of the many, many locations suffer from the Oblivion thing, where too many sites or caves to explore were just iterations of the same three or four different themes; in this case, ruined office building, metro tunnels, caves, or vault/steel-lined corridors.

Having a live DJ playing tunes and commenting on the action as it proceeds is a great touch. Also, was it Forks soundtrack or the original, whichever had the old-tymey song about water, which is pretty central to the game. Hell, it reminds me a lot of 'Chinatown,' where everything in the story obsesses on water. Nothing in this world, as the game mentions, can really grow or happen because even the water itself is contanimated to the point of killing off anything.

Also, yer dad kicks it way too early in the game.

Still, i really enjoyed it and have logged like 80+ hours into it. They did a good job of bringing the game into the modern generation, if you will.

More later.

I bought the game and am playing it the perfectionist way. I expect that by the time Im ready to beat the game I will have 100 skill points for everything and tons of leveled S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - but I will keep charisma at 2 (1 + 1 for bobblehead) so that all the available S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points will go to the good stuff.

Another perfectionist thing I have done so far. I haven't sold a thing. I keep it all in a locker in my megaton house til my barter is higher.

I play the game on hard difficulty. I play a hot chick. I ask the male gamers, why be a guy when you can be a hot chick?

daramouss? That you?

New Level 30 caps!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fallout-3-operation-anchorage-interview

i have enough hats already

http://www.barbsbooks.com/images/Caps4Sale.jpg