Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

no its extra quests and areas, plus i know that PC dudes can actually do game mods and stuff.

details here:
http://www.totalvideogames.com/Fallout-3/news/Bethesda-Confirms-Fallout-3-DLC--PC-Editor-13472.html

hmm.

looks like my PC can support this

unfortunately if you use the GECK to make a postapocalyptic HSTNGS i will not be able to enjoy it natively on my 360 :(

what's the consensus on the pitt?

I've jumped right in and bought it, without reading any reviews or anything. But haven't played any of it yet.

i've ravaged and looted so much cool stuff I'm actually afraid to load it up anymore for fear of losing any of it lol

dan i assume that your PC would work since you are running some fairly graphic intensive games on there already, right?

NWN II and ES: Oblivion, yeah

then i would totally go pc, because i am 1000% envious of the GECK thing.

xbla really needs to get on board with user created content; it's the only thing the ps3 seems to be doing right.

i think its probably because theyre still convinced that their demographic is pretty much of the bang two rocks together/TOTAL SNIPER RIFLE PWNAGE variety.

if you could make your own portal boards in xbla, I would likely still be playing

Huh. The Pitt is totally broke. Went in there last night, found BIG FLAT RED POLYGONS all over the place, with exclamation marks on them. Wandered past a couple of them, and along a couple of back streets, and came to a beach....which stretched out forever! Got bored walking along it, headed back, suddenly found myself getting irradiated at about 150 rads per second, and died. Fun! Reloaded, tried following the proper path, opened a door and the xbox locked up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/bethesda-fixing-the-pitt-for-xbox-360

So yeah, I wouldn't recommend buying it just yet.

Seems the Pitt still isn't back up for download. :(

I've gotta start a new character, I think. I accidently blew up Megaton before collecting the bobblehead from the house, so now I'm going to be one bobblehead short :(

Apparently it's back up! Yay! Of course, I'll now have to wait til I get back from a holiday to play it. :(

I cannot play the expansions until I've gotten every regular game achievement. It'll be another playthrough before I'm ready. (Then I'm running through the expansions with all three of my characters - Good, Evil, and Stupid.)

The Pitt feels BIG. And surprisingly non-linear after Op Anchorage. It's a very 3D environment too, lots of things to climb up, which is fun. Then again - as far as plot progression goes I feel like I've hardly scratched the surface, but who knows, maybe it'll all wrap up soon.

Auto axe is fun too, it tends to insta-gib everyone.

My neutral character turns out to be my completionist character. He runs around in a medical vault uniform, a shady hat, the lucky sunglasses and a hunting rifle. He's Doc Holiday!

I did the trick with him where you take 9 points in intelligence out of the gate, and then don't gain a level before running to Rivet and getting the Intelligence bobblehead. So now I'm maxxing out my skill points (plus with Comprehension and collecting all the bobbleheads, it's very easy to get 100 in every single skill). I only wish I had more levels to take perks. I do wonder what the 10 new levels expansion are going to be like if there aren't new skills/higher skill caps.

Thinking about getting this someday soon (like I don't have enough sitting in my unfinished pile, ugh), but I'm still kind of confused about the state of DLC on the PC. Looking around, all I've found is Operation Anchorage available through MS's Christawful GfWL platform and nothing for the Pitt. Is the Pitt an Xbox-only thing, like the GTA IV episodes? And do we know if the DLC is coming to Steam or any other distribution platform that isn't a massive pain in the ass?

has anyone tried to make a melee character? it seems impossible. my guy is still getting wtfpwned by mole rats.

i think you have to invest heavily in special traits that boost stats

I made a melee character that PWNed. Get the melee skill up a bit and build yourself a shishkebob. You'll dominate.

YESSSSSS!!!!

http://www.vg247.com/2009/04/20/rumour-fallout-new-vegas-announced-in-london/#comments

Cautiously hopeful.

Developed by Obsidian eh? Interesting.

http://www.gog.com/en/page/fallout_promo/
$15 gets you:
* Fallout 1, 2 and Fallout Tactics
* 3 original soundtracks in MP3
* 9 hi-res wallpapers
* More than 300 artworks from all games
* Fallout Bible with special introduction by Chris Avellone (205 pages)
* Set of avatars
* 3 original manuals and reference cards

Fun interview, too: http://www.gog.com/en/editorial/editorial_fallout

oh btw I FINALLY bought FIII

YAY

I still haven't finished this, I'm wary of pushing ahead with the main quest until I've finished all the sidequests, but I seem to be spending a lot of time wandering wasteland and killing random raiders and deathclaws without actually managing to trigger any sides. Don't want to revert to faqs, so I guess I'll just go ahead and meet my dad, and see whether that leads me to any other stuff.

Apparently the 3rd DLC allows you to keep playing after 'completing' the game. Not sure how that's going to work, but will be good for those who don't want to finish the game before doing all the side quests. :)

Apparently it changes the ending too though? And the completionist in me feels like I should see the original ending before I play through the altered version.

trust me when i tell you that the original ending is hardly worth seeing.

okay so the game crashed on my during the tenth-birthday part of the tutorial; I tried to look at my new Pip-Boy and *fwpt* gone

grr

You could always play as the heroic character that persevered despite losing his Pip-Boy.

this crashed for me at least 20 times when I was playing it.

it only crashed once for me

I was pretty save happy so it never fucked me up.

The Pitt and Operation Anchorage are going to be bundled on a disc for retail for PC users who don't want to deal with GFWL (though it may require activation or some other bullshit) and Xbox users who, I dunno, don't have an internet connection? PS3 folks are still getting nothing.

As a PC user I'm probably going to end up waiting for the inevitable mega collection of all the DLC packs, unless the price of the main game drops significantly.

I started playing this game.

The mayor of Megaton is dead, whoops!

no no, don't worry.

so, broken steel is out tomorrow

the level cap is off

I have the pitt still to do and I didn't know about half of these unmarked quests o_O

So the other day I reinstalled this, compulsively poop-socked (NOT literally) for about 36 hours, then uninstalled and deleted my saved games in self-disgust.

And it's not that I even love it that much! A lot of the game-play is actually pretty boring imo

broken steel is out tomorrow

...and I've got three red rings. Blub!

being able to continue after the main quest: classic
level cap of 30: classic
other new sub-quests dotted around the map: classic

it's nice to be back in the wasteland

what about your skills, do they continue?

i know i will play this but i'm not that excited about it... all i think about when i think about this game are the design aspects that annoyed me. the weapons are too goofy and the AI is garbage. ten more levels, sign me up!