Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

I'm guess the info is on gaming sites that'll be blocked at work. Is Fallout Shelter a "Sim Vault" type of game?

Yes

I can only hope catastrophes causing mutation and weirdness occur

okay the pip boy / phone thing

ok, I am on my way to being addicted to Fallout Shelter

of course my vault is Vault 77

lol mine is of course Vault 420

if it'll let me make vault 55378008 i'm in

if i had an ios device i'd make vault 8080 but nope... no android :(

vault 69 !

pretty sure my vault's first child just set the living quarters on fire

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3:30 PM - 16 Jun 2015

Loving the iphone game to death, TO DEATH.

I never played sims before, so this is all new to me. But it feels very Fallout.

So I'm on my second go-round now - my first was disastrous, mostly because I hadn't realised that if you didn't assign your dudes to jobs that tallied with their SPECIAL rating they would get miserable - and things were going GREAT and I had several generations of kids born in my vault and water and food and power were all ticking over nicely. Then I didn't touch my phone for a few hours as my daughter had woken up and we went over the park for some fun-times, and I got back in time to watch everyone die slowly from radiation poisoning or quickly from radscorpion breakouts.

If the purpose of this game was to make me want to play more Fallout then mission accomplished.

Yeah, I reinstalled FO3 & NV last night because this game has got me hyped again.

Also, a radroach breakout killed like half my vault

I have purchased a lunchbox here and there

uh I guess they deserve a few bucks for this game anyway

Yeah, I spent $4, I figured I'd blown enough time on the game to make it worthwhile

Wasteland 2 is 50% off on this last day of the Steam Sale. I finally bought in, figured it'd help bridge the gap til FO4 hits

Waiting for a post-apoc set in a forest, not a desert. The latter is far cheaper to film in, I guess.

wasteland 2 is fantastic btw. it's more of a sequal to f1 + f2 than to the original wasteland. it even has a super familiar weapon UI

I think the problem is the nukes knock the trees down.

the 100 does post-apoc in a forest. it's a decent tv show if you can stand stilted acting and some cringe-inducing teen drama b-plots.

Oh fallout shelter u r eating my life

this

i got up to about 130 population and everyone is happy and i have more people than i need to keep all the buildings i have stocked, and adding more buildings seems like it would be just more of the same, so i think i'm sort of done now?

you need to tear down all your low-end power plants and replace them with nuclear

I'm a few hours into F3 and unfortunately finding it super unengaging. I remember Skyrim being a little slow to start, too, but something just isn't clicking with this one. I'm basically only pressing on at this point because so many people have talked about it like it's one of the best games ever. But is there a point where things start to pick up? I'm currently in Megaton, and I'm thinking about setting off the bomb just to make things a little more interesting.

Go for it, that's one of the first choices you really make in the game.

you need to tear down all your low-end power plants and replace them with nuclear

― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? just to do it? i mean its all just grind now -- nothing really left to do/discover

to make the optimal vault, the best vault

god I hope they create a cloning chamber

I've been playing New Vegas again the past few days. Apparently before I stopped playing I got to the final Hoover Dam battle but never actually did it because I wanted to wander around doing more stuff first. So since restarting it, I've just been wandering around doing more stuff. Maybe I'll never actually finish the game properly.

fuck a bunch of fallout shelter. the base game is pretty ridic easy isn't it? just keep the growth slow and give your best weapons to the guys closest to the vault door and it seems like nothing much can go wrong. the only thing that makes it interesting after a certain point seems to be gearing up--but the RNG for finding gear out in the wasteland is ridiculously stingy--and if you pay real $$$ to buy lunchboxes it is ridiculously generous. I feel like i'm playing Destiny again all of a sudden.

pretty much. if they don't add new content in phases it'll be dead in the water.

I don't even remember what happens if you try and set the bomb off, but if you read all my posts early in this thread you'll see I wasn't too shit hot at this game anyway.

I got better but still never finished it.

supposedly luck impacts the quality of wasteland drops? xxp

that would make sense. I have no idea what half the character aspects are.

I had a l35 character with 10 luck out there for 40 hours and she came back with garbage. Just...GARBAGE.

I take that back. I know what rooms S, P, A, and I are helpful for. Supposedly C is good for baby-making but I haven't seen a huge difference. C is good for staffing the radio room, but I still keep attracting all level 1 useless dudes.

All C does for the radio room is increase the chances of attracting a level 1 useless dude, far as I can tell. You don't always call in a new vaultee at all. Maybe high C and high L will contribute to an infinitesimal chance to attract a rare recruit, but I kinda doubt it.

Similarly all C does for the baby-making is increase the speed at which the two will pair up. Doesn't affect the outcome at all, I'm pretty sure.

E seems like the only stat that has a variety of genuinely useful uses (dying more slowly in the wasteland, dying more slowly in raids/emergencies, and working in the nuka-cola plant).

How the hell does a stat like agility do nothing but help the character work in the cafeteria? You get a ninja costume with a massive agility buff and basically that means the guy wearing it can make sandwiches more efficiently.

I'm not even sure that your weapon makes a difference in the wasteland. Seems like it's just level, endurance and (supposedly) luck. Fuck this game.

the cafeteria is for ninjas, for sure

Yeah, I'm deleting the game. A week in and I've gotten enough out of it, and the only real way to get prime wasteland schwag is to buy lunch boxes.

Still, I picked up Wasteland 2, that'll give me my fallout fix for a while.

Now my dudes aren't dying all the time I think I'm done with it too.

Enjoying Wasteland 2. Man, if I knew that this was them just doing an isometric follow-up to FO2, I'da bought this last year. I like how mechanics from Xcom and other games have been worked into the Infinity Engine-like template.

Also, in the first big town I was in, I saved a dog for a local, and found out that the other locals _reaaaaaallly_ don't take kindly to digging up graves.

(Note: graverobbing also a mechanic in this game. Naturally.)

I don't know if we reported it here, but Chris Avellone left Obsidian recently(which he'd helped found in 2003). Rumor has it he's heading over to inXile, makers of Wasteland 2(and run by Brian Fargo), who are working on a new Bards Tale game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-09-chris-avellone-leaves-obsidian-entertainment

Did anyone find Wasteland 2 really hard, or am I just rubbish? I need to get back to it.

nah it's not too bad. i've had to reload a bunch when combats go south (esp when i hit a combat i wasn't prepared for and didn't prep w/ positioning & reloading) but it's not like playing nethack or anything.

can I just say that the sex/baby making mechanic in Fallout Shelter is super, super silly

no

i have lost track of who is the father of whom and worry there is some madd incest going on in my vault

it's like that tv series bakersfield pd