Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

i finished the broken steel quests last night. good fun (esp. running around the enclave missile platform with my pet deathclaw) but i'm feeling a little burnt out on fallout. i was about to download point lookout last night but figured i would probably just rush through it, so i got portal (still alive) instead.

ps did anyone blow up rivet city with the missiles? kinda wish i did.

The best perks are absolutely the one that gives you 2 skill points for every book you read, and the one that gives you extra skill points every level.

my favorite perks are animal friend and grim reaper

Animal Friend is the dopeness; I love running deathclaws into groups of bears

i'm a fan of the ones that open up new dialogue options: lady killer/black widow & child at heart

it was kinda disappointing that there were only like 2 or 3 black widow options in the whole game (that i found)

yeah tru it's a little under-written -- SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER there's a funny one with the dude next to the nuka-cola chick

but for god's sake don't take the perks that give xp or another immediate level-up

i think i'm done with Point Lookout, and it's the best DLC yet imo... maybe not better than Broken Steel for what that adds to the whole game, but well worth it in itself. well written and VERY well scripted. and hard! finally, something hard! there are a lot of really entertaining and clever visual touches here and there that i will not spoil 4 u. one of the side missions ties back into a location in the capital wasteland in a cool way, it's all really well done.

i hit level 30 while doing it and i could have easily overpowered everything, but i left most of my gear in megaton and tried to do it 'for real' and wasn't disappointed, still pretty challenging!

don't want to give anything away but the new adam curtis exhibition/production in manchester is the nearest thing to a real-life fallout3. all set in the late 50s, early 60s, a lot of it consists of wandering through rooms looking in boxes/drawers, reading notes, etc. just incredible. in the unlikely event any of you are in manchester over the next 3 weeks you should beg/steal/borrow to get tickets for this

no shooting at supermutants?

kindof, not shooting, but yeah kindof

think: ripper

in a perfect world, they would release a patch that makes the supply store quest lady just quit her job randomly at some point in the game with little explanation.

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oh I also found the outpost of ppl getting raided by slavers and mutants and told them I'd go take care of the mutants for them; I intend to never go back lol

i have so many other games to pound through right now, but it is so tempting to just go back to fallout and roll on with the dirty evil bastard character i made after beating the main quest. blowing up megaton was kind of AWESOME.

i also have op anchorage sitting unplayed on my hard drive. prob is my videogame time is in short supply right now, and if i start down the slippery slope of fallout, everything else will get dusty.

in a perfect world, they would release a patch that makes the supply store quest lady just quit her job randomly at some point in the game with little explanation.

or you could just kill her.

nah i was making a Wasila joke

so was Jordan

apparently not a very good one

xpost looool

has anyone ever found the Firelance?

no ;_;

i refuse to do the reload save point a billion times exploit. i assume that luck points are pretty key to this tho.

wait wait wait

I just read some spoilers and remembered some old posts and YOU CAN HAVE A DOG??????

warning: having a dog will lead to spending a lot of time not getting yer dog killed, trying to figure out where your dog has managed to get lost, reloading your game because yer dog got killed, etc.

i never got a dog. ;_; but broken steel does add a "puppies!" perk so that if your dog gets killed, you can just grab a new one from the litter.

besides who would want a dog when you can have a super mutant

ehhhh fuck followers imo

tempted to do a poll of which Fallout 3 buddy is the best.

xpost: well now u arent allowed to vote. so there.

fawkes is great because if someone starts shooting at you from far away you can just hide behind him

ha! never tried that

i just get really annoyed herding them around, none of them are all that in combat anyway, and the game isn't even hard!

i've managed to avoid having any followers except the dog, mainly by not noticing them - like, i realised later it was probably a good idea to recruit that jericho guy in megaton while i was low-level and useless. might pick up the zombie guy next time i'm in underworld.

i did a lot of reloading in the anchorage memorial where dogmeat kept going one on one with mirelurks while i was trying to sneak around and shoot them in the face. then left him outside. then sent him off to wait at vault 101 the entire time. i don't know why i'm less cold-blooded about a non-existent dog than i am non-existent ppl.

spent most of this week playing this semi-obsessively btw. started obeying several fictional hard mode rules that exist only in my head, like not being able to pause the game and heal in the middle of combat, and not being able to repair weapons in situations where i would be likely to be interrupted. i was considering having to have my character eat on the regular but i think the food distribution in the game is too broken for it; also i thought "but what about refrigeration and spoilage?" and realised it was definitely a step too far

game this reminds me most of: ULTIMA VII

u can set stimpacks to a hotkey, no need to pause dogg

got all the way to copy pasting the list of followers before i got bored w/the idea of making a poll that like 7 people would vote in.

pretty fascinated w/the clover follower tho - maybe if i keep the evil schtick up i can manage that one (considering i blew up megaton and am pretty sure that jericho was still in it oops).

It's pretty much impossible to get Jericho as a follower unless you grind negative karma.

fawkes is effective in battle and he can carry a lot, definitely prefer him to the paladin follower.

main quest in this game kind of sucked, i managed to miss out on a couple of quests just by accidentally going places ahead of the story.

i am deliberately not playing this, now, as i actually need to do stuff this week, and i know if i double click that icon it that will be six hours gone

i still almost downloaded the (newly free) daggerfall the other day though

apparently mothership zeta is out today? and i haven't even gotten back to point lookout.

can't find any reviews, but details seem to be showing up on the wiki

my broadband went down for a week, thus no steam, thus i stopped playing this. probably for the best.

seems decent -- its like the alaskan simulation one where its very closed in with one path and separate from the rest of the world. coming so soon after point lookout (the best dlc imo) won't help it in comparison.

Yeah, I'm still only just getting started on Broken Steel, they need to slow down.

mothership zeta is the last one, isn't it?

Yeah, I think after this it's Vegas.

WOO VEGAS.

(I still have to catch up on all the DLCs. Can someone give me a quick S/D on them?)

i haven't played any yet either. are they all supposed to be played when you're at level 20? don't feel like paying 4x800 points and then having to go unarmed and unarmored to make it a challenge

DLC tip - if you buy them on the newly released discs instead of as downloads, you can install them to your HD and then never need the disc again. So as a rental, or a quick second hand buy-and-resell, they're a bargain. And if you find a shop which does friendly next day refunds, they're free.

(Was very GRR when I found out about this, having paid full price for them all myself).

broken steel raises the level cap to 30 and extends the main story. if you're gonna get only one i'd get that.

xxp

There's a DLC disc?