Bethesda gets Fallout

[Signe]

I've had both an ammo bug and that hanging going into VATs - sometimes it just won't go, too.  I think, but I'm not entirely sure, that it's freezes my computer up.  I'm not sure because I lose my temper and punch the power off.  Really.  I punch it.  I have also suffered from graphic glitches so bad it crashed the game.  And, as in all their games, it never closes properly.  Why couldn't they take some time to fix the more obnoxious bugs since they were going to save all that time by mostly just re-skinning Oblivion?  Why?

ALSO - it's a bug invested piece of smelly shit.  I can't wait until I can cheat properly.  Dammit.

[schild]

I really am not having that much trouble with bugs. Maybe your computer has the cancer.

[Signe]

Don't make me kick your ass!

[schild]

How could you possibly find me? Can the computer even load google maps?

[Signe]

Righ could find you.  You know he could.  He finds difficult to find things. 

[schild]

He should find a new processor for your computer. Tee-hee.

Actually, I'm surprised you're playing Fallout 3, I didn't think you'd play more Bethsoft stuff after Oblivion, or was it because it's [trying to be] Fallout?

[stray]

Character creation sucks, once again. 


Honestly, I haven't gotten past it. 

I'd like to add how shortsighted it is to have these pigeonholed racial categories (Asian/Black/Caucasian/Hispanic) in a futuristic game. Hell, it's the 21st century, and I still don't fit in those categories.

Anyways, not only are Bethesda's facial graphics fuckugly, but I have to work within each template to make a character here.

Also, this is proof of the white man keeping me down.

[Venkman]

I've had both an ammo bug and that hanging going into VATs - sometimes it just won't go, too.  I think, but I'm not entirely sure, that it's freezes my computer up. 

There's is a definite pause between pressing V and getting the VATS UI. I find it happens more in high-texture areas or those with more objects behind whatever I'm VATing. But that could just me mindtricks and stuff.

[Hawkbit]

I really am not having that much trouble with bugs. Maybe your computer has the cancer.

I could never get Oblivion to load properly... made it 20 hrs into a game and it corrupted my saves.  I finally threw that POS in the trash. 

Fallout though, has run surprisingly well for a Bethesda game on my rig.  If I could get the same stability, I'd go back and try Oblivion again.

[Signe]

It's almost Halloween so it might be evil supernatural mind tricks but I notice a pause, too.

And I could actually use a new processor.  I was torn about Fallout 3 and mused a bit about it and the next thing I know, Righ brought it home with pretzel rolls.    I really wanted to like Oblivion, you know, but they made it unpossible for me.  It was THEIR fault I hated it and I have like two copies of it.  Maybe three.  I don't know.  Things seem to multiply around here.

[stray]

I think I bought Oblivion twice too. And Morrowind twice. I'll probably toss this fucker as well, and then buy it again in 8 months.

People like me are why Bethesda is in business. Ain't the quality of the games at least. Some kind of alluring potential factor to them.

[Morfiend]

Well, the tough things with that quest are the mirelurk (shoot them in the face, hunting rifle to start will help), radscorpion (eat through ammo), and some of the more difficult random enounters you get in the area.  Not to mention the way to Aeifu (sp) isn't really a walk in the park.

It's just tough quest to try first thing.   The very first quest in the survival line should get you back on track with ammo as long as you can take down some raiders.

I already did the first guide quest, and part of the THOSE! quest. But fighting those scorpions burned all the ammo I had. I am considering restarting cause I went with only 2 str and I am having to constantly make trips to town to try and sell.

The skills I took at the beginning was Small Arms, Sneak and Speech. So far I have failed every single Speech attempt, and I think I have managed to get off one Sneak Attack.

Kind of frustrating, but also fun.

[schild]

Today was an excellent success. Worth reading if you're not going to play evil:

I:

[Venkman]

Nowhere near any of that and probably not going to enjoy any more than a shitty shack

Question: where IS there a free bed in Megaton? I could visit the dead folks in that other town again but I'd rather stay where I keep porting back to.

[schild]

There isn't one til you get your shitty shack. Well, no, you may be able to sleep in the Common House for free.

[Venkman]

Common House is no dice. Not without taking some type of red hit. And I don't have the key to the empty house. I assume I need to disarm the bomb for that. Wish I'd thought of that before not adding skill to Explosives...

Oh and how do you holster a weapon/stand down the fists? Seems to have a mind of itself that.

[Signe]

The shack is really easy to get.


R puts your fists/melee weapon down but I think you have to unequip guns to make it work.

[Rishathra]

R reloads, holding R holsters.

[Signe]

Oh, is that what it is?  I kind of like walking around with my weapon out.  It makes me feel manly.  Also, I get a fit of giggles when I accidentally shoot someone.   

[Bunk]

Signe - my game constantly froze entering VATS. Updated to the newest Nvidia drivers, everything works like a charm now.

If you don't have the house in Megaton, the nearest free bed is in the School, once you clear out the squaters.

[FatuousTwat]

That's why you always download Proper

According to a few sites, the Reloaded release is... I don't know if some scene tracker had it first, then some asshole added the virus to it and upped it to TPB or what happened.

Edit: Just a note, I'm not downloading this... A friend that is told me about it (I guess he didn't actually get any trojans from it) and I figured I would be friendly and tell anyone here that was planning on it.

[NiX]

Newsgroups win in this respect.

[Signe]

But I have the latest Nvidia drivers!  Luckily, it doesn't do it all the time. 

Thanks, though.  Thank you for your Canadian kindness! 

Did anyone notice they have a perk that improves your interactions with children?   

[FatuousTwat]

Newsgroups win in this respect.

I had access to one for about a year, but got to a point where I just wasn't using it... Wasn't worth the money each month to just have the account sit there.

Maybe I should go back, torrents suck, people are too greedy. Too many hit and runs.

[Quinton]

The shack is really easy to get.

I'll need to figure out how to do that.  I wonder if I made it harder for myself when I:

[Triforcer]

The shack is really easy to get.

I'll need to figure out how to do that.  I wonder if I made it harder for myself when I:

[Bunk]

The shack is really easy to get.

I'll need to figure out how to do that.  I wonder if I made it harder for myself when I:

[Khaldun]

You know, with all the pre-release whining in this thread, I was kind of dreading firing this up, given how much I loved Fallout 1 & 2.

But I didn't hate Oblivion as much as a lot of folks here, so that didn't seem so terrible to me.

In any event, I'm not very far into this, but? I think it's pretty fucking great so far. I don't see what all the yelling and screaming was about. Not saying it won't disappoint me in the end, but there's a lot of great stuff early on, a really good feel and even look.

[Nevermore]

Since I never played Oblivion, the whole 'Fallout 3 is just a reskinned Oblivion' was never a concern for me.  I'm more concerned about that fucking SecuROM crap.  Right now that's the only reason I haven't purchased the game.  Anyone from Bethesda around reading that?  SecuROM = lost revenue.

Edit: mixed up my devs.

[Sky]

Gamestop was pretty quick getting more pc versions, wondered aloud last night about it and my fiancee pulled into the lot when we were passing it (on our way to get CAAAAANDY). She's a good'un.

Had enough time to get out of the vault. So far it seems cool, decent production values, pip is a little kludgy but cool. I'm playing a kinda of good guy cowboy shoot everything with big guns type. Definitely a lot of Elder Scrolls feel to it, but not such a bad thing. Got a laugh out of your vault girlfriend during the pre-GOAT section, I heard the punks giving her a hard time and just ran in with my fists and she's screaming "That's not necessary, it's not helping anything!" I GOATed as a Fry Cook  

Non-VATS headshots with the 10mm pistol blowing off guards head = cool.

[apocrypha]

Unh... this thread has got an echo in it!

[Sky]

Unh... this thread has got an echo in it!

It's SO easy to echo!

[trias_e]

I'm hating the leveled enemies with a passion, just like in Oblivion.  I skipped the school to come back and decimate it later.  Except it was the same difficulty at level 7 as it was at level 1.  Le sigh.

I just can't stand this bland every encounter is the same bullshit.  It's almost bad enough to just make me quit playing outright. 

Oh, and it crashes like woah on my machine  : /.  Why does Warhammer run flawlessly and Fallout 3 fail all the time?  I need a pc shrink to help my computer get it's priorities straight.

[schild]

Hm?

I finished the school at level one, both on the xbox and the PC. What seems to be the problem? How are you speccing out?

As for the encounters? /shrug, it's a Bethesda game, they're not really about content. They're mostly about exploration and well, exploration.

[trias_e]

I never really had a problem with the school.  I could have done it at level 1 of course.  I just didn't feel like doing it at the time.  Then I felt like going back on stepping on the raiders there after having a series of tough, difficult fights.  Then I got back to the school, and it was still hard and time consuming, and I felt frustrated.

I just mean the difficulty of monster encounters are always the same, nothing else.  Combat is fun, model design is good, varied enemies so far, etc. etc.