Fallout 3 Impressions and Opinions

[SylasGaunt]

Yeah, it seems like it doesn't matter much how high your weapons skills are, at least not for the purposes of hitting dudes, I've repeatedly made shots that I would've had to retry like, 7-9 times to make (even with a higher weapons skill than my char in 3 has) in either Fallouts 1 or 2.

It seems to me that it affects the overall accuracy of the weapon, making the bullet or blast more likely to go right where you aimed it instead of deviating. It's really noticeable with energy weapons.

[TC Pilot]

Interesting, my 360 has frozen twice now, once while levelling up and once while in the middle of a fight. That's... never happened to me before.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Sir, are you attempting to imply that wreaking seven different types of anal ruin upon minions of the Enclave is not rewarding enough to do twice?

Fallout 3 aiming doesn't have "Groin" as a targetting location

[Ryan Thunder]

I was killing legions of super mutants at level 3. It's just about sploiting the hideously unbalanced game systems to get wins.

Now I'm about level 9, commando + gun skill of 20 = constant instakill headshots. The skill system may be just slightly broken, lol.

We must be playing different games, then, because I have a small guns skill of ~32 or so and Ryan still struggles to hit the broad side of a barn in VATS. Even with a hunting rifle.

[TheMuffinKing]

Interesting, my 360 has frozen twice now, once while levelling up and once while in the middle of a fight. That's... never happened to me before.

Get ready to call Microsoft, I'll bet your 360 will go tits up in about two months. The same thing happened to me.

[Anarchist Bunny]

Score!

Snagged a Alien Blaster and Ammo from Recon Ship Theta.

Also got some ammo from the random encounter of a ship exploding mid-air, but could not locate the Firelancer. Hopefully the random encounter will happen again, but I still might go back to the region and scour it again.

Seeing as how I had been maxing Energy weapons, this thing alieviates any Super Mutant issues I had previously.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Score!

Snagged a Alien Blaster and Ammo from Recon Ship Theta.

Also got some ammo from the random encounter of a ship exploding mid-air, but could not locate the Firelancer. Hopefully the random encounter will happen again, but I still might go back to the region and scour it again.

Seeing as how I had been maxing Energy weapons, this thing alieviates any Super Mutant issues I had previously.

Bah, I found the note about it in the Brotherhood base's computer, but forgot to copy it down, and couldn't find it afterwards.
Are there any amusing Fallout 1/2 random encounters? I'm not talking about static encounters.

[Zixinus]

Got the game. I can see why some would be addicted to this. I may be speaking from first-hour play but the game is awesome. It really does look like the Fallout team did work well with Bethesda and the latter learned from its mistakes. Or at least, I reckon so far.

Though, it can take ridiculous amount of shots to the head. And I am unsure of my character stats. Are there luck-raising charms in the game?

Are there any amusing Fallout 1/2 random encounters? I'm not talking about static encounters.

Yes, at least in Fallout 1.
There was a brief glimpse of the Doctor's TARDIS.
There was a Godzilla footprint (oddly noted that there are no other in the area).
There was a used car salesman that wanted to sell you wreckage and whose you could get a ridicolously powerful BB gun.

In Fallout 2, there was a Monty Pyhton thing reference with a guy on the bridge, which I oddly got on the first go.

There are more, possibly.

[charlemagne]

Are there luck-raising charms in the game?

I got a "Lucky 8-Ball" from some quest, it said something about "Your luck has increased" when I got it, but I can't remember if it was by some esoteric value that's not written down anywhere, or if it was a solid +1 for luck.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Are there any amusing Fallout 1/2 random encounters? I'm not talking about static encounters.

Yes, at least in Fallout 1.
There was a brief glimpse of the Doctor's TARDIS.
There was a Godzilla footprint (oddly noted that there are no other in the area).
There was a used car salesman that wanted to sell you wreckage and whose you could get a ridicolously powerful BB gun.

In Fallout 2, there was a Monty Pyhton thing reference with a guy on the bridge, which I oddly got on the first go.

There are more, possibly.

I'm talking about random encounters of that sort in Fallout 3 dolt , I have played the original games a rather considerable amount of times.

[Nephtys]

The Guardian of Forever would be awesome in FO3, like 2. Or finding Mir in FOT

I vote for an encounter with the Scorpitron.

[Ghost Rider]

Are there any amusing Fallout 1/2 random encounters? I'm not talking about static encounters.

Yes, at least in Fallout 1.
There was a brief glimpse of the Doctor's TARDIS.
There was a Godzilla footprint (oddly noted that there are no other in the area).
There was a used car salesman that wanted to sell you wreckage and whose you could get a ridicolously powerful BB gun.

In Fallout 2, there was a Monty Pyhton thing reference with a guy on the bridge, which I oddly got on the first go.

There are more, possibly.

I'm talking about random encounters of that sort in Fallout 3 dolt , I have played the original games a rather considerable amount of times.

An alien ship makes both a radio signal and appearance. You can get both the alien pistol and something that harkens back all the way to Wasteland.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Mines are pretty awesome if you know where an enemy is going to be coming from. In the Museum of Technology, I came into the planetarium and of course it activated on me as a scripted sequence, so I figured some supermutants would be coming to hassle me. They didn't expect to be 'sploded.

[Darksider]

I'm stuck in the god damned crazy german dude's simulation. Can someone tell me how to break up the rockwell's marriage without killing one of them?

[Mr Bean]

I'm stuck in the god damned crazy german dude's simulation. Can someone tell me how to break up the rockwell's marriage without killing one of them?

Simple, talk to both of them about their marriage, then sneak over to the house of the woman Ms Rockwell thinks he spends to much time with. Steal the sexy clothes off her bed and plant them in his workshop downstairs. Then you can talk her into going down stairs and seeing them. For extra fun you can convince her that either her husband is cheating on her OR he's a cross-dresser, both work

[Erik von Nein]

The bottle cap mine is my best friend.

Seriously, have you seen the damage it does? 343? What the Hell? Freaking score! Took care of those freakin' fire ants no problem, lemme tell you.

[Nephtys]

Wow. I just found... him. By accident. And that quest right before? Totally unexpected!

I guess I'll do it the right way next time

[Stark]

Needs more totally useless posts? In the game I did a thing with a guy and there was a ROBOT THERE!

The eventual respawns + quick travel locations = retarded. The quick travel location for Bannister is right in the fucking middle of it, and it's crawling with mercs. How'd I even fucking GET THERE?

[Ohma]

Needs more totally useless posts? In the game I did a thing with a guy and there was a ROBOT THERE!

The eventual respawns + quick travel locations = retarded. The quick travel location for Bannister is right in the fucking middle of it, and it's crawling with mercs. How'd I even fucking GET THERE?

I don't get that either, why not just set the location just outside the town or whatever?

[Stark]

The 'spot' being so small is also retarded on the map reveal; you can be right next to a giant sign saying 'metro' but you're not AT the metro. Finding Big Town is one thing, but you have to stand on the 3x3m sector to identify it, and that's where you'll magically teleport with quick travel.

But seriously, a dozen mercs and 2 fucking robots. How'd I get to the GODDAMN MIDDLE OF THE BASE?

[Ohma]

But seriously, a dozen mercs and 2 fucking robots. How'd I get to the GODDAMN MIDDLE OF THE BASE?

Maybe it was a trap! YEAH! Like, they were all hiding, and then you walked in and they all jumped out at once.

...oooor...magic?

[Stark]

And by 'base' I mean 'strangely not damaged or salvaged structures with 200 year old tents'. It's so funny to hear stupid people ingame complain about omg wasteland stuff like water and shit, when there's a dozen vaults just lying around in varying states of undress and NOBODY CARES. Let's build our town out of planes we dragged from miles away next to a giant bomb instead of moving into that near-fully functional vault AND THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT WATER. Cretins.

Why'd they even BOTHER winching that goddamn nosecone up there? What's it FOR? Is it a symbol for how stupid they are and how laughably uninterested they are in surviving?

[Ohma]

And by 'base' I mean 'strangely not damaged or salvaged structures with 200 year old tents'. It's so funny to hear stupid people ingame complain about omg wasteland stuff like water and shit, when there's a dozen vaults just lying around in varying states of undress and NOBODY CARES. Let's build our town out of planes we dragged from miles away next to a giant bomb instead of moving into that near-fully functional vault AND THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT WATER. Cretins.

I haven't gotten far enough to find any of the other vaults and stuff yet, but yeah, it's rather hilarious that these people have supposedly been sitting around for around 200 years and there's still loads of useful crap laying like, right outside their town, and they had the ability to drag like, large parts of planes all the way back to their crappy little crater, winch/weld/hammer it all into place, get electricity hooked up to every building, rig up a jet engine as a means to open their crazy big outer gate, get at least *TWO* fully functional robots, and they're still all like "OHMYGAWD!! there's like, no WAY we can fix the piddly little leaks on our water pipes, and man, moving the town away from the bomb would've been like, effort"

Why'd they even BOTHER winching that goddamn nosecone up there? What's it FOR? Is it a symbol for how stupid they are and how laughably uninterested they are in surviving?

Probably.

EDIT: Also, they could've just moved the bomb, but ohnoes the cultist losers would get all pissy, except not because they couldn't even be bothered to notice that I disarmed their god.

[Pulp Hero]

I'm stuck in the god damned crazy german dude's simulation. Can someone tell me how to break up the rockwell's marriage without killing one of them?

You don't HAVE to. You can just leave. Fuck Braun.

[The Grim Squeaker]

I'm stuck in the god damned crazy german dude's simulation. Can someone tell me how to break up the rockwell's marriage without killing one of them?

You don't HAVE to. You can just leave. Fuck Braun.

What was the step before last to unlock the terminal? I found the harmonics puzzle in the abandoned house, but I couldn't find the object before last in the sequence, so I gave up and killed everyone using a variety of inventive ways, and then a clown mask instead .