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[Pellham]

Where

Spoiler

the water treatment plant where you use the key leo gave you? It's not the same thing as the water processing plant where he is, right?

Also, are you better off disarming the bomb or blowing the town up? I'm trying to be "good" so I suppose I'd better disarm it.

Spoiler

if you're trying to be good, what kind of question is that last one of yours? i dare you to blow the town up.

 

[Chiggs]

Anyone seen a Behemoth yet? Yikes.

 

[Mooreberg]

Spoiler

if you're trying to be good, what kind of question is that last one of yours? i dare you to blow the town up.

Spoiler

Well I've seen a video of the town blowing up already, so I was wondering if anything interesting happens if you leave it be. I'm also guessing I should load up on stimpacks and ammo before going to the super duper mart? Saw that video too. :lol

 

[traveler]

One question before I buy: Is it possible to talk your way through this game without using combat at all ala previous Fallouts?

And I really can't figure out if I should go Steam or retail. The mod news is making the decision impossible.

 

[GreekWolf]

Anyone seen a Behemoth yet? Yikes.

 

[Beaulieu]

One question before I buy: Is it possible to talk your way through this game without using combat at all ala previous Fallouts?

Im curious about this too.
Also: is there a lot of loot, and is it cool ?

 

[SpudBud]

S - 3
P - 6
E - 3
C - 7
I - 8
A - 7
L - 6

This an ok build?

 

[epmode]

And I really can't figure out if I should go Steam or retail. The mod news is making the decision impossible.

ME TOO. I'm holding off until this stuff is resolved.

Oh well, back to Dead Space.

 

[Gerald]

S - 3
P - 6
E - 3
C - 7
I - 8
A - 7
L - 6

This an ok build?

You're going to wish you had more strength.

 

[Darklord]

You're going to wish you had more strength.

Strength is only worth it if you go melee, isn't it? That's what someone said yesterday.

 

[SpudBud]

You're going to wish you had more strength.

Any advice?

 

[Raxus]

Strength is only worth it if you go melee, isn't it? That's what someone said yesterday.

If you want to carry the heavier weapons at all you'll need some strength. I am going the standard build with some increased int and see how it works out.

 

[Wario64]

Strength is only worth it if you go melee, isn't it? That's what someone said yesterday.

It affects how much stuff you can carry as well

 

[Geoff9920]

Strength is only worth it if you go melee, isn't it? That's what someone said yesterday.

Doesn't it also impact how much you can carry too?

 

[Zeliard]

Strength is only worth it if you go melee, isn't it? That's what someone said yesterday.

It affects your carry weight, too. That's probably the most critical thing about strength. In the previous Fallouts, it also affected your hit points, but that doesn't appear to be the case this time around.

 

[Chiggs]

 

[GreekWolf]

You're going to wish you had more strength.

Not necessarily. With high intelligence and agility, he's better equipped for more of a stealth role, which shouldn't require hauling around lots of junk.

 

[Gerald]

Any advice?

Let's say you want to carry a sniper rifle, an assault rifle, a shotgun, a pistol, some grenades, a melee weapon, and one heavier big nasty weapon for tough fights. That's pretty conservative, a lot of players will want to carry even more guns. That's a lot of weight for someone with 3 strength to carry, not even considering the multiple outfits you carry. You're going to want more strength.

Don't think that you need high charisma to get high speech. Speech skill can be added to with your skill points, charisma just gives you a small bonus to the skill. On the other hand, you need a good base strength for a decent carrying capacity.

 

[Zeliard]

Not necessarily. With high intelligence and agility, he's better equipped for more of a stealth role, which shouldn't require hauling around lots of junk.

The thing about Fallout 3 is I think it forces a lot of combat on you, from what I can gather.

 

[Gerald]

Not necessarily. With high intelligence and agility, he's better equipped for more of a stealth role, which shouldn't require hauling around lots of junk.

If you really plan on stealthing past most of the game's encounters, that's a viable approach, but I don't think that was his intent. he probably just thought lowering strength wouldn't affect him playing a shooty, ranged character very much. Correct me if I'm wrong.

If you plan to carry multiple guns and wear good armor, you're going to want decent strength.

 

[chespace]

Is anyone else having framerate issues with the PS3 version? It moves kinda like a slideshow (brings back Deus Ex 2 memories) and it's really irritating.

Jesus, is the PS3 version really that bad? WTF happened, PC games scale better to 360 basically?

 

[garath]

ME TOO. I'm holding off until this stuff is resolved.

Oh well, back to Dead Space.

It's going to be awhile until anything is 'resolved'. It is not even an issue yet. There's just a concern that some mods created through a non-existent, non-announced construction set may have compatibility issues with the steam version.

/shrug

 

[TheCardPlayer]

Amazing game so far...I dropped everything else just to play it only. I wonder how long I can play it before GAF starts calling it the worst game ever made and how it killed their family and what not.

 

[Falagard]

Jesus, is the PS3 version really that bad? WTF happened, PC games scale better to 360 basically?

Ask your dev team.

It's not actually trolling if you don't admit it

 

[Kodiak]

Anyone who bought via steam playing yet? This is just ridiculous. Bioshock DL'ed in < 1 hr when I bought it just last week.

Hell it even installed the game before it started updating, or at least it created a shortcut on my desktop. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE DOWNLOADING!

 

[Y2Kev]

Game is amazing. Amazing. It's amazing how you get in character. I am so happy when I find the stupidest little crap out in the field because I am struggling to survive. Using anything for ammo, using anything for health, whatever. Food, blah blah blah.

This is why Oblivion failed. The loot in this game is so precious. Oh godddd I love it

 

[Odrion]

Jesus, is the PS3 version really that bad? WTF happened, PC games scale better to 360 basically?

Yeah it's pretty awful for me, if the 360 version's framerate is actually as solid as people were saying then IGN should dock the PS3's graphics a whole point down and move the score down to the higher-eighties. I'm happy I didn't invest the money, but my roommate's pretty bummed at this.

Anyone else experiencing this with the PS3 version?

 

[Y2Kev]

This this this! Also, what did you get off the super-mutant?

A minigun! It was a supermutant brute. The ammo there really saved me.

I've been working on this sidequest now for two hours. Really long and involved.

 

[GreekWolf]

The thing about Fallout 3 is I think it forces a lot of combat on you, from what I can gather.

Yeah, the more videos I watch, that seems to be the case. Quite a departure from the rest of the series, which is a real shame.

Whatever the case, I plan to slug my way through the game multiple times with radically different characters, if it's feasible.

 

[epmode]

It's going to be awhile until anything is 'resolved'. It is not even an issue yet. There's just a concern that some mods created through a non-existent, non-announced construction set may have compatibility issues with the steam version.

/shrug

Yeah, I understand the skeptecism but there is absolutely no way I'm going to miss out on potential mods, especially considering how Oblivion turned out.

And I'm not buying the game twice.

 

[JSnake]

Anyone who bought via steam playing yet? This is just ridiculous. Bioshock DL'ed in < 1 hr when I bought it just last week.

Hell it even installed the game before it started updating, or at least it created a shortcut on my desktop. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE DOWNLOADING!

It's a 6GB game buddy. Gonna take some time.

 

[Zeliard]

Yeah, the more videos I watch, that seems to be the case. Quite a departure from the rest of the series, which is a real shame.

Whatever the case, I plan to slug my way through the game multiple times with radically different characters, if it's feasible.

Hmm... Gerald wrote this in his guide:

While you can potentially play through the entire main storyline without engaging in combat, you'd have to design your entire character concept around Sneaking, Speech, Science and Lockpicking, and you'll have to be ready for a heck of a challenge.

http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/fallout-3/924240p1.html

Speaking of feasibility, I wonder if that indeed is possible.

 

[unpurposed]

So I'm running this on an HD4870, e8400, and 4 GB of ram at 1920*1200 with everything maxed out and the framerate drops to 25 at times outside in the open world. Ergh, gonna have to turn down a setting or two.

 

[The Lamonster]

So is this game entirely in gray/brown ruins? Or is there more variety in the environments?

 

[Jonsoncao]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2982416688_71f7b8c106_o.jpg

got mine, fxxking amazing :lol

 

[laserbeam]

So is this game entirely in gray/brown ruins? Or is there more variety in the environments?

If I had to guess grey/brown ruins will make up a large part of the enviroment seeing as this is a Post Nuclear War United States.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

even though my desktop died on me I am desperate to play this game:

I meet the minimum but can anybody with similar specs gimme an idea of what its gonna be like playing on my laptop:

Core2duo 1.6 ghz
RAM: 1.5 gigs
GPU: Geforce 8400M

I never tried Oblivion on my laptop before but I cannot possibly wait until I get my computer fully diagnosed and possibly even longer to wait to order new parts.

 

[Kodiak]

It's a 6GB game buddy. Gonna take some time.

Yeah it already downloaded the whole thing and said 100% ready to play, then started downloading again as if its an update, and its downloading at 100kbps now instead of 1mbs.


Just annoying and misleading.

 

[The Lamonster]

If I had to guess grey/brown ruins will make up a large part of the enviroment seeing as this is a Post Nuclear War United States.

That sucks, aren't there some unaffected areas eventually or caves or something?

I'm interested in this game but the environment variety or lack-of really makes me hesitate.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

Yeah it already downloaded the whole thing and said 100% ready to play, then started downloading again as if its an update, and its downloading at 100kbps now instead of 1mbs.


Just annoying and misleading.

thats why retail is still superior in that aspect, also since Gamestores are never more than a 3-5 min drive away for me.

 

[Darklord]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2982416688_71f7b8c106_o.jpg

got mine, fxxking amazing :lol

Whats that massive book?

 

[~Kinggi~]

Whats that massive book?

The LE strategy guide. 500 pages. I got mine too

 

[Jonsoncao]

Whats that massive book?

its the prima game guide, like the Oblivion one

 

[DenogginizerOS]

Anyone using the guide on their first playthrough? I was tempted but I couldn't bring myself to do it on day one.

 

[MThanded]

think i can get a CE from best buy later today? I will be picking it up tonight.

 

[Loudninja]

its the prima game guide, like the Oblivion one

You have to be joking its that big? :lol

 

[Zeliard]

Anyone using the guide on their first playthrough? I was tempted but I couldn't bring myself to do it on day one.

No way!

The only thing I'm doing and have been doing is basically seeing what the major differences are between FO1/2 and FO3 in terms of character building, so I can build my guy appropriately.

You have to be joking its that big? :lol

Yeah, I spotted it at Gamestop last night when picking up LBP. It is absolutely massive.

 

[Geoff9920]

Holy shit, that guide is massive! :lol

 

[Y2Kev]

I recommend everyone do the "Blood Ties" quest ASAP. That was so awesome.

 

[Loudninja]

No way!

The only thing I'm doing and have been doing is basically seeing what the major differences are between FO1/2 and FO3 in terms of character building, so I can build my guy appropriately.



Yeah, I spotted it at Gamestop last night when picking up LBP. It is absolutely massive.

Damn that is crazy.