Hot. Tomorrow is perfect timing. So if I buy Broken Steel, The Pitt, and Anchorage, I'll be able to do the new Anchorage and Pitt stuff with the new level cap?
Ron says war never changes. Snake says it does. What gives?
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
edited May 2009
Christ it is so amazing to me how well optimized and better looking this game is compared to Oblivion
I get really high silky smooth framerates, long draw distance, better looking textures and effects, and a much better performance. Even the animations, which are still Bethesda's weakest point graphically, look a lot better than Oblivion's
My framerate always seemed really low when I was outdoors in Oblivion, and there was pretty constant stuttering as it loaded new areas when I was travelling
Plus Bethesda have apparently figured out how to use HDR and bloom to disguise the fact that the indoor areas are different cells than the outdoor areas. It's really rather impressive how they designed them
Plus the dungeons are much more interesting and well designed
I think I might have overdone it with all the graphical mods, I've taken a serious performance hit with all the object graphic updates as well as quadrupling a lot of the environmental texture details. Oh well it's still playable. 8-)
Screens please!
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
The grass in Oblivion is just brutal, unmodded. Not having all that memory-eating (though very pretty) vegetation makes Fallout 3 so much more runnable, while maintaining high resolution/most effects. I can run FO3 with HDR, 1024 x (whatever) resolution, all draw distance, etc. on my laptop that got eaten by Oblivion any time I went outdoors.
I'm curious - was anyone here, who got the PC version of Oblivion on release, able to run everything on max/high settings? There probably were, but it seems like you'd have needed a beast of machine, 3 years ago.
I remember having to use the toggle grass cheat to run Oblivion when it first came out. Fortunately some of the very first mods for the game were grass related.
So now that I have done most of Fallout is Oblivion worth buying?
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
I'm curious - was anyone here, who got the PC version of Oblivion on release, able to run everything on max/high settings? There probably were, but it seems like you'd have needed a beast of machine, 3 years ago.
God no. I played on high settings, but the draw distance I had on 50%. Framerate was about 15-20 outside, and 30-40 inside.
So now that I have done most of Fallout is Oblivion worth buying?
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
Oblivion should be pretty cheap by now. I'd recommend it. It and whatever mods you feel comfortable with.
Do not try to install FCOM. For your vanilla playthrough I'd recommend stick to graphics mods + tweaks and a few other things depending on what kind of character you want to play.
Christ it is so amazing to me how well optimized and better looking this game is compared to Oblivion
I get really high silky smooth framerates, long draw distance, better looking textures and effects, and a much better performance. Even the animations, which are still Bethesda's weakest point graphically, look a lot better than Oblivion's
My framerate always seemed really low when I was outdoors in Oblivion, and there was pretty constant stuttering as it loaded new areas when I was travelling (Misc Quest spoiler)
Plus Bethesda have apparently figured out how to use HDR and bloom to disguise the fact that the indoor areas are different cells than the outdoor areas. It's really rather impressive how they designed them
Plus the dungeons are much more interesting and well designed
Fuck this game rules
The thing I love is just how wonderfully Bethesda was able to nail that 50s zeerust feeling, not just the cars and the robots and the designs and stuff, but the little things - I was going through
the hospital from Reilly's Rangers
and the stupendous number of ashtrays I found sitting about was just smack-on with that pre-anti-smoking period when nobody knew any fucking better.
So now that I have done most of Fallout is Oblivion worth buying?
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
Strangely I put many hours into Oblivion but it never really gave me much thril or sense of wonder like Fallout 3 does. Though there is a certain special quest line thats fucking awesome.
I think I might have overdone it with all the graphical mods, I've taken a serious performance hit with all the object graphic updates as well as quadrupling a lot of the environmental texture details. Oh well it's still playable. 8-)
So now that I have done most of Fallout is Oblivion worth buying?
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
Strangely I put many hours into Oblivion but it never really gave me much thril or sense of wonder like Fallout 3 does. Though there is a certain special quest line thats fucking awesome.
I kind of just played it because, as bland as it was, there wasn't that much else out there.
I guess if its really cheap, it couldn't hurt. But its a very lifeless game with a broken leveling system and NPCs that are hideous to behold.
Fallout 3 is what Oblivion would have been like if they had put effort into other facets of the game besides the environment.
Dogmeat! I think this playthrough was the longest I was able to keep him alive (almost an hour!). I had planned on reloading and keeping him alive, but I felt I had to preserve his heroic charge headlong into that Super Mutant Behemoth. So long, you crazy, crazy, dog.
Dogmeat! I think this playthrough was the longest I was able to keep him alive (almost an hour!). I had planned on reloading and keeping him alive, but I felt I had to preserve his heroic charge headlong into that Super Mutant Behemoth. So long, you crazy, crazy, dog.
I no longer bother to bring him with me unless I've made him invincible. Then, he's a great widdle doggy attacking the supermutants!
I never could get my skills up on TES games. There's all kinds of annoying shit like not tagging athletics or it breaks your character and shit to deal with. One thing I love about FO3 is that it's as open-ended as a TES game but I don't have to be paranoid about using a shotgun because I want to specialize in Energy Weapons later in the game (or some other similar bullshit).
Dogmeat! I think this playthrough was the longest I was able to keep him alive (almost an hour!). I had planned on reloading and keeping him alive, but I felt I had to preserve his heroic charge headlong into that Super Mutant Behemoth. So long, you crazy, crazy, dog.
I no longer bother to bring him with me unless I've made him invincible. Then, he's a great widdle doggy attacking the supermutants!
That's why the perk I'll choose at Level 21 is going to be Puppies!, as Dogmeat has a worrying tendency toward suicide.
Oh by the way, anyone who is having crashing issues, the solution is rather simple. Bethesda, in what can only be described as a brain fart, decided that when you install Fallout 3, it would also install a buggy, beta version of the .net framework. What you need to do to fix the crashes, is uninstall the .net framework, and reinstall the latest version from Microsoft. Fixes about 90% of crashing problems with this game.
Also, psyched for Broken Steel. Still not going to bother with Puppies! though, as Dogmeat is just irritating, giving me away when I'm stealthed and all that. Is there a list of the new perks somewhere?
We don't currently know what new perks will be introduced beyond Puppies!, that allows Dogmeat to be reincarnated infinitely, and Nerves of Steel, that increases action point regeneration. Given how broken Grim Reaper's Sprint is, I wonder what's going to be the ultimate Level 30 perk.
We don't currently know what new perks will be introduced beyond Puppies!, that allows Dogmeat to be reincarnated infinitely, and Nerves of Steel, that increases action point regeneration. Given how broken Grim Reaper's Sprint is, I wonder what's going to be the ultimate Level 30 perk.
The level 30 perk is the ability to (ending spoilers)
We don't currently know what new perks will be introduced beyond Puppies!, that allows Dogmeat to be reincarnated infinitely, and Nerves of Steel, that increases action point regeneration. Given how broken Grim Reaper's Sprint is, I wonder what's going to be the ultimate Level 30 perk.
The level 30 perk is the ability to (ending spoilers)
So now that I have done most of Fallout is Oblivion worth buying?
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
Strangely I put many hours into Oblivion but it never really gave me much thril or sense of wonder like Fallout 3 does. Though there is a certain special quest line thats fucking awesome.
I kind of just played it because, as bland as it was, there wasn't that much else out there.
I guess if its really cheap, it couldn't hurt. But its a very lifeless game with a broken leveling system and NPCs that are hideous to behold.
Fallout 3 is what Oblivion would have been like if they had put effort into other facets of the game besides the environment.
The biggest thing that irked me about oblivion is how garbage the magic system is. I never get a feeling of power and wonder by shooting a bolt of increase encumberance 20.....
Now if it had fireballs that made explosions like fallout 3 nukes? Gasm.
Downloading now. The new perks look awesome. The two level 30 perks are Almost Perfect (all SPECIAL stats raised to 9), or the Nuclear Anomaly (when on 20 health or less, you explode in a huge blast of radiation, wiping out any friendlies or enemies in the vicinity).
I just looked at the list of new perks. Nuclear Anomaly is going to be completely evil with Nerd Rage. Just insanely, completely evil. You're going to be a walking chain of explosions that nothing will survive.
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Idx86Long days and pleasant nights.Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
I got Fallout 3 the other day and was so excited to play.
And then I got Red Ringed after choosing my sex.
Ugh.
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Anyone else is having trouble with the GFWL download?
It goes all the way to 100% then it says:
Install of item Broken Steel failed.
Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly. (exception from HRESULT: 0x8009200D)
So I've done the first quest in Broken Steel.
The achievements don't appear to be working. Says I have earnt it but hasn't updated fallout total and gamerscore
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I get really high silky smooth framerates, long draw distance, better looking textures and effects, and a much better performance. Even the animations, which are still Bethesda's weakest point graphically, look a lot better than Oblivion's
My framerate always seemed really low when I was outdoors in Oblivion, and there was pretty constant stuttering as it loaded new areas when I was travelling
Plus Bethesda have apparently figured out how to use HDR and bloom to disguise the fact that the indoor areas are different cells than the outdoor areas. It's really rather impressive how they designed them
Plus the dungeons are much more interesting and well designed
Fuck this game rules
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Screens please!
Oh yeah that too
Also shorter load times all around
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
I'm curious - was anyone here, who got the PC version of Oblivion on release, able to run everything on max/high settings? There probably were, but it seems like you'd have needed a beast of machine, 3 years ago.
Oh, and I'm super excited about broken steel. Finally finished anchorage and a few other side quests last night.
Also, finally got a fat man. Can't wait to fire it!
God no. I played on high settings, but the draw distance I had on 50%. Framerate was about 15-20 outside, and 30-40 inside.
Oblivion should be pretty cheap by now. I'd recommend it. It and whatever mods you feel comfortable with.
Do not try to install FCOM. For your vanilla playthrough I'd recommend stick to graphics mods + tweaks and a few other things depending on what kind of character you want to play.
I cannot recommend it enough.
Strangely I put many hours into Oblivion but it never really gave me much thril or sense of wonder like Fallout 3 does. Though there is a certain special quest line thats fucking awesome.
Woah! I can see the molecules in the water, man!
I kind of just played it because, as bland as it was, there wasn't that much else out there.
I guess if its really cheap, it couldn't hurt. But its a very lifeless game with a broken leveling system and NPCs that are hideous to behold.
Fallout 3 is what Oblivion would have been like if they had put effort into other facets of the game besides the environment.
I no longer bother to bring him with me unless I've made him invincible. Then, he's a great widdle doggy attacking the supermutants!
That's why the perk I'll choose at Level 21 is going to be Puppies!, as Dogmeat has a worrying tendency toward suicide.
Also, psyched for Broken Steel. Still not going to bother with Puppies! though, as Dogmeat is just irritating, giving me away when I'm stealthed and all that. Is there a list of the new perks somewhere?
The level 30 perk is the ability to (ending spoilers)
Duh.
Silly me, I forgot. :P
Broken Steel is Out, I bought it
I can't wait to try it out.
The biggest thing that irked me about oblivion is how garbage the magic system is. I never get a feeling of power and wonder by shooting a bolt of increase encumberance 20.....
Now if it had fireballs that made explosions like fallout 3 nukes? Gasm.
And then I got Red Ringed after choosing my sex.
Ugh.
2008, 2012, 2014 D&D "Rare With No Sauce" League Fantasy Football Champion!
It goes all the way to 100% then it says:
Install of item Broken Steel failed.
Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly. (exception from HRESULT: 0x8009200D)
Well, clearly you chose wrong.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
The achievements don't appear to be working. Says I have earnt it but hasn't updated fallout total and gamerscore