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[Fallout 3/NV] The Flower Bed. A Lilly x Tulip tale of love and lust. T-Minus 3 days

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  • StrikerkcStrikerkc Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yea, FO3, armor is almost just a matter of asthetics.

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Good news is that Obsidian is bringing back DT (with a limit), so a raider with a baseball bat will only do a maximum of X dmg every single strike. X being a damned small number.

    As for PA, its pretty useless. Go with combat armour. Do the Reilly's Rangers quest, and opt for their unique armour at the end. Alternatively, you'll eventually come across Lag-Bolt and the unmarked quest which nets you his armour (more CA, better than average).

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  • LizardLizard Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    It's made even more unintentionally hilarious by the massive amount of +DR perks you can get.

    By my math, with Toughness, Cyborg, Superior Defender, Pit Fighter, Survival Expert and Barkskin you can get 44% DR.

    44%. While standing around in your underwear.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Looks like I'm starting a playthrough with all the the DLC. This time, I'm gonna avoid using the massive overhaul mods, and instead simply pick out the mods I've tried before that I know will work with zero problems. And as it turns out, now I'm having more fun with this game than I ever had before.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Looks like I'm starting a playthrough with all the the DLC. This time, I'm gonna avoid using the massive overhaul mods, and instead simply pick out the mods I've tried before that I know will work with zero problems. And as it turns out, now I'm having more fun with this game than I ever had before.

    Welcome to my beautiful realisation.

    Honestly, the game holds up wonderfully without any mods. Although I think the more PC friendly mods like the improved inventory system are kinda required.

    Just don't expect Anchorage or Mothership Zeta to be very good..................

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Sawyer quote about button controls:
    We now buffer the button input for about half a second, so if you're mashing the fire button you should get a consistent rate of fire from semi-auto weapons. In F3 there was no input buffering so an early input was effectively thrown away. Because you can only tap a button so fast, your first valid input could be three, five, or even ten frames after the link frame. Consequently, you were usually firing significantly more slowly than the weapon was capable of firing.

    Yep, aside from gameplay changes Obsidian is polishing a game.

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  • ApostateApostate Prince SpaceRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    C2B wrote: »
    Sawyer quote about button controls:
    We now buffer the button input for about half a second, so if you're mashing the fire button you should get a consistent rate of fire from semi-auto weapons. In F3 there was no input buffering so an early input was effectively thrown away. Because you can only tap a button so fast, your first valid input could be three, five, or even ten frames after the link frame. Consequently, you were usually firing significantly more slowly than the weapon was capable of firing.

    Yep, aside from gameplay changes Obsidian is polishing a game.

    Are they going to get rid of that weird extra "half step" you get when you stop moving? That alone would make the game much tighter feeling and not so sloppy.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Apostate wrote: »
    C2B wrote: »
    Sawyer quote about button controls:
    We now buffer the button input for about half a second, so if you're mashing the fire button you should get a consistent rate of fire from semi-auto weapons. In F3 there was no input buffering so an early input was effectively thrown away. Because you can only tap a button so fast, your first valid input could be three, five, or even ten frames after the link frame. Consequently, you were usually firing significantly more slowly than the weapon was capable of firing.

    Yep, aside from gameplay changes Obsidian is polishing a game.

    Are they going to get rid of that weird extra "half step" you get when you stop moving? That alone would make the game much tighter feeling and not so sloppy.

    Psh, so ungrateful.

    Think about all those poor wastelanders who went around and meticulously polished every floor in the entire country.

    And all you can do is complain.

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  • KarilmatKarilmat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Not to necro an old topic, but I would love to see a Fallout game handle a "stronghold" like Baldur's Gate 2 did with some enhancements. Keep it light with a few quests you can do to defend and/or build it up, make it a place where your followers can hang out when you don't take them with you, maybe set up trade with surrounding towns, hire guards and attract folks to inhabit your town, etc. I always enjoyed the feelings of isolation and desolation the Fallout games have had, but it would be neat to be able to have the opportunity to feel that you've been able to carve out a piece of the world to make a better place (or worse, if you like to roll that way).

    I would be VERY amused if you could subcontract some quests to your followers, but I'm not totally sure how that would work out. Maybe if you needed to do several quests quickly and didn't have enough time to do them all? It's kind of weird, and I can see it being hard to do that right, but it's something I always kind of wanted to see fleshed out more in a game.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Karilmat wrote: »
    Not to necro an old topic, but I would love to see a Fallout game handle a "stronghold" like Baldur's Gate 2 did with some enhancements. Keep it light with a few quests you can do to defend and/or build it up, make it a place where your followers can hang out when you don't take them with you, maybe set up trade with surrounding towns, hire guards and attract folks to inhabit your town, etc. I always enjoyed the feelings of isolation and desolation the Fallout games have had, but it would be neat to be able to have the opportunity to feel that you've been able to carve out a piece of the world to make a better place (or worse, if you like to roll that way).

    I would be VERY amused if you could subcontract some quests to your followers, but I'm not totally sure how that would work out. Maybe if you needed to do several quests quickly and didn't have enough time to do them all? It's kind of weird, and I can see it being hard to do that right, but it's something I always kind of wanted to see fleshed out more in a game.

    I think there is a PC mod for FO3 that does most of that stuff.

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  • KarilmatKarilmat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Well, I had FO3 for the 360, so no modding. After playing through the entire game, all of the DLC's, and then just spending hours wandering around with nothing to do, that made me very sad, so I think for FNV I'm going to go with the PC version. My understanding was the PC version of FO3 was buggier, but it's not like the 360 version of bug-free, and at least on the PC I can either patch or mod-patch problems.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I've come to realize my love for Nuka-Cola. Is it possible to steal the Quantums back from Sierra?

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You could always trade with her a bullet to the head.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    I've come to realize my love for Nuka-Cola. Is it possible to steal the Quantums back from Sierra?

    If you have Broken Steel there's a perk that converts every 10 nuka-colas into a Quantum. After a while, I was rolling in nuka-grenades.

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  • LizardLizard Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You could always trade with her a bullet to the head.

    All of the Quantums you trade to Sierra are teleported into her Nuka-Cola Machine, which requires a key to open. That key doesn't exist in the game, and no, it's not on her body.

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    All I'm saying is that if you really love Nuka-Cola, something as trivial as melting someone's face off with a high-powered plasma blast to steal their stash shouldn't be an issue. And if they lock it in an unopenable case, placing an array of bottlecap mines over their melted remains and blasting their dust into the atmosphere is a completely understandable, justified reaction.

    You... you do love Nuka-Cola, right? Right?!

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Karilmat wrote: »
    Well, I had FO3 for the 360, so no modding. After playing through the entire game, all of the DLC's, and then just spending hours wandering around with nothing to do, that made me very sad, so I think for FNV I'm going to go with the PC version. My understanding was the PC version of FO3 was buggier, but it's not like the 360 version of bug-free, and at least on the PC I can either patch or mod-patch problems.

    Yeah, with the PC version you can at least try to fix problems with the console

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    All I'm saying is that if you really love Nuka-Cola, something as trivial as melting someone's face off with a high-powered plasma blast to steal their stash shouldn't be an issue. And if they lock it in an unopenable case, placing an array of bottlecap mines over their melted remains and blasting their dust into the atmosphere is a completely understandable, justified reaction.

    You... you do love Nuka-Cola, right? Right?!

    ...not as much as you do, apparently O_o

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I always killed her with a Nuka Grenade, seems like she'd want to go out that way

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Live by the Nuka-Cola

    Die by the Nuka-Cola

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Then tell her friend it was Nuka-Cola agents.

    The truth is out, the Enclave, Brotherhood, Vault-Tec, all are in the thrall of Nuka-Cola, we are all just pawns of the Great Blue.

    (Also, NukaLurks are the best thing ever.)

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You should be able to build a dirty bomb out of nuka cola.

    Like, a bomb bigger than the Fatman nukes. Be like a bottlecap mine, you set it, it drops with a timer, and you run like hell.

    Kill an entire cell the size of megaton in a single blast.

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  • StrikerkcStrikerkc Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    You should be able to build a dirty bomb out of nuka cola.

    Like, a bomb bigger than the Fatman nukes. Be like a bottlecap mine, you set it, it drops with a timer, and you run like hell.

    Kill an entire cell the size of megaton in a single blast.

    A half dozen nuka grenades belted to a fat man and a thermus filled with sugar bombs and iradiated water...

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Strikerkc wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    You should be able to build a dirty bomb out of nuka cola.

    Like, a bomb bigger than the Fatman nukes. Be like a bottlecap mine, you set it, it drops with a timer, and you run like hell.

    Kill an entire cell the size of megaton in a single blast.

    A half dozen nuka grenades belted to a fat man and a thermus filled with sugar bombs and iradiated water...

    into a pile of bottlecap mines

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wow, you guys are crazy geese.

    I will just take the Quantum Chemist perk when it is available. I already have more than a 100 Nuka Colas in my fridge.

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Do NOT throw those colas into the Cola Machine you can decorate your house with. Ice Colds don't work with that perk.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    My favourite part of Mothership Zeta (One of very few) was when I was wondering around the cargo hold on the alien ship with the cowboy dude, and we come across a bunch of Nuka Cola merchandise.

    And cowboy guy quietly mutters "Nuka-What?"

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    and then you killed the unbeliever, right?

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nuzak wrote: »
    and then you killed the unbeliever, right?

    I did that after we all survived the space battle.

    I really wanted his outfit.
    Same with Samurai guy
    I don't even remember their names they meant that little to me.

    But my house sure does look pretty with that fuedal japanese helmet on the wall.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Do NOT throw those colas into the Cola Machine you can decorate your house with. Ice Colds don't work with that perk.

    Thanks for the reminder. I read that at the Vault a long time ago, but yeah, I am not buying a Nuka-Cola Machine, no sir.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Do NOT throw those colas into the Cola Machine you can decorate your house with. Ice Colds don't work with that perk.

    Thanks for the reminder. I read that at the Vault a long time ago, but yeah, I am not buying a Nuka-Cola Machine, no sir.

    I think theres a mod that fixes that oversight

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    arrggghhh do not talk about mods, i can only play on ps3

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Have they said if followers will be made out of more than tissue paper this time around(sans people like Charon, Fawkes, and post-patch Dogmeat) of course

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Also an eyebot as follower.

    For whoever wished that. It IS cool.
    Edit: Doesn't seem to be every companion though.

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    Cyber-Dogmeat! :D

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Zilla360 wrote: »
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    Cyber-Dogmeat! :D

    And... Butch?

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ok, are all companions. So, Victor will probably only be a temporary one. If any.

    I really like their backgrounds already.

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  • Blood DriveBlood Drive Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    Zilla360 wrote: »
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    Cyber-Dogmeat! :D

    And... Butch?

    Tunnel Snakes Rule!

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    No Marcus for a follower?


    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo

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