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  • OhtsamOhtsam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SoulGate wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Speaking of Charon with the Railway, is there a list of weapons/armors the NPC helpers will actually use when given them and ammo?

    I know Charon will wear Button's Wig, for example.

    Hahaha! Oh I've got to try that now!


    Edit: What a totp. Um...


    Did you know that the Fat Man is based off an actual portable Nuke launcher? The m388 Davy Crockett Tactical Nuclear Recoilless Rifle was a design made in the 1950's, and luckily for the footsoldiers, was never fully developed.

    except for the one used in MGS3

    Ohtsam on
  • SoulGateSoulGate Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dammit this game is crashing on me when I save, and sometimes when I load a new cell! It all started with that huge boss mod, which I love too much ever since I killed that Crystalline mirelurk. :( Anyone else have a problem with crashes that could be related to this?

    On a side note: Charon is damn sexy for a ghoul with button's wig on.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
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    FyreWulff wrote: »
    I should note that Badman is fucking awesome
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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    EvilBadman wrote: »

    ...There needs to be a mod that spawns him with that in his inventory, and with his name changed to George Washington.

    Then I want another helper who has a fine beard we can mod into Lincoln. And a good Andrew Jackson. Oh, and rename Dogmeat Checkers.

    I want to lead the presidential action squad.

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  • LanrutconLanrutcon The LabyrinthRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    yalborap wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »

    ...There needs to be a mod that spawns him with that in his inventory, and with his name changed to George Washington.

    Then I want another helper who has a fine beard we can mod into Lincoln. And a good Andrew Jackson. Oh, and rename Dogmeat Checkers.

    I want to lead the presidential action squad.

    ...I gave up on followers. I grew tired of them randomly dying to nothing. Literally nothing. Quick travel to a location and then bam...death message. Sigh. I had such good times with Jericho after I gave him the Burnmaster...while it lasted.

    :|

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    yalborap wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »

    ...There needs to be a mod that spawns him with that in his inventory, and with his name changed to George Washington.

    Then I want another helper who has a fine beard we can mod into Lincoln. And a good Andrew Jackson. Oh, and rename Dogmeat Checkers.

    I want to lead the presidential action squad.

    ...I gave up on followers. I grew tired of them randomly dying to nothing. Literally nothing. Quick travel to a location and then bam...death message. Sigh. I had such good times with Jericho after I gave him the Burnmaster...while it lasted.

    :|

    There's a console command that lets you change them to essential NPC's so they only go unconscious instead of dying. I don't know what it is, but I'm sure someone here could tell you.

    Food on
  • JWFokkerJWFokker Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    JWFokker wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Malakaius wrote: »
    Yeah, It does feel like oblivion at first, but this game makes oblivion feel Good, Just give it a chance.(and Mods if you have the PC version)

    Its kinda like that weird aunt who bad touches you.

    At first its like " omg, no, stay away "

    Then its all like " Mm..Well...This is..Okay I guess.. "

    Then it ends up with you drooling in a stupor not realizing 18 hours have passed since the last time you got out of your chair.

    That's more than a slight exaggeration. Fallout 3 was pretty good, but it's not on par with Weird Aunt Bad Touch.

    So you're saying... Weird Aunt Bad Touch... is better than Fallout 3.

    Uh huh.


    A little late to the party, arntcha? :P

    Well, it sounds to me like he never played Weird Aunt Bad Touch, so I don't know how he's making this sort of judgment anyway. It's like writing a review based on the trailer. Just because Colbert does it, doesn't mean that everyone should.

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  • TethTeth __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    I have too much fun kicking in the doors of sleeping, helpless victims and bucking them VATS style in the head with my combat shotgun.

    That couple in Arefetu: "Oh, don't get up" BLAM BLAM

    These sandbox games bring out the worst in me.

    Oh, and being able to put the entire town of Megaton in their place once I finished the book quest and found Rivets (or whatever it is, the boat). I began with meticulously placed mines (the kind with 350+ DMG), and flew many heads with assorted garbage - my favorite was using a coffee mug to send that bastard Nathan to Paradise.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I snuck into guys house once while he was sleeping, turned on my pip-boy flashlight and when I shone it on him he woke up. Then I felt really awkward.

    Tav on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited December 2008
    Tav wrote: »
    I snuck into guys house once while he was sleeping, turned on my pip-boy flashlight and when I shone it on him he woke up. Then I felt really awkward.

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  • FaffelFaffel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SoulGate wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Speaking of Charon with the Railway, is there a list of weapons/armors the NPC helpers will actually use when given them and ammo?

    I know Charon will wear Button's Wig, for example.

    Hahaha! Oh I've got to try that now!


    Edit: What a totp. Um...


    Did you know that the Fat Man is based off an actual portable Nuke launcher? The m388 Davy Crockett Tactical Nuclear Recoilless Rifle was a design made in the 1950's, and luckily for the footsoldiers, was never fully developed.

    Thanks, Sigint.

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  • LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Well, I did it.

    Paradise Falls is now just a ghost town with strange piles of green goo everywhere.

    Lux on
  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    :patriot:

    EvilBadman on
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    I should note that Badman is fucking awesome
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  • BlitzAce1981BlitzAce1981 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Faffel wrote: »
    SoulGate wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Speaking of Charon with the Railway, is there a list of weapons/armors the NPC helpers will actually use when given them and ammo?

    I know Charon will wear Button's Wig, for example.

    Hahaha! Oh I've got to try that now!


    Edit: What a totp. Um...


    Did you know that the Fat Man is based off an actual portable Nuke launcher? The m388 Davy Crockett Tactical Nuclear Recoilless Rifle was a design made in the 1950's, and luckily for the footsoldiers, was never fully developed.

    Thanks, Sigint.

    But how does it taste?

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Faffel wrote: »
    SoulGate wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Speaking of Charon with the Railway, is there a list of weapons/armors the NPC helpers will actually use when given them and ammo?

    I know Charon will wear Button's Wig, for example.

    Hahaha! Oh I've got to try that now!


    Edit: What a totp. Um...


    Did you know that the Fat Man is based off an actual portable Nuke launcher? The m388 Davy Crockett Tactical Nuclear Recoilless Rifle was a design made in the 1950's, and luckily for the footsoldiers, was never fully developed.

    Thanks, Sigint.

    But how does it taste?

    Is that all you think about?

    Deaderinred on
  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    El Extremo wrote: »
    So I beat this today, and I'm sure other people have asked this question about the ending, but...

    SPOILERS
    why the hell didn't Fawkes activate the machine?

    Oh god. It's going to start again. Do you realize what your hands have wrought? Now the next three pages of this thread will be people bitching about the ending.

    Not really bitching, just saying I wonder why Bethesda didn't get rid of that possibility beforehand. Leave it to only two of you.
    I mean, he was literally standing right next to me in front of the machine.
    She, not he.
    Fawkes is a she? I must have missed that.

    Motion to include in the OP, with LARGE LETTERS, the fact that Bethesda is changing the ending with one of DLCs.


    With Broken Steel to be exact, the last DLC.

    Wait, what? No more DLC after Broken Steel? I hope that isn't true.

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  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    El Extremo wrote: »
    So I beat this today, and I'm sure other people have asked this question about the ending, but...

    SPOILERS
    why the hell didn't Fawkes activate the machine?

    Oh god. It's going to start again. Do you realize what your hands have wrought? Now the next three pages of this thread will be people bitching about the ending.

    Not really bitching, just saying I wonder why Bethesda didn't get rid of that possibility beforehand. Leave it to only two of you.
    I mean, he was literally standing right next to me in front of the machine.
    She, not he.
    Fawkes is a she? I must have missed that.

    Motion to include in the OP, with LARGE LETTERS, the fact that Bethesda is changing the ending with one of DLCs.


    With Broken Steel to be exact, the last DLC.

    Wait, what? No more DLC after Broken Steel? I hope that isn't true.

    Well... They never really said "last." It's actually the third of the three they have announced, which could be the last.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Bethesda has a pretty decent track record of making good expansions

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    With Broken Steel to be exact, the last DLC.

    Wait, what? No more DLC after Broken Steel? I hope that isn't true.

    Well... They never really said "last." It's actually the third of the three they have announced, which could be the last.[/QUOTE]

    Ok, right good. That's what I thought. Whew. Don't scare me like that. I acknowledge the possibility, but the likelihood of only 3 DLC packs seems pretty minimal.

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  • ironzergironzerg Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ending Fix.
    The easy answer to Bethesda's ending dilemma would have been to simply script the entrance to the control room differently. Instead of walking in and facing Col. Autumn directly, the PC should have walked in and headed up the ramp to activate the purifier. Col. Autumn comes out from the shadows, and immiediately head shot executes whoever your companion is. Then begins the final dialog with you. The game continues exactly as written.

    That solves every problem in one nice, neat package. If anything, it would make the player hate the Enclave even more for a) capping your partner, b) "Well, fuck. If Fawkes was still alive, no one would have to die" and c) would make it a very difficult decision for even the highest karma player to let Autumn just "walk away".

    Dear Bethesda, PM me for my resume.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've seen Fawkes withstand a mininuke to the balls.

    I don't think a pistol shot to his head will hurt him.

    Buttcleft on
  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So, who the hell has the wazer wifle in liitle lamp light? I've talked to pretty much every kid in here and don't see any kind of option

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    I've seen Fawkes withstand a mininuke to the balls.

    I don't think a pistol shot to his head will hurt him.

    Of course Fawkes can withstand a mininuke to something Fawkes' doesn't have any of.

    Couscous on
  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Couscous wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    I've seen Fawkes withstand a mininuke to the balls.

    I don't think a pistol shot to his head will hurt him.

    Of course Fawkes can withstand a mininuke to something Fawkes' doesn't have any of.

    I have a big pile of Moira x Mr.Handy here, and I'm not afraid to use it.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    I've seen Fawkes withstand a mininuke to the balls.

    I don't think a pistol shot to his head will hurt him.

    Of course Fawkes can withstand a mininuke to something Fawkes' doesn't have any of.

    I have a big pile of Moira x Mr.Handy here, and I'm not afraid to use it.

    :winky:

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Minerva_SC wrote: »
    So, who the hell has the wazer wifle in liitle lamp light? I've talked to pretty much every kid in here and don't see any kind of option
    The weapon can be obtained in Little Lamplight from a child named Biwwy who is found near the back of the Great Chamber.

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  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Many thanks

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Something weird just happened to me

    A certain naughty kid and his little friend ran away from rivet city, and i was tasked to find them.

    However, these two naughty kids somehow got involved in a gunfight with regulators. I was forced to kill the regulators, because no one told them that children are immortal. Is this normal?

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I blew up that kid from Those! with a car when Talon mercs ran at him once.

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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fallout 3: Looking for ways to murder those pesky kids

    Daxon on
  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    JWFokker wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    JWFokker wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Malakaius wrote: »
    Yeah, It does feel like oblivion at first, but this game makes oblivion feel Good, Just give it a chance.(and Mods if you have the PC version)

    Its kinda like that weird aunt who bad touches you.

    At first its like " omg, no, stay away "

    Then its all like " Mm..Well...This is..Okay I guess.. "

    Then it ends up with you drooling in a stupor not realizing 18 hours have passed since the last time you got out of your chair.

    That's more than a slight exaggeration. Fallout 3 was pretty good, but it's not on par with Weird Aunt Bad Touch.

    So you're saying... Weird Aunt Bad Touch... is better than Fallout 3.

    Uh huh.


    A little late to the party, arntcha? :P

    Well, it sounds to me like he never played Weird Aunt Bad Touch, so I don't know how he's making this sort of judgment anyway. It's like writing a review based on the trailer. Just because Colbert does it, doesn't mean that everyone should.

    Oh. I didn't know that was a game.

    I just had flashbacks to my childhood when people started talking about weird aunt bad touch. That is not more fun than Fallout 3.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I just got my lockpick skill to 100, so I decided to go fleece the Craterside Supply. At 2am I went in, only to find Moira, the mercenary and Maggie in there telling me that I should probably leave.

    Looks like worse things then death happen to the kids in this game.

    Tav on
  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So, 1up recently had an interview with the lead designer, Emil Pagliarulo. It's spoilerific. You've been warned.

    Some tidbits:

    Companions at the end
    "All of the followers were implemented into the game fairly late in development, after the main story had already been nailed down. So, you know, we had the scene at the end of the game, with deadly radiation, and never really compensated for the fact that you could have a Supermutant, or Ghoul, or robot, who could possibly turn the purifier on for you. We'd only ever planned for you sending Sarah Lyons into the purifier, because we knew, from a story standpoint, that she'd definitely be in there with you."

    They ran out of time, it seems.

    DLC

    "Right now, there are no plans to do anything as big as Shivering Isles for Oblivion."


    Also, it should be noted (Couscous) that we don't actually know Fawkes' gender. The original inhabitant of it's cell was female but Fawkes isn't that person. In fact, in that interview Fawkes is referred to several times as "he" by the lead designer.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Does Moira ever leave her damn shop? D:

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So, 1up recently had an interview with the lead designer, Emil Pagliarulo. It's spoilerific. You've been warned.

    Some tidbits:

    Companions at the end
    "All of the followers were implemented into the game fairly late in development, after the main story had already been nailed down. So, you know, we had the scene at the end of the game, with deadly radiation, and never really compensated for the fact that you could have a Supermutant, or Ghoul, or robot, who could possibly turn the purifier on for you. We'd only ever planned for you sending Sarah Lyons into the purifier, because we knew, from a story standpoint, that she'd definitely be in there with you."

    They ran out of time, it seems.

    DLC

    "Right now, there are no plans to do anything as big as Shivering Isles for Oblivion."


    Also, it should be noted (Couscous) that we don't actually know Fawkes' gender. The original inhabitant of it's cell was female but Fawkes isn't that person. In fact, in that interview Fawkes is referred to several times as "he" by the lead designer.

    I was hoping they'd come out with an expansion that takes place in the Commonwealth, but I suppose they could fit that in a DLC if they wanted too.

    Food on
  • Toxin01Toxin01 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Is there a way to force the game to let you level past 20?

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  • Iron WeaselIron Weasel Dillon! You son of a bitch!Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Given that Emil specifically stated that they have no plans for a visit to the Commonwealth, that seems unlikely :(

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Unrelated note, about Bethesda devs.

    Is it just me, or does Todd Howard look like someone that'd monkey rape you in a Miami back alley.

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  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    Is there a way to force the game to let you level past 20?

    You can change the level cap, (player.maxlevel 40 I think), but I've heard that it can mess up an evil character when you hit 21. To get around that, I've been using player.setlevel 19 to drop myself back down. It lets me keep Grim Reaper's Sprint at level 19, so now I'm picking up perks I missed before.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Given that Emil specifically stated that they have no plans for a visit to the Commonwealth, that seems unlikely :(

    Actually now that I think about it, Bethesda said a bunch of times that they had no plans for a full expansion pack for Oblivion before they announced Shivering Isles so it's still a possibility.

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