/fallout/ - Fallout

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>>907

Wew fuck off /leftypol/, you can't even keep your lies and propaganda out of fiction anymore.

I don't give a shit if House was Rand's idealistic self-made entrepreneur or if you think him running a gambling town in the middle of a wasteland is fair. Nobody gets forced to go. Everybody who saves up enough caps gets a chance to trade a few days of their meaningless existence for some fun in a clean(ish), rich-looking paradise before they have to go back to scavenging scrap or herding brahmin. If not for the caps that brought on, he and the useless tribes he groomed into casino folk would never be able to afford the time and labor to make New Vegas actually worth looking at. It is the one speck of hope the common man has in a world that simply can't afford to truly give a shit about them right now.

>>617

>reddit tab

>>500

Jericho?

You need to talk to some guy in the gas station just before Navarro and use Speech to convince him you're a new recruit. There might be an alternate way I can't remember.

I think he means the random encounter patrols around Navarro, which if this is the case, yes.

>>967

>it felt like, well, more of a wasteland

it's not supposed to look like it's been bombed 20 minutes ago, it's been 200+ years you idiot. if they wanted that "wasteland" look so badly, they should have made the story take place right after the war. every time FO3 fanboys try to explain themselves, they give this kind of dumb shit.

>>627

oooh bermuda triangle fallout

I like that idea

>>628

The more I think about it, the more I really like the idea of a Ship as a player home. Start with like a little PT boat or fishing trawler with just enough room for a mounted machine gun, a cot, and inventory container. Work your way up to an oil tanker or rusted out old destroyer. Your crew would be made up of your companions, so they're actually doing something for you besides lazing about, gambling, and eating all your unique rare foods when they're not actively following you. Maybe hire on NPCs from towns you interact with to serve as ancillary background crew.

That would give the morality and faction system a purpose again. If you solve quests with a good karma choice, more good characters will want to join your crew. Choose the evil karma path, and you get more evil characters. The composition of your crew will affect how your ship preforms at sea. Ruthless cuthroat crews will have obvious damage bonuses and increased loot. Good crews would be better at repair and defense, but at lower damage and less loot - but a better barter rates at port towns and the chance for outside ships to help you in combat. Depending on how you manage your crew, you could also have a neutral faction - or an aligned faction (again with bonuses, maybe new ship/parts selection, and increased risk of attack from opposing factions). The flag you fly should be optional, and work kind of like how faction clothes in New Vegas.

This way, you're never really left searching for a non-respawning container to store your gear early in the game, and how you kit out your player home directly reflects how you play the game and how well you can preform. It'll be central to your experience, rather than just a "gear dump".

>>630

Fallout:Pirates

>>589

>playing any fallout game without mods even on your first playthrough

How? Vanilla Fallout games are all shit.

>>919

2 is the meme-filled le funny entry in the series; it had good gameplay, mostly good world design, and a better implementation of special stats/checks than the entire rest of the series, but it also had some of the stupidest instances of lore in the entire series too, and loved throwing in pop-culture references that stopped being relevant five years after the game was made. 2 was the game with talking deathclaws and radscorpions that played chess, it was the game with the completely ridiculous quest to make a porno, it was the game with a more hilariously evil depiction of the "bad guys" than even 3. It's not a bad game in terms of gameplay(if you like isometric turn-based you'll love the absolute shit out of it, it's an excellent example of the genre), but for everything else it's just a more retarded and meme-filled edition of FO1. Fallout has always had the "50's B-movie" depiction of science and radiation especially, in that basically anything could be explained by "idunno, science/radiation did it", but 2 (and OWB, but that wasn't an entire game) is kinda the pinnacle of it.

>>916

>FO universe breaks from ours rather early in the 1900's

It breaks after WWII, some bases and locations are even real

As for Jet it makes sense its prewar because its a pretty elaborate drug with a canister delivery and shit. When you look at shitty drugs from the third world which is basically what people living in the wasteland would use, not some fancy asthma inhaler but crack rocks and rusty pipes. Most jet by the time of FO4 must be refills though

Now radiation well they had to sacrifice realism for the sake of gameplay, because in a IRL irradiated wasteland you would just die like a bitch in hours

>>892

>>885

I pirated it as well, its a good game but if I had payed for it I would be pissed at some of the problems. I really hate the new dialog system with the voiced player character, I feel I'm playing as shepard rather than my FO-alterego

I do love the weapon crafting system, don't care much about the settlement parts though, and the armor and clothing could use something in-between the regular armor and power-armor, something like the ranger armor from FONV

And power-armor, well thats the real deal-breaker for me, the design is awesome but the whole fusion cores part is shit, the fact that there is no way to recharge them means you never have enough around for regular use which means PA becomes something you have to get in and out of and leave around, unlike in the previous games. Let alone it kills the lore since its implied that fusion cores can't be manufactured anymore, so how could people keep using PA for over 200 years?

Still the worst part of the game has to be the story, its just so unengaging for me, I replayed FO3 and NV several times but I might not do the same here beyond getting the different endings.

>>939

You know radiation is highly variable and measured in log right?

>>941

>>942

>>944

Because a faction literally run by an AI with an innately delusional understanding of the outside world, a terminally outdated and non-adaptable form of propaganda despite constantly recieving new information (showing that it still lacks any form of intuition or a fuzzy logic substitute for bare minimum levels of creativity), and info torture chambers to get info it's incapable of properly using…all screams sustainable, long-term goals.

>>945

I think he's referring to the old Enclave, but even then the New Enclave is still a hell of a lot better than anything the Wastes had to offer.

also

>The AI

A lot better than most leaders in the Wasteland.

>>949

Here's a thought: let the new, warm and fuzzy Followers of the Apocalypse manage things in collaboration with whichever military organization is currently the least shitty.

They care about people, but they don't put up with any degenerate druggie bullshit or infighting. Would be better management than anyone else.

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I think the reason for the silence is FO4. Didn't even manage to win the meme awards. Might not be possible to breathe any new life into the series ever again, in fact. Also anything we post here now won't be included once 8ch switches to the beta according to the head tards, though they may wind up using that as a thing to curry favor with anons by just doing the obvious and having another migration.