Fallout 3

[loki]

All I can say upto now is wow. Jaw dropping, eye bleeding, wow. 1680x1050full on in your face iradiated post apocalyptic widescreen wonderfullness.

It manages to blend so many good elements of FPS into a none to heavy RPG. The game world is vast and varied and for a post apocalyptic vista, I think upto now they have it pretty much on the money. I am about an hour and a half in.

[Belmit]

I'm really loving having 100 sneak, 100 small guns, the sniper perk and the bloody mess perk. My chances of hitting someone in the head from miles away and scoring a critical, sneak-bonus, face-bursting hit are very high indeed. Raiders don't stand a chance unless they're a long way off, and a sweet shot always takes their head clean off! At worst, you can blow their gun away and they have the long, angry pipe-wielding sprint to try and reach you before you casually reload.

At 1am this morning I found the Fat Man gun but was too tired to keep playing. Good job I saved all those mini-nukes - I was wondering what they were for!

[Pheebs]

I started playing this last week!

Not gone far but it's awesome!

Picky, however, kept trying to make me say things differently to what he did in the beginning so I'd be different to him (despite the fact I wanted to answer honestly!) The Minx!

As a not particularly skilled xbox player (I'm still quite pants at controlling moving/aiming/shooting in comparison to my PC gaming abilities) this game is super awesome. I'm not saying this to put off experienced people as they may think "if Pheebs can do it, it's got to be pants" but it's more of a you-can-take-it-slow if you need to which is exactly what I need to do so I can improve!

Loving it!

And MB - I lolled heartily at your mine comment

[Belmit]

Can't remember if anyone answered it, but I think you need a certain level in... is it Repair?... before you can diffuse mines. It's really handy once you can though.

[Pumpkinstew]

Uninstalled it, reinstalled it. Udated Nvidia drivers, Tried running it in XP mode.

Still can't get past the character creation bit without a lock up.


Well, I've fallen out with it (boom-boom) and going back to Warhammer until Bethesda remove their heads from their rectums and patch the damn thing to a usable state.

[Aboobie]

Originally Posted by Belmit

Can't remember if anyone answered it, but I think you need a certain level in... is it Repair?... before you can diffuse mines. It's really handy once you can though.

Explosive skill.

[Davey_Pitch]

I love mines (a stat just popped up on a loading screen to say I've already disarmed 24 of them). Shoot someone in the face, back off, throw a mine in their path, and watch them go boom. It's great fun

[Belmit]

Ah right, it's booby traps that you need the Repair skill to do certain arms/disarms.

Edit: And bottletop mines are awesome. From the look of them, I'm assuming you can fashion them if you have the correct components and schematic - almost certainly a tin lunchbox and a certain number of bottletops, along with the appropriate explosive/ignition.

[Davey_Pitch]

Originally Posted by Belmit

Edit: And bottletop mines are awesome. From the look of them, I'm assuming you can fashion them if you have the correct components and schematic - almost certainly a tin lunchbox and a certain number of bottletops, along with the appropriate explosive/ignition.

Indeed they are awesome. If you want to make them, you need the schematic from the bint in Craterside Supply in Megaton (finish the mine subquest for her), and the following parts...

Spoiler Alert! - Highlight below to read!


Lunchbox
Cherry Bomb
Sensor Module
10 Caps


End Spoiler Alert!

[Belmit]

There may be a slight issue in that I'd already been to the location required and she was happy with that for the research, but I didn't get anything in return. Maybe if I go back it'll trigger it, as I literally just found the location on the map by accident very early on and realised my skills weren't good enough to even attempt a recce, so I walked away.