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I really loved the show.
However one thing I don't get is, why is Vault-Tech evil?
I understand war makes them money, so it's in their benefit to keep the war-machine going.
They were actually accounting for a nuclear war (whether directly or indirectly) but how do they benefit in any way when the world has gone to shit?
Whats a trillion dollar gonna do if there is no world left? Also why is there a need for experiments?
However one thing I don't get is, why is Vault-Tech evil?
I understand war makes them money, so it's in their benefit to keep the war-machine going.
They were actually accounting for a nuclear war (whether directly or indirectly) but how do they benefit in any way when the world has gone to shit?
Whats a trillion dollar gonna do if there is no world left? Also why is there a need for experiments?
They are deluded. The plan is to assume total control in a few hundred years after radiation kills off the competition.
Got an ending to New Vegas today. First time playing it. Such an excellent game. It's also the only one I finished, though I've played the first three games as well. Playing through The Outer Worlds now, I was so impressed by Obsidian's storytelling. I'll likely go back to 4 when I dip back into the Fallout well
In the show Vault-Tec seem to be driven by a little more than just pure capitalism - they want an America run by and controlled by them, and their plan is to survive all competing claims by essentially wiping the world clean and then outliving them. It's almost like an extreme end-stage capitalism, where the companies abandon their interest in simple cash money and instead want pure hegemonic domination. Power to create the world as they see fit.
Most of them are going to be in cryo for the entire duration, so they don't care about the state of the world. They're gonna sleep through the worst. Some of them will be woken up, but they'll be doing so to run Vault-Tec control vaults, which are their idea of human paradise - people with positivity; people who make lemonade; people who are managed by them to be their vision of humanity. Eating Cram and jelly cake and wearing matching jumpsuits until the end of time.
Thought this was interesting. It's a video comparing Fallout 4's metal homes in Sanctuary, to the real-life post-WW2 American homes they're actually based on:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVDUauTJh4
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVDUauTJh4
I heard someone say it was a landfill, but can't find a source.
My man, it's a good time to be coming in with map expansion on the horizon
It's my favorite version of the IP. Tried each of the games over the years and they didn't do anything for me. Loved the show though.
ran into a bug that made my reset a lot of progress by going to a real old save. Is there a console command that can let me skip a bunch of quests in 3? I goggled the commands but the Ones that are supposed to complete quests aren't working for me. I was at the last main quest. I want to skip to that and then do Broken Steel.
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While I don't know if New Vegas is quite as dramatically better than 4 many would have me believe, I do love a lot of the writing.
"Several unidentified aircraft were spotted flying over the REPCONN test site by a local crackpot. He spoke to a toy bear near one of our microphones."
"Several unidentified aircraft were spotted flying over the REPCONN test site by a local crackpot. He spoke to a toy bear near one of our microphones."
Lustron houses are always cool to see, there's actually a cluster of 4 of them near my house that got recognized as a historic district recently
I think it's partly that they see nuclear war as more or less inevitable. Between the Resource Wars depleting everything and the escalating tensions with China, they might as well prepare and try to control when exactly things finally go to shit to best benefit themselves.
I subscribe to the theory that they probably didn't actually drop the first bombs though (even if they were planning to), because Barb, a fairly high up executive at Vault-Tek, never would have let them trigger the bombs while her daughter was outside of a Vault.
That's precisely why they want to drop the bombs. They want to emerge from the war as a true monopoly, a dictatorship even. That means sinking all their cash into resources like Vaults. They believe that War is inevitable, but to prevent the company from become insolvent, they're prepared to start the War themselves.
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Skyline being described as "Fallout DLC" over "Fallout 76 DLC" is promising but I always take what JuiceHead says with a grain of salt.
people said the same with wastelanders and its writing and i really just dont see it
the new map will be nice at least. they did nail interesting maps and explorations with 76
I just started up a Tale of Two Wastelands, and something I immediately noticed was the difficulty in the early section of Fallout 3 is much, much harder than vanilla, mostly with enemy spawns. Walking from Vault 101 to Megaton I ran into 2 irradiated giant ants, and then doing the Wasteland Survival Guide, I ran into two armored mercenaries and had to flea. Enemies are significantly stronger, there's way more of them, and some are carrying way more powerful/valuable weapons.
I don't really know if this is from the "vanilla" Tale of Two Wastelands, or if this could be from some other mod... I also installed TTW Quick Start, basically a mod to skip the first 30mins when you're a baby, because I just did that a week ago on Xbox and didn't want to do it again.
Anybody know if this is par for the course for TTW? I don't mind it being harder, but I think it kinda ruins the early game of Fallout 3 when you're immediately running into advanced enemies, powerful mutated beasts, and so on, the game did a bettter job of slowly introducing you to those. RPG wise, there's no reason why this Merc squad would want to attack a random person in the Wasteland so early, I haven't done anything storywise.
ANother thing I noticed is a lot of low-level enemies running/cowering when I do a small amount of damage, and I don't think this was the case in the vanilla play through. Like mildly damaging the enemies in the Super Duper MArt is causing them to flea, even though their weapons are typically much better than mine.
Trying to figure out if this is one mod that's turned on in my TTW (I followed the "Best of Both Worlds" guide) or it's intended.
I don't really know if this is from the "vanilla" Tale of Two Wastelands, or if this could be from some other mod... I also installed TTW Quick Start, basically a mod to skip the first 30mins when you're a baby, because I just did that a week ago on Xbox and didn't want to do it again.
Anybody know if this is par for the course for TTW? I don't mind it being harder, but I think it kinda ruins the early game of Fallout 3 when you're immediately running into advanced enemies, powerful mutated beasts, and so on, the game did a bettter job of slowly introducing you to those. RPG wise, there's no reason why this Merc squad would want to attack a random person in the Wasteland so early, I haven't done anything storywise.
ANother thing I noticed is a lot of low-level enemies running/cowering when I do a small amount of damage, and I don't think this was the case in the vanilla play through. Like mildly damaging the enemies in the Super Duper MArt is causing them to flea, even though their weapons are typically much better than mine.
Trying to figure out if this is one mod that's turned on in my TTW (I followed the "Best of Both Worlds" guide) or it's intended.
enemies are stronger due to scaling being tuned to FNV but its not part of TTW getting those weird spawns. while doing the starting quests around megaton and close area i had the average molerat - raider - spawns, with the scripted small groups of super mutants here and there that are also in the base game
on the other hand, the way random encounters happen even in vanilla f3 could lead to some weird spawns by default, i remember my save being "bricked" because a couple of mutants with rocket launchers defaulted to spawning after i left a building, i barely had time to press vats before one of them exploded me with a rocket. you could just have "won" the todd lottery
Thanks! I'm curious too if it's because I reduced my luck when I started the game... I dropped luck to 2 or 3, I never knew what it was, so maybe that's why I'm getting these rough spawns. Googling the question and stumbling upon Reddits and other threads has some people saying similar things, like they're stumbling into albino deathclaws at level 5, and in my vanilla play through of FO3, I was most of the way through the story when I first came upon a deathclaw.
Gonna play a bit more this weekend.
I don't mind damage scaling to FO:NV levels, even if that makes super mutants harder (A common comment online too), I just don't want to have the balance of the game screwed up making it so that where ever I walk is super hostile with an unending number of enemy spawns. My old memories of FO3, the thing that got me to fall in love with the game ~16 years ago, was the sense of wandering and exploration... Really fit the "Lone Wanderer" lore for me.
Another thing to is that it sort of forces me into a very gun-focused play through. I almost always do speech, science, lockpick, charisma, sneak, I like to use range weapons and stealthy up close weapons. But when getting hit with Talon Co Mercs immediately outside of Megaton on the road to Super Duper MArt it pretty much forces you into gun heavy builds.
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albino deathclaws at level 5 is definitely a bug and nothing added by ttw. albino deathclaws shouldnt even spawn anywhere before broken steel
Thanks for the info Starlatine . Reading thru more online, I think this Talon Merc is just random spawn, and all of FO3's enemy spawns are more challenging than FO:NV, I haven't played FO3 in about 15 years so I think my memory of it was when I was already overpowered. A lot of comments online about how ranks 0-10 are really challenging in FO3. I think if I stumbled upon a Talon Merc with the weapons I had leaving the vault in my first Xbox 360 playthrough, I'd probably have just turned off the game "This shit is too hard for me" :D
I'll probably nerf the SUper mutant challenge a bit, I hate bullet sponge enemy encounters.
I'll probably nerf the SUper mutant challenge a bit, I hate bullet sponge enemy encounters.
im playing through the begin again mod list of ttw and just went from 101 to megaton with no issues. I actually did the elementary school in that first town hoping it would be hard and it wasn't at all. I'm playing on hard. Just out in the wild nothing other than some bloatflys.
Quite possibly the best environmental storytelling in a game.
Yeah, that's a bit on the nose, but that first terminal with the candidate statements was the first time I'd ever been actively excited to hunt around to figure out what was going on.
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I didn't mean it in a bad way, just when you sort of find everything out.
It's a bummer, yeah, "on the nose" wasn't the best phrasing for me to use. But you know going in that a lot of people are dead and I feel like they could have left it slightly more open.
One person probably got out.
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Off-topic but BGS hosted some mod creators for a few days. Presumably to do a meet-and-greet and talk about "Creations" for Starfield but this is still cool to see, at least I think so. I recognize two of them for sure, trainwiz and Elianora.
View: https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1788924473086714290
View: https://twitter.com/trainwiz/status/1788928206411649315
Edit: Otellino/Thomas Mitchell is the lead developer of the America Rising - Enclave quest mods
View: https://x.com/Otellino/status/1788927122439913799
View: https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1788924473086714290
View: https://twitter.com/trainwiz/status/1788928206411649315
Edit: Otellino/Thomas Mitchell is the lead developer of the America Rising - Enclave quest mods
View: https://x.com/Otellino/status/1788927122439913799
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I feel like I'm nearing the end of my FNV playthrough around 40 hours. I have to decide on some items:
I guess I should google on how and where to find the starting point for DLCs
Do I betray Mr. House? Do I go and talk to Yes-Man to take New Vegas for myself? Ceaser is dead and the boomers will help me. I guess the NCR should be able to wipe the legion now.
I guess I should google on how and where to find the starting point for DLCs
Hmm, looked it up and I wonder if I somehow disabled the DLC while modding. The radio stations stay unselectsble.
Hehe. Main antagonist of the original Fallout.WHAT. THE ACTUAL FUCK. IS THIS?
Now I gotta watch a video about its lore.
WHAT. THE ACTUAL FUCK. IS THIS?
Now I gotta watch a video about its lore.
Love that guy.
Play Fallout 1. It's secretly the best one.
Does it feel to anyone else like The BOS have more in common with the Enclave than they do differences these days?
With the BOS being more militant and no longer a neutral faction, you would almost think they could be allies if they weren't competition to each other and The Enclave was less obsessed with the idea that almost all the wasteland needs to be purified, humans included, whereas The BOS want to eliminate the more overt mutant races like ghouls and super mutants. Been awhile since I played 3 but I definitely remember (from 2) their definition for what constitutes being a mutant being pretty paranoidly wide.
I've suggested this before but it would be interesting if Bethesda did a double turn (if you're familiar with wrestling terminology) and the Enclave ended up becoming a less antagonistic force eventually while the Brotherhood fell further into becoming despots.
With the BOS being more militant and no longer a neutral faction, you would almost think they could be allies if they weren't competition to each other and The Enclave was less obsessed with the idea that almost all the wasteland needs to be purified, humans included, whereas The BOS want to eliminate the more overt mutant races like ghouls and super mutants. Been awhile since I played 3 but I definitely remember (from 2) their definition for what constitutes being a mutant being pretty paranoidly wide.
I've suggested this before but it would be interesting if Bethesda did a double turn (if you're familiar with wrestling terminology) and the Enclave ended up becoming a less antagonistic force eventually while the Brotherhood fell further into becoming despots.
I'd say a wholly sympathetic Enclave to be out of the question but a faction that maybe splintered off from mainstream Enclave views and simply is trying to rebuilt some form of what they think "America" was in conjunction with wastelanders could be used. Especially likely now that Bethesda is going with views of "BoS and Enclave can be anywhere in the post apocalyptic US, at any time"
Bethesda won't make a blatantly evil BoS. Adding nuance and Moral Greyness? Yes, but I imagine Bethesda assumes most people want to be in the Brotherhood and won't make that the evil choice in a game.
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The Enclave want to commit genocide
The Brotherhood would commit genocide
Very thin line between the two
The Brotherhood would commit genocide
Very thin line between the two
I forgot how hard it is to line up floors on the second story when you're building settlements.
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Hear me out: Fallout Shelter 2, a full-fledged base-building/simulation game mixing elements from Evil Genius and Frostpunk where you're free to build the vault as you see fit and conduct your own experiments, also being able to contact or send your dwellers explore the wasteland.
I've been messing around with tale of two wastelands. At first got ttw working, but the shininess of begin again and all those mods made me decide to switch. Played a few hours begin again but it was too far from vanilla. So then went back to tale of two wastelands (following best of times install guide) and tried installing a bunch of mods from wasteland survival guide but it would crash 9 times out of 10 during loading. Gave up and just using the essential mods for tale of two wastelands but enjoying it a lot. Now getting it working on steam deck.
I'd rather see a city builder. Maybe call it Fallout Settlement.