Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (5 Viewers)

[SlaX]

What do you guys focus on at the start of your FO games? Seems like every time I do similar - lockpick, sneak, small guns get jumped up quickly and usually do nothing with melee/unarmed stuff. I find the computer hacking frustrating, so I usually don't do much with that either.

Hacking is really easy if you know what you're doing. I'm heading out, so I'll bump this thread with some tips when I get back.

I agree. I don't think I've ever failed a hack.

Start by picking a word that has a common factor with a lot of other words. Word ending ING are the most common. If you get 3 correct, you'll need to pick another that doesn't have any of the same first 4 letters. Once you have 3 or 4 correct it's pretty easy to work down the list and see which match.

If you find a match on your 3 or 4 letters, make sure it doesn't match on any of the letters that have not matched for you before.

If you are methodical about it, you should be able to solve it every time.

This is the most basic tip. But there are other tips too. I'll see if I can remember this off the top of my head.

Look for a string of characters beginning with one of the following characters: {, [ or ( this must be followed by a close: }, ] or ). Select these (I usually do it after my first or second guess) and they will either rule out bad results or reset the number of attempts you have.

For example: walking.,35920,../,]o..;l2\{/.,239}) - you highlight the {/.,239}

 

[KarmaPolice]

What do you guys focus on at the start of your FO games? Seems like every time I do similar - lockpick, sneak, small guns get jumped up quickly and usually do nothing with melee/unarmed stuff. I find the computer hacking frustrating, so I usually don't do much with that either.

Hacking is really easy if you know what you're doing. I'm heading out, so I'll bump this thread with some tips when I get back.

I agree. I don't think I've ever failed a hack.

Start by picking a word that has a common factor with a lot of other words. Word ending ING are the most common. If you get 3 correct, you'll need to pick another that doesn't have any of the same first 4 letters. Once you have 3 or 4 correct it's pretty easy to work down the list and see which match.

If you find a match on your 3 or 4 letters, make sure it doesn't match on any of the letters that have not matched for you before.

If you are methodical about it, you should be able to solve it every time.

Are there a lot of places that you need to be able to hack into that you couldn't also get in using 100 lockpick?

 

[Drifter]

What do you guys focus on at the start of your FO games? Seems like every time I do similar - lockpick, sneak, small guns get jumped up quickly and usually do nothing with melee/unarmed stuff. I find the computer hacking frustrating, so I usually don't do much with that either.

Hacking is really easy if you know what you're doing. I'm heading out, so I'll bump this thread with some tips when I get back.

I agree. I don't think I've ever failed a hack.

Start by picking a word that has a common factor with a lot of other words. Word ending ING are the most common. If you get 3 correct, you'll need to pick another that doesn't have any of the same first 4 letters. Once you have 3 or 4 correct it's pretty easy to work down the list and see which match.

If you find a match on your 3 or 4 letters, make sure it doesn't match on any of the letters that have not matched for you before.

If you are methodical about it, you should be able to solve it every time.

Are there a lot of places that you need to be able to hack into that you couldn't also get in using 100 lockpick?

yes because sometimes it's to turn off turrets, or turn them on enemies or get some other piece of information.

 

[Chaka]

What do you guys focus on at the start of your FO games? Seems like every time I do similar - lockpick, sneak, small guns get jumped up quickly and usually do nothing with melee/unarmed stuff. I find the computer hacking frustrating, so I usually don't do much with that either.

Hacking is really easy if you know what you're doing. I'm heading out, so I'll bump this thread with some tips when I get back.

I agree. I don't think I've ever failed a hack.

Start by picking a word that has a common factor with a lot of other words. Word ending ING are the most common. If you get 3 correct, you'll need to pick another that doesn't have any of the same first 4 letters. Once you have 3 or 4 correct it's pretty easy to work down the list and see which match.

If you find a match on your 3 or 4 letters, make sure it doesn't match on any of the letters that have not matched for you before.

If you are methodical about it, you should be able to solve it every time.

This is the most basic tip. But there are other tips too. I'll see if I can remember this off the top of my head.

Look for a string of characters beginning with one of the following characters: {, [ or ( this must be followed by a close: }, ] or ). Select these (I usually do it after my first or second guess) and they will either rule out bad results or reset the number of attempts you have.

For example: walking.,35920,../,]o..;l2\{/.,239}) - you highlight the {/.,239}

Yup but to clarify the opening character must match the closing one ie ( must have ) [ must have ] : must have : etc. You will know you have hit a good one when all the characters between the opening and closing marks are highlighted. Hit enter and it will either remove one of the false password options or reset your number of attempts. Once you get the hang of drifter's advice you won't need this advice as much but when you get into the 8 & 9 character length with the password options it is nice to be able to eliminate some of the bad ones.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[Drifter]

Is this an exploit or a purposeful game option?

 

[butcher boy]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

 

[KarmaPolice]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

this is what I was doing and evidently I suck at it. after going back in 6-7 times each terminal or more started getting annoyed and focused on lockpicking.

 

[Apathetic]

I started FallOut for the first time this weekend based on all the love it was getting here.

Pretty cool I guess. I like that it can be 3rd person or first person.

The shooting is kind of pointless though, right?

best to always just hit R2 and do the aim thing, right?

 

[Chaka]

Is this an exploit or a purposeful game option?

Is what an exploit? Eliminating choices and resetting number of attempts? That's a purposeful game option.

 

[Chaka]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

Yes but the words reset each time you login so if you really suck it won't help much.

 

[Chaka]

Wow I rarely used VATS when I played FO3 & NV and I had no trouble aiming (PC gamer).

 

[SlaX]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

This is how to do it for a novice. Obviously, if you fail the 3rd, you don't try a 4th otherwise you risk locking yourself out - yes, there's a perk for that, but why waste a perk on unlocking yourself from a locked out terminal. Rinse and repeat. But if you're capable enough, you never fail a 3rd.

 

[Jeff Vader]

What do you guys focus on at the start of your FO games? Seems like every time I do similar - lockpick, sneak, small guns get jumped up quickly and usually do nothing with melee/unarmed stuff. I find the computer hacking frustrating, so I usually don't do much with that either.

Try starting a guy with 8+ strength and go melee and explosives. It's pretty intense. When you ain't blowing body parts up, you're up and close hacking away. Makes for a great build for a psychopathic evil character.

 

[Jeff Vader]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

this is what I was doing and evidently I suck at it. after going back in 6-7 times each terminal or more started getting annoyed and focused on lockpicking.

Hacking Tip -

1. Always choose a word ending in -ing first. If it has 3 letters correct, there's a very high chance the pass is an -ing word. If not, you can eliminate all words ending in -ing. Same thing with -ed, or any common ending. Usually the options only have 3 different endings. It's pretty easy to narrow it down from there. I've missed one hack ever (ie: reloaded) doing this. It ain't rocket surgery.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Yeah I hack the simple way of trying 3 and repeat. It does get tedious sometimes.

For the life of me I can't remember what my top 3 things were to start but I'm thinking explosive should be up there. Getting the megaton house early is huge to collect stuff and have a safe bed.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Geez, now I feel like a total ####### for not being able to hack.

 

[Jeff Vader]

Geez, now I feel like a total ####### for not being able to hack.

I didn't mean it that way.

 

[jwb]

Geez, now I feel like a total ####### for not being able to hack.

It took me awhile to "get" it, but like others have said, once you figure it out, it's easy (although taking the skill makes it easier - less/smaller words)

I usually build speech, guns, and hacking.

 

[jwb]

None of you guys go the bad guy route on FO3?

I know I had one game going like that, and remember feeling guilty when Daddy reamed me out for blowing up Megaton.

I usually do good and bad guy run throughs if I really love the game. Couldn't bring myself to blow up Megaton in either case though.

Yea, this is somewhat what I meant by poorly implemented...

"big bomb in town - wish someone could disarm it, because hey, big bombs in the middle of town are bad" - makes tons of sense to just about anyone, even a "mainly concerned with myself" antihero

"see that big bomb - let's blow it up because... because the town needs to go" - Really? Wipe out the entire town? For what reason? Because the shady dude in the bar said so? That would make sense to a maniac, and that's about it.

Agreed.

In my mind it was like that curiosity you have when you're about to light a new M80 you just bought from the fireworks outlet. Only X10000000.

FWIW, when I did I watched Megaton explode, said thanks for the penthouse suite, then blew both Mr. Burke and Tenpenny's brains out.

When I play evil, I'm Neutral Evil. /D&Ddork

That's kind of the point. There's no way to be Lawful Evil. There's no room in the game (or in most games) to be a thoughtful, plotting super villian. You can't set up a network of cronies operating your drug dens and loan shark outfits. You can't plan to become Caesar in Fallout Vegas. Without that option, the only "evil" option becomes the Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil psychopathic killer.

Yea, lawful evil - was thinking Lex Luthor, maybe a Mafia Don... a guy many in the town might somewhat like/tolerate, but is ruthless and plotting.

Actually, now that I think about it, there *is* a fairly good LE path in Vegas - you can own Vegas with an army of super robots at your command.

 

[Jeff Vader]

My Mass Effect addiction has come to a grinding halt because I've tried (and failed) to kill the Matriarch like 5 times now.

It's hella frustrating. Oh I kill her every time, then her pissed off female goon squad appears and cuts me to shreds.

 

[Jeff Vader]

F03 -

This latest run I went with repair, small guns, lockpicking, with explosives built slowly later on.

I never do speech. Not sure why as everyone else thinks it's so important.

Repair is underrated IMO. Keeping your guns and armor in top condition makes a big difference.

 

[NCCommish]

How to hack in a fallout game:

1) Open the terminal

2) Randomly choose three strings, if you get it, great! If you didn't get it in 3, DONT pick a 4th.

3) Close the terminal.

4) Go to step 1.

This is how I do it. Usually within a couple of tries I've got it.

 

[NCCommish]

Well talking initial setup there are the specials and then your skills. I shortchanged Luck down to 1, made Intelligence a 9 and put the rest of the points into Charisma, Perception, and Agility. I think in all these kinds of games it is important to have a high speech or charisma or whatever they call it. Unlocks too many options to ignore IMO. By the way if you go with Intelligence at 9 immediately go to Rivet City upon exiting the vault and get the Bobblehead to take it to 10. Then be sure to grab Comprehension and Educated perks. By level 5 you can have 26 skill points to spend every level up. Even without any expansions this will give you a good shot at maxing out your skills at 100.

So on the skills side make sure to grab the bobblehad off Dad's desk and raise your medicine trait. While taking the test I set myself with explosives(important in Megaton), lockpick and small guns. Repair is very important so I make sure to take care of it as I go.

The only melee points I get come from reading books.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

None of you guys go the bad guy route on FO3?

I know I had one game going like that, and remember feeling guilty when Daddy reamed me out for blowing up Megaton.

I usually do good and bad guy run throughs if I really love the game. Couldn't bring myself to blow up Megaton in either case though.

Yea, this is somewhat what I meant by poorly implemented...

"big bomb in town - wish someone could disarm it, because hey, big bombs in the middle of town are bad" - makes tons of sense to just about anyone, even a "mainly concerned with myself" antihero

"see that big bomb - let's blow it up because... because the town needs to go" - Really? Wipe out the entire town? For what reason? Because the shady dude in the bar said so? That would make sense to a maniac, and that's about it.

Agreed.

In my mind it was like that curiosity you have when you're about to light a new M80 you just bought from the fireworks outlet. Only X10000000.

FWIW, when I did I watched Megaton explode, said thanks for the penthouse suite, then blew both Mr. Burke and Tenpenny's brains out.

When I play evil, I'm Neutral Evil. /D&Ddork

 

[KarmaPolice]

So, I started up Skyrim yesterday. Looks great, was fun, but HATE the computer controls. I think next investment will be a controller for the PC. I am sure that I would get used to it if I really wanted to, but probably a bit too long since I have played a game with that type of controls on the PC. Played for about an hour, got out of the initial town and wandered a little bit to find another town. We will see how I do at this game - looks a bit more in depth than FO, and I am really not that great at video games.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

My Mass Effect addiction has come to a grinding halt because I've tried (and failed) to kill the Matriarch like 5 times now.

It's hella frustrating. Oh I kill her every time, then her pissed off female goon squad appears and cuts me to shreds.

You have to keep moving. IIRC another ploy is to have your squadmates die, then you move so they are behind the enemy, then revive squadmates.

What sort of biotic powers do you have?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Because of you bastards ( ), I fired up a different game of FO 3 last night. I have a save point at the exit of the vault right before you can redo your stats. I don't like doing the initial stuff, so just use that for my starting points to different games. Believe I went with science, lockpick, guns as my main focus. After reading some of the posts around here, I am not sure that I know where many of the bobbleheads are. Got one from Dad. I think one is in the sheriff's house at Megaton, and another in the market at the raider camp?

I saw the above post about heading to Rivet City for one, and got me thinking: 1. don't think I know where that one is ( was it in the lab maybe?) and 2. as I said, I kinda suck at video games and don't think I would survive an early trek to Rivet City easily. I always head to the school, get another level up (focused a little on repair this time), and then head to Megaton to help with the bomb and get a safe house. Fixed the leaks for the old man, did the radiation and food thing for Moria (sp?) and called it a night. Not sure what I will do next.

Thank you guys for the tips on hacking. As I said, I tried to boost the science this time and will attempt to get better. The tip about the resetting the tries and taking away duds was new to me and helped a lot. I already have 4 hacks! (Although my dumb ### still failed one and got locked out of a terminal in the supermarket) Interested to see what I have been missing in the game not focusing on the terminals at all.

 

[Insein]

My Mass Effect addiction has come to a grinding halt because I've tried (and failed) to kill the Matriarch like 5 times now.

It's hella frustrating. Oh I kill her every time, then her pissed off female goon squad appears and cuts me to shreds.

Have to kill the body guards first. She mostly hangs back on that one platform. What level are you and who are you using to fight?

 

[thecatch]

There's are websites that help with the FO hacks. I started using one because it just saved me a ton of time with otherwise having to do multiple attempts each time.

 

[Chaka]

My Mass Effect addiction has come to a grinding halt because I've tried (and failed) to kill the Matriarch like 5 times now.

It's hella frustrating. Oh I kill her every time, then her pissed off female goon squad appears and cuts me to shreds.

Interesting. My latent desire to strangle Counselor Troi turned me into an unstoppable killing machine at my first opportunity to take her out. I only wish my Sheppard would have been able to choke the life out of her with his bare hands trying to capture the moment in her eyes when her soul fled her body.

 

[NCCommish]

Because of you bastards ( ), I fired up a different game of FO 3 last night. I have a save point at the exit of the vault right before you can redo your stats. I don't like doing the initial stuff, so just use that for my starting points to different games. Believe I went with science, lockpick, guns as my main focus. After reading some of the posts around here, I am not sure that I know where many of the bobbleheads are. Got one from Dad. I think one is in the sheriff's house at Megaton, and another in the market at the raider camp?

I saw the above post about heading to Rivet City for one, and got me thinking: 1. don't think I know where that one is ( was it in the lab maybe?) and 2. as I said, I kinda suck at video games and don't think I would survive an early trek to Rivet City easily. I always head to the school, get another level up (focused a little on repair this time), and then head to Megaton to help with the bomb and get a safe house. Fixed the leaks for the old man, did the radiation and food thing for Moria (sp?) and called it a night. Not sure what I will do next.

Thank you guys for the tips on hacking. As I said, I tried to boost the science this time and will attempt to get better. The tip about the resetting the tries and taking away duds was new to me and helped a lot. I already have 4 hacks! (Although my dumb ### still failed one and got locked out of a terminal in the supermarket) Interested to see what I have been missing in the game not focusing on the terminals at all.

What I did was swim to Rivet City. Just stay in the middle of the river. Some mutants shoot at you from the shore and I ran into one centaur but I outswam him. And this also sets you up in Megaton for the radiation sickness part of the Survival guide missions.

 

[Chaka]

So, I started up Skyrim yesterday. Looks great, was fun, but HATE the computer controls. I think next investment will be a controller for the PC. I am sure that I would get used to it if I really wanted to, but probably a bit too long since I have played a game with that type of controls on the PC. Played for about an hour, got out of the initial town and wandered a little bit to find another town. We will see how I do at this game - looks a bit more in depth than FO, and I am really not that great at video games.

I think PC controls really give you better fine motor control of your character, particularly when using ranged weapons. IMO it's worth adapting to.

 

[Drifter]

My Mass Effect addiction has come to a grinding halt because I've tried (and failed) to kill the Matriarch like 5 times now.

It's hella frustrating. Oh I kill her every time, then her pissed off female goon squad appears and cuts me to shreds.

Who are you using for support?

Also - are you selecting your armor to give you max metnal (forget what it's called) protection?

I found grenades are especially useful in that fight as the enemies tend to cluster.

 

[jwb]

F03 -

This latest run I went with repair, small guns, lockpicking, with explosives built slowly later on.

I never do speech. Not sure why as everyone else thinks it's so important.

Repair is underrated IMO. Keeping your guns and armor in top condition makes a big difference.

Speech can make a huge difference. It allows many quests to be finished without a fight, gets you into places, etc. It's always been really important in the Fallout games, and I'm glad FO3 and NV both honor that.

Agreed on repair. Excellent skill. I usually take the tag perk once so I can build repair also.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Spent some time last night in the ruins of DC.

Decided to ignore the ghouls in Tenpenny and instead went out to the little town that starts the NukaCola challange. Agreed to the challenge, promised the wanna be boyfriend that I would hook him up (I really was contemplating just shooting both of them) and headed off on my quest to the NukaCola factory. Decided that I would start from a location close to it - arlington library maybe? I think that was it. It was a walk from there but I figured with me, my plasma rifle and Fawkes at my side it would be a fun walk.

As soon as we spawn there a helicopter drops off 4 enclave guys fully maxed out on hate for me. We make quick work of them because, hey, I have a super mutant with a laser machine gun. I've gotten pretty good at timing when he is about to kill them and then going VATS at the last minute to get the last shots and therefore the XP that comes with killing them without all of the hassle. Ended up with a crap ton of weapons and tesla armor. So fast track back to megaton to drop off that days shopping. Back to the library to star the walk - dead nekkid enclave guys still laying there. Get about a block down the street when Raiders come out of nowhere. Fawkes laughs it off and I reap the rewards of their futile assault on my mutant friend and I. Grab a ton more gear, medicine, weapons, rocket launcher, another 4 or 5 rifles and machine guns (I have like 40 of them now) and some other stuff. Back to the Megaton to unload this round of shopping.

Realized that I have a crapton of hand guns. Too many that I will almost never use. So I grab all the 32's and 10 MM's and reapir them all as best I can, go outside to the caravan and sell them all leaving only one in storage at the house of each and grab a ton of stim packs. Big fan of getting back a couple hundred caps to be given medicine. With that fast track back to the library walk back to the dead raider encampment area and then begin the walk to the factory.

On the way, I hear Fawkes laugh a few times and shoot something. I didn't anything in VATS, but no matter, I see where he was aiming. Get some meat and scorpion tails for no trouble at all. Get the factory.

That was both fun and boring at the same time. Still walking around the place trying to find the delivery paperwork. Any ideas? In the meantime I swam in the glowing blue water, killed a ton of Mirelurks, found the body of someone who was looking for the same stuff I am, had fun killing like 100 roaches, and totally annihilated a bunh of security bots. Still, no delivery paperwork. Did manage to get the machine working to get me a whole 3 full quantum bottles. That sucked. Was hoping for like 20 or so.

So, ended the night with me a Fawkes standing in the main lobby again because I'm not at 100 lock pick yet to open the main central door with the red light over it. Do I need to open it? If so, I am pretty far away from getting to my next level up from 17 to 18. Might have to roam awhile and kill everything I can find and make Fawkes stay at the house while I do it to make sure I get all the XP credit for it.

I feel that at a certain level this game becomes slightly - just slightly - soap operaish in the drama of finding stuff taking it home, trying to kill things to get more XP to be able to go farther without necessarily doing it by missions, etc etc. Still debating buying a hard drive so that I can download the DLC stuff as well. Will probably buckle and do it shortly.

Tonight's mission will be to get to level 18 by any means necessary so that I can finally get to 100 pockpick (I think I'm in the 90's) and get that door open and then cycle back and get the door open to the bomb building that Mr. Craowley wanted me to get into because that damn quest is still on my list and I am locked into talking to Crowley or Tenpenny and they are both dead.

 

[KarmaPolice]

So, I started up Skyrim yesterday. Looks great, was fun, but HATE the computer controls. I think next investment will be a controller for the PC. I am sure that I would get used to it if I really wanted to, but probably a bit too long since I have played a game with that type of controls on the PC. Played for about an hour, got out of the initial town and wandered a little bit to find another town. We will see how I do at this game - looks a bit more in depth than FO, and I am really not that great at video games.

I think PC controls really give you better fine motor control of your character, particularly when using ranged weapons. IMO it's worth adapting to.

disappointed to read that.

after thinking about it, the big things are the mouse controls and that it is backwards from the old games to a point. just used to the old doom/wolfenstein and using arrows to move and letters to shoot/pick up stuff.

also, them game felt a tad chopy, but could be making that up. I assume the card in the new one isn't anything special, but could also poke around with those settings a little bit too.

 

[Drifter]

I think I see why you don't have caps - you're hoarding everything. Do more of repairing your surplus items and selling them (also trading for stimpaks and ammo). You don't need all that crap lying around.

 

[Chaka]

So, I started up Skyrim yesterday. Looks great, was fun, but HATE the computer controls. I think next investment will be a controller for the PC. I am sure that I would get used to it if I really wanted to, but probably a bit too long since I have played a game with that type of controls on the PC. Played for about an hour, got out of the initial town and wandered a little bit to find another town. We will see how I do at this game - looks a bit more in depth than FO, and I am really not that great at video games.

I think PC controls really give you better fine motor control of your character, particularly when using ranged weapons. IMO it's worth adapting to.

disappointed to read that.

after thinking about it, the big things are the mouse controls and that it is backwards from the old games to a point. just used to the old doom/wolfenstein and using arrows to move and letters to shoot/pick up stuff.

also, them game felt a tad chopy, but could be making that up. I assume the card in the new one isn't anything special, but could also poke around with those settings a little bit too.

I mean that as a general statement about PC vs console gaming. I have read that the reason a lot of games don't offer cross platform multiplayer is because PC controls allow finer motor control giving PC players a fairly significant advantage. However I do not know if that is true as I don't have a console.

ETA: As far as the choppiness I imagine optimizing the video settings for your rig would help but I don't really know how to do that. I use an NVIDIA tool to do that for me. I could probably do it better myself if I wanted to invest the time in figuring out what all the options are and how they impact each other. Seems like too much effort to me.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I think I see why you don't have caps - you're hoarding everything. Do more of repairing your surplus items and selling them (also trading for stimpaks and ammo). You don't need all that crap lying around.

I agree. Came to that conclusion last night when I saw I had 25 knifes. If I hadn't used one by then I'm not going to now. The problem is the amount of work at this point to sell everything. Repairing a ton, loading up, finding people with enough caps and a soild return on investment, etc. I mean I could just start dumping stuff.

Heck, I didn't even realize it but I had 30 pieces of scrap metal in my locker so I walked them over to water company guy and made some solid change and got a ton of XP for it as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Because of you bastards ( ), I fired up a different game of FO 3 last night. I have a save point at the exit of the vault right before you can redo your stats. I don't like doing the initial stuff, so just use that for my starting points to different games. Believe I went with science, lockpick, guns as my main focus. After reading some of the posts around here, I am not sure that I know where many of the bobbleheads are. Got one from Dad. I think one is in the sheriff's house at Megaton, and another in the market at the raider camp?

I saw the above post about heading to Rivet City for one, and got me thinking: 1. don't think I know where that one is ( was it in the lab maybe?) and 2. as I said, I kinda suck at video games and don't think I would survive an early trek to Rivet City easily. I always head to the school, get another level up (focused a little on repair this time), and then head to Megaton to help with the bomb and get a safe house. Fixed the leaks for the old man, did the radiation and food thing for Moria (sp?) and called it a night. Not sure what I will do next.

Thank you guys for the tips on hacking. As I said, I tried to boost the science this time and will attempt to get better. The tip about the resetting the tries and taking away duds was new to me and helped a lot. I already have 4 hacks! (Although my dumb ### still failed one and got locked out of a terminal in the supermarket) Interested to see what I have been missing in the game not focusing on the terminals at all.

What I did was swim to Rivet City. Just stay in the middle of the river. Some mutants shoot at you from the shore and I ran into one centaur but I outswam him. And this also sets you up in Megaton for the radiation sickness part of the Survival guide missions.

hadn't ever considered swimming there. I usually had to wait a few levels since I knew I would meet up with some super mutants on the way.

I always just drank the water by the bomb in megaton for the radiation chapter.

 

[Drifter]

I think I see why you don't have caps - you're hoarding everything. Do more of repairing your surplus items and selling them (also trading for stimpaks and ammo). You don't need all that crap lying around.

I agree. Came to that conclusion last night when I saw I had 25 knifes. If I hadn't used one by then I'm not going to now. The problem is the amount of work at this point to sell everything. Repairing a ton, loading up, finding people with enough caps and a soild return on investment, etc. I mean I could just start dumping stuff.

Heck, I didn't even realize it but I had 30 pieces of scrap metal in my locker so I walked them over to water company guy and made some solid change and got a ton of XP for it as well.

You'll learn which vendors have more caps that others. Trade needs to be part of the equation as well. I usually buy every vendor out of stimpaks and every bit of ammo they have

 

[Chaka]

I think I see why you don't have caps - you're hoarding everything. Do more of repairing your surplus items and selling them (also trading for stimpaks and ammo). You don't need all that crap lying around.

I agree. Came to that conclusion last night when I saw I had 25 knifes. If I hadn't used one by then I'm not going to now. The problem is the amount of work at this point to sell everything. Repairing a ton, loading up, finding people with enough caps and a soild return on investment, etc. I mean I could just start dumping stuff.

Heck, I didn't even realize it but I had 30 pieces of scrap metal in my locker so I walked them over to water company guy and made some solid change and got a ton of XP for it as well.

You'll learn which vendors have more caps that others. Trade needs to be part of the equation as well. I usually buy every vendor out of stimpaks and every bit of ammo they have

Yup

 

[NCCommish]

Spent some time last night in the ruins of DC.

Decided to ignore the ghouls in Tenpenny and instead went out to the little town that starts the NukaCola challange. Agreed to the challenge, promised the wanna be boyfriend that I would hook him up (I really was contemplating just shooting both of them) and headed off on my quest to the NukaCola factory. Decided that I would start from a location close to it - arlington library maybe? I think that was it. It was a walk from there but I figured with me, my plasma rifle and Fawkes at my side it would be a fun walk.

As soon as we spawn there a helicopter drops off 4 enclave guys fully maxed out on hate for me. We make quick work of them because, hey, I have a super mutant with a laser machine gun. I've gotten pretty good at timing when he is about to kill them and then going VATS at the last minute to get the last shots and therefore the XP that comes with killing them without all of the hassle. Ended up with a crap ton of weapons and tesla armor. So fast track back to megaton to drop off that days shopping. Back to the library to star the walk - dead nekkid enclave guys still laying there. Get about a block down the street when Raiders come out of nowhere. Fawkes laughs it off and I reap the rewards of their futile assault on my mutant friend and I. Grab a ton more gear, medicine, weapons, rocket launcher, another 4 or 5 rifles and machine guns (I have like 40 of them now) and some other stuff. Back to the Megaton to unload this round of shopping.

Realized that I have a crapton of hand guns. Too many that I will almost never use. So I grab all the 32's and 10 MM's and reapir them all as best I can, go outside to the caravan and sell them all leaving only one in storage at the house of each and grab a ton of stim packs. Big fan of getting back a couple hundred caps to be given medicine. With that fast track back to the library walk back to the dead raider encampment area and then begin the walk to the factory.

On the way, I hear Fawkes laugh a few times and shoot something. I didn't anything in VATS, but no matter, I see where he was aiming. Get some meat and scorpion tails for no trouble at all. Get the factory.

That was both fun and boring at the same time. Still walking around the place trying to find the delivery paperwork. Any ideas? In the meantime I swam in the glowing blue water, killed a ton of Mirelurks, found the body of someone who was looking for the same stuff I am, had fun killing like 100 roaches, and totally annihilated a bunh of security bots. Still, no delivery paperwork. Did manage to get the machine working to get me a whole 3 full quantum bottles. That sucked. Was hoping for like 20 or so.

So, ended the night with me a Fawkes standing in the main lobby again because I'm not at 100 lock pick yet to open the main central door with the red light over it. Do I need to open it? If so, I am pretty far away from getting to my next level up from 17 to 18. Might have to roam awhile and kill everything I can find and make Fawkes stay at the house while I do it to make sure I get all the XP credit for it.

I feel that at a certain level this game becomes slightly - just slightly - soap operaish in the drama of finding stuff taking it home, trying to kill things to get more XP to be able to go farther without necessarily doing it by missions, etc etc. Still debating buying a hard drive so that I can download the DLC stuff as well. Will probably buckle and do it shortly.

Tonight's mission will be to get to level 18 by any means necessary so that I can finally get to 100 pockpick (I think I'm in the 90's) and get that door open and then cycle back and get the door open to the bomb building that Mr. Craowley wanted me to get into because that damn quest is still on my list and I am locked into talking to Crowley or Tenpenny and they are both dead.

There is a robot shipping manager you are looking for. He won't attack you right away and shows friendly on your screen. He is near the bottom of one of the big open metal stairways. Now my speech was high enough I told him I was the owner and he gave me everything. He is very easy to miss though on your first time through because he hangs back in an office just off the stairwell. Now if you fail all the speech challenges he will go into security mode. Remember to get the safe with the secret formula open. That's worth 400 caps when you sell it to the hockey team guys.

 

[NCCommish]

Because of you bastards ( ), I fired up a different game of FO 3 last night. I have a save point at the exit of the vault right before you can redo your stats. I don't like doing the initial stuff, so just use that for my starting points to different games. Believe I went with science, lockpick, guns as my main focus. After reading some of the posts around here, I am not sure that I know where many of the bobbleheads are. Got one from Dad. I think one is in the sheriff's house at Megaton, and another in the market at the raider camp?

I saw the above post about heading to Rivet City for one, and got me thinking: 1. don't think I know where that one is ( was it in the lab maybe?) and 2. as I said, I kinda suck at video games and don't think I would survive an early trek to Rivet City easily. I always head to the school, get another level up (focused a little on repair this time), and then head to Megaton to help with the bomb and get a safe house. Fixed the leaks for the old man, did the radiation and food thing for Moria (sp?) and called it a night. Not sure what I will do next.

Thank you guys for the tips on hacking. As I said, I tried to boost the science this time and will attempt to get better. The tip about the resetting the tries and taking away duds was new to me and helped a lot. I already have 4 hacks! (Although my dumb ### still failed one and got locked out of a terminal in the supermarket) Interested to see what I have been missing in the game not focusing on the terminals at all.

What I did was swim to Rivet City. Just stay in the middle of the river. Some mutants shoot at you from the shore and I ran into one centaur but I outswam him. And this also sets you up in Megaton for the radiation sickness part of the Survival guide missions.

hadn't ever considered swimming there. I usually had to wait a few levels since I knew I would meet up with some super mutants on the way.

I always just drank the water by the bomb in megaton for the radiation chapter.

Yeah you won't be to 600 rads off the swim probably so you will still need some of the bomb water but not as much. Oh and I should have said at least discover Megaton before you go to Rivet then you can fast travel back and avoid everything after you get the bobblehead.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Spent some time last night in the ruins of DC.

Decided to ignore the ghouls in Tenpenny and instead went out to the little town that starts the NukaCola challange. Agreed to the challenge, promised the wanna be boyfriend that I would hook him up (I really was contemplating just shooting both of them) and headed off on my quest to the NukaCola factory. Decided that I would start from a location close to it - arlington library maybe? I think that was it. It was a walk from there but I figured with me, my plasma rifle and Fawkes at my side it would be a fun walk.

As soon as we spawn there a helicopter drops off 4 enclave guys fully maxed out on hate for me. We make quick work of them because, hey, I have a super mutant with a laser machine gun. I've gotten pretty good at timing when he is about to kill them and then going VATS at the last minute to get the last shots and therefore the XP that comes with killing them without all of the hassle. Ended up with a crap ton of weapons and tesla armor. So fast track back to megaton to drop off that days shopping. Back to the library to star the walk - dead nekkid enclave guys still laying there. Get about a block down the street when Raiders come out of nowhere. Fawkes laughs it off and I reap the rewards of their futile assault on my mutant friend and I. Grab a ton more gear, medicine, weapons, rocket launcher, another 4 or 5 rifles and machine guns (I have like 40 of them now) and some other stuff. Back to the Megaton to unload this round of shopping.

Realized that I have a crapton of hand guns. Too many that I will almost never use. So I grab all the 32's and 10 MM's and reapir them all as best I can, go outside to the caravan and sell them all leaving only one in storage at the house of each and grab a ton of stim packs. Big fan of getting back a couple hundred caps to be given medicine. With that fast track back to the library walk back to the dead raider encampment area and then begin the walk to the factory.

On the way, I hear Fawkes laugh a few times and shoot something. I didn't anything in VATS, but no matter, I see where he was aiming. Get some meat and scorpion tails for no trouble at all. Get the factory.

That was both fun and boring at the same time. Still walking around the place trying to find the delivery paperwork. Any ideas? In the meantime I swam in the glowing blue water, killed a ton of Mirelurks, found the body of someone who was looking for the same stuff I am, had fun killing like 100 roaches, and totally annihilated a bunh of security bots. Still, no delivery paperwork. Did manage to get the machine working to get me a whole 3 full quantum bottles. That sucked. Was hoping for like 20 or so.

So, ended the night with me a Fawkes standing in the main lobby again because I'm not at 100 lock pick yet to open the main central door with the red light over it. Do I need to open it? If so, I am pretty far away from getting to my next level up from 17 to 18. Might have to roam awhile and kill everything I can find and make Fawkes stay at the house while I do it to make sure I get all the XP credit for it.

I feel that at a certain level this game becomes slightly - just slightly - soap operaish in the drama of finding stuff taking it home, trying to kill things to get more XP to be able to go farther without necessarily doing it by missions, etc etc. Still debating buying a hard drive so that I can download the DLC stuff as well. Will probably buckle and do it shortly.

Tonight's mission will be to get to level 18 by any means necessary so that I can finally get to 100 pockpick (I think I'm in the 90's) and get that door open and then cycle back and get the door open to the bomb building that Mr. Craowley wanted me to get into because that damn quest is still on my list and I am locked into talking to Crowley or Tenpenny and they are both dead.

There is a robot shipping manager you are looking for. He won't attack you right away and shows friendly on your screen. He is near the bottom of one of the big open metal stairways. Now my speech was high enough I told him I was the owner and he gave me everything. He is very easy to miss though on your first time through because he hangs back in an office just off the stairwell. Now if you fail all the speech challenges he will go into security mode. Remember to get the safe with the secret formula open. That's worth 400 caps when you sell it to the hockey team guys.

Crap. I killed that robot. I activiated him and he came out all - where's your ID and I didn't start a conversation with him right away because I was getting myself a drink from the bar, and when I came back he just utrned red and was going to go all commando on me so I took him out with extreme prejudice while Fawkes was laughing (I love that guy - YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY?)

ETA - or maybe not. I killed a robot that was in a room with an empty robot power up tube and then him in another tube - I hacked the computer and activiated him. Is that hte one you are talking about?

 

[KarmaPolice]

wtf? maybe I have and just can't remember, but I don't remember ever having a companion in the game. I thought it was a new thing to FO when I played new vegas.

I am known to skip through important dialogue and options or maybe I didn't get to a location.

 

[NCCommish]

Spent some time last night in the ruins of DC.

Decided to ignore the ghouls in Tenpenny and instead went out to the little town that starts the NukaCola challange. Agreed to the challenge, promised the wanna be boyfriend that I would hook him up (I really was contemplating just shooting both of them) and headed off on my quest to the NukaCola factory. Decided that I would start from a location close to it - arlington library maybe? I think that was it. It was a walk from there but I figured with me, my plasma rifle and Fawkes at my side it would be a fun walk.

As soon as we spawn there a helicopter drops off 4 enclave guys fully maxed out on hate for me. We make quick work of them because, hey, I have a super mutant with a laser machine gun. I've gotten pretty good at timing when he is about to kill them and then going VATS at the last minute to get the last shots and therefore the XP that comes with killing them without all of the hassle. Ended up with a crap ton of weapons and tesla armor. So fast track back to megaton to drop off that days shopping. Back to the library to star the walk - dead nekkid enclave guys still laying there. Get about a block down the street when Raiders come out of nowhere. Fawkes laughs it off and I reap the rewards of their futile assault on my mutant friend and I. Grab a ton more gear, medicine, weapons, rocket launcher, another 4 or 5 rifles and machine guns (I have like 40 of them now) and some other stuff. Back to the Megaton to unload this round of shopping.

Realized that I have a crapton of hand guns. Too many that I will almost never use. So I grab all the 32's and 10 MM's and reapir them all as best I can, go outside to the caravan and sell them all leaving only one in storage at the house of each and grab a ton of stim packs. Big fan of getting back a couple hundred caps to be given medicine. With that fast track back to the library walk back to the dead raider encampment area and then begin the walk to the factory.

On the way, I hear Fawkes laugh a few times and shoot something. I didn't anything in VATS, but no matter, I see where he was aiming. Get some meat and scorpion tails for no trouble at all. Get the factory.

That was both fun and boring at the same time. Still walking around the place trying to find the delivery paperwork. Any ideas? In the meantime I swam in the glowing blue water, killed a ton of Mirelurks, found the body of someone who was looking for the same stuff I am, had fun killing like 100 roaches, and totally annihilated a bunh of security bots. Still, no delivery paperwork. Did manage to get the machine working to get me a whole 3 full quantum bottles. That sucked. Was hoping for like 20 or so.

So, ended the night with me a Fawkes standing in the main lobby again because I'm not at 100 lock pick yet to open the main central door with the red light over it. Do I need to open it? If so, I am pretty far away from getting to my next level up from 17 to 18. Might have to roam awhile and kill everything I can find and make Fawkes stay at the house while I do it to make sure I get all the XP credit for it.

I feel that at a certain level this game becomes slightly - just slightly - soap operaish in the drama of finding stuff taking it home, trying to kill things to get more XP to be able to go farther without necessarily doing it by missions, etc etc. Still debating buying a hard drive so that I can download the DLC stuff as well. Will probably buckle and do it shortly.

Tonight's mission will be to get to level 18 by any means necessary so that I can finally get to 100 pockpick (I think I'm in the 90's) and get that door open and then cycle back and get the door open to the bomb building that Mr. Craowley wanted me to get into because that damn quest is still on my list and I am locked into talking to Crowley or Tenpenny and they are both dead.

There is a robot shipping manager you are looking for. He won't attack you right away and shows friendly on your screen. He is near the bottom of one of the big open metal stairways. Now my speech was high enough I told him I was the owner and he gave me everything. He is very easy to miss though on your first time through because he hangs back in an office just off the stairwell. Now if you fail all the speech challenges he will go into security mode. Remember to get the safe with the secret formula open. That's worth 400 caps when you sell it to the hockey team guys.

Crap. I killed that robot. I activiated him and he came out all - where's your ID and I didn't start a conversation with him right away because I was getting myself a drink from the bar, and when I came back he just utrned red and was going to go all commando on me so I took him out with extreme prejudice while Fawkes was laughing (I love that guy - YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY?)

ETA - or maybe not. I killed a robot that was in a room with an empty robot power up tube and then him in another tube - I hacked the computer and activiated him. Is that hte one you are talking about?

No he is active from the beginning. But even if you killed him you can still loot him for keys and other stuff. There is a terminal in the room he is in. If you didn't kill him he'll give you the password, if you did kill him you hack it and that unlocks the safe upstairs with the secret formula in it.

 

[NCCommish]

wtf? maybe I have and just can't remember, but I don't remember ever having a companion in the game. I thought it was a new thing to FO when I played new vegas.

I am known to skip through important dialogue and options or maybe I didn't get to a location.

Nope I started out with Dogmeat and then picked up Fawkes. You can have two but only one of them can be a person as it were. There are actually a lot of people you can get as followers though.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

If anyone's thinking about picking up The Last of Us on PS4, the Amazon pre-order is now $50. Not sure if that's a sale or a permanent price cut.

 

[KarmaPolice]

If anyone's thinking about picking up The Last of Us on PS4, the Amazon pre-order is now $50. Not sure if that's a sale or a permanent price cut.

was that game on pc at all?