LadyCrimson

Digging into the GECK some more...according to it, all companion's SPECIAL's have been altered. None of them have 10 in anything anymore. What used to be 10's are now 7's, or thereabouts. If they don't ever rise, this means they won't be as effective with some weapons. Under the leveling calcs, Calc Max used to be 20, is now 40. Level multiplier used to be 1.00, is now .75. What this means, I have no idea. I've tried looking at their various scripts as well, to see if I could spot any obvious changes they might have made, but it's still all gobblydook to me in there...

Aye, -5DT in those early areas would be a definitely game changer. Like I said, I haven't played around with them much yet myself. I'm still fiddling with guns. Just trying to relay what I've seen posted by ppl on the Beth forums. I also just noticed one poster say there was a merchant selling 3-4 hundred cells, so that's a bit more than "a little easier' to get the ammo.

Yes. They changed the DT stuff like promised. I can't remember the exact stuff, but the different energy ammo's now have various -DT on them. I haven't tried it yet myself, but from what people are saying, it makes a definite difference...although bullet guns are still 'better.' Energy ammo also a bit easier to collect. (...Most weapon types do more rated dmg. as well...like 10 or 13 according to some ppl's observations) Edit: here, I found a post that describes the known changes: -2DT for standard ammo -5DT for Overcharge ammo -10DT for Max Charge ammo Plasma Defender uses 2 cells instead of 3 per shot Multiplas Rifle uses 3 cells instead of 6 per shot.

Ahaha... I'd try to explain but I have the feeling it'd be useless. I can say it's nothing to do with sex or wanting to jump an animated character's bones. It's more like....you have a favorite chr. in a novel and either the sequel or a movie turns that chr. into something you no longer enjoy, and you're annoyed. Similar concept, only you have to put gaming parameters on it. And yeah, there's Boone fans everywhere. *clanking chains* Can't esssscapes ussss...

Oh no...he just pretends to dislike the party hats. He secretly loves it. I can see it deep within his icy stare. ....at least this has enabled me to test that yes, if you copy the .exe and .esm files, you can revert back to an older version of the game and Steam's auto-patching be damned. Course if you go back online it'll try to patch it again, but then you can just repeat the process. Too bad I don't have a copy of the very first .exe/.esm anymore...

Dear Obsidian: Is there some reason why Boone, and so far, only Boone, no longer looks at you when you get close? For that matter, he doesn't look at anyone anymore, not npc's or other companions. If the other companions also had this new behaviour, I'd think that there was some reason for it. But Arcade and Raul both continue to gaze at any npc/player that's in close up range. No, it's not important to gameplay, but Boone now feels like a statue. This is not fun for me or other Boone fans I've talked to. Could you change it back, please? Bad enough he now almost never says anything but Eat This now. I'd like the non-statue version of Boone back, please. P.S. - I do like the quest fixes and I do like the hand-loader weapon bug fix. Don't really care about the weapons stuff since I can do that myself in the Geck....I did learn if I copy back the 1.1 .esm file but left the new 1.2 .exe file, I'd get the handloader fix, but not the quest/weapons/Boone statue changes. So...maybe I'll go back. The quest issues I rarely had a problem with anyway...

I believe most things are save game compatible/will effect saves, but of course there may be some that won't work retroactively. I don't think it'll harm anything, generally speaking, tho. But...that's just not something one can say for sure.

P.S. The patch works fine with the Improved/multiple companions mod, the dance mod, and the idle-behavior mod I have. Plus all the little non-complex mods I made myself.

I had copied both the exe and the esm file elsewhere in the hopes that if I hated this patch, I could use them to revert back to previous. But so far this new patch is working fine. The changelog could be more descriptive, we're having to find a lot of stuff on our own/use the GECK. --Stimpacks cost a lot more to buy...around 100 now instead of 25ish depending on your skills I guess. --Sniper Rifle crit. chance reduced to x1, DMG lowered to 42, and DPS lowered to mid-70's. Fire rate/speed remains the same, and it still seems quite powerful to me. The Gobi also reduced, to similar. --Cowboy repeater/hand-loaders bug FINALLY FIXED. My fully modded CR is now an awesome machine of destruction again! Did all the quick testing I could do with my nearly-complete current games, so time to wipe the save directory and start a new chr. Yay. Side note that has nothing to do with this patch...I just realized the other day that ever since patch 1.1 (I think), Boone never says "Let me aim that for you next time." Or "What's your problem." He does still say "why don't I aim my gun at you"...but not as often. I know he said the first two lines way too often, but I think never saying them is no fun. I guess it's all or nothing. What bugs me tho is that others still talk constantly. Like Cass and her idle lines..."Sure could use a drink" and "Caravan of two" OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Why didn't they reduce those while they were at it? Hmm? Bah!

All that's left of the System ShockII box... Still have the whole IWD box tho...but I think I tossed the cheap cloth map... I still have most of the games I've bought...just not their whole boxes. Still have Snake Rattle N Roll cartridge in a box in a closet, too.

I think I still have most (but not all) of my game boxes in a giant plastic bag somewhere. They've been flattened, however. And some of the games I kept only the system requirements flap and tossed the rest. If I tried to spread them all out on a table...wouldn't fit. Maybe on the living room floor. I have no truly ancient classics originally bought, tho...eg original console games or whatnot.

Did you try waiting 3 days and see if the robots all respawn. They often do, and when respawned they're not hostile anymore. They usually go hostile because you went into/did stuff in Vault11 or H&H Tools I think it is. They're different? hawhawhaw...

5 Fallout companions + the famous dance + ghouls = one music dance video. Have a ghoul day! ...if YT is blocking you, here's a smaller, fuzzier, bad audio version on VideoBash. But it does load a lot faster... ....many many many many hours later, I've reached the saturation point on the Thriller song now, thank you very much...

Jesus, 200 hours ?! What's wrong with that? I've probably played 200-225 at this point. Have had the game 50+ days. That's 4-4.5 hours a day average. Course the last couple weeks I've spent more time on videos...

Not directly.

Some of the areas they showed early on had similar color schemes to WoW....that is, a more pastel palette or something. I don't think the chrs. look like WoW chrs. or anything. But there's something about it that definitely reminds me of WoW...not to mention Titan Quest. Eh...they all look alike these days.

I don't think I'd like "more intrusive." That doesn't sound in any way appealing. I got the latest FRAPS version again, and it has one of those cache features now too. But only 30 seconds I think. I haven't used the feature much since it does tend to lag the fps if you have it running constantly. I think FRAPS does compress a tiny bit, but not a lot...probably for speed reasons (compressing on the fly is slower?). I'd be happy if they'd add another record-size option, too, in this day of big widescreens. Like, half size, full size, and 1280x720 (or 3/4 size I guess?)

I was doing some chores this morning and nearly fainted when I bent over in tip toes to dig clothes out of the washing machine. I then realized that on top of only 3 hrs. sleep, I had forgotten to eat yesterday (30+ hrs). Now that it's crossed my mind, I'm ravenous. lol. Hmm.....meat and rice/vegies, here I come.

The one game that could pull me away from NV if it was released next week. Which it isn't...just saying. I have more and more reservations about D3 - not that it won't be good, but that I personally won't like it/tastes have changed - but I will still be grabbing it up into my greedy little hands.

A little. But...um....mostly...no, not really. OCD baby, OCD.

No PC patch until later. I'd say "wah" but I still need a break from actual playing/questing so I'm not crying. The PS3 players are already moaning about how the patch makes things worse. Have I mentioned lately how much I like being on the PC? Yeah....

If you pretend hard enough, maybe this could be both.

Most are probably completely, and quite sensibly, unaware what an utter pain in the arse it is to get 5 companions to be evenly spaced and dance AT THE SAME TIME.

Waiting for a NV patch changelog. *taps foot* Which probably won't be for a while so I guess I'm going to run the errands I've been putting off all week. Exciting.