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Heh.

Is it just me or is the Obsidian forum extremely slow today?

Yeah, but with 10AP you can shot twice with most weapons, if you get specific perks, you can reduce the use cost -1 and then burst fire twice, or do two aimed shots, etc. which makes the game a lot easier in certain situations. /Edit: additionally you can take Action Boy, which gives you another AP. Now I'm not saying this is necessary. In fact, I regularly only play a 7ap character, because I don't do much actual combat... But for a beginner it's the best way to start, imo. That was in Fo3/ FNV. /Edit: Actually, Fo2 has the perk as well ("Gain X") - Fo1 really doesn't, though. The game would be way too short for that anyway, imo.

The doctor at the Brotherhood of Steel can increase your stats for money.

Strength of 5 should be ok for most folks, intelligence to 9 is enough (you can get some implant upgrade to 10 later if you still need it), agility should be set to 10 for the most action points (10). Everything else... do as you please. Also using the gifted trait is a must-- gives you +1 attribute point everywhere, and the reduced skill points are a laughable tradeoff. You should make small guns your tag skill. Other than that, my personal preference is lockpick and speech, though you might as well go with lockpick and stealing / sneak. Small guns is your must-have skill if you are a new player, because it will take a while for you to find a big gun, and energy weapons are late-game. You should pump small guns to about 100% before you put points in anything else. After that... go as you please, really. But keep in mind that gambling, outdoorsman and traps are pretty much useless most of the time. Other than that you should just let him do. The game isn't that long and if he feels like his character is bad or he f'd up, then just restart. At least that's what I did when playing Fo1 for the first time in 5th grade. :> (I was addicted to the game and played it for a full month on and off, though)

Disabling the markers wouldn't solve the problem. Just making it even more tedious. :> I am forcing myself now to ignore the bonecharms, etc. because I don't really need them anymore for my character. In the beginning it is quite annoying, though, as you kinda need to get as much as possible for the powers (runes). Thinking about buying that new game already... didn't even finished Dishonored 2 yet, tho.

I have exactly the same feelings about it. I wouldn't care much if not for the heart item and all the dots on the screen, but this way.. I just can't ignore it and it feels like missing out, even though most of that stuff (except for the runes) has no actual influence on me. It didn't bother me in the new Deus Ex games, because here you really have to explore on your own if you like to find all the praxis kits. Also Deus Ex doesn't rub in your face that you only found 1000 of 3000 money. Guess these statistics are a remnant of the Thief gameplay. I find them adding a sense of tediousness to the game.

Is that the same rumor from ages ago or is it based on anything credible now?

Dishonored 2 is a pretty cool game. If it just wouldn't have such a bad performance... it's the first game my pc can't handle to the max, and even with reduced settings (which don't look much worse), it has times where the fps are going down. Also just noticed that this new thing coses 30 bucks because it's a standalone game. Always thought it was a dlc...

My secondary monitor is starting to die. Takes minutes now until the screen is visible. Damn, this thing is so many years old now... but I don't want to buy a new one.

And it doesn't even look good.

Looks pretty lame, imo. Also, except for the graphics, you get exactly the same gameplay in ArmA3 with mods. Then there's also vehicles and planes and artillery and...

Different playstyle, I guess. I got so used to "modern" RTS that I really failed at the original Red Alert now. On the other hand, replaying the old Red Alert made me realize how... kind of... simple the game actually is. You build as many units as possible, then walz over the enemy. Rinse and repeat.

Haha, my first thought about that screencap actually was "I bet it's fake". /Edit: I think Rock of Ages would have been really good if they hadn't added this horrible blonde girl popmusic part.

Or shortly before, to generate hype?

I really liked RDR, but it's really the same as with the other GTA games... I find the world to be stiff and unresponsive, and therefore very boring after a while. I end up slogging from one place to the other just to see the next cutscene. Also, if I remember right, the amount of content to the end of the game always gets more and more shallow, with longer travel times instead. Haven't played GTA5, but I somehow doubt it is much different, since all the other games were like that?

Yes, it's not perfect, but I liked it quite a lot anyway. Somewhat reminded me a lot of the old Outer Limits, which I liked as well.

PS4 and Xbone only. :/ Well, but that was to be expected.

To me this always sounded a bit like Allahu Akbar. Not much difference, tbh.

I don't get why nobody seems to write about P.K. **** tv show Electric Dreams. I've just watched the first two episodes and it was really good. Shouldn't there be like... way more talk about it on the internet?

I hereby proclaim this to be the nation of Lexxonia, and you all offend me.

According to some folks, Germany is pretty much Africa now.

Reminds me of a few years ago when we had a wild brown bear on the lose. There was a huge media panic and they just couldn't find and catch the bear. There was lots of back and forth until the decision was made to shoot the bear. Suddenly - what a great coincidence - like an hour later, they were able to find and kill the bear. Made me so angry, someone pretty much just wanted to shoot a bear. It was impossible to prevent.

I've played Superhot VR and it's damn awesome. If you have the space for it, that is.. because you *need* to be able to walk around at least a little bit. If you can do that, it's a very unique gaming experience. I've also played Doom 3 in VR. This also works pretty good, but here you notice the lack of "weapon weight" a lot. You see this big weapon in front of you, but you just can't feel it. When I tried Half-Life², I had to stop after ~20 minutes, because it made me feel extremely sick. The whole character movement and speed just doesn't work in VR. The biggest problem with VR for me as of now is: 1. pixels - the resolution simply isn't there yet and 2. heat. I can't use the Oculus in summer, because the lenses are fogging up. There is no ventilation or anything, so it's pretty much unusable. Also they changed the warranty a while ago and added that damage due to sweat, etc. isn't covered anymore. Obviously they had a crapton of folks with this issue, which made me scared of using the headset too much (especially when it is fogging up). The price is too high to get your hardware destroyed because of this design flaw. /Edit: Other than that, it's worth it for Google VR alone already, imo. The graphic quality is.. well, not perfect, but it's still very impressive. Vienna, Tokyo, Vancouver, ... you can put yourself on the edge of a skyscraper, or become a peasant in the streets. Only thing that's missing are ambient graphics for cars and animals. /Edit2: At one point I was sitting down in the livingroom, sitting in the grand canyon while listening to music. Very chill.

Yeah, at least when it comes to face-tech, Japan is far behind.