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Ohh... Well the moment the ranger guy said to do a security sweep I was out of there. Hoover dam is like that movie 'The Cube'

I actually gave up on the quest to save the president because I knew it meant going more than one level into hoover dam, and I would rather put out a campfire with my face. At one point I even tried dumping a trail of low cost gear like Hansel and Gretel.

Same as FO3, because the pipboy map is worse than useless with multiple levels. They could have cut the above areas in half though, and they still would have been too big. Why is the trader the furthers possible distance from the entrance at Camp Macarren. I mean, yes I do prefer outdoor to vaults, and thankfully there weren't that many of those, but still.

Am I the only one who thought the level design was particularly bad in FONW. Hoover Dam, Camp Macarren, Nelis AFB. Constant trucking around in huge areas with only a vague sense of where anything was.

That's not the retarded bit. That would be having a companion who is friggin' immune to radiation and an all around good guy who wouldn't take two steps inside the room and install the maguffin into the thingie. EDIT: eyah and that's what you wrote.

I'm using the Fallout wiki to make sure I actually get to do the companion sidequests this time, and for skill book locations.

I'm lv 18 and I've got energy, speech, lockpick, explosives, sneak and science all well past 75. That would have been impossible with my old char. Time to start upping guns, and that will be it for skills i can actually use. I can get to 50 repair with meds so that takes care of repair kits.

I'm nerfing it this time. Maxed out intelligence at lv 1 because I didn't want to miss a single point. Small frame and four eyes perks. The first few perks are going to be spent on upping agility and perception. (I want to max out explosives)

The cowboy repeater is the only weapon worth having that shoots .38

Maybe it has to do with luck score how often you get one from drinking a soda. I was sorely disappointing when I finally got there with an energy wp score of 15 and lv 20 something.

Exactly.

Yeah, but it's still pretty stupid.

I thought it was rather interesting to have Veronica turn on me half way through slaughtering The Brotherhood with the words 'It seems like you are determined to to fight us'. Well duhh. Whatever gave you that idea, maybe you should have said something 20 dead paladins ago.

You are not just wearing power armor that's tagged as a BOS disguise ? That'll make them shoot you on sight.

The engine is too old. It looked sortof crappy for DA1, when this thing finally comes out it's going to look 1980s-ish.

It's broken. Sometimes If you talk to her about Boone's wife first you lose the dialogue string where you ask her to come with you to stand in front of the dino. (at which point you put on the beret and Boone shoots her) To get it to work accept the quest, make sure it's dark, break into the shop and get the evidence, then go down to the culprits house and wake her out of bed and ask her straight away to come with you.

For me the most annoying persistent bug is when the reload cycle messes with the running cycle and you end up moon walking frantically away because you can't fire your weapon or open your pipboy.

It's really not a good idea to force newer versions on the user, there is save games being incompatible, and it does happen not infrequently that a patch screws up more than it fixes. It will also mess with any mods you have installed etc. So do you basically have to stay 'offline' to avoid all your games auto updating, or is there some STEAM setting for that ?.

I always kill everyone at Nellis. It's too much of a drag finding all those different people and doing menial tasks for them, and apparently you can't finish the game without getting a result there. I think I'm entitled, I mean they did force me to reload 40 times while running the barrage.

The survival skill is pretty useless. I mean who would want to hamster 5 different out of the way items just to be able to cook a steak that does the same thing as a stimpack. If I craft something I want it to go boom, or maintain weapons.

Well my current guy is an unarmed specialist with the strong back perks. I rarely ever hit my weight limit of 300 lbs. Besides I need to hamster all the crap I find because I haven't increased the barter skill at all. Also, just clicking 'take everything' is a lot faster than picking out what you like from every corpse.

Ohh and crafting materials of course.

Guns you don't currently have any ammo for. Ammo you don't currently have weapons for (in HC mode) Loot you can't sell because all the traders are broke at your current level. Clothes.... One of everything, because... just because.

Once in a rare while all the crates revert to their original position behind the Goodsprings store but all goodies are safe.

Barbie dress up is an essential part of the Fallout experience. I can't count the number of NPCs I have murdered simply because I absolutely needed to try on their gear. Yeah I have to kill almost every Gambler I see because I want every suit variation there is, I wish they just let you like, buy gambler clothing or soemthing so I wouldn't have to kill everyone. Also I was really mad when I found out that the Grimy Pre-War Businesswear wasn't a black suit anymore and was just the same skin as Dirty Pre-War Businesswear. Also has anyone tried using the Lucky 38's Penthouse as their safehouse? Like, are the containers ok to put stuff in or not? Really unhandy isn't it. You can't even fast travel to the area its in, and then there's entering the casino AND taking the elevator. The suite upgrade function has a broken menu, and it's dark and drab as you mentioned to boot. My safe house is 5 sarsaparilla crates stacked on top of each other next to the workbenches in starterville. They really screwed the safe house up.