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By the way I took the wild wasteland trait on my last playthrough, and I would sometimes get eerie music at certain locations, but nothing special seemed to happen. I know I got the alien blaster because I had that trait, but it was the only time I noticed it.

I had a scoped trail gun (that's a lever action rifle like the cowboy repeater) with a perversely high DAM score as well as a fast DPS. I don't think I ever encountered any single target that required reloading. Only problem was I couldn't find enough ammo, and I didn't really get into the whole ammo manufacturing thing at the workbench because I didn't have a high repair skill. All in all I was finding it very hard to find enough ammo when playing my first game with a high energy wp character.

Really ?, I was underwhelmed when I finally got the gauss rifle. It had a nice animation, but it took way too long to reload, didn't zoom very far with the scope, and low damage compared to what you could get with guns and a number of damage amplifying perks like 'Cowboy' etc, and the thing used 20 MFCs per shot if I remember. Hard to find enough to keep going. Since you can't hit anything in VATS outside of 20 meters a better bet is the sniper rifle or marksman carbine. Anti personnel rifle for very resistant targets. More shots on target means more criticals. You can get the plasma defender very early in the game and it's the only thing that redeems energy weapons. You won't find better. Or rather, when you do find better they gobble up all your ammo in a heartbeat and you are back to using your backup weapon. By the way they should have made the flamer cause frenzy and panic. A bit of a letdown to see a raider on fire carry on like nothing was out of the ordinary.

Achievement. lame

I finally caved at lv 20 or so and took the strong back and rat pack perks. What's the 'reward' for finishing in hardcore mode. Is there one ?

So the opening video, a leather jacket reference and ron perlmans narration is enough to call the game "silly and ridiculous"? The scoped magnum, the leather armor, the hockey mask, bottle caps. Except of bottle caps and leather armor, never seen in Fallout 1. Mad max stuff.

So the opening video, a leather jacket reference and ron perlmans narration is enough to call the game "silly and ridiculous"? The scoped magnum, the leather armor, the hockey mask, bottle caps.

I just finished my first play-through of FO-NW, or rather I got to the final battle and lost interest, a lot of high points before that though. I'll give it a 8/10. Apart from the bugs, and critical 'all save game wiping' bugs are pretty horrible to have in a final release... I never managed to find enough cards to play caravan, at one time I even saw 4 full decks on a table and I couldn't pick 'em up.. I like poker so much more than blackjack, and why couldn't you play some of the major NPCs and let the outcome decide something important. Lost opportunity there.

When is this thing coming out ?

I noticed there are new animations for mele. Makes them less sucky. I wish I had sunk at least a few points into them.

What do boxes for the different ammo types do. Reduce weight, are you supposed to use them in ammo crafting ?

It's started to crash whenever I buy certain apparently random items with a traveling merchant. I suppose I can work around that.

I like it so far. I'm worried about my build though and I'm a compulsive re-starter.

Is it safe to assume that if FO3 ran smoothly that this will too ?

I can't read it because google wants to translate it into some Eastern block country language. Which of these mean 'go away auto translator' ? N

I'm sincerely hoping that 22/10 (that's 22 October you crazy yanks) means 22/10 at 00:01 hrs. If not, I'm going to break something.

Governments are players in the markets, always have been, and like anyone else they try whatever they can to emerge ahead. So in a sense we are allowing the market to set the exchange rates.

Don't all countries who can try and do that, affect the currency to their own advantage. It's a bit much to expect countries to be responsible when there is an advantage in not doing so.

The main problem with the US credit crisis as you know was all the bad debt starting a vicious cycle as more and more foreclosures meant people were living in houses worth less than their mortgages. I don't think that's likely to happen again here. Although households where both wage earners lose their jobs are going to have a tough time with it.

There's another one. An actual EI user. We have two on these boards now. We should capture a few live specimens for preservation and gene sampling before we lose them to extinction.

It's like when corporations downsize, makes them mean and lean for the recovery. Britain is entirely dependent on world trends in it's economy, they don't have anything to fall back on. This is all they can do, other than create a massive deficit which will hound them for decades.

I must have been very lucky with FO3 because I only remember the odd CDT, no hard locking. Not going to trust the quicksave button though, it's going to be miles and miles of save games as per usual.

I don't even get that. I think we should form a secret tryst to find and slowly and painfully kill whoever is responsible for the European release date. We'd have to hurry though, if we don't get it done in the next 23 hrs we aren't gonna care anymore.

Ruin lives, hardly. You make do with less. Builds character.

Scores don't mean anything. I can't count the number of times I've seen absolute manure get 90+%.