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Reduces stats. I'm done with this game for now, exploring was fun, I put way too many hours into it over the last few days. Like every Bethesda game, the main quest is mostly an unwelcome distraction. The combat was fun mostly, but the AI isn't exactly stellar.

I guess insects freak people out because they are completely devoid of higher thought or emotion, ruthless efficient killers. Giant Asian Hornet. If one bites you you better have a syringe of adrenaline handy. One bite is all it takes, and these are hornets, they can chew on you all day and not get tired.

Finally found a UFO and an alien blaster. Almost twice the damage of the android lazer rifle. Is that the dart gun or the slingshot that shoots rails in the middle. I never found any schematics other than what you can buy, plus the shish kebab. One of the caravans had a ripper though.

Gas leaks. I think it came from when I was living in an apartment with an old school pilot light. You know one of those, if it malfunctions everyone would die in their sleep deals.

You can get it for free, but it is a bit of a pain to install, and all the new material is 1,3 gigs total. Still a problem for some.

I wandered into what I thought was the usual raider camp, turned out to be a small town complete with a swapmeat, bar, and brothel, and one of those mutant giants imprisoned in electric fencing. Kind disappointed I had to kill the whole town. Would have preferred to be able to trade there. While I'm 'what if-ing', they could have put an arena in there too, maybe a cinema, thunderdome, whatever, for the full mad max effect. Thats what I would have liked to see in a slaver and raider town.

Spoil me on where I can find the scematic for the rail gun pls.

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Anyone found alien blasters. I found a little ammo for them, no guns.

I see. Well, I agree that after a while everything gets very 'two mudcrabs and a pile of bonedust', particularly the DC train stations. In the beginning there's lots of scripted encounters like saving big town, as the game goes on they become less and less frequent. I started just sneaking through stations long ago.

I just swam all the way to rivet city to avoid the battles, and I find the damn place locked. What a ripoff. I guess finding the key is somehow related to the main quest.

I found him near the Germantown police station, I think he's on random, will show up sooner or later.

Nothing seems to happen to them when I shoot at them, maybe it needs better than pistol shots.

Smooth code I guess. Although I have been getting sporadic slowdowns that weren't there before, which is strange. Doesn't seem to matter whether the screen is busy or not. Also can anyone spoil me on a way back into vault 101. I want a certain item I forgot to bring with me. There's an access panel but it can't be activated, bug or something I did or didn't do.

I agree that Shivering Isles is underrated, the voice acting and art direction are miles better than Oblivion.

I assume you've read "The Trouble With Lichen?" No, but you made me google it.

Buildwise, the first time I got to lv4 with a build that tried to do everything and not enough points, this time started off buying a lot of boring stat improvements in the easy first few levels, At lv 6 now I have Intelligence 9, and I chose that perk that grants 3 extra points per level, so now I have 21, or 22 points to distribute every time level up, that really helps getting either Science or lockpick high enough to be worthwhile, theres even spares to throw away on things like barter and speech. I tagged, small arms, repair, and sneak this time around.

I don't play with any points in mele, but can you sneak up on people and take them down silently with sneak attacks. I only found one silenced gun so far, and it was so weak I tossed it. I have a pretty high sneak skill, 50 or so, and I find it hard getting very close to targets, in any case you usually wouldn't want to get close to a ghoul, or to a group of enemies, smarter to stay with some cover. I have to say I don't miss indoor maps, or an exhaustive lengthy journal that you don't read anyway. I think you can place markers with text, tried it by accident, forgot how to.

That would include you not being able to take a bullet in the brain and survive, and involve a lot of reloading. The combat is too easy on Normal though, no question about it. Haven't tried hard. Although I came out spitting bile about the game, I still played it for 8 hours last night. That's a good indication that it doesn't suck as much as I thought initially. It's better than Oblivion I agree. You could do worse if you were looking for an RPG shooter.

It does play like a bethesta game, with the notable difference that the combat makes more sense. The quests don't hold your hand quite as much either. I took one that looked like a standard mule contract, turns out the employers' family had been murdered, I return to take a rest in town, and now the employer is dead, all I have are a few clues to killers whereabouts, not at any of those spots though. I'm halfway wondering if it's a bug. The minigames are hard. I mean they are obviously stat based, but the lockpicking appears completely random. No way to tell if you are doing the right thing or not, either it works or the pick breaks. I suppose you get more clues with a higher hacking skill, so far I haven't been successful once.

I like the game better now that I'm trudging around in the wilderness shooting things with a minigun. The combat mechanics and the stealth work ok.

I dunno, I was supposed to save this old lady from a bunch of roaches, I went in bat swinging, and hit her in the noggin killing her in one blow, not intentionally, I guess I should have used the aiming system. After that the grease haired rocker outside, her son, who recruited me for this particular quest, seemed to be permanently stuck in a loop, going, 'hurry shes right inside there, hurry shes right inside there, hurry shes right inside there'. I decided it would be best to put him out of his misery. All in all I don't think they would be happy to see me.

I bought the game anyway, I guess I'm just stupid. Key mapping is broken again, I take that as a big screw you to the pc gamers. Pipboy can be remapped, but it can only be closed with tab, and since you need it for everything... No arrow keys for me. Middlemouse minimizes the game, this could just be my mouse I guess. Now I have to figure out how to cram as much of the essential commands into the remaining usable mouse buttons, and look at the damn keyboard every time I need to do something. In the short space of time I have been playing, all the PCS I have talked to have pissed me off, I guess the speech dialogue will eventually dwindle to the usual universal Bethesta bot. I can't wait. Nothing is worse than too much bad voice acting. Can't make any definitive judgments, having barely finished the tutorial, but it ain't looking good.