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It's interesting that he would invoke the EU rather than NATO. Probably has something to do with what the US would do. There is no political will for ground troops in the US, but there is a growing sense that that's what it's going to take in Europe so if he invoked the NATO clause, as think Bush did after 9/11, he would force the matter and maybe damage relations.

Kinda dumb when the dialouge wheel is so vauge you have no idea what you are chosing.

No, just two corpses. Woman blew herself up in he raid, man was killed by police.

French police just got two more lunatics before they could cause any harm. I'd say that's a win, maybe it's 4 pages back I can't keep tracl of this thread, Anyway good on them.

It's been hard to pull off because the companion AI is terrible for select companions. They will pretty much always give your position away. Not so terrible if you can use the distraction to creep up behind the opposition, but it makes the grenade trick hard.

I dunno about that. Take Darksouls for instance, there's hundreds (well lots) of unique bosses. I do think Witcher started to suffer from repetition in that area after a while. I liked the boss fight with the crones a lot. More of that kind of structured encounter would have been nice. Yes, finding a way to keep the low level rabble viabile as well would be good. Every enemy or group should present a challenge.

The problems all stem from the more or less broken level implementation. Level restrictions for gear is silly. RPGs have evolved beyond that. Instead use skills to improve the effectivness of gear. Monsters shouldn't scale so litterally. A vl 1 drowner is the same as a lv 50 drowner except for stats ?. No, a drowner should more or less be a drowner. Make the challenge look like it's level. No lv 50 mudcrabs and no lv 5 warewolfs. Scale all the quests of lower level than you so the difficulty remains constant for all the content you missed out on. Make the challenge less about the stats on your sword and armor and more gameplay oriented. Progression should be a gradual sense that you are able to take on harder enemies.

People often say things like 'freedom of speech is not a license to slander'. It seems to me they have missed the point. Providing you chose your words carefully enough to avoid a lawsuit, that's exactly what it is. The consequence is that you take the good with the bad. That means putting up with KKK and Nazis marching in the streets and knowing that if there is room for them there will always be room for you to express yourself freely. It's actually quite a beautiful thing. You know the whole 'I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'. I though that was Voltare but google says it's from a book about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall

It was pretty fatally bugged. Besides now where VATS is actually aware of where the target is after the initiat shot it would likely result in even more suicides. It would still be treating indirect AOE fire as direct fire and enemies are moving in vats now. It's a problem that grenade throw can't be changed from the 'hold action' imput though. It's simply too slow. Add to that the close quaters FPS spawn system they are using now (I guess to keep things interesting while never rendering or handling more than 6 enemies at a time) It's excedingly rare to hit more than two targets with AOE attacks which kinda nerfs esplosives anyway. Maybe they should have gone with status effects (stun etc) or more damage to compensate. Haven't tried an explosives build but it seems unatractive.

Yes, if these Mosques are allowing Hate Speech then you need to close them down...harsh but fair I dunno, seems like if you go down that road there is no turning back. Use existing legislation rather than start demolishing buildings. They are already doing that in Israel, doesn't work.

Move bodies like in most Bethesda games. Hold interact and press again when ready to drop.

I can't count the times I've wanted to power attack an enemy to finish him off and thrown a molotov on the both of us instead. Maybe there is no power attack. As far as I can see it goes. 'tap' for mele attack and 'hold' for grenades, but there is supposed to be a power attack when you hold and don't have grenades equipped. How do you power attack with a grenade type selected. Near as I can tell there is no way to unselect a grenade type without going into the pipboy. Really stupid bit of console 'one button does everything' that. Yes, that game is quite awesome despite all the flaws. If you are on the fence, hesitating, don't, get it.

I'm going to take a wild guess here and suggest that moderate muslims don't feel they have to apologize for people they don't agree with.

You gotta admit it's really bad PR for Islam. People want easy solutions, they are always looking for scapegoats, so when something like this happens they wonder what else is wrong with the muslim religion, since it has so much room for this kind of thing. There aren't that many religions where you so often hear of people shouting 'god is great' while committing atrocities, not anymore anyway. Of course it's all politics and all shades of gray, and religion is just a tool in an asymmetrical battlefield.

I've got another. The railroad are the ones who kill your husband/wife, they do it to find the institute, making use of the most intense of human movtivations, mother's/father's love for their son. and/or you are synth 1000 sent back from the future and/or programmed with the memory of the murder of your husband. The last humans are trapped inside the institute and they can't get out.

Crazy.

Ok so disclaimer : don't know the twist. Buut. I can't watch a movie without guessing at the plot. In no particular order : You are a synth. Everybody in the commonwealth is a synth. The infiltrators sent out by the institute are actually humans. The institute needs you to recreate the human race (because everybody is a synth and you are the only remaining human) Battlestar Gallactica human-synth baby synthesis. The matrix/Vanlilla Sky you are in a simulation trying to get out.

I've been getting a pretty heavy Battlestar Gallactica feel and I've been staying away from main missions, as you do in a Bethesda game.

You need special power cells to power your armor, which are a rare resource, most of the game you will be without it. If you are doing something exceedingly hard or with a level disparity you can come back in power armor and kick ass. Good choice I think. You have power armor long enough to feel awesome and not log enough to be fed up with it. Fiddled a little more with the settings, everything is on high except depth of field and god rays, Fov set to 90. Runs just fine, although I do get stutter with multiple hostiles 6-8 or more. Those encounters are so rare that I'm not that bothered by it.

Watched what I presume to be the spaceship crash landing and tried to guesstimate the point of impact. Lots of creeping around and running from high level opposition and I couldn't find it. No alien blaster. dammit.

I have strenght 1 and Endurance 1 and I have trouble making room for everything, which is fine. I can always come back with power armor if there are too many goodies lying around. Don't feel that hindered by those low stats generally though. So min maxing is probably the way to go.

then why does a desk fan have three salvagable components listed next to it ? Future DLC item perhaps.

Has anyone figured out how to break down junk to it's base components. I noticed that various junk had what could be harvested from it listed next to it. A special work bench ?. Where ?.

Fallout is a good match for the kind of 'fort building' that has been cropping up in indie survival games of late. So far I haven't even been able to mend the broken fences, much less build a wall with a moat full of mirelurks with laser beams strapped to their heads. I guess the point is to judge how dilligently you have done the minuitemen missions at some point. Anyone else find it convenient that the minuitemen character is black. The redcoats famously freed any slave who could escape and join up. No mention of slavery in the game at all so far. The irony would be too poignant ? If you are going to do american history in Fallout games, and it seems like that's now an integral theme with Bethesda, how about doing more than plucking out random names and faces and reducing them to stereotypes.

They stretched it too thin and made it a boring city management minigame where you have to unlock all sorts of things instead of just letting you go wild and build whatever you want.