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Actually I'm curious to see the dialouge trees. Whether there are more than one or two branches and dependencies per faction and companion in the entire game, my guess is most dialouges will have none.

Apparently the dialouge tree has to fit on a controller keypad. Part of the price of having the game fully voiced maybe, but having had the experience of playing Shadowrun Hong Kong and Pillars recently. There are at least a few pivotal plot instances where the game is let down by its over slimplicity.

Actually you get the background bit when you have enough influence. Influence is tied to dialouge choices obviously but also for some strange reason to gameplay actions. One follower might dislike you when you pick locks and like when you eat corpses so if you want to max out your relationship you have to change the way you play to suit the follower. It's too much of a nuisance to put up with just to get to the special quest/romance option. Nearly all followers cramp your style in one way or another. No they aren't that interesting from a writing standpoint either. It's a Bethesda game. Bethesda games are primarily about exploration. Once you have seen most of what there is to see and done most of what there is to do, you are done. I never finished Morrowind, or FO4 for that matter because I hit that mark before I had finished the main quest.

Saw a drawer full of rolls of duckt tape on sale today and instinctually went 'I need that'

the WW1 one ?

Well that will be a massacre to think any group of Muslim countries has the military might to stop the USA or Russia But don't worry, the West doesn't like massacring Muslims anymore ..but I cant speak for Russia This is war of deception...nobody know who they are shooting...but in the end the west who gain, when Assad toppled, mission accomplished. So, the west used to like massacring Muslims..... The Arab spring is what made Syria unstable, we can't really claim to have done that ourselves. Political instability and a desire for progress and a need to demolish existing conservative institutions and power structures. It is what happens when a system of government is nolonger compatible with the people it governs. Experience shows that in those cases it is perhaps unavoidable to go through a period of civil unrest/civil war.

Like everybody was on the same page in Iraq, Yugoslavia etc.? Careful your hypocrisy counter is going over 9000 Russia didn't intervene in Iraq as far as I remember, as for Yugoslavia at one point Nato and Russian forces were close to shooting at oneanother, definately not a good idea to pretend to inteverne together while backing different factions. Russia doesn't have the military muscle to be pressing its case in Syria, not any more really, she's doing it out of pride, some sense of lost empire, you know like Britain in the Falklands. But they were against those interventions, in the mechanisms (UN) instituted with the idea that conflicts should be resolved on the basis of consensus instead of unilateral action. When NATO was doing as it pleased the world over, that's all well and good but when Russia is protecting its interests it needs to be "taken down a notch", even though its targeting an entity that is now more or less the enemy of the entire world and is attacked by country that is supporting said entity - a country that is also a member of the NATO alliance and is undermining the supposed goals of the alliance in the matter. Long story short - Turkish support for ISIS is okay, Russians protecting their interests isn't? So by your logic, what entitles Russa to intervene in Syria. Shouldn't they be going through propper channels and attempt to woo over the UN. The UN was never able to account for the cold war dynamic so a 'consensus' for anthing, not just Iraq and Yugoslavia meant everyone except Russia and China, they were going to vote 'no' nomatter what. Is that hypocritical, sure, I'll go allong with that. Not a lot of the UN's lofty ideals of peace and cooperation survived contact with reality.

Like everybody was on the same page in Iraq, Yugoslavia etc.? Careful your hypocrisy counter is going over 9000 Russia didn't intervene in Iraq as far as I remember, as for Yugoslavia at one point Nato and Russian forces were close to shooting at oneanother, definately not a good idea to pretend to inteverne together while backing different factions. Russia doesn't have the military muscle to be pressing its case in Syria, not any more really, she's doing it out of pride, some sense of lost empire, you know like Britain in the Falklands.

I wonder, how many of the forces fighthing close to the border is comprised of PKK allied forces and how many are potential allies for Turkey. Seems to me there is a missed opportunity for Turkey to create stability by making long term alliances.

Russia probably needed to be taken down a notch and no one was killed so... They are probably going to be more realistic about their own capacity in the future. If there is going to be an intervention in Syria everybody, and by that I mean every forgein military power in theater, has to get on the same page first.

I probably should have gone with automatic weapons since you can make an automatic version of just about anything. They are rubbish at VATS, but VATS is kinda tedious in the long run anyway. If you don't chose automatics as the levels increase you will effectively be stuck with just the one weapon type. Gun mods and other perks can help, but it's never going to be as effective as the weapon skill you chose to develop fully.

Had to walk home yesterday because 'mysterious terrorists' meant that police closed down rail traffic while I was in the bloody train. Turned out to be nothing. I would rather walk home than be dead obviously, but can we not do the whole 'boy who called wolf' thing. Too many excitable people lacking in judgement after the Paris attacks.

If you are going to do the minutemen you need the local leader perk which doesn't do anything other than let you chain together workshops. Without it you won't be able to build anything in all those settlements you liberated. If you sink a lot of points into that perk you will get a respectable income out of your established settlements but it's not really worth it. Building could have been fun if not for all those artificial restrictions. My proposal would be the following : You set up base for the ability to rest and craft. There is no fast travel except to diamond city and to your current base. (maybe faction HQ as well) So your base(s) move with you as you travel further south. Your base may actually be attacked with you in it, so there will be a point to all the defenses you built. Caravans will stop if you have stayed in one place a long time. Quests can have a starting point there etc. There is no restriction on what you can build, only if you can use it effectively.

The revolutionary war stuff is a pain. Doesn't mix well with the setting at all. Fallout 3 had Lincoln, slavery and the civil war which is like a million times more interesting.

What are those in the background. Oils, acrylics. In my mind I will be able to flawlessly duplicate once I find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNwgcssiyM

How is he doing that with a paintbrush. The paper is wrong for inks or watercolour.

You can just park your companion at the entrance and do your stealth thing. Of course it kinda defeats the purpose, but what are you gonna do if you happen to be romancing a cyborg.

Borderlands 2 is that where I remember it from ? What's the name of that app that will recognise a song from a small sample.

My google skills are failing me. I've been trying to find the soundtrack (not the radio, the background music when you are creeping around the wasteland) Some of it is original and there is a sortof bladerunnery keyboard score I think I've heard before. It's location specific I think. Can you dig any of that out of a folder and convert it ?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStPoCGzayc

So did he had a bunch of sex while he was HIV positve and didn't say. It says a prostitute took pictures of the meds and proceded to blackmail him. Was just she there for conversation ?. If that's the case he's a complete A-hole.

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.