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Still a whole lot of ambiguities in those rules. Which cards can be "played against"-- all cards in a caravan, or only the one most recently played? Does "continuing the numerical direction" mean just the next number up or down, or can we skip numbers and play a 6 as the second card after a 4?

Numbered cards/aces can only be played at the end of one of your caravans. Face cards/jokers can be played on any card in your caravans OR your opponent's caravans.

 

Continuing the numerical direction means up/down. If your cards go 8 6 5, your next card can be 4, 3, 2, A of any suit. Alternately, you could play a higher card of the same suit. For example, if the 5 were the 5 of spades, you could play a 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 as long as it were a spade. You can reverse the direction of a caravan by playing a queen on the last card in the caravan. That caravan also then takes the suit of the queen.

 

It's an interesting idea that it doesn't use a complete card deck, though. Possibly explained by post-War scarcity? (Not that there would be a shortage of complete decks of cards in Vegas, of course, but by the name the game probably originated with the traders out on the Waste.)

Caravan is a non-casino (some might say anti-casino) game that was invented by caravan guards who lacked complete/matching decks. They turned that fact of life into a core element of the game (deck building).

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So what are the chances of silencers being a mod on guns? Or at least still having guns with silencers on them. Have you guys already found out the answer to this earlier? Don't make me look all the way through the old threads, just tell me I can't stand the suspense!

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So what are the chances of silencers being a mod on guns? Or at least still having guns with silencers on them. Have you guys already found out the answer to this earlier? Don't make me look all the way through the old threads, just tell me I can't stand the suspense!

I'm almost positive that silencers have been confirmed as a weapon modification.

 

EDIT: A number of E3 previews mentioned silencers.

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in reply to someone from last thread:

 

red dead redemption WAS a buggy mess (for some people), it was also one of the best games this year, and one of my top 50 favorite games of all time. bugs don't mean a game is bad. also, i played the game for 80 hours and never experienced ANY bugs, but i have seen videos of them online so they exist but are not occurring for every player


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^I had the same experience. Not a single bug, but I have also seen some crazy videos of some crazy RDR bugs.

 

It is more or less GTA in the west with much improved controls and a SUPERB soundtrack. One of the better games I have played this year.

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i dont like the gta comparison simply because i think gta sucks (except vice city) and I loved RDR.

 

but this isnt the RDR thread so i'll stop talking about it....

 

only a lil more than a month now till fallout! i already have plans to take the day off for it :aiee:

 

does anyone know if steam is going to unlock the game monday at midnight?


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So what is the release date? Is it set in stone?

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By the way. FalloutNow seems to miss you Sawyer. :down:

 

Forgive my ignorance... whats falloutnow?

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By the way. FalloutNow seems to miss you Sawyer. :down:

 

Forgive my ignorance... whats falloutnow?

 

Lexx's german Fallout forum. He speaks about how he frequently visits german boards in the interview.

 

He's even registered there though he hasn't logged in in over a year. He probably read it though since then unsigned.

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By the way. FalloutNow seems to miss you Sawyer. :down:

 

Forgive my ignorance... whats falloutnow?

 

Lexx's german Fallout forum. He speaks about how he frequently visits german boards in the interview.

 

He's even registered there though he hasn't logged in in over a year. He probably read it though since then unsigned.

 

oh.. thanks for the info.

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"I cannot profess to be a theologian; but it seems to me that Christians who believe in a super human Satan have got themselves into a logical impasse with regard to their own religion. For either God can not prevent the mischief of Satan, in which case he is not omnipotent; or else He could do so if he wished, but will not, in which case He is not benevolent. Fortunately, being a pagan witch, I am not called upon to solve this problem."

- Doreen Valiente

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i'm just so glad to hear about all that quest content in the game.

 

wandering the wasteland is fun, but wandering the wasteland and completing quests is much much better.


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i'm just so glad to hear about all that quest content in the game.

 

wandering the wasteland is fun, but wandering the wasteland and completing quests is much much better.

 

The way I see it, the only point of wandering the wasteland is if there's quests to do.

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Seeing what's over the next hill. That's sortof the Bethesda trademark, and it's pretty enjoyable too until you have seen all the real estate. I just hope we get more than 'go there, fetch 20 of those, come back'

 

 

I think the approach was much more successful in FO3 than it was in Oblivion. Wandering in Oblivion was absurdly dull.

Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
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Seeing what's over the next hill. That's sortof the Bethesda trademark, and it's pretty enjoyable too until you have seen all the real estate. I just hope we get more than 'go there, fetch 20 of those, come back'

 

 

I think the approach was much more successful in FO3 than it was in Oblivion. Wandering in Oblivion was absurdly dull.

 

It was indeed. Hopefully having already a pretty hefty number of assets to draw from will make exploration in New Vegas more interesting. Fallout 3 got dull after a certain point with just dungeons and dungeons full of feral ghouls.

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dungeons and dungeons full of feral ghouls.

 

 

I think one of FO3's problems was a lack of a good variety of interesting enemies. Which was, oddly enough, one of Oblivion's stronger points.

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Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
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to tell you the truth I'd rather not have a variety of enemies in my Fallout, if it's something like the crab-people... I'll have my usual set of rats/radscorpions/humans/supermutants/deathclaws, thank you.

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