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Good Dumplings
Mar 30, 2011

Excuse my worthless shitposting because all I can ever hope to accomplish in life is to rot away the braincells of strangers on the internet with my irredeemable brainworms.
fallout boy obviously

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Tei
Feb 19, 2011

This is what Fallout would look like if it where made with a half competent engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC7y8bKvpdk

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

What the gently caress? They just took the Solar Powered perk image and slapped a clip art Santa hat on top and did an MS Paint bucket fill on the suit:



Also twenty loving dollars - a third of the game's MSRP - for a loving Christmas cosmetic bundle?

How lazy and greedy can you get? :psyduck:



ed: also one for the christmas cards

mormonpartyboat fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Dec 20, 2018

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

ZeusCannon posted:

What am i looking at here.

A bad game

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Rinkles posted:

well i didn't see it, maybe someone took it. lost my second bag (w/ a whole lot of hardened mass) when the game froze after i re-spawned again (died 'cause i got a bit too confident whilst wearing only a hazmat suit; at least it was exciting).

game stability has been awful for me recently. on more than one occasion i've had multiple disconnects/crashes within an hour.

e: to be clear, i don't do any of the exploit crap

Did it happen before or after the latest server maintenance?

heehee
Sep 5, 2012

haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win :D

mormonpartyboat posted:



ed: also one for the christmas cards



lmao

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Mr Hootington posted:

Did it happen before or after the latest server maintenance?

after

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

heeheex2 posted:

Bought my 4th copy of FO76 today.
One for myself, the rest have been gifts. I can either be mad about paying full price with a pre-order or I can be thrilled to share it with my loved ones for $30 a pop. I think I'm going to choose the latter and continue enjoying Appalachia!

Hatecrimes ITT.

Psychotic Weasel
Jun 24, 2004

Bang! You're dead.
Undiagnosed and untreated mental illness is a serious problem facing society today. Bethesda should stop trying to take advantage of that and be a good corporate citizen instead.

VivaLa Eeveelution
Apr 3, 2011

heeheex2 posted:

Bought my 4th copy of FO76 today.
One for myself, the rest have been gifts. I can either be mad about paying full price with a pre-order or I can be thrilled to share it with my loved ones for $30 a pop. I think I'm going to choose the latter and continue enjoying Appalachia!

You are what's wrong with...

...wait, people are doing this (presumably on purpose) and sales are still this bad? Daaaaaaaamn, son.

heehee
Sep 5, 2012

haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win :D
I No Longer Have Loved Ones

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Well there goes my thought that the servers get full of junk and have to be scrubbed.

Edit: it was at whitesprings right? That place is a mess nuked or not nuked.

Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Dec 20, 2018

Psychotic Weasel
Jun 24, 2004

Bang! You're dead.
Rumours of Pete Hines standing outside Wal-Marts, Targets and other stores overstocked with FO76 copies and paying random passersby to purchase them so Bethesda can pad its sales figures going into the holidays are completely unfounded and untrue.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
what I learned from fallout 76 is to pirate any game bethesda puts out

VivaLa Eeveelution
Apr 3, 2011

heeheex2 posted:

I No Longer Have Loved Ones

You also no longer have $90

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

eonwe posted:

what I learned from fallout 76 is to pirate any game bethesda puts out

Valtonen
May 13, 2014

Tanks still suck but you don't gotta hand it to the Axis either.
On fallout 1/2/tactics skills make much more difference in combat than attributes. For F2 You can have PER 4 and as long as your small guns is above 100 you have a decent hit chance. 101 is the limit after which skills cost 2 points per peoint, and after I think 120 they cost 3. Usually trying to get you main combat stat and speech to 90-100 each should be priority #1, and priority combat skill (small gunz) To 120 after that. If your INT is high (should be around 7-8) this takes about 8 levels. Note that both of these should be tagged skills meaning they gain 2 per point before 101 and 2/2 until 120.

The TAG perk gives a massive buff on the skill you apply it to. If you tag a skill that you have already invested to 101+ it goes up to around 200. Why do this? Because once you start DEDUCTING the 200-140 points (you have to do this on the same leveling, immediately after tagging) it gives you around five points Every deduction from 200 to 170, then four per point from 170 to 150 and So on) which allows you to raise 5-7 skills to 70-80 points in one go.

Aside from combat F2 has like 6 checks where you Need a skill to be above 90, and maybe three that Need more than 120. Note that one of these checks (science?maybe) is required to get one If the best NPC followers. So unless you really, really want that follower no other skill than speech and primary combat (small guns, energy weapons) should go anywhere near 120.

Also unlike retarded skill system of 3 weapon raw damage does not have anything to do with skill. A shotgun with small arms 1 does 1d12+12 damage, and shotgun with small arms 300 does 1d12+12 damage. Only difference is chance to hit.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

VivaLa Eeveelution posted:

You also no longer have $90

It's alright, they're rapidly devaluing, so it's only $80.

Now $70.


eonwe posted:

what I learned from fallout 76 is to pirate any game bethesda puts out

I'm hoping to learn to stop buying pre-orders.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Iron Crowned posted:

:lol: why do you hate these people?

I'm thinking that's an unsourced filthycasuals post.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord
I am reading an old book I found about the future that was written in 1948 and I feel like I should scan it because it's the most fallout thing ever, like it's got a whole chapter on uranium fever and the gold rush to go mine uranium and it's like, late enough everyone knows radiation is bad but very pish posh about the dumb coal miners that keep getting "yellow lung" and "radium sickness' as their own fault and there is a part where he is just allowed to walk into the trinity site (which I had forgotten is at whitesands) and he just really wants to take some Trinitite home and the author is talking about them yelling at him to put it down because it's "hot" and he seems to generally treat that as the guards being mean worry worts that won't let him keep the pretty green glass.

heehee
Sep 5, 2012

haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win :D

Chomp8645 posted:

I'm thinking that's an unsourced filthycasuals post.

not even filthycasuals lmao thats from the main one

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Being specced into Sniper builds means going into caves is always fraught with danger

Then there's deciding that diving into Silver Peak Mine is a good idea

Promptly blew myself up with a Fatman and gleefully reloaded the save outside of the cave, never to set foot in it again

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

heeheex2 posted:

not even filthycasuals lmao thats from the main one

Filthy Casuals, always never doing enough to support the brand!

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



I would like to see a photoshop of Todd and Pete Hines as Rod and Todd from that Simpsons episode where Flanders tells the two kids that they are having an imaginary Christmas, where one kid is saying they got a canvas bag and the other one is saying got a working game

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


FlamingLiberal posted:

I would like to see a photoshop of Todd and Pete Hines as Rod and Todd from that Simpsons episode where Flanders tells the two kids that they are having an imaginary Christmas, where one kid is saying they got a canvas bag and the other one is saying got a working game

BillyC
Feb 19, 2013

everythin' under heaven is in utter chaos, cloud


Bread Liar

Crabtree posted:

Filthy Casuals, always never doing enough to support the brand!

I in no way intent to be a pip boy

frajaq
Jan 30, 2009

#acolyte GM of 2014


eonwe posted:

what I learned from fallout 76 is to pirate any game bethesda puts out

loving slowpoke some of us have been doing that since Morrowind

ETPC
Jul 10, 2008

Wheel with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfK5cNNjXtg

lalaland
Nov 8, 2012
the game is down to 15 euro now :v:

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

eonwe posted:

what I learned from fallout 76 is to pirate any game bethesda puts out

Why bother

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007

Capitalism. Capitalism never changes. i cri ever tiem

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum
You never get to be the faction of Communist propagandists. What the gently caress Todd.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Babylon Astronaut posted:

Watch the speedrun, not to copy, but to see what the bare minimum to beat the game is, and there's a free money cheat in there for free. Fallout 2 suffers from a slow early game where you "earn your fun." I usually just run to Reno and Vault city. If you have a charismatic character, you can level much faster than loving around with geckos.

One could also just walk around New Reno and run into those encounters where mobsters are fighting some other bad guys, then stay out of the way and let them shoot each other. Can be a decent way to get free equipment.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

lalaland posted:

the game is down to 15 euro now :v:

Still not sure it's worth it at that price

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Bofast posted:

Still not sure it's worth it at that price

Yeah, drop it another 25 euros and maybe we'll talk.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



I guess since it's slowly being patched from hilarious bad to just boring bad I can see it being worth negative €

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012

Bofast posted:

One could also just walk around New Reno and run into those encounters where mobsters are fighting some other bad guys, then stay out of the way and let them shoot each other. Can be a decent way to get free equipment.
Oh for sure. New Reno to me, is where the game opens up and stops being such a chore. You get as much exp doing errands for the mob, boxing, being a porn star, ect. ect. as you do from nearly every quest possible in the early game areas. As you alluded to, you also get to skip the awful starting equipment and use real guns from the git go, just from looting people who are dead already. I mean, I'm well, well beyond needing to "break the game," I can beat the whole thing in 20 minutes; but when I want to enjoy the game, making a mad dash to one of the interesting areas and working from there is vastly more entertaining than the suggested path. The speedrun strat is good sometimes, because just running to san fran, getting all the equipment and money you can carry from the first shop you see is like having a prerelease bonus DLC. You could just turn around and go back to arroyo without changing any questlines.

I've long since stopped being frustrated by the unfair and confusing aspects, so I'm not sure what exactly sucks the most, but chances are there is a work around and whatever you get from it probably isn't important. That's why having a handy "these things need to happen, these things need to not happen" mental checklist is nice. Knowing you can just go off and waste a town once the quests get monotonous also goes a long way to remove the annoying parts.

Not sure if there's a gentlemens' agreement against it or something but cheats ahead: You can spam the enter key, so that the enemies never get a turn in combat and run past anything. That's it, you just mash enter.

Babylon Astronaut fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Dec 20, 2018

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Surely this will be what saves Fallout 76!

https://twitter.com/Kevin_Raposo/status/1075839805446066178?s=19

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

:laffo:

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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

The opposite of what most people seem to want.

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