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Hopefully competition in the open world fantasy RPG market will get them to make a better world.
Also, I wish they wouldn't give you fake urgency. Like, "Oh no! Everything is being destroyed! You have to go save that town right now!". But you can really just do it whenever you want. I liked how some other games were set up so that the problem has been there long before the game started so, y'know, a few more weeks of waiting for you to take care of it is fine. Of course, I'd like some actual urgency as well, stuff that needs to be taken care of immediately.
Unrelated, anyone else get annoyed by NPCs in Fallout 3 and New Vegas taking damage and then walking around with a depleted health bar forever? It annoys me enough that I save scum just to make sure that no one gets hit even once. Makes it I can't really enjoy the parts of the games where you have a bunch of allies for a battle like First Recon against the Fiend Driver Nephi or the gunfight at Goodsprings. I can't even let Bigtown take care of the Super Mutants themselves because at least one of them is going to get hit.
I really hope Fallout 4 lets NPCs regenerate their health some way, like when you wait/fast travel and such they could get their health restored.
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Wyrmalla wrote: Skyrim, whilst still having monster of the week style locations, had a bit more depth to them. As far as Bethesda's handling of the title I cringed a lot when I went back to play Fallout 3 a year ago, but having said that Skyrim was a lot better, so hopefully they'll managed Fallout better this time around. ...Not to say that Bethesda games are really the standard for good writing at all in the world of video games in general though (hell they don't even have their monopoly on open world RPGs to stand on in that regard any more either).
Sometimes it feels like Bethesda is a bit like id Software: they gak out a game that shows promise, only for other companies to take the engine and / or tech and make something far better with it.
Lotet wrote: Of course, I'd like some actual urgency as well, stuff that needs to be taken care of immediately.
So long as it's about an in-game day+ and not a real-time limit, or only degenerates into urgency if you didn't tackle the issue the first time you found out about it and had to come back later, I'd be more or less okay. I don't work well with timers. We don't get on.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
That video makes me think you might be able to trade with random NPCs, maybe with a higher rank of the barter perk, that would be cool. I'd love to be able to give and receive items with NPCs so I don't need to reverse pickpocket them armour and stuff when I want them to be better equipped. Though likely just wishful thinking on my part.
I really hope they still let you give armour to NPCs somehow. It really bugs me that I couldn't do that in Skyrim. No one except people who are currently following you would equip any armour you gave them unless they normally wear that type of armour and I really wanted to equip the Winterhold guards with full sets of ebony equipment. And I'm a fan of giving power armour to temporary allies if Fallout, though power armour isn't an item any more, I still hope to make do with whatever readily available top tier armour the game lets me craft lots of.
Avatar 720 wrote: So long as it's about an in-game day+ and not a real-time limit, or only degenerates into urgency if you didn't tackle the issue the first time you found out about it and had to come back later, I'd be more or less okay. I don't work well with timers. We don't get on.
Oh for sure, but I was thinking more along the lines of the city you're in getting attacked by robots, instead of being sent on a quest to save a town from robots.
And let me equip everyone to help them fight the robots!
That'll be good. It'd be cool if there were variants of combat armour, so if I equip a lot of people with it they won't all look the same. As when it comes to the settlements you run, I'd make sure the guards are all well equipped, maybe even the settlers as well if they get shot at. But armour comes in 6 separate pieces so even if combat armour has no variants I can just give some people different shoulder pads or no helmet, stuff like that, mix things up a bit.
Oh, I just noticed the fine print at the bottom of that Bethesda blog thing. I didn't notice before because they decided to fade it out and make the text slightly smaller for some reason.
The Awareness Perk, which I assume is the 3rd Perception perk, tells you an enemy's level and damage resistance. This pleases me, I always liked the Living Anatomy perk and how it revealed that information. Also they're bringing back different damage and armour types, they mentioned ballistic, energy, and radiation.
Are different damage types a good thing?.
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So judging by the perks we already know, Charisma looks like it keeps going the way of the dump stat. And really, they kept "Animal Friend" in? The perk nobody got? Wait, they even kept "Party Boy Girl"? Ugh.
The animal friend perk is a good perk for a cha player because it means you can cut down on the number of forced fights. Now that they are adding a version for humans and mutants, there might be a way to avoid every fight.
Party-girl is a new one. I guess it kind of fits thematically and gives the build a new ability with drug use. (Assuming they tweak drugs to be both more useful and more costly.)
Sigvatr wrote: So judging by the perks we already know, Charisma looks like it keeps going the way of the dump stat. And really, they kept "Animal Friend" in? The perk nobody got? Wait, they even kept "Party Boy Girl"? Ugh.
Sure, Charisma doesn't look like it has as many great perks but the thing is, it looks pretty usable. If you take Animal Friend, Wasteland Whisperer and Intimidation you can control anything below your level except robots, I hope. I wonder if the highest rank of Robotics Expert will let you reprogram robots to fight for you.
I'm the kind of player that took Entomologist, Hunter, Purifier and anything else that gave me a big bonus against specific targets, specializing against everything in a sense. So taking the three perks and their ranks to control people and creatures is fine to me. Just need to hope you can get animals/mutants to attack other animals/mutants. Though the benefits of being able to command a mirelurk to attack a raider compound is yet to be seen.
Plus there's Lone Wanderer, Attack Dog and Inspirational, which are usable, though of course Lone Wanderer means you go without companions. Also Local Leader, we'll need to see what that does.
So yeah, even if it turns out it's the worst stat, you can still actually make a build with high charisma and not just be wasting your points, unlike F3, because it actually does help you during combat.
Party Boy/Party Girl was great for a melee-based character, since it reduced the chance of addiction and reduced the penalties of addiction. Especially for a melee-character build, hop yourself up on Med-X and Psycho and go to town with a hammer or P-fist.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
I always go in thinking "these drugs are worth so much, Imma not use any of them", and end up getting addicted to Mentats thrice over before I hit Vegas.
I never used drugs myself, way too much of a goody little two-shoes. Someone else at the time decided to become an addict, to explain all the bad choices she made, like nuking Megaton. Then she decided to go cold turkey and all those nerfs hit her so hard that she didn't stand a chance out there.
Chems were harsher back in the old games. Jet addiction was permanent unless you finish a quest, the negative effects lasted longer, and the down is usually pretty rough. Does give you a nice buff though while it lasted, and it was much longer than in the new games.
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What I have
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
Well, I did receive some stuff Friday which is definitely Vault-tech derived
[/img] I also have FO4 pre-ordered, so having the storage sleeve to put into the mini-nuke is a nice touch!
The Mini-Nuke
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It does make the whistling and explosion of a bomb, followed by the XP earned "Cha-ching" cash register sound.
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
I know when she has had a bad day at the bookstore - I can hear Butcher Pete playing over the sound of automatic weapons fire....
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Co'tor Shas wrote: I always liked turbo as a sniper character. It really helps get people barring down on you, or at close range.
I did the sniper thing and I got addicted to Steady so often that I just stopped curing the addiction. Being able to hit about any location on any target that I could barely see was amazing though.
PC Systems Requirements (Requires Internet Connection and Free Steam Account to Activate)
Minimum
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
Recommended
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent
Yep, I should be good with my i5-4690K and GTX970.
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks
I should be pretty good with my i5-4690 and Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X, too.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
This might be helpful for those checking to see where their system is in regards to the requirements.
The following links are from Tom's Hardware:
Graphics card hierarchy chart CPU hierarchy chard
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks
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