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https://nerdist.com/article/bethesda-reveals-official-special-stats-of-fallout-series-characters-ghoul-lucy-maximus/

Also wanted to add the ambience is pretty cool. Between missions you're on your ship which is kind of like in Warframe but a little less snazzy (at least for now). You can manage your weapon load out here, go to the strategy map and fly to a planet to choose your missions, etc. It tells you what the status is of the planet (percent liberated or defended) and every mission helps liberate or defend the planet. Once you choose a mission you go to the hellpod and it drops you down into the Battlefield. And you can just look out the window and watch other pods and cannons firing off.

Like it is pretty simple in between missions but it makes you feel like you're part of the world.

It's pretty fun.

You start by selecting your loadout. You choose a primary weapon (think assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles), a secondary (like pistols), and a grenade. Then you choose your Stratagems - these are special drops you can call in - they consist of things like automatic turrets, artillery support, bomber/fighter support, armored mech suits, and special weapons like grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. Typically you're trying to balance what you have with what your teammates have so you don't all end up with nukes and heavy machine guns, though it's usually not the end of the world at least on lower difficulties if you do.

Then you drop into the mission. There are two main fronts spread across several planets. Some are against robots (with ranged weapons and heavy armor and shit), and some are against bugs (think the bugs from Starship Troopers or perhaps Zerg from SC2).

You have a primary objective and a timelimit. Your primary objective could be something like activating and launching an ICBM, evacuating civilians from an outpost, extracting fuel from pipelines, etc. There are also many secondary objectives, such as destroying enemy nests, extracting research data, destroying certain facilities, loading and activating artillery, etc. And then there are many points of interest where you can find resources. Once you've done the primary objective you have to reach an extraction point and call in extraction, wait for the ship to arrive (I think it's two minutes?) and then you have like 20 seconds to load up or you're left behind. In this respect it's like L4D.

As you play you find resources and get experience and another currency that let you upgrade your ship with new facilities - this helps you do stuff like call in certain stratagems more quickly, get more ammo with your stratagems, etc.

You also get war medals that you use to unlock new gear, everything from cosmetics to new weapons. These are unlocked through War Bonds (think Battle Passes), but you can grind out war medals through personal and community objectives as well as find them in missions.

It's generally a really great time.

Oh and you get a certain number of "reinforcements" per mission, so it's not like you'll play for 30 minutes then die then just be screwed out of rewards. Your teammates can call in a spawn beacon and you will respawn.

I share weird idiosyncracies with my family and I don't know where I picked it up. Like my brother and I always buy things in pairs - could be cereal, toothpaste, etc. I didn't know he did it until I went shopping with his wife one time and she was like "your brother does the same thing".

Also we haven't seen each other in several years and we both haven't really been to our (well, more like my since he was already almost out of high school when we moved) hometown. Our dad took us very rarely to a coffee shop in another town. For some reason even though I had only been there like twice that I could recall, I felt like I wanted to go there again the last time I was up here. My brother was here recently and he also stopped at the coffee shop. It's just weird, there are tons of other cafes in the area and places to go but for some reason we felt an attraction to that one stupid cafe lol.

IronChef_Kirby posted...

Shadows Over Loathing did it right; that game had both an Arachnophobia mode and and Arachnophilia mode that added more spiders.

I need to give that game a try. I loved KoL though always sucked at it, and West of Loathing was fun but also never finished it.

can't believe it's been 30 years. I still have the soundtracks somewhere.

I would hope so, they can't just end it like that after the first season.

In ten years people aren't even going to know CE was a thing.

It was toxic as shit, I used my account status and access to create an account on a spin-off website that was ten times as toxic (though at least in the early days there were some fun things there, like the LUEfo hoax, Super Mario Tennis and watermelons, iykyk) and I spend literally two full years of my life (if you were to go off the user statistics page) on that community being a total loser and then that got shut down a year or so ago.

Revelation34 posted...

What was the difference?

I don't remember *all* the details any more, but from what I remember, the property was built on a river and you had to do some miniquests and collect resources to build it out. Most or all of it was outdoors so you didn't have to go through a loading screen and you could enjoy nature. And there were scripted random events where people would come to visit you, sometimes to trade, sometimes to try to turn you into a vampire.

I used to love it but haven't seen it since maybe season 10 or 11 and have no idea what it is like now

I've dipped in and out over the years and it definitely feels like it's become a better place. Some of the good users I remember seem to have departed though

I've fallen asleep at one or two movies in theaters but never walked out

I only ever touched one Skyrim mod and that was a player-owned housing mod before Hearthwhatever came out and it was a million times more interesting than the official DLC.

party_animal07 posted...

Crabs trigger a similar response as spiders to me.

lol I'm looking at the screenshots and they look pretty similar so I could see how that happens.

I've seen this in another game, maybe Dragon Age Origins?

I have been to Japan a few times, climbed Fuji, visited Tokyo Disney, wish I saw more while I was there but it was still a really fascinating time.

I am checking out ThreadZone but shit is hard to navigate, it feels like reddit except you have to subscribe to zones to see the content first (or... something)? Also a lot of users from that one LUE spin-off that got shut down a year or two ago.

I'm too old for discord, it's fine for small group discussions but I can't keep up with everything when there's like twenty people posting shit and then I'm out of the loop because I couldn't log in for two days

Oh well try it, it's actually pretty fun and I regret not getting into it earlier.

we are part of history OP
https://twinfinite.net/news/fallout-76-hits-new-steam-concurrent-players-peak/

it looks like a "links" spinoff tbh.

El_Dustino posted...

I thought they were kinda like that in Fallout 1/2

unfortunately i never got far in those games.
I remember starting one of them, dying a dozen times to a scorpion, getting out of the vault, getting to a town with my weapon drawn accidentally and getting shot by everyone and there was no autosaving so i was hosed lol

andel posted...

i thought it was great and can't wait for s2

this
my biggest complaint is that it was only 8 episodes and I want more
also I'm not even a hardcore Fallout fanboy but I think they went a good route by just crafting an original story.
ALSO... I don't remember the BoS being so insufferable and idiotic in the games.

Sneasel posted...

out of curiosity who were you on ETI

Asasin

Also no one knew me there but w/e. It is sad lmao my online social presence is about the same as my in-person one so I don't know why I try.

I tried the new site. Maybe I'm just too sensitive but people always turn shit personal when you are talking about general political or current event topics. I want to just have general conversations with people not get into fights about my character or how I am fucked up (typing this makes me sound like a douche though).

I will check out ThreadZone though thank you for the link.

Well this is really depressing news. Forums have been a huge part of my social outlet and connection since middle school in 2000. This one isn't perfect but the only other one I really ever had a connection to is a spinoff of a LUE site which is full of toxic users and I'm probably never going back there.

Sad to see this decline happening

CountCorvinus posted...

Mothman event is ongoing until Tuesday. Head to Point Pleasant at the top of every hour to earn some fun rewards.

https://nukaknights.com/articles/all-about-the-mothman-equinox-event.html

Interacting with the Sacred Mothman Tome in your camp will give you a +5% XP Buff.

Oh snap thanks. Is it possible to get there as a new player or is it like events in certain other games that require you to have made a lot of progress first?

No, I did go to a party at an under 21 club (that had been my town's bowling alley that I went to frequently growing up so that was kind of sad) after graduation but I did not go to prom.

I didn't sweat it too much, started to regret it a couple years later, now it's so far removed from my current life I don't really think about it.

008Zulu posted...

I wonder how long it took Lucy's father to walk from Los Angeles to New Vegas? That has to be close to 1 week on foot. I envy the endurance of the fusion cores in the show, the ones in game barely seem to last an hour.

They also seem to be very scarce in the show. Which is funny because I have about six of them from an hour of play in 76...

Just finished the first season (I hope there's a second one), it is a pretty damn good show with a lot of tone shifts that keep you on your toes with which direction a lot of the scenes are going to go. The first episode or two have some weird editing deficiencies in them with awkward scene cuts and it starts to fall a little flat in episode 3 but quickly recovers and finishes out strong.

Not a hard-core Fallout fan but I played 3 through 4 so I figured I'd give 76 another fair shake and try to explore this part of the wasteland. Only got about 4 hours in the last time.

Didn't remember much so I started a new character. The game crashed one minute in when I went to grab my Pipboy. Relaunched and I was already outside the vault (speed run strategy unlocked?).

Actually a little more fun than I remember. After Starfield it is refreshing being able to just loot everything and anything without second guessing and being able to actually use it, makes for quicker exploring

I think it's one of those shows where it was originally novel and entertaining but subsequent episodes/seasons started drawing attention to some of the inherent flaws and repetition in writing.

honestly the show is making me want to play Fallout 76 again.
I got it after they added NPCs and a more main questline to it all, but it was still kinda laggy with inputs. I do want to explore the WV wasteland though.

0K_Then posted...

i could never get into wildlands. i tried and i tried, but i always w/o fail would sorta lose interest at around the same part of the game each & every time.
and honestly it has been so long since i played that i dont even remember what the biggest issue was, but something about it felt shallow by comparison, like i hate to say it but i immediately think of a term along the lines of beta-like right off-hand

also Breakpoint is not a bad game at all really, i feel like its just a meme for people to say that for some reason b/c Ubisoft are dorks & AAA-studios = le epic fail these days in the eyes of most

i liked it a whole lot better than the previous 2 FarCry entries combined, at least.
i also appreciated Breakpoint a lot as well since its characters & dialogue are actually pleasantly avoidable, unlike FarCry 6 and its stupid obnoxious crap like being forced to deal with dog, Chorizo, because

Breakpoint to me was significantly more shallow than Wildlands.

It tried to be too much of a loot shooter instead of just a tactical stealth game. The AI was atrocious so you could clear every location by just camping in a corner of a room and letting enemies come to you one at a time. The world was empty and devoid of life. The life that was there was weird - I remember in one mission I did something for a Russian character, the guy had a few lines with a Russian accent and then immediately he went to a flat regular ass American English accent saying generic lines. And basic features like aircraft were completely useless - the enemy had laser precision aim and would snipe you out of helicopter cockpits instantly, and none of the missions really ever called for the use of aircraft anyway so they were an unnecessary feature, almost like what we saw between FC5 and FC6.

The worst part... was that the story just wasn't finished. Besides the fact that it sucked ass - I loved that Wildlands was written by a guy who had extensive knowledge of cartel operations, and it felt personal, you're tearing up this international drug ring one asshole at a time. In Breakpoint it's mostly this faceless enemy ("drones!"), and while that is relevant for the modern day, they failed miserably to incorporate it into a meaningful, emotionally impactful story. And it wasn't finished, like not even remotely so.

also by this point in my life I didn't really have any friends, so I was thankful for PD's bots and multiplayer design.

is this really a topic

Dakimakura posted...

I tried using their ai DJ thing and it was just awful.

Yeah the DJ voice is really dumb and annoying. And it doesn't feel like it is doing anything intelligently at all, just stringing together mini-playlists from "made for you" playlists.

Irony posted...

Isn't this the game where the developer deliberately manipulated the in-game economy so people would buy micro transactions and then sued somebody that pointed it out?

I honestly don't know but it would not surprise me lol.

I only played it for an hour, the combat was refreshingly engaging compared to most MMOs but there was too much shit flashing on the screen and I got overwhelmed and gave up.

And Dakimakura, I believe it has been given away for free in the past on Steam, but typically the base game costs some very minimal fee.

Got it from recent Twitch offer so it is legit.

Post here if you want it and I'll... do a random number thing at some random time tonight and PM the selectee with the key and instructions.

voldothegr8 posted...

Yeah one of my coworkers is hyped, I keep reminding him it's Ubisoft when he brings it up. He gives no shits.

It's hard because Ubisoft has made good games in the past, and SW Outlaws could be great.

But then I look at how they've butchered their series across the board (Watch Dogs Legion, FC6, GR Breakpoint) and my hopes plummet. I haven't even touched the latest AC game

I haven't had Pizza Hut in a long time. Little Caesar's is like my core nostalgia and comfort pizza. I don't even eat it that often but it is always good. Not the best pizza out there but for the price it is something very special

0K_Then posted...

i hope they never fuck with Breakpoint. only game where ive spent over $10 on dlc (which makes me feel like a filthy cons00mer, but its the closest thing we have to a follow-up for MGSV, albeit one glaringly NOT produced by Hideo, and also i couldnt say no to having a squad decked in all matching mfing vietnam war -era u.s. fatigues)

Ew Breakpoint was trash after Wildlands.

Ubisoft is so damn scummy. I remember when they removed a lot of functionality for "old" games, some of which had only been out for like a couple years if that.

Maybe if they stopped throwing money at shitty AAAA games then they'd have enough money to keep the lights on for previous games.

I watched up through Episode 3 this morning, surprisingly better than I expected, though my expectations were pretty low lol. Acting is good, cinematography tends to be pretty good though I've noticed some jarring/weird cuts and edits here and there.

I'm not a hardcore Fallout fan, have only played through 3, NV, 4 and a little of 76. I feel like there are some cool aspects of the games in there. A lot of the subtle-ish gaming commentary is generic to video games in general, not necessarily Fallout specifically.

There are some really dumb plot points in it though which ruins a little bit of it. Characters and moments that are just way too perfect and convenient. And some things (like that Enclave laboratory) felt really fucking out of place.

I want to finish it but it does feel like it slowed down a bit by the end of episode 3.

I like bing for the reward points.