Fallout series

Prophetic Spirit said:
Am i'm the only who see near any charisma-based perk in New Vegas is worthless as fuck?
Animal Friend is fucking niche. What's the point to befriend Nightstalkers when Deathclaws and Cazadores still rape yout ass?
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It's not hard to say it, given there's a whopping two of them.
With the right skills you can bypass any dialogue stat-check that isn't calling for Animal Friend directly or the like, which really doesn't help.
 
Star Classic said:
Was that not the entire point of his character? That he's so mind broken by things out of his control and so eternally staring at the past that he quite literally has "Old World Blues"? That when you finally reach him he's not all that he's cracked up to be, because quite frankly, who would? Could you not make this same argument for Elijah, or Mobius, or hell even Graham? Now that I think about was that not the point of every single major DLC character?
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Yes but it works less well since he’s also a character that the game really wants you to think is super deep and awesome and the most interesting guy in the world but in practice he’s pretentious and annoying and literally never shuts the fuck up.
 
Prophetic Spirit said:
Am i'm the only who see near any charisma-based perk in New Vegas is worthless as fuck?
Animal Friend is fucking niche. What's the point to befriend Nightstalkers when Deathclaws and Cazadores still rape yout ass?
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They have good uses for actual roleplaying, you can make interesting characters here and there.

Animal Friend made OWB a cakewalk for me, plus I never want to kill animals in any game.

I take a look back at games like NV and then I look at perks in modern games and I shed a tear.
 
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Star Classic said:
we know that at least the upper echelon of Caesar's legion is literate, given the bill of sale for Boone's wife.
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You can find a note on one of the dead recruits in the Searchlight Fire Station containing their orders from Vulpes, so its not just the upper ranks. Besides, given Caesar's insistence on how vile tribals are I can see him enforcing English literacy as a means of furthering his aims of dissolution of their cultures and languages, on top of the already-mentioned military necessity of your basic legionary needing to be able to read written orders on his own.
Myron said:
Reading inside of an urban area post war would be necessary for basic survival, not being able to read in those places would be a death sentence (unless they have some meme stat build). For most people they could get a basic grasp on reading without anyone needing to explicity teach them just through exposure in such an environment but if they lived their whole lives out in the wilderness with little to no exposure to pre-war shit then not knowing how to read would make sense.
It's also important to note that even in the harshest life-or-death living situations there is still downtime, people still get bored, and there are books everywhere in Fallout.
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Yeah, outside of tribal areas where you would need that dedicated infrastructure finding books would be easy.
Friendly Primarina said:
Plus it's been out for longer than its development cycle (14 years).

Has anyone noticed how literacy is just as much taken for granted in the Mojave as in a developed country? We know at least some of the Three Families can read because Cachino keeps a journal and someone is updating the sign outside The Tops with new acts. So who taught them? The securitrons? If they were warring tribes up to "a few years ago" (the loading screen says "a few decades ago" but there's no way Benny is that old)I can't imagine they were passing down the written word to their children.

It's not even so much that everyone can read - you could probably come up with an explanation for half the NPCs in the game. It's the fact that everyone assumes that you, a complete stranger, can read and keeps handing you notes and such. The only one who doesn't and takes precautions is Elijah, of all people.

I know it's petty, but since Bethesda Fallouts are criticized for having unreasonable/unexplained living conditions, it seems only fair to point it out. Also sorry if this has been discussed already. Searching this thread for "literacy" just brings up posts about media literacy.
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Pretty much, yeah. Can't run a business without knowing how to keep books, after all. And House couldn't very well teach them himself for obvious reasons. And as to you, personally. You're a courier. Couriers need to be able to read destinations and maps and plan travel routes. Can't do that without literacy.
 
Watched someone play the bounty hunter shit and it is funny. They clearly did not test the new bounty system. Hunters literally just spawn in no matter where you are or what you are doing, at one point I saw them literally just spawn in directly in view of the camera.

The game also decided that a pack of scavvers that attacked the PC first counted as innocent, so the flags are all fucked up because there is no morality system.
 
Im still mad at someone, not sure if at myself or whoever designed Honest Hearts, that i shot the chalk guy when i saw him.
I didn't knew that THIS tribal fuck was a good guy when every other tribal tried to inject lead in my skull.
As a result my first HH playthrough was just me running around following the quest marker with no explanation what so ever.
 
DefinitelyNotMe said:
Im still mad at someone, not sure if at myself or whoever designed Honest Hearts, that i shot the chalk guy when i saw him.
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Tangentially related:
Follows-Chalk said:
Can't say [these shell casings] seem that dangerous to me, but Joshua says they "won the West."
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You know what a gun is. Literally the first time I saw you, you were magdumping into a White Leg. Half the White Legs use Tommy Guns. The whole tribal thing is so fucking dumb. It's like Zion gets a lot of tourists and Chalk is doing the "White Legs make heap big trouble, kemosabe" routine because visitors love it.

It's a shame because I like Honest Hearts as a concept. It's one of the only parts of the game that show what Arizona/Utah was like before Caesar and the New Canaanites came along and why the Legion and NCR are better than nothing at all.
 
Someone's making videos reworking the Legion apparently, he also made a few other Fallout videos such as designing East Germany in the Fallout universe, among other places so it might be worth checking out.
Dorkwan said:
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Damn, first message after lurking for 4 years and it's a hell of a read.
Also for fuck sakes press the enter button every once in a while.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Update:
Video of Legion and NCR cosplayers:
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Good to see Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4 fans coming together and having a little bit of fun instead of fighting one another. Funny how I don't see any 76 fans there, Todd must be crying that nobody came dressed as the fan favorites "Radioactive Skyrim Dragon Boss" or "Generic Raider with Awful, Unfunny Dialogue", or how could we forget "Literally Who That We Only Hear From Some Random Audio Log"?
 
The Greatest Kiwifarmer said:
i always liked Arcade Gannon because of his default weapon being powerful and his perk which helps a lot with health. not to also mention the Enclave side quest he has.
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I like Gannon too. He's my second favorite companion behind Veronica and that's just because I think it's funny to give her power armor and a displacer glove and watch her clear out half the map.
 
Star Classic said:
Heh, couldn't pay me enough to suffer through TTW installation and modding or the Frontier campaign long enough to get to that point.
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TTW is actually pretty easy to install(even if you pirated the game). As for Frontier, I'm guessing you're thinking of the awful NCR campaign, America is part of the Crusaders questline. You can actually just ignore the NCR really early on(the hooker who asks you the question about sugar is their spy, you go with her to start the questline and go AWOL, failing the NCR questline) so getting America is one of the first things you can do in The Frontier, considering how she is thrown at you the moment you meet her. Funnily enough, the quality of Frontier vastly improves if you ignore NCR and do either a Crusader or Legion questline, not much but at least it feels like you're playing a Fallout game again instead of a weird mashup of MGS, Wolfenstein, STALKER and COD made in Gamebryo.
Campbell_Trio said:
So Ringo is confirmed dead by the events of honest hearts right?
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I don't get it, why would he? I am pretty sure he spends the entire game in Crimson Caravans once he is rescued, even if you complete the DLC.
 
I know the Frontier doesn't even pretend to be lore friendly but it took me out of the experience that almost every single armor model was ripped directly from old COD, Battlefield, and Stalker games.

The niggerdevs didn't even fucking try.
 
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