Jumped to hard but at some point even Hard is too easy once you get the right weapons, perks and mods.
On survival things are bullet sponges unless you do a super high powered sneak attack or critical.
Oghier
3178
Agreed. I didn’t like that aspect of Survival at all, so I dropped it back a notch to Very Hard. There’s still a bit of bulletsponging, but it’s overall the best mode for me.
Yeah, I would have liked a difficulty level which involved more than just the mobs having a billion HP but I can imagine that would be a much harder task.
I still like Survival. Yes, sometimes it can seem a little crazy with the gazillion hitpoints, but when you can still figure out how to get out of a situation like that alive, it feels so satisfying. On Survival the game sometimes reminds me of Far Cry 2: you got your planning, you brought your mines, your power armor, your best laser rifle, and then it all goes to shit and you have to improvise, because your plan isn’t enough to get through all those hit points, and you’re scrambling, you’re dropping grenades, you’re going in and out of VATS, and sometimes you still survive, and you feel like a fucking champion.
Yes this is exactly the experience I am having on Survival and it is very rewarding. The enemies are bullet sponges so I have to think carefully about my tactics and focus on powerful bolt action rifles. The Far Cry 2 analogy woks here.
-Todd
Demorve
3182
Found this little hacking trick:
When hacking
if you move the cursor over the special characters and more than one highlights click it and it will remove one dud password or on occasion reset your number of tries.
I don’t recall seeing this trick mentioned in either Fallout thread.
Bateau
3183
This mechanic has been introduced in FO3, maybe that’s why no pointed it out. I guess by now it’s just assumed it’s common knowledge among Fallout players.
Oghier
3184
More specifically, you’re looking for matched pairs of brackets within the same line. A [ and a ], or a ( and a ), even if they’re separated by other characters.
olaf
3185
I have been ramping up the difficulty as I level up. I started on Normal and that was good for the first few levels. I bumped it up to Hard around level 10-15. Bumped it up to Very Hard around level 35 (and maybe too late). Not sure I will end up on Survival or not.
Angle brackets ("<", “>”), too.
I feel kind of sad.
If you haven’t been to the Goodneighbor Hotel
I gave the Vault-Tec rep a job at my Egret Marina Mall to give him some purpose in life. I’d go and buy junk from him to build and he would always say “Things are looking up! I can feel it”. Sure it was a dead-end job but he seemed happy for the first time in a long while. Days later, I go off on some quests and come back to the marina to get some gear. I fast travel to the entrance and get hit from behind by a radscorpion. What? I didn’t have an attack message. The missile turrets take him out and then turn towards the food court on the dock and start firing. I see a scorpion tail fall to the ground as I move forward. Then thru the dark I notice a corpse lying next to the scorpion’s body. I make out the familiar trenchcoat and break into a sprint. Nooooo! it can’t be! He’s dead. His ghoulish face staring up into the heavens. If it had been an hour earlier he would have been at work and not by the bar when it was attacked. Godspeed you rotted junkman. At least you glimpsed a little light before the darkness returned for good.
DeepT
3189
One thing that annoys me in these games is the lack of green. You would think that after 200+ years grass, not to mention trees would grow back. There is other plant life, if there wasn’t the world would be dead since they are the root of the food chain. I am just sick of everything being grey or brown.
There’s some green in some of the plants. Mut Fruit, and the carrot plant are both green I think.
Granath
3191
I agree with you. After 200 years at least some areas should be almost overgrown with greenery. Someone will make that as a mod and when they do I will gladly install it.
LOL are we forgetting that Bethsoft’s “200+ years” is “eh, maybe 20 years” to the rest of us?
Although there was a green area in FO3 if you dug around the map enough.
Yes, completely ignoring the 200+ years story beat solves so many thematic and narrative problems.:-)
-Todd
rei
3194
Latest NVIDIA drivers 359.06 add proper SLI support but mess up the PC face character into a blurry mess of a texture plus the odd ingame items are neon. Messy face texture goes away with a game reload but reoccurs sporadically.
Anyone else run into this?
stusser
3195
Reports are that today’s patch completely disables mods. You may want to stop updates in Steam, or somehow roll back.
/sigh
