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Garibaldi

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Pretty much but the actual fights are few and far between. The fights are frustrating cause damage seems ridiculously low and headshots mean nothing. The rest is right.

Hmm, they seem pretty effective in my game, I've torn many a raider's head from their shoulders by targetting it with a shot or two from a hunting rifle or SMG.

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I'm really enjoying this so far, not played that much of it really but I did find it a bit of a shame that when

Lucas Simms dies

nothing really happened in megaton, when before it was suggested he was the last line of defence....

All for NPC's dying but it's better when it makes a big difference.

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Timmo

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Pretty much but the actual fights are few and far between. The fights are frustrating cause damage seems ridiculously low and headshots mean nothing. The rest is right.

Again, good small guns mastery and repair to keep the condition good. Most things drop in 2-3 shots from a way away with no response. And even with a low skill, try the combat shotgun from very close. One shot headshots for almost any human.

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Timmo

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Whenever you come across a gun the same as one of yours, pick it up. Then select your gun in your inventory and press Y. The menu will change and you'll see your weapon at the top and the weapon you picked up underneath. If it's greyed out your repair isn't high enough to combine. If it's not greyed out the parts from the weaker gun will be used to make the first one stronger. Stronger weapons have better damage, range and accuracy.

Means it's better to use a standard assault rifle rather than a Chinese one. The Chinese one is better overall but it's so rare you can't keep its condition good without paying stupid amounts to traders. Not worth it.

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Have just caught up on what I missed in this thread over the weekend, and there seems to a fair split between lovers, haters and whateverers :wub:

Whilst I was never quite as unreasonably rabid a fan of the previous Fallouts as the No Mutants Allowed fuckwits, I was sure, absolutely positive that (goddamn fucking) Bethesda could not be trusted with our new baby, and would fuck it up. I kind of enjoyed Oblivion, a bit, I suppose, after loving Morrowind to death and coming back to it year after year.

But, I have to say, Fallout 3 is fucking awesome. It does lack the wicked black humour of the originals, and that's a shame. It's more of a cousin to the originals than direct offspring. I love VATS, I love the bleakness, it's just right (although a seasoning of cleverer humour would have helped). One obvious thing that they've got right for me so far is improving on the dire voice-acting of Oblivion, and the generic NPCs. Having less of them than in Oblivion works well, because then I notice the repetitive no-name ones less. It's good.

Fallout 3's just the sort of immersive, there-you-go-fuck-off-and-get-on-with-it kind of game I like. I'm totally 'in' to it, but I can also see how it falls down for people wanting a bit more excitement, variation and maybe instant gratification.

Mmm, I fucking love irradiated marmite :wub:

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Rudi von Starnberg

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Can some one do me a favour and look how big save files are, I'm at work and need to know if they will fit on a 64mb memory stick. Cheers!

PC save files can't be more than 2mb each or so at least, don't know about 360 ones.

Also, I think this game does have quite a strong streak of black humour. The entire Museum of Technology springs to mind, for one. :wub:

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ThePinkNinja

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Again, good small guns mastery and repair to keep the condition good. Most things drop in 2-3 shots from a way away with no response. And even with a low skill, try the combat shotgun from very close. One shot headshots for almost any human.

80+ small guns and repair and my hunting rifles always kept repaired to max thank you very much. I'm sorry but on a humanoid a headshot from you firing a frozen dump at their face should mean instant kill. None of this "crippled headshot" but npc will continue to fire at you without so much breaking a stride nonsense.

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ThePinkNinja

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No, because there's plenty of mutants and massive rats around that can believably take a headshot due to their massive boney heads etc but a humanoid with not so much as a full set of hair to protect their head? feck right off. I should be able to stand on the bridge above and piss down on them with my might irradiated stream of justice and be able to get a 1 shot headshot kill.

If you invest a lot of points into heavy guns does the mini gun do a lot more damage? tried it and it's very poor.

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ThePinkNinja

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They're not because they've evolved to a point where they have super strength and are massive hulking bastards. The raiders just look like a typical junkie you'd see crawling around in a back alley somewhere. Super Mutants may have been humanoid at some point but in the thousands of years since the fallout they've evolved into something altogether different.

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Timmo

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Haha this is the worst argument ever.

Well I'll say that it's always been like that, since the first Fallout. There were common weapons late on that will one shot humans though. It's all balance, innit. If you could one shot them then bounty hunters and raiders in general would be completely powerless against you once you'd gotten just a small amount of skill built up. It wouldn't fit in with the rest of the game. Or the series.

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