I really liked helping those friendly little ants from the big, mean ants!

Today Oda Hidetaka set out from the Abandoned Car Fort to explore north west. She followed the Potomac all the way to the corner of the map - killing 30 or 40 Mirelurks along the way, and a few Raiders as well. The Gatling Laser she picked up from a Wasteland Trader made short work of the latter. Then she looped back down the western edge of the map. She stopped at Raven Rock, but no one was home. Lots of Yao-Gai fell to her sword through, and even more 'Lurks.

Hidetaka has now explored the entire map south of the Potomac, and west of the DC ruins (I consider The Red Racer Factory and Nuka Cola Plant the western edge of it - though she has explored both those places too). The only exceptions are Arefu and Big Town, because she does not want to get caught up in the locals B.S.

She's only about 11th or 12th level, but Hidetaka has gotten so powerful nothing is much of a challenge anymore. She just walks around with her sword out and kills everything that makes the mistake of showing up as a red dot on the radar. Maybe she will try the Deathclaw Sanctuary, since it is not too far away. Or maybe it is time to roll a new toon to beat the game with.

I could never use a sword or other melee weapon as I do that enough in TES...


I actually gamed some Fallout 3 yesterday Didn´t do so much though, just ran around north of Megaton and shot some raiders and scorps..

Some pics of Hidetaka's most recent adventures:

Hidetaka makes a dramatic exit

Raider's Flyinnnn Sooooo Hiiiiigh!

Friendly ant...

...Unfriendly ant

So it seems not only Cliffracers can do it..

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Back in the game, been visiting the southern parts close to D.C and loot was found along the way to T. Towers

Last night Hidetaka paid a visit to the Deathclaw Sanctuary. The final score was Hidetaka 7, Deathclaws 0. All but the last were with her sword. She picked up Vengeance at the very end, and had to try it out on one Deathclaw.

Edit:

No Sanctuary For Deathclaws

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 4 2014, 02:20 AM

Yicch, Deathclaws, I hate the things! That's what killed Marge, a [censored] deathclaw.



Both my FO3 characters carry or carried a melee weapon, mostly for backup. My first FO3 character (Cho Zen~Wahn) carried the baseball bat from the Tutorial. Something about that bat being tied to his childhood, you know? .. It's like this item is one of the only things he carried out of 101.

Marge also carried a melee weapon, a lead pipe, I think. The cool thing about it was it lasted forever, didn't need very many repairs.






Lolz you're so funny! Yeah, I should put heat lamps in my room, mabye a humidifier, too. Omg my daughter would laugh so hard. Mommy's really lost her mind now!

Well, I´m fully back in Fallout 3 now, running around doing my thing

I have taken the advice given in Oblivion and applied it to the Capital Wasteland; when I travel, by the Atomic Divines I stick to the roads! That is mostly though because I like to team up with Outcasts and loot them clean once they´ve gotten enough

Since Hidetaka has gotten just too easy, I rolled a new toon. Cailleach is my Winter Soldier. I did Operation Anchorage with her, and now she is working her way through the western DC Ruins.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 6 2014, 05:20 AM

What is this "Too easy" of which you speak?... ...

I know it's each to their own, but I quite like wandering around in me indestructible armour, not really worrying about much being able to kill me...Well, except the Deathclaws, and even they're not too bad...

You can always push that slider to the right or just wear cheap armour and a lead pipe..

Um...No...

That would be so far from what I enjoy with a game as to be not even remotely in the same universe, let alone in the vicinity of the merest hint of a thought of a possibility... ...

Oh, or do you mean SubRosa?... ...

Both

I get bored with a game when it ceases to be a challenge. At that point it is no fun for me to play, so I do something else.

I never push the slider to the right or left. Maybe I should, but I just do not. It is like how Renee cannot play Fallout in the winter, and can only create new character's when it is raining. I already use a mod that reduces the amount of experience you get to slow down leveling. That way it takes longer to become Uber.

I could use crappier armor and weapons, but I do not pick them based on what their stats are in the first place. Whatever game I play, my character's gear is always carefully chosen to fit a certain look and scheme. Even their names are picked to fit into their theme.

For example, Hidetaka is a samurai. A samurai does not wear Raider Badlands armor, or use a baseball bat for a weapon. They wear samurai armor and carry a katana. That is her shtick, her style. I did Mothership Zeta with her because that was how to get a 16th Century Samurai into the Capital Wasteland. Likewise, Cailleach has a winter theme (Google her name to see why). So she can never wear anything that is non-winter themed. That is why I did Operation Anchorage with her. She uses the Gauss Rifle because it is a weapon you can only get from doing Anchorage.

It is the same in every game I play. Look at my vids/pics topic and you can see places where I throw out ideas and experiment to find the right look for a character.

So for me, the simplest thing to do is create a new character. Which is fun anyway. I like putting together a character's look and style and name.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 6 2014, 05:46 PM

Been running around mostly. I need a specific thing to do or look for or I´ll just end up putting the disc on the table of collectibles again...

-YOU SHALL DO NO SUTCH THING!


I have gotten more and more into it, as it happens I still find the map too small at this point but it wouldn´t matter if it was ten times bigger, eventually I´d find that too small too..

Not chasing collectibles so much but I keep an eye out for them. Before I took a break last fall I was heavily into exploring every bunker next to the transmitting towers and I think I got most of them, but I may check them out again as I stumble upon them.

Overall, it´s good to be back!!

Set a goal, like exploring every location in the DC Ruins, or everything north or south of the Potomac. Collecting all of the bobbleheads (or at least those not quest locked), is another one. I have never had one character get them all.

In other news, Cailleach has been metro-diving through DC, making the long trip from Rivet City up to Chevrolet Chase to visit the GNR Studios. A visit to the Mall ensued, where she took in the sights, killed a lot of Super Mutants, and fixed the GNR relay atop the Washington Monument.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 11 2014, 03:20 PM

All good ideas, problem is I have already done most of it and the thing I´m having trouble with is bothering to find the last few pieces of gold dust in the desert. So to speak..
I have all bobbleheads but three so I think I´m pretty much done with them. I´m still on the lookout for Quantums and anything Nuka related though, plus I want my mountain of caps to grow

Loved doing the GNR stuff! It´s great to hear 3-Dog all over C.W!

With the help of a mod, Cailleach has returned to Anchorage. This time it is in the real world, and she is slugging it out with Enclave Snow Troops, and Chinese Remnant Ghouls. Love the snow in a Fallout game!

Does it look better than in Cyrodiil?