Acadian: Rocket launchers are awesome in that game. It is always good to carry a few, just in case of emergencies.


mALX: There is a lot of reading in Wasteland 2! There is a little voiced dialogue, but most of it is in text. You can make the text area bigger to show more text, but you cannot make the actual fonts larger.



Stranger in town

I have something for you!

Winding up

Cutting down

Lost his head

A future Skyrim guard

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Yay, Persephone made it! Gosh, she looks great – love the armor and sword.

And as ever, she knows how to deal the damage.

Any chance she’ll link up with Darryl there?

Yeah, I was having a lot of trouble in ESO with the chat box on my son's PC; it was too far away to read even with the text adjusted as large as it would go; which is why I went with the Team Speak - but as it turns out, I loved the freedom of the Team Speak, no typing or reading, and communication so easy. No one has laughed at my accent yet, at least not to my face, lol.

But I installed ESO on my computer yesterday, and on it I'm close enough to read the chat box - still like using the Team Speak better, lol. Typing is really awkward in the middle of a game, and there is a more intimate friendship that develops when you are talking to someone over the headset as you travel across Tamriel together - I love it.

WOO HOO! Persephone in the Wasteland !!!!! Awesome !!! She looks great, the hair is beautiful! And she is going melee all the way! My favorite has to be the Skyrim "Arrow to the knee" one, lol.

Acadian: It took some doing, but I finally got Persephone's new race sorted out. Making her face was really difficult, because the paler you make it in Fallout 3, the more color the game adds! I even tried going to the texture file itself and making it black and white. But the game just added in a lot of blue color when I did that. So I had to tweak the color saturation of the textures I made for her custom race, and then again tweak just how pale I made her skin using the sliders in showracemenu.

I have been investigating the Darryl possibilities. I did find one mod that allows you to summon critters from the game. But it had a lot of issues. You summoned a critter by equipping a special item (a pair of glasses). Well because Persephone is a custom race, the glasses don't go on her face, and instead float in mid air beside her head. But the real bad part is that unequipping the glasses does not make the summoned critter disappear. It stays in the game world forever, or at least until it is killed. But if you equip it again, it summons another critter. So you can fill up the world really fast with an army of monsters.

There is another option I have considered. There is a ghoul follower named Charon. I could tweak him a bit and change his name to Darryl, give him some combat armor and maybe a super-sledge or some other two handed weapon. But I don't like followers in the ES games. They always wind up to be more of a pain in the rear than use. Just a little while ago Persephone ran across Dogmeat, the game's vanilla dog follower. She recruited him, and during the walk back home she accidentally hit him in nearly every battle along the way. And Dogmeat is only about two feet tall! So I think a human-sized follower would just be a zweihander magnet.


mALX: The lack of mods that really change the game is one of the things that turns me off of ESO. One thing I love most about Bethesda's games is the ability to mod them into anything I want. Not to mention being able to use the console to gain whatever items I want to fit my character concepts. Playing a game the way it is straight out of the box, the way the developer wants me to play it, is a crime against humanity.



Interrogating Mr. Burke

Wasteland Justice

Persephone disarms Sam Warrick

Persepone teamed up with Robbie the Robot to clear out the Super Duper Mart

Taking out the trash

Thanks to Lopov, I had to take at least one pic of a billboard

I found the perfect gun for Persephone, a Winterized M1014 Benilli M4 Combat Shotgun

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 27 2015, 03:33 AM

Too bad about Darryl, but I know exactly what you mean. Buffy’s fox is ‘conjured’ by equipping a ring. Bow drawn, riding Superian, it doesn’t matter – if she equips the ring (hotkeyed of course), the fox appears in front of her. Another tap on the hotkey to unequip the ring and the fox is gone. Makes for the perfect ‘follower’ as the fox ‘appears’ and ‘disappears’ as if by a simple thought from Buffy.

More great shots of Persephone. I very much like the silvery sheen to her hair and the high ponytail style overall. Heh, as soon as I saw ‘Persephone’ and ‘disarms’ in the same sentence, I knew exactly what to expect. Yay for Robby the Robot! I always love the billboard shots from Fallout. Oh my goodness, when you said you found the perfect gun for her you weren’t kidding! Perfect indeed!

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I know what you mean. I have added some mods to my ESO, but they are only map and UI improvements. There are other things, but I've been careful because really not wanting to pick up a great cuirass or sword and then find out it is deemed illegal by the game; so I've stayed away from any of those mods.

Something I was talking to Acadian about just a little while ago is that in ESO there is no loading a previous save if you want to redo a move you've made - it is more like real life in that if you do something, think carefully and be sure you want to commit to that action because it can't be taken back - kind of like playing "Dead is Dead," but it is playing "Every move you make is made, so be sure you want to make it and live with the consequences."

What I did was start a second character to test out the stealing and stuff that I wouldn't want to live with my Misa character doing. Yep, I've pulled out my Bubba the Redguard character and dusted him off, he is in game robbing everyone blind in Daggerfall and having a ball as a Nightblade, lol.

I felt the same way as you do about the modding, about playing any multiplayer or online game - all of it. But what happened is that the game is so spectacular that what few things that are cons about the game are way more than compensated for by the pros - at least for me they are.

I have always wanted to see all of Tamriel under one game title and with great graphics - this is it. It is better than I ever imagined it could be for that wish that I had for so long.

So yeah, I know a lot of what you are saying; and agree with you on them. If I hadn't had a son that wanted the game so badly, and been able to watch him play it - and then him letting me start a character on his game and test it out - I probably would never have wanted to ever try it, and would still not have; to be honest. I'm just glad I did give it a shot, because I love it. Right now to me it is the best TES game of all time.

I'm not trying to talk you into it, though; it is a huge investment financially and in hard drive space on your computer; it is not a decision to be swayed into, but one you have to make based on your own likes/dislikes/and what you think is worth that kind of investment. It wasn't easy for me to fork out all that money and hard drive room (twice); I kept trying to just keep playing on my son's game, lol. It just finally reached a point where I knew I'd want to be playing this for a long time down the road, so made the leap - one month after I bought my son's game.



Persephone's hair is beautiful! But those shots with Mr. Burke had me rolling,

Is that a pool cue she is wielding? Wait, I've never seen that stash before !!! Where is it? Or is that part of a mod? It is so exciting to see you back in the Wasteland! I'll be leaving Point Lookout soon, I'm on my last quest there and then will be coming back to find Persephone!

By the way, I did something particularly for you and Acadian - or maybe I should say Persephone and Buffy - Maxical went to the cave and posed with that goblin in the barrel, lol. I'll post it as soon as I get caught up on commenting all the posts I've missed the last few days, lol.

Awesome update !!!!

Acadian: Being able to hotkey Darryl like that fox would be excellent. I would try to copy the script you are using, but Skyrim scripting and Fallout 3s are completely different.

Persephone does have a habit of disarming people. It must be her disarming personality.

I have been thinking of trying to tone down the brightness of her hair. At first I went that far because I was having trouble finding a color that was white, rather than grey. But I think I over did it.


mALX: Not being able to save and reload is one thing I immensely dislike about online games. Not to mention being able to simply pause the game. What do you do if you are in the middle of a fight and the phone rings, or someone is at the door, or the the cat starts demanding attention? I could not manage without pausing.

I would love to see that pic of Maxi and the barrel goblin! That goblin is one of the fun parts of Oblivion.


Sword fight

Persephone tries to blend in...

One grenade + lots of nuclear-powered cars = Fun!

I have never seen these on the highway before

Adventure in sight

Relaxing by the water

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 1 2015, 12:11 AM

Yes, hotkeying a helper for an elf with both hands full of bow or unable to cast from the saddle is wonderful. I quite like Persephone's distinctive silvery ponytail.

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Not hard to tell who’s going to win that sword fight!

Blending in? Um. . . not gonna happen for the Pale Lady.

That’s a serious explosion!

Damn cows always holding up traffic!

Jefferson Memorial adventure. I’m guessing the cherry trees around the rotunda didn’t survive?

Persephone can relax – her ship finally came in.

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YES!!! I never knew that about online games till I played this one; it freaked me out when I first realized I was still getting killed after pressing the ESC key! You really have to get somewhere safe before exiting the game, that is for sure!

It is as much like real life as it gets, you can't pause it - I did not know that, and I've had to make some workarounds a few times, lol.



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I love this "Sword fight, I've never really seen a raider attack with a sword, though I've been hit by a raider and found a sword in their inventory after they were dead, lol. I love this shot because it looks like the raider is running her mouth while she fights, lol.

That, and - really not sure what she is wearing, but it reminds me of that armor you get in "The Pitt" with the ballistic missiles on your chest,


Persephone blending in is adorable!

Oh, you managed to get an explosion on film! I somehow always miss the shot, and I have tried and tried !!! That whole bridge full of cars going into "The Pitt" - I set it off and spammed the "Prnt Scrn" - got the screens when I stopped playing and all I got was some black smoke, lol. Just not fast enough.


Holy Cow what a sword !!!!!


I love her sitting on the bow of the boat! That little business there is one of my favorite little spots; have thought about modding it into a little business for my game.

Acadian: When it comes to sword fights, there can be only one, and we know who that is...

All of the vehicles are atomic powered in Fallout 3. It makes hiding behind them risky, because if they take a stray round, they might blow up. OTOH, when you get a bunch of cars together, it makes the most spectacular explosions!

Not much survived the nuclear war. Looks like cherry trees least of all...


mALX: I come across Raiders who attack with Chinese Swords sometimes. I am not sure where they got them all, with China being on the other side of the world and all...

I love that little bait shop by the Jeff Memorial too. I would convert it into a living space, except for the rad roach inside. Though I suppose I could just mod that out. I wish we had boats that we could drive around on the water.


Persephone is on the lookout for the Red Menace

Trying out a pair of lucky shades

Raiders vs Super-Mutants

But it was Persephone who won

Seeing the sights in D.C.

Come back here!

A close one

Reverse angle

But there was only one way it could end

Ubran renewal

Teaming up with another Robbie

Persephone looks great – naturally her weapon, hair, armor and accessories all complement each other. Seeing the sights – I recognize the Tennleytown Metro stop. That giant dude she fought looks like he’s toting the next weapon for Lopov’s Big Joe! I love the ‘attitude’ look on Persephone’s face after winning that fight. And yay, another Robbie the Robot!

Maybe we were importing the swords like the spices and toys we imported from the Orient, lol.

And yeah, removing the radroach spawn there should be easy enough. It would make a tiny living space, but doable.

I would like a useable boat too. I made one (actually 4) for Oblivion that had set destinations around the waterways.

If scripting in Fallout 3 is the same as scripting in Oblivion's it could be done easily if you want it for "fast travel" to waterfront stops. Or analyze the last part of the Point Lookout boat trip where you are seeing the trip itself, there might be a way to incorporate that cut scene.


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OMG, Persephone took on a Behemoth with only a sword? Holy Cow!!!!!!! I am floored by this battle !!!!

That Raider vs super mutant spot has got me killed in the crossfire more than once, lol.

The Lucky Shades! Woo Hoo !!! They are a "must have" for me in every FO3 playthrough!

Urban Renewal looks like the rear exit from 3 Dog's place! (?)

Those poor robots never last long for me, probably because I send them out alone into the fray while I loot the office embarrased.gif I guess if I stayed with them like Persephone is doing it would be nicer, and they might even survive the battle ... sad.gif ... (sorry Robbie...)

All great shots!!! I especially had to love the ones where Persephone is taking on a Behemoth with just a sword, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Acadian: That is so neat that some of the places like that metro station are recognizable! I wish they would set a Fallout game in Detroit, so I could point at the screen and say "I know that place!"


mALX: I was hoping for a boat you could manually steer around. I did see this mod, but the boat it adds is really big, and the submarine just looks weird.

Good call on the Urban Renewal pic. That is the back door from Galaxy News Radio. I love blowing up the bus down below. It usually takes out all the ferals down there.

The robots usually don't last long for me either! Even when I try to walk along with them, they usually get killed pretty quickly.

I used a lot of stimpacks in that fight with the Behemoth. But Persephone did take it down with nothing but her sword.


Girl on the Moon

Minigun duel

Standing tall

Persephone knows better than most that war, war never changes...

Nuka Bots meet grenade

Nuka break

Face off with a Nukalurk

Teaming up with another Robbie

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 5 2015, 04:25 AM

Girl on the Moon – What a great idea and how clever of you to capture that! One small step for a dead girl, one giant leap for mankind.

War never changes – everyone Persephone loves is no longer alive.

Robbie’s no Darryl, but he’ll do in a pinch!

Oh, on that first mod - you can take his script and use a boat of your own choosing, can't you? I noticed in the screenshots that someone used a better boat than the one he used. I would have chosen a little speedboat or something myself, lol.

Did you ever try that Pirate Pelys Boats and Bait?

Oh, I'll bet Persephone had to use a ton of stimpacks in that fight, and with all those other super mutants around shooting at her besides the behemoth! That had to be a huge battle, I wish you had that one on a vid !!!


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You've got a bunch of my favorite quests here: Getting the satellite dish for 3 dog; getting the Bobblehead at Arlington Cemetary; and the Nuka Cola company.

I love the meat from those Nikalurks! I really wish there were more of them in game, their meat is awesome!

The shot of Persephone standing over the grave at Arlington has to be my absolute favorite; what a spectacular shot! She really looks sad in that, how on earth did you get that expression! That is Awesome!!!

My second favorite is the nukablast of the robot, lol. I have never seen a nuka grenade in action, always saved them for a bigger fight or something - that is Awesome!!

Great update !!!

Acadian: The lunar lander is a difficult spot to pass up for screenshots. I always have to take one there.

Persephone always finds the graveyards!

The Robbies are a lot of fun. I love their voices, which always have words spoken off pitch and weirdly emphasized.


mALX: I don't think you can take that boating mod and use a different boat. I believe he did something with the .nif file to make it driveable. Though I could be wrong. I would like one of the little boats too. But I think they all automatically fill up with water.

I did try that Pely's Boats and Bait mod, and didn't like it. The merchant it adds is fine, but there is a weird dungeon filled with feral ghouls behind the counter (which you have to use the TCL console command to even get to), that completely turned me off of it. I deleted it.

The other mutants at GNR went down pretty quick. Persephone rushed them with her sword, and hacked them to pieces in no time. I don't think a single BOSer died in that fight. I did go through a ton of stimpacks fighting the Behemoth though. That was a close one!

Sadly, no nukalurk meat for Persephone. She cannot eat, or sleep, being undead. It is one of the things that balances out the waterbreathing and rad resistance I gave her for being a dead girl.

The Arlington pose is one of the vanilla poses. I think it was LooseTTNPCSadArmsCrossedTalkA

That wasn't a nuka grenade in that pic with the nukabots. That was just a regular frag. There must have been something in the room that was explosive, because it set off a much bigger explosion that a grenade ought to make.


Persephone and the Burnmaster

Hanging out with Abe

Into the light

What's this about the Declaration of Independence?

Swinging for the fences

It ain't over until the Fat Man sings

How fun to see Persephone’s team in Wasteland 2! I know nothing of the game but what I see here, but it’s fun just the same. Following the tortoise looks hilarious, and ‘Persephone’s boot’ made me laugh out loud.

OK, I know enough to tell Persephone went to a different Wasteland! She’s still lopping off heads (and disarming ) I see. I love her look. She looked adorable when blending in!

Seeing The Sights looks neat with the lady statues in the background. Very nice. The big thing wearing heads and using a fire hydrant for a weapon looked very gross. Hilarious to see Persephone chasing it!

Yikes! I see why that Burnmaster got its name!

Aww, she looks sad hanging out with Abe.

Into the light is eerily beautiful.

Robbie in a wig! He should keep it!

Nice to see Persephone can still swing a blade in between using the heavy weaponry.

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I thought that somehow the scripting for the horses could be used for a boat. I wonder how they made that Starfighter mod, where you fly around and steer it and see the ground below you? I thought they used the horse script for that one, because it had the same motion as if you were riding and steering a horse.

I have Atom script reader so I can look at the scripts to see how they did that mod, and probably substitute a boat for it (but you would probably have to keep it afloat with your steering, and may hear the radiation geiger counter going tickety tick the whole time.

The problem for me is the set up of the Papyrus scripting. I have been able to compile only one script in Skyrim so far, one which may possibly conflict with another mod; and if it does I won't be able to fix the issue because I am totally lost in Skyrim scripting. It is weird.

This is one of those things that would be so easily done in Oblivion, but I don't think I have the capability to do it in Skyrim.


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So on Pely's boats you never even got to see the boat in action? I wonder if there is a vid on youtube to see if it is worth the BS to get it? Maybe just look at it in the CK so you can get the info to set the quest stage to the end so you have the boat without the ghouls - or remove the ghoul spawn from the dungeon (or console yourself the ghoul mask)?



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Did you kill the other super mutants before taking on the behemoth - and if you did, Persephone must be very fast! He always crashes out right as I exit that building in my game!

That is one of those fights that I would have given anything to see play out, watch on a vid or something.

My son is an Awesome player, I will never forget the first time I saw him do the "retaking Kvatch" - he was in his prison pants and sandals, no shirt and just an un-enchanted dwarven mace in his hand. He was hopping up on walls, dropping down and popping Daedra on the head with it - it was one of the most amazing moments in gameplay I've ever seen!

Well, I think Persephone taking on that GNR Square with a sword would probably tie it; it is exciting just to even imagine it from your screens!


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I downloaded that Vanilla Pose mod when you first told me about it, and went through writing down all my favorite poses and their Id's with clues like "sit, stand, lean, etc" Well, for some reason I never remember about it when I'm in game!

So when Lopov mentioned it I tried to find my sheet of listed favorite poses, and can't find it anywhere. Turns out my husband saw it and thought it was scribbled nonsense, and tossed it, grrr. Urk!

I'll have to rewrite it, but this time I'll type it up so it doesn't look like chicken scratching to him, lol.


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That Burnmaster is the only Flamer I like to use, boy does it look wicked in that screen!

Back in the first 6 months I was playing Fallout (when it first came out) - I had found the Burnmaster and was going around torching everybody - so right around that time I was driving my son to enroll him in High School and we get there and the mainenance man had this big thing strapped on his back that I swear looked exactly like the Burnmaster. So of course I hollered that out.


"OMG, he's got the Burnmaster!"


Well, a bunch of teens turned around and laughed, and they walked in with us. (and right afterward I spotted a Nuka Cola, a bottle cap, and a manhole sewer entrance. My son may have died of embarrassment, but I made a lot of teen friendsa that day, lol).


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Hanging out with Abe is a great sit pose, I love that one!


This next shot looks like she is about to be beamed up (Scotty)!


Buttons! This is one of my favorite dungeon crawls! I like telling him that I am Thomas Jefferson, lol.


Oh, is Persephone going for the Fatman here? Great shot!


Yep! She sure was !!!!


Awesome shots!



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This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 8 2015, 08:00 PM

Grits: Wasteland 2 is the best new game I have played in a while. It has a wonderfully twisted sense of humor. When you first find the tortoise it is laying on its back, flailing its limbs helplessly. If you flip it over onto its belly, it leads you to a stash of hidden treasure on the other side of the map.

The big gross thing is a Super-Mutant Behemoth. It is the nastiest of the Super-Muties. They used to be humans, but have been mutated by FEV - the Forced Evolutionary Virus. FEV was created in the final days of the Great War between China and America, just before things went nuclear. The Army's eggheads used it to create critters like Deathclaws with the intention of turning them loose within China's interior. Instead the nukes flew, and FEV got out into the world. That is what the mutants in the Fallout world come from. In the first Fallout the Big Bad named The Master used it on humans to create Super-Mutants, bigger, stronger, dumber, and more savage versions of people. The older the Super-Muties get the bigger they become, until they get really gigantic.


Acadian: I love that powdered wig on the robot too. So I always leave him with it. That is one of the more fun quests in the game, since he thinks he really is Button Gwinnet, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and that the British are coming to try to steal it.



mALX: There were not drivable boats in the Pely's mod. It just adds the merchant and weird dungeon. It is the other mod that added the way to big boat.

Persephone did kill all the other muties in the square before the behemoth came in. The encounter is scripted that way, with the BOS Initiate always walking over to the bus and getting killed by it when it comes barging in.

That is hilarious with your son at the school!


Persephone teams up with an Octo-Darryl at the Our Lady Of Perpetual Misery Hospital

"Hallo, someone there?"

Up close

Disarming the mutie

Still standing

Craterside

Wide view