West Virginia Wayfaring and Vagabonding, Country Rooooooads, Take Me Hoooooooome Options

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

To the plaaaaaace I beloooong.




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Finally made this thread where I can put up some screenshots of my adventures in Appalachia. Hopefully others here will get the game eventually and put up their own too.

I can't put mine up at this very moment, but I certainly will soon. Whatever gameplay criticisms there may be, I absolutely love the scenery in this game. Who knew a post-apocalyptic wasteland could be so pretty?

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

What the hell is a scorch beast?!!

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

Well, it's been quite some time since I posted here. I'll answer Khajiit's question first (apologies about the delay).

What the hell is a scorch beast?!!

A scorchbeast is a giant, irradiated bat. I can't remember exactly how they came to be, but they are the cause of the Scorched plague. The plague turns people into things similar to feral ghouls, only a bit more methodical and slightly able to put together words. Here's more info on all these ugly brutes.

The Scorched: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorched

Scorched up close: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorched?file=Scorched.jpg

Full-body shot: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorched?fi...76_Scorched.png

Scorchbeasts: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorchbeast

Close-up of a live scorchbeast: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorchbeast...orchedbeast.jpg

The biggest and baddest of them all - The Scorchbeast Queen: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Scorchbeast...orchedearth.jpg


For all the flaws of this game, the developers were very creative with the bestiary. Granted, we have yet ANOTHER version of Deathclaws and Super Mutants, but BGS went hard with the local folklore monsters.


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I finally came back to Fallout 76 after a bit of a hiatus. And I have some screenshots from the past few days. On Wednesday, I even played a little bit with one of my guildmates from my PvP guild in ESO. I convinced him to try the game out (if it was on sale), and he got for pretty cheap. He got quite hooked on it and blew past my level. A few of these screenshots were from that play session, and one or two even feature him in it.

There were some particularly cool things to be found in my latest adventures in Appalachia. But first, some older screenshots I never got around to posting. Buckle up, because there is a lot of stuff coming.

Please don't see me...

Shouldn't Have Used Your Head

*CROAK*

Mole-Mining for Trouble

Started from the Bottom, Now We're WAY up Here

This Stranger Sure is...Mysterious

Spookiness is Afoot

Watoga Shootout


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And now, for the new stuff.

I found a giant resort called the Whitesprings Resort and the inside was almost entirely intact. There was an entire strip mall in there and you can actually buy a bunch of stuff! (There's a gold course, but alas, you likely cannot play golf).

Card-Carrying Member of the Club

We're going shoppppiiiiiing!

Look at this place!

So much stuff! (You can make your character do some poses and facial expressions in photomode.)

Do you guys still have the Assaultron massage special? (Yes, there is a massage parlor run by Assaultrons. You gather from their dialogue and some holotapes and notes that they apparently caused a lot of spinal contusions, given their appendages are NOT conducive to relaxing people's muscles.)

Sir, I've been waiting for my meal for an hour now

YES, WE CAN! (This is the theater in the Whitesprings Resort. I just found out that, in photomode, you can add various filters like noise and scanlines to make the photo look more retro. Pretty cool!)

Getting the Band Together

Kablooie!

And speaking of the bestiary in this game, I came across a new cryptid today: The Sheepsquatch. A Legendary one in this case. And let me tell ya, even though he didn't hit all that hard, to say he took a serious beating before he went down is an understatement. With a giant host of guns, grenades, and a sword, this fight took well over five minutes to finish. Maybe even 10. Several Super Mutants tussled with him at first, but they were no match for him. Luckily, he was slow and kind of dumb (though I think a lot of that was the AI, because he stood still against the Super Mutants for a long time.) But he could 1) run and headbutt you; 2) kick you if you were behind him; 3) jump up and stomp the ground to cause a mini-quake; 4) claw you, sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row; and 5) shoot a boatload of quills from his back like we used to think porcupines could. I ran through well over half of my ammo and my stimpaks trying to bring him down, and luckily I brought a ton of both. On the bright side, it seriously lessened my inventory weight. (This was all when I was on my own yesterday.)

Insert Expletives in Awe and Feat Here

The Mutant May be Super, but The Sheepsquatch is Legendary

"I heard you was talkin' s---"

The Apex Predator

Please don't kill me...

"Fight me, bro."

The beast is no more

Stay tuned for more adventures from the plaaaaaaceee...I BELOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGG!

WEST VIRGINIAAAAAAAA! MOUNTAIN MAAAAMAAAAAAAAAA! Take me home, country roads.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Dec 18 2020, 10:46 PM