Mojave Meanderings and Wasteland Wanderings, The Fallout "Where are you now" thread Options

[mirocu]

I only spend time in Tenpenny to sell stuff so I haven't heard much convo other than the more basic stuff. Don't remember much about RobCo, haven't been there in years.

Is Cho your longest lasting character?

[mirocu]

I am now in Megaton.

Started out at the Dutchess Gambit and with Gunny in tow I basically just ran straight back home, dispersing only the odd raider along the way. Sold off what little I had left to sell and then got things in order in my home. Healed up and then slept for three days.


And with that, the 2023 season has conluded. Well met in 2024!

[Renee]

Well my Fallout 3 season continues.

Friday, April 23, 2279: Cho Zen Wan is finally heeding the strange radio broadcast he received probably two years ago (game time) which will ultimately send him to Aid the Outcasts. Yep, he's headed for Anchorage. Although not really, right? Operation Anchorage is some sort of simulation, right?

Guess we'll find out. ❄

[mirocu]

Well my Fallout 3 season continues.

I've done my thing for so long I just cannot imagine continuing playing Fallout 3 after October

Yep, he's headed for Anchorage. Although not really, right? Operation Anchorage is some sort of simulation, right?

In case you don't want to actually know.

[Renee]

03.03.78, 19:58: Janet just emerged from Friendship Heights Metro where all those raiders like to hang out. Just laid down a couple frag mines, now she's going to shoot one of the raiders, as covertly as she can. Cho Zen Wan is a pro at this sort of thing; he's usually way more prepared for battle than she is. But she does okay. 👱🏾‍♀️

Ultimately she's headed to Takoma Park, which is really tricky to figure out how to get to. Pretty sure she's headed in the right direction. But damn, the nerves! She's never been in this section of the CW before (well, she's been here in Friendship, but not anywhere to the east) and I can't remember what's in the direction. So it's like we're both heading into blind territory.

[SubRosa]

When you say this section of the CW, it makes me think you are watching the current Superman TV show for the first time.

[Renee]

BREAKING NEWS

Wednesday, 05.12.78, 1:37 PM: Cho Zen Wan found Dogmeat, wandering around near Rivet City. I've been playing Cho's game since 2013. Not sure if he ever met the dog before, but he must've right? Because Dogmeat is usually found somewhere else. 🐶

Anyway, Cho's decided to have the dog follow him around, along with his three-man C-team. Whoa to any who cross their path!

[mirocu]

Rivet City? I found Dogmeat at the scrapyard


And yes! Today was the start of the 2024 season! Took Gunny along as usual and quickly got overencumbered, as usual...
Just running around atm, getting my bearings. And again I have to complain about the ammo cap of the minigun. Seriously, when you have seven Deathclaws all lumped together all you want to do is spray and pray. But that spraying is quickly interrupted by the annoying reloading after which the Deathclaws have dispersed and can no longer be swiftly dealt with. I cannot fathom why they hardwired that ammo cap into their engine like that instead of just having it limitless *sigh*

[Renee]

Awesum, glad Mirocu has rejoined Janet and Cho. You're complaining about reloading? That's easy to change; literally find the weapon in the GECK, and probably only need to change one setting, or flag the gun so there is no limit. But I know you ain't gonna do that.

In Janet's game it is March 29, 2278 (ahem, her Pipgirl's display is currently purple). She just discovered Fordham Flash Memorial Field, which is a baseball diamond. Baseball, there are four bases to run around, and currently there's a raider running to each base, around and around the diamond, as though he's wacked-out on Psycho.

I checked Fandom to make sure this is vanilla, and sure enough one of the raiders does run from base to base.

"By sneaking up to the field unnoticed and managing to stay undetected, one can observe the raiders playing "baseball," which consists of one or more of the raiders continuously running the bases."

Well Janet doesn't have to sneak, since she's wearing raider armor, they think she's "one of them". So playing 'baseball' is what the two raiders are doing as she approaches.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 17 2024, 08:21 PM

[mirocu]

Awesum, glad Mirocu has rejoined Janet and Cho. You're complaining about reloading? That's easy to change; literally find the weapon in the GECK, and probably only need to change one setting, or flag the gun so there is no limit. But I know you ain't gonna do that.

I mentioned this thing way back at Bethsoft and someone told me that due to how Bethesda had coded the game it was impossible to change the ammo cap. This guy kindly enough made a couple of custom mods for me and he explained how he couldn't make a mod that addressed that issue because it was hardwired into the game mechanics. He did however make a mod for the Vulcan minigun mod (modception!) that made it shoot straight and way faster than the vanilla version and thus much closer to the real thing. This of course eats up ammo faster than I scarf down a semla which is why the ammo cap is so annoying.

[Renee]

Yep, he's right, sort of . Just tried it myself. Went into the Items > Weapon section, found WeapMinigun. By default Clip Rounds is 240. I changed it to 999, clicked OK. But when I went back into the same gun now it says 255.

So yeah that's a hard code alright. Slightly higher than 240, but certainly not much more! Sorry for misleading.

[mirocu]

No problem


Yup that's what he said too about the ammo cap and what I have in the game; 255.


Brrrrrrrrrrp

*reload*

Brrrrrrrrrrp

*reload*

[mirocu]

Had a pretty good run today. When at Old Olney I accidentally fell through a grate and had to go through the sewers in order to get back up on the streets again. While down there I lockpicked a Hard Lock door I hadn't been able to lockpick in my early days. I haven't been back until now since I prefer to run around outside. I also could have hacked a computer and released a Protectron but opted to keep it pristine in its case


Oh, and I also finally got another 100.000 caps and am now up to 600.000 caps total. Have already started working on the next 100.000

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 31 2024, 09:10 AM

[Renee]

Yeah, I know that grate you speak of, Cho fell into one while doing Broken Steel.

But Wait, so what happened? There are normally deathclaws down in Old Olney, and I'm almost positive they respawn. So did Mirocu have to deal with those?

Funny thing: in real-life, Olney is a unadventurous, respectable town where nothing much happens! Is never in the news like Baltimore or D.C. is, here are some examples.

I've been switching from Janet to Cho each week, with Sunday being the cut-off. Cho was last week. He is in the process of Rebuilding the Wasteland, literally that's the name of the mod. The idea is: once Broken Steel is done, he gets called to Andrews Air Force Base (which is taken over by the Brotherhood) to "help" rebuild the wasteland. Super Duper Mart and several other places get rebuilt into something other than raider / monster hangouts. The catch is, Cho must donate almost all the caps he makes, since he is literally, probably the only person making significant amounts of money other than probably Tenpenny.

So while Mirocu is making mad amounts of cash, Cho is still one paycheck away from poverty at all times!

[mirocu]

Funny thing: in real-life, Olney is a unadventurous, respectable town where nothing much happens! Is never in the news like Baltimore or D.C. is, here are some examples.

I call fake news on those pics; I didn't see a single Deathclaw!

Yeah, I know that grate you speak of, Cho fell into one while doing Broken Steel.

But Wait, so what happened? There are normally deathclaws down in Old Olney, and I'm almost positive they respawn. So did Mirocu have to deal with those?

Yeah, and that was the point of going to Old Olney. Falling through the grate wasn't, but no biggie. It meant I got to see an area I haven't seen in years and kill more Deathclaws

[Kane]

Like many others, I had the urge to create a new Courier and enjoy the Mojave again. New Vegas is a really fun game and grabbed me in a way that 3 just wasn't able to. My new character (James) just wiped out some Legion scum at a raiding camp and cleared out nearby Broc Flower Cave.

The rodents of an unusual size were tougher than I remembered!

[mirocu]

New Vegas does have an atmosphere that differs from 3, and I haven't even played Vegas! Similar and yet so different.

Think I know what you mean there, Kaneyboi. Vegas is bright and cheerful whilst 3 is dark and melancholy. But that's exactly why I like it

[Renee]

I like to think of Fallout 3 as post-apocalyptic, and New Vegas as ... not so much so. The lore hounds (especially those who think FO3 is "not a true Fallout game") point out that 200 years after the war D.C. would not be as torn up as what's portrayed in-game, as though the war happened just a few years ago; there'd be at least some development back toward the way society was.

I'm inclined to disagree. Without heavy machinery especially, ability to draw fossil fuels so that generators/bulldozers/cranes (etc.) as well as larger populations of learned people who know how to use all that stuff, there's no way the Wasteland can be built up even partially to where it was. Also, I like to assume that up until recently, the CW has been too irradiated and/or full of monsters, to the point where what we're seeing in-game (populations of raiders and wastelanders returning) is somewhat of a recent thing.

However, I do believe foliage would come back. Trees and grasses would return. It's Maryland/Virginia/D.C., I live here! and the flora is pretty lush, especially if we're talking grasses & weeds. If animals can return (okay... monsters) than so can plants, which would adapt to the extra rads. So lately I have been adding some minimal examples of green into my game.

Overall, I find FO3 to be more "fun", especially with humor which is both intentional and unintentional. New Vegas is the more "serious" game, which sticks closer to the lore found in FO1 & 2. My opinions, of course. But to point an example, I find myself laughing & rolling on my bed in stitches any time a robobrain begins trying to find my character! Or some of the PreWar billboards in the from the past, which extol how wonderful life is supposed to be. I almost never actually laugh while playing New Vegas, not that the game should be a comedy. It should not. I'm just outlining why I enjoy 3 more.

[AHEM] on topic. Yea, I know. Did some gaming with Janet Telia yesterday, she's headed toward Old Olney to take care of Old Macdonald, an NPC added by Lopov's Enemies of the Wastes. She's been to Old Olney before, there's NO WAY she's going back in there, for obvious reasons. So instead she's been trying to skirt around the place, keeping well away from any deathies which happen to stray outside their usual zones.

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 22 2024, 07:40 PM

[SubRosa]

Years ago I started using a mod for FO3 that adds a lot of green foliage to the entire place. As we know from long term studies around Chernobyl, some tree and plant species will die within days of high radiation exposure. But most will not, and some will thrive. Not necessarily because of the radiation, but because the humans are no longer around. The same with animals.

I also have a mod that adds little farm patches to the settlements in the Capital Wasteland. Basically just patches of corn within them to show that people are doing some subsistence farming. That also feels more right.

When you call it the CW I keep thinking of Supergirl and the Flash...

[Renee]

Years ago I started using a mod for FO3 that adds a lot of green foliage to the entire place. As we know from long term studies around Chernobyl, some tree and plant species will die within days of high radiation exposure. But most will not, and some will thrive. Not necessarily because of the radiation, but because the humans are no longer around. The same with animals.

I also have a mod that adds little farm patches to the settlements in the Capital Wasteland. Basically just patches of corn within them to show that people are doing some subsistence farming. That also feels more right.

When you call it the CW I keep thinking of Supergirl and the Flash...

I know, right? Family Feud and Penn & Teller's Fool Us, I think, as well.

Oooh, can you let me know the names of those greenery mods? Is Greenworld one of them? If so, I've got Greenworld already, although I'm not turning it "on" until summer.

Janet just arrived to MacDonald's Farm, and just witnessed Old MacDonald (or one of his guards ) getting attacked by TWO radscorps! 🦂 Cho already did this quest before but he botched it. He did not save the Regulator gal he was supposed to save. Janet, hopefully, will get things right.