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[King Coin]

Lonesome Dove is going to need that big rifle if she’s planning on venturing past that sign. That was a lot of fun, but tense area to go through. I loaded up on a lot of specialty ammo when I did that.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: You are right, so far Devana has not learned any new spells! But she has got some learned her up some of the finer points of cooking Red River Stew, Mojave Chili, and Scrambled Cazador Eggs.

There you go, Buffy would fit into the Fallout world nicely.


Grits: That is Brusef Amelion's armor indeed. Devana covered every inch of Blackwood, and the Amelion Tomb was one of the first places she explored. The armor is in there and usable even if you do not do the Fighters Guild quest associated with it.

I liked how the leather looked on her too, one reason she switched away from the red and black Silverlight armor for a while. I have always loved how the leather in Oblivion looked.

Devana was originally using the well in Reach, but I missed the picture. So I did it again, only this time with her using her Recharge spell. It still looks pretty much the same.

Lonesome Dove is my first character in either FO3 games to wear that bounty hunter duster, or use that hairstyle. Or use that rifle in fact!


King Coin: Dove did eventually go past that sign. She used up over 60 rounds of Armor Piercing ammo, and that was just in the quarry! She used up even more on the road after it. I counted 11 Deathclaws on the road alone!



Trying out the Bumper Sword (Cloud would be so jealous)

Dove goes undercover as a Fiend

Posing with the former leader of the Fiends

Lonesome Dove found the Forbidden Zone

Dove now has a big girl gun (I was wrong before, it is not a Barret, but a Hecate II)

A very short vid of Dove putting her new Anti-Materiel Rifle to use on a pair of Lakelurks

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 15 2014, 05:45 PM

[Grits]

Big Girl Gun is an awesome shot! I love it!

[Acadian]

I simply love Dove’s look – blond hair, sun hat, shades, .50 cal sniper rifle.

Those totem things in the Forbidden Zone look pretty . . . forbidding.

What a fabulous screenie of her big gun, and thanks for the little vid showing it in action. Having been next to one of our snipers when he punctuated the quiet night with a shot, the smoke, flame and noise from those weapons is unforgettable.

[SubRosa]

Grits: That is one big gun! The last time I saw the RL Hecate II was in Gunslinger Girl, an excellent anime.


Acadian: See, the Fallout games are perfect places for blond snipers...

As always, I worked with about a dozen outfits and thirty or forty hats before finding the right combination to get Dove's look right. Not to mention her shooting glasses.


Dove sets for a spell and enjoys the cinema


I had an idea for an FO3 character that I tried out for the last two days. Oda Hidetaka is a samurai from Japan's Sengoku period. He is one of Oda Nobunaga's sons, who was also called Oichi "the land's greatest beauty". In my game, Hidetaka is actually one of Nobunaga's daughters, pretending to be male in order to become a samurai. The world thinks Hidetaka died in 'his' teens. But in actuality 'he' was kidnapped by the aliens of Mothership Zeta.

Hidetaka sneaks above the Earth

A samurai knows what to do with aliens

Boom!

Hidetaka was the first samurai astronaut

Mothership Zeta from the outside

"Set Photons to Kuso Kurae!

An enemy starship feels the wrath of Clan Oda

It goes down in flames

Down to Earth

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 14 2014, 10:13 PM

[Acadian]

Love the shot of Dove at the movies!

Welcome, Hidetaka! Another character with the flexibility to check that pesky gender box anyway they want.

Woot, Lost in Space aboard the Enterprise! Wow, Mothership Zeta really does look like the Starship Enterprise. Is all that space stuff part of FO3? Too bad our samurai couldn’t salvage a light sabre from that spaceship. How much of a challenge will it be for her with no ranged attack? Or does she have some sort of ranged attack?

Down to earth is a really good shot - she looks perfect for her role.

[King Coin]

I never much got into melee weapons in Fallout. It always seemed silly to use that when guns were available, even though they often are better than guns.

Ahh the Fiends. My favorite bandit group to kill.

Those figures are really creepy.

I always assumed it was a barret. Why the heck would a bunch of French guns be in the desert of the US? It’s 30lbs!

I never got to play Mother Ship Zeta but I’ve had a couple of alien ships crash near me! Love the look of the samurai in this.

[Grits]

Oh my gosh, I would play the game just to get that coffee table.

Neat, I had no idea there was space ship stuff in the game. I spent most of my short career looking for the door.

"Set Photons to Kuso Kurae"

Indeed.

What an awesome explosion! I love the displaced samurai character idea. And of course s/he perfectly looks the part!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Hidetaka was largely inspired by The Great Queen Seondeok, which I have been watching for a while. In it the protagonist joins the Hwarang disguised as a man. Some of the reactions by people who finally found out she was female were hilarious. "I always thought he looked kind of pretty, but there are prettier men than that in the Hwarang!"

That dish of the Mothership made me think of the front end of the Enterprise too. Though if you met the crew, you wouldn't have any trouble telling the two apart! Mothership Zeta is one of the DLC. OTOH, the vanilla game only has two alien things in it. One is Recon Craft Theta, the other is the Unidentified Flying Debris random wilderness encounter. Or the Firelance Event as most people call it. You hear an explosion, and a rather uber alien pistol falls somewhere to the ground near you, along with a bunch of power cells. So far it has only happened to me twice in years of on and off playing. So for the most part the alien stuff is easy to miss.


King Coin: I like using melee or unarmed weapons in Fallout because it is more of a challenge. You have to think about what you are doing, and find ways to close the distance between you and your enemies without getting shot to ribbons first. So there is a lot of sneaking, using cover, being patient, and luring people into coming to you. It is a lot harder to sneak in FO3 than in the ES games too!

VATS is also really impressive in melee. You always seem to have a 95% chance to hit, even if your skill is lower. VATS will also teleport you next to your target, if you are close enough to get a chance to hit. Usually you have to be within five to ten feet to get a VATS lock. It will even put you up on a walkway or second story, even if you were underneath it before. Finally, almost all hits seem to be headshots, unless you are sneaking (which is usually an arm dismemberment).

Maybe the French guns came with a shipment of escargot? One of the differences I noticed between FO3 and FONV is that for many of the guns in FO3 are original designs. While all the ones in FONV tend to be copies of Real World guns with different names. Like the NCR Service Rifle, which is just an M-16 stuck on single fire. So I am sure the FONV team just picked a real world gun whose appearance they liked and said "copy that one!"


Grits: I love the 'nice' furniture in a lot of the Fallout games. Though finding any that still look that good is difficult!

For the most part I have always ignored the alien stuff in FO3. It feels weird to be mixing post-apocalypse and alien invasion genres. But in this one case it gave me the perfect way for me to bring a 16th Century samurai seven hundred years forward in time. Not to mention a way to explain why Sam-the-Urai can understand what everyone is saying (translator microbes!).

A leftover pic from the Mothership. Hidetaka gets Medieval Futuristic on those alien kounos

Samurai vs. Powered Armor

The map says 'Raiders Are Here!'

Taking a moment to relax by the Jeff Memorial

Welcome to Rivet City

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 20 2014, 05:33 PM

[Acadian]

Good thing Hidie didn’t encounter any of those Dwemer Space Balls up aboard Zeta. Okay, I’m easily confused. . . now you know why I only play one game at a time.

That samurai armor would fit well in Oblivion.

Oh wow, she looks absolutely gorgeous without her helm on in that shot of her sitting and relaxing near Mr Jefferson.

Rivets is a neat depiction of the Washington Navy Yard.

[Grits]

I love the Jefferson Memorial one best. Hidetaka looks like she’s wondering what’s next for her. These are great fun to look at, even though the game is still mostly a mystery to me.

I like the raider’s outfit! I can see carrying a baseball bat with that. Possibly not very far, though.

This post has been edited by Grits: Mar 25 2014, 01:42 PM

[King Coin]

Tell her to use that missile launcher with caution inside of that ship!

Her samurai armor looks awesome. What does she think of that computer strapped to her arm though?

I like the relaxing one. I assume there aren’t any ‘lurkers in the water!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: The samurai armor would be great in Oblivion. There might be some mods out for it. Maybe we will be seeing Buffy trying one on soon?

That Jefferson Memorial is my favorite pic of all of hers too. The sun was setting and saw how the water had turned purple, and I knew I had to get a picture there.

Trust you to recognize the Washington Navy Yard! That aircraft carrier is now a city - called Rivet City. It is one of the neater ideas I have seen in the Fallout Universe.


Grits: You should fire up FO3 again. It is a lot of fun, has a good sense of humor, and is similar in many ways to the ES games (it is made by the same people after all. In fact, after you play FO3 a bit, you will notice where a lot of things in Skyrim came from.

The Raider and Merc outfits in this game are great. They consist of all sorts of things thrown together ad hoc, like tire treads and welding helmets. Funny you should mention a baseball bat though. That is one of the best starting game melee weapons!


King Coin: Thanks to lessons from Moira from Craterside Supply, Hidetaka has figured out how to use that funny metal thing on her arm. Not to mention use the glowing scrolls she finds in some buildings. It is almost as useful as the plasma arquebus she has!

There weren't any mirelurks in the water there anymore! Hidetaka goes through them with no sweat. Usually two hits kills even the big ones.


Hidetaka temporarily teamed up with these Brotherhood of Steel fellas to clear out the Library.

Hidetaka now has a pair of Lucky Shades (they really do give a +1 to Luck)

Close quarters with a Deathclaw!

Now she has a Deathclaw Gauntlet


A long video of Hidetaka exploring the Dunwich Building - Part 1

[Acadian]

Screens –

Do the FO3 followers tend to be as suicidally enthusiastic as their Cyrodiilic counterparts?

Looks like she needs those sunnies outdoors.

Woot! Fighting a Daedroth – and she got his hand and claws!

Vid – It was fun to ride along with Hidey the Horned Heroine. Very neat that the journal log entries she found were electronic audio clips - and it makes sense.

[King Coin]

I love the power armor the BoS have!

A deathclaw that close is waaaay too close!

Ah, I remember that pile of recordings. This leads to an armory I believe! Those kill moves were pretty impressive. I kind of forgot how creepy those buildings can be. I loved the mine use. I always set up little traps like that when I played. Grenades are pretty fun to use too. Yikes! I think we will meet Jesse somewhere, and he isn’t going to be friendly!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: FO3 followers - especially the unofficial ones who just tag along like Farwil "Huzzah!" Indarys does in the Oblivion Main Quest - do tend to get in the way. The Brotherhood guys she teamed up with in that pic were just the same as Farwil. Ready to step onto every mine, or into the spray of every minigun.

The regular followers are not quite as bad. They will usually follow your lead. Usually. But even they will sometimes just charge into the fray. Usually once you have equipped your missile launcher or hand grenades...

That critter is much, much worse than a Daedroth, I am afraid to say. They are faster than you, deal out a hundred points of damage in a single hit, and take a nuke to kill them. The nuke only does it if you hit exactly, in this case close does not count. It just makes them mad if you drop the nuke a few feet away from them.

A lot of the journal entries you find from other people in FO3 are audio logs like that. I like it, as it makes the game feel a bit more personal, since you can hear their voice.


King Coin: I love the FO3 Brotherhood armor too. A lot of people clamor for the FO1 and FO2 style, but they do not look as good to me.

That Deathclaw was a very unpleasant surprise! And a very, very close fight, even with stimpacks already hotkeyed.


Hidetaka makes a dramatic exit

Raider's Flyinnnn Sooooo Hiiiiigh!

Hidetaka finds a colony of friendly ants...

...and takes care of another colony of hostile ones that were attacking the good ants.

Another long vid, The second and final part of the Dunwich Horror

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 3 2014, 10:47 PM

[Acadian]

Ooh! The horned heroine in front of the ball of flame! Positively cinematic!

Aww, I wonder if the friendly ants are related to the Antagonizer?

Vid - Wow, in a couple cases, Hidetaka was able to get right in a foe’s face undetected! Fun to watch her tossing around frag grenades. Well, she found poor Jaime.

[Grits]

Yikes, that building is very creepy. Things didn't sound good for Jaime, poor guy. I kept seeing Bobby Pins as Bloody Pins.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: One thing I like about FO3, is that the cars are all nuclear powered. A few bullets or a hand grenade near one will cause them to go up in a big mushroom cloud (and kill anything nearby). You can even create chain explosions, which can be lots of fun.

The friendly ants must be the Antagonizer's allies!

FO3 has devices called Stealth Boys that can only be used once each. They temporarily turn you invisible, which makes it a lot easier to sneak around. Hidetaka was using one for a while in Dunwich. Otherwise it is almost impossible to sneak up into melee range on someone. Hidie was not able to do it without the Stealth Boys until I got her Sneak skill up over 90.


Grits: Many people consider Dunwich the creepiest place in FO3. The reasons are obvious. It is a lot darker than other places, and you can hear the ghouls snarling and running around, but often cannot see them. At least not until they are in your face with their claws and teeth! I also thought the record of Jaime's search for his father, and his descent into madness and ghouldom to be both sad and chilling. There but for the grace of the Atom we all might go...

Hidetaka is on the lookout for evildoers

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Samurai! (FYI for the non-F03 players, that is the name of the minigun, it is a unique weapon).

A long vid of Hidetaka taking her trusty katana to the Deathclaw Sanctuary

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 5 2014, 05:09 AM

[Acadian]

Great stuff! There’s Hidie surveying the badlands. Then pulling out the big gun!

The vid was neat. An actual dungeon in FO3! One can certainly see the TES ‘family resemblance’ inside. Wow, she was able to one-shot some of those Deathdudes! I see she found Vengeance down there. Still an open question as to whether a minigun trumps a katana for her purposes. I’ll wager she hangs on to the katana.