Fallout 3 - Review.

Thanks to the pitt, I converted about 4000 .32 rounds (bloomin' raiders) into nearly 20000 5mm rounds. Even with the minigun I can still only use a couple of thousand.

The missile launcher is the biggest dissapointment of a weapon...a radscorpion can survive a rocket to the face...gah
 
Oooh yeah, I was rushed by two of those fellas yesterday. I was pumping shotgun rounds like no tomorrow...then I remembered the Captain's side arm...hehe
 
I think I carry one set of armor (winterised t-51b), the geomapping module and some other general tat, the other 220lbs are weapons. I don't quite know why I still have wild bill's side arm, but I like the firing rate and animation.
 
Can't stand the .32. No guts at all. I put all my limited weapons in the locker for the most part.. From memory I carry...

.44 Magnum.

Plasma pistol

Plasma rifle

Nuka grenades (currently 60 with 30 in the locker)

Chinese assault rifle

Fat man

TBH I can't remember what else I am carrying but those are all I use.
 
I carry almost all my custom weapons, even ol' painless, the .32 cal hunting rifle. I think my main gun is either the xualong assault rifle or the gauss rifle, becuase splattering a super mutant at 200 yds never gets old.
 
name='thestepster' said:
the custom combat shot gun

Hmm what's it called? I don't know if I have ever had that.. Will know if you can give me the name. I like the Shotgun too, at close range it's bloody fantastic :D
 
name='Diablo' said:
I carry almost all my custom weapons, even ol' painless, the .32 cal hunting rifle. I think my main gun is either the xualong assault rifle or the gauss rifle, becuase splattering a super mutant at 200 yds never gets old.

The best of the small arms guns IMO is the Lincoln Repeater. Basically a 44 magnum in a rifle body with all the power and longer range. Kind of reminds me of a stock butted Wildey Magnum (made famous by Charles Bronson....)

Don't worry, Wildey is coming..... :D
 
Hey all. I spent a good few hours last night writing up a review of another game.. It should be with Tom now so hopefully soon it will go up :)

In the interim I decided to pen a few words about the High Definition pack for Fallout 3.

I don't know how many of you have seen this or used it but shortly after the release of Fallout 3 Bethesda decided to release it. Now obviously you can quickly work out that this is going to look prettier, and look prettier it certainly does. However, there are some drawbacks.

When disabling the frame throttle in Fallout 3 (which sadly turns off Vsync so you will get some tearing) I can hit 120fps at the high end quite easily. With the frame throttle on I obviously only hit 60FPS. However, with the regular install I have a minimum of 48FPS..

By installing the HD pack I still sit quite tightly at 60FPS however when things heat up I have dipped as low as five. I don't think it matters much how big and bad your hardware is for that, and I think that's why Bethesda did not leave it in the game. However, those moments of FPS like that are usually when entering or exiting VATS so it doesn't affect the flow of the game too badly.

The nice part is that you can literally install it and then toggle it on and off whenever you feel like it. In the Fallout.ini file there is a string called bInvalidateOlderFiles=0 . To enable the HD you simply change that to bInvalidateOlderFiles=1. Of course should things get sticky you can always just revert back by simply setting it back to default. Now I did take some screenys but sadly reducing them to JPG is going to hurt them. However, the difference should still be quite stark !

The first thing you will notice is what it has done to your Pip-Boy.

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It seperates the different locations and gives them a colour. So for example military based locations are red with a star in, vaults are different colours as are normal locations.

Secondly, when hit with a load of fire you will notice that the blood spatter (or jam as I refer to it as) are also wildly superior to the original textures. They're actually quite revolting.

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Looking around you also shows the difference in the ground and world itself. Here we can see a shot of the asphalt.

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And the pebbled sandy type rubble.

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And the world itself.

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Footlockers are also dramtically different and instead of being metal plain boxes they are now painted green with a red military star on. Keep looking around and you will notice just how much has changed :)

Over all I would definitely give it a try. It's not like you can't very easily revert it back.
 
Really? Dude I used to sit religiously on Bethsoft haha. I had some teething issues with the game so was camped out there !

Google Fallout 3 high definition and you'll find him :) it's around 300mb.

I have just remembered one very slight flaw.. Some of the goo piles you have left with energy weapons will become inaccessible once you revert. I think it's because the textures have changed..

Any way, just tried it on here (3870x2) and remembered why I didn't use it on my 9800GT. You need at least 1gb texture memory on the main card or the buffer overflows and it just locks up.

My 280 spat it out for breakfast as does my XF 5770, but the 3870 struggles when you enter VATS.
 
Yeah that sounds pretty sensible tbh dude. Seriously, you won't be able to believe the difference.. But as I say, this stuff really was 'intended for future systems' and I give a lot of respect to Bethsoft for removing it and not using that excuse. The cool part though is that it is their pack and shows they are willing to push it. Having said that it is of course entirely possible that they had it running super smooth with say, a pair of ultras, but for the most part it's going to be a bit rocky if you don't have the GPUs to fire it along.
 
yeah as soon as these new gpu's are ordered ill have it, made myself £30 towards them today aswell so hopefully by the time the old rig sells asus release there 1gb models and the extra money i made for 1 hours work fixing someones duffed pc should cover most of it :)
 
Wicked ! If you didn't start that playthrough then you have plenty to look forward to :D

Got some more pics just for the drool factor. Firstly, check out the floor.

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Bloody detail in that diamondplate ! :eek:

Here is one of the lockers I was telling you about.

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They're not all the same any more either. Personal footlockers are different.

And just check out the sandbags. Amazing stuff.

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