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Icarus's blog: "Augurs, Martyrs, and Agnostics"

created on 03/10/2011  |  http://fubar.com/augurs-martyrs-and-agnostics/b340021  |  8 followers

[I think I'm going blind]

So yesterday was a Brink bender
today was a -mod the holy hell out of Fallout 3 and then play wanderer's edition bender (worth it)
I have 70 gig of games installed on this computer with more coming.

I didn't implement the cosmetic mods for FWE, and I'm probably not going to, the thing runs for hours at a time (more than I can say about vanilla on PC or console) and the game already looked good.

I do enjoy the 10 second loadtimes and increased graphics on my PC.

I think I spent... I dunno at least 5 hours modding Fallout3, and I'm counting the time where I had to sit and wait on downloads, patches, ini fixes, and *nods off for a second* I have narcolepsy...

but I'm pretty sure I just PLAYED for 12 hours.

Now, I managed to pick up Fallout 3 Goty for PC on sale for $12.00
I've played Goty unmodded backwards frontward and sideways

but I have to say FWE is a completely new experience.
New guns.
New monsters.
Random crazy shit.
WAAAAAAY more challenge.

You gotta scrounge for every item
you take a lot more damage
crippled body parts stay that way until you get into the triage menu
drugs are
man drugs are awesome.
The AI is more dynamic and organized.

I shit you not
one of the earliest, puddliest quests in the game "go to the super duper market" was turned into a fucking nightmare just by increasing enemy durability, numbers, tactics, and damage
I found myself injured, dragging a bum leg behind me throwing landmines back, and crawling into a bathroom where I promptly hid in a bathroom stall with a double barrelled shotgun and a belt of grenades.

The landmines got about 5 of em
the stall covered me from explosions when they came in so I just hucked grenades over the walls, and the last 2 or 3 (out of at least 16) were taken out pointblank with the shotgun.
I think I had about 5% health left when it was all said and done.

And I've not had an ammunition stockpile in this game... at all.
I doubt I ever will. The spawn rate on ammo is slashed, and the FWE has the option (default setting) of having ammo actually weigh something in your inventory
in vanilla, I had thousands
thousands of bullets in my magic pockets
and they didn't weigh a damn thing with my 300lb carrying capacity.

Now just wearing clothes and carrying more than one weapon, and some rations (you have to eat, sleep and drink or you'll pass out or suffer attribute penalties) takes up about 100lbs of my inventory.

I'm not even level 5 yet, and I've been in multiple prolonged firefights that I've barely survived with barely any ammunition or health items to spare.

Good fucking times.

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