Todd and Emil just HAD to let the player instagib a deathclaw their very first day out of the vault and now we have to live with weak-ass disposable fusion cores forever.
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Todd and Emil just HAD to let the player instagib a deathclaw their very first day out of the vault and now we have to live with weak-ass disposable f...
While I sort of like the mech aspect of the new power suit, I sort of miss what was clearly initially meant to be a more sleek and form fitting piece of equipment. If the next game has Enclave or some other advanced faction I hope Advanced Power Armor MK II has a more sleek design, though I doubt it as the big stompy power armor has become something of a trademark, and bethesda keeps trying to do modular armor in Fallout, although Starfield did just have Helmet+Armor.
It could change eventually. Bethesda has radically changed their armor designs in every Elder Scrolls game. I could see them making power armor faster and require less refueling if people said it was annoying.
The problem is I don't know if they'd bother because for everyone pointing out that weapons are ugly or that a lot of the armor looks like crap there are people saying they like it for being "different" or some shit.
You don't get it anon, that's not as cool. Big mech suits are cool. Everything has to be cool.
Iron Man has had broader market appeal than Space Marines for like the past 15 years. Sleak and powerful generally does better than bulky and powerful. Even the new Fallout series had Knights in T-60 getting humiliated by a quick and agile cowboy.
I SAID IT DOESN'T LOOK AS COOL
PEOPLE WON'T PLAY FALLOUT IF THE POWER ARMOR ISN'T COOL
But people love Todd Howard and he's short.
I saw a bad dream once where Bethesda has sold Fallout off and I was playing the latest Fallout game. There were T-51s in it and they looked extremely cringe. They had the signature color scheme, but they looked like they were out of nu Doom, with a glossy plastic surface and confusing bumps and holes everywhere. They were also human sized.
It's well over 100 years since that battery was created.
There's no way the few lights in the museum draw as much power as an operational suit of power armor
Why is that? Powered Armor isn't really that advanced. It's potential mostly comes from the hydraulics system and the materials used in a very ergonomic design. Power usage, particularly when not in use or turned on shouldn't really be any higher than a large building.
Because the forces exerted by power armor require a bit more energy than a few light bulbs.
You're right about power use being low when the suit isn't in use. It's zero in game in fact. That's why I made sure to specify an operational suit. There's no way 200 years of lighting a single building is anywhere near 100 years of constant power armor operation. Not to mention the HUD shows freshly acquired cores as full.
I'm more upset about what they did to the minigun, making it weak as shit.
The inaccuracy is so annoying. It's a single player game. Just make the late game guns awesome, you dorks.
If micro-fusion was that effective, what the frick was the point of the resource wars in the first place?
I can't tell what fricking game the screenshot is from but if it's from 1 they hadn't ironed out the setting beyond their hodgepodge of pulp-y post-apocalyptic tropes yet into a more stable setting. If it's from 2 then it's just straight-up moronic, though.
The shot is from 2 but the description was from 1.
The lore is made up on the fly to conform to whatever it had to. There's no gameplay mechanic to fuel the armor so they wrote "uh micronucular reactor"
Which is partly why loreautists are fricking stupid.
Yes moron-kun, I'm sure that the original developers were just making shit up and didn't care at all and that's why none of us should ever care about anything and never complain when todd rapes established facts about the setting right in front of our eyes or the show writers move shady sands 300 miles south because they wanted it to be in LA to appeal to goycattle more. You just have to accept it and pretend like nothings wrong. You CANT get angry, you CANT care, STOP NOTICING YOU FRICKING CHUD.
Drama queen
This is not an argument 🙂
Keep eating your goyslop. You are below me in every way imaginable.
>original developers were just making shit up
They kinda did that with the guns in the game, most guns were added because the devs thought they were cool at the time
>original developers were just making shit up
They almost added talking raccoons
And they chose not to because they were putting effort in choosing what to add and what not to add. I.E. they were not just making shit up. Hope this helps!
Nah, Tim Cain stopped it. Then Cain left and they added talking animals and deathclaws and all other stupid shit in FO2
That's mostly true. Obviously Cain and Avellone thought talking animals were dumb but there's still FEV logs referring to The Burrows in The Glow. It didn't get fully yoinked out, likely due to time-crunch. The same time-crunch that I think hurt F2 because they're were trying to get a game with 3x the content out the door within less than a year. It's almost comedic how the good Fallout games were the ones that were under tight deadlines. And yet Bethesda had all the time in the world to polish F3 and F4.
>how the good Fallout games were the ones that were under tight deadlines
A small, tight group of talented individuals, with freedom to move around. Like Cain and Boyarsky contributing to writing as well as doing their own jobs.
Today studios and development are bigger and more complicated.
Fallout is unironically a very stupid setting in which good writing convinced people was actually smart. People always complain(rightfully) about the ghoul kid in the fridge in 4, but they always do so ignoring the fact Ghouls as a concept are fricking moronic.
>Yeah, radiation makes you lowkey immortal but also you'll probably turn into a zombie that gets healed by radiation unless you have a strong will and something to live for.
It's stupid and pulp-y and that's part of the charm of the series, but internet nerds get too high on their ass fumes sometimes.
I always took them draining so fast as a gameplay necessity since stockpiling FCs in the base game was very easy after the early game. Though I'm not aware of what the canon battery life is post 4.
It was mostly due to Bethesda's insistence on immediately giving players a taste of whatever the late game is supposed to be like in an attempt to hook them to stick around (and give game journalists something positive to write about) regardless of the consequences this has on pacing.
Desu, could also be a response to how ass F3s intro was but then again F4 makes most of the same mistakes.
Yeah, I figured. I used to play with a mod that had it that the power armor frame simply blew the frick up in a big explosion after you finished clearing out Concord in the big battle. I thought that was a good fix to it while giving the player a taste of the OP late game.
It is a gameplay necessity but only because they couldn't keep their dicks in their pants and had to force power armor into the first hour of the game.
Power Armor somehow draining Fusion cores that quickly doesn't make any sense in the greater setting. The US in the setting doesn't have micro processors so it's not like there is some super advanced computer operating system in there. They shouldn't really be that energy intensive and a fusion core capable of outputting 60 kilowatts is very much overkill. It's just a filtration system to purify air and recycle waste, a Hydraulics system to increase strength, and a radio.
>Power Armor somehow draining Fusion cores that quickly doesn't make any sense
it's a gameplay device dweeb
Yeah a moronic gameplay device solely in service of shoehorning in a heckin ebbin power fantasy set piece super early in the early game
You can tell it's Fallout 2 because it says "Power Armor". It's actually labeled "Powered Armor" in Fallout 1. If you have it hardened in Adytum, it's name changes to "Hardened Power Armor" though.
That and F2 reduced the weight of the T-51b by around half. I can almost gurantee for gameplay purposes but also Power Armor weighing 100lb is kinda silly.
I feel like power armour should weigh at least 100lbs, what's the point if it can't stop at least what modern body armour can but all over
That has little to do with weight and more to do with materials and design. Power Armor wasn't supposed to replace tanks, it was suppised to make every soldier borderline immune to small arms fire while vastly improving their weapons capability with hampering mobility at all. The later games lost that last point by turning it into a stompy mecha that needs a jetpack
America was the only country to figure it out. Europe and the middle East killed each other before that point and no way was America going to share it with the red Chinese
Power armor used to be a simple reskin that invalidated other armor options forever. I dig FO4's approach.
>muh options
kys buildbrony moron. power armor should be the ultimate op as frick armor in the game. it's an integral part of the hero's journey in fallout.
It is in FO4
>the heros journey
moron shit
>it weighs 42 pounds
c'mon
It's a mobile suit of armor. Why would you want it to be heavy? Heavier != stronger. The Advanced Power Armors biggest thing was abandoning the metal and ceramic components for lighter but stronger composite materials
Yeah, even if it was made with super lightweight spaceage bullshitium that suit, the powered frame underneath it, the reactor, etc is going to be at least 70kg altogether, and there's no way you're carrying that shit around on your back
FO4 power armor is at least 200kg on its own, easy
>your power armor is heavily damaged and will only last a single battle
>after you used it, you have out how to fix it - which will happen many hour later
Here, I fixed your game.
Frustrating Bethesda players? You won't make it in this business. There are those who cry New Vegas is a linear game to this day.
Im not a die hard fan of fallout. 3 was alright, nv was SLIGHTLY better. Never touched 4. But its pretty obvious they're having an identity crisis. 3 didn't pull punches, child enslavement, cannibal families, destruction of a community on a whim, Black person ghouls. There is the dumbshit like the little kid settlement. Fallout should encapsulate how bleak and cruel human life is. You can't highlight the strengths of humanity if you don't also showcase the horrors.
>didn't play fallout 1 and 2
You're not a fallout fan at all. You're a fan of """fallout""", that's for sure.
Shut up homosexual
>Dipshit without reading comprehension misses the first line stating they aren't a fan
>proceeds to say they aren't a fan
Do you also shout "they were killed by a gun!" when you're told someone was shot to death?
he said not a "die hard fan", which implied he thought he was a fan.
moron-kun... you should be able to understand this.
NTA but literally nothing he said after that suggested he's a fan of the Fallout games
That's just Bethesda losing their edge. Even the racism in Skyrim was more targeted at specific organizations than the people of said races
Slaving people was fun. No idea why they stopped with that. I don't think it's related to the lore, because they sure forgot that there were originally only 110 Nuka-Cola bottles and that they were only manufactured in DC.
The only thing from Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel I wish it was canon was the fact that Bawls Guarana was the main choice of drink in Texas, and nowhere else because of how absurd the whole idea is. Too bad that trademarks would make this impossible.
Ok the fusion core thing is a gameplay thing, but why making it the fusion core that you have to repair every 5 minutes? Some bullshit air filtration, or a temporary code you'd need to enter to use the armour "in temporary training mode" without being the actual owner, with only the BoS and Enclave having the technology to crack the code/ own some official US Army codes.
I don't know, be creative ffs Todd
>but why making it the fusion core that you have to repair every 5 minutes?
An Int build will have it lasting forever, and you pretty much trip over fusion cores
Yeah but it's a lore rape you didn't get my post at all.
>forever
We had forever fusion cores until FO4 and then they changed, they can change back just as easily. They clearly don't care about lore anyhow.
The lack of progression is a real complaint I have with those fricks. Playing slavjank games like Stalker or KCD is like night and day, you actually struggle at the beginning and every achievement is meaningful. Why can American games not do this?
wait a second, i saw this on my degenerate porn aggerate. ANON YOU JUST STOLE THIS FROM TWITTER!
Goddamnit be original for once in your life or at least try and plagiarize from a better source.
I'll give OP a freebie from my F2 play-through. He's a homosexual btw.
based, after im done with Vampire the Masquerade Redemption and Bloodlines along with TTW. I need to do like a Kenshiro of the Wastes playthrough where I purify the wastes of evil scum via unarmed crits. Too bad Fallout games dont have a vanity slot so i can wear the leather jacket all the time.
Im crushing your nuts Anon.
>Too bad Fallout games dont have a vanity slot so i can wear the leather jacket all the time.
If you're high enough level I'd almost say go for it but getting crit all the time from low AP does suck. At least there's the Mk II leather jacket. Punching slavers to death sounds like a good time.
No, you don't understand, I used the names as boogiemans instead of the dev team to fit in here.
thats a weird specific complaint for such an all around very mid game, but you don't design features around a one off battle 1 hour into the game, i'm sure they'd made fusion cores that way regardless of the deathclaw
i'm gonna say todd derangement syndrome on the one
Originally the way that was going to play out was that there was no power armor on the roof, and no deathclaw
instead you would have been going up there to grab a fusion core out of the crashed vertibird (which was still there) and then bring it back down to the basement to shove it in the generator and power back on some defenses to deal with the raider horde that still shows up in the final game.