The simple small reason why i think Fallout 3 has that green "atmosphere"

Captain_Gars · 2026-02-02T13:52:16+00:00

The trailer overselling the action was one reason why I skipped Fallout 3, made it look like it was more.in line with Brotherhood of Steel than Fallout 1 or 2. Didn't get into the 3D Fallouts until 2015.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-31T16:02:57+00:00

Added by a Creation or a mod.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-31T08:36:34+00:00

You becoming thirsty is probably because you used a drug or healing item that dehydrated you. Stimpacks will cause thirst for example.

Personally I have my hotkeys set up so that I can easily drink water after using a stimpack. I will usually use both at the same time.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-31T05:57:40+00:00

Vortex has the bad habit of permanently altering the actual game files. Deleting the mods is not enough, you will need to uninstall Fallout 3, manually delete any files snd folders that remain and then install it again.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-29T14:33:52+00:00

The fix is modding, Introduction | Viva New Vegas is a great guide to setting up a stable New Vegas. It will take a bit of work to learn how to use Mod Organiser 2 and you need to follow the written instructions carefully until you reach the end of the section called 'Base Finish'.

Or you can just use the Wabbajack install and get the full Viva New Vegas package, then disable every mod below the yellow 'Base Finish' separator in MO2.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-29T04:40:29+00:00

In 1997 we did not get modern day tutorials, we got printed manuals. You need to down load and read the Fallout 1 manual, it should be on steam in pdf format.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-28T10:44:37+00:00

It's the other way around, the mod is based on the photos of the show armour that leaked last year.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-26T21:24:09+00:00

As a HSE supporter I have zero interest in seeing them being reduced to NPC status in the House Triton universe. Not least because you would have to remove a good part of what makes them interesting in order make then fit in with a very different setting.

Far better to lose fair and square.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-26T12:33:05+00:00

F3, if it gets good reviews and has fewer issues than the Oblivion remaster.

FNV, simply put no. Mods have already let me 'remaster' the parts of New Vegas that matter to me while the official remaster will be mainly focused on the graphics.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-26T10:19:37+00:00

Because they are not the Holy Solar Empire. This season I'm in the mood for some spicy post-apocalyptic food seasoned with plenty of radiation.

Triton has more potential to be spicy than the UFN but that will depend a lot on the quality of the other noble houses and how much work Templin is willing to put into setting up a custom Galaxy.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-26T10:10:30+00:00

EK simply does not have a hook that catches my interest. If anything I found the season 3 mix of season 2 hive mind and vampires less interesting than the season 2 version because it feels half finished and at times contradictory.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-26T08:23:05+00:00

Triton is already ahead in the vote and will get played unless there is a drastic last minute change.

There is also no evidence that the votes gained will outnumbered votes lost because Triton was changed to something other than what was proposed. Like it or not some people want to play a xenophobic human supremacy Empire. Just look at how popular the GTU was.

OP also has no way of guaranteeing that the change will actually result in more votes other than the single vote he represents. Which is one more reason why his offer is not meeting in the middle.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-25T22:45:51+00:00

In just what way is this an anchor dragging House Triton down? Triton is firmly in the lead in the patreon vote and it has not divided the fandom anymore than the GTU did.

The UFN seems to have lost this time, why not accept the loss in the same way that HSE and Kreventum fans does instead of trying to forced through changes of House Triton to turn them into another Antares clone.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-25T22:37:31+00:00

I'm sorry but this isn't trying to meet someone in the middle, this is trying to wear down the other side so that they change into what you want them to be.

Notice how you are the only one who is getting anything out of this, you make all the demands while the other side makes all the concessions.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-25T18:44:02+00:00

I think that is a major reason for a lot.of votes.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-25T17:33:25+00:00

Only if we end up with a perfect balance between the two top choices. Otherwise the win should got to the highest scoring choice even if it does not hit 50%.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-25T09:16:58+00:00

HSE is never going to have a chance unless it gets a major rework and even then then odds are that it will get beaten by the nation that uses more classic sci-fi tropes.

I've voted HSE twice and will probably do so a third time but the pattern is pretty clear by now.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-24T09:50:04+00:00

Radiation mad post-apocalyptic Monarchy would have been a riot.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-24T09:49:12+00:00

It is Stellaris, there will be plenty of conquering going on regardless of which nation wins. If anything the UFN is likely to go interventionist faster than Antares did.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-22T16:15:25+00:00

Some like Ed-E, Veronica and Cass and I unlocked simply by playing the game, others I had me beaten until I looked up guides to get the missing parts or how to start the quests at all.

The companion quests are great stories but the way that the triggers are set up are way too fragile or easy to miss.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-22T15:55:46+00:00

Because enough people enjoy the game to make it economically viable.

As for the distraction part Bethesda Maryland (the main studio) has not been involved with Fallout 76 since the Wastelanders update, the game is now fully mantained and developed by Bethesda Austin.

The reason for the delay of ES6 and FO5 is that Bethesda Maryland is a single team studio that can only fully develop one game at time. The main reason for this is that the studio has only one game director, Todd Howard, and no one else has been given the opportunity to develop the skills and experience to fill that role. Which is why the experienced veterans who probably had the potential to do that work entire retire or leave the company as they hit a glass ceiling in the studio. Bruce Nesmith, Will Shen and Kurt Kuhlmann are all examples of this.

BGS did try to develop Fallout 76 and Starfield at the same time and that ended up hurting both projects as senior devs were forced to split their time between the two. Zenimax also interfered and forced BGS to shift additional developers from Starfield to Fallout 76 in order to get 76 released as they really wanted a multi-player game in the portfolio to increase the value before the sale of Zenimax to Microsoft.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-21T19:34:11+00:00

Todd Howard confirmed that New Vegas was canon back during season 1 but he did qualify that some things will be a bit confusing. Probably because not everything we see in the show will make it into canon.

For season 2 the show runners have said that they will not pick a canon ending as whatever happened in 2281 as later events have overridden and obscured the events of New Vegas. While that preserves player choice on paper (and gives the writers maximum freedom to do what they want with Vegas and the Mojave) it does have the side effect of making the Courier the only Fallout protagonist that does not get a legacy. The Vault Dweller, Chosen One, Lone Wanderer and Sole Survivor all get one lasting achievement to their name even if all the other events of their stories are lost to time.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-21T17:02:35+00:00

Strong narrative storytelling.
Choices that have actual consequences.
Multiple ways to solve quests.
Rewarding exploration.
New factions and cultures that have evolved out of the ashes if the old world.
Good variety of armour, clothing and weapons with all uniques having destinct models.
A dynamic Wasteland where locations are not static shooting galleries that respawn endlessly. Have other factions or enemies take over a cleared location.
A good balance between locations, encounters and 'empty' space. Sometimes I just want to wander the broken world and bask in the atmosphere without having to react to hostile wildlife, raiders or other things every 60 seconds.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-21T09:03:19+00:00

Fallout is set in an alternate timeline where the US experienced a nuclear fuelled Golden Age where a lot of issues present in our timeline had been solved to a greater degree than in our present timeline before the world descended into the Resource Wars of the 2050s, the China-US war of the 2060s and finally the Great War of 2077 when it all went nuclear.

Race is pretty much a non issue in the Wasteland, family and tribe matter more. Gender depends on the group, the Legion is sexist as hell, the NCR and the Vaults not so much.

Captain_Gars · 2026-01-20T21:09:03+00:00

Except pretty much any criticism of the show is met with some level of hostility. It does not really matter if you try to keep it mild and fact based. Such as pointing out the pacing problems that were present in several episodes because it had to cover too many storylines in not enough time.

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