Thread by @Worthless_Bums

Thread three of #Fallout76123NV4 run.

Recap: Apparently when you blow up the Cathedral without killing the super mutant leader you lose your chance and the ending slide has the mutant army jacking shit up whoops.

I have moderately high hopes that when doing the side content this run I have more RP opportunities especially involving psycho addiction.

Exactly the same as the FO1 start xD

I swear to fuck if I die to Outcasts on my very first world encounter in FO2.

This fukken game.

Good place to stop. Bums is tired xD

I don't actually find Awareness that useful maybe Cautious Nature is better for me? xD

Honestly reducing random encounter first round instagib is very important to me.

I was hoping Sulik would catch up and smack him but I guess Plan B is

RUN AWAY RUN AWAY

... oh.

Protip: Don't critically miss and miss your next turn.

In retrospect I know my melee sucks and I shoulda just ran.

As is tradition.

How did I not find any bobby pins this far in...

Still xD

Wow. I actually have to leave, find a bobby pin, and come back.

This has never happened before.

I refuse to buy a fucking bobby pin for 12 caps.

REUSE.

I got my first mutation at level 8 drinking Vintage Nukashine.

Feel like this is gonna be a trendsetter for this toon xD

I found a bobby pin.

Life is short, live like the next time you attack an enemy you'll critically miss, lose your next turn, and subsequently die.

I wish 76 had some sort of automated transit system in place to justify fast travel.

Don't speak to me or my son ever again.

#FO76vsFO4

Why isn't there booze that removes radiation.

This hasn't happened in a while.

Is this a thing people care about? Do people have issues hitting 50? OR 60-70 for full builds? xD

Not sure if I want to play the permadeath toons on double xp weekends!
bethesda.net/en/article/7wi…

Give us character slots, you cowards.

Okay. Seems like this is gonna be a problem xD

I would assume there is some sort of patch for this?

Yes, apparently.
github.com/Sduibek/f1endi…

"Remember when games used to be released bug free?"

*Fallout 1 needing patching years post-release to unlock two good ending slides.*

Wanna touch on this a bit:

https://twitter.com/Worthless_Bums/status/1113883463931895808

And this:

https://twitter.com/Worthless_Bums/status/1113885115766255621

Fallout 4 is a really massive game, and it tries to do a lot of things at once.

A lot of its problems stem from overlapping, contradictory design.

This case in point, it has all the system work to emulate FO3 style chaotic faction in-fighting, but it's hard to see sometimes.

It has a lot of interior dungeons (btw, you ever notice how NV has almost... none of that?) and although 3 had a lot of tunnel systems, that was just in the DC metro area.

The other 80% of the map was more or less open to these mixups.

Also FO4 introduced... settlements.

You could also spend a significant amount of time doing that, and the vanilla game doesn't bother you much if you want to do that (aside from settlement attacks which you can also make very unlikely via defenses).

So you get this pot of "hey, there's a lot to explore and find in the world!" but also "dungeon dive! loot! whee!" and "exploring is for chumps, build your base right here!"

I guess "contradictory" was the wrong word. The core systems mean you will likely miss what the other bits are doing if you focus too much on any of them.

Cowboy toon? xD

Oh that felt extremely good.

I really feel like I should have an alternate way to "win" 76. I like that this mutation combo doesn't push me to grind for levels fast or anything, but because it's RNG I also don't have any set goal I can work toward?

There's like... no real mad scientist lab is there? FEV/tek labs, tho.

Somewhere at Bethesda there is a spreadsheet detailing the likelihood of cooking materials players obtain while leveling and how much the cooking affects the experience gain curve and I want to look at it.

Holy fuck that was a close call. Super mutant with a rocket launcher hit me square and Born Survivor saved me.

Two more close calls as I sprinted the fuck outta there xD

I have one stimpak left this is the lowest amount of stimpaks I've had on all my characters outside at the start of the game.

Born Survivor won't even activate without stimpaks time to fleeeeeeeeeeee.

At White Springs looting a room and someone enters and instinctively fires an explosive shotgun at me.

Pacifist on, no damage. He turns on his mic and says, in a very bored voice, "You're gonna die out here."

And leaves.

fukken cardio

dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

It took me a while to get around to doing this.

yasssssssssssssss

I picked up an Unstoppables magazine and then I hear a super mutant yell I'M UNSTOPPABLE behind me then he hit me in the back like an asshole.

What the hell, scorchbeasts can spawn near Pleasant Valley Station? Is this new?

Oh hell yes.

It's a good day to not die.

This character is doing better mutation-wise, but the last one had chameleon leather armor which helped a lot.

I saw radaway, which is normal, except this time for whatever reason my fucking useless ass brain screamed WHAT IS LOVE.

This game needs werewolves.

Rad...werewolves.

*Sees level 45 vengeful mothman.*
*Slowly backs away.*

hello bby

missle launcher

Is it just Chameleon I need now? Nice.

Last two toons have been lucky with mutations, the first three were... not so lucky xD

(They dead.)

I feel like they upped the rate because my first ever toon took till like... level 30 to get his first mutation? Something pretty high, maybe 40s.

Mission: "Go here."
Me: "No."

RING-A-DING, BABY.

WHO'S GOING TO CALIFORNIA?

THIS POWER PANTSLESS DUDE.

Now the part I hate: counting locations discovered :X

Translating the build to FO1 is gonna be trickier since I didn't get that high level in 76. Flex points! xD

I'm going to avoid Gifted this time around, see if I get stomped.

Fast Metabolism sort of correlates with Healing Factor? Might try that. Radiation might kill me fast xD

Okay.

Bit tired, will pick this up later. FO1 requires frequent hand rests anyway.

So like. You can finish Fallout 1 really fast if you know where to go, huh.

Like. Super fast.

What happens if you blow up the base and the cathedral before returning the water chip.

I AM TRYING MY BEST.

Easy street now.

WORKING

ON

IT

Ian died. I can't ever keep him alive.

Nice.

I only killed like a hundred things that run, which is a lot less serial killer-y than most video games.

Sneak was actually pretty useful, although it's not the overpowered combat skill it is in later games.

Does the broc flower and other stuff not spawn if you already have 3+ healing powder? Hrm.

I discovered that my strong punch has a higher chance to hit than my sharpened spear so... yeah.

Sometimes I wonder what exactly is changing from run to run making certain dialogue options not appear.

Given that this toon has 3 Charisma I'm assuming it's that this time xD

*Looks at merchant prices.*
Okay, maybe low Charisma sucks? xD

Fixing the radio still requires $1000 to free Vic? Goddammit.

So I have like no money, don't know where Vault 13 is, and I definitely can't fight all these slavers (yet).

Vault City is marked, tho. Hrm.

I was confused until I saw that the merchant has slaves.

Low odds of taking on this dude and... three guards?

Actually... it's only two guards. I wonder if the slaves help me if I attack.

I left. One day, tho.

OKAY, GAME I GET IT. I NEED TO KILL THESE FUCKING SLAVERS.

SUCCESS.

I'm like 99% sure the first time I ran through FO2 the difficulty settings didn't take because I made sure to kick them up this time and it's... harder xD

By now I should have Sulik and Vic and be romping around but instead I'm trying not to die reaching Vault City.

Oh I just realized that that big guy is the end boss.

Do you just meet him the one time or did I skip way too much content the first time around.

Also: It's weird that this is a totally scripted encounter. You cannot engage him now.

So like. Is there no real time limit in FO2.

Can I just pretend to be a merc now xD

I critically missed a robber and almost died again but I ran away I am a good merc.

This is the biggest random encounter I've seen.

It's also like totally broken. The patrol guards aren't fighting back at all and the slavers are fucking them all up.

Seriously.

Normally I'm not a grinder, but now I have a roleplay reason: Fuck Metzger and slavers PUMP SOME IRON, WORK OUT, CRUSH THE SLAVERS.

Realistically I just need some armor, a decent shotgun, and some explosives.

THEN THEY'LL SEE.

(Also, like, Horrigan is a major asshole so walking in unleveled is just doom.)

Is there a sneaky/peaceful solution? No idea, this is only my second real run xD

Okay, I have explosives, Leather Armor MKII, and an H&K CAWS. This should be enough.

This rescue attempt is not going well.

Whelp. I freed Metzger's slaves. But I have no idea where the vault is because Vic got caught in the crossfire and died.

I shouldn't have talked to the guard and asked him to unlock the door. That was a while back, tho.

I wonder if there's a mod to take Harold with me so he doesn't get the FO3 treatment.

Fuck you, too, buddy.

Supposed to install this thing in the reactor Harold told me about but Jeremy says I need authorization and Harold can give it to me but Harold has no dialogue and is this what happens with low charisma characters.

Game dev.

Also game dev tbh.

*Stares at Marcus.*

This is just insulting.

Me, half an hour ago: "I wonder why when I inspect this dog it's called a bad luck dog."

Me, right now: "... oh."

THE BAD LUCK DOGGO IS DEAD STOP MAKING ME CRITICALLY MISS I AM GOING TO DIE.

Omg I shotgunned a dog and ran away but I hit another encounter and THE BAD LUCK DOG IS STILL ALIVE.

You know, my game keeps freezing during the enemy turn so maybe it didn't die. Maybe it just fucked off.

Yeah okay I just see now that it actually has 750 hp.

Fuck me.

I'm trying to punch it to death but I keep critically missing and losing my turn and he just fucks off.

It actually sets my luck to 1 on my character sheet ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

THIS FUCKING DOG

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I CAN'T EVEN HIT HIM NOW BECAUSE IT TAKES ALL MY AP TO MOVE ONE TILE

I'M A MAN IN A DESERT WITH TWO BROKEN LEGS TRYING TO KILL A DOG WITH MY BARE HANDS AND CURSING AND FAILING AND MURDERING MYSELF

SULIK IS AVENGED

NGL FO1/2 would move up a lot in my estimation if they had simple key rebinding.

I hate controllers but even a controller would be better than all this excessive LMB.

Your game should not cause physical pain to play.

I think however this run ends this will be the end of it. Even with frequent breaks this is basically torturing my right hand.

I downloaded JoyToKey and it does seem to work on W10 with an Xbox 360 controller. Maybe this will work better.

Hard to increase sensitivity without messing up accuracy.

Okay yeah this is better.

It's like playing Shadowrun on SNES now xD

Better.

But slower xD

NCR: No slaves in NCR.
Slavers: We'll be right outside your gates.

The worst toilet.

Oh the rangers started as anti-slaver hunters? SIGN ME UP.

*Cracks knuckles loudly.*

I don't have enough strength to use this sniper rifle properly and it makes me sad.

There are four terminals I need to hack to free the slaves and I can't open any of them.

It doesn't say I can't so I'm just spamming science on them.

If this was a modern game I would assume there was another way to do this, but being Fallout 2 I assume the game design here is literally "nah, keep trying until it rolls your way."

It's hard to believe that I was almost starting to enjoy Fallout 2.

Tells you outright you cannot lockpick the individual doors. Explosives do nothing.

I GOT ONE.

SUCCESS.

🎵 BIG IRON 🎵
🎵 BIG IRON 🎵

(But also now I am obliged to attack slavers this probably won't get me killed.)

Holy fuck Goris is a deathclaw.

Wait what how did I teleport to Vault 13. I was in the middle of the desert.

lol Okay that easter egg. Nice. TIME TRAVEL CONFIRMED CC @austin_walker

I'm not saying I'm treating Goris like Lydia, but I am saying if he dies I'm losing a lot of caps worth of weapons.

Aw yiss.

"Why are you lugging all those explosives and grenades around?"
"To fuck up Enclave."

Hrm. Mutate! can change one of my traits to something else? I picked Fast Metabolism for roleplay reasons because of 76 mutations I got.

Time to swap it for something actually good? xD

Lifegiver seems real bad in FO2. 4 hp? wat

Oh it's 4 hp per level you gain. Is this retroactive? Hrm.

I don't know if FO2 has stat increase surgeries like in FO1. Maybe Action Boy is just better since I have 9 Agility.

I could take Ranger for raw flavor xD

I mean this will be great if I make it to FO4 xD

These turrets are assholes and keep you in combat even if you're across the map and out of line of sight.

Trying to find the part to fix K9 and can't find anything :|

I coulda swore the dog said north east but it was north west? Oh well got K9 now.

Can't carry anything, tho. STRICTLY WORSE THAN DOGMEAT IN LATER GAMES.

My character uses the H&K G11E like a pistol, or a submachine gun, one handed.

I can't tell if Dodger is good or bad.

FO2: "This gun sells for 8k caps."

Me: "Nice."

FO2: "These vendors have like 300 caps."

When you buy a bunch of condoms and plastic explosive and the merchant doesn't even blink an eye.

20,000 xp for those vertibird plans, eh?

Badger fueling up the tanker. Gonna hit up some side quests while that happens.

New Reno: not impressed with my power armor.

New Reno reminds me of that first city in Summoner (1).

I'm not saying I'm proud of what I did, but I am noticing that this is not set up for a good escape, even if I have sneak tagged xD

If this was Fallout 4 I'd jump off the roof.

Oh shit I'm doing it. I'm sneaking across the room xD

... oh.

Whelp.

Bang bang.

I got two GECKs. So I kept the other one plus the vertibird plans? xD

End of thread 3.

Start of thread 3:

https://twitter.com/Worthless_Bums/status/1113317534248460288

Start of Thread 4:

https://twitter.com/Worthless_Bums/status/1115056176062980097