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H3RB wrote:Bender Unit wrote:I have found it slower to start than FO3
is that even possible?!
Whilst not as good as F3, I'm 37 hours in and I reckon I'm only 2/3 of the way through the game (that's a guess though) so £/hr is pretty high 
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- not massivley impressed now I have played and completed it and I was a huge FO3 fan. It just hangs together pretty badly for a full game. dazzz wrote:I love oblivion.
I hope it's exactly like the old game but with a different story.
. felt very dated compared to fallout. the scale of the game is boggling and makes FO3 etc seem pokey without much happening. Absolutely loved Fallout3 and put 120+hrs into that so know how it all works but is there anything I should/n't do in this one that people know about? Best weapons and where to get em early? Places to go first off? Decent weapons are the main thing I'm after! That's kinda the idea of the whole free-roaming thing. 
Personally I do all the sub quests first to build my level up before attempting the main quest and then just before the final mission, I go a-wandering to visit every single place to make sure I haven't missed anything. Loads of energy weapons in there for you to steal by using the bucket method.ekona wrote:
Once I had done that I started on a few side quests. Doing it that way the game flows better. You can pedal a lot of stuff between those places which gives you lots of credits to spend on some decent armour and weapons. You will also probably end up with a halfway decent gun if you follow that path and keep repairing duplicates. reach the end of the map and then go left keep walking until you come across a merc and 4 people in their underpants. Kill the merc and take his gun. Its basically the highest rated gun in the game with easily obtainable ammo after that you pretty much set! The guy also has some fairly good armour as well! swim across the river and you will come across some Mirelurks and in a cave is some decent finds. Then swim up on the right hand side, there will be a gap in the rocks and a path leading upwards from the water that has Enclave armour, and a decent laser rifle (it also has around 20 deathclaws so bewarned!)StevieL wrote:The bucket method? I spent a few hours on this last night, seems good apart from the freezing up occasionally
Going to spend a bit of time on it over the weekend
Pick up items you want to steal (NOTE: pick up via clicking the analogue stick rather than putting in your pack!) and put them in the bucket. Pick up bucket and take it somewhere hidden. Now you can take the items to your hearts content and pop them in your pack Bender Unit wrote:On my second play through and I have worked the few main quests to start off, and worked my way around to Novac.
Also pick up everything and sell it to get money, as you work you way south to the outpost and then east and then north up to Novac and then the 188 trading post.
In the place with the rollercoaster fix the robot in the shack to give you extra storage space.
Cowboy repeater is pretty much the best one you get early on.
Once you get to Novac head straight up the Map and past New Vega
Stealth boy means you can sneak into the gun runners camp and rob the guns and sell them to a trader.
Complete the ghoul quest near Novac and do Boones quest to get a free hut in town and a stupidly hardcore follower.
For some other goodies go to the bottom of the map and far right
Done most of that but some extra bits worth doing there! Cheers mate. I've found the Nellis air force base and array, northern passage (that do anything?) Horowitz farmstead and brooks tumbleweed ranch but can't get any higher up the map! Tips? Where exactly on the map is this merc? I've got some damn good weapons already though....found the cowboy repeater early which is cool, the anti-materiel rifle from the brotherhood of steel is amazing! 50cal super sniper...one hit deaths! Fat man is good, scope hunting revolver is cool and the hunting rifle, also found the Q-35 matter modulator which is a pretty cool energy rifle, and good old thump-thump! Any others you've found?.. and looks good so far.. much the same as FO3 so far. 