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By: roBurky

roBurky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:17:00 +0000

I’m using Wanderer’s Edition, the aim of which seems to be to make it all more Stalker-esque.

One of the things it apparently does is make everything do more damage. Most bad guys take only a single shot, but sometimes so do I. I don’t know what it’s like in the base game.

One of the other things it did was introduce the need to eat and drink, which is ok. But that bit of the mod also by default prevents food, drink and sleep from healing you. Which meant the game was impossibly hard to begin with, as rare stimpaks were all that could heal me, and after each fight I needed several of them.

It’s been a bit easier since I turned on healing by sleep, I restarted with a character that could max out the guns skill by level 3, and I finally found some settlements who I can buy stuff from.

I am much preferring the game when it’s just me wandering the wastes, though. When I meet some people who want to talk to me, I get an urge to just kill them and get back to pretending I’m the last human on earth.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:20:58 +0000

I’m playing with mods now too: Fellout for visuals and something with a Q in it for general overhaul. It’s made the game a bit binary: I can kill two raiders in seconds with ease, but if three happen to show up and I have nowhere to run, the fight is necessarily impossible. I was hoping it’d just make everything a bit harder without making my weapons useless, but I think I’ll revert.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:50:22 +0000

I’ve been trying to play Fallout 3 for the first time with some mods. I think one of them makes explosions more powerful, because no matter where I stood when setting this off, I got killed by enormous fiery death.

By: Bad Neighbor

Bad Neighbor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:29 +0000

Awww, maaaaan! I thought that it was just an elaborate death trap. I kept following it until the explosion, only to get myself torched and not know that there was more to it. I went around disarming all the traps and thought that was all there was to it.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:08:04 +0000

Seeing as the next TF2 update is in 2009, the next L4D one will probably be in 2012.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:03:06 +0000

I ordered L4D off play.com because it was a few pounds cheaper. :D
Yeah, sure the argument stands for Steam that you get it immedietly (I can’t spell that word) but in the end i’ll get it. (Unless they fuck up like they did with Dead Space and misplace my order, and I have to wait 21 days to get a refund.)
And there’s always TF2 :P
I Wonder if L4D will have updates every so often improving it by adding new maps or weapons, like in TF2?

By: Remnant

Remnant — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:36:33 +0000

So what -is- the deal with L4D?
I was told it was out in Australia today, 18th. Go to like four different places, and get told it’s not out for another few days. THEN after a night of Fallout, I make a quick scan of my friend’s list and see people playing it.

Spewin’.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:03:50 +0000

Yeah, the annoying thing about the demo is it’s taught most hardcore gamers to play on Expert, which is utterly unrealistic with a full campaign and so little experience. Also, even if you search for a game on ‘Normal’, it frequently dumps you in an Expert game without telling you.

After about three failures the guys I was playing with came to their senses and voted to downgrade to Normal, which is – and this was the entire point of several YEARS of work – just right.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:23:07 +0000

I’ve been playing L4D this morning, it’s far harder than the demo made out, on Blood Harvest, even on normal we were getting our arse handed to us on a platter on the 3rd level, we gave up in the end. Although being up at 5 a.m. to play may have been a contributing factor to our failure.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:38 +0000

You do not deserve your D!

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:52:19 +0000

Whoops, I only just noticed, You were talking to Roarunner.
Weird, cause I thought you we’re talking to me, Roadrunner.
;p

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:51:09 +0000

Yeah, without the “:D” how am I meant to know we’re having a lighthearted banter/trade of stupidity? Now i’m just offended.
Pah.

By: Belcher

Belcher — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:27:51 +0000

@J-Man, you forgot your ‘:D.’

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:58:05 +0000

@Roarunner, let me correct you there.

I just finished the BOOK of Thus spoke zarathustra, and now I’m moving onto the BOOK of Beyond Good and Evil. I will then, upon completion of the BOOK of Beyond Good and Evil, purchase the BOOK of Gay Science.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:43 +0000

That’s partly my fault Smee – I’m actually walking and strafing at the same time, so I’m moving 45 degrees from where I’m facing. But yeah, the animation just generally sucks.

By: Smee

Smee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:18:52 +0000

Oh my goodness, is that seriously the 3rd person walking animation? It’s god-awful, they didn’t even try!

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:21:25 +0000

Let me correct you there.
You just finished [reading the simple english wikipedia entry on] Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Now moving on to [the simple english wikipedia entry of] Beyond Good and Evil.

… :D

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:08:08 +0000

Just finished “Thus spoke Zarathustra”

Official verdict:

WOOT!
I was slightly bothered by his rant on my kind of person… “tarantulas”, and the chauvinism was annoying, but all in all, it’s an incredible book.

Now someone just needs to explain it to me. Now moving on to “Beyond Good and Evil”

P.S. should I have posted this on the Nietzsche entry, or is this ok?

By: Chris Livingston

Chris Livingston — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:30:58 +0000

That’s great stuff. Haven’t been in there, despite putting about 30 hours into the game. I love to think of all the stuff I haven’t found yet.

By: Remnant

Remnant — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:09:30 +0000

Ben Abraham: I believe it’s N/NE of Arefu, the Grocer sitting next to one of the Metro entrances.

And yeah, I know what you mean. I’ve sunk 20+ hours into the game and haven’t uncovered anything in the top half of the map.

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:04:36 +0000

I like to think that I’ve played a fair share of F3… and I have absolutely NO idea where this is…

By: Newt Pulsifer

Newt Pulsifer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:37:48 +0000

Hey Tom,
Patch 2.0 for galciv2 is out there, since the 5th november (remember, remember!). But maybe you already knew it.. sorry than!

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:51:01 +0000

I was WONDERING what the hell caused those explosions.

By: Noc

Noc — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:23:05 +0000

In a similar vein, I was awfully disappointed when I discovered that the one-year-old you did not, in fact, shout “PHYSICS!” when you’d throw your teddy bear around.

I was listening to the latest Rock Paper Shotgun podcast a bit ago, where they were talking with Eric Wolpaw about Left 4 Dead. They were talking at one point on how they tried to get the voice cues for the characters to echo what the player would be feeling at the moment, whether it was “Oh, I hear a Hunter,” or “It’s too quiet, here,” or “Damnit, who set off the car alarm?”

I heartily wish that Bethesda would think about applying a similar design philosophy to their games. Specifically in having the player and NPCs shout “PHYSICS!” when necessary.

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:16:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s been delayed until January due to AIDS.

By: Gamer_V

Gamer_V — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:43:51 +0000

I’m not a Tom but I can tell you the pc-version has been delayed to sometime next year.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:14:54 +0000

As you’re an expert, Tom, how come I haven’t seen Mirror’s Edge for PC anywhere? I’ve tried computer exchange and GAME (yes, the capitals are necessary).

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:26:31 +0000

Something tells me you don’t like me commenting on your blog. :D

Treatise of human nature eh? Well instead, i’ll write…something more comical!
Maybe i’ll write a book on how a communist utopian society would work without the enforcement of secret police.
…yeah. Thats much more easy to comprehend the the Treatise of Human Nature, which I just googled right now.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:31:17 +0000

Haha! This just happened to me yesterday only I didn’t notice anything but the boxes. Dominoes! So I shot the one on the end and watched to my amusement! You can only imagine how surprised I was when the other stuff started to happen…

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:45:57 +0000

I liked it when I did that, Clover got blown up.

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:51:29 +0000

It is here that you can see the Oblivion things coming back. Funny stuff.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:31:54 +0000

So…. the physics are good?

By: Remnant

Remnant — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:18:01 +0000

Oh SHIT! I’m a twat for not noticing that whole set up. I just looted all the Abraxo Cleaners (1 WG, 10 caps? Yes please!), and stepped around the plate. I figured it was a trap that would kill me and the arrows were taunting the unprepared.
And I set off the bear trap by walking in it. Man, I missed out.