The Universal Fallout 3 Board FAQ *Read First / Potential Spoilers*

Hay Guys, what's crackin'?

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Ren lives again apparently, or at least until his next inevitable suspension period, which will most likely be due to a feud on the Platinum Boards non-the-less.

Anyway, long story short, I got hit with a 30 day Suspension for a rather.. passionate argument on the aforementioned board, *wink wink*, although it really couldn't have happened at a better time to be honest, seeing as I just finished first semester Uni finals and now with a new missus to keep me busy, (Read: "Busy" is synonymous with 'keeping me away from enjoying some quality Fallout time and being coerced into having to watch the crappiest movies ever made' >_>" it was less painful than it could have been.^

First, a humble thanks to HB for the Ren can be a douche at times comment, </Facerock>

That hurts man, but I forgive ya.. kind of... >_<

Seeing we has history n all. Lawl!

Auron - Cheers mate, the moral posting support always brings warmth to my soul, etc etc. =D

Trashface - Wow. You make a "frequently asked questions" post and then whine about how people asking some of the most "frequently asked questions" (i.e. "where do you recieve power armor training", annoy you so badly. I guess some people need to be condescending to boost their self worth. My perception rating is pretty high.

Apparently you're new here, so first of all - Welcome to the Fallout 3 Boards.

I and several others have practically been on this board since the game's release, around the same time you couldn't come to this forum without having the first page filled up with 3-5 topics relating to zomg where find powa arma traynin?, and quite frankly, that was annoying and I reserve the right to feel that way about it. Furthermore, the FAQ wasn't condescendingly written, it can be considered more or less to be an addition of very light-hearted humor, and humour which would only appeal to those who were witness to the previous flood of Power Armor topics, I suggest you take a second to realise that circumstances were different back then, so it's about time you got off your high horse and dropped playing the white-knight of the F3 boards. No one's impressed, and apart from Viger"I'mSoHelpful!"ornica, no one gives a damn.

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More to the point, TC didn't flame me because I was asking a question. He flamed me because I was trying to help people by giving tips for things I had just figured out - they happened to already be known. That's the kind of person TC is.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=939933&topic=49580639

If you believe that is an example of trying to help people, I do strongly suggest you try harder in future.

Exiting the Start Menu, indeed.. A very perilous task which only the brightest of Fallout 3 players can accomplish, perhaps you should write an FAQ for it Vige, you know.. While the momentum's good n' all, right?

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Also, please refrain from further de-railing this topic with BAW''ing, do it elsewhere if you must, or not at all, which would be preferable.

fun fact though: your jabbering made me check out of curiousity and hes actually off purgatory now. hes probably just moved on, which is understandable.


Come now HB... Ren "moving on" from Fallout 3? I'll admit, I laughed. = )
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Oh and HB, I saw your revised argument on the Perforator.. Well to be honest, there isn't going to be much of a round 2, considering that drawing enemies to Cars for some boom-time isn't always a viable option, let alone an effective one, particularly on VH.

Especially seeing such an explosion would only most likely kill the strongest variety of Raider outright, I've seen a Yao-Guai survive a Car Explosion on VH, which says quite a lot about it's offensive power, and also considering that I could have just removed the aforementioned's head with a Sneak-Attack Gauss Rifle slug instead of messing around with fancy tactics... There's still no major incentive to use the Perforator outside of low-mid level difficulty games or religiously role-playing a stealth character with a passion for being vane. (Fancy Stealth-Rifle? Least it looks decent.)

It's damage output pales to a standard Chinese AR, its poor rate of fire doesn't assist this at all, it has a negligible Critical Hit multiplier and flat-damage addition to boot and there are already superior stealth-viable weapons available for use elsewhere.

It simply isn't a good weapon IMO.
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lmao; talk about a comically perfect time to make a comeback.

I know, hey? ^_^

Right in time for the DLC.

actually- I'm not sure if perhaps it was the vehicle type, or if(as I stressed in the topic) it was because the bear was a distance from the car, but they cut off a good 50-ish percent of an albino scorpions health(if its right next to it, which isnt a problem with the perf), and those things have a tone of health.

Indeed, this could be why, I may have misjudged the proximity of the gaui from the explosion, although if this strategy really does shave off 50% from an Albino Scorp when the explosion is point-blank then I won't deny it's usefulness, but once again most will argue the availability of using such a tactic, which is to say - quite limited in most cases.

I think its *technically* less damage than the fatman, *but* difficulty only impacts your own damage- external sources are not considered damage from your character, so its actually most efficient on very hard.

and albino radscorpions dont have a head to headshot with your favorite energy weapon.

:p

I see, I suspected that the difficulty didn't scale external damage, but this also brings up another valid argument, if everything else bar the new enemies can be taken care of using conventional strategy (Sneak Attack Gauss, etc), then it limits the usefulness of the tactic even further, when it can be used to shave off 50% from a Reaver or one of those Albino buggers, that's great, but in most cases it won't be a viable strategy. =P

If only more people were driving around in the rural areas when that bomb went off.. If only.^

The Perforator is still limited in its viability to use on the higher difficulties, even with the addition of this little gimmick of a tactic, doesn't really push it any further up the weapon chain.^
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