T w e n t y S i d e d
First, the episode:
And now, the tirade:
Livestream sucks.
We want it to stream the video footage to Rutskarn and I so that we can view and comment on the game. But the feed dies frequently. Then when we hit refresh on the page to try and kick-start the feed again, it will play an ad. But not just any ad. It will repeat the last ad we saw. There are many ads in the rotation, but it relentlessly shows me the same one, over and over. It will show Rutskarn the same ad as well. There are four Slim-Fast ads (that we know of) in the system. I’ve seen ad A dozens of times, B a half dozen times, C once, and D never. Rutskarn has seen D dozens of times. Maybe this is a marketing technique? But then why go to all the trouble of making all these spots?
Then the ads will stutter and lag badly. The ads are all in HD, and sometimes they just don’t come in fast enough, so the ad keeps pausing. Not skipping, pausing. This makes the ad really annoying to watch. Worse, it makes the ad take longer. A twenty second spot will eat up a whole minute.
And then the ad will end, but Livestream won’t return us to Josh’s feed. It just dumps us at a black screen. So we hit refresh…
I can’t describe how infuriating it is to record twenty minutes of a half hour show and then have Livestream ad-bomb our recording session so that we have to restart. (Josh has to stop the feed and restart his Livestream client to get it going again, which means exiting the game.)
After a few takes everything gets all disjointed because we’re trying to continue conversations that Livestream ruined and want to refer to events that are no longer part of the continuity. In the end it took us over three hours to record an hour of worthwhile content.
Livestream doesn’t even offer any sort of “premium” or ad-free viewing options. I understand that bandwidth costs money and I’d be willing to pay to be able to watch ad free. Maybe a flat yearly fee? Or pay a small fee for a few hours? Or just let me watch a whole bunch of ads in one go and get them out of the way? But no. The system will force-feed you ads which don’t work and which break the service. Livestream is broken. We can’t do our show. And we hate Slim-Fast and hope everyone in the company dies in a plague pit. Everyone loses.
Josh did a really good job of editing out all the Livestream-based nonsense and confusion. Hopefully Livestream gets their act together. I don’t even think there is a rival we can turn to at this point.
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And thus is the difficulty of live commentary with people who aren’t all in the same place. Perhaps y’all should just try the other route; Pre-record the video, send it out to everyone or upload it to viddler or somesuch, then record commentary whilst watching the in sync with each other. Takes a little bit of the randomosity out of it and does require a bit more hassle, though, from the sounds of it, less hassle than Livestream is giving y’all.
Also, you guys and your stupid LPs, making me want to replay the games in question myself. I so enjoyed having the time otherwise consumed by Fallout 3 free, thanks.
It’s the same with Hulu, or was at least.
I’m of the opinion that, if they’re going to force-feed you ads to pay the bills, they should at least have the compassion to skip it if the thing buffers for over 30 seconds without playing…
I don’t have trouble with Hulu not loading the ads fast enough, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch a show on Hulu, it shows me the same ad every commercial break. It’s different ads for every show; clearly they have access to more than one ad. I don’t mind watching an ad at each commercial break; I do mind watching the same ad over and over and over and over again. So I guess it’s the same ad-rotation (or lack thereof) problem that Livestream has.
How hard would it really be for Hulu to add a little randomization in there?
If Hulu ever offers a paid ad-free viewing experience, I’ll jump all over it.
What about uStream? It’s a similar service I think and they’re livestream’s main competitor.
Better, they have a paid offering for ad-free streams.
edit: Their pay service is called Watershed, and it’s $1 per viewer hour. Since it would just be two of you on the stream it would just cost you a couple dollars an hour to record, which is a pretty good deal.
I’ve used ustream for watching hockey games remotely, and I’ve been pleased with it. I’ve never broadcast anything, however.
I’d never played with Livestream before today, but they seem to be very similar. Standard youtube sized streaming window, chat room, etc…
Quality seems comparable.
I’m not sure if either product has a built-in tool for streaming the contents of your screen, but I’m pretty sure uStream doesn’t…I think most people use a tool that feeds their screen buffer as though it were a webcam, which can easily be pumped into most video apps like uStream or ChatRoulette.
I think justin.tv is another option, I have a friend who often broadcasts over that rather successfully.
I dunno…sometimes we have to stream for a while. I might be too cheap to do this, and there’s no real guarantee it’ll be more stable than LiveStream.
Well, you could always try the free uStream offering first, that’s the one I have experience with. It’s fine, and I actually don’t remember being bombarded with ads, but I haven’t used it for 5 or 6 months so it’s possible the ecosystem has changed.
I’ve never actually used Watershed, I just looked it up and saw that it was uStream’s pay service, so it probably uses the same underlying tech.
For the record: Viddler also sucks. It seems to only feed intermittently for me.
I second this as well. Not sure why you guys aren’t using YouTube or something. There’s a reason why so many people bother with it: at least it works properly.
Oh and for the record, Xfire does live video broadcasting, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to record that video at the same time.
They aren’t using Youtube because of the length of the episodes.
Viddler work’s A-Ok for me. I haven’t noticed any problems.
Yeah, trust me, we’d love to go with Youtube. But the problem with Youtube is that there is literally no support anywhere for setting up new channels that can upload videos longer than ten minutes. You can’t even pay for them.
Simple. Just contact Youtube, explain briefly what you guys do.
Link to the Shamus blog entries and existing episodes and just say you want to move the thing to Youtube.
Seeing the popularity the”quality and it’s a serious project they’ll hook ya up with a “Spoiler Warning” channel with the length limit lifted or raised (maybe stating the max length any future episodes is likely to be) I’m sure.
I suggest creating the channel before contacting them first though, that way they can simply change whatever settings they need to change in their system.
Considering there are video experts working there they may even have some tips for ya about software solutions for recording the “show”.
So go for it and I hope we’ll see ya on Youtube soon. Who knows, you may end up in a Youtube Spotlight or sumpt some day. :)
My perception was that cap was only put there to limit their liability, with people uploading entire films to youtube. As I recall a couple years ago, the limit didn’t exist. (Or it was an hour. Something.)
Nah, there wasn’t a limit. I remember watching a 2 hour homemade movie on youtube a few years ago.
But yeah, I hate the ads and will never buy anything showcased in them. Congratulations companies, for making me hate you and your product so much that if I ever come into possession of them, I will destroy them.
Oh thank god, I swear I thought I was the only one. Far too often Viddler — and I love the comment system it has — but far too often it’ll load a video for me to about two minutes or three minutes in and then stop. Annoying as hell.
I third the viddler complaints. On my crappy 0.384Mbps connection the stream will die out before long. How about also setting up a torrent with the videos?
Have you tried telnet? I understand it’s what Eidolos did when group-recording his NetHack Let’s Plays.
Haw haw haw.
Don’t run and jump among rocks holding knives, children!
Very amusing episode, from super-sneaky hacking to blowing up a town. Highlights include throwing a grenade at a sleeping guy and stealing a pencil (worth half a bottle cap to a merchant).
I think you were ganged up on by the sniper, Doc Hoff, his guard and Deputy Weld itself when you started a fight.
The sniper, Stockholm I think, has an Assault Rifle :P
The Vault says Stockholm has a hunting rifle. I thought it was a sniper rifle, because he seems to hit me quite well when I noclip on Moriarty’s roof and start messing around… maybe he’s just good.
Hmm. In the LP it looks like an Assault Rifle being emptied into their corpse from his position, but, indeed, he has a Hunting Rifle.
re accuracy: Hunting Rifles have a fairly small spread, and he’s an AI. Everyone knows the Good AI cheats ;) The unique version, ‘Ol Painless, has no spread at all with 100 Small guns. It’s pretty sweet.
Why would anyone give knives to the rocks? They could hurt someone with those!
Kidding. :)
Really funny episode. This series has got me back into Fallout, So I thank you for that.
Oh yeah. Tenpenny tower, biggest concentration of absurd stupid nonsense in the entire capital wasteland. It kinda sums up the minuses of “lets throw in watever cool stuff we can think of” themepark approach to world design. Unlike ME where nothing really stupid actually happened, this LP just keeps getting better and better.
A side note: come to think of it, the whole ghoul quest could have been much better if the writers made gouls slave servants in tenppeny tower.
They could keep the whole “rich snooty bigots” theme, give the ghouls a reason to kill everyone, show the tenpenny residents as actually evil racists and add a nice subtext with socialism vs capitalism.
Could Skype along with a screen recorder serve for your needs?
I’ve been watching a lot of Starcraft 2 streams and NO ONE has been happy with livestream. A lot of people are moving over to ustream instead.
When I got to Tenpenny Tower, I was able to stand right next to Tenpenny, put a sniper rifle on his forehead, and shoot him without anyone noticing. I then stole a pencil and the entire building wanted to kill me.
To me, grenades and mines are some of the more useful weapons, particularly early in the game. And watching things go boom in VATS after chucking a grenade is awesome.
I had never done the blow-up-Megaton route before since I always assumed that the only house you would get in the game was there. Didnt realize you’d get one once Megaton was gone. Figure’d you’d have to buy one in TPT. I did silently whisper “use the quest marker” a few times while you were getting lost and stealing pencils, though.
Also, did you notice? The elevator ride was REALLY short! :)
I always forget that you can use grenades in VATS!
Thanks for reminding me!
What really bugs me about this is that you activate a fucking nuke(much deadlier than a regular nuke),run about a kilometer away,and watch the explosion!I mean that nuke in mass effect was too huge,but this is just as silly.The only two nukes we ever used leveled down whole towns,and here we have just a kilometer of flat land between us and the bomb,and end up unharmed.Fallout 3 is just so tiny.
Also,I never get random encounters in rpgs.We have these overly aggressive animals attacking anything that moves,and bunch of travelers armed to the teeth,and yet animal population remains unchanged.You are a single guy,a weakling,and yet you alone can exterminate a whole species.Yet all these armed traders walking around for years dont seem to harm wildlife at all.
I wont even start with the junk because its been done so many times in so many games.
Oh,and no elevator ride?So sad…But at least that explains why you chose fallout 3 for this spoiler warning.
Indeed. lets say that a nuke that size has a yield of about 3 megatons. With that sort of yield, it would have a kill radius of at least 8 kilometers.
EDIT: well, actually, that would have been the radius if it had been detonated in midair, not in a crater, but I’m pretty sure you still should have been killed. And even if it was on the scale they portrayed, you would definitely have been permanently blinded, looking at it like that. Those things are BRIGHT.
According to my father, who is a retired LANL geophysicist whose main research was the effect of ground-blast nuclear explosions, to survive at about a kilometre away, the blast could be no more than 3.8 kilotons.
Sometimes having geek parents really pays off.
its a north korean nuke!
3 megatons? Yikes! You know Little Boy — which left very little of Hiroshima standing — only had a yield of about 13-18 kilotons, tiny compared to even a single megaton weapon (and miniscule compared to something like the Tsar Bomba; 50 megatons, biggest nuke ever set off.)
Honestly, I’ve discussed this with a friend and assuming that even if nuke tech is at the 50’s level or below the amount of destruction the nuking in Fallout should have caused… yeah, it’d be tremendous. What overpressure doesn’t level the fires burn.
I just think it would be a pretty powerful nuke because it is very large; and remember– the game isn’t at 50s-era technology, just style. the tech is very advanced– they were essentially in a cold war from the 1950s all the way up through the 2070s, and presumably improving on nuclear weapons technology the whole time. It stands to reason that any bomb that large at that technology level would have a massive yield, so 3 megatons is really actually quite conservative.
Nukes are pretty large by default.The fat man and little boy were about 3 meters long and had over 4 tons.Besides,this nuke looks like a bomb you drop from a plane,so I would give it way under a megaton yield.Which still is more than sufficient to level this whole wasteland.
Now, I could be wrong, but I think you’re over-estimating how powerful the hiroshima bomb was. According to the History channel, it was only 4 kilotons, not 13-18.
Oh, the joys of making everything web-based …
Back in the day you would have looked for and hopefully found a software that simply sends your video stream to some other person who runs the client for your server.
OK, back in the day you wouldn’t have been able to stream your complete desktop, only maybe a teeeny little webcam video, but that’s just a bandwidth problem, and your internet bandwidth is already paid for, isn’t it?
What I’m trying to say: Isn’t there something that doesn’t consist of streaming something to a website which will then stream it to others, but doing the good old P2P way? Or would two simultaneaous streams be too much? There is a good array of LAN video streaming software around, and some of it must be able to stream desktop videos too, add to that a VPN containing the three of you, and that should work, shouldn’t it? I only know one German piece of software, WatchMyCam, so that will not help you very much, but there must be something that does the job and requires no external servers …
Great, now I wrote a big block of text and it’s all just hypothetic possibilities … sorry.
Last night I fired up Fallout 3 based on some of the comments from the first episode here, where you guys remarked about the locked doors when you’re a kid requiring 100% lockpicking skills.
So, on a whim, I started a new game, and cheated to advance level up to 100% lockpicking when the character was 1 year old, and threw in some bobby pins to make it easier.
When you unlock one of those doors, it’s just gray area where it’s unmapped. The interesting part is that, when you walk through one of those doors, you fall until you hit the bounding box of the map. Once the game recognizes that you’re outside that area, it resets you to inside Vault 101 as though your dad has already left. So, there my character was, a toddler, facing off against rad roaches.
Now THAT sounds like an awesome Let’s Play.
Timmy The Toddler VS The Wastelands.
There’s mods for that. For playing as a toddler or a teenager. There’s armors and everything. You can literally play as 2 types of kid. Go to http://www.fallout3nexus.com/ for the mods
Randy would have just blown Roy’s head off :(
that quest really isn’t worth doing… and killing him is the best thing to do about it anyway.
And yeah, after 200 years where did Moriarty get his Irish accent
Also – you can get into the TPT suite without actually blowing up megaton (I did it once). Just go around the outside and enter from there…
Belated correction, actually:
I’ve been playing through Megaton, and I think it’s implied Moriarty is genuinely Irish. He sailed over when he young, I guess? I dunno. You’d think he’d have lost the accent.
How do you just sail over!? Seriously! I know it was sometimes suggested that’s what Tenpenny did too, I don’t know if it’s canon, but god dammit. How do you just sail over?
I mean I know they did it hundreds of years ago, but these people in DC aren’t even past raiding the local Quik-e-mart for Cheerios and yet the Irish are building ships good enough to cross the Atlantic?
It’s further implied that people to the North (in the “Commonwealth”) can build, or at least keep in repair, _androids_. That seems a bit complex to me.
Drunk and in a currach like Saint Brendan of Clonfert, obviously. Moriarty is smart enough to have found an infinite supply of alcohol in a blasted wasteland devoid of stills or even the crops to put in them and rife with thousands of beer hungry raiders, he can make a leather boat just fine.
I’ve always wondered this about the Fallout universe:
Did the whole world get nuked? Who was the war between? Seems like it was just the US and China…but did the entire world get bombed out and irradiated somehow? That’s not really how nuclear war works.
Most of the world would probably still be fine. They’d suffer the effects of any radioactive fallout clouds, and any nuclear winter effect, but by and large their lands and buildings would remain intact.
I always imagined that if you went a few hundred miles north into Canada you’d probably find a bunch of people living normal lives in Toronto.
They make a big deal about how Point Lookout didn’t get nuked, but then again, they appear to gloss over the environmental effects of things like nuclear winter and so on. Plus, one of the fallouts (maybe this one? I forget) goes on about how just about every country on the planet starts wars over resources.
Given that the world appears to run on atomic-powered generators, it’d be pretty easy to carry on life wherever you wound up, I suppose. Though if the mutated wildlife spread as aggressively as it looks like it could, I don’t think Toronto or anywhere else would stay safe for long.
a) fallout is set in a 50s vision of atomic war. there was no nuclear winter THEORY back then.
b) its a THEORY
yes its arrived at by a consensus of scientists. but its not proven and there is almost no way to prove it, the calculations are just too vast and absurdly dependent on uncontrollable variables.
You need to go back to your science class and look up what the hell a “theory” is according to the scientific method. I will not allow this sheer ignorance to continue any further. In science, a “theory” is what would colloquially be called a “law”, and a “hypothesis” is what would colloquially be called a “theory”.
If science says something is a theory, what it says is “all scientific evidence we have to date says this is true“, not “we think this is probably what will happen, but no one’s tested it.”
If you’re going to condescend someone, you might want to make sure you aren’t veering into ‘science as religion’ territory.
Theories are formal explanations of events; they aren’t assumed to be true – the statements that make up the theory are.
They are by definition abstract, and as such are only things we believe in. You don’t describe truths with a theory. The fact that we have to build a theory from empirical data, structure it with true statements and so on, doesn’t take away from the reality that, at the end, we then interpret that information in forming the theory (and it’s very possible to be wrong).
A theory is used to predict & explain events in conditions which have already been tested.
A hypothesis is used to predict events in conditions which have not (an extension of an existing theory, in other words).
A theorem is absolute and concrete and true. But that’s because it’s maths.
The whole world was nuked. According to the original intro, in two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders.
The war fronts mentioned specifically are China invading Alaska, the US annexing Canada, and the EU collapsing into a bunch of bickering city-states bent on securing what few resources remained.
It was the Mutually Assured Destruction scenario of the Cold War played out perfectly. It is implied, but not specifically stated, that all survivors were those that made it to a Vault.
Generally, people get accents from their parents. Perhaps Moriarty’s line just kept getting the accent from a parent.
Aww… I’m surprised you blue up Megaton. I was looking forward to the Wasteland Survival Guide.
You can still complete it. Moira is the sole survivor and moves to the Underworld.
Yeah, though now she’s perky and disturbing to look at. Like “Night of the Living Dead” meets Mom from “Bobby’s World.”
Though didn’t they miss grabbing the bobblehead in the Sheriff’s house?
Yeah, you guys are geek enough you should be able to just stream desktop to desktop. Why bother with a service at all when there is free screen-sharing and streaming softs? Assuming you have a strong enough computer/connection on the sending end, it would be alot less hassle.
I recommend UStream. Livestream is… Terrible, and has pretty much been abandoned by all the streamers I tune in to.
If you kill Tenpenny you gain karma and can loot a sniper rifle + some bullets off him, I wonder what he does all day…
Around the middle of the day, Tenpenny enjoys playing “Wasteland Safari.”
firstly who did that wonderful ordinator impression? secondly unofficial poll, how many times did that line lead to an ordinator lead to him getting a (hammer, sword, dagger, spear, arrow, fireball, frostball, or axe) shoved into his arrogant masked face in your games?
me – 5
Why, myself, of course. I’ve handled enough of the bastards during my Morrowind LP.
Define “handled”. I remember Cahmel politely going around them while smiling nervously.
You’re forgetting the time I muttered, “asswipe,” a good five seconds after passing one in the hallway.
Clearly, I stand corrected. Though I can’t find that in the archive…
Didn’t actually happen. Just joshin’ you.
I’m trying to steal Josh’s job too, you see.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but weren’t most buildings outside Another Fine Vault-Tec product in the first two Fallouts… well, post-war construction?
And one story tall, yeah. Nobody fixed up much there, either. The “tribals” had better looking housing than the people in cities.
Though they did build some pretty complicated temples. The one you start out in Fallout 2 seems awfully complex for a dying tribe of stone-age people.
Well, y’know, they had the research points for agriculture or religion, and picked the wrong tech tree I guess.
Though I think Fallout 3 would get less flack for suspension of disbelief issues if World Without People hadn’t come out. They must curse History Channel every week at Bethesda.
The Starcraft community has been having a lot of troubles with livestream. The lag didn’t used to be so bad, but once Day[9] started hitting numbers of 2000-3000 for a live cast, we absolutely terrible lag. Then there was that ad problem that covered up the minimap!!!! So for they’ve been going between ustream and blip.tv. But I think even ustream has lag issues for some viewers at the 2K viewer mark.
I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting Megaton to go that quickly, figured you’d do a couple’a quests around it before getting rid of it. Kudos for doing it at night however =D. I now have to resist the urge to quote the Demoman.
I now wonder if it’s possible to do the Blood Ties Quest? I’ve always had the quest started before destroying Megaton. It’ll probably still let you do it if you stumble upon Arefu at some point.
On one hand, slipping your final Grenade into the Ghoul’s pocket would’ve been perfectly used, but on the other I can’t wait to see how much you make fun of that entire Quest.
You can still do the blood ties quest, you just miss the step with Lucy (I think that her name).
As other people have mentioned, I am surprised you guys missed the strength bobblehead. 1 permanent strength point is helpful, especially at this point in the game. At least you can still do Moria quest.
You’ll notice Josh took a shot at the Sheriff’s key, failed, and gave up. We weren’t going to forgo the Megaton quest for a couple of levels / episodes until we had the ability to take the door straight-on. And we’re not going to save/load exploit our way through the game, as that wouldn’t be very fun to watch.
Yeah, it did bug us a bit to miss that bobble, but keeping the show flowing is more important. :)
As they say, the show must go on…. :)
On my current play through, I actually found the door to be unlocked (at like 0600 in the morning). Sheriff was asleep, and I just waltzed in and took it. I did find it funny that if I thought of taking anything else, it was considered stealing. The bobble, though, was “free”.
I’ll wait until I make my way to TPT to get my illicit pencil.
Hopefully they still do the Wasteland Survival Guide quests. I think it’s even more fun to do when you’ve nuked Megaton and Moira turns into a ghoul.
Why don’t you ever repair anything?
So here’s a question regarding the ‘200 year old food.’ What would the effect of radiation be on foodstuffs? Would it sterilize it? Given that a lot of it is radioactive when you find it, would it still be “good” in the sense that it’s edible in some fashion (as opposed to being tasty)?
And in case anyone hasn’t seen it, this is pretty fun Fallout 3 related material.
I’ve just got to say…
Be More Chaotic Stupid! Part of why we lolled over Randy’s actions was because he took the DUMB ones. What consequences are there here? Just ensure you don’t get shot up by the entire world and go wild! Someone talks at you funny? Rob them blind, sell all their stuff to their competitors, murder their family, and then slip them a grenade to the pocket.
Etc.
Chaotic stupid!
Please don’t. I stopped watching the ME Spoiler Warning because I wanted to slap Randy for his playstyle.
…WHAT
Sheer blind idiocy offends me.
Blowing up a city for a few caps is evil, but it’s not stupid.
No need to be so hostile. Let’s keep this friendly.
Whatever the style of play is called, I hope you make choices regarding play and character building that’s not what one might consider “the norm.” Melee/Stealth is an excellent choice in this regard, as is trying to “break” the game or create havoc, if for no other reason than it’s not how most of us played the game in the first place.
I played liked this… before I went to the nexus site to get some mods. In the beginning it was all melee but then by the end I was all stealth. I played as an evil character though.
Sorry, I came off that “it’s just a theory” post to this one and probably replied with more vigour than I otherwise would have.
I bet you almost suffered an aneurism when you found Little Lamplight!
I was pretty much offended by the entirety of Fallout 3, with a few exceptions.
Ahh,but wheres the fun in watching someone play like you do?
Listening to the commentary of Shamus and Rutskarn about the game.
I agree that chaotic stupid is the way to go here. Most of us probably didn’t make these choices and it is interesting to see how things progress differently.
Don’t forget to travel back to Megaton’s ruins to see what/who is left!
I’ll second going back to Megaton at some point. Should be interesting to see how the Rads rack up, and how much of a smoking hole it is _now_.
Don’t care about chaotic stupid one way or another, but it is nice to see what happened when choices were made that I didn’t make.
I feel i should add one really important point that alot of people seem to be missing with Fallout – In the Fallout universe, 1950’s science actually works. Fallout is basically ‘what the world would be like if the 1950’s were right, which is why cars are powered by atomics and canned foodstuffs last literally forever. It might be a bit less so with FO1 and 2, been awhile since i played those, but it’s definitely there in FO3; alot of things, like massive irradiation resulting in cool mutations instead of painful death and safely detonating nuclear bombs from a kilometer away, make perfect sense if you remember it’s 1950’s ‘science’.
Also; yes the Fallout 3 world is fairly small, considering the alternative is to spend literally days walking acros empty landscape to get from once place to another, i can probably live with that :P, it’s pretty ovbious the world has been ‘compressed’ to make it more accessible from a gameplay perspective.
Still doesn’t excuse the terrible, terrible plot though.
Also wow: this lets play made me want to start up FO3 again, so i did so. I just noticed that in Springvale there’s actually a sign saying “MEGATON” which points you in the right direction.
I never noticed this before O_o
Yeah, that was also a thing I missed in the first run-through. The reason, of course, being that the world of fallout 3 – and all objects of and within it – is so intolerably bleak and brown, you don’t really see anything around you.
This reminds me, you can adjust the ‘brightness’ in the main menu, so you can opt for either totally washed out, colourless radiance of light grey, a pitch-perfect deep tone of midnight brown, deep rust brown and black (as much as your monitor allows it), or anywhere in the middle, which takes the worst of both worlds, but is still somewhat tolerable.
Nothing shows this colour issue more than the Anchorage DLC. In it, you are shown that the engine is capable of doing nice, colourful exteriors (in case you are not familiar with Oblivion) and colour hues, while still retaining an overarching palette-theme (arctic whites). Additionally, the facility itself you enter while getting to Anchorage is quite possibly the most colourful place in the wasteland – and yet you do see the effect of the ‘bleach’ overlay that is forced upon the game, washing out colours deliberately. You can also note a colourful effect when a chem effect withdraws, at the moment every colour is restored to it’s fullest (along with a rather annoying blur effect, however), which somewhat begs the question – why did Bethseda bother to make the game more bleak and brown at an additional expense?
I went and picked up the Fellout mod, which basically de-browns and de-greens the game. It looks much prettier.
“Also; yes the Fallout 3 world is fairly small, considering the alternative is to spend literally days walking acros empty landscape to get from once place to another, i can probably live with that :P, it's pretty ovbious the world has been “˜compressed' to make it more accessible from a gameplay perspective.”
Why?Arkanum was pretty large,and you could choose to trek across the whole world on foot.But you could also choose to just skip the boring walk and appear where you headed.Its not like fallout 3 shows you everything(case in point,the elevator ride(not) seen here).
Adblock Plus seriously may be the easiest way to avoid this ad frustration on Livestream.
It may not be able to block every ad, but I’ve been testing Livestream for around 30 minutes now and I still haven’t had any ad interruptions. I’m using the EasyList Germany+ EasyList filter.
Ghostery may also help you avoid ads if you turn on blocking.
There’s your easy, free, under-10-minute fix. Don’t know if it will have any effect on Livestream’s crashiness though.
Even if you believe in ads as a way to keep the internet free, when a website becomes entirely unusable because of ads, blocking them temporarily just makes sense.
You know, if you guys used Revver to host the finished videos you could actually be paid a share of the advertisement revenue your videos generate.
This would, in turn, help offset (or even profit above and beyond) any premium streaming service you chose to use.
Revver sometimes sends you a message and asks you to vouch that you aren’t infringing any copyrights before the video goes live (it takes 24h or less) but if they ask for a statement before approving your videos you simply reply that it’s review/commentary on the game and therefore fair use, which is good enough for them (they just need to hear you say it so they can state that they have a “good faith” belief it was non-infringing)
You guys are getting enough views that you might profit from releasing these videos, and that means it might cost you nothing out-of-pocket to do a premium stream.
i just started playing fallout3. i told the sheriff about burke and he got killed trying to arrest him. i’m just wondering if i can still do the quest with the disarming of the bomb. as i understood it, i was supposed to turn it in at the sheriff.
I think you can get your payment from his son instead.
You turn in the quest to his son
He has a son!?
…I gotta play this game again. I missed so much…
If you know what Burke is going to do, you can kill him in VATS as he gets up to follow the Sheriff (and loot his corpse, natch).
I had this game from release day, and ran into a bug where some NPCs would “die” when you enter a zone and disappear from the game (usually via a fall from a great height). The Sheriff was particularly prone to this.
ah ok, good to know
at least i have a cool duster now :)
Shamus has disappointed me today.
He let an elevator go without comment.
I mean come on. Do we have to throw out the jokes with the game? It’s not like we’re referencing spoilers or anything…
He’s probably saving it up for the one in the Washington Monument.
Oh great. You reminded me of that one.
God I hated that…
There’s a mod that lets you fast-travel directly into your house, so you don’t have to go through the hassle each time (even the one in Megaton isn’t very conveniently placed).
Mods are awesome. :)
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one.
That beats out HEY LLOYD!
I’ve never tried it, but I’d like to know: What would happen if you blew up Megaton /before/ talking to Moriarty? Would the main quest/plot line be unfinishable, or would he survive the blast and be able to tell you, or would something else open up, or what?
nothing happens really but you will be left clueless on where to go next, it is possible to skip 10% of the story by going straight to your dad in the garage where that Vault is hidden near Rockopolis