SingingThroughTheStorm

I really do like Fallout 3 (and I probably seem to nitpick way too much), but here some other annoyances I have with the story. I will do these in quick bullet points since the chances of many people reading this is low, and a small chance anyone will reply: Time setting and the environment. 200 years and barely any life has popped up in the nuclear wasteland. Something isn't right here. Fallout 3 feels like it is set within 20 years of a blast, and numerous things point to this. Chernobyl happened roughly 25 years ago and caused mutations and other crazy things, but look at it now: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Chern ... ra=ls&z=17 Technology progression is odd. Most technology should have stopped around 2075, but various things are out of place. Terminals have a old non color display, and it seems most computers were simplistic, yet Robots with fairly decent AI still go through the wastes. I love the music in FO3, but damn does it not seem to fit the timeline. So color monitors don't exist, but energy weapons and advanced hydraulic armor does. Civilization somehow existing without any realistic means of survival. Where is the food coming from? You can go through the whole wasteland and not really find any form of farm, yet people still seem to have plenty of food. What do the Brahim eat? Can't be grass because there really isn't any. How is one of the biggest in population (Rivet City) surviving without any food source? The world going to war over natural gas. Okay, I can cut this some slack, but it still doesn't really work. Natural gas caught on because it was insanely cheap, but now that it is expensive other types of power sources are being used more than before. Wouldn't it make very little sense for Europe to invade the Middle East for Oil if Oil becomes so rare you need to invade other countries to get scarce amounts of it? It seems that it wouldn't be a sound idea financially, logically, or from a tactical perspective. Natural Gas is insanely important; things still seem to run fine without it. Electricity is still running in the DC Ruins after 200 years of decay and a nuclear war, so why was Natural Gas so damn important? It seems the Enclave has no issue sending vertibirds after you if you just wander the wastes, so it doesn't seem they are trying to reserve fuel too much. Did you notice the mood lighting? Look at Megaton's decorative lighting; don't need to save power there. What is powering all these robots that float? Mr. Gutsy seems to burn fuel 24/7 and doesn't seem affected by a shortage. How are massive vertibirds being produce at a level that seems near mass production? Ammo. You can scavenge tons of ammo and energy cells in various ruins, but it doesn't make a lick of sense! Standard shell and round ammo shouldn't functioning after 200 years of s***ing on the shelf. Energy cell ammo should also be completely drained and worthless. Super mutants are always hostile towards you. This doesn't make sense when they are tying up captives and hauling them off to Vault 87. Towns surviving with various illogical problems. Super Mutants are supposedly very powerful and able to put a fight up against the well equipped and trained Brotherhood of Steel, yet young kids seem perfectly safe. Little Lamplight is located RIGHT NEXT to Vault 87, but it seems to continue to thrive. Various towns have these issues that don't make sense. Loot. Wouldn't most of the loot be gone in 20 years tops? Supposedly some resources are in short supply, so why are the local places still full of certain items? People are dying of thirst, but it seems Nuka-Cola machines are everywhere and they have numerous drinks in them. There are more issues, but for now I will leave it at this. In short it seems the Fallout 3 world was meant to be set almost right after the blasts (15 years or so), even though that probably quickly causes a plot whole in the original games. One other thing. Why in the world did Bethesda get Fallout? The original games seem to have been produced by another company ages back. Why didn't they just start a new IP?

These are all very good points. I posted some of my issues with the story, mainly that radiation and dirty water didn't seem dangerous enough.

Have you tried NMC's Textures? They seem the most popular. Sadly I tried them (High Quality ones he posted), and I didn't care for the look. Most of the time the textures don't look "better" they just look different, imo.

Already have FOMM, and Fose installed. ArchiveInvalidation is also checked on in the top menu of FOMM. So that doesn't seem to be the problem.

So I am playing FO3 again (don't know how many times I have played it), and wanted to see if I was getting the most of it. Played numerous times on the PS3, and now doing my second playthrough on the PC. First playthrough was using FOOK2, Cube Experimental, and a few other mods. Now I am doing a playthrough with FWE, MMM, DCInteriors, Fellout, and Enhanced Weather. I can't really tell if DC Interiors installed properly, any ideas? FWE also doesn't seem to be loading textures properly either. I know it is FWE because Armor and some weapons (very few) added by it are experiencing the problem, as well as the wasteland explorer. I do have Archive Invalidation on as well AFAIK.