worst moments ever

[spiritshadowx]

I accidently managed to make Liberty Prime hostile in G.E.C.K.... you work out what happened. ;)

[monster0mash]

I am only level 15 and never played before but tons of just not knowing and getting surprised.

1)Supermutants rocket launching at me from catwalk in DC.

2)Trying to get back to Megaton with 1 hp and running into a Deathclaw fighting a Wastelander.

It didn't last long enough for it to ignore me.

3)Exploding computers and mailboxes.

4)Getting attacked leaving places by numerous raiders with the contract on me.

5)Killing myself with my own mines.

6)Getting paranoid when I see Caution but can't see what's around me.

Then getting surprised by a Supermutant in a truck that yells at me...

And many more...

[InfinityGoat]

It happened in NV but it's still my worst moment. I mantage to trap myself in the legendary deathclaw cave thanks to Boone. We snuck deep into the cave without killing anything, then suddenly he decides to exit sneak mode and start firing on the deathclaw RIGHT when we were in the center of them. I manage to run out of the cave only to have like 6 of them follow me out, so I paniced and pop back inside as quick as I could.... and they didn't. They stayed outside the ONLY enterance pretty much waiting for me, and because of autosave, I was stuck there (my last manual save was hours before and I didnt want to lose my stuff). I spent alteast an hour trying to get out, eventually I make it by taking every chem I had and boobytraping the HELL out of the inside of the cave. I ran out and back in as quick as i could to get them to follow me and kited them into my traps, and shot thoes who actually survived. Good news is that I leveled up during that battle, and the perk I got was Paralyzing Palm. Hahaha I ended up paralyzing the legendary deathclaw and stomping him to death in VATS.

 

Oh, and Boone got torn apart. I was proud of myself for making it out of that I saved anyway. Sorry Boone(your fault anyway)

[FastBlackCat]

The first time I ever played FO3, my PC was at level 1 (I think), fresh out of the Vault, only armed with the 10 mm pistol she had looted off of one of the Vault 101 security guards, and headed over to the Super Duper Mart. As she rounded the corner to head to the front doors, she came face to face with a Death Claw.

 

It was over in seconds :facepalm:

Edited July 4, 2011 by FastBlackCat

[Jeoshua]

Did I ever want to kill the game designers? No.

 

But I did want to shake the hell out of a few of them when I opened up the GECK and read the comments in several of the scripts they left lying around from production. Seriuosly, when someone says "THIS NEEDS TO BE CHANGED"... you need to freaking change it. Send the guy an email already, don't leave some passive agressive comment in their section of the code, hoping they'll come back and fix it "someday".

 

Argh.

 

Must... contain... anger... :wallbash:

[MissRedZelda]

Dogmeat. He's a loyal dog. So loyal in fact, that he'll attack anything in order to defend his master. Even if that thing is a f-ing Deathclaw!

 

Seriously! It's like: "Oh, there's a whole herd of Deathclaws over there, and they haven't seen us yet, thankfully. If we're quiet and don't do anything to turn them hostile against us, we'll be able to - No! Wait! Stay, boy! Come back, you'll...!" (Dogmeat has died) "die..."

 

(Load latest save)

 

:wallbash:

[DavidYokosukaJapan]

Did I ever want to kill the game designers? No.

 

But I did want to shake the hell out of a few of them when I opened up the GECK and read the comments in several of the scripts they left lying around from production. Seriuosly, when someone says "THIS NEEDS TO BE CHANGED"... you need to freaking change it. Send the guy an email already, don't leave some passive agressive comment in their section of the code, hoping they'll come back and fix it "someday".

 

Argh.

 

Must... contain... anger... :wallbash:

Ha!! +1 on that comment :)

 

 

My WFT moments... well a *lot* of them are due to the artificial stupidity of companions, especially when I first started playing w/ FWE because I thought having companions set to essential is like "cheating" so set them back to nonessential.

Every time we'd enter a building we'd be in sneak mode and as soon as the room loads, Clover (or Jericho or Charon) would STAND UP and BOLT OFF into another room or upstairs. I'd always be like "WTF IDIOT?!?" and then stand up to go run after them all the while mashing the Command Headset hotkey and repeatedly pressing "Follow close" and then after 3 seconds of sounds of gunfire and yelling and I'm just entering the room with 5+ raiders a message pops up, "Clover (or Jericho or Charon) has died."

And then they'd unload on me and the screen would shift to the Lone Wanderer head and arms getting blown off by gunfire ...

 

sigh :psyduck:

 

And then there's the other times where they mess up an otherwise perfectly executed plan. Just the other day for example they did it near MDLP mass relay station. On our way there I tell Clover, Charon, and Jericho to wait near the broken down US Army truck on the bridge nearby before I head on over to the relay station.

I 'silent run' over to the relay station, and there's only one Raider who I blast with my mesmetron and he goes into a daze. So I sidle over to him and slip the slave collar on (I only enslave Raiders BTW) and he starts off towards Paradise Falls. I'm following because it's close enough to where it makes sense to just follow him there and get another collar.

He's running and the the compass shows him as a friendly. So anyhow we're getting close to the bridge where my followers are waiting and then Clover (who's dressed up as the AntAgonizer) takes out a plasma rifle and takes aim. I'm thinking "what enemy spawned?? I don't see anything" and she shoots my enslaved raider right in the chest causing him to stop and hold his chest and after that happens Charon and Jericho start screaming and they pull out SMGs and blow the poor guy's head and arms off and I'm in shock sitting in my chair saying "No NO NO!!! :ohmy: WTF CLOVER?!?!? That was a frickkin FRIENDLY!!! That's 250 caps!!" :wallbash:

I said this out loud and my wife who's standing 10 feet away from me is giving me the wierdest look, then looks right at my face and says "キチガイ" ("you're insane" in Japanese).

 

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry :wacko:

 

 

And then there's Dumb-meat... I mean Dogmeat who's always got his nose up my butt and who's also hell bent on dying.. I see a troop of Talon Mercs in the distance and tell him to WAIT. I ease up about 30 feet and start sniping them with junk from my Rock-it Launcher. They start looking around for me but don't see me... and then Dumbmeat suddenly BOLTS right off towards them and I'm calling up the Command Headset hotkey and repeatedly pressing "Follow close" hoping that it'll stop his rabid, suicidal attack but no... he runs into them and in 5 seconds onscreen is the message "Dogmeat has died." :facepalm:

I'm holding my face in my hand shaking my head thinking that if I had a dog THAT dumb that didn't run away after at least SOME injury he's probably better off not making puppies...

 

And he ALWAYS does that dumb **** .

sigh :psyduck:

 

{edit} ah... so yes, I do want to throw moldy muffins at the a.i. devs because their work SUCKS.

Edited January 30, 2013 by DavidYokosukaJapan

[Talwyn224]

 

 

And then there's Dumb-meat...

 

 

 

I couldn't have said it better myself :thumbsup: Dumb-meat the stupid dog...

 

When I first got ahold of FO3 waaaaaay back in 2008 I was quite amused on my first play thru to find Dog-meat and my 1st reaction was that it was a nice tip of the hat acknowledging Dogmeat from FO1 but... after 10 minutes later I had a WTF moment when the stupid dog suddenly started growling then charged off to fight the heavily armed Super Mutants that hang around that church just south of the Germans town police station. Being only Lv 8 at the time I was in no position to beat them and I consequently died trying to save my loyal dog. Back to previous save which was a fair bit of time ago due to all the outdoor exploring I'd been doing, go back pick to DM again and this time really avoid the Muties but again, the dam mutt finds 3 Rad Scorpions to attack and get us killed by. Lucky I had saved but I was beginning to see a pattern forming. 3rd time, around, managed to avoid getting into unnecessary battles and am carefully making my way into Minefield when Dumbmeat arcs up again and charges ahead for the sniper :facepalm: , setting off mines and blowing up cars etc killing us both once more.

 

So since then and subsequently on every play thru I have done with FO3, I get the dog, and immediately fast travel back to Megaton and leave him outside my house and NEVER use him again as a companion as its just not worth the bother.

So yeah, that's just one of the teeth grinding things about FO3 that I'd have to say.

 

Others include the sloppy, often really lame plot points, absolutely absurd propositions like the Enclave not being able to get the purifier going, or worse, not attacking & wiping out the BoS first BEFORE occupying the purifier.

 

Dr Madison Li, a scientist who's been sitting on her bum in Rivet City for 20+ years suddenly shows up and somehow fixes Liberty Primes power problem in 5 minutes? :wallbash: Yeah...riiight

 

Being able to talk a sentient AI {President Eden} into self destructing through a few simple twists of logic... WTF? :rolleyes:

 

Mini nukes... gee whoopie... o_O It seems that Mini Nukes are probably about as powerful as 500 grams of C4 when you watch their detonation in game. Far too pathetic for what a low yield Nuke should be capable of. And the launcher/delivery system? Good god... using a spigot mortar similar to the WWII anti tank weapon the British had called the PIAT [Projector Infantry Anti-Tank - which was woeful and the troops hated using] to launch a low yield nuclear projectile... :sick: Oh come on guys... That's just utterly stupid! So much so I refuse to use Fatman weapons in either FO3 or FO:NV as I find them so game breaking and annoying.

 

Ok.. next.. companions that somehow can just strap on power armour WITHOUT any prior training yet you have to either go through Operation Anchorage or wait till right near the end game before someone shows you how these advanced marvels of technology are to be used... :down: Again, yet another inane and immersion breaking writing/design.

 

The karma system: you can set off the nuke in Megaton, become thoroughly evil as a result yet just by handing out fresh water to a few folks repeatedly and doing a few 'good deeds" you can be redeemed for that? :woot: Oh Joy!

 

Oh... the quest "Trouble on the Home Front" - you return to sort out the mess back in Vault 101. In my case I had Fawkes with me... yet no one batted an eyelid when a massive super mutant walks in with you... or Charon or anyone else for that matter? :( This should have been a golden opportunity for the designers to include some dialog regarding the LW's companions and having vault dwellers ask about the outside world. But again... nothing. Oh and once you complete it [that is if you don't massacre them all] they ban you for life once more? Oh please... :ermm:

 

These are the main items that stick in my craw when it comes to FO3.

 

However... I still love the game DESPITE its many failings, flaws, bugs, obviously poor writing & plotting. It has some incredible moments as well like finding the skeletal remains of the couple, embracing in death and surrounded with Med-X, in the bedroom in one of the houses in Minefield... well that moved me. It was one of those moments where the picture spoke volumes... a couple faced with armageddeon decide to check out together and hold onto each other as they pass away. That was a powerful statement. :sweat: Another was finding The McClellan family townhome in Georgetown where the Robo Butler can be prompted to recite the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sarah Teasdale to the remains of the dead child.... dam... that got me as well.

 

It's still good... warts and all.

 

edit: If it wasn't for the designers releasing GECK, which has allowed for a myriad of FO3 short comings visa-vi the pathetic amounts of variation in weapons in the vanilla game for instance, well that alone has been FO3 greatest achievement. It allowed the fans to fix the things the designers were too lazy or under far too much time pressure to deal with

Edited February 3, 2013 by Talwyn224

[seres69]

I had some pretty bad WTF moments too:

 

- Me as Lvl 2 character at first play charged off to discover EVERYTHING, but by the time I found the school of Springvale I got much more cautious because I headed into the destroyed part of the building only to find 6 and more raiders armed with frag´s, that they used to remove my bodyparts.

- I went into the Dunwich Building... I think I don´t need to say more.

- After I installed 'Increased Spawns' I tried sneaking past an army of Overlords after completing the game. I had Charon and Dogmeat with me. Ofcourse ,like always, Dogmeat charged off to attack them, forcing Charon to stop sneaking to constantly shouting "Where?" "You like that?". After I got the message that Dogmeat died I knew it was time to retreat but... well... let´s just say some Super Mutants came from behind and Charon thought now was the best time to use his Fatman to attack the Super Mutants that were right in front of ME. End of story, Dogmeat and Charon doomed me... again!

 

So those are all the WTF moments I remember when I still was a 'Newcomer' to the game.

[DavidYokosukaJapan]

I couldn't have said it better myself :thumbsup: Dumb-meat the stupid dog...

..............

...................... I get the dog, and immediately fast travel back to Megaton and leave him outside my house and NEVER use him again as a companion as its just not worth the bother.

So yeah, that's just one of the teeth grinding things about FO3 that I'd have to say.

same, I only use him when I find a locker I can't open so he can noclip his nose in to get items... other than that, he stays put in Megaton.

......................Mini nukes... gee whoopie... o_O It seems that Mini Nukes are probably about as powerful as 500 grams of C4 when you watch their detonation in game. Far too pathetic for what a low yield Nuke should be capable of. And the launcher/delivery system? Good god... using a spigot mortar similar to the WWII anti tank weapon the British had called the PIAT [Projector Infantry Anti-Tank - which was woeful and the troops hated using] to launch a low yield nuclear projectile... :sick: Oh come on guys... That's just utterly stupid! So much so I refuse to use Fatman weapons in either FO3 or FO:NV as I find them so game breaking and annoying.

 

Ok.. next.. companions that somehow can just strap on power armour WITHOUT any prior training yet you have to either go through Operation Anchorage or wait till right near the end game before someone shows you how these advanced marvels of technology are to be used... :down: Again, yet another inane and immersion breaking writing/design.

This is a double whammy because I'll get Sticky (well anybody actually... )from Little Lamplight and give him some T-45D that I can't wear and then made the mistake of giving him a Fatman with a few of those flying C4 water balloons... it's was pretty entertaining until one time he tries to protect me by shooting one at the Raider I'm slashing at with my Shishkebob...

Just like what happened to Seres69... :sweat: oh the joy

The karma system: you can set off the nuke in Megaton, become thoroughly evil as a result yet just by handing out fresh water to a few folks repeatedly and doing a few 'good deeds" you can be redeemed for that? :woot: Oh Joy!

Well the US does this alll the time.... :sweat:

 

Agree with you 100%... warts and all, Fallout 3 is the best!

Edited February 4, 2013 by DavidYokosukaJapan