redeyesandlonghair Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 So I have lots of mods installed dedicated to making the game more realistic. Complex needs, radiation overhaul, ACE, Triage, BLTC, so on and so forth... And while this has resulted in endless entertainment for me, I can't help but think that it's at the expense of my poor character in game. It's almost starting to seem both sadistic and masochistic. Sadistic because I've basically gone through a lot of effort to make the lone wanderer's life a miserable living hell, a daily fight for survival that would no doubt break my spirit in less than a day if I were to expirience it for real. Masochistic because instead of using cheats or, at this point even just leaving the game in it's vanilla state so I can go on some power fantasy of being a badass who kicks the world around like a boss... I'm trying to expirience a thoroughly miserable and ultimately powerless and demeaning existance. And I'm wondering if anyone else is right there with me ;D I see plenty of mods devoted to making your character an invulnerable, plasma sword-wielding, stealthed up, predator-like badass, so clearly there are plenty of players taking the power-trip route. And no, no hint of a "ur doin it wrong!" sentiment here... if anything, I often wonder why I'm not playing the game that way; aren't games supposed to be fantasys? If anything this is a damn nightmare. So, if you're in the same boat, and feel like it, share some of your lone wanderer's misery. My character, named simply 101, is currently hanging out in Megaton. Hey that's not so bad right? Well she can't disarm that there bomb, so she's basicaly homeless. But hey that's not so bad, Megaton has places for people to sleep... oh but wait, she can't sleep, the radiation saturating her body leaves her in too much pain to fall asleep, the kind of pain that no drug can keep away. She got this way because she had to iradiate herself while out in the wastes to get that mutation to kick in, the one she got from the psycho science lady in megaton, the one who ironicly is no longer interested in studying radiation and so is keeping her mega-cures all to herself. It's not an easy choice... sure, that mutation heals the bones, but it destroys the flesh around them... so she was able to run on her journey back to megaton, and boy did she need it.. all that radiation had her at death's doorstep the whole way back. Even more ironicly is that she's not poor, she had quite a haul from her last journey out into the wastelands. Problem is, nobody in town has any radaway to sell, and nobody has any caps for her to trade for... and that damn doctor doesn't wanna trade junk for medical services, he wants caps... jerk. So at the moment she's basically stuck... trying to travel to another settlement is a big gamble... something could breath on her and she'd fall over dead... hell she almost killed herself running too fast down a hill. And of course, she has to keep eating and drinking... which means she's steadily taking in more and more radiation. As the situation gets more and more desperate, she's starting to think it's worth it to sneak into that doctor's hut and see if he isn't hordeing some RadAway... Yeah, it's a great life in the wastelands :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodat1 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I think that your character should just crawl down to the bomb and set it off. Take all those jerks with ya'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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