Memorable Combat Scenes?

[MichikoUnknownFox]

I have quite a few, but just now I started playing Operation Anchorage, and I thought about sharing my experience. I dunno if it's because of MMM or not, but that initial firefight between the Outcasts and the Supermutant horde as you exit the subway station right at the beginning of the DLC is pretty intense. It's my first time to play the content from Anchorage, and I saved right after the fight just to talk about it here.

 

My increased spawns settings from MMM has made gun battles quite exciting, but I've never been in a fight as big as the one out there. It was so crazy. Bullets flying everywhere. I had to reload my save a few times because I either get killed or accidentally hit one of the Outcast guys who walked into my line of fire. After all the initial Supermutants had died, it was something like 25 Supermutant corpses and 5 Outcast corpses out there. Bullet holes, spent shells and laser burns in the walls were everywhere.

 

 

Anybody else have some really cool war stories?

[panzersharkcat]

Adams Air Force Base when testing PMO and its MMM patch. Imagine me muttering, "Oh, crap. Oh, crap. Oh, crap." for an hour or so and you can sort of guess what combat was like. I plan to try again sometime later with Enclave Commander activated and bring hordes of NCR Troopers with me. They may suck individually (they have 120 HP max, meaning they die in only a few shots from most Enclave weapons) but the sheer massed service rifle fire against the Enclave should be fun. It'd at least give me an idea of how bloody the Battle of Camp Navarro was.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Oh man yeah I was like that too at the Anchorage start. I'm usually all gung-ho when I play FO3 but this was the first time I actually spent more time hiding behind cover and using Stimpaks or healing my injured bodyparts, or trying to, than I spent time shooting, because everytime I poked my head out, a bullet or explosion would pop me and almost kill me (high damage settings from FWE).

 

There were so many supermutants and there was so many bullets, laser beams and plasma projectiles flying around me. You don't have a lot of cover at that point. I was hiding behind the broken car to the left of the initial escalators out of the subway. Supermutants were shooting at my position from two areas, including some enfilading fire from the guys right across. D: But I couldn't get any better cover than that though, so I pretty much just stayed put and tried to shoot away the Supermutant guns or cripple their arms to try to reduce the incoming fire and maybe mess up their aim.

[panzersharkcat]

Don't get me started on Anchorage. I died so many times during testing. Just a quick burst of Type 93 fire on me is enough to kill me. Sure, combat armor may have a damage reduction of 15 but the Type 93 does 33 per bullet at ten rounds per second. Add in the 10x critical multiplier for that weapon to nullify the reduced critical chance that automatic weapons have and that means pretty much instant meaty death. I guess that's what I get for trying to shoot them with a laser rifle instead of the FN FAL I so generously put in the same box. Oh, and Mothership Zeta Crew. The main hall of the Moscow palace. All that massed fire from Bolshevik troops managed to overwhelm the 39 damage reduction of Tesla Armor Mk II. Earlier in that battle, I had some fifteen NCR troopers following me and half of them died when they ran into a small group of Bolsheviks. I lost half my health at that point and I was blasting away at them with my turbo plasma rifle (pretty much instant one hit kill against them because of Better Criticals and the old-school Sniper perk) with a lot of meat shields. Even earlier than that, when I had to rescue Harkin from the Super Mutants camped outside his location, I decided to see how different guys from Enclave Commander and TSC Air Support would do. I lost ten out of fifteen NCR troopers to the Super Mutants there. I lost two out of five Enclave soldiers (two of them were dumb enough to run in front of a Super Mutant Behemoth and get smacked by that giant fire hydrant). I lost all but two out of fifteen first tier Great Khans. I lost all my Recruit Legionaries and they didn't even kill that many Super Mutants. I lost two out of fifteen TSC Marines. Five Thunderfist troops took no losses at all. But yeah, that really forces you to find cover rather than just running in guns blazing and expecting stimpaks to carry you through.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

I really should try that Mothership Zeta Crew. I haven't really touched Mothership Zeta by itself (or any of the other DLCs for that matter), so I never really felt the urgency to get Mothership Zeta Crew. But everybody speaks highly of it.

 

I will always remember the first time I played FO3, with that battle with Reddin vs. the behemoth at GNR. It's not the most epic battle I've ever been in, but the direction of the action in that one was pretty unexpected and awesome for me. By that time of course I was just using some raggedy Raider weapons in poor condition. I didn't think that going to GNR would be so dangerous, and I went there at like level 4 or something. I thought it'd be only as dangerous as going to Jauffre for the first time in Oblivion.

[panzersharkcat]

Strangely enough, the GNR battle is relatively safe even at low levels because the Brotherhood Paladins there will pretty much curbstomp all opposition, even when the Behemoth shows up. I think I may have made Paladins a whee bit overpowered in comparison to Super Mutants.

[Cyberlazy]

Just yesterday, in new vegas. 7 powder gangers after me tossing excessive amounts of TNT as I dodge and run, returning fire with my shotgun.. A stray pellet catchs a stick of TNT a powder ganger is holding, a white flash totaly obscures my vision and my ears ring, the next thing I see is powder gangers flying over 100' into the air and a large crator where the ground used to be.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

I don't remember what mods I had running at the time when I first played that GNR battle. But I do remember that both Vargas and Sarah Lyons were unconscious, and the only BoS guys shooting at the Behemoth were safely behind the sandbags, while I was just running for dear life. I think I already had FWE and MMM by that point.

[flamenx01]

I really should try that Mothership Zeta Crew. I haven't really touched Mothership Zeta by itself (or any of the other DLCs for that matter), so I never really felt the urgency to get Mothership Zeta Crew. But everybody speaks highly of it.

 

You should try Mothership Zeta Crew it is very fun. Also if you've not already played it you should try the Pitt DLC it was my favourite in both fallout games.

[panzersharkcat]

A week or two ago, outside Dukov's place, just after resurrecting the two thirds of the NCR troopers that were killed by the Enclave there, another Vertibird comes by and drops off two more Enclave soldiers in Hellfire armor. One of them was a Hellfire trooper and within seconds, all my NCR trooper support was dead and I had a big "Oh, crap" moment.