Fallout 3 Release 28th October

[Majik]

The Operation Anchorage DLC is available now.

It pisses me off that they won't allow me to add the exact number of points that I need to purchase it. Since I don't have any intention on using their marketplace beyond buying this and the future DLC, they're forcing me to pay them more than what the content actually costs. They're not exactly making it easy for PC gamers to embrace this, are they?

 

[Balton]

^so it'S confirmed that the Gauss Rifle is back... it's just that with all these very powerful weapons I don't see a need for another powerful weapon. I'm hoping for a mod that rebalances FO3 so it becomes closer to the originals' difficulty.

 

[Dark Pulse]

Not only is the DLC out, you'll need the 1.0.0.35 Patch to play it... and that patch horribly nerfs VATS accuracy.

 

[Kantham]

What's so bad about nerfing the VATS?
I mean look at this guy... one of the main reason why this game pulls me off.

 

[Majik]

Bought the DLC and played the game for nearly 3 hours, but I still haven't received the distress signal that should trigger the new quest. Sigh.

 

[Wulff]

You need to have the patch installed to get the distress call.

Also I am playing the dlc, encountered two things so far.

1 crash during entering simulation.
And stuck after a cutscene to a damn table.

 

[Manticore]

The Operation Anchorage DLC is available now.

It pisses me off that they won't allow me to add the exact number of points that I need to purchase it. Since I don't have any intention on using their marketplace beyond buying this and the future DLC, they're forcing me to pay them more than what the content actually costs. They're not exactly making it easy for PC gamers to embrace this, are they?

I've never used GFWL so I'm a bit unsure about getting into this for the DLC. Perhaps Bethesda will release it on disc later like they did with the DLC for Oblivion.

 

[Majik]

You need to have the patch installed to get the distress call.

Also I am playing the dlc, encountered two things so far.

1 crash during entering simulation.
And stuck after a cutscene to a damn table.

I have the patch installed, that wasn't the problem.

It seems that there's a bug with how it's implemented with GfW-Live (surprise, surprise) and the DLC wasn't properly loaded despite the game displaying it as loaded in the Downloads menu in-game. I had to manually copy the content packages from my "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XLive\DLC" (Vista) to the Data folder in the FO3 dir (which isn't on C:\, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it) and then it worked fine. [Edit: Oh, and of course remember to make sure it's ticked in the data files menu.]

I really, really don't like Live. Everytime I'm trying to give it a chance, it kicks me in the nuts.

 

[Wulff]

I've never used GFWL so I'm a bit unsure about getting into this for the DLC. Perhaps Bethesda will release it on disc later like they did with the DLC for Oblivion.

There is no protection on the dlc, so you can 'aquire' it from means other than GFWL marketplace if you want to play it.

 

[KaL976]

No issues with GFWL here. It signs itself in & out every now n then but doesn't appear to interfere with playing F3 in any way.

It took a bit of fiddling to access my old saves but it's do-able.

 

[SlayerDragon]

Can't alt-tab the goddamn game now. Also I have audio stuttering problems and weird lag. I didn't have any of these issues before the patch.

 

[Manticore]

There is no protection on the dlc, so you can 'aquire' it from means other than GFWL marketplace if you want to play it.

I suppose I need to cough at this point.

[Ahem][/Ahem]

 

[Kantham]

Anyone can tell me what the point is to use Fast Traveling if you're to spawn in front of a bunch of NPC's all the time?

 

[KaL976]

Anyone can tell me what the point is to use Fast Traveling if you're to spawn in front of a bunch of NPC's all the time?

Talon mercs by any chance?

Hitting them with the mini nuke seems to work so far.

 

[Kantham]

Talon mercs and anything else that's part of the so fully-fixed spawn spots.

 

[Dark Pulse]

What's so bad about nerfing the VATS?
I mean look at this guy... one of the main reason why this game pulls me off.

Defeats the purposes of using it, really. Usually you go into VATS when you want to make sure you hit a headshot, especially if you're going for the sneak critical bonus. Before, whatever range you got 95% hit at is now about 70-80%. This means you have to get closer, which makes you more likely to be seen and attacked, which makes the whole point you went into VATS in the first place completely ****ing null and void.

I've got the DLC going. So far no problems, although for some reason the game will "hang" for a few seconds before displaying VATS hit percentages now, sometimes. Didn't do that before.

 

[Manticore]

Anyone can tell me what the point is to use Fast Traveling if you're to spawn in front of a bunch of NPC's all the time?

It doesn't happen every fast travel for me. When it does sometimes it's Talon Mercs; sometimes not......

With the Talon Mercs they have a contract on my character at the moment so I expect them to show up more often than not.

 

[dragonfliet]

eh, I run into talon mercs on foot more often than I fast travel into them tbh.

 

[Sindarin]

So far no problems, although for some reason the game will "hang" for a few seconds before displaying VATS hit percentages now, sometimes. Didn't do that before.

I noticed this with the 1.1 update as well.

 

[dragonfliet]

ARG I just crashed to desktop like 5 freaking times in a few hours. Not loving this patch.

~Jason