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I play a modded game that (among other things) makes combat WAY more deadly. So the Red Glare was actually extremely useful to me, since at long range I could pop off a few of the surprisingly common rockets and they would blow any Tunneler or Marked Man formation to pieces. Even just a single...

The Great War specifically refers to the nuclear exchange.

Also, ghoulification is pretty random. The player character simply dies, for instance.

I liked Fallout 3, but I find New Vegas a lot better. And I actually think Fallout 3 was a good thing: it provided a basis for New Vegas to build on. As different as it is from the classic games, Fallout works really well in the shooter/RPG hybrid style and with a full 3D world.

I only really do the "Pick up all the junk to sell" stuff when I do my NPC runs. Said runs are based on Living In Oblivion, albeit with some changes to fit the Fallout universe. Since I can only take regular odd jobs in terms of quests (like "Can You Find It in Your Heart?"), selling junk is the...

I haven't gotten any power armor yet in my game, but looking at all of the stuff, it really makes power armor what it should have been in the first place. There's something like 20 upgrades, various underarmors, vocal warnings of things like overheating, tracked power consumption and heat levels...

Take a look at the New Vegas Nexus and look for the Powered Power Armor mod. It greatly revamps the usage of power armor, since the basic game simply treats it as "This protects you more" rather than how the lore treats it: a powered exoskeleton that greatly enhances the user's combat...

The Sten was built at a time when every soldier was expected to use a weapon with marksman-level accuracy and power, designed for popping targets hundreds of yards away. The Sten is perfectly accurate for average combat conditions; it's not inaccurate just because you can't shoot someone 500...

There HAS to be living plants if there's dead plants. If all plant life was killed, within 200 years there wouldn't be any dead bushes or tumbleweeds; the remains would have gone away long ago. Especially the dead grass you can see in New Vegas. If you see dead grass, there must have been living...

A pre-war game has a lot of potential. You have to think about exactly what society was like before the apocalypse: America was downright totalitarian and terrified of communists around every corner, Europe spent several years locked in a bitter war with the Middle East over oil and started...

I AM a gun nut, so I can answer some of the misconceptions here. Not as hard as you think. A very simple open bolt submachine gun, like the Sten design, only has a few moving parts. Simple submachine guns and even semi-automatic pistols are regularly made by home gunsmiths in countries like...

Actually, any communist weapons should be appropriately rare in the Fallout world because of the simple history: the Red Scare never ended. Even as the Cold War started to wind down in the real world, anyone who wanted a Soviet weapon was out of luck unless they were very lucky. The producers of...

I MAY be able to Photoshop a Rangemaster, though I'm still a beginner (only been working for about a month) and I mostly just put together existing firearms parts from pictures to create custom designs. On the subject of the Colt 6520, its design is pretty much impossible based on its...

There may be minor ammunition manufacturing, just not in the immediate area. The Capitol Wasteland is not a vacuum isolated from the rest of society; if the Gun Runners can manufacture arms and ammunition and the Crimson Caravan can transport reliably across state lines, it's perfectly viable...

The question is whether the NCR's industrial base is ready for such an aircraft. The Vertibirds were mass produced by the Enclave, yes, but they're manufactured using different techniques and likely have completely different control schemes. The B-29 is old technology, likely with very few...

Kinda depends on the character, really. My copy is heavily modded, so the weapons act much differently (mostly in that they're much more powerful against flesh, while armor is much tougher but you take extra damage if it penetrates). I also got a mod that makes shotguns more realistic in terms...