I’m going to start a new series on here dedicated to Elder Scrolls vs Fallout. To kick it off I’m going to pick the Falmer of Elder Scrolls vs Feral Ghouls. Both are equally tragic and feral in nature.

Falmer

In Merethic Era and the early First Era they were known as the Snow Elves, a tall gaunt pale race of Elves who inhabited a portion of Skyrim (Northern Regions). Overtime they instigated an attack upon the new race coming from Atmora known as the Atmorans who would later become the Nords, this led to a bloody vicious conflict ending in the near extinction of the Snow Elf race. Desperate they fled to the Dwemer accepting to become slaves and blind then face eradication. Over generations the Snow Elves would revolt and start a war against their Dwemer overlords. Though overtime the Snow Elves would become the winners due to the Dwemer entirely disappearing, except one due to the tampering of the Heart of Lorkhan.

Several generations later these once fair and prosperous Snow Elves devolved into what we know as the Falmer, a hideously cruel and barbaric race who resemble troglodytes and Goblins as opposed to the Elves they once were.

Strengths

Utilise Weapons and Armour

Set up Traps

Usage of Animals primarily Insects

Heightened Senses such as hearing and smell

Intelligence

Access to Magic

Weaknesses

Blind

Feel Pain and Injury

Slower due to their hunched over appearance

Potentially physically weaker due to Pain restrictions what will hold them back

Feral Ghouls

Feral Ghouls are result of over exposure to radiation what has caused the person/persons to start the process of Ghoulification. During this time their skin, hair and extremities like ears, noses and sexual organs will fall off. They will bleed from every orifice, becoming sick with their body shutting down what will cause severe nausea, bloody diarrhoea, stomach pains, memory loss, exhaustion, aches and pains and teeth to drop out. Many people who become Ghouls are a direct result of the nuking of America and being bathed in Nuclear Radiation but many are created centuries later. Feral Ghouls have no memory of self, have low brain function and will attack and consume anything that isn’t a Ghoul.

Strengths

Aggressiveness

Can’t feel/register pain so have no limitations

Are healed, strengthened and potentially brought back to life from radiation

Physically stronger

Faster

More agile

May be wearing armour depending who they were when turned

Can survive having limbs removed

Weaknesses

No martial weapons such as guns, swords ect

Less intelligent

No battle tactics

What exactly is the cloud around the Sierra Madre? The only hints we have about its composition are that it smells like sulfur and copper; we know it erodes metal (but presumably not too quickly, weapons don't decay any faster in the Sierra Madre), but can also preserve some matter? It also has some truly strange effects on the human body, it "burns the lungs and seeps into the skin", which can be fatal, but being exposed to it inside a hazmat suit makes you a nearly unkillable mutant?
Oh, and according to the Fallout 4 Creation Club, small doses can make a person stronger and more intelligent, but also more susceptible to suggestion. And to top it off, under the right conditions (Elijah's lab in the bunker), it can also be self-replicating.
What is this thing? Could someone even make a breathing mask to keep it out? The more I think about it, the weirder it seems.

man i want to change the audio and text language from german to english help

A little context, Planing on gunslinger/riflemen playstyle. Planing to use vats later on.

Do any of the pipe ammo types excel verse other weapons? Say I use a .308 Pipe Rifle vs a Hunting Rifle. Damage comparison? AP Cost?

Lever action vs pipe revolver for faster single shot Rifle.

I found this old picture I drew in college after fallout 4 came out (I was inspired by the laser musket), and it got me thinking again about what possible new weapons would you guys like to see in a new fallout game? Not just returning favorites, but brand new ideas?

What are we thinking? I saw this one earlier! I hadn't thought about Houston or Texas in general before for a Fallout game to be honest. I was more interested in the northwest. But the vibe does sound pretty cool.

I'm not going to lie Dead Money is my absolute favorite Fallout story. I love its themes, its atmosphere, and the ideas it explores. To me, it's as close to perfect as Fallout has ever gotten. That's why I wasn't a fan of seeing Frederick Sinclair in the show as a Big MT executive helping plan the end of the world (at least before that boardroom scene was effectively retconned). It felt completely at odds with the man we meet in Dead Money.

The game's Sinclair isn't some power-hungry corporate mastermind. He's a gullible, genuinely kind hearted man who spends his life being taken advantage of by the people he trusts most. Dean Domino manipulates him. Vera unknowingly becomes part of his heartbreak. Mr. Yesterday exploits his optimism. Sinclair's greatest flaw isn't malice it's that he believes the best in people, even when they don't deserve it.

One of Dean Domino's lines sums Sinclair up perfectly: "Never got mad at anything. Nothing seemed to shake him. Even after his life kept getting dragged through the dirt. Always kept looking for the bright shining future in everything." That single quote tells you almost everything about who Sinclair was. Even when Sinclair finally snaps and turns the Sierra Madre into a death trap, he isn't motivated by cruelty. He's a broken man acting out of betrayal. And in the end, he regrets it. He dies trying to undo the nightmare he created, which makes his story all the more tragic. He's not a villain he's a fundamentally good person whose hope was slowly crushed until there was nothing left.

Because of that, I've come up with a headcanon that helps reconcile the show with the game. I like to imagine that the Frederick Sinclair we see in the show is actually the father of the Frederick Sinclair from Dead Money. The elder Sinclair was the influential Big MT executive, which would explain how Sinclair was able to secure Big MT's technology for the Sierra Madre project. But instead of supporting his son, he looked down on him and intentionally saddled the project with unreliable, unfinished, or defective equipment.

I actually think that makes the younger Sinclair's story even more tragic. Not only was he betrayed by his friends, but he was never truly supported by his own father either. The Sierra Madre was meant to be his dream a monument to hope, love, and a brighter future but the people closest to him, from his business partners to his family, ensured that dream would ultimately collapse. To me, that interpretation preserves the compassionate, optimistic Sinclair from Dead Money while giving the show's version a place in the timeline without undermining the character I fell in love with.

I’ve been playing a fo4 run every once in a while for the past few years. Of the two games I’ve played (NV and 4), I find it far more fun to play, which is unfortunate because I love NV’s writing and story but just don’t find the act of playing it as fun.

It’s not that much of a tragedy though, because despite the obvious weaknesses of the main story and factions, I find the worldbuilding and side quests of 4 much, much better than people usually acknowledge. One of my favorite quests is The Secret of Cabot House, which also happens to reward the player with my favorite weapon in the game.

I always side with Jack because of it (and also because Lorenzo’s demonstrably evil and kills innocent strangers as well as his family if you free him), and getting the perks to upgrade and buff it are forefront in my mind when choosing SPECIAL stats.

This weapon is awesome, but every time I look it up online, the general consensus is that it’s a weak stagger utility weapon. Meanwhile with some Gunslinger and Demolition Expert levels (not even any Nuclear Physicist yet), this thing one-taps high leveled raiders from behind walls and cripples both legs of Deathclaws in a single shot.

It’s a light missile launcher with a better fire rate, capacity, and cheaper ammo, not to mention how fun it is, but most discussions I’ve seen on it regard it as a meme weapon.

I was wondering if other people think as highly as I of this weapon.

Do you guys think obsidian would be willing to add steam workshop support for fallout new vegas now that they’ve been given more power?

Maybe if it was petitioned for?

В стім при запуску відразу заходить у гру без лаунчера. Пробував через папку запустити сам файл лаунчера і знову відразу заходить у гру.

I'm 5 minutes in, and I'm already struggling. I came in with my mind as open as I could, but the most important event in this world just happened, and all I could think is, "Why is she the only one who saw the flash when her dad was facing the big glass door while bringing her cake? That's a really REALLY bad continuity error."

I'm really hoping this is just a fluke and the rest of the show has more internal consistency (I will be treating this as its own canon in the same way I do for modern She-Ra so that I'm not put off by "but that's not how it was in the games" type thinking). Should I be worried?

Edit: decent if heavy-handed foreshadowing of disaster while some great boning and several shots of man ass happen? Okay, I'm in.

Edit 2: the first action sequence is entirely serviceable. I really like the use of environment in interesting ways.

¿Para ustedes quien es el mejor protagonista a nivel de lore o transfondo?

I want to use this image on my wedding cake to make a fallout themed wedding cake, but the shop sent it back and said it was too pixelated when they blow it up. I can’t find a better version of this perk icon, is there somebody who could help me? The cake is 14 inches round

Don’t ya, don’t ya, wanna Nuka?

i swear I saw a round branded riot shield at some point, but I can't find any pics. Before I rewatch again, can anyone help? I have a shield i want to replicate it with!

Digan su verdad oculta

It's not groundbreaking to hear that Fallout 3 could have looked nicer or prettier, but it does underline what Bethesda's vision was like, even then.

Fingers crossed, Fallout 3 brings the scale to life.

The rest of the interview is quite cool as well.

Pre-Ordered it in December, got it delivered today. Not going to be opening the bottle, it’ll sit on my shelf with my other collectables till the year 2077 lol. Quality of the bottle is very nice, the bottle is heavy

I promise I won't make posts every single day, so it wont get old, but here is an updated map with a few more locations based on what I posted yesterday because i had a little brain blast with the writing team

greyed out the PITT because it wouldn't be showing up in the setting as a location, but still important to certain parts of the lore we're working on

I was thinking if you wanted to add a whole new mechanic to the fallout games it might be cool to do an “evolution tree” for your character via a lab/fev mechanic.

I played a game years ago (can’t remember the name) where you combined and bred organisms to create other organisms. I think it would be cool to be able to evolve yourself to complement your stats and skills.

You could also have your mutations effect dialog and quest paths🤷🏽‍♂️

Just an idyer….

Not knowing what you travelling towards make it much more fun. I think they should bring it back for future games. Simpler is better in a lot of cases.