Phoenix said:
You can target with VATS. Thats the function of VATS: Pause the game and shot some parts. Only with melee weapons and grenades you can not target body parts.
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You can target with VATS. Thats the function of VATS: Pause the game and shot some parts. Only with melee weapons and grenades you can not target body parts.
EnglishMuffin
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No lexx, he is saying that the articles states that you CAN target specific body parts with melee. Did they wisen up and change this or did the writer make a mistake?
As for the earlier subject of bad and good town names...
I think that the names of the towns should be creative as well as descriptive of the general atmosphere one is to expect by visiting. The Hub, the Den, L.A. Boneyard all gave a feel of what you were going to expect before you entered the town. You could image what the inhabitants were like. However when you look at a town named Klamath or Arroyo they really don't give much feel for what is going on but I still think they are more creative than Big Town and German Town. Simply adding the word town in the name is extremely redundant. What if The Hub was The Hub Town and Klamath was Klamath Town.
Of course then we have JunkTown, but that fits since it again has that descriptive feel to it; a town made and full of junk. Sure Big Town is somewhat descriptive but anything can be big. It doesn't say anything other than it has a high population and is rather wide. It doesn't convey what the citizens might be like or what we can expect from the town.
Next lets look at Jaynestown, well it was founded by Jayne. Jayne's Town. No problem with that but it still doesn't convey what the town is like only that it was established by someone named Jayne.
Big town and German town take me back to first grade when I was learning to write stories. I was told to be as descriptive as possible. "The Big Car Rolled Down The Hill." Not a very good sentence is it and does not give you a sense of what the car looks like nor what the hill was like.
The point is, Big town and German town sound like some kid came in and threw out a name without any real thought as to what the feel of the towns are. Can you say you get the same connection from a name like The Den and a name like Big Town?
Big town, small town, medium town.......lazy town?
As for the earlier subject of bad and good town names...
I think that the names of the towns should be creative as well as descriptive of the general atmosphere one is to expect by visiting. The Hub, the Den, L.A. Boneyard all gave a feel of what you were going to expect before you entered the town. You could image what the inhabitants were like. However when you look at a town named Klamath or Arroyo they really don't give much feel for what is going on but I still think they are more creative than Big Town and German Town. Simply adding the word town in the name is extremely redundant. What if The Hub was The Hub Town and Klamath was Klamath Town.
Of course then we have JunkTown, but that fits since it again has that descriptive feel to it; a town made and full of junk. Sure Big Town is somewhat descriptive but anything can be big. It doesn't say anything other than it has a high population and is rather wide. It doesn't convey what the citizens might be like or what we can expect from the town.
Next lets look at Jaynestown, well it was founded by Jayne. Jayne's Town. No problem with that but it still doesn't convey what the town is like only that it was established by someone named Jayne.
Big town and German town take me back to first grade when I was learning to write stories. I was told to be as descriptive as possible. "The Big Car Rolled Down The Hill." Not a very good sentence is it and does not give you a sense of what the car looks like nor what the hill was like.
The point is, Big town and German town sound like some kid came in and threw out a name without any real thought as to what the feel of the towns are. Can you say you get the same connection from a name like The Den and a name like Big Town?
Big town, small town, medium town.......lazy town?
EnglishMuffin
Still Mildly Glowing
Aware of that Ausir, but it still doesn't change the fact that Bigtown and Germantown are bad names. Klamath or Klamath Falls sounds much better and I know that there is a waterfall there. Probably lush and green and beautiful. Bigtown, I know its big. Germantown, I know it was probably established by germans.
If someone asked you to prove your worth as a writer and come up with a name of a town, would you choose germantown, bigtown, or something else?
If someone asked you to prove your worth as a writer and come up with a name of a town, would you choose germantown, bigtown, or something else?
Phoenix said:
He made a mistake. Here, from a Pete Hines interview
Specific body parts cannot be targeted when fighting with melee weapons or in hand to hand combat. What is the reason behind this decision? Does melee/HtH fighting offer something else to compensate?
We tried many ways of doing melee with VATS, and having messed a lot with "missing" in melee, it just felt really bad. So once we changed VATS melee to "always hit", assuming you are in range, the body part selection became a bit unbalancing, so now it's a "whole body attack", but you still do end up hitting a specific body part when you swing, but it's based on what you actually contact with, as opposed to what you aim at. This avoids the "always punch in the head" problem, whereas with guns, we can balance out certain body parts with hit percentages, like the head.
EnglishMuffin said:
Fallout 3 has plenty of towns that are conceptually strong and aptly named, like the Junktown-esque Megaton or the pretty nifty Rivet City.
You're going to complain that a few locations kept their pre-war names (and probably buildings)? Why? L.A. Boneyard did. San Francisco did. "Bigtown" and "Germantown" aren't names Bethesda came up with, they're existing places, so they're not a show of creativity either way.
Bodybag says it is
Though on googling I think he might be mistaken. The only Big Town I can find in any Maryland is Big Town, Maryland, Liberia. Wrong Maryland.
Oh, and Big Town Carry Out in Baltimore, Maryland.
Though on googling I think he might be mistaken. The only Big Town I can find in any Maryland is Big Town, Maryland, Liberia. Wrong Maryland.
Oh, and Big Town Carry Out in Baltimore, Maryland.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
translates to:
"The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave"
somewhere in wales, someone is producing the finest crack man will ever smoke.
translates to:
"The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave"
somewhere in wales, someone is producing the finest crack man will ever smoke.
Morbus
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand. How about that?! 
:EDIT:
Sounds Finnish somehow
:EDIT:
Sounds Finnish somehow
Morbus said:Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand. How about that?!
:EDIT:
Sounds Finnish somehow
Sounds like absolute gibberish and which to memorize is like trying to memorize the first 30 numbers of the pi thingie...
are they really called that?
***F.E.A.R.***MaNiaC
First time out of the vault
Ausir said:
actually, not the supermutants if i read correctly...
he lists the slavers and super mutants and then refers to the "former", wouldnt that apply to the slavers?
Brother None said:
actually... i find it slightly offending that there are some stereotype antagonists in a town named "german town" at all. i'd rather not see "german" connected to slavers nor super mutants...
and yeah, the names (no matter where they came from) sound awfully dumb. especially when you mind the destruction in urban areas, as klamath e.g. was rather remote, but german/big town are... kinda quite much more urban. whereas San Francisco is a big place and was much more recognizable than LA (which was named bone yard because of the fact that nothing but the "bones" of the scy scrapers where found).
And it looks like its time to get used to that kind of pun. Even programmers (who have a strange sense for puns in general) will most likely shudder facing such jokes. I mean... if they atleast called the town "smalltown" and then named the mission "Big trouble in Smalltown"... but hey... too much to ask for
