Fallout 3 patch 1.4 hits Xbox/GfW Live

[Ad Astra]

I am pretty sure that any high powered ballistic rifle would be somewhat futile to try to silence, since any object moving through air faster than the speed of sound would create a sonic boom or a N-wave effectively giving off sound over the course of the projectiles path. So either this is supposed to be a sniper rifle with a sub-sonic muzzle velocity or they don't know jack about guns or science.

I think you need to be reminded that Fallout 3 is a game that allows you to decapitate people with teddy bears.

 

[Jiggly McNerdington]

So we're getting a new weapon (other than the Autoaxe) - the Infiltrator - a scoped and silenced assault rifle. I wonder if it will be anything like the scoped and/or silenced assault rifles that modders have been making for months?

Ten buck for the Pitt or nothing for this lovely piece of modding awesomeness?

FOOK nothing, this is probably the most impressive mod I've seen thus far. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3388
Haven't used it yet since I'm trying the XFO rebalance mod and I figure it might not play nice with others, but it looks quite good. Hopefully in a year or so Fallout 3 will be more Stalker-esque after mods.

 

[bhlaab]

It would be nicer if they patched out all of the SYSTEM CRASHES

 

[Multidirectional]

It would be nicer if they patched out all of the SYSTEM CRASHES

To be fair, that's not really possible as most of these crashes are unpredictable. But there's plenty of other things they could fix and there's no excuse for releasing a patch with no real improvements whatsoever and calling it "version 1.4" when there hasn't been "1.2" and "1.3".

 

[iridium_ionizer]

Gun thread hijack!

Where were you when Fallout 3: The Pitt - First Screens got hijacked by the power tools thread?!

I think you need to be reminded that Fallout 3 is a game that allows you to decapitate people with teddy bears.

Don't worry. I stopped taking Fallout 3 seriously a long time ago.

 

[Atomic Cowboy]

So we're getting a new weapon (other than the Autoaxe) - the Infiltrator - a scoped and silenced assault rifle. I wonder if it will be anything like the scoped and/or silenced assault rifles that modders have been making for months?

I am pretty sure that any high powered ballistic rifle would be somewhat futile to try to silence, since any object moving through air faster than the speed of sound would create a sonic boom or a N-wave effectively giving off sound over the course of the projectiles path. So either this is supposed to be a sniper rifle with a sub-sonic muzzle velocity or they don't know jack about guns or science.

That little 'zwip' sound you hear from a silenced pistol is the sound of the bullet's sonic boom. Mind you, in the case of a high-powered rifle, it would be a lot louder, and the weapon would be a lot less accurate.

Like Wooz said, it's not very useful. It's like putting heavy armour plating on a sports car.

 

[Ausir]

The "patch" can now be downloaded here:

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/updates.html

 

[Slaughter Manslaught]

That's the suckiest patch ever. I bet it will even introduce bugs, like somekind of Bizarro World Patch.

I can't understand why Bethesda's patches are ridiculously sucky. What the hell, Bethesda, emulating Paradox now?

And that image pack is quite cool, I just hate THOSE DAMNED GLOVES! For god sake, who the hell goes around in Power Armor without a PA glove? I hate seeing my character change appearance ten times though the game, but for some reason, staying with those gloves.

 

[Multidirectional]

Seems likely that this will be the last patch too, unless some future DLC requires new one. Nothing too surprising, seeing how Beth never properly fixed Daggerfall, Morrowing and Oblivion as well. They just leave everything to modders.

I can't understand why Bethesda's patches are ridiculously sucky.

What's there to understand really? They are cheap and lazy, that's all.

 

[Crni Vuk]

well patches dont bring new costumers. They only satisfy those that already have the game. Thus patches are a low priority for Bethesda. Has always been.

As one who loved Morrowind I had to learn the hard way that Bethesda does not care about its community or fan base in general. How some still can blindly believe in them is something I just cant understand ...

 

[mountaingoat]

How some still can blindly believe in them is something I just cant understand ...

Their PR department could make career in a political bureau as they can tell lies/half-truths in the most persuasive way.

And their biggest lie?

Fallout 3, the sequel.

 

[the_cpl]

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