Things that should be brought over from TES

[Ashmo]

That was what I was suggesting. Making Powered Armour consist of two parts: the armour and the helmet..

That's what I was aiming at, except the real life functional helmet to be used with the PA would be a different item than the scavenged Fallout 2 splash screen-style one.

Well if using a quest like the one I described maybe you'd get some filters and whatnot as well as a broken PA helmet (ala the Fallout 2 splash screen) and you could wear that one as-is or fix it up so it'd work properly in combination with a working suit of Powered Armour.

 

[Screaming_Dude_in_Vegas]

no disrespect to the guy above or Bethesda because i thought Morrowind was cool but NO WAY should anything from TES be ripped off and included in Fallout 3 simply because it's made by the same developer - anyone would think that Bethesda don't know how to make anything but TES. Give them some credit please! I'm sure they are able to have ORIGINAL IDEAS of their own without having to rehash previous work.

Well there are some areas that are good, universal ideas, like being able to screw with your character's face, and such, which if the character apearance system in OB works well, I see no reason why it wouldn't work for fallout. However, most systems couldn't and shouldn't be poped over from one to the other.

As for the armor bit. I like the idea of rather than finding a full suit of metal armor, I find bit's and peices, and scavenge for the stuff, as the idea of scrounging for a mix-matched suit of armor realy fits with the post apocolypticness.

As somone said earlier, power armor is the only thing that you get a problem with the multiple peices. But the devs are smart people, who managed to do alot, so I'm dure they can figure it out. I liked the idea of armor flagging diferent slots, so the power armor suit would flag all slots but the head, and the helmate all slots but the body. It would also work with the leather jacket, which would flag the torso and the arms.

 

[DirtyDreamDesigner]

Getting Power Armor should be like getting the car in FO2. You find a guy who can repair a PA and who has, let's say, the torso part, or a CPU, or something, and then you find other pieces of it during your adventures in the wasteland, and when you have completed it, the guy fixes it for you and then you can equip it. I also like the idea that it behaves like a car, that it stays on the floor when you take it off.