That, honestly, kept me from enjoying Fallout 3 after being introduced to the series via FO4. I understand that far in the future everything is going to be shitty and broken, but the raiders that just jumped me didn’t seem to have any problem getting hits with their useless broken pipe weapons that I can somehow use to repair 5% of the durability of my shitty pipe weapon.
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RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
Everything has durability
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fallout 3 is honestly a pretty shit game. Play Fallout New Vegas, it’s built on Fallout 3’s engine but instead of being designed and written by indentured interns at Bethesda it was made by people who are, you know, game designers. (I would kill for a NV-esque sequel to F04)
prole@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I wouldn’t call it shit, but yean NV is definitely a much better game.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’m currently making my way through FO3 and I haven’t even discovered half of all the POI and I’ve been playing for months. NV piques my interest, because the story telling in FO3 is great, weapon durability aside.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
if fo3 is a shit game then so is new vegas. cant stress that enough
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well that’s a take.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Ooh! And if you have anything less than 100% durable then the game has a little flashing icon warning you it’s not 100%. Couple that with the repair cost being the same regardless of the percentage missing!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
Repairing permanently makes the item worse and upgrading it more expensive
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Some items also rot, the rot timer doesn’t stop in the unskippable cutscenes and maybe even continues ticking down while you are not playing.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
With the result being effectively that almost all provisions you looted yesterday are rotten the next day. The exception being salami, which last a few more days, but eating too much of it makes you take damage after going to the bathroom. You also get a stacking debuff.
The only way to not have to eat the salami will be to log in within 8 hours of picking up some veggies.
The only canned food in the game will be decorative unlootable assets.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The stacking debuff of course does have a timer that doesn’t continue running while you are not playing.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Of course.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Fun glitch: rot value is unsigned, and once it reaches -1 the item is reborn phoenix-style from the ashes of itself.
This makes for some interesting mechanics where its worth saving old rusty near-dead items until the end of the game just before a vital boss battle.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
The variable overflows at 512 and the rot value is counted in ds
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It can never overflow though since it’s constantly decaying
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the rot timer is calculated based on when the item is picked up using real world time. if you reload a previous save then most likely all of your things are now rotten
prole@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hmm, I kind of like this idea and could see it working alright if used correctly. Reminds me of Animal Crossing, but so much more annoying.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I got the idea from Ark.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
TIHI