So I just beat the game, I was putting it off for a long time since I thought it looked bad and didn't expect to like it. After an awful opening section it did get better and I ended up mostly enjoying myself. However I would agree with
Lord_Potato it is clearly worse then nevada or 1.5.
I would say it's clearly easier then 1.5, fallout 2 and nevada. Maybe close in difficulty with nevada but nevada is much stingier with giving you overpowered weapons.
It's shorter then nevada, or even 1.5. I would estimate it took me 20-22 hours?
The biggest challenge was fighting the weight limit, for most of the game it was a complete struggle to hold weapons ammo anti rad drugs.
I sort of fucked myself, I wanted to do fast shot big guns but that wasnt viable for a long time, I only had 6 str but it was much longer to get power armour then I anticipated. Ended up using a high powered BB gun for probably the first half of the game as my main weapon.
Funny, drugs keep stacking, so at the end I took like 7 'combatid' and had like 22-30 action points while clearing the olympus tower.
I ended the game at level 19, I purposely left my outdoorsman low until the end to get more encounters. I gained like 2.5 levels clearing the olympus tower though
At the end I had 2 miniguns, and an automatic .50 cal rifle. I used my brother as a 275 pound ammo mule basically
The .308 minigun(the one in my item 2 slot) weighs 67 pounds fully loaded with 400 .308 fmj.
Never used energy weapons, too heavy, ammo too expensive, ammo too scarce. Never used flamer, gun and ammo WAY too heavy. Never used rockets or grenades, too heavy + scarce aswell.
Good quality ammo is way too heavy and way too expensive. As
Ol' Willy pointed out. My minigun only cost me like 1300, but to fill it up with good quality ammo would cost like 3-4.5 grand. Which is insane. Cheap ammo doesnt weigh anything, which I guess is a bug but it's also useless against anything with armour. Also carrying around multiple suits of armour is retarded, Power armour should 100% have rad resist. I had to lug 2 sets of armour, later 3 around.
Economy management was fun though, but like i said some parts ridiculous.
Equipment shops are level scaled, which is retarded in this type of game. So you need to wait until level 9-10 to get an anti rad suit.
Most of my enjoyment came just from it being an additional fallout game. The main story and side quests left alot to be desired. Sometimes there were multiple solutions but alot of the time the quests frankly weren't interesting at all.
Think I did like 90% of the quests? There were a few that bugged or maybe I messed up something but I basically did everything.
Lockpick , speech and repair were the only consistently useful non combat skills.
c ya
Don't regret playing it, but unlike 1.5 and nevada which i've beaten 2 times each. This isn't something I'll ever replay.
