skavenhorde
Little BRO Rat
As much as I hated the story (THEY TURNED HAROLD INTO A FREAKING TREE and MUNGOOOSSSS) I do like the world (It's sooo pretty )and trying to survive in it. But it was too easy, even on very difficult settings the stupid game would give you more experience so you leveled up faster which for me defeated the purpose of playing on hard.
However I found a mod that made Fallout 3 somewhat enjoyable, at least challenging and more immersive than the vanilla version.
Get it here:
XFO Fallout 3 Balance Overhaul
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=334
Description of all it does here:
http://home.comcast.net/~xodarap777/XFO/XFO_Readme_Current.html
Quote from the maker of XFO:
Included in this rar are several "modular" (you pick and choose) esps. Overall, the mods rebalance the game, slow leveling, moderately increase difficulty, and enrich the game with greater depth and tactics, as well as provide a more meaningful character-building process. You don't need a new game, and you can choose new options every time you play!
There are far too many changes to list. The biggies are slower leveling, changed stats, change the way you level, hunger and thirst (I normally don't do hunger mods but this really added a lot of depth to the game because now all those different kinds of food actually meant something), radiation is now dangerous, monsters are more difficult, better gear for them, better aiming for them (they'll take your head off with a hunting rifle if your not careful) Money is more scarce and it's harder to get a good price on anything unless you actually upgrade your skills, drugs cost at least 10x, the list goes on and on read the homepage above for a more detailed description.
That is just the tip of the iceberg. It changes so much in the game that it feels like a totally different game. I wish they could change the actual dialog and story, my god that sucked....and BETH stop making Vault Tech so damn evil. Sorry, I keep getting sidetracked, but I really hated the direction they went with the vaults. Anyways, if you ignore the main plot and some of the side quests, the game is actually quite enjoyable.
Here are some of the other mods I used:
Fallout Mod Manager
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=640
Fallout 3 High Definition Pack:
(This is a must if you have a video card that can support it. Mine is Geforce GTX 260 and I didn't see hardly one stutter with this installed.)
http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/12/08/download-fallout-3-hd-texture-pack/
Talk Thing with Cruk - Mutant Radio BETA
(Adds another radio station. Funny!)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2236
Josef Greys Makeup Face Retexture:
(A silly little retexture that improves the overall look of female characters. Don't know why Fallout 3 went with the beautiful scenery/ugly people option)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=205
That's all I used. I had a lot more but XFO got rid of the need for a lot of the other mods.
If you're looking for more mods at the end of the webpage for XFO there are his recomended mods. There's a ton and some of them look quite interesting.
That's it folks, just wanted to share a couple of mods that made the game enjoyable to play. Have fun trying to survive now
However I found a mod that made Fallout 3 somewhat enjoyable, at least challenging and more immersive than the vanilla version.
Get it here:
XFO Fallout 3 Balance Overhaul
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=334
Description of all it does here:
http://home.comcast.net/~xodarap777/XFO/XFO_Readme_Current.html
Quote from the maker of XFO:
Included in this rar are several "modular" (you pick and choose) esps. Overall, the mods rebalance the game, slow leveling, moderately increase difficulty, and enrich the game with greater depth and tactics, as well as provide a more meaningful character-building process. You don't need a new game, and you can choose new options every time you play!
There are far too many changes to list. The biggies are slower leveling, changed stats, change the way you level, hunger and thirst (I normally don't do hunger mods but this really added a lot of depth to the game because now all those different kinds of food actually meant something), radiation is now dangerous, monsters are more difficult, better gear for them, better aiming for them (they'll take your head off with a hunting rifle if your not careful) Money is more scarce and it's harder to get a good price on anything unless you actually upgrade your skills, drugs cost at least 10x, the list goes on and on read the homepage above for a more detailed description.
That is just the tip of the iceberg. It changes so much in the game that it feels like a totally different game. I wish they could change the actual dialog and story, my god that sucked....and BETH stop making Vault Tech so damn evil. Sorry, I keep getting sidetracked, but I really hated the direction they went with the vaults. Anyways, if you ignore the main plot and some of the side quests, the game is actually quite enjoyable.
Here are some of the other mods I used:
Fallout Mod Manager
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=640
Fallout 3 High Definition Pack:
(This is a must if you have a video card that can support it. Mine is Geforce GTX 260 and I didn't see hardly one stutter with this installed.)
http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/12/08/download-fallout-3-hd-texture-pack/
Talk Thing with Cruk - Mutant Radio BETA
(Adds another radio station. Funny!)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2236
Josef Greys Makeup Face Retexture:
(A silly little retexture that improves the overall look of female characters. Don't know why Fallout 3 went with the beautiful scenery/ugly people option)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=205
That's all I used. I had a lot more but XFO got rid of the need for a lot of the other mods.
If you're looking for more mods at the end of the webpage for XFO there are his recomended mods. There's a ton and some of them look quite interesting.
That's it folks, just wanted to share a couple of mods that made the game enjoyable to play. Have fun trying to survive now