The current state of the updated unofficial Fallout 3 patches?

[SoulViper19]

I've been reading up on the newest bugs reported with those patches on the Nexus in prep for an installation of F3 Steam Edition and then attempting to port my GoG Fallout 3 save over here. A lot of the reports has me hesitating to nab the newer patches (I use an older version), has any one experienced issues with these patches?

I understand the benefit of having them, but the issues I've been reading are (again) making me very hesitant.

[RESENTMENT]

If you own the game on GOG, stay on GOG. Don't even f@#k!n' go in here, because if you bought the game here, it's still a mess and required a massive tweaking.

If you wanna know about gameplay issue, well, I notice a small issue here and there, but at least on GOG, you don't have to f@#k!ng bother with the Windows 10 and GFWL issue.

My point is. Just stay on GOG. If you want to have a Fallout series on Steam, buy/played either New Vegas or FO4. Can't recommend FO76 though, because...you know.

Regarding patches, YOU CAN use the BenWah patches, but right now, that PATCH is currently updated until god knows when.

[SoulViper19]

Originally posted by RESENTMENT:

If you own the game on GOG, stay on GOG. Don't even f@#k!n' go in here, because if you bought the game here, it's still a mess and required a massive tweaking.

If you wanna know about gameplay issue, well, I notice a small issue here and there, but at least on GOG, you don't have to f@#k!ng bother with the Windows 10 and GFWL issue.

My point is. Just stay on GOG. If you want to have a Fallout series on Steam, buy/played either New Vegas or FO4. Can't recommend FO76 though, because...you know.

Regarding patches, YOU CAN use the BenWah patches, but right now, that PATCH is currently updated until god knows when.

I've been well aware of the issues for yonks. the deeper I delve and the further I think about it, I'll stick with the GoG version. Bethesda should really look into updating and fixing the Fallout 3 issue on Steam if they ever want to justify the asking price of the GOTY edition.

[amolang]

TTW 3.3 is coming this November. You can try it instead

[SoulViper19]

Originally posted by amolang:

TTW 3.3 is coming this November. You can try it instead

I try to aim for mods that are considered complete. Though I'll keep my eye on TTW.

[Bomb Bloke]

Just finished playing through the FO3 portion of TTW 3.2 a week or three ago (or at least, I've run out of locations to explore and quests in my log). Having played through vanilla FO3 in the past, I'd consider TTW to be complete "as is". There are a couple of minor bugs, but they're minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and I've seen reports that everything I've noticed will be covered by 3.3.

My one gripe is that picking up the Explosives bobble head reduced the radius of my booms. Apparently somebody completely missed the point of the area-of-effect-based weapons tree.

(Certain bonuses, such as those from the bobbles, were changed to account for the fact that it'd otherwise be way too easy to max out all skills / stats over the course of the two games.)

[Risewild]

Originally posted by Bomb Bloke:

My one gripe is that picking up the Explosives bobble head reduced the radius of my booms. Apparently somebody completely missed the point of the area-of-effect-based weapons tree.

The Explosives Bobblehead doesn't reduce the radius of the Explosive weapons, it reduces the Spread of Explosive weapons.

In Gamebryo games, the weapon spread is what makes a weapon less accurate. Any reduction to Spread makes the weapon more accurate. So the Bobblehead is making explosives 10% more accurate.

[Bomb Bloke]

Ah, explosive weapon spread! In-game with TTW 3.2, the message instead says "Explosives now have 10% (edit: less) spread", which had me in dismay!

[Risewild]

That makes sense.

Looks like someone already fixed it though, I just took a look and it now says "Explosives now have 10% less spread.".

I'm on the 3.3 version that isn't released yet, so it was probably fixed after 3.2.2.

[Bomb Bloke]

Sorry, that's what I'd meant to type the first time: my point was that the line refers to explosives, as opposed to explosive weapons.

[Risewild]

Oh, I see the problem now.

The description is technically correct, because Explosives refer to the skill with the same name and the weapons that skill affect, and the spread is the weapon's spread (and mines and grenades have a spread of 0 so they can't have a lower spread).

It would be incorrect if instead of saying Explosives it would say explosions.

But it's more of a technical description than a good description for players while playing the game. I will talk with the team and see if we can make it less technical and more "game world" friendly.

Thanks for mentioning this.

[Bomb Bloke]

Heh, no - thank you. :)