Wasteland Wasteland 2 Thread - Director's Cut

[rashiakas]

So with the DC out, I want to give this game another shot. Is it possible to skip rail nomads? Because I really did not like that place and the slow walking pingpong between the npcs.

 

[Silva]

So with the DC out, I want to give this game another shot. Is it possible to skip rail nomads? Because I really did not like that place and the slow walking pingpong between the npcs.

+1 to this. Lemme know if you find out.

 

[DosBuster]

It's never been plot critical.

 

[Jimmious]

Yeah you could always just skip it. You just miss a bunch of exp, items and content but hey, you do what you want

 

[Excidium II]

You might go there just to pick up scotchmo at least.

 

[Raghar]

So with the DC out, I want to give this game another shot. Is it possible to skip rail nomads? Because I really did not like that place and the slow walking pingpong between the npcs.

But you would miss Scotchmo. How could you miss one of best snipers and how can you miss Ralphy?

 

[Gord]

Not to mention there's something weird going on with the performance inside, not just FPS loss but a weird "choppy" effect.

Definitely. I think it might be related to shadows. Maybe Unity is unable to cope with the amount of foliage/grass/something in the Ag Center maps.


Something else: It seems they still didn't fix the faulty scrap weapon parts/mods ratio when stripping weapons for spare parts? I still get a very large amount of scrap parts after the patches.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Playing through California. I don't get why you guys were saying that fighting there is so difficult until getting new weapons. It's not. Been ambushed by 2 D-someone war bots- killed them. Killed those losers from the South farm. Had an encounter with Children of the Citadel on the word map and nearly won (starting the encounter with 6 party members having on average less than 25% health). Have only 1 guy with an AR. You must have much overstated difficulty of those encounters as the part of CA when you get by without the new toys just ended for me. Loved the fact that after buying new weapons from the guy at the farm, you get a better trader in Santa Fe. Good trolling Although starting the map with nearly 9000 in cash my resources haven't been deployed.

So far writing in CA is better, but haven't seen much yet. Loved when Takayuki shout on dogs: "die like dogs, you dogs!"

BTW I will show why I think weapon crafting in W2 is so well done. The same shotgun, different parts

Spoiler

 

[Gord]

Playing through California. I don't get why you guys were saying that fighting there is so difficult until getting new weapons. It's not. Been ambushed by 2 D-someone war bots- killed them.

Just arrived there myself. I think it depends a lot on the right timing to tackle the different enemies.
The first fight at the farm wasn't so bad for me either, but now I tried to do that call for help involving God's Militia. They have almost double of my squads health and being out in the open means sure death since they hit like a truck. I can probably win the fight by liberal use of explosives, good positioning and some luck, but I guess I'll just do them later.
Timing for that quest is somewhat strange since you get the call after exploring a bit of Rodia and it's one of those fake urgency things. It should probably show up later.

 

[Daedalos]

Playing through California. I don't get why you guys were saying that fighting there is so difficult until getting new weapons. It's not. Been ambushed by 2 D-someone war bots- killed them. Killed those losers from the South farm. Had an encounter with Children of the Citadel on the word map and nearly won (starting the encounter with 6 party members having on average less than 25% health). Have only 1 guy with an AR. You must have much overstated difficulty of those encounters as the part of CA when you get by without the new toys just ended for me. Loved the fact that after buying new weapons from the guy at the farm, you get a better trader in Santa Fe. Good trolling Although starting the map with nearly 9000 in cash my resources haven't been deployed.

So far writing in CA is better, but haven't seen much yet. Loved when Takayuki shout on dogs: "die like dogs, you dogs!"

BTW I will show why I think weapon crafting in W2 is so well done. The same shotgun, different parts

Please check that you:

- Are playing on Supreme Jerk difficulty
- Have no companions, just 4 rangers
- Isn't retardedly overleveled for L.A content, by running around and xp'ing and derping in arizona for 90 years
- Haven't tried to MIN/MAX everything and abuse the system and cheese it in any way possible (Barter, combat, skills etc.)
- Haven't tried to cheese the combat encounters with savescumming and other luck/glitch/bug shit


If you can answer yes to all of the above, then kudos to you, friend! You are an exceptionally lucky player or just good at combat encounters that really put you at a disadvantage.

If not: Then, fuck you. You haven't played the game at its most difficult, and you have no idea what you are talking about

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Wanted to reply, but then I seen Deadelos alt.

 

[Daedalos]

Wanted to reply, but then I seen Deadelos alt.

So I'm right. You probably playing the game on Easy mode with 9 companions and cheese min/max build.

GG NO RE, son. Try again.

 

[Country_Gravy]

My idea of playing on Supreme Jerk is playing with my dick in my hand.

 

[Lhynn]

So i just killed 5 raiders with rifles and got 5 tin cans as a reward. what the fuck is up with that?

 

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[ArchAngel]

So i just killed 5 raiders with rifles and got 5 tin cans as a reward. what the fuck is up with that?

Stop shooting and destroying their rifles?

 

[Lhynn]

So i just killed 5 raiders with rifles and got 5 tin cans as a reward. what the fuck is up with that?

Stop shooting and destroying their rifles?

 

[ArchAngel]

So i just killed 5 raiders with rifles and got 5 tin cans as a reward. what the fuck is up with that?

Stop shooting and destroying their rifles?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

You two need a room?

 

[ArchAngel]

You two need a room?

 

[MrBuzzKill]

I now like Wasteland 2.
Before DC: meh
After DC: looks MUCH better (makes me wanna screenshot everything), RUNS better (a huge deal for me, can't fucking stand lags), precision strikes fuck yeah (makes me wanna headshot everything). Some of the new VO is pretty good, as well, though I don't care much about that. Also can't wait to explore the perks. I wonder if there's some really overpowered/fun stuff in there, the way I like it.
All in all the Director's Cut is pretty much what the game should've been like from the get go. Now I wish I'd backed that latest Kickstarter of theirs.

 

[Gord]

So, armor in the DC...

In the vanilla game, armor was largely pointless. It was difficult to stay ahead of enemy armor penetration and the closer armor penetration gets to your armor value, the less effective armor becomes, with it becoming useless if penetration is equal or larger.
On top of that, energy weapons became more effective with higher armor, so especially in the late game, you were often better off not equipping any armor at all.

In the DC, the basic armor mechanics stay unchanged, I think (?), but there are a few changes around the armor system:
Energy weapons now do more damage only against "conductive" targets, but less against normal ones, while otherwise ignoring armor.
And most importantly, quirks and perks now offer the possibility to increase armor values in addition to what the equipped armor offers. For characters that make use of those, it's now much easier to stay ahead of armor penetration.
At least in Arizona I found it to be possible for a few of my chars to reach armor values that actually had some noticeable effect in more than just a few select fights (one of my guys even took 0 damage against one type of enemy, which makes me wonder if there's an additional threshold effect).
Now that I've reached California, however, armor once again becomes a relatively inconsequential thing - armor penetration and absolute damage gets large enough that even at an armor level of 10 (which is the max afaik), you start taking a lot of damage again. So once again I find myself wondering whether it would be better to just sell off all my armor and buy something useful from the moneyz (weapons, ammo, etc).

Any thoughts about that?

 

[Infinitron]

All in all the Director's Cut is pretty much what the game should've been like from the get go. Now I wish I'd backed that latest Kickstarter of theirs.

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[Doktor Best]

Culver City Brothel is annihilating my party of lvl 25-28. Is there any back entrance or something? Or should i come back later?

 

[Raghar]

Culver City Brothel is annihilating my party of lvl 25-28. Is there any back entrance or something? Or should i come back later?

Do you want that sex that badly?