Wasteland Wasteland 3 + Battle of Steeltown and Cult of the Holy Detonation Expansions Thread

[Thac0]

Just finished now aswell, clocking in about 40 hours, a tad more. Up to now my Goty 2020, although there wasn't terribly much competition due to the virus. I think the only other 2020 rpgs I played were FFVII:RE and Vagrus. I generally stopped buying Early Access games so it was a very dry year, as I owned all games coming out of EA, while not buying new ones in EA.
As I moved closer to the finish lines more problems became apparent. The loading screens were absolutely fine for normal play, but when you return to speak to the patriarch after a long quest in Colorado to see if he has new Dialogue you have to get through like 4 loading screens? Insanely annoying when each takes 1 minute. Also the end game weapons were distincitly lacking, and the balance was all kinds of fucked. Enemies, normal humans, had 6000 health while my Tank hat 1000. Still 2000 damage 80% accuracy sniper rifles with two shots per turn took care of it.
For me this is 7.5-8 out of 10, a good above average game in one of the weakest years of rpg gaming currently.

 

[Catacombs]

Finished it today

How long did it take you to beat?

 

[cvv]

My chicken just single-handedly destroyed a tank.

Good game, 10/10.

 

[Stefmob]

Omg guys this sequel is actually good.

does it have more coherent storyline(s) compared to wl2

 

[Straight elf]

Btw. should I recruit the random companions the dude is offering me in my base? I actually like to use normal companions I meet on my travels with an actual back story to them in my RPGs but here it seems like I am expected to go with some of these random ones.

 

[SoupNazi]

Btw. should I recruit the random companions the dude is offering me in my base? I actually like to use normal companions I meet on my travels with an actual back story to them in my RPGs but here it seems like I am expected to go with some of these random ones.

Make your own to fill out your squad right away, you're most likely going to need to have a 6 man squad unless you're playing the easier difficulties. The premade rangers are leveled suboptimally and not worth it, so make customs. You can replace them with the people you meet anytime.

 

[Whisper]

Why pre-made heroes are always leveled bad? Same problem here, same in Pathfinder.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Roguey

Doesn't look like there's a link for it on Youtube yet, but there's a WL3 cover of Land of Confusion in the machine commune.

Edit: Wait, I'm an eejit.

 

[Roguey]

Not as good as Genesis's but at least it's not Disturbed's.

Why pre-made heroes are always leveled bad? Same problem here, same in Pathfinder.

They're built for role playing, not roll playing.

 

[Infinitron]

Brian Fargo on Dropped Frames too:

 

[chemicalnatzy]

Am I the only one who finds it weird there are no portraits during dialogue?

Also I don't understand what happened to the close up animations of NPCs. I understand they did it to the most important NPC's but there are not as many. I think Fallout had more talking heads.

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[Imrahil]

The music in this game is phenomenal. I don't normally even notice the soundtrack in most games, but when it plays it fits the encounters & environments perfectly.

 

[Grotesque]

Also I don't understand what happened to the close up animations of NPCs. I understand they did it to the most important NPC's but there are not as many. I think Fallout had more talking heads.

what!??


reached lvl 11 and asked for my money back.


I'll dig deep to the elbow in the bargain bin after the super-duper mega-deluxe final & ultimate balanced & exploit-free version comes out.
maybe

 

[Background Character]

How long did it take you to beat?

Shit man I don't know and if there's a place that tells you I can't find it, think I took like 30-40 ish hours? Plus 6 or 7 more from the first failed playthrough. I did all I could and found 13 out of 15 creepy dolls. Also if anyone knows the song that plays when you

Spoiler

fight Angela Deth if you side with the Patriarch during the final fight

hit me up

Tundra outfit best outfit. Trooper armor best (looking) armor

 

[Catacombs]

Shit man I don't know and if there's a place that tells you I can't find it

Did you play it on GOG or Steam?

 

[Background Character]

I don't have to answer that question I pledge the fifth, you can't tell me nothing I found the toaster academy

Spoiler

I got one fierce golden toaster with me

 

[Catacombs]

So you pirated it?

 

[guestposting]

^Best writeup so far, would second almost everything.

Except a tiny correction to the point about the lack of blatant agenda-based writing. The stuff with the Gippers was not just blatant, it was beyond blatant. But as I said, not currentyear woke but old-guard libtard, and even that is appreciated by this point.

Also one thing I don't like is how you can't respec and your RPCs have retarded stat distribution more often than not.

The Gippers are not actual Reaganites, though. They worship the pageantry of the Reagan administration more than any policy. As Reagan’s talking car later points out, he was a good Christian who would’ve abhorred anyone who worshipped him as a god.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

friendship with obsidian ENDED
now inxile is my best friend

 

[aweigh]

Wasteland 3 is really starting to grown on me. The first 4-6 hours are rough but once the game gets going it is definitely a clear improvement over the 2nd game, I think.

Snow aesthetic is still boring tho.

 

[vmar]

Encountered a game breaking bug at end game, apparently if you accidentally destroy the door to

Spoiler

Liberty's compund

it becomes impossible to open so I can't progress. I was kinda just wanting to finish the game by the time I got to Yuma so I went in guns blazing and killed the shit out of everything, must have destroyed the door with a rocket or something.

What a bummer, I was really enjoying wl3. I'm still gonna replay it again but I really wanted to see the ending.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Clearly you are not a student of history.

He probably doesn't even know what his favorite colour is !

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I confess that I am a storyfag but I have to say that I personally don't find the story that interesting.
It is cool to see that there is a lot of choice in who to aid and side with but the stuff regarding the Patriarch and his kids and the reveal that Angela Deth is still around... Let me say that I do think this storyline is "functional" for a PA game (who are you going to side with) and I am not saying that Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout New Vegas+DLCs really had the best of storylines/main quest goals.
Still I found the reveal of the Master and his Super Mutants, the Enclave, and quite some of the stuff of FNV still quite exciting while with Wasteland 3 I more feel "Okay there we have it".

There is some interesting stuff here and there (I like the machine commune) but I had hoped that the Patriarch stuff would have been a build-up to something of a larger scope.

Spoiler

I read about this faction called the Faders on the Wasteland 3 wiki, clones that are the result of some pre war project to create super soldiers better adapted to a cold environment. I know that an army of genetic engineered soldiers are rather cliche when it comes to PA settings these days but I still thought that it would be cool to encounter these guys and had kind of hoped that they would have been revealed to be the big threat kind of like Cochise was the player would learn about while doing the jobs for the Patriarch

Definitely a game I should play for the gameplay and not the storyline.

 

[cvv]

I confess that I am a storyfag but I have to say that I personally don't find the story that interesting.

Story is one of the few things W3 does better than W2. I don't think I could survive another stale tale about crazy rogue AI.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I confess that I am a storyfag but I have to say that I personally don't find the story that interesting.

Story is one of the few things W3 does better than W2. I don't think I could survive another stale tale about crazy rogue AI.

I do agree on that with you. I am not even sure if it was wise to bring Cochise back in Wasteland 2.