So you start in a cave with 20 rats.
Then you go to Vault 15, and after facing one Radscorpion it's at least three levels of even more rats; the place is literally crawling with rats, and they can do a decent amount of damage: up to 7 HP even if wearing a Leather Jacket.
And there sure as hell is not enough ammo to kill all the rats safely from a distance.
And people complain about Baldur's Gate having trash combat?
At least in BG you can actually avoid most trash encounters. You can try to sneak in Fallout, but it's not easy when there's wall-to-wall rats in every dungeon so far.
I can't think of any other CRPG that beats Fallout (judged by the early game) when it comes to slow, boring combat combined with boring encounter design.
I think I'll create some big brute with max STR and skill in melee weapons, and start over again, so I can just club (knife) all the rats with one hit. This is just too aggrevating.
BTW, I'm using the Fallout Fxt patch. I played Fallout briefly some years ago, but I can't recall Vault 15 was so choke full of rats.
Then you go to Vault 15, and after facing one Radscorpion it's at least three levels of even more rats; the place is literally crawling with rats, and they can do a decent amount of damage: up to 7 HP even if wearing a Leather Jacket.
And there sure as hell is not enough ammo to kill all the rats safely from a distance.
And people complain about Baldur's Gate having trash combat?
At least in BG you can actually avoid most trash encounters. You can try to sneak in Fallout, but it's not easy when there's wall-to-wall rats in every dungeon so far.
I can't think of any other CRPG that beats Fallout (judged by the early game) when it comes to slow, boring combat combined with boring encounter design.
I think I'll create some big brute with max STR and skill in melee weapons, and start over again, so I can just club (knife) all the rats with one hit. This is just too aggrevating.
BTW, I'm using the Fallout Fxt patch. I played Fallout briefly some years ago, but I can't recall Vault 15 was so choke full of rats.
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