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On 6/6/2017 6:37 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:26:09 -0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
> 
>>> Oddly
>>> enough, the increased level - while pleasant to look at - made the
>>> game actually that much less immersive, since its increased realism
>>> only brought into contrast many of the inconsistencies of the game's
>>> world (like, if the war was over 200 years ago then why are there
>>> still-fresh corpses from the war all over?).
> 
> 
>> For me it was the architecture - just another example of stupid
>> programmers/designers.
> 
>> Sure the ramshackle hut with gaping openings is fine when you've set the
>> game in California, or Nevada or such, but FO4 is set in Boston, where
>> it gets damn cold and gets loads of snow - that kind of living quarters
>> = everybody dies the first winter.
> 
> 
> Oh man, that annoyed me too. It was one of the reasons I stopped
> engaging with the base-building mechanics; the structures I was
> allowed to construct were so flimsy they offered no protection from
> the environment. Forget Bostonian winters; it gets cool enough in
> summer there that you sometimes want four solid walls around you, and
> not something made of rusty plate metal with gaps large enough to
> shove your head through.
> 
> I suppose the developers could argue that the nuclear holocaust
> altered the climate enough that the world is significantly warmer than
> it is today; certainly, the highly-radioactive "Glowing Sea" must
> provide an immense heat-island that warms the nearby area (we'll leave
> aside its probable other effects). A warmer clime isn't evident in any
> other part of the game, though; if it is that warm then you expect
> people to wear less heavy clothing (and not, for instance, everyone
> wearing heavy leather armor over thermal underwear long-johns).
> 
> The real problem of course is that the Fallout universe has a certain
> look to it, and Bethesda did not want to stray too far from the
> visuals introduced in the earlier games. This ties in to what I had
> said about how the game felt very much like a rehash of the older
> titles. Arguably had they developers changed the appearance of the
> game too much they would have alienated the fans. The lack of variety
> probably had more to do with marketing and finance than it did with
> the imagination and ability of the developers.

I just went with the silly and built a 4 story high mile long walkway 
coming off my flop house in town with no supports filled with 
auto-turrets over the river where I had my industrial water purification 
operation.

Fallout is more hot desert than nuclear winter.  It's all totally 
ridiculous anyway.  That's part of it's charm.

- Justisaur