So I had this idea...

I love the motorcycle system, I never used fast travel before.

But now that I did, the situations I ran into where kinda immersion breaking and annoying - because of the way fast travel works in general, not related to the motorcycle as such. What I mean is that I can?t travel to a location - I always travel into middle of a location.

For example, I wanted to use a known location to travel half way to Oasis which I hadn?t found yet, with the bike. So I picked that police station. Which had respawned. I appeared in the middle of the mutant infested compound, by the main entrance to inside, yet I had no interested in being there and I was getting hammered from every direction before I even got my gun out.

So I had this idea...I assume the fast travel simply requires a found marker, and then you can travel to it. I can see why the default markers mark the middle of a location, and it makes sense to travel to a main gate of a friendly city. However, when you are approaching a possible hostile location, it would make more sense to choose to leave your bike a bit further a away and approach more carefully by foot the rest of the way.

The obvious solution would be to have alternative map/travel markers for every (major) location, which would be off-set from the actual location. Would possibly this be something you could consider adding to the mod?

I don?t think each and every location would need such a "near-by marker", just some major ones spread out evenly to create sort of a grid of way points you could use to move from one area to another without having to visit the locations themselves, or which you could use to ride near a location and then use a more sensible tactical approach at going in. Also the markers wouldn?t have to be "well placed", just...some distance away, anything but having to end up ambushed every single time even when you don?t want to go to that location.

A minor (but slightly irritating, seeing as how useful they are) bug has to do with those goggles in the vicinity. I don't want to spoil the location for anyone, but I'm sure I've made it clear (at least to Mez, I hope) which ones.

They don't sit on the face right. Put them on to know what I mean. I think somehow the 'ground' model was somehow mixed in there. All other goggles are normal, though.

Mezo, just want to mention something I noticed a few minutes ago. It seems my H&K CAWS is now doing over 2000 damage. I haven't used it yet to see if it is actually doing that damage (not sure how I could tell how much it's actually doing besides the obvious one-shot kills) or if the it is just getting reported wrong in the information. Something I thought you might want to look into when you feel up to it

Anyway - I thought an option that I've been trying is the mod More map markers: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2446 which gives you more to discover. I think the problem with that is that this means more exp so that may be a balance issue. Anyway there are more oblique markers added with this and does provide for more options to arrive close to but not right on top of certain areas.

Uhm...did anyone know that warping near a cliff is kind of dangerous, as my bike fell down. And, then, I had to battle my way through what seemed like hordes of raiders, just to get it back. >.< Need to be more careful.

Coleen's Geo Markers work extremely well with this, also. Good for when you want to park your bike just right, or when you need to get back somewhere, fast. I've been using the hell out of them.

That Value is not a bug, it's just caused by the stupid way Fallout3 calculates it's damage "value". In general the damage value from FO3 is pretty useless in telling how good a weapon really is, especially with shotguns because they fire multiple pellets, each having a high damage value but only a few will hit. Only FO3Edit or GECK can give you those values (or a bunch of console commands).
The CAWS is a damn fine close range weapon(one of the best imho) but it doesn't do 2000dmg or anything like that in one shot, it just has a decent rate of fire and fires 18 pellets each doing 75 damage.

Actually you just gave me an idea and maybe I'll write a simple mod that lets you display those values ingame...

I must say, after my first encounter with super mutes post MR2, I am impressed (and now a bit frightened of going up against any more than one at a time lol). I almost couldn't believe how many shots with the .308 sniper rifle it took to bring one down. Nice work, Mezo! :clap: *he says while being secretly relieved he cleared the chryslus building prior to MR2 *

it was mentioned in the readme that i had to do a master update in F03edit.. but when I put the program in my F3 folder and load it up, it loads all my mods and thats about it. I really cant seem to do anything other than browse around my mods. how do I use this program or do the master update??

But I have this little problem. In changelog of mr2 i read about companions not regenerate their health after combat. Problem is - they still regerate (Jericho and dogmeat tested). I thought that this may be the fault of my older save (from mr1g) but things are the same after i start new game. After combat companions regenerate their health no matter what. Bug? My fault?

One question: does FWE add scope sway? I don't think my arms are crippled but the XuanLong assault rifle is almost un-useable for sniping because the scope sways so much! Same with the LSW.

Hmm . . . make sure that you replace the FWE broken steel support mod in the latest version, as broken steel will over-write the companion's script. The new patch script contains the new companion tweaks. Also, dogmeat still autoheals, as he doesn't have an inventory you can interact with. Might cook up something to fix that down the road.