Sweet dreams, Nephi baby

Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:48 am

Got this assignment to kill Nephi, but the guy says no headshots. What? No headshots? I've killed 1000 enemies so far, 1000 bullets shot, all to the head. No way. Soooo. what am I gonna do? Tried the Gorobets solution, didn't like it. The AI sux. Not entirely Obsidian's fault, Bethesda's fault in this case. Still, with proper scripting and AI package fixing it is possible to eradicate the numerous Gorobets and his team bugs. Fixed the bugs, still didn't like it. Too loud. Lured Nephi to them with a silenced Ratslayer by shooting around him to get him alarmed, Recons killed him, quest over, I am bored. Get lost, Gorobets. Came up with something better. Killed all Fiends with the Ratslayer. Waited until Nephi went to bed, sneaked up on him and sandmanned him, hehehe:

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It's sometimes difficult to understand what is a bug and what is intentioned behaviour in this game. For example, if you employ Gorobets, but then go ahead and instead of luring Nephi to them, sandman him, should the Gorobets objective still be considered completed or failed? Now this is something I'd like to ask Obsidian if they ever replied on these forums. Cause afterwards Gorobets was acting as if his team helped me. No, you didn't, stupid morons, without my bugfixes you were too stupid to even reach the initial sniper position! Damn AI! Low-level AI processing does NOT work the way you think it works, Obsidian! Constant manual adjustment is necessary. Look at Curtis's and Stone's scripts for similar problems. Trans-cell stuff needs to run in quest scripts, not on objects.

Oh, and btw, concerning Sterling, you can ask Sterling about his weapon. But you know, Obsidian, I already stole his weapon before, so I am asking here about a weapon he doesn't have. An itemcount check would be good here, don't you think? And when sending the recon team to Nephi, don't you think it would be a good idea to reset their inventory in case the player pickpocketed them all? and give Sterling at least some weapon in case the player stole his unique cowboy repeater. And when talking to Betsy about her trauma, you can say, "I heard you were [censored] by Cook-Cook." Except this topic doesn't appear in vanilla game, as far as I can tell, cause you forgot to set the necessary var in Gorobet's convo. Good thing, I say! Because no sane person would ever say something like that to another human being. You sure you all right, Obsidian? maybe it's YOU who needs to see a doctor, not Betsy. Just an idea. Here's the kind of bugs I have to deal with the whole day long, never any time to actually play the game, just bugfixing all the time
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James Smart
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:09 am

How do you manage to steal LLC from Sterling? I could never steal it without him turning hostile, even with 100 Sneak and all his ammo stolen...
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louise hamilton
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:15 am

Reverse Pickpocketing, maybe?
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Robert Jr
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:06 am

A good way is to shoot the weapon in vats and wait for it to drop. As soon as Sterlin drops it holster your weapon and run to get LLC. There you have it! New weapon, and no rep loss whatsoever
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Kelsey Anna Farley
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:21 am

How do you manage to steal LLC from Sterling? I could never steal it without him turning hostile, even with 100 Sneak and all his ammo stolen...


I Used The Anti-material Rifle Glitch,Use Incendiary Rounds Aim In Vats Dont Fire,Exit Vats Guy on fire,Takes A While to Kill Him But because You Dont Fire A
Shot No one Bats An Eyelid While You Kill Him,Proper Funny Aswell
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Valerie Marie
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:19 am

How do you manage to steal LLC from Sterling? I could never steal it without him turning hostile, even with 100 Sneak and all his ammo stolen...

I got it rather early on in the game, actually.
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Nany Smith
 
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Post » Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:38 am

The AI sux. Not entirely Obsidian's fault, Bethesda's fault in this case.
Why? Surely the 'fault' is down to the Gamebryo engine, which Bethesda didn't create.
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