Junk

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:54 am

Adv. Powered Armor Mk. 2 with built-in Power Fist?

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:39 am

Since when are those considered Junk?

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:30 pm

Ouch. I was reffering to atoga's post:

To make NPC teaching / schematics useful, you could be given new options for methods in combining items. For instance, any idiot could combine item A with B to make a half-decent item C, but you need to be in the know to combine item A with B while doing process D to create item E, the new-and-improved version of item C with some wacky new features.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:50 am

Gimp Mask wrote:I don't get your point... it's a game, it doesn't have to be like real-life.

My point was that, in this case, it would most likely be too limited a feature to not suck... In theory, I would support such a feature, I guess I'm just being too pessimistic when I say that Bethesda probably won't figure out how to make the junk idea work.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:13 am

I don't see why you guys think it'd be so unbalanced to have a junk+junk=whatever sort of deal. Yeah, your second time you might know from the start that APAmk2+PowerFist + rubber chicken + urinal cake = Abrams Main Battle Tank, but if your science isn't 3,000% then you can't very well do it, now can you?

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:37 am

My point wasn't that it wouldn't be balanced... I was saying it would end up being a lame feature due to improper implementation... maybe I can't explain myself very well, so I retract my statement. Forget I said it!

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:24 pm

It would be hart to implement, yeah. The hard part would simply be the mechanical considerations of devising different combinations and new items, and we all know that Bethesda is lacking in the constructive ideas department.

But all of this stuff together would make purely tech characters quite viable. Rather than shooting, talking, or sneaking your way through the game, you could build your way to success. Tech characters wouldn't be purely limited to building, either: they could repair old artifacts (like the water chip?) and sabotage other things (like the requisite ticking nuke that appears at the end of the game?) as necessary.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:49 am

Well, when you put it like that... I agree!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:19 pm

Wow, speaking of making items from nothing look at this cool VB screenshot.

Hint: bottom-right corner.

VB screen

Post by **Retlaw83** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:28 pm

We've all seen this screenshot dozens of times before.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:33 pm

Its promising though. That is if they hadn't scrapped VB.