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Hey, there! I just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that Bethesda is dropping quite a bit of new Fallout Merch on the Bethesda Gear Store!
I have an affiliate link you guys can use to get 20% off your order at checkout! (not including preorders) Just to be fully transparent, I do earn a 4-10% commission for each purchase.
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The code is valid though August 15th, 2024
Thank you, I love you guys! 🫶🏻
#fallout#fallout 4#fallout 4 companions react#fallout headcanons#fallout companions#bethesda#bethesda game studios#bethesda gear#skyrim#the elder scrolls#elder scrolls#the elder scolls online
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So, my Danse statue finally came in and wowwww. I love the detail in it, I really do. Right down to all the little tears in his suit.
#shut it void#honestly my only complaint is that the feral ghoul’s head feels massive compared to him#idk that’s literally the only thing that feels off to me is that feral’s head#I love everything else and now I genuinely hope I can get my hands on the Nick figure they had#fallout 4#Bethesda Gear#Paladin Danse
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man while i understand it im so tired of the attitude of "if you dont think critically of every media you like ever and if you like stuff you cant think critically about youre stupid" mentality. its so prevalent just about everywhere i go online, youd forget that its an insanely online take
#i think about that rant about cyberpunk 2077 that went around a little#where they were like 'why did everyone just forgive cd projekt red for the broken state of the game after edgerunners???'#and its like. because babe most people playing cyberpunk 2077 are bethesda rpg fans. an extremely casual#'i wanna turn my brain off for my one free hour of games after work' type people#in the modern gaming landscape cyberpunk is like. fine. all the critiques ive seen of it are just things that can be lobbed at bethesda rpgs#and theres a massive market for those#there are still people who enjoy fucking starfield man idk what to tell you. people like games where you dont have to think#like. no. most people who enjoy these games arent single celled organisms too stupid to do anything but support the awful scammy dev studio#theyre usually just people who wanna live out a power fantasy#the yes man route in new vegas is so popular!!! for a reason!!!!#its literally the 'have fun and dont think too hard about your actions' run. everyone views it as themselves saving the wasteland#idk. this is a long rant its just been grinding my gears recently#like. broken games are fun. im sorry everyone shitting on gollum was one of the best online experiences ive had in a while#like fuck dude you dont see me shitting on everyone who plays mmos as mindless zombies who are too stupid to think#just because i view mmos as below myself#you are not better than a skyrim fan because you can see the writing flaws. i can guarantee they see them too and just dont care#because skyrim is fun. sorry. it is fun its an addicting game for a reason#rant
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It is June
That means you survived half the year and should treat yourself to a 20% discount in the Bethesda Gear store. Use the code BTU2J9ES when checking out to apply your discount.
Enjoy! ~Tal
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LET ME HAVE THE SPINE
but also: what the hell were they doing and when?
#raldbthar deep market#human spine#dwarven ruins#skyrim#tesv#the elder scrolls v: skyrim#lost to the ages#the pale#mourning never comes#dark brotherhood#aetherium shards#am I referring to the person who had their spine shoved in a gear?#or the falmer?#your guess#let me have the spine#let me keep the spine#gimme#bethesda#pwease#gimme gimme gimme#please please please
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I was beginning to doubt that Starfield was a legitimate Bethesda game but then a bug made me lose every single item I’d collected over vast hours of gameplay and I gave a gentle sigh of relief. It’s Bethesda alright.
#if a Bethesda game has no bugs is it truly a Bethesda game?#anyway I lost fucking everything#all my gear#all my display items#all my health items#my fucking WEDDING GIFT#it’s cool though it’s whatever#hot tip though: if you haven’t gotten to the High Price to Pay quest do NOT use the mercury tower penthouse to store your shit#that quests esssentially resets the entire city of new Atlantis including the penthouse#it’ll erase EVERYTHING you’ve stored there#learn from my mistake#starfield
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Fallout Please Stand By Record Slip Mat
Bethesda re-released the Please Stand By Record Slip Mat! Only $16.99, so get yours today!
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Oh boy my first playthrough was a doozy :D
I watched a few videos of the game on YouTube before owning it for myself so I kinda knew what was happening in it (not completely tho)
Most importantly I knew how awesome Power Armor is
So I looked up a guide on how to get the Training early by glitching through the rubble on the side of the Citadel and then walking through the void underneath to a door that lead to the Courtyard.
So I skidaddle my ass through the void straight to Elder Lyons who goes "I'm sorry for your loss, James was a great man."
I didn't know he died and I still had the quest to find him so I was like "oookay?". Now here begins the Sequence Break I accidentally started :D
Getting myself Power Armor Training, play a bit of the BoS Quest until I escape from Raven Rock and then I decided to finally find Dad.
Found Dad, Rescued Dad and wanted to meet at Jefferson Memorial but you probably know... That shit is occupied by the Enclave now, due to the Sequence Break :D
So I march with Liberty Prime and stand side by side with my Dad while we shot the Enclave to kingdom come!
As long as I live, I will never forget the Picture of my Dad amongst the bodies of fallen Enclave and Dr. Li's Science Team Members in the shadow of Liberty Prime, while I rushed in with Sarah to Kill Colonel Autumn. I wish I knew what would've happened if I had Broken Steel but that save game was long gone when I got the DLC.
So yeah that's my best memory of Fallout 3 and I would never trade it for anything in the world!
Happy 16 years to Fallout 3! What're some of your favorite Capital Wasteland memories?
#fallout#fallout 3#fo3#fond memories#my dad the enclave killer#Bethesda#it just works#Schrödinger's dad#there's actually a second story#i didn't knew that container respawn#i lost all of my gear#including the Old Olney Power Armor and unique weapons in a locker in the citadel#i may have cried
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Hello Yes Man / fallout community it’s my pleasure to announce that HE IS (almost) DONE!!!! The design came out all fine, plus I found a way to make his face switchable! I’ll be working on the manual and instructions now, I’ll try my best to give out tips and instructions on how to glue everything together.
On another note, the faces were based off the Yes Man Statue from Bethesda Gear Store. I might as well add a few more of my own designs + the faces from the other securitron characters.
EDIT: THE PAPERCRAFT GUIDE IS OUT!!! I’d also appreciate a few answers on the poll from my newest post , thank you!!
#yes man#yes man fallout#yes man fnv#yesman fallout#fallout nv#fallout#fallout art#papercraft#fallout new vegas
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This was officially announced recently: I got to work on spot illustrations for The Elder Scrolls: The Official Survival Guide to Tamriel full of lore goodness by Tori Schafer! 🤸🏿♀️
It's available for pre-order via Bethesda Gear Store, Barnes & Noble, basically every place that sells books!
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Vertibirds. 🚁⚙️🗡️🪽
So every wastelander and his dog know that the fallout 4 vertibirds crash more than settlements need help. But why is that? Here's my 2 caps on the matter. (Or: Bethesda doesn't understand aviation very well I think)
( So uh this is way longer than I expected, I was possessed🚁☢️:] )
TLDR: Horrific conditions for aviation, the difficulties of wasteland heavy maintenance, inexperienced pilots AND mechanics, and the WORST damn instrument layout I’ve ever seen
The Vertibird is designed as a fictional tilt rotor VTOL/STOL(Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing) aircraft which makes a ton of sense in the wasteland where suitable runways are rarer than hens teeth. One of Bethesda's primary visual design influences for the vertibird I suspect is the bell boeing v-22 Osprey.
This funky creature \/
This photo is from the Wikipedia page >Here< [ID: a photo of a v22 osprey aircraft in flight as seen from below and to the right, the aircraft is a medium tilt rotor aircraft with very large propellers, the aircraft is current in vertical take off or landing with the engines pointed straight up. The landing gear is extended, the aircraft is painted in air-force grey with the faint decal “marines” and the American army star on horizontal stripes and the squadron and registration barley visible on the empennage. The cargo and forward doors are open and a soldier is hanging out the front. End ID]
Now the Osprey has a bit of a reputation among people I’ve met who’ve flown in them, I've personally been told things like "if it's not leaking hydraulic fluid, that means you're out of fluid" and "its terrifying to fly in".
My screenshot. [ID: A screenshot of a fallout 4 vertibird, seen from front left in flight over bushland. the Player is manning the minigun and Paladin Danse is a Passenger. End ID]
Looking at the Vertibirds themselves we can make a few assumptions here.
The shape of the cowling and the noise they make indicates that the engines are some form of turboprop engine, likely requiring liquid fuel akin to Avtur(Aviation turbine fuel). Confirmed by the Instruments visible in the cockpit.
The most weight efficient way to move big parts is hydraulics so, they likely have complex hydraulic systems for wing positioning / AOA(Angle Of Attack) / engine angle. Likely also for landing gear since they have retractable gear in fallout 4.
That the BoS has modified them from the original design at least partially, allowing attachment to the Prydwen, likely other modifications too.
I strongly suspect that they have an APU(Auxiliary Power Unit) in the aft fuselage / empennage somewhere, since they have a massive air intake scoop on the top fuselage, they can self start their primary engines which either requires a ridiculous amount of electricity / amps or a source of bleed air. Bleed air is the most likely candidate for self start and is reasonably common on real turbine aircraft, APUs also allows for ground power without having primary engines running. Also confirmed by the instruments in the cockpit.
All of these points are well and good and common in aviation, even modifications (ie. STOL kits, survey aircraft, agricultural mods, skiis, ect). But modern aviation has some advantages that the BoS doesn't have: access to new off the shelf parts, proper verified documentation, proper test processes & facilities, and experienced personnel.
Don't get me wrong, I think Proctor Ingram is awesome, very knowledgeable and practically a miracle worker (especially with that one terminal entry about an engine failure field recovery she pulls off!!), but one chief engineer cannot maintain an entire fleet AND the Prydwen, she comments on how things are breaking often on the ship that she is very busy! Training of new engineers takes *years* to even get to basic level! Ingram can’t train anyone she is too busy keeping everyone in the air 24/7! So who is training all of these scribes? There must be a huge amount of time teaching and supervising even simple tasks! Even at their best the BoS wouldn’t be able to hope to be near the prewar standards of training! Even Ingram or other senior scribes would not be thaaaaat experienced, 10 years is not a long time to completely learn a new aircraft and implement systems & processes of maintenance. The point here is that there are inexperienced scribes maintaining these aircraft.
WOLRDS BEST CHEIF ENGINEER ❤️ \/
My Screenshot. [ID: A screenshot of proctor Ingram from fallout 4, she is standing in the Liberty prime control area. She is smiling. She is wearing her usual modified power armour frame. Preston is visible in the background with a clipboard and pen, he is wearing woody’s outfit from toy story. End ID]
Heavy maintenance in the wasteland, especially in an active combat zone would be an absolute nightmare, are the poor scribes doing overhauls on the flight deck?? Not really possible, so the BoS must have a ground facility at the airport somewhere. Also side note where is the rest of Boston airport? There is more to an airport than a terminal and 1 runway, where are all the hangars?? Likely underwater but still, no ruins??
Back to maintenance, aircraft need a huge amount of care, way way way more than cars do. light civilian aircraft IRL need a full inspection every 100 hours of flight time, which adds up incredibly quickly! For example if you have a one hour commute twice a day that’s MR(Maintenance Release) hours reached in 50 days! You legally cannot fly out of hours. And a service for small aircraft takes about 3 personnel / 2 days and that’s without any major repairs or ADs (Airworthiness Directives) to address! $$$$! Aircraft operating in adverse conditions also need additional maintenance, and coastal areas like Boston, are considered adverse conditions since the salt air corrodes aluminum and steel like nothing else! Corrosion untreated will damage your aircraft and if left too long can destroy the structural integrity of aluminum parts. The spars of aircraft are aluminum often!
My photo. [ID: The inside of a Cessna 172 wing trailing edge is shown looking inboard at the aft root rib, which is primer green, it is backlit by torchlight, the fuselage and a orange scat hose are visible behind it, it has 3 irregular shaped holes in it, 2 are by design but the third medium sized hole in the center of the image is eaten away by corrosion. End ID]
Vertibirds, between being shot at constantly and having a complex deign with a lot of precision moving parts will need a lot of repairs; moving parts means lots of upkeep, grease and inspections! The BoS by 2287 must have some sort of manufacturing back in capital, they cannot still be using old parts from the enclave after 10 years of maintenance, that’s a lot of grease, paint and hydraulic fluid!!!
The BoS must also have a refinery of some kind because Avtur is a refined fuel with some important additives like biocide. Manufacture and storage of fuel is very important since fuel contamination will bring down an aircraft! (and has multiple times IRL! :[ ). Water, microbes, and algae are real dangers to engines, with free water being the most common. Poorly sealed tanks or improper fuel storage combined with a incomplete or missed pre-flight inspection can lead to fuel starvation, since water is heavier than fuel and tank outlets are at the bottom of the tank. If you loose an engine on a twin, may God help you.
This image is from Concordia Bioscience >Here< [ID: A photo of a sample of pale yellow Jet fuel in a clear container, the sample is contaminated with water and microbes and has separated into layers with water at the bottom, then microorganisms, and then Fuel at the top, the image is labeled as such. End ID]
Getting to the most likely crash reasons now (finally), In my opinion that is inexperienced pilots and; a horrific instrument layout.
While there must be some lancers in the BoS that have been flying for the whole 10 years that they’ve had Vertibirds, I think that is likely the exception not the rule, even if they crashed a fraction of the time that do in game that’s still A LOT of downed aircraft!
Experience is only gained in practice, and unfortunately for the BoS they are (self-declared) at war so resources are thin and safe zones are thinner. I suspect that there are a lot of very inexperienced pilots without the time for the experienced pilots to really teach.
Linking to my final point, experience on an airframe itself is also important, you want to be familiar with your aircraft, even among a group of the same model aircraft they will each have quirks, like slightly different instrument layouts, slightly different handling/feel i.e. "this one flies heavier / slower" (at least that's my experience with smaller civilian aircraft) I imagine that the apocalypse did nothing for improving manufacturing tolerances!
FINAL AND MOST DAMNING POINT:
Experience can only help lancers so much when veritibirds have such a strange instrument panel layout:
My screenshot. [ID: a screenshot of a instrument panel from a Fallout 4 vertibird. it is slanted on a approximately 30 degree angle. End ID]
A bit weird looking yeah? For reference Pilot is left seat and copilot is always right seat, this applies globally even in right hand drive countries.
lets take a closer look:
My Screenshots. [IDs: Three screenshots of the same Instrument panel as above, but zoomed in using a sniper rifle scope to get a better look. The first screen shot is the pilots side, the second the center, and the third the copilots side. End ID]
All righty! So reading from top to bottom, then left to right we have:
On the pilots side: A Rotor%RPM gauge, a VOR(Very high frequency Omni-directional Range) indicator, a DG(Directional Gyro), a HSI(Horizontal Situation Indicator), and then a huge AI(Attitude Indicator),
In the center section we have: presumably light clusters (likely master warnings & cautions, gear indicators, and other status lights), a second VOR gauge, likely magnetic compass as they are usually top centre (though I can’t see it being at all accurate with all of the steel around!), the engine instruments cluster, and the APU status / control panel at the bottom. unsure of what the 3 clusters of horizontal buttons are suppose to be other than input of some kind?
In the Engine cluster: Torque%, XMSN(transmission) oil temp / pressure dual gauge, a gas producer % RPM gauge with small integrated single percent dial (like having a seconds dial on your watch for accuracy) meaning the engines have free turbines (compressor not attached to the power turbine), a dual load / fuel psi gauge, a dual engine oil pressure and temperature gauge, fuel quantity in pounds, a turbine output temperature gauge (the hottest part of your engine), and a clock.
On the copilots side: a second Rotor%RPM dual gauge, a third VOR indicator, Airspeed in Knots and MPH, a RMI(Radio Magnetic Indicator) which uses VOR and ADF(Automatic Direction Finder) on compass, a second DG, a second HSI, and a teeny tiny altimeter right in the outboard corner.
the 4 instruments on the lower copilots panel are completely unlabeled
some things of note that are from game limitations:
most of the engine instruments don't have needles at all
the DGs and the RMI use the same background asset, resulting in the DG wrongly having 'VOR' and 'ASI' on its face, DGs are self contained air driven instruments that work on gyroscopic precession, not any outside data input.
all of the instruments with a compass face all say north despite this vertibird not quite facing north.
the AI is showing wings level despite this vertibird being crashed and on a ~30 degree angle
there are not engine controls at all not even flat assets, only flight controls.
There are a lot of instruments here and most of them are reasonably OK read individually, BUT there at least 1 key instrument missing and the layout outs emphasis on completely the wrong things:
WHERE IS THE VERTICAL SPEED INDICATOR(VSI)????? That's a pretty important gauge in a VERTICAL take off / landing aircraft!!!!!!!!!! It's one of the basic six pack!!! how was it omitted??? Speaking of the six pack why is there only one ASI and Altimeter?? and why are they tiny and ON THE COPILOTS SIDE ONLY???? the altimeter is LITERALLY the furthest instrument from the pilot in a vertibird, it should be right in front of the pilot!!! the easy to miss altimeter would make IFR(Instrument Flight Rules) flying incredibly dangerous! Also why are there four VOR based navigational instruments? VOR IS GROUND BASED NAVIGATION!!! unless the BoS has rebooted the multiple ground beacons for them to navigate from that's THREE dead instruments taking up space on the panel! the RMI is slightly more useful as ADF can tune to commercial radio frequencies, though these would need to be strong!
These poor inexperienced lancers are having to look all over the whole unnecessarily crowded cockpit for basic information that should be right in front of them, causing reaction delays and possible confusion. That delay could be the difference between whether or not they are flying home today.
-> Bethesda doesn't understand what half the instruments do and while they did a good job with most of the assets, in their quest to make it retro-future / visibly different from actual aircraft, they have completely destroyed any use of logic in the layout.
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Thanks for reading! Here’s a video of me yeeting Danse with the ‘Get out of my face mod’ as compensation haha
My Video. [ID: a video capture from fallout 4 in first person. It is night and is at oberland station facing the water treatment plant. The player is wearing power armour and the HUD is visible. The player is very close to Paladin Danse, he turns away from them and they shove him with the voice line “stay out of my way”. Danse flys a long way away while rag-dolling. The Gamer’s laughter can be heard while Danse is flying. The player follows Danse’s fall with the crosshairs. The player then walks backwards. End ID]
#they look cool and faster than a chopper that’s for sure#big disclaimer: I am not American or military I haven't seen a Osprey up close. and all of my experience is light fixedwings#If you know more about Ospreys or I've made other mistakes please correct me !!#oh yeah real brain rot days#been thinking about this for a long while#this catastrophe of a train of though was kicked off a when I decided to zoom in on the dash a vertibird out of curiosity and discover that#they have actual gauges that corresponding to real ones. just in the worst layout I’ve ever seen it’s so counterintuitive#Typos’ tea time#fallout 4#fo4#bos#brotherhood of steel#vertibird#fictional aviation
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Fallout 4: how many radiant quests are you willing to put up with in order to be the objectively good faction.
morality in fallout games
fallout 3: hmmm. is it bad to blow up the people you don't like?
fallout new vegas: every action has consequences, even actions you believe to be correct and that seem like the most straightforward way to improve society and free people from poverty and disease. war is hell and there are limits to how many problems can be solved with a revolver. every enemy you kill is someone's brother or daughter or lover, and you can't guarantee you won't meet that someone and have to stand by your decisions at some point. how strong is your conviction to do the "right" thing when you know that people you care about may hate you for it? how sure are you that your definition of "good" is more correct than someone else's? how often is your "good" really just the lesser of two evils? who are you to play god and decide what kinds of people deserve happiness more than others? would it be cowardly and wrong to remain neutral and detached when you hold the power to singlehandedly change everything? w
fallout 4: hmmm. is it bad to blow up the WAIT!!! POST CANCELED i just remembered this game has a mod that lets you replace Curie's humanoid synth form with a hot robot furry and you can date her and that kinda fucking rules actually
#the only good parts of FO4 are the gunplay the graphics the mods and the crafting mechanics#good god is the crafting system addictive#ive never finished the main questline of FO4 but ive spent 200 hours wandering the wasteland shooting dudes and gathering#mountains of glue in order to upgrade all my gear#honestly probably the best way to play the bethesda falliut games#fuck around and ignore the main story#at least some of the sidequest story writers didnt have so much oversight so as to make all their work utter garbage#the USS constitution isnt particularly morally interesting but at least its pretty cute#for example
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As I'm currently trying to raise as much money as possible for my visa, here's a friendly reminder that I am a Bethesda brand ambassador which means discount codes out the wazoo. So have one on me, get yourself something cool from the Bethesda Gear store. I really need the commission 😭
Use the code BTY89R3S for 20% off your order. Code expires November 12 2023 and is limited to ten people so get in there quick! ~Tal
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LOOK AT WHAT'S ON THE BETHESDA GEAR STORE 😭😭😭😭 he's so fucking cute I'm weeping
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The reaction to BG3 has made me realise how performative and shallow gamer rage is.
If any other company left their game in such a buggy, clearly unfinished state they'd be ripped apart.
7 patches in and There's still, gear that doesn't work. Bugs that can completely ruin your playthrough. Story flags that are set incorrectly.
And two of the main companions stories are doomed to forever be a fucking cliffhanger. This is the kind of shit that Bethesda and Bioware get fucking crucified for!
I love games, but I hate gamers.
#bg3#larian critical#larian studios#gaming culture#gaming community#gamers tm#larian fandom critical
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