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Interests => Games & Home Entertainment => Topic started by: lars1701c on November 01, 2008, 12:39:22 AM
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I just got it and I have to say its everything i thought it was going to be :) :bow:
I love the VATS when in combat, and the graphics are intense to say the least.
Anyone else get the game? let me know what you thought of it?
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Never heard of it.
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This may be the first videogame I buy since The Orange Box (Portal was awesome; ditto HL2 EP1). I not only played Fallout 1 and 2 back in the day, but I spent many an hour over the CGA graphics of Wasteland.
Now I gotta convince my wife that it's okay... :naughty:
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I just got it and I have to say its everything i thought it was going to be :) :bow:
I love the VATS when in combat, and the graphics are intense to say the least.
Anyone else get the game? let me know what you thought of it?
30+ hours already. Level 10 and I have barely scratched maybe 5% of the total game because I am having so much fun.
I HATE first person shooters and I LOVE this game so Bethesda hit it out of the park as far as I'm concerned.
I actually convinced my wife to buy a 360 in August for my son's birfday so that I would be able to play this when it came out.
I just wish Dogmeat didn't leap squarely into the line of fire all the time.
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This may be the first videogame I buy since The Orange Box (Portal was awesome; ditto HL2 EP1). I not only played Fallout 1 and 2 back in the day, but I spent many an hour over the CGA graphics of Wasteland.
Now I gotta convince my wife that it's okay... :naughty:
I actually have an old lap top tricked out to run both Fallouts and X-com!
Best games ever.
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I woke up and started playing until I went to bed last night.
I got my rep up to ranger of the waste but I so want to blow Megton up but dont want to destroy all my work.
How do you get dogmeat?
They only problem i have with the game is I dont know where to go first or if i am off the beaten path
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Never heard of it.
I guess it is the new version of Fallout 2.
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Is there a demo?
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Is there a demo?
Afraid not. Apparently it's getting rave reviews now, but every game goes through a bit of a 'honeymoon phase'. Folks I know who are playing it really enjoy it.
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Afraid not. Apparently it's getting rave reviews now, but every game goes through a bit of a 'honeymoon phase'. Folks I know who are playing it really enjoy it.
AoC, Vanguard, CoH, etc...........
Sounds like a fun game. :cheersmate:
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amazing game, its like oblivion with guns basically.
Unlike oblivion, however, the game ends when you finish the main quest, so don't finish that until you're done with everything else.
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I assume that (unlike Oblivion), you won't need 3rd party patches to actually finish the damned game?
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I assume that (unlike Oblivion), you won't need 3rd party patches to actually finish the damned game?
i finished oblivion just fine w/no patches...
I've only found 1 bug in fallout so far.
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i finished oblivion just fine w/no patches...
Must be me... I played it early, and it was buggy as all get-out. When the last official patch came out, I tried again, and got hosed once more, but I was using a save-game from earlier. If ever I get free time again, I may drag it out...
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Must be me... I played it early, and it was buggy as all get-out. When the last official patch came out, I tried again, and got hosed once more, but I was using a save-game from earlier. If ever I get free time again, I may drag it out...
were you using any plugins?
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were you using any plugins?
Not initially, but the latest patches weren't out, either. I started using plugins to fix the game once it went wonky on me, and then it went all downhill. Like I said, it's probably me. The sad thing is, once I figured out that all the critters leveled with me, I pretty much lost interest in the game, and ended up buying the Orange Box. It's funny how knowing about the auto-level killed the game for me.
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I like this game. The gore factor alone makes it highly recommended.
Very purty graphically and the free-form play style is great.
Plays just like oblivion, except with a very clunky mapping and inventory interface.
I've only encountered one bug, when fast-traveling to a articular, the game crashes to desktop. That only started to happen after steam sucked down a patch for it....
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I hit a guy with a sniper shot last night and blew his arm off. He ran around waving the stump before he collapsed.
It's the simple things that bring you pleasure.
Also about three shots from any long arm will set a wrecked car ablaze and then it blows up, often taking the surrounding vehicles with it.
I chain reactioned a wrecked traffic jam in downtown DC and it was a sight to behold.
Shooting at them when they are near enemies is a winner. Also those fire extinguishers that are laying all over the landscape go BOOM when you hit them too.
Sneak into a room full of Raiders. Shoot a fire extinguisher across the room with a silenced 10mm pistol. When they all run over to look pop a jet and sneak behind them to deliver a series of surprise back of the head gifts via VATS.
Hilarity WILL ensue.
Also if someone is holding a grenade you can target it IN their hand for chuckles. You can also use VATS to skeet shoot incoming hand grenades.
Triple fun is to be had sneeking up behind a Raider and pickpocketing him. Leave behind a frag grenade. There is a great couple of seconds of them dropping their weapons and beating at their pockets before they go boom.
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Oh gosh darn it all to heck!
I'm now going to have to buy this dang game.
The spouse will not be pleased.
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The coolest thing I have had happen so far was to manage a string of four head shots from hiding, one after the other while they were distracted trying to kill Dogmeat... and I had one of those mutated bears come leaping at me out of no where off a rock and I reflex twitched the VATS on and put three bursts into it's head and got "Wunffed" aside when the carcass hit. :-)
Best weapon in the game by far is the souped up chinese assault rifle you get on a side quest. And the Blackhawk scoped .44 mag you get for doing the musical quest. I am going after the old school set of T-51 power armor next.
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Did you catch any of the antics about your country's leaders freaking out about this game?
Yes. They're a pack of idiots for suggesting it. IIRC it wasn't the high level graphic violence or coarse language, but the "drug use" that they objected to. 'Course This is nothing compared to their plan to censor the internetz, but that's a different rant.
They have this nasty little trick, in that there is *no* "Adults only" rating level for computer games, so they can deny stuff a lot easier.
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Maybe somebody can help me out. I don't know exactly how far I am in the game, but I'm stuck. I'm at the part right after you talk to the guy at the radio station and he tells you where your dad went. I'm in some kind of outdoor mall type thing and there are like 500 super mutants. How do I get past this part?
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Maybe somebody can help me out. I don't know exactly how far I am in the game, but I'm stuck. I'm at the part right after you talk to the guy at the radio station and he tells you where your dad went. I'm in some kind of outdoor mall type thing and there are like 500 super mutants. How do I get past this part?
You need to go to rivet city.
Head for the old subway systems.
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Well, I was following the subway systems for quite awhile and it brought me above ground at this spot. It's REALLY close to Rivet City though so I figured I was in the right spot. So if I head back down into the subway system, it should take me all the way to Rivet City?
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Nice, I'm still using a basic Chinese Assault Rifle and Combat Shotgun for primary weapons, with Talcon Mercenary Armor and a Motorcycle Helmet.
So where the heck did you pickup Dogmeat? I still haven't found a follower in the game.
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Maybe somebody can help me out. I don't know exactly how far I am in the game, but I'm stuck. I'm at the part right after you talk to the guy at the radio station and he tells you where your dad went. I'm in some kind of outdoor mall type thing and there are like 500 super mutants. How do I get past this part?
Super Guide:
http://mycheats.1up.com/view/superguide/3160079/fallout_3_/xbox_360
I got to Rivet City by popping Rad meds and swimming down the Potomic River. It takes next to no time to do it and you can't get attacked by anything but missile weapons and there were none of those.
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I got to Rivet City by popping Rad meds and swimming down the Potomic River. It takes next to no time to do it and you can't get attacked by anything but missile weapons and there were none of those.
Sounds like a good alternative to fighting 500 supermutants haha. I'll have to try it out. Thanks!
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Sounds like a good alternative to fighting 500 supermutants haha. I'll have to try it out. Thanks!
When you do it keep an eye out for intact structures along the shoreline. When you find them sneak close and "Discover" them on your map. Then you can fast travel to them at a later time when they come up in various side quests.
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Was I supposed to kill the Overseer? Because, I did.
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Sounds like a good alternative to fighting 500 supermutants haha. I'll have to try it out. Thanks!
The best, and easiest way to avoid the super mutants (until you are ready for a fight anyway) is to use the old subway system. there are stations all over, and some places are not accessible without using it.
There is a station that is right next to Rivet City.
Was I supposed to kill the Overseer? Because, I did.
I killed his sorry ass the first time I played through. I don't think it makes a huge difference. Unless you are playing as an "evil" character, in which case it's highly recommended.
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Ha, so I've started to scan a bit of the guide that Asdf posted above, thanks for the link :cheersmate:
Turns out I've missed some cool stuff along the way to where I am now :thatsright:
Oh well, I've had fun :cheersmate:
So do you guys ever reach a point where you're not constantly in need of bottle caps to repair gear and replenish ammo?
If you do the freeform quests and spread your sales out over a few different merchants then you wind up sitting pretty. I ignored the laser weapons and sold both them and the E-Cells as soon as they came in and it was a pretty penny.
Also there are certain sites that respawn villains, one of them being the overpass directly north of vault 101. There is always a raider with a sniper rifle up there. I go hit that for repair fodder if I can't find one anywhere else.
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What's the purpose of spreading your sales out over a few different merchants? I've had to do that, because I had more items to sell than they had bottle caps at any given city... but does it effect anything else?
Nice, know any other good respawn places where good weapons are to be had? I've been hitting deathclaws for xp a bit tonight, almost at level 12 over by Old Onery. But really haven't found a good respawn spot for Talcon Mercs or Raiders with good loot.
Bingo on the first.
The Supermutant Trenches on the Washington Mall are good for miniguns, hunting rifles and missile launchers. Snoopin and Poopin with a decent AP and using the VATS for concealed critical strikes makes it kind of a breeze.
Those are the only bad guy respawns with decent weapons I can think of offhand.
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I got my ass handed to me when I managed to follow a sewer pipe from near Wilhelm's Wharf into, and afterwards out of, Hubris Comics. I am in the SW quadrant now trying to schmooze my way into some of that Outlander gear and arms.
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http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/fallout-3/g-20070606111037562096
Another page with guides and this one has some video walkthroughs.
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You've already played through the game to the end?
Yes, I followed the main quest path through and went further than I intended.
Now I'm going through doing my utmost to find and complete every quest.
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The Talon Co. put a bounty on me and had some of its mercs try to collect on me when I was leaving Lucky's Shop. I was low on 5.56 ammo and shotgun shells too. They almost killed me. I had to use 12 stimpacks to kill all 3 of them.
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so how has everyone designed there characters?
My character is pretty much a "good" character, but, I don't hesitate to do evil deeds every so often to rapidly advance his wealth. I just vaporized anything that moved at Evergreen Mills, including, Smiling Jack. That is kind of my "base" now.
ETA: I focused my attributes on Lockpick, Medicine, Sm. Guns, Repair and Explosives.
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so how has everyone designed there characters?
Focused on Barter, Sneak, Shoot, Lockpick, and Repair. Given a second opportunity, I'd go back and put more into Intelligence for more skill points. And a point more Strength for more carrying capacity.
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Professor Casdin just got killed by a Raider while I was standing by Ft. Independence. I took his pass card and entered the building. They began to fire on me. I dispatched most of them with frags and the "Terrible Combat Shotgun" I looted off of Smiling Jack.
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My character is pretty much a "good" character, but, I don't hesitate to do evil deeds every so often to rapidly advance his wealth. I just vaporized anything that moved at Evergreen Mills, including, Smiling Jack. That is kind of my "base" now.
ETA: I focused my attributes on Lockpick, Medicine, Sm. Guns, Repair and Explosives.
That's pretty much the same as how I designed my character. I put a lot more into science so I could break into more computers and get more goodies tho. Now that Small Guns is maxed out I'm working to get Big Guns Maxed out.
I did the same thing at Evergreen Mills and at Paradise Falls. Picked off every slaver I could find. Gained Karma on a few of em too.
Favorite distance weapon is the Hunting Rifle (three successful head shots with that and all but the most hardy critter is dust), Favorite Close is the Cobat shotgun.
I'm experimenting with the Railway Rifle at the moment.
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I initially tagged Sneak, Small Guns and Lockpick.
I have got the ambush from hidden down to a fine art now and dumped as many perks into boosting criticals as I possibly could.
I am in the midst of rescuing Riley's rangers from a downtown DC hotel.
I have been sticking to the Xuanlong Assault Rifle, The Blackhawk and The Terrible Shotgun with the sniper rifle used a lot. Lincoln's Repeater also rocks.
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Has anyone else managed to pick up the Firelance. Great Weapon. Makes crispy enemies real fast.
Has very limited ammo supplies (unless I'm missing something really obvious) so should be preserved for emergency situations.
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Dude!
When you finish rescuing Reily's Rangers they give you your choice of a minigun that does slightly more damage or Ranger Battle Armor.
I took the armor.
Ranger Battle Armor
Damage Reduction:39
Weight:27
Effects:+5 Action Points, +1 LCK, +10 Small Guns
One point less DR than Power Armor and fantastic bennies!!
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Incidentally, great resourse site here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki
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BTW, anyone find the Lincoln picture at the monument? I'm at a loss with where the poster is for that one.
It's in the lower level of the Museum of History along with about 15 feral ghouls and 4 "Glowing Ones".
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Hey as a heads up to everybody...
When you go into Vault 82 to find the GECK there is a series of events that takes place at the end that will seperate you from your NPC's.
They can be found at the original locations that you recruited them in. (Jericho will be waiting at the crater where Megaton used to be if you blew the town)
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Anyone else been up to Old Olney?
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Yep, I didn't really find much, but maybe a few skill books. There is a vault just to the west of it, that I haven't explored yet.
Yep, all I found up there were Deathclaws on every corner.
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There's some underground sections to explore there, I think I also found a unique suit of power armor called the medic there; wasn't anything special though.
Where are you at in the game?
Yeah, I cleared all of the tunnels and snagged everything, but, the Deathclaws respawn after a few days pass up there.
I am starting to infiltrate the D.C. city areas after already exploring every thing except the SE quadrant of the world map. I only have about 2 active, optional quests left that I haven't completed (Nuka Cola Challenge and rescue the kid from the Family).
ETA: Where in the hell is "The Family" located, BTW?
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Yeah, I cleared all of the tunnels and snagged everything, but, the Deathclaws respawn after a few days pass up there.
I am starting to infiltrate the D.C. city areas after already exploring every thing except the SE quadrant of the world map. I only have about 2 active, optional quests left that I haven't completed (Nuka Cola Challenge and rescue the kid from the Family).
ETA: Where in the hell is "The Family" located, BTW?
I have seen so many posts on the Xbox Fallout 3 forums of people needing help on the Blood Ties Quest. Mostly people just need to know the location of The Family so I have written a summery (containing spoilers if you aren’t on this quest) explaining The Family’s location and how to get to them.
If you are not on this quest I suggest to not read what is about to follow:
Lucy West, of Megaton, has given you a quest to deliver a letter to her family in Arefu. Upon arriving you soon learn her parents are dead with bite marks on them and her brother is missing. After talking to Evan King and getting all the details of what could have happened he suggests that The Family, a group of vampire like beings, have taken Lucy’s brother and you must go and find them.
He gives you three locations to scope out. (A Metro Station, an Underground Hide-Away and a Drive-In Cinema).*These places will be indicated on your map. What you want to do is go to the Metro Station location and go underground via. the subway like stairs. Once underground walk straight and then turn left at the first turn. You should be looking at a wall and a door will be on your right at the end. If you walk towards it a ghoul named Michael Masters will come out to greet you.
Michael Masters has his own little side thing where you bring him Sugar Bombs and he will pay you bottle-caps for them. But anyway, go into the room where Michael Masters came from (There will be another ghoul in the room) and walk towards the back and go through the door that leads into a tinted green room where a few barrels of radioactive junk sits and a manhole cover is in front of it on the ground.
Open the manhole and go down and you will come out into the subway tunnels. Travel down the tunnels (Try to avoid the mines and bear traps and other dangerous obstacles along the way.) and you will eventually come across The Family’s lair.
The Family isn’t as evil as you may think. You will have the option to provide them with another alternative food source so they will stop attacking the town. You will also be able to get Lucy’s brother to return home if you let him read her letter. When you pick your alternative option for The Family you must go back to Arefu, talk to Evan about the alternative, travel back to The Family’s lair and tell them the proposal has been accepted, and the quest is complete.
http://kellysgameblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/fallout-3-blood-ties/
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Okay, thanks. Those 2 quests are completed and now it's time for "Project Purity".
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Shame you can only go up to 20 lvl :( i have some quests still to do and a couple of the main story ones.
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A most useful thing:
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/asdf2231/protest/http--imgwaffleimagescom-eb887312de.gif)
A map showing how all the metro tunnels and stations connect complete with landmarks.
Fullsize pic at the link below. Happy Hunting!
http://fluffy.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/eb/eb887312def839f919548bbe316172f93037808e.gif
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I did a good character now i want to do a evil one but is it worth taking the sneak perk?>
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I just finished the game today!
Horry Clap that robot at the end was cool!!!111
Ending seemed a little anti climactic though.
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Liberty Prime should've been a playable character, a la, cybernetic exoskeleton for the main character.
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Anyone here when the downloadable content and expansions for the game are coming out?
Congrats asdf! I'm still holding off on finishing the game, I'll spend another month if it takes, but I want to find all the locations and explore all that I can before finishing it. Actually... I haven't even had a chance to play it this past week I think... :(
Supposedly there is one coming out in January.
http://www.techspot.com/news/32621-bethesda-to-release-fallout-3-editor-and-expansion-packs.html
Gaming
Bethesda to release Fallout 3 editor and expansion packs
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com
Published: November 25, 2008, 1:16 PM EST
It appears Bethesda is taking the right steps to embrace the modding community, with recent announcements that the company plans to release developer tools before the end of the year. The official Fallout 3 Creation Kit is supposed to be released next month, completely for free, for both the PC and the Xbox 360. Calling it, aptly enough, the G.E.C.K., Bethesda claims they hope people will create their own add-ons. If the response to the construction kit for Morrowind is any indication of how this will fare, we can expect a tidal wave of user-generated content as time goes on.
Bethesda plans to release additional content for the game as well, in the form of three “content packs,†which will be downloadable add-ons for the game. These are not due until after “G.E.C.K.â€, with one pack schedule for released every month for the first three months of next year.
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Supposedly there is one coming out in January.
http://www.techspot.com/news/32621-bethesda-to-release-fallout-3-editor-and-expansion-packs.html
I cant wait for Fallout 4 :-)
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Anyone else been up to Old Olney?
Follow the road west out of town, and when it turns south there is a crashed alien ship with an alien blaster and some power cells.
Paladin0
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Liberty Prime should've been a playable character, a la, cybernetic exoskeleton for the main character.
You can "give" yourself the weapons from that thing via the console.
Since completing the game for the second time, I've been doing a "cheat" character to see if i can uncover any easter-eggs and hidden content.
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My BIL had it, pawned it.,.. kinda liked it
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Since completing the game for the second time, I've been doing a "cheat" character to see if i can uncover any easter-eggs and hidden content.
Did you ever find anything?
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Did you ever find anything?
All I found was a remarkably effective way to burn through my free time.... :lmao: