Tuesday, October 7th -I have that green set of armor. And yeah, since I got that, I don't critical'ed much.
Troubled times at my job, I came home exhausted. But I managed to get started before it got too late, as I'd failed to do the last few nights, and that worked out well enough. Got a good portion of Fallout sidequests done, three of which included really big, tough firefights against mobs of dudes.
The combat is weird in this game. Critical hits happen a lot, and that can be infuriating when you've got a lot of opponents at one time. A bullet that normally does 3-7 damage will sometimes come out of nowhere and smack you for 30+, and a couple times I just died outright as someone scored a crazy crit that ate my entire HP stock. And my own guys did that a number of times against the enemy as well. It's... strange. I hadn't noticed it prior to tonight, but tonight it just seemed crazy.
Eventually I mowed everyone down, though, and used my huge cash surplus from these jobs to buy a Super Sledge from one of the merchants in the Hub. I don't know exactly what it does, but it uses less AP than my spear did, supposedly does improved knockback, and does a shitload more damage. And it should. I had to trade half my inventory and the majority of my caps to get it! I hope it turns out to be worth it. I got my ass handed to me trying to take on a particularly nasty baddie earlier, so we'll see if my improved arsenal (my buddies got some beefier pistols/rifles as well) can take him out next time. I'm sort of doubting it.Awesome.
Tons and tons of gaming happened. The floodgates were finally opened and I managed to probably get in at least 6 hours of Fallout, maybe more, the way I'd intended to get things done for days but not managed to accomplish. My session finally ended about 4 in the morning on Friday, and I slept until 11 that morning (highly unusual for me).Woot @ new vid card! Hope it kicks ass for you, man! :)
Fallout continues to be really compelling, and so much cool stuff is happening it's just impossible to put down. Can't wait to see more! Too, my new video card (Sapphire 4850) has been ordered, so in just a few days I'll be set to hopefully get a nice speed increase in The Witcher. Can't wait for that, either!
I know that FO2 should run without issue on a modern version of Windows. I don't know specifics, but I'm pretty sure it's worked pretty easily for most people, so I don't think you'd have to do that much tweaking. You can probably find some info over at No Mutants Allowed (http://www.nma-fallout.com/). Of course, if you buy it from GOG.com (http://htt[://www.gog.com), it'll work without issue anyway due to their fixes.