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I can't say I hate Zeta, mostly because of the PHENOMENAL post DLC Mod, Mothership Zeta Crew.
I can't say I hate Zeta, mostly because of the PHENOMENAL post DLC Mod, Mothership Zeta Crew.
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No problem man, we understand. It´s not like people go to a torture chamber in a good mood.AlternatePFG said:[HEADING=1]Chapter LIX - Blue is Better Than Brown[/HEADING]Sorry about the lack of updates, but I should be back on track now. Zeta just really sucks.So now we've really just begun Mothership Zeta. It isn't a long DLC, but it sure as hell feels a lot longer. We have to go into three different areas and destroy the generators in each of them. Mostly for pacing issues, one area will be completed per update.
So the first area we're going to do is the Cryo Labs. As you would expect, it's completely blue. No contrast at all, just really shiny blue metal.
Still better than brown though.
The Cryo Labs are much more open than the previous areas in Zeta, space wise.
There's some decent setpieces, but the little mist shrouded over the ground is kind of ugly looking and off putting.
Plenty of aliens down here.
The laser rifle seems to be our most effective weapons against these guys.
Some places are abritrarily blocked off until you hit a switch. There is nothing of interest in this room, except for some non-alien items.
There is still a ton of these audio logs.
There are more cryo pods in these rooms. They aren't like the people we met earlier, they're usually hostile raiders or ghouls. Apparently the aliens have lifted an awful lot of people off of the wasteland.
They're easy enough to kill. Better than the aliens at least.
This is the reason why I'm not using the Alien Blaster ammo, there are a ton of enemies in this DLC, who are pretty much damage sponges.
The ghouls and aliens fight each other.
There's a couple of chambers with these frozen enemies. They all come charging out through the door, these guys are much weaker to the alien weapons.
It one shots most of these guys.
We move onto the next area.
Pretty much the same exact room layout as before.
Really, no weapon really kills these guys in a reasonable amount of shots.
It's so bright and somehow rather hard to see here.
Oh great, reavers.
Thankfully, they go down in only a few shots, unlike spending a ton of ammo slowly whittling down their health.
There are shelves down here with some supplies that were taken from the prisoners, including some Enclave gear.
You know, Mothership Zeta looks really nice in screenshots, but in motion it kind of looks bad. Don't really know how to explain it honestly.
You can see the aliens experimenting on some prisoners.
We press a button and they are all instantly frozen.
The next room is rather large, but exploring is pretty pointless. Not a whole lot of reason to do so.
Again, some of teh ship looks pretty cool.
They froze super mutant overlords. We do not want to thaw them out.
So the generator is pretty much identical to the one earlier.
Now that the generator is broken, it's time to step into the teleporter.
And after a tiny bit of walking, we're back to where we started. Two more generators left.
Also, what are you gonna do after Broken Steel? Are you finishing the LP for Fallout 3 for good, or are you still ending it up with MZ crew mod?
I'm probably going to do Mothership Zeta Crew right after Zeta is finished. I have an idea for something right after Broken Steel to give the LP an "ending", so to speak.JamesStone said:
After that, I'll take a bit of a break and then go onto New Vegas. (Which will be in the same thread)
[HEADING=1]Chapter LX - Variety! (Or The Lack Thereof)[/HEADING]
So now, we have two more generators to destroy. Thankfully, it was much faster destroying these two than it was in the Cryo Lab, so I will show both of them in this update.
I forgot to mention that you can bring along the crew to help you, but they aren't immortal like most companions, and I'd rather not have useful NPC's get killed off.
They do things on their own out here, like attempt to hold an alien hostage. It doesn't work out, as you probably could tell.
The robot assembly has a new enemy type. That's pretty much all that's of any interest in the area.
Yup, this area is predominantly brown. It pretty much flip flops between blue or brown the entire time.
As you can guess, they have a very limited amount of alien props and items to use, so the whole place gets extremely repetitive.
There's a neat little conveyor belt with robots on it though. You can't actually get on it, unfortunately.
These guys shoot explosive orb things. That's about the extent of their abilities, they go down in only a few shots from the Terrible Shotgun. (Thankfully.)
Repeat this image like 5 times and you'll get pretty much the same out of the whole area. It's really dull and repetitive, just like the rest of Mothership Zeta.
You can blow this thing up if you want to. Not really sure what it does...
The conveyor belt actually moves...
We blow up the conveyor belt and get caught in the blast...
And a hole is blown into the side that lets us go further into the area.
There are these little cages with robots in them, they are kind of a new mechanic added in this DLC, but it's really nothing major. Once you kill this particular alien (Who has a shitton of health by the way) he drops this item that lets you use the robots. They really aren't impressive though, they go down in about two shots from the aliens' blasters.
We leave plenty of carnage behind us.
Further into the back of the room, is the generator.
2 down, 1 more to go.
By destroying the generator, it shuts down the forcefield blocking our way out. Let's get back to the hub area.
The hanger is the location with the next generator.
So, this is the hangar. This is the smallest of the sections, and it looks pretty neat. Except for the spaceship, it looks like a floating piece of cardboard.
We activate one of the robots, because why not?
We can't get more than one though.
The Ranger Battle Armor is just about broken. I hope this doesn't drag on for much longer.
Going down this hallway leads to the control part of the hanger.
This is the control room.
Pressing these buttons moves the ship around slightly. It's only purpose as far as I can tell is that it can ram enemies who are coming in from down there.
Pressing a button to enter the generator room summons all these guys. The really dramatic music from the finale of the main campaign starts playing here randomly, but it isn't an epic fight, just a really tedious one.
A few uses of the alien epoxy and the Heavy Incinerator is good as new. It's really effective against these guys too.
Also, level up.
Points in barter mostly. Pretty much doesn't matter where our skill points go anymore. We're practically invincible by now.
Picked Master Trader, because why not?
This is a really long, annoying fight. Using the ship to ram the aliens helps a lot.
Finally, the door opens to the next area.
Now all the generators are down. Hopefully we can get off this godforsaken ship soon.
I forgot to mention that you can bring along the crew to help you, but they aren't immortal like most companions, and I'd rather not have useful NPC's get killed off.
They do things on their own out here, like attempt to hold an alien hostage. It doesn't work out, as you probably could tell.
The robot assembly has a new enemy type. That's pretty much all that's of any interest in the area.
Yup, this area is predominantly brown. It pretty much flip flops between blue or brown the entire time.
As you can guess, they have a very limited amount of alien props and items to use, so the whole place gets extremely repetitive.
There's a neat little conveyor belt with robots on it though. You can't actually get on it, unfortunately.
These guys shoot explosive orb things. That's about the extent of their abilities, they go down in only a few shots from the Terrible Shotgun. (Thankfully.)
Repeat this image like 5 times and you'll get pretty much the same out of the whole area. It's really dull and repetitive, just like the rest of Mothership Zeta.
You can blow this thing up if you want to. Not really sure what it does...
The conveyor belt actually moves...
We blow up the conveyor belt and get caught in the blast...
And a hole is blown into the side that lets us go further into the area.
There are these little cages with robots in them, they are kind of a new mechanic added in this DLC, but it's really nothing major. Once you kill this particular alien (Who has a shitton of health by the way) he drops this item that lets you use the robots. They really aren't impressive though, they go down in about two shots from the aliens' blasters.
We leave plenty of carnage behind us.
Further into the back of the room, is the generator.
2 down, 1 more to go.
By destroying the generator, it shuts down the forcefield blocking our way out. Let's get back to the hub area.
The hanger is the location with the next generator.
So, this is the hangar. This is the smallest of the sections, and it looks pretty neat. Except for the spaceship, it looks like a floating piece of cardboard.
We activate one of the robots, because why not?
We can't get more than one though.
The Ranger Battle Armor is just about broken. I hope this doesn't drag on for much longer.
Going down this hallway leads to the control part of the hanger.
This is the control room.
Pressing these buttons moves the ship around slightly. It's only purpose as far as I can tell is that it can ram enemies who are coming in from down there.
Pressing a button to enter the generator room summons all these guys. The really dramatic music from the finale of the main campaign starts playing here randomly, but it isn't an epic fight, just a really tedious one.
A few uses of the alien epoxy and the Heavy Incinerator is good as new. It's really effective against these guys too.
Also, level up.
Points in barter mostly. Pretty much doesn't matter where our skill points go anymore. We're practically invincible by now.
Picked Master Trader, because why not?
This is a really long, annoying fight. Using the ship to ram the aliens helps a lot.
Finally, the door opens to the next area.
Now all the generators are down. Hopefully we can get off this godforsaken ship soon.
Yeah, it looks bad.AlternatePFG said:
Weren't aliens non-canon before this, and now they are? If so, that makes me sad. ;_;
Just reading through these updates is boring, no offense, up until now it has been fantastic, but it seems like there's just no way to make MZ entertaining :/AlternatePFG said:
Don't count on it...Aidinthel said:
I don't know. I've yet to meet a single person who liked it, or the idea of canon aliens in Fallout. Perhaps they'll wise up.ChupathingyX said:
Yeah, Bethesda royally fucked up with Mothership Zeta, but aliens being canon could be an interesting thing to do. If well written, it could be a good alegory about the racism and xenophobism (imagine a Area 51 kind of place, were the last remnants of an alien crew were kept cryo preserved. A Wasteland scientist finds the base, reactivates the defenses and the experiments. You could choose to either side with him or the aliens, him saying that he could find something good to humanity, and aliens are not humans, only animals, and Bethesda being so good in this type of thing, almost every part of the past of the place would be told by the scenario and logs/terminals), but no, "aleunz r ivel" MUST be best, though Bethesda, it´s the easiest 50´s style exploit EVER! Sigh...CM156 said:
Also, I loved Fallout 1 and 2, but I always hated the special encounters like the alien ship with every bit of my dark soul. There´s no place in the game that tell us that they aren´t canon. Most of them only needed level 10 to visit. And it was DNF type of references (i.e. stupid direct ones with absolutely goddam NOTHING to do with the specific universe), the worst offender imo being the Cafe of Broken Dreams followed by the guardian of forever. Oh, and let´s not forget the guardian at the bridge or the incredibly idiotic Monty Phyton chapter of the BOS. I love so much more wild wasteland in NV because although almost everyone can understand them while playing, they fit incredibly well in the game and can be easily explained.
I really don't think aliens should be apart of the Fallout universe. I would much rather prefer that it stays human because we know what humans are acpable of and what goes through their minds, aliens on the oher hand are different and the aliens in MZ were just evil 1950s aliens who were much better parodied in Destroy All Humans!. The Fallout series lampoons humanity a lot and I personally think that would be ruined by aliens taking the spotlight because you can't make fun of the ethics of a race you know nothing about.JamesStone said:
As fo Wild Wasteland, yeah that was made specifically to counter the out-of-place references in Fallout 2.
This is (thankfully) the last Mothership Zeta update.
Okay, what do you think of Mothership Zeta?
I swear, this has been the biggest speedbump for this LP. I didn't want to play the game while going through Zeta, let alone comment on it. There's really nothing to say other than "It's boring and it sucks". It doesn't tie with any Fallout lore, etc. it's just really random and out of place. I promise Broken Steel and the like will be better.
[HEADING=1]Chapter LXI - The Thrilling Conclusion![/HEADING]
We destroyed all the generators, so now we have to take a quick space walk, and we're done with this god forsaken piece of content.
Just a bit of foreshadowing, I eventually run into what I think (Could be wrong though) a gamebreaking glitch, but it was fixed with a bit of console commands. The game seems to glitch out when I'm unhappy the most. More on that later.
The aliens were just a joke from the first two games, somehow Bethesda thought that making an entire DLC based of a minor joke was somehow a good idea. It might have been decent if it wasn't designed so poorly.
So, this spacesuit is totally functional and fits us perfectly. I'd question the logic, but I really just want to get this DLC over with and this Space Suit is our only option.
Except for suicide via airlock. Decisions, decisions...
The other characters hang out in this room, it's pretty much just filled with random clutter.
This is a strange looking airlock...
A random button that someone might elbow on accident, which would decompress and instantly kill everyone in a whole section of the ship?
Seems like a good idea to me.
There's still gravity here, unfortunately.
Worked like a charm.
Now it's time to go outside. Be prepared to have your mind blown...
The least convincing space skybox every created!
I mean, it's Gamebryo, sure, but this is just terrible.
We can see the inside of the ship from here, that's cool.
Oh no, not again!
Why was this a good idea again?
Wait...
What was the plan in the first place?
Now we're in another airlock room. Too bad we can't do the same thing for this part of the ship.
Oh look, these guys show up.
And this is where things start getting buggy.
This is a better view of Earth, mostly because it's hard to tell how flat space is here. Space and earth are actually just one big room, if you noclip out of the ship.
And this is where I hit a bit of a problem. For some reason, she wouldn't open the next door that we need to go through. There is supposed to be a hologram of an alien head to appear that this point, but it doesn't. So, I have to use console commands to unlock the next door.
This is another, really short lab section. New enemy type, abominations are pretty much feral ghouls, but with aliens.
Insert Portal 2 space reference here.
We take the teleporter to the next area.
Nothing really unique in this section.
Oh yeah, because the stupid alien workers keep getting caught in the crossfire, we keep on getting bad karma. In fact, we end up going down from Very Good to Good karma because of them.
The Heavy Incinerator is still useful here.
Now we're in the outer edges of the ship.
We light a whole hallway on fire with the Incinerator, including some alien workers who got in the way. I really don't give a shit about preserving our karma anymore.
I love this gun.
Oh look, another view of Earth. Apparently, the aliens have some kind of death ray aimed at Earth. I wonder what this button does-
Whoops.
Now we have to blue up three generators. Yay.
More aliens spawn in here constantly.
Another teleporter...
New, rather annoying mechanic. These barriers hold you off for awhile, or block your way entirely. It's just really for scripted events.
It's just blocking an abomination from attacking you.
The abominations can be dangerous at times, they have this little flail attack that can do a good amount of damage if you aren't careful.
Ceiling turrets are also incredibly annoying as well.
This is supposed to be their Living Quarters. *shrug* It's just the same items used over and over again from the other areas.
A whole ton of them start pouring out of that room. I needed something a bit more... explosive.
Apparently there are turrets in their living quarters as well.
The Atomizer is pretty damn good.
Time for the final boss of Mothership Zeta. Who goes down in one hit.
We clear out the entire room almost instantly...
Welp, that was easy.
A giant alien hologram appears on the screen ahead of us. That's ominous.
So now we're engaging in a giant Star Trek styled space battle with the alien mothership. It's not nearly as cool as it sounds.
That pretty much sums Mothership Zeta up in a nutshell, huh? The aliens aren't a terrible idea in theory (Their role would need to be changed for it to fit, but still) but Zeta is far too repetitive. Despite it being pretty damn short, it feels way longer than any of the other DLC's and that's not a good thing. The enemies are a pain in the ass to kill, and in general, it's not very fun.
Everyone is here now too. We can do this, we can beat this and Mothership Zeta once and for all-
Wha-?!
And it turns out, Mothership Zeta was just some horrible, horrible dream and we're back on the boat from Point Lookout.
...
Okay, okay. I did this simply because:
1) The finale goes on for a really long time, and it's pretty much just an extended "You press a button to shoot them once, they shoot back, continue until one explodes" ordeal
2) Zeta is really silly and out of place, so it's not going to actually be part of the LP's 'canon' so to speak. I will not be using the weapons and stuff from it
3) Do I really need an excuse for this?
All you missed from the big fight was a cool explosion:
There.
While I'm not the biggest fan of Broken Steel, it's a masterpiece compared to Zeta.
Now I'm off to play something fun, like Dark Souls or something.
Just a bit of foreshadowing, I eventually run into what I think (Could be wrong though) a gamebreaking glitch, but it was fixed with a bit of console commands. The game seems to glitch out when I'm unhappy the most. More on that later.
The aliens were just a joke from the first two games, somehow Bethesda thought that making an entire DLC based of a minor joke was somehow a good idea. It might have been decent if it wasn't designed so poorly.
So, this spacesuit is totally functional and fits us perfectly. I'd question the logic, but I really just want to get this DLC over with and this Space Suit is our only option.
Except for suicide via airlock. Decisions, decisions...
The other characters hang out in this room, it's pretty much just filled with random clutter.
This is a strange looking airlock...
A random button that someone might elbow on accident, which would decompress and instantly kill everyone in a whole section of the ship?
Seems like a good idea to me.
There's still gravity here, unfortunately.
Worked like a charm.
Now it's time to go outside. Be prepared to have your mind blown...
The least convincing space skybox every created!
I mean, it's Gamebryo, sure, but this is just terrible.
We can see the inside of the ship from here, that's cool.
Oh no, not again!
Why was this a good idea again?
Wait...
What was the plan in the first place?
Now we're in another airlock room. Too bad we can't do the same thing for this part of the ship.
Oh look, these guys show up.
And this is where things start getting buggy.
This is a better view of Earth, mostly because it's hard to tell how flat space is here. Space and earth are actually just one big room, if you noclip out of the ship.
And this is where I hit a bit of a problem. For some reason, she wouldn't open the next door that we need to go through. There is supposed to be a hologram of an alien head to appear that this point, but it doesn't. So, I have to use console commands to unlock the next door.
This is another, really short lab section. New enemy type, abominations are pretty much feral ghouls, but with aliens.
Insert Portal 2 space reference here.
We take the teleporter to the next area.
Nothing really unique in this section.
Oh yeah, because the stupid alien workers keep getting caught in the crossfire, we keep on getting bad karma. In fact, we end up going down from Very Good to Good karma because of them.
The Heavy Incinerator is still useful here.
Now we're in the outer edges of the ship.
We light a whole hallway on fire with the Incinerator, including some alien workers who got in the way. I really don't give a shit about preserving our karma anymore.
I love this gun.
Oh look, another view of Earth. Apparently, the aliens have some kind of death ray aimed at Earth. I wonder what this button does-
Whoops.
Now we have to blue up three generators. Yay.
More aliens spawn in here constantly.
Another teleporter...
New, rather annoying mechanic. These barriers hold you off for awhile, or block your way entirely. It's just really for scripted events.
It's just blocking an abomination from attacking you.
The abominations can be dangerous at times, they have this little flail attack that can do a good amount of damage if you aren't careful.
Ceiling turrets are also incredibly annoying as well.
This is supposed to be their Living Quarters. *shrug* It's just the same items used over and over again from the other areas.
A whole ton of them start pouring out of that room. I needed something a bit more... explosive.
Apparently there are turrets in their living quarters as well.
The Atomizer is pretty damn good.
Time for the final boss of Mothership Zeta. Who goes down in one hit.
We clear out the entire room almost instantly...
Welp, that was easy.
A giant alien hologram appears on the screen ahead of us. That's ominous.
So now we're engaging in a giant Star Trek styled space battle with the alien mothership. It's not nearly as cool as it sounds.
That pretty much sums Mothership Zeta up in a nutshell, huh? The aliens aren't a terrible idea in theory (Their role would need to be changed for it to fit, but still) but Zeta is far too repetitive. Despite it being pretty damn short, it feels way longer than any of the other DLC's and that's not a good thing. The enemies are a pain in the ass to kill, and in general, it's not very fun.
Everyone is here now too. We can do this, we can beat this and Mothership Zeta once and for all-
Wha-?!
And it turns out, Mothership Zeta was just some horrible, horrible dream and we're back on the boat from Point Lookout.
...
Okay, okay. I did this simply because:
1) The finale goes on for a really long time, and it's pretty much just an extended "You press a button to shoot them once, they shoot back, continue until one explodes" ordeal
2) Zeta is really silly and out of place, so it's not going to actually be part of the LP's 'canon' so to speak. I will not be using the weapons and stuff from it
3) Do I really need an excuse for this?
All you missed from the big fight was a cool explosion:
There.
While I'm not the biggest fan of Broken Steel, it's a masterpiece compared to Zeta.
Now I'm off to play something fun, like Dark Souls or something.
I swear, this has been the biggest speedbump for this LP. I didn't want to play the game while going through Zeta, let alone comment on it. There's really nothing to say other than "It's boring and it sucks". It doesn't tie with any Fallout lore, etc. it's just really random and out of place. I promise Broken Steel and the like will be better.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw thisAlternatePFG said:
I'll let one of my favourite characters from my favourite film describe it for me...
This was my reactionAlternatePFG said:
Is.... is it over? IT IS? PRAISE BE TO JESUS!
Dear lord, I am more glad than ever I decided to skip this. Well, have fun with Dark Souls. You've earned it.
The torture is over? Can I just go out of this godforsaken DLC? PRAISE THE LORD, IS A MIRACLE.
Nothing describes better my opinion of MZ as ChupathingyX comment. A big pile of shit indeed.
Nothing describes better my opinion of MZ as ChupathingyX comment. A big pile of shit indeed.
So can I return? Has Zeta ended? Awesome. Now I can post a story![sub]Hope I don't regret this[/sub]
[HEADING=1]The Story Of Jerry Stowley[/HEADING]
So any thoughts? If it seems short, thats because it is and I only meant for it to be a sample of what it could be like.
[HEADING=1]The Story Of Jerry Stowley[/HEADING]
Getting kicked out of my home wasn't the worst part of my week. No that award would go to being chased and pratically ripped to shreds by three Deathclaws. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll start with who I am. My name is Jerry Stowley and I was raised on a Brahmin farm untill the age of 13 when the farm was raided by some weird raiders who called themselves the vipers. During my childhood I was taught how to survive in the wastes and some pre war stuff too. Oh yeah I have a dog called Terror who still remains my companion to this day. Now when we were raided I was forced into losing my innocence and killing the raiders with my father and brothers. However my father gained injuries too severe to be treated and died. MY mother, now stricken with despair, had to try and handle me and my 3 siblings. When we saw she couldn't one of my brothers, the eldest, took me and my sister to Megaton. Fast forward 12 years and I'm framed by the church of atom and kicked out of Megaton. They said I had broken into the armory and shut down that stupid robot in front of the town. In truth he was just faulty and one of the local engineers (Who looking back did look a lot like me) thought he should reboot it via the terminal in the armory. Now your all caught up. So I left home with some supplies, my sawed-off shotgun called the Kneecapper (It apparently belonged to this famous wastlenader who purified our water) and my trusty dog, Terror and thus began my hunt for a new home.
So any thoughts? If it seems short, thats because it is and I only meant for it to be a sample of what it could be like.
Pretty cool, I like how it´s after the Lone Wanderer purified the water. Keep going man.MinimanZombie said:
I like it. Though I think it would be funnier if it started with "Dear diary" or something silly like that. Oh well. Still, not bad. Glad to see another contributor to the thread.MinimanZombie said:
Seems interesting, looking forward to future entries.MinimanZombie said:
However, you should really spell check that, because there are a lot of mistakes.
Also, hate to be nitpicky, but there are no Vipers on the east coast, they're a west coast raider gang.