Utnayan
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Tuco
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I don't remember what I was preaching but save scumming is cheating.
I save scum all the time.
I usually add weight / inventory unlock mods after getting my fill of inventory-management suffering. Just done too much damn inventory management in my lifetime of gaming. Shit got old in Rogue
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Tuco
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Also, purely coincidentally, I learned how to savescum in Rogue when my dad taught me as a kid. Because it's 100% random you basically can only be likely to win if you savescum before opening a new level, explore that new level and save when you finish and then regenerate and replay that level a few times, then select the best save (or stop when you get a decent level). Rogue didn't have savegame slots in the way we used it, so you had to copy and rename files in a DOS prompt. Pretty top-tier hacking for an 8 year old or whatever.
Also my most recent savescumming is in Hogwarts Legacy, which generates chest content on open.
Also my most recent savescumming is in Hogwarts Legacy, which generates chest content on open.
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Regime
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Lol I’m just messing with ya tucobro
But ya it was you versus another about save scumming and it was hilarious.
Tuco
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I was curious so I looked it up.
Looks like it's possible to pick the Idiot Savant perk in FO4 which randomly triples your XP and then savescum until it triggers. Looks like people in that thread got triggered for being told they were cheating. Go ahead and cheat, folks, nobody cares. I cheat so good in singleplayer games. Just don't pretend savescumming isn't cheating.
Regime
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Ok I remember someone in that thread got super butthurt and said save scumming was cheating and then proceeded to say his use of no weight mods in a game based around inventory management wasn’t cheating.
Caliane
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eh. while I wouldn't call them unplayable or anything. . 99%of games these days are too buggy to not have save scumming ready. or even when its not outright bugs, its game devs having wacky ideas of logic.
like recently in pillars 2, I saved scummed back like 2 hours to reset Xoti from going full pyscho. now, if I had the option of just killing hte psycho and freeing the souls, I would have kept playing. but it DIDNT give me that option. I would have had just live with her being a lunatic, and the souls trapped.
so, I reset back 2 hours, and changed 1 dialogue option which on the surface anyone would have thought was innocuous.. now, shes only kindof psycho.
or like in skyrim/fallout. how many times did lydia/etc just vanish from following, or get stuck on some shit, and got to save scum to find them?
Save scumming is 100% a developers problem. amusingly, there was a post in the pathfinder reddit doing a long crit on wrath of the righteous today. and it nails the issue with save scumming.
Thats the problem. in my example, the issue was, the game didnt really LET me play out the xoti problem. it was forcing me to continue along the lines the devs set up. which sucked, and were nonsensical.
In elder scrolls, etc. "failing" to pick locks, nets you more exp then succeeding. kenshi does this too. time freezes while doing it. so thats poor. only cost is wasted picks. kenshi. time passes. npcs move around and can catch you.
like he points out, in wrath, picking locks should probably "take 20", but 10 minutes pass, and theres a stealth check to see if random encounters pass by on a fail.
like recently in pillars 2, I saved scummed back like 2 hours to reset Xoti from going full pyscho. now, if I had the option of just killing hte psycho and freeing the souls, I would have kept playing. but it DIDNT give me that option. I would have had just live with her being a lunatic, and the souls trapped.
so, I reset back 2 hours, and changed 1 dialogue option which on the surface anyone would have thought was innocuous.. now, shes only kindof psycho.
or like in skyrim/fallout. how many times did lydia/etc just vanish from following, or get stuck on some shit, and got to save scum to find them?
Save scumming is 100% a developers problem. amusingly, there was a post in the pathfinder reddit doing a long crit on wrath of the righteous today. and it nails the issue with save scumming.
Thats the problem. in my example, the issue was, the game didnt really LET me play out the xoti problem. it was forcing me to continue along the lines the devs set up. which sucked, and were nonsensical.
In elder scrolls, etc. "failing" to pick locks, nets you more exp then succeeding. kenshi does this too. time freezes while doing it. so thats poor. only cost is wasted picks. kenshi. time passes. npcs move around and can catch you.
like he points out, in wrath, picking locks should probably "take 20", but 10 minutes pass, and theres a stealth check to see if random encounters pass by on a fail.
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Tuco
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Oh, yeah I have no idea about no weight mods. No weight mods is cheating 100% and I've done it in a ton of games. Inventory managmeent is the dumbest mechanic.
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TJT
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Savescumming is when you keep loading to win the dice roll on a skill check or something.
Not to get rid of bugs and shit.
Uriel
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Every modded playthrough of Skyrim I usually add at least a couple thousand to my carry weight, especially if I've added legacy of the dragonborn (which I always do, best mod of all time). There's plenty of other ways to make the game challenging, and picking up a ton of stuff is fun.
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Caliane
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theres no reason to mod carry weight in skyrim really. dragon bones are the only real thing that matters.
gold is weightless. theres no reason to pick up all the swords, etc. just pick up gold, gems, potions, scrolls, etc.
and, if you really want to just cheese. abuse alch/enchanting to give yourself crazy str, or just be so rich to again, not give a shit about picking anything up.
gold is weightless. theres no reason to pick up all the swords, etc. just pick up gold, gems, potions, scrolls, etc.
and, if you really want to just cheese. abuse alch/enchanting to give yourself crazy str, or just be so rich to again, not give a shit about picking anything up.
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Cybsled
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Carry weight is the fucking bane of FO76. Like 1/6th my characters perks are for weight reduction and I perma run around in power armor with extra carry weight mods on the legs. They just arbitrarily add too much weight to shit. Like stimpacks or nuka colas weighing 1 lb each by default, etc
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Wasnt that shit to discourage cheating or some shit? Or am I just thinking of the storage units? I played FO76 for all of an hour before uninstalling it. Shame, too. cause I usually plays the hell out of the Fall Out series.
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Biggest thing that turned me off from FO76 is the ever need for ammo. Back when I played there just wasn't enough of it dropping, so you had to craft it. So you would log in go hunt down some lead ore from some mine, hunt down some steel if you did not have any, acid for the gunpowder BS had to be found, and then you would craft up enough ammo to finally start playing. this was the #1 reason me and my son quit playing this game.
Supposedly there was some ammo crafting machine you could grind out but it was locked away behind some faction type grind with dailies that took about a month of doing them. Yeah, no thanks.
People also sold ammo for about a cap each round, but there was no way to sustain that from day to day using caps.
Supposedly there was some ammo crafting machine you could grind out but it was locked away behind some faction type grind with dailies that took about a month of doing them. Yeah, no thanks.
People also sold ammo for about a cap each round, but there was no way to sustain that from day to day using caps.
Cybsled
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Yes and no. Carry weight was a thing in Fallout 4 and since 76 was essentially Fallout 4 mechanics, they kept that. The other problem was because 76 was online and because of Bethesda’s spaghetti code, all that individual shit had to be tracked by the server. I recall early on there were issues of hackers dropping bags of like a million bullets or whatever and destabilizing the server. Then of course the stash box they sold with Fallout 1st gave you unlimited junk storage (and now ammo storage as well)