[Dark0ne]

So it seems the first official downloadable content for Fallout 3 has been released. Titled Operation Anchorage, the official mod is now available for purchase for PC and XBox 360. Apologies for not getting the word out sooner but I'm in the middle of end of module exams for my final year of university and there wasn't an email from Bethesda PR about it (not that I expected one) ... so yeah, no news!

Reaction to the DLC seems varied and there are some highly entertaining, if not utterly perplexing stories circulating the web about trying to even get the damn thing. So much so one site even provides a "How-to" with pointers on trying to get the thing.

I don't know how, but Microsoft have some how managed to make a system even more terrible than the original Steam, and Bethesda have jumped on board, even for the PC that doesn't need all this XBox Live knock-off crap.

And don't get me started on the mod being 800 points and points only being available in 500 or 1000 increments...

To those of you who have managed to get the DLC and play through it, how are you doing? Feel free to leave your experiences here. I'll try and keep a level head on the whole matter, but it just seems utterly ridiculous to me.

[Galahaut]

I thought it was pretty awful.

I finished the entire thing in somewhere between 1 and 2 hours (probably around 90 minutes). It's a (even) shallow(er) FPS mode of Fallout 3.

Ammo and health dispensers.
Predefined weapon locations.
Pointless and irrelevant choices.
Extremely linear.

Additionally, it doesn't even make sense as what it is supposed to be: a military training simulation. How helpful is it to teach soldiers that the battlefield will have magical ammo and health dispensers every few feet (which the enemies refuse to use), that they cannot take equipment from enemies or fallen allies, that equipment doesn't degrade, that they will be teleported away after completing their objective, etc.? It isn't, at all.

As usual, Bethesda has poor playtesting. See the winterized power armor, which has at least 3 blatantly obvious issues that were not discovered and fixed pre-release. See the buggy Dark Brotherhood Armor (oh, I mean Chinese Stealth Suit).

The Covert Ops perk is a joke. An embarrassing and lazy joke.

This post has been edited by Galahaut: 29 January 2009 - 01:15 AM

[GETbacon]

are you going to try to get it on the site plz say yes

[Dark0ne]

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are you going to try to get it on the site plz say yes

That's a definite no-no. It would be illegal

[fiorra]

I had never used windows live and it took me forever to even find the game after downloading it but thanks to the people on this site i got it to work and dont have to leave live on;)
As for the dlc i am finding it alot of fun. It adds a whole new feel to the game and i have found it very well done i havent had any problems with it yet but i havent played through all of it yet either. The new stealth armor is cool looking. I have read you cant enter it after you win it so I hope mods can fix that=/

[Skotte]

I think I'll wait/hope/pray that Beth releases the DLC on disc.

[jaosals42]

I'm with Skotte. It'd be shameful for Bethesda not to release their content on a CD at one point or another during the year. They'd certainly have a lot more customers willing to buy it since they'd know they wouldn't have to deal with Live. Plus, when Bethsoft released all the content for Oblivion out on one disc, it was certainly cheaper that way than when buying all the content individually.

For now, and until (hopefully) a CD version is released, I'm holding back on purchasing anything to expand Fallout 3 from Live and that includes the DLC that extends the game beyond the MQ.

[aiglos357]

Galahaut summed it up perfectly. It started out promising enough but got uninteresting very quickly. Get shot up? No problem, run back to a "health dispenser" (gag). I'm not sorry that I got it, but it could (should) have been so much better. Ended up with a couple of nice weapons, but it's almost like Bethesda said "sorry this was kinda lame, take these toys and don't be too mad, okay?".

[Michlo]

Aye, my original response in the "Will you buy any of the DLC" was that yes, I would.

I've now changed my mind. heh. I certainly won't be picking up this first one. Hopefully they'll correct their mistakes for the rest (which look more interesting anyway).

Cheers.

[Elraine Kiyoshi]

Mine was a 'maybe', but seeing how Beth is doing this, it's rapidly going towards 'no way in hell I'd pay for this sort of crap'. I pretty much agree with Michlo though, still waiting to see how the other two will work out.