Repair Overpowered

[Puppettron]

i left zeta with more epoxy than i ever needed, and i didn't level up repair except when i had nothing else to spend it on because vendor repairs are just caps, and caps are practically infinite.

[Damianwolff]

PN and FWE before it allowed to change or simply decreased both the amount of caps and ammo available. This, along with decreased inventory size and disabled fast travel, made bringing tons of items for sale much more tedious, and made hoarding caps harder.

So it all depends on the individual set up.

In F3 having to repair weapons and armor in vendors didn't hit so hard, because with cheap guns and armor the price was in the hundreds.

In FNV the repair prices can be in the thousands... but nobody cares because of how the repair system works, allowing to circumvent the vendors almost entirely.

[Pokepunch]

So how feasible would it be to mod the F3 behavior back in? The fact that it hasn't been done before leads me to think that it's hard-coded maybe? Anybody know if this is the case?

[Thenryb]

[quote=Pokepunch]

 

So how feasible would it be to mod the F3 behavior back in? The fact that it hasn't been done before leads me to think that it's hard-coded maybe? Anybody know if this is the case?

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Feasible or not, hopefully it will be optional. If I wanted all the FO3 features, I would just play..well FO3.

[TrickyVein]

Nobody's talking about other Fallout 3 features, here. This one in particular a lot of people would like to see changed, not even necessarily for TTW. If it ever were added into TTW I think of course it would be an optional.

[JaxFirehart]

Any time we pick FO3 mechanics over equivalent FNV mechanics, it's optional

[Thenryb]

[quote=JaxFirehart]

 

Any time we pick FO3 mechanics over equivalent FNV mechanics, it's optional

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Thanks. It is good to have that confirmed.

[Question]

I think both systems have pros and cons. In FO 3 you had to repair a lot more often which i think many people found annoying.

The NV repair system is less annoying but it does create an unintended balance problem. Armor in NV doesn't degrade unless the damage exceeds the DT, which kind of makes sense, but you almost never need to repair armor later in the game since most enemies can't bypass your DT. And stuff like toughness also helps prevent armor degradation which doesn't really make sense.

[TJ]

I tried to rebuild the FO3 setup for PANZER once. A lot of the settings are there, and you can actually turn it on, but the engine doesn't respect it and allows repair to 100% either way. I came to the conclusion it was hardcoded behavior.

[Damianwolff]

So zero to no chance of altering that mechanic closer to F3?