Beyond Bollocks Dome final thoughts #/?
- Seltsam Syndrome, the 'major plot point'?? for want of a better word for the entire mod is just Ghoulification combined with a sort of really slow acting Post-Cryonic Syndrome that doesn't require going into cryo stasis, so it's hardly fucking interesting, original, or even all that threatening.
- Supposedly the Boulder Dome itself is full of people sick with it. SO WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY ALL!?
Beyond Bollocks Dome final thoughts C/?
- No really, lots of fucking backtracking, I'm not kidding. It's fucking awful and tiresome and I just spammed movetoqt to avoid it before I was even halfway through because holy FUCK. Even if you fast travel to the nearest area, there's still a trek through a BUNCH of load zones, some of which are literally ONE FUCKING TINY ROOM BIG, fucksake. SO much bullshit padding!
Beyond Bollocks Dome final thoughts 2/?
That is the only good points of the mod.
The bad points?
- Abysmal dialogue that's stilted, unrealistic and corny as fuck for the majority of it
- sideplots that come out of nowhere with barely any resolution or explaination
- uninteresting characters with piss all motivation or depth
- MASSIVE amounts of backtracking across the whole length of the area CLEARLY just used to pad out the playtime of this "DLC sized Mod" *cough bullshit cough cough*
Beyond Bollocks Dome final thoughts
+ Deadpan the Ghoul playwright companion is kinda adorable and fun, as is Lenore, the Ghoulified Cat who acts as a sort of... companion's companion really?
+ The Boulder Underground is a really nice Ghoul City and is pretty nicely designed and attractive, though is basically visited for a short while and then left forever, and NEVER brought up again at all.
+ a couple cool looking guns, like the Gauss Compact Rifle and a nice, hightech looking compact 9mm.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: THE "IT GETS WORSE"ENING
Oh. of COURSE. OF COURSE they set this jackass to be Essential so he's immortal and can only ever be knocked unconscious. OF COURSE he is.
for fucks sake.
hilariously enough though if you accidentally shoot him, like I did (I swear), the rest of the NCR soldiers there DO NOT go hostile. just one guy, his lietenant, who you can murder with impunity, and the other soldiers just sit there like "eh whatever".
but Despot? Nah he's immortal.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: THE "IT GETS WORSE"ENING
like, do I even need to say what a fucking plothole this is?
like... holy fuck, dude. then WHY THE FUCK did you bring me here instead of just shoot me on sight so I didn't fucking infect everyone who talked to me, INCLUDING YOU!?
the FUCK is wrong with you?? I'm supposed to take this guy seriously and at face value? Bull shit.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: THE "IT GETS WORSE"ENING
goddammit. fucksake.
whoever wrote this bullshit script needs a SLAP.
Okay so I finally meet this NCR dingbat, Mr Despot. who is all like "blah blah the Brotherhood brought you here, told you lies and halftruths, like the half truth that the virus can be cured. It can. only with BULLETS"
"but I'm cured, they cured me!" I reasonably say, because holy fuck, like, literally, i am cured.
"NO that's a HALF TRUTH. (again??) you're still a carrier!"
Beyond Bollocks Dome: THE "IT GETS WORSE"ENING
oh my god it's a bug
it's a bug from 2013 that still isn't fucking fixed oh my GOD
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
oh AND I keep getting popup messages saying "You do not have an ignition key" seemingly at random and what the fuck is that about.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
(oh and the two kidnapped/absconded feral ghouls?? because this mod is badly written, whereas all the other cybernetic ghouls are set to be friendly so they do not attack you - and neither do companions with you - these two never are. and as an additional note, if you kill them even in self defence, the two npcs go immediately hostile for not dying to them. fucksake.)
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
I'm genuinely tempted to just... kill everyone and everything in this mod just so I can fucking leave asap and just delete the goddamn mod but fffuuuck... there had BETTER be some decent fucking quest rewards from this. christ.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
this whole bullshit is so fucking badly written and not even slightly explained and it's like some hyperactive teenager wrote it and kept forgetting to actually WRITE A STORY instead of just slapping in as many "wicked cool things" they could think of.
fuck me this is painful.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
aaand that's THAT quest completely done with with NO FURTHER ANSWERS, just fuckin' tossed out the door. gone. done.
earlier on there's an old guy in a shack, who says him and his buddy across the little ravine in a separate shack are the only survivors...
if you're asking "wait, survivors of what?" too bad, you will NEVER GET ANY ANSWERS EVER.
Beyond Bollocks Dome: Adventures in Garbage Fallout New Vegas Mods Livetooting : THE REVENGE
Oh gosh, I told them the BoS are onto them! So they release the two ghouls they've got! (wait wasn't there three? HAHA TOO BAD THIS WILL NEVER EVER GET ADDRESSED AT ALL but there's corpses of two in a bathtub nearby so maybe that's what happened! but that makes FOUR! TOO BAD NO ANSWERS FOR YOU!!)
So you report back! Turns out old asshole has history with them! what history? WHO FUCKING KNOWS IT WON'T SAY!
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.