steo on 28/1/2009 at 22:06
Haha, of course they couldn't possibly have gone with a simple DVD or download from their site. I'm really not looking forward to the next five years of PC gaming.
EvaUnit02 on 2/2/2009 at 04:24
For Fallout 3's DLC to work you must be online and signed into GfWL.
Here's the work-around to play the DLC offline/sans GfWL:-
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Playing offline
While Games for Windows Live requires you to be online to in order to play Operation: Anchorage, you can find the DLC files (a main .bsa, a sounds .bsa, and an .esm) in the following folder
* C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Xlive\DLC (Windows XP)
* C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XLive\DLC (Windows Vista)
If you move them to your Fallout 3\Data folder, you will be able to play the DLC without activating Games for Windows Live.
Remember to load through the Fallout 3 launcher then click on "Data Files" and check the box next to "Anchorage" before running the game. Keep in mind that this workaround is not officially supported.
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http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Operation:_Anchorage#Playing_offline) source
To actually access the DLC in-game, you have to be in-range of the Outcast radio signal. Such places where can receive it are directly outside of Vault 101 and somewhere close to Rivet City.
EDIT: Sorry, it's the Outcast radio signal that activates O:A, not the Chinese one.
David on 2/2/2009 at 06:58
Unsurprisingly I got it at Anchorage Memorial.
Rogue Keeper on 2/2/2009 at 16:34
Live/GfW services are not supported in my country so we less fortunate have to wait for local publisher's negotiations, whether he can publish boxed versions these expansions on our market. :erg:
But then, I'm not really enthusiastic about them.
Quote Posted by Toxicfluff
(it was around November time in the DC ruins --- dunno if any actual system for the seasons is built into F3 or if it's just random) and I wanted the yellow back.
It seems there are no real seasonal weather patterns, instead for the desert they chose sunny weather and as you progress deeper and deeper into Washington urban area, the sky is more gloomy. Similar in the mountain areas.
Jason Moyer on 3/2/2009 at 05:00
I've seen perfectly sunny weather in the heart of DC, and gray gloom in the wasteland.
Rogue Keeper on 3/2/2009 at 10:52
Then again, I don't know what the pattern is, but I think they said it in the art book that the intention was to make Washington look gloomy, what includes cloudy sky, to create contrast with the wasteland scorched by the sun.
DarthEnder on 8/2/2009 at 09:27
Well, I have long since got this and played through it(GFW can eat a dick though, what a pain in the ass).
The addon itself was okay, but the new gear is tons of fun.
[SPOILER]The Gauss Rifle. Basically an energy weapon sniper rifle. And the thing uses MF cells! I have like 2k of those things! That's a far cry from the 150ish bullets I have for the normal sniper rifle.
Shocksword. A melee weapon that finally replaces my shiskebab. It ashes people just like the alien blaster.
And of course the stealth suit. At first I looked at the stats on this and dismissed it as "meh". Then I found out that whenever you sneak with it on, it acts as an unlimited stealth boy. This + Silent Running makes stealth pretty much a no-fail proposition. You can sneak right in front of people in broad daylight and not get spotted.
Stealth Suit+Shocksword with max stealth and melee skills = One shotting pretty much everything short of a behemoth.[/spoiler]
Rogue Keeper on 9/2/2009 at 13:52
Is there any challenge left with such equipment?
Now I can answer to myself - not really.
Ok, I tried to play Anchorage. Sue me, I downloaded it from third hand source. My apologies to Bethesda, but I'm a living proof of what James Holtman from Valve said : "Pirates are just underserved customers." I bought collector's edition of your mediocre RPG, so my conscience is essentially clean. Send my regards to Microsoft business policies.
So, Operation Anchorage isn't a bad idea basically. Why not to explore the expanded universe and send the player back in time to live through an important historical event of the game world? Good idea on paper, but is it good in practice? They tried to make a linear tactical FPS campaign but the engine, controls and overall gameplay system isn't well suited for it. My guys were dying too fast and I had to request replacements all the time. Stealth system is too primitive in F3 to play an efficient stealthy recon operative, unless you have stealthboy or the special armor equipped. Ok, F3 isn't about realism, for better AND worse. The chinese soldiers are able to consume unbelievable doses of bullets. The stealth assassin looks like a copy of FEAR assasins... It's terribly short and small scaled to create impression of a massive counterattack, which was my image of the Operation Anchorage based on texts in F3 proper. But what do I want for a free 500MB package.
It seems though that the hardware requirements have raised up a but as opposed to F3, with the same medium settings my FPS went often below 10 during intense firefights. Admittingly my rig isn't fresh, but I had better looking games (like STALKER) running fluently. Admittingly it was composed of smaller levels.
Average fun for 3 hours and bye bye. What a funny idea - locking access to armory with virtual simulation...
Xenith on 4/4/2009 at 13:54
Sorry for the thread necro.
I haven't really paid any attention to how Fallout 3 evolved lately so I was just wondering if Op Anch removes the definitive ending and let's you wander around the wasteland after finishing the main quest.
Again, sorry for the thread resurrection.
