Forum:My second playthrough is very weird now...

OK check it out... I flipped the game the first time with mixed karma. I am now playing the second time around doing everything with good karma. I

spent most of the time exploring this time instead of the missions... So I took out everyone at Paradise falls when I was level 4 and that boosted

me up to level 6 after freeing the kids and killing Eulogy Jones and all the other slavers. I started doing the missions when I reached about level

12. I took out the first Behemoth you take out during the GNR mission, when I checked his body, he seriously had a lot of things on him which

included a Fat Man, 8 mini nukes, a Missile Launcher, 21 Missiles, about 30 frag grenades, and a whole lot more. Now for the parts thats pissing me

off. I finally experienced the Fire Lance encounter, and it happened over these jagged mountains. Good think I fooled around with Oblivion a lot,

cause I managed to jump my way to the top and all I could find were 8 of the Alien cells, BUT!!!!! each one was only 1 ammo so 8 total. I ALREADY

USED UP ALL FOR THE BLASTER. So I marked the map and went to the Scrapyard to get DogMeat, but he wasn't there, just 4 raiders, not even the dead

dog's owner. I am currently level 19 and I still haven't met up with my father yet. I suggest for anyone playing there second or third time around

to just level up completely and then start the missions. I'm gonna get to level 20 before I even start the first mission, but I'm gonna have so much

bad karma and kill everyone I see, even in the towns...


 * That pretty much happened to me the first time I played, (still playing, sort of).
 * I went to Megaton and got distracted just exploring, and was Level 20 by the time I went to rescue dad from the VR machines. Unfortunately this meant the rest of the game was a bit of a let down. There was no reason for combat, since the XP points no longer mattered, all of the merchants were fodder for the hoards of levelled creatures that were now roaming the place, and in any case I almost always had better equipment since I had repair skillz. I could find plenty of supplies to keep me alive so rarely paid for anything.
 * I teamed up with Fawkes, and that hurt to, because she is virtually indestructible. It freed me up to explore and scavenge at first, but now it's kind of boring having Fawkes kill everything for me. I will probably play through on the hardest level and think more about my perks etc.


 * The only thing is of course, now I know where everything is, the temptation is to go and get the bobbleheads and best items first, so I'm not sure how much I will enjoy it the second time around.