I Done Delayed The Post Again

Oops, looks like I've missed my self-imposed weekend deadline again. Sorry.

Once again, New Vegas is to blame, as well as a few events I won't go into.

Nevertheless, expect the final BG post in this space tommorow, or even today, if I manage to finish the final dungeon within a reasonably short amount of time, and perhaps a bit of Weekend Warriors to go with it

Blame this woman for most of the delays... IF YOU DARE!

New BG Post Teeny Tiny Bit Late, Sadly

As you may have noticed, there hasn't been a BG post last weekend. Or the day after that. Or the day after that day. Or after that one.

This time I really don't have a better excuse than a Spoiler Warning induced Fallout New Vegas binge and my pending descent into madness compelling me to repeatedly spend half the day getting downtown to participate in exams which are scheduled to a different day.

Do not adjust your sets, and expect a new BG post tommorow. To make up for the wait, I'll try to make it a big un, possibly even see the game through.

Weekend Warriors - "R&R Gone Bad"

On account of the field correspondent being a lazy hack of a writer being dead we can only speculate about what happened to Razor Team on the fateful night of the Chernogorsk Movie Festival. Presumably Razor Team, enjoying their leave at a movie theater, was caught by surprise when rebel forces moved in and took the city. Then, we speculate, they had to recover the HMMWV, containing all their gear, which got towed away by the rebels, and use it to flee the city. In this report, we present the recovered pictures taken during their escape from insurgent forces, which might help you piece together the events that transpired that night. 

No BG Yet, Sadly.

As you may recall from my previous LPBG post, I ran into some difficulties with the playthrough due to game-breaking bugs. Never being the one to back down from a game because of a few bugs, I spent a good part of an hour a whole week trying to find a solution to a problem: an NPC (duke Eltan) gives a critical quest item (a rare book), area transition to said NPC's location doesn't work.

Well, I've got good news and bad news. Good news - I dug around and found this site (for those of you out there having problems getting appropriate quest items), information from which has enabled me to obtain the required book (through the console). Bad news - it doesn't actually help me, probably due to the game's scripting. Judging by the playthroughs I read, after duke hands you the book you are "teleported" (as in: insta transported with no random encounters and waypoint hassle) to Candlekeep's entrance, and I'll bet it's a different version of the "Candlekeep Entrance" map with a differently scripted gatekeeper's dialogue, one which works under the assumption that you already have the book, simply because you wouldn't be able to gain access to this version of the map otherwise. Think of it as a "parallel universe" Candlekeep entrance, one which exists for a world and a timeline where I get to where I want because the game actually fucking works.

Anyway, there may be hope yet. Another possible solution (ironically, involving sidequests) may similarly "teleport" me to the good duke, at which point I'll be able to return to the confines of the main plot scripting and continue my playthrough, at least until I hit another major bug.

Since there is no actual writeup to post, here is some filler content, in the form of leftover ArmA2 screenshots, after the jump.