cw8: So Cros, how's LA coming along? Much better than Arizona?
I realised that they put in a cute little snake arcade game in Ranger Citadel and I blew up the base pressing the nuke button. They weren't in the beta build I played. Very nice additions!
It's great, the difficulty spike was huge, so much so that I had to just wander around the world map looking for some place to buy new equipment because my current guns and armor were by now totally obsolete against LA enemies. I'm regretting that I didn't put more points into Outdoorsman though as the random encounters nearly killed me, especially with the Children of the Citadel cyborgs who all have energy weapons. But a merchant showed up at Santa Fe Springs with heaps of new weapons and gear to trade, which was a huge relief, even got a sledgehammer and Power Armor for Chisel my melee guy.
So far though I haven't been to any "big" areas and I'm looking for items to upgrade my rad suits (because most areas are behind 6+ Radiation walls). I just helped some Citadel cyborgs fighting robots at some town, and I also helped some guy at his farm against honey badgers.
Also it doesn't matter how much scrap you have when you leave Arizona, everything in California skyrockets in price so even with my 15,000+ in scrap I spent it very quickly (I guess that's by design).
LA looks very nice too, vast marsh/swamp lands with ruined buildings.
EDIT: I think LA is going to be more about "tactics" (using cover, positioning, firing modes, etc) and equipment (weapons and armor) than stats, because you basically have all your skills max'ed out by the time you reach California. Which makes me think that the devs almost have made this game
too big.