Post by Steve Farrelly @ 02:49pm 14/08/15 | 28 Comments
"What exactly is Fallout Shelter? Well, unless you've been living in a shelter for the past few months, it's a Fallout game for smartphones. One that puts you in direct control over your very own fallout shelter. Hmm, I guess if you've been living in a shelter then perhaps you should wait a while before you grab your free copy."
Praised for its fun, addicting gameplay, and for its player-friendly approach to in-app purchases, Fallout Shelter has received accolades from some of the industry’s leading outlets, earning ‘Game of the Week’ from Touch Arcade and nominations for ‘Biggest Surprise’ from IGN and ‘Best Handled/Mobile Game’ from the official Game Critics Awards.Now available on iOS, Android and Google, the game is likely going to be even more successful, but for me, it still crashes at crucial junctures leaving me desperate and alone. Always. I probably need help.
Today’s launch includes all-new game updates, including the introduction of Mr. Handy – the ultimate robotic companion – as a premium reward. Use him to collect resources inside your Vault, send him into the wasteland to collect caps, or defend your Vault from creatures and disasters, including new Deathclaw invasions and Molerat infestations.
Fallout Shelter is a post-nuclear strategy and simulation experience that puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault. Build the perfect Vault from a variety of rooms, oversee your very own thriving community of Vault Dwellers, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Grab it for Google Play right here. Are you still playing?
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Posted 03:15pm 14/8/15
It took me a little bit to work it out but its great fun. Here's a tip, send out someone asap into the waste lands and get loot back. It's the only way I've found. You should get armor and weapon early on and a special dude. Send him out and wait. Also keep all the females pregnant all the time because it takes 3 hours? maybe more for a kid to be born and more for it to grow up. Pregnant people can still work so they will be out of action for a little while.
Steve whats your device? It's probably because you're a noob
Posted 03:23pm 14/8/15
Posted 03:25pm 14/8/15
Oh man not being able to save your game file is really terrible :( Glad I'm not up to that stage yet!
Posted 09:50pm 14/8/15
Damn, I just remembered I can play this on PC with an android emulator thing.
Posted 09:22am 15/8/15
Posted 11:07am 15/8/15
Same happened to me
Posted 03:12pm 15/8/15
anyway.
Posted 11:49pm 15/8/15
Posted 08:12am 16/8/15
I figured out early on how to keep water/power/food flowing properly and my dwellers are at 90% happiness. It just seems like it's a waiting game now just unlocking stuff.
I've got a dweller returning from a 7 hour trek into the Wasteland and he is loaded with weapons and outfits. Which will make it easier to supply my base with those bonus stats from outfits.
Posted 11:54am 16/8/15
Posted 09:08pm 17/8/15
Posted 11:00am 18/8/15
I've used the following a while ago with success.
http://www.bluestacks.com/
Posted 11:18am 18/8/15
Posted 12:33pm 18/8/15
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I thought something would come up but 3 days in I see no point in continuing, sadly :(. It's such a fun game and great execution but it lacks an end game. It has nothing to keep you beyond the 3 day mark. The higher tier buildings are just more efficient so beyond the training rooms there isn't anything else to really build.
I was expecting to go raid other vaults or be attacked by something other than raiders (supposedly you might get attacked by a deathclaw but it never happened to me). I had one dude sitting at the front with a rocket launcher and he killed all the raiders. The lunchboxes are fairly useless, I'm not sure why anyone would actually buy them when everything is done in 3 days.
The game doesn't let you destroy buildings that are sandwiched which is really annoying. So after I realised I had done everything already I wanted to make my vault look flash or more efficient but that went out the window.
Forbes does game reviews now (kinda weird actually) and they did a write up:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/08/13/
Also on nexus 4 it was running fairly well (but drained the battery) up until I think 5th floor then it was struggling to keep up with the game.
Posted 02:43pm 18/8/15
Considering I'm going to have to send my Z3C back for repair/replacement so I can use various stuff in the meantime, including Fallout Shelter...
Posted 07:07pm 18/8/15
It is fun enough, but I can see the fun wearing out once all the building is done, also no way I would pay for lunch boxes.
Lack of end game content will be a bit s***.
Been playing on an s3 and and a Galaxy tab.
Also tried the blue stacks emulator worked fine but I decided to Uninstall because I prefer to play proper games on pc and this is more of a distraction/time killer.
Posted 10:24am 19/8/15
Posted 10:49am 19/8/15
You only need to destroy the rooms on the end of the floor. This is so that no rooms are 'stranded'. As long as your dwellers can get to all rooms after the demolition, you can demolish any room.
Edit: this means you can build a second elevator to the far end of a floor and demolish rooms between the two elevators.
last edited by Tremble at 10:49:53 19/Aug/15
Posted 11:21am 19/8/15
Oh! Thanks, I thought the above rooms needed to be destroyed. MIght mess with the game a bit more.
Posted 03:02pm 19/8/15
Posted 03:09pm 19/8/15
Didn't realise you can send Mr Handy off. The longer you send it out the better loot you get. Also supposedly you can send Mr handy out to collect items. Is that what youre doing?
I broke Mr Handy, he got smashed by deathclaws but then somehow got back up again and goes around working like normal... cant control it because its technically dead.
Posted 03:11pm 19/8/15
Posted 03:57pm 19/8/15
They get rid of radiation (shows as a red part of the health bar).
Your guys can get irradiated from being in the wasteland if their stats aren't good. They can also get irradiated if your water plant's output drops too low.
I haven't had to use too many of them, I usually produce a batch then reassign my dweller to do something more useful.
Posted 04:46pm 19/8/15
P.S Can tell youre not a fallout player :P
Posted 04:52pm 19/8/15
Posted 04:37pm 20/8/15
he only collects caps from what I ahve seen. had him out for 12hrs and only got caps.
I usually send out a Mr Handy for caps and a dweller with 10 med kits and 10 rad packs for 8~12 hrs at a time. they usually come back loaded. I found that after 8Hrs out there my dweller is usually down to 3 med kits
Posted 06:23pm 20/8/15
Posted 11:15am 23/9/15