I've been following the main questlines and they've taken me to New Toro, which is essentially the finale of Sector One. Overrun by hordes of mutants it's a fitting final dungeon – so to speak – being dark, atmospheric and challenging. I'm fairly satisfied with my current performance, being able to kill the bosses in New Toro (most of the time) and only dying when I ran out of ammo.
Which, admittedly, I did. Several times.
When I first played Fallen Earth I would wince when I missed a shot – not so much because it was damage undealt but because it was a waste of a bullet, and bullets weren't easy to come by. It's not as hard to keep guns loaded now as it was back then – there's been some changes to double the output of each ammo crafting, and ammo weighs a lot less than it used to – but it's still something that needs to be managed. In a densely populated location like New Toro and the surrounding area it's easy to use a lot of bullets in a very short time.
The real reason it's a challenge though is that I'm setting a faster pace than I ever have before. With the clock still counting down toward the game going offline I'm now on my way up to Sector Two after only 60 hours. That sounds like a lot, but if I was going at my usual pace and running more of the quests in more of the towns I pass through I'd probably be looking at close to double that before I started the long drive through the wastelands to Northfields, and I'd have had that much more crafting time before I did so.
The clock is ticking. I still expect to reach Sector Three, but will I finish it and make it through to Deadfall? Terminal Woods? Alpha County? I'm starting to think that I might not. I was last in Sector Two in 2012, so I've little recollection of how fast this run will be, and that's assuming I don't get distracted and wander off to explore some interesting sight on a distant horizon.
Which I almost certainly will.
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