Here's a short snippet (5 minutes) of my first encounter with a Super Mutant... and his big brother who showed up during the fight.

Warning: This gets a bit violent and gory at the end.



So many bad tactical decisions:

- At the time, while I had a .308 sniper rifle in my inventory, ammo was scarce so I decided against using it for the opening shot.

- I had not learned yet that you could hold down the [Left-Mouse] button to fire the Chinese Assault Rifle in continuous fire mode.

- Nor did I understand the use of Stimpaks (but figured that out quickly enough). It might have been smart to pop some chems.

- Never use cars, motorcycles, or other vehicles as cover. Then tend to be highly flammable and explosive.

- When being shot at by missles, don't stand with your back to an embankment, where the missles that miss you can hit and do splash damage.

- My initial stalk and scouting of the location was flawed. I should have swept left to the high ground so that I could look into the large tractor trailer.

- Retreating while laying down frag mines might have been a good idea.

(This is also my first use of YouTube. Which was fairly easy. The video was recorded at 1600x900 in FRAPS, then downsized to a 2.8Mbps 2-pass XVid 720p with 192Mbps MP3 CBR stereo audio track. YouTube accepted that upload without a hitch and the transcoding done on the YouTube servers took 30-60 minutes. I debated adding annotations, but preferred to leave the video "as-is".)