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vandalism posted:I'm trying to make a melee dude but I just can't do it. I tried in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and now. I can't do it. The temptation to pick up a gun always overpowers me. I did use some console commands to make a guy level 40 and give him the energy swords and all the perks and poo poo and it was pretty fun. I just don't know what it is but that kind of thing seems like a gimmick. I may try lasers, especially now since the GRA added some really cool energy weapons. I don't care for most of the guns. They seem like incremental improvements at best that I have to carry around whole new stocks of ammunition for. Plus there is just a visceral feeling I get running up to a guy firing on me with a mini-gun and uppercutting him clean into the sky... Parts of him at least. I hit people in HH so hard that their weapons just floated in the air where they used to be standing. Good times.
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Blunt Force Trauma posted:If it makes you feel any better, I bought this game brand new at release prices for a friend of mine who isn't a hardcore gamer but loves pc RPGs (Arcanum is his favorite game ever). He played for about five minutes and then said he was too confused to continue and never even attempted to play it again This really is depressing, FNV is detailed as gently caress and fun to play and some people don't click. I think my friend isn't too enthusiastic about the optional fifties soundtrack and styling too.
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Blunt Force Trauma posted:If it makes you feel any better, I bought this game brand new at release prices for a friend of mine who isn't a hardcore gamer but loves pc RPGs (Arcanum is his favorite game ever). He played for about five minutes and then said he was too confused to continue and never even attempted to play it again He loves Arcanum but was confused by New Vegas five minutes in. How... 
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I haven't really done much in the way of melee myself, but I had to admit being impressed when Veronica uppercutted the head off of (Veronica late-quest spoilers)the Brotherhood rear end in a top hat who wiped out the Followers Medical Center.
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Man I love OWB but for the first time in over 1800 hours playing the game I'm forced to use drugs. I cannot survive the indoor Nightstalker battles in the X-8: High School Horror! final student record retrieval test. I've got the Hunting Shotgun and Shotgun Surgeon plus And Stay Back but four of those fuckers is too much. When I heard OWB was "wacky" I was worried but the writing and voice acting is SO good. Dr. Borous made me laugh more than I have in a game since Grim Fandango or Monkey Island 3. RICHIE. LIKES. BALLS. Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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Upmarket Mango posted:He loves Arcanum but was confused by New Vegas five minutes in. Seriously, in the first five minutes you're basically talking to doc mitchell and exploring the very, very small town. If you're confused by that then god help you.
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Upmarket Mango posted:He loves Arcanum but was confused by New Vegas five minutes in. My sentiments exactly. Arcanum is possibly my favorite game too, but holy poo poo is it aggressively unhelpful.
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Maybe the vigor tester got the best of him. Or..something. I don't know. That's dumb as hell. You know what I love? I love shooting powder gangers in the face while hidden, then casually strolling up to their boss and collecting a reward for a quest. And then shooting more of them in the face.
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I didn't actually wipe out the Powder Gangers, even though I fully intended to. I strolled up to the prison wearing the bloodsoaked uniform of one of their brothers I'd killed and stripped naked, and they said,"Yeah we know you're not one of us but.... you don't gently caress with us, we won't gently caress with you." After that it just felt like a step too far to kill them after they were so accomodating to the guy who they KNOW murdered the gently caress out of a bunch of their buddies.
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Jerusalem posted:I didn't actually wipe out the Powder Gangers, even though I fully intended to. I strolled up to the prison wearing the bloodsoaked uniform of one of their brothers I'd killed and stripped naked, and they said,"Yeah we know you're not one of us but.... you don't gently caress with us, we won't gently caress with you." Don't forget to murderize their vault guys! I never knew about that vault until like three weeks ago. It amazes me that I'm still finding all kinds of stuff in the vanilla game after such a long time of playing it. I still haven't completed The Thorn stuff, just found that vault with the rest of the Powder Gangers, finally found Deathclaw Promontory, still haven't done that quest to free slaves from Cottonwood Cove, nor have I talked to the legion guy Dead Sea more than once. poo poo, I've never even gone inside the lodge at Camp Golf. drat. Also I haven't even done many of the NCR quests aside from the ones on the strip. I am a shameful person. I think New Vegas is the biggest game I've played. Also, I just played the melee guy that I didn't think I'd stick with and got some Riot Gear at level 3. I bought it and have like 3k caps left over. Awesome! Lonesome Road breaks the economy but it sure is fun to do. That trip definitely reminded me of the run from Arroyo to Navarro in Fallout 2.
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I actually felt horrible for doing this. Lonesome Road spoiler. http://imgur.com/Ow28x Somewhere, Chris Avellone sheds a single bitter tear.
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KnightLight posted:I actually felt horrible for doing this. I ended up quickloading and doing this too after doing the conversation the way I wanted to, once I realized that he had eaten literally hundreds of 5.56 rounds and wasn't even half dead.
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And now some slice-of-life Adventures of Courier Jacobs (tm), brought to you by, er, CJacobs (full size images below miniature sized images). Still decked out in my Courier's Stash swag, of course. Can't get rid of that sweet Weathered Pistol.   Pictured: Courier Jacobs immediately before carnage ensues.  Pictured: Courier Jacobs shits all over the Powder Gangers by killing the gently caress out of them.  Pictured: Really loving shiny wheat and impossible dog shadows.  Pictured: Yet another drat watermelon smuggler   Pictured: Courier Jacobs pre-witty one liner and consequent murder of the entirety of NCRCF in response to jab at glasses. "They're prescription, bitch."
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So I had a weird bug pop up recently. I had just told Ambassador Crocker about getting the Boomers on the NCR's side (which bumped my NCR reputation up to "Liked") when an MP comes running into the room and tells me that I shouldn't have hosed with the NCR. After this, him and every single person in the NCR embassy goes hostile to me. I haven't ever hurt the NCR, so how did this happen? And is there any way to prevent it?
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Cicadalek posted:Jury Rigging: Probably the best perk in the game. Not only does it make it possible to repair your sweet armour and weapons without paying fucktons of caps to merchants, it can actually make you a lot of money with weapon repair kits. Pick up a lovely broken minigun, use a couple of repairkits (worth maybe 50 caps apiece) and suddenly you have a full health minigun which is worth hundreds of caps. Another newbie tip is to remember the Holy 5 Pieces of Junk: Scrap Metal, Scrap Electronics, Wonderglue, Duct Tape, Wrench. These will give you Weapon Repair Kits when your Repair is high enough. Especially wrenches. The first three are everywhere. Duct tape seems to become more common in DLC areas (and OWB makes the first four even more accessible thanks to Muggy and the Book Chute). But by the end game, wrenches are always my limiting reagent.
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Snark posted:Another newbie tip is to remember the Holy 5 Pieces of Junk: Scrap Metal, Scrap Electronics, Wonderglue, Duct Tape, Wrench. These will give you Weapon Repair Kits when your Repair is high enough. Especially wrenches. The first three are everywhere. Duct tape seems to become more common in DLC areas (and OWB makes the first four even more accessible thanks to Muggy and the Book Chute). But by the end game, wrenches are always my limiting reagent. To supplement this, if you happen to have Dead Money be sure to find the Weapon Repair Kit code and Return Cigarette Packs/Cartons codes for the vending machines, then scavenge any and all cigarette packs and cartons you find. You can get a ton of Weapon Repair Kits that way, since apparently everybody in Pre-War times smoked like a chimney. One of my characters, the one that found the Repair Kit code, has about 50 Weapon Repair Kits now. I could probably get more but I got tired of traveling back to the vending machine to unload cigarettes.
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Miles Vorkosigan posted:So I had a weird bug pop up recently. I had just told Ambassador Crocker about getting the Boomers on the NCR's side (which bumped my NCR reputation up to "Liked") when an MP comes running into the room and tells me that I shouldn't have hosed with the NCR. After this, him and every single person in the NCR embassy goes hostile to me. I haven't ever hurt the NCR, so how did this happen? And is there any way to prevent it? that happened to me, then Veronica punched his head off, then the rest of the embassy went back to what they were doing.
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Tewratomeh posted:I played completely through the game with two people so far and I had no idea you could bind weapons and items to hotkeys. That would've made shooting up as soon as each drug fades away a hell of a lot easier, not to mention oh, I don't know, shooting people in the legs and their weapons out of their hands, then whipping out a chainsaw and chasing them down. Unfortunately, if you have weapons mapped to numbers and enter a casino (or any place where they take your weapons), you'll have to remap them when you come back out.
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vandalism posted:Don't forget to murderize their vault guys! I never knew about that vault until like three weeks ago. It amazes me that I'm still finding all kinds of stuff in the vanilla game after such a long time of playing it. I still haven't completed The Thorn stuff, just found that vault with the rest of the Powder Gangers, finally found Deathclaw Promontory, still haven't done that quest to free slaves from Cottonwood Cove, nor have I talked to the legion guy Dead Sea more than once. poo poo, I've never even gone inside the lodge at Camp Golf. drat. Also I haven't even done many of the NCR quests aside from the ones on the strip. I am a shameful person. I think New Vegas is the biggest game I've played. Wait. What vault? I don't know of any powder ganger vault. I must know!
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Tewratomeh posted:To supplement this, if you happen to have Dead Money be sure to find the Weapon Repair Kit code and Return Cigarette Packs/Cartons codes for the vending machines, then scavenge any and all cigarette packs and cartons you find. You can get a ton of Weapon Repair Kits that way, since apparently everybody in Pre-War times smoked like a chimney. I hoarded like hell during Dead Money, and thanks to the vending machines I have over 150 stimpacks. I don't die anymore unless a few deathclaws eat my face.
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Tewratomeh posted:To supplement this, if you happen to have Dead Money be sure to find the Weapon Repair Kit code and Return Cigarette Packs/Cartons codes for the vending machines, then scavenge any and all cigarette packs and cartons you find. You can get a ton of Weapon Repair Kits that way, since apparently everybody in Pre-War times smoked like a chimney. That reminds me: I always pick up cigarette packs and cartons because they seem to have a really good ratio of weight to value. Is there a better super common item to do this with, or are smokes about as good as it gets?
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Node posted:I hoarded like hell during Dead Money, and thanks to the vending machines I have over 150 stimpacks. I don't die anymore unless a few deathclaws eat my face. Yep same here, though that drat stealth suit burned through a bunch of them like crazy.
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Miles Vorkosigan posted:So I had a weird bug pop up recently. I had just told Ambassador Crocker about getting the Boomers on the NCR's side (which bumped my NCR reputation up to "Liked") when an MP comes running into the room and tells me that I shouldn't have hosed with the NCR. After this, him and every single person in the NCR embassy goes hostile to me. I haven't ever hurt the NCR, so how did this happen? And is there any way to prevent it? Same thing happened to me, I reloaded an earlier save and after talking to Crocker I left the building as fast as I could and there was the MP out there, but instead of becoming aggressive he asked what did I want and just stood there, so I stealth killed him.  Bash Ironfist posted:Wait. What vault? I don't know of any powder ganger vault. I must know! http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_19
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majestic12 posted:that happened to me, then Veronica punched his head off, then the rest of the embassy went back to what they were doing. Sounds like the people in the Embassy are pretty smart, I wouldn't mess with a girl who can punch heads off.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Same thing happened to me, I reloaded an earlier save and after talking to Crocker I left the building as fast as I could and there was the MP out there, but instead of becoming aggressive he asked what did I want and just stood there, so I stealth killed him. The story behind that vault was so cool, I was hoping it would get included in the game some day. I wish there was more of it. Rope kid, you guys should make another DLC where you're the male character in Vault 69  .
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Node posted:The story behind that vault was so cool, I was hoping it would get included in the game some day. I wish there was more of it. Vault 11 is still my favorite vault to explore. "Walk towards the light."
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Node posted:The story behind that vault was so cool, I was hoping it would get included in the game some day. I wish there was more of it. I haven't gotten to the vaults yet. Gonna check out vault 19. Well, I was gonna before an elder rad scorpion killed me. What level should I be when I got to the vault? Perhaps having something besides a varmint rifle would help.   One day, GRA, I will own you and the sweet weapons you have.
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How useful would the Junk Rounds perk be in Dead Money? Seeing as you don't have access to your uber gear there, being able to make some extra bullets out of all the random tin cans lying about could be useful. While we're on the subject, what would be an ideal build for Dead Money? I'm guessing you'll need Melee Weapons or Unarmed since ammo is scarce. A low level might also help to prevent the enemies from being bullet sponges. There's bear traps all over the place so you'll either need the Light Step Perk or a gently caress-ton of Doctor Bags, or just be really careful where you step. wafflemoose fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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Starhawk64 posted:There's bear traps all over the place so you'll either need the Light Step Perk or a gently caress-ton of Doctor Bags, or just be really careful where you step. Or a repair skill worth its salt?
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Starhawk64 posted:How useful would the Junk Rounds perk be in Dead Money? Seeing as you don't have access to your uber gear there, being able to make some extra bullets out of all the random tin cans lying about could be useful. Honestly junk rounds are entirely worthless. If you're a guns character you can pretty much one shot anything and enemies never come in large enough numbers to warrant carrying more than a magazine or two. The police pistol is accurate enough to sneak critical the ghost people, and if you really get into a bind you can whip out the Automatic Rifle. As for an ideal build, just sneak and speech and a combat skill. Energy weapons kind of get screwed, but not too terribly, you get a seriously alpha rifle.
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Pharmaskittle posted:My sentiments exactly. Arcanum is possibly my favorite game too, but holy poo poo is it aggressively unhelpful. Aggressively unhelpful is an amazing description of that game. It took me four or five tries to get into it and I'm a hardcore RPG fan. Totally worth it. If anybody here hasn't heard of Arcanum, it's a very Fallouty (original games) steampunk RPG that you should go play.
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Bash Ironfist posted:I haven't gotten to the vaults yet. Gonna check out vault 19. Well, I was gonna before an elder rad scorpion killed me. You really want GRA?
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Jeez I didn't want to buy this GRA pack as I have some sweet custom weapons. But it looks so loving good, blows the modding scene out of the water and my adventure with New Vegas slowly comes to an end anyway. I have seen everything the main game has to offer and from the DLCs only Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road are left to explore. I might as well finish this with a bang. Tempting.
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Avocadoes posted:Please report some thoughts after you've been acquainted with it enough I love this game! I haven't enjoyed RPG this much probably since games like BG2, Morrowind, Fallout 2, etc. There is so much to do, and so many choices to make, it really has the same spirit Fallout 2 had. Fallout 3 was a decent game, but to world and story were a bit bland and empty to me. Here I'm just itching to explore the world, and try to shape the world the way I want through the decisions you can make. My only complaint is the combat. This real time/VATS combo still can't match the enjoyment of controlling your whole group in pure VATS combat. I really wish they would add that as an option for the next Fallout game. Also another thing is that things seem to die really easy. I have Boone and ED-E as companions, and everything seems to usually die before they even get close, even though I'm playing on hard difficulty. I'm only about level 15 and havent done any DLCs yet though, so maybe the fights get harder later. Overall its a really awesome game, and any Fallout or RPG fan should really get this game if they don't have it yet!
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Do the DLCs ever go on sale? I want to buy all of them! I've never bought DLC before, but might for this game.
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Dominoes posted:Do the DLCs ever go on sale? I want to buy all of them! I've never bought DLC before, but might for this game. It's pretty likely that this game and all its DLCs will be on sale on Steam next summer. Before then, though, who knows?
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I made a Fallout: New Vegas Character Calculator/Planner. I got the formulas from the wiki, so I assume they are correct. I did a couple of builds to make sure it all adds up according to the values in the wiki and it seems correct. Here is the direct link to the Google Spreadsheet. Here is an example character to see how it should be filled out and what it looks like when it is done. Also a tinyurl to the spreadsheet in case you want to share it around easier. http://tinyurl.com/falloutnvcc "File -> Make a Copy" to save it in your own Google docs and start playing with it.
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What's up with the gambling? I tried to load up an old character that I got bored with in DM, but I can't win all the chips from the casino. I get to 5000 no sweat and after about 45 mins of trying I cannot progress past this point whatsoever. I just want to completely break the game. 
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So I just finished Vault 11....  That was a great experience, I made a point of listening to the recording I found at the opening again as I left - those poor people, imagine being told you were a "shining example" after going through all that poo poo.
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