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Paracelsus posted:I think this plan only works when your airbrush it onto the side of a van. Get your repair skill high enough, start salvaging all those busted up vehicles everywhere, maybe do some drugs, bam. Battlevan.
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StashAugustine posted:I like that the good ending to the Omertas questline involves murdering the entire casino except for the prostitutes.
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Aug 10, 2014 22:56
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Okay, right, I mostly meant the Omertas anyway. (It's really too bad there's no interesting loot in the casinos outside of the Sierra Madre, though.)
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:The most moral part about Ulysses was the part where he commanded a murderous tribe to slaughter all non-combatants incl. elderly and children and pretty much caused the entirety of Honest Hearts to happen Yeah I was about to be like "Wait, what, Ulysses is the most moral guy?" and maybe make a comment about not choking on Sawyer's dick. Honestly, Ulysses is a terrible person and all, but that's mostly brought about by being an idealist in the loving Fallout universe. Though yeah, considering he pretty much went "hey, kill these children because I think this guy I don't know is a seeerious douchenozzle" he's not exactly sympathetic.
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Aug 10, 2014 23:14
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Capn Beeb posted:Get your repair skill high enough, start salvaging all those busted up vehicles everywhere, maybe do some drugs, bam. Battlevan. Quick, someone post that vehicles mod that runs on explosions.
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Aug 10, 2014 23:43
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh, I knew it was four but I always assumed it was doubled because I would never ever take a skill book without that perk, what are you crazy?? The perk gives you a whole like four extra skill points per skill, kind of a waste.
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SpookyLizard posted:The perk gives you a whole like four extra skill points per skill, kind of a waste. That's like, 48 skill points total!
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Aug 11, 2014 00:11
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Which is nearly three levels worth of skill points. It pays for itself!
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SpookyLizard posted:The perk gives you a whole like four extra skill points per skill, kind of a waste. Even if it were only four, and it's not, that's still 52 free skill points. e;fb by smart people
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KittyEmpress posted:That's like, 48 skill points total! It also gives you 10 extra points per skill mag. This is big. I usually take Lockpick and Science to 65 so I can open Hard containers after reading a magazine; this lets me take them only to 55. That's 20 points right away.
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Aug 11, 2014 00:21
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Even if it were only four, and it's not, that's still 52 free skill points. Also yeah, there's like 6 or 7 confirmed books for every skill if you have all the DLCs, and then Honest Hearts has like 25 crates that each have like a 4% chance to drop a random non combat one. So it's actually like 72-84ish skillpoints from one perk, which is pretty good. Plus the magazine benefit, yep.
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StashAugustine posted:Okay, right, I mostly meant the Omertas anyway. (It's really too bad there's no interesting loot in the casinos outside of the Sierra Madre, though.) One of the Omerta guards actually has one of the very few pre-endgame, non-DLC riot shotguns.
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That's a useful thing. The middling amount of extra skill points from skill books is a neat side effect, but requires the hunting of skill books, and that is lame/lovely/dumb effort.
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SpookyLizard posted:That's a useful thing. The middling amount of extra skill points from skill books is a neat side effect, but requires the hunting of skill books, and that is lame/lovely/dumb effort. I dunno, compared to FO3 where half the perks were 'get +10 to some skill', getting up to 80 free skill points for one perk is pretty good. Even if I only find like 10 of the books (which is easy, I probably found 20 on my first playthrough) that's as much bonus. But I say that as a person who doesn't play with jsawyer because i like my skillpoints
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KittyEmpress posted:I dunno, compared to FO3 where half the perks were 'get +10 to some skill', getting up to 80 free skill points for one perk is pretty good. Even if I only find like 10 of the books (which is easy, I probably found 20 on my first playthrough) that's as much bonus. New vegas has piles of perks that aren't that and gives you more than enough skill points to max out useful skills and combat skills so I never understood that. poo poo if you're playing to like level 50 you can have an astronomically low INT and still have enough skill points to get crazy high gains. Personally I take Skilled and Fear The Reaper to get max perks BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY and give me better starting skill points. Even getting perks every level I have so many more i want to to take.
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SpookyLizard posted:New vegas has piles of perks that aren't that and gives you more than enough skill points to max out useful skills and combat skills so I never understood that. poo poo if you're playing to like level 50 you can have an astronomically low INT and still have enough skill points to get crazy high gains. I always feel like perks are really good at higher levels, but at lower like level 2-8 or so, I just am like 'well all the other options kinda blow' and go for skill point boosts.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Quick, someone post that vehicles mod that runs on explosions. it's not a very good mod
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JawKnee posted:it's not a very good mod Goons, as much as they hate to admit it, are perfectly willing to go with explosions for explosions' sake. It just has to be nerdy enough.
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Cheyenne, stay  The gunfight in goodsprings didn't go so well this time around  Starting up Vegas again, this time trying something new with Jsawyer and a bunch of mods from the OP (thanks guys!) including one to affect aim wobble when my character's hungry, thirsty etc. It's pretty neat and a lot more interesting than my usual tactic of looting everything and unloading 15+ 9mm pistols, Merc Charmer outfits on the nearest vendor, now I just have to take what I can carry based on how useful/valuable it is.
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Frankly posted:Cheyenne, stay That seems to be an issue with poor Cheyenne... Must be a bug going around.  I'm also starting a new run. Not sure whether I want to focus on energy weapons or maybe automatics this time... In my last several runs I've been trying to stray away from what I normally -want- to do (high INT, max speech, be a nice person, etc.) for the sake of variety, but I think I'm going to go back to that again and just see how things play out. Also probably play as a woman because I've only done that once before.
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Ahaha holy poo poo. Did your Cheyenne just appear like that? I think mine lost its eyes in the gunfight or something. I want to vote automatics but energy weapons are just so much fun. Most of my recent runs always seem to end up going "INT, Speech, play a Good Guy as well", so doing a proper Stealth/Guns/greedy hoarder orientated run like I first did in Fallout 3 is very fun. Apart from the occasional dude not caring about his buddy's head suddenly flying off there's just so much more to like about stealth in NV, what with actual silenced guns and what seems like way more stealth boys lying around. Might even get some points in Melee and go hunting with Throwing Spears!
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Fuzz1138 posted:That seems to be an issue with poor Cheyenne... I want to do a Wizard of Oz themed run, but I can't find a good Dorothy-esque outfit on Nexus.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I want to do a Wizard of Oz themed run, but I can't find a good Dorothy-esque outfit on Nexus. If only there were a quest for a heart, brain and er... backbone. And your little Dog-gun too.  Those little reference are always fun, like the Phantom of the Opera ones in Dead Money.
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Fuzz1138 posted:That seems to be an issue with poor Cheyenne... My last run was a high Int, high Luck energy weapons gal. Stack as many boosts to crit chance as you can (Built to Destroy, Finesse, Light Touch, Joshua Graham's armour, 1st Recon Beret, etc) and pack some automatic laser weapons and you become an engine of destruction.
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You know, one other thought: assuming you fix the B29, it means the Boomers have access to a fixed wing aircraft with a range of many thousands of miles. That means contact can potentially be made with people outside the US, now...
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Unless the ocean is filled with giant mutant sea monsters they could have already done that through boats.
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Fangz posted:You know, one other thought: assuming you fix the B29, it means the Boomers have access to a fixed wing aircraft with a range of many thousands of miles. That means contact can potentially be made with people outside the US, now... Through the medium of explosives
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Iretep posted:Unless the ocean is filled with giant mutant sea monsters they could have already done that through boats. Well I wouldn't be surprised.
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StashAugustine posted:Okay, right, I mostly meant the Omertas anyway. (It's really too bad there's no interesting loot in the casinos outside of the Sierra Madre, though.) That actually sounds like a good idea for a mod - something that adds a bunch of vaults to the casinos.
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I don't know about how well a B-29 could handle a transcontinental flight, but the NCR has vertibirds, so they've had that capability for a while.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't know about how well a B-29 could handle a transcontinental flight, but the NCR has vertibirds, so they've had that capability for a while. Vertibirds only have a range of about 150 miles, or so the wiki tells me. The B29 has a combat range of over 3000 miles. It's also palpably lower tech, so potentially people can start building their own versions.
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Dr Snofeld posted:My last run was a high Int, high Luck energy weapons gal. Stack as many boosts to crit chance as you can (Built to Destroy, Finesse, Light Touch, Joshua Graham's armour, 1st Recon Beret, etc) and pack some automatic laser weapons and you become an engine of destruction. You don't even need laser weapons for a high-crit build; I managed to kill Lanius and the Legendary Deathclaw with a single ASLiD magazine loaded with .45 Super rounds. I managed to take down a Deathclaw Mother with three or four shots from the same gun.
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I just love cutting down the brotherhood paladins at the end of I Could Make You Care with the pulse gun. That's some poetic justice.
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closeted republican posted:You don't even need laser weapons for a high-crit build; I managed to kill Lanius and the Legendary Deathclaw with a single ASLiD magazine loaded with .45 Super rounds. I managed to take down a Deathclaw Mother with three or four shots from the same gun. I wasn't implying that it was the only way, of course. The gun version and energy weapon version are very similar except for a few perks.
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Dr Snofeld posted:I wasn't implying that it was the only way, of course. The gun version and energy weapon version are very similar except for a few perks. I was just pointing out that going Guns in a crit build works just as well as Energy Weapons do.
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Fangz posted:Vertibirds only have a range of about 150 miles, or so the wiki tells me. The B29 has a combat range of over 3000 miles. You'd be surprised-the B-29 was a technological marvel when it made its combat debut in 1944, and overall the cost of development was actually greater than that of the Atomic Bomb. Heavier-than-air aviation is pretty complicated stuff, and without the proper manufacturing facilities, industrial base, or technical knowledge there's no way anyone could replicate anything more complicated than a Spad-XIII. Hell, the Russians got three intact B-29s in '45 and look at how long it took a modern, developed country to replicate it in the form of the Tu-4.
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That's an interesting point, though. The Boomers have qualified aircraft mechanics and aviators, and the NCR airport-base has a lot of aircraft husks plus the wreckage buried in the sand by Jean Sky Diving. If they were to pool their talents they might be able to cobble together something easier to replicate.
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Probe 17 posted:Mr. House isn't as bad as he could be, honestly. I mean, when paired up against the Legion he's practically a saint. Though yes, NCR is probably the best option hands down. Probe 17 posted:Yeah I was about to be like "Wait, what, Ulysses is the most moral guy?" and maybe make a comment about not choking on Sawyer's dick. Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:I don't think rope kid ever said anything of the sort That was Chris Avellone.
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This thread has singlehandedly ensured that I keep reading his name as "rape kid" and it's all your fault.
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