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Utgardaloki posted:you're all a bunch of sweaty tryhards. Timeless Appeal posted:I don't care so much about that since I think Benny's whole deal is that he'll gently caress you over. But dude really needed some closure if you rescue him from the Fort. Idealliy you should find him as a farmer on some remote location on the rear end-end of the map. because benny never stops trying a lot of the 'lil bits of cut/unused dialogue are great see arcade's cut reaction to being ignored by the follower who asks you to bug house's place https://tcrf.net/images/f/f2/FNV-vdialoguea_greeting_001611c6_1.ogg https://tcrf.net/images/8/81/FNV-vdialoguea_greeting_001611c6_2.ogg Fereydun fucked around with this message at 03:49 on May 26, 2016 |
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IIRC it's deliberately open-ended as to what the Courier knows or doesn't know, and asking questions about different locations/factions can be seen as either legitimate ignorance or an attempt to gauge another character's take on the subject-the Courier might very well know who the Legion and NCR are, but wants to know what the local take on the situation is. It's really up to the player to decide how much they know. For the record, though, it's almost guaranteed (barring your own personal backstory you want to insert on your character) that the Courier came through the Mojave Outpost-the Long 15 is the primary (and only, since the Divide exploded) route into the Mojave from NCR territory. From there, they probably continued taking 15 north up until they got ambushed in Goodsprings, and either snuck past the Powder Gangers or simply got lucky and avoided their patrols.
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May 26, 2016 04:44
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Fereydun posted:im pretty sure the guy whos running around at people dodging gunfire with a baseball bat in their attempt to kill people is gonna be sweatier than a person just pulling a trigger I love it. Thinking about it, I never really used Arcade all that much. I need to do a doctor-bro run of the game so I can get all his reactions.
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Garrand posted:I love it. Thinking about it, I never really used Arcade all that much. I need to do a doctor-bro run of the game so I can get all his reactions. Unlimited companion mods are the poo poo because you gradually grow a huge following of incredibly random, wildly different best friends and pets following you everywhere.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:IIRC it's deliberately open-ended as to what the Courier knows or doesn't know, and asking questions about different locations/factions can be seen as either legitimate ignorance or an attempt to gauge another character's take on the subject-the Courier might very well know who the Legion and NCR are, but wants to know what the local take on the situation is. It's really up to the player to decide how much they know. According to the wiki, the NCRCF uprising only happened maybe a month before the Courier got shot. It is certainly plausible that Primm wasn't under Powder Ganger control when s/he passed by the first time. The Powder Gangers would have needed to spend a couple days securing the prison, and some of the dialog suggests that they spent some time just banditing in the area before the response of the locals made it necessary to take over Prim. For that matter, the Powder Gangers were in the process of taking over when the player first sees them, which was at least a week after the Courier passed by there.
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The one source I can find giving a date to the uprising is a single character at the 188 who says she had to flee primm "a month ago" because the powder gangers had started taking over, implying that either the uprising was a little while before that or that the factions split and went separate ways just shortly afterwards. Still well before the courier went up that direction. It's just impossible to nail down exact dates like that in a game like fallout if it's not explicitly stated in a log somewhere.
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chitoryu12 posted:Unlimited companion mods are the poo poo because you gradually grow a huge following of incredibly random, wildly different best friends and pets following you everywhere. Makes combat lame though. And god help you if you walk into a narrow dead end.
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Getting shot in the head has historically had negative effects on memory as well. But yeah rope kid has pointed out that just because the Courier is asking about something doesn't mean they're ignorant of it. It'd be kind of hard to work in that area without having an inkling of what things like the NCR are.
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alot of the early dialog where your asking people about the ncr is the courier going "What's your take on the NCR?"
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So, I just learned on my latest playthrough that when you're clearing out the booby trapped bottom floor of Harland's room, you can slip behind the desk the exploding computer is on, access it's back panel, and disarm it.
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Canemacar posted:So, I just learned on my latest playthrough that when you're clearing out the booby trapped bottom floor of Harland's room, you can slip behind the desk the exploding computer is on, access it's back panel, and disarm it. What's on the terminal then? Anything good? Roobanguy posted:alot of the early dialog where your asking people about the ncr is the courier going "What's your take on the NCR?" Even the Legion you can have an inkling about. Most of the Legion questions are offered like the Courier could be aware of their presence, but also being surprised at how far they've pushed into the Mojave since the first Hoover Dam fight went down.
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Clearly the best weapon is Maria. with the mod to give it fire bullets I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy  Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame  God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
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Little torn between Maria and ALSiD for a preacher. Maria has the imagery, but ALSiD is made and wielded by (in)famous Mormon.
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GuyUpNorth posted:Little torn between Maria and ALSiD for a preacher. Maria has the imagery, but ALSiD is made and wielded by (in)famous Mormon. Too bad you can't dual-wield. But I went with a Hispanic Catholic priest, so Maria was obvious. Also Captain America used the M1911 and Tommy gun, so I wanted to get away from .45 Auto.
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I think Maria is also stylish enough. A Light Shining in Darkness would be better as a full-size 1911, since the compact size makes it seem a bit stubby. Maria has nicer lines.
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Arcsquad12 posted:What's on the terminal then? Anything good? Booby-trapped terminals don't have anything on them, IIRC. You saw them a lot in Fallout 3, I think the one in the Repconn basement is the only one in New Vegas.
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Byzantine posted:Clearly the best weapon is Maria. with the mod to give it fire bullets Where did you get that priest robe?
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Covok posted:Where did you get that priest robe? http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42393/ It looks good, but it clips the Pipboy.
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Having just done so, I can confirm that "Use mods to get all the companions at once, turn them essential, and destroy the Fort" is something that everyone has to do at least once. It turns into a hilarious bloodbath, especially when you spot the formation of troops below Caesar's tent and unload a Laser RCW into them.
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Any tips for a guy planning to go heavy on guns? Last time I did that I ended up spending way too much money on a pistol that used some kind of rare ammo that I never had enough of.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Any tips for a guy planning to go heavy on guns? Last time I did that I ended up spending way too much money on a pistol that used some kind of rare ammo that I never had enough of. Start crafting your own bullets  (Handloader helps if you do this) Ahundredbux fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Any tips for a guy planning to go heavy on guns? Last time I did that I ended up spending way too much money on a pistol that used some kind of rare ammo that I never had enough of. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Junk_Rounds and in general make sure you break down all the ammo for guns you won't use and turn it into bullets you want chitoryu12 posted:Having just done so, I can confirm that "Use mods to get all the companions at once, turn them essential, and destroy the Fort" is something that everyone has to do at least once. It turns into a hilarious bloodbath, especially when you spot the formation of troops below Caesar's tent and unload a Laser RCW into them. Yeah I've never had to cheat, I just charge in with boone or maybe power armored veronica. I like explosives for the drill field area in the back. The only hard part is killing everyone in caesar's tent in the 5 seconds before they punch you to death poverty goat fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Better ammo is generally rarer, I'll bet you got a hunting revolver or a sequoia which use .45-70 ammo which is hardly anywhere to be found. A 12.7mm pistol or a .44 would get a lot more use, though a 12.7mm would take time to build up a good store. The best guns in general to go for are probably ones that use 5.56mm, that stuff is everywhere.
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Also for guns, remember that Bradon or whatever his name is (the supply guy at Hoover Dam) and the Khans trader (in the basement of the house right before the canyon) both carry a lot more ammo than most of the other traders.
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The Goatfather posted:Yeah I've never had to cheat, I just charge in with boone or maybe power armored veronica. I like explosives for the drill field area in the back. The only hard part is killing everyone in caesar's tent in the 5 seconds before they punch you to death The thing that makes it so sweet is that so many Legionaries have melee weapons, so it ends up looking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtuZ-fDL2E&t=157s And you end up with really neat moments, like Veronica suddenly appearing from around the other side of a tent to bash a Vexillarius in the face.
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Bring a couple of different weapons for different situations and you'll probably never run dry
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The Goatfather posted:Yeah I've never had to cheat, I just charge in with boone or maybe power armored veronica. I like explosives for the drill field area in the back. The only hard part is killing everyone in caesar's tent in the 5 seconds before they punch you to death Before who punches who to death?  The hard part is making that tent feel like a challenge, when you're already fully doped up on Psycho, Slasher, Med-X, Jet, and a plethora of other combat drugs, and Caesar's bodyguards just keep exploding when I hit them with my Superheated Saturnite Fist.
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2house2fly posted:Better ammo is generally rarer, I'll bet you got a hunting revolver or a sequoia which use .45-70 ammo which is hardly anywhere to be found Yup. I got that gun, a hunting rifle, and the silenced 22 so far. I think I'll be okay. What repair skill level do I need to aim for to make the bullets I will need?
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Yup.
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70 gets you the Hand Loader perk which unlocks better recipes and makes it more likely to recover casings (when you fire a round the casing will appear in your inventory some of the time so you can craft replacement rounds). You'd only need 25 repair to craft the basic ammo though.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Any tips for a guy planning to go heavy on guns? Last time I did that I ended up spending way too much money on a pistol that used some kind of rare ammo that I never had enough of. There's so many good guns, you might wanna go for a theme just to narrow it down - Soldier Grunt, Cowboy, Gangster, etc. The Tommy gun will gently caress people up. Take Benny's suit and a prewar hat, slip some knuckledusters in your pocket for emergencies and start cracking skulls.
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Thanks. I usually let the lottery winner go but I have the four eyes perk and I noticed he had glasses. 
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rotinaj posted:Before who punches who to death? I figured the Legion hates guns, drugs, and women so I had a run where my female courier used her drug inventory as a checklist and hit everybody with the medicine stick while wearing Vera's dress before getting the achievements on him. Then I frag mine booby trapped Caesar. I think that's a pretty strong counterpoint to Legion ideology, and I've always been fond of the sort of boss you beat by comprehensively refuting their ideology. I'm tempted to load it back up so I can run a clinical trial on the effectiveness of the medicine stick on brain cancer.
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2house2fly posted:70 gets you the Hand Loader perk which unlocks better recipes and makes it more likely to recover casings (when you fire a round the casing will appear in your inventory some of the time so you can craft replacement rounds). You'd only need 25 repair to craft the basic ammo though. get it to 90 and get jury rigging too imo
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Also, cheating or modding to bring all 8 companions removes any threat from Caesar's tent. It's just a firing squad blowing apart everything in front of you. You really only play like that to make the game easier for yourself.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Thanks. There's actually a pair of glasses in Doc Mitchell's house, on the desk you face while talking to him directly after waking up.
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chitoryu12 posted:Also, cheating or modding to bring all 8 companions removes any threat from Caesar's tent. It's just a firing squad blowing apart everything in front of you. There's a certain appeal to the Legion having no choice under a decently armed squad's guns.
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chitoryu12 posted:Also, cheating or modding to bring all 8 companions removes any threat from Caesar's tent. It's just a firing squad blowing apart everything in front of you. I do that and then crank IWS up to max spawns. Like not for difficulty but just because it's fun as gently caress. I wish the Robco mod didn't crash my game so much because I really wanted to just have an army of robots fighting hordes of ghouls.
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I've played a crazy amount of New Vegas as a guns dude pretty much exclusively and I've never needed to craft a single bullet, even when I had a shitload of difficulty mods and mods that lowered world loot by something huge like 95%. I had a massive stockpile of looted ammunition in like the first two hours. Am I some kind of looting savant?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I've played a crazy amount of New Vegas as a guns dude pretty much exclusively and I've never needed to craft a single bullet, even when I had a shitload of difficulty mods and mods that lowered world loot by something huge like 95%. I had a massive stockpile of looted ammunition in like the first two hours. There are some pretty cool craftable ammo types though. Dragon's Breath and Coinshot shotgun shells come immediately to mind.
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