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When Boone says he's going to shoot everything in red wearing sports equipment, how does he know what sports equipment is?
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Feb 23, 2015 05:24
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I was disappointed that The King wasn't a Fat Vegas Elvis.
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Feb 23, 2015 07:52
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The Elvis in the FONV timeline probably never got fat because there was no 70s 
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Feb 23, 2015 08:59
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:When Boone says he's going to shoot everything in red wearing sports equipment, how does he know what sports equipment is? The NCR is pretty fond of Lacrosse.
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Feb 23, 2015 09:27
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Jack of Hearts posted:I love these occasional factional arguments. You're being pretty selective with evidence there. The response to the Veteran Rangers, from both sides, is "Oh, gently caress. The NCR's bringing Rangers in. Whelp, Caesar's hosed." The NCR was protecting the region before House did jack/poo poo. I've pointed out the timeline before, but House only did anything for Vegas once the NCR was about to move in. Meanwhile, the NCR agreed to defend the area against the Legion before House did anything but play with his fuckbots, and before they knew anyone around had anything worth stealing. Yes. The NCR has some major jackasses. The mercenaries, Moore, decent length list after if you want to keep going. But they're the only faction with reasonable people anywhere with influence. Hsu and Crocker are more-or-less decent guys who want what's best for everyone, NCR and non. And calling the NCR on mad scientists is a laugh considering the setting. If you're a scientist, you're at least a little mad. Nature of the beast. The NCR is a nicer version of the Westward expansion era USA. They have some flaws, major ones, but compared to the other options on the field, they have a drat halo.
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Feb 23, 2015 09:41
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chiasaur11 posted:You're being pretty selective with evidence there. The response to the Veteran Rangers, from both sides, is "Oh, gently caress. The NCR's bringing Rangers in. Whelp, Caesar's hosed." I like how you call out someone being selective and then be selective yourself. House was busy recovering his freaking life support for most of the 200 years he was out of action. Also NCR agreed to defend the mojave because they want power from the dam. They could care less about the people there. What the soldiers say about the whole thing matters very little, they arent the people making the calls.
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Feb 23, 2015 10:23
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E: Disregard
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Feb 23, 2015 12:00
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chiasaur11 posted:The NCR was protecting the region before House did jack/poo poo. Pretty sure House protected the region over a century before the NCR existed..
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Feb 23, 2015 16:51
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Byzantine posted:Pretty sure House protected the region over a century before the NCR existed.. As far as I can see on the timeline, he spent 61 years in coma, waking up in 2138, after which he presumably started doing repairs and doing important stuff internally in the Lucky 38 or something. Then, in 2274, 136 years later, he observes NCR scouts reaching Hoover Dam. At this point, he recruits the Three Families, and by the time the NCR proper reaches Nevada, the same year, they discover a city of lights, deep in the desert. A treaty is signed the same year. Seven years later, a courier gets shot in the head near a small Nevada town. Poor Wyand  So no, it doesn't seem like he did much for the region until the NCR started poking around. As far as I can recall, he took this as a sign that civilization had returned to the Wastes, as the scouts had industrially made uniforms. It makes sense though, no point in rebuilding a gambling-based economy when there's no society around to support it. But on the other hand, a counterargument could be made for the fact that House could have helped create a society that could support a gambling-based economy, but he didn't.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:31
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Byzantine posted:There's a radio station mod for Fallout 3 called "Civil Defense Station", or something similar. It's a bunch of accurate emergency civil defense clips alongside nuclear-themed songs from the 50s. It's called CONELRAD 640-1240 - Civil Defense Radio and yeah, it's pretty great.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:39
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House did something before his coma that protected the region.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:42
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2house2fly posted:House did something before his coma that protected the region. House did something before his coma that protected himself.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:45
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2house2fly posted:House did something before his coma that protected the region. The draft of my comment originally started with "After the end of the last World War", but it seems like I removed that unintentionally. So yeah, apart from saving almost the entire region from nuclear annihilation holy poo poo he didn't do much publicly noticable until the NCR started sending scouts in. I wish we knew more about what he did during those 136 years, though.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:47
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2house2fly posted:House did something before his coma that protected the region. Certainly that entitles him to boss around these people who weren't even alive back then.
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Feb 23, 2015 17:48
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steinrokkan posted:Certainly that entitles him to boss around these people who weren't even alive back then. They were grandfathered in.
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Feb 23, 2015 18:16
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steinrokkan posted:Certainly that entitles him to boss around these people who weren't even alive back then. I think it entitles him to not get murdered in his bed, since there would be nothing in the Mojave but desert and glowing water without him. As decades passed, what had been the American southwest united beneath the flag of the New California Republic, dedicated to old-world values of democracy and the rule of law. As the Republic grew, so did its needs. Scouts spread east, seeking territory and wealth, in the dry and merciless expanse of the Mojave Desert. They returned only with reports of dusty ruins, radioactive sandstorms, and the poisoned, rubble-choked sludge of the Colorado River. Byzantine fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 18:21
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look on the bright side: no boomers or legion
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Feb 23, 2015 18:27
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Fereydun posted:look on the bright side:
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Feb 23, 2015 19:28
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The origin of the NCR is thus: in FO2 you travel back in time and break a water chip in V13, necessitating you leaving the vault in FO to find a replacement water chip, in the process of finding said water chip you rescue Tandi from raiders and thus put her on the path to turn Shady Sands into the NCR.
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Feb 23, 2015 19:43
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Fallout faction bitching is the goddamn worst.
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Feb 23, 2015 19:46
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Every one in the wasteland is a horrible, self interested poo poo. Blow Up The Earth. If any faction is the best/most sympathetic it's the super mutants. Taken against their will and transformed into barely conscious savages, they've had their very identities stolen from them.
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Feb 23, 2015 21:37
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Every one in the wasteland is a horrible, self interested poo poo. The King is pretty sweet. Personally, I'd support No-Bark Noonan for presidency.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:23
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Every one in the wasteland is a horrible, self interested poo poo. Some days I miss being in the Master's army 
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Feb 23, 2015 22:28
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:Fallout faction bitching is the goddamn worst. I liked it when we were temporarily on the topic of music, but that didn't last long.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:29
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^^^ game music is lovely and boring. I've never played my pipboy radios longer than 43 seconds. How about build theory crafting? Everyone plays a God like long range sniper with tacticlol gear and Boone's beret or a cotton-footed sneak thief using a power fist to get a 10000000000000x damage multiplier and steal the armor off a dude. I want something different. I'm thinking of a total wasteland survivalist hunter. 1 Gun and not much learnin' in the computational machines. What would some good ideas be for one of these?
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Feb 23, 2015 22:45
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Fuzz1138 posted:I liked it when we were temporarily on the topic of music, but that didn't last long. For what it's worth, I'm doing a no-fast-travel playthrough right now, and whenever I'm walking between locations, I'm listening to Wave Radio. I find it really relaxing. Also, Blake is a pretty chill DJ, and it's cool that you can meet him in-game.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:49
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Fuzz1138 posted:I liked it when we were temporarily on the topic of music, but that didn't last long. Let's talk about our favorite gun. On my original playthrough I clung to the All-American for my life, that gun was great, but also kinda boring, so in my later playthroughs I ended up gravitating more towards old-fashioned rifles, like the Hunting Rifle and the Brush Gun. Which are still pretty boring guns, I admit. I have to say that I'm not that fond of bigger guns, like the minigun and the flamethrower, they feel really cumbersome. God I'm boring at guns. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 22:49
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:I'm thinking of a total wasteland survivalist hunter. 1 Gun and not much learnin' in the computational machines. What would some good ideas be for one of these? I've done one-gun games. I used a revolver one game (I did "cheat" a little and upgraded from a .357 to a .44) and a hunting shotgun the other. With the right perks, shotguns and custom crafted ammo are incredibly effective. so I'd suggest those. you could also use a cowboy repeater/trail carbine. Alternately use Signature Weapons and pick whatever you want.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:51
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I've been having a blast playing a cowboy, signature weapon Lucky, millennia's TOZ66 with sawn off barrel but full stock, slug shells fer snipin' and a Bowie knife, it's good times.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:52
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:How about build theory crafting?
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Feb 23, 2015 22:54
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The holorifle and Pew Pew are my favourites, I dig weapons that look like they've been modified by an amateur. PRESIDENT GOKU posted:^^^ game music is lovely and boring. I've never played my pipboy radios longer than 43 seconds. Wolfsheim posted:Some days I miss being in the Master's army Miss Lou. Miss the base. Miss the church. Don't like here. 
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Feb 23, 2015 22:55
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2house2fly posted:The holorifle and Pew Pew are my favourites, I dig weapons that look like they've been modified by an amateur. And if that failed you could knock their head through their rear end in a top hat then pin them to a house with a javelin. Speaking of Javelins, the throwing animation is tres cool, but really inaccurate. I'd say about 65% of the time I'll have a bead on some shitter, launch the javelin, only to have him sidestep it like some invisible hand scooted him to the side Just In Time. Paracelsus posted:I did a crazy old drug-addled energy weapons user for my Legion run. The Q-35 can be picked up very early and has low requirements. Yuck. Plasma weapons are ugly as a ballsack, but the idea of some disheveled Harry Plinkett laser gunner hopped up on Jet and stims is sorta amusing. What kind of skills did you use? Perks? lite_sleepr fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 23:19
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Favorite guns, huh. Well, I remember the first time I played this, I stuck to rifles for a while to try and pick off as many people from afar as possible before moving in or getting caught, so it kind of went varmint rifle -> cowboy repeater -> hunting rifle. I liked the varmint rifle a lot because you could buy the suppressor for it, but it didn't really pack enough firepower. It wasn't until way way into the game that I found the Ratslayer, and that was pretty much my go-to from then on. After that I started going with a slightly more direct approach to combat, so I found the hunting shotgun pretty amusing, especially since with the choke and slug rounds you can practically snipe with it. Energy weapons are also a lot of fun. I don't normally like automatic weapons in this game, but the Laser RCW is surprisingly satisfying. Once, after I started using the signature weapon mod, I decided to go with the laser rifle, and since the signature weapon mod includes unique variants along with the regular weapon, I would keep a normal laser rifle, modded with a scope, as well as the AER14 on me. So basically I would snipe with the normal rifle, and for closer range combat I would pull out the AER14 like a shotgun. Honestly there are a lot of great weapons in the game and I can't really decide on one. So there's my life story instead.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:28
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Energy weapons are cool, but I love lasers purely because I don't like the way goo piles look! AER14 and Holorifle all the way.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:39
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I need that One Gun to rule them all. AER14 is neat, but it chews up a hard to find ammo like popcorn. Carrying two rifles is unwieldy to me, and doesn't gel well with MY ROLEPLAYING IMMERSION.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:39
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Yuck. Plasma weapons are ugly as a ballsack, but the idea of some disheveled Harry Plinkett laser gunner hopped up on Jet and stims is sorta amusing. What kind of skills did you use? Perks?
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Feb 23, 2015 23:41
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Best Guns weapon is COS Sniper Rifle with JSP. For some reason it's almost totally silent, despite firing .308. Sneak crit headshot is hundreds of damage and some -DT, and .308 is plentiful (plus you can get an unlimited supply from the Sierra Madre vending machine). Best Energy Weapons weapon has to be a tie between Pew Pew (insane single shot sneak crit headshot damage) and Holorifle (possibly most solid all-around weapon in game). Ranger Sequoia has very solid damage for a pistol and .45-07 SWC is one of (if not the) best ammo in game, but fires painfully slow. Melee weapons are really situational for me. I always have either Blood-Nap or Chance's Knife on me if I don't have another, more specialized, melee weapon. Either is capable of sneak V.A.T.S one-shot kills on most enemies. Protonic Inversal Axe is highest damage sneak V.A.T.S weapon I think, plus bonus against robots/power armor. Nephi's Driver has a guaranteed knockdown on special attack which renders humanoid enemies totally helpless once you land one. Chainsaw has a really wonky stunlock type effect (sometimes), ignores DR/DT, attacks super fast, and might be the easiest melee weapon to consistently make headshots with. Knock-Knock has really good damage and a useful special attack (especially if you don't have Nephi's Driver or Super Slam yet). Thermic Lance/Gehenna are useful for Pyromaniac builds I guess. e: PRESIDENT GOKU posted:I need that One Gun to rule them all.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:42
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Most people posting in this thread seem to not be actively playing NV. Is that the deal?
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Feb 23, 2015 23:45
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I replay it all the time. I have put many of hundreds of hours on my steam copy and still have builds I've spec-ed out on my FONV OneNote section ready to go when my current playthrough is over 
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Most people posting in this thread seem to not be actively playing NV. Is that the deal? It's a long game, and it was released five years ago. Personally, I'm going to start playing again soon, but I'm currently having too much fun modding.
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