Fallout: New Vegas: Ain't that a cuck in the bed?

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Dush: Jan 23, 2011; Mo' Money

Jerusalem posted:

Silly question, but in Old World Blues at the start, the Think Tank tells me I have to hurry because there isn't much time. While I've been looking around Big MT, they've spoken up a couple of times to remind me to get a move on. I assume this is for atmosphere purposes only and that there is NOT an invisible timer on getting an optimal result, right?

Edit: Spoiler tagged just in case.

They're full of poo poo. What they really mean is there isn't much time before they get super impatient and crabby and they'll have to float around in their little hover-jars full of impotent frustration at the lobotomite's insistence on searching every drat nook and cranny.

There's no timer is what I'm getting at

# ? Oct 6, 2011 11:38

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Burning Mustache: Sep 4, 2006; Zaeed got stories.
Kasumi got loot.
All I got was a hole in my suit.

Jerusalem posted:

Silly question, but in Old World Blues at the start, the Think Tank tells me I have to hurry because there isn't much time. While I've been looking around Big MT, they've spoken up a couple of times to remind me to get a move on. I assume this is for atmosphere purposes only and that there is NOT an invisible timer on getting an optimal result, right?

Edit: Spoiler tagged just in case.

Nah, it's fine, take your time.
I took ages to resolve the main storyline and nothing indicated that I got a worse result because of that.

E;fb.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 11:39

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

I would just like to take this opportunity to say that hidden timers in video games are the most ridiculous game mechanic ever thought up. Either you allow the player to move at their own pace and explore the game world you build for them or you stick a loving timer in the corner so they know that time is an integral part of the challenge.

/rant.

To stay on topic:

Does anyone play with no companions? I must admit that the thought has crossed my mind. More so for when I do a hard/hardcore run then with my current game. Alternatively, if you always play with companions, do you always use the same ones or rotate them?

# ? Oct 6, 2011 11:49

Knuc U Kinte: Aug 17, 2004

I started whoring out a new character for the GRA cheevos and I'm p much running along, w/out companions*, blowing away any one I please and having a blast.

*Raul and ED-E are actually waiting where I found them for the perks.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 11:54

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Thanks for the responses, that's a relief. I'm having too much fun to want to rush through anything in Big MT.

With games like these I normally start off wanting to do it all myself and taking a companion along grumpily. Then I get used to them and stick with a set team and can't really imagine playing any other way. Then after awhile I realize I should probably go pick up the others and give them a run to at least see their story. Then I usually default back to my normal team, but look out for areas where it seems like it would be better to solo things. For example, I made a point of leaving my companions behind while I investigated Vault 34 solo - it just felt right to do it that way.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 12:03

ymgve: Jan 2, 2004; Offensive Clock

Dush posted:

They're full of poo poo. What they really mean is there isn't much time before they get super impatient and crabby and they'll have to float around in their little hover-jars full of impotent frustration at the lobotomite's insistence on searching every drat nook and cranny.

There's no timer is what I'm getting at

Let me put it this way: I entered the Big MT at level 17 (I think?), and managed to reach level 26 before even bothering to do the main quest. I've spent like 10-12 hour there. That's twice as long as most full-price games these days. If there was a timer, it's set years in the future.

(Anyway, I really really really should stop obsessively looting every container. They only contain something interesting like 0.01% of the time)

# ? Oct 6, 2011 12:54

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

They've been waiting 200 years. They can wait a bit more while I look for all the chips.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 12:57

Rush Limbo: Sep 5, 2005; its with a full house

This is going to sound really stupid: But where the gently caress do I get a shovel? I've seen one a few times but it's one of those items you can't pick up, and I want to go graverobbing.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:02

Hoodrich: Feb 4, 2011; by Reene

Ddraig posted:

This is going to sound really stupid: But where the gently caress do I get a shovel? I've seen one a few times but it's one of those items you can't pick up, and I want to go graverobbing.

You should be able to buy one in the Goodsprings store. Possibly other places as well.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:03

ymgve: Jan 2, 2004; Offensive Clock

Ddraig posted:

This is going to sound really stupid: But where the gently caress do I get a shovel? I've seen one a few times but it's one of those items you can't pick up, and I want to go graverobbing.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Shovel_(Fallout:_New_Vegas)

I had to go looking for one myself, once the shovel just disappeared from my inventory.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:06

MrL_JaKiri: Sep 23, 2003; A bracing glass of carrot juice!

There's quite a few lying around; there's one in Goodsprings where you fight the geckos.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:06

ymgve: Jan 2, 2004; Offensive Clock

Is there any reason at all for getting the Courier's Stash DLC?

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:09

MrL_JaKiri: Sep 23, 2003; A bracing glass of carrot juice!

ymgve posted:

Is there any reason at all for getting the Courier's Stash DLC?

Not really

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:10

Galewolf: Jan 9, 2007; The human gallbladder is indeed a puzzle!

Man, Vault 34 was brutal. I had full compliment of ammo, rad-x and rad-aways and when i get to the armory at the ends my rad suit was completely broken, had a red RAD icon flashing down on my hud, barely able to carry myself and with a lead pipe on my hand because i threw everything else on that armored security officers (including mines and grenades). It was an awesome experience because i missed Vault 34 during my first playthrough.

Also i found out that, if you don't have a rebreather, one shot of Turbo combined with Buffout can help with your breath. Sadly, hardcore doesn't seem to care about consequences about swimming in full armor while being :catdrugs:

as gently caress.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 13:18

Whitey Snipes: Nov 30, 2004

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

What mattered is that he heard.

Which mod is this? It looks much nicer than Fellout but there are a couple that simulate weather and I don't want to work my way through all of them.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:01

unlimited shrimp: Aug 30, 2008

Xik posted:

Does anyone play with no companions? I must admit that the thought has crossed my mind. More so for when I do a hard/hardcore run then with my current game. Alternatively, if you always play with companions, do you always use the same ones or rotate them?

Except for Tactics, I've never played a Fallout game with companions.
I think it's because when I first played Fallout 2, I didn't know companions were A Thing. I got it in my head that the Fallout series was about one wasteland savior doing all these things, and the endings always talk about him in the singular, or sorta vaguely allude to allies, so I never really warmed up to using companions in the other games.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:43

Burning Mustache: Sep 4, 2006; Zaeed got stories.
Kasumi got loot.
All I got was a hole in my suit.

I'm way too much of an OCD pack-rat that I could afford playing without the extra ~400 pounds ED-E and another companion give me :negative:

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:53

Yodzilla: Apr 29, 2005; Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch

I can't play these games without the Sprint Mod. I really can't believe I beat them so many times crawling across the wasteland at the default speed.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:55

unlimited shrimp: Aug 30, 2008

Is there any way to download the DLC data files from Steam without first having New Vegas installed?

I live in a rural area so I have a ridiculously low bandwidth limit due to the ISPs available to me. I was hoping to download the DLC at the office today, stick the files on my zip drive, and take them home. Unfortunately, Steam seems to insist on downloading & installing automatically (which requires New Vegas to be installed), and I don't want to risk being chewed-out by IT and/or my manager if I torrent the files. :ohdear:

I've already purchased Lonesome Road and Honest Hearts through Steam, but if I download them at home they'll eat up 1/5th of my monthly limit.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:57

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

SpaceMost posted:

Except for Tactics, I've never played a Fallout game with companions.
I think it's because when I first played Fallout 2, I didn't know companions were A Thing. I got it in my head that the Fallout series was about one wasteland savior doing all these things, and the endings always talk about him in the singular, or sorta vaguely allude to allies, so I never really warmed up to using companions in the other games.

I haven't played 1 & 2 (they are on my todo list) so I'm not sure if they had companion specific story content/quest but that is probably the only thing I would be concerned about missing if I went no companions.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 14:57

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

In Fallout 2 I got Marcus and Sulik simply to use them as pack mules, but in New Vegas I just recruited them all and sent them to the Lucky 38. Having them around feels too much like having the computer play the game for me.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 15:05

ymgve: Jan 2, 2004; Offensive Clock

SpaceMost posted:

Is there any way to download the DLC data files from Steam without first having New Vegas installed?

I live in a rural area so I have a ridiculously low bandwidth limit due to the ISPs available to me. I was hoping to download the DLC at the office today, stick the files on my zip drive, and take them home. Unfortunately, Steam seems to insist on downloading & installing automatically (which requires New Vegas to be installed), and I don't want to risk being chewed-out by IT and/or my manager if I torrent the files.

I've already purchased Lonesome Road and Honest Hearts through Steam, but if I download them at home they'll eat up 1/5th of my monthly limit.

The only option is getting someone to zip up the DLC for you. It borders on :filez:

but is the only solution.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 15:05

Galewolf: Jan 9, 2007; The human gallbladder is indeed a puzzle!

I can't play the game without companions. It just feels incredibly depressing to wander around, alone. The problem is (or was) that they had infinite ammo and i solved it with a mod. I used to park Boone (even after Weaker Boone mod) because he pretty much alone killed everything in sight before i can fire a shot. Now he just have his machete and i'll hand him some 5.56 rounds if i am against something very powerful like Cazadors. It really adds some challenge and depth for me: "Ok Boone, here is our last clip, make it count."

Companions with ranged weapons burn ammo like there is no tomorrow. It took maybe 10 seconds for Cass to fire 70 odd rounds with a Lever Action Shotgun and those things took hours to collect/buy/craft. Even ED-E fires all its Energy Cells at some barkscorpion and acts as floating pack mule for the rest of the trip (though he is more conservative/efficient than, say, Boone).

I like rotating them out but Cass and Arcade are favorites, with Veronica in close second. Raul and Lily usually sit back and gather dust though.

Though i can't bear to send them to Lucky 38 because that place is creepy as gently caress. I always send them to their hometowns because i care about pixels and don't want them sitting in a dark and haunted ghost hotel alright :colbert:

# ? Oct 6, 2011 15:10

Astfgl: Aug 31, 2001

Xik posted:

Does anyone play with no companions? I must admit that the thought has crossed my mind. More so for when I do a hard/hardcore run then with my current game. Alternatively, if you always play with companions, do you always use the same ones or rotate them?

I usually start with companions because I need/want the extra storage space, but then, usually around the time that I start getting involved in the main plot, I drop them. First, I really hate the dumb mechanic that forces me to either personally tell my followers to wait outside House's penthouse or Caesar's tent, and second, I hate that when the game does it automatically for me, it also doesn't automatically have them rejoin my party. Third, without any mods companions can't follow you to the DLC areas, and once you move into the Sink you can't bring companions there either (again, unless you're using mods). So really I find that they're more of a nuisance than anything, once you've progressed the game far enough. There's also the fact that things like Veronica's and Boone's quest triggers are really easy to miss or blow by or outright gently caress up, the fact that companions often make it difficult if not impossible to sneak, and the fact that most of the companion perks (Veronica, Cass, Arcade, Lily) aren't that great. Once I did all their quests and got the achievement for recruiting them all, I tend to only grab ED-E if I'm in need of storage space at the start of the game, or Raul if I'm getting tired of how quickly my weapons degrade from all the special ammo.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 15:17

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

SpaceMost posted:

I live in a rural area so I have a ridiculously low bandwidth limit due to the ISPs available to me. I was hoping to download the DLC at the office today, stick the files on my zip drive, and take them home. Unfortunately, Steam seems to insist on downloading & installing automatically (which requires New Vegas to be installed), and I don't want to risk being chewed-out by IT and/or my manager if I torrent the files.

Since it sounds like you already have downloaded the full game through steam and you just want to download the DLC you could do it this way:

Go to your Steam installation eg:
code:
```
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
```
Copy over everything apart from the "steamapps" folder into a folder on your USB device. eg:
code:
```
E:\Steam
```
Create an empty "steamapps" folder within that directory on your USB device
Within the steamapps directory create an empty folder called "common"
Then copy over the fallout new vegas folder from you Steam installation to the common folder on your USB device.
So from here:
code:
```
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas
```
to
code:
```
E:\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas
```
At your work run "Steam.exe" from your USB device and once you purchase the DLC it will update Fallout with the DLC files.
Once you get home delete the "fallout new vegas" folder on your home machine and copy over the one from your USB device.

Make sure to create backups of everything before you start messing with your Steam install if you have a limited cap in case poo poo goes wrong.

Some things to note:

Once you purchased the DLC I don't think you can use steam to launch the game unless it has acquired the DLC files so make sure you can get the content somehow once you buy it.

You should probably uninstall Steam from your work machine if you have installed it when you go to run it off your USB device, unless you specifically want to do the copying to and from your work machine like you did on your home machine.

If steam fails to run, the answer is always to delete the "ClientRegistry.blob" file.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 15:35

Saiko Kila: Aug 8, 2009; These were supposed to be peaceful negotiations! We brought only nukes!

HUMANZ. SO GULLIBLE.

Kharmakazy posted:

My bad. I was working from memory. Haven't actually seen any remnants power armor in game yet. Hell... I have over 100 hours in and I've yet to find that drat alien crash.

In-game characters don't know better. I've found the remnant helmet in some random cave, and the brotherhood power armor on some dead paladin near the artillery range, and then recruited Veronica to use them (because apart from not having the training I'm a light armor type, and she was the only recruitable character I've found by then). Since then she visited the BoS bunker, NCR camps and exactly no one there had any issues with her suit. Which is kinda strange, given that about every drat faction does have issues with your clothing style.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 16:46

rope kid: Feb 3, 2001; Warte nur! Balde
Ruhest du auch.

I considered an AUDITORE CAPE type effect for the Remnants Armor but then realized that players would be sad.

rope kid fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Oct 6, 2011

# ? Oct 6, 2011 16:57

Happy Noodle Boy: Jul 3, 2002

rope kid posted:

I considered a AUDITORE CAPE type effect for the Remnants Armor but then realized that players would be sad.

...from you omitting it because that sounds awesome :qq:

# ? Oct 6, 2011 16:59

Tubgirl Cosplay: Jan 10, 2011; by Ion Helmet

Burning Mustache posted:

I'm way too much of an OCD pack-rat that I could afford playing without the extra ~400 pounds ED-E and another companion give me

This is how I started, but then I found out that if I start off letting myself be that much of a compulsive hoarder I'm gonna be hosed when someone steps on a stray grenade trap and leaves me stranded in the middle of nowhere with 250 extra pounds of precious, precious vendor trash.

ED-E's pretty generally handy to have around but yeah you're basically never successfully sneaking again.

Tubgirl Cosplay fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Oct 6, 2011

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:01

Mystic Stylez: Dec 19, 2009

ymgve posted:

(Anyway, I really really really should stop obsessively looting every container. They only contain something interesting like 0.01% of the time)

That feeling when you go out of your way to check a container and inside you find the almighty ~* Finance Clipboard *~

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:20

wafflemoose: Apr 10, 2009

My main problem is that I bring way too much ammo with me. Both my companions' inventories are filled with various calibers and about 75% of my weight is ammunition. Probably should stay away from ammo guzzlers like miniguns and assault rifles and stick with high damage per shot weapons like rifles instead. Even then though, rounds for the Anti-Material Rifle are like half a pound each.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:25

J Bjelke-Postersen: Sep 16, 2007; I have a 6 point plan to stop the boats.....or turn them around or something....No wait what were those points again....Are there really 6?

I loot nothing but finance clipboards. Going to open me a big 4 wasteland accounting firm once Caesar's dealt with.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:26

brozozo: Apr 27, 2007; Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

rope kid posted:

I considered an AUDITORE CAPE type effect for the Remnants Armor but then realized that players would be sad.

Why do you think this would make me sad? Why?

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:32

Dush: Jan 23, 2011; Mo' Money

brozozo posted:

Why do you think this would make me sad? Why?

Rope Kid's referring to the cape from AC2 that makes everybody hate you. Not actually putting a cape on the armor.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:39

Syrant: Jun 28, 2006; This post is brought to you by: Goat Bouillabaise.

First 9

ymgve posted:

Is there any reason at all for getting the Courier's Stash DLC?

Armored Vault 13 jumpsuit. :hellyeah:

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:39

Happy Noodle Boy: Jul 3, 2002

Dush posted:

Rope Kid's referring to the cape from AC2 that makes everybody hate you. Not actually putting a cape on the armor.

I know. I now really want an armor that makes everyone hate and fear me.

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:43

ShadowHawk: Jun 25, 2000; CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER

Is the chance to find a star cap when using a sunset sarsaparilla affected by luck?

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:45

unlimited shrimp: Aug 30, 2008

Is it a bug that the woman in the New Vegas vault hotel wont accept the vault suit the doc gives you at the beginning of the game?

ymgve posted:

The only option is getting someone to zip up the DLC for you. It borders on but is the only solution.

Does it still count as :filez:

if you're downloading/transferring content you've already paid for?

# ? Oct 6, 2011 17:56

Ygolonac

Nov 26, 2007

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Happy Noodle Boy posted:

...from you omitting it because that sounds awesome

From the Assassin's Creed 2 wiki:

"Description: While wearing this cape outside of Monteriggioni, you are automatically Notorious, and lowering your notoriety becomes impossible (though, heralds will not mention you in their announcements). When you remove the cape, your notoriety returns to its previous level."

:stare:

Someone mod this in, stat!

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HitTheTargets: Mar 3, 2006; I came here to laugh at you.

Xik posted:

I haven't played 1 & 2 (they are on my todo list) so I'm not sure if they had companion specific story content/quest but that is probably the only thing I would be concerned about missing if I went no companions.

Not really, no. Fallout 2 has some (usually unmarked) quests requiring certain companions, but they tend to be largely pointless, obscure, or both. You can find an old friend of Lenny's, help Cassidy file a grievance with the law (not a metaphor for violence), or take Marcus to a doctor. The closest to a New Vegas style companion quest is the one where you reconcile Vic with his estranged daughter, and I don't think Vic acknowledges the quest in any way (I ditched him for Cassidy at that point).

# ? Oct 6, 2011 18:10

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