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Yeah, the health drain is really just one more psychological factor on the player rather than being something to actually worry about. You can find so much resources in Dead Money if you take your time that it shouldn't be a problem to keep your health up no matter what.
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Finished New Vegas tonight. 70 some hours put in since I picked it up in June, and I still feel like there is so much left to explore. I think this is the best experience I've ever had playing a game. The world just feels so vibrant and alive. Will probably give it another run through in a year or so, give some time for new mods to be developed, enough to keep it fresh. I especially liked OWB. Near the end when you discover Mobius is just a whacky old man, and ask him about his death threats playing over the speakers and he responds "Haha oh yeah, about that, I was tripping balls on psycho when I recorded it" is the funniest thing I've seen in a video game.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:01
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OWB is pretty much New Vegas' "NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY UNLESS YOU'RE A DOPE" DLC for the game. I loved it because it was just so wacky and out of place compared to the rest of the game, because the isolation of Big Mt. meant that none of the seriousness of the rest of the Wasteland could ever touch it!
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Oct 11, 2011 00:03
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CJacobs posted:OWB is pretty much New Vegas' "NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY UNLESS YOU'RE A DOPE" DLC for the game. I loved it because it was just so wacky and out of place compared to the rest of the game, because the isolation of Big Mt. meant that none of the seriousness of the rest of the Wasteland could ever touch it! I do like that Mobius notes that if the Think Tank actually did get into the Mojave, they could cause REAL disaster.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:09
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Oct 11, 2011 00:10
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Hah. So I'm running through the NCR quest line and doing a lot of sidequests along the way. I get to the point where they ask me to go kill Mr. House. I go up, talk to the guy just to see what he has to say, and he blows through like four quests based on stuff I've already done. As soon as he finishes talking, I simultaneously receive and fail "Don't Tread On The Bear!", locking me out of the NCR line. Hurf.Bash Ironfist posted:So I have HH, OWB, and LR. I played through HH and disliked it. If I disliked that, would I like DM? I get some money at the beginning of next month, and I'm trying to choose what to buy with my fun budget. Is DM a must-have dlc? It really depends on what you like; Dead Money is probably the most unique and unusual DLC. It's got a very different tone from anything else, with the survival horror and exploration elements. If you like exploring the plot through journals and logs after a disaster, in the System-/Bioshock style, it's great. If you like visually interesting settings, fun combat, and cool weapons, it's kinda poo poo. If you're on the fence, wait for a sale. For $5 you'll definitely find something worthwhile in it.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:40
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Best thing dead money gave to me: the stay back perk.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:48
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CJacobs posted:OWB is pretty much New Vegas' "NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY UNLESS YOU'RE A DOPE" DLC for the game. It is and it isn't: Of course it's all big joke on 50 monster movie science fiction and all that, and just general silliness, but the overall point is that the Think Tank is largely filled with completely amoral and inhuman monsters who could ravage what is left of humanity if let loose, and Mobius is trying his hardest to protect the world from them. Of course he's largely succeeded, and they aren't all *that* unhappy about the state of affairs, so it's not as sad as it could be.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:50
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I haven't played Fallout 3, and it sounds like I wouldn't want to, but I do have a few thoughts about the level of destruction and messiness in the Mojave. I think that a lot of the people in the world at the time of Fallout: NV have no knowledge of what a well-maintained settlement is SUPPOSED to look like. To a person living in the Mojave, a house with cracked windows, dirt on the floors, and broken doorjambs probably seems like a dream home as long as it protects them from the elements. They may have an idea what a house might look like in perfect repair, and can tell that things are broken, but they are living in a smashed world and that kind of house just isn't part of their reality. They have the knowledge and capability to do some cosmetic repairs, but why would they waste their time and energy on doing that when they are struggling to survive day to day? Hell, there are many things in my house that have been broken for a long time that I can't justify the time and expense to fix because we have more important things to take care of - there's holes in the wall that we covered up with pictures, leaks in the roof that we place buckets under when it rains hard, and cracks in two windows that I covered with duct tape. If I'm cool with that, I'm sure 99% of the people in the 23rd century would be as well. I think a lot of knowledge has been lost or is disregarded as stuff from the old times that is worthless today. For instance, nobody seems to be using toilets for their intended purpose, or else it wouldn't be safe to drink from them. Nobody is selling hot baths at their hotel like they did in the 19th century, and many people lived in houses with dirt floors back then. I think bathing and using indoor toilets aren't cultural behaviors anymore. Then there's other practical considerations - in a world with virtually no law and order and roving bands of raiders everywhere, it would be very stupid to make your house stand out from the other homes as being obviously inhabited. When raiders come, you either fight them off, die fighting them off, or run away and come back after they leave. Why spend food and water gathering time on making your house look nice when it's pretty sure to be visited by people who will just tear it up? Leave your house looking like the other abandoned houses nearby so when you have to leave it, nobody takes it form you while your gone - and if they do, it's no great loss. The Divide may have been different - somebody said it's a good representation of what a large urban area would look like immediately after the bombs drop, and that's pretty much what it is - the area was largely untouched by the war, and had been built up by the inhabitants there. They appear to have had a military organization with uniforms, working vehicles, functional commissaries, and other luxuries of civilization up until relatively recently. That's why Ulysses admired the place, it was probably one of the most developed areas outside of the NCR.
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Oct 11, 2011 00:55
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Samopsa posted:Best thing dead money gave to me: the stay back perk. This and the Sierra Madre
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Oct 11, 2011 01:19
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On the subject of Old World Blues: is it normal for enemies to stop respawning once you complete the DLC's main quest, or is it just a bug on my end?
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Oct 11, 2011 01:29
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Father Wendigo posted:On the subject of Old World Blues: is it normal for enemies to stop respawning once you complete the DLC's main quest, or is it just a bug on my end? Once I dealt with Mobius I walked from his dome to the Think Tank without meeting a single enemy. After that, especially on return visits, they started spawning more frequently, and now I have Lobotomites hitting me right outside of the Dome again. Not sure if roboscorpions still spawn though.
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Oct 11, 2011 01:34
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So I finished OWB last week and I can't get my Big Mountain Transportalponder to fire. I've tried it outside the Sink, I've fast traveled to various points in Big MT, and the gun keeps saying that I can't use it in an interior. I've tried it while over encumbered and while not, and it's pretty annoying since I can't leave otherwise.
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Oct 11, 2011 01:39
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Apologies for not reading the whole thread, but I JUST started NV for the first time today, and I'm terrified of spoilers. I'm running into a bug that I'm sure someone here must know something about, and it's really ruining the experience for me. Sounds keep failing to play, at least until I bring up the escape menu. That means NPC voices get wildly out of sync, sound effects fail to play (like the flip-flip-flip noise on the stat machine at the beginning), and I'm missing a lot of ambient talking and sounds. The only help I could find online about this was disabling some kind of sound codec that I don't even have installed. Anyone have any ideas that might help?
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Oct 11, 2011 01:40
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In regards to Dead Money in Hardcore mode, I stopped feeling threatened as soon as I picked up the unlock code for Stimpacks. 25 chips for a stimpack, when at the time I was carrying over a thousand and I had only just gathered all three allies, and not even gone into the casino yet? Yeah, no problem there. I finished Lonesome Road, and went into the area that you unlock about halfway through the Divide, Courier's Mile. Jesus Christ, I took only a couple steps into the region and I'm already fighting the meanest sons of bitches in the game; those irradiated Deathclaws can take an armor piercing .50 round to the skull and not even flinch. I basically just blew up the two warheads, since you can see them from right near the entrance, and ran for it. Is anything special in there, aside from the unique Bowie knife right at the entrance?
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Oct 11, 2011 01:49
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Geomancing posted:I finished Lonesome Road, and went into the area that you unlock about halfway through the Divide, Courier's Mile. Jesus Christ, I took only a couple steps into the region and I'm already fighting the meanest sons of bitches in the game; those irradiated Deathclaws can take an armor piercing .50 round to the skull and not even flinch. I basically just blew up the two warheads, since you can see them from right near the entrance, and ran for it. Is anything special in there, aside from the unique Bowie knife right at the entrance? Courier's Mile spoilers: An absurd amount of high level ammo (like 300 rounds of .50MG Incendiary, etc), a Ralphie poster and sometimes a Power Armor spawns in a container too.
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Oct 11, 2011 01:53
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I've been using Rex (upgraded attack) as a robot companion, and he has been quite useful. How does ED-E compare?
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Oct 11, 2011 02:59
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Zombie Samurai posted:Apologies for not reading the whole thread, but I JUST started NV for the first time today, and I'm terrified of spoilers. I'm running into a bug that I'm sure someone here must know something about, and it's really ruining the experience for me. Have you tried right clicking on New Vegas and going to the Local Files tab and selecting Verify Cache? NV seems to be one of those games on Steam that frequently leaves out files on the initial download. The only other title I can think of where it happened was Stalker.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:01
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I started my latest run today. Maxwell Edison, Energy Weapon Meltdown Specialist and Mad Bomber. Let the carnage begin!
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Oct 11, 2011 03:06
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LLCoolJD posted:I've been using Rex (upgraded attack) as a robot companion, and he has been quite useful. How does ED-E compare? He's better. Plus with LR installed hes a workbench, a reloading bench, and he will loving repair your weapon once a day.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:25
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Ohhhh man. I finally got back into NV last week or so. I stopped playing a few months back because it felt like there was too much to do. I still think there's too much to do, but it's still a fun amount. I'm getting a thought in the back of my mind, though, that tells me to pause my playthrough until I can get OWB and LR on sale.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:29
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Kharmakazy posted:He's better. Plus with LR installed hes a workbench, a reloading bench, and he will loving repair your weapon once a day. He'll repair it every few minutes if you do what I do and find a bed, sleep for 24 hours, repair a weapon, repeat until major guns are in basically perfect condition. 
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Oct 11, 2011 03:36
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LLCoolJD posted:I've been using Rex (upgraded attack) as a robot companion, and he has been quite useful. How does ED-E compare? There is ED-E with LR, and then there is every other companion in the game. That is the scale of effectiveness. If the fucker could make a campfire with his laser, he would literally be the only thing you'd absolutely positively want to get every single time.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:38
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CJacobs posted:He'll repair it every few minutes if you do what I do and find a bed, sleep for 24 hours, repair a weapon, repeat until major guns are in basically perfect condition. That's what I do too, but I only use the one gun.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:40
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Boogaleeboo posted:There is ED-E with LR, and then there is every other companion in the game. That is the scale of effectiveness. If the fucker could make a campfire with his laser, he would literally be the only thing you'd absolutely positively want to get every single time. He doesn't have Cass' sass or Veronica's wit though. You can beep all you want, trash can, it ain't ever going to grow you a pair of tits.
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Oct 11, 2011 03:56
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I've been playing with two ED-E's for a few hours now. It's like a clusterfuck of lasers and lightning. Apparently leaving LR in some manner other than the actual exit lets you keep that ED-E. Mark/recall mods, or even COC should do the trick. And then he will just follow you back into LR like nothing happened.
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Oct 11, 2011 04:03
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Rather Dashing posted:Have you tried right clicking on New Vegas and going to the Local Files tab and selecting Verify Cache? I gave that a try, and it DID find an incomplete file, but that didn't fix the problem.  All my NPCs are still borderline mute.
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Oct 11, 2011 04:06
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Node posted:He doesn't have Cass' sass or Veronica's wit though. You can beep all you want, trash can, it ain't ever going to grow you a pair of tits. Clearly you haven't browsed Nexus thoroughly... 
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Just finished Honest Hearts. I thought it was pretty decent, though I wish they fleshed out the Burned Man a bit more since you'd think he'd be more important to the main storyline of New Vegas. Also, it netted me 3-4k caps even though I kept a bunch of souvenirs, which was nice. Kinda makes me want to play a 'tribal' character a la Fallout 2 or Tactics. Maybe Melee/Survivalist. I guess I'll add it to the altitis list.
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Node posted:He doesn't have Cass' sass or Veronica's wit though. You can beep all you want, trash can, it ain't ever going to grow you a pair of tits.  Au contraire. The modding community has done just that, with added sex animations, naughty nightware, and a variety of erotic beeps and buzzes to turn your software into hardware.
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Omnicarus posted:I started my latest run today. Maxwell Edison, Energy Weapon Meltdown Specialist and Mad Bomber. Let the carnage begin! Shouldn't he be majoring in medicine?
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Hannibal Smith posted:It's worth reading all of the logs in order. Oh cool, it's great to read them again in order. I loving love Zion so much, I think whenever I do my next play-through I will be going there right at the start. In the logs, what does this mean: quote:Less than a month's water left. Been mopping condensation off cave walls, wringing shirt into bottles. Trading calories for H2O. Food stocks holding. Thanks, USGS. The bold part. He obviously doesn't mean it in the literally sense, in that going out and actually trading food supplies for water because that doesn't make sense in the context of him being trapped in a cave unable to get out. I can only assume it is some kind of technique that is taught in the military? Stealth Edit: Spoiler quote. E: Kharmakazy posted:He means he is working for water. Work burns calories. Well, that answers that, thanks. Now I feel like a total idiot 
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Oct 11, 2011 04:30
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Omnicarus posted:
Hahaha jesus christ I was kidding with my previous comment I had no idea 
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Xik posted:Oh cool, it's great to read them again in order. I loving love Zion so much, I think whenever I do my next play-through I will be going there right at the start. He means he is working for water. Work burns calories.
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Oct 11, 2011 04:32
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where's the mod that gives ED-E a little first recon beret to wear, that's the best mod ever
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Oct 11, 2011 04:33
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Omnicarus posted:
Somehow I've already clicked that link... 
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Xik posted:The bold part. He obviously doesn't mean it in the literally sense, in that going out and actually trading food supplies for water because that doesn't make sense in the context of him being trapped in a cave unable to get out. Yeah, what the other guy said. He's burning calories (energy) to get water. What he's doing is more strenuous than would be ideal when he's trapped someplace for an indefinite amount of time.
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Boogaleeboo posted:There is ED-E with LR, and then there is every other companion in the game. That is the scale of effectiveness. If the fucker could make a campfire with his laser, he would literally be the only thing you'd absolutely positively want to get every single time. I don't have any DLC, although that will change if it goes on sale on Steam. I'm fond of my immortal damage-tank pooch, but I suppose it's time to try out ED-E.
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LLCoolJD posted:I don't have any DLC, although that will change if it goes on sale on Steam. I'm fond of my immortal damage-tank pooch, but I suppose it's time to try out ED-E. ED-E tells you that there are bad guys like.. a MILE away. Even if I don't use companions, I pick up ED-E and tell him to wait right where I got him just for the sensor perk. Of course I have to go back and repeat that every so often. But since I learned to Hijack the one from LR he will wait anywhere forever without complaining.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Hahaha jesus christ I was kidding with my previous comment I had no idea Well they already have one in the game proper, Fisto "Please assume the position" Sexbot, so they are kind of asking for it.
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