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closeted republican: Sep 9, 2005

HoveringCheesecake posted:

At least one of those MPs is bugged.

I just pretend that he's a hardcore :patriot:

/Tea Bagger-type that's pissed because you did something like visit the BoS or Caesar's Legion.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 20:26

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 18:13

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Somebody should reskin a Hitler toothbrush moustache on that MP so we all know which one is the troubler maker for future play throughs and 'solve' that problem right away.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 20:30

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

hairrorist posted:

Does anyone else have awful performance in Dead Money? I've gone from clipping along at 60 frames outside at 1920x1080 with Ojo Bueno and many other texture tweaks and graphics mods to barely 15 in this DLC. The gas just kills the engine.

The gas isn't what kills the engine. Do yourself a favor and when you stutter, stop looking around and type 'twf' into the console. This enables wireframes (and murders your framerate even more.) You should now be able to see that the game renders really large chunks of Dead Money's areas in full detail, even when there's no way you can see any of it. The lack of occlusion culling, combined with dense, detailed environments, is what kills framerates.

It's a common issue, and the only solution I've found to minimizing its effect is to cap FPS at an arbitrary amount--in my case, 45 FPS--to reduce the stuttering and sudden FPS drops.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 20:53

hairrorist: Mar 29, 2011

Is the frame limit the "iFPSClamp=0" line in FalloutPrefs.ini? Do I just change the value to the desired clamp or do I set it to 1 and then edit a different line to set the clamp?

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:10

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

SeanBeansShako posted:

Somebody should reskin a Hitler toothbrush moustache on that MP so we all know which one is the troubler maker for future play throughs and 'solve' that problem right away.

It looks like the guy in question is VStreetNCRTrooperMPHarass. He's supposed to demand money from you if you have a negative reputation on the strip...hm. It would almost appear that this is leftover code, since it doesn't seem like he's actually supposed to wander outside the strip.

I'm guessing the intention was that if you have really bad strip reputation, this guy might track you down when you're away from the strip and try to kill you. But it was only half-implemented, and the 'attack' line only checks that you're not in the exterior strip cell. Doesn't even check your reputation.

Easy to fix. I made a quick little ESP that should take care of it. Just disables the line by adding a contradictory check. Think I should share it somewhere?

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:17

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

hairrorist posted:

Is the frame limit the "iFPSClamp=0" line in FalloutPrefs.ini? Do I just change the value to the desired clamp or do I set it to 1 and then edit a different line to set the clamp?

No, I used the Fallout Stutter Remover to do it. Trying to change "iFPSClamp" in the .ini will just make things act really strange.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:24

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Strudel Man posted:

It looks like the guy in question is VStreetNCRTrooperMPHarass. He's supposed to demand money from you if you have a negative reputation on the strip...hm. It would almost appear that this is leftover code, since it doesn't seem like he's actually supposed to wander outside the strip.

I'm guessing the intention was that if you have really bad strip reputation, this guy might track you down when you're away from the strip and try to kill you. But it was only half-implemented, and the 'attack' line only checks that you're not in the exterior strip cell. Doesn't even check your reputation.

Easy to fix. I made a quick little ESP that should take care of it. Just disables the line by adding a contradictory check. Think I should share it somewhere?

Drop it on the Nexus, I'll use it.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:33

hairrorist: Mar 29, 2011

Thanks again Cream!

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:36

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

SeanBeansShako posted:

Drop it on the Nexus, I'll use it.

Okay, I tossed it up here.

# ? Oct 18, 2011 21:41

Ygolonac

Nov 26, 2007

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Has anyone ever give Boone a fully-modded Red Glare? I'm kind of wondering what kind of slaughtering he can do as we wander down to Cottonwood Cove - I'll probably have to take the Mysterious Magnum away, though; he *loves* that gun.

I'm not giving him a .308 when I'm using JSP myself, though.

Oh, and I guess this run (energy weapons) I didn't pal up with the cosplayers, because the loot-boxes aren't present. <shrug>

# ? Oct 18, 2011 23:08

Lets Fuck Bro: Apr 14, 2009

I have been getting a very annoying bug, every time I try to load a game I get an infinite load screen. I can load the first game after opening the program fine, but I cannot load after gameplay has started. Does anyone have any ideas about this, because I don't and I'm gonna have to stop playing if I can't figure out how to stop it, which would make me very sad.
I run with NVSE, the 4gb loader, never use auto saves, installed that mod to reduce crashes, even tried cleaning mods with fnvedit... what else can I do now?

Lets Fuck Bro fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 19, 2011

# ? Oct 19, 2011 00:07

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

I can never finish an NCR run... I got the brotherhood on board... I got the boomers... fantastic faction... but hoover drat is goddamn confusing that I wind up just shooting people to leave a trail to let me know where I have been.

No loving poo poo I bet hoover drat internal cells layed out flat would take up most of the mojave if not more.... gently caress HOOVER drat

Go see the quartermaster? PUT UP A SIGN YOU oval office! ALL I SEE IS 9 SIGNS FOR REC ROOM and then infinite generator rooms.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 01:15

eating only apples: Dec 12, 2009; Shall we dance?

Kharmakazy posted:

Go see the quartermaster? PUT UP A SIGN YOU oval office! ALL I SEE IS 9 SIGNS FOR REC ROOM and then infinite generator rooms.

But... it's literally round the corner and down the stairs from Moore's office. :confused:

I dunno, maybe I have a better sense of direction, but I had no trouble with Hoover Dam. At least, not before the final battle. That's a different story. I got completely turned around and spent ages loving around down in the generators. Apparently Fantastic is supposed to be hanging around? Where?!

# ? Oct 19, 2011 01:55

Tubgirl Cosplay: Jan 10, 2011; by Ion Helmet

eating only apples posted:

But... it's literally round the corner and down the stairs from Moore's office. I dunno, maybe I have a better sense of direction, but I had no trouble with Hoover Dam. At least, not before the final battle. That's a different story. I got completely turned around and spent ages loving around down in the generators. Apparently Fantastic is supposed to be hanging around? Where?!

Yeah the generators are the real pain in the dick (WHY ARE THERE NINE EMPTY ROOMS OF GENERATOR poo poo), but the rest is a pretty poorly laid-out maze too and it's super easy to get lost if you don't know exactly where you're going and aren't just strolling around the battle taking in the sights. Hell, I went and explored the place in detail before the battle and I still wound up all the way on the wrong end of the dam trying to find that last switch or whatever.

The whole space feels like another third of the game that got cut for time, really.

Tubgirl Cosplay fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Oct 19, 2011

# ? Oct 19, 2011 01:58

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

in fairness, I have a godawful sense of direction.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 02:51

Proletarian Mango: May 21, 2011

Late, I know, but I finally finished Lonesome Road.

Not really spoilers but just to be safe.
I have mixed feelings about it, or at least Ulysses. I thought that there would be more to him than lame rear end preaching in broken riddles about how I cause all these bad things to happen whether I intended for them to or not. It made me feel bad, because I, as the player, have no experience of what happened to the Divide, I just have to take Ulysses' word for it and I'm never really given an opportunity to defend myself. Sure I can deny doing it initially, or feign ignorance of the events, but really there was no real way for me to make my own point. I was sort of just pushed along into this role of someone that I may not necessarily wanted to be. I expected an awesome battle of ideals and instead I essentially got two choices where I say I'm sorry and not have him fight me or I reject his claims and kill him. Either way there was no catharsis and at the end I felt empty. There was no emotional connection to Ulysses or the events that transpired. Maybe it was because I was as neutral as could be with no leanings towards anyone or anything, I dunno. ED-E was adorable though.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 08:31

Eiba: Jul 26, 2007

Upmarket Mango posted:

Late, I know, but I finally finished Lonesome Road.

Not really spoilers but just to be safe.
I have mixed feelings about it, or at least Ulysses. I thought that there would be more to him than lame rear end preaching in broken riddles about how I cause all these bad things to happen whether I intended for them to or not. It made me feel bad, because I, as the player, have no experience of what happened to the Divide, I just have to take Ulysses' word for it and I'm never really given an opportunity to defend myself. Sure I can deny doing it initially, or feign ignorance of the events, but really there was no real way for me to make my own point. I was sort of just pushed along into this role of someone that I may not necessarily wanted to be. I expected an awesome battle of ideals and instead I essentially got two choices where I say I'm sorry and not have him fight me or I reject his claims and kill him. Either way there was no catharsis and at the end I felt empty. There was no emotional connection to Ulysses or the events that transpired. Maybe it was because I was as neutral as could be with no leanings towards anyone or anything, I dunno. ED-E was adorable though.

What you're looking for is in the game. You need to find all his audio logs and the confront him with his own words.

You get to make exactly the kinds of ideological points against Ulysses that you'd hope you could make.

It's really lovely that the real final conversation/battle is as easily missable as any one of a bunch of hidden audio logs.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 12:05

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

I've been playing as super idiot on this run. All I could do was stare at one of his audio logs behind a locked gate, taunting me. :saddowns:

# ? Oct 19, 2011 12:15

Salt Maker: Feb 5, 2006; Halogen was already taken

Speaking of Lonesome Road, I'm on a Independent run. I've done some console fuckery to get my shining beacon of NCR-ness down. Now he's saying I'm with Mr. House. Which faction do I bump to get the Yes Man dialogues?

# ? Oct 19, 2011 12:55

YOURFRIEND: Feb 3, 2009; You're an asshole, Mr. Grinch
You really are a cunt
You're as cuddly as a cockring
and charming being a shitheel
FUCK YOURFRIEND!

How the gently caress am I supposed to break the ultra-luxe without slots? I don't know how to play any card games at all and I am not going to learn for a video game and roulette never works out for me

# ? Oct 19, 2011 13:07

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

Salt Maker posted:

Speaking of Lonesome Road, I'm on a Independent run. I've done some console fuckery to get my shining beacon of NCR-ness down. Now he's saying I'm with Mr. House. Which faction do I bump to get the Yes Man dialogues?

Speaking of which, apparently I'm a coward who killed Legion with long range missiles and cleverly hidden mines. Ulysses.... I think maybe I'm not the guy you were actually after and I got the message by mistake :ohdear:

Maybe he was after Courier 5.... 5 kinda looks like 6....

# ? Oct 19, 2011 13:14

Mordaedil: Oct 25, 2007; Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?; Grimey Drawer

YOURFRIEND posted:

How the gently caress am I supposed to break the ultra-luxe without slots? I don't know how to play any card games at all and I am not going to learn for a video game and roulette never works out for me

Blackjack is the easiest card-game to learn. The goal is to get as close to 21 points as possible without exceeding 21. Exceeding 21 is automatic loss. You just add the numbers of the cards you have drawn. If they have pictures, they are the same as a ten. An Ace is either 11 or 1.

That means usually if you draw a picture card and an ace, you automatically win, because 10 + 11 = 21. If you draw two aces, 11 + 11 = 22 and would thus automatically lose. So one of the aces will count as a 1 instead.

Hit means draw another card (carries risk of exceeding 21) stand means you'll keep what you have. Usually you want to go above 16 before standing. Double down means you double your wager for the next card and then stand after that, so you can't draw more cards than one more.

It's easier than most RPG's.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 13:16

unlimited shrimp: Aug 30, 2008

Am I right in assuming the game wont let you cheese it by re-loading if you lose a hand?

I was playing blackjack, saving after every win, and then I lost a hand. When I re-loaded the game it said I couldn't play for a little while (long enough to kill my interest in scamming the casino) because they were changing decks or somesuch.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 14:17

Astfgl: Aug 31, 2001

YOURFRIEND posted:

How the gently caress am I supposed to break the ultra-luxe without slots? I don't know how to play any card games at all and I am not going to learn for a video game and roulette never works out for me

It's easiest if you can boost your luck to 8+. Then you can play blackjack and double down on almost everything. It shouldn't take you longer than 5-10 minutes per casino, depending on how high your luck is. You literally do not need to know how to play the game for this, although it helps if you can do basic addition and subtraction in your head. It's by far the fastest way to get banned from ANY of the casinos.

SpaceMost posted:

Am I right in assuming the game wont let you cheese it by re-loading if you lose a hand?

I was playing blackjack, saving after every win, and then I lost a hand. When I re-loaded the game it said I couldn't play for a little while (long enough to kill my interest in scamming the casino) because they were changing decks or somesuch.

The game prevents save-scumming in casinos, but if you have the cash to spare and the luck to keep you afloat, you can spam blackjack without needing to continually reload.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 14:18

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

SpaceMost posted:

Am I right in assuming the game wont let you cheese it by re-loading if you lose a hand?

I was playing blackjack, saving after every win, and then I lost a hand. When I re-loaded the game it said I couldn't play for a little while (long enough to kill my interest in scamming the casino) because they were changing decks or somesuch.

All of the game tables and slots will be locked for a minute after loading to prevent savescumming. That doesn't prevent you saving and going for another hand though. There are much easier ways to win caps in the game but playing Blackjack is fun every now and then.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 14:21

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Blackjack is the most reliable. The slot machines are okay if you've nothing else to do and just sit there hitting the button while you're busy with something else. The roulette tables take way too much work.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 14:27

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I've been locked out of every casino in the game, including the Wrangler, the Vicky and Vance and the Sierra Madre, and I still haven't gotten the achievement.

Is it because I wasn't connected to the Internet / Steam at the time?

Edit: VVV Weird, I could have sworn a few other achievements registered after I connected to the Internet... Another reason for another high luck playthrough, I guess.

FrozenVent fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Oct 19, 2011

# ? Oct 19, 2011 15:13

Wiseblood: Dec 31, 2000

FrozenVent posted:

I've been locked out of every casino in the game, including the Wrangler, the Vicky and Vance and the Sierra Madre, and I still haven't gotten the achievement.

Is it because I wasn't connected to the Internet / Steam at the time?

Steam only registers achievements if you're online.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 15:14

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Wiseblood posted:

Steam only registers achievements if you're online.

Welcome to hell.

It crashed for me like several times after I hit it big in the Ultra-Luxe before getting that achivement too.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 15:20

Soup du Journey: Mar 20, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Salt Maker posted:

Speaking of Lonesome Road, I'm on a Independent run. I've done some console fuckery to get my shining beacon of NCR-ness down. Now he's saying I'm with Mr. House. Which faction do I bump to get the Yes Man dialogues?

Try this here mod: True Faction Allegiance

# ? Oct 19, 2011 16:31

Rocketeer Korolev: Dec 22, 2008; Jealous? No? Go frak yourself, Smoothskin...

Happy 1st birthday, Fallout: New Vegas!

Now get to work on Fallout 4, Bethesda. Make sure to use that Skyrim engine and more than 8 voice actors.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 16:37

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Has it really been a year already?

Happy birthday! *slow motion VATS headshots a powder gangers head off*

# ? Oct 19, 2011 16:38

Mordaedil: Oct 25, 2007; Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?; Grimey Drawer

Coincidentally, today is my mom's birthday too.

Two anniversaries I've completely forgotten about. Work is too drat distracting.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 16:45

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Rocketeer Korolev posted:

Happy 1st birthday, Fallout: New Vegas!

Now get to work on Fallout 4, Bethesda. Make sure to use that Skyrim engine and more than 8 voice actors.

A proper writer or several too!

# ? Oct 19, 2011 16:47

Ygolonac

Nov 26, 2007

pre:

*************
CLUTCH  NIXON
*************

The Hero We Need

Kharmakazy posted:

I can never finish an NCR run... I got the brotherhood on board... I got the boomers... fantastic faction... but hoover drat is goddamn confusing that I wind up just shooting people to leave a trail to let me know where I have been.

No loving poo poo I bet hoover drat internal cells layed out flat would take up most of the mojave if not more.... gently caress HOOVER drat

Go see the quartermaster? PUT UP A SIGN YOU oval office! ALL I SEE IS 9 SIGNS FOR REC ROOM and then infinite generator rooms.

I got lost trying to find the objective on my House run. :downs:

I couldn't find an optional sidequest during my Legion run, aas well, but that may be a result of me previously murdering everyone and looting the place blind.

Easy run to the quartermaster:

1 - enter the Visitor's Center, go to elevator

2 - go directly out the door overlooking the turbines - I think it's to your right - and continue to a closed door to "Hoover Dam Offices"; there's usually a couple ~~mooks~~ loyal and true NCR stalwarts on guard.

3 - take the first left-hand branch, it's a stairway down. The first doorway on the right is the QM. Remember to leave through the left-hand door (when facing the desk).

4 - Return up the stairs, take a right, enter the Dam, take a right, straight ahead, elevator on the left, and you're back in the Visitor's Center.

The Dam quartermaster, once unlocked, is a worthy target for shopping; he's usually got a shitload of assorted ammo, both slugthrower and pew-pew, in regular and bulk/surplus. Moderate amounts of food/drink/meds, and decent-but-not-awesome weapons - if you're not speedrunning, you probably have better uniques.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 18:55

Proletarian Mango: May 21, 2011

Eiba posted:

What you're looking for is in the game. You need to find all his audio logs and the confront him with his own words.

You get to make exactly the kinds of ideological points against Ulysses that you'd hope you could make.

It's really lovely that the real final conversation/battle is as easily missable as any one of a bunch of hidden audio logs.

I did find all his logs and I did bring them up in the conversation. Like I said, maybe it was because I was independent because when I tried to bring up one of the factions he shot me down saying that I believed in nothing, and that was the end of that. Maybe I just had way too high of expectations for Ulysses. Decent DLC regardless.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 19:45

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I can't believe its been a year since this game released. I've literally been playing it and little else for a year. Deus Ex sits basically ignored next to my 360, having only gotten through the first mission before New Vegas drew me back. Demos for games are installed on my hard drive then never touched.

Thank you for triggering some sort of crippling ODD in me, Obsidian! Time to make a new character, maybe a bitter gay energy-wielding badass so I can finally complete Birds of a Feather...

# ? Oct 19, 2011 19:55

Berk Berkly: Apr 9, 2009; by zen death robot

YOURFRIEND posted:

How the gently caress am I supposed to break the ultra-luxe without slots? I don't know how to play any card games at all and I am not going to learn for a video game and roulette never works out for me

Blackjack:

Having 8+ Luck will let you crush the odds. You can buff up luck in a number of ways like the LUCK implant at the NV clinic, the Naughty Nightwear sold from the special stash in Mick and Ralph's in Freeside, the Lucky Shades from the Legion safe-house and so on.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 20:03

DieLaughing: Jun 27, 2005; We're in a shooting war. We need something to shoot with.

Upmarket Mango posted:

Late, I know, but I finally finished Lonesome Road.

Not really spoilers but just to be safe.
I have mixed feelings about it, or at least Ulysses. I thought that there would be more to him than lame rear end preaching in broken riddles about how I cause all these bad things to happen whether I intended for them to or not. It made me feel bad, because I, as the player, have no experience of what happened to the Divide, I just have to take Ulysses' word for it and I'm never really given an opportunity to defend myself. Sure I can deny doing it initially, or feign ignorance of the events, but really there was no real way for me to make my own point. I was sort of just pushed along into this role of someone that I may not necessarily wanted to be. I expected an awesome battle of ideals and instead I essentially got two choices where I say I'm sorry and not have him fight me or I reject his claims and kill him. Either way there was no catharsis and at the end I felt empty. There was no emotional connection to Ulysses or the events that transpired. Maybe it was because I was as neutral as could be with no leanings towards anyone or anything, I dunno. ED-E was adorable though.

I wish Lonesome Road had been available on my first run through the main storyline. So much of what Ulysses does is to teach you a lesson about taking responsibility for the consequences of your choices, except taking ED-E to the Divide happened outside of the player's control and a lot of us aren't too happy about that. But imagine playing the game for the first time and completing Lonesome Road right around the time the Courier can first recover the platinum chip with all those factions having different intentions for the Mojave. I'm pretty sure I would have thought things through a lot more carefully if I had done that on my first playthrough. I can understand now why Avellone made that comment way back about how much he regretted taking Ulysses out of the main game.

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Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

DieLaughing posted:

I wish Lonesome Road had been available on my first run through the main storyline. So much of what Ulysses does is to teach you a lesson about taking responsibility for the consequences of your choices.

I seriously disagree. If a consequence is totally unexpected and unpredictable, you haven't chosen it, and you don't really bear responsibility for it. In the plot of Lonesome Road, it's absurd to suggest that the person who carries a package that ends up setting off bloody subterranean nuclear devices is somehow morally responsible for the destruction that results. You're not supposed to have had any hint of what would happen, and such a result is, to put it mildly, atypical of what happens when one carries a package from place to place.

Similarly, the other big event that's supposed to demonstrate that is so absurd as to be laughable. One lever both opens a door and fires a nuclear missile? Seriously?

It's like if you had a choice between chocolate and vanilla, but if you chose vanilla, a bus full of nuns dies. Somehow. And you only find out after the fact. When the consequence doesn't logically follow in any predictable way from your actions, saying that you bear responsibility for it is just ludicrous.

# ? Oct 19, 2011 20:17

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