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Halser posted:he's just not used to it. He has a pretty annoying level of motion sickness, so he never got into first person shooters at all(he plays FNV in third person). He's also a weeb, so no WRPGs. It took me a long, long time of insistence and persistence to get him to enjoy FNV. I've got a spot in heaven for how much patience I had to spare. I did a similar thing when I first played; I found some NCR armour somewhere and didn't get the faction armour system, and then I got the quest to go to Nipton and got annoyed because the legionaries just immediately attacked me and owned me. I can't really talk about people being noobs about crafting and stuff because I've played the game so much for so long that I actually can't remember how much I used crafting when I was getting started. The tragedy of playing a game to death...
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Neurolimal posted:Incidentally, a big part of peoples' difficulty going north from Goodsprings stems from them brushing off crafting and never making themselves some antipoison. I remember how floored I was when I found out about Snakebite Tourniquets. They're composed of a bufflo gourd seed and a surgical tubing, and they make it so you can pretty much punch cazadores to death with your bare hands at level 5. I get it though, Obsidian clearly realized the crafting interface is poo poo and didn't have time to do anything about it. So it's a part of the game for people who get really invested in it, and then anyone else who doesn't want to bother, doesn't have to.
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2house2fly posted:I did a similar thing when I first played; I found some NCR armour somewhere and didn't get the faction armour system, and then I got the quest to go to Nipton and got annoyed because the legionaries just immediately attacked me and owned me. I'm not blaming him for the perfect storm he got himself into. I actually wonder what jsawyer(or any game dev that actually cares for that matter) would think of a player having such a disastrous experience just by ignoring one popup. Ignoring it multiple times, yeah, but still.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:12
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There is this flash of inspiration you can see in the survivalist cooking and medicine progression, but the game makes it more viable to just live in civilization and/or consume pre-war supplies.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:14
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Neurolimal posted:Incidentally, a big part of peoples' difficulty going north from Goodsprings stems from them brushing off crafting and never making themselves some antipoison. After I first got owned by a cazador I began looking for the antivenom recipe. Turns out its kind of tricky to make - if you're on the crit path, you probably haven't run across that many nightstalkers, and it needs something like 50 Survival. I can see a lot of players not having any when they first come across cazadors. This is also a good argument for the snakebite tourniquet, but that's DLC (I forget which DLC, might even be the last one.)
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Jan 5, 2018 02:18
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Also Cazadores just eat your allies alive. They'll never actually cure themselves of poison if they get stung, even if you hand them a bunch of antidotes to do so.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:27
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Seashell Salesman posted:There is this flash of inspiration you can see in the survivalist cooking and medicine progression, but the game makes it more viable to just live in civilization and/or consume pre-war supplies. Survival is worth it for Rushing Water alone. And Travel Light, too. I love going faster. Wish you could stack move speed in FNV like you could in FO4. +40% speed and an explosive shotgun made me feel like I was doomguy in post apocalypse.
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Yeah, it's from Lonesome Road. You don't have to go there to get the recipe though- it takes just 30 survival, which you might almost have already from your starting SPECIAL stats, and then a campfire plus surgical tubing and a buffalo gourd seed, both of which are common as dirt. It's automatic use so no need to gently caress around in the pip-boy, and then after it cures the poison you're 85% poison resistant (As high as the game will let you be) for 30 seconds more, so future repoisonings aren't a problem unlike with normal antivenom. Basically it's easy as dirt to craft and it completely makes Cazadores non threats. All you have to do is own the DLC, and most people will at this point because it's so cheap.
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Halser posted:Survival is worth it for Rushing Water alone. What I meant was the stuff in there hints at a playstyle based around survival crafting as a necessity, like in a traditional survival game. I don't think the recipes are useless as the game exists-- your post pretty much points out exactly what they are useful for instead.
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Halser posted:I'm not blaming him for the perfect storm he got himself into. I actually wonder what jsawyer(or any game dev that actually cares for that matter) would think of a player having such a disastrous experience just by ignoring one popup. In an ideal world, the Primm NCR guy who yells at you to stay clear would recognize that you're not a powder ganger and tell you outright to be more careful because "the others are a little twitchier than me," or something similar.
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I did a bunch of playthroughs never touching the survival skill and finally decided to make a "live off the land" type character where I never bought things at shops. The crafting system isn't quite deep enough to really make it work though, I think I gave up after a while of not having anything to cure a broken face.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:52
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Yeah I keep wanting to do a Solid Snake knockoff but crafting interface is garbage
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even after a few patches, you'll probably have trouble crafting some of the more complex stuff. The issue of weight always springs to mind(especially with jsawyer.esp). Weapon Repair Kits are one of the few things I bother to collect ingredients for, because it's a nice balance between availability and usefulness. If I keep the ingredients in mind when I start the game, I also tend to craft Turbo in batches. You have stuff like Wasteland Tequila and Large Wasteland Tequila that need to be crafted in large amounts to be useful, but their requirements are oddly specific so you just keep gathering and gathering the more common pieces and never actually craft anything. Hell, I can't remember the last time I crafted a Doctor's Bag.
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I only ever made Stimpacks, honestly. I have something like 500 hours in this game and I still cannot bring myself to use the loving Reloading Benches. Variant ammo was just too much customization for my taste.
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It's useful if you are planning out some crazy build, you can use stuff like wadcutters and get maybe 25% more damage over standard ammo. If you think of it like a damage perk then you'd take that perk.
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Jan 5, 2018 22:26
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For certain ammo, the Hand Loader variant is strictly better than the normal--unlike, say, Hollow Points which are only situationally better. For those ones, just disassemble all the normal ones and the occasional scrap metal and make as many as you can, no thinking required.
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I think one of the first mods I ever downloaded was an ammo bench menu mod because I was trying to disassemble like 2000 5mm ammo and make whatever the handloader variant of it was and you could only do I think 99 rounds at a time.
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Garrand posted:I think one of the first mods I ever downloaded was an ammo bench menu mod because I was trying to disassemble like 2000 5mm ammo and make whatever the handloader variant of it was and you could only do I think 99 rounds at a time. JIP made a mod that lets you choose how many things to craft in the crafting menu. That God drat warlock.
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Just another way in which Energy Weapons are superior to traditional guns  the ammo crafting is dead easy, every ammo type can be converted to every other ammo type, and your premium ammos are just flat out better, increasing damage by quite a lot and cutting down enemy DT. It's like having AP and hollow point in the same ammo, and the only downside is slightly higher gun wear, which is completely negligible with how easy it is to make weapon repair kits. It also balances out to about the same gun wear overall, since you spend fewer shots to kill things.
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Also you can go murder the Silver Rush and you're basically set for life on weapons
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DeathChicken posted:Also you can go murder the Silver Rush and you're basically set for life on weapons You should just do this on general principle because Rose of Sharon Cassidy is your friend and good.
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DeathChicken posted:Also you can go murder the Silver Rush and you're basically set for life on weapons poo poo, you don't even need to murder. Just drag everything piece by piece to the restroom and you can loot the whole display if you spare enough time. And then use all the guns you got to murder them.
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I use the Save Cass mod and the Van Graff hostility fix so I can finish Birds of a Feather and not have them go crazy on me after finishing Heartaches by the Number. It's a bit of a shame that the conclusion to Birds of a Feather I'd gated behind selling out Cass to a murderer, because it's actually a really neat quest and shows how cutthroat businesses keep the NCR happy enough to turn a blind eye to their black market dealings.
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chitoryu12 posted:poo poo, you don't even need to murder. Just drag everything piece by piece to the restroom and you can loot the whole display if you spare enough time. Or use a single pip-boy and steal everything right from under there noses. And then still kill them cuz they're assholes whydirt posted:Logan's Loophole is basically 100% upside since capping your level just prevents you from the hassle of scaling enemies in the DLCs. I've ran into so many people who play this game that don't get this. It boggles my mind how people don't realize how awesome Logan's Loopshole is. Never mind the drugs (though it IS an amazing ability and worth it just for that), but the ability to cap the enemies' level (which affects them WAY more than you) is just amazing. mauman fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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I'm late to the party, as always, as I really like games to be $15 and not $60. And I don't play a lot, BUT... I fired up the 360 (not PC, this is important) over the holidays and have been playing this off and on since, and I've loved it. Usually an hour or two late at night, a few nights a week. I avoided reading stuff on purpose, because I really enjoyed not knowing what was going to happen. Anyway, last night I'm really confused because I can't find my coolest gear, I'd played long enough to have gatling guns, nukes and named rocket launchers and that kill 'em from orbit thing that I pick-pocketed a child for. Son of a bitch, they are all missing. Found all the companions and activated/searched them, went to all offered weapons trunks, etc. Was I or one of my companions pick-pocketed? Only fair I guess, but there should have been some warning. Let me check Google. Oh poo poo, every loving time I entered a casino with a companion all the weapons went missing? MOTHERFUCKER. Unpatched bug? gently caress!!!! OK, any way to recover this poo poo or just give it to myself on 360? I was really looking forward to blowing up Caesar with this poo poo (and probably the NCR too, I like the Boomers and Brotherhood) goddamnit. Any way to recover this poo poo or hack it in 360? I'm so annoyed that I'd quit playing, except I just now installed all the goddamn DLC.
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Remulak posted:I'm late to the party, as always, as I really like games to be $15 and not $60. And I don't play a lot, BUT... There's an area in each casino where they store confiscated weapons, so if that's what happened then there's a chance you could recover them there.
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The good ol' Gomorrah bug. Fun times. For future reference, the bug should only affect weapons being held by your companions, so before you enter Gomorrah make sure to take any weapons off of them. And here's what the wiki says about getting your guns back on console: quote:To get lost items back you must disconnect from the internet but remained signed in, then delete the most recent Title Update for Fallout: New Vegas. Reload the game and load your last save spot. Enter and leave the casino. Once you exit, all items lost this way will be returned. Once you are safely outside with all items accounted for save your game and reconnect to your network. WARNING: This may require removal of further DLC, it has not been tested with add-ons (So far, trying this with add-ons will reset all of the player's progress with them and tend to make the game freeze when attempting to load their most recent save rendering it possibly corrupt). With the Ultimate Edition, doing this will result in losing all of your (GRA) items when you save. Though obviously the best solution is to play on PC and use mods/console commands like a civilized person.
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Though obviously the best solution is to play on PC and use mods/console commands like a civilized person. I'm way past losing this poo poo so I ain't gonna recover it. I'll dick around with modding for a while, then give up. gently caress this is annoying.
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Remulak posted:Yeah, it's just so loving easy to throw a disk in and sit on the couch. You can replace basically everything except the orbital laser thing, which is very situational. Are you playing with Wild Wasteland on? If so, head north, on the midwest side of the map, and look around the cliffs there. North of Horowitz Farm. There's a thing there you might like. If no Wild Wasteland still go look, it's less fun, but it's an SA reference. Wild Wasteland is objectively best, but I wish you could get the unique gauss rifle with it on. FNV does gauss rifles real good.
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I'm getting the itch to replay NV and trying to decide if I should play totally unmodded for a change or go hogwild with them. Definitely going to be a puncher and grenadier though I think.
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RBA Starblade posted:I'm getting the itch to replay NV and trying to decide if I should play totally unmodded for a change or go hogwild with them. Definitely going to be a puncher and grenadier though I think. I would never do totally unmodded at this point. I consider the mods that put back cut content/NPCs to be indispensable. Would suck to roll into Primm and only have two bandits to fight when I know there's supposed to be a half-dozen, etc. Also jsawyer just so that there's a modicum of challenge. And Strip/Freeside open. Oh and of course you also need *proceeds to download 50 mods for his low-mod install*
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I am 100% in agreement with Wicked Them Beats. There are a bunch of mods to spice the game to your preference, but the the Freeside/Strip Open and JSawyer are just mandatory.
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Yeah maybe just a few qol mods.... I don't have GRA so no jsawyer mod, though.
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I could definitely roll with just JSawyer and Outside Bets, and YUP because even patched up New Vegas needs all the help it can get. Most recently I had a go with mods that make the grass greener and water bluer, to liven things up a bit
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RBA Starblade posted:Yeah maybe just a few qol mods.... I'd argue that rolling with jsawyer is worth shelling out two bucks for the DLC, but to each their own. Also some of the weapons are neat. Two-Step Goodbye is always a blast, pun intended.
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Sawyer himself would no doubt disagree, but I basically view JSawyer as a "directors cut" type of thing, so paying for the DLC so I can use it would be a bit like buying Apocalypse Now Redux or one of the million editions of Blade Runner having already bought the original. Not that I needed to be talked into buying the DLC, since as a slavering New Vegas fanboy I just bought the ultimate edition
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I'm a big baby who likes carrying lots of things and not playing on Hardcore mode so I don't use jsawyer.esp.
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