NikkolasKing posted:

So I'm trying to figure out if this Arizona Mod is working right. It's kinda sparse on details.

It has a map, presumably showing the effected area


But I have lovely eyesight and also am no NV expert. Where is that indicated area? Can anybody give me a frame of reference on where I would have to go to get to that spot? I have the Alt Start mod for quick start purpose and can start near Nelson and that Mine.

NikkolasKing posted:

But I have lovely eyesight and also am no NV expert. Where is that indicated area? Can anybody give me a frame of reference on where I would have to go to get to that spot? I have the Alt Start mod for quick start purpose and can start near Nelson and that Mine.

Nobody Interesting posted:

Cheesing my total weight has meant I have well over 11,000 caps after completing Dead Money

Nobody Interesting posted:

Cheesing my total weight has meant I have well over 11,000 caps after completing Dead Money

Chamale posted:

I started Honest Hearts immediately, and just picking up one of each gun means my inventory is worth well over 20,000 caps. Barter skill is for chumps.

Gaius Marius posted:

You're the one making the lonesome road expansion right? I meant to reply a couple weeks ago with some idea but forgot, Personally I wouldn't use all my ideas as they'd probably just drive people away from the mod. That said if you start it with a warning that they can't go back and that the Lonesome road is gonna be hard as hell then It's they're own drat fault.

I'd start by having an HP penalty anytime you're outside, If you can set up and plan you're attack then NV is usually not that difficult, giving them a time limit based on health is gonna drive up the tension incredibly and lead to people making mistakes that hopefully they can salvage. This is to represent the wind that stripped the flesh of the Marked men,

Make the whole are radioactive, Bomb's went off a couple years ago so why isn't it still glowing? This accomplishes the same thing, but if you put in a few strategically placed AutoDoc's and RadAways the feeling of Relif should be palpable in your players

The Tunnler sections should be long a twisting, and dark as hell. Imagine You're stuck underground unable to see where you're going constantly hunted by those bastards, you're only means of escape and vision the few scant flares you've picked up.

The way I see it Games are funnest when you're forced to fire on all cylinders, Dying isn't necessarily fun, but being a hairs breadth away from dying and pulling out a win, That's the money right there. Thus I think if you put the players under enough stress that they're making mistakes that are bad, but are just able to recover from you'll have hit your mark and made something really special. It's gonna take a hell of a lot of playtesting though.

Discendo Vox posted:

oof, ah, so to be clear I'm not making this as an actual mod, just Game Design Fanfiction (i.e. an effortpost). I'm also only planning to do a bit of the above, plus I'm getting rid of the tunnelers entirely because I hate them. I am likely to use both direct damage and radiation more heavily than in the base game, but not within a hundred miles of Dust.

Mr. Prokosch posted:

The real treasure of the Sierra Madra is the 100,000 weightless units of old world money

Nobody Interesting posted:

Cheese aside, this playthrough of Dead Money was pretty enjoyable. I didn't think hardcore/JSawyer made it much more difficult then usual, but then I'm playing with superhuman carryweight. Might have had to plod through much slower with normal values.

This is the 3rd time I've played through DM and only the first time I've managed to keep everyone alive. Always end up with the same outcome for Dog/God, and thus still didn't finish the challenge for hearing everyone's story, so he remains a mystery to me for the most part. Did get the "Things To Come" challenge or whatever it's called though and the extra foreshadowing is appreciated.

STILL not managed to find all the Sierra Madre history files. Playing with Logan's Loophole I don't have enough Science or Lockpick to open Very Hard things, so maybe that's how I'm missing some of those.

I'm not going for a completionist run here by any stretch, but I've never been able to piece together everything in DM. The Villa isn't the most fun thing to navigate so that's probably why.

Gave myself more time with Honest Hearts too on this run, first time I've pieced together that additional character's story. My partner watches me play and I'll read stuff out to her here and there, she teared up at that whole thing.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Prewar tech for the rich and powerful is the kind of crazy magic tech you get at the Sierra Madre, Big Mountain or Enclave manufacturing facilities.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Western Sky is now a preset in the Nevada Skies mod.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

I love Dead Money but the technology they put in there felt like a pretty bad fit for Fallout and its scarcity narrative.

Orange Crush Rush posted:

I think one of the History Files is tied to a Hard Terminal hack so that might be why.
Also funnily enough I just finished DM on my run and I accidentally killed everyone. Like I'm not even sure what I did but Christine said something like "I'm sorry, I can't let you stop this" and went hostile. I thought that only happens if you shoved her into the auto-doc or elevator.

Nobody Interesting posted:

STILL not managed to find all the Sierra Madre history files. Playing with Logan's Loophole I don't have enough Science or Lockpick to open Very Hard things, so maybe that's how I'm missing some of those.

Gaius Marius posted:

Dean Domino is basically just the player character as an NPC. Just a massive petty rear end in a top hat obsessed with getting money for no reason.

Halser posted:

I'm not obsessed with money, I'm obsessed with collectibles. You're safe as long as your weapon and/or clothing isn't unique.

Nobody Interesting posted:

Leave The King alone

Gaius Marius posted:

It's the five tons of gold I stuck into Elijah's eye.

Nobody Interesting posted:

Typically I'd lock him in the vault but on this run I had to kill him. Is there anything cool on his body? Cos it disappeared into the abyss. I obviously got his robes in the footlocker.

SkyeAuroline posted:

Oh, it's not a good fit at all, but it does click with the same themes as the oil crisis in the prewar era vs fusion being perfected in the last days - humanity was on the verge of completely eliminating the problems that were driving wars and suffering, almost ready to roll it out, and then the Great War puts everything on freeze and renders it meaningless.
That theme may get a little overdone in places but it's a solid throughline.

MariusLecter posted:

If we had star trek magic personal and industrial replicators today fully stocked all over the world the wars would just be for taking other peoples replicators or something.

WAR.
NEVER.
CHANGES.

Arcsquad12 posted:

From the New Vegas Memes subreddit:

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NikkolasKing posted:

It is extremely disappointing the Bright Brotherhood isn't trying to go into space. They are in space suits in a rocket and Jason talks about going on Great Journey to the Far Beyond but in reality they just wanna fly...a few miles away?

I def thought they wanted to go into space when I played the game and many people I've talked to got that impression, too.

Gaius Marius posted:

I vividly remember an ending slide about them landing in the sea of tranquility, I even renner a picture of bright posing with the flag. Apparently that got mandela effected cause none of it is real

Marshal Radisic posted:

They do want to go to space; Jason Bright just has no idea what he's doing. If your science is high enough you can tell him that his rockets are surface-to-surface vehicles and he'll just dismiss the fact. (If you do everything right, they'll return to Novac in the ending slides.)

Arcsquad12 posted:

Well I mean with that set of parameters I think you might have hosed yourself out of stopping the bomb from going off.