Arcsquad12 posted:

Clearly you never played New California.

Arcsquad12 posted:

In the Frontier your choices are between the NCR, the Legion, the Crusaders etc.

In New California your choices are between Jock and Nerd. And also you're the Courier's origin story.

Crazy Joe Wilson posted:

Saxxon's Quest are pretty lore friendly and simple, use some Van Buren stuff for background.

Someguy series is really good, although I think he kinda went up into his own butthole with his ultimate antagonist Marko, as if you play the mods it kind of narrates Marko as your ultimate most important showdown that scars your character. I find that kind of annoying because I believe a mod should give you more stuff to do, but not attempt to change the main game story to make their included stuff be on the same level of importance as vanilla stuff. If you don't like that though, just stick with Bounties I, II, The Inheritance, and Russell for really good quest mods.

Just bring a Minigun or something else for those last two though.

I hear Northern Road Remastered is really good too.

There's also PuceMoose, a goon-made series of mods that I hear are great but conflict with Bounties so I haven't tried them.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

The thing to keep in mind is that you're asking for writing on the level of professional developers who are widely regarded as some of the best in the industry. Good writing is hard, as is game design, and it shouldn't be a surprise that most people who are talented at both aren't putting their work out for free and/or are working on their own projects.

Katsuma posted:

I'm noticing that Viva New Vegas is incompatible with Essential Visuals Enhanced, and most specifically the energy weapons and energy effects.

Which sucks. I love those. Is there any advice on getting that working properly? Are the incompatibilities there minor enough that I could just live with them?

Discendo Vox posted:

Fallout: New Vegas - The Frontiers of bad taste (Modding Thread)

Jamie Faith posted:

Mods please make this the new thread title

Farm Frenzy posted:

multiple people volunteered to be horny snakes and sex slaves

Lurdiak posted:

I'm sorry but I completely disagree. There's plenty of things to criticize Fallout 2 about but the main story and its themes are just as good if not better than Fallout 1's. The Enclave represent the ideology that led America to the war that destroyed it, the literal architects of the apocalypse. The Master was a new ideology that threatened to end humanity, the Enclave is the ideology that already nearly did so, poised to do it again. The mistakes of the past threatening to engulf the burgeoning civilizations that painstakingly built themselves back up from nothing. Of course they can't be reasoned with, the apocalypse itself didn't change their worldview, it would be absurd if you could reason them out of it. To me, if the Enclave is anything, it's prescient, because we're living in a world where the billionaires who refuse to do anything to stem global warming (and even deny its existence) because it would cut into their profits are secretly preparing survival scenarios for when it destroys the inhabitable world. The Enclave is simply a different manifestation of that elitist mindset. They literally do not consider anyone outside their group to be worth anything unless they can benefit them. Hell, I'm sure the Enclave leaders would gladly get rid of their grunts if they didn't think it endangered the hierarchical structure and long term survival of the group, content to simply exist as a group of men and women in offices in giant empty buildings.

This isn't a weakness of the writing. It's the point. To them, America is the people in charge, and those people coming to harm or losing power in any way would be a greater blow to America than the literal annihilation of most of its population. This too reflects the real history of military regimes, such as imperial Japan near the end of World War 2, when 2 nuclear loving bombs did not precipitate their surrender, because they were more concerned about the preservation of the Emperor's role than the lives of their citizenry.

While the Enclave is obviously an overt critique and parody of the 90s republican mindset, it also critiques problems that are endemic to the US as a whole. A contempt for the lower classes and outsiders, a preference for military solutions to any problem, a worship of hierarchy that disregards any actual qualifications or intent, an unshakeable belief that they are inherently worth more than anyone outside their group. Frank Horrigan isn't just an End Boss, either, he's someone who's completely embraced all of those ideals despite being at the bottom of the food chain. He's the boot of the enclave and he loves it, even though he's used to destroy people and creatures that have far more in common with him than his superiors. He's not the architect of anything, but his devotion to what the Enclave represents makes him as powerful a symbol of his faction as The Master was to his. He also can't be reasoned with, because why the hell would he be? Have you ever heard of a swat cop or a marine in occupied territory being reasoned out of taking out their target? Do you think the SS officers could be reasoned into thinking the untermensch were their equals? You could argue not being able to avoid that fight is bad gameplay, but I don't consider it bad writing.

The Enclave is a faction that can only be challenged with force because force is the only way they engage with the outside world. They can't be permitted to survive because the wastes won't survive unless they make a clean break with the mistakes of the past. I think everything about them, even the absurd mentally damaged vice president, is pointed and thematically appropriate.

PinheadSlim posted:

It's actually really bad so far, and all I've done is walk into the store and talk to the guy behind the counter named "Morgan" who asks me to find his buddy Arthur.

The NPC is fully voiced, but every line is full of lipsmacking and sounds kinda lovely, but what's much worse is what this dork has to say. First I asked him what he sold, and he calls me the hard R-word. Then I ask him to tell me about himself, which was a very big mistake.

He claims to have come from a small town in Florida where he lived with his merchant parents, and apparently his dad was abusive towards him and his mother. So one day Morgan kills his dad and takes all of his merchant profits to gently caress off and open a hotel. That's seriously his goal. For some reason he gets in a boat and just sails west until he gets to Texas, which he claims is filled with inbred hicks and nothing else. He refers to it as "The Lone Chromosome State" before moving on. He then just starts heading West until he hits the Legion, who apparently tried to kill him on sight for some reason. He narrowly avoids them and keeps travelling eventually hearing about New Vegas (Literally just now. Why would he want to travel West to open a hotel if he didn't even know New Vegas or the NCR existed????), so he decides to head there. By the time he's gotten to Vegas he has spent most of his fathers fortune on "Chems, Liquor, and (Unkind name for sex-workers)" so cannot afford to open his dream hotel. Instead he is able to buy some bulk food off of the Crimson Caravan for a good deal (Impressive considering the food shortage), and for literally no reason at all calls Alice McLafferty the c-word. After she gave him a good price for the food. Wtf.

When asked about the NCR he says they're okay, but that he's into "personal liberty" way more and talks about how in an ideal world New Vegas would be completely independent. When asked how he feels about the Legion, he says he feels that anyone following them has an extremely low IQ and deserves to be killed "in the most spectacular fashion imaginable"

I am exactly two minutes and one conversation into this mod.

Oh and I forgot, the item he has the most of in his shops inventory is dog meat? Nine pieces of it lol.

Nobody Interesting posted:

E: Turns out the crash is every time I deal damage! I did uninstall WMX because of the holy word of Viva New Vegas. Maybe I hosed things by doing that. Also EVE because I finally realised it sucks.

Basic Chunnel posted:

Who

Electric Phantasm posted:

I'm one of those sick fucks that enjoys Fallout inventory management and loves weighted ammo.

Defiance Industries posted:

To be fair, the first and ESPECIALLY the second games take place in a massively larger area.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Clark County and the DC Metro or all of Northern California, yeah.

Paul Revere 3000 posted:

lmao at recommending fuckin Electro City in 2021

v1ld posted:

Thinking of doing an Energy Weapons/Science!/Science!/Science! run, never done that before. Any interesting builds or ~synergies~ to go for?


Was looking at related perks and Vigilant Recycler says for GRA Ammos: "All optimized cells share the same basic effects of increasing damage output by 30%, reducing the enemy DT by -5 and increase weapon degradation rate by 10%."

That seems quite a huge boost. Mojave Arsenal has an option to completely disable that part of the perk, but then what's left is not quite as interesting anymore.

I'm surprised that jsawyer didn't nerf that perk or is it already balanced as is by the weapon degradation? rope kid, any thoughts?

I think I'll trying reducing the damage boost to 10% or something, but that DT -5 is huge too, isn't it? Maybe nerf both I guess.

Rinkles posted:

v1ld posted:

A very good point. Want to try Light Touch in addition to being an Energy Weapons user, so I think I'll play a scientist who is in sciency light armor all the time - after REPCONN anyway, since the Space Suit is there. Given the fragility that will follow, may as well embrace being a glass (energy) cannon.

Rinkles posted:

how do people feel about the training requirement for power armor? i mean there isn't that much PA in NV, and it makes you slow af, but it feels off not to be able use it if you don't bother with the brotherhood (or arcade). i've never disabled the requirement cause i tend not to want to mess with developer intent when it comes to making things easier, but it's always bothered me.

maybe there should be an alternative way of getting trained? idk.

v1ld posted:

Was that the original AWOP or AWO(Less)P? Would rather drop the latter if it's crashy.

Rinkles posted:

i never realized ranger and recon armors qualified

e:also i forgot or never knew the chinese stealth suit was in FNV.

Paul Revere 3000 posted:

Is that in the base game? I found that once years ago, but I always figured it was added by FOOK or Project Nevada or whatever mod I was using at the time that's dated as poo poo now.

Gaius Marius posted:

I don't think it has t.he stealth field from 3 though. Just a bonus to sneak

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

The EVE guy eventually started working in indie game development after repeatedly slagging the people at Bethesda and Obsidian for being incompetent. Kind of amazing in its own right.

Modding is so loving cool, but some modders are real trash.

watho posted:

counterpoint: companions dying makes me sad

Rinkles posted:

looks like the latest NVSE plugin will among other things let modders play with rumble controls

Functions:
DegToRad / RadToDeg
ScancodeToChar
GetAngleQuadrant
GetQuestCompletedAlt (thanks onvil & demorome)
Sinh / Cosh / Tanh
SetWeaponAnimJamTime
SetWeaponAnimReloadTime
SetWeaponAnimShotsPerSec
SetWeaponFireDelayMin
SetWeaponFireDelayMax
SetWeaponRumbleDuration
SetWeaponRumbleRightMotor
SetWeaponRumbleLeftMotor
SetWeaponRumbleWavelength

AnhNVSE

FrancisFukyomama posted:

I never played an elder scrolls but I imagine oblivion had more in depth melee combat than NV

v1ld posted:

MO2. The Viva New Vegas guide is an easy way to set it and other baseline stuff up: https://vivanewvegas.github.io/

watho posted:

mod organizer has been the only reasonable choice (with very few exceptions) for what? a decade at this point? you will need to learn the interface and how it works but that minimal initial investment will save you countless of hours of headache using any other mod manager

Zereth posted:

They could use Wabbajack to set it up for them. Works best if you have a nexus premium sub you can share or something, of course.

Zereth posted:

https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/wabbajack.html Detailed instructions on how to use wabbajack for it.