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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Oh come on, who doesnt love inbred yokels that're stronger than a dozen supermutants?

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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

It's only canon if you took Wild Wasteland.

^^^^
As a survival horror game, the shine wears off after one playthrough. The characterization in DM is spectacular though.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Say what you will about the rest of Zeta, but those aliens died and died well.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

After going through Lonesome Road, I'd really like a city based Fallout. A mix of crumbling ruins and rebuilt blocks. Fallout Denver.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Is it possible to miss out entirely on finding out what the deal with the Marked Men is? Finished Lonesome Road but didnt get much backstory on those guys. Are they just sandblasted ghouls?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Thanks. I also went through as an energy weapons guy, so I didnt find out, but how good is the nail gun? And can you nail dudes to walls with it?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

FO2 was big and had tons to do, but you get really tired of the whole thing feeling like Wild Wasteland.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

I just hope Caesar and the others appreciate the symbolism when a guy carrying A Light Shining In The Darkness and another guy wearing Joshua Graham's clothes bring death with them to the Fort.

Is A Light Shining in the Darkness a reference to anything besides that one ink blob at the start?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

He just goes home and usually stays there the rest of the time. It's in the cluster of houses to the east of the gun runners.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I left OWB with approximately a million mentats.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Depends on the gun. A plasma pistol is a pretty stylish sidearm and it's hilarious murdering things with what looks like a toy gun with ridiculous max charge cells. A scoped laser rifle is my favourite sniping tool. No deviation, hits where it's aimed, unlimited range (or as far as your actor clipping is enabled).

GRA Trip report. Holy balls are the uniques expensive. The Nuka Breaker seems to be a reskin of the fire axe. Seems a lot smaller in-game than in the release screenshots unfortunately, and it's really AP heavy to use. The Katana on the other hand, there is no finer weapon for a goon. Wandering the wasteland, slicing poo poo up.

Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Oct 4, 2011

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Plus you really have to go with energy weapons and OWB at least once.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I've got about 90 hours playtime in this, but still found a whole ton of new content last night. I finally wandered down into New Vegas' sewers to properly explore them and came across several unique weapons, ('Yes a unique lead pipe!') exits to places I never knew existed (The Aerotech buildings, and their associated quests), and what looks to be the start of a treasure hunt with several keys to a stash I havent located yet.

This game.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Trudge back to Novac and make friends with Boone, quick! :ohdear:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Brahmin-skin outfit/worn cowboy hat. Hobos will rule the wastes.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

SpaceMost posted:

... New Vegas has sewers?

Yeah, as Syrant said, there's the Thorn, which is what most people usually find, but then there's a whole giant network of sewer tunnels running under Vegas, connecting all the outer points. Some are safe and inhabited by tunnel dwellers, others are full of ghouls, rodents of unusual size and Fiends. The most obvious entrances are a manhole just outside McCarran Airfield, and another on the east exit from the Crimson Caravan.

I'd mostly ignored them because oh god a maze of twisty, dimly lit tunnels. Thought I'd run through this time and see if there's anything worth finding down there.

Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Oct 5, 2011

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I found that, and a whole bunch of named corpses with their stash keys on them. Still havent found the stash tho.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Orange Crush Rush posted:

I'm pretty sure that is the stash.

That's very silly then, hiding the key to the stash inside the stash. I do appreciate people thinking outside the box though.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I'm a 2-int retard on this run through, there's no way I'm picking any locks and I wish I could break down doors. :saddowns:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

:iiam: Beth's Gamebryo games always have FFD codecs flipping out all over my taskbar, ever since Oblivion. Didnt affect anything for me except having a million ffdshow icons sitting in there.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

They've been waiting 200 years. They can wait a bit more while I look for all the chips.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Has it been more than a day since the last time your repaired?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

It does bother me after finishing Lonesome Road, you go back to plain old personalityless ED-E

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

If you're going to be a Legion Terrorist use all those handy NCR uniforms just lying around. They havent thrown disguises everywhere for show.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I'd really like it if they'd allow for this in subsequent playthroughs: Alt villa solution: brew up a giant pile of explosives and blow your way into the casino.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Brace posted:

Guys, how do I stick with a character? I get about 5 or 6 hours in, and then create a new character. The exact same character, mind you. But I always create a new one. Why am I doing this? I haven't beaten HH and I haven't even touched OWB or LR yet :smith:

Oh dear, you've got some pretty bad alt-itis there son. Just keep going, resist the urge to start again. Just think, you can get more information on how to build your character better for the next time!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

They raided a military weapons store on their way through the park. Ulysses pointed it out to them and showed them how to use the weapons, what an rear end in a top hat!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Bash Ironfist posted:

So, I entered OWB just to see the beginning of it, as I'm still only level 10. Is it just me, or is there a very futurama-ish vibe to the writing? "We must defeat him. With science."

Is courier's cache that good? I don't have that or DM, considering getting one of them later this month.

Get the Gun Runners Pack, the Cache isnt really worthwhile.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Of course you have the dumb issue of something sitting in saltwater for 200 years still being afloat.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

randombattle posted:

No I meant all the people living there now. All the politicians would be nuclear skeleton bones.


Speaking of DLC I just did HH last night and I'm going through OWB now. I really liked parts of HH like the lore with the ranger stuck in the valley. I only found about half of his logs so I never found out why he was there or why he never left but hearing him talk about the vault opening and the random bands of people moving through was really awesome. What was that guys deal? Where did he go and why was he there?

I'm really liking OWB so far it's hella crazy and poo poo. Bunch of crazy brains hopped up on way too many mentats.

Save it for a replay, it'll be more rewarding. If you really want to know: He was returning home after military service (iirc?) when the nukes went off, EMPing his car. He could see that the city where his family lived was completely vapourized. Decades later he did get a chance to go back, but there was nothing left that he could recognize, so he returned to the only home he had, Zion.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Dead Money teaches you that beginning again is for chumps and you drag your own history everywhere with you, but also that you should know when to let go. Which DLC do I use to guide my morality?!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Or you can just kill Elijah in the force field door, load his corpse up with all the bars and run for it, picking up all the bars when you're on the other side. Take it all with you!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

They're not so much DLC as they are Expansion Packs. Proper ones. :unsmith:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I am not going to deny a man that can quote scripture and Boney M what he wants.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Lets gently caress Bro posted:

I'm still exploring Vanilla and I just made a retired old vet who was trying to do the right thing commit suicide, now I feel like poo poo.

Who, the old ranger in Novac?

Also just finished up an OWB run with an INT 3 character. Quite disappointed that there are no dumb dialogue options. Unless I've to go even lower. :v

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Okay, been through the DLC a few times now and really, really wish I could click through the intro and end videos for them. Any mods out there for that?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

The shotgun love is 'And Stay Back.' You know this. :allears:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Which you'll use to wipe out Caesar, right? :ohdear:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

John McCain posted:

Are the DLCs worth buying? I like the base game well enough but I'm not sure it's worth dropping another ~$50 to get all the content unless it's quite good.

Get everything except the Courier's Stash. It really is that good.

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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Were you also tripping balls and on a spirit quest to kill a bear at the same time?

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