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Friar Zucchini posted:They've got 0DT so there's no need to worry that a shotgun or hollow point ammo might just bounce off like they would with a deathclaw's 15DT. If you ask me that makes them pretty easy, and I never even used hollow point ammo on them. If you really want them to just loving die, load up some hollow point 5mm in this bitch right here which isn't really all that hard to get if you've got something to snipe centaurs with. Which, by the way, if you use while standing, is a waste - crouch for easy sneak-criticals and one-hit kills on drat near everything from a mile away. I was mostly using HE rockets, Holorifle+, Elijah's Advanced LAER+, and Laser Rifle+. I didn't find many opportunities to kill tunnelers from long range. I just found them a chore to kill, unlike the Deathclaws which are always rewarding in their own way.
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The first time I did the House ending I was expecting some crazy pre-war restoration plan from him like he rambles about. What ends up happening is nothing, and then the ending is totally bland.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I'm not sure what you expected, really; the ending slides for all factions only describe the aftermath of you settling who controls the Mojave. It's not like supporting the Legion tells you what happens after the Legion continues on into California, or the NCR ending tells you what happens as the republic grows. Well I actually meant I expected some exposition by House before the game ending. But also it happens that the House victory slide is "Mr. House continued to run New Vegas his way, a despotic vision of pre-War glory. The streets were orderly, efficient, cold. New Vegas continued to be the sole place in the wasteland where fortunes were won and lost in the blink of an eye." The only secret pre-war knowledge he uses to restore anything is the platinum chip that you use half way through the main story.
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Sep 14, 2013 19:52
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Space travel wasn't built in a day. Caesar talks about uniting with the NCR, but there's none of that in the end slides either. Between that slide and the one for the courier backing House up, you'd really have to have a formidable imagination to read that House ever takes any action on the space travel thing. As far as I remember neither the NCR nor Legion tell you that everything in the Mojave is just part of a larger secret plan, which then is promptly forgotten about and never mentioned again (Caesar's motivation in creating the Legion doesn't count in my opinion since everything that it does is exactly in line with his explanation, anyway). Doug Lombardi posted:Mr. House doesn't have any secret information, he's just an extremely intelligent and talented man. What kind of exposition were you hoping for? He's a survivor of the great war and the central object of conflict for a large part of the game is an object that House alone has secret knowledge of? I was hoping that he would give some high level speech on how he is going to realize the restoration of whatever stuff he needs to go into space (or any other goal really). Seashell Salesman fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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OldMemes posted:House and a good Courier is the best ending in my book. The House ending explicitly says that he rules it as a despot.
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Sep 14, 2013 23:17
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MrL_JaKiri posted:What, you expect him to start up a democracy? Duh he rules it as an autocrat. Agreed! I was responding to the poster saying that he doesn't rule New Vegas.
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Sep 14, 2013 23:22
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OldMemes posted:All that means is that he owns the land. He doesn't push anyone around unless they directly oppose him, and you can get around that. He respects individual rights and freedoms more than the NCR and the Legion anyway. He even says that the people are free to pick their own leaders and govern themselves in Vegas, so long as they don't interfere with his work. He's not ruling the people, just running the land. I don't know, it says what it says. I don't know what spring to draw more insight on this from.
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Sep 14, 2013 23:26
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OldMemes posted:Did you exhaust all of his dialogue options? There's one bit where you can ask him if he'll be a dictator, and he explains what his vision for running Vegas will be like. House is pretty upfront with Courier - he takes a liking to him/her as the game does on, compared to the other factions who treat them like an errand boy. I remember the stuff he says. I don't think he ever respects anyone's autonomy on principle, he is extremely controlling and manipulative but he is also very metered and doesn't involve himself when he just doesn't care.
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Sep 14, 2013 23:39
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Byzantine posted:Principles are easier to violate than apathy. Basically he's the perfect ruler if you are always in his blind spot and also you don't require any services or protection.
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Sep 15, 2013 00:31
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Personally I hope new FO games are set before FO: NV. I don't want to play inside NCR or Legion territory, and as much as I love FO: NV I don't want to play another game in the middle of a big war.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:41
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closeted republican posted:I wouldn't mind another NV-like game, but they factions should work differently. Instead of having everything decided by the final quest, have it so that your character can take territory for a faction they've joined to help the faction expand. I'm thinking of a system similar to Stalker: Clear Sky, but actually make it work and affect the game besides locking you out of a few sidequests and giving you some extra gear. Let the player start out by grabbing territory from Raiders so they get a feel for taking places over without pissing off any other factions, then let them attack other factions directly. The final quest is affected by the faction the you've has joined and the amount of territory your faction has. No offense but I hope they don't do that. New FO games are going to be pretty far between (for as long as they keep making them) and I would much rather the one I get to be focused on core RPG gameplay and content than introducing a new territory control system.
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Sep 15, 2013 03:17
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lady blue shanghai posted:I got all the Fallouts from recent sales. Would it be a bad idea to play NV before FO3? If this includes FO and FO2, and you are planning to play those, then I'd recommend playing FO, then FO2, then FO: NV. Then the rest you can play in whatever order, they don't really have anything to do with one another and are sort of each in their own parallel Fallout universe separate from the main 3.
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Sep 15, 2013 06:24
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Kimmalah posted:I also just realized recently that I have the Ultimate Edition that supposedly has the Courier's Stash stuff, but I don't remember ever getting anything at the beginning of the game. Is that supposed to just automatically show up in your inventory or do I need to go find it? You should have it at the start, unless you have installed a mod, for example JSawyer, that hides the stuff around the map.
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Sep 17, 2013 02:53
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Kimmalah posted:So what exactly is the point of no return? Is it when you get that message warning you that you're committing to certain side in the war (in my case just before completing For the Republic, Part 2)? I think it's the bit where you get teleported to the dam. Don't remember when that happens for a Legion playthrough.
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Sep 17, 2013 22:10
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Not if you have Mad Bomber There are also plenty of resources to make tin grenades and satchel charges. Lately I've been doing a Ratslayer run with PN no helmet no DT switched on. Probably would work without it too, but you'd need to find lots of 5.56 AP. Taking out every Legion camp in the Mojave with a varmint rifle is just the best possible FO universe.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:00
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DeathChicken posted:He actually is perfectly friendly if you jump through all of the hoops required to not make him want to kill you. Up to the point where he'll happily confide in you all of the horrible, horrible poo poo he's done, because hey, you're friends now. I've actually never had him try to kill me before, as far as I can remember. I think I've only had him actually tell me the full story with him and Vera and that guy who built the Sierra Madre like once, but the rest of the time he just says very little and then helps me in the fight with Elijah at the end. What are people doing to piss him off?
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Sep 20, 2013 01:36
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DeathChicken posted:Passing that Barter check in his first conversation is enough. He'll proceed to make veiled threats at you for the rest of Dead Money, culminating in trying to murder you at the casino. I don't think I've ever put points into the barter skill in any RPG in my entire life so that explains that!
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Sep 20, 2013 01:40
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If you are using explosives I'd really consider the Project Nevada mod, with grenade hotkey option switched on, mandatory. Having to switch weapons to lob grenades out is so incredibly tedious.
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Sep 20, 2013 17:22
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SkySteak posted:Cheers for all the information, as well as other people who posted about it. Yeah I think I'll be going melee as well. I used to think melee was boring until I discovered the joys of whacking people with golf drivers and rolling pins. Best advice for a melee character is go straight for OWB from Goodsprings. +str implant for free and the best melee weapons and drugs in the game just strewn about everywhere.
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Sep 20, 2013 18:23
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closeted republican posted:Console commands are boring compared to using poorly-designed mods to cheat the game. Elijah kidnapping your waifu with you, but forgetting to remove her items is more amusing than opening the console and giving yourself a Fat Man, Avenger Minigun, Pushy, Anti-Materiel Rifle, and 1000 ammo for each of your guns as soon as you start Dead Money. I think the Sierra Madre security system takes all your stuff, not Elijah. That's why he can only give you a HoloRifle and (Little Yangtze?) jumpsuit, anything else would be confiscated by the security system.
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Is Lombard Station meant to be ammo stocking all of the Hand Loader recipes and stuff like the satchel charge and nails? It has a Lonesome Road and GRA .esp, and I have them loaded, but so far no worky.
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Smol posted:34 is the best. Story-wise, the one just south of 188 Trading Post (I forget the number). 34 is due East of the NCR Sharecropper farms. Vault 11 is the one south west of the 188. 34 is definitely the most challenging vault gameplay-wise, and has the biggest reward at the end. The story in vault 11 is too character driven for the vault experiment stories for me. Seashell Salesman fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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StashAugustine posted:Depends. A strictly no-theft playthrough is really rough. A lot of quests, if not outright requiring stealing, need you to steal/lockpick/sneak/hack your way through stuff for the best/most expedient ending. It's kind of like a no-Speech playthrough (1 CH, no Speech, no Barter I usually play 1chr, doesn't make the game hard or tedious.
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at least the economy was less broken). No-stealing stuff outside of a handful of important things (quest items and a few uniques) is totally doable and probably why I tend to think the economy is less busted than other people.
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StashAugustine posted:Did you put points into Speech? If not, the game's still not terribly hard, it's just that a lot of story options are locked off. You flat-out can't recruit Cass without 50 Speech or Barter. It's not a difficulty thing, it's being locked out of content, which is the same deal with stealing. Not really. I've played the game and all the DLC, every quest, multiple times. The first n times I took 100 speech mostly to get the 'good' endings everywhere. There aren't that many places where you get straight up locked out of content without high enough speech, the only one I can remember off the top of my head is the unique 9mm SMG. Usually you can just kill people or do some extra quest or something to get to what you want.
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It's pretty rare to loot armor in NV isn't it? The only times I can think of consistently where you'd do this is the BoS patrols and the Silver Rush thugs that died robbing the Durable Dunn's caravan outside Vegas. Maybe at the very beginning for some leather/reinforced leather?
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Sep 28, 2013 03:21
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Berke Negri posted:If I remember right, he threatened to kill Avellone during one of the recordings for Fallout 2 I think. He might just not give a poo poo about Fallout. http://www.gog.com/news/fallout_week_fallout_2_editorial quote:[...] Ron Perlman threatening to kill me, my family, and I believe my dog, even though I don't have a dog. It was pretty scary.
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Oct 3, 2013 02:56
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Azran posted:I'm not concerned about the difficulty of it, it just sounds like a bunch of bothersome micromanagement. Hell, the DLC has taught me that I don't really need to hard 6+ weapons and 90+ Stimpaks. I don't really think of it as micromanagement, more like tightening up the resource management part of the game into something challenging.
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I was expecting Ulysses to say something really convincing at the end of the Lonesome Road, and to really change my mind about stuff. It was a big let down. I don't think the writing is bad or anything, it's pretty true to life. Most of the time when someone builds up all this mystery and hype they just turn out to have no substance like Ulysses. I felt bad for the guy wasting so much time setting up this elaborate trap and feeling like he has this crushing responsibility when really he's not important and his ideas are childish.
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Stroth posted:That's kind of the point. The biggest theme of the DLCs is probably 'Being obsessed with the past sucks.' All of the people are built up as these huge archetypal hero/villans, but... Elijah and Christine have blinded themselves to anything but their crusades. Dean's a bitter old man who knows that he's wasted centuries trying for something that he doesn't even really want, but he can't admit it to himself. The Think Tank are pathetic people that literally can't get over the past and Mobius is a druggie trying to forget what he had to do to his friends to keep them from causing even more damage to the world. And Ulysses deliberately builds up the past of The Divide into some grand shining dream, when it was really just another podunk town who's only feature is that it happens to be on a trade route so that he can use its destruction as an excuse to himself for how badly his life has turned out. And all of them are kind of pathetic for it. They're not living, they're just existing. Yes agreed. I was expecting something more from him since he is the character who put all of the events of the base game plus all of the DLCs into motion. That's just what my expectation was as someone tumbling through the story, I don't mean I'm disappointed in the story or anything.
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M3wThr33 posted:Finally got the 'Freeside never loads' issue. Verifying the cache with Steam fixes it until the next time it fucks up. If you have two or more monitors you can put the task manager on another monitor and then it can't get blocked by the dead window, that's what I do.
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I always assumed that they let some people check in and play the tables the day of, or maybe a few days leading up to, the grand opening. It would be kind of a poo poo fight checking in if everyone had to do it immediately after the opening ceremony. How do they do this in real life with casinos/hotels?
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When I play I either go for 10 luck or 1 luck. If you go 1 luck 1 charisma you can get ~10 in every other stat after implants but without wasting perks.
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Wolfsheim posted:The most useful thing to collect that might not be inherently obvious are the items used to make weapon repair kits; scrap metal, scrap electronics, duct tape and wrenches. Almost every bit of debris has it's uses in some fashion or another, but that's the most important one. If you have Dead Money then you can get a life supply of Weapon Repair Kits for practically free from the vending machine in the bunker.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Stimpaks don't heal all that much over time. Blood sausages, thin red pastes and especially their crafted variants are either arguably or straight up better. Stimpaks + Expired Stimpaks + Nuka Cola + Sunset Sarsaparilla + Dirty Water + Purified Water. Those are six really common HoT items that are all available without Survival.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Four of those are improved by Survival The bit I quoted was only talking about having different kinds of HoTs so that they all stack, not about scaling each one's individual effect.
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Alternatively just don't give a poo poo about karma.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm pretty sure there is a nexus mod with this exact premise I think it was a reference to FO2.
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Can we make it that by just saying it over and over? Wanna live in that universe.
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Paracelsus posted:It does seem like most enemies where the DPS of automatic rifles, miniguns, and SMGs would come in handy due to their high HP also have the DT to make that sort of weapon ineffective, while the enemies with low DT can be dealt with in a much more ammo-efficient fashion with semi-autos anyway. 5mm AP is extremely good at defeating armor, to the point where it makes the very mediocre assault carbine worth using (especially with GRA and JSawyer's).
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Wicker Man posted:So who else likes to let Boone get the killing shot on Caesar when assaulting his camp? I think I've cleared Caesar's tent with a mini-nuke every single game. The layout is just too perfect not to.
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