metallifan wrote:My new favorite part about New Vegas (And now part of my Signature):
FalloutWiki wrote:In the REPCONN Headquarters, for example, a character with an Intelligence of 2 or less can bypass a robot that demands a password by randomly shouting "ICE CREAM!"
This. Wins.
That's also the answer you can give if you have a high enough luck.
So this means I need to make a new character with an INT of 1 and a LuckI might just of 10. Sounds like fun! ICE CREAM! I might just name him Special Ed.
I have finished the game. Overall I would rate as an 9.4 out of 10. Lots to do with many varied and different choices that affected the rest of the game not just the ending. The final battles were new and nice with the fact of having more than one way to defeat the game. I was actually able to snipe my way through all of the ending until the very last part, which I thought was awesome!!
Some negatives I can think of were the glitches, they did seem out of control until patch 4 came through. The quests seemed copy pasted at times but I feel that was only becasue of the sheer amount of them.
Things I want more of would be the mysterious crazy exploration options, like the vaults of 11, 22, and 34. Those all were exceptionally fun to run through. With the new DLC it seems like the designers felt the same way and added a new creepy zone to explore. Though I haven't been able to play because I am on pc!!!!!!!!!!
GalacticDefender wrote:Is lock picking as necessary as it was in Fallout 3?
Not as much, but it can help alot. Lockpicking is the only way to get a Sniper Rifle at level 4, though you can't use the gun effectively until level 6. Max out Perception (hats and Mentats help) and throw everything you can into Lockpicking (including a tag skill). At level 4 choose the Comprehension Perk to make magazine reading worth +20. Now go find the Snipers Nest near Cottonwood Cove and open the locker (lockpick 100 needed). With an Int of at least 6 from the start, a perception of 10 (mentats help) and all skill points into lockpicking you should be at an 80 skill. Read a Locksmith mag and you have a LP skill of 100 and the Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle at level 4. Of course your Guns skill won't be near 75 to use the gun effectively until level 6 because you put all the points into lockpicking.
GalacticDefender wrote:Is lock picking as necessary as it was in Fallout 3?
Not as much, but it can help alot. Lockpicking is the only way to get a Sniper Rifle at level 4, though you can't use the gun effectively until level 6. Max out Perception (hats and Mentats help) and throw everything you can into Lockpicking (including a tag skill). At level 4 choose the Comprehension Perk to make magazine reading worth +20. Now go find the Snipers Nest near Cottonwood Cove and open the locker (lockpick 100 needed). With an Int of at least 6 from the start, a perception of 10 (mentats help) and all skill points into lockpicking you should be at an 80 skill. Read a Locksmith mag and you have a LP skill of 100 and the Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle at level 4. Of course your Guns skill won't be near 75 to use the gun effectively until level 6 because you put all the points into lockpicking.
I dont really think its at all worth it, rat slayer is far easier to obtain, repair and find ammo for. There is however another area with 100 lockpick which contains 7500 caps and a load of other items.
@Footsloggin - The obviousness of your answer is insane. Anyway, some of us don't actually know where Bloodborne cave is, so unless someone tells us (me) where it is, I'll just wiki it..
Scrazza wrote:What's in vault 38?
Ghouls. Lots of Ghouls. Radiation. Lots of Radiation. Plus, it's related to a bunch of seriously hard to do quests. Hard simply because vault 38 is an irradiated, ghoul-filled maze with keys that are impossible to find. Makes me raargh.
By the way, I have a plan. It involves reaching level 30 and then killing every single Legion I can find. Then maybe everyone else on top of that anyway.
Err, level 30 si still s far away for me. Only at 20, and leveling takes sooooo long. And besides, Killzone 2 caught my interest again. Onlèy a shame I lost my internet connection on PS3. Damn neighbours securing their unsecure internet connections. :grumble:
yeps, like...crucifying drug traficers. ... And sorts. Well, blowing up House's secret stach of robocops was probably a good thing to do. (twas a quest from ceasar
I just turned them into missile-launcher-armed-self-repairing-235%-power-increased-robots. With Soldier faces.
Turns out House is a douchebag. But I want to sell the snow globes, so.. I'll just do quests for him and then eventually doublecross him when it gets to killing the BoS.
Just saying that going through vault 38 is totally worth it in the end. You get access to their armory which contains like 5 assault carbines, 5 marksman carbines, a missile launcher, a grenade launcher, a minigun, a load of various explosives and ammo and most importantly "all-american" which is a unique and cool looking marksman rifle (repair it with all the other MRs, its in pretty bad shape)
Had to be said. Honestly, I'm not really liking the way that Mr Houses' quests are going.. so I might just play it out until I've reaped all the rewards and then go and powerfist his shrivelled ass again.
Edit:By the way, my mate once put some C4 under Caeser's chair..
Edit #2: by the way, how do I open the overseer's office and hence the armory? I can't find any keys.. supposedly it's on the Overseer ghoul, but I don't think I've seen him yet.
EagleArk wrote:Im at the quest to kill the van graphs (<-spelling?) to join the BOS, what do i do?
Enter and pretend to be friendly to gain entrance then use a stealthboy, steal a load of plasma mines to place around the place while everyone is friendly then reverse pickpocket grenades into the inventories of the two characters.
Or charge in guns blazing with lots of armour and a good companion.
EagleArk wrote:Im at the quest to kill the van graphs (<-spelling?) to join the BOS, what do i do?
Enter and pretend to be friendly to gain entrance then use a stealthboy, steal a load of plasma mines to place around the place while everyone is friendly then reverse pickpocket grenades into the inventories of the two characters.
Or charge in guns blazing with lots of armour and a good companion.
Better idea. Lay a small minefeild outside their shop. Kill the guy outside. All their goons bumble out onto your minefeild and die. Only gotta fight the two characters inside then.
EagleArk wrote:Im at the quest to kill the van graphs (<-spelling?) to join the BOS, what do i do?
Enter and pretend to be friendly to gain entrance then use a stealthboy, steal a load of plasma mines to place around the place while everyone is friendly then reverse pickpocket grenades into the inventories of the two characters.
Or charge in guns blazing with lots of armour and a good companion.
Better idea. Lay a small minefeild outside their shop. Kill the guy outside. All their goons bumble out onto your minefeild and die. Only gotta fight the two characters inside then.
With the first method you just hide in the bathroom as everyone explodes
Though you could go with scotts method THEN stealthboy in and pantsplode the characters.
EagleArk wrote:Im at the quest to kill the van graphs (<-spelling?) to join the BOS, what do i do?
Enter and pretend to be friendly to gain entrance then use a stealthboy, steal a load of plasma mines to place around the place while everyone is friendly then reverse pickpocket grenades into the inventories of the two characters.
Or charge in guns blazing with lots of armour and a good companion.
Better idea. Lay a small minefeild outside their shop. Kill the guy outside. All their goons bumble out onto your minefeild and die. Only gotta fight the two characters inside then.
With the first method you just hide in the bathroom as everyone explodes
Though you could go with scotts method THEN stealthboy in and pantsplode the characters.
I miss the Experimental MARV right about now, that thing was 8 Mini Tons of fun...
Killing the Van Graffs is pretty easy, steal their stuff, then let the guy with the C4 in during the quest the woman at the counter gives. Everyone will die except for the person standing next to you. Kill him, and your done.
Footsloggin wrote:I miss the Experimental MARV right about now, that thing was 8 Mini Tons of fun...
Killing the Van Graffs is pretty easy, steal their stuff, then let the guy with the C4 in during the quest the woman at the counter gives. Everyone will die except for the person standing next to you. Kill him, and your done.
I walked in with a minigun (high speed motor) ,700 5mm bullets and power armor. Killed em all pretty fast!
The BoS are awesome, although oddly enough they mostly seem to wear T-51b, of which there were only two sets of in Fallout 3.
But these BoS, while not overly useful, are pretty chilled. Perhaps otherwise known as boring [and very easy to steal from].
But never overthrow the Elder (unless you really want to or want easy access to the power armor perk) because without him you can't make the BoS and NCR buddies, and lets face it, they're the two most awesome factions.
The NCR's leaders might well be corrupt etc, but its ideals are mostly good and all of those soldiers are just doing their job.
Admittedly, it is failing. But who else is there? The Legion? I'd rather have the NCR. The BoS in the Mojave don't give a damn about normal people, so obviously not them.
Although, the wasteland(s) aren't all that bad as they are. Just a few too many raiders.
Ah well, the NCR is at least distracting the aforementioned Raiders - for the most part. Plus, some of them wear Berets. Berets are cool.
Oh yeah, does NV take place at a different point in time to F3?
TBH the only reason the east coast got it's own game was Bethesda giving itself reason to start over and forget the west. So that would explain the lack of most references to the west and other things. So really when there is differences between the two, west takes precedence. BoS in the mojave is actually the remains of the original chapter. Not an offshoot.
I know that about the BoS, and they're actually sticking to their original principles. But the whole deal is they're not willing to change so.. they suck. The F3 BoS actually care about people, but in the Mojave they're just leaving the NCR to 'take care' of things.
Veronica is far better than Boone, especially when you give her Power Armor and after she leaves the BoS. Beware Deathclaws, they're still one-hit-kill on her/anyone.
The BoS are awesome though, so make sure to attack them in waves so you can make trips to the P Suite to store all the armor and weapons you loot.
If you don't loot, then there's something wrong with your brain.
I'm going to get this game eventually I know, but I am probably going to get Red Dead Redemption first. Fallout 3 was awesome, but I heard that in New Vegas, you can't really free roam like you could in Fallout 3 because a pack of deathclaws will show up. Is this true?
GalacticDefender wrote:I'm going to get this game eventually I know, but I am probably going to get Red Dead Redemption first. Fallout 3 was awesome, but I heard that in New Vegas, you can't really free roam like you could in Fallout 3 because a pack of deathclaws will show up. Is this true?
No. There's much more freedom in NV - no more "you have to go underground to get anywhere" rubbish. There's still plenty of underground places to explore - generally with radiation - but it's not a major issue.. unless... like me... you get 948 rads in Vault 34..
GalacticDefender wrote:I'm going to get this game eventually I know, but I am probably going to get Red Dead Redemption first. Fallout 3 was awesome, but I heard that in New Vegas, you can't really free roam like you could in Fallout 3 because a pack of deathclaws will show up. Is this true?
No. There's much more freedom in NV - no more "you have to go underground to get anywhere" rubbish. There's still plenty of underground places to explore - generally with radiation - but it's not a major issue.. unless... like me... you get 948 rads in Vault 34..
GalacticDefender wrote:I'm going to get this game eventually I know, but I am probably going to get Red Dead Redemption first. Fallout 3 was awesome, but I heard that in New Vegas, you can't really free roam like you could in Fallout 3 because a pack of deathclaws will show up. Is this true?
No. There's much more freedom in NV - no more "you have to go underground to get anywhere" rubbish. There's still plenty of underground places to explore - generally with radiation - but it's not a major issue.. unless... like me... you get 948 rads in Vault 34..
Vault 34 makes me wanna gouge my eyes out...
Worth it though for "All-American" (btw theres a medium safe in there somewhere with like 10 rad-xs and 10 rad-aways, makes it far more easy)
So was I, Scrazz, but I ain't ever come across an Anti-Tank rifle in the game -at least not named as such. The only tanks I've ever even seen were in Operation: Anchorage anyway.
Kill the NCR if you want, but there isn't a BoS ending as far as I'm aware. But still do the BoS quests, as they're mostly quite easy, and they're a really easy way of getting expensive loot. Sneak-shots are your friend.
The more I play this game the more I enjoy fatigue weapons, for some reason they make it incredibly easy to kill robots and watching a ghoul drop after whacking them is pretty satisfying.
As far as the deathclaws are concerned there's an area to the north of Goodsprings that has a deathclaw nest there. It makes it hard to go directly to the Strip without doing the main quest, but if you're sneaky enough you can get there although I doubt you'll make it.
In general its not so much that you can't free roam its just that there are strategically placed high level areas.
Its an incredibly fun game overall; Golden Boxing gloves work magic, killed House with a shovel, killed Yes Man with a shovel, robbed the Silver Rush(no casualties either), destroyed the BoS without getting power armor training(who needs it anyways?), got my buddies Boone and ED-E, karmic good, and rocking out in the wasteland.
I did notice one glitch though, I had been doing quests in the strip for awhile and then started to do some freeside quests. It was all fine and dandy until I had to kill the bounty hunter the Atomic Wrangler had hired. I went to go back to the strip and the fething doors were locked. I had to kill the securitrons to get a key and now there are no securitrons in the strip.
I just had an interesting thought... What happens if you kill House, Ceasar, Yes Man, and the NCR guy before you finish the game?? Will you be perma stuck in Vegas with no way to end the game? Hmmmmm.....
I think that if you only have one person remaining then that person becomes an important character. Plus I think the NCR guy can only be seen once you're already heading down the NCR path and only becomes unimportant if you're doing Caeser's quest line.
Killing House and Yes Man was a bit tricky, you had to do Yes Man's quest to the point of killing House and then kill Yes Man before finishing it.
I'm mad that the guy who knew about Monty Python in the video didn't get the 'Romanes Eunt Domus' reference. For the sake of those on here who do not get the reference as well.
The guys who made that video are idiots for not liking Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And wtf? How the feth is Life of Brian one of the "lesser" Monty Python movies?
Do the holy frag grenades do anything extra? Are they more powerful or what?
Hmm, insta-kill mini-nukes that you can throw... YES, the Holy Frag Grenades are amazingly fun. Throw one in a room then shut the door for a great waste of a grenade, albeit a hillarious one.
To anyone who wants to know, the hooker outfits are not outfits. Apparantly the 'outfit' is an actual skin, so no you can't dress like a hooker unless you mod the game on PC.
I cleaned out Bloodbourne cave. Wasn't all that hard a fight, the only problem was keeping Veronica alive. Took a good few times before I managed it without her dying. Admittedly, I had ED-E with upgraded weapons, a modified Plasma gun and Power Armor and was drugged-up on Med-X and Psycho.. and I'm about Level 22..
Who else can't stop themselves from stealing in this game? If I could pickpocket a Deathclaw I would, and does anyone know if you can kill the Caeser's Legion kids?
Yeah, stealing is the best. But if you can't open something just use the unlock command. Shizze, I know.. but if it gets you what you want, then you shouldn't be complaining.
Commands also allow you to have a very easy way of getting XP and money. Kill Van Graff guards, sell their armour, resurrect them, repeat until bored.
I'm using the PS3, take your commands and go cheat elsewhere. You cheater, and from now on whenever you accomplish anything that makes you feel really, really good just remember that you cheat and should feel bad.
halonachos wrote:I'm using the PS3, take your commands and go cheat elsewhere. You cheater, and from now on whenever you accomplish anything that makes you feel really, really good just remember that you cheat and should feel bad.
Bah, console commands are great for starting massive battles, that was the only fun I found in it anyway... Its always been more rewarding for me to play the game as it was intended, not just making myself max in every stat, take all available weapons, and be "LORD DEATH OF MURDER MOUNTAIN!!!"
halonachos wrote:I'm using the PS3, take your commands and go cheat elsewhere. You cheater, and from now on whenever you accomplish anything that makes you feel really, really good just remember that you cheat and should feel bad.
The Dead Money xpac is available on Steam now. Played through some of it last night, hasn't been particularly challenging yet, but im lv30 and im still pretty close to the begining of the xpac. Just a warning for those who get it, you get stripped of your gear early on and idk if/when you get it back.
Beer_&_Bolters wrote:The Dead Money xpac is available on Steam now. Played through some of it last night, hasn't been particularly challenging yet, but im lv30 and im still pretty close to the begining of the xpac. Just a warning for those who get it, you get stripped of your gear early on and idk if/when you get it back.
I thought it was fairly challenging with Hardcore mode turned on. You're being poisoned pretty much the entire time.
All of your gear gets put into a chest at the enterance to the bunker where you are knocked out.
Also, save some of Elijah's stuff, Veronica gets a perk if you show her something from him. Can't remember what it was. Either a recording thats on the computer in the bunker, or his robe. Or both.
When i did the there stands the grass quest, as i detonated the gas ED-E was stuck outside and was glitched out of existance, with all my unique weapons.
Ever considered reloading an autosave? Admittedly, it took me a billion (6 or something..) attempts to get out with Veronica and ED-E. First attempt was hilarious.
"Oh hey some fire, no worries I have power armo-aaaaaaargh!"
Much fun, looking back on it. At the time it was a real bitch though.
You want unarmed and melee, there's a number of perks that require one of the other, but work for both. Make sure you grab toughness perks (all three of them plus vault 34 armor make a good substitute for power armor, and let you stay lightning fast) and uh... whichever perk it is that increases your speed in light armor (I forget its name).
Forget stealth, the three or 4 times you really need it use a stealth boy, but for the most part you take less damage charging forward at full speed.
Drugs are critical to any short range type, whether its submachine guns or axes. Outdoorsman and science (especially science) are really good skills to have, so that you can craft the good gak. The perk that lets you make special kinds of nuka cola is relevant here (even more DT).
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and if you're playing hardcore avoid taking melee type companions, real easy to hit them on accident.
Basically, I downloaded it the other day, unzipped it, and I've tried putting the mod file "data" in various places in my Fallout: New Vegas files - exactly by the book for mods - and yet nothing. The only other thing I could do is replace the original NV 'data' file (with a suitable backup, of course) - this however doesn't seem like it would be the correct thing to do.
Anyone else got the mod, and more importantly, anyone else got any ideas on how to get this thing to work?
1 In the mods RAR file there is folder called Data. Extract it to the New vegas folder. 2 Start Fallout mod manager. Check the box next to the NewVegas40kconversion.esm 3 Start F:NV
Devastator wrote:1 In the mods RAR file there is folder called Data. Extract it to the New vegas folder. 2 Start Fallout mod manager. Check the box next to the NewVegas40kconversion.esm 3 Start F:NV
It should work now.
Cheers buddy!
Edit: Except there's multiple files of the same name.. so unless I go around replacing files, which I don't want to do, not sure how to proceed.
. I'm just continuing the discussion.
