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I agree about the suicide issue, but I did so nevertheless...
And I like new Vegas more, but after I've finished this run I will restart FO3 again... You just can't beat rivet city...

Haha YES! Going north of Goodsprings Cemetary is suicide early-game

Not sure if I've ever managed to get north of Sloan without building up the character first and the Cazadores are hard enough for a low level character before that.

I have managed East of Goodsprings without going far south, also not easy though.

Whereas, you can go pretty much any direction from Springvale (the school is always my first stop).

I think those were my issues with NV too. Great game, but I felt less free than in FO3.

Well, what helped me through the desert was my realtime sniping... Somehow I can trick the engine for sniping very well, that helped me boost my efforts...

..Until you run into a Deathclaw Vik

Deathclaws are just an excuse to lug an Anti-materiel rifle around - With that baby and a few AP rounds, suddenly Quarry junction seems like a cakewalk (until you run out of ammo)

BTW, before I forget, Nice work Dave

Thanks DA666!

Yup Dave, but then I have the .50 with me and explosive rounds... This way you can still be badass all through
The house looks excellent!

Unfortunately, at the levels that I was trying to sneak past the Deathclaws of Sloan (<5-10), the best gun I had available was the Varmint rifle. That just draws them towards you faster, even if you snipe them in the head from the sort of distance that makes them look small.

Anyway. Nice work Dave. I take it that this will get similar treatment to the previous building?

Yup that is really a drag...

I still had (probably hours of) fun trying every possible way to get past them.
Almost (maybe I did) made it just by sneaking, but there's that other group of Deathclaws on the other side of that valley.
I can remember taking pot shots at them from the small train station (?) just past them, so maybe I did make it past... was a long time ago.

I got through with Boone and Rex
Or was it Lilly?

Lilly is good for Deathclaws as she can go toe to toe with them AND draws them away from you.

Question for you... I went to dl FO3, and it says its not optimized for Windows 7. I don't buy a lot of games on the computer, so would it still be okay? I might end up getting NV anyway.

That doesn't mean anything, ignore it

Oh if he finds the old mine up around the train station with the R.o.u.s.' he can get the crit monster Rat killer it is an optimized fully loaded varmint rifle with excellent qualities, silencer and night scope, (for when you do NOT want to let those blind deathclaws hone in on you! LOL!

Yeah, the Rat-slayer is an awesome gun.

I'm fond of "Vengeance" myself, a named laser gatling also found in a mine (south-east) full of Deathclaws

Note to self when theworld ends, don't hide my stuff in any mines.

if the world ends...it is rather pointless to hide anything, eh?^^

I don't know. I had just finished my GOAT and the Vault was starting to fall apart when the first glitch occurred and the game froze.


EDT: Just did it again too right after reloading. Ah well, at least I have this brand-new devastator squad and tactical squad to soothe my tears.

There must be a patch to help out there

What seems to be happening... because it just did it again... is that I start moving as if I'm crouched, very slowly, but without being crouched. Then it locks up.

I managed to get out of the Vault and start towards Megaton this time.

at valhalla... i dunno why but i have regular crashes... no methode fixed it for me, i got used to it and still play the games... seems we have a tech thing in common... and i even played it on my wife´s comp too...to the same outcome...and believe me... both comps should take it...

If you don't have a gaming video card, turn the graphics settings down. Graphics cards have separate processors and RAM to handle it all more smoothly.


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I have occasional crashing too, moreoften in New Vegas, occasionally when the roulette loading screen loads.

That all makes me sad.
I thought it was just my computer being tetchy.
Mine will be fine for a little while and then I'll reach a point and it will just keep crashing and even loading an earlier save doesn't help.

Turning down certain bits of the graphic settings should help as that's often where glitches/bugs occur.
They've always been very buggy games though. It's a shame.

Loading it from Nexus Mod Manager (even without mods) tends to help the stability.

Oh really... I'll have to give that a try then. Ta.

btw, these are the mods I run


The radio mod is my favorite- adds more period songs