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where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
It turns out being pure ranged stealth isn't easy against a tough melle boss. And as I said, I was underleveled. I tend to roleplay as well, which means I'm often weaker than I should be because I often use sub-optimal weapons and armour.
Also, I have to wonder why finishing that gives you a bunch of xp, when you don't get to keep any of it.
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
It was a better ending than FO3 but still left me kind of underwhelmed. I really wanted the weapon that last dude from the legion had... super epic but then the game kind of ends with no travel or saving allowed.
Avatar 720 wrote: Eventually managed to finish the Dead Money DLC, after turning on God Mode, and redoing the final part of the last quest several times because it bugged.
At least OWB was fairly consistent in how it played (super-perceptive enemies everywhere, etc.), and I only encountered one bug in it that was simple enough to fix. Dead Money was a fairly sloppy mess; a rather unsatisfying introduction to what had the potential to be an interesting character, complete with an extremely unfulfilling ending; and was buggy as all hell.
Just out of curiosity, what bugs did you encounter in Dead Money? I'm curious because I haven't run into any that I can remember (certainly nothing that broke the game). Are you playing with an older version of the software, maybe?
DM is my favorite of the dlcs; I like the atmosphere and tone and horror aspects of it. And it introduces the BAR into New Vegas, which I love. And Vera's Dress is an awesome looking outfit for a fashionably conscious female character.
I'll stop gushing, now.
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Avatar 720 wrote: Eventually managed to finish the Dead Money DLC, after turning on God Mode, and redoing the final part of the last quest several times because it bugged.
At least OWB was fairly consistent in how it played (super-perceptive enemies everywhere, etc.), and I only encountered one bug in it that was simple enough to fix. Dead Money was a fairly sloppy mess; a rather unsatisfying introduction to what had the potential to be an interesting character, complete with an extremely unfulfilling ending; and was buggy as all hell.
Just out of curiosity, what bugs did you encounter in Dead Money? I'm curious because I haven't run into any that I can remember (certainly nothing that broke the game). Are you playing with an older version of the software, maybe?
DM is my favorite of the dlcs; I like the atmosphere and tone and horror aspects of it. And it introduces the BAR into New Vegas, which I love. And Vera's Dress is an awesome looking outfit for a fashionably conscious female character.
I'll stop gushing, now.
The main one was the Ghost People suddenly becoming super-perceptive--despite having Perception 0--and detecting you regardless of stealth level, and sometimes knowing exactly where you were even if you were crouching out of LoS. I'd had Sneak 100 for ages, Silent Running, and very little on me (since there's nothing really worth keeping in that DLC), and the bug only appeared when escorting Dean to his gala position, and persisted afterwards. Everything up until then had been fine, but after that, sneaking was thrown out of the window, and my stealth melee character found herself very much out of her depth. The second, equally annoying one was right at the end, after persuading Father Elijah to come down to the vault. It took about 5 auto-save reloads before he actually started moving, and I cocked up that attempt to sneak past him, so it took a further 5-6 reloads until I was actually able to complete the quest and get Safety Deposit Box (although I didn't get the Steam Achi since I was in God Mode, and I had to spawn in some Stealth Boys for the sneaking to work). 80% of the other attempts had him doing nothing, and it required me manually triggering him by walking up to where he normally comes out from, and being auto-detected. I even toggled clipping off to check he had actually spawned, and he he had, but he was just standing in front of the elevator doing absolutely nothing.
The rest were assorted crashes out of nowhere that you tend to accept when playing a Bethesda game, and F:NV especially.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
I powerlevelled the gak out of that game and still had trouble on my sniper character. AMRs don't do gak against the legate.
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
I powerlevelled the gak out of that game and still had trouble on my sniper character. AMRs don't do gak against the legate.
Really? I remember headshotting them all in one hit. Mind you, ages ago.
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
I powerlevelled the gak out of that game and still had trouble on my sniper character. AMRs don't do gak against the legate.
If you've been detected, there's really no point in using the AMR unless the enemy is distracted, in which case Armour-Piercing or Explosive rounds make short work of nearly everything (hand-loaded rounds are better than AP if the weapon condition is above 75%). If there's something bearing down on you, you need something like a Riot Shotgun with the Shotgun Surgeon perk. Outside direct combat, a sneak-crit with an AMR is pretty much a guaranteed kill, especially with with the right ammo loaded.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
The main one was the Ghost People suddenly becoming super-perceptive--despite having Perception 0--and detecting you regardless of stealth level, and sometimes knowing exactly where you were even if you were crouching out of LoS. I'd had Sneak 100 for ages, Silent Running, and very little on me (since there's nothing really worth keeping in that DLC), and the bug only appeared when escorting Dean to his gala position, and persisted afterwards. Everything up until then had been fine, but after that, sneaking was thrown out of the window, and my stealth melee character found herself very much out of her depth. The second, equally annoying one was right at the end, after persuading Father Elijah to come down to the vault. It took about 5 auto-save reloads before he actually started moving, and I cocked up that attempt to sneak past him, so it took a further 5-6 reloads until I was actually able to complete the quest and get Safety Deposit Box (although I didn't get the Steam Achi since I was in God Mode, and I had to spawn in some Stealth Boys for the sneaking to work). 80% of the other attempts had him doing nothing, and it required me manually triggering him by walking up to where he normally comes out from, and being auto-detected. I even toggled clipping off to check he had actually spawned, and he he had, but he was just standing in front of the elevator doing absolutely nothing.
The rest were assorted crashes out of nowhere that you tend to accept when playing a Bethesda game, and F:NV especially.
OK, the stealth one I've run into before. All the time, actually. I just assumed the ghost people had Perceptions of 10+. Had no idea it was a bug. Usually, the Ghost people can detect me anywhere, anytime, so I don't bother with stealth. But I have small guns (or energy weapons) and the Automatic Rifle is great (especially with .308 rounds available from the vendor machines) and the Holorifle is broke as hell. So the omniscient gas-mask clan isn't an issue for me (I can see how it would be a big problem for a stealth melee character, though). I didn't have any of the other issues you listed, though. Elijah has never gotten stuck for me, and when I do try to sneak past him, he doesn't spot me. Maybe you've got a mod conflict or something?
As for comments about AMRs not being ideal on Legate Angryface; my NCR character tore him up with This Machine (admittedly, this was before they nerfed its damage and crit %), Finesse, Boone's hat, VATS targetting of legs, and a fair amound of backpedalling. If he can't catch you, he can't wreck your face with his big sword of face wrecking.
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Caledonian 95th (undergoing regimental reorganization)
Thousands Sons (undergoing Warband re--- wait, are any of my 40K armies playable?)
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
I powerlevelled the gak out of that game and still had trouble on my sniper character. AMRs don't do gak against the legate.
Really? I remember headshotting them all in one hit. Mind you, ages ago.
where you protect the damn from the legion with the help of NCR
I felt kind of under-leveled. I also did not take enough special and regular ammunition. I ended up going into god mode and blowing everybody up with rockets for the last bit.
Spoiler:
the fort
I thought how they did the ending was really cool. You get to see how your actions effected the people of the Mojave in the future.
Wait.. people cheat in Fallout..? What's the point of that? It's piss easy to power level in that game.
I powerlevelled the gak out of that game and still had trouble on my sniper character. AMRs don't do gak against the legate.
If you've been detected, there's really no point in using the AMR unless the enemy is distracted, in which case Armour-Piercing or Explosive rounds make short work of nearly everything (hand-loaded rounds are better than AP if the weapon condition is above 75%). If there's something bearing down on you, you need something like a Riot Shotgun with the Shotgun Surgeon perk. Outside direct combat, a sneak-crit with an AMR is pretty much a guaranteed kill, especially with with the right ammo loaded.
I ran with a .44 magnum and the AMR. It worked amazingly until that guy. THAT. fething. GUY.
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Gonna be honest, can't even remember the final boss of NV, that game was pretty forgettable. If someone says fallout final boss my brain just goes to The Master and Frank Horrigan.
Getting owned in impossible ironman even more. I got close once to beating the first council mission in france but one lucky shot from the last alien failed that and my good soldiers were mostly dead anyway. I also had another more recent go at it and had a ton of guys but fewer available heavies which as usual proves to be a death sentence. I may need rapid recovery and the will boosts or something (3-4 guys panicking happens often enough that i need to make sure it doesn't happen). That or adaptive bone marrow early or something to speed up recovery times.
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Soladrin wrote: Gonna be honest, can't even remember the final boss of NV, that game was pretty forgettable. If someone says fallout final boss my brain just goes to The Master and Frank Horrigan.
Legate Lanius, provided you are not sided with the Legion.
If you are working for the Legion you fight General Oliver instead.
The Second Battle of Hoover Dam is pretty lacklustre. It suffers from Bethesda Battle Syndrome, where their idea of a large scale conflict is 20 guys with small arms who have bloated health pools.
There is a mod though that increases the number of guys you fight, and it does get slightly better.
Frank Horrigan and the Master were way better end game bosses than anything the new games came up with.
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Soladrin wrote: Gonna be honest, can't even remember the final boss of NV, that game was pretty forgettable. If someone says fallout final boss my brain just goes to The Master and Frank Horrigan.
The Second Battle of Hoover Dam is pretty lacklustre. It suffers from Bethesda Battle Syndrome, where their idea of a large scale conflict is 20 guys with small arms who have bloated health pools.
Skyrim suffered horribly from that; the Whiterun siege, and the subsequent capital sieges were underwhelming as hell. Large battles are one of the times where I don't mind an introductory cut-scene. You get to see the scale of the clashes, as well as how you came to be in your cut-off position instead of at the front-lines, without having to fight through it yourself and likely kill any but the most top-end PCs in the process. There needs to be more of a balance between the Bethesda 10-participant 'wars', and something on the scale of Dynasty Warriors, though, or at least background fights to give the impression that the battle has become a series of smaller skirmishes. The Battle of Hoover Dam on the NCR side was just you and a companion fighting through 3 or so triggered waves of 4 Legion NPCs. Maybe the artillery piece would be 'destroyed' (see: hit by something but visibly unscathed) and the Boomers might firebomb the dam by dropping pretty flames on nothing in particular. To its credit, the Skyrim sieges had the ambience of a siege, even if they didn't have the numbers. Hoover Dam was about as lacklustre as it could possibly have been.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Avatar 720 wrote: There needs to be more of a balance between the Bethesda 10-participant 'wars', and something on the scale of Dynasty Warriors, though, or at least background fights to give the impression that the battle has become a series of smaller skirmishes.
If charging at a deathclaw with a pea shooter is wrong, I don't want to know what's right.
flamingkillamajig wrote: Getting owned in impossible ironman even more. I got close once to beating the first council mission in france but one lucky shot from the last alien failed that and my good soldiers were mostly dead anyway. I also had another more recent go at it and had a ton of guys but fewer available heavies which as usual proves to be a death sentence. I may need rapid recovery and the will boosts or something (3-4 guys panicking happens often enough that i need to make sure it doesn't happen). That or adaptive bone marrow early or something to speed up recovery times.
Man, now I got to get XCOM out again. Not impossible ironman though; I do not have those skills.
Playing League of Legends. Kha'zix was free this week so playing the gak out of him.
While he's overpriced (6300 IP... the same as brand spanking new champions) and underpowered (he's more fragile than most mages, and his damage output isn't 'really that spectacular for how easy it is for him to die), he's at least fun.
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