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A bit ot, I tried reverse pickpocketing C4 on a bunch of Legionaries.
It turns out that if you detonate 5 packs of C4 in the pockets of a bunch of Romans, you can make your own space program

Indeed you can, and that is some of the most fun you can have with the Havok engine.

Yeah, the best thing about Lonesome Road is the Red Glare Rocketlauncher... Just watching the giblets rain around you for two seconds after emptying the chamber...

 The Wise Dane wrote:
Yeah, the best thing about Lonesome Road is the Red Glare Rocketlauncher... Just watching the giblets rain around you for two seconds after emptying the chamber...

Its a cool weapon.
Pity it doesn't seem to deal that much damage.

 The Wise Dane wrote:
Yeah, the best thing about Lonesome Road is the Red Glare Rocketlauncher... Just watching the giblets rain around you for two seconds after emptying the chamber...

For me it was finding about ED-E's backstory and getting the riot gear armour. Although the "stealth vision" wasn't that useful it was a nice touch nonetheless.

E-ED is the awesome. First companion I ever got. I still want to find a decent mod that makes the normal new vegas one be more like LR one (i.e. <sneaky beeping> ).

And the elite riot amour is the best. I tend to carry that and the stealth suit mk.II around.

Heh. I have 4 companions in my current NV playthrough. Boone, EDE, the Shoddycast Storyteller and his Eyebot Edna. Rex will make 5.

I hated Rex.
Fragile and Melee orientated is not a good combination.

ED-E is the best companion for a single reason:

*beeps stealthily*

How adorable is that?

 Sigvatr wrote:
ED-E is the best companion for a single reason:

*beeps stealthily*

How adorable is that?

He also keeps his mouth shut
annoying enough, he's always the primary target of every enemy npc ever.
Pisses me off

When I play NV I go a round with each character, bar Lily, and clears their quest. It's a fukken chore, but I'm a perfectionist like that.

ED-E is my favourite by far, since he never get in the way, and give cover fire. His quest suuucks tho. Boone is good too, but almost too effective. His plot is okay, but tough to activate. Veronica is fun and good in combat, and hear quest is somewhat easier to active. Arcade's also fun, but is even more of a bitch to activate than Boone's, and Lily's just kinda there. Rex is also cool, mostly because his plot is short and activated when you get him. Cass is a decent character, and her quest is interesting and given when you get her, so I like her as a sort of "temporary" helper.

Boone in vanilla is way too strong, capable of taking out enemies even beyond your own character's perception range.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:I hated Rex.
Fragile and Melee orientated is not a good combination.

My experience with Rex has been the complete opposite. He's a melee version of Boone.

Sigvatr wrote:Boone in vanilla is way too strong, capable of taking out enemies even beyond your own character's perception range.

I've said it before I think, but in vanilla F:NV, you're Boone's companion, not the other way around.

Sigvatr wrote:Boone in vanilla is way too strong, capable of taking out enemies even beyond your own character's perception range.

I've said it before I think, but in vanilla F:NV, you're Boone's companion, not the other way around.

I've given Boone a pool stick and watched him beat the ever living crap out of a group of bandits. Granted, they were low level, but it was one of my favorite parts of playing NV

I have tried playing some Fallout 3 and I am really itching to give NV a shot before 4 comes out.

As long as I can do stealth shotgun limb removal i'll be happy.

You should. New Vegas is the better game IMO, a refinement on Fallout 3. Though Fallout 3 probably has a better landscape (The ruins and iconic landmarks of Washington DC vs a largely empty and not as well known Mojave desert).

 Deathklaat wrote:
I have tried playing some Fallout 3 and I am really itching to give NV a shot before 4 comes out.

As long as I can do stealth shotgun limb removal i'll be happy.

Shotguns don't feel nearly as strong in in New Vegas as they do in Fallout 3. F3 has percentage armour while F:NV has armour that subtracts a set amount from each pellet so even lightly armoured enemies can resist your shots. You can get a perk that allows you to ignore a good amount of armour but there are still enemies who have high enough armour to stop most of your damage.

But at least sneak/critical damage is multiplied then the armour is subtracted, which is nice.
Also the extra ammo types that come with the Gun Runners Arsenal... or you could just mod shotguns to always be useful, if you're into that.

I always wanted to use the sniper rifles in F3 but they never worked very well at long range with the VATS system, maybe it works better in NV.

I haven't really gotten far enough in F3 to try out all of the gun types, I just know melee is not an option for me.

 Deathklaat wrote:
I always wanted to use the sniper rifles in F3 but they never worked very well at long range with the VATS system, maybe it works better in NV.

I haven't really gotten far enough in F3 to try out all of the gun types, I just know melee is not an option for me.

NV actually has a proper iron sights and scope system, so sniper rifles and their ilk are very effective and almost solely for use outside VATS.

 Deathklaat wrote:
I just know melee is not an option for me.

:( How come? Too simple/easy? Too ineffective/dangerous?

Because I find them almost too easy to use, just get up in their face and mash attack, kinda dumb. Guns feel fiddly in Fallout. Why bother with aiming and ammunition when I can just hide around a corner and bash & slash enemies when they try to get to me. Only problem is that companions like to rush out when I want to hide.

I wish melee has some more finesse go into the fights. I mean, some other games have melee as this small things that's there, but you can be fancy with it if you know how it works. In Fallout it's just a decision on who you should bash first.

Skyrim had a good if simple melee combat system. Hopefully Bethesda adapts it for Fallout 4.

Light attack.
Heavy (power) attack.
Block (weapon or shield).
Bash.
Power bash.
Different weapon types - Axes (bleeds - Damage Over Time), Mace (ignore armour), Swords (higher critical damage).
And then you had different types of power attacks - sideswipe (hit all targets in an arc), charge (double critical damage), backwards (paralyze), standing (bonus damage and decapitation).

Imagine Raiders in Fallout using a manhole cover or dustbin lid as an improvised shield to deflect your bullets so they can get close enough to hack you up. That'll be cool.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Skyrim had a good if simple melee combat system. Hopefully Bethesda adapts it for Fallout 4.

Light attack.
Heavy (power) attack.
Block (weapon or shield).
Bash.
Power bash.
Different weapon types - Axes (bleeds - Damage Over Time), Mace (ignore armour), Swords (higher critical damage).
And then you had different types of power attacks - sideswipe (hit all targets in an arc), charge (double critical damage), backwards (paralyze), standing (bonus damage and decapitation).

Imagine Raiders in Fallout using a manhole cover or dustbin lid as an improvised shield to deflect your bullets so they can get close enough to hack you up. That'll be cool.

Skyrim has a god-awful melee system that even blind monkeys can master in a few minutes. It is extremely shallow. There, fortunately, are good combat mods out there that drastically improve it. It has a few good ideas such as different weapons having different impact, i.e. blunt weapons dealing more damage to enemies in full / plate armor, but the actual combat is just dull.

Well its an improvement on Fallout 3 at least, and so I hope they use it for Fallout 4, considering that melee is not the main focus of a Fallout game.

 The Wise Dane wrote:

Sigvatr wrote:Boone in vanilla is way too strong, capable of taking out enemies even beyond your own character's perception range.

I've said it before I think, but in vanilla F:NV, you're Boone's companion, not the other way around.

Yeah, you are the one who can talk to people, he's the ne who can kill people. He literally has a CHA of 1.

 Psienesis wrote:

 The Wise Dane wrote:

Sigvatr wrote:Boone in vanilla is way too strong, capable of taking out enemies even beyond your own character's perception range.

I've said it before I think, but in vanilla F:NV, you're Boone's companion, not the other way around.

Yeah, you are the one who can talk to people, he's the ne who can kill people. He literally has a CHA of 1.

Who needs Charisma when you can shoot people beyond the curvature of the Earth?

... for some reason, the quoting-scripts for that block are all kinds of messed up.

That said, getting Boone early on is like having an XP Vacuum in the Wastelands. Just go out near the dry lake, with all the ants, and let Boone just suck up all that XP. You can just catch rays on top of a wrecked car or something, you're definitely not in danger.

 Psienesis wrote:

Yeah, you are the one who can talk to people, he's the ne who can kill people. He literally has a CHA of 1.

Who needs Charisma when you can shoot people beyond the curvature of the Earth?

Thinking of restarting F:NV or F3 and going with "Bronan". Basically max str/end/luck and low int/per/cha. Maybe F:NV and side with the Legion this time.

i just hope that VAT's brings back some targeting options like the eyes and the groin.

more witty dialogue scrolling on the screen too...

"you critically hit the raider in the groin with your powerfist, ___________________"