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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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Grr, question regarding a companion:
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Veronica's power glove randomly... disappeared. Now she just randomly starts using 9 irons and baseball bats and stuff. Is there any way to bring it back?I also noticed Boone's sniper rifle randomly popped up in my inventory... I don't even remember touching it.
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Wiki says it's a glitch and that it should be in my inventory... problem is I don't remember getting it. Fuck. :/
Jamesfrom818
Banned
Not really related to the game but I think I'll wear some dirty clothes and say I'm a Fallout character for Halloween.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
The Enclave originally was going to put it into the jetstream to kill off everything so that they could rebuild. Eden then modifies it to kill off mutants and non-pure humans (or so he said.. he could have been lying and with how things pan out if you use the virus its either that or he somehow didnt know what the Enclave made it for originally).saunderez said:
i understand this but it makes zero sense to use a water source as a distribution method. Using the jet stream currents to carry a virus to wipe out global population does.Wallach said:
water_wendi said:
Well, keep in mind if they could still create the massive volume of modified FEV and still had the ability to dump all of it that deep below the surface, I'm guessing they would. The loss of the Enclave base on the rig was a massive blow in that regard. I don't see why you think using the water source makes zero sense; they still need to take full control of the capital area and by using the Potomac you ensure pretty much all of the living intelligent life in that area is going to get infected.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Because it is not going to effect enough people, fast enough. People would eventually learn to not drink that "purified" water. And mutants/ghouls would not care about drinking Aqua Pura because they dont die from drinking irradiated water. If it were spread in aerosol form every breathing creature would likely be exposed and have zero choice whether or not to breath it because what the Enclave had on the rig was enough to blanket the entire Earth.Wallach said:
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
Yes, she should still be there.Zyzyxxz said:
With the large amount of quests you have sometimes, it can be very overwhelming. I just pick one and stick with it or try to do quests for one faction at a time. So many optional side quests too, it's awesome. I can't get over how good this game is.
water_wendi said:
It doesn't matter - the whole Potomac was infected. That is the whole point of James' technology; it purified the entire river source. The bottles labeled "Aqua Pura" are just bottled from the source, but anything drinking from the Potomac would still get infected. Once the Enclave had the technology they were going to study it and expand on it, but the immediate use there was only to enable them to weaken the capital area specifically for them to take it over.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
To infect the entire river you would need to start at the source or upstream afaik. The basin itself where the purifier was would be infected as would be where it flushed out but the entire river would not be deadly. And it didnt kill everyone because if you install the FEV canister it doesnt kill everyone.Wallach said:
ezekial45 said:
4. For the locked door in the Robot headquarters (forgot name) south of new vegas, is there an alternative way to open it? It said that i need either 100 science or 100 lockpick.
I can help with this one.
You can pick the lock of a door on the second floor which requires 50 or 75 lockpick, can't remember, and from there you can find your way down through the broken floor into the chamber behind the 100 science/100 lockpick door. You can grab the loot and then unlock it normally from the inside.
Arozay
Member
I beat the game last night.
I enjoyed New Vegas way more than Fallout 3 in terms of the main story.
I'll probably wait for a patch or two and some updated mods before playing through it fresh on Hardcore, I'll probably mess around with my final save between then.
I sided with Mr House, only things I didn't like about this was that you have to destroy the Brotherhood's base and the stuff concerning the climax was a little easy.
I'll probably wait for a patch or two and some updated mods before playing through it fresh on Hardcore, I'll probably mess around with my final save between then.
Just wrapped up: Thoughts:
as above, from my play session last night, high level made it seem like I was rapidly doing a bunch of quests, fast travel here, there.. and killing things left right so its not surprising that my last hour and a half felt the same way. Had a lot of fun, mid game when it was exploration and it was a challenge.
Final Act
war never changes. I do wish the game ended in a more impactful and meaningful way. I think narrative wise, Fallout 3 was much much better. Especially the search for water/father made it seemed much more vital in its nature. This one rung a bit hollow at the end, mostly because your protagnist really didn't seem to have a driving reason to be doing a lot of the stuff he chose to do in the end.
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considering this game is about choice. and that end game..
as above, from my play session last night, high level made it seem like I was rapidly doing a bunch of quests, fast travel here, there.. and killing things left right so its not surprising that my last hour and a half felt the same way. Had a lot of fun, mid game when it was exploration and it was a challenge.
Final Act
I went with house and killed the BOS and eventually bugged the dam and also killed the legates + oliver. The lead up to all this felt like it lacked something vital as others have descibed, it was a bit of a WTF ending.Basically it was kill everything, and most of it was legates til the very end.
The fact that it then concluded with an ending that covered most of the places/characters you've seen almost via bullet point made the ending really weak to me. Wasn't sure how I felt at having narrators other than perlman in the ending
also seeing how I went with house, I never really thought the way the story was told made him seem like a personality that you'd want to run with - even though he was very central to this storyline - what with the platinum chip as an anchor for FONV.
The fact that it then concluded with an ending that covered most of the places/characters you've seen almost via bullet point made the ending really weak to me. Wasn't sure how I felt at having narrators other than perlman in the ending
also seeing how I went with house, I never really thought the way the story was told made him seem like a personality that you'd want to run with - even though he was very central to this storyline - what with the platinum chip as an anchor for FONV.
war never changes. I do wish the game ended in a more impactful and meaningful way. I think narrative wise, Fallout 3 was much much better. Especially the search for water/father made it seemed much more vital in its nature. This one rung a bit hollow at the end, mostly because your protagnist really didn't seem to have a driving reason to be doing a lot of the stuff he chose to do in the end.
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considering this game is about choice. and that end game..
there really wasn't very much choice here. At the end it was you-yesman/house or the NCR. There wasn't way to save the Khans or the brotherhood. Sure I could have left them alone but it would have been so much better if you could have told the brotherhood guys that house wants to blow you up, I want you to break seclusion, come into the real world..etc. But the choice simply wasn't there.
There wasn't a way to help the wasteland in an altrusitic manner, no fellowship of the apolcaplyse ending that would have propelled that to the forefront. No involvement of the jacobtown mutants. The game was wide open til the end and then it really closed down to hooverdamn, and the 3 factions - house/legion/NCR.
There wasn't a way to help the wasteland in an altrusitic manner, no fellowship of the apolcaplyse ending that would have propelled that to the forefront. No involvement of the jacobtown mutants. The game was wide open til the end and then it really closed down to hooverdamn, and the 3 factions - house/legion/NCR.
Kind a stupid question, but how do I make the food/water I collect edible? I don't see an option on the campsite and dehydration is starting to set in. I have dirty water etc. how do I convert it to water I can drink? Stat says -65 H2O or whatever, I'm assuming that's the opposite of what I want?
HadesGigas
Member
TTG said:
No that's what you want. Look in your stats, H20, FOD, SLP, and RAD are all there and as their numbers get higher the worse it gets, so you take something to -100 RADS or -100 H20
SenorDingDong
Member
TTG said:
Just click on it in your Pip Boy inventory screen. Also negative values decreases dehydration so it's good, the same applies to consumables effects on sleep and food.
water_wendi said:
Why does it have to make sense? It's a wacky post-apocalyptic 50's wasteland for christs sake, it's supposed to be nonsensical and goofy. Just like in the first two games. As long as it's different and fun, it fits. Fake vampires, a town with only kids, an unwilling god tree, a republic of 20 people, this is all awesome stuff that sparks the imagination and makes me want to explore every inch to find it all.
water_wendi said:
Case closed.
That quest was amazing, maybe the most imaginative and interesting in the game. Don't be such a stiff
AgentOtaku
Member
Ledsen said:
Yeah, after getting the Script Extender/Stutter Fix running for OG Fallout 3, I'm just going to hold off for the NVSE as well.
Besides, I've never even finished Fallout 3 and am now completely reinvigorated to do so
Decided to head up and take care of
Black Mountain.
Awesome quest. Being an EXPLODEY MAN OF SCIENCE I got to blow up a bunch of fools, but in the end the crazy Tabitha lives and is wandering the wastes with her robot pal, Rhonda. I wonder where they'll end up.
I also got my hands on Annabelle. What a pretty girl, that one.
Awesome quest. Being an EXPLODEY MAN OF SCIENCE I got to blow up a bunch of fools, but in the end the crazy Tabitha lives and is wandering the wastes with her robot pal, Rhonda. I wonder where they'll end up.
I also got my hands on Annabelle. What a pretty girl, that one.
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so I spent hours on this thing to completion
a) wacky wasteland = the worst implementation of the wacky wasteland of old. There was nothing I could see even though it happened 3-4 times. I spun around looking for something but nothing.
b) Grim reaper perk with the VATSkill/AP refill didn't work.
c) game was best when you were level 01-23. Then in that range it had challenge and personality. I enjoyed the rad hell of vault 34 and the fiend areas and getting owned. I think when it was hard going, it was so good.
@ wallach. How did you get to talk to Tabitha or get that outcome. BM was all combat for me. Wiped them out.
so I spent hours on this thing to completion
a) wacky wasteland = the worst implementation of the wacky wasteland of old. There was nothing I could see even though it happened 3-4 times. I spun around looking for something but nothing.
b) Grim reaper perk with the VATSkill/AP refill didn't work.
c) game was best when you were level 01-23. Then in that range it had challenge and personality. I enjoyed the rad hell of vault 34 and the fiend areas and getting owned. I think when it was hard going, it was so good.
@ wallach. How did you get to talk to Tabitha or get that outcome. BM was all combat for me. Wiped them out.
Blue Ninja
Member
Dammit,
I did the entire quest chain for the Brotherhood of Steel so I could wear T-51b Power Armor, only to realize at the end that it's the Brotherhood version I've got, which immediately turns the NCR hostile. Anyone know where I can find a set of non-Brotherhood T-51b?
Jax said:comment add:
so I spent hours on this thing to completion
a) wacky wasteland = the worst implementation of the wacky wasteland of old. There was nothing I could see even though it happened 3-4 times. I spun around looking for something but nothing.
b) Grim reaper perk with the VATSkill/AP refill didn't work.
c) game was best when you were level 01-23. Then in that range it had challenge and personality. I enjoyed the rad hell of vault 34 and the fiend areas and getting owned. I think when it was hard going, it was so good.
@ wallach. How did you get to talk to Tabitha or get that outcome. BM was all combat for me. Wiped them out.
The hell? You didn't notice the wacky wasteland things? The guy that "hid" in the fridge and got blown up is a pretty damn big start right at the very beginning of the game!
Blue Ninja said:
The NCR gets heavy troopers near the endgame (there were some in Forlorn Hope iirc), though not sure what combination of quests triggers their arrival. I suppose you could stealth kill one of them and steal their armor - it's power armor, but not as good as the Brotherhood stuff. Actually, I don't think you even need power armor training to wear it, so that's probably not what you wanted anyway.
Yeah, there was that, and then I didn't get my next one until late intolsslave said:
Freeside. Holy Hand Grenades were pretty fun, but overall, there weren't nearly enough occurrences. I had one pop up during the last mission and I'm not even sure what the hell changed. :lol
Blue Ninja
Member
dwebo said:
I've got a set of T-45d as well, but I just like the way the T-51b looks.
Blue Ninja said:I've got a set of T-45d as well, but I just like the way the T-51b looks.
:lol Well I just found this on the fallout wiki: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/T-51b_power_armor_(Fallout:_New_Vegas). Looks like the 51b stuff is always faction-specific unfortunately. There'll probably be some mod to adjust item properties if you're playing on PC though.
Blue Ninja
Member
dwebo said:
I'd looked there, too, but The Vault may be a few days behind, considering every editor is too busy playing New Vegas. In any case, I just found a non-faction specific set for sale in the Brotherhood's HQ. YAY!
In any case, I just found a non-faction specific set for sale in the Brotherhood's HQ. YAY!
Blue Ninja
Member
There's a "Meeting People" lying around in the bar in Goodsprings, I think. It temporarily increases your speech by 10.Trickster said:
HadesGigas
Member
Trickster said:
Grimy/Dirty Pre-War Suits give +5 and they're pretty easy to find. There's a whole ton of them on the 13th floor of Tops, for example.
NoRéN said:
I think that's a bug. The first time I repaired Rhonda, Tabitha burst into the room and tried to bash my face, with the newly fixed Rhonda supporting her with flames.
The second time she was waiting for me immediately when I left that storage room and she talked to me.
The second time she was waiting for me immediately when I left that storage room and she talked to me.
Oh god, I lost ED-E!
Me and ED-E were assaulting Black Mountain on the Crazy Crazy Crazy quest when I decided it would be best to stealth it without him giving me away. I told him to return to the Lucky 38, and then I waited till dawn and sneaked pass all the patrols. I completed the mission and I recruited the final party member, only to return to the Lucky 38 to find that ED-E did not return!
Knowing this engine, he's alive somewhere out there, stuck in some part of the map, but I guess I'll either find him later as I play, or never see him again. Oh well, that robot was never too bright to begin with, so I'm not surprised that he couldn't find his way from Black Mountain back to Vegas. :lol
Me and ED-E were assaulting Black Mountain on the Crazy Crazy Crazy quest when I decided it would be best to stealth it without him giving me away. I told him to return to the Lucky 38, and then I waited till dawn and sneaked pass all the patrols. I completed the mission and I recruited the final party member, only to return to the Lucky 38 to find that ED-E did not return!
Knowing this engine, he's alive somewhere out there, stuck in some part of the map, but I guess I'll either find him later as I play, or never see him again. Oh well, that robot was never too bright to begin with, so I'm not surprised that he couldn't find his way from Black Mountain back to Vegas. :lol
duckroll said:Oh god, I lost ED-E!
Me and ED-E were assaulting Black Mountain on the Crazy Crazy Crazy quest when I decided it would be best to stealth it without him giving me away. I told him to return to the Lucky 38, and then I waited till dawn and sneaked pass all the patrols. I completed the mission and I recruited the final party member, only to return to the Lucky 38 to find that ED-E did not return!
Knowing this engine, he's alive somewhere out there, stuck in some part of the map, but I guess I'll either find him later as I play, or never see him again. Oh well, that robot was never too bright to begin with, so I'm not surprised that he couldn't find his way from Black Mountain back to Vegas. :lol
I wonder if he got mauled on the way down... :lol