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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't

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Maaseru

Banned
pulga said:
Can't believe it took me 30 hours and 22 levels for me to want to enter the Strip. :lol

If this thing had a new engine, it'd be my GOTY <3
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It took me like 40 hours :lol :lol I don't know if it was the same for you, but every time I got close to the Strip some missions or something else appeared that made me leave it for later. I love this game!
 
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lastplayed

Member
Secret_Riddle said:
I love the idea of Bathesda's Fallout games..but for the life of me I just couldn't get into three.

I gave it a couple of chances and never got past the 5 hour mark...although ironically I hear it begins to pick up shortly after that.

With that in mind, New Vegas has me really intrigued..and I welcome moral ambiguity, and the chance to have an awesome RPG that will keep me entertained for 100+ hours, plus a stream of great DLC. The only thing I'm worried about is the wasteland..I'm not a huge fan of Western settings...Red Dead for example..pretty cool game..but after a while I just wasn't compelled to go back..mostly due to the setting..although I find that happens a lot with R* games so who knows.
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Sounds like me. Iloved Oblivion, but couldn't get into Fallout 3 for whatever reason. I'm not a big fan of westerns and couldn't get into Red Dead either, but man, I LOVE this game. :lol
 
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Snuggles

erotic butter maelstrom
Bah, I finally got hit with a few nasty bugs last night.

One of my companions died a several hours back, and the other disappeared not too long afterwords. For some reason, I can't get any new companions because the game still thinks my party is full even though I'm solo so I guess I'm screwed forever in my file since I can't unmurder the dead one or unvanish the missing one.

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I also got stuck in Vats.
 
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Dresden

Member
Barberetti said:
Just had a fucking epic 3 way fight with Jackal Gang members, soldier and worker ants, and small radscorpions. Some really hair-raising moments for my little level 6 dude, but man, it was one of those gaming moments. The sounds are awesome, and this game fucking ROCKS!

Mmmmm more ....
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Reminds me of my first time running to Novac, in between that and Nipton I came across a band of traveling merchants--who got ambushed by Legion troops--who got surprised by patrolling NCR troopers--who pulled in a pack of young Nightstalkers. Pretty much everyone except for one mercenary and a merchant died.

Shit was epic. What was really cool was, after I grabbed
Boone
from Novac and began traveling north towards the Strip, that same mercenary--I recognized him by the submachine gun, the leather armor, and the limp--was still walking, bugged probably, north sans merchant.
 
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Hyunkel6

Member
pulga said:
Can't believe it took me 30 hours and 22 levels for me to want to enter the Strip. :lol
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Just entered it a few minutes ago. Took me 31 hours and 21 levels. Maybe we have the same playstyle. :lol

The amount of sidequests is insane. They just keep piling up. Most of them are not that good, but I always feel the need to complete them.
 
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Ledsen

Member
subversus said:
ATI owners get this fix NOW!

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34970

No more slowdowns, steady 60 fps. 5xxx and 6xxx owners read install instrustions carefully, try alternative (not generic) route.

3> modders community. The game was unplayable, was dropping to 5 fps every time I looked at NPC.
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I did the generate custom .dll thing before and didn't notice a performance difference compared to the normal Nvidia version of the .dll (I'm on a HD5650 mobile).
 
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saunderez

Member
Finished my first run of the game last night at about 66 hours. Didn't get to do everything and didn't really get the outcome I wanted due to some late game quests bugging out. But I have to say - Kudos Obsidian - THAT is how you do a Fallout ending!

Will probably start my second run in the next couple of days.
 
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weekend_warrior

Banned
I had the Miss Fortune perk and she showed up quite a bit. Couldn't kill any of the tougher foes, she'd just knock them down for a couple seconds. Also caused quite a few annoying bugs and near crashes.
 
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Danne-Danger

Member
5 STR
1 PER
3 END
10 CHA
10 INT
1 AGI
10 LCK

Barely any weapon skills -- I tagged energy weapons but I'm using guns since they're more common, so I have it on like 9... or 13, wish I would've tagged something else though! -- and I can still shoot everything to shit thanks to high crit, VATS and iron sights on Very Hard. Doesn't really feel like that stuff is properly balanced. :p

Add to that the fact that my companions are monstrous wrecking machines (with CHA), I get a ton of skillpoints and I can easily clean the house in any casino (though it seems like it would be easy even without 10 LCK?) and you have yourself a very decent character that won't miss out on any dialogue stuff (if I'll ever need 10 INT or CHA in dialogue...). 10 CHA is probably superfluous though, and for a perfect char put the extra points into STR and END, there's your ultimate build for any job.

I really wish they'd retool the SPECIAL system next time. It feels so pointless now that it's not turn-based anymore. Two of the stats are completely useless (PER and AGI) and CHA is borderline useless thanks to the crummy companion AI (though the speech and barter bonus is nice).
 
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Coverly

Member
Right now I'm shunned by the
NCR
because of second quest for Cass but managed not to get vilified, can I still get quests from them? Is it possible to be liked again?
 
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Bebpo

Banned
I loaded up my endgame save to just wander around a bit because I wanted to play some more and the faction stuff can be so stupid sometimes. I was idolized by NCR and in their base when I stole a soda out of the soda machine and then the entire base opened fire on me and my followers started murdering them and now my rep is all screwed up. C'mon, it's a soda, why do they care?

Also anyone on PC have an issue where the radio songs are very low volumes? It's weird because even if I turn up radio to max, the dj voice is super loud but then the songs are super quiet. weeeeird.

Finally anyone know where a bunch of faction (aka, red) locked terminals are? I played the whole game nicely where I never touched a terminal if it was red and so even at the end of the game after exploring the whole map I only have about 20 terminals hacked. Looking for another 5 for the achievement. I already got a couple at the NCR embassay on the strip, couldn't find any at McCarren or the Mojave Outpost.

Coverly said:
Right now I'm shunned by the
NCR
because of second quest for Cass but managed not to get vilified, can I still get quests from them? Is it possible to be liked again?
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You'll be fine by the end, but yeah that'll screw you for a while. It took me like 15 hours to recover from that :\
 
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Snuggles

erotic butter maelstrom
Coverly said:
Right now I'm shunned by the
NCR
because of second quest for Cass but managed not to get vilified, can I still get quests from them? Is it possible to be liked again?
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You can mend that relationship. I was disliked by them, some NCR lady was threatening to kill me if I didn't get on their good side but if you just go to the various Camps around the map, they offer mini quests that can earn you good fame from them.
 
tea_and_crumpets

tea_and_crumpets

Member
Wonder if anyone can help me. My E-de has gone missing. I still get his perk and the game counts him as a follower but he's nowhere to be seen. Anyway I can either get it to leave my party and return to primm or any way to make him appear?
 
H

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Pretty sure there's an option to tell them to wait until you engage.

Not sure if it works because Boone kills everything before I see them and that's just the way I like it.
 
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DreamMachine

Member
I got a huge glitch in my game. However it was to my advantage. I got the sniper rife at level 10.
I then killed all of ceasar's legion
lol
 
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Confidence Man

Member
Jesus I can't find 12.7mm ammo anywhere. All I have is the 7 rounds I found in the pistol, no one seems to sell it, and I haven't scavenged any in my 30 hours of traveling.
 
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Bebpo

Banned
I walk into this room and there's this prostitute walking around. I walk up to her to talk to her and get this:

deadwomanwalking.jpg


and I inspect her "dead" body and then when I'm done she keeps walking down the hall!
 
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Snuggles

erotic butter maelstrom
Whoa! She got up, that's crazy, I was just at that quest and that's definitely not supposed to happen.

it's a miracle
 
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Coxswain

Member
Okay, my new favourite Fallout story: I got the game started it up, played through at least up to Novac without ever really venturing too far from the most obvious path through the game: Goodsprings, Primm, Nipton, etc, all more or less the way you'd expect. So, you know, I've kept playing since then, it's like forty or fifty hours of game later; I've got the Platinum Chip, a list of active quests as long as my arm and a list twice as long of ones that I've finished, and I'm just tooling around near the Mojave Outpost doing a bit of exploring that I neglected the first time through since I was useless in combat until like level 15 or so.

So sure enough, I'm walking across the desert, and I see a friendly ping on my radar, right next to a huge mass of enemies, on the other side of a dune. Sweet, I think, this must be something cool that I missed. So I get over the hill, and what do I see but some guy, tearing ass across the sand - he didn't even have pants on - followed by about seven or eight Giant Radscorpions. Holy crap, I'm thinking, this must be some semi-obscure, non-quest scripted event. So being a good samaritan, I break out the Gauss Rifle and start chasing this whole damn caravan, hoping to peg off all the monsters before they kill this poor fucker. The dust clears, and he's still alive, so I head over to talk to him and see what his story is.

"
Stop bothering me, will you? I won the motherfucking lottery!
"



I seriously lost my shit; I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out.
 
LabouredSubterfuge

LabouredSubterfuge

Member
Coxswain said:
Okay, my new favourite Fallout story: I got the game started it up, played through at least up to Novac without ever really venturing too far from the most obvious path through the game: Goodsprings, Primm, Nipton, etc, all more or less the way you'd expect. So, you know, I've kept playing since then, it's like forty or fifty hours of game later; I've got the Platinum Chip, a list of active quests as long as my arm and a list twice as long of ones that I've finished, and I'm just tooling around near the Mojave Outpost doing a bit of exploring that I neglected the first time through since I was useless in combat until like level 15 or so.

So sure enough, I'm walking across the desert, and I see a friendly ping on my radar, right next to a huge mass of enemies, on the other side of a dune. Sweet, I think, this must be something cool that I missed. So I get over the hill, and what do I see but some guy, tearing ass across the sand - he didn't even have pants on - followed by about seven or eight Giant Radscorpions. Holy crap, I'm thinking, this must be some semi-obscure, non-quest scripted event. So being a good samaritan, I break out the Gauss Rifle and start chasing this whole damn caravan, hoping to peg off all the monsters before they kill this poor fucker. The dust clears, and he's still alive, so I head over to talk to him and see what his story is.

"
Stop bothering me, will you? I won the motherfucking lottery!
"



I seriously lost my shit; I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out.
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:lol :lol :lol

This fucking game.
 
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Coverly

Member
Bebpo said:
You'll be fine by the end, but yeah that'll screw you for a while. It took me like 15 hours to recover from that :\
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Thanks for the responses guys, was worried for a bit that the only place I would be welcomed would be Goodsprings..

The game has crashed about 4 times today really annoying. At least one good thing about this buggy game is that while trying to wipe out the Van Graffs they got stuck at the counter and I just picked them off without getting hurt. Brb, selling their loot.
 
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Wallach

Member
Danne-Danger said:
I really wish they'd retool the SPECIAL system next time. It feels so pointless now that it's not turn-based anymore. Two of the stats are completely useless (PER and AGI) and CHA is borderline useless thanks to the crummy companion AI (though the speech and barter bonus is nice).
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AGI is not useless at all. AGI controls your movement speed, reload speed, AP regeneration, and total AP.

PER's not great, but in the end it doesn't matter because perks like Better Criticals require 6 PER. The idea that you're crit stacking without it seems really stupid.
 
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revolverjgw

Member
Boone is hilarious. I gave him some sort of huge heavy hammer thing just to get it out of my inventory, but he took a liking to it and is using it to destroy every living creature on the planet.
 
B

Brazil

Living in the shadow of Amaz
Bebpo said:
I walk into this room and there's this prostitute walking around. I walk up to her to talk to her and get this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/bebpo/deadwomanwalking.jpg[IMG]

and I inspect her "dead" body and then when I'm done she keeps walking down the hall![/QUOTE]
I love how the game states that "this woman is dead". It's like it's trying to make you believe you're crazy.
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TurboLibre

Member
Coxswain said:
Okay, my new favourite Fallout story: I got the game started it up, played through at least up to Novac without ever really venturing too far from the most obvious path through the game: Goodsprings, Primm, Nipton, etc, all more or less the way you'd expect. So, you know, I've kept playing since then, it's like forty or fifty hours of game later; I've got the Platinum Chip, a list of active quests as long as my arm and a list twice as long of ones that I've finished, and I'm just tooling around near the Mojave Outpost doing a bit of exploring that I neglected the first time through since I was useless in combat until like level 15 or so.

So sure enough, I'm walking across the desert, and I see a friendly ping on my radar, right next to a huge mass of enemies, on the other side of a dune. Sweet, I think, this must be something cool that I missed. So I get over the hill, and what do I see but some guy, tearing ass across the sand - he didn't even have pants on - followed by about seven or eight Giant Radscorpions. Holy crap, I'm thinking, this must be some semi-obscure, non-quest scripted event. So being a good samaritan, I break out the Gauss Rifle and start chasing this whole damn caravan, hoping to peg off all the monsters before they kill this poor fucker. The dust clears, and he's still alive, so I head over to talk to him and see what his story is.

"
Stop bothering me, will you? I won the motherfucking lottery!
"



I seriously lost my shit; I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out.
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:lol
I know that guy. He ran up to me and said the same thing then disappeared over the horizon. After a bit of walking I see a figure off in the distance and notice he's running back towards me, I figured I was going to get more of the mission or something. Instead he just charged towards me with an army of critters attacking him. What's strange is that he was running right at me, it was like he was trying to shake off the attackers by distracting them with me.
 
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Duki

Banned
Tkawsome said:
:lol
I know that guy. He ran up to me and said the same thing then disappeared over the horizon. After a bit of walking I see a figure off in the distance and notice he's running back towards me, I figured I was going to get more of the mission or something. Instead he just charged towards me with an army of critters attacking him. What's strange is that he was running right at me, it was like he was trying to shake off the attackers by distracting them with me.
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you do actually see what lottery he's talking about btw
 
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SixStringPsycho

Member
Tkawsome said:
:lol
I know that guy. He ran up to me and said the same thing then disappeared over the horizon. After a bit of walking I see a figure off in the distance and notice he's running back towards me, I figured I was going to get more of the mission or something. Instead he just charged towards me with an army of critters attacking him. What's strange is that he was running right at me, it was like he was trying to shake off the attackers by distracting them with me.
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I killed him and stole the lottery ticket. Now I dont know where to redeem it to get a million caps
 
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jax (old)

Banned
i kind of made a technical boo boo with regards to the perks this round and its annoying me. SHould have gone for the skillpoint+2 at the start but I added to stats - ayyye. :'( Because you level up really quickly at the start and I can add stats later. Oh well, my woman sneaker is super duper though. I don't think it holds up too well on the 2nd playthrough though...
 
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TurboLibre

Member
Duki said:
you do actually see what lottery he's talking about btw
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Oh I know. I actually completed that way before I ran into him (approached the city from the opposite end). Also ran into the injured guy in the house after leveling a Powder Ganger hideout, his reaction was really funny.
 
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GDGF

Soothsayer
Coxswain said:
Okay, my new favourite Fallout story: I got the game started it up, played through at least up to Novac without ever really venturing too far from the most obvious path through the game: Goodsprings, Primm, Nipton, etc, all more or less the way you'd expect. So, you know, I've kept playing since then, it's like forty or fifty hours of game later; I've got the Platinum Chip, a list of active quests as long as my arm and a list twice as long of ones that I've finished, and I'm just tooling around near the Mojave Outpost doing a bit of exploring that I neglected the first time through since I was useless in combat until like level 15 or so.

So sure enough, I'm walking across the desert, and I see a friendly ping on my radar, right next to a huge mass of enemies, on the other side of a dune. Sweet, I think, this must be something cool that I missed. So I get over the hill, and what do I see but some guy, tearing ass across the sand - he didn't even have pants on - followed by about seven or eight Giant Radscorpions. Holy crap, I'm thinking, this must be some semi-obscure, non-quest scripted event. So being a good samaritan, I break out the Gauss Rifle and start chasing this whole damn caravan, hoping to peg off all the monsters before they kill this poor fucker. The dust clears, and he's still alive, so I head over to talk to him and see what his story is.

"
Stop bothering me, will you? I won the motherfucking lottery!
"



I seriously lost my shit; I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out.
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Best thing I've heard all day :lol
 
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epmode

Member
My favorite line in the game so far happens when you complete the quest to get Boone:

The T-Rex shopkeeper (who previously gave me a discount since I was so friendly with the inkeeper): "I killed Jeannie, do I still get my discount?"

I'm usually a SUPER HELPFUL wastelander but I had to say it!
 
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Wallach

Member
Jax said:
i kind of made a technical boo boo with regards to the perks this round and its annoying me. SHould have gone for the skillpoint+2 at the start but I added to stats - ayyye. :'( Because you level up really quickly at the start and I can add stats later. Oh well, my woman sneaker is super duper though. I don't think it holds up too well on the 2nd playthrough though...
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What level is she now?
 
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Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Man, Spiked Knuckles are really good. My character has 19 in unarmed and melee, it seems pretty crazy. Is it even worth it to dump points in these areas if it's already useful as-is?
 
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