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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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bonesmccoy
Banned
Repconn is the deal-breaking mission for me. I absolutely loathe it. It just takes too long to finish at the end (after everyone is able to bypass the NightKin).
hemtae
Member
You can skip Repconn and those quests entirely.
Empty Space
Member
I remember having a really hard time with that area when I did it around the games launch. I think I ended up leaving buying a combat shotgun and a bunch of 20 gauge rounds to do it.
This time when I did it I had ED-E and Veronica with me and they did all the work for me.
afternoon delight
Member
I don't know, I got pretty conflicted about
uuuuuh deciding the fates of each of my new NPCs? I think Snuggler? described some parts of the game as some weird murder simulator. :lol
I also used a stealth boy and focused on sneak attack criticals.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Gun runners adds some cool stuff, but I'd say none of it is on the level of the actual "story" DLCs, and isn't really necessary unless you're going to do a full on playthrough.
All the new guns cost a lot of caps that you really won't get unless you put a good amount of time into the game and either sell all the weapons you pick up or play a lot of blackjack.
The first part, the finding of each of the companions, was awesome. But then you get into this giant confusing mess of a map design that is Puesta and Siesta del Sol north and south, and things get annoying really fast. Especially when you have to make your way back and there are a shitton more of the ghost people that all show up.
It clears back up once you get inside the casino, yeah.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Oh, I know - and I do. The perfectionist inclination in usually drives me back at some point though.
It just seems to me to be the most poorly paced mission in the game. You have combat exterior, combat interior, conversations, and then combat/conversations in the subterranean area. Just when you think it's completed, they drop 2 fetch quests on you for no bloody reason.
I loved Dead Money! It was not perfect - those sneaky bits aren't much more than a PITA - but none of the other DLC matched it in terms of story telling. For setting, I have a deep affection for Honest Hearts. Old World Blues didn't click for me (though I plan to revisit it soon), and I have only played the first 30 minutes of Lonesome Road.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Any way to increase the FOV?
Empty Space
Member
I beat Lonesome road a few minutes ago. Ulysses is probably the best written and acted character in either of the modern Fallout games. I didn't agree with the reason why he dislikes the Courier so much, but if the things he said were true about the area I'd probably try pick a specific person to be angry with too. The amount of heavy weapons ammo the DLC gives you is ridiculous and it was probably the first time I bothered to use heavy weapons. I disappointed by how linear it all was though it probably the most linear DLC out of all them even Operation: Anchorage. The armor you get from this DLC is kind of ridiculously good and the perks you get from it are really useful. If the speech and survival checks you run into along the way weren't so high I'd suggest people try and do Lonesome Road early just to unlock that stuff.
Oh and seriously fuck Deathclaws.
Oh and seriously fuck Deathclaws.
I don't remember if this works but go to Documents/My Games/FalloutNV/Fallout.ini, and search and edit fDefaultFOV=75.0000 to something you like and then move it to the bottom of the [display] section. Save it, set it to read-only, and try it out now.
You can also change fPipboy1stPersonFOV=47.0, fDefault1stPersonFOV=55.0000 and fRenderedTerminalFOV=0.15 to values more suited to your new FOV. I suggest you don't set everything to 100 but maybe if you use 85 like I do, you can do a proportional thing and end up with this:
fDefaultFOV=85.0000
fPipboy1stPersonFOV=53.0
fDefault1stPersonFOV=62.0000
fRenderedTerminalFOV=0.17
Hope what I wrote was understandable
Well, did you
come to terms with him about it? He won't join you but he'll fight alongside you at the end of the DLC. I thought Ulysses was great. When playing RPGs, you always take fetch quests at face value, not wondering what the consequences of your actions might be, because the game doesn't even hint so. Well, Ulysses is there to tell you the courier, but more importantly, you the player, that maybe you shouldn't accept every suitcase you're asked to deliver. That sometimes you're guilty for being willingly ignorant.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I don't remember if this works but go to Documents/My Games/FalloutNV/Fallout.ini, and search and edit fDefaultFOV=75.0000 to something you like and then move it to the bottom of the [display] section. Save it, set it to read-only, and try it out now.
You can also change fPipboy1stPersonFOV=47.0, fDefault1stPersonFOV=55.0000 and fRenderedTerminalFOV=0.15 to values more suited to your new FOV. I suggest you don't set everything to 100 but maybe if you use 85 like I do, you can do a proportional thing and end up with this:
fDefaultFOV=85.0000
fPipboy1stPersonFOV=53.0
fDefault1stPersonFOV=62.0000
fRenderedTerminalFOV=0.17
Hope what I wrote was understandable
Thank you but it didn't work.
Are you sure about moving to the bottom of the [display] section below bEnableEyefinity=1. Despite checking "read only" it reset every change I made.Hmm, moving that to the bottom of the [display] section is supposed to force it not to reset.Thank you but it didn't work.
If you're in a willing mood, you should make the same changes on FalloutPrefs.ini and if that doesn't work, try bringing down the console and typing SetCameraFov 90.
Kung Fu Grip
Banned
Im at the end of dead money and my god O_O
When talking to Elijah in the vault, the game skips some of his dialog as if i pressed a button. Has this happened to anyone else?
What did you guys do with all the gold? I took all of it and im currently over cumberd by over 1500wg. I want to try and leave with all of it. If its even possible.
When talking to Elijah in the vault, the game skips some of his dialog as if i pressed a button. Has this happened to anyone else?
HadesGigas
Member
It is there to sort of tease you. The theme of the whole story is to "let go", then it gives you so much you can't* possibly hope to escape with.
Empty Space
Member
More Lonesome road spoilers
I failed the last NCR speech check so he got mad at me and I couldn't convince him to stop.
I just disagree with him at a fundamental level. Yes Couriers help raise up the small towns in the waste and maybe they do have favorite routes, but how was Courier 6 supposed to know what the Eye-bot did? Never has don't shoot the messenger been a more appropriate statement then here. I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2, but it sounds to me like barley anybody knows about the Enclave. There didn't seem like anyway for me to know that the entire divide would rupture. It's a piece of Old World American tech and nothing they had ever created was so self-destructive that I'm aware of.
In hindsight I suspect that the Courier was sent with the Eye-bot by some NCR higher up knowing full well what it did. As a way to subdue this very threatening psuedo-nation. The person who sent it probably just didn't realize just how many nukes were in the area. I'm supremely curious about who the people that lived in the Divide were and how they got there and what organization their society sprang from. From what Ulysses said I'd have to guess they were a ex-military group that wasn't super militant like the Enclave or isolationist like the BoS.
I just disagree with him at a fundamental level. Yes Couriers help raise up the small towns in the waste and maybe they do have favorite routes, but how was Courier 6 supposed to know what the Eye-bot did? Never has don't shoot the messenger been a more appropriate statement then here. I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2, but it sounds to me like barley anybody knows about the Enclave. There didn't seem like anyway for me to know that the entire divide would rupture. It's a piece of Old World American tech and nothing they had ever created was so self-destructive that I'm aware of.
In hindsight I suspect that the Courier was sent with the Eye-bot by some NCR higher up knowing full well what it did. As a way to subdue this very threatening psuedo-nation. The person who sent it probably just didn't realize just how many nukes were in the area. I'm supremely curious about who the people that lived in the Divide were and how they got there and what organization their society sprang from. From what Ulysses said I'd have to guess they were a ex-military group that wasn't super militant like the Enclave or isolationist like the BoS.
I'm still really disappointed in the way energy weapons behave. With the exception of the Gauss rife pretty much every single energy weapon variant is weaker the its ballistics analogue. As much as I want to use energy stuff I always go back to using the CoS Sniper and That Gun. I think my biggest issue is the lack of a silenced energy weapon, but not much can be done about that considering the fact that I'm firing big yellow balls of goo and red beams of light.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Yeah, broke my heart as well. I managed to grab three of them.
Old World Blues is brilliant so far by the way.
New Vegas Ultimate Edition is easily the best 20 bucks I've spent in ages. It might well be one of the best WRPGs ever.
As I understood it, and that's why I like it so much,
the point of Lonesome Road is calling out on that excuse. When you work as a courier, in a place as cutthroat treacherous as the Mojave and the Fallout universe in general, you know the stuff you're delivering probably isn't a birthday cake. Like the movie The Transporter, you can build rules around you to protect you from knowing too much, but it was you who decided to be ignorant and it's for that reason that happen the things that happen. Maybe if you cared a little more, you could've prevented great disaster from happening. We don't as players, as Courier 6 doesn't as courier, and so we both take fetch quests willy nilly
Ulysses has a lot of things wrong in his argument, but the courier's not free of sin. She could've bothered to check, but she decided to look the other way. The Divide happened.
Ulysses has a lot of things wrong in his argument, but the courier's not free of sin. She could've bothered to check, but she decided to look the other way. The Divide happened.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Been getting back into this after downloading some of the DLC, starting with Honest Hearts, good stuff so far.
And while I did prefer NV overall, man, coming straight off of 3 its crazy how they actually managed to make NV a worse looking game lol. The new environmental assets in particular really don't look so hot in comparison to the DC wasteland.
And while I did prefer NV overall, man, coming straight off of 3 its crazy how they actually managed to make NV a worse looking game lol. The new environmental assets in particular really don't look so hot in comparison to the DC wasteland.
Bethesda was really crafty in playing to the strengths of the engine when making Fallout 3. The Capital Wasteland is a lot more restricted than the Mojave and features tons of destroyed buildings everywhere, which makes the sights to be a lot more interesting than the dead desert of New Vegas. I think neither's a looker, but FO3 is simply more eye-catchy, mostly because it pulled back from the classic Fallout look and did its own thing.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Didn't enjoy OWB as much as I thought I would. The writing was extremely over the top and didn't sit very well with me. The overall plot was trivial at best.
Lonesome Road is very decent so far though.
Lonesome Road is very decent so far though.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Alright guise, Lonesome Road is fucking fascinating. Why didn't you tell me earlier?
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
I haven't had a chance to play it yet. Been stuck on BF3 since it came out and while I picked up Lonesome Road during steam's x-mas sale, I still haven't played it. I loved the other DLC's though and really need to play Lonesome Road.
Our minds were in difference places, bro.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Finished it an hour ago. Will go back to it and
though. The "Lonesome Road" perk is too tempting.
refrain from liberating ED-E
Finish what? THe game? The DLCs?
I just finished the game a week ago. What a fantastic game. It took me 79 hours, and there's still a bunch of stuff that I didn't get to do. I'm seriously considering playing through the DLC.
Empty Space
Member
I kind of said it was awesome when I beat it. I kind of did hate on it at the same time though. I ultimately liked it though.
I thinks he means all the DLC. The DLC is well worth picking up especially if you have any interest in Elijah, The Burned Man, or the Courier who originally turned the Platinum chip job down. Even if none of that stuff is interesting to you its more Fallout: New Vegas and if you want more of that you will be happy. If you do pick up the DLC make sure to play it in order of release.
Dead Money > Honest Hearts > Old World Blues > Lonesome Road
Imp the Dimp
Member
Lonesome Road.
I'm finished with all DLCs now and will try to finish the main quest before the Diablo 3 release.
Oh you shouldn't miss the DLC for anything. To quote jim-jam-bongs, the New Vegas DLC makes my favorite game from 2011, just as New Vegas itself was my favorite game from 2010.
I absolutely am interested in that stuff especially The Burned Man. I was actuallys urprised when I didn't find him around in the world. I'm pretty positive he survived by the way they kept bringing up again and again. I'll definitely get to it eventually.
So I got the ultimate edition and was super excited to finally be able to play all this DLC. What I didn't realize was that before I could even get to start any of it, I was bound to end up getting addicted to the main game all over again. And once I get addicted to something, I'm either gonna finish it, or get bored with it.
Neither is happening soon. The DLC has to wait :/
Neither is happening soon. The DLC has to wait :/
blame space
Banned
i wish the expansions would go on sale
They have on several occasions. Bought them all while they were on sale.
XeroSauce
Member
Do you have to do it in order? I disliked Dead Money when I tried it and OWB seems like the most fun.
You don't have to, but you should if you care about the story.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Honest Hearts is much more typical Fallout 3/New Vegas, open world, keep (some) of your OP weapons, etc...but personally, I was let down by its execution. It felt more empty to me, lacking in personality compared to the other DLCs.
OWB is top tier though, (at least, if you like cheesy sci-fi) and if you cared at all about the DLC Storyline, Lonesome Road concludes it really well.
jim-jam bongs
Member
That sounds about right to me too. The bits of HH which are really Fallout appropriate are excellent, like the caches and characters, but it does feel like a bit of a sideshow to the main event (aside from Joshua Graham). Some good gear and perks though, I generally take Duckroll's advice and do it first these days since you can comfortably start it at a relatively low level and it gets you up to where you want to be for DM => OWB => LR.
XeroSauce
Member
Alright, I think I might just do that. Do I need to abandon my companions? I have infinite companion mods so I have an army of partners in Mortello suits, making the Warzones mod so much more fun. Espcially when Cass/Sunny will walk over an enemy with a minigun, pick it up, and use it in the middle of battle.
jim-jam bongs
Member
:lol
Unless the mod messes with it, you can't take any companions with you unfortunately. Just make sure you go to The Strip first so they go back there when you dismiss 'em, at least you won't have to travel all over the world trying to gather them up again.
I still prefer doing DM first, simply because it's my favorite
By the way, it's great to see you around these places again, man.
One of the patches added a recall machine to your Vegas suite, so you can always get your companions back that way, too.
By the way, it's great to see you around these places again, man.
bonesmccoy
Banned
They automatically wait in the tunnel for you.
XeroSauce
Member
Aim for the stinger and let ED-E/Boone do the rest.
Alright cool.
Threads like this make me wish there was a legit multiplayer Fallout game.
XeroSauce
Member
There's a song in there somewhere