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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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Varth said:
You mean you spend so much time concentrating on your own survival that it doesn't leave breathing room for other things? Seems like some solid planning ahead should be able to curb that to some extent. If you make sure never to leave a town without proper supplies, given enough resources, you should be able to mess around with other stuff.
Obviously hard for me to say since I haven't actually played it yet, but some others on GAF seem to have managed with HC.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
C'mon, people, where are the screen grabs? I want to see how lovely the game looks and everyone's character builds.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Just finished a little over 2 hours on the 360 version. Haven't run into any bugs yet. I'm running on Hardcore with Wild Wasteland. Just finished all the Good Springs events
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So far Wild Wasteland is fun. I'm actually using the crafting system to make myself delicious food and I find myself rationing out my supply of purified water bottles. Since I purchased my copy at Gamestop, I have the Vault 13 classic pack. It includes a Vault 13 canteen and every once in a while a get a pop-up telling me that I've taken a sip of water from it. I'll need to watch my H2O levels to see if having the canteen actually decreases the levels.
Okay, I need to grab 3 more hours of sleep before another work day :lol . Can't wait to play more tomorrow.
and stood with Ringo, along with the whole town, against the 6 measly powder gangers
So far Wild Wasteland is fun. I'm actually using the crafting system to make myself delicious food and I find myself rationing out my supply of purified water bottles. Since I purchased my copy at Gamestop, I have the Vault 13 classic pack. It includes a Vault 13 canteen and every once in a while a get a pop-up telling me that I've taken a sip of water from it. I'll need to watch my H2O levels to see if having the canteen actually decreases the levels.
Okay, I need to grab 3 more hours of sleep before another work day :lol . Can't wait to play more tomorrow.
Curious to see if I'm going to be able to complete the game with my current build. I'm going to be screwed if I can't talk myself out of most situations; 3/6/4/8/9/5 for points means I'm basically a walking paper doll. But a smart, charming paper doll.
Interesting; I'm running Normal/Hardcore/with WW on on 360 and that section bugged out for me.
Reluctant-Hero said:
Interesting; I'm running Normal/Hardcore/with WW on on 360 and that section bugged out for me.
The last two Powder Gang guys didn't 'activate', or something. They were standing up the road a bit, but wouldn't move/attack and were invulnerable. Going into the saloon and back out 'reset' them, though, and then taking them out was easy.
Trent Strong
Banned
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Reluctant-Hero said:
The bugs didn't kick in for me till I got closer to the strip. Now I've got incredibly long loading times and I've had a few crashes while loading in and out of one of the vaults.
A tip I have to offer is: Save often. I almost lost an entire core quest chain because I tried to further my self with a faction.
Fucking NCR spies watching me talk to Mr House. I'll show em!
SonOfABeep
Banned
I'm just going to state that I'm annoyed with this thread being filled with posts about graphics cards and PC hardware instead of the game.
Hardcore mode is so awesome. Exactly what I wanted out of Fallout 3. Plus hard difficulty makes for a very tense, slow paced game, so far. Had a few technical problems, like an enemy appearing on top of a telephone pole and a gecko stuck in a rock, but nothing too bad.
Sometimes I think that the Gamebryo engine's physics and animation glitches are almost worth having because they are often so damn funny looking.
Hardcore mode is so awesome. Exactly what I wanted out of Fallout 3. Plus hard difficulty makes for a very tense, slow paced game, so far. Had a few technical problems, like an enemy appearing on top of a telephone pole and a gecko stuck in a rock, but nothing too bad.
Sometimes I think that the Gamebryo engine's physics and animation glitches are almost worth having because they are often so damn funny looking.
Minsc
Gold Member
Truant said:
I think that's one of the inherent flaws of the engine, Oblivion was the same way, I didn't even notice it until someone pointed it out, now I regret ever learning it does that.
The engine also does the always facing forward thing on tree leaves, if you circles strafe a tree all the leaves will spin to keep facing you, I am not sure how many trees with leaves you'll find though.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Glad to hear my 5850 won't have any issues. Sucks for you Nvidia users.
I agree with the requests for high res pics - I've already posted in this PC screenshot thread requesting some. :lol
I agree with the requests for high res pics - I've already posted in this PC screenshot thread requesting some. :lol
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
SonOfABeep said:
yeah, i mean, i get it and everything, but i can't play the game yet, and i really would rather be reading what the content of the game is like, about the quality of that, rather than all this useless tech head bullplop.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
For those of us who want to play it on PC it's nice to hear how the performance is.
Snapshot King
Member
beelzebozo said:
Considering alot of us are going to be going to the store within the next few hours to buy and are somewhat on the fence about the version, seeing how well it runs (or doesn't) on various hardware is EXTREMELY valuable.
Minsc
Gold Member
Foliorum Viridum said:For those of us who want to play it on PC it's nice to hear how the performance is.
I'm also grateful people post their experiences of how it runs as well, it's not like the game came out 3 months ago and people are posting page after page of hardware errors and performance... really now.
Couple of questions:
1) Do you get a home / storage for all your loot in the game ala Megaton and Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3?
2) How vast is the overworld? I mean, one of the things I absolutely loved in Fallout 3 was the little places you'd just find, shacks, little towns, houses in the middle of nowhere where you could just explore. Does NV do this well?
1) Do you get a home / storage for all your loot in the game ala Megaton and Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3?
2) How vast is the overworld? I mean, one of the things I absolutely loved in Fallout 3 was the little places you'd just find, shacks, little towns, houses in the middle of nowhere where you could just explore. Does NV do this well?
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
zel, i distinctly remember sitting two years ago in st. paul on business reading impressions and reviews of F3 and talking specifically with you about it. time passes, but not so much.
Trent Strong
Banned
taku said:
Yeah, didn't help. I'll just wait for a patch.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
Zeliard said:
if past instances are indicative of future results, i predict that i'll be somewhat easy to please. just walking into a new area, discovering it, and getting the experience points for doing only that was enough to activate some kind of melatonin tidal wave in my body and force me to keep going another four hours.
Oh how I love the global marketplace. The data is sat on my HDD but because I live on the wrong landmass, I can't play it for another 2 days.
Having said that, judging by this topic I'm not going to be playing it in 2 days. I'll be running it on a laptop with an Nvidia card I assumed it would be fine because Fallout 3 ran fine, it looks like I might need to consider picking up the 360 version as well. Bummer.
Having said that, judging by this topic I'm not going to be playing it in 2 days. I'll be running it on a laptop with an Nvidia card
I assumed it would be fine because Fallout 3 ran fine, it looks like I might need to consider picking up the 360 version as well. Bummer.beelzebozo said:
I get sucked into these games quite severely as well. I had some problems with Fallout 3 but I still poured many hours into it, particularly in the first few weeks of its release. It was the same with Oblivion, which had even bigger problems.
Mods help tremendously to extend that, of course, but generally any game that says "go forth and do what the fuck you want" has me by the balls immediately. I'm a slut for them.
Revolutionary
Member
Um.. my most recent save disappeared. I quit out for a second to reenable Vsync, and my most recent save is apparently from over an hour ago. Seriously? I quicksaved right before I quit the game. :|
I don't get how the hell that happened. Could it have something to do with Steam Cloud?
I don't get how the hell that happened. Could it have something to do with Steam Cloud?
A hilarious list of bugs
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/19/fallout-new-vegas-old-obsidian/#more-42059
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/19/fallout-new-vegas-old-obsidian/#more-42059
bunbun777
Member
So far so good on the ps3 version, there is a 'stuttering' type of hiccup that occurs every so often, as if the frame is resetting - a bit aggravating. Other than that I have seen npc's get stuck doing their thing but if i bump them it seems to help. a bit jaggy, seems the same as fo3 i think, not sure.
Oh and this is what i went with on my smartie pie:
S-3
P-6
E-1
C-7
I-8
A-7
L-8
4 eyes and WW with guns, lock picking, and repair tagged.
on hardcore-- ain't no thang.
Oh and this is what i went with on my smartie pie:
S-3
P-6
E-1
C-7
I-8
A-7
L-8
4 eyes and WW with guns, lock picking, and repair tagged.
on hardcore-- ain't no thang.
Question about the PC version for you all. I tried to google this up and I'm a bit confused.
Fallout 3 had PC achievements you could link to your 360 gamertag. Does New Vegas support this as well? The only reason I ask is because I plan to beat the game on the hardest difficulty and wanted to proudly display that achievement. I don't really trophy/achievement hunt UNLESS it's something that took skill on the players part.
Fallout 3 had PC achievements you could link to your 360 gamertag. Does New Vegas support this as well? The only reason I ask is because I plan to beat the game on the hardest difficulty and wanted to proudly display that achievement.
I don't really trophy/achievement hunt UNLESS it's something that took skill on the players part.MikeE21286
Member
These PC troubles make me
Decided to pick it up at Kmart tonight after work to take advantage of the $20 gaming coupon it comes with.
Decided to pick it up at Kmart tonight after work to take advantage of the $20 gaming coupon it comes with.
mjemirzian
Banned
Trying hardcore mode on very hard. Thirst rises at a very high rate, food and sleep not so much. The main problem is the vast majority of liquid you run across actually makes you thirstier, so even stuff like dirty water is a valuable commodity. Meanwhile there's tons of food and beds available. It's also silly how one sip from a drinking fountain or toilet brings your thirst down significantly (maybe to 0?)
Adjusting the difficulty changes how quickly you need food/water/sleep in hardcore mode.
Adjusting the difficulty changes how quickly you need food/water/sleep in hardcore mode.
I'm having the strangest problem: everytime I leave the game my autosave and quicksave games go back to a moment when I saved in the gas station. So now, unless I create a save game when I exit, my auto/quick saves will go back to that moment in time.
I've tried deleting the save files from my My Games FalloutNV folder but they just reappear at that same moment in time at the gas station when I load up the game.
I've tried deleting the save files from my My Games FalloutNV folder but they just reappear at that same moment in time at the gas station when I load up the game.