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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #600 on: 31 Oct 2010, 07:52 »

Wait, CHA affects your party member's stats?

Holy shit how did I not hear about this.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #601 on: 31 Oct 2010, 12:14 »

Just got New Vegas, someone tell me how to roll regarding stats for a sneaky gunslinger.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #602 on: 31 Oct 2010, 12:53 »

5 STR, relatively high PER, whatev END, whatev CHA, whatev (preferably above-average) INT, relatively high AGI, whatev LUCK. Luck is always a dump stat for me. Take Four Eyes as a trait and grab the free eyeglasses from the doctor's house you start out in, and get a nice hat from a powder ganger or something - instant +2 PER, so you really don't need to raise your PER above 7, especially if you want to drop 4,000 caps on a PER upgrade in New Vegas. AGI is for the children / for sneaking. Grab silent running as a perk - you may not realize it but when you move at full speed while crouched without it, you're not actually sneaking. Iron sights on most any rifle weapon will do for sniping - a scope's just icing.

Skills: Guns (obv), Repair (for hand-loaded ammo / maintenance), and a third option of your choice. Either a utility skill befitting your stats (Science / Lockpick / Speech / Medicine / Survival) or Explosives, which is a nice fallback when you get to a point in the game where bullets aren't as effective.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #603 on: 31 Oct 2010, 15:13 »

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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #604 on: 31 Oct 2010, 16:39 »

5 STR, relatively high PER, whatev END, whatev CHA, whatev (preferably above-average) INT, relatively high AGI, whatev LUCK. Luck is always a dump stat for me.

It seems like luck, like charisma, halfways breaks the game when maxed - You crit like mad and your opponents do pretty much minimum damage and miss a lot. Charisma makes companions pretty badass-.

If you take all of the SPECIAL training perks, you get an average of 7 in all of the skills, pluss bonuses in game. With four eyes, you can safely drop PER to 7, I'm not sure if there's any other Strength boosts, but I'm guessing that power armor still gives +2, so you'll never need more than 7 or 8 in STR to start with (5 or 6, really, unless you want to down Deathclaws with your fists or carry three miniguns). If you are good at hitting stuff, you won't need AGI that much, since it boosts AP. This is especially true for high INT builds, as you get a load of extra skill points, so you can max out your shooting skills. Of course, you'll have a bit lower run speed, but the scenery is nice, and if you've been past that spot more than three times already, you're probably fast-traveling anyways.

What I'm trying to say is that while stats are important, it's probably best with most builds to have at least decent luck, charisma and intelligence, since those are important all through the game.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #605 on: 31 Oct 2010, 17:13 »

It should be noted that power armor is pretty damn hard to get in this game. Much harder than 2 or 3. It's basically a rehash of 1 in that respect. It's easy to go through the game never having acquired it.
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« Reply #606 on: 31 Oct 2010, 17:38 »

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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #607 on: 31 Oct 2010, 18:31 »

Okay so I got my traxxx uploaded.

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1. Download the "pure" RACE mod (huh, I wonder if they noticed how that sounds)
2. Extract it to your FO:NV folder. In Data/Sounds/Songs/RACE/ there there will be 250 .mp3 files. All of them are about a second long and consist of a metronome sound. If you want to, you can copy your music into this folder and rename the songs as "01", "02","03" etc. and you will be able to select said songs (or utilize a random selector) through a weightless quest item in the Apparel section of your inventory. Optimally, songs should be at 192 kbps maximum, lest you cause memory problems. You don't have to fill all 250 slots - You can set limits on what the game uses by factors of 10 through the inventory item.
3. Make sure to check the .esp in the Data Files section of the launcher, and it should work.

Now, if you want to use my meticulously curated bloc of 120 songs, you can get them here, broken up into 4 parts - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. If you only want to use one or a few of them, each .rar includes a segment of the whole (part 1= 1-75, part 2= 76-125, etc.) Included are Mark Morgan's remastered FO soundtracks, and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, which Morgan blatantly stole from wholesale in some cases and took general cues from in others. There's also quite a bit of stuff from Nest, Caul, Casino Vs. Japan, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Coil, and others. Requirements were that they had to be instrumental and somewhat desolate in sound.

If you use my tracks and run into any problems, let me know. RACE isn't entirely stable - it won't crash your game but it might "skip" to an earlier point in a song, or stutter when moving between areas. It shouldn't be anything too severe.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #608 on: 01 Nov 2010, 10:28 »

It should be noted that power armor is pretty damn hard to get in this game. Much harder than 2 or 3. It's basically a rehash of 1 in that respect. It's easy to go through the game never having acquired it.

funny story: I've never succesfully gotten power armor training in any Fallout game. I always think about it too late or, in the process of trying to get it, end up killing or alienating the people who do it.

I already killed those Brotherhood assholes in the bunker, but I just got Arcade's quest so hopefully I can get it without screwing it up too badly. I'd like to try the stuff out at least once in Fallout career.  :-P


oh yeah and how the heck are you supposed to protect Kimball? I wandered around the dam forever but couldn't get the optional "investigate the area" part of the quest, so naturally he didn't make it.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #609 on: 01 Nov 2010, 17:58 »

There is a Sandstorm mod out and it looks pretty radical, especially when paired with the Depth of Field mod (which is a little wonky, but pretty awesome with NV's wide vistas). Unfortunately there are no AI modifications, so you're effectively limiting your effectiveness at range while enemies (and companions) will act as though they have no such impediments. Great for flavor, too.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #611 on: 01 Nov 2010, 20:35 »

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« Reply #612 on: 01 Nov 2010, 21:37 »

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« Reply #613 on: 01 Nov 2010, 22:09 »

What the math... why would anyone, I don't know.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #614 on: 01 Nov 2010, 22:58 »

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« Reply #615 on: 01 Nov 2010, 23:33 »

Hit enter bro >: |

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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #617 on: 02 Nov 2010, 07:40 »

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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #618 on: 02 Nov 2010, 15:59 »

Made a Cult Leader character (3, 3, 4, 9, 9, 3, 9) modeled after Daisy Adair from Dead Like Me, got ED-E, trekked to New Vegas through the fucking quarry, got Cass, now quite successfully gambling to raise money to max my Cha, Int, and Luck.

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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #619 on: 02 Nov 2010, 23:21 »

I know where someone can get free power armor, go into the centaur preserve on black mountain and poke around...bring rad resistance and healing.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #620 on: 03 Nov 2010, 00:49 »

Or into the REPCONN Headquarters.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #621 on: 03 Nov 2010, 01:06 »

Pretty sure you need training to wear it, though, ala FO3. Only one way to get that, AFAIK.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #622 on: 03 Nov 2010, 01:12 »

yeah training is required.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #623 on: 03 Nov 2010, 03:31 »

Two ways, I think. You can either join the Brotherhood or finish Arcade's sidequest and get the Enclave armor from the Remnants

Actually, I'm gonna start a debate: does New Vegas have the best gay characters in video games to date? It's not a high bar but sure as hell can't think of any better right now.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #624 on: 03 Nov 2010, 10:48 »

How many gay characters are there?

I know there's that one NCR Ranger chick who got raped or whatever, that says "Come back when you're tall blonde and female" if you try to hit on her. She seemed kinda like she might have been forcing it though, probably because of the rape.
I feel like at some point I encountered another one, but I can't remember anything about it.


In other news, I finally beat it last night, and won it for House. I couldn't deny him his centuries of planning and robotic army building. I had to see where he went with it.

Also, the first three groups/people/places that it showed in my slideshow were people that all got brutally murdered by me, for basically no reason at all. The Brotherhood; nuff said. Veronica because...well, because she didn't wanna travel with me after I slaughtered the Brotherhood and...well, she caught me in a bad mood so I blew her head off. I forget who the next one was.

Anyway, I immediately started a new run on Hardcore mode focusing on Strength, Charisma, and Luck with Melee, Repair, and Unarmed tagged. I'll probably add Survival with the Tag! perk later.
Anyone have any recommendations for good Melee/Unarmed weapons really early on?
I've got a machete, a baseball bat, and a shovel, but I'm still no match for pretty much anything yet.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #625 on: 03 Nov 2010, 11:08 »

I was actually referring to Arcade and Veronica, who are both gay.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #626 on: 03 Nov 2010, 11:24 »

I used tire irons pretty effectively early on. You can find lead pipes on the Jackal Gang at the highway patrol on the way to Mojave Outpost which are pretty good too.

Strike that, there's a bladed gauntlet in the Vikki and Vance in a locked safe.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #627 on: 03 Nov 2010, 11:26 »

I was actually referring to Arcade and Veronica, who are both gay.

huh. I had no idea.

I guess that pretty much proves your point though, right? Most games with gay characters seem to make a point of telling you about it, but I had no idea about those two (they're just like normal people OHMYGOD).

Granted, the only conversation I ever had with Veronica involved her hating me and me killing her.
I spent the last half of the game with Arcade though, so I'm kinda surprised he didn't mention it. Maybe he did and I just forgot. I dunno.

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« Reply #628 on: 03 Nov 2010, 11:58 »

I found out Veronica was by just talking to her and she revealed it.  But I had a feeling Arcade was gay but didnt know for sure.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #629 on: 03 Nov 2010, 15:28 »

Arcade alludes to it a couple times in his early dialogue, but pretty much states it outright on his sidequest. Apparently if you have the Confirmed Bachelor perk, you can hit on him to bypass the 75 Speech check needed to recruit him. Basically, I just think the game did a really good job of making it relevant to their characters without it being the totality of their respective identities. It's very tasteful.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #630 on: 06 Nov 2010, 15:47 »

i have to eat crow about how buggy this game is. it's ridiculously buggy. thoroughly buggy. seemingly every sidequest has some kind of potentially gamebreaking bug associated with it.

an absolute blast but my god i would love to go two hours without awful, awful bugs.
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« Reply #631 on: 06 Nov 2010, 15:54 »

Meanwhile in my ridiculous amount of time I've been playing, I sort of have to do the same as JC, but in the opposite direction.

I've played the shit out of this game and have yet to encounter a gamebreaking bug. The worst bug I've encountered was a centaur clipping into a rock and being unable to be killed. Oh no.

I've also started installing mods, which is a thing I don't usually do to any game ever, but I want it to just fucking look prettier. There's not a whole lot of that out there yet, though.
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« Reply #632 on: 06 Nov 2010, 16:15 »

I had about 4 hard locks and one companion getting lost bug that cost me about an hour of progress, and a whole lot of serious framerate hitching, but that was spread out over nearly 70 hours of play. Nothing that I would qualify as 'game-breaking', but I know a lot of people made it out a lot worse.
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« Reply #633 on: 06 Nov 2010, 17:07 »

Oh yeah. The framerate is balls sometimes. There's a potential fix for PC that's had a lot of reported success, but I didn't notice any for me.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #634 on: 06 Nov 2010, 17:16 »

This game is absolutely unplayable on my stationary computer, which is a monster of custom hardware. My laptop, which has slightly lower specs, but was just bought three months ago as a completely standard pre-built laptop, runs it without any problems whatsoever. It seems like the game's biggest problem is handling some kinds of hardware, or maybe hardware configurations. There's also a codec pack out there that apparently completely breaks the game. No matter what the problem is, it's pretty sloppy from Obsidian, who seemingly has managed to release a game that's more bugged than the other two games on the same engine, which were made by Bethesda, for Christs sake.


The story is pretty damn engaging at the moment. I like that there's an opening for working for all or none of the factions up until a critical moment. Right now I'm playing to both Mr. House, the NCR and the Legion (although I think I've made my last visit there not involving people getting shot in the head from afar), planning on usurping Mr. House's place as Strip owner, and helping the NCR out, as I don't think owning the Strip would be as fun with the Legion winning, since they have a tendency to outlaw alcohol and murder whores. I'm yet exited to see if this is actually possible to do, it looks like it, but with three factions and several more sub-factions, I'm pretty darn excited to see how many opportunities there are in between.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #635 on: 06 Nov 2010, 18:33 »

i mean, e.g. the nightkin quest. after getting the ghoul out of the basement, i went back to talk to davison. the second i try to talk to him, he aggros, turns invisible, and then chases me until he kills me. after some googling i find out that i have to actually leave my companion in a locked room, get davison to aggro, leave the area (!) and wait for 24 hours, after which i can go and he will de-aggro. this worked except he stayed invisible.

i've had something like this happen in three or four quests at this point. really, profoundly frustrating.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #636 on: 06 Nov 2010, 19:11 »

i mean, e.g. the nightkin quest. after getting the ghoul out of the basement, i went back to talk to davison. the second i try to talk to him, he aggros, turns invisible, and then chases me until he kills me. after some googling i find out that i have to actually leave my companion in a locked room, get davison to aggro, leave the area (!) and wait for 24 hours, after which i can go and he will de-aggro. this worked except he stayed invisible.

i've had something like this happen in three or four quests at this point. really, profoundly frustrating.

I was going to comment about how the only problem I've been having with it is that it freezes ridiculously often, but I haven't seen any game breaking bugs.  But then I read this post and thought, "Wait... Davison isn't automatically hostile?"  So I guess I have to go do that quest again without a follower this time or something.  Good thing I just started a new character.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #637 on: 06 Nov 2010, 19:18 »

I think the worst bug I've run into (besides the fucking Cazadores, ba-dum-tish) is when my gun stopped firing completely when I went into VATs during the main quest where you go into Boulder and either fight/bargain with the gang members there. Other than that just a whole effin' load of graphics glitches, and one that was making Death Claws only render when they were about 15 feet away from me, luckily that one stopped after a while.
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« Reply #638 on: 06 Nov 2010, 19:23 »

a bighorn headbutted a feral ghoul while i was in vats and this caused said ghoul's ragdoll to completely flip the fuck out. it floated in midair with its limbs spazzing out and then flew into the sky.
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« Reply #639 on: 06 Nov 2010, 19:33 »

I think I may have mentioned this one, but it was really pretty when all of these bright colored things started shooting past me in long straight beams and landed on the ground all in front of me. When I went up to check what they were, I just saw them bubbling on the ground, like little mudpot springs or something like that, making a sound like canvas rippling in the wind. When I got close enough I realized that they were all corpses of like ants and mole-rats and whatnot. I don't know how they died or why in the hell they did what they did, but it turned out really morbid and its been stuck in my head for a while.
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« Reply #640 on: 06 Nov 2010, 19:52 »

a bighorn headbutted a feral ghoul while i was in vats and this caused said ghoul's ragdoll to completely flip the fuck out. it floated in midair with its limbs spazzing out and then flew into the sky.
That's an old and apparently unfixable issue with Gamebryo. When you load a quicksave or enter a new cell ragdolls tend to flip out - Protectron corpses in particular seem to launch into the air. You'll also notice how picking up something on a table or shelf will cause everything within a few feet of it to float slightly in the air or sink into other surfaces. It was a lot worse in Oblivion (where picking up an apple would cause all the other fruit and all the silverware to fall through the table onto the floor) but it's still puzzling.
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« Reply #641 on: 06 Nov 2010, 20:19 »

i've seen it happen in other games but not only has it never happened to me in gamebryo it also happened in the middle of combat which wound up changing the tone of the fight completely (the new tone was "WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENINGGGGG")
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« Reply #642 on: 06 Nov 2010, 20:30 »

This happened to me quite often around Old Olney in FO3.
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« Reply #643 on: 06 Nov 2010, 21:54 »

i just ran into another weird dialogue thing, and also i think it fucked up an actual quest – the charlie station is going to have a hard time receiving these codes, and i can't tell andy what happened there because i tried & failed a speech check with him earlier. so that sucks!
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« Reply #644 on: 06 Nov 2010, 22:37 »

Oh, actually... I was on Black Mountain and I hit a centaur with my super sledge.  It went flying into the air and I couldn't see it land, so I figured it was just a bug and no big deal.  Later, I was walking through Hidden Valley, and a dead centaur came out of the sky and landed in front of me.  I'm not sure how something like that happens, but it was amusing, so I won't complain about it.

I think the worst bug I've run into (besides the fucking Cazadores, ba-dum-tish)

I lol'd.  I almost hate Cazadores as much as I hate Deathclaws.
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« Reply #645 on: 06 Nov 2010, 22:55 »

Deathclaws tend to get sniped from afar but fucking Cazadores just murder me.
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« Reply #646 on: 07 Nov 2010, 00:41 »

The worst part about cazadores is that they usually travel in packs. Individual ones aren't that bad, especially when you target the wings, but they're quick and when you have 3 or 4 all chasing you at once it's kind of terrifying.
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Re: Fallout: New Vegas
« Reply #647 on: 07 Nov 2010, 01:26 »

Incinerators are best against them - all the HP bleed of a flamer plus some distance. Explosives work well too.

PS the ending slides for the game are really quite awesome, though I wonder if it's because Ron Perlman wanted too much money (I don't imagine that's really the case). My game crashes on the next-to-last slide, though.*

* Apparently this has something to do with the "quick fix" dll that fixed a lot of people's framerate troubles.
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« Reply #648 on: 07 Nov 2010, 02:35 »

Also if anybody else got the Collector's Edition, they may have noticed one of the cards in the included Caravan deck features a character not in the game.



Ulysses was apparently a companion that had to be cut. He was to be sort of a counterpart to Boone - holding a grudge against the NCR instead of the Legion. Judging from the looks of it he was probably a Khan, and probably used a flag / flagpole as a melee weapon. Others have speculated that he is more directly connected to the Legion, since the suits in the card deck correspond with factions and clubs are the Legion. Given how much havoc a character who "insta-battles" with NCR ala Boone would cause through most of the game, it makes sense that they would cut him, though he could have ended up being a spy or plainclothes agent, or something. We may never know!

Maybe a DLC addition in the future? Who knows.

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« Reply #649 on: 07 Nov 2010, 09:49 »

There's a lot of potential for DLC and I eagerly await it.
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