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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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g35twinturbo said:
Umm not sure about that...we are talking about Dead Money right? the way it`s going for me right now,it could be completly possible to continue playing after....i`m hoping it is because i`m almost level 34 and reaching 35 after this would be sweet...haven`t finished yet though(i`m very close to the end of Dead Money).
ZombieSupaStar
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only way I can see is a whole new landmassg35twinturbo said:
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
So what are the best perks in New Vegas? I'm about 10-12 hours in and so far I've gone for the extra 10% experience-perks and another similar one. I'm playing as a fairly average dude, mainly using guns and rifles.
ChoklitReign said:
Just did this quest! I really liked how all these missions and side quests kept developing throughout it, laughed a bit at some of the characters too.
Managed to take out 4 Nightkin (while being at level 3 too) before resorting to using stealth boys.
Upto Nordac now I think, but decided to do the missions I left to the side. Just about to go to some Ranger place to the West so I can find a Sheriff for Primm.
Best perks obviously depend on your build. Unlike Fallout 3 you can't be a master of all trades in New Vegas. Getting the extra skill point perk as soon as possible is a must. Comprehension also helps tons for hacking and conversations. Magazines are plentiful enough that you can basically get a +20 bonus to whatever stat you need for a minute or two.
Most of the other perks are extremely build-dependent. You do get some nice 'free' perks for completing challenges though. Mainly bonuses to specific types of enemies and with specific types of aid items.
Most of the other perks are extremely build-dependent. You do get some nice 'free' perks for completing challenges though. Mainly bonuses to specific types of enemies and with specific types of aid items.
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ElFly said:
Agreed. I liked FO3 better. The side quest were just more memorable, whereas in NV, I'm traveling location to location in a tedious and monotonous fashion. In FO3, the wasteland was a truly terrifying place full of super mutants, random Enclave dropships, raiders with missile launchers who blow up irradiated cars, etc, everywhere. In NV, there are. . Casadores, Geckos, and some watered down deathclaws. The enemy types don't seem as fearsome. NV brings alot of good things to the table, but overall FO3 is better.
Daniel Vavra (lead writer on Mafia and Mafia 2) "hated the story and quests of Fallout 3 but loved the story and quests of New Vegas."
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Lakitu said:I loved the Snatcher reference in Fallout 3
Where was it? I'm curious.
subversus said:
As harsh as I've been on NV, I agree with you on your last point (edit: inverted, i mean - NV really is better for some people too!) - I'm glad both exist. I'm really pleased people who were really into the original Fallout lore got pretty much what Van Buren should have been with NV. I'm glad both exist, and whilst I'm looking forward to a Bethseda Fallout 4, I hope there's room for an Obsidian Fallout 4 spinoff somewhere in the future.
ElFly said:
That's one of the reason's why I enjoyed it so much. I also really like the song selection in F3 much better for that reason too. A lot of the songs played on GNR had lyrics which were very ironic compared to what was happening in the game. Even with all of its problems, the feeling of traveling downtown DC whilst playing Easy Living or Jazzy Interlude gave a very unique sense of atmosphere which New Vegas was never able to replicate for me.
Overall, I thought it was one of the few aspects lacking in New Vegas and less thought was placed into the script and song selection of the radio stations.
klee123 said:
There's also the monotonous delivery of Mr. New Vegas vs the more energetic style of Threedog. Mr. New Vegas makes me sleep, and most of the songs are like that too. For some reason Black Mountain Radio doesn't get to all of the wasteland which means I listen to it whenever I remember to tune it. Is there a quest to give it more coverage like with GNR?
Anerythristic
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Got it as a gift. Played 8 hours over the holiday. I like it better than F3. The mission structure is better , the writing and dialouge is better, I even like the weapon design better. While DC was a city and that is cool, I like wandering the desert waste better, that is a matter of opinion though. That is all.
Still runs for me. Probably because I flipped all the switches on the broadcast tower, but the range of it doesn't seem any greater. Radio stations are really weak in NV, but thanks to mods that's not a problem for me. COLRAD is so good I don't mind I also played it in FO3.klee123 said:
g35twinturbo said:
Just finished Dead Money....if you meant,can you continue after Dead Money,if you loaded an earlier save before the ending of New Vegas,then yes but not like BoS...I went into Dead Money almost level 29 and got out at level 34....
I liked it enough,some area`s where a little frustrating because of one thing in the DLC but overall,it`s quite meaty and fun.
subversus said:
Could you good sir please tell me the unique story behind deserted shack?
Also how about someones shack x 20, gas station x 20, monster cave with a corpse x 20 etc. The uniqueness of the locations totally killed my will to explore about halfway in.
SuperSonic1305
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How the hell do I get to the fort? Everyone at cottonwood is dead.
SuperSonic1305
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BeeDog said:
That guy is dead. He was hostile so I had no choice
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Yeef said:
That was the first thing I tried and it doesn't work.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
"Have you ever seen.. a tree?"ElFly said:
For me Three-dog got super annoying, quick. "Good fight" blah blah. The music selection of GNR is really good though. i like NVs radio music as well but can understand a complaint like that. Its music for a different theme. Most of them are really chill and not too upbeat. Plus a good portion is country.. i normally hate country music but whats in NV fits so well.
Odd. It worked for me. I then had the most epic battle in the game and ate through all of my armor piercing rounds for the all american and like a billion stimpaks taking out everyone in the camp. Shit was crazy, son.SuperSonic1305 said:
It may be because at that point in the game
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krakov said:
How a deserted shack feels unique? Because of these little details like a bike left near the entrance or the way furniture is placed inside. These places a)feel like somebody just left but will come soon, they're habitable b)aren't really supposed to feel unique because all shacks are more or less the same. You don't go to the big city and wonder why a lot of buildings looks um... the same.
Also you chose to ignore a lot of not lying-in-the open towns, Vaults (each one is unique with some awesome quest or loot inside, not some dungeon with faceless Garrys 003-12123). Jacobs Town, Valt 22, Vault 11, Vault 34 - there are always surprises in them. Every factory you visit has a story behind it if you choose to read terminals. And most likely there's a quest tied to them.
And I'm not even talking about Repconn site, Helios plant, and a lake with a bomber and an underwater cave.
The only interesting location from FO3 that left a lasting impression was that place with mutated human tree. That place and the quest were sick. Here pretty much everywhere you go you can find some location on the same level of scale if you actually looking and talking. And it's very easy to miss a lot of locations.
What is wonderful about Mojave is that it leaves and breathes, you can logically explain why these places are there. It doesn't feel random. There are NCR territories, Great Khans territories, Legion territories and factions are wandering nearby.
Again I'm not saying that FO3 is a bad game. It definitely had some good moments but it felt very sterile most times.
One thing I don't like about New Vegas is that there's not enough scares. Where's my Dunwich building?? FO3 felt much more tense in some locations.
On the Lucky Old Sun quest and stuck.
Any ideas guys?
I've got to the Helios One mainframe thing but need to repair the generator. Only thing is, I need a repair skill of 35 or need to someone to help me. I have no magazines to read that increase my repair skill, and just went back to Fantastic but couldn't trigger any other dialogue from him.
Any ideas guys?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Console? i remember watching streams of NV when it first came out (well, was leaked) and the 360 version.. i swear it only played the same three songs for hours of gameplay. PC version seemed to not have this issue.Yeef said:
There is aNatural said:
robot nearby that can do the work for you. You need Science skill or an employee badge thats also nearby.
I've been fucking around for awhile now so I'm clocked at ~80. I checked my saves and I reached the point where you have to choose which faction you side with at 60 hours, so I added an approximate five hours for those end game quests. Right now, I've got 64 quests completed and 182 locations discovered. Since the ~60 hours, I've only done the companion quests too. There's probably more sidequests out there though, I didn't say I did them all but I did a hell alot, I think.subversus said:
subversus said:
Yeah sure, they serve a purpose. But I think quite a few locations would have been better unmarked, as to tell you don't spend an hour here looking for nothing. As I wrote earlier I kind of gave up after being burned by a bunch of caves with some ammo or other stuff that's strewn around the wasteland like tumbleweeds. I feel the same way about many of the settlements since they are often really big with not a lot going on other than random npcs going about. Finding that one questgiver among the populace got annoying sometimes.
Also I'm not saying there aren't any good locations, just to many without any interesting loot/story/whatevs. The vaults I've been in has been some of the greatest locations and I'm glad there are more settlements than in Fallout 3. Still I feel almost every location I stumbled upon in FO3 had something of value, if only a note or some piece of unique loot that wasn't fit for my build.
I must agree the games are quite different, and as you say I think New Vegas is a bit more reasonable, while FO3 is more zany. For me it's more about finding something new and exciting rather than a house where some bum made a brahmin steak. The immersion kind of breaks for me anyway when some NCR bigshot has 24 bent tin cans laying around his bedroom where he sleeps next to one of the soldiers.
As for scares in NV, I found some of the vaults to deliver on that front.
Also, a lot of these things would have been less annoying is it wasn't for the frequent load times which in a long session could go about for over one and a half minute (360).
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Cant confirm it myself atm but they are on the floor in the room adjacent to the Protectron stasis area.Natural said: