Doesn't FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS deserve its own thread?

my character in NV is all about personal gain, basically my services will go to the highest bidder always and no freebies for anyone

whereas in FO3 I am a good guy (though a bit of a kleptomaniac)

I'm playing hardcore mode. It's not really that tough so far, we'll see when my resources dwindle further. One fight gave me problems so far, took like 10 tries.

I've had a couple freezes and a corrupt auto-save. Seen some coyotes stuck in the ground and some other animal stuck motionless on the road. Overall a bit of letdown as it's like a more buggy fallout 3. Also seems lacking in the great underground tunnels fo3 has.

seems kinda silly that hardcore mode cripples you so realistically and effectively wrt injuries and weight and yet you can still "fast travel"

You can even walk/run as fast as a gimp, you just limp at equal speed. I do think you're more vulnerable in those areas if crippled though.

Also not a big fan of CRAFTING. So far it is completely unnecessary and just a pain to manage 8000 different ingredients.

My character is a black lesbian obv.

about to start playing this tonight, any tips on those stats it makes you set up at the start? luck, intelligence, strength etc. or does it not make much difference, should i just go in blind?

I recommend high intelligence. Skill points run off INT and you'll want lots of those. Other than that I think you can make almost any build work.

so far not enough hacking either. I like when you can turn peoples turrets and robots against them. but there has been zero of that.

cheers mordy!

Yeah, I'd say INT is the biggest one, and after that you'd probably want everything else to be pretty balanced. Otherwise, I think this game does a better job than any of the other Fallouts at making just about any build a viable one - looking at all the interesting new perks really made me think about all the ways you could play through this game.

I got myself a pimp boy 3 billion. y'all jealous of my solid gold hardware.

Just got this to go along with being laid off again yesterday(after a whole 2.5 days of working a new gig).

Yeah, we're going to need another Ilxor playlist again if possible.

Been playing this along with Stalker, and i enjoy being a persuasive sniper. Heavy on the talky, heavy on the blasty from three hundred meters, etc.

been playing tonight, but not felt i've accomplished much apart from finding locations.

lots and lots of weapons, all seem pretty useless against any of the big guys though.

Depressing as it is, i do enjoy these environments more than your trad fantasy/Oblivion style genres

buy me a copy and I'll make you a playlist

If i was still employed, i would. i got laid off yesterday. Again.

fuck yeah i forgot, sorry
what's the tenor of this thing? what sort of music does it run on?

40s/50s country western and dean martin.

Guh I passed this without resolving the whole vegas power struggle/chip issue which is kinda why the main character gets dealt with at the beginning of the game! Woops. Guess Ill play through again. lol.

lol.

do i need to collect the ncp dollars? are they worth anything at some point?

Can trade them for chips instead of using caps, Legion money too. Not sure what else they do yet.

not getting much enjoyment out of this. the combat is so unsatisfying compared to similar games (and by this i mainly mean stalker). i know i keep whinging about no sprint button but jeez it's agonizing how slowly your guy moves across this mass of desert. a truly amazing game would combine this kind of plot with the combat mechanism of stalker, cut out 50% of the waffly dialogue and soup up the clunky control system (jumping is awful).

Just some random thoughts:

I'm about 45 hours in, and right now I'm willing to say this is as good as or better than Fallout 2.

I think this might have the most balanced skill system of any Fallout game. They made it much harder to minmax, but without actually weakening the skills. Repair's a great example - it's not the you-must-raise-this-to-survive skill that it was in Fallout 3, but the reward for getting it high is actually better (perks like Jury Rigging). There aren't really dump stats (well, Survival seems pretty lame, but it's still a prereq for some cool perks), and I've found myself thinking about wanting to replay the game so I can try different builds and playstyles (instead of just wanting to replay it so I can try different story paths or w/e) (though I definitely want to do it for that reason too!)

Heavy on the talky, heavy on the blasty from three hundred meters, etc.

― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yeah, same. When I first played FO3 I was crestfallen to see that my heavy investment in Speech ended up being pretty useless, but it's much more powerful in this game, which is in the tradition of Fallout 1/2. I also love sneaking around the wasteland and sniping shit, it's much more immersive and fun with the addition of the iron sights. I wish targeted melee attacks in VATS were in the cards, but it's still fun whipping out a baseball bat or golf club and whaling on shit every once in a while.

Note about blackjack: it's pretty much an ATM when your Luck is 7 or higher.

Ice-T loves the game: http://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/28896649513

My biggest complaint would be a couple of broken quests (monorail) and the fact that some quests aren't official quests (ie. no entries in your quest log or even your misc notes). Haven't crashed in a long time.

There's a ton of gay people in this game.

I hear you about the combat NI, though I disagree about the dialogue - it's an RPG! The amount of personality packed into this game is one of the biggest things it has going for it. For a while I was tempted to compare it (as an FPS-RPG) to Deus Ex, but really the emphasis is so much stronger on the RPG side of things that I'm not comfortable comparing them.

this has crashed loads for me lately, 3 times today. (pc)

Have you fiddled with the settings? I dialed down the AA and AF and I've been running smooth since then.

yeah, i took those down too. I'll try reducing more, i'm currently running it on max apart from the aa.

I basically won the final showdown with 100 speech and no shots fired. Its kind of overpowered in a way but towards the end I didnt want to schlep all over the map and using speech avoided alot of running around.

I started a new build this morning with a ton of strength and endurance. Gonna go melee/unarmed, barter and survival on hardcore for shits. Gonna be evil as hell too.

It's been freezing on me on the PS3 of late - I get about an hour or so of playtime before it just stops completely and the PS3 needs a hard reboot. Frustrating, because I'm enjoying this quite a bit.

Might be a blessing in disguise if you dont lose any progress. Ive noticed load times get significantly longer if you play an hour, hour and a half. If you reboot its not as brutal.

this is on xbox btw

I'm saving all the damn time because I lost about an hour of wandering at one point and it pissed me off.

haha he's posting about this all day: http://twitter.com/#!/FINALLEVEL

also, found out there's already two mods that add radio stations:

http://www.ripten.com/2010/10/24/five-essential-pc-mods-for-fallout-new-vegas/

http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/cat.php?id=88

http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34999

here's the playlist they're using, to get an idea of the flavors:

Benny Goodman - Wolverine Blues
Big Joe Turner - Rock The Joint Boogie
Billie Holiday - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Billie Holiday - My Mother's Son In Law
Billie Holiday - Sugar
Billie Holiday - Too Good To Be True
Bing Crosby - Cheek To Cheek
Bing Crosby - I Kiss Your . . . .
Bing Crosby - I`ve Got A Pocket Ful Of Dreams
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - A Hundred And Sixty Acres
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't Ma Baby
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Life Is So Peculiar
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Quicksilver
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - South America Take It Away
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - South Rampart Street Parade
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - The 3 Caballeros
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Weddin' Day
Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat - Rumba Conga Samba Merengue
Glenn Miller - Baby Me
Glenn Miller - Be Happy
Glenn Miller - Over The Rainbow
Jesse Stafford Orch - Shine
Josephine Baker - Blue Skies
Louis Armstrong - Go Down Moses
Louis Armstrong - Someday You'll Be Sorry
Louis Armstrong - The Peanut Vendor
Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtimers - Alice Blue Gown
Paul Weston - Freedom Train
Vera Lynn - A Star Fell Out Of Heaven
Vera Lynn - We`lll Meet Again

here's the vanilla playlist from the game:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fallout:_New_Vegas_songs

I'm amused b/c they include the same song Jessica Rabbit performed

So like 45 to 55 or so?

but with a swingin vegas vibe too huh

Okay Kingfish, just for you.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9YORRSTP

Please bear in mind I haven't played the game, so I'm just trying to imagine if this would work with FO3. I'm listening to the mix now and I like it.

Features:
The Master Keys - I Don't Mind the Rain (Unreleased, radio)
Charles Brown - It Ain't Gonna Be Like That
Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
Son House - Low Down Dirty Blues
Dizzy Gillespie - Oop Pop A Da
Jack McVea - Open the Door Richard
The Stanley Brothers - Death Is Only a Dream
The Big Three Trio (Willie Dixon) - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
The DixieAires - Joe Louis Is a Fightin' Man
John Lee Hooker - Crawling King Snake
Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
The Big Three Trio - Signifying Monkey
Redd Stewart - Brother Drop Dead Boogie
The Dominoes with Clyde McPhatter - The Bells
Earl Hooker - Sweet Black Angel
Eddie Boyd - Third Degree
June Christy with The Stan Kenton Orchestra - Everything Happens to Me
Howlin' Wolf - Evil
Junior Wells - Somebody Hoodooed The Hoodoo Man
Little Walter - Mellow Down Easy
Lambert Hendricks and Ross - Standin' On the Corner, Whistlin' at the Pretty Girls
Little Richard - Slippin and Slidin' Peepin' and Hidin' (Piano/Drum Demo)
The Starlight Gospel Singers - I Got a Right To the Tree of Life
The Weavers - Sixteen Tons
Bobby Blue Bland - You Got Bad Intentions
Bo Diddley - Hey! Bo Diddley!
Chuck Berry - Maybelline
Eddie Banks and The Five Dreamers - Sugar Diabetes
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Patience and Prudence - Tonight You Belong to Me

more dirty blues, gospel and rock oriented than what the game comes with.
That mod soundtrack sounds great; shame it don't seem console compatible.

heh, just noticed we both went with blue moon, but i went with elvis and they went with frankie

lemme know how she plays

thx forks, gonna give this a play tomorrow for sure!

Sweet! Thanks! Now to figure out how to integrate as a straight channel.

Or just play it off of the laptop at the same time, i guess.

Just found the xp glitch in a Camp Golf convo.

Exploiting xp glitchs doesn't feel like cheating; you've beaten the game at its own system, and now it's time to take the rewards.

some of the feelings i get from this game are too real and not fun enough lol. one mission had me lure some guy in front of a sniper. but i got told off for having no evidence. it was quite funny to see the guys head explode as i talked to him, but i felt really shitty when i was told off by the sniper guy.

need to level up before i go lurking into areas with deathclaws, they're sons a bitches but at least i got my egg!

ok wtf, and some possible spoiler talk re the Repcon hq building (the museum)

i managed to access a terminal in there which took my facial information to allow me access to level 1, which was fine and all the robots thought i was authorised. Then on that floor i did the terminal thing again, and it said my facial info was now approved for level 2 but the robot on the next floor just won't have it.

I didn't see that problem - had to hack a terminal on the second floor to get clearance there. Any chance you just misread it, or skipped to the top floor?

when they say level 1 clearance, do they mean floor 1 or ground floor?

ground floor I think. If you go up stairs you need different clearance.

yeah, i got two clearances. i'll check what it says on the doors.

plus side, did lots today and managed to not have one crash. i turned some more settings down, but i put it back in hdr mode and not bloom which i had on previously.

Ste, apparently this REALLY helps out with fps issues:

http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778

Haven't tried it myself yet.

ooh ta. i'll check that out later

there's no terminal for floor 3. You have to sneak it. I did it with a Stealthboy. Also, there's an extra-hard terminal up there, so i guess I'll be coming back for this place.

As for the "blasting in the head" scene, keep looking around for evidence. Talk to No-Bark and he clues you in to what's actually going on.

Some of the mission design is awesome; I really like how they figured how out to make a quest from just being a bouncer.

All games need more drinkin', chemin', slavin', and whorin'.

And Primm Slimm.

when they say level 1 clearance, do they mean floor 1 or ground floor?

lol britishes?