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

Gave up, bought this on Steam last night, going to try to get some playtime in later today.

We should mention for all PC players that you really should mod the hell out of the game. Makes for a far more entertaining experience.

Tho I still to find the Oblivion-style mod that replaced the moon with an under-construction Death Star.

(crossposting this here from the employment thread, since it fits) I just got back from an interview today, and they want me to start tomorrow, so forks you might get that copy just yet

(knock on wood)

Getting the kooky spacesuit in the ghoul rocket site was fun. I think i'm missing something or a joke with the navigation controls. What was the point of correcting it?

I don't think there's a joke - just an XP bonus for helping them land closer to their goal.

By the ay I'm having to shelve this unless I hear there's a freeze/crash fix. I've had two real crashes, where the system reboots itself, and tons of hard freezes that cause me to manually reboot the PS3. Can't get more then 20 minutes of playtime before I'm restarting. It's a shame - I was enjoying it more than Fallout 3.

Probably jinxed it with all my trouble free talk up thread.

Is it just me, or is Normal mode pretty darn easy when it comes to combat at the beginning of the game? I might have to flip it to Hard, although I usually save that for replays.

I started playing two days ago and I've gone around and picked up a few quests but not finished that many. I've gotten as far as the ghouls in the factory and will have to take care of this Nightkin issue when I go back to the game.

The best thing I've lucked into so far was that I leveled before rescuing the Deputy at Bison Steve's, so the gang leader there had an incinerator. My current strategy for difficult guys out in the wasteland is to shoot them, run around until the fire goes out, and shoot them again. Repeat until dead and crispy.

yes it's really easy at the start, it does get harder though (I've found anyway). Although that might be me not having any better weapons right now, and not levelling up quick enough.

crashing again. may end up just getting this for 360, as pc driver issues are doing my nut in.

I am not playing this game but I thought I would say that the Forks mix is delightful.

http://i.imgur.com/nTs9y.jpg

Oh Dear God, I just met the Lonesome Stranger and got him a job. the reward is more entertaining than I could have planned, and yet more proof of how much more fun this game is than FO3.

thnx poly

Vault 11! New highpoint.

And yes, I tried again - I just love the game despite being only able to play in 20 minute chunks. 20 minutes, save, quit, reload, repeat.

same

got day off tomorrow, looks like fishing is cancelled. might get to play this for a big session.

That sucks about your console port being so jacked up. I've had some bugs on the PC version, but the most annoying one was EDe going missing during the bomber run.

EZ and Ste, what system u on?

PC

ah ok. i'm working on the assumption that the xbox port will be the most fucked up of the 3...

I would doubt that, considering PS3 would have the least shared codebase with the PC

yes it's really easy at the start, it does get harder though (I've found anyway).

― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, November 2, 2010 10:17 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

yeah, this is how it was on 3 too. very uneven. I did vault 34 last night and it was rough on normal. by the end I was massively addicted and irradiated. fun!

hardcore is still not that hard btw. very easy to steal supplies.

I like that the vaults are a little more maze like too. can be annoying but adds a little atmosphere if you have to know where to go.

I'm on the PS3. Worse lookups are in towns with lots of people. I'm prolonging my play sessions by wandering all over the place instead of doing Vegas stuff. Of course, bazillions of cazadores seem to cause issues too.

the vegas stuff kinda sucks imo.

I'm wandering around northeast of Vegas and having a blast. Actual quests are overrated.

done a lot of wandering and definitely think the map is better on F3, just seems way too much desert of nothing on this one. On F3 I found even on the bare areas the scenery was still really interesting.

but liking the internal structures probably a bit better on this one.

some of the quests i enjoy. the vault + flamethrower one, frinstance, except for the very last thing you had to do when pissed me off so i went to gamefaqs

wandering around the H&H factory has given me a new display name

Haha!

some of the voicework in the game is great, even if the voices cast are, shall we say, true-to-form. Kris Kristofferson and Felicia Day, for example.

Yep. Most of the v/o is a huge step up. It reminds me of how impressed I was by the presentation of the first Fallout... it was really cool that whenever you had a talking head convo, you knew you'd get some great voiceover from people like Clancy Brown, Ron Perlman, Keith David, Frank Welker, Richard Moll, etc. I took a break from the game this week, but I'm playing again today. I just got to Jacobstown, and lemme just say that I'm glad mutants have personality again instead of just being bellowing hulks.

found the chainsaw! it's ON, now!

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/fallout-new-vegas-time-lapse-video?size=hd

Okay, now i have power armor and the biggest sniper rifle in the game. This should work.

Comprehensive 360 on the way apparently

Patch*

ok humble pie time, i'm actually loving this game now. reminded me why i got so into FO3 - and then got real sick of it once i levelled up to the top and found it all far too easy. (possibly my own fault as i started the point lookout dlc early in the game, found it incredibly hard then once i got back to the main game it all seemed too easy. not to mention how i overused the paralysing palm perk but anyway..)

getting on pretty well with the NCR now, wondering if to go to nelson and blow away the legion like they want me to, or if to hang fire on that and see if i can buddy up to the legion in case they have any decent missions. anyone here done this yet?

currently knocking the crap out of the legions

don't think it was meant to, but this totally sold me on getting new vegas:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2435-Fallout-New-Vegas

Except for the constant freezing it's great.

By the way, I reached level 30 before setting foot on the strip and the even more prevalent crashes have finally killed it for me. I've decided to save the actual story for a playthrough once they've patched the freezing thing.

NOTE: the "Pew Pew" gun is awesome. Especially if you have the meltdown perk. Just don't use it in close quarters like I did; crippled both my legs and knocked ED-E and Boone unconscious.

When you encounter the kid relating the historic mural at Nellis AFB in a bit completely nicked from "Beyond Thunderdome," I thought was suspiciously specific as to the date when the B29 was ditched in Lake Mead. So I went a-hunting, and found this:

http://indepthconsulting.com/B29/B29Lost.htm

The Story of Lake Mead's B-29

...All five aboard got out before the plane sank, escaping in two life rafts. About 12 minutes after ditching, the B-29 disappeared beneath the surface, not to be seen again for over 53 years...

http://indepthconsulting.com/Images/B29/Sonar201.jpg

I thought _he_ was, rather

He glitched out on me - started the story and stopped after about 30 seconds. Can't talk to him anymore.

man is that shit not patched yet?

Not on console. Hope to see some fixes by Christmas.

And hope it's better than EA's FIFA patch which didn't seem to do half of what they said and a tenth of what they originally promised.

http://www.ripten.com/2010/10/22/fallout-online-plans-to-launch-in-the-second-half-of-2012/

it's comin'

I just had a weird vision of it being the Van Buren engine, or at least a facsimile, with a ton of other people crawling the wastes.

And since it's MMO, you have to have a lot of character variation, so maybe some people are deathclaws.

pretty much stopped playing this for some reason, might be due to bad company 2 addiction rearing its head.

crashes have put me off admittedly, tempted to just wait and get it on 360 when price drops enough.

(that's under the basis that it won't crash as much on 360 !!)

I've been playing on PC and made the mistake of slogging around an empty Vault 11. Booooring. Reading about what happened in these places is neat, but without any cool loot, I am out of there.

Vault 11 is the best thing in the game! You crazy.