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

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.

It is pretty cool, I was just having trouble finding my way to the basement and it was getting late at night.

I had all sorts of problems navigating the radioactive vault so I totally understand.

only crashed once tonight, but jeez there's a helluva lot of other bugs too. in the heat of huge battles, half the time it wouldn't call up my pip boy, very frustrating.

and the ai of your companions, fuck man it's lame.

somehow still enjoying it lol, for me tho it's just nowhere near as good as 3

I've had the opposite experience. Boone seems to have a decent AI, I've had only one crash, and the game is a lot more whimsical, IMO. I'm kind of concerned by the fact it seems like I've got all kinds of sweet gear already and I'm only at level 10, but I'lll chalk it up to my successful early raid on the Powder Gangers.

Had to ditch out on Vault 11 for now, though. The uh, friends, in the room below the overseer's office were a little too welcoming. I'll go back when I have more plasma gear and armor.

Also, is it just me or are caps pretty plentiful? Kind of guessing I'll need them when I get around to going near NV?

Boone + ED-e turn you into a death squad.

Caps are plentiful, until you start needing to spend them on expensive shit. Depends on your play style I guess.

i just don't like the way the companions constantly stand in the way in battle.

i got Rex instead. Also i got his head sorted out but I've since found the brain of a better dog. Can I get it transplanted a second time? oh, hang on, i think i remembered that the doc might be dead. will check. Will ED still be available if i go back to where he returned?

i've come across loads of companions, are all the others rub?

also, i'm carrying a lot of fiends 'heads'. not sure what for, but it's satisfying to see it crunch off their body.

Incinerator is awesome.

ED should still be available. His actual attacks aren't super useful but his perk makes enemies pop up on the compass from really far away. Very useful for a sniper build.

ah so i'm screwed to get Boone as a companion? i had him nail the wrong guy in front of the dino. now he won't talk to me. dammit!

Anyone know what the ghoul or nightskin companions are like? might ditch veronica for one of those.

also, fuck those flying Cadava or whatever they're called yellow and blue fucking fuckers.

pretty much stopped playing this

obv this was an absolute whopping fib

Do you folks generally complete quests as you get them, or do you collect a few quests and complete them at your leisure? I've noticed I'll tend to get a little bit into a quest and then realize that I'd rather go get more experience or wait until I have more toys to complete them. On the other hand, it seems like characters can't wait to tell you where new locations are in this game, so I have been doing a lot of exploring.

I've been wandering around Black Mountain. Is this place just the mother lode of caps and weapons, or what?

at first i was knocking the quests out like they were going out of fashion, now i've racked up a half dozen that i can't do for whatever reasons.

happy to wander about right now.

and yeah, just done black mountain. serious score.

my friend said this about boone: "when you're travelling with him, it's like HE'S the main character, you're the companion." he's one helluva tough guy to have by your side. travelling through the mountains past those wasp bastards would be impossible without him.

one of my favourite moments of the game was me and boone spending about an hour blowing away the mother and alpha male deathclaws and their clan in that mining pit. avoided it for so long as i'd heard deathclaws were pretty much unkillable this time round but boone + missiles + incinerator + my cunning technique of running up a mine chute squealing like a girl soon sorted them out.

im up to about level 24 now, only just entered the strip and i can sense the old FO3 syndrome of it getting too easy starting to kick in. been doing a bunch of no-risk 'wander about and chat to people' missions in camp mclarran and freeside and it's all getting a bit zzzz. the xbox loading times between locations is frustrating as hell too.

I might need to tweak my graphics settings because dudes are firing at me and I can't even see them! Similarly, Boone shoots at guys a loooong way away. He's a hell of a sniper, even with bad guns.

I can't believe there's a plasma rifle at the Powder Gangers hq

I dont want to get all captain internet geek pissy pants, but you'd think bethesda/oblivion would announce the release of the patch to fix the damn game before they announced new dlc for the xbox..

great session on this tonight, caved and spent the cash to get into the strip and all of a sudden i have a dozen extra quests. And then in turn even more quests. Completed lots of them, am burned out now. phew.

is it actually possible to use the flight sim machines at the helis base?

The VR flight machines are locked out in this version. Future DLC perhaps?

On my 2nd play-thru now, this time as a blue-haired anime chick melee-type. I'm using throwing knives this time round, and it's awesome.

The latest PC patch(mixed with the Compiled Community patch) has improved to where more quest triggers and whatnot are working better.

so do i buy this today for $40 y/n

y

Yes. By the end of the year they might even make it playable without wanting to punch a wall.

see now that is worrisome

is xbox version more/less fucked than the rest, or about the same?

I'm on PS3 and it's hit or miss. Sometimes I can go two hours of playtime (or even 12 hours when I first started) before a freeze, or I can go 4 minutes. It also sometimes freezes on the first loading screen. Totally buggy.

HOWEVER, when I can play I love the damn thing. I really liked Fallout 3, but this is so much closer to what I want from a Fallout game. It's not just the setting but the feel that seems true to the spirit of the first two games.

All that said, I've put it aside for now and won't play more until/unless the patch hits.

^^all that, same on pc too.

I'm on PC and I've mostly just had problems with crashes, and not so many of them after I fiddled with the settings. YMMV.

And I still think you should buy it for $40. Won't find it cheaper for quite some time and IF they do fix it in the next few weeks as they've hinted at you'll be all set.

I'm running it on PC and it runs okay enough to play. Well enough to purchase, at least.

Done and done

Now if only I had time to actually sit down and play it

Drink enough beer, lad, and you'll find all the time you need.

On a related note, I'm disappointed that throwing knives ricochet offa helmets. If I aim at you face, I'm expecting to see dropforged steel sticking into yo sinus cavity, not harmlessly twanging off yer motorcycle helmet into the sagebrush.

alternating between the pardcast-a-thon and fallout new vegas. loving this game but the desert just feels so empty...

loving this game but the desert just feels so empty...

this this this. And why i'm inclined to repeat how I prefer F3 because of this. The map just seems a bit bare. F3 map felt tighter, far more interesting.

but still, it's great even despite the crashing. I can get long sessions out of it though, most of the time if it crashes it will crash in the first five minutes. Thank god for auto save - if i'd had to restart at checkpoints my feelings on the game would be different

so...this is kind of dull so far. no crashes tho!

hoping that theyre still kinda tutorialing me here in the first few towns - digging that theyres already been more story side stat tests so far (repair/science/speech/etc) than in the whole last game.

i won on hardcore last night. overall it was good but flawed. the occasional bits of weirdness made me wish there was a lot more. for all the Obsidian vs Bethesda talk, it felt very much like a gigantic expansion to fallout 3.

I've gotten a little annoyed by the large fences around everything and different entrances/exits to some areas, but overall, it's less irritating on this than FO3. The capital city wasteland was irritating in that you *had* to have gone through the right subway stations -- if you tried walking across the terrain, you'd get blocked off eventually.

I think part of why the desert seems so sprawling is that they didn't include as many sections of the map that you can't get to.

Yeah, I like being able to trundle off in pretty much any direction I choose, barring mountain ranges and deathclaws in the way...

Ok characters are def better and the quests in general are more interesting than the first one, I think it's just kind of a sloooow starter.

Yeah, the initial trip to Vegas is a haul