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

bugs so far today: got stuck between two crates that were seemingly stacked right next to each other. guess not. and then one where my fire button stopped working and my weapon would only fire when i exited out my pip boy menu. had a really fun vats experience where i just watched a gecko run at me in slow motion for a minute while my gun did nothing.

I havent had many bugs to report so far.. Only minor things. The more signifcant ones usually involve enemies doing dumb shit which allows me to kill them so Im not too mad at it...

I'm embarrassed to admit that like a fallout-crack fiend, despite being disgusted by the early crashes, I still played about 4 hours of this last night. I got down to Primm and cleared that shit out (took a couple reloads tho, I'm not in love with my character build atm). It's very familiar to F3, especially wrt the types of items you find lying around. I'm playing on hardcore which is actually kinda hard (gotta remember to tote around purified water and food) and led to one of my cooler Fallout experiences. Someone got a critical head shot on me while I was in the middle of clearing Primm and since stimpacks don't heal critical damage on hardcore I basically continued to fight with my head in poor condition (since I didn't want to run away and see a doctor). Every few minutes the screen went all blurry and shaky and static came up, which was a really cool way of indicating trauma and reminded me of the malaria mechanics in Far Cry 2. It's hard killing gangers when you can barely see the screen or aim your gun.

bought this :)

also, there's a patch already for this. not looked into it so i don't know which bugs its supposed to fix

yeah I just installed an update on xbox. its definitely out for pc..

Yeah, I always hope that when the gamemakers get interviewed that someone asks them straight out how easy it is to get under the hood and start fixing shit upon release. It's like, yeah, we all know it's going to be buggy when it comes out, we know your track record, but how easily can we get in there to start rewiring it?

I say yeah a lot.

the loading screes are starting to get on my fucking nerves...

otoh I just ran into a character from FO2!

yeah i wish they had shorter ones for shorter loading periods. maybe with different facts? or maybe it would be nice to be able to cycle through the facts instead of being forced to watch just one (or two when it is being glitchy)?

isn't it just the case that gamebryo as an engine is fundamentally flawed and even with the best will in the world probably couldn't be successfully bug tested at this point? this game was always going to be buggy as all hell, as was FO3. I know it's a bit lame and apologist but you kinda just have to accept that :/

I read that the hardcore requirements for drinking , healing etc differ depending on difficulty. is it possible to specify the difficulty of the 'hardcoreness' separate from the difficulty of the enemies? I don't like the idea of bullet sponge super mutants so would rather play on normal but at the same time I don't want to be able to go weeks without sleeping or drinking

was watching my mate play this last night. Is it the case that reading books now is only a temporary skill hike?

Magazines are a temporary bump; books are still permanent.

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

thank god for that. this gameworld is enormous

isn't it just the case that gamebryo as an engine is fundamentally flawed and even with the best will in the world probably couldn't be successfully bug tested at this point? this game was always going to be buggy as all hell, as was FO3. I know it's a bit lame and apologist but you kinda just have to accept that :/

― posting for godot (cozen), Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

This is very true. It's a remarkably bad engine in too many ways to count.

I cleared my cache this morning and it seems to help a little bit.. Maybe it was the beer I was drinking last night that made me want to punch my tv during all the load screens.

been playing today. one thing that strikes me is how much more spread out the map is, think i prefer f3 map.

i'm liking it though, it feels a heck of a lot easier so far and i'm kinda wishing i chose hardcore mode. i don't remember getting so much weaponry so early on in f3, also i'm managed to repair 3 weapons to 100% already - i don't quite understand how that should be possible?

fucking geckos

Sad that theres craps tables in the game but you cant actually play them. Roulette is so boring.

i enjoyed playing caravan but made a ton of money and it turns out that that can't buy happiness.

Hade my first hard freeze in the prison. Shot a dude, wouldn't let me shoot him again. Hard to hard reboot the PS3. Otherwise, I'm enjoying it except deathclaws are a bitch.

played loads today, done dozens of quests, but i've yet to come across any weapon parts to mod my guns with. ?

There's a night scope for the varmint gun for sale in the first town.

yeah thats not surprising is it - me missing something so obvious right at the start

(thanks)

I missed it at first - they aren't listed with the weapons but in misc. or something. Not a helpful place to put them.

so I just got this for my birthday. I haven't even finished Fallout 3 yet.

Casinos off the strip are true to life and offer shitty blackjack payouts - and if you destroy the house at blackjack you get asked to leave

ditto peter, i'm flipping back and forth between the two at the moment.

yeah I decided I'm just gonna play New Vegas as a completely different type of character from the one I have in FO3 and just play both concurrently

The only difference in my character is that i've not been all that arsed about karma in NV, stealing pretty much whatever i desired and if it was safe to do so.

NV sounds like a game where having shady-to-bad karma might be fun.

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).