Vegas baby! Vegas

[Tarami]

Camp Forlorn Hope :)

Also, there are some glorious potty-mouths in this game. I didn't really expect dialogue containing "ass-rape." But it's there.

In other news,



The related gun... I MUST HAVE IT!

[Logain]

I found a pair of a actual sniper rifles on the mission for the omerta's in vegas where you're supposed to destroy the weapons stash.

Edit: 83k caps? How the fuck?

[rattran]

If you up barter, caps flow. And the Sarsasparilla quest rewarded several thousand caps for me. With barter at 20, I've got 17k caps, and I stopped collecting crap to sell after the first couple hours.

[rk47]

Some of my friends claimed with high luck, they can replicate Fallout 2 Max gamble - infinite cash from slot machines.
He got around 72,000 caps from one casino max earning and just stopped looting for sale items.

Just finished tutorial quests and hit Primm...kinda shocked they recycled fallout 2 music. But I'm not complaining.

[Furiously]

There are definitely reused art assets too. But hey. The story is good - so far.  I hope they don't KOTOR 2 the ending....

[jakonovski]

Ohh, 22 hours /played this weekend. And I have a day off coming up on Tuesday...

[Tarami]

I had problems sleeping last night because I wanted to get up and continue playing.

I might be in trouble here.

PS.
Money generally isn't a problem from what I've found if you aren't a mule - which is difficult to be on hardcore what with carrying the food and water. I sell pretty much everything that has weight and more or less all chems. It adds up quickly.

[rk47]

Where do I get 9 mm silenced pistol?
I assume if I attach silencer on Varmint Rifle, it will reduce chance of being discovered when sniping?

[Logain]

I was contemplating robbing that silver whatever store...the place that sells all the energy weapons. Seemed like a lot of nice stuff sitting around. I wasn't sure if it would mess something up farther down the road though.

[rk47]

Uh.. why would it ? Just turn on your stealthboy and go crazy. it's part of the Oblivion charm. Take a karma loss etc. As long you're not spotted, you're OK.

[climbjtree]

When I reached New Vegas and didn't have enough cash to enter the Strip, I just knocked over the Casino in Freeside. Still didn't have enough cash, so I went and slaughtered the Kings. Still not enough cash, so I blew up the robots guarding the gate.

Is this how you're supposed to play?

But seriously - I didn't mess anything up plot wise, did I?

[Logain]

Did anybody else take the Wild Wasteland perk? What exactly does it do?

[Minvaren]

Obsidian indicates the game is buggy because it's so big.

Must explain why they gutted KotOR2 instead of patching it...

[Rendakor]

When I reached New Vegas and didn't have enough cash to enter the Strip, I just knocked over the Casino in Freeside. Still didn't have enough cash, so I went and slaughtered the Kings. Still not enough cash, so I blew up the robots guarding the gate.

Is this how you're supposed to play?

But seriously - I didn't mess anything up plot wise, did I?

The kings have been aggro to me the whole time, so killing them shouldn't matter. The robots outside are just gatekeepers I believe, so their loss shouldn't mess you up either. Not sure about the casino, don't think I went in that one.

Just put in a good long session. Working on the Brotherhood questline, hoping to unlock Power Armor training; I know they taught it in FO3. Got to explore a couple Vaults, which is always fun. While heading to one of them, I killed a guy named Cook Cook and looted his head; also in the area I found a disassembled weapons shipment. Anyone know what those are for?

[Ragnoros]

I am very much enjoying this game. It has been remarkably stable since that 16mb patch on day two and I installed THIS fix which removed the stutter people have talked about. I just got to Vegas and my map and questlog are both ablaze with locatiions to see and people to meet. Wish I didn't have to sleep.

[Furiously]

So, running into  was awesome!

And then getting the . Might be the best quest in the game so far, sucks that you have to . Seriously, they should have made that part mandatory for everyone.

The writing and references to Fallout 1 and 2 are pretty damn cool.

[apocrypha]

I'm about 12 hours in on the PS3 now and it's really not as buggy as I'd been led to believe. I've had a couple of lockups on area transition, but I've got at least 3 other PS3 games that do things like that so it's no biggy. Occasional brief stutters, some texture popping, that's about it. The only thing that's annoyed me is that it's still too easy to get yourself stuck with crouching and jumping. I've learned to avoid jumping on top of desks and fallen over bookcases without saving first, but that's just how it was in Fallout 3.

Really enjoying the game, there's a great mix of dark, horrible shit (the Legion...) and funny kitsch (Come Fly With Me).

I wish they'd worked on the inventory system a bit though. Would be really nice to have separate sections for crafting mats, skill magazines, ammo components etc. I'm sure this stuff will be modded in on the PC but on the PS3/360 I guess we're stuck with it. Minor gripe though, I love the crafting in general and shall devote a different character to it maybe.

Oh and I had country music going round in my head all night lastnight! 

[jakonovski]

Did anybody else take the Wild Wasteland perk? What exactly does it do?

It gives you more weird content. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that I've encountered at least one WW location, a cave full of "rodents of unusual size". No idea what's in there because said rodents crippled all my limbs in record time. I've leveled quite a bit since that so I should visit that cave tonight.

[Jimbo]

Watched my son run around with some big club, he has been having fun with the Xbox 360 version with out any crashes or bugs so far.

[Ceryse]

When I reached New Vegas and didn't have enough cash to enter the Strip, I just knocked over the Casino in Freeside. Still didn't have enough cash, so I went and slaughtered the Kings. Still not enough cash, so I blew up the robots guarding the gate.

Is this how you're supposed to play?

But seriously - I didn't mess anything up plot wise, did I?

The kings have been aggro to me the whole time, so killing them shouldn't matter. The robots outside are just gatekeepers I believe, so their loss shouldn't mess you up either. Not sure about the casino, don't think I went in that one.

Just put in a good long session. Working on the Brotherhood questline, hoping to unlock Power Armor training; I know they taught it in FO3. Got to explore a couple Vaults, which is always fun. While heading to one of them, I killed a guy named Cook Cook and looted his head; also in the area I found a disassembled weapons shipment. Anyone know what those are for?

I didn't knock over anything in Freeside to get cash, personally. I did, however, utterly decimate the Silver Rush store, after having done their quests and one of them wanted me to bring one of the possible companions to him for killing. I said no and bam, hard fight ensued.

As for the Kings -- there's a few quests with them, and one which leads to one of the non-human companions, so you probably mucked that up. The Freeside Casino also has a small amount of quests (and a dinky room you can get as a reward).

Cook Cook's head is for a bounty quest you get from.. the airport NCR base near the Strip, I believe. Weapons shipment is also quest related, though I believe its a Gun Runner's quest.

One of the quests I missed out on was the I Fought the Law quest from the head Convict guy in the prison. I needed loot, and I was shooting first and asking questions not at all, at that low level, though.

I'm enjoying the game, especially with a bunch of the mods already out for the game (some for fixes, others for graphics.. a few for fun, like one for getting all the Companions).

My big problem with the game, other than how some stuff just isn't explained at all, is just how fast enemies move. Even in VATS, and crippling their legs first doesn't seem to help too much. Haven't had many serious bug issues.

[rk47]

inventory management in this game is terrible.

Gonna search for a mod. Or is there any one with a recommendation? Really need to categorize items. I hate seeing 2358235u2 items and scrolling like crazy just to find the rifle I want.

[Riggswolfe]

I'm enjoying the hell out of this game but the map sometimes drives me crazy. Mostly it seems the little arrows to quest locations are kind of wonky at times.

So, I have a question about how to find some things:

1) Arcade Gannon. He's voiced by Chuck people. I have to find him. Where is he?
2) The Gunrunners. I assume they're in Freeside but I've combed the whole place and never found it. Even the dang quest arrow didn't help me.
3) Melissa for the Great Khans quest. I have a sneaky suspicion she's in the quarry overrun by Deathclaws. Is this right?

I suspect I'm closing in on end-game. I went the wild card route. Mild spoilers about potential allies:


Oh, and I'd like to talk about the coolest random moment I've had so far. I'd pissed off the Legion and they sent assassins after me. I was pretty low level, like 5 or 6 at the time. So I'm coming over this hill and they attack and I start backpedaling while firing my pistol. Suddenly all of these shots start going past me and I turned around thinking "oh shit, I've been flanked."

Nope. A random merchant caravan was passing by with 4 mercs. The mercs and the trader opened up on the assassins and made mincemeat of them. I was able to just loot the bodies and walk away without getting a scratch!

[rattran]

A minor spoiler/bug. 

And attempting the dam at level 16 is amusing, but futile.

[Bunk]

The Merchant caravans are fun to follow as you're exploring - they are much tougher then they were in Fallout 3. I was conflicted though when they ran in to a squad of Legion, whom I haven't pissed off yet. I decided to hang back and watch - the Legion tore up all the mercenary guards, and then the Traders themselves mowed down the Legionaires. I meanwhile, walked around mid firefight, happily looting bodies.

I'm still early in the game and I'm trying to keep my options open by staying friendly with as many groups as possible. Don't know how long that will last.

[Khaldun]

On my first playthrough, I decided to go totally against Legion, Freak and Powder Gangers, and picked up Boone as a companion, so we've been going all around the map mowing down Legion whenever we can find them.

Deathclaws and Cazadors are tougher in this one than FO3, I think.

[MisterNoisy]

Once you get to the Strip, there's a bit of quest overload.  Good lord.

My favorite so far has been
That said, I ran into lots of scripting issues during that quest, and more than a couple of crashes.  If you get a repeatable crash and are traveling with one or more AI companions, have the companion either wait a good ways away from where you are or send them home and it should help a lot.

Also, fuck cazadors.  Jesus, they're rough.

[Tarami]

The cazadors are a rather interesting subversion of giant insects being numerous and weak. These are numerous and kick the shit out of you. Together with deathclaws, they're the only mob I actively avoid, especially as I'm playing on hardcore where companions can die and love doing so.

[Slyfeind]

Just picked this up, despite no time at all to play it. But I'm making time by cracky!

Way too linear, but that's my only complaint. It is everything it ought to be, as a stand-alone expansion rather than reinventing the wheel and failing. Love the dialog, music, fights are fun, and it still feels explore-ish so far. Seeing Vegas constantly on the horizon, even at the start of the game, is awesomely foreshadowey.

Did anyone not take the weirdness perk? It just seems too awesome not to take it.

"Hardcore mode" is really "Here's more fun things to do mode" for me. I anticipated being filthy rich and loaded down with ammo halfway through the game, so I figured having to buy food and water all the time would keep things interesting.

[Surlyboi]

There's a reference to the Desert Rangers from Wasteland.

Officially awesome.

[Rendakor]

I really don't see how you could find this to be too linear. There seem to be at least 4 major paths you could take for the main story.

[CmdrSlack]

I've been having craploads of fun, and I'm not even ready to head to Vegas yet. I will admit that it's made me all paranoid, having various factions to deal with. I haven't decided how I'll play the various factions, so aside from Powder Gangers, I've been successful at not pissing anyone off too much.

[Rendakor]

[Tarami]

I really don't see how you could find this to be too linear. There seem to be at least 4 major paths you could take for the main story.

Yeah, what's this complaint about? Linear is one of the last words I'd use to describe FO:NV.

[rk47]

Try wearing faction clothes yet? With this you can slip past without engaging usual hostiles. Pretty sweet.

Also, hardcore mode isn't that hard. Just adds some consideration when eating / drinking stuff. Once you realize you can sacrifice a small amount of radiation to save up on stims by drinking sarsaparilla, it gets much easier. And I hoarded around 50 dynamites and 50 bottles of sarsaparilla. Something is definitely off about the dynamite amounts. Too much loot and the damn Varmint Rifle silencer DISAPPEARED from the vendor. @#%*(@

[Furiously]

I'm still grinning like an idiot, just finished...

As for wanting to arm Archimedes.