Vegas baby! Vegas

[Rendakor]

Oh look, a golden gecko.

Fuck those things. I died more times to geckos than either cazadors or deathclaws.

[rk47]

The scrolling around inventory management is turning me off from crafting anything but Weapon Repair Kits.

Also , simple food mechanics. Cheap, rad-free fresh fruits are readily available from dead enemies and sipping on Southwest Sarsaparilla Softdrink is almost as effective as taking a stimpack while in combat, if you add in multiple fruits / nuts with it. Just make sure you chug a bottle of water to offset the dehydration penalty.

90 Fire Arms at level 10. But I'm still yet to find a scoped rifle. Where can I get those at Novac?

[Ingmar]

I found a night scope mod for a varmint rifle on the first merchant guy in Goodsprings, but I believe it is random which mods a given merchant will have each refresh. Just check back with any merchant you found a mod of any kind on every so often and you'll eventually get one. So far I've found scopes for varmint rifles and hunting rifles.

I don't know that there are any non unique rifles that have scopes un-modded. Probably sniper rifles, but I haven't found one yet.

[LK]

I never even knew you could find things out about the other couriers. Did you find enough of the Dog Tags for Camp Searchlight? I've cleared the area out and went back a few times looking for respawns, and only ever found 7 tags.

There were only 7 including Private Edwards. The sergeant (Anston?) lied to you; a bug perhaps. You get a shitty Service Rifle out of it that I already got tons of prior. That area was pretty difficult but if you hit the turrets and the patrolling rangers they'll tear apart the town's denizens.

I almost missed Courier 4. He's in Primm next to the Mojave Express.

I'm running into paranoid instances like you are though; did I miss this tiny item? Or this hard to see body? Finding Courier #4 left me with the impression I would be coming across other Macguffin-carrying couriers. But where are they? Am I going to get upset if I finish the game without finding them? Another example, I went to a ranch house with 4 Diary Entries scattered about. I got 2-4 and wanted to find 1 but couldn't do it. So I left but I know... god damn it... that diary entry is still there somewhere.

My OCD tendencies as a scavenger tend to make me take longer to complete a game like this.

[LK]

Oh look, a golden gecko.

Fuck those things. I died more times to geckos than either cazadors or deathclaws.

Knock out a leg and it takes all the wind out of their sails.

Crescent Canyon to the south was full of them. I take so much damage from them though that it's difficult just to stand there and VATS their legs.

[Ingmar]

I will say, as much as I liked FO3, New Vegas just feels more like Fallout to me. Part of it is the western setting, I'm sure, part of it is the story is just a more Fallout-y sort of story, at least so far.

[Rendakor]

I really thought he wanted 10; maybe a bug like you said. The quest never completed at 7; no rifle given and it's still in my journal as 'Find Dog Tags'. I somehow wandered past Primm on my trip to Vegas. I only stopped back later because I had to clear out that quarry for a Khans quest. The farmhouse with the diaries pages pissed me off too; I think I only ever found 2 and 4.

Regarding scopes, there's a Sniper Rifle, Marksman Carbine and an Anti-material Rifle that I know of with built-in scopes. I found the Sniper and Anti-material on the Gun Runners vendor eventually.

[Furiously]

There also is the gobi.... Which is sitting in a chest on a ledge kinda by searchlight and the s. Legion town. But you do need 100 lockpicking I recall.

[rattran]

As to the abandoned farm diary The weapon mods seemed to peter out, only a few low level guns get all 3. I mean, just a suppressor for the sniper rifle? I never found myself using it anywhere close to where people could hear me. The whole game just seems unpolished, lots of potential, but needed longer in the oven.

[Rendakor]

Where'd you find a suppressor for the sniper rifle? Gun Runners never seemed to get one in, and that's the only place I've reliably found mods. I do wish there were more mods in general.

[rattran]

I got the sniper suppressor at
Also, I finished the game before seeing the strength/skill mechanic for weapons. Guess it doesn't make that much difference when using over-skill/str stuff.

[jakonovski]

There's a free marksman carbine in Vault 34.

What I need right now is Radscorpion eggs for the sexy lady in Thorn, but no Scorpion seems to drop any.
 

[LK]

God damn AI. It sets up a kill box with traps on the ground floor. Something happens and it runs down from its kill box and kills itself on the traps it set up.

 

I've found surprisingly little in the way of weapon mods but maybe they'll be in New Vegas. I'm headed for Boulder City soon but dealing with REPCONN and areas around Novac. I will give them credit for how they came to the name Novac.

Searchlight: Make sure to get the one from Private Edwards.

[rk47]

Lots of quests, but main grape is that most of the quests are just quick travel fodders. A little mystified why they bothered giving long treks when there's NOTHING INTERESTING HAPPENED in between the treks. I tried walking the distance myself and found nothing of interesting to do. Just hostiles random to snipes, and little else related to the quest.

[NiX]

Can you quick travel before visiting somewhere? I recall in FO3 you had to explore before you could fast travel, which is probably why Bethsoft added so much to discover in between.

[rk47]

Once I hit Vegas, a lot of quests told me to go back down south of mojave. So quick travels are quite useful in this regard, there's not much point in wasting time to walk there yourself, shoot 2 powder gangers along the way over 15 minutes walk.

[rattran]

Goodsprings to New Vegas, level 2, 1 stealthboy. Just avoid the blind deathclaw.

There's some stuff going on in the between stretches, watching rival factions meet up on the road and shoot it out is fun. Really wish the game would crash better, seems to crash and keep telling steam I'm playing, had someone call me yesterday and apologize for interrupting my game while I was out shopping.

[jakonovski]

Goodsprings to New Vegas, level 2, 1 stealthboy. Just avoid the blind deathclaw.

There's some stuff going on in the between stretches, watching rival factions meet up on the road and shoot it out is fun. Really wish the game would crash better, seems to crash and keep telling steam I'm playing, had someone call me yesterday and apologize for interrupting my game while I was out shopping.

Wait, someone called you to apologize for interrupting your game? Does not compute.

[rattran]

Someone called me, thinking I was home on the computer playing New Vegas while in reality I was out shopping. They apologized for interrupting my game as they could see in the Steam Thingy that I was playing, but not responding to their messages, I was confuzled until I figured it out. Due to New Vegas not crashing cleanly when it crashes.

[Bunk]

Not suprising. I had times where Fallout 3 would crash to desktop, and I wouldn't notice until several hours later that Fallout.exe was still running as a proccess in the background.

[Slyfeind]

Christ, when I got to Nipton, my PIP Boy started playing "Big Iron" just after I...

[LK]

[rattran]

Repercussions for any possible actions seem pretty well built in

[Slyfeind]

 

[Riggswolfe]

Well I beat the game the other day. I won't spoil the ending but I will say I was impressed. It gave a little overview of the major communities and what, if any, changes I brought to them as well as how my actions affected the major factions.. Surprisingly it actually mentioned the two companions I did quests for and talked about what happened with them slightly. I was quite pleased and am now going to play through again to find as many companions as I can to see how their lives turn out.

[Ingmar]

 

You're not really "supposed" to do anything specific, you can talk to him, shoot him, whatever. When you get autofails on quests as consequences to things it is really just one possible path closing off. Kill Faction Leader A, and you can't do his quests, etc.

[rk47]

Yeah I finished the game, although at point, the NCR in Vegas strip went bonkers after I turned in a quest at their embassy and started shooting me on the streets, joined by the Securitrons...that was broken.

Time to restart as melee character.

[Tarami]

Just finished, not wanting to spoil things I'm just going to say this: Personal GOTY. Sorry Frictional.

One thing that I found neat - eventhough only Hardcore mode has real companion deaths, the epilogue still takes it into consideration. I had one companion die and couldn't be bothered loading, whose epilogue(obituary?) told me her deeds had eventually led to her death.

[Tebonas]

Seems I ran into my first bug. In the quest "I Put a Spell on you"


Quite annoying, really.

[Arrrgh]

Yeah I finished the game, although at point, the NCR in Vegas strip went bonkers after I turned in a quest at their embassy and started shooting me on the streets, joined by the Securitrons...that was broken.

Time to restart as melee character.

Were you wearing faction armor or brotherhood power armor? Power armor that just says Power Armor is fine, they dislike the Brotherhood Power Armor wearers though.

And I thought I read in an interview way back that they were adapting VATS for use with melee, but no it's still one big target in VATS mode when you melee.  I was looking forward to lopping off arms and such.

[veredus]

Seems I ran into my first bug. In the quest "I Put a Spell on you"


Quite annoying, really.

Are you playing on the PC? If so Newvegasnexus has a fix for that.

[Ceryse]

So I've lately just been exploring, instead of following the general direction quests pointed me in, and I find a few death claws; and smoke them easily enough, not surprising given I'm level 17 and running with EDE, Veronica, Boone, Cass, Rex and Gannon, Raul. Oh, hey.. a cave system I can enter... filled with death claws. No problem. Things start easily enough as I mow through pairs of death claws, then I get turned around for a moment, and freeze.

Three young death claws, four normal death claws, a mother and a legendary death claw are charging right at us, and are already very close before we even get a single shot off. The legendary death claw has more than 3x the health of the normal ones. The young death claws drop quickly, just as the last young one dies, I hear a pained squeal. Rex is dead (Hard core mode). As I start plugging away at the normal death claws, using my light machine gun using armor piercing ammo, given the high DT of death claws (20ish), I'm pained to know the dog is dead, but note I'd at least finished his quest. Then I head the clank of EDE dropping, and again I'm glad I finished the quest there too. Just as the last normal death claw drops, I noticed Raul and Gannon are also dead; two which I hadn't finished the quests for. I consider reloading at this point, but decide against it, as this was why I modded in the number of companions I could use.

The mother death claw drops quickly enough, and my AP has regenerated enough to plug into VATS again, so I do so, hoping to cripple the arms of the legendary death claw before it can kill any more companions. I notice in VATS that Veronica is around 33% health, Cass around 60%, and Boone is at full. Veronica and Cass both have some distance from the legendary death claw, which itself is at around 60% health. I figure I'm safe. As my VATS shots finish, the right arm of the death claw crippled.. it quickly proceeds to kill Boone; another companion I hadn't finished the quest for. It dies shortly after this.

So, all told, I lost 5 companions in that cave, all because the legendary and at least one normal death claw clipped right through a wall to join the fray and my own over-confidence. I, myself, was sitting around 10% health after the battle. All in all, my best moment in the game thus far.

[ghost]

I find this one a lot easier than 3.  Once you get Boone it is a cake walk, for the most part.  It also seems to be a little bit less of a sandbox than the previous one.  I hope it spreads out. 

[Riggswolfe]

Yeah I finished the game, although at point, the NCR in Vegas strip went bonkers after I turned in a quest at their embassy and started shooting me on the streets, joined by the Securitrons...that was broken.

Time to restart as melee character.

Were you wearing faction armor or brotherhood power armor? Power armor that just says Power Armor is fine, they dislike the Brotherhood Power Armor wearers though.

And I thought I read in an interview way back that they were adapting VATS for use with melee, but no it's still one big target in VATS mode when you melee.  I was looking forward to lopping off arms and such.

A loading screen tip says once you get to 50ish melee and/or unarmed it opens up new attacks in VATS.

[Ingmar]

Just finished, not wanting to spoil things I'm just going to say this: Personal GOTY. Sorry Frictional.

I'm not as far in as you but it is definitely in the conversation right now for mine too (with ME2 and RDR).