Vegas baby! Vegas

[ghost]

There are few things more depressing than when finishing up depositing items back at your hidey hole you accidentally hit A)  Take All instead of X) Exit..........  Over an hour later, I finally got my shit sorted back out again. 

[Rendakor]

God I hate when that happens. Thankfully, I use the Lucky 38 room so I have a box for every type of item, and if I hit A I can just go back to the relevant tab and deposit all the excess.

[Tebonas]

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.

Thanks, but that didn't work either. I stand in the monorail, get the options to disarm the bomb but the quest doesn't update.

[rk47]

I think the reason why Boone is overpowered is due to his default weapon of choice : scoped hunter rifle & sneak attack criticals he's pulling off when both of you are in stealth mode. I had a funny moment when the combat tune just played and I turned to the red marker...one head popped over the hill, only for Boone to kill it before I could even draw my pistol. Also, I'm playing high END build now and simply told Boone to camp over the hill while lure the mobs over to an open killing field. So easy. 

[CmdrSlack]

Boone and ED-E are great as a combo for that very reason. I've been exploring Freeside, but I never get a chance to fight any random thugs. ED-E and Boone spot and kill them before they close to range.

[Rendakor]

How do you get 2 companions? Is there a perk, or is it a mod? I ask because I was running around with Arcade, then tried to recruit Boone but he said there isn't room in the party or whatever.

[Spiff]

Afaik you can only have one human(ish) companion and one robot-like thingamajig (there s only 2 robot companions that I know of though). So yeah if you meet another humanoid and you want himl/her as a companion you gotta ditch the one you're with  .

[Rendakor]

Oh ok, that makes sense. I was wondering how everyone was talking about having two companions. Thanks.

[taolurker]

There is a mod for unlimited companions though.

[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.

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

At 50 melee you get a special attack that you can queue up multiple times in VATS. You still can't target individual body parts.

Things I wish I'd known earlier...

If you dismiss a companion take them back to the 38 first or they'll walk back from where ever you dismissed them. It can take a while in game time for them to make it back.

The little square box with a number and symbol above a weapon's damage is the skill level you need to get full damage from the weapon.

 

[Slyfeind]

Too much talking! Ugh! Got to New Vegas, and spent over an hour wading through dialogs! Too much I say! But it was all interesting! So I couldn't stop talking to people because I wanted more! But then again I didn't! I don't know what I wanted! Argh!

There was one quest that seemed to start in the middle:
Man, the only reason to have a high Repair skill is to build new stuff? Ugh. Wasted points.

[Arrrgh]

Too much talking! Ugh! Got to New Vegas, and spent over an hour wading through dialogs! Too much I say! But it was all interesting! So I couldn't stop talking to people because I wanted more! But then again I didn't! I don't know what I wanted! Argh!

There was one quest that seemed to start in the middle:
Man, the only reason to have a high Repair skill is to build new stuff? Ugh. Wasted points.

There's a perk you can get at 90 repair that lets you repair an item with any vaguely similar item. It's quite handy.

[LK]

Yeah I raised my Repair to 90 just to get that because I feel like I should be able to gut a Single Shotgun to repair a Caravan Shotgun, as an example.

Also: shotguns useless on Very Hard except against unarmored opponents (critters).

[Furiously]

Fast travel to vault 34 is just evil.

[Ingmar]

Yeah I raised my Repair to 90 just to get that because I feel like I should be able to gut a Single Shotgun to repair a Caravan Shotgun, as an example.

Also: shotguns useless on Very Hard except against unarmored opponents (critters).

Shotgun Surgeon perk makes a huge difference.

[Rendakor]

Sly that happened to me too; I had no idea who she was so I just told her to fuck off.

[Furiously]

Man, the only reason to have a high Repair skill is to build new stuff? Ugh. Wasted points.

No - you need 100 repair for a few quests.

[Ingmar]

Most of the non fighting skills come up in conversations, even guns has shown up a couple times. Repair is pretty frequently useful in quests. So is medicine, interestingly.

[Riggswolfe]

Most of the non fighting skills come up in conversations, even guns has shown up a couple times. Repair is pretty frequently useful in quests. So is medicine, interestingly.

And barter! Which sucked on my first playthrough because I rarely raise barter!

[Ingmar]

Barter checks in conversation are mostly oriented just towards getting a bigger reward, although there are some 'negotiate this deal' type quests where it comes in handy. I think I've gotten more mileage out of the others overall.

[Slyfeind]

Hm that's true, and I do like the repair quests. YAY I feel better. 

[lamaros]

All I'm getting from this thread is "buy this game!". Is that right?

[Slyfeind]

It'd be a good idea, at least if you liked Fallout 3.

[Rasix]

All I'm getting from this thread is "buy this game!". Is that right?

I was extremely wary, but I eventually caved.  Glad I did, game is a pretty fun.

Runs a lot better than I expected it to as well.

[Zetor]

So I picked up ED-E and things were going fine... however, when I got to the Mojave Outpost, it started shooting the wandering trader and his guards. Neither of them turned hostile, and I didn't want to take the risk of a karma/faction hit by killing the guards, so I just reloaded and set the 'bot to wait a safe distance away from the outpost.

Is this a bug [likely] or a feature [remnants of the killer robot programming ], and has anyone encountered stuff like this?

(the wiki says ED-E sometimes bugs out when in aggressive mode, but I keep it on passive)

[Ingmar]

I haven't had any problems with companions going berserk on things they shouldn't, no.

[Furiously]

I had to reload in the dam a couple times as they would get agro for no reason or start shooting people for no reason.

[vex]

ED-E is really bad for this so keep that in mind.  I also had Veronica wig out once in Camp McCarren.

[apocrypha]

Shit it's Tuesday, this game has just eaten a week of my life!

Still not finished the main questline, I'm hoovering up as many side-quests as I can first. Really like the fact that you can't get anywhere near maxing a char out this time. You could pretty much get 10 in all SPECIALs and 100 in all skills without too much hassle in Fallout 3, but you actually have to choose this time.

Energy weapons seem to totally suck, except for the Pulse Gun and Gauss Rifle, which is odd. I'll try explosives or melee next playthrough but I think that'll just make it harder really. And Jury Rigging is just an awesome perk, well worth the 90 repair points. Still totally meh about the crafting though, seems like too much complexity for too little gain.

I've not had any problems with ED-E going agro but Boone went psycho in The Strip one day and just started randomly opening up on people, was entertaining...  Other than that it's been relatively painless on the PS3 in terms of bugs, apart from fairly regular lockups. I get 1-2 hours playtime before a lockup so regular saves are a must.

The setting feels slightly off though and the world feels a bit sparse. In Fallout 3 every single location or building had something there, even if it was just a safe that could be picked or a corpse or something. In NV there seems to be lots of locations that have just a destroyed building and nothing else at all there. Makes it feel a bit less detailed and lovingly created than Fallout 3 did.

[fatboy]

So a question about a quest (spoilered to protect the innocent)

[Khaldun]

On getting Boone as a companion re: above question

[Tebonas]

Yeah, quests triggers tend to be wonky in this one. You'd have to be spoilered just so you don't break them involuntarily. Which takes away some of the fun. I already broke three quests.

[Rendakor]

Bugs like that are my biggest complaint with this game. There's no excuse for not testing possible ways your quest could be completed, particularly if it will lead to missing out on rewards or other quests.

[ghost]

The game hasn't been too buggy for me, however when something happens it is spectacularly bad.  So save often. 

[Lantyssa]