Vegas baby! Vegas

[Khaldun]

[CmdrSlack]

[Riggswolfe]

[Cyrrex]

Stupid question from someone who only recently decided to start using Steam:  can you save New Vegas games in the cloud in Steam?  Hell, do all Steam games let you do that?  I think I've decided I'm going to get this game, only trying to decide if it should be PC or console.

[Khaldun]

[Ingmar]

[fatboy]

Thanks for everyone's replies and suggestions.  Each of you was correct in your methods.

[Reg]

That really annoyed me at first until I figured out that I was getting full experience for his kills.

[NiX]

Stupid question from someone who only recently decided to start using Steam:  can you save New Vegas games in the cloud in Steam?  Hell, do all Steam games let you do that?  I think I've decided I'm going to get this game, only trying to decide if it should be PC or console.

As far as I recall, they turned it off due to a bug that deleted your saves.

[Malakili]

Stupid question from someone who only recently decided to start using Steam:  can you save New Vegas games in the cloud in Steam?  Hell, do all Steam games let you do that?  I think I've decided I'm going to get this game, only trying to decide if it should be PC or console.

Go PC just for the mod community.  That greatly improved the Fallout 3 experience as far as I am concerned.  Also, I have no idea, as I'm saying this, if this game will support it the way Fallout 3 did, so if it doesn't someone can correct me.

[Lantyssa]

I'm sure the modders will be just as plentiful.  Several have already ported over their old assets, since it's basically the same.

[Bunk]

Seems the companions are a little tougher than they were in 3. I'm walking through freeside with Veronica following me. I see a person moving towards me on the edge of the screen and he takes about two steps when - the game cuts to slow-mo cinematic as Veronica runs up and *beheads* the punk with a single punch.

My only dillemna is that I want to focus on using explosives, but that likely will not work well with two melee followers in Veroncia and Rex.

[Khaldun]

I'm definitely going to try melee on my second run-through: Legion and Freak loving melee psychotic...

[apocrypha]

I wish the companions had 3 aggression settings - the current two plus a "Do not attack at all" option. Or maybe that and also a "Only attack when I attack" option.

It's very annoying when stealthing about and you get slightly too close and the CAUTION warning comes up and ED-E and Boone just open up. I end up using "Wait here" quite a lot.

[Rendakor]

I hated that too apocrypha. Between that and the constant chatter whenever I go into stealth ("My stealth bandaging skills...") I hated the brief time I spent with companions. Once I finished Arcade's quest I didn't bother going to get Boone. Companions need a "Speak Only When Spoken To" option.

[rattran]

It's called the 'Go wait for me at Lucky 38, tard' conversation choice. Or you can just tell them to wait somewhere safe, and you still have the perks. I parked ED and Lily then went forth and had a nice time.

[rk47]

All the issues can be modded away on PC. I took multiple companion mod to just drop people off by telling them to 'wait' at safe points like Novac Motel etc. I hated that part of telling to go back to 38, cause sometimes they get stuck somewhere. One time I told Boone to wait at 38, he popped up on top of HELIOS One when I was going to activate the defensive tower. What the fuck?

[apocrypha]

Just catchin some rays, waiting for karma.

[Ingmar]

Incendiary ammo + anti-materiel rifle = 

I need to break out of the 'charming sniper' mode I always play these games in.

[Lantyssa]

That's what the third, or maybe the fourth, playthrough is for.

[ghost]

I wish the companions had 3 aggression settings - the current two plus a "Do not attack at all" option. Or maybe that and also a "Only attack when I attack" option.

I wish they had a "get the fuck out of my way when I'm trying to walk through you" option. 

[rk47]

There is. Radial menu. Bottom left. Back-away.
The faction system is nice, but I wish there's an official uniform issued for each. I mean, being part of the NCR war effort is nice, but it'd be better if they issue you with trooper armor as a symbol of trust. "We'd be proud if you wear our uniform" kind of gesture, culminating to Ranger armor and eventually, Ranger Veterans.

Cause right now, all they treat me is like a heroic mercenary, which isn't what I'm after.

Also, IMO best part of the game:

But I wish they tone down the Legion's cruelty a bit, there's no fucking way there's a gray area for that faction, it felt really forced. And Caesar's voice not doing anything for me. He felt more like a generic gang leader I shot at the street than " THIS IS SOMEONE IMPORTANT " feeling I'm supposed to get when I heard him speak for the first time.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Got the game, loving it and am I the only one who plays...

~guns(sniper)
~lockpick(must open every goddamned chest)
~Speech

because it seems like I can't enjoy the game as much without these skills, is it an explorer type thing?

[Lantyssa]

Very possibly.

[rattran]

Speech is much better than in F3, here it changes this pretty majorly instead of just being a shortcut thing. Playing with a charisma of 1 is quite amusing though, everyone seems to hate you to start!

[Rasix]

Got the game, loving it and am I the only one who plays...

~guns(sniper)
~lockpick(must open every goddamned chest)
~Speech

because it seems like I can't enjoy the game as much without these skills, is it an explorer type thing?

That's the way I typically have played the newer incarnation of Fallout.  In Fallout 1 or 2, I usually didn't have lockpick and would replace it with science or melee/unarmed. Melee and unarmed seemed to be a lot more fun before the change to the current engine.

But yah, I can't seem to break out of the charming sniper mode either, and it hasn't gotten easier with how the games play now.   Although it seems that you get a lot less mileage out of speech now.  In Fallout 1 or 2 having high speech changed the game significantly.

[Njal]

Another charming sniper here. I really have to try melee for my third playthrough. Maybe I'll try dumb as a post for my fourth time.

[Lakov_Sanite]

For shits and giggles last night I rolled a str10 end10 melee psycho and just killed my way across the wasteland. I actually got pretty far in the main storyline because almost all the people you need info from you can also get the info off their corpses.  I will say that high melee is pretty OP and there is a sort of sick joy that comes from recklessly charging at someone taking shots at you with a tire iron in your hand.

[CmdrSlack]

I tagged guns, stealth, and repair. I'm now wishing I'd tagged either lockpick or science. Oh well, that's what multiple playthroughs are for.

[apocrypha]

~guns(sniper)
~lockpick(must open every goddamned chest)
~Speech

That's pretty much exactly how I've been playing it too.

Sniping is a bit overpowered I think, especially since you can open combat with a non-VATS snipe that is a pure FPS shot. In Fallout 3 if you just aimed at a distance where you'd have a 5% chance to hit in VATS it'd take that into account and you'd still miss. Doesn't seem to be the case here, I headshot at extreme range out of VATS.

[Bunk]

I try to do so much I end up spread thin. Currently tried focusing on Barter, Speech, Lockpick, Survival and Explosives, and then a secondary focus on Guns, Repair, Science, and Sneak.

I've had to stop raising Survival and pretty much gave up on getting Sneak or Science any higher. I'm level 12 right now, and will be spending almost all my points the next two levels to get Barter to 70, so I can take Pack Rat (I have 4 Str). That perk was designed perfectly for my obsessive playstyle.

[Rendakor]

Guns, Speech, Repair here, with a secondary focus on Science, Lock Pick, and Sneak.

Am I the only one who always starts with 10 int?

[Ingmar]

I start with 8ish usually in these things, there's always a way to raise it early enough it seems like.

[Lantyssa]

That's the way I typically have played the newer incarnation of Fallout.  In Fallout 1 or 2, I usually didn't have lockpick and would replace it with science or melee/unarmed. Melee and unarmed seemed to be a lot more fun before the change to the current engine.

Being able to target eyes with a Ripper does that.  It's why I never bothered going melee in FO3.

[Ingmar]

Yeah it does kind of suck for melee. (insert comment about this is why Oblivion sucked here)