Vegas baby! Vegas

[Ingmar]

The hand loader perk opens up quite a few good alternate ammo recipes.

[rattran]

The Hand-loader recipes are nice, but it'd be nice to have at least some findable, instead of perk-gated. (except .44mag hand loads, you need iirc 60 guns and 60 survival to get that) Just seems like a half-baked thing, as is Hardcore mode.

[Rishathra]

I'm upset that there aren't any 5.56mm or 9mm hand loader recipes, or 5mm for that matter.  It seems like there are a lot of gaping recipe holes in the crafting system, and for ammo in particular.

If you are looking for 12.7mm ammo, go to Contreras at Camp Mccarran.  He regularly stocks about a thousand rounds of it.

[shiznitz]

You don't want 9mm long term anyway.  I use 9mm to make .357.

[Ingmar]

Yeah none of 9mm, 5.56mm, or 5mm are really used in weapons you're likely to get out to deal with something you'd want to burn special ammo on anyway. Maybe 5mm, if you were just in love with miniguns.

[Rasix]

"Maria" uses 9mm and is pretty decent for dealing with trash.

[Shrike]

Found the dude who was holding all the .50cal stash. Stocked up to the tune of about 2k rounds. Hot damn. Also, I'm now seeing some .50 cases, so might be able to handload a bit.

Life is good--for me.

[5150]

Quick question.

Whats the quickest/easiest way to get a companion?

I've read it's someone at the 188 trading post is the easiest but I'm getting killed by deathclaws trying to get there :-(

[apocrypha]

Veronica at 188 Trading Post is indeed the easiest, but at low level you probably want to head further south before trying to head across east towards the post - go down past Nipton first, then cut east and follow the road north.

Other easy ones to get are ED-E, from Primm and Boone from Novac, although both require a bit more effort to get than Veronica.

[rattran]

Boone is pretty easy

[fatboy]

New Patch on the way - looks like they fixed a lot of the glitches


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[5150]

Veronica at 188 Trading Post is indeed the easiest, but at low level you probably want to head further south before trying to head across east towards the post - go down past Nipton first, then cut east and follow the road north.

Other easy ones to get are ED-E, from Primm and Boone from Novac, although both require a bit more effort to get than Veronica.

Boone is pretty easy

Thanks guys - is there anywhere safe I can stash excess stuff in the Goodsprings area as I'm encumbered already! :-(

[Ingmar]

Inside Victor's house should work I think.

[Zar]

I put my stuff in the dumpster next to Chet's shop until I got my own place later in the game.  Didn't have any issues with that, though it made me feel like a real wasteland hobo.

[Koyasha]

I use some of the Sunset Sarsaparilla crates next to Chet's shop, near the reloading benches.  The ones marked blue, makes it easy to retrieve and add stuff without worrying about any wandering townsfolk seeing me and randomly attacking me.

[5150]

Am I the only one who doesnt understand why I'm stealing 'That Gun' when I own the key to the storeroom and everything else in it?!

[Ingmar]

It is shop inventory, how would having the key make a difference?

[LK]

Property rights in relation to Karma are a bit screwy.

[MuffinMan]

I love it when I find someone's room where I can rob them bliind but I can't sleep in their bed or even sit on their couch.

[Tebonas]

And then there are red items I am allowed to steal without Karma hits. Never found a reliable way to gauge that either.

[fatboy]

And then there are red items I am allowed to steal without Karma hits. Never found a reliable way to gauge that either.

Agreed.  You can rob the Van Graffs blind without a single karma hit, but take something from the Powder Gangers early on in the game and *that* gives you a hit.  Why is looting crap from a gang stealing?  Very wierd.

[shiznitz]

And then there are red items I am allowed to steal without Karma hits. Never found a reliable way to gauge that either.

Agreed.  You can rob the Van Graffs blind without a single karma hit, but take something from the Powder Gangers early on in the game and *that* gives you a hit.  Why is looting crap from a gang stealing?  Very wierd.

Because you aren't stealing from the Powder Gangers.  You are stealing from a NCR prison that just happens to be in Gangers control.  It is like stealing from a bank that is being robbed by other bank robbers.  Kind of. Maybe.  Ehh, I tried.

[rk47]

It's really a broken concept. Try it next time. Kill every single innocent you found, and you realize after every encounter with zombies, your karma is back in the positives. I learned to ignore the karma totally and just do whatever I wanted. It's not even a useful feature.

[Ingmar]

Karma isn't really important in New Vegas, the reputations are what are important.

[Riggswolfe]

And then there are red items I am allowed to steal without Karma hits. Never found a reliable way to gauge that either.

Agreed.  You can rob the Van Graffs blind without a single karma hit, but take something from the Powder Gangers early on in the game and *that* gives you a hit.  Why is looting crap from a gang stealing?  Very wierd.

Frankly, I always assumed that this is because they had different people working on different parts of the world and they didn't have consistent guidelines for what should be marked as theft. So you'd have one guy going super conservative. "Is it the player's? No? It's theft." and another guy going "Eh, the Van Graffs are pricks. I won't mark anything as a karma hit."

What always killed me was finding an abandoned campsite in the middle of nowhere but everything in it is marked red.

[ghost]

I'm fairly disappointed in the crafting aspect of this game.  It seems like it was slapped on as an afterthought. 

[Reg]

Judging from the amount of shit there is to pick up and make stuff out of I don't think crafting was an afterthought. I think it's more likely that they just ran out of time before they managed to make it worthwhile.

[Ingmar]

Also I can't imagine it would be very difficult to mod back in the recipes from FO3. Someone probably already has, really.

[veredus]

A lot of them are. One of my companions is sporting a railway rifle, cuz it's awesome.

[Malakili]

Is it possible to more or less avoid the main storyline in this game?  My favorite parts of Fallout 3 involved just wandering the wastes of my own accord, and I've got 3 weeks in a row of reduced work load and am trying to figure out with what game to fill the time.

[Reg]

It's easily avoidable. I like to follow it long enough to get a decent apartment with storage in Las Vegas and then just do all the side quests.

[shiznitz]

Is it possible to more or less avoid the main storyline in this game?  My favorite parts of Fallout 3 involved just wandering the wastes of my own accord, and I've got 3 weeks in a row of reduced work load and am trying to figure out with what game to fill the time.

There are some challenges to doing this too soon:

1) There are some VERY hard areas of the wasteland, even once you max level. 
2) The main quest lines lead you to potential companions, which make combat easier, RE: #1 above.

That said, I have two good companions and haven't made it to Vegas.  I am actually purposefully backtracking and attempting to do some areas "out of order" and it is working fine.

[CmdrSlack]

I thought I'd found the majority of the side stuff leading up to Vegas. I was wrong.

You can easily spend twenty hours doing other stuff before ever setting foot in Freeside or The Strip.

I've had to put the brakes on my main quest stuff just to see what I want to see. I'm already afraid that I've fucked my first play through a bit by taking the allegiances a bit far into "caesar hates you" territory after the "all is forgiven now" point of the main quest.

My second playthrough will involve me fucking over Caesar and the NCR well in advance of my arrival on The Strip. Once the companion stuff is done, back to advancing the main story line.

[ghost]

You can get Boone and Ed-E pretty quickly into the game and they are fairly kick ass companions. 

[CmdrSlack]

Yeah, but doing their loyalty quests is key, IMO. That takes a tad more time or well-planned questing,