New Vegas Created 14 years ago2010-10-28 15:09:17 UTC by Archie

The recommended settings it chose were one lower than previously, but performance is literally about 6-7x better, taking in to consideration that all my graphics are bumped back UP since I had them lowered to cope... so amazing now.

Second playthrough, Hardcore.

My latest issue? Assassinating the president... I'm set up, but I can't get close without the NCR raping me...

Lol I had a mission given to me by the NCR to protect the president and I had to kill one Caesars legion sniper dressed up as an NCR guy xD. Nice to see how these quests go together.

As for my progress so far? Well I got the remnants armour set and Oh, Baby!, and story wise I killed Mr house because the NCR asked me to, defended the NCR president but the fucking quest bugged out and all of them are still running in panic and I get no progress 10 hours after still, and I killed caesar myself just for fun without even a quest lol. I also killed great khan leader while he was sleeping but for their own quest (lol) and they still like me. I'm mostly good karma, and oh yeah, I don't really like NCR but I killed house cause he told me to kill the brotherhood... fuck that!

The oddest thing right now however is how I told everyone to act. I told the khans to defend the NCR Dam, I told the brotherhood of steel to defend the NCR dam (ncr agreed to both) and I told the Enclave to defend the dam... It's the worst combination you can get haha all of them hate each other. But also I teamed up with Yes Man! so now he told me to blow the dam up myself, haha! I duno what to do now!

Yeah for my assassination of the president, I simply stealthboy'd and then ran outta there, using about 10 stimpacks.

The oddest thing right now however is how I told everyone to act. I told the khans to defend the NCR Dam, I told the brotherhood of steel to defend the NCR dam (ncr agreed to both) and I told the Enclave to defend the dam... It's the worst combination you can get haha all of them hate each other. But also I teamed up with Yes Man! so now he told me to blow the dam up myself, haha! I duno what to do now!

That's going to be one hell of a mission, and will result in 3 very powerful, very pissed off factions looking for you.

Man I love this game.

Second playthrough. Went straight to Vegas, stealth-boying past the death claws that would have surely been my demise. Killed Benny, killed Dr. Mr. House, and plotting with Yes Man on how to proceed. I might blow up the Brotherhood of Steel again... or maybe I won't. We'll see. Also, Hardcore hasn't really presented much extra challenge. And by turning in a couple snow globes, both VERY easy to find, and helping Mr. House a little from the get-go, I'm over 8,000 caps and under level 10.

I just finished new vegas. The ending was epic. Especially the part where the robot tries to tell you something xD. At the end I killed caesars legion commander and started talking to NCR commander, at which point said he found me very impressing, I replied with something like "have you ever seen an army of securatrons?" and the door bursted open behind him and like 100 securatrons come out of nowhere. that was pretty epic :D.

Started playing it this week. It's quite fun. I do find it quite annoying that you can't run any faster than you do. It takes forever to get to new places

You can run faster, Agility affects your running speed, and you can increase it with perk. Although I guess it's nowhere near as handy as the oblivion system.

Oh, good. I'll keep my eyes open for that perk then, thanks.

Also Medium and Heavy armor slow you down if you wear them, and if you're using a 2-handed weapon, having it holstered will also help you run faster. One-handed weapons won't affect run speed though.

well there are two perks for my knowing that make you faster. First one is free perk at the start of game, +1 agility but more limb damage, and the second one I know is intense training, put a point of it for agility and you will run faster. You don't have to get intense training since there are many more appealing perks, but if you come to a level where you don't have any appealing perks at the moment, get that.

You have to be careful with your stats when making your character, I just started my second playthrough and made a more appealing stat combo. I put 5 in everything, and spent the 5 extra points to raise strength by 2 (more space, better melee damage, I'm making a melee char) and 2 points in agility (for a perk later on and faster movement + better sneak) and 1 in charisma, I find speech challenges useful. In my last play through I put an additional point in luck but I found out this was bad since you can get a perk equivalent to 5 point of luck for your crits but it doesn't go over 10. Perception helps you see in the dark hence it is also useful for me and endurance helps over all. Intellect increases the skill points per level you get, to a max of 20, that is if you also get the perk that increases them per level.

You can get 20 per level? How? I have a character with 10 intel AND the perk, and I only get 17.

Skals I think that perk only gives you a better chance at crits, you don't get five points worth of luck in other luck related rolls.

You can get 20 per level? How? I have a character with 10 intel AND the perk, and I only get 17.

Fail, I had 7 intel and perk on previous char and got 17. Your char must be broken.

Skals I think that perk only gives you a better chance at crits, you don't get five points worth of luck in other luck related rolls.

Yes I know this.

I went to the north gate where The Kings hang out, robbed the plasma weapon store, killed the king of The Kings and shot my way through all of the security into New Vegas. Awesome. And the security inside New Vegas doesn't seem to mind. Got a bad set of Karma tho, but I haven't realized what it does yet

Karma does shit in this game. Most everything is based on faction reputation and skills.

Also, I invented a simple little idea for if/when you finally get bored of NV.

Start a new character on the hardest difficulty, hardcore mode on, and simply try to survive. The catch is, no reloads. The only saving you can do is for insurance against crashes, freezes, lockups, or otherwise, or if you're simply done for the moment and wish to continue at a later time. If you die, you die. If you find yourself in a sticky situation, you can't reload. Only exception being a game-killing glitch.

I call it Super Hardcore mode. B) It's kind of like the Iron Skull handicap in Halo, or the mutation in L4D2.

So, I finally got round to posting some pics for you guys.Me and my temporary scavenging crew, donning our radiation suits (Advanced Radiation suit for me of course, +40% rad resistance) oh, that that spaceman in the background is Boone, my current companion who can pop a ghoul's head off at 100 meters with a single shot. Aside from his rude comments from time to time about me occasionly missing my long range targets and a hatred for the leigon which is ruining me rep with them, he's awesome.And this is me... Level 20, playing on hardcore. Prepping my minigun to go blazing into a Deathclaw's lair and killing the Legendary Deathclaw to get the super awesome weapon, Mercy, a Fully automatic grenade launcher that comes with incinarary rounds, just for a little extra roasting.

So far, every time I've gone through, I've always killed House. I figure though, if you're going to do it, do it while he still likes you. If you blow up his stuff, or anger him before hand, you have to deal with those pesky bots before trying to take him out. Which is much more of a hassle if you let him upgrade them...

My first playthrough I took his side and killed the Leigon and the NCR heads. This time I am going to try the Yes Man.

Yes man is way better, not that I can say I know what happened with mr. house, but the end was just so awesome. Get the boomers help too, for me they flied over the dam with a massive plane and dropped a couple of carpet bombs on it xD.

I went to the north gate where The Kings hang out, robbed the plasma weapon store, killed the king of The Kings and shot my way through all of the security into New Vegas. Awesome. And the security inside New Vegas doesn't seem to mind. Got a bad set of Karma tho, but I haven't realized what it does yet

Why did you do that? The kings leader is a very nice guy and gives you the best companion in the game - Rex, the robotic dog of pure awesome. He makes me lol everytime I talk to him.

Edit: My second character is an asian ninja with a mohawk. I'm putting points in sneak, melee and unarmed :). I'll try to get the chinese stealth suit from the ncr dam when I get the chance.

Why did you do that? The kings leader is a very nice guy and gives you the best companion in the game - Rex, the robotic dog of pure awesome. He makes me lol everytime I talk to him.

Because they were being rude! I've got two companions already, A robot which I got when I was at Primm, and some girl in a hood, who punches peoples heads off with her iron glove, who I met somewhere outside New Vegas. She's awesome!

Found this annoying bug which you guys probably have noticed as well. I was in the Lucky 38 Casino in New Vegas, and my companions were told to wait outside. When I was done, I went outside, forgot to tell them to follow me, and went on to the next area. When I realized that I had forgotten to tell my companions to follow me I went back to the previous area where they had stood, and they were now gone. So I loaded a previous game, and they had disappeared from that save aswell. I had to go back quite a bit to get my companions back. Annoying!

Boone died very quickly for me. We went into Vault 22 together. I staggered out alone, with a broken leg and dying of radiation poisoning.

Found this annoying bug which you guys probably have noticed as well. I was in the Lucky 38 Casino in New Vegas, and my companions were told to wait outside. When I was done, I went outside, forgot to tell them to follow me, and went on to the next area. When I realized that I had forgotten to tell my companions to follow me I went back to the previous area where they had stood, and they were now gone. So I loaded a previous game, and they had disappeared from that save aswell. I had to go back quite a bit to get my companions back. Annoying!

That's annoying, I always forget my companions when I'm there. To solve this: If you still have their perk they're waiting in the same area, but if you don't, they go back to the very place they met you.

Ah I love that brotherhood companion. She punches the shit out of anything which makes a great finisher when my VATS fail to kill my enemies.

Vault...34 is it? The one with the armory was a nightmare for me. I got lost a lot and was running out of radaway plus the ghouls were really strong for my character. Still the All American and my very first sniper was worth the risk since I'm roleplaying as a Chinese sniper.

Oh a bug I came across was using the NCR radio to send for supplies and couldn't find it. Eventually I used noclip and found it deep under the terrain. No more achievements for me, not that I care.

Oh and this is pretty awesome. I must admit I use my chatting more than my fists. (and lazers)

http://kotaku.com/5683023/this-guy-beat-fallout-new-vegas-with-zero-kills

By the way guys, when you happen to run across Black Mountain Radio signal, listen to it for a while, it's really funny :D.

I don't think you can TRULY beat it without killing anyone. I don't know ALL the scenarios for the final mission, but it usually involves killing someone. I guess it might count if your companions do it?

I love this one in the comments:

Psh. I've completed hundreds of Counter-Strike rounds without getting any kills.

By the way guys, when you happen to run across Black Mountain Radio signal, listen to it for a while, it's really funny .

I actually happened across that area trying to find Sunny Smiles for a quest. I thought it was a plot point that she'd been kidnapped or something, but she just happened to be walking there.

Sunny Smiles never left Springvale for me

She's not supposed to. It's a bug that she leaves usually. Mine is dead, along with Doc Mitchell and most the other Goodsprings (not Springvale, that was Fallout 3) residents, as I sided with Powder Gangers (who all died anyway).

With that said, EDIT BLOCK.

You know what I reeeealy love about New Vegas? When it crashes, and screws over my computer for half an hour because it fails to boot up properly for that long.
It's a great game, but it crashes harder and more often than Fallout 3 did. And most of the crashes are similar to the "Tranqulity Lane crash" I always seem to get that puts the computer into a state that stops it from responding to even the power and reset buttons.

Never had that before. I do get frequent crashes though. Finger is constantly on F5. Bout to move quick save to a mouse button...

Using all my tweaks and such I've managed to get the crashing down to 2-3 a day. It's still not right and the fact that it lags in some places even though I can run any other game on max is a sham.

Yeah, that's how it is for me. It still crashes a little more often for me, but I also hear it likes to crash more often when running dual screens, and as of now, there is no convenient way to switch one monitor off to play.

Archie stretches his arms and yawns before glancing at the Steam readout. Fallout: New Vegas - 43 hours played with no lag and only 3 crashes in total?
Everyone seems to have major stability issues with NV except me

My fallout new vegas on xbox360 hasn't crashed once during the 50 hours of playing, but then again I have to put up with minimum graphics and insanely long loading times.

I seem to find that the most stability issues come when you're using Veronica as a companion. She's an awesome character, once you patch her so she levels up with you, but my second play through, where I used her exclusively, was a nightmare as far as crashes go.
But that doesn't explain why I crashed in Freeside last night.

skals: and the goddamn joysticks, amirite? I tried fallout 3 on the xbox and couldn't even play for like an hour after getting out of the vault, the controls were SO shitty.

I bet I'd like it on the PC though, because i could play it like a shooter.

I have no idea for how long I've played, but it's at least 10 hours, probably more, and it has crashed only once :>

I don't usually mind crashes all that much, but not when they do this to me!

skals: and the goddamn joysticks, amirite? I tried fallout 3 on the xbox and couldn't even play for like an hour after getting out of the vault, the controls were SO shitty.

I bet I'd like it on the PC though, because i could play it like a shooter.

Nah, it's really easy to use (as long as I only use melee weps. lol.)

I had fallout 3 on the xbox. Couldn't complete it. Almost didn't buy it on PC cuz I thought it was just a shit game. How wrong I was. It's amazing how playing it on a different platform gives you a totally different experience.

I can imagine. Actually after the whole PC incident I was having thoughts of trading in the PC version for PS3 one. But after reading how the long load times and what not, changed my mind.

Anyway here's a picture since there seems to be a lack of in this thread.I don't normally wear this armour but I liked the hat after killing that bounty hunter dude who said "I was below him". Well his head was certainly below me once he said that. I had also just done that quest in the hotel with the masked people. Actually kind of creepy and weird plus I kept getting lost >_>

Oh and I gave Veronica a mask so we could both sneak around but she ended up liking it XD

P.S.Fu**ing love this weapon. It's got two of my favourite things. A shotgun like spread and shoots plasma instead of boring old bullets

I agree. I experienced this simply by leaving my 360 controller plugged in during Fallout 3. Upon playing, the keyboard and moused were locked, so I picked up the controller and everything had been changed to reflect controller buttons. So I gave it a try... AWFUL. I then proceed to unplug the controller so I could play as normal.

With this in mind, the way they made these games is almost genius. All versions are so completely similar, they probably had to do very little tweaking to "port" it to a different system, rather than make 3 separate versions of the games.

I couldn't help myself. From the start one of my aims was to get a certain armour. I finally got it but made some enemies but they'll love me soon enough once I do their work.

Anyway I also had to do the quest for NCR where I had to stop the kings from being violent. I tried to use my speech tactics but the King wouldn't have it so assassinate I did only it caused the entire clan to shoot me as expected. So I quickly run out and head back to the NCR where I find out my only chat line is "The King..sorta...got killed." and an angry NCR not amused. I didn't kill him, turns our Rex did. lul.

So I use this quest as the perfect excuse to kill all the people over at the Silver something...the place with all the fancy weapons. Now I'm filled with ammo, got my armour and everything is finally repaired to their maximum output.

And here I am All beefed up, ready for the main quest in the near future.P.S. I chose the explorer perk and saw the crashed vertibird at the bottom of the map. My god, so many robots with lazers. I almost had no chance but luckikly had a lot of drugs. What do I get for winning? A stupid retexture of that giant ammo eating gun from the last DLC for Fallout 3.

I picked up that set as soon as I could. I have never been in bad standing with the NCR either. Also, that Kings quest, I simply spiked Pacers Jet with Psycho and it killed him, problem solved.

So after writing that I played a load more and I was quite disappointed by the fact I was able to just waltz in and kill Caesar with no effort. Also with Mr House dead I can't understand how there's going to be a battle now.

Anyway I know I'm close to the end so I'm going to postpone it and do more side quests.

But overall it was quite fun, the main quest wasn't as good as Fallout 3's but the sidequests were much better and felt like mini-stories on their own.

House isn't part of the battle. It's between the NCR and the Legion, it's just a matter of whether other parties join in. If Caesar is dead ever at all, whether or not you're sided with the Legion, he is succeeded by another (I forget his name) and if the Legion wins the battle and Caesar is dead at the same time (therefore implying you sided with the Legion) than the Legate becomes Caesar.

I killed Caesar outside of story line, It didn't seem to do shit.

Yeah, shame. Killed him to, no reaction from anyone.
Also NCR started hating me for some random reason. Doesn't matter what I do, they still hate me. Might as well just shoot them all

Yes. I taught I might as well let them live, but their leader got rude to me and I got this really nice option to make 100 securatrons burst through the door and kill him so I chose that xD.