The Fallout New Vegas Thread * will contain spoilers *

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So I 'beat' the game with a free Vegas, I never left hardcore, yet I never got the achievement. /sigh
 
I'd avoid playing through on hardcore again just to get the achievement because it might not work again, if it's broken I'd wait for a patch to fix it...sucks man, it's a surprising you're done already anyway did you just play non stop or did you skip a lot of the quests? I've played for a while now and not even returned from the lower half of the map to investigate vegas yet.
 
Bought the game yesterday and am having a blast. So far I'm enjoying it more than Fallout 3, and I liked Fallout 3. Had some issues at first but applied the dll fix and the mouse acceleration fix and now it runs at a buttery smooth 60fps with vsync.

I picked the Kamakazi trait for +10ap and the Fast Shot for +20% rate of fire. Man, I have so many shots in vats now I dont know what to do with them all. I figure if I need to snipe someone I'll just use the iron sights since it's more accurate than vats anyways.

I'm playing on hard, hardcore mode and it seems pretty easy so far. Just got out of the starter town and the only thing I had to avoid were the giant radscorpions.
 
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Riddleofsteel said:
Yeah, I've done both ways now and I'm not sure about siding with the convicts. Cobb tells you to go to the correctional facility and tell them he sent me, and that I can make some caps. Apart from that, though, I would rather side with the townsfolk. I will probably just devote an entire playthrough to evil when this one is finished.

By the way, was anyone else badly outmatched in Primm against the rogue convicts? In my first play (that's as far as I got) I got slapped around badly and had to use about half of my stimpacks. The boss fight (the guy with the flame launcher) ended with Sherriff Beagle getting shanked and I was in bad shape too. What level is more agreeable for that area? I was level 3. Does anyone know if the Sherriff can survive that confrontation or is it just a given that he snuffs it?
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I killed everyone in the building then freed that douche.
The flame thrower boss was cake once I got in close, he couldnt fire that damned thing off and thus got shot in the face, I was level 3
 
dravisar said:
The game is fantastic. Having a blast, and the writing, story, and overall experience is way more satisfying than Fallout 3. As a matter of fact, I HATED fallout 3. This game has some great shout outs to the fallout universe, story, and flow of the original two games.

The engine still sucks. I have had so many crashes to desktop, black frozen screens, and general bugs: it's out of control. Textures get stuck in low res, AI characters are dumb as rocks, my character "skates" around from time to time, locking me out of any interaction with bodies.

I had to get the newest nvidia graphicsdrivers, and grab the d3d dll, to get the game to run well. It still stutters like mad randomly, spiking to 100+ fps then dropping to 15 from time to time.
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100FPS? Did you disable Vsync or something? (bad idea) I thought the game was capped to 60fps.
 
0mega said:
Totally disappointing, not gonna lie.

F3 had some structure to it that led me to do quests for the fun of it...

This one sorta threw me randomly around little places for 4 hours and bored me to tears.
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Unless you just did the main quest line I must be playing a different game to you. This one's got me far more interested than F3 which I was playing only a week before.

I don't know how many hours I've put in yet but I'm loving the way all the different little bits of information from conversations that don't even pop up in your pip boy can alter things way down the line if you remember them. The story seems far more intricate and involving than F3's.
 
Jellylesg said:
Unless you just did the main quest line I must be playing a different game to you. This one's got me far more interested than F3 which I was playing only a week before.
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Me, too, and I love Fallout 3. I have NO idea how someone could be even close to finished with this unless at least one of several things are involved:

1.) IV'd to the computer 24/7

2.) Cheats

3.) Blazing and hauling ass.


I'm not even within the galaxy of seeing the finish line yet myself and I've probably put at least 8-10 hours of gameplay into it.

Of course I'm kind of a junkie anyways. I know I probably put at least 100 hours into Fallout 3 with DLCs, mods, exploring, sidequests and the rest of it.


I don't know how many hours I've put in yet but I'm loving the way all the different little bits of information from conversations that don't even pop up in your pip boy can alter things way down the line if you remember them. The story seems far more intricate and involving than F3's.
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Totally agreed. Writing is better in this one for sure.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to read Beagle's journal (or whatever his name is).

also I think I may have gotten myself stuch in the correctional facility, lol. Level 4 may have been too soon to try it. The warden's building has sooo many people that come out at once.
 
First impression: I was a bit "meh" until I met the robot in cowboy boots and hat. Then it started to really grow on me. At this point I'm level 4 about 4.5 hours into the story (after wasting a couple hours on saves that did not stick), and would have to say the game is a worthy sibling to Fallout 3.
 
^ I owned the correctional facility by backing off behind some rocks that forced all the enemies through a chokepoint. Learned that shit from King Leonidas and the 300 Spartans.
 
In this title it seems I have to get much closer to my enemy before VATS is effective - is this just in my mind?

I thought that in Fallout 3 VATS was much more effective at range. In this title, even when the enemies are close, I'm seeing super low percentages in VATS. The enemies have to be right in front of me practically before VATS kicks in.

What's disconcerting about this is that I opted for the trait known as Trigger Discipline, which increases your accuracy by 20 percent.

I think I had better try and find a sniper rifle.

I'm guessing that this isn't in my mind, and that Obsidian had to decrease the effective range of VATS due to followers. Obsidian would've had to gimp something somewhere in order to compensate for the player having a small party, and I'm guessing they chose VATS.
 
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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to read Beagle's journal (or whatever his name is).

also I think I may have gotten myself stuch in the correctional facility, lol. Level 4 may have been too soon to try it. The warden's building has sooo many people that come out at once.
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I found an abandonded gas station/general store right near the NCR base with the huge ass statues with a journal in it....its like "mayors journal 2/2 or something. Im trying to find 1/2 as well as beagles journal...but dont know where they are. PM me if you can tell me please.
 
WabeWalker said:
In this title it seems I have to get much closer to my enemy before VATS is effective - is this just in my mind?

I thought that in Fallout 3 VATS was much more effective at range. In this title, even when the enemies are close, I'm seeing super low percentages in VATS. The enemies have to be right in front of me practically before VATS kicks in.

What's disconcerting about this is that I opted for the trait known as Trigger Discipline, which increases your accuracy by 20 percent.

I think I had better try and find a sniper rifle.

I'm guessing that this isn't in my mind, and that Obsidian had to decrease the effective range of VATS due to followers. Obsidian would've had to gimp something somewhere in order to compensate for the player having a small party, and I'm guessing they chose VATS.
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VATS has been nerfed considerably in this game, both in terms of effective range and perks affecting VATS. I think Obsidian wanted us to use free-aim and iron sights to handle most situations which is fine if the frame-rates didn't tank the second more than one guy shows up on the screen. I'll have to give that .dll fix a try when I get home.
 
Yeah, the iron sights system is weird. It seems to basically destroy any concept of not being able to hit NPCs at distance, which isn't how FO3 worked. You can pretty effectively snipe with pistols now, in fact. Skill level seems to make no difference.

Pretty severe reduction in the depth of the game because of it. Granted, you could just as well not use iron sights, but I would imagine that the game's difficulty is based on the ability of the player to use them effectively.
 
The game 'helps' you aim, kinda like the default setting for Mass Effect. FO3 had a few mods that removed this. Each with their own method that had pros and cons. The one that FWE used was the best method.

For New Vegas, the new vegas nexus has already has mod that gets rid of auto-aim, however, the weapon geometry doesn't always align with the crosshairs, so sometimes aiming is slightly off the hairs for certain weapons. I think the auto aim isn't too noticeable until you're at sniping ranges.
 
Anybody know where I can find the sexbot for the Wrangler quest? I got the ghoul and the man-whore already done but The guy said the robot factory was west somewhere - it was late and I can't remember now but I cant find the place and he doesn't repeat the dialog.
 
Because I am currently lazy, can soemone post the link to the mouse accelaration fix? Its laggy, and when I go out normal windows at normal speeds it seems to fast...
 
JayteeBates said:
Anybody know where I can find the sexbot for the Wrangler quest? I got the ghoul and the man-whore already done but The guy said the robot factory was west somewhere - it was late and I can't remember now but I cant find the place and he doesn't repeat the dialog.
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Its in the outer part of freeside, so the first freeside zone you enter when heading towards the strip. Its towards the N, NW side of that zone. From the north freeside gate you just keep heading to the right essentially following the wall and when you reach the N,NW area there is a door to the robot place. Do note there are 2 doors in this area, the first one you pass is a called something like storefront door, this is not it. The robotics door is further along the way.
 
Parmenides said:
The game 'helps' you aim, kinda like the default setting for Mass Effect.
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It's not even that, really. The problem I have with it is that I can hit someone in the head with a 9mm pistol at 30 feet with no problems. In VATS, my chance to hit at that distance would be somewhere around, I don't know, 5%? 0%?

There's just something wrong with that.
 
For any of AMD people who are using the D3D .dll to speed things up there is a modified one specifically tailored to recent AMD cards here: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34970

phide said:
It's not even that, really. The problem I have with it is that I can hit someone in the head with a 9mm pistol at 30 feet with no problems. In VATS, my chance to hit at that distance would be somewhere around, I don't know, 5%? 0%?

There's just something wrong with that.
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Odd question, but what are your character's attributes, like luck or perception?
 
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overlord20 said:
Since we have iron sights, I feel vats is a bit useless now..
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I find myself using VATS for anything close up. Especially against the Nightkins or to get a sneak critical. Crouch, line up a shot behind, VATS and get some crits.
 
phide said:
It's not even that, really. The problem I have with it is that I can hit someone in the head with a 9mm pistol at 30 feet with no problems. In VATS, my chance to hit at that distance would be somewhere around, I don't know, 5%? 0%?

There's just something wrong with that.
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I'm actually glad VATS got nerfed, to a point. I think it definitely needed a bit of a downgrade, maybe not quite so much, but it is refreshing not to have insta god mode anymore.
 
Parmenides said:
Odd question, but what are your character's attributes, like luck or perception?
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Luck is 5, perception 6 (boosted to 7 by wearing a bandana, of all things). Guns is 55 and I grabbed the trait which increases accuracy at the expense of rate-of-fire.
 
You guys are making me want this game, bad. I just started playing MW:LL Crysis mod. LOL, just a few months ago I was bitching about having nothing to play.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Because I am currently lazy, can soemone post the link to the mouse accelaration fix? Its laggy, and when I go out normal windows at normal speeds it seems to fast...
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Here's what I used and it worked perfectly,

I'd imagine this could be used to make other configuration edits as well.

You're going to be adding the following lines to the [Controls] section of various .ini files.

fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0
fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0
fForegroundMouseBase=0
fForegroundMouseMult=0

First, go to Documents\My Games\FalloutNV. You will be editing both Fallout.ini and FalloutPrefs.ini. Make sure they are not read-only.

Then go to Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas. Edit Fallout_default.ini. Again, make sure it is not read-only.

Finally, go to Program Files\Steam\userdata. You should see a folder named some random combination of numbers. In that folder, you'll see a bunch of other folders with number names. Sort by last modified, and open the most recently modified folder (except config). In that folder, you should see falloutprefs.ini. Edit that one. If you do all that, changes should stick. It's worked for me so far. This is all without disabling Steam Cloud or anything like that.
 
I agree that at least initially it would appear that VATS has been nerfed. But does anybody here have a sniper build?

Maybe Obsidian just wants players to work for their VATS instead of getting a freebie with every build.

Here's what the game guide suggests for the VATS specialist.

1) At initial level up, select the Trigger Discipline trait for 20 percent greater accuracy in VATS.
2) Sniper perk = 25 percent greater accuracy to headshots in VATS.
3) Commando perk = 25 percent greater accuracy in VATS

Accompanied by a ton of perks which increase criticals, bullet damage, and re-load times. Namely: Finesse, Center of Mass, Better Criticals, Rapid Reload, Weapon Handling, Silent Running, Hand Loader, Confirmed Bachelor, Bloody Mess, Hunter Entomologist, Travel Light, Living Anatomy.

You then equip your character with a rifle, obviously, and modify it. For example: Sniper rifle, with carbon fibre parts, suppresor, .308 upgrade.

Accompanied by the followers Boone, and ED-E (both of whom you can acquire early in the game), the suggestion is that you can use VATS and no one will touch you. I haven't tried this myself, but that's the suggested VATS build.

Attributes:
Strength: 6
Perception: 8
Endurance: 5
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 2
Agility: 8
Luck: 9
 
lol, do you get the dummy dialogue options where you say things like "me no like you."
 
Never was one for those highly-specialized builds. If you're dropping a stat below 4, you're more than likely fucking yourself pretty badly in one respect just to do well in another. Never works out well :)

PrincessFrosty said:
Ah right, thanks for clearing that up. What is 75 degrees for then, 4:3?
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The FOV setting is set up like Source-engine games. It's accurate at 4:3 but not representative of the actual FOV at wider aspect ratios (or narrower ones). On a 4:3 display an FOV setting of 90 yields 90 but ~100.5 at 16:10 and ~106 at 16:9. At least that's how I believe it works out.
 
Visable-assassin said:
I found an abandonded gas station/general store right near the NCR base with the huge ass statues with a journal in it....its like "mayors journal 2/2 or something. Im trying to find 1/2 as well as beagles journal...but dont know where they are. PM me if you can tell me please.
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Yeah I found that, the book is right next to the cash register, it talks about 8k caps is a safe point which I've not found yet. I've been chatting with a friend at work today about his progress and he found the 2nd half of that note in Nipton the town just east of that location, apparantly in the large mansion building on the upper floors, he said something about it being on a computer terminal IIRC.

This is why I love fallout, all these little hidden things to do, really rewards thorough searching as often they're not part of official quest chains.
 
PrincessFrosty said:
Yeah I found that, the book is right next to the cash register, it talks about 8k caps is a safe point which I've not found yet. I've been chatting with a friend at work today about his progress and he found the 2nd half of that note in Nipton the town just east of that location, apparantly in the large mansion building on the upper floors, he said something about it being on a computer terminal IIRC.

This is why I love fallout, all these little hidden things to do, really rewards thorough searching as often they're not part of official quest chains.
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Im heading there later, so ill look.
Also I need to reload and figure who I want to elect as the new sheriff of primm....im really leaning towards the robot since supposedly you get good shop discounts.
 
phide said:
Never was one for those highly-specialized builds. If you're dropping a stat below 4, you're more than likely fucking yourself pretty badly in one respect just to do well in another. Never works out well :)


The FOV setting is set up like Source-engine games. It's accurate at 4:3 but not representative of the actual FOV at wider aspect ratios (or narrower ones). On a 4:3 display an FOV setting of 90 yields 90 but ~100.5 at 16:10 and ~106 at 16:9. At least that's how I believe it works out.
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I tend to agree, I'm wondering why the guide would suggest such min-maxing.
 
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