Fallout New Vegas

[Lazlowe1984]

I love the cavern full of Deathclaws.It makes me appreciate life

[Prime Mover]

Okay, so we've all heard of the many Fallout NV glitches. But strangely, I haven't had too many really noticeable ones, until this one. So I'm in Gomorrah, the dirty sex casino. And during one of the minor side-quests, you find out that one of the helpers is a sadist, and likes to kill women and make snuff tapes for pleasure. So, I killed him and took his closet key. Supposedly, when you get there, you find a dead prostitute corpse and if you examine it, you get additional information on it to appease another character of being charged with the crime. Well, when I opened the door, I was greeted by a live woman prostitute, walking around the room. I go up to talk to her, and the dialog says, "This woman is dead, do you wish to inspect her?" Next thing I know, she walks out the door and starts wondering around the casino.

This just struck me as really creepy, it's like the corpse came back to life and walked around. I know it's just an object-oriented glitch in the programming. Somehow, the program decided that the girl is supposed to be alive instead of dead. But still, it creeps me out.

[Yoda]

I do find that creepy.

I probably would've had a jolt if I went into that expecting a body and get a live one when I open the door.




Did you try and shoot her?

[Dice]

Ive had nightmares like that... you sure it wasn't supposed to happen?  Enough rads makes people do...well, oretty nutty things.

[Eusis]

Got the PC version thanks to Direct2Drive's price match guarantee and their '1 out of 5 purchases is free' contest (though I lost)... and the fact its DRM is Steam so I can just throw the code in that and not worry about D2D beyond humoring them by downloading the game from them and likely saving Valve a little bit of bandwidth. It's been running mostly fine for me, though I did have it hang on me. Didn't give it long enough to see if it would've gotten out of it, and all I lost was a minute or so of walking anyway.

Also if anyone didn't notice I merged Prime's glitch topic into the main one; that REALLY didn't need its own thread.

[Annubis]

Update on my melee/brawl game.

First of all, the perk ignores 15 DT, not 10 (so 5 more than AP ammos or shotgun surgeon)
Power attacks seems to add around 50% DAM
Rob was right about the Ballistic Fist, it destroys everything.

Now for the playthrough:
- Giant Radscorpions are a joke
- Catzadors are a joke even without the +50% damage to insects perk
- Deathclaws hit hard but can be killed in a single power attack with the +50% damage to mutants/ghouls/deathclaws perk
- Deathclaw alpha/mother/exceptional are way too strong to fight in melee (unless you keep stimpacking yourself). With 10 END, buffout and descent DT they would 3 shot me. There's also the problem that their arms are so long they can keep you at bay by attacking you.
- Some areas like the last battle are rather dangerous. If the opponent blocks you, you get stunned for ~3 seconds which is really deadly when you have 5 guys with ballistic fists hitting you. Getting hit by a ballistic fist also stuns you for about 1/2 a second EVEN with the stonewall perk.
- For those places, I suggest using turbos and hitting them in the back/sideway to avoid blocks. The Turbo also makes it very easy to dodge their attacks so you don't get perma stunned by a gang fisting.

Overall, other than rare deathclaws and people with ballistic fists, I was a very easy playthrough.

[Lazlowe1984]

Sounds good to me.I'm hoping to make my Evil/Caeser's Legion playthrough with High Mele/Unarmed Points.Although Guns has the advantage with the Anti-Materiel Rifle.I LOVE that gun.I mixed UltraJet,Steady and Psycho with Anti-Materiel to bring down Legate Lanius within seconds.Totally worked.

[Cyril]

- Deathclaw alpha/mother/exceptional are way too strong to fight in melee (unless you keep stimpacking yourself). With 10 END, buffout and descent DT they would 3 shot me. There's also the problem that their arms are so long they can keep you at bay by attacking you.

Not true.  I did it solo at level 27 on Hardcore with 6-7 END.  I did die twice, though. The first time was an "oops, I accidentally ran in unprepared thinking it was a normal Deathclaw" moment (I can't be the only one who has these, can I?) and the second was a simply normal death due to stupidity.  To beat them, use every Drug you have. Seriously.  I had about 6 types. Then, if you're on hardcore, fill yourself with healing items of every type. Gecko Steak and Dog Steak are probably what you have tons of, then Stimpack and Super Stimpack and maybe a Healing Powder.  Then use VATS.

It took me 6 hits in VATS to kill the Legendary. I was using Love and Hate and only interrupted one attack from him.

I agree with the rest, though!

Oh, and have the patches actually fixed anything or did they break the game more?
Did they ever patch Veronica's not-leveling glitch?

[Annubis]

Actually, that does make sense. I did not use VATS since I hate how it works with melee. The problem about them keeping you out of range is most probably a non-issue with VATS.

[Cyril]

Forgive the semi-necro-bump, but I do have a reason!

While expected, Microsoft's DLC exclusivity agreement seems to be ending this month and the PS3 and PC are getting Dead Money at the end of February.  Also, 3 more DLC are planned, this time for all platforms.
http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-dead-money-headed-to-ps3-pc-more-add-ons-soon-193278.phtml

[Eusis]

Phew, so it was much more mild than Fallout 3's was. Of course cutting off PC for the timed exclusive would do that I guess.

[Tooker]

With new DLC coming in a couple of days, I thought it was a good time to resurrect this thread.  I didn't get Dead Money, but I'll be getting Honest Hearts.  The Burned Man and the Utah connection both pull me in as concepts.

Also, this:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/virtual-las-vegas-the-fallout-fans-ultimate-road-trip/story-e6frfrt9-1226055488463

[Zyco]

I was just thinking about starting on this game again.  My last character was a planned female explosives specialist with extensive speech abilty.. the sexy sleuth that while kissing you plants some C4 on you and robs you blind.  I didnt get very far on her tho because I was burnt on the game, she was my 3rd straight character. 

I still think to date this has been my favorite Bethesda/Bioware game (WRPG I guess) since Morrowind. It has such an oldschool flavor to it and to me Hardcore mode is the way the game would be normally if made in the 80s-90s. Its not really making the game any harder, it just makes you think about things more and makes it feel more realistic.

[Maxximum]

Been thinking about giving the new Fallout a spin. Is it worth hunting down Fallout 3 (I'm only considering the complete edition with all the DLC included) or should I just go straight for New Vegas (much easier to find, but a tad more expensive)?

[msg]

Been thinking about giving the new Fallout a spin. Is it worth hunting down Fallout 3 (I'm only considering the complete edition with all the DLC included) or should I just go straight for New Vegas (much easier to find, but a tad more expensive)?

I prefer Fallout 3 and the game of the year edition with all dlc is a much better buy than new vegas.
I think New vegas improves on fallout 3 in almost every way but somehow isn't as good, if that makes sense.