Fallout: New Vegas thread
Why the blade on the helmet
Just what is it meant to accomplish
>>333786327
Serious question to start things off.
How do people see the wild card ending as a "good ending" even though the followers of the apocalypse part in the ending clearly says that new vegas fell to anarchy (or freeside i guess) and that they were screwed with so many people injured and such?
>>333786737
lethal headbutting
>>333786737
Headbutting
>>333786737
It's a big blade
>>333786804
It does that for House, too. And mostly because the Follower's endings are meant to illustrate that their good intentions far outweigh their ability to actually help people
>>333786737
it will cut a bullet in half sometimes
>>333786327
SO WHAT ABOUT YOU ?
DO YOU SUPPORT THE LEGION
>(A) support legion
>(B) what legion ?
>(X) hates legion
>(Y) not my business
>battle of hoover dam
>murderin off praetorians in the camp
>suddenly Legate Lanius
>holy fucking shit legate lanius im crapping my pants holy fuck his presence is godlike jesus christ fuck monster of the east.jpg
>"hey dude you suck" i say, to lanius
>expect the duel of a lifetime between my character and a goddamn walking myth
>legate lanius swings his sword like a fucking retard with that robotic running animation
>constantly just shoot his head while running away
>get him to half health, he literally runs away to a way and gets stuck
>throw a grenade at him and he blows to pieces
legate lanius was disappointing
cool chara tho
>>333786737
literally splitting hairs
>Uninstall NV to make room
>Delte mods
>Build new PC with bigger HD
>Want NV again but can't be assed to find all dem mods again
Fallout 4 is shit.
>>333787259
Nah, you're thinking of Ulysses and his old tribe
>>333787163
The problem with New Vegas is that it has great lore, great build up, great writing, great characters, great dialogue, great everything..
but it's just so shitty in terms of visual representation, most of the time. One of the times the representation was good was when you where you meet Ulysses and Graham for the first time
>>333786737
>>333786327
I never understand the Legions backwards thinking...why do they hate technology and think it'so unrelieable?
Do they honestly believe spears and machetes can compete with Power armor, Mini-guns, Robots, Plasma and laser weaponry? It'd be amazing if the Legion adapted and something like 'Son of Ceaser' was created and it's an elite Centurion devision that wore custom made Legion Power armor, wielded big ass phalanx square shields and electrified long rippers.
>>333787163
>show up with power armour and overcharged gauss rifle
>upgraded ED-E
>Boone with AMR and Veteran Ranger armour
>Mk2 Securitron
>Orion Morino rocking the Envclave PA and a minigun
>Lanius is dead in 5 seconds flat
>>333787564
they don't hate technology, they just don't wanna depend on it cuz MUH GREAT WAR
Look at that variety
>>333787630
Sounds like a scene in One Punch Man.
A super badass warrior who has destroyed 15 or so communities only to get obliterated by a random chillass dude around 5 seconds.
>>333787564
The Legion only eschews technology that takes away the need for human or makes them "weak". Chems and robots are bad. Weapons and radios are not.
If you hand over Cass to the Van Graffs, you find out the Legion is trying to buy energy weapons from them. Which makes sense, a gun is a gun. It needs someone skilled enough to use it to be any good, no matter what high tech nonsense it shoots.
>>333787723
yeah
so many ways to not have fun
the guns feel like fuckin nerf guns
until my perk makes the enemy explode into a million bits by hitting his foot?
>>333787638
That Logic is still retarded just like Fallout 4's Brotherhood. Factions need that technological edge.
>>333787328
>>333787484
It's ridiculous that after all these years I haven't played Lonesome Road. I was pretty hype after listening to him and Christine talk in OWB, but I forgot all about it, or got lost in some other content in the game.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-new-vegas
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-4
Friendly reminder that Obsidian will never produce another Fallout game because they failed to meet Bethesda's standards, which Bethesda later failed to meet themselves
>>333787564
Caeser forces them to stay away from tech to increase the individual's need of the group. His reasoning is that the NCR soldiers personally have advanced gear, and they're all self-serving and backstabbing. Remove the fancy tech, train the man, and you'll have more loyal soldiers.
Which for the most part works, especially when coupled with extremely harsh punishments for transgressions
>>333787917
Nobody said the Legion was smart. It falls apart once Caesar is dead because they're just raiders in fancier outfits.
>>333788013
The New Vegas team, by and large, doesn't work for Obsidian any more so it's no big loss
>>333787981
>after all these years I haven't played Lonesome Road
play it, Ulysses is either batshit insane or a voice of reason depending on who you roleplay and I think that's great.
personally I prefer him being batshit insane because that makes the writing less shitty.
>>333786327
Anyone else excited for The Frontier?
>>333788131
what's it about?
>>333787126
(A) Looking for my chip
(B) Have you seen my chip
(Y) Tell me about Star Caps
(X) I need to go
>>333788050
>the NCR soldiers personally have advanced gear
The thing is though, they don't. The average NCR trooper has shit equipment and shit training.
The Legion has better grunts and the NCR has better elites
>>333787163
I maintain that Lanius is the hypest character in any game (followed by Artorias from DaS).
Everyone's shit scared of the legion and the horrible shit they do, which apparently pales in comparison to the monster called Lanius. Single handedly killing platoons of Praetorians, slaughtering the men of his tribe when they didn't fight well enough, performing the rite of decimatio, and is considered the legion's trump card. Then when you actually meet him he has terrifying lines like this, he's taller than everyone else in the game, and he's got that sweet as fuck armour.
10/10 presentation, pity about the gameplay
>>333788050
But doeant Caesar see that he's crippling his own forces? 100 legionaries rushing tiwards a minigun firing will only get 100 legionaires dead. Just imagine the shit they could accomplish if the Legion actually expands technology use like Stealth Boys, Power Armor and Even maybe Vertibirds.
>>333788175
http://www.falloutthefrontier.com
There site has all the info about the mod
It looks sick as hell
>>333787564
Don't forget that Caesar was an NCR citizen, who had his family killed and ended up with the Followers. He never had much firsthand experience with tech that impressive. He does know that the NCR and Followers alike are dependent on old world USA values and supplies. He wants a society removed from both of those. Once NV rolls around, the Legion is well established and strong, and he still wants to push it's development further. We can assume the Midwestern BoS doesn't want to tangle with them, for whatever reason.
>>333786327
Love these threads. I'm going to start a new playthrough and this time I want to feel like a true freeside hobo struggling to survive. I'm tired of being an unstoppable wasteland jesus by level 10. So I want a few mods that make every aspect of the game harder, not just the combat, but also the economy, the decisions and role playing, a harsher hardcore mode, much less loot, I want it to be rare to find the occasional pork n beans to satisfy my crippling hunger and for chet to give my the middle finger when begging for some food, etc. I was thinking on getting Jsawyer, Cirosans Classic Overhaul, Vicious Wastes, and I was looking at a mod called true wasteland economy the other day. You guys know of any other mods that make the game harder? Is true wasteland economy compatible with the other mods I mentioned?
>>333788408
i didnt like his voice and his personality, for me it didn't fit him
he was supposed to be a tribal violent maniac who's heart and soul is strictly by caesar but he doesn't sound and speak like that
caesar was scarier than him, although that was when my character was a lot more weaker and less confident to take on two armies at once.
>"I was just fucking with you.."
>>333788426
Thing is, Caesar can absorb those losses in a way NCR can't
Really, all he needs is to change up tactics a bit to compensate for no longer fighting random tribals and a weapon manufacturing base like NCR has with the Gun Runners.
Tell me what you see /v/
>>333788253
Comparing the basic troops of each, they do. Guns, stimpaks, specially manufactured clothes. If we factor in the stuff they have access too it's an even bigger difference, like autodocs, chems, turrets, trains, etc.
Caesar views it as a crutch, despite how powerful these tools can be.
>>333788504
>>333788057
>>333788050
>>333787843
Takibg a scenario from Fallout 4 what happens when the Legion encounters an advanced faction like the Institute? The Brotherhood was smart and set up jammers to stop them from teleporting an army into the airport and slaughtering them all...how would the Legion be able to counter that? They'd probably think it's unholy Pluto magic and never set foot on the east ever again.
>>333722338
Rolling from previous thread.
>>333787484
it's a problem with all the gamebryo games. And a lot of games in general, really. Everything just feels so small. Both the world because they can't just make a thousand mile wasteland, and the events because they can only have so many characters loaded in at a time. I remember near the end of Oblivion Martin does a big epic battle speech like Aragorn before the climax of return of the king, and it's just like you, him, jauffre, and like ten other guys versus a dozen or so demons.
>>333789057
Get some of his Frumentarii to find something to stop them with, then set it up, maybe spin some hocus pocus bullshit for the common soldier
He's not a complete idiot, he'd understand that technology would be needed to counter technology
>>333788624
>Do literally everything possible to fuck with the Legion before seeing Caesar
>He has to list all the ways I screwed his army over
>not working for house then becoming rich
>not letting house do his thing then taking the reigns when he's done
>not wearing suits and being clandestine
>>333789059
>literally everything I hate: The Roll
Re-rolling for not aids roll.
>>333788075
I love his voice, and I've managed not to watch or listen to any gameplay or dialogue from the DLC. These threads have motivated me, I'm definitely gonna get to it this week.
I posted in the older thread, but I wanna hear more stories. What did you do with him /v/?
>>333789057
Caesar would belittle the Institute because they are fucking idiots scourged by Bethesda's writing.
>>333789215
what does he say?
>>333789030
The Arms Merchant at the 188 outpost tells you that most new recruits don't get body armour and they ship out with barely 2 weeks of training
Their equipment might be a higher quality than what a Legion Recruit gets but the Recruit is a hell of a lot better trained with what he's got and a hell of a lot more motivated
>>333787294
just start fresh
>>333789020
I'd rather not say...
>>333789426
why does everyone who act like Mr. Fantastic look like Mr. Fantastic
seriously
>>333722338
thanks lad
>>333789359
First playthrough, I fought him with a machete.
Had no melee skill, so it took about a minute of me gradually slamming the thing into his impenetrable forearm of blocking.
>>333789057
Well, I think another good question would be what would the Institute be if the NV dev team came up with them?
>>333789525
It's a thing in real life as well. Sometimes you can tell just by looking at someone they're a Mr Fantastic
>>333789379
He's got a comment for, from memory
>Killing everyone at Cottonwood Cove
>Killing everyone at Nelson
>Breaking the Khan alliance
>Breaking the Omerta alliance
>Catching the spy at the monorail
>>333788504
Followers know about tech. They're not BoS levels of advanced, but they're a smart group. One of them helped reprogram Yes Man.
They just focus more on medicine and history than weapons, so it's less practical in game.
>>333788426
His tactics are great against tribals and for enforcing his laws, and the conflict against NCR is the first time they've had any trouble. After using their zerg tactics against NCR in the first Hoover Dam battle and losing, they've changed their tactics. Now they make better use of terrain, guerilla tactics, and sabotage. They only fight head on when they've got terrain advantage, like in the Dam interior where NCR's range is useless
>>333789379
Every anti-Legion quest you do (Like stopping the bombing of the monorail and disrupting the gas attack plans) results in him commenting on how his specific plan in each area was foiled "mysteriously". Unfortunately I don't think he has anything to say if you nuke his home territory.
>>333789379
How was the Institute Scourged? Their main vector is to help Humanity. They got specialized synth's that can absorb and filter Radiation.
>>333789204
I don't think even Caesar would have the brains to counter something like Institute teleportation. If anything he'd keep sending freah grunts into a ceaseless meat grinder.
If you didn't play One Day More before the Second Battle of Hoover Dam then be glad you're not as autistic as me.
>>333787564
In reality, the NCR-Legion war is a massive contrivance. Only extreme incompetency on the hand of the NCR could lead to a legion victory.
NCR has EVERY advantage. I guess Oliver is just that fucking stupid
>>333789884
Well he IS deliberately fucking around in order to make the battle big and bloody so he can get tons of medals for winning. I think every officer in the NCR hates his guts.
>>333789057
They'd never win head on, but if the Railroad can get a spy in, the Legion will be able too as well. They're also not above using old world tech for specific uses, like with the radiation bomb, or Ulysses nuking NCR.
Teleportation is incredibly OP though, so if the Institute knew the Legion were coming they'd be fucked of they could find them. Flood the area with guerilla fighters, don't set up any command tents, carry magnets to ID synths.
It would be more a war of attrition and spying than anything else.
>>333789884
>I guess Oliver is just that fucking stupid
Well his plan is literally "throw troopers at it until we win because FUCK the Rangers"
He's salty because the credit for the first win was attributed to the Rangers and he's deliberately throwing away their help out of spite
>>333789884
The NCR is dogged by bureaucracy and the fact that a slightly Machiavellian 200 year old genius with an army of robots is waiting in the wings to take full control of the region if they make any missteps.
>>333789665
And killing Vulpes.
>>333789359
>playing a hardass brawling mobster from the the mean streets of New Reno
>get him to talk to me in private
>get all the info I need out of him
>tell him I forgive him for shooting me
>as he's walking to the elevator I run up behind him and super slam his ass with Love and/or Hate
>me and Boone's faces as we beat him to death with our bare hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
>>333789379
>>333789215
>>333789359
I usually just have swank tell him to go to his suite, and then after a little conversation, I fill him with lead until he's dead on the ground, preferably with an automatic weapon like the 10mm smg or the silenced 22 smg. Feels really mafia like.
I fucking love Benny and the Courier to be quite honest. The fact that 2 random wild cards with unintended consequences managed to fuck over the whole power struggle of the Mojave is great.
>Oliver had the Veteran Rangers fucking around in Baja until near the end of the game
>Oliver is fucking around so much that Chief Hanlon became completely disillusioned with the entire war and is trying to sabotage NCR so they'll just give up and go home
>every single NCR base is understaffed and has some kind of problem
>Van Graffs are trying to sell weapons to the Legion
>>333789720
Yeah, to be clearer, they know stimpaks and computer terminals, not power armor and energy weaponry. They didn't do anything to affect Yes Mans combat capability or anything. I'm sure they know of these technologies, but nothing in depth. All of that would've been snatched up by the BoS or Enclave. Caesars intelligent but he can't prepare for the unfamiliar. He's been away from the West for what, 30 plus years? The Legion did capture some Midwestern Scribes though
>>333790050
I'd assume the Legion would learn from their mistakes after the first command base was butchered by Synth armies. Focusing on nothing but sabotoge, spying and information gathering. But the Institute is 10× better at that because they can make agents that nobody can tell apart. They snatch people and replace with a synth plant.
>>333789720
>They're not BoS levels of advanced
I'd say they are, actually. They just have different areas of interest and expertise.
Both the BoS and Followers contact you to download the information from ED-E. The BoS recover the Duraframe Eyebot specs and the Followers download a bunch of Poseidon Energy logs and they both give him a mechanical upgrade.
>>333790729
NCR is just incompetent. A rational NCR general would just sort this shit out, reinforce the dam, and then prepare logistics/Mortars for an NCR assault.
NCR takes the battle 10 out of 10 times if they're well-led. A well entrenched force can take on an army 3 times their size ( That's given equal Force concentration, an NCR squad can pour out way more firepower than a legion squad) Legion can't stop long range harrying by NCR artillery.
GG legion
>>333790460
I've said before it would've been awesome to team up with the Benny we see in All Roads and the intro cinematic. Some nobody tribal and nobody courier who got caught up in something huge and had the ambition to seize opportunity.
>New Vegas rebooted as Fallout 5
>All the DLCs integrated into the main game
>Game handled by someone competent
>Writing heavily improved, this time Yesman can be permanently killed after you ask him how to disable to body switching because he can't not tell you
>rectons are undone
>after Lonesome Road, Ulysses becomes the follower he was meant to be
>people are living in rebuilt and new buildings like they were suppose to
>factions actually matter and affect the mojave
>>333790184
jesus, how awkward would it be to say
>uhh I kind of need the Platinum Chip back, is that okay with you?
>>333791106
>NCR artillery
Would be great, if they had any
>>333791368
Just build as big fucking cannon. NCR has the means to do that. We had em' in the Civil war, right? Or just make mortars.
I think they can manage something.
>>333791315
A lot less awkward than
>B-but y-you p-promised I'd be safe!
>>333791289
I'll take Fallout New Orleans made by Obsidian entertainment thank you. Same magic works that went into New Vegas...exept new and in Orleans.
I love the design they worked with Lee Oliver and Legate Lanius. Their designs made them really "final boss-y."
>Legate Lanius has the most unique Legion armor, has a giant fucking sword, is taller than anyone, etc..
>General Oliver's hat and uniform shows how high-ranking he is and is also unique. Underrated design, the stars and unique armor give him a sorta "authority" presence, like the game is telling the player "this motherfucker is top NCR."
>>333791483
>by Obsidian
Kill yourself obsidrone, they're the reason we'll never see another Fallout game made by a good developer
>>333791289
>Yesman can be permanently killed
then how will the game end if courier murders all 4 big guys?
>>333791490
Oliver looks like shit though. He's literally just in his regular office uniform and come out for a stroll to the (now subdued) battlefield with four Veteran Rangers as backup.
The only thing his uniform says is "here's a worthless fuck who doesn't remember what combat is". Every other NCR commander is dressed like infantry
>>333791579
Hi Todd. How's that Harbour DLC coming along?
>>333791603
Blow up the dam, become the kingpin of the mojave and raise your own army, you think of something else
>>333791603
A new ending where you just walk to the edge of the map and leavewhich is what happens in Independent anyway
>>333791368
they literally have a giant artillery gun at the dam
>>333791803
It's an AA gun
Great for shooting down Bear Force One but not much else
>>333791712
when i first saw him i was like "shit dude look at that guys stars and golden two headed bear"
maybe that's just me
>>333788131
I hope it doesn't blow, it looks great. But these huge fucking mods always look so fucking overly ambitious compared to the means that people have IRL when it comes to spare time.
>>333791712
He somewhat reminds me of Douglas MacArthur.
>>333791716
>If I call him todd the facts have to go away!
Obsidian Entertainment is the reason Fallout will never be handled by a competent developer ever again
>>333791881
I hope, at the very least, this illusion was dispelled when you heard his terrible non-unique VA
If I ever go to Vegas
How do I hang out Fallout style
>>333791289
>Yesman can be permanently killed
Yesman being unkillable is fine. He performs the "I fucked everything up and still need to finish the game" well.
>rectons are undone
What retcons?
>factions actually matter and affect the mojave
What do you mean?
>>333792147
Tune into the radio and listen to Wayne "Mr Las Vegas" Newton
Get covered in dust
Marvel at the horrific dystopian wasteland surrounding the city
>>333792064
Please elaborate mister Howard.
>>333792147
Cover yourself in pitch, light yourself on fire, and jump into the Grand Canyon.
>>333792280
I hate cookie cutter housing, so let me just say that neighborhood is horrifying to me. Efficient as hell, but it lacks the feeling of LIFE.
>mfw when i realized mr. new vegas was an a.i
>mfw when i realized mr. new vegas was a real person irl
>>333792474
>>333792280
Perfect casting
>>333792474
The amount of famous voice actors in New Vegas is amazing
>Wil Wheaton
>Felicia Day
>Michael Dorn
>Kris Kristofferson
>John Doman
>Rene Auberjonia
>Danny Trejo
>Wayne Newton
>Matthew Perry
>>333792280
Where are the fucking parks
Are they all sucking water from Mead
>>333792280
Jesus Christ being a kid there looks fucking awful. Just houses, as far as the eye can see, fucking houses. At least from this pic, it looks like there's no fucking fun shit for miles around. No woods, no mall, no gas station to rip off. Maybe with a bike there's some shit in range.
>>333792704
If only Grey DeLisle was one of them.
>>333792830
>>333792829
Well, it is the desert
>>333789393
That's the whole point, retard.
>>333792474
>>333792704
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fBFZxztVuc
>>333792970
Also kind of looks like paradise because I'm horribly allergic to grass and grew up in fucking grassy, woodsy Texas country. It was hellish. I don't see much grass here.
>>333792371
patrician way tbqhwyf
Why is Mr. New Vegas so SO fucking charismatic? How? Seriously?
Mr. NV >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Travis & 3 Dog
>>333791928
Dont you talk shit about Mcarthur you nigger,
>>333792160
>Yesman being unkillable is fine. He performs the "I fucked everything up and still need to finish the game" well.
Sure he does, but he's still only there because Obsidian was too lazy to make a true independent ending.
>What retcons?
Like the already mentioned rebuilding stuff
>What do you mean?
The khans have zero presence in the mojave
The Legion is a god damn joke
>>333793620
Because he's an actual radio personality in the real world
>>333793620
He isn't.
Still better than Travis but not better than 3Dog
>>333793160
Caesar's voice actor looks like Caesar irl.
>>333793784
>The khans have zero presence
That's the entire point. They've been reduced to a bunch of nobodies by NCR, hiding in the hills and surviving by selling chems to Fiends
>>333793620
Because it's Wayne Fucking Newton. You don't stay a big entertainer for decades without having some charisma.
>>333793893
>he hasn't seen The Wire
>>333794075
i havent
is it good
>>333792147
You might try visiting the Stratosphere Hotel, which is what the Lucky 38 is based off of.
It isn't on the strip though.
>>333793908
>That's the entire point. They've been reduced to a bunch of nobodies by NCR, hiding in the hills and surviving by selling chems to Fiends
And you, the god damn courier, can not do anything to change that regardless of how hard you remove the NCR from the mojave
>>333794119
Yes, and Caesar is in it. Watch it for ambiguous gayness, if nothing else.
>>333788131
Looks like Operation Anchorage in Fallout New Vegas. No thanks.
>>333793880
3Dog was annoying, but you could probably put that more on the writing than on the actor. Still though, how is he better than Mr. NV?
>>333787564
They do use guns, just not in the common rank and file. Haven't you ever dealt with Legionary Assassins?
Their limited use of them also makes their logistics much simpler and lightweight. There's a reason NCR characters constantly complain about lack of resources and Legion characters do not.
>>333787564
they use guns. but it would make more sense for them to carry shields when using melee weapons. it's stupid how it wasn't in the game.
>>333791315
I interpret that line as a veiled threat. You rose from the grave and walked half the Mojave to get that chip back from Benny. You're telling Caesar that you won't hesitate to take it from his corpse (and, remember, you've pretty much done the impossible before). But at the same time, if Caesar hands it over, there's no problem; you're not here to start trouble if Caesar doesn't make trouble.
>>333794861
There was nothing remarkable about him.
He had no personality whatsoever. 3dog was annoying but at least more remarkable.
>>333793880
I think you should leave.
>>333786327
if you want to learn all about mods and what mods i'm using:
http://pastebin.com/muLxJsdF
>>333786737
It's from the helmet of a super mutant, so ask the mutant he killed for it
>>333795930
Make me you dirty Legion scum.
>>333796134
I tried but he's dead
>>333795549
>game runs on oblivion's engine with a coat of paint
>no riot shields
what the fuck obsidian
>>333797063
did you know you can find a listing for Frost Damage in the GECK? it's an empty value but it's there.
>>333795769
I do see what you're saying, he was a personality, but kind of generic? I still prefer Mr. NV because it's just so soothing to listen while exploring the wastes.
>>333793160
I don't hate Fallout 4, but god daaaaaaaaamn does this game blow it out of the water in terms of characterization and atmosphere.
fallout: Lonestar can't come soon enough.
>>333789884
It's implied that the Legion's use of very effective spies and terrorism has given them an edge, that and the NCr has trouble enough maintaining its own security,much less making large mobilizations outside of their territory. They've got a large part of their elite troops in Baja "chasing ghosts" while in a desperate war ffs, they have some serious organizational problems.
Ave Caesar
>>333798158
It's even funnier now he's a rapist
>>333798212
>>333798212
but he's been a rapist for decades
>>333798242
Vulpes violated more boipucci than the amount of women Cosby's even had contact with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkxL7-PVZs&nohtml5=False
Seems weirdly appropriate to hear him quoting Shakespeare.
where can i find some cool legion art that isnt homosexual degeneracy
>>333798573
>driving
>vlogging
>acting
inb4 he dies
>>333798615
Literally nowhere.
>>333798573
>>333798615
>where do I find homosexual art that isn't homosexual
wew lad
>>333798769
the man gives no fucks whatsoever.
If I ever need a VA for anything, he's at the top of the list.
>Originally it was planned that Mr House could be seduced (presumably only by female characters). If successful in some sort of speech challenge, the player would be told to enter the secret area of his penthouse and enter some kind of "scanner" (to perve over the player's body - or more likely according to Raul - brain?). It's not clear what would happen next, but presumably the idea would be that it would let the player enter his secret area (fnar!) without setting off the alarm like usual. This is detailed in Mr House's dialogue script:
>int seduction ;1 = House has expressed interest, 2 = invited to secret area, 3 = has been scanned
>There are also blank placeholder dialogues for this scene, but they contain no actual dialogue ("Scannerafter", "Scannerbefore"). This likely ties in with Raul's dialogue if you ask him about Mr House. He says House used to "scan women's brains" and "make them dress up in different clothes" in lieu of actual err, sexual acts - this is probably exactly what would have happened in this sequence.
wew
>>333799112
that's hilarious
Are their other games with such frank depictions of slavery, drug addiction, government corruption and overall social violence? I'll never forget walking into Nipton for the first time, those broken men dying on the crosses, the heads on pikes, a sense of recent, savage violence and desperation in the air, and what made it somehow better was Oliver's mad, screaming, heedless joy as you came up the road, a perfect counterpoint to the carnage within.
>>333799593
You could go to Detroit.
>go to Nipton
>bunch of people tied up to custom made telegraph pole crosses
So, did they haul those all the way from Cottonwood Cove just to make a show of it?
Seems like it would've been really impractical
>>333799991
probably got a bunch of recruits to carry it. seems like it would be good training
>>333800151
They had that Legion camp set up beforehand, so they probably stored them there for a while.
does anyone think Fallout badly needs cinematics?
having everything done in-game just looks so stiff and disgusting
About to try my first playthough.
Any advice /v/?
>>333800405
get mods. see the pastebin link posted in the thread.
>>333800387
You mean cutscenes? I don't think it needs that so much as it just needs a legitimately new engine.
>>333800405
Go north from Goodsprings
>>333788131
I just want a mini sherman tank companion alchestbreach had in one video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnraQVPEQAw
>>333800405
Put XP into swimming.
>>333794780
Why, because it has snow?
>>333800513
thx senpai
>>333800623
>>333800662
pls no bully
>>333799991
Probably whipped them up on the spot. It's not like there's a lack of materials around. It was a town, after all, even if it's a rather small one.
>>333800662
This isn't Deus Ex, retard.
>>333800728
No, because the trailers don't make it look like nothing but combat and military trappings. I don't play New Vegas to try and simulate Call of Duty, mostly because the game is terrible for it.
I felt the same way about the endless combat slog that was Lonesome Road, too. The game has no business pushing me into extended firefights when its gunplay is so poor.
>>333801136
They're the top few feet of a telegraph pole, they look a little too complex to just throw together on the spot
It would require them to corral the population a lot longer if they had to saw down every pole in town and stand around while someone got the bits to stand them up and the rope to lash people to them
>>333799593
The writers knew how to use the player's curiosity and frustration really well. Almost every person killed or tried to pickpocket Swanick to figure out what the fuck the lottery was
>>333801034
YUP is necessary to play the game.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/51664/?
Everything else is to taste.
>>333801319
What else would they show off?
>>333801538
Personally, I wouldn't assume that every cross is actually taken from a telegraph pole just because they all look the same. Maybe my non-literal interpretation to game graphics is outdated, though.
In any case, isn't it only the powder gangers that are crucified? I thought most people were burnt or enslaved. It wouldn't take nearly so long if it was just a couple dozen people or so.
>>333801569
Bye.
>>333788131
This makes for a good screenshot, but it seems like an awful waste of guns, especially when the NCR has supply problems as is
I'm keen to play it though. 4 left a really bad taste in my mouth
>>333800578
yeah cutscenes. only for really technical ones and maybe the first time you step foot inside a city or something to set the mood.
now every time you discover a new area you just get a stupid notice and experience gain. That's it. nothing special about it.
>>333802046
>helmet fell over
GG
>>333788131
I do like the setting, but where exactly would they be? Montana?
>>333802245
Oh nevermind, it says Portland, Oregon in the FAQ.
>>333795549
>>333797063
>>333787564
Shields are pointless if most of your enemies don't fight back with melee weapons or low-velocity projectiles like spears and arrows. They're just clunky and won't perform well in the type of ambush and retreat tactics that Legionares do with their melee weapons.
Historically, most soldiers who were given shields mostly fought in tight-rank formation and relied on acting collectively in their actions in formation for their strength (such as with hoplites and Republic and early Empire legionaires). Guys who were either skirmishers or linebreakers / knights,whose role were more of fucking shit up on an individual-level-focus, were often not given shield, or given smaller ones.
Not to mention ballistic resistant shields are pretty retarded. Riot shields, at best, can help stop small calibers and shrapnel, but are mostly used in mind to block thrown objects and thrashes from protesters. IIRC, most of them, and ballistic plates for vest-carriers, are super-heavy unless they're ceramic (which can only take a single-to-a-few shots before breaking).
Replaying New Vegas listening to the other radio station this time. I need to fill up my YouTube playlist and half of current playlist are either Fallout Music or one Punk band. Any songs on the non Radio New Vegas station that really stick out, or just ones you remember fondly?
>>333802320
Wait, how the fuck is there Legion there?
>>333801907
Well, you can't really show dialogue screens in a trailer effectively, but you can imply roleplaying potential via voiceovers, a variety of NPC and landscape design, etc. All the trailer shows off is bleak, Lonesome Road-style landscapes, military vehicles, and military peeps shooting.
It's more about what's implied than what's concretely shown on screen. I understand that's not the most helpful description, but that's all I've got right now. I'm talking about the kind of thing that separates Fallout NV from Fallout 3.
Now, maybe I'm wrong and they just didn't know how to show that kind of thing in the trailer. But if so, hopefully I'll hear about it when it's out. Until then, I'm not feeling the hype.
>>333800640
Sherman jr was adorable
>>333797242
THEEEEEEEERE WAS NEVER A MAN
LIKE MY JOHNYYYYYYYYY
>>333802098
You don't need a cutscene for entering cities, you just need a fancy scripted event that helps explain what sort of place it is
>walk into seedy, run down shithole
>first thing you're likely to see is someone shank someone else over a dead rat
>>333802341
>Not to mention ballistic resistant shields are pretty retarded. Riot shields, at best, can help stop small calibers and shrapnel, but are mostly used in mind to block thrown objects and thrashes from protesters. IIRC, most of them, and ballistic plates for vest-carriers, are super-heavy unless they're ceramic (which can only take a single-to-a-few shots before breaking).
You're not wrong, but Fallout is not the type of series where real-world ballistics is relevant.
>>333802393
It's a bad mod. They used a fucking Wilhelm scream in a trailer. Don't expect lore consistency.
>>333802393
I don't know anything about your American states beyond the names so I don't know if this proves anything
>>333787163
>final minutes with my cowboy character
>Lanius
>hook up on every chem I got
>Lever-Action Shotgun plus Shotgun Surgeon and Stay Back
>shoot at him
>knocked down
>shoot more
>Lanius gets up
>knock him down again
>kill him
Well then.
>>333802341
people run around wearing armor made out of tires and leather
>>333802672
Oregon is north of Legion territory.
>>333802769
Not just north, way the fuck northeast. Above NCR territory.
>>333802849
Fuck, northwest*
>>333789359
Talk him into going into his suite. Then I shot him in the back of the head twice before he could get a word in.
Just returning the favor.
>>333802672
>still using the old map
>>333802993
I lol'd.
>>333802849
Well if the maps and quests are well made im willing to overlook any lore inconsistencys
>>333802341
This is the same universe where people take power armour, strip the powered parts out and expect soldiers to lumber around the battlefield in what basically equates to full plate
I think you could overlook the Legion taking some riot shields and strapping red metal plates to them
>>333802672
>>333802993
Hehe, it looks like a dick and balls spraying jizz
>>333802993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ximxe4XtU
All rise for the national anthem
>>333803290
Only because you want it to, fag.
>>333802849
The north edge of Fallout 2's map spilled over the southern border of Oregon, and IIRC, the settlement there (Arroyo) is explicitly mentioned in New Vegas as being part of NCR.
Oregon could very well be "frontier" territory for NCR, but it would require that they hadn't expanded any further north in the forty-ish years between 2 and NV.
>>333788408
I never fucking heard of him and was wondering who the fuck this guy I was fighting was.
Was I meant to hear about him at some point?
>>333803409
If you actually talk to Vulpes in Nipton he mentions him at least twice. The trader in the Fort will mention him and you can ask Caesar to tell you about him. He's also on the news sometimes.
>>333790460
ring a ding ding Phoebe xD
>>333803117
There is no concrete lore about the Legion's territory apart from one or two places. That map is based on Van Buren, which is not canon.
Admittedly it's pretty far away from Vegas to be heavy legion territory, but it wouldn't be crazy for a Legate and some men to be sent up there, especially if there's a good reason (like important rare resources, a war winning super weapon, etc)
>>333802584
it would still have stiff movements and that delayed "i don't realize what just happened" motion NPCs have after they kill something
>>333789359
Well I usually forget to read Vargas Terminal about Benny so the guy at the Counter is always talking about Benny chasing after those angel broads during the whole game.
>be badass grenade chucking brawler
>walk into the tops
>speech my way into getting a key to some door somewhere
>walk over to benny
>speech him into talking upstairs in private
>talk to him a bit and learn I sorta like the guy
>he gives me a quest to help him out
>as I walk out the door I remember reading how people always have special moments taking out Benny for the first time
>equip my spiked knuckles, completely forgot the doorman took away my powerfist
>walk right up to him and punch him once
>Quest fails/completes and I get some exp
>take his neat suit and leave his, to myself at the time, dinky worthless little pistol
>I feel empty but love the suit
Didn't even find Yes man til hours later. I hooked him up to House cause House was already dead and didn't go any farther down the quest line.
>>333803642
That's why you don't make games on Gamebryo
>>333793216
They all use up recycled water to make sure the grass grows on their lawn.
I'm running 190 mods rn. I'm currently doing a Punisher type playthrough, killing Powder Gangers, Fiends, and other scum
>>333803849
190? Isn't the esp limit 140?
>>333792830
Disagree. There's always going out with friends on dirt-bikes and four-wheelers in the desert and seeing all the tourist attractions downtown to keep you entertain.
>>333803626
They own Arizona and all the cities on the map are mentioned in the game as being Legion held
>>333803626
I distinctivley remember Raul saying Caesar controls present day Arizona, or maybe it was New Mexico. Raul is strangely important for giving the legion a decent case considering he is totally neutral on all four endings and how out of the way he is.
>>333803909
Not all mods require .esps. Even those that do, some can be combined.
>>333803909
I think the limit is over 200, it just starts to shit itself around the 150 mark
>>333802993
Tunnel Snakes RULE the world
>>333803985
Yeah Raul was pretty much the first guy who made me go "hmm maybe i should give the legion a chance and hear them out"
Now i put profligates to the cross.
>>333787723
>combat rifle
>uses a pistol round
>does more damage than assault rifle
>>333803849
That sounds like a lot of fun actually. Bet that running through Old World Blues will be interesting.
I've got two playthroughs going;
One, the Raptor, where I play a fragile low intelligence tribal with very high skill in unarmed who runs away from loud noises and bright explosions, and hoards eggs.
The other is a Wolf Brigade using a stealth/guns character with Jin Roh armor mod who acts purely as a merc authority and never uses Energy Weapons/Science if possible. Also hoards food and shiny things since wolves.
>>333788534
sounds like it. jsawyer alone is amazing
>>333805342
Wouldn't the fact that it uses pistol rounds technically make it a carbine?
>see three Viper gang members standing in a rough group down the road
>crouch down well away from them
>point roughly in their direction
>open fire on full auto
>sneak crit kill all three in 10 shots
>>333804594
I'd like to be surprised that most people didn't take the chance to talk to Caesar when it was given to them but the first time I went to the Fort I took Boone and murdered everyone
Any tips for my first playthrough?
>>333806556
The game accommodates a wide range of character builds, so I wouldn't worry about any "must have" skills.
>>333791880
>It's an AA gun
>Great for shooting down Bear Force One but not much else
The German 88 Flak was far more effective at eating tanks for breakfast than shooting down bombers.
>>333806556
Put XP into swimming.
>>333805719
sneak criticals only do bonus damage for energy weapons if you have the better criticals perk
>>333787294
A bunch of us are using mods I'm sure, just ask around if you are looking for a half-decent LO. FNV is good enough to make the time to get it running nicely again.
>>333806556
Go north from Goodsprings
>>333806556
Ignore what >>333806807 says.
>>333806846
>not man enough to get Chance's Knife or Love and Hate
>>333789359
Nothing too fancy, I persuaded him to come up to the room with me, grilled him for his plan, and ended up shooting him with his own gun for the GRA(?) challenge.
I suppose convincing Swank to let you bring in weapons, getting Benny to pay off your contract, and then gunning him down would be a good way to go as well.
>>333806556
Just follow where the story tells you. Early on theres a lot of directions that basically lead to enemies that can kill you very fast. You can go through these areas just fine if you know what youre doing but for story its better to just follow the path given.
>>333789020
Two hands giving a thumbs up.
>>333789359
I like him, but I couldn't let a loose end like him go. He's the only other one that knows about Yes Man, except Julie Farkas.
>>333806718
I just tested it and, well, you're wrong
>>333807119
Julie doesn't know about Yes Man.
You're thinking of the girl from Arroyo.
Console commands are so fun.
Legate Lanius is a beast. Every single NCR outpost I've summoned him in was defeated. He truly is a monster of the East. Hell, only 20 NCR veterans are able to kill him.
Any console command stories? Cool things to do with console commands? Setscale shenanigans?
>>333807186
Was that it? I thought Yes Man said it was a Follower that helped him.
>>333807139
almost all energy weapons do the same damage as a normal fired shot.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_weapons
>>333807227
>spawn Gojira
>it's not quite as impressive as it sounds on paper
