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I can't wait to take my 10 Luck to the Casinos.
I was gambling with a different character the other day, playing blackjack. I exchanged 500 caps for chips, sat down and a few hands later was +800 in winnings. roughly ten straight hands later I was -500
Cheap ass video gambling. I never play Video poker or anything IRL at the casinos. Its all rigged dammit!
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You must share your secret. Thats a lot of caps.
they give the illusion of it being a contiguous strip, but if you watch the video you can see the cell gates.
I'm not excusing it, but you have to accept the limitations. You are pissed that its not as full as maybe it could be, but you'd be more pissed if you couldn't even run the game because of it being flooded with too many unnamed npcs
Some of it though is because they did such a far and away better job with the verisimilitude in this game compared to Fallout 3 it's frustrating when they break it like this. One thing that frustrates me even more is you go into a casino and there are more guards in the fucking thing than patrons gambling. That's a huge let down.
Here is the secret for ultra gambling
1) get 7+ luck
2) buy 200 caps worth of chips
3) play blackjack
4) hit on anything under 10, double up on 10 or 11.
5) watch as every single time you double up on 10 you get at least a face card.
I got kicked out of every casino exactly like that. It's occasionally touch and go, but the double up button might as well be 'draw me a king'
Luck 10 run, like the guy above mentioned, then putting 200 chips at a time into the slots
Been using the Intense Training perk to build up my other SPECIAL stats as I go. I wasn't planning to do a full run with this character, but GOD DAMN that's a lot of money, so I'm just gonna go fuck around for a while, see what interesting stuff I can buy.
And here I was thinking "Well, money is harder to come by this time around"
Point is, there needs to be something interesting about the non-interactive bits or you don't have a story. What do you like about New Vegas' story? Maybe it's just subjective differences, but nothing about "you got shot in the head, stood up, and then picked a faction to win the Hoover Dam" interested me. (And yeah, I know you can make anything uninteresting with a pithy little summary, I'm just saying it didn't grab me at all.)
Allow me to stress that the "breaking point"is 7 Luck. There seems to be an immense difference between 6 and 7, to the point that breaking the first two Casinos with 6 Luck I never saw a single "you feel lucky" message at blackjack, and with 7 luck I was seeing it every couple hands.
But having 7+ luck is not a machine that prints you money.
You can still lose your ass if you are stupid with your bets.
While in Fallout 3 there is some ham-fisted destiny crap, I have to look for someone I may/may not give a shit about (Being shot in the head is a far better motivator), then I get a decision that makes absolutely no difference (thank you Broken Steel). It's all the worst elements of RPG writing in one game.
Nah, the machine that prints money is Jury Rigging
I've got 50,000 caps on me, and ED-E is carrying probably another 50,000 or so caps worth of expensive guns on her for if I ever run low
Yeah, I don't buy that either. At most, the BoS would use the presence of malevolent aliens as justification for their previous tech-hoarding dickery.
"Wow, good thing we did all that legwork rounding up this pre-war tech and learned how to use it and train others in its use, right guys? It'd be a real shame if nobody was around to organize humanity's best assets into a formal line of defense against this invading force."
I dont think you could make your point in a less effective way.
If you're the kind of person who breaks into anyones house and just reads their personal information, yes, yes it is.
I would still do that quest anyway though. It's hilarious.
Oh yeah, good point. In that case mock him for being stupid by putting a grenade down his pants.
You can go in there anyway. I did by accident. Still did the quest though.
This here. That whole quest is one of my favourites, just because almost every single person you meet during it is batshit crazy. I got it from No-Bark originally, as well, who has quite the unique mind.
Not trying to win hearts and minds, trying to express just how idiotic I found fallout 3. I found it pretty idiotic.
But hey [INT 9] Keep fighting the good fight I see you are fighting with your words.
are you guys trying to create one of the nerdiest memes ever to grace this forum?
Incidentally, I hate the Karma system in NV more than Fallout 3. Why? Because my cannibalistic, murderous mad scientist has PALADIN fucking Karma.
How the hell do I be evil? I gain Karma for killing the legion, the Fiends and other assholes who try to kill me first. While the only way to lose it is to massacre NCR troopers who are a helpful resource and control many of the most interesting scientific sites I want to raid for all their stuff? It just drives me bananas, because despite the fact I have no morals whatsoever (stealing, cannibalising and using a certain place to fry every NCR soldier in sight) I just can't get bad Karma.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?
Oh and the various nuclear and giant laser beam based atrocities I have already committed.
You're coming off as an autistic.
I felt more like I was playing a character when I had to search for my Dad and all of that stuff, it made things feel more like a story, even if it was sorta ham fisted (and really illogical at the end), at least there was something there.
Try repeatedly attempting to hack someone's terminal.
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Thats the point.
It's an [intelligence] check that is literally written in the style of an autistic person. Bethesda didn't do it to capture some nebulous fantastic smart irony, they did it because they are TERRIBLE. It sums up fallout 3 for me completely. If I could be bothered to reinstall fallout 3 after playing NV (I can't) I'd make a screenshot of it, and just post it every time someone suggests fallout 3 did something correctly. It did not.
I don't know, maybe choices in the final arc can send it plummeting, but by that point who gives a shit since you can't keept playing.
by being a dick about something as trivial as an opinion. Or so thats how it reads.
Bear in mind I've cannibalised roughly 336 corpses this playthrough as well and stolen everything I can get my hands on. But wiping out the powder gangers (they were in a
You wouldn't think I would basically be Lord Pope of the wastes after everything I've done. But I am.
fix your spoiler.
Just like the real Pope!
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Oft-times when you say something about a subject, and are wrong, people who are more learned on the subject will come and tell you so.
He's reptilian
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Yeah it makes me kinda irate that karma gets all whacked out from stealing from people I just murdered, but murdering those people made me saint murder. Holy savior of the wasteland. But it might be because those factions themselves respond better to you when your karma is low? No idea.
I've literally killed everyone in certain towns in this game as well. I'm like an exterminator of people in the wastes. Like I got a new plasma rifle, so I tested it out on one of the locals to see what would happen sort of thing.
And yet I cannot seem to get negative Karma. The game is just "Oh Aegeri you murdering, lying, stealing and cannibalising asshole you. Have some more positive Karma!"
Personally I think it's more the Karma gains you get for killing Legion/Fiends and certain other factions are so high that it offsets most of the other shit I do. The Karma loss for stealing/eating peoples corpses must be very trivial.
I'm playing a stealthy guy in hardcore mode, and I'm trying to figure out where to focus my skill points (besides the obvious areas of sneak/lockpick etc).
- Should I go for melee or unarmed? Also, does unarmed kill things or just knock them out? For example sometimes I wanna rob a shop but not necessarily kill the shopkeeper.
- Laser weapons or guns? I'm thinking guns, and I know it probably doesn't matter much, but I'm interested in your opinions. I don't want a bunch of different weapon types when ammo has weight.
- Is survival really that useful, or can I pretty much get by by raiding fridges, killing wildlife etc?
- Speech seems pretty useful, speech get?
(Also if it makes any difference, I'm roleplaying as a neutral-ish character motivated mostly by self-interest, who does not take shit from people but also has a few moral boundaries. Basically this guy:
I almost always play as a good guy in RPGs but for some reason this game makes me want to be a badass)
I mean, you guys have all played Oblivion, right? Where the market district of the capital city of the empire at noon has like a grand total of a dozen people in it?
This is, simply speaking, why New Vegas just has to be the last stand of the Gamebryo engine.