About that scripted thing, I remember during the High Road, I went into a trailer, thinking there was no deathclaws nearby. It must have spawned one, because ED-E's music instantly went off, and I went outside, and BAM! Deathclaw right on top of the trailer!
Man, did no one have a working level or similar tool in the Divide? Everything leans or tilts to the side. EVERYTHING. You can't go anywhere without being at a 15 degree tilt.
EDIT: Just beat Lonesome Road. Took about 6 hours, and I was dicking around and dawdling. I think you can do it in about 2 if you just rush and knew where you were going (like Dead Money). Overall, it was... alright. The story and dialogue was pretty decent, and I liked exploring ED-E's past. I think I enjoyed Old World Blues better, but I favor non-linear and open world in my Fallout. I don't have any major annoyances with it, and I'll look forward to loading up some of my old characters to see what happens when I'm Mr. House-aligned or Legion-aligned.
Also, Logan's Loophole + Jet-infused water = Evil. Especially when you have Implant GRX or Turbo. This is what The Flash or Superman must feel like.
Also, I'm finally Idolized with all of the factions in the game, due to the DLC. The Powder Ganger faction was the only thing that was relatively difficult to do, and required exploiting a glitch in Ghost Town Gunfight (since you have to beat back the Powder Gangers in order to get Idolized Goodsprings faction).
Unlike the previous DLCs, there was no promise of great wealth or rewards for doing this. I knew why I was doing it: to learn who Ulysses was, and out of curiosity about the Divide, but I didn't know why my character bothered. And then... Ulysses calls out my character for coming here just out of curiosity! And tells me he's got nothing for me but answers, and I can turn around if I want (and unlike the previous DLC, I actually can!). They really managed to match my character's motivation for wandering there with my own motivation for playing, which not many games can manage. Excellent stuff.
The only problem is that I found the entrance to the divide within about an hour of first playing F:NV, so I've been curious about the 'other courier' for about a year. And now it's over...
Also, I want to listen to Ulysses narrating more stuff.
Just got started on Lonesome Road, quick spoiler-free question: was there supposed to be a radio beacon? All I got was the update message when I loaded the game followed by the quest marker. No intro slides, either.
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This has crashed and corrupted my save three times now. I always forget to save before leaving an area. Lost quite a lot of time. Luckily the second tiem through I pretty much know where everything is so none of that exploring nonesense. Couple questions though:\
Courier's Mile:
Is it only a big circular area with a bunch of irradiated marked men and deathclaws? I'd have though it'd actually have a bit of distance to it since it's called a mile... Is there a warhead I need to destroy to move further forward? I was enjoying the challenge (that popping all my pills took care of).
ED-E Upgrades:
Are all the upgrades before Ulysses takes ED-E away? I had four when he was taken away from me and would like to have all of them.
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ed-e upgrades work if you cant bring any companions to the divide?
About ED-E:
You get a new ED-E who has the old ED-E's personality transmitted and downloaded into its head. The new ED-E has a new companion questline in the Divide and you get to find out more about his background. The upgrades are a 5 level perk on your character, and those upgrades should translate over to the old ED-E in the Mojave.
Wait, so we get to keep the upgrades?
ED-E Mojave gets them?
I keep forgetting I can warp back to the Mojave anytime I want. But since the Commissary never runs out of cash, I guess it doesn't matter. Well, it replenishes its caps every time you make it go down to zero. Which I appreciate.
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From the Fallout wiki:
Steamworks achievements are subject to a number of additional security measures, set up to ensure that achievements are awarded legitimately. Lonesome has been out for over several hours, update this shit bitches
Also, I want to listen to Ulysses narrating more stuff.
Just watch a Vin Diesel movie, you'll get the same effect. :P
I'm doing this slowly when time allows, but one thing that's been bugging me is that now conductors are a useful commodity. It's a real pet peeve of mine, but I hate hate hate when new dlc/updates/mods make former shit items into something needed for crafting. And it bugs me worse to be hoarding those useless things with the hope that it may be of use somewhere down the line, so arrrgghh.
Finding out clipboards, coffee mugs, pencils, toasters, irons, plates, etc etc could be useful in OWB was the worst/best though. I mean, the sheer amount of usable stuff you'd get from them was great, but not bothering to collect 'em prior to the DLC was frustrating. On the other hand, with my more recent playthrough, I was saving every single one of those damn things up until I hit OWB, so that worked tremendously well. Muggy must've been so damn happy when I came to him with 3000+ coffee mugs and other dishes.
I am, however, loving a lot of the new gear, even if I'm already using better. The modding community is going to have so much fun with all the tangibles LR introduces.
Finding out clipboards, coffee mugs, pencils, toasters, irons, plates, etc etc could be useful in OWB was the worst/best though. I mean, the sheer amount of usable stuff you'd get from them was great, but not bothering to collect 'em prior to the DLC was frustrating. On the other hand, with my more recent playthrough, I was saving every single one of those damn things up until I hit OWB, so that worked tremendously well. Muggy must've been so damn happy when I came to him with 3000+ coffee mugs and other dishes.
Wait those things become useful? i never ever take those things and I am a hoarding fool
Where do you actually store all your crap when you take those things? Just throw them in a drawer in the UH or victors house?
Edit: And eh, I found it on the level of Honest Hearts or OWB. The story wasn't as good as Dead Money, but then on the other hand they didn't punch you repeatedly in the dick for 7 or 8 hours like Dead Money did either.
Finding out clipboards, coffee mugs, pencils, toasters, irons, plates, etc etc could be useful in OWB was the worst/best though. I mean, the sheer amount of usable stuff you'd get from them was great, but not bothering to collect 'em prior to the DLC was frustrating. On the other hand, with my more recent playthrough, I was saving every single one of those damn things up until I hit OWB, so that worked tremendously well. Muggy must've been so damn happy when I came to him with 3000+ coffee mugs and other dishes.
Wait those things become useful? i never ever take those things and I am a hoarding fool
For Old World Blues, they are turn-in items. Wait, should I be spoiling this for people who haven't done OWB? Ah, just to be safe:
In the Sink, you can upgrade some of the sentient appliances there with found holotapes, which will let them process the following:
Book Chute: Takes books and makes 'em into blank books. Pencils become lead and scrap metal. Clipboards become scrap metal and duct tape.
Muggy: Coffee mugs become empty syringes and wonderglue. Coffee pots become scrap metal. He also takes plates; various ones turn into lead, bullet cases, some of 'em produce pistol powders.
Toaster: breaks down cameras, hot plates, and irons into energy and mf cells. Toasters become those plus scrap electronics.
So for all that wasteland junk, you end up with a heap of weapon repair kit components, basically. Books are not so bad though, the blank books are only used in a finite amount so hoarding thousands of books is pointless.
I used to not bother picking up stuff and/or selling the junks, but yeah, they do tend to find some use in every DLC. And if you've got mods, it can be even worse; I find use for things like paperweights and ashtrays too. There are only a small number of things I run across now that I can't find use for, but it still burns knowing that now rather than earlier. :P
So I just installed vanilla F: NV. Umm... It's borked all to hell. The updates helped, but I can't seem to fix the audio lag/delay. Any tips?
The audio lag/delay can be fixed by adding New Vegas to the exception list for the FFDShow codec (both video and audio). Or you can just uninstall FFDShow (this also messed with Fallout 3 and Oblivion installations, so it should be familiar to Bethsoft Gamebryo veterans). Other options include using 2.1 instead of 5.1 or 7.1 sound (New Vegas doesn't output that high anyway), using your analog output rather than optical output, removing hardware sound acceleration and reducing the driver's sample rate conversion quality to "Good" (the "worst" on the list). You can also set the process to run at priority High in the Task Manager, but that will pretty much guarantee a crash in the next couple of hours.
Alternatively, you can try the 4GB Extender in the OP, if you have more than 2 GB of RAM.
I, too, felt that it was not as good as OWB, but I'd have to ruminate a bit before comparing it to DM or HH. It has the short length of HH, but the awesome NPCs of DM. It doesn't actively try to annoy you, like DM, and I think I could stand to do multiple playthroughs without disgust (making it better than DM). It also takes your background in the Mojave into account, which is no easy feat. There's a lot of great loot (pretty much something for everyone), and it's the only way to access the final perks.
Is it only a big circular area with a bunch of irradiated marked men and deathclaws? I'd have though it'd actually have a bit of distance to it since it's called a mile... Is there a warhead I need to destroy to move further forward? I was enjoying the challenge (that popping all my pills took care of).
ED-E Upgrades:
Are all the upgrades before Ulysses takes ED-E away? I had four when he was taken away from me and would like to have all of them.
Courier's Mile:
There are 2 warheads and the unique Bowie Knife in the Courier's Mile. That's what I've found, so far. It doesn't look like much else in there, but I haven't explored that much into it.
ED-E Upgrades:
You get all 5 upgrades before ED-E leaves. You may have missed either the one in the sewer tunnel nearby the Office of the Treasurer's computer, or the one outdoors outside the building with the Cave of Abaddon, which you have to access by blowing up the warhead closest to it.
Just got started on Lonesome Road, quick spoiler-free question: was there supposed to be a radio beacon? All I got was the update message when I loaded the game followed by the quest marker. No intro slides, either.
As far as I know, there wasn't a radio beacon. Instead they just tell you straight up in the pop-up message "Go West of Primm".
I don't think I have that FFDShow thing installed. Those other things don't work either. The odd thing is, the game works better windowed.
It's an extremely common video and audio codec pack. If you've ever watched a movie that you've downloaded from the intertubes (not streaming, but a full download or rip from a DVD) at some point, you probably have the codecs installed. Windowed mode does work better, for some reason, but it doesn't completely fix the problem.
EDIT: There's a patch out there made for Silent Hill. It's called silenthill5patch11.zip. It has some files you can dump in the fallout new vegas directory in Steam. It has fixed the problem for some folks. I would recommend doing a virus check and malware check of that file once you download it, but it may fix the problem.
Yeah, I actually don't download movies. >>; I've streamed them before, but it's not quite as nice being on a comfy couch while watching a good zombie flick. I've heard that actually installing a patch from an entirely different game (Silent Hill: Homecoming) will fix it, but for some reason it isn't patching right. Anyone have experience with that?
Yeah, I actually don't download movies. >>; I've streamed them before, but it's not quite as nice being on a comfy couch while watching a good zombie flick. I've heard that actually installing a patch from an entirely different game (Silent Hill: Homecoming) will fix it, but for some reason it isn't patching right. Anyone have experience with that?
I believe you just need the d3d9.dll file from it (or something like that). You don't actually "run" the patch. You extract the files and dump them directly into your fallout new vegas directory. Specifically, the d3dx9.dll (or whatever, that file) needs to be in your Fallout New Vegas directory, the same as your executable. Typically, this is in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout nv\
I believe the Silent Hill Homecoming patch actually has divergent files for nVidia graphics cards and ATI graphics cards, so you may have to dig around in the directories once you've extracted the patch zip files.
What's the new, recommended route to go through the DLCs?
I would recommend, in order of lowest level to highest level viability:
Honest Hearts - Any level
Old World Blues - Level 12 to 15+, earlier the better (due to monster HP scaling).
Dead Money - Level 15-20+, due to high skill checks, although the books from HH and OWB will help with that.
Lonesome Road - Level 25+ (recommended by the game, not sure if it's accurate), mostly because it is the end story for the Ulysses arc, which chronologically comes after OWB, HH, and DM. Without the references to the previous 3 DLC, most of the writing won't make sense.
Just got started on Lonesome Road, quick spoiler-free question: was there supposed to be a radio beacon? All I got was the update message when I loaded the game followed by the quest marker. No intro slides, either.
As far as I know, there wasn't a radio beacon. Instead they just tell you straight up in the pop-up message "Go West of Primm".
Then which mysterious signal has the Jazz music playing? I thought it was the Lonesome Road one.
Apparently there is a perk that lets you create magazines, so books aren't useless outside of OWB.
You ONLY need the d3d9.dll file. Dump it into your fallout new vegas directory. Run the game's launcher (through Steam or whatever). The game should redetect your video settings. It will most likely get your video card wrong, but it should still work.
Oh dear. Looking in GECK, there's at least one Wild Wasteland ending:
{Narration}{Wild Wasteland}{Target: Both Factions}The Couriers finally, really did it. They blew up the lands West and East of the Mojave... damning them all to hell.
Me again. The fix I used makes the game run perfectly, but er... it muddies up the graphics. It's not too bad, so I can live with it if there's no fix for the fix, but I'd rather make all of it work right. :P
That's unavoidable. You are using an older driver with less bells and whistles, and it's probably not even detecting your proper card. It's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. You can probably download some shader or texture packs to improve the graphics again.
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EDIT: Just beat Lonesome Road. Took about 6 hours, and I was dicking around and dawdling. I think you can do it in about 2 if you just rush and knew where you were going (like Dead Money). Overall, it was... alright. The story and dialogue was pretty decent, and I liked exploring ED-E's past. I think I enjoyed Old World Blues better, but I favor non-linear and open world in my Fallout. I don't have any major annoyances with it, and I'll look forward to loading up some of my old characters to see what happens when I'm Mr. House-aligned or Legion-aligned.
Also, Logan's Loophole + Jet-infused water = Evil. Especially when you have Implant GRX or Turbo. This is what The Flash or Superman must feel like.
Also, I'm finally Idolized with all of the factions in the game, due to the DLC. The Powder Ganger faction was the only thing that was relatively difficult to do, and required exploiting a glitch in Ghost Town Gunfight (since you have to beat back the Powder Gangers in order to get Idolized Goodsprings faction).
The only problem is that I found the entrance to the divide within about an hour of first playing F:NV, so I've been curious about the 'other courier' for about a year. And now it's over...
Also, I want to listen to Ulysses narrating more stuff.
@Hahnsoo Mr. House defaults to NCR (Well, its "slightly" different)
Courier's Mile:
ED-E Upgrades:
Steam - Minty D. Vision!
Origin/BF3 - MintyDVision
Wait, so we get to keep the upgrades?
I keep forgetting I can warp back to the Mojave anytime I want. But since the Commissary never runs out of cash, I guess it doesn't matter. Well, it replenishes its caps every time you make it go down to zero. Which I appreciate.
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Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
The most important question I can ask now is, LR > OWB?
Just watch a Vin Diesel movie, you'll get the same effect. :P
I'm doing this slowly when time allows, but one thing that's been bugging me is that now conductors are a useful commodity. It's a real pet peeve of mine, but I hate hate hate when new dlc/updates/mods make former shit items into something needed for crafting. And it bugs me worse to be hoarding those useless things with the hope that it may be of use somewhere down the line, so arrrgghh.
Finding out clipboards, coffee mugs, pencils, toasters, irons, plates, etc etc could be useful in OWB was the worst/best though. I mean, the sheer amount of usable stuff you'd get from them was great, but not bothering to collect 'em prior to the DLC was frustrating. On the other hand, with my more recent playthrough, I was saving every single one of those damn things up until I hit OWB, so that worked tremendously well. Muggy must've been so damn happy when I came to him with 3000+ coffee mugs and other dishes.
I am, however, loving a lot of the new gear, even if I'm already using better. The modding community is going to have so much fun with all the tangibles LR introduces.
Wait those things become useful? i never ever take those things and I am a hoarding fool
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-21-fallout-new-vegas-lonesome-road-review
Edit: And eh, I found it on the level of Honest Hearts or OWB. The story wasn't as good as Dead Money, but then on the other hand they didn't punch you repeatedly in the dick for 7 or 8 hours like Dead Money did either.
For Old World Blues, they are turn-in items. Wait, should I be spoiling this for people who haven't done OWB? Ah, just to be safe:
Book Chute: Takes books and makes 'em into blank books. Pencils become lead and scrap metal. Clipboards become scrap metal and duct tape.
Muggy: Coffee mugs become empty syringes and wonderglue. Coffee pots become scrap metal. He also takes plates; various ones turn into lead, bullet cases, some of 'em produce pistol powders.
Toaster: breaks down cameras, hot plates, and irons into energy and mf cells. Toasters become those plus scrap electronics.
So for all that wasteland junk, you end up with a heap of weapon repair kit components, basically. Books are not so bad though, the blank books are only used in a finite amount so hoarding thousands of books is pointless.
I used to not bother picking up stuff and/or selling the junks, but yeah, they do tend to find some use in every DLC. And if you've got mods, it can be even worse; I find use for things like paperweights and ashtrays too. There are only a small number of things I run across now that I can't find use for, but it still burns knowing that now rather than earlier. :P
Alternatively, you can try the 4GB Extender in the OP, if you have more than 2 GB of RAM.
ED-E Upgrades:
EDIT: There's a patch out there made for Silent Hill. It's called silenthill5patch11.zip. It has some files you can dump in the fallout new vegas directory in Steam. It has fixed the problem for some folks. I would recommend doing a virus check and malware check of that file once you download it, but it may fix the problem.
I believe the Silent Hill Homecoming patch actually has divergent files for nVidia graphics cards and ATI graphics cards, so you may have to dig around in the directories once you've extracted the patch zip files.
Honest Hearts - Any level
Old World Blues - Level 12 to 15+, earlier the better (due to monster HP scaling).
Dead Money - Level 15-20+, due to high skill checks, although the books from HH and OWB will help with that.
Lonesome Road - Level 25+ (recommended by the game, not sure if it's accurate), mostly because it is the end story for the Ulysses arc, which chronologically comes after OWB, HH, and DM. Without the references to the previous 3 DLC, most of the writing won't make sense.
Then which mysterious signal has the Jazz music playing? I thought it was the Lonesome Road one.
Apparently there is a perk that lets you create magazines, so books aren't useless outside of OWB.
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http://enbdev.com/silenthill5patch11.zip
You ONLY need the d3d9.dll file. Dump it into your fallout new vegas directory. Run the game's launcher (through Steam or whatever). The game should redetect your video settings. It will most likely get your video card wrong, but it should still work.
Edit: Bah, I'm an idiot. I installed it in the FalloutNV folder instead of the Steam one. Let me try it again...
But he refers to it as Bethesda's game. I think that implies brain damage.
Verify cache?
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
do you hang on to your gear or should i store it/remove things from Ed-e etc