So, you know how the Wall drives you to collect and hoard weapons? Basically, the whole GAME scratches that itch for me. If it weren't for containers in the game being like magic bags of holding I can retrieve my junk from on a whim, all of my hidey-holes would be full to bursting with junk. I sell very little, and compulsively put all currency in a safe where I never touch it again. I'm actually trying not to get to the UH asap in my current game to try and fight this urge, but it's going pretty rough so far.
Told you I was crazy.
To be honest I've actually never gotten an implant. I'm ridiculously stingy when it comes to caps and I always got along fine without them.
My typical response is "What else are you going to spend them on?" The only two things that I can think of are the occasional weapon purchase and ammunition. Unless you guys have a REALLY bad prostitute and drug habit.
I'm not seeing how either of those things could ever be considered bad. :winky:
Also, I guess at this point, the response would be "saving up for GRA", not knowing exactly how much things are gonna cost (though I imagine pretty pricey for the really cool stuff).
edit: Phibbsy, you've got to grab yourself mods with even more collectables, you'll be set for life. Along with everything else, I've got the Buck's Bobbleheads to get from the Bison Steve mod, unique canteens from the canteen mod, ingredients to hoard for new recipes from Tales from the Burning Sands, and the almost-100 unique weapons from Supplementary Uniques. Warzones has their own uniques, Bounties I and II have some stuff, then the AWOP "M" stuff on top of that. I was planning on winding down from the game until LR/GRA so that I could get through my backlog of games, but guess which game I fire up every night still? :P
If the game portion didn't matter, I'd just be screwing around in Garry's Mod or Second Life instead of playing Fallout. But it does matter, and it's part of why I play RPGs, both on the computer screen and at the tabletop.
Blarg. I can't seem to find a character that is jiving with me. I've done melee, guns, energy...I'm thinking off doing unarmed, I just dread doing Goodsprings to Novac again...
Blarg. I can't seem to find a character that is jiving with me. I've done melee, guns, energy...I'm thinking off doing unarmed, I just dread doing Goodsprings to Novac again...
Then don't do it? No one is forcing you to go from Goodsprings to Novac. You can shortcut your way to The Strip from Sloan. Or you can brave Primm Pass to go to Novac directly (you'll have to sneak past a Blind Deathclaw).
I'm doing a lockpick playthrough, and I gotta ask: where's a reliable seller of bobby pins?
You don't need multiple bobby pins... you just need one. Think of lockpicking like the hacking mini-game, where you get a number of attempts until the pin breaks (I think it's 5 failed "stuck lock" animations). If you cancel the attempt and try again, it resets the perfect angle needed to pick the lock, but allows you to start over. Multiple bobby pins are simply a convenience when you don't want to reset the angle because you are close, and you are willing to burn another pick just to get there.
To be honest I've actually never gotten an implant. I'm ridiculously stingy when it comes to caps and I always got along fine without them.
My typical response is "What else are you going to spend them on?" The only two things that I can think of are the occasional weapon purchase and ammunition. Unless you guys have a REALLY bad prostitute and drug habit.
I'm not seeing how either of those things could ever be considered bad. :winky:
Also, I guess at this point, the response would be "saving up for GRA", not knowing exactly how much things are gonna cost (though I imagine pretty pricey for the really cool stuff).
edit: Phibbsy, you've got to grab yourself mods with even more collectables, you'll be set for life. Along with everything else, I've got the Buck's Bobbleheads to get from the Bison Steve mod, unique canteens from the canteen mod, ingredients to hoard for new recipes from Tales from the Burning Sands, and the almost-100 unique weapons from Supplementary Uniques. Warzones has their own uniques, Bounties I and II have some stuff, then the AWOP "M" stuff on top of that. I was planning on winding down from the game until LR/GRA so that I could get through my backlog of games, but guess which game I fire up every night still? :P
AMG, I've already got enough hoarditis, I don't need to add MORE. I did have Bison Steve/Buck's Bobbleheads at one point, but when I realized that I'd gotten to level 30 without ever hitting the strip, or even starting the quest for it, I just uninstalled it.
I do have Bounties 1 and 2 installed, though.
Blarg. I can't seem to find a character that is jiving with me. I've done melee, guns, energy...I'm thinking off doing unarmed, I just dread doing Goodsprings to Novac again...
Novac literally takes 2 minutes of your time in the main quest, if you know what you are doing. Unless you WANT to do "Come Fly Away With Me!"
EDIT: Holy shit, this is the first time I've come close to the REPCONN Test Site without the radio playing... Some SERIOUSLY creepy music going on right now... doesn't help that I know I'm gonna fight some snarling freaks without skin very soon.
Speaking of New Vegas Bounties II, where are the bounty posters? I found a few outside a new bar at the south end of Novac but I haven't seen any others. I'd like to kick some ass (because I'm out of gum) but I can't find out where.
Speaking of New Vegas Bounties II, where are the bounty posters? I found a few outside a new bar at the south end of Novac but I haven't seen any others. I'd like to kick some ass (because I'm out of gum) but I can't find out where.
Go to Boulder City. There's a new Jail there, and the computer terminal inside of it will tell you where all of the bounty posters are.
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Maybe it's just me, but maxing both out in Vegas asap didn't seem as important as it would in FO3. One or the other was usually enough to handle most circumstances, though it's definitely something you'd want to have both full up in eventually.
on my playthrough, i got my lockpick skill up to 55 so i could just use a mag to get the hard stuff. i keep meaning to go back to primm to get that unique out of the rollercoaster casino
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Lucky is a pretty tasty .357 shooter. But by the time lockpick is high enough, it's likely you've got better killing tools. Still, it looks nice on THE WALL.
Lucky is a pretty tasty .357 shooter. But by the time lockpick is high enough, it's likely you've got better killing tools. Still, it looks nice on THE WALL.
I'd hesitate to say Lucky is ever not good. As long as you've got a crit build and Cowboy, at least. It's weak compared to the really big guns, but when you're critting 70% of the time, it hardly matters.
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I find that it is hard to do damage or any good armor in this game compared to FO3. I remember just decimating everything with plasma rifles in FO3 but in FNV I was running on Cowboy Repeaters and wearing leather armor because it was the best non-faction armor I could find that wasn't the overly heavy Metal Armor. I've finally found some combat armor which I have to pay to get repaired until I get Jury-Rigging.
I'm thinking of doing another playthrough after this as an evil character, so what sort of armor/weapons do you find to be best earlier in the game?
why does the stealth armor have to be so heavy (and ugly?)
It may be heaby but with the crouching implant and upgrade you'll be pretty fast when crouching. And it's definitely ten times more beatiful then recon armor.
The OWB Stealth armor is a funny thing. Properly used, and upgrade, with the ninja run perk, it is faster in stealth than anything else, so that's great. Plus since it's medium armor it's got plenty of DT.
However it just wont shut up. Sometimes it is useful in pointing out things I wasn't paying attention to, but ffs I know my light is on. I don't care. Stop telling me.
Plus I'm mixed about the change to the chinese stealth suit between FO3 and NV. I will readily admit that it was absurdly overpowered in FO3, but it is damn near useless, other than appearance, in NV as both the Stealth Suit and the Assassins Suit in DM are far superior. Losing the stealth field just made it a generic light armor with +5 (10?) Stealth. That looks kind of neat.
And you know what? I like to have some overpowered shit now and then. Sometimes I just want to be overpowered. In a 100+ hour game, that has good enough reason to play more than once, now and then it's not a bad thing to just throw the player a bone and let them wreck shit.
So yeah. For general wanting to be stupidly powerful I just have to go back to FO3 I suppose since, for better or worse, everything is fairly balanced in NV.
I find that it is hard to do damage or any good armor in this game compared to FO3. I remember just decimating everything with plasma rifles in FO3 but in FNV I was running on Cowboy Repeaters and wearing leather armor because it was the best non-faction armor I could find that wasn't the overly heavy Metal Armor. I've finally found some combat armor which I have to pay to get repaired until I get Jury-Rigging.
I'm thinking of doing another playthrough after this as an evil character, so what sort of armor/weapons do you find to be best earlier in the game?
I had the exact opposite experience. The weapons felt crappy in FO3. When I got the Lincoln's Repeater, one of the strongest guns in it, I finally felt like I'd found something that wasn't a complete peashooter.
And it still wasn't great. Then the Broken Steel bullet sponges started showing up and then I was back to "crap" again.
As for early stuff, it depends.
Melee: Knock-Knock (Searchlight), Chance's Knife (north of Goodsprings)
Unarmed: Love and Hate (Bonnie Springs)
Energy: Laser Rifle (Nipton), Q-35 Plasma Rifle (Repconn Headquarters)
Explosives: Grenade Rifle (Viper gangs)
Guns: Lucky (Primm, Lockpick 75), That Gun (Novac)
Best early armor is probably just Reinforced Leather.
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Told you I was crazy.
I'm not seeing how either of those things could ever be considered bad. :winky:
Also, I guess at this point, the response would be "saving up for GRA", not knowing exactly how much things are gonna cost (though I imagine pretty pricey for the really cool stuff).
edit: Phibbsy, you've got to grab yourself mods with even more collectables, you'll be set for life. Along with everything else, I've got the Buck's Bobbleheads to get from the Bison Steve mod, unique canteens from the canteen mod, ingredients to hoard for new recipes from Tales from the Burning Sands, and the almost-100 unique weapons from Supplementary Uniques. Warzones has their own uniques, Bounties I and II have some stuff, then the AWOP "M" stuff on top of that. I was planning on winding down from the game until LR/GRA so that I could get through my backlog of games, but guess which game I fire up every night still? :P
and still ended the game with over half a million caps left.
Mostly from having 100 repair and Jury Rigging to repair high value items with garbage items.
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AMG, I've already got enough hoarditis, I don't need to add MORE. I did have Bison Steve/Buck's Bobbleheads at one point, but when I realized that I'd gotten to level 30 without ever hitting the strip, or even starting the quest for it, I just uninstalled it.
I do have Bounties 1 and 2 installed, though.
Novac literally takes 2 minutes of your time in the main quest, if you know what you are doing. Unless you WANT to do "Come Fly Away With Me!"
EDIT: Holy shit, this is the first time I've come close to the REPCONN Test Site without the radio playing... Some SERIOUSLY creepy music going on right now... doesn't help that I know I'm gonna fight some snarling freaks without skin very soon.
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Not exactly a seller, but ghouls are always my number one supplier of pins
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Time to go hang out in the Mojave for a while.
357 jhps work for most everything except death claws and a few roboty types (yes ranger sequoia and i travel over to sloan for a leveling spree)
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Huzzah for the guy who made the Improved Interior Lighting mod, making a fix for when you remove his mod.
You should do that regardless. Jury Rigging is the bestest thing evers.
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I'm thinking of doing another playthrough after this as an evil character, so what sort of armor/weapons do you find to be best earlier in the game?
It may be heaby but with the crouching implant and upgrade you'll be pretty fast when crouching. And it's definitely ten times more beatiful then recon armor.
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However it just wont shut up. Sometimes it is useful in pointing out things I wasn't paying attention to, but ffs I know my light is on. I don't care. Stop telling me.
Plus I'm mixed about the change to the chinese stealth suit between FO3 and NV. I will readily admit that it was absurdly overpowered in FO3, but it is damn near useless, other than appearance, in NV as both the Stealth Suit and the Assassins Suit in DM are far superior. Losing the stealth field just made it a generic light armor with +5 (10?) Stealth. That looks kind of neat.
And you know what? I like to have some overpowered shit now and then. Sometimes I just want to be overpowered. In a 100+ hour game, that has good enough reason to play more than once, now and then it's not a bad thing to just throw the player a bone and let them wreck shit.
So yeah. For general wanting to be stupidly powerful I just have to go back to FO3 I suppose since, for better or worse, everything is fairly balanced in NV.
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And it still wasn't great. Then the Broken Steel bullet sponges started showing up and then I was back to "crap" again.
As for early stuff, it depends.
Melee: Knock-Knock (Searchlight), Chance's Knife (north of Goodsprings)
Unarmed: Love and Hate (Bonnie Springs)
Energy: Laser Rifle (Nipton), Q-35 Plasma Rifle (Repconn Headquarters)
Explosives: Grenade Rifle (Viper gangs)
Guns: Lucky (Primm, Lockpick 75), That Gun (Novac)
Best early armor is probably just Reinforced Leather.