Fallout: New Vegas

Are you using the Fallout 3 4GB patch, if it exists?

I just found one but it's too early in the morning to give it a shot. I'm tired and I need some sleepy time.

Besides, if a Bethesda game ever didn't crash that's one of the signs and portents of the Apocalypse.

Does the term "Ghoul eugenics are our future" meaning anything to anyone?

I ask because that's my flair on the Fallout subreddit and I have no idea where I got it from.

I'm sure it means something to ''someone'

That "someone" being dirty smoothskin racists.

So uhh, I think I screwed up.

I'm on the last leg of the Dead Money DLC (I think, just on the path to the belltower prior to the Gala Event) and I don't think I can physically continue on? I'm one-hit-from-anything from being dead, and I have zero items to heal me. Not sure why I'm saying so here, just wondering if anyone has some tips on not dying immediately?

My best advice is to run like hell and hope your legs don't get crippled immediately.

If you're on PC, you may just have to toggle god mode.

edited 5th Jul '15 11:54:05 AM by Mukora

That's actually about halfway through Dead Money.

Sneaking is god mode.

Sneaking doesn't help if a) you suck at sneaking, b) you miss a trap, or c) need to walk through a toxic cloud for more than one second.

It's been awhile, but I think that a high Sneak and Energy Weapons skill are the key to Dead Money. With Light Step, most traps become irrelevant and you can sneak critical most enemies with the holorifle in one shot if you're careful.

That's my plan once I decide to go in this time around, anyway.

The last time I played New Vegas, I just got fed up with all the bullshit in Dead Money and put in a mod that neutralized Cloud damage and stopped those bloody indestructible speakers from blowing my head off. I already had Light Step perk earned and installed before I went in to the Sierra Madre, so that stopped the beartraps cutting my legs off, and I cc'd in the Ghost Eater perk so that when I killed the Ghost People with gun they actually stayed dead.

Once you've jumped through all the hoops in vanilla Dead Money on both the PS 3 and the PC, at least once, it's your right to abuse the heck out of everything that lets you have a more enjoyable time in that shitty DLC.

If Bethesda copy ANY of that crap in Fallout 4 I'm going to cry.

How can you not have any healing items? You can sell smokes and pre war clothes to earn casino chips which you then use to buy stims. You can craft a handful of Caravan Lunches in there. There's tons of water bottles lying around.

Energy Weapons is the least effective playthrough for DM I've found. Even with Vigilant Recycler, there isn't much ammo around and the only other EW is a dinky laser pistol.

Melee, Unarmed, Explosions or high-crit guns build are best for DM.

Not all the vending machine item tokens are easy to find. Unless you use a guide, you're not going to find them all.

I didn't even realize how good sneaking was til I had it maxed. Half way through Mother Ship Zeta I got bored of damage sponge enemies and snuck through the entire rest of the DLC rarely fighting anyone.

You can also just equip a silent weapon and one shot every thing.

Bonus points if your like me and have a silent laser so that a beam splitter mod works.^note Due to an engine quirk shotgun type weapons get there bonus damage applied on EVERY PELLET if they SAC which means that you can get well over 2-300 damage with a combat shotgun depending on perks

edited 6th Jul '15 12:57:47 AM by Imca

I'll be lucky if this current install (the second) of Fallout 3 will let me get as far as Mothership Zeta.

I like the FWE mod, but it's as stable as my emotional state.

And that's not very.

Sneaky build is hella broke in both games but in 3 the chinese stealth suit made you functionally immortal. You can't kill what you can't see, even if that thing is literally an inch from your face smacking you with a chainsaw.

So in Fallout Shelter, one of the outfits, called 'wasteland gear', is a dead ringer for the Ghost People suits. That's... kinda terrifying to have walking around in my vault... But at least Bethesda took something from New Vegas.

Honestly, I just wanted to be done with Dead Money and start up a different character that can actually take/dish out damage, so I just did God Mode through the rest of it.

Now I won't have to go back since I have all the knowledge I needed to get on with Old World Blues. If I have the order of DLC correct or not.

The order is correct.

But it is actualy better to play Old World Blues before Dead Money IMHO.

Since the former contains a lot of background information for the later, and it just feels more natural as build up then call backs.

Only if you already know about a bunch of stuff from Dead Money.

If I played OWB first and found any of the Dead Money audio logs I'd just completely fogdt about them, because I'd have no idea what the heck they are.

Also, a small problem. I tried installing the Mod Configuration Menu (through the NV Mod Manager) and it just doesn't work? I installed the patch it needed and everything, but it still won't show up. Not that I probably need it, but it'd help to have it.

Make sure it is the last thing in your load order, and that your runningthe latest version of NVSE?

Really? Honestly I think subtle hints that you can forget work better then "Remember this thing?"

I don't see the audio logs as "remember this thing" though. They're just... expansions on the dead money characters done in the only way they could be.

Can we take a moment to discuss the terrible design of the Laser Pistol, with its huge moving crosshair that doesn't actually do anything and the tiny nub of metal you're supposed to use to aim in iron-sights?

Not that it's necessarily a terrible thing to do. Just pretty confusing.