Fallout: New Vegas

The game is pretty stable for me at the moment, sure it still crashes from time to time.

New Vegus was always more stable then fallout 3,if my experiences are anything to go by

edited 21st Nov '16 8:50:20 AM by Ultimatum

That's very much platform specific. New Vegas on the PS 3 was a dumpster fire, Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 was a near-trouble free experience by comparison. Both of them have a habit of falling over if you heavily mod them because there's no way in hell that they were really designed to be.

NV is definitely more stable on PC than FO3, and there are some stability mods you can add to help, but there are limits on how well they can work with an engine that just seems fundamentally problematic. At least FO4 doesn't have this particular gremlin.

Doesn't FO 4 still have some of the same bugs though? Like the air-swimmers?

I don't recall all the bugs; it carries on the lovely Bethesda tradition of leaving the majority of post-launch QA to modders, and it's easy to lose track of which issues were fixed in official patches and which in mod patches. That said, it definitely CTDs less, so I'm calling it a general win.

edited 21st Nov '16 12:25:00 PM by Fighteer

It indeed does, because dispite them changing the name, it is still gamebyro engine which is pretty much inherently broken.

My favriote bug is meatface, where you take and explode some ones head, but some how they live, and when you talk to them there face is a collection of loosely bound gibs and gore. ._.;

And yea that one has existed since FO3

edited 21st Nov '16 12:41:08 PM by Imca

Oh my god I need to watch a video of that

I cant find a video, but how about◊ some screenshots◊

Edit : Video Found

edited 21st Nov '16 2:32:10 PM by Imca

That is appalling and amazing

There's a lot of stationary ones out there too, but I've never seen one in any of my games.

The stationary ones come from turning physics off. The Gibs that come from someone's head being freed from the body or perks like Bloody Mess are supposed to flop around freely, but turning physics off means that they spawn where they're supposed to for the respective corpse and then don't go anywhere.

Rolled up a new courier. Asian male, young, messy hair. Nicknamed "six" for their obsession with old Colt revolvers. Got shot I'm a graveyard outside Goodsprings, but miraculously survived. After gratefully receiving the good doctor Mitchell's care, Six packed his bags and set off to find his fortune. He met with local huntress Sunny Smiles on Doc Mitchell's advice, and learned how to shoot, hunt, and make healing powder from her. He also learned of a survivor of a caravan attack holed up in the local has station. Six met this fugitive, and decided to help him drive off the so called "Powder Gangers" that were after him.

To do so he would need to have the help of the locals and for that he needed their respect and trust. To that end, he set out to learn to fight.

Heading south to Primm, Six cleared the besieged city of even more escaped convicts from the same prison as the Powder Gangers. Wondering why no law officials were on duty, Six wandered into the Sheriff's office, where he found the Sheriff naked in bed with a woman... Both beheaded.

The locals told Six he'd find information on the man who'd shot him and robbed him of his delivery by rescuing their deputy. The law in Primm certainly seems toothless. Sneaking through the Bison Steve, Six slew Deputy Beagle's captives and rescued the snarky lawman. The deputy did have information, but first requested Six find him a new Sheriff, suggesting a maverick former Sheriff incarcerated in the NCR Correctional Facility.

On the way out, the Courier met his former employer Nash Johnson, who told him about the nature of the package he was to deliver, as well as ominous words about another courier who turned down the job when he saw Six's name next on the list.

Making his way north to the prison, Six found it crawling with escaped convicts, who had converted the prison into a bandit fort.

Bribing his way past the entrance guard, Six entered the prison and met the man, named Meyers, a law abiding man who has a history of "speeding up the due process of law", in his own words. Six offered Meyers the job, and Meyers agreed on the condition that he be granted amnesty for his past crimes. The Courier headed towards the Mojave Outpost to find an officer with the authority to make such a deal.

Flirting with the handsome desk driver named Knight revealed that the Army of the NCR did not acknowledge "friendships" between men in their ranks. Little matter. This man was not who Six was here to see. Ranger Jackson, beleaguered by counterproductive orders and mounting piles of paperwork, gratefully accepted the courier's offer of help, assigning him the task of clearing the roads of nasty creatures so the caravans could pass safely through. He then suggested the Courier spend some time next door at the bar.

There the Courier found a smashed, foul-mouthed girl by the name of Rose Cassidy, who told the Courier of her troubles: losing her caravan to unknown attackers who burned her driver and all her merchandise to ashes. When she finally grew bored of Six's incessant questions, she sent him to meet "Ghost", a sniper on the roof of the bar who might offer Six employment. Ghost was concerned about the smoke she saw on the horizon, certain it was from the town of Nipton, and worried what it might signify.

On the road east, the brave courier was ambushed by savages who called themselves "Jackals". He managed to dodge most of their gun fire and lured them into a nearby cluster of giant mutated ants. While the criminals were busy dealing with the angry arthropods, the Courier finished them off with explosives he took off of the escaped convicts in Primm.

Outside Nipton, the Courier witnessed a couple suddenly turn on each other and open fire. The young man eventually slew the young lady, then despondently turned to the witness, asking if he saw what happened. Apparently the young woman had taken an interest in the young man's necklace of rare bottle caps. Intrigued, the Courier waited for the man to turn his back and pickpocketed the caps, as well as the young man's journal.

On the border of Nipton, which was engulfed in flames, Six encountered a man wearing Powder Ganger gear, jubilantly dancing. The man jabbered on about winning a lottery, then charged at the Courier. Twitchy from his encounter with the Jackals, the Courier placed a round from his pistol in the man's brain before he could even react.

In the town itself, the Courier discovered half a dozen men crucified to makeshift crosses, formerly lamp posts. Gathered outside the town hall were the infamous "Caesars Legion", who had sacked, murdered, and burned the town. After allowing the leader, Vulpes Inculatus, to strike his own ego for a bit, the Courier wandered off, granting a final mercy to the six crucified men: a less painful death than the so called Legion offered. Then, tracking the legionnarres to a nearby crossroads, Six fired on the marching formation of men and dogs with a grenade launcher. Running out of grenades, and with the Desert Fox bearing down on him with a Ripper chainsaw, the Courier retrieved his Sturdy Caravan Shotgun and blasted the pompous fool into the dust. Under fire by two surviving legionaries with rifles, the Courier crippled his remaining enemies using his trusty 10 mm pistol, before executing each with a shot to the head. The last surviving Legion mongrel tried to avenge its fallen masters, but was put down before he tasted blood. At this point, the Courier was ambushed by a pair of bark scorpions, who managed to poison him before he killed them. He took some antivenom from the dead legionnaires and cured himself.

Satisfied with the result, Six explored a few houses around town to find something he could sell and some food, but after one house coughed up a delusional robot that shot fire and plasma, Six decided to abandon that plan.

The town hall was filled with corpses grasping lottery tickets. And nasty dogs. No match for a man with a shotgun and a belly of liquor. Other than some ammo and a note detailing the mayor being complicit in the whole affair there was little of interest.

On the way back to the Mojave Outpost, Six learned that the best way to deal with radscorpions was to holster his weapon and run into a nearby pack of Golden Geckos. The Geckos make short work of giant scorpions, and after being poisoned, make easy targets themselves. Really, the courier's entire career involving wild animals this point has involved him luring the wild animals among other wild animals and throwing explosives at the resulting clusterfuck of claws and teeth and stingers. On the occasions, the reliable hostility of wild creatures has saved his life.

At this point, I noticed that for some reason, Six isn't drinking from his Legendary Edition canteen. Help?

I'm more wondering how people can craft stories about what happens while I'm here just like, "This playthrough I'm gonna shoot people in the left kneecap exclusively with a .22"

My left, not theirs.

I'm literally just narrating things that happened XD

This isn't as comprehensive as I'd like though. If I had my way I'd be including bullet and water bottle counts, since I'm playing hardcore this time around.

Oh my god you can kill mantis nymphs by stepping on them

I got like five random +1 EXP notifications before noticing what was up

edited 28th Nov '16 7:25:18 AM by blkwhtrbbt

So, after reporting back to Ghost, Six asked the local outpost commander Ranger Jackson if they needed any help. Jackson moaned some about the bureacracy at home keeping him from getting anything accomplished on his own, then sent Six out to clear the roads of wild critters. Six decided to wait for day before heading out, sleeping the night away on a bedspread outdoors. Bright and early the next morn, Six headed out to hunt some ants. Unfortunately, it seemed that despite having slain all of Inculatus's troops, word somehow reached Caesar's Legion of Six's misdeeds. Four armed and dangerous assassins challenged the brave Courier at the bottom of the slope. Unfortunately, at this point Six was rather low on ammo, so he beat a hasty retreat. Managing to lure one armed with a thermic lance all the way up the hill to where Ghost awaited, the Courier took the thermic lance off the dead assassin and peeked over the edge of the hill to see the whereabouts of the others. They had retreated to the ant infested bridge. Sneaking around them, the Courier resourcefully sprinted through the ant-infested highway canyon, and when the assassins tried to follow they were set upon by angry, hungry insects. Six used this distraction to slay another two assassins, then charged the last and burned him in half with his new thermic lance. Collecting prizes from his foes as well as the not-reward from Jackson rather overburdened him, so he headed for Primm, to tell Meyers the good news that the NCR agreed to allow him to sheriff, as well as to sell his excess junk. On the way, two pathetic drugged out Jackals attacked him but a burst of fire from his 9mm submachine gun and a quick jab from his thermic lance made quick work of them. By the time the Courier reached Primm, it was night again, so the Courier took a quick nap in Bison Steve, then visited Nash's shop, where he repaired the broken down robot labelled "E-D-E".

Dat sexual tension

edited 2nd Dec '16 6:12:03 PM by blkwhtrbbt

Is Boone the taker or the giver in that scenario?

Shit I hope not

So, I just started replaying New Vegas and my character is a girl. Her name is Samantha Sordino. I am currently at Primm and dealing with the Powder Gangers that are controlling the town.

You'll be meeting this guy with a really cool hat in a bit. Be nice to him, he just wants to chat.

Seriously though, any plans on what ending you want?

I am never nice to Mr. Cool Hat. I'll steal his damn hat.

I wear his head like he wears that wolf's. He doesn't like that.