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Rather Dashing posted:Could someone tell me what that energy weapon is which uses up half a clip with each shot and can pretty much kill a gaggle (that's their official collective noun by the way) of Deathclaws with one shot? I want to pick it up with this current run but can't remember for the life of me what it's called. Tesla-Beaton prototype? That one uses a ton of ammo, but I don't recall it being worth it really.
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Oct 4, 2011 13:53
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Gaggle of Deathclaws, good song/band title. It's either that or Cabaret. Carthag posted:Tesla-Beaton prototype? That one uses a ton of ammo, but I don't recall it being worth it really. It was totally worth it to melt an entire platoon of Legionaires in one shot. Extra effective with that perk that passes on damage after a vaporisation. Oh, and yes, I believe that is the name, thanks!
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Oct 4, 2011 13:58
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poptart_fairy posted:"So you're intent on fighting the Brotherhood. Guess you better make me a target, too."  Veronica was the one helping me kill every member of BoS before I found the self-destruct button. 
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Oct 4, 2011 14:08
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I finished New Vegas last night. I was very satisfied with the game, especially after the aborted mongoloid fetus that was Fallout 3. I'll definitely have to play through again sometime because I know I missed a ton of stuff (like all of Freeside apparently). Has anyone heard any rumors about the DLC being released in-store like the DLC for GTA4 was? I'm under some ridiculous bandwidth limits so I'm reluctant to download them myself.
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Oct 4, 2011 14:08
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SpaceMost posted:Has anyone heard any rumors about the DLC being released in-store like the DLC for GTA4 was? I'm under some ridiculous bandwidth limits so I'm reluctant to download them myself. I'm sure there will be a "GOTY" edition that will hit retail which will contain all the DLC at some point, but this is purely speculative and I have no basis for making such a statement other then it seems like a logical thing to do. Of course, that would mean purchasing the base game again...
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Oct 4, 2011 14:17
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Wingnut Ninja posted:With Elijah's Advanced LAER and Max Charge ammo, you can practically hear the gun crying in pain with every shot. That gun was what prompted me to bind weapon repair kits to a number key, you can go through one or two after every decent-sized firefight. Yeah it's a great gun but you pretty much need to take Jury Rigging if you want to actually use it on a regular basis. And does having a high repair or anything prevent weapon degradation? Are there any perks for this?
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Oct 4, 2011 15:01
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I believe Raul reduces weapon degradation while he's in your party.
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Oct 4, 2011 15:05
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ugh, I can't play in anything but Hardcore mode. Normal seems so tame. 
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Oct 4, 2011 15:09
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poptart_fairy posted:ugh, I can't play in anything but Hardcore mode. Normal seems so tame.
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Oct 4, 2011 15:50
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I really liked Hardcore mode for my first and second playthrough. It was before I realized how ridiculously easy it was to make money (and before the DLC) so the need to constantly buy non-irradiated food and drink, or normal food and radaway, was a nice money sink.
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Oct 4, 2011 15:54
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You had to buy food and drink? I've never had to buy either.
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Oct 4, 2011 16:03
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I've never played normal either. It's not like Hardcore is difficult or inconvenient or anything, it just adds a little more immersion.MrL_JaKiri posted:You had to buy food and drink? I've never had to buy either. and yeah who has to buy that poo poo? next you'll say you had to pay for hotel rooms to get your sleep meter down instead of just murdering a hobo and sleeping on his cardboard bed
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Oct 4, 2011 16:22
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Wingnut Ninja posted:With Elijah's Advanced LAER and Max Charge ammo, you can practically hear the gun crying in pain with every shot. That gun was what prompted me to bind weapon repair kits to a number key, you can go through one or two after every decent-sized firefight. The basic LAER with mods applied and laser commander generally works out for more damage since each beam can individually crit. Having 30-40% crit rate per beam is nice! Even against high DT fellows, the crits just cut into'em.
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Oct 4, 2011 16:24
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J Bjelke-Postersen posted:In NV just go go to the BoS bunker and pal up to them, they'll sell or give you some BoS gear. Go to their secret hideout and there are mint conditions big energy guns. Go back to BoS central and kill everyone there because you are a user and a liar. Huh, for some reason I forgot about their bunker, maybe because I found it near the beginning of the game, and was unable to enter it anyway. Now, after finding the holotapes and recruiting Veronica I think I will go there. But I won't shoot them unless it is necessary. I'm a nice guy, and friendly to anyone. Also, I have a lot of silencers on my weapons.
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Oct 4, 2011 16:28
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Next time I have to wipe out the BoS I'm going to try just running through the base on Turbo randomly frenzying people with Mobius' Glove.
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Oct 4, 2011 16:35
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Astroturf Man posted:Next time I have to wipe out the BoS I'm going to try just running through the base on Turbo randomly frenzying people with Mobius' Glove. The Paladin Toaster is pretty hilarious in that fight too All zipping around with my terrifying 16 Unarmed skill going through power armored gauss gun assholes in 2-3 punches
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Oct 4, 2011 16:52
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You had to buy food and drink? I've never had to buy either. It was my first time through. I spent a loooooooot of time outside in the Goodsprings - Primm - Novac area. I just ran out of free sources after awhile. Plus, I felt the need to IMMEDIATELY fix h20/fod symbols. No lollygagging looking for a free source of water for me.
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Oct 4, 2011 16:53
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Sankis posted:It was my first time through. I spent a loooooooot of time outside in the Goodsprings - Primm - Novac area. I just ran out of free sources after awhile. Plus, I felt the need to IMMEDIATELY fix h20/fod symbols. No lollygagging looking for a free source of water for me. 1. Kill poo poo 2. Cook it Infinite free food. Extra free if you punch it to death. If condition messages really bother you you might have to scrounge up some Radaway after the hundredth or so time, mind.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:02
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Or pay the 10 caps for some snake on a stick and avoid having to put points into an otherwise completely useless skill.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:03
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Cowcaster posted:Or pay the 10 caps for some snake on a stick and avoid having to put points into an otherwise completely useless skill. Pretty much this. I think I went Guns/Sneak/Lockpick on my first time through the game without ever putting points outside of them and maybe repair or science.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:05
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I just find enough food in nasty refrigerators to keep me going, and drinking from a water source zeroes out your h20 meter immediately so I just borrow peoples' sinks every time I go into a house even if I'm not getting a warning yet. Once you go through a few areas you'll see Bighorners and you can just blow their heads off for their meat that drops your food by 300 or something retarded, and then you should be set forever on carried food. ed: the bighorner thing is without Survival, so I guess you could probably get more out of them if you just don't have anything better to do with your skill points (you do) Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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Oct 4, 2011 17:06
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Cowcaster posted:Or pay the 10 caps for some snake on a stick and avoid having to put points into an otherwise completely useless skill. Survival is a good skill because of the insane healing rate you can get. A great skill with that perk which gives you free insanely good and valuable healing items when you kill things.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:07
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Cowcaster posted:Or pay the 10 caps for some snake on a stick and avoid having to put points into an otherwise completely useless skill. If you're spending so much time in the sticks that you manage to completely deplete them of food, which is everywhere and necessary like maybe once every three days, I'd think you'd be grateful for the chance to occupy yourself. Also Survival owns
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Oct 4, 2011 17:09
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I love Bighorners, or as I like to call them, big dumb walking sacks of meat and experience.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:15
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:The Paladin Toaster is pretty hilarious in that fight too Besides it's crazy ammo usage, the pulse gun is the best against the BoS. 1 shot and anyone in power armor is going down. I'm also liking the new traits that Lonesome Road added, taking Skilled and Good Natured with an already high intelligence puts a few of your skills over 50 right away, and most of them over 25. JawKnee fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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Oct 4, 2011 17:18
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I have no problem with hunger, ever, because I use food for healing, and I need healing quite often. Different foods stack, and the healing per second can be higher than the poisons damage (who unfortunately also stack). That's why I invest in survival. One of the best early food is gecko steak, because it heals rather quickly. Later brahmin and bighorner steaks are also great (bonus to strength), because bighorners are unlimited, and are easily killed with one sneaky shot from varmint rifle. Another good thing with survival is it allows to made a nice light armor later - this is for characters who choose to Travel Light.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:19
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Cowcaster posted:Or pay the 10 caps for some snake on a stick and avoid having to put points into an otherwise completely useless skill. Survival gives you: 1. Them's Good Eatin', which turns *everything* alive into free healing. 2. Some drat fine Light Armor, pre-expansions [And even post-expansions it's still one of the better armors for it's class]. 3. Buffs that aren't easy or possible to get anywhere else. 4. Poisons, which can make large sections of the game trivial for certain builds really early. So it's not a *needed* skill, but for certain playstyles there is a lot to get out of it.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:30
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:If you're spending so much time in the sticks that you manage to completely deplete them of food, which is everywhere and necessary like maybe once every three days, I'd think you'd be grateful for the chance to occupy yourself. I don't get what you're saying here, is it that if you spend enough time in the same area you deplete merchants of food? Because as a guy with no points in survival whose entire food supply comes from poo poo lying around and what you get from merchants that's never been an issue. Similarly, stacking healing with a poo poo survival skill just using the stuff lying around has always resulted in more than enough healing on its own without having to use magic recipes.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:33
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Saiko Kila posted:Another good thing with survival is it allows to made a nice light armor later - this is for characters who choose to Travel Light. I was disappointed to find out that those special armors you can make with Survival look the same as the regular versions of them, though. I was hoping for some sweet hides all over it.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:40
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We're talking about even getting to the point where you'd have to use merchants/pay for food. I never even carry food items because you're never more than fifteen seconds from a refrigerator or cache of like half a dozen TV dinners, the concept of staying in one small area for so long those all go away is mindblowing. At that point you're barely even playing the same game I recognize, you're doing some hardcore simulationist provincial wastelander run where you settle down in Goodsprings and become a farmer for the next thirty game-years or something.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:41
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:We're talking about even getting to the point where you'd have to use merchants/pay for food. I never even carry food items because you're never more than fifteen seconds from a refrigerator or cache of like half a dozen decent food items, the concept of staying in one small area for so long those all go away is mindblowing. At that point you're barely even playing the same game I recognize, you're doing like some hardcore simulationist provincial wastelander run where you settle down in Goodsprings and become a farmer for the next thirty game-years or something. Uh, I don't think we're disagreeing here. I just consider merchants another version of a refrigerator or cache of food.
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So what's the consensus on Lonesome Road? Is it a necessity to play it right now because of some awesome story bit or is it okay to wait when I don't have a million other things to play? It sure got shat on by most reviewers for a variety of things.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:45
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RBA Starblade posted:I was disappointed to find out that those special armors you can make with Survival look the same as the regular versions of them, though. I was hoping for some sweet hides all over it. If this isn't a mod yet, good lord I will be pissed.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:46
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I think New Vegas is overall a much better game than FO3, but I can't say I care for how the ammo system works. Having multiple ammo types is cool, but I have like something like 8-billion useless ammo components I either accidentally got off people or generated by shooting things, a lot of which are for guns I'll never, ever use. It's tedious and just creates a giant mess, especially since you don't NEED the stuff.
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Oct 4, 2011 17:56
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Zorak posted:I think New Vegas is overall a much better game than FO3, but I can't say I care for how the ammo system works. Having multiple ammo types is cool, but I have like something like 8-billion useless ammo components I either accidentally got off people or generated by shooting things, a lot of which are for guns I'll never, ever use. It's tedious and just creates a giant mess, especially since you don't NEED the stuff. This. The biggest turn off for HC mode for me is that I'd have to spend even more time squinting at my vast collection of ammunition and then back at my guns to try and put which goes with which. Is there a mod anywhere that let's me play HC mode (so the hunger, thirst, sleep etc) without the ammo weight restriction?
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Oct 4, 2011 18:00
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Throw away or dump the ammo components in a box someplace instead of hauling them around with you is my suggestion. Also make sure to pick up a UI mod someplace that decreases the text size/gaps in the pipboy so you can see more than five items at a time.
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Oct 4, 2011 18:02
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Zorak posted:I think New Vegas is overall a much better game than FO3, but I can't say I care for how the ammo system works. Having multiple ammo types is cool, but I have like something like 8-billion useless ammo components I either accidentally got off people or generated by shooting things, a lot of which are for guns I'll never, ever use. It's tedious and just creates a giant mess, especially since you don't NEED the stuff. Yeah the inventory clutter is a little crazy but if you're not crafting can't you just ignore everything under the Misc. tab outright and spare yourself the trouble? If it's in there it's either an undroppable quest item, crafting materials, or garbage you accidentally picked up.
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Oct 4, 2011 18:03
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There is waaaay to much food/drink avaliable in game. Just having the vault 13 canteen marginalizes most of the dehydration issue. Hardcore should have dramatically stripped the majority of food items and raised prices on food/water/ammo. Plus you can stack food/water for massive healing, easy enough to rival stimpacks. Oh, the power of gluttony. Instead, try my Drunk Chem-Fiend Cannibal approach. You can only eat people(or other cannibal+ humanoids with the right perk), and shamelessly abuse drugs/stims/alcohol.
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Yodzilla posted:So what's the consensus on Lonesome Road? Is it a necessity to play it right now because of some awesome story bit or is it okay to wait when I don't have a million other things to play? It sure got shat on by most reviewers for a variety of things. I don't know why it got shat on. I just played through it and thought it was great. New dense urban area with tough enemies, cool armor and weapons, and a plot that actually relates to the main story. That said, some of the spawns were just ridiculous. You'll get stuff like three deathclaws and three ghouls with anti-materiel rifles and rocket launchers spawning right on top of you.
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