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mango sentinel posted:Are there any protips for jumping into Dead Money? When I played as a melee character, I found the Surgical Strike move in VATS with a Cosmic Knife (clean) hilariously overpowered- I was able to one-shot most of the enemies by slicing off their arms like some sort of survival horror samurai. If guns are your thing, a high science check will net you a really good one in the police station towards the beginning of the DLC.
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mango sentinel posted:Are there any protips for jumping into Dead Money? Especially if you're playing on Hardcore, watch where you step unless you like the idea of hobbling away from bullet-sponge enemies through instant-kill zones while having two crippled legs.
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Feb 9, 2013 20:29
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Especially if you're playing on Hardcore, watch where you step unless you like the idea of hobbling away from bullet-sponge enemies through instant-kill zones while having two crippled legs. And this is why people say Light Step. v v v See, most people define good eye as 'competent'. I assume you define it as 'armed services master tracker'. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Feb 9, 2013 21:37
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Sir Unimaginative posted:And this is why people say Light Step. Light step isn't really necessary as long as you keep a good eye on the ground, particularly in the (more) heavily trapped areas. Taking your time and going for limb destruction on the enemies will easily see you through Dead Money.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:31
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Light Step isn't necessary but by God it is a load off your mind, just like Animal Friend is in Honest Hearts.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:42
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Connoisseur posted:
Yeah, New Vegas is pretty drat amazing with how nuanced everyone, including the seemingly cartoony villains are. Though, I gotta question Ceasar's optimism in that his army will suddenly settle down and be willing to protect the "profligates" they were wholesale slaughtering a few weeks back. I mean, for the Romans there was already a "Rome" before the civil wars and conflicts drove them to become an empire instead so it wasn't as big a change for everyone involved as it would be here.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:50
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Don't forget that the special casino chips you find in Dead Money count as money and are affected by the Fortune Finder perk. Also, with Them's Good Eatin' you'll get healing items from neatly every Ghost Person you kill. Also also, when you get into the casino proper you can gamble. All the casino chips you win can be traded in for Pre-War money, which is worth ten caps apiece and weighs nothing.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:54
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Yeah, the true treasure of the Sierra Madre isn't the gold, it's the nigh-infinite Pre-War Money and Weapon Repair Kits you can accumulate.
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Feb 9, 2013 23:05
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Speedball posted:Light Step isn't necessary but by God it is a load off your mind, just like Animal Friend is in Honest Hearts. Actually, if God is with you you don't need Light Step  Light Step is a waste of time in vanilla New Vegas, but it's useful in every DLC. Those mines in Lonesome Road are especially terrible to deal with otherwise.
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Feb 9, 2013 23:33
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Arbitrary Coin posted:Though, I gotta question Ceasar's optimism in that his army will suddenly settle down and be willing to protect the "profligates" they were wholesale slaughtering a few weeks back. I mean, for the Romans there was already a "Rome" before the civil wars and conflicts drove them to become an empire instead so it wasn't as big a change for everyone involved as it would be here. That's not to say there wouldn't be a lot of slaughter. I'm sure people who are slow to adjust to the new order wouldn't live very long, but once the rest learn there's no resisting the Legion and settle down, the Legion themselves would quickly become simply an extremely proficient and brutal police force without much problem. They're well disciplined, after all. They'll follow orders. The problem is if the person giving orders is... well, Lanius. Then you're probably going to get he wholesale destruction of NCR civilization.
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Feb 9, 2013 23:47
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Wolfsheim posted:Actually, if God is with you you don't need Light Step I've never taken Light Step, I must be a weird masochist because I love the nervous feeling of having to watch my step constantly. Some of my best deaths have been running from enemies and stepping on a mine!
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Feb 9, 2013 23:57
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eating only apples posted:Some of my best deaths have been running from enemies and stepping on a mine! This is the perfect encapsulation of the correct spirit in which to approach Dead Money.
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Feb 9, 2013 23:59
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K9 Philosopher posted:When I played as a melee character, I found the Surgical Strike move in VATS with a Cosmic Knife (clean) hilariously overpowered- I was able to one-shot most of the enemies by slicing off their arms like some sort of survival horror samurai. Similar to this, VATS attacks with throwing knife spears can often behead enemies in a single shot.
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Feb 10, 2013 00:10
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Eiba posted:The problem is if the person giving orders is... well, Lanius. Then you're probably going to get he wholesale destruction of NCR civilization.
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Feb 10, 2013 00:44
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Wolfsheim posted:Actually, if God is with you you don't need Light Step Oh, I know, if only you could take him with you everywhere! Sadly, you genuinely need Dean just as much for his cloud-diving sometimes.
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Feb 10, 2013 01:02
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Speedball posted:Rope Kid, you're the Honest Hearts guy, right?
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Feb 10, 2013 01:55
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Ahh, like the shotguns aimed at fire extinguishers, right? I did think that was clever.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:04
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Pope Guilty posted:This is the perfect encapsulation of the correct spirit in which to approach Dead Money. I'm pretty sure that mines aren't the defining explosive way to die in Dead Money.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:15
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Speedball posted:Light Step isn't necessary but by God it is a load off your mind, just like Animal Friend is in Honest Hearts. What's animal friend good for in Honest Hearts?
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Feb 10, 2013 02:21
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Knuc If U Buck posted:What's animal friend good for in Honest Hearts? Yao Guai, I'd assume.
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edit: ^^^ yao gui are NOT affected by Animal Friend in Honest Hearts, actually!Knuc If U Buck posted:What's animal friend good for in Honest Hearts? Honest Hearts is full of animal life forms that want to kill you, including the new Green Geckos which are larger and stronger than any other gecko. Animal Friend makes them all non-hostile, so you just have to worry about the White Legs (who have pretty nasty weapons) and the yao gui.
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After a long hiatus im doing another run on New Vegas. First time using Jsawyer mod and I LOVE IT. Paired with hardcore and very hard gives you a new experience. At some point I had to follow a travelling caravan for safety hehe. Everything is doing fine on my anarchy run, god drat I love this game.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:36
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turboraton posted:After a long hiatus im doing another run on New Vegas. First time using Jsawyer mod and I LOVE IT. Paired with hardcore and very hard gives you a new experience. At some point I had to follow a travelling caravan for safety hehe. Everything is doing fine on my anarchy run, god drat I love this game. EDIT: Though I guess if you're a decent ways into your run already there won't be much benefit (and potentially some weird drawbacks) from adding those. The Crotch fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Feb 10, 2013 02:41
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rope kid posted:In the core game I also had designers hide mines under (usually NCR) corpses or aim one trap at another (much worse) trap. That field near forlon hope and nelson, with the dismembered NCR soldier's laid out as traps by the legion, is great. Made me really hate Caesar.
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Speedball posted:edit: ^^^ yao gui are NOT affected by Animal Friend in Honest Hearts, actually! Green Geckos are hardly lethal/numerous enough to waste a perk on. Nightstalkers in OWB, are awful enough to burn a perk on Animal Friend iirc. Knuc U Kinte fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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I love Animal Friend. All the affected animals have cute idle animations so it's still a little rewarding to run across them in the wasteland, making Nightstalkers friendly helps alleviate one or two of the tough parts in OWB (which is still plenty challenging thanks to its infinite bullet-sponge enemies) and also slows down the rate at which I get experience, which I like because hitting the level cap makes it less fun for me.
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So I killed Caeser. Can I still finish the quest Wildcard: You and what army? edit: nvm I figured it out. zyang31 fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Feb 10, 2013 18:35
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Knuc If U Buck posted:What's animal friend good for in Honest Hearts? There's a quest, Bighorners of the Eastern Virgin, that goes a lot more smoothly if you can walk right through a herd of bighorners without a fight, and the quest records if you kill any of them, which makes it really difficult to do with a companion unless you have Animal Friend.
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Servetus posted:There's a quest, Bighorners of the Eastern Virgin, that goes a lot more smoothly if you can walk right through a herd of bighorners without a fight, and the quest records if you kill any of them, which makes it really difficult to do with a companion unless you have Animal Friend. You really don't need the perk for that quest. You can still walk right next to them even without it, just don't stop there, and there a very clear sound notification as to how close they are to attacking you.
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Zilkin posted:You really don't need the perk for that quest. You can still walk right next to them even without it, just don't stop there, and there a very clear sound notification as to how close they are to attacking you. Also, before you do that quest tell your follower to stay behind, because if he comes with you, he will kill the bighorners at the slightest provocation. Follows-Chalk, you murdered those the bighorners, not me, so don't give me poo poo about it you tremendous hypocrite  .
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I can't play much more than an hour before I get slammed with a CTD whenever I try to reload a save, the only reliable method I've found for fixing that is to completely shut down and restart my PC and that is getting really old very fast. I want to say it's something on my end but given how buggy this game tends to be I just don't know what to make of it anymore. 
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I can't play much more than an hour before I get slammed with a CTD whenever I try to reload a save, the only reliable method I've found for fixing that is to completely shut down and restart my PC and that is getting really old very fast. I want to say it's something on my end but given how buggy this game tends to be I just don't know what to make of it anymore. Sounds like a memory issue, if it's running for roughly the same amount of time between crashes. How much ram do you have? You could try the 4gb enabler for NV, and possibly liberal usage of the pcb command. Besides that, lowering textures / graphics quality can improve memory usage.
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Servetus posted:There's a quest, Bighorners of the Eastern Virgin, that goes a lot more smoothly if you can walk right through a herd of bighorners without a fight, and the quest records if you kill any of them, which makes it really difficult to do with a companion unless you have Animal Friend. I've beaten HH probably about 3 times, and I've never had a problem with that quest. I imagine I would use sneak in that area, iirc.
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Speaking of HH, I just started it. That poor Sheriff lady. Anything I should know about this dlc?
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Man, are party members overpowered or what. The brotherhood chick in combat armor with her default weapon, and the flying robot murdered the entire rouge paladin strike force. My charisma is 6.
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White Phosphorus posted:Man, are party members overpowered or what. The brotherhood chick in combat armor with her default weapon, and the flying robot murdered the entire rouge paladin strike force. My charisma is 6. Cirosan's CCO mod has a follower rebalance module that makes it so you're not just a tour guide for a bunch of demi-gods. Followers do half damage, but take half damage. It also removes infinite follower ammo. Must have mod for me.
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Broose posted:Speaking of HH, I just started it. That poor Sheriff lady. Anything I should know about this dlc? Do not leave until you've found all the Survivalist's journals. Especially the last one. Also, make healing poultices. Xander root + broc flower + cave fungus. The fungus is kinda heavy, but healing poultices are awesome.
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v1ld posted:Cirosan's CCO mod has a follower rebalance module that makes it so you're not just a tour guide for a bunch of demi-gods. Followers do half damage, but take half damage. It also removes infinite follower ammo. Must have mod for me. Can I install just the follower modifications without the game system overhaul? I want to finish the vanilla game I already started but with weaker followers.
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The Crotch posted:Also, make healing poultices. Xander root + broc flower + cave fungus. The fungus is kinda heavy, but healing poultices are awesome. Yeah. You can technically find cave fungus out in the core game, but only in exceedingly rare amounts, while it's in abundance in Honest Hearts. Healing poultices are a Hardcore player's best friend: healing and limb repair. (how is the in-canon way people consume healing powder, anyhow? Do they snort it?)
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rope kid posted:As far as familiarity with old world terms/names/ideas goes, regular folks in the Mojave Wasteland are Rhodes Scholars compared to the tribals Caesar encountered when he went east. Even if wastelanders don't know anything about Julius Caesar, the name "Caesar" or "Cesar" could be passed along pretty easily in some form. People today use plenty of names and phrases without actually understanding where they came from or what they mean. Have you ever met anyone who understands "Exception that proves the rule"? Because I haven't met anyone who actually uses that saying correctly. Speedball posted:Yeah. You can technically find cave fungus out in the core game, but only in exceedingly rare amounts, while it's in abundance in Honest Hearts. Healing poultices are a Hardcore player's best friend: healing and limb repair. Presumably either by eating it or application to the wound. Applying it to the wound makes the most sense, that it's some sort of homebrew disinfectant/clotting agent. SpookyLizard fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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