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Just finished the Black Mountain quest and it's refreshing to have a Fallout game where very few of the super mutants are bad guys. The only ones that have attacked me so far is the mentally ill nightkin (and even among them there's characters like Davison that can be reasoned with) and the mutants controlled by Tabitha. But after (peacefully) disposing of Tabitha the mutants at Black Mountain just walk by me.
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Alhazred posted:Just finished the Black Mountain quest and it's refreshing to have a Fallout game where very few of the super mutants are bad guys. The only ones that have attacked me so far is the mentally ill nightkin (and even among them there's characters like Davison that can be reasoned with) and the mutants controlled by Tabitha. But after (peacefully) disposing of Tabitha the mutants at Black Mountain just walk by me.
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May 29, 2023 14:35
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NorgLyle posted:I really love that about the Black Mountain area in general. The very first game of New Vegas that I ever played I was psyching myself up for a 'boss fight' with Tabitha as I climbed up towards the summit but then ended up accidentally resolving the situation peacefully by repairing Rhonda and I was so surprised that was even a possibility. The toy car bit is really funny, too.
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May 29, 2023 18:13
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Rappaport posted:This seems to be the case, and I again apologize for failing my skill checks. And being a moron. I don't think you're a moron, I just think you chose a poor way to communicate your point
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May 29, 2023 18:22
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NorgLyle posted:I really love that about the Black Mountain area in general. The very first game of New Vegas that I ever played I was psyching myself up for a 'boss fight' with Tabitha as I climbed up towards the summit but then ended up accidentally resolving the situation peacefully by repairing Rhonda and I was so surprised that was even a possibility. That whole segment is so good
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May 29, 2023 18:26
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Gotta say, it was a bit anticlimactic to fight several death claws only to reach the glorified shack that is the Brotherhood of Steel's safehouse.
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May 29, 2023 19:36
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Alhazred posted:Gotta say, it was a bit anticlimactic to fight several death claws only to reach the glorified shack that is the Brotherhood of Steel's safehouse.
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May 29, 2023 20:14
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2house2fly posted:Btw, if you're not following Tim Cain's youtube channel he's still posting interesting stuff daily. 2 days ago he revealed that he left Fallout 2 because Brian Fargo stiffed him out of a bonus as punishment because there was a bad bug that took ages to get resolved and Cain refused to say which programmer's fault it was. 1 day ago, to balance it out, he revealed that the "Brian Fargo presents" in the intro was actually added by the team to acknowledge his contributions and Fargo himself wasn't a big fan of it. Today he's got an hour long chat with Leonard Boyarsky that I'm going to get stuck into as soon as I have an hour spare: these have been fun. stands to reason the guy who kinda dreamed up fallout would have a strict 'no snitching' policy. that rules.
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May 29, 2023 20:19
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NorgLyle posted:One of the things that always kind of irritates me about the Safehouses and really most rewards in New Vegas is that there is no simple way to repair most heavy armor; you can use Jury Rigging but that only opens it up to four fairly rare suits of armor. I wish there was an Armor Repair Kit that you could scrounge materials for the same way you can for weapons. That's absolutely fair, and one of the reasons I mod them in, tbh.
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May 29, 2023 20:27
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Alhazred posted:Okay, McNamara is still in charge. The lockdown is ended. Veronica is thoroughly disillusioned by the Brotherhood of Steel considering a troop of paladins not only tried to kill her, but also massacred the Followers of the Apocalypse because they thought she was sharing her knowledge with them. And I've got a power armor. Something I like about the Brotherhood questline is how it's impossible not to read the mission to join them as anything but a way to get rid of you. To McNamara or Hardin, you're a pesky loose end to their ploy to keep their embarrassing leadership bungles secret/a vicious power-grab using some ancient rules-lawyering and semantics. You've been there every step of the way and they know if you breath a word about it to anyone that they'd get booted off their position. If they get the other Paladins to kill you, it might lead them to question what exactly you've done to earn the Elder's ire, so they both send you off to a mission that they know is a glorified suicide run.
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May 29, 2023 20:42
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Posting live from the Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings. Bummed not as much Fallout stuff here and no FNV merch in the General Store. Actually NM found the FNV corner achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 23:49
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Byzantine posted:Why would the Outcasts let you join? It's explicitly composed of the BoS members who are xenophobic enough to rebel against their Elder. I mean the original BoS were strict but it was not impossible to appeal to their reasoning skills by being just That Good. It wouldn't be hard to justify that while the Outcast equivalent faction has no interest in being Guardians of the capitol wasteland, they would be open to recruiting the best and brightest to their numbers, like how the FO1 and 2 BoS were. That's be a way to explain why they'd be the evil bad karma path though. You'd probably make their quests be going around and recruiting the smartest people to join them, thus depriving the wasteland of potentially helpful doctors and stuff. Yeah you now get pre war tier medical research tech, but you're not allowed to use it to heal the common folk, that's silly.
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May 30, 2023 00:32
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achillesforever6 posted:Posting live from the Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings. Bummed not as much Fallout stuff here and no FNV merch in the General Store.
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May 30, 2023 01:49
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They gave me a bottle cap when I went back in 2018, it was very neat.
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May 30, 2023 02:39
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Is there any Fallout where Dogmeat has a quest line or happy ending slides if you do certain things? Future of humanity be damned I just want dogmeat to be happy!
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May 30, 2023 04:25
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Proof that Rex is the superior canine companion, especially if you play Old World Blues and get him a lady friend.
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May 30, 2023 04:49
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amigolupus posted:Something I like about the Brotherhood questline is how it's impossible not to read the mission to join them as anything but a way to get rid of you. To McNamara or Hardin, you're a pesky loose end to their ploy to keep their embarrassing leadership bungles secret/a vicious power-grab using some ancient rules-lawyering and semantics. You've been there every step of the way and they know if you breath a word about it to anyone that they'd get booted off their position. If they get the other Paladins to kill you, it might lead them to question what exactly you've done to earn the Elder's ire, so they both send you off to a mission that they know is a glorified suicide run. Makes you wonder how rogue the paladins at the Follower's Outpost really were, hm? But honestly, none of the missions McNamara sent me on was that hard. Two of the vaults for example was vaults that I've already cleared and the worst part of Vault 11 was simply finding the part. Reaching the safehouse was the worst part and that's hardly a mission. dr_rat posted:Is there any Fallout where Dogmeat has a quest line or happy ending slides if you do certain things? It's more or less stated in 4 that Dogmeat is forever doomed to aid whatever idiot that comes wandering out of a shelter.
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May 30, 2023 17:07
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Alhazred posted:Makes you wonder how rogue the paladins at the Follower's Outpost really were, hm? Veronica seems to think they were pretty rogue. If they attack you earlier outside the Bunker she thinks their deaths will be dismissed just as the Wasteland being dangerous. They've lost other bands of power-armoured Paladins before, nothing too strange about it.
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May 30, 2023 17:49
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A friend of mine has been having an issue on PC where a friendly NPC will pop up during big firefights and then his game will crash. The NPC is named Barcobaama. Has anyone ever encountered this before?
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May 31, 2023 20:11
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That is 1000% percent a mod issue and they should disable their mods one by one until that goes away.
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May 31, 2023 20:17
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Thanks, Barcobaama!
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May 31, 2023 20:18
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I figured as much, thanks. drat Obama ordering drone strikes on his PC smh my head
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May 31, 2023 21:01
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If that isn't a dog named Bark Obama it really should be. 
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May 31, 2023 21:07
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No-Bark-O-Baaama
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It's always amusing when someone is getting some bizarre crash or error, and then when people ask if they're running any mods it's like "oh, well I just installed Blorpy's Real Tiddy Physics Overhaul Total NPC Replacer and Alternate Start Mod, now that you mention it the game was running fine before that."
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Alhazred posted:Makes you wonder how rogue the paladins at the Follower's Outpost really were, hm? But honestly, none of the missions McNamara sent me on was that hard. Two of the vaults for example was vaults that I've already cleared and the worst part of Vault 11 was simply finding the part. Reaching the safehouse was the worst part and that's hardly a mission. My read on it is that McNamara wasn't intentionally trying to kill you with those missions to find the parts to repair the bunker, yet. Whether Veronica escorts the Courier with her into the bunker or the Courier unlocks the entrance to the BoS themself, McNamara probably thought the Courier was impressive or resourceful enough to make it inside. If you manage to get the parts, great. If you die, then it's no big loss to McNamara and he can keep the lockdown going. But once those quests are done, he was definitely trying to kill you since you're the only one who can blow the lid on him making bad leadership calls. The last quest from McNamara involves him sending you to the top of Black Mountain. He can't even claim ignorance that it's a suicide mission. As far as he knows from the logs of those dead BoS paladins, that place was still teeming with Super Mutants and Centaurs. That, and the rogue paladins slaughtering the people at the Followers' Outpost to punish Veronica makes it very hard to sympathize with their faction.
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Is there any current Brotherhood people in Vegas other than Veronica who isn't a massive rear end in a top hat? Maybe one of the scribes? Trying to remember.
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May 31, 2023 22:18
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Initiate Stanton (the guy who lost his plasma defender in scorpion Gulch) was just a dumb teenager and Scribe Ibsen just wanted to deal with the dumb computer virus.
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May 31, 2023 22:27
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's always amusing when someone is getting some bizarre crash or error, and then when people ask if they're running any mods it's like "oh, well I just installed Blorpy's Real Tiddy Physics Overhaul Total NPC Replacer and Alternate Start Mod, now that you mention it the game was running fine before that." Consider these two very common sentiments: Bethesda games are buggy pieces of poo poo. Bethesda games are simply unplayable without mods.
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May 31, 2023 22:34
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amigolupus posted:My read on it is that McNamara wasn't intentionally trying to kill you with those missions to find the parts to repair the bunker, yet. Whether Veronica escorts the Courier with her into the bunker or the Courier unlocks the entrance to the BoS themself, McNamara probably thought the Courier was impressive or resourceful enough to make it inside. If you manage to get the parts, great. If you die, then it's no big loss to McNamara and he can keep the lockdown going. But he also know that everyone that tried to find the parts also died, Lorenzo even tries to dissuade the courier from trying to retrieve the parts.
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Okay apparently he says he's not running any mods but I call bullshit
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He doesn't consider you a close friend if he won't share his other ghoul beautifier and anime waifu companion mods with you, OP
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midwifecrisis posted:Okay apparently he says he's not running any mods but I call bullshit Yeah I can assure you there is no base game Barrack Obama NPC who teleports to your location and crashes your game
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Is he playing an original copy of the game or some dodgy  version? I guess I could see some pirated version coming pre-equipped with mods, though he would have had to choose the least trustworthy version possible to find one that adds "Barcobaama" to the game, lmao.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Is he playing an original copy of the game or some dodgy He's clearly playing the haunted version of New Vegas, duh.
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John Murdoch posted:He's clearly playing the haunted version of New Vegas, duh. That’s Dust.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sgPty1te0
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John Murdoch posted:Bethesda games are simply unplayable without mods. You made me realize that I didn't really play a Fallout game cause it didn't have Barvobaama modded in.
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the "friendly npc shows up in big firefights" gives me pause. has your friend taken the Mysterious Stranger perk? if the 44th President has somehow infiltrated an unmodded game in order to replace that guy, your friend could remove that perk via console as a potential fix
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Really liking Tim Cain's Youtube videos. Also this was a cool (but also  ) look at his experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fmAt3Ro_Y
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