At least for one of my quests I completed all the parts, quest name didn’t gray out and I didn’t get xp, but when I walked out of a location I got an encounter that furthered said quest forward and I got a new part. Haven’t done that particular quest so can’t say if it is a similiar thing.
Now that I’m gonna have to try. My weapon of choice has been the cowboy repeater, and the unique version is in the NCR camp near Vegas. Shame there’s no evil smiley.
Ah if only. I’m on the console version. I’ll just have to tough it out. Old school chinese stealth was a game breaker. I’ll just have to make do. I’m sure the gauss rifle I picked up will help. Got it from the mercs near the tumbleweed farm in the northwest corner of the map. God bless the power scope on that thing.
Yep, you definitely missed out on something.Eddie’s quest line ends with the option to retake the prison alongside NCR forces.
I just read something about the background of Caesar’s Legion on another site. Can anyone confirm?
Did they really form from a group of former Caesar’s Palace employees? It’s 200 years after “Old Vegas” and those guys are far from costumed actors, but it’s still pretty funny.
Not according to what I’ve heard from characters in the game. When you meet Hanlon at Camp Golf, ask him some questions about Caesar. You may need to get the quest Return to sender from Camp Forlorn Hope, North East of Novac.
There’s another ED-E activation when you talk to a particular someone at the Brotherhood of Steel (Not spoilered because, let’s be honest, you already know they’re in the game somewhere). After receiving that activation, the quest log no longer shows “Take ED-E to the scrapyard” and instead just says that key words appear to activate some sort of data log in ED-E, with no further information at this stage.
Also, I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say you probably shouldn’t explore too much of the mystery of Vault 11 without some really, REALLY good armour and some decent firepower, along with plenty of Stimpaks.
Can’t read this thread; I’m afraid of spoilers. But I need to pop in here to say that, while the soundtrack as a whole doesn’t stand up to FO3, Mr. New Vegas has my vote for Broadcaster of the Wastes 2077(?). He didn’t get me from the start; that old man, gravelly voice and relatively monotone delivery take a little while. But it’s all in the details–and now I’m wishin’ I’d made a female character, so that I could be Mrs. New Vegas.
“You know, one time I tried to measure my charisma on a Vit-O-Matic Vigor Tester… The machine burst into flames. Stay classy, New Vegas.” 
Almost definitely not; as with all things in the Fallout world, Vegas has a retro-futuristic 50’s feel, there is no Caesar’s Palace (probably for copyright reasons, although 3’s DC geography was very different to the real thing too). The Ultra-Luxe is probably closest.
Got to say I’m noticing a lot more epic moments quest-wise than in Fallout 3. A few that stand out for me…
[spoiler]Heck Gunderson’s quest in the Ultra-Luxe. Sneaking around, disguised, bashing people’s heads in with the cane and forcing their poncy chef to run off crying with a torrent of [Medicine] skill psychobabble. Reminded me of something out of the Hitman series.
Trying to replicate this in an NCR quest to investigate the Omertas, I botched up - couldn’t enter a door without a guard noticing. Pickpocketed his ammo then stabbed him to death, unfortunately someone noticed. Ended up with a massive shootout in the Gomorrah casino with what weapons I’d found, trying not to hit panicking gamblers. Later on there’s talk of the Omertas ‘getting what they deserved’ after my little spree, and House expressed his disapproval at my approach.
Stormed Nelson with Boone. With a silenced sniper rifle. A thing of beauty.[/spoiler]
I think I’m reaching the end of the game. [spoiler]The questlines have diverged into NCR and House - in the quest ‘Beware the Wrath of Caesar!’ the Legion have declared me damnatio memoriae, so no quests from them. The latest NCR quest really has me on edge, though.
I’ve got to wipe out the Brotherhood of Steel. Cripes.[/spoiler]
Me too. I’m actually on this quest right now (well, last night), and I’ve tracked down the Brotherhood guy who has taken Ed-E from me to do some research (and will supposedly upgrade him in some way).
I made the (fatal) mistake of initially going into Hidden Valley wearing faction armor (NCR armor to be specific) and died a quick, horrible death when Brotherhood goons attacked me with Gauss Rifles and Gatling Lasers. Woof. At least it was over with quickly.
Still haven’t managed to find a sniper rifle. Someone in the other thread suggested that one was just laying around in the NCR base outside of NV (in a tent I think), but I searched high and low and couldn’t find one. I think I’m going to have to just break down and buy one, and then spend the time getting the materials to make a boat load of weapons repair kits to keep it up to snuff. So many things to spend caps on, so few caps to spend…
-XT
I finally got to Vegas at level 18, and with my 8 luck, I’ve found it pretty easy to make money at blackjack, from the couple of tables I’ve sat at. But I haven’t pushed it. At about 3k profit, I got interrupted by a floor manager offering a coupe of Brahmin steaks. I read it as “hey, let’s see if we can break up that hot streak” but I don’t know how many such hints you get before they throw you out. Plus, if you try to cheat by using saved games, they use a delay timer to keep you from playing again for a minute – every table and slot machine is suddenly receiving maintenance.
I helped NCR re-take the prison from the Powder Gangers, but then somehow the Powder Gang is back in charge. I don’t know if this is a bug or if something else has happened since. But nobody’s talking about it, and Mr. New Vegas says the attempt failed. The hell, I say – I finished off Eddie myself, and the quest went gray.
As for graphics issues, I have occasional white spots flash on the screen. Otherwise, NPCs have only caused a problem so far when first entering New Vegas, and the only major slowdown I’ve had has been in Vault 11. So, overall, better performance than Fallout 3.
A couple of possible useful mods I’ve been looking at today (haven’t tried any of them out yet):
Here is a mod so that you can wear Brotherhood Power Armor without having the NCR guys go after you (it doesn’t make any other changes that I can see).
Here is the Chinese Stealth Armor restored mod I mentioned earlier.
If you have the Pres suite at the Lucky 38 then here is a mod to add some cools stuff to it (work benches, Nuka machines, etc).
Here is some 1st Recon Ranger gear that might be cool.
Thus far I haven’t modded anything…I’m still hoping for the personal vault mod from the first game (hopefully located somewhere helpful). I might use the BHoS armor mod as it seems a bit ridiculous to have to lug about several sets of armor depending on where I’m going in the wasteland (though with followers I could stash a BHoS set on them and just put it on when I’m going into a vault or something).
-XT
I’ve gotten the radio mod to expand the playlist, but I haven’t assembled my custom playlist yet. I mean, hell, I’ve listened to Big Iron over and over again lots of times. But I was drunk then, and I can’t be drunk the whole time I’m playing this game. I think I can scrounge up 100 songs with a mix of mid-60’s vegas combined with Hollywood-style cowboys. Hell, despite the fact that they probably just didn’t want to license a lot of music for the game, there seems to be a suggested playlist just in the titles of quests:
Ain’t that a Kick in the Head (Already in the game)
Back in the Saddle Again
Volare
Bitter Springs Infimary Blues - St. James Infirmary Blues
Can you Find it in your Heart?
Climb Ev’ry Mountain
I Don’t Hurt Anymore
I Put a Spell on You
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
No, Not Much
Return to Sender
That Lucky Old Sun
There Stands the Grass - There Stands the Glass
We Will All Go Together
Wheel of Fortune
Tend to Your Business (Pretty sure this is a Willie Dixon song)
I Could Make You Care - Sinatra
Eyesight to the Blind
Cold, Cold Heart
Ant Misbehavin’ - Ain’t Misbehaving
G.I. Blues
Someone to Watch Over Me
Aba Daba Honeymoon
Don’t Make a Beggar of Me
Oh my Papa
For Auld Lang Syne
Heartache by the Number
One for My Baby
Guess Who I Saw Today
ED-E My Love - Eddie My Love
Nothin’ But a Hound Dog
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Anywhere I Wander
Bye Bye Love
Come Fly With Me
Cry Me A River
Hard Luck Blues
How Little We Know - Sinatra
I Fought the Law
Left My Heart - Left My Heart in San Francisco
My Kind of Town
The Moon Comes Over the Tower - When the Moon Comes over the Mountain
You Can Depend on Me
And presumably others I’m not recognizing or able to find in a quick search.
Radio Active or Radio New Vegas? If the former, I’ve found that it’s not particularly reliable. Haven’t tried the latter yet.
For singing cowboys, how about Gene Autry and Roy Rogers?
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The Lucky 38 suite is the only one customizable as-is (though the interface is buggy on the PC) Stupidly, you can’t get a reloading bench or campfire-equivalent there though.
Depends on the follower - Boone won’t carry BoS armor. He drops it instantly (and usually clips it through the ground at that.) The scribe probably could carry a set though. IIRC, ED-E will carry helmets, but not faction armor.
Oh, and be careful what weapons you give the followers…even set to ranged-combat, if Boone has a combat knife in his possesion, he’ll melee Deathclaws rather than shoot them with his overpowered sniper rifle.
Radio Active appears to be the same one I used in Fallout 3, which I never had trouble with except at some point I needed an update so it would fix a bug with Broken Steel messages playing before Broken Steel actually started.
See if you can find one by Roy Rogers called Cleanin’ my Rifle (and Dreamin’ of You). That’s one of my favorites, and can fit both a cowboy theme, WWII or even a compilation of songs about masturbation.
At least for me, Radio Active stops and starts seemingly at random. Never had that problem with the GNR extender; I assume the GNR extender and the RNV extender are the same.
If you have the jury rigging perk, you don’t need to worry about weapon repair kits. It can be repaired with a surprising number of weapons.
That rifle is worth it. A sneak headshot takes out a deathclaw.
Finished already, at 32 hours played and level 21 (and a ton of half-done quests). I found the last real fight (in the way I did it, there’s like 4 different ways to end it AFAIK) to be a bit annoying with enemies running at me instead of letting me control the pace of the fight - made my sniper rifle mostly a liability instead of an asset. Not to mention just spamming stimpacks seemed cheap. Oh well.
I actually could’ve used a bit more interesting combat, most of the fights are completely trivial like meeting a single bark scorpion when you are walking through the wasteland or killing a giant rat in a vault. FO3 had good fights against the Enclave but with having a perma-Stealthboy in the form of Chinese Stealth Armor the combat was too easy. Now that combat felt right, there wasn’t an opportunity to really infiltrate some enemy fortress and blow 'em all up. Maybe I missed those sort of questlines, I don’t know.
I did like the game overall, and I might even go for a second playthrough. Had to reload twice due to quest scripting bugs but other than that didn’t have much trouble with any bugs - one CTD that cost me a few minutes of playtime and that’s it.
I had just the opposite experience (and I haven’t finished the game yet…not even close, and don’t expect to finish before I’m 30th)…I’ve found FONV to be MUCH harder than the first game. by the time I was 20th in FO3 I was practically a god. I had the best power armor in the game, could generally one shot just about every mob out there, and could even take on 3-4 deathclaws at a time (with my trusty rusty dart gun and some room to move in).
In this game I’m level 21 and I’ve got crappy mercenary armor, and the best gun I have is a level action .357 rifle and my laser tommy gun…and despite having 100 to guns and 100 to energy I am not close to the killing machine I was in the 3rd game.
Also, I’m having a blast…definitely the best game of the year for me, maybe the best game I’ve had since FO3 (and that’s saying a lot for me, since I’m a huge Total War fan).
-XT
Maybe I was a bit unclear in my post - while combat in FONV is potentially harder, I didn’t meet as many huge, hard fights as I did in FO3. In FO3 those fights were trivialized by my Chinese Stealth Armor and Grim Reaper’s Sprint, both of which got nerfed in FONV. So if there’d been fights like I had in Broken Steel DLC for example, they would have been really hard. Which would’ve been fun.
Hope that’s a bit clearer. Great game, anyways. Going to see if being a bad guy works out on a second playthrough…