Fallout: New Vegas

Hey captain Rave, where did you get the mod from? id like to take a look at that, im at level 24, and worried ill be done soon, as ive got loads left to do.

Iam a bit confused as to what to do next to be honest. Iam playing as a good guy, and siding with the NCR for the main quest. Now ive killed benny, got the chip, and ive got the boomers on my side and iam about to tell the NCR, so i assume this will make the Legion hate me?

Should i go to the Fort now and kill everyone there, and cottonwood cove, or can i do that after or during the main quest?

Why do you need to raise endurance for the implants? ive not got any yet, suppose i better get some.

What do you guys is the best armour in the game? ive currently got T-51b, and i recon it's pretty good, not found much else.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Also, put a lot of points into endurance so that you can buy all of the implants later on. I have downloaded a mod to raise the cap as I hate the level 30 cap in vanilla.
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Honestly this would be a waste of points unless you need lots of health or you use survival and/or unarmed which it provides bonuses for. Points are better spent on SPECIAL attributes you actually use. Only a few of the implants are actually worth the caps IMHO.
 
Speed said:
Honestly this would be a waste of points unless you need lots of health or you use survival and/or unarmed which it provides bonuses for. Points are better spent on SPECIAL attributes you actually use. Only a few of the implants are actually worth the caps IMHO.
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How do you raise the special though. ive hardly had a change to raise any of them, other than with armor.

Thanks rave!
 
Smokey26 said:
How do you raise the special though. ive hardly had a change to raise any of them, other than with armor.

Thanks rave!
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Intense Training is a perk that allows you to put a single point on any one of the SPECIAL attributes, can be taken up to 10 times. So when you start out never put any of them at 10, that way either use the perk or the implant to top them out later on.
 
I disagree that it's a waste because you can just buy an implant to raise whatever SPECIAL stat you would have spent it on instead. Results in the same value for the other stat and +1 toughness.

e.g. if you want to raise Strength then raise Toughness instead and buy a Strength implant. Giving you the +1 STR you would have got but also +1 TOU.

Obviously in order to do so you need to have found the clinic (assume there is nowhere else to get them?) and have some spare caps. Meaning that maybe the very beginning of the game is a bit trickier. But neither of those should be a big problem in the medium term because you can get to the clinic before even entering the strip and it is very close to the NCR army base that has a truckload of munitions for you to steal and sell.
 
Smokey26 said:
Hey captain Rave, where did you get the mod from? id like to take a look at that, im at level 24, and worried ill be done soon, as ive got loads left to do.

Iam a bit confused as to what to do next to be honest. Iam playing as a good guy, and siding with the NCR for the main quest. Now ive killed benny, got the chip, and ive got the boomers on my side and iam about to tell the NCR, so i assume this will make the Legion hate me?

Should i go to the Fort now and kill everyone there, and cottonwood cove, or can i do that after or during the main quest?

Why do you need to raise endurance for the implants? ive not got any yet, suppose i better get some.

What do you guys is the best armour in the game? ive currently got T-51b, and i recon it's pretty good, not found much else.
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*****Slight Spoiler******

You have to be very careful at this stage. I was trying to play as a good guy but last night I seem to have inadvertently gone over to the "dark side". Having given the chip to Mr House the Legion now hate me and his next mission was to go back and wipe out the BoS bunker, so now my karma and regard have plummetted. I'm just hoping there's a way back from this on to the NCR path. If not then I guess the multiple story possibilities make for excellent replay value.

Can't emphasise enough how much I'm enjoying this though, so refreshing to have a game with a dynamic and varied storyline unlike certain other third person shooters.
 
Speed said:
Honestly this would be a waste of points unless you need lots of health or you use survival and/or unarmed which it provides bonuses for. Points are better spent on SPECIAL attributes you actually use. Only a few of the implants are actually worth the caps IMHO.
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But at least it leaves you the option for them. Then you can also get a bonus 10 from the perks. This way you will end up maxing out all of the useful SPECIAL attributes anyway.

slylittlefox said:
I got the regeneration implant, but my health doesn't seem to regenerate? :confused:
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It does, just very very slowly. Considering the cost, you would expect something much better.
 
I'm finding it quite hard to come across the duct tape that I need to make weapon repair kits... I have enough other materials (scap electronics, scrap metal, wonderglue and wrenches) to make at least 20 kits, but so far I've only come across two rolls of duct tape!

I don't suppose there's a secret mega-stash somewhere in the wasteland that I've not come across yet, is there?
 
Vern1961 said:
*****Slight Spoiler******

You have to be very careful at this stage. I was trying to play as a good guy but last night I seem to have inadvertently gone over to the "dark side". Having given the chip to Mr House the Legion now hate me and his next mission was to go back and wipe out the BoS bunker, so now my karma and regard have plummetted. I'm just hoping there's a way back from this on to the NCR path. If not then I guess the multiple story possibilities make for excellent replay value.

Can't emphasise enough how much I'm enjoying this though, so refreshing to have a game with a dynamic and varied storyline unlike certain other third person shooters.
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Yeah i gathered that giving the chip to House isn't a good idea, iam siding with NCR first play, so iam gonna keep it i assume or whatever happens.

So can i turn on the legion and still get to the fort later, or should i nail it now?
 
Smokey26 said:
Yeah i gathered that giving the chip to House isn't a good idea, iam siding with NCR first play, so iam gonna keep it i assume or whatever happens.

So can i turn on the legion and still get to the fort later, or should i nail it now?
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It can actually be quite a headache keeping everyone you want on your side. It is usually possible though.
 
Not really tried many of the fallout games, they look OK. But after watching my friends trying to play it on his machine it still looked choppy and buggy. Has this game been patched or getting patched to sort some of the issues? It seemed to suffer with a lot of screen tear
 
Jim.Ow said:
Not really tried many of the fallout games, they look OK. But after watching my friends trying to play it on his machine it still looked choppy and buggy. Has this game been patched or getting patched to sort some of the issues? It seemed to suffer with a lot of screen tear
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I think the fundamental issue is that the game rendering is restricted to 64Hz... It causes all sorts of problems. Even with vsync off and getting 80fps+ it doesn't always seem "smooth", in the way that other games are at around 50fps. Also, the framerate will occasionally tank when indoors, down to ~40fps (which feels terrible in this game). I have a pair of GTX480s and the GPU usage rarely goes above around 50% on each GPU, so it's not really a question of insufficient power.
 
Duff-Man said:
I think the fundamental issue is that the game rendering is restricted to 64Hz... It causes all sorts of problems. Even with vsync off and getting 80fps+ it doesn't always seem "smooth", in the way that other games are at around 50fps. Also, the framerate will occasionally tank when indoors, down to ~40fps (which feels terrible in this game). I have a pair of GTX480s and the GPU usage rarely goes above around 50% on each GPU, so it's not really a question of insufficient power.
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Does seem strange it looked "playable" but not enjoyable due to the issues that he was having.

Might wait untill it sorts itself out or just miss out on it entirely.
 
Jim.Ow said:
Does seem strange it looked "playable" but not enjoyable due to the issues that he was having.

Might wait untill it sorts itself out or just miss out on it entirely.
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I'm not sure it will "sort itself out" entirely; it's a quirk of the engine that has been present right from the release of Oblivion.

That said, if you have a half-decent rig then it certainly won't get in the way of gameplay. It's not a fast-paced FPS that you need insanely smooth gameplay for, and any half-decent modern PC will give you 'good' performance - it's just that the game never seems as "smooth" as other games at the same framerate. I suspect your friend was playing on a fairly low-end PC.

I wouldn't let this put you off buying it - it's a cracking game just like fallout 3 was.
 
Smokey26 said:
So can i turn on the legion and still get to the fort later, or should i nail it now?
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I think you need to do that bit first otherwise if you hurt the Legion they turn on you bigtime, unless of course it just flags up as a "failed" quest.

I have a feeling whichever path you take is always going to lead to some failed missions, certainly after dealing with BoS I had about six failed messages appear one after another on the screen.
 
I'm thinking of cleaning out the Van Graff place, or turning Cass in to them - I think if I turn Cass into them, I get another quest from Gloria - if I don't, I think I fail the quest.
 
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Be careful with killing the Van Graffs, if you do that you lose the ability to resolve Cass's companion quest the "good" way, this means you can't take cass in if you are on the quest to bring her to the Van Graffs unless you want one side dead.

You have to chose to fail one quest or the other, there are 3 choices essentially, take Cass in and let them kill her, take cass in, resist their decision and kill them (no small task) this then means you have to finish Cass' quest by killing the Caravan woman, alternatively don't take Cass in and complete her companion quest the "good" way.

One thing I'm not sure of is whether or not you can complete Cass's quest the good way, i.e gathering evidence and THEN take her in to the Van Graffs, might try it on a future play though.
 
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