decided to purchase game, already spent way too much time playing it today
am playing hardcore, am gonna try to do as little fast travel as possible to make things more challenging
loved the original fallout 3 already loving vegas
i hacked into his computer and turned him into boyd, she rewards you with my favorite weapon This Machine
So I wanted to go to the Fort and just randomly slaughter the Legion there and at the legate camp, but I can’t figure out how to get over to the other side of the damn, I swam up the entire Colorado river only to be blocked at the Dam, you can’t get around, the door is inaccessable on the dam to get to the other side, there’s supposed to be a boat that can take you at Cottonwood Cove, but I killed everything there and I didn’t see any boat…
I am proudly anti slavery and just want to kill all the damn slavers… any help?
pretty sure you can’t get across without the boat, sad to say
Its more like a raft, just go to that cottonwood cove then on the docks in the water just look around until you get the “Use Raft” option, its a little bit outside the house floating on the water
About time, stop being so weak.
I read you also get it if you help him, so I guess letting him live works in my favor.
Just want to say, despite all the stupid ass bugs, this game is good. Real good. Only doing one play through but I got about 60 hours in in the last week thanks to being snowed in.
Did my first playthrough as a ‘good’ character and supported the NCR. Went back to a mid-way save and did the Yes Man ending as well (awesome ending). Did both on Hardcore and Hard setting, which was cool.
Now I’m doing my second full playthrough as an evil character, and I’ll be doing the Legion ending. Will probably find a save for the Mr. House ending eventually, but it seemed like the least appealing.
Not doing hardcore this time since I’ve done that once already, and I’m doing all melee/unarmed now which is a lot of fun.
This game is pretty great. Defintely a good sequel to Fallout 1/2.
Fallout 3 was ass compared to this, and I hope they keep Obsidian on to do the West Coast Fallouts from now on.
I would consider New Vegas to be Canon as far as storyline, not the shit they messed up and changed around in F3.
so in addition to doing as little fast travel in hardcore (cause whats the challenge of being able to teleport back home if youre about to die of dehydration or low HP or have no ammo left?), i’m also trying to do a role playing type character where i only put skill points into skills that i use. so if i didn’t use lockpicking at all in one level, i don’t get to advance it. this makes skill advancement slow as shit, which is great!
i did tons of min / maxing in original fallout 3, especially for my unarmed character, which in combination with the fast travel made it way too easy. i started experimenting with other weak role playing builds for fun, but got sidetracked. i’m liking the hardcore mode though, but wish it did not have fast travel (or at least implement it like original fallout where there’s a % chance for a random encounter).
i read about the bugs and wanted to wait a bit for the patches to sort things out. F- inexcusable on Beth’s part. They released a beta, not a finished product. I am disgusted of companies who do shit like this. The gameplay is good, so I can wait a bit and forgive them.
so in addition to doing as little fast travel in hardcore (cause whats the challenge of being able to teleport back home if youre about to die of dehydration or low HP or have no ammo left?), i’m also trying to do a role playing type character where i only put skill points into skills that i use. so if i didn’t use lockpicking at all in one level, i don’t get to advance it. this makes skill advancement slow as shit, which is great!
i did tons of min / maxing in original fallout 3, especially for my unarmed character, which in combination with the fast travel made it way too easy. i started experimenting with other weak role playing builds for fun, but got sidetracked. i’m liking the hardcore mode though, but wish it did not have fast travel (or at least implement it like original fallout where there’s a % chance for a random encounter).
i read about the bugs and wanted to wait a bit for the patches to sort things out. F- inexcusable on Beth’s part. They released a beta, not a finished product. I am disgusted of companies who do shit like this. The gameplay is good, so I can wait a bit and forgive them.
Which version are you playing? I find that even with hardcore on your meters increase too slowly. I believe there’s a mod that changes the rate of meter increase or the values of food/drinks. I could go on for a good couple of hours (gameplay time) without even having to sleep. I remember they talked about how your characters needed to follow a sleep cycle but I’ve only had to sleep a couple dozen times and only for 1-2 hours and I’m pretty sure at least 1 month has passed in my playthrough.
i’m just playing the vanilla version, started yesterday, only level 4, am currently trying to take down the correctional facility near primm. usually i play first game through on vanilla before i install any mods, but am definitely looking forward to see what kind of hardcore ones people come up with.
I found the clothes I’ll be wearing when I’m not fighting:
Prostitute outfit
Chained prostitute outfit
Exposed prostitute outfit
LOL. Took an hour to reverse pickpocket all 3 without getting caught. Now I have 3 chicks struttin their shit around in Powder ganger jumpers.
Alright starting my hardcore mode playthrough even though I havent’ finished the game yet since regular mode is too damn easy.
Does this sound like a good plan?
1.) Tap Endurance or Intelligence to 9, charisma = 1. Tap unarmed, guns, sneak and take the weak limb perk for bonus agility
2.) buy shovel + dig all nearby graves (one of them has incinerator IIRC) also pickup the snowglobe
3.) Instead of taking the long way, or sneaking through the quarry deathclaws, take the west side and sneak around rad scoprions.
4.) I’ll be faced with Cazadores instead, hopefully there is enough fuel in the incinerator to kill them and make it through the passage.
5.) Town after that is inhabited with some gang members, one of the leaders has the Love and Hate punchy thingie. So I have to sneak and lure her out so the fight is easier (since she is unarmed she will have to chase me). With at least 35 unarmed + love/hate I should be able to take most people out with a punch, bonus agility will grant me 3 punches in one VATS mode. I don’t think my sneak is high enough to sneak on anyone but it helps.
6.) further north will be that crazy dog woman, this fight should be easy with the metal/combat armor I got from the previous jackal gang members
7.) Walk/sneak to mccarran then Vegas and redeem those snow globes for 2K each (should have 3 by now, 4 if I have 50 lockpick, but I dont want to dump pts into that yet)
8.) Buy Anti-Materiel Rifle/or intelligence implant
9.) Party Time.
Question:
1.) Are the prices for the guns the same in normal mode and in hardcore mode? because i’m fucked if it isn’t.
2.) How many days does it take for the merchant inventory to rotate? Just in case the AMR isn’t available on my first roll.
My next character was going to be “Robot Mugabe”, a cannibal and a robotics expert, but then I realized that it was Idi Amin who was allegedly a cannibal not Mugabe. lol.
I think the toughest part is getting through those cazadores, even at over level 10 that pass was a bitch, but that was the same path I took to vegas when I went, and indeed getting the items off that gang in town was a huge boon
That’s a pretty cool run, I’m interested to hear if you do it. The cazadores are definitely the hardest part of that.
I completely agree. About a week before Fallout New Vegas came out I started playing right through FO3. Fallout NV is such an improvement on FO3 in so many little ways. I was kind of hoping there was more to the Super Mutant village in the mountains because of the nostalgia. How old is that guy now?
He’s pretty old. If I remember right he has been around since before F2 and possibly as far back as F1.
If you check the timeline on the fallout wiki I think his background is on there.
As for the hardcore build mentioned above you hardest part is def the cazedors. In hardcore mode the flamer ammo can weigh you down
pretty quick, especially if you don’t start with some strength.
Yeah I got past the Cazadores, I criticalled one luckily. I was down to like 4 bars of health and I was out of food though when I had to face the jackal gang guys. lol. Stupid rad scorpions attacked me before getting to the cazadores. Good thing it wasn’t one of the giant ones but just the regular green ones.
TIP: Once you kill the Cazadores, walk to the nearest marker and do not fast travel from that location to eat/rest/sleep then fast travel again (I think it was makeshift Khan encampment or something). When you come back later it will result in more/respawned cazadores and you are out of incinerator ammo. lol. Travel to the jackal gang place, kill them then fast travel from there back to goodsprings to replenish yourself with the cash you will make from looting their corpses.
I got to Gun Runners and there are no sniper rifles or anti-materiel rifles for sale though! ARGHH I had to settle for a hunter’s rifle + scope mod = $1000+ total and just bought intelligence implant.
Unarmed + love and hate = lifesaver in hardcore. I didn’t realize there would be FOOD and SLEEP to worry about though. lol I thought it was just water. Also, radaway/stimpaks doesn’t seem to work very well with low medicine. lol.
Would tapping survival decrease the need for food/sleep/water?
I thought in FO2 he talks as if he was in FO1, but apparently he’s not:
Marcus - The Vault, the Fallout wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and more
I was confused because I forgot he didn’t talk to the hero in FO1 before founding broken hills, but a Brotherhood of Steel paladin named Jacob.
I see some of you talking about That Gun and I was wanting to get it and whatever. Turns out thats the gun Ive been using the most. =( Yeah, im a dope. Ive also been rolling with some dog tag like knuckles. They do good damage, cripple and are pretty fast. Unarmed is pretty powerful. I havent put many points into it but I still do big damage with those knuckles and the bladed gauntlet.
It should also make it so food and water give you more, health and quenched thirst. In addition to that, you can make items at campfires, like boatfly sliders and gecko steaks.
Also, I just want to say that after you finish your “run”, your game is going to get too damn easy again. You know what to do, if you want challenge.
And btw, hardcore doesn’t really do anything directly to the game’s difficulty, it does good for the game’s challenge directly, and difficulty indirectly as a result. So in a way, I don’t think hardcore mode holds much bearing on combat.