The same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice, man, practice.
The latest patch supposedly increase the radius and effectiveness of dynamite. I haven’t tried using dynamite yet though.
So how did you do that? Don’t you end up alerting the target the moment you throw, thus making the long fuse kind of useless?
Oh, you don’t throw it. You pickpocket it into their inventory. It’s funnier with long fuse dynamite because then they alert their friends, who almost always run into the blast radius.
Ha ha, ok I never tried that.
jeffd
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Am I the only one who read “EVEN MORE invisible walls” into “Navigate the highs and lows of the…” Some of them in FNV are absolutely egregious.
Featuring the bear you saw in Fallout 3, and reskinned Geckos and raiders.
This has probably been discussed before, but I’d like to ask about exploring the New Vegas map. I know about the donut shape and I’m going counterclockwise like normal. I just finished the Novac area. So far it feels like there’s a lot to do on the beaten path. There are plenty of side quests that take me to the big locations.
Am I correct in assuming that I’ll see plenty of the game if I follow the natural progression of the map and move laterally every now and then? I know exploring where my whims take me is half the fun, but I plan on doing two playthroughs so I want to save some things.
I ask because Fallout 3 was the tale of two extremes. My first game was mostly the main quest, which was short and weak. My second game was everything else, which had way too many dungeons. I want to know if the way I’m playing New Vegas will help me split things in half a little better.
I’d say that’s a pretty good plan. I mostly followed the main quest but I took my time and did plenty of straying to check out various location triangles that popped up on the compass. I’m just about done (going to check a few more locations before pushing toward the endgame) and there are still some unexplored corners of the map and some locations that I uncovered but didn’t really dig into.
If you want to save some exploration for later, just don’t go too crazy with the sidetracks.
I followed the main quest in the first hours, and when i was close of going to the capital, i went sideways to do more exploring, doing all the sidequests of the NCR camps, doing some companion quests, i explored a Vault… then i went to Las Vegas, followed a bit more the main quest, and then stopeed again to do all the sidequest stuff of the game. Dozens of hours later, i followed and finished the main quest.
The other idea I had was to complete the southern half of the map, then zip through the main quest pretty quickly around New Vegas. In my next playthrough I could go clockwise and take more time to explore up there. But I think I’d rather to do most of the main quest over again as an evil character with different faction alignment. Does that make a reasonable difference in the dialogue and reactions, or is it too minor to bother with?
There’s plenty to do on the main path, and the number of quests available explodes once you get to New Vegas. Once you’ve made it that far, you can pretty much go in any direction that makes sense to you.
Dialog / reactions don’t vary much from good to evil. A couple of the companions won’t have anything to do with you if you’re evil, but that’s it. The biggest difference is factions, since the there are essentially 4 choices of what to do once you get to Vegas, and the respective quests are mutually exclusive past a certain point.
As for the faction choice at the start, you can do both Powder Gangers and Goodsprings, pretty much. Side with Goodsprings, but make an effort not to kill any of the Power Gangers yourself, and don’t kill any of the roaming ones. The prison will be neutral toward you, and you’ll be able to do all their quests. Wearing powder ganger clothes will keep the roaming ones from attacking you, though you don’t want to do that around any of the towns.
When I played through most of the game the first time, I did not wear any faction anything because of all of the bugs or potential problems I heard about it.
Should I keep that theory up as I start again? Anyone know if that sort of thing is still a problem?
Sarkus
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I never bothered with it, though I did have neutrality with the Powder Gangers for quite awhile. One thing that leads to a lot of confusion is that the various Powder Ganger groups are not a single faction, so you can kill one group and the next won’t necessarily treat you as a pariah. If you go shooting up their base they will, though.
Personally I found that wearing faction neutral gear was the easiest way to deal with things because whatever bugs there are aside, who wants to keep track of all that?
Those DLC screens are great. Really looking forward to second playthrough with all DLCs.
Sarkus
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Trailer here. We are finally getting the .45 Automatic and tommy gun as well, plus some new energy weapon. And rain. ;-)
Sarkus
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I was surprised to see that New Vegas was the 20th most played game on XBL the other week, according to a piece on No High Scores. The list is primarily shooters with a few action titles thrown in, but FNV was the only RPG. The newer DA2 was not on the list.
I’m pretty excited about the new DLC this week.
In computer is doing it pretty ok also, is number 17 on the “most played” list in Steam.
