4401

The Winterized Power Armor from FO3 is better purely because it never degrades :)

4402

That’s why I’m also wearing the space helmet. :) Only 4 DT but weightless and no degrading.

4403

The last DLC, Lonesome Road, has been officially delayed and won’t be out this month. It’s an interesting turn of events as we can probably safely assume that Bethesda would rather wrap this up before it gets too close to Rage release time. They do say that the delay is not for technical reasons, though. There has been some speculation that its so they can release a FNV complete pack in September at the same time.

That makes the DLC release record for FNV pretty spotty.

4404

Bummer. I’ve been holding off completing the main game until I go through the dlc, so I guess I wait a little longer.

4405

To follow up on my game stuttering, the NVSE version of the 4GB fix works well for me. It’s much more playable than before.

Can anyone tell me (without any details or spoilers) the quickiest/easiest main quest line to follow? It looks like I’ll want to do the Yes Man stuff on my second playthrough so I can talk to all the factions. Right now I just want to explore and do as few quests on the north side of the map as possible.

4406

I’ve done NCR and Yes Man. NCR was significantly harder. From what I’ve read, House is probably the easiest, but I haven’t completed House yet, and I will never do Legion.

4407

I don’t know if it’s quickest but you can always talk to Mr. House…

4408

Finished Dead Money tonight. A nice piece of DLC, really enjoyed it.

Minor spoils -

Loved that they filled the vault with more gold bars then anyone could carry. Once I saw them greed took hold and I took them ALL. Massively over encumbered. I re-programed the turrets. Took care of the old man while he was distracted and made for the exit. Only it wasn’t that simple. It never is. My collar started beeping. My way to the exit cut off. Slowly, oh so slowly, I shuffled the long way around to the exit. Cursing, but confident that I had time enough. My collar’s beeping intensified. I realized I might not make it. In a panic I ditched all my equipment that had weight and last of all…a good portion of the gold. I was still going to be filthy rich though. Making good time now. So close to the exit. So close to riches and the buying all things! BOOM!!!

I should have let go.

4409

DEAD MONEY DLC SPOILER

Aye, I loved the gold bars part - especially since a lot of what the story is about is greed, its a very nice touch. I absolutely don’t think its possibly to get out while having to much weight, which is awesome

4410

Continuing with DEAD MONEY DLC SPOILER

I must be one of the few that didn’t even attempt to take a single gold bar from the vault. Most of that is because I was playing the type of character that didn’t care about the money, but I also felt there had to be some catch to it (other than the weight). Perhaps Christine will be able to access it one day and make use of it.

4411

I took only a single gold bar as a souvenir.

4412

I took as many as I could handle without losing anything interesting, just out of the spirit of the thing, since I had more money than I could use anyway. Which turned out to be about 6, with judicious use of strength boosters like Buffout.

The aftermath of killing the old man sucked, though. I hate closely timed sequences.

4413

I preferred to deal with the old man in a different, more appropriate, and perhaps crueler way.

4414

You can grab all the gold bars if you are so inclined: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8vLOxm3MzQ&feature=player_embedded#at=14.

EDIT And another way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TjY6uzHFMM&feature=player_embedded#at=250. That first method doesn’t require anything but it’s tricky.

4415

Both of those videos rely on bugs in the force fields.

4416

Just ask yourself the question ‘What would Danny Ocean do?’ and the path becomes clear

4417

I did find one off-hand comment in the first video very interesting: he claims he started Dead Money at level 1 on Very Hard. Given how rough I found it at level 28, that’s hard for me to imagine.

4418

I got all of the DLC last weekend.

Dead Money was really good. Yeah it was cramped, but it was very atmospheric with a pretty cool story behind it.

Honest Hearts was… meh. The two main characters (Daniel & Joshua) never really grabbed me, and the environment just felt kind of generic. It was graphically different from the Mojave, but in terms of stuff to do there wasn’t much. Yay, another empty campsite!

So far I’m liking Old World Blues OK. The super-science stuff is always amusing to me, they did a great job of making it seem kind of creepy. I’m not sure where the plot is going yet, mostly I’m exploring and trying to find the various Sink modules.

4419

Particularly the Y-18 Trauma Harnesses. Once you read about exactly what they are (detailed in several computer terminal entries), they’re really disturbing when you zoom in on them in VATS.

4420

I enjoyed Honest Hearts more than Dead Money, having just completed it. It’s the setting that did it for me, as I found it far more interesting than the Mojave, and it was especially fun since I relied on my Sniper Rifle for the majority of it. All that mountainous terrain gave me lots of good line-of-sight. Last of the DLC, Old World Blues, still to come after a bit more playing in the Mojave.

Follower comments drove me absolutely nuts in Honest Hearts, though. I wanted to throttle them repeatedly when they’d start chattering about the same thing I heard a badzillion times before at the most inappropriate times. Yeah, let’s chat while we’re sneaking through enemy territory. Oh, don’t worry, they won’t hear you from a few meters away! Gah. There has to be a mod that sews the followers mouths shut unless you deliberately talk to them.