4721

OWB is the best but they all have story hooks. Depends on how much you care about the world lore and such. I didn’t regret buying any of them, and that was at full price. For $2.50/each you can’t go wrong, really.

4722

I’ve read that rebalance REQUIRES all DLCs, so if you only buy the base game you can’t install it.

4723

Bleh, is the re balance worth another $4 (Gunrunners, Couriers, Lonesome Road)? Because I have the rest of it.

4724

Details! I tried sneaking there and died, and didn’t see any way around dying. Did you go north? That’s the most direct route, but I’d think the deathclaws would kill you. Sneaking along the southern route didn’t work for me, there was an ambush I couldn’t avoid.

I’m surprised. There really aren’t any dependencies that I can think of. The quests along the road to Vegas if you do it the “normal” way are mostly pointers saying “go here next.” You miss a semi-important item if you don’t stop by Boulder City, but that shouldn’t break any quests.

4725

Does “all” include the item pack DLCs? I can see requiring the 4 game DLCs, but requiring the item packs as well for a mod seems a bit unnecessary.

4726

Sawyer specifically calls them all out. I figure he modified the expansion weapons, too.

4727

I’d have to load it up, but if memory serves I made the straightest b-line imaginable (except near the end I had to travel along a circular outer wall, all the way around to the back, that blocked off the whole city). This was on my 360 (I’ve since repurchased the game for my PC, like two hours ago). If I had a way to send the 360 save file I’d send it to you to peruse (If I didn’t delete it already, I had to made room about six months ago because I download alot of games and demos), if just so you could laugh at my utter stupidity.

I’m surprised. There really aren’t any dependencies that I can think of. The quests along the road to Vegas if you do it the “normal” way are mostly pointers saying “go here next.” You miss a semi-important item if you don’t stop by Boulder City, but that shouldn’t break any quests.

Most of my annoyances spring from the context of the conversations, acting as though I’d just spent an extraordinarily long amount of time to find him etc. The endless loop was frustrating, but I was already pissed off past the point of caring by that point. Much of my anger stems from feeling like I just completely blew the natural progression of the game, and now any wonderment and discovery I might have made about the game world (these are always more important to me than gam mechanics), and it’s puppeteers/whatever, was blown out of the water for subsequent playthroughs. Still makes me mad, but there’s not much I can do, short of staring into a flashing red pen light.

4728

Well, at least its only $1.50. Glad I found out today so I could get those two item packs while they are on sale.

4729

Even in my ‘normal’ playthrough I found the dialog around Mr House not really context-appropriate and a bit Huh? What? Who?

4730

As to my speed run (spoilers hidden, but I’m going by memory so probably not that many specifics):

F:NV Speed Run -

[spoiler]So first of all, I went with a female character, and chose the Black Widow perk early. That’s important when you get to New Vegas.

It’s fairly easy to get to New Vegas, though it is somewhat luck dependent. I avoided almost all combat by heading down towards Primm and then up through Novac, keeping my eyes on the horizon to try to avoid enemies. It’s fairly easy to outrun anyone who isn’t carrying a firearm, and they tend to not follow you all that far anyway.

Once you get to New Vegas, you can either gamble at one of the casinos outside the actual city (high luck helps with this). Or you can loot dead bodies you might come across. I went with gambling, since I avoided combat.

Next, when you find Benny, talk him into bed - that’s where Black Widow comes into play, you can kill him and take the chip. That avoids going out to meet Caesar. Next, find the Yes Man and get his quest to go meet everyone. You can tell him to disregard all the clans once you’ve met them once, and the only really tricky one is the Khans way out west. Hard to avoid combat out there.

What else - you’ll have to go get rid of the Brotherhood I think, I remember backtracking down to Novac to do that but I’m afraid I forget the details. Once all the factions are handled, you can go back to Mr. House and hack into his chamber and unplug him. When you give Yes Man the chip he takes over the network and I think you can initiate the endgame on the dam. And you can run past most enemies and talk your way through to the end - having Yes Man kill the leaders of the Caesars and the Republic.

That’s probably too vague to be of much help, it’s a basic outline. It’s funny, but once I sorted out my plan I saw later that a lot of other people independently arrived at the speed run so I can’t even take any credit for it.[/spoiler]

4731

I wonder if it’s more interesting that mod, or something like this: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34759

4732

Getting to NV

Yeah, but there’s an ambush in the pass east of Nipton and south of Novac. They’re in the hills above the pass both north and south, and there’s a couple in the pass itself. I’ve tried sneaking past and running past at level 2, and they killed me pretty quickly. I just don’t see how you can get by them without a Stealth Boy or decent combat skills.

4733

Quick question. FNV is super cheap on Steam for the next 8 hours, so I’m thinking of picking it up (along with all DLC). I’ve heard that it’s more difficult to use mods with Steam games. What’s the story?

Thanks! Happy new Year!

4734

I can’t comment on your question, but, to ensure you don’t miss the sale, the prices are valid for the next 3.5 hours (as of your posting), not 8. :-)

4735

Grrr. Started playing this last night because of the Steam sale but my ThinkPad keeps bluescreening every 15-20 minutes of play. The drivers are the standard NVidia mobility workstation (NVS 3100m) that NVidia doesn’t support and which OEMs never update.

I guess that’s for the nerd rage thread…

4736

It couldn’t be easier, actually. DLC brought from Steam goes directly into your DATA directory, you just have to enable it from the launcher which you use to start the game (DATA FILES menu).

For mods, you just unpack the downloaded file(s) and put it manually in Drive:\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\Data, then enable them in the same DATA FILES menu in the launcher and you’re good to go.

4737

Boughten.

4738

I caved and bought all the DLCs for $11ish. First time I bought DLC.

4739

I caved in and bought Dead Money (the last DLC I was missing), pretty much just for the uber shotgun perk (And Stay Back), which together with Shotgun Surgeon is having me laugh at Deathclaws at level 10. It’s off to Old World Blues as soon as I get to level 14 (Jurry Rigging).

4740

I’m considering playing FNV again when I finish Morrowind, so what the hey: convince me about what’s fun with this only-what-you-carry, low carry weight, no stockpiling, living off the land and nearly starving to death playstyle.

How do you actually do it?

Inventory
Can you stockpile stuff to sell and then make multiple runs to the store?
How do you use the stores?
Do you dig through every single container you see?

Skills
If you can’t stockpile stuff, aren’t the repair and survivalist skills useless?
Do you steal anything, and if so, how?

Tactical
What sort of weapon loadout do you carry, given the ammo and weapon weights involved? Do you ever reload your save short of dying?