New Vegas

[Al B. Sure!]

The Fallout wiki says he was an Enclave soldier turned member of the Followers of the Apocalypse.

[onodera]

Oh, and doc:
1) make sure you patch your Fallout 2 with both killap's patch and his restoration project.
2) play at least once with IN<4. Bethesda angered a lot of fans by omitting this feature.

[Guynemer]

Already got the restoration patch.

Any particular companions I should have? Got Vic and Cassidy at the moment.

[onodera]

Already got the restoration patch.

Any particular companions I should have? Got Vic and Cassidy at the moment.

Cassidy's the best, Sulik from Klamath is also good. You can have IN/2 followers plus one extra if you take the perk. Vic and Lenny are sub-par. You'll also get Goris and K9 if you follow the plot.
By the way, have you noticed the family resemblance?

[Guynemer]

Indeed.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Loving the game so far. Even with Wacky Wateland on (I haven't met anything wacky yet, though), it's grim and dark enough to remind me of Fallout 1. What I don't like is how the game pushes me to follow the highways (and the plot, I guess) by sicking adult radscorpions on me every time I wander off into the hills. Mother****ing carapaced *******s. My service rifle can't hurt them hard enough, and shotguns, even with the shotgun surgeon perk, are as affective as throwing sand at them. I'm so not going to waste my AP rounds on them.

Ditto for me on the Radscorpions.

Tried the quest where you find the bot back to his home and he wanders through, and I sh*t you not, Scorpion Gulch.

Not Radscorpions, but Giant Radscorpions. And tons of those Bark scorpions.

I think I killed about 5 of the giants and I think there was two left in the "Gulch." But I fell off a cliff while running away again, and I was almost out of ammo on everything as those are really hard to kill. Plus I forgot to save, so I'm not doing that again for a while, at least not until I get some better stats.

[Guynemer]

Spiked knuckles/Unarmed > 60 = lots of dead scorpions

[N35t0r]

I've reached Novac(ancies ), and got the sniper guy with me between the weekend and last night, previous detour to the SW...

Spoiler:

where an entire town has been irradiated by the legion. I peeked in, but ran away as soon as I spotted the radscorpions.

I also had some fun in a raided farmstead

Man those legion guys are batshit insane. I'm making a mint looting their failed encounters with the NCR and, on another ocasion, 5 of them dead to two nightclaws (or something like that), whick luckily a friendly caravan helped me finish off, and then eagerly bought the legionnaires' armour off me and the [s]pila[/s] throwing spears. At 25 base value and 0.5 weight, they're pretty good loot. I'll probably be making a melee guy for my next playthrough.

[onodera]

Spoiler:

Been there. Wasted a lot of my anti-rad chems. If you go even further south, past the ranch, you're in for a lot of fun. The worst thing about Camp Searchlight is that green tint that refuses to go away.

It is just me, or do any of you have this problem with extra-strong tints sticking around, like sepia around NCR camps or green around Searchlight?

[Felch]

The tints are absolutely insane sometimes.

PC Gamer list of decent mods

#16 looks like it might get rid of the tinting.

[Guynemer]

Spoiler:

Been there. Wasted a lot of my anti-rad chems. If you go even further south, past the ranch, you're in for a lot of fun. The worst thing about Camp Searchlight is that green tint that refuses to go away.

It is just me, or do any of you have this problem with extra-strong tints sticking around, like sepia around NCR camps or green around Searchlight?

No, they don't stick around for me. I think it's a neat artistic choice, especially the sepia Forlorn Hope.

[onodera]

I guess it's time to install Fellout, then. I know you like sepia as an artistic feat, doc

[N35t0r]

I found a space suit!

[onodera]

I have finished the sarsaparilla quest. The reward was... educating.

[Guynemer]

Sasparilla quest? I must've missed that. Unless you mean the counterfeit cap one, I don't really remember anything about that quest.

[onodera]

Have you talked to the cowboy robot in that plant?

[Guynemer]

Must've missed him.

[onodera]

Whew, finally finished it for the first time. Sent both the Legion and the NCR packing, leaving myself the master of the Mojave. Damn, how I missed those ending slides in the Fallout 3... Talking with General Oliver, backed up by hundreds of upgraded Securitrons was really awesome. It's a rare moment of pleasure when you find yourself musing over which insult to pick.

[N35t0r]

Killing deathclaws from quite a long way away with an anti-materiel rifle and hand-loaded .50 shells

[N35t0r]

Have you talked to the cowboy robot in that plant?

How many caps do you need? I have ~25 IIRC

[Elok]

Cassidy's the best, Sulik from Klamath is also good. You can have IN/2 followers plus one extra if you take the perk. Vic and Lenny are sub-par. You'll also get Goris and K9 if you follow the plot.
By the way, have you noticed the family resemblance?

It's a bit late, but it's Charisma that determines party limit in FO2, not Intelligence. I suppose they just wanted to make Charisma not-crap. They didn't entirely succeed, IMO. I tried Goris, but between the annoying lag at the start/finish of every fight and his inability to use weapons or armor, I eventually just let him berserk himself to death like that Xarn guy in Navarro. Ended the game with Vic, Sulik, Cassidy and an empty slot I didn't bother to refill. Even when they all had Gauss rifles I still caused more damage per shot than all three combined.

[Guynemer]

Killing deathclaws from quite a long way away with an anti-materiel rifle and hand-loaded .50 shells

Killing deathclaws from quite a long way away is the only way to do it. They are about an order of magnitude tougher than the deathclaws in FO3. I don't think my super-strength unarmed ninja character would have a prayer, certainly not in hardcore mode.

The big nest of them near that rail station south of Vegas? First time around, with Boone, I climbed up the rocks and sniped at them from the distance with the special plasma rifle and Boone with his scoped hunting rifle. I had over 1000 ammo for the thing, and by the time we had killed every nearby claw, I was on my last clip. And that was with 100 in energy weapons.

[Felch]

The AMR is essential for deathclaw hunting.

[N35t0r]

That and jet.

The gauss rifle is also somewhat useful, as it minor sway allous you to more easily target their heads.

I'm going with Veronica now, as she can wear power armour (and the ballistic fist is deadly). I have somehow managed to lose ED-E somewhere. I still have his perk, so he isn't dead, but I can't remember where I told him to wait.

[onodera]

It's a bit late, but it's Charisma that determines party limit in FO2, not Intelligence.

Yeah, that was a brain fart.

[Al B. Sure!]

I finally got this game. A little disappointed that you need to play 4 times to experience the full game. That's corny.

[Guynemer]

You don't, really. The Legion path closes off a lot of other content, but you can do through almost the entirety of the House/Yes Man and NCR paths without getting shut off.

There are some truly amazing and essential mods over at newvegasnexus.com. Project Nevada, New Vegas Error Corrections, several radio mods, Fellout just to name a few. JE Sawyer, one of the creators, also released his own mod a few months ago which really ramps up the challenge.

I keep coming back to this game again and again; trying to play Fallout 3 after playing NV is almost impossible.

[Felch]

I finally got this game. A little disappointed that you need to play 4 times to experience the full game. That's corny.

You're upset that a sandbox game has choices and replay value?

I second Guy on the mods.

[Guynemer]

Pro tip: buff up your lockpick early on, as a very cool and very useful unique weapon can be found in what is probably the first town you will encounter after leaving Goodsprings.

Two more absolute must-have mods: The Weapon Mod Menu and WMX.

[Guynemer]

Poly hiccup; nothing to see here, please move along.