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[Thexor]

Anyway I'm curious.  Are there any good and/or essential mods for this?  So far the most impressive ones I've seen have been female body mods.

I'm actually curious about modding - F:NV seems to use the exact same engine as FO3 with only minor modification. Obviously any mod that interacts with the world can't be loaded without some changes... but I'm wondering if there were any real changes needed to port, say, body mods.


And yeah, F:NV is a surprising amount of fun. I like most of the new features - relying on faction reputation instead of some 'Karma' stat that everybody in the world magically knows, or having a metric ton of perks (and letting you pick half as many). Oh, and companions being immortal on Casual mode - every time I play FO3, job #1 is making active companions essential before Dogmeat rushes the guy with the missile launcher. 

[Toady Two]

I'm really enjoying the storyline so far. I think I'm near the endgame and I'm having a hard time deciding which major faction I want to support. I've already joined the

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and to help them out I think I go on and support Mr. House, at least he is isn't as likely to take over the whole wasteland killing my faction in the process.

[Rakonas]

I'm really enjoying the storyline so far. I think I'm near the endgame and I'm having a hard time deciding which major faction I want to support. I've already joined the

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Brotherhood of Steel

and to help them out I think I go on and support Mr. House, at least he is isn't as likely to take over the whole wasteland killing my faction in the process.

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You're in for some painful news at some point. Unfortunately, there's no real good outcome for the BoS with any side, though.

[Toady Two]

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He now wants me to kill them >.< It felt kind of dumb having House give me that assignment while I was dressed in Brotherhood Paladin Armor.

Guess it's time to put Yes - Man to good use.

[Sergius]

I'm really enjoying the storyline so far. I think I'm near the endgame and I'm having a hard time deciding which major faction I want to support. I've already joined the

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Brotherhood of Steel

and to help them out I think I go on and support Mr. House, at least he is isn't as likely to take over the whole wasteland killing my faction in the process.

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You're in for some painful news at some point. Unfortunately, there's no real good outcome for the BoS with any side, though.

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Actually, completing the Brotherhood quests for the Elder and getting the NCR ending with the truce option, it says that the NCR and the Mojave chapter signed an official peace and the BoS helped them patrol the interstates.

But seriously. BoS are assholes. Even tho I befriended them, it is pretty clear that they are zealots that worship technology for technology's sake and just want to prevent anyone else from having it. Even if their original reasons seemed noble (prevent more abuse). Every other ending pretty much tells you they patroled the Mojave confiscating everything high-tech. One of the main complaints with F3 was that they turned them into generic hero knights that wanted to help everyone. Fallout Tactics did the same.

[Asehujiko]

Probably because they're a bunch of isolated pockets, each elder might have a different idea of how to best get their hands on the shiny things. Lyons(F3) decided that trading food for laser rifles was a pretty lucrative deal for example. Wasn't one of the F1 endings about them starting to do something useful instead of simply being kleptomaniacs?

[Ninteen45]

Ase is right about that. Although their ideology remains similar, the truth is that they got fractured, and as such we have different types of BoS.

New vagas happens to have a shitty faction.

[Sergius]

Probably because they're a bunch of isolated pockets, each elder might have a different idea of how to best get their hands on the shiny things. Lyons(F3) decided that trading food for laser rifles was a pretty lucrative deal for example. Wasn't one of the F1 endings about them starting to do something useful instead of simply being kleptomaniacs?

You're right, Fallout's good ending for the Brotherhood is that they continue to work behind the scenes, slowly reintroducing technology to California.

Mojave BoS are still assholes tho.

[Toady Two]

I don't know why I decided to stick with the BoS. Maybe because Veronica was the NPC that complimented my melee - only playstyle well. Or maybe because having the BoS back to the coolness they were in Fallout 1 compared to the dogooders they were in Fallout 3 made me root for them.

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Well, I went for the Yes - Man ending and in my endgame resolution the BoS adopted a new aggressive policy but inevitably faded away eventually. That was for not replacing McNamara with the other guy. Now I think I should have went for the NCR or House endings, since they would probably be more satisfying.

Thats what I mean when I say the story in New Vegas is great. Every major faction you can support has a few valid points and could have well been protagonists. Well, maybe except Legion, though Caesar does give a good speach about the weakness of NCR and democracy, he is crazy and an overall bad thing for the wasteland. House and NCR are both shades of grey.

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I personally felt regret when I had to sledgehammer House's elderly frame to do the Yes-Man quest line and while slaughtering NCR troops during the endgame.
I don't think and ending is possible with the optimal results for me:
-ensure the survival of the BoS
-keep House alive as the overlord of New Vegas
-destroy the Legion

NCR ending is probably the closest but House has to bite it there too

[Fikes]

Thats what I mean when I say the story in New Vegas is great. Every major faction you can support has a few valid points and could have well been protagonists. Well, maybe except Legion, though Caesar does give a good speach about the weakness of NCR and democracy, he is crazy and an overall bad thing for the wasteland. House and NCR are both shades of grey.

I agree with this statement. It really does seem like all of the factions have a valid stake to the Mojave and are able to bring some level of good. Even the Legion. Sure they are total assholes, but so were the Spartans (who they seem to resemble more than the Romans). Would we have this level of society without the exploitation of the masses? Who knows!

I am going to finish up my NCR friendly play through and do an evil, all about me, melee play through. On the next one though, I am not going to make it a point to visit everything and do every sub quest. I have probably 50 hours in my first play through.
 

[ToonyMan]

Finally got New Vegas. It's a lot funner than FO3 too!

Same situation as me.  I've gotten about 3 hours in now.  Pretty fun.

[lordnincompoop]

With mods, my NV install now looks incredible. Bethesda games always look incredible with mods (landscape shots beat a lot of other games in my opinon) and New Vegas did not disappoint.

[Fikes]

Hopefully won't derail the topic too much, but I'd like to state my pleasure at the gaming trend to let you see further and further. In New Vegas you can see locations that would take you several minutes to walk to, and they look pretty damn good. It wasn't that many years ago that you couldn't seem more than 100 yards in games.

I thought it was funny when I went to Helios 1 and they asked me "what are you doing here?" and one of the responses was "I just saw this building on the horizon and wanted to come explore". That is how I ended up at atleast 50% of the locations I explored.

[Sergius]

Hopefully won't derail the topic too much, but I'd like to state my pleasure at the gaming trend to let you see further and further. In New Vegas you can see locations that would take you several minutes to walk to, and they look pretty damn good. It wasn't that many years ago that you couldn't seem more than 100 yards in games.

I thought it was funny when I went to Helios 1 and they asked me "what are you doing here?" and one of the responses was "I just saw this building on the horizon and wanted to come explore". That is how I ended up at atleast 50% of the locations I explored.

There should be an option for "I saw this little triangle thing on my compass".

[kilakan]

Or, I sensed you were nearby, via a tiny green bar.