Fallout: New Vegas

[Ktisis]

I had another question about Arcade, just finished his sidequest..

Told him to fight with the other Remnants, so off he dashed to get his Power Armour, only now he's gone and hidden inside with the other Remnants and they've locked the door! Am I supposed to lose him this way or should I pull an earlier save and redo it? I know I told him to fight, but I kinda assumed that would be once I started the actual end game, not while I'm still pottering about Mojave.

[Joyrex-J9]

Oh man, Fallout is still hilariously stupid at times, then.

The prison is notoriously glitchy, esp. the Powder Gangers behaviour & attitude towards the player. It's pretty much random.

Nowhere else I've been has had these problems

[Janski]

EDIT - @Fneeb

not 100% sure on the Arcade mission but a few of the companion quests end with you losing the companion by telling them to support their cause etc.

So you may not see him till the end now, not a huge loss as I didnt find him much use in combat and has load of Stimpaks

[mayor_mike_haggar]

i butchered the utter fuck out of all the powder gangers in the prison all by myself, for fun, and then it turns out that that's a mission later in the game helping the NCR or something. I wonder if I've broken it.

I think my gung-ho psychopath approach might have ruined a few fallout 3 side quests for me, too.

[Vaya.]

EDIT - @Fneeb

not 100% sure on the Arcade mission but a few of the companion quests end with you losing the companion by telling them to support their cause etc.

So you may not see him till the end now, not a huge loss as I didnt find him much use in combat and has load of Stimpaks

He appears on a vertibird with the 'crew during the final battle. make sure not to shoot at them by mistake because they will rape you.

[deerokus]

He appears on a vertibird with the 'crew during the final battle. make sure not to shoot at them by mistake because they will rape you.

Arcade leaves regardless of how you finish that quest - I did it the other way and he gave me all the stuff he was carrying, stripped to his pants and vest and wandered off into the woods, leaving me over-encumbered and confused. :/ For some inexplicable reason all my protectrons -I did the independent vegas ending- attacked and killed the remnants of the remnants as I was heading towards the final 'boss'.

Stupid awesome bugs.

[Vulgar Monkey]

Not sure it's a bug as such

If you tell them to, say, support ncr, and then you backtrack on that, they'll go hostile. Particularly a problem if you go indy vegas. I think having arcade with you might allow you to talk them round though, dunno.

[Vaya.]

didn't happen with me when I tried again (after I died) they quite happily followed me into the legion's stronghold. There were no NCR left though when they spawned though. Maybe it's if you kill NCR in front of them?

[robdood]

Sigh.

I would post other screen of hilarity I've seen, though it seems only the screens I've grabbed in windowed mode have worked... all the rest are all messed up..

[Monkeyboy]

I think I'm getting a bit bored with this. That never really happened with FO3. It's kind of tedious as well, to stumble across a new location, and find it's just another landmark. Like a car half buried in the ground, or something else equally dull.

The main plot has also become less and less interesting.

[Steven]

I know what you mean, I finished at around the 90 hour mark with plenty of stuff still to see, but haven't been back since. The Strip/Freeside stuff was awful with the amount of loading required during the back and forth of the quests and had me feeling pretty spent by the end.

Not so sure I'll bite with the DLC this time, especially if it hasn't been patched.

[Not Thread Owner]

Slaughtering the Legion at The Fort. With a machete. And a Melee skill of 12. Amazing!

[Monkeyboy]

Slaughtering the Legion at The Fort. With a machete. And a Melee skill of 12. Amazing!

Let me guess, deKay... you then did a backflip and killed 20 Deathclaws with one bullet. With a Guns skill of 16.

[Not Thread Owner]

No, but it seems I had a melee skill of 16, not 12. Also: Caesar's tent was somewhat difficult.

Anyone know if you can get the damage achievements by repeatedly murdering your companions?

[Joyrex-J9]

Let me guess, deKay... you then did a backflip and killed 20 Deathclaws with one bullet. With a Guns skill of 16.

I've got 13 side quests on the go now, it's getting a bit daft. All the loading is really starting to grate, esp. with the Brotherhood's bunker and around New Vegas.

Oh and the end of the very lengthy Ed-E quest is an absurd anti-climax

oh he's got a little bit of extra armour. The End.

[CandyBob]

I haven't been very enamoured with this current generation of games, graphics aside the games that have wowed me I could count on one hand, but Fallout 3 and now this stand out as real highlights.

It's the scope and atmosphere more than anything else that kept me playing both games for 100+ hrs. Sometimes I would spend hours and hours not even following the main quest. The world is so vast, rich and detailed that you can get 3-4 games worth of time and content just seeing what is over the next hill or around the next corner.

It has it's quirks, although I would say I was very lucky as I had minimal problems on Fallout 3 on 360 and apart from two freezes and the odd mob stuck in the ground, the PC version of NV has run like a dream. Loading times between area's have ranged from almost instant to 5-8 seconds at the worst, I don't remember a quest bugging out on me and the combat was fine if a bit unwieldy. The companion AI is the only thing that stood out as a real issue for me.

Deserves to be on the pedestal next to Morrowind.

[Vulgar Monkey]

I've got 13 side quests on the go now, it's getting a bit daft. All the loading is really starting to grate, esp. with the Brotherhood's bunker and around New Vegas.

Oh and the end of the very lengthy Ed-E quest is an absurd anti-climax

oh he's got a little bit of extra armour. The End.

Or guns. Seemed to do precicely fuck all though. I hear the up-armouring is actually a considerable impovement though.

[Not Thread Owner]

Just wiped out Hoover Dam using only a spork. LOLZ NOT REALLY!! It was a pencil.

Anyway, *can* you get the damage achievements by killing your chums?

[Vulgar Monkey]

Lolz aside, you can't actually use either of those as weapons can you?

And yes, feel free to enter me for the Gullible Thread if not.

[The Sarge]

So, just over 2 weeks left until the DLC is released and still no patch.

It should be more funny than depressing but it really isn't.

[Not Thread Owner]

Lolz aside, you can't actually use either of those as weapons can you?

Unless there's a Rock It Launcher in the game, no.

Also, no - slaughtering your mates doesn't count towards damage achievements.

[Steven]

So, just over 2 weeks left until the DLC is released and still no patch.

It should be more funny than depressing but it really isn't.

Yeah, that DLC's going to run like a dream, isn't it?

[Monkeyboy]

How does the DLC work anyway? I presume it doesn't extend the game after the end credits, and that you need a save prior to finishing the game?

[Girth Certificate]

Unless there's a Rock It Launcher in the game, no.

There is actually, I remember finding the blueprint at some point

[Spacehost]

Getting back into this after a brief break. Wasn't really enjoying it so much, until (post-first-visit-to-Tops spoilers)

me and Boone met Benny at the casino, and he laid a little trap for us. Typical Chairmen, brought guns to a pool-cue fight. Boone bet the ever-loving shit out of them.

Then I got This Machine and gave it to him. Many a head rued the day they opened fire on us.

So, yes, I'm now hooked again.

[Monkeyboy]

I keep hearing about 'This Machine', but have never got it. How do I get it?

[Rudi von Starnberg]

You need to talk to Contreras, the quartermaster at Camp McCarran.

[Monkeyboy]

Oh, I did that ages ago. Do I have to get some shit together for him? I can't remember now.

[rumblecat]

Coincidentally I've just reached Camp MacCarran after twenty hours of gameplay- finally starting to get into this, it didn't grip me quite in the way that Fallout 3 did- maybe because at the start of 3 I was pretty much confined to Megaton and terrified of straying too far- but in this it's been a relatively straight breeze following the road round. And the the desert isn't quite as depressing and ominous as the landscape in 3. But I also think I've been a bit paranoid about bugs and doing anything that make screw up the game, so I've been constantly aware that I'm playing a game, rather than just diving into it and enjoying the experience. Still, can't think of many games that would suck me in for twenty hours before I started to really get into them, so it's all good.

[Janski]

Oh, I did that ages ago. Do I have to get some shit together for him? I can't remember now.

If I remember correctly there's a hugely long winded unmarked side quest to collect over 100 scrap metal pieces and give them to Gun Runners to get the gun.

The quicker way is to...

grass him up to the NCR officer outside the prison cell at Canp McCarran, she will then give you the gun

I use it almost exclusively now as I don't think it degrades past 80%, 308 ammo is expensive though!