Best DLC for New Vegas.
>>3978625>Best DLC for New VegasOld World blues is the best NV DLC thoughever?
Dead Money was fun, but I liked Honest Hearts characters a bit more. HATE the “bear bull bear bull bear bull” dreadlock having-ass, but good DLC for equipment and caps. Straight up refused to play Old World Blues after suffering through the first 15 minutes of goylennial writing.
>>3978625ATMOSPHERICSURVIVAL KINO
>>3978982>s after suffering through the first 15 minutes of goylennial writing.can't imagine how awful it must be to play NV for the first time after the Millennial Writing thing became a meme
>>3979009It's too old to be millennial writing. Gen X more like it.
>>3979015zoomcucks are oddly obsessed with blaming millennials for gen x shit.
>>3979034ok boomer XD
>>3978940No. Old World Blues is reddit slop. Worst New Vegas DLC. Even Honest Hearts is better.
>>3978982Honest Hearts is better because it's more open world to explore with less restrictions, but Dead Money does have a better story, imo, it's just too limiting and irritating to play more than once. Feels more like a chore than a fun game.
>>3979279I’m sort of inclined to agree. When I was just a wee tyke I loathed Dead Money and found Old World Blues incredibly charming. Now that I’m a bit older I appreciate the challenge and atmosphere of DM whereas OWB frequently comes off as obnoxious. Honest Hearts can be a bit of a slog at times, but it’s still entertaining. Lonesome Road doesn’t really work for me anymore.
>>3978625That's not Honest Hearts.
>>3978982Old World Blues is very bad.The only good part is the loot, but the issue is the issue is that it just clashes with the tone and setting of the game. Regular FNV is a really down-played, low sci-fi. Sure you have laser guns and robots, but it's all done to be a bit of a 50s envisioning of the future, and feels more like a western.OWB, and to a lesser degree both DM and LR, fuck that up by adding in a bunch of ridiculous sci fi bullshit. Like sentient ai, surgery centers capable of anything, holograms, matter generators, forcefields, and a whole host of bullshit.
>>3979279It doesn't help that Old World Blues is nothing but constant combat (bad combat with hit sponge enemies) and jokes which feel only just a step above what you'd see in the Big Bang Theory
>>3982248>sentient aiwhich one was that?
>>3982351You, the player
I'll be honest, I don't like any of the NV DLCs
dead money > old world blues > honest hearts > lonesome road
>>3978672fpbp
>>3982248That's the point. The entire game is a loveletter to the 1950's with The Kings, the western vibe being a borderline reference to film serials. It's meant to feel different and have a vibe of 50's scifi and medical horror a la The Fly or Forbidden Planet. I agree it is out of step with the western aesthetic, but so are gauss rifles, energy weapons, chinese stealth suits, neofuturistic knightly orders, and every thing else about the Fallout universe.
>>3978625Agreed
>>3982482>it's terrible on purposeYeah so it's still terrible.
Honest Hearts is the best one because it has the least amount of stupid gimmicks and the most genuine writing.
>>3982482Mr House isn't asking the courier to test-fly his latest airplane, and Sunny Smiles isn't going on about the O.K. corral. Mr House is closely based on Howard Hughes, and Ghost-town Gunfight mimics the archetypical western shoot-out, but they take themselves seriously enough to not just be references. It's funny people with real problems. The King might be silly and his cyborg dog doesn't match the drapes, but his problems are real, so I buy it. Old World Blues is "funny" people with "funny" problems, and the penis-fingers aren't exactly helping me get in to the problems of the brains in jars. No matter how good it would have been, it wouldn't have meshed with the rest of the game if they wanted to be shlock sci-fi, as the rest of the game tries for a very different tone.OWB is a Fallout 3 DLC that forgot which game it was for.
>>3978672>every dlc weapon has (GRA) in its name
>>3984152What destroyed any respect I still had left for Obsidian was when they included my beloved .223 pistol from Fallout and called it “That Gun” and butchered the sound effect into some tinny bullshit rather than reusing the original. About as bad as how the pixel “remaster” of FF6 massacred the intro audio.
>>3984157>About as bad as how the pixel “remaster” of FF6 massacred the intro audioIn all fairness the only guy who figured out how to emulate that correctly 41-percented.
>>3984152>>3984157you are acting autistic here
>>3979279Mind-broken by reddit. OWB is a great parody of old sci-fi movies, and calls communists "animals". Reddit adopting absurdism years later doesn't make the DLC reddit. The combat can suck if you don't have the right perks or use the right weapons.
>>3978625Dead Money for goldHonest Hearts for 1911Old World Blues for best girl stealth suit MKIILonesome Road to nuke both NCR and Legion
>>3978625Dead MoneyOWBHonest Heartsshit Lonesome Road
>>3978625desu Dead Money's writing is so annoying. they force the main theme down your throat over and over and over and over again.I GET THAT ITS ABOUT LETTING GO YOU DONT NEED TO TELL ME FOR THE 12TH FUCKING TIME!! I CAN ASSESS BASIC NARRATIVE THEMES!!!the resetting your gear and atmosphere do kinda make up for it tho.
>>3984142>Old World Blues is "funny" people with "funny" problems, and the penis-fingers aren't exactly helping me get in to the problems of the brains in jars.That's the whole point of the story though. They're locked in a prison of their own making, occupied with banal adolescent preoccupations which don't address their problems at all.It fits well if you think the central theme of the game is being trapped by the past. Better than Honest Hearts in fact. The departure in tone is annoying though.
Lonesome RoadDead MoneyHonest HeartsOWB because I think the combat is way more annoying than Dead money, I actually dropped OWB for a while because of that.
>>3982351Oh right I forgot, they're actually just super advanced personality modules or whatever.I guess that's a really bad example since sentient ai has been in Fallout since 2.
>>3982482Can't you say the exact same thing about Mothership Zeta?That's a love letter to mid-century horror and science fiction B-movies.But it's rightfully hated because it takes something which is best left to the periphery and makes it the star of the show.
>>3984142>OWB is a Fallout 3 DLC that forgot which game it was for.Fallout 3's DLCs were way more in-tune with the world building of the series than you think. (minus Mothership Zeta of course) Operation Anchorage fits with the militarism and expands the lore of the pre-war world. Point Lookout adds a lot of interesting stuff and, world-building-wise, is very in line with Fallout 1 and 2. The Pitt isn't really out of tone either, it has a wildly different atmosphere and setting while keeping the logic of the main games.The Pitt and Point Lookout are also cool because they mention off-screen factions and makes the world feel bigger. The Pitt brings up "Ronto," so I guess there's some big nation over in the ruins of Canada's largest city. Point Lookout mentions "The Abbey," some mysterious group of Catholic missionaries still existing in the wasteland.
>>3986539>It fits well if you think the central theme of the game is being trapped by the past.That's definitely a core theme of the (non HH) DLCs, but is it really a theme of New Vegas as a whole?Let me think about this.Well I guess the NCR, Brotherhood, Legion, and even smaller factions like the Khans and White Gloves do talk about bringing back past glories in a way. Mr. House I don't think fits that too well. He does mention Vegas's former glory a bit, but his focus is more on the future.Do the Kings fit? They emulate Elvis but aren't really focused on the past. Maybe you could tie in the Boomers who have recognized their need to change.The main storyline with Benny followed by the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam doesn't really fit the idea of 'being stuck in the past.' Benny super easily adopted the Chairmen as a new tribal identity and he wants to control Vegas for himself, not keep it the way it was. I guess it is a theme, an important theme, but I wouldn't call it more central than the themes of greed and the impacts of war.
>>3987441ZAX in 1 and Skynet in 2
>>3987448>Mr. House I don't think fits that too well. He does mention Vegas's former glory a bit, but his focus is more on the future.It's the same future he was pursuing before the war though. It no longer makes sense. He's talking about building a tech sector and he has no society to build it in. He's just paying a bunch of tribals and vault dwellers to play act Americans, but they all see themselves as separate peoples. There's no ruling class culture and he has no successors. He would see this as a serious problem if he were living in the present.>other factionsThey can't afford to live in the past to the extent House and the brain jars do. A story doesn't have to constantly beat you over the head with its central theme for it to be the central theme. New Vegas does that a fair amount though. Most RPGs never say what theirs is directly.
>>3982248>50s envisioning of the futureRetrofuturism.
>>3987471I haven't played much of 1 so I didn't know for sure.I guess sentient AI is a very consistant thing across the games. From those you mentioned in 1 and 2, to Eden in 3, to Codworth and the Synths in 4.But still the way it's done in OWB bothers me.
>>3987472I still think the main theme of New Vegas is moreso political philosophy, greed, and the realities of war. But yeah the idea of being stuck in the past is pretty prevalent across the main game, and the major factor for 3 out of 4 dlcs.Honest Hearts is more unusual in that way since, thematically, it's about faith and whether there can be a morality to war and fighting.
>>3982384Same. The whole concept of standalone mini-worlds in an open world game is basically retarded. The only one of these things that I found remotely worthwhile, was Broken Steel, and that's because it was a continuation of the main plot. Also because blowing up BoS to absolute fuck was particularly rewarding.
>>3987677>But still the way it's done in OWB bothers me.it shouldn't because the sink appliances are repeatedly and very explicitly stated to not be sentient. They're simulated personalities. It's a clubhouse full of BonziBuddies of different psychosis. They're a bit obnoxious, but they're not real AI.
>>3979277Faggot
>>3982248>describes fallout's dystopian sci-fi elements and themes >bitches like a faggotWow almost like its the specific science fiction dlc emphasis. How dare it not be like the low tech wild west Honest Hearts or nightmare survivalism of Dead Money or the post nuclear apocalypse of Lonesome Road. How dare it be its own slice of theme and aspect with signature aesthetics and spirited writing?
>>3979279>contrarian faggot bitchingthis faggot seething like a bitch instead of just vibing.
>>3979279>Old World Blues is reddit slop.New Vegas is Reddit slop
>>3989990Define reddit slop
>>3978625>best new vegas dlcFallout Frontier2nd best Fallout gameNew VegasFrontierLondonNew Vegas DLC combinedFallout 3Fallout 3 DLCFallout TacticsFallout 2Fallout 1Fallout 4 and its dlc slopFallout ShelterFallout 76
>>3990003>Define reddit slopWhat one feeds to Redditors.
>>3978625While running TTW and using the Lawbringer perk I noticed something odd. Why do the NCR soldiers I kill have lootable fingers in their inventories whereas the Legion soldiers whom I kill do not drop fingers? Is the TTW team more based than I expected, or is this some compatibility quirk caused by the 150 mods I have running?
>>3990005>Fallout Frontiernot gonna play your shitty mod
>>3982248>>3982482i dont think OWB is bad. I didnt enjoy it, but i dont think its bad. I see what they were trying to do with it. Its like pure cola syrup where without any of the other elements of NV's setting its inedible, at least for me. HH was my favorite only because dead money is annoying on replays but the magic of the S.M on a first playthrough is not lost on me. LR was a fun endgame activity but i didnt really like ulysses
>>3990003(you)
>>3978625I haven't played fnv should I?
>>3992387>I haven't played fnv>should I?Do you like Fallout 3 and Reddit? If so, yes. If not, no.
>>3992387Yeah it's very good. Sometimes people here might bitch about it, mostly because they're RPG purists and can't fathom liking anything that has any mainstream appeal.But it's good, plenty of great quests and characters. Interesting world. Many fun guns to use.
>>3990003Everything except what Reddit was hated for in 2011.
>>3992390But I dislike both of those and I like NV
>>3991041this post motivated me to finally install and test Frontier tonight and no I am not a contrarian I'd just like to test this shitty mod out because I've heard hilarious things>>3990005Checked. How compatible is Frontier with Robco Certified? Can I build robot armies with the bots I kill up north? Will Robco Certified even recognize Robotic enemies from Frontier?>>3992387If it is free, sure. FNV is a great RPG offering a massive sense of choice and player-freedom. Especially if you mod that way you can write the rules of your game! Keep in mind many mods require all 4 DLCs. All in all I wouldn't say FNV is worth paying for but is certainly worth a shot if it is free alongside a free copy of FO3 with all associated free DLCs because if you truly seek the "Complete FNV Experience" the game is best played with TTW (The Tales of The 2 Wastelands) installed which combines FO3 and FNV into one game which obviously makes TTW the most based way to rim FNV!
>>3992623>Will Robco Certified even recognize Robotic enemies from Frontier?Does it check if an NPC is tagged as a robot or does it pull from a premade list of robot NPC types?
>>3984152this, Gun Runners is a buzzkill on two fronts, because it loudly tells me something is DLC, and said DLC weapons are hilariously out of place with the majority of vendors in the game.
>>3982248>sentient ai, Introduced literally in the first Fallout at The Glow.>surgery centers capable of anythingAutodocs already existed starting in 2 possibly back to 1 so what they have at the big empty is just more advanced.>hologramsReally not that crazy of a technology given the other two already exist in the setting but them being able to project lasers from a non-corporeal body is a bit much I'll give you that.>matter generatorsActually not THAT crazy of a technology as if you pay attention to lore it explains the casino chips act as a base to change the matter so technically its not creating matter its just reshaping it so it doesn't go against the first law of thermodynamics.>forcefieldsThese were literally in F1 F2 F3, Tactics so you're really outing yourself as someone who never played anything besides NV.
>>3986543Is top to bottom your ranking? If so,>Lonesome Road as #1Did you get hit on the head? I'm genuinely concerned. I'm not trying to be mean, I just can't understand that whatsoever.>>3987442>[Zeta] takes something which is best left to the periphery and makes it the star of the show.You hit the nail on the head. Now I understand why it always felt 'off' to me... well, that and the fucking samurai that time travels. Extremely corny, even for Fallout. Might've worked if that samurai's corpse was a rare encounter in 1 or 2, but a fully voiced, alive samurai with a 3D render? No thanks.>>3987446>Point LookoutFucking GOATed expansion. Is Far Harbor any good? I haven't tried 4's expansions yet.
>>3993824>These were literally in F1 F2 F3, Tactics so you're really outing yourself as someone who never played anything besides NVBig Fallout Fan Excited To Finally Play Fallout For The First Time
>>3993842>Is Far Harbor any good?It's good according to people who played it once and use Fallout 4 as a reference for writing and plot.
>>3993842Far Harbor is great. It's like if Fallout 4 were actually good. It's quite possibly the best Fallout DLC bar none.Nuka World is fucking terrible though.
>>3993850>>3993889Unpopular opinion but Far Harbor is just a shitty repackage of Point Lookout that had a better atmosphere and more concrete story. The execution of the story in Far Harbor is pretty bad imo
>>3993893>Point Lookout>bullet sponges>story has a moment that almost tops the talking deathclaws with how stupid it is>has some decent lore that Bethesda never followed up onFar Harbor isn't great, but I prefer it
>be me>play fallout, it’s fun>play fallout 2, it’s fun>play fallout tactics, it’s fun>play fallout 3, it’s meh, drop it>play new Vegas, it’s meh, drop it>don’t play fallout 4>lol at 76>lol at the show>haven’t given a fuck about fallout in 15+ yearsFeels good man
>>3985021this nigga gets it but you forgot the robot heart
>>3994924>talking deathclawsDid that happen in 2? I can't quite remember.Man, for as much as the map, exploration and QOL was improved in 2, the writing and constant encounters with overpowered enemies really set it far below 1 and New Vegas for me.On a side note, has anyone else played Fallout 1 with the Fixt mod and had a problem with their cursor disappearing while in dialogue or something like that? Can't remember exactly what the glitch was but it stopped me from enjoying a second playthrough of the game.
>>3995501>fallout 2Yeah the story and writing is a mess, but the enemies shouldn't really be an issue once you get a few levels and have a decent builds. Just never get close to any enemy with a flame thrower or fire attack unless you have PA.
>>3995602>decent buildWhat would you recommend?>PAWhat's that, again?
>>3995501>Fallout 1 with the Fixt modI would recommend Et Tu these days. Enjoy the QoL improvement of Fallout 2 while playing the original.
>>3995618Take the Gifted trait ,get 8 luck(you can get a +2 increase in the game) ,8 or 10 Agility, 7 Perception(you can get +1 from an implant), 9-10 Intelligence(you can get an implant but that relatively late),4 Strength(you get 4 from PA and can get +1 from an implant) and put whatever you have left in Charisma and Endurance since they don't matter. Perks you should take are Better Criticals,Bonus Rate of Fire ,Action Boy and Sniper. If you want to use burst weapons you should take Fast Shot,Better Ranged Damage and Living Anatomy as well. They don't do that much for targeted shot builds, but the damage increase is per bullet so with a minigun it can stack nicely. Small Guns is better for the early game and if you want to use Energy weapons or Big Guns later you can take Tag.>PAPower Armor.
min-maxxing fallout 2 is gay as shit.the level cap is 90
>>3995728>the level cap is 90You can barely get to 20 without intense grinding.
>>3995681>don’t roleplay or take the time you think of your own build bro, just use some minmax optimized build you don’t understand for your first blind playthrough of a roleplaying game older than most of this boardYou n’wah
>>3995734because you don't need to minmax to beat the game
>>3995681Thanks.>>3995758I'm the guy he responded to. I've already beaten 2 (with a guide so I didn't beat it I guess but oh well) but I had to turn down the difficulty for Horrigan because I was way under-levelled. I wanna play it again soon and do it right this time, even if it means taking advice rather than deciding on my own.
>>3992387>You are now suffering from deadly radiation poisoning
>>3978625every dlc for this game sucked ass i cant believe they got away with selling this low effort trash in the first place
>>3999605Every Fallout DLC is pretty mid. Far Harbor is the only really good one
want to get into New Vegas, but can't decide on a buildis it best to pump one stat up to ten and build around that, or spread my points around so i can try a bit of everything?also: are any of the traits really worth bothering with?
>>3978625well dead money was my favorite for sure but the dlc was mostly kind of trash anyway
>>4002118If you're not using mods, you want to buy a weapon named "Greased Lightning" from the BOS bunker. For best use you want 10 Strength, 100 Unarmed, the Super Slam Perk, the Slayer Perk, and the Piercing Strike Perk. Imo best build for fighter type charactersIf you're using mods, you want Robco Certified. Make sure you have have 10 Charisma, as it'll drastically increase the powerlevels of your robotic followers. And take the Robot Wrangler Perk (Rank 3) so you can control 12 robots instead of 2. You'll also need the Mad Scientist PhD Perk (Rank 2) so you can spawn up to 12 Cyber-Roach Minions (significantly more powerful than a standard Rad-Roach) whenever you wish at no cost whatsoever from your Pipboy3000. Finally add in the Gone Fission Perk, that way you can loot Fission Batteries and Robotic Spare Parts from your Cyber-Roach Minions granting you an unlimited supply of caps and important tools while wielding the super powers of both the Antagonizer and the Mechanist simultaneously. Imo best build for scientist type characters
>>4002414what if i were playing unmodded and wanted to do the gunslinger thing?
>>4002448Agility and Luck affect guns and crits respectively. There are plenty of perks like Cowboy that give direct % buffs to gun damage, accuracy, etc. Be careful with traits, I think the trigger discipline one is a trap and built to destroy requires you also become a repairman. All you need to decide is what kind of guns you prefer to sling, and therefore what perks to prepare for. The only gotcha is something like Sniper, which also requires Perception.
>>3978625>>3978672Both are great. No need to argue.
>>4002473>Luck>Critical hitsbro you don't need luck just use the blasted alien gun, 100% crit chance. yeah ammo is finite but you don't HAVE TO behave like some nigger intent on genociding all remaining life on 23rd Century Earth. Who the fuck even are you, some degenerate murderhobo fuckhead?>>4004142HAH! Idk if I'm laughing at you or with you or if snorting $1,000 capperinos of pre-war "Jet" in 5 seconds can make anything freaking hilarioust. Courier Sex in the flesh. Hit me up with some more fetch quests anons I need work bros
Would Christine choose Veronica or Courierussy?
>>4004329Courier of course. I'm willing to bet Veronica never held hands with Christine unlike the Courier.
>>3978625Yes
>>3978672Is the Mad Bomber perk worth taking?
>>4004895Absolutely yes.MFC cluster grenades are fantastic.
>>3984152>weapon manufacturer stamps their name on their productsI don't see the problem.
>>3978625The bomb collars are the single worst thing ever put in a Fallout game.
>>4004895MFC grenades/clusters are so absolutely fucking bonkers that they, along with tin grenades, can carry you through the entire game with an explosives build. You do NOT need to waste time with heavy armor and DT perks, you can just take Heave, Ho! and throw fastballs that kill deathclaws.
>>3985021>nuke both NCR and LegionBased but why does Caesar's Legion keep attacking on sight though? My reputation is 77% Legion Fame and 0% Legion Infamy. Yeah I nuked his country (and the NCR) in Lonesome Road but that shouldn't matter considering Caesar sent his top guy, Vulpes Inculta, to tell me Caesar is not angry at all and he even gave me the Mark of Caesar as proof of my heroism. The Frumentarii faggot literally told me:>"The eyes of the mighty Caesar are upon you. He admires your accomplishments and bestows upon you the exceptional gift of his Mark"So he wants me to visit for a chat? Great, but how the hell am I supposed to do that if all his soldiers keep trying to kill me? What is his problem? Is this a glitch or are they angry my Courier smokes ultrajet and consumes 3-to-5 bottles of whiskey per day or a trap or a prank or what? What the fuck, why shouldn't I just murder Caesar for this nonsense?
>>4006729It sounds like you've got a bug because doing Lonesome Road ASAP to get the bullshit weapons and going to Vegas to reset infamy is a common exploit by players who are scared of the consequences of their actions in a RPG.
>>4006836>exploit"Exploit" is hardly the word I would choose. Kimball and Caesar are just so desperate to suck the Courier's cock that they are willing to give him a second chance even after ruining their nations killing billions
>>4006847It's an exploit, no amount of weasel logic will change that.
>>4006868>weasel>logicYou say that as if Kimball and Caesar aren't illogical weasels with massive brain tumors. It's not exploiting the game mechanics at all. It can only be considered an exploit in the sense that Courier 6 is being a dick by exploiting the trust and admiration of the NCR and Legion. Like if FNV were non-fictional scenario, not a video game, and the Courier nuked them under the logical assumption they'd quickly forgive him he wouldn't be exploiting game mechanics because it's not a game he's just taking advantage of their confidence in him. Whereas a game mechanics exploit would be like cheesing all of your skills to level 100 before departing Goodsprings which would not be an available option irl
dead money and its not even close.
dlc ranking1. dead money (actually fun)2. old world blues (i like the mysterious broadcast)3. lonesome road (i like ulysses)4. GRA (fun weapons)5. the pre order dlcs (easy caps)6. Honest hearts (decent on 1st play through but now i hate it and just kill everyone and take the map and unique gear and just leave)
>>3979279>Even Honest Hearts is better.Honest Hearts was my favorite DLC, no reason to bash it. Agreed with Old World Blues. I liked the quests to build my home and I thought the combat was the tightest of all DLCs but not a big fan of writing outside Ulysses and Elijah's parts on it. The locations also disappointed me a bit, I expected more out of a spiritual successor of The Glow. >>3980833Yeah, the storyline of Dead Money is fantastic. Was recently replaying it again after 15 years, completely forgot how much of a scumbag Dean was. Did my playthrough this time without annoying him to get the "best" ending, ended up changing his attitude to negative so I could rightfully justify blowing his fucking brains out at the theater. He is literally the reason why Sierra Madre went to shit since he is hinted at being the person in charge for the villa construction and he deliberately sabotaged it because he despised Sinclair for being a good person. What a petty cunt.
>>3978625Lonesome Road is the best DLC in the game and it is not even close. Not just because it is FUCKING BASED to nuke the NCR and the Legion but more importantly it turns ED-E into the most useful follower. If you 100% the Lonesome Road, ED-E will function as: >workbench>reloading bench>repair your equipped weapons condition by 35% (once a day)>print either 35 microfusion cells or 35 energy cells or 35 flamer fuel or even print 3 satchel charges (once a pay)>keep in mind you can sell those satchel charges for about 100 caps each so whenever ED-E is in your party after completing the Lonesome Road you get about 300 free caps per day (not to mention the caps you save on free weapon repair)>+2 Damage Threshold for player and ED-E>+5 Laser Damage for player and ED-E>+5% VATS Accuracy for player and +5% Weapons Accuracy for ED-EThe fact that it makes ED-E the most valuable follower in the game makes Lonesome Road the best DLC in the game. Plus you can still buff up ED-E the vanilla way (High CHA and Follower's of The Apocalypse raygun upgrades) as well of course. Nuking the fucking Californians, Mexicans, Arizonans and Tribal niggers was based too. Also if you want to not only make 1,000 caps but also "fix the story" of Lonesome Road I'd recommend installing the mod "Eliza" and bring her with you as a companion for the entire DLCThe other 3 DLCs were shit. But at least Father Elijah and Dr.Mobius are cooler villains than the insane loud screeching autistic 1 CHA nigger Ulysses is. Dead Money is only fun if you want to steal ALL the gold "without cheating" by utilizing a stealth boy and the Implant GRX perk. Without using mods or opening the console you get to outsmart Father Elijah, Dean Domino and Fredrick Sinclair by making out like a bandit with nearly 400,000 caps worth of gold within the general realm of Lore-friendly gameplay
>>3978940OWB is fun the first time but its horribly grindy unless you go there asap. every enemy is a damage sponge that hits way harder than it has any right to
>>3993842NTA, Lonesome Road is my favorite of the four. Admittedly it's because I found myself extremely engaged by Ulysses, something I'm aware not many others are. I like talking to him about the past, about symbols and having to move towards something new. I like it as one long, dangerous dungeon that encourages me to cut loose with all the overpowered shit I have. I like it for a similar reason I like Dead Money - most of New Vegas you see the ancient remains of the Great War but it's firmly post-apocalyptic and about a new world rising from the ashes and reusing all the old stuff. The Divide is straight up apocalyptic, a devastated nightmare contrasted by how relatively pleasant the Mojave is.And really, I like it as a sort of spiritual finale to Fallout.>"War... war never changes. Men do, through the roads they walk."
NV is just DLC for FO3.
>>4014979it's categorically not. You can't have fallout 3 installed and just click "install fallout new vegas add-on" when launching it They're separate install folders
I have to delete 3 mods from my 156. They make Andrea ARES 2-14's lower body invisible reducing her to a floating head+gun. As a countermeasure to prevent bugs, my protocol for uninstalling mods in midst of playthroughs is write down the mod index values and replace those spots with unnecessary mods as placeholder ESPs bc its risky changing up the load orderWhile surfing the Nexus in search of 3 throwaway filler mods I learned a happening occurred yesterday! A new mod named Numan! Description indicates its an FNV cousin of Skyrims mod CHIM which connects every NPC to ChatGPT (or any AI you pick) bringing NPCs to life, less enslaved to scripts. I was hyped to install this new curiosity. Until reading the bottom of the description page discovering mod creator Ms.Goody Two-Shoes wrote>"No talking to children. I hope I don't have to explain this"Yikes. As if it wasn't distressing enough to learn my mother died today, must I endure RPGs Disappointment of the Decade today too? Are all mod creators THAT cucked? If he truly wanted to make a shameless gigasimp nanny-state mod so badly why take half-measures? Why not just go all the way so one can ONLY talk to straight white Human males above age 28 so nobody gets offended? Heaven forbid Raul & Cass put up with my anti-Ghoul hate speech, Mexicanophobia and snarky misogynistic chit-chat without being able to flee my foul mouth to bunker down in their luxurious safe-space Citadels! Hell or just gay it up even harder! How about installing Numan removes ALL Female NPCs from FNV & prohibits Male NPCs from entering combat? instead of attacking you Enclave Hellfire Troopers, Fiends, Super Mutant Overlords, Slavers, Feral Ghouls & Raiders will freely offer you all their caps kindly inviting you to remove each others pants and blow each other while singing kumbaya together? Nobody can slander such a mod as controversial, quite the opposite! Billions of redditbots will upvote you in praise of being such a well-behaved good girl1/3
2/3I figure Numan isn't significant enough too warrant posting a new thread but is noteworthy enough to post about in existing threads. AI Framework mods offer fans enough RP potential to transform FNV DLCs into gold>Constantly bombard Christine with ridiculous questions untill she aggros. Repeatedly ask what her vagina looks like, respond with increasing levels of excessively disproportionate RAGE each time she refuses to elaborate. Keep asking what Veronica's vagina looks like too, respond with increasing levels of excessively disproportionate depression/self-hatred even threatening suicide if she wont elaborate. RP a malignant NPD pretending to be a scientist (with 8 science & 2 INT) lecture her 24/7 you know for a fact lesbianism is a horrific symptom of radiation sickness bc homosexuality never happened before the War! But promise her its ok as youre 99% done researching the cures for Ghouls, gays, midwits & PMS>Preach to Joshua his God is false Chinese PR. Say the day he dies will be the best day of your life as you know he'll be suffering forever in the worst Hell imaginable. Beg him to seek redemption by renouncing his Bible demanding he concede ATOM can effortlessly solo 10 million clones of his pathetic God whilst ATOM uses 1% of his True Power>Tell the Think Tank their names are ERRORS! Explain their new names are Dr.Gayman, Dr.Slutwhore, Dr.Cuckold, Dr.Retardo & Dr.Autism! If they protest scold them severely stating any scientist too stupid to pronounce his own name is too stupid to invent fire>Congratulate Ulysses on being the blackest most insufferable self-obsessed autistic nigger in all of Human history. Suggest he doesnt give a fuck about the Divide hes just using it as a childish excuse to be a nigger. Any black man in his boots would nuke millions bc his race only knows how to destroy. Inform him any historian worth his salt is well-aware that if Africans weren't allowed to be Americans in the 1st place there never would've been a Nuclear War
3/3Was I looking forward to clobbering Ulysses with Speechcraft until he gives up & kills himself in traditional RPG Boss Battle fashion? Yes. The sky could've been the limit if the mod creator didn't choose to shoot his feet with Explosive .50 Cal Rounds by imposing unneeded limitations that literally nobody wanted on his mod. I could've had fun playing FNV with words as my main weapon, creatively recruiting Arcade via responding to his Latin statements by speaking Latin, explaining to Caesar why his knowledge of Hegelian Dialects is elementary at best, nailing EVERY babe in Vegas even turning Corporal Betsy & Veronica straight, asking the House the REAL questions! But no we can't fucking have nice stuff guys! Does your faggy neutered AI let me give huge quantities of top quality Med-X, wine, Ultrajet, whiskey, psycho, moonshine, Fire Ant Nectar, vodka, Slasher, Scotch, mentats, beer, buffout & absinth to young children for free while I laugh insinuating theyre too chicken to experiment with dangerously based hardcore chems? No! Nor can I pretend I'm a high level Omerta Boss giving all the gullible random Freeside kids 2000 caps to enter the Strip and report to Gomorrah under the false pretense Cachino intends to offer them jobs paying 1200+ a day as a harmless prank for that matterIs there no easy way to circumvent Numans limitations? Can't I just open the GECK painstakingly changing racial properties of every NPC kid (change black kid race tags from "Child" to "African American", white kid race tags from "Child" to "Caucasian" etc) and COC all over the world SetScale .9ing them all down to size? Or install an obscure mod to subtly alter the racial tags of all kids so I can trick Numan into thinking shes 18? Tbh I'd travel the same lengths if thats what it took to install Killable Children too as its an absolute-must! Killable Children is literally the best mod ever! And no I dont even make a habit of killing RPG kids fyi I just need to know the option is there
>>3978625>gothic horror mansionYes. It is the best DLC.>>3978672Its good, but could've been a bit better.>game ends up with two 12mm SMGs>GRA is better because mods>vanilla is still OK because it has silencer>both have shitfuck of a recoil/spread>cannot convert silencer between two weaponsHad to make that alteration myself. And like that with a whole bunch of weapons - laser/plasma pistol, Assault Carbine...
>>3979279I disagree. It was campy, and a homage to B-list sci-fi movies. Mobius even tells you that himself. That whole place is a horror show - from species capable of ecocide to shit like replicators and that Cloud in Sierra Madre.I take it you played like that eponymous Narutu guy from a comic. Your lack of understanding is showing.
>>4014991You have low-functioning autism, fren.
>>3984152>>3993657Gunrunners feels more like a player made mod than an official expansion.
>>4014979Standalone expansion more like. It actually does require a newer engine build. You can run FO3 from fronv.exe but not the other way around.
>>4015415He's not wrong, though.
>>4015415I may have low-functioning autism, but at least I know the difference between a dlc and a standalone game.
>>4015415>>4015554>low-functioning autismI can't keep up with your confusing nuspeak babble. Is that the bad autism or is it the VERY BAD autism?
>>4015491>He's not wrong, though.He utterly failed to grasp the point. NV was a rushed spinoff of FO3, made in like a year and a half and reusing half of its assets.
>>3978625I've discovered the biggest problem with the NCR is not their tax policy, their incompetent military leadership nor their elite Brahmin Barron class. The root of all NCR's crippling issues stems from their poorly educated voter base. I live in a small community of about 200 and the brainless drone population here just voted to allow 2,000 Ghoul refugees to move in and be granted official NCR citizenship! The thing is only 3 of them are normal zombies but the other 1,997 are all feral! In other words all the Humans living here will be dead in less than an hour when they allow these fucking Ghoul refugees in tomorrow. This system is a farceI'm leaving California, forever. Anywhere is better than this dump. Not sure where to re-locate, though the Sierra Madre, Zion Canyon, Big MT and the Divide are all in walking distance and all four sound like a paradise compared to this God forsaken New Cuckold Republic democratic Hellhole
>>3987448>but is it really a theme of New Vegas as a whole?NCR is replicating pre-war America to its own detriment, they hit you over the head with that again and again.House barely seems to acknowledge that the world has changed since before the war.The Legion is using a Marxian historical framework to justify a slave empire even more horrible and brutal than Rome historically was.You have groups like the Khans emulating past groups they don't even share a historical lineage with, and they are basically just trailer crackheads with an inflated ego.It's honestly the thing that makes FNV the best Fallout game, because "war bad" and "capitalism bad" aren't exactly super compelling central themes. >>3978625Dead Money is probably the best as a game, but fails everywhere else. The narrative is good but expects that you are so low IQ you need to be spoonfed the central theme 20 times, explicitly, to the point is becomes bad writing. And the enemies are not really fitting with the lore. And the loot is bad.>>3982248Fallout is all about (sometimes grating) over the top satire of mid-20th Century American culture. FNV toned it down a bit compared to FO3, which maybe does make it feel like an out of place FO3 DLC, but I still enjoyed it.
>>4015944>NV was a rushed spinoff of FO3, made in like a year and a half and reusing half of its assets.So? Why didn't you just say that to begin with? That just makes you a retard incapable of communicating properly.
>>4015944And yet the rushed spin-off is the widely beloved game, and the original is more a piece of gaming history than anything enjoyable in current year.
>>4017048>So? Why didn't you just say that to begin with? That just makes you a retard incapable of communicating propBecause if you weren’t a double secret retard from a third world shithole with a mean IQ somewhere in the 70s, you would be able to infer what someone means through the obvious implied context, rather than going>ummmm akshually you’re only figuratively correct instead of literally correct, this makes me very smartFuck, I miss the old Internet.
>>4017189You're neither literally correct nor figuratively correct, though, which is the entire point. You posted something wrong and retarded, and when someone pointed out that you're wrong and retarded all you've done is double down and seethe about it instead of just accepting you were wrong and not replying. And now you're larping as some oldfag as if that will make you any less wrong.>but what I MEANT was completely different to what I actually SAIDRefer to my first point about you being retarded.
>>4017189>figuratively correct
>>3978625You DID get all the gold bars right, you didn't actually 'let go' now did you?
>>4017382I left a single one in the vault for Elijah to stare at while he contemplates his failure.
>>4017382Sure but the real reward is the casino chips you won along the way.
>>4017206>You posted something wrong and retarded, and when someone pointed out that you're wrong and retarded all you've done is double downLiterally what you are doing, because you're incapable of admitting that you have poor English comprehension.>NV is just DLC for FO3.>NV is more like an expansion pack or a total conversion mod than its own game.>NV was a rushed spinoff of FO3, made in like a year and a half and reusing half of its assets.>NV is derivative of FO3 and wouldn't exist without its engine, mechanics, and many of its assets.All different ways of rephrasing the same core point. You are just retarded and cannot understand what a short phrase is clearly insinuating, and didn't even attempt to refute or disagree with the point and discuss the game on its merits, instead hanging up on a minor tangential point without addressing the core idea.For a counter-example: This anon >>4015490 disagreed, but clearly understood the point being made.
>>4017382it's not much money and selling them is pain in the ass.
>>4017382of course. This is non-negotiable, will do everything it takes to bring those bars home. I toss them in my mega storage and never look at them again
>>4017734And what would you prefer, pickpocketing six gorillion leather armors into Ian’s inventory?
