Thread 717539221

>Finding it, though, that's not the hard part.
>It's letting go.

>>717539221 (OP)
i walked out of there with every bar by using turbo and the slow-time brain implant.

I appreciate the literary complexity and messaging, but my job in an RPG is to break the cage you have given me.

>antagonized and killed every companion
>trapped Elijah in the vault
>didn't take a single bar
>never went back to the BoS bunker
Yeah I let go alright.

>>717539221 (OP)
>grab all the gold
>GAME: NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE IT THERE BECAUSE... REASONS!!
>hmmm
>player.additem 03013F71 37
lmao fuck you obsidian, I didn't went thought that stupid shitty dlc just to get out with empty hands.

>>717539367
FPBP

I stole all the gold just to fill the bathtub in my room with

>pick up all the gold
>drop it in a stack
>carry it out
heh... nothin personnel, narrative throughline

>>717539221 (OP)
I like how many ways there are to force the gold out if you're dedicated enough. Some even seem intended.
Drugs, Sneaking out, or just killing Elijah and stuffing the gold in his head so it doesn't weigh you down.
There's probably more too.

>>717540289
Broken game is broken.

>>717539221 (OP)
>take all of the gold, alcohol and ammo
>lock Elijah in the vault with nothing
>Implant GRX moonwalking across the exploding gantries
>take the long walk back home accompanied by the sweet sounds of the Mysterious Broadcast
>toss the 37 gold bars in the tub before skulling every bottle of whiskey, bourbon and tequila in one sitting
It was never about the money, it's about sending a message.

>>717540067
You can't drag the gold around outside of your inventory. They did think of that one . Course if you put it in a container object you can move around that's another story. Corpses make great carry ons btw.

>You have to let it go man!
Ok, but why?

>>717539221 (OP)
>kill companions
>kill the old man
>did not take any gold
>did take all the security armours and police pistols and saturnite knives, and BAR and assassin's suit
I have no use for gold.

>>717540289
>There's probably more too.
You can combine the stack and yeet it through the barrier, stuff yourself full of GRX and waddle out, do the same but carrying a single stacked bar out physically without butter fingering it. The real hard one is getting everything out while locking Elijah in the vault. So you can listen to him go through the five stages of grief in real time over the radio. That's the true reward right there.

>>717540637
W-well because... Y-you have to, okay?

>>717540637
Because clinging to the past bad.

>>717540927
So it's a message for Elijah and not me?

>>717539221 (OP)
The real prize was the obscene amounts of zero weight pre-war cash anyway.

>>717539367
You didnt drop them in a stack and analog drag them out of the vault?
Dummy

>>717540491
>dragging a stolen sassy crate across the Mojave to plonk it outside of the manhole for easier transport during that final stretch
It would save you a perk slot and some time in the process desu. Providing the game doesn't steal it before you get back.

>>717539221 (OP)
>sniffs 20 turbos
I am speed.

>>717540987
Yeah it's for him and the other main characters from the DLCs like Graham and doctors from OWB.

>>717540491
Yes you could? I did that and stealth boy'd to avoid elijah out of there
my version was for xbox 360 so maybe pc was different

>>717539221 (OP)
>open console
>tgm
>walk out with all the gold

>>717540993
>unlock all of the recipes to get the complementary 1000 chips every three days in the BOS lockbox
>cash every wad of prewar dosh and ciggie cartons for even more free chips
>buy up weapon repair kits to cross reference with thermic lances from the Great Khan vendor for those even greater margins
Money money money moooooney
Moneeey

>>717541495
Mine was also Xbox 360 and I definitely couldn't grab them like that which was extra annoying when trying to decorate.
The Wiki says the same, but honestly NV is so fucked as a game I wouldn't be surprised if it was a coinflip whether you could or not.

>>717541690
Did you drop them in a stack of 5 or however many there were cause iirc that was the only way it worked for me way back

>>717541690
Could've sworn one way I did it was throwing something through the door. I distinctly remember watching all of that loot go over the rails because I fucked up on the trajectory.

>>717539221 (OP)
>ARE THOSE PRECIOUS METALS IN A FIAT ECONOMY AHHHH I'M GOING INSANE SAVE ME FDR!

>>717541008
Why do people still act like this is viable when it got patched like a month after the DLC launched 15 years ago?

>>717542098
Probably because i was unware it got patched after i finshed the dlc 15 years ago

>>717542098
>consolefag can't afford the gold toll
>stuck playing the day 1 version of launch FNV with all the bugs involved
There are people out there right now who played the entirety of Skryim on the PS3 like a roguelike because of that fucking savebug. The same one that Bethesda put a sticky plaster on and called it a day.

>>717542464
There are some games that I think about 10 years from now, people will have forgotten launched on 7th gen consoles first, like Skyrim and GTA5.

>>717539221 (OP)
since when is not getting the gold part of the "lesson" of the DLC's story? I always just interpreted as part of the reward you can get in the vault (even if it's a bit of a challenge to get all gold bars, even getting some is a good cash reward)

>>717542737
2deep4you

What's gold worth to a dead society? The most those bricks are good for would be braining someone to death like a rock.

>>717543263
the society is very much alive

>>717543263
Ask Caesar, his legion aurei are made of gold.

>>717539221 (OP)
This quest sucked
>stuck forever in shitty town with shitty half immortal enemies and chores that keep piling on
>can't go back to my house when I need a break
that is not how I want to play New Vegas

>>717543263
Gold is useful for electronics.
Even if nobody gave a shit about gold being shiny monkey brain catnip anymore it would still have a use.

>>717543263
>What's gold worth to a dead society?
About 10000 caps.

>>717543868
Oh yeah, all the electronics manufacturers of the wasteland. They sure need a lot of gold. Huge market.

If Obsidian was based they would make the gold extremely cheap value to sell unless you find a very specific person in the wastes, because old world gold has no real value except for a few certain groups (maybe Caesar's legion). Or hell, make the gold all fake in the end, if you bring it with you then you realize that it was never worth escaping with it in the first place

>>717543868
It's silly to think that gold would stop being shiny monkey brain catnip just because most people are dead
I mean, just look at the ancient egyptians, the ancient chinese, and the ancient bulgarians who loved gold as early as 5000 BC

>>717539221 (OP)
overrated as hell game

>>717543981
Fallout 4 explicitly has you use gold for laser gun improvements.
This is an in setting thing. Also yes NCR does have industry. Society in Fallout still exists. Or at least it did before the TV show blew it up.

>>717545015
True.
>>717545049
>Fallout 4
Who cares?

It always seemed to me like they really wanted to have a dilemma like the end to The Italian Job, but couldn't manage it in the Fallout 3 engine so instead they just made the gold weigh too much and slapped a time limit on getting out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCaSyid4m0

>>717543263
Vanity. A brahmin lord would pay a pretty penny in shitty bottlecaps to get his hands on a lump of shiny metal from before the war. Redding used to be a booming slave operation that paid its people in chits for each pound of gold they pulled up. Well before the BoS glassed the NCR's entire economy with no survivors.