Thread 717751243

how goes the mojave?

just got me a couple hundred jhp 12.7mm rounds, no deathclaw gonna fuck with me

I wish I could understand what kind of 'tism I have. I absolutely adore running the tutorial path from Goodsprings through Primm, Nipton, Searchlight, Novac, and Boulder City. I've done it dozens of times. Then I get to level 10 while entering Freeside and I start to check out.

HIT ME

>>717752126
for me it's the complete opposite. just get to vegas as fast as possible and there's like two dozen cool quests right there

>>717752217
>1st Recon Beret
>Lucky Shades
>Joshua Graham's Armor / Ulysses' Duster
uhhh I'm thinkin' BASED??

>>717752312
save it, it's all yours friend

>>717753370
It's like I'm talking with myself right now.

>>717751243 (OP)
>do the I Fought The Law quest
>get to the end when the NCR is about to raid the prison
>sneak attack every Powder Ganger with a .22 pistol except Eddie and Meyers
>tell him the NCR is here, and after he says thanks blow his brains out with a shotgun
>put on an NCR uniform so the troops don't shoot
>.22 the entire squad
>leave Meyers behind to wonder wtf just happened

yup... it's fnv time...

>>717754194
Taking Claustrophobia and Early Bird was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made.

>>717751243 (OP)
>tell myself that I won't do a NCR run this time
>tell myself I'll do something different this go around
>by the end of the game, end up pic related again
I just can't help myself. NCR just makes too much sense.

>>717754824
How can the NCR make sense when the perfectly sensible, reasonable, and effective Legion is just right there, waiting for you to enlist your service for an idea greater than the will of the wealthy elites?

>>717755019
I would do a legion run if the devs didn't make that faction so fucking barebones.

>>717755209
It's not bare bones. Once you become listed as a terrorist you're going to be spending the rest of the game either wearing disguises or killing settlements of Profligates who are mindless brahmin for idle masters.

i've conquered the entire mojave yet i feel empty inside

>>717751243 (OP)
Blue hud is such a fuckin eye sore and I see it everywhere. What genetic defect causes people to play like this?

>>717756815
Damn I really gotta try using wild wasteland sometime

>>717756815
Kino

>>717756878
wy r u gey
u r gey

Fallout NV needs a VR mod

>>717756878
i use white cus it reminds me of cum and i like that
legionbro btw

>>717751243 (OP)
>15 years later
>Not a single decent mod to make New Vegas the peal of the Mojave Wasteland like it's described.
And we even got good urban mods for Outer Vegas now.

>>717757867
unless someone makes fallout new vegas run on a 64 bit engine somehow it's never gonna happen

>>717751243 (OP)
Feels good man

>>717751243 (OP)
Feels bad man

>>717751243 (OP)
Hard, can't decided whether I want to get YCS186 or Gobi Campaign Rifle for my run.

>>717759963
why not get the hyperbreeder alpha

>>717759963
>wanting the Something Awful reference

>>717759384
Man, I hate raidders.

>>717754194
I can never take Logan's Loophole because I can't stand not being max level even when I don't need it.

>>717760679
It's good meat

>>717760847
>Cha +1
lol never forgive the female for their crimes

>>717760847
>0 Survival requirement
bullshit

>>717761307
You get the recipe from a book, so locking it behind survival would make no sense

>>717752217
big 1 CHA energy

>>717760085
No, I want to snipe
>>717760451
It's a fun gun, I don't care about your woes.

>>717760825
Do OWB, collect autodoc upgrades and you can remove it once you hit the loophole's level cap.

EYY, MON OR WOMON. WANTA BUY SUM BANG BANGS?

>>717761483
You get a bunch of recipes from books or being taught them, Survival is also your skill at cooking

>>717761514
what were they thinking with that fo3 shotty design

>>717762160
It even comes with a picture guide

>>717761502
you better believe it

>>717762554
I like it

>>717762554
>unique version literally called the terrible shotgun
they knew

>want to create a different character
>always end up with Lucky and a crit build

>>717758869
With how the fan FNV remake in Fo4's engine crashed and burned that will indeed never happen

>>717761502
Speech checks should unlock with charisma, because otherwise charisma is quite literally worthless and everybody dumps it.

It's usually always Mr. House for me, sometimes I join ncr for a cowpoke survivalist ranger character, but I just can't subject small towns like primm and good springs to taxes and loss of autonomy

>>717762554
>what were they thinking with that fo3 shotty design
Exactly the same thing they were thinking with any design in the game.

>>717763152
>charisma is quite literally worthless
It keeps your companions alive and doing damage, which is marginally useful on Hardcore if you don't want to chain alcohol and party time mentats for every big fight

>>717763317
I never use companions, they are worthless.

>>717753825
kek

>>717752140
Hey kid. The house always wins

>>717762554
Nobody in Bethesda ever saw a gun in their lives

>>717754194
skilled is a boring as hell trait and I cannot bring myself to take it anymore.

>>717763758
I like taking Fast Shot, it pairs nicely with the Cowboy perk and non automatic weapons.

luv me melee weapons
luv heavy handed
luv hot blooded
luv just runnin in swingin
luv sendin deathclaws to the moon
simple ass

>>717763152
SPECIAL should govern more than just starting skills.
Remove most of the attribute checks and make it so they are a cap to skills; ie if you have a charisma of 1, your speech should max out at 10.

>>717763940
ol' reliable

>>717764037
Wrong game

>>717762554
I honestly have no idea. Its one of the few returning Fo3 weapons with no obvious design elements taken from 1 or 2. My best guess is that they tried to combine the combat shotgun from 1 and the jackhammer from 2 and just sorta bungled it

>>717763972
>>717763152
I'd rather have SPECIAL than D20

>>717752140
BABY ONE MORE TIME!

>>717763972
I use tweaks so that way, if I want to be able to reach 100 barter/speech, I actually have to invest in charisma. Right now with my charisma and luck, the max I can have in either is 85, which means I won't be able to talk myself out of fighting Ulysses/Lanius/Oliver.

>>717763972
>SPECIAL should govern more than just starting skills.
Strength determines carry weight and weapon swing speed/accuracy
Perception determines when you get the blips on your compass
Endurance raises maximum health
Charisma gives Companion Nerve (+damage +DR for companions)
Agility gives Action Points and draw/holster speed
Luck gives Crit chance and better odds at gambling

Intelligence is the only SPECIAL that does nothing but give skill points

>>717764419
That works.
We also can just get rid of speech as a skill altogether. Being persuasive is basically being charismatic anyway.
The Attributes need a general rebalance to see what covers what. Intelligence being so important makes sense, but makes it too OP. Caps depending on the physical traits are a good way to limit INT's opness

>>717764858
>Being persuasive
not every speech check is persuasion

>>717764718
Perception is useless because of EDI
Companion Never is a useless trait
Max health isn't all that great
The rest is actually pretty useful.
But those I mentioned need rebalancing.

>>717765064
>Companion Nerve is a useless trait
You've never done an Aggressive Boone+Rex 10 Charisma run, have you?

>>717764906
If it's convincing someone with words it's persuasion.

>>717763940
This image goes HARD

>>717765205
not every speech check is convincing someone

>>717765161
No, but I can do one and I'd still think that.

>>717765279
Yes it is.
>The ability to communicate in a practical and efficient manner. The skill of convincing others that your position is correct. The ability to lie and not get caught.

>>717765358
that's just flavor text, which is frequently incorrect in nv. see the agility screen for the vigor tester saying it affects movement speed.

>>717754824
>ncr makes sense
>women soldiers

>>717765538
Guns are the great equalizer.

>>717765538
let's be real, they only join because they want to be raped and enslaved by legion chads. The unlucky ones end up in fiend's hands.

>>717765501
It's a description of the skill.
What example to do you have of a speech check that's not persuasion?

>>717765672
why do women get so moist over legion men

>>717762937
What happened to it? I heard the mod team split but that's all I know.

>>717761502
Yep

>1500 hours in nv
>dozens of characters
>replays
>something slightly different
>even something like learning hwo to make .44 ammo from that dude in freeside made me replay and skipping hand loader felt nice for once
>its been over a year since my last replay
>cant think of any weapon type, character archetype and so on to justify playing again

>>717765856
I dunno myself, something about them all fighting each other.

>>717765852
>My pussy can FIX them
All women

>>717766103
Sneak, speech, explosives? Thought about starting one but I think it would limit many quests with the speech but it's almost necessary without another weapon skill. Maybe unarmed and stick to fists plus the special techniques.

>>717766428
i have not sneaksniped main in like 11 or 12 years
might be time

>all these images
>no graphic mods
what the fuck is wrong with you people

>>717766103
see
>>717754676
4 ST, 6 PE, 7 EN, 5 CH, 7 IN, 4 AG, 7 LU

Take Claustrophobic and Early Bird as traits

Take Night Person (Level 10), Walker Instinct (Level 18), and Solar Powered (Level 20) as perks.

Enjoy schizo-maxxing until you can't handle the bullshit anymore.

>>717766519
Why use shitty graphics mods when the game already looks great?

>>717762554
Someone confused a Street Sweeper with a PPSH

>>717754824
>NCR just makes too much sense
Maybe it's just me, but between the choice between a medal and taxes, A coin minted after me and free access to arizona, literal anarchy, or being the richest man in the region's top guy.
Im being the top guy.

>>717765856
Yeah, the whole thing fell apart when two of the lead devs had a slapfight over direction-one wanted to keep it lore-accurate, the other started adding anime factions and weird immersion-breaking stuff. Then the rest of the team took sides, half bounced, and the Discord turned into a cold war overnight. Project remnants are probably scattered across three different GitLab forks now, none of them playable.

>>717766625
game is infamous for looking absolute shit

>>717765795
the courier waxing poetic to pete during the boomer museum tour

>>717751243 (OP)
Doing a D.U.S.T playthrough and I am going fucking INSANE.

>>717766519
>wanted to try out a wabbajack modlist because I'm too lazy to install 1k mods individually
>doesn't support win10 LTSC for some reason
So I'll stick with a basic texture overhaul and new vegas reloaded.

>>717766775
You're convincing him you give a shit about his tribe's history

>>717755019
>justice
lmao okay, sure

>>717762739
>>717763014
>>717765965
nice roleplay fags

>>717754676
>>717766551
I think I'll pick all those for my next run.

>>717767007
>california and half of oregon is larger than arizona, new mexico, and the halves of colorado and utah

>>717766745
>the other started adding anime factions and weird immersion-breaking stuff
This is why big modding projects never goes anywhere

>>717766851
These fuckers all tried to rush me when I took a nap but I CORRECTED them.

>>717767249
>muh square footage
land doesn't vote or fight

>>717767223
I wanted to do energy weapon run and I'm doing it. The fuck you're going to do?

>>717767249
yeah

>>717767249
>when you have no infrastructure and have to march everywhere on foot

>>717767350
nothing
godspeed autismo

okay you may have gay shit like facts and logic on your side
but we've have got stuff that matters like aesthetics and hegelian dialectics

>>717767698
>aesthetics
hey man if you want to wear a skirt, go ahead

>>717767894
my balls are too big for pants
since you type like a faggot i'll let you suck on them so you'll stop being so catty, fatty

>>717767407
oi that's cheating, look how many people you have crowded in that smaller area

>>717767007
>noooooooo
>our true strength is hidden
My favorite NCRkeks cope

>>717766745
>anime factions and weird immersion-breaking stuff
Figures. Tranny mods always descend into making stupid fetishistic content without a project lead who's even slightly competent at managing large teams. It's why New Frontier became a shitshow because there was nobody in charge who could just say

>No. We are not adding stupid looking lizard people you bought from the unreal asset store. Now get back to work and if I see you modeling another diaper wearing fox cub you will be removed from the project.

>>717767407
>smartest ncr cuck

YOUR THREE DAYS ARE UP. PAY YOUR TAXES NOW!

Gods, do I love leveling up outside of combat

>>717768135
Legion already lost the first battle of hoover dam, and burnt their best general

>>717768135
>hidden
the game tells you ten times over that the NCR's presence in the Vegas area is far from its actual size and strength.

>>717767007
>get's nuked

>>717768283
And yet the NCR is still scared
>>717768305
No, it doesn't. By the time of the final battle all the relevant troops are there.

>>717768305
>yeah bro we have thousand soldsiers just offscreen no you can't see them
California is fake, I've never seen it, it's not real

>>717768283
>burnt their best general
Multiple people comment that Graham's grasp of tactics and strategy was "I'm immortal, I win"

And then he lost after taking Hoover Dam because being personally unkillable doesn't matter if you let your army run into a huge trap that kills most of them

>>717754194
I thought Logans Run was about people turning level 30 not 21

>"... President Kimball ordered our most experienced rangers to chase ghosts down in Baja."

>It's kind of a long one, but all right. About twenty, twenty-five years ago, a group of NCR settlers pushed way south into Baja.
>I guess it doesn't seem so far now if you look at a map, but back then, they were out a ways.
>They built this little shanty town around a well in the middle of nowhere. Called it Rattletail.
>Word got back to one of our stations that raiders had been attacking the place. I went out with six rangers.
>We must have been on the trail for a week before we got to Rattletail. We lost one woman to Night Stalkers and another almost died of dehydration.
>When we reach the place, it's six shacks set up around an old well.
>There's over two dozen bodies lying in the dunes way outside of town and five men with .308 rifles crouched behind sand bags.
>And these bodies, these people out in the sand, they aren't raiders. Aren't even heavily armed.
>They're just people who were trying to get to the only well in fifty miles. I didn't have to talk to the men to see that they did not care one bit.
>They had planted an NCR flag over the well and they would not budge until every last one of them was laid out, dead and cold.
>So I walked up and told them there was a group of raiders coming, one hundred strong. I made up some cockamamie name for them and everything.
>The men looked at each other, looked at us, and asked me what we were going to do about it.
>I told him we would take them back into NCR territory because we had already lost ten rangers on the way out. Ten rangers, five men with .308 rifles.
>Well, that was enough for them. They packed up what they could and we took them back north...

It's amazing how much damage Hanlon did to the NCR campaign by being a natural-born liar. He's more skilled and more devastating to the NCR machine than any Legion frumentarii.

>>717768619
jswayer mod changes the max level cap fro 50 to 35

>>717768619
jsawyer changes it to 21. it was 21 in the movie

>>717768619
The movie is them turning 30, the book is them turning 21. 30 is 3/5ths of 50, and 21 is 3/5ths of 35, which is the max level for JSawyer and its forks.

>>717768718
>>717768747
>>717768748
holy botposting samefaggotry batman

>>717768820
that was a samefaggotry too btw

>>717768685
wait, the ghosts that kimball is chasing are the raiders hanlen lied about?

>>717768820
>less than a minute apart
not how that works, retard

This used to be one of my favorite games until trannies took over and ruined it.

>>717769139
Bots don't have post timers.

>>717768718
I change it back to 36 to get one extra perk.

>>717769525
ok

>>717768685
>General Kimball ascended to President
>General Oliver is his placeman
>Oliver is deliberately sidelining the Rangers at the Dam because he's personally offended they get all the credit for saving the day in the First Battle
>Kimball just happens to also have the Veterans fucking around doing nothing in Baja
>Oliver's mismanagement allowed the prison riot at NCRCF and is letting the Fiends mass outside McCarran due to hyperfixating his men onto the Dam
>bonus round: Oliver's personal lovechildren, the Heavy Troopers, are back in California protecting Brahmin Ranches from nothing that needs troops with heavy weapons and armor
Hanlon hasn't damaged dick, Kimball and Oliver are deliberately fucking over their own soldiers out of pride and jealousy

>>717769596
Eat a .45-70 slushie, mouth-breather.

>>717767698
>and hegelian dialectics
mogged by Marxist historical materialism, which indicates the NCR will win

I have never understood the hype behind JSM. Ive tried ot a few times and I've never found it to be more enjoyable or engaging than the base game. I seriously don't understand retards who tell new players they have to use it on their first playthrough.

>>717769809
Anyone who tells a new player to use any mods beyond bug fixes and utilities is a retard, yes. JSMU / Vigor / Lone Star / [insert other fork here] is appreciated because it makes the game a bit more difficult by reducing inventory weight and cutting the level cap so you can't get all of the good perks and horde items, or you need to burn a few perks on weight-management perks like Pack Rat or Strong Back. There's also improvements to how items are named and read, which is a huge boon.

For me, it's about immersion. A weight limit of about 90lbs is more reasonable to me than 200lbs.

>>717769809
>I seriously don't understand retards who tell new players they have to use it on their first playthrough.
nobody does this

>>717770240
A lot of people did that, it was pretty much a staple of any new player conversation for years.

>>717770489
I never saw it and I do not believe you when you say you have

>>717770576
Okay? I'm sorry you feel that way.

>>717752140
I GOT 99 PROBLEMS BUT A BITCH AIN'T ONE

>>717768685
What? All he did was make up some reports.
The Legion blowing up the monorail or Searchlight are way, way worse.

>>717769525
Just change it to 50 through ini file along with base carry weight. You don't exactly need to abide to the autism Sawyer originally wanted to implement.

>>717751243 (OP)
Isn't that statue a bit overboard/unrealistic for some whatever footnote in history?

>>717769695
>historical materialism
Unproven nonsense written by a retarded that never accomplishef anything.
Clausewitz's theory affirms that the Legion is bound to prevail.

>>717771393
>overboard
Yes thats the point "its like the NCR showing its dick to all the east"
>unrealistic
No not really. If you look closely it's just a bunch of scrap metal over a very simple frame. Virtually any metal shop with enough people could do something like that. It probably wont last forever though.

>>717760847
>>717761225
You niggas are so weird.

>>717761502
Cringe. Charisma will always be at 6 so I can have Animal Friend and be a god with monsters.

>>717765856
lets be real, it was never going to happen

>>717766103
Play Fallout 4. You'll start missing features from NV and it'll give you the urge and idea to play again.

>>717766103
why are cowboys such a fun way to play
and for some reason, even if you have like a cyberpunk or fantasy setting, you still get cowboys and they still get to be the coolest ones in those games

>>717769187
Fuck off, well poisoning axewound.

>>717769187
trannies haven't taken over anything and they never will, no amount of bans will change that fact

>>717769187
imagine just rolling over and surrendering anytime trannies encroach on something you don't like, pathetic

>>717772770
something you like*

>three totally organic posts replying all at once to an hour old frogpost subtly trying to derail the thread with tranny shitposting
You are all vermin. Fuck off.

>>717766519
NTA, but every graphical mod I've seen looks like shit.
There's this one I've seen some youtubers use, that's allegedly supposed to make characters look better, but instead each and every one of them looks like the same 40 year old man.
I get that the F3 character creation hasn't aged gracefully, but I think they did a good job making the important characters. Compare how Caesar looks in the base game and how he looks in the FNV redesigned mod. It's like they didn't even take a cue.

i'm surprised it took 150+ replies before the thread devolved into the usual /pol/ screeching

>>717773441
I'm looking forward to the remasters for the sole reason of seeing how well they'll capture the intended design of these characters and the enviroments.
If they come closer to making the derelict shitholes etc look like Adamowicz' old designs and also make the characters look less crappy, then I'll consider buying the NV one.

>get 'high res graphics' mod
>look inside
>it's art style replacement

>>717772443
fo4 is in the same boat as nv

>>717751243 (OP)
Got my lever action and my revolvers, so im pretty happy.

I tried to play melee in New vegas but I had forgotten how bad the combat was

>>717773863
I think explosives and semi-automatic firearms have the best game feel of all weapons in FO3/New Vegas by a large margin

>>717773610
Scary fact; a good chunk of NV players use tacticool clothing and blood splatter mods

>>717774151
Semi autos have a weird hitch in their recoil animation, most apparent in the 10mm pistol. It almost requires a certain rhythm to fire quickly rather than the pathetic base rate of fire. I think it was more noticable in 3 than NV but I also tend use cowboy guns more there.

>>717774167
Nothing wrong with blood splatter replacers because the default looks like candle wax.

>>717751243 (OP)
TRANNY GAME!

>>717774151
explosives are fun, and i hate blade runner, but "that gun" was satisfying

>>717773863
i like the melee combat however

>>717776470
Delete this, you're ruining the narrative.

>>717776879
Nah

fallout based in ohio when?

>>717777527
>welcome to ohio!
>haha, you are now trapped in ohio!
no thanks...

>>717777631
>Objective: GET OUT!

>>717777631
>he doesn't want to navigate a map full of half finished road construction and the most chaotic weather

>>717751243 (OP)
I don't understand why anyone would play without mods at this point. Even my potato pc can handle a vast amount of them. Just to make the game look a little bit prettier, maybe the improve the shooting and animations a little.
>inb4 muh devs original vision
Even the main fucking dev made an overhaul mod.

>>717776470
imagine the kino once NCR seizes control of Vegas and the Legion collapses, and they can then sweep the 80s out of northern Nevada and incorporate the rest of New Canaan

>>717778068
and yet no VR mod ;-; ;-; ;-; ;-;

>>717765538
The women are often kept away from the frontlines. It's still less retarded than using them for hard manual labour.

>>717755019
>Being intimidated by Vulpes
kek

>>717765538
when population is low one must using all of its citizens

Are there any vehicle mods without fucked up physics yet

>>717759515
The only memorable part of this vault is the fact that the sacrificial chamber is buggy, so the game crashes unless if the Courier isn't wearing any armour and immediately VATS all of the robots to death as soon as the doors open.

>>717778438
>needing vehicles for a map the size of a small town

You guys install any mods you found neat recently?

>>717760847
Troons hate adult female humans.

>>717778505
>Needing
No I was asking because I thought it would be cool to replay the game with them instead of fast travelling around

>>717778889
>fast traveling

>>717771629
Historically, the country with more industry wins, as shown in the civil war, WW2, etc.

>>717751395
I’ve never actually used the 12.7mm guns in the game

>>717779094
It isn't teleportation. Time still passes. It's like travelling on the map in the first two games, but without the animation.

>>717752126
I really love the 'beginner' route. Theres not that much talking or questing, just silent exploring

None of you underage faggots played Fallout 1 and 2.

>>717779536
im 38 saar

>>717779536
I did. Fallout 1 was alright, I think I liked it better than Fallout 2 all things considered.

>>717779536
You can still play the first two games today, whether that's by buying them or pirating them.

>>717767007
LOL
LMAO

>>717767007
the NCR will capture the strip in two more weeks

Why do you guys replay this game? Doesn't it get boring?

>>717751395
>>717751243 (OP)
>wasting all that metal in a post-apocalyptic scenario

>>717757439
>Oh, heck, I've heard of you. Supposed to be a regular hero or something, ain't that right?

>>717765538
would unironically curb stomp you, even if you are baiting

>>717780087
he isnt just baiting he is master debating

>>717780087
>this is what basedboys and foids unironically believe

>>717757081
KEK

>>717780087
To be fair, any soldier can curbstomp a civilian. It isn't impressive.

>>717779669
But he's right. Lanius is a competent commander, but defeating an unpopular expeditionary force is different from capturing the NCR's core territories. The NCR has some industry, while the Legion has much less industry. With the exception of the Hoover Dam and Helios One power stations, the Mojave isn't exactly an industrial hub.

>>717780481
not female "soldiers" lol

>>717762554
It's strong though and has a good punch

>>717780638
There are quite a few factories that could be kickstarted with the right know-how in the Mojave, but yeah the whole plan to conquer the NCR entirely within one lifetime hinges on a "kick the door and the rotten structure will fall" meme where the NCR implodes in response to losing frontier land that it hasn't even held for a particularly long time

>>717779973
Metal ain't hard to come by in the apocalypse.

>>717779885
Atmosphere and depth is peak

>>717782792
anon, it's not about the mojave
it's about what the mojave would give them

primarily water and electricity because they don't have gold money anymore

>>717752126
fucking hell, same
never went farther than the boomer quest and I have over 300 hours in this fucking game

I don't care that trannies like the game but why do they need to make it so that if you really like and play the game a lot you're a close tranny? Like why cant you just enjoy the game without it having to do with your identity? Why make thousands of people uncomfortable by saying "hey you play new Vegas every year? You're trans!'

>>717783261
forced meme

>>717752126
sorry anon but jogging up a steep hill in the middle of a desert without any sort of backpack isn't exactly an immersive autistic experience

>>717783261
actual psy-op

>>717783261
Its because Josh Sawyer would be a troon if there was such a thing in his day, good game vision but still he would definitely have been a troon

as a retired courier living on the interest generated by your accumulated caps, where do you retire?

for me? it's the big horn saloon in boulder city

>>717752126
a big thing for me personally is that the quests are far too concentrated
the area around vegas is practically devoid of quests and interactions while vegas itself is filled to the brim
I get that vegas is the beacon of civilisation in the wasteland but that doesn't mean there should be nothing going around it
the exact opposite should be the case, large and prosperous cities have always had a strong periphery

>>717783880
I have no plans beyond mating press with moore right there on the base grounds

>>717783880
Goodsprings
>clean water
>plentiful meat from geckos
>good saloon for drinking tended to by a MILF
>prospector bro to share stories with
>irrelevant enough that the legion or NCR won't really give a dam
But mostly I'll stay there to fuck my wife Sunny Smilles day in day out
>>717784015
b-based

>>717768685
>some the greatest soldiers in the entirety of the NTR
>at least one is a woman
>die to a night stalker
>can't even carry enough water

>>717779536
I've played both

>>717784461
Forgot pic

>>717782924
That's like arguing that the USSR would collapse without Ukraine so Barbarossa would succeed, the NCR has the resources to redirect into a war effort even without the Mojave. Actually scratch that, Barbarossa is way to generous in reference to the Legion, pretty much nobody treats the war in the Mojave as an existential threat, it's closer to Vietnam, where the NCR sees the Legion as a hindrance to their growth but has difficulty justifying the effort to a disinterested civilian population. Even that is generous, because I doubt Saigon was the most popular tourist destination during the Vietnam war. Maybe 30 years down the line a loss will come back to bite them in the ass, but it'll be a slow decline with the Legion chewing at the NCR over time as opposed to the Legion gloriously marching over the West within two weeks

>>717784828
cool story retard

>>717784893
Dumb nigger

>>717777527
76 is adding part of Ohio in december. Have my condolences and enjoy your monkey paw

>>717751243 (OP)
Show me your fashion niggers, I want to start a new game and I want ideas

>>717785214
I want a Fallout game where over water shipping plays a role, I want the age of piracy because nobody has the fuel to run an ironclad navy, I want empires that are attempting to colonize islands in the Caribbean or maybe sailing around the Baja. But because there are no vaults, BoS, and supermutants, we'll never get it.

>>717785143
Boggles the mind that they're still wasting resources on that turd. I guess the atomic shop pays really well for itself.

>>717785609
Sort of had it with the Pitt

>>717785673
>wasting resources on that turd
A lot people still play it dude, and those pigs spend big on micros

>>717785609
That'd be cool, but I fear getting big polities dies with New Vegas. In 4 we don't even have confirmation that the BoS left DC with some semblence of order (but we do have creation club content to suggest the contrary lol)
>no vaults
Why wouldn't there be vaults? They're a countrywide thing. I mean, it's a little ridiculous, increasingly more so, to find ones that haven't been scavanged into nonexistance, but vaults being present is fine.

>>717785728
>Sort of had it with the Pitt
Did we though? The river in the Pitt just instakills you.
I really just wish F3 was set way, waaay earlier because it's totally scavengable that way. The Pitt being an early attempt at a post-apocalyptic city state makes a lot more sense a decade after the war than two centuries.

>>717785214
A metro the size of DFW having a "the sign was faded lol" name like Novac does is pretty silly. Dafwo doesn't even sound good

>>717785941
I mean as in you won't be finding Vaults in Cuba or Jamaica or wherever else. But God it would be so cool, wealthy robber barons fighting with local cannibal tribes to expand their sugar plantations, remnants of the Communist Cuban regime that still manage to manipulate the locals and stop "post-nuclear American encroachment", ships mysteriously disappearing in the Bermuda triangle, rad storms blowing in during hurricane season, a hidden untouched shangri-la type place hidden in the Caribbean that explorers are hunting for to claim, I just want a Fallout game that is mixed with the old Sid Meier's Pirates game so bad.

>>717786158
How do you even get Dafwo out of Dallas anyway lol
Also, I really like this naming convention
>[The] Pitt(sburg)
>No(-)Vac(ancy)
>C(arefu)l
Are there any more?

>>717786097
I meant Point Lookout, my bad

>>717786158
Fort Dallas sounds better, like in the economic collapse in the fallout universe, fort worth and dallas merged

>>717782792
The few factories (especially the Gun Runner factory) would definitely be a boon for the Legion, but the NCR's core is even more industrialised. The NCR is able to have trains, at least one Vertibird, hand-made Kevlar, and possibly some trucks (unless if those trucks were at Camp McCarran since before WW3). The NCR is also able to provide their army with largely standardised equipment (some new and some refurbished), while the Legion is mostly reliant on lawnmower blades for the grunts and good firearms for the elites.
>>717782924
Electricity is the main factor. All of those factories, homes, etc. need energy to run.

>>717786564
It's from Dallas-Fort Worth

>>717786625
>hand-made Kevlar
hahahahahaha

>>717786307
Point Lookout and the Pitt didn't have any vaults so it could be dlc :^)
But anyways, I don't think a Fallout game would ever stray out of the US much. And that's both Bethesda and Obsidian/Interplay Fallouts. Americana is just too tied to the game's identity, and I say this as a Europoor.
If the game is set in the southwest, I could see a little of it going into Mexico (though none of the three that are have done this)
The NCR even expanded into Baja, which I'm fine with as just a lore thing.
I also wouldn't mind seeing a game set near the Canadian border, where the northernmost part of the map is what used to be Canada. Just keep light.
An NPC dialogue about some factions in Canada/Mexico would make theorists run wild I bet.
>Bermuda triangle
That'd be fun actually. I wouldn't mind them reusing the underwater vault concept for that idea (yeah yeah too much VT but honestly it just makes sense to have one in the ocean(see; the enclave oil rig)
I'm still a bit sore the fallout set in Nevada didn't have area 51, but I get having alien fatigue after mothership zeta

>>717783880
Vault 22, my wife's hotel

>>717787081
How do you get over the gamebryo face?

>>717783880
For me, it's building a home in this spot near Fields' Shack. It's in the middle of nowhere, but near an assassin ambush point for easy loot every few days, far enough from anyone that I don't have to worry about collateral damage (including those two junkies that hang around near Fields' Shack), and close enough to amenities that I can still sell my loot. If building from new isn't possible, then Fields' Shack.

i love playing new vegas so much
remake hecking when?

>>717787302
why was this deleted?

>>717787423
Hit a bit too close to home for one of the jannies.

>>717787423
Beside being thinly veiled bait?

>>717786740
It's retarded, but one of the loading screen tips says that the ranger combat armour is hand-made in the NCR, so there is some production, but it's restricted to the elite special forces types. The grunts just get leather.

>>717787080
I feel like there is an element of Americana in the Southeast that is strongly tied to that whole sort of experience in the Caribbean, at least in Louisiana, the coast of Texas, and like Florida. You could definitely throw in some Calvin Candy style plantation owner, a not!Huey P Long politician with ambitions of breaking away from a larger empire, or some Tony Montana drugrunner building out his own fleet that could go toe-to-toe with one of the major players.

>>717752126
>not running past the deathclaws
what are you, gay

>>717752126
You get too strong too quickly in FNV

>>717752126
When you enter Freeside and start closing in on Benny the main quest begins to have some narrative urgency which doesn't sit comfortable with players that just wanna take it in the Mojave

Let's say hypothetically I have never played New Vegas. Should I go vanilla the first time around or follow one of those mod guides?

>>717788115
Can't go wrong with first time vanilla, when you're more experienced start modding it
of course you should mod it a little with bug fixes and things like that

>>717751243 (OP)
>>717751395
That monument looks much cooler ingame but in actual screenshots it just looks so goofy.

>>717788115
There used to be a good mod guide that was pretty much just stability and bug fixes, like there are problems with weird crashes and stuff in DLCs. You should do a couple of vanilla playthroughs before fiddling with mods.

>>717787617
no it's fucking not

>>717788030
which is funny because dealing with Benny is usually when most players go and do Honest Hearts, so after getting invited to meet Caesar and become an NCR glownigger, the Courier abruptly disappears for 3 months into Zion Canyon

>>717788115
don't mod unless you need to install unofficial patch or bug fix mods to get it to work

>>717751243 (OP)
I love New Vegas so much, the mojave is so fucking comfy.

>>717788030
The main quest doesn't become at all urgent until you actually enter the Strip. That's why they put the gate there.

>>717788115
Vanilla.

>>717788030
I think after you activate the securitron army, it kind of calms down again. By that point it's just a series of diplomatic missions where the main factions just sort of get their shit sorted out.

>>717787081
Anon, around ghouls...

>>717788115
i play full vanilla all the time

>>717785609
>I want fallout without the fallout

>>717788337
This. If you're not at least level 30 before you enter the Strip, then you're going to have a bad time.

>>717788329

>>717788261
It's in one of the loading screen tips.
The material is probably made by a machine and the gear is just finished by hand, but it's unlikely that it's pre-WW3 kevlar because kevlar degrades eventually.

>>717773441
I like FNV Redesigned
And BNW

>>717788645
NTA but NV is already that

>>717788751
>NV is already that

>>717788486
I meant Vault 21

I played all of the Fallout games in order of release. I really liked 1 and 2. I kind of had to force myself to play 3, due to it being 3D and in first person. Giving NV a chance didn't require much effort, because I read it's a return to form.
Now I just have 4 left, but I can't bring myself to play it. Obviously I've read commends how it sucks. I've seen some gameplay videos and it looks even less tempting than 3 looked once I was done with 2.

I also see people loving to replay it. I couldn't see myself replaying it, because I already know what's going to happen and what the possibilities are.

>>717788115
https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html

Everything through "Base Finish", please.

>>717788115
Yeah, it's an old game so you should mod it but keep it light. Nothing that changes the gameplay too much or adds quests, but there's no reason to not use bug fixes, maybe a graphical overhaul if your computer can take it, or improve the animations, HUD, and sounds.
I would say you should follow this guide and avoid the gameplay and content sections and you're good: https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html

>>717788645
I grow bored of supermutants, the BoS, and bottle caps. Vaults are fine, but also artificially limited in number, so at this rate they'll either have to retcon the number given or create a whole new "vault" like program. I'd like to see whatever discount bullshit a country like Cuba came up with to survive a nuclear war.

>>717788873
>>717788881
samefag

>>717779127
>Historically, the country with more industry wins
Not necessarily. While war economy is an important factors, others also remain fundamental in predicting an outcome.

>>717788851
Most of the disorder ingame is due to the current war, not the one 200 years ago

>>717788898
>I want a fallout game that is nothing like fallout other then the name

>>717783880
My couriers are usually pretty young, so a retirement would come in like half a century, thus the landscape would be so radically different at the time of said retirement that it's hard to imagine such a scenario.

>>717788936
It's pretty much the only decent and most well known guide for this game.

>>717756815
>her offspring
YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH

>>717788873
this
it seems like a lot of work but VNV is the most thoughtful and useful collection of mods that is like vanilla but so significantly improved

>>717789120
DAY AFTER DAY
(YOUR WHOLE LIFE'S A WRECK)

>>717788868
Fallout 4 is a podcast game

>>717783880
I give house his chip and then fuck off back to the goodsprings saloon

could you [Speech] your way out of this?

>>717789223
Isn't the implication of this image that you are saying this to wasteland colbert?

>>717789174
THE POWERS THAT BE JUST BREATHE DOWN YOUR NECK

>>717788265
The DLCs are probably the biggest disappointment from the game
By itself they're not bad, they're actually internally a mix of great and awful, but how completely displaced from the game they are makes them very faulty.
HH is the closest to the vanilla feel and ties and even it has inputs some terrible pacing on the main quest and impacts in nothing.
With how bugged the game was at release and how barebones some factions like the Legion got, one would expect that the smart thing was have DLCs expand those parts in the main map

>>717788958
The Vietnam war ended because Vietnam was far from the USA and the public opposed the war enough for the USA to decide that it wasn't worth it. A bunch of barbarian faggots with lawnmower blades at the gate is a different matter.

>>717789065
The Courier can end up with enough money to retire relatively young.

>>717789282
no

>>717789354
Each DLC caters to a different kind of player. There is no single player who loves all four of the DLC. You can immediately tell what kind of a person someone is based on which DLC they think is the best, and which DLC they think is the worst.

For example, my favorite DLC is Lonesome Road, but my most hated is Old World Blues.

>>717789223
I still don't understand why /pol/ was mindbroken by two scoops

>>717789064
You heard me, I also don't want a radio station that consists exclusively of "nuclear bomb" themed songs. No references to the Enclave, deathclaws are a rare and borderline mythical creature, and the kicker? No environmental storytelling skeletons.

>>717789363
>A bunch of barbarian faggots with lawnmower blades at the gate is a different matter
The Legion post Vegas isn't that anymore though.
They have a technologically impressive city and a bast areas with decent water reserves, plus a much stronger economy than the NCR.

>>717789429
Retiring young is how you die young

>>717789497
So play a different franchise

>>717780087
No she couldn't, I work out regularly, have some training in grappling and wrestling , and grew up using guns fairly regularly. Even as someone with no military training, a female soldier would have a hard time with me physically. Female soldiers aren't given combat roles for a reason, dude. It's not just the threat of rape (which happens to men too btw) they just cannot physically endure it. Their bones aren't as dense, their hips aren't meant for constant heavy weights leading to more injuries, and yes having your period every month is a problem when you're out in the field. God forbid you get pregnant at some point. The US military has experimented with female combat roles and even most of the women who have participated have agreed that being a woman in that role is stupid. Female front line soldiers is a fictional thing , or female soldiers are something that come from absolute necessity by guerilla forces / paramilitaries like the IRA or YPG.

Soldier work is gruelling, mentally taxing, disgusting, and extremely labor intensive - it's not like in the movies. Women have a much harder time coping with it, it's like a 1 in a 1000 woman who can do what the average military aged , trained male can do just by biology. There is sexual dimorphism in our species that favors physicality in males. People need to deal with that

>words words words
while you're talking she shoots you in the head and then steals your semen with a scrotum pump

>>717785609
A more original Fallout without the bastardized elements is a good idea, but you can't have Fallout without the continental US. Americana is essential to making Fallout what it is.

>>717789498
The Legion doesn't have a massive educated class, the NCR has a major government organization for scientists and engineers along with a few private orgs like the Gun Runners and the Followers to keep shit running, and even they struggle to keep the Hoover Dam functional without having to recruit random jackasses to run stuff like Helios One. It'll take the Legion a very long time to even fix the Hoover Dam, let alone fix up stuff like the H&H factory, Helios One, and Repconn.

>>717789471
i think your problem is you thinking others take it seriously when its just mindless posting of memes for something to do

>>717789572

Just have a hobby besides video games, it's not hard to stay alive.

>>717789456
It's just weird to me that they decided to make DLCs that are basically their own thing while the main game is that neglected.
I like all of them. Though HH is my favorite and LSR my least.

>>717762554
thinking?

>>717789498
No they don't. They have some casinos, a few factories, and Hoover Dam and Helios One. It's more than they previously had, but it's still nowhere near as much as what the NCR has. The biggest loss for the NCR is the electricity that they were using to power their factories and homes. The Legion economy is also nowhere near as strong as the NCR economy, even taking into account the NCR's taxes and inflation.

>>717789916
>Just have a hobby besides video games, it's not hard to stay alive.
It's the post apocalypse anon, nobody plays videogames
And hobbies don't keep you alive like having an actual function does.

>installed TTW and a bunch of scarcity, realism, difficulty mods
>was having a great time until mutants
>takes a shitload of ap rounds to kill them let alone enclave
>physically cannot craft enough ammo to effectively kill in large quantities
I think my best option is going to the Mojave and leveling a bunch then coming back to FO3, but I don't know how miserable the scaling will be.

>>717789953
Imagine the recoil.

>>717789954
The NCR has a "stronger economy" on paper because it's a paper fiat debt-based structure. The Legion mints its currency. In practice, the Legion has an absurdly stronger economy because their currency has real value during exchanges. The Legion also gains access to Outer Vegas' production facilities like HH Tools.

>>717762554
they saw an old ww2 era vatnik PPSh and thought would it be cool to shoot buckshot

>>717789471
two scoops was a lefty talking point

>>717790138
Retarded financefag. There is more to an economy than just fiat vs gold. Infrastructure and industry are important for the civilian economy, not just for war.

>>717790138
>goldbug thinks that having precious metal backed currency lets you summon guns and war materiel from the aether

>>717790304
And the NCR can't maintain supply lines, as per NCR-aligned NPCs who are justifiably frustrated by that fact and mention in the same breath how safe it is for caravaners traveling along Legion roads. The NCR has the illusion of a great infrastructure, just as it has the illusion of a fantastic economy.

>>717789880
Indeed, the Legion itself doesn't, but they do have a lot of communities as vassal states that have mercantile class and possibly educated folks. I wouldn't put past Caesar to start raiding Vaults to get more either.
>>717789954
They have a stronger economy, better resources and a better trained army.
The NCR is still far more industrialized and likely has a much bigger population, but saying the Legion has nothing is simply wrong.

>>717789953
it somehow got even worse with f4. the so called "assault rifle" in that is still making /k/ommandoes go full artosis (>>717790183) whenever its bought up

>>717789813
Ideally it would have the Gulf States that represent a stereotypical "American" offshoot, maybe with a bit of Confederate LARP in there. It wouldn't be the Southwestern Americana that defined Fallout 2 and New Vegas though, less Cowboys and Route 66, more of General Lee and Miami. And then in my perfect world you'd also put this against a Mexican or Texan group that is more inline with that classic Fallout style. Divide them up along the Mississippi River, have them competing over territory in the Caribbean and over the port of New Orleans. Maybe throw in a third major threat from South America that is both a major trading partner and an encroaching threat because IDK there was more oil squirreled away in Venezuela that nobody knew about pre-War.

>>717752217
This loadout + laser rifle with beam splitter and all the crit / laser perks is probably my favourite playstyle, Each beam has a chance to crit for full crit damage making it superior to the LAER which has reduced crit damage.
Always play on very hard ofc. Seems like the game was designed for that difficulty. Not with jsawyer mod tho, with that i use custom modifiers, like PC 0.65 NPC 2.6

Imagine being almost 30 and still jerking off to the same girl you went to highschool with

>>717790471
I love that Josh Sawyer designed the AMR around the Hecate because he was tired of "the .50 sniper rifle in every game being based on the Barret M82"

>>717790471
The og Fallout doesn't have a lot 50s aesthetic honestly.
It's more like "the future the 50s would imagine"

>>717790712
>It's more like "the future the 50s would imagine"
I feel like even that's not entirely true.
Fo1 had a lot of 80s shit in there

>>717790403
The NCR were using trains even for delivering concrete until shortly before the start of the game, when the guards for the prisoners that were being used to work on the railways were moved to Hoover Dam and the quarry was filled with deathclaws. They have enough supply lines to keep at least one Vertibird functional. Depending on whether the trucks at Camp McCarran were there since WW3 or actually belong to the NCR, they might even have trucks, which are important for logistics.
The Mojave is outside the NCR core, and it's just a few thinly-stretched soldiers guarding a large hydroelectric dam, not a nation-building campaign. The fact that they have roads, railways, and enough energy demand (several TWh per year) to justify occupying the Mojave for Hoover Dam shows that they do have infrastructure and industry.

>>717790801
I need to go make dinner, so you can have the final word after my post.

Look at how much water and electricity California wastes today to produce almonds and you'll understand the gist of my perspective on it. The NCR is wasteful and LINE GO UP isn't representative of actual success.

>>717789786
I end the pretending act and grapple her to the ground , throw her gun away, and give her the cook cook treatment She forgot that this is a fallout game and I can just tank that shit

>>717790927
Go eat your cum dinner and come back, I'll be waiting

are you more of a explosives+guns/eweps kind of guy or a explosives+melee/unarmed kind of guy?

gonna start this game
anything i should be aware of?
last fallout game i played was fallout 2 like twenty years ago

>>717790183
That one didnt have the magazine way out near the end of the barrell, lol

>>717791134
>anything i should be aware of?
the khan women and their hot pants which show off their rears nicely

>>717791121
Melee, Survival, Speech for me.

>>717791134
When you take the road out of Goodsprings, go left and don't let any NPC tell you otherwise.

>>717791121
I am too much of a hoarder, so I do a reverse good natured build where my character is good at using every weapon in the game but sucks at everything else

>>717790449
>I wouldn't put past Caesar to start raiding Vaults to get more either.
Caesar relies on the gigachad Courier to do that for him instead of bringing in a Frumentarii or a scientist or trader from Legion territory to do it.
>They have a stronger economy, better resources and a better trained army.
No they don't. Their economy relies on women (not even brahmin) doing hard manual labour and traders making use of safe roads in their core territories.
Their resources are scarce enough that the grunts only get football jerseys, cheerleader skirts, and a machete, while the NCR equips their grunts with leather armour, helmets, and mediocre rifles.
Their army being better trained is less of a factor when the cannon fodder NCR troopers with only two weeks of training can usually shoot the cannon fodder Legionaries, and it isn't until Lanius shows up with his elite men and tactics that it becomes a real problem.
>but saying the Legion has nothing is simply wrong.
The Legion only has enough guns for their elite troops.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish to have your semen stolen with a scrotum pump

>>717791121
I'm more of a guns / melee or melee / explosive guy. I always like being able to have melee available and it being not trash

>>717785609
>>717785728
>>717785941
>>717786307
>>717788645
>>717789813
Could set it in Hawaii

>>717751243 (OP)
>Perception is useless because of EDE
the two PER 6 perks are some of the best in the game, but otherwise you're right
>Max health isn't all that great
combine it with high DT and you're pretty much immortal; and by immortal, i mean you can Esther yourself with a Big Kid mini nuke point blank on Med-X + Slasher and survive with health to spare
>>717765965
>that fugly vault boy retex
why

>>717790927
The NCR aren't growing almonds, retard. They're growing corn and ranching cattle.
By the way, this isn't relevant to Fallout or the NCR's state (because they're only around the late 1800s/early-1900s USA), but in real life, there have been plans to build nuclear-powered desalination plants since the 1960s.
https://x.com/whatisnuclear/status/1884927036738929074

>>717790712
its got its roots planted in the style. Everything from derelict vehicles to the "high tech" structures like bunker computers, steel walls, vent covers etc are straight out of something like flash gordon. Architecture seems to be mainly focused on gothic art deco. which is period appropriate

F1 and F2 in general have a very comic book style to it. Everything from sprites to artwork to UI design

>>717791121
I mostly just use guns and non-combat skills. The anti material rifle is satisfying.

>>717791273
>Their economy relies on women (not even brahmin) doing hard manual labour and traders making use of safe roads in their core territories.
No they have male slaves as well and brahmin. Legion terrorist is huge, and legion society isn't as backwards as just what you see at the Fort which is a hastily made forward base. The Legion is I advanced enough to have a complex system of infiltrators and spies who blend in seemlessly into old world societies, mainly because a lot of the cities they've taken were old world cities and industrialized. The Legion was originally supposed to be some dieselpunk group of Roman themed raiders , they're not tribals they actually decimate tribals on sight.
>The Legion only has enough guns for their elite troops
Their standard troops have hunting rifles or varmint rifles

I will never get why people assume that the Legion are just backwards cavemen when we constantly see them through the game engaging in complex sabotage ops, use energy weapons, and even get praise from traders for legion territory being organized and safe. Just because they're evil doesn't mean they're stupid

>>717784169
>the NTR
kek

>>717791642
Is this Necropolis?

>>717791157
legal advised them to alter it slightly to not be as apparent

>>717773863
go max attack speed you'll fall in love

>>717791764
yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e8WrmOibpM

>>717791556
>>717790927
there's an issue in NV's NCR where apparently they've completely ruined their water supplies despite being a fraction of a fraction of the population of IRL california.
In 2, the Vault City travel log estimates the NCR "many tens of thousands of people", which would have grown likely exponentially between 2 and NV, but that's still far below California's real world population and apparently they're less wasteful with their water than the NCR is if we take Hanlon at face value.

>>717791134
The game still has 2 and lower INT dialogue , the gunplay is ass , also make sure you level repair early on to at least 50 or you're going to have a bad time maintaining weapons which you can scrap together , low quality weapons are hilariously bad. High LCK is game breaking but hilarious. Also I would encourage actual roleplaying in the game , 1 and 2 are great crpg's but don't have anywhere near the level of dialogue and faction options that NV has and actually has a fun evil player playthrough available unlike Fallout 2 where you just get gimped

>>717791935
anon, what is a nuclear apocalypse in an age of scarcity?

>>717791974
One where it apparently rains enough for the Colorado river to be a consistent water source for over 200 years, but never raining anywhere else?

>>717753831
whoopsie doodles

>>717751243 (OP)
Is there anything of any value in the entire game attached to having a Cha more than 1 besides the companion power up shit

>>717792256
animal friend is neat

>>717792256
animal friend

>>717791664
>No they have male slaves
For combat and gay sex, yes, not for work.
>and brahmin
Not shown.
>Legion terrorist is huge, and legion society isn't as backwards as just what you see at the Fort which is a hastily made forward base.
>mainly because a lot of the cities they've taken were old world cities and industrialized.
The Legion is made up of backwards tribals who were forcibly assimilated into the Legion's globalhomo mass.
>The Legion is I advanced enough to have a complex system of infiltrators and spies who blend in seemlessly into old world societies
Spies and counterintelligence have been used for thousands of years, and the game is set in America, which is why everyone speaks English. It helps that they're dealing with retarded Californians and wastelanders, including the town full of cowards with a corrupt mayor that was Nipton.
>Their standard troops have hunting rifles or varmint rifles
In the code, they have a chance of having have them, but in practice, 99% of the time, they only get lawnmower blades. Meanwhile, the NCR troopers usually get service rifles, which are refurbished rifles that are produced enough to be the standard weapon.
>I will never get why people assume that the Legion are just backwards cavemen when we constantly see them through the game engaging in complex sabotage ops, use energy weapons, and even get praise from traders for legion territory being organized and safe. Just because they're evil doesn't mean they're stupid
The Legion's core territory being safe for traders is different from being able to defeat a somewhat industrialised nation. You just need more men patrolling the roads and escorting caravans. The Legion would be much more interesting if they weren't retarded, but the developers made them retarded faggots instead.

>>717792256
nope
very little in the way of CHA checks
none of the CHA perks are really worth it
its just the 5% dmg/dt per cha

if you are that desperate to try CHA, this is your time to go for a low STR build. service rifle, maria, energy pistol, etc

>>717792459
Holy mother of cope, your standard Legion soldier has a varmint rifle or hunting rifle, because even most tribals can make their own rifles it's not some kind of lost knowledge, then by end game all of them have assault rifles or energy weapons because the Legion has conquered entire states and in fact have portions of their territory which is industrialized. The Legion itself presses tribals into its military to *civilize* them and teach them how to integrate into old worlder societies and methods of war including using more modern rifles , high explosives, etc. Like I said they were originally supposed to be Roman themed diesel pink raiders but cars were never included in NV so we never got Mad Max Rome larpers.

>They made the Legion retarded
No, anon, you are retarded. The most retarded gorilla nigger ape of all time. I wouldn't trust your lungs to remember how to breath

>>717792982
No, the grunts still only have lawnmower blades during the Second Battle Of Hoover Dam. It's only the elites that have good guns. The Legion wins the Second Battle of Hoover Dam because Lanius is a better commander than Oliver and is ambushing much lower-level troopers using his best men.

Best Girl? Best Girl.

>>717793197
>No, the grunts still only have lawnmower blades during the Second Battle Of Hoover Dam
No lol they don't. Maybe replay the game sometime or get rid of whatever mod you're running, even base grunts in the beginning of the game have hunting rifles or varmint rifles. Second Battle of Hoover Dam legion has assault rifles , 10mm submachine guns, shotguns, repeaters, and rippers.

The cope is off the charts here

>>717793756
She's Jewish...

>>717762739
>Perception more than 6
Holy newfag retard. Perception does barely shit and is completely useless past 6. Most special stat barely do anything because it's buiot off of retard Todd's idea of an RPG where your skills and stats barely do anything

>>717793904
>t. perceptionlet

>>717793773
I played completely vanilla, and I played through all four routes. The grunts get machetes (even though the code shows that they're meant to get guns sometimes), while the elites get good guns.

>>717793889
silly Anon the Israelites don't exist on the Fallout universe. they were destroyed during the resource wars as the Middle East collapsed

>>717793904
High perception is necessary on consoles because of how much VATS is relied upon to damage enemies with guns. 10 PE lets you get into VATS sooner since you can register NPCs as enemies from a greater distance with it. It's why everyone loves ED-E, because of its ability.

>>717752217
>>717752312
>>717753636
>>717753684
My people :->

>>717789954
>The biggest loss for the NCR is the electricity that they were using to power their factories and homes.
The larger loss is the Lake Mead reservoir. A looming threat for the NCR is that they've completely buggered their water table which means their agricultural sector is living on borrowed time. A lot of their gov higher ups are majorly worried about it and are trying to head off what they expect to be a horrible famine.

>>717794543
Thank goodness I gave Dr. Hildern those secrets from Vault 22, they're going to be just fi--

Anyone see that hacksmith series where they are building power armor?
Its looking pretty slick

God, I wish New Vegas Reloaded was compatible with B42 Optics. Picrel works for me, but Reloaded's lighting system is so much nicer, and having actual Anti Aliasing boosts NV's visual appeal SO much.

>>717794815
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbncXbXlaNQeVAUQUvgLDnDCtIYOuHb5E&si=tCjQxEBCZjbuHGKf
Found the playlist

>>717765538
>implying the barons would send their own when the serfs can throw the wives and daughters into the mix too
If only you knew how shit the NCR core regions really are. Outside of Arroyo and San Fran the rest are basically dried out plantations for the Brahmin lords to suck up moisture from. Not even the Water Merchants were this fucking wasteful when it came to generating their wealth in the early days.

>>717794887
Fucking tragic, I tell you.

>>717765538
erm actually women were warriors all the way back in the viking days
facts don't care about your feelings chud

>>717795267
How do we know that these were women and not trans men? You can't tell gender by the skeleton.

>>717795316
dna from a tooth and a humerus
XX not XY

>>717765538
>female raiders, mercs and soldiers in 1, 2, 3 and 4
>I sleep
>female raiders, mercs and soldiers in NV
>*loud sustained chimp noises*

Test

>>717794543
Your only sources for that are Hildern (who is an unreliable retard), Hanlon (whose entire quest is about him making things up), and O'Hanaran (who is the only reliable one, and still only applies to one formerly middle-class farm). The famine is also only expected to be a few thousand people in a decade or so.

>>717789880
>NCR declared the Followers a terrorist organization for refusing to assist them in further expansion and for eventually birthing their arch rival in ole Eddy Swallow of Legion fame
>did the same with the Brotherhood after the fall of the Enclave since they wouldn't give up all of the advanced tech that was scavenged from the aftermath
>is basically the second fiddle to cap grubbing brahmin barons and a pair of glory hounds looking to emulate the oldworld with only of the fraction of the power to throw around
900k people are essentially the slaves to a handful of fuckwits hellbent on crashing the whole thing with no survivors. Then you have clinical psychotics like Moore making the whole thing even worse with her autism fits. Even if anyone survives the crash there will be a lot of cleaning up to do to get rid of the skidmarks left by those chucklefucks.

>>717795602
okay but slavery and misogyny are ontological evils so...??

>>717795440
The world of Fallout is different. One of those differences is that women are generally of similar strength to men for the same SPECIAL stat.

What do i play instead of sniper for the gorrilionth time, is unarmed any fun?

>>717789953
Mind status : Blown

>>717795694
The Legion can't even be evil right.

>>717795723
>is unarmed fun
once you get the legion charge attack, great khan pocket sand, ncr takedown, and the two-step goodbye, you're going to feel like you're the fuckin' god hand

>>717795723
>>717795827
Make sure to download the mod that lets you use your hands as a weapon that works properly with slayer

FNV = Tranny game
FO3 = Straight White Male game

>>717795723
>is unarmed any fun?
It is if you take the Implant GRX and Turbopills with a Saturnite fist. You'll give Fisto a run for his money when you are Radical Larrying across the way uppercutting deathclaws like a crackfiend. The sheer variety on offer hasn't been topped since. Shotgun fists, concrete saws, crab and TRON hands that can Buddha blast dudes with EMPs. You pimpslap a dude in full power armor with the right build.

>>717790681
I literally do this when fucking my wife. (She's the girl I went to highschool and church with)

>ctrl f
>tran
>91 matches found

>>717796157
>It is if you take the Implant GRX and Turbopills with a Saturnite fist
You are a disgrace

>>717796304
my brother

>>717796341
Don't talk shit about the GRX you absolute nigger. It is a great perk that should've been used in more games.

>>717796303
Just filter and ignore the schizo

>>717796303
transatlantic slave trade

>>717796503
FNV isn't that hard of a game to begin with.

>>717796304
Deathclaw Pro Hunter challenge right?

>>717761815
NUMBAH WANH SELECTA MEESTER HOUSE THE LION OF NEVADA

>play again for the fifth time
>end up playing a fucking cowboy build again
>always use revolvers, bolt or lever-action rifles and knives
I'm a hack.

>>717752217
...man i went my entire fucking playthrough without realizing that i could equip glasses and a hat at the same time. why am i retarded

>>717797346
Nah, you're a god. Play the way you like anon. I always go for a sniper but I tried an energy weapons build recently and it isn't half bad. Harder to find energy weps early game though besides dinky laser pistols

10 constitution 1 int
melee weapons maxed asap
get a rebar slab as fast as possible
grug build complete

>>717796968
Correct, I really enjoy doing the GRA challenges.

>>717797825
>not having 6 CH to get animal friend to pet the bnuuys
ngmi...

>>717797924
Based, I'm working on doing the Cracker Jack challenge myself. It's not for the weak willed

>>717797771
I just gotta try something different at some point here. Like a demonlitionist or a scientist/mafioso-style character so I have an excuse to use the Laser RCW

>>717797975
the bunny what?

>>717798052
The Charmer: Barter, Medicine, Speech
The Enforcer: Barter, Energy Weapons, Science
The Demolitionist: Barter, Explosives, Repair
The Caravanner: Barter, Guns, Repair
The Troublemaker: Energy Weapons, Explosives, Lockpick
The Marine: Energy Weapons, Explosives, Science
The Heavy: Energy Weapons, Guns, Repair
The Paladin: Energy Weapons, Guns, Science
The Infiltrator: Energy Weapons, Lockpick, Science
The Doctor: Energy Weapons, Medicine, Science
The Adventurer: Energy Weapons, Repair, Science
The Commander: Energy Weapons, Science, Speech
The Renegade: Energy Weapons, Science, Survival
The Sapper: Explosives, Guns, Lockpick
The Soldier: Explosives, Guns, Repair
The Bomber: Explosives, Lockpick, Repair
The Terrorist: Explosives, Repair, Speech
The Luddite: Explosives, Repair, Survival
The Highwayman: Guns, Medicine, Repair
The Cowboy: Guns, Melee Weapons, Repair
The Knight: Guns, Repair, Science
The Sniper: Guns, Repair, Sneak
The Preacher: Guns, Repair, Speech
The Wanderer: Guns, Repair, Survival
(Unmodded) The Ninja: Melee Weapons, Sneak, Unarmed
(Unmodded) The Veteran: Melee Weapons, Speech, Unarmed
(Unmodded) The Waster: Melee Weapons, Survival, Unarmed
(Modded) The Cruiser: Guns, Melee Weapons/Unarmed, Sneak
(Modded) The Survivor: Guns, Melee Weapons/Unarmed, Survival
(Modded) The Stalker: Melee Weapons/Unarmed, Sneak, Survival
(Modded) The Veteran: Melee Weapons/Unarmed, Sneak/Survival, Speech

>>717798052
Nerdy science mobster would be unironic kino

>>717798052

Pyromaniac flamer cannibal, grill em on the go.

>>717798164
Oh damn, thanks for the ideas anon. Will definitely give some of 'em a go. Preacher sounds like a fun one to roll with.
>>717798261
Soon as I finish this run, I'm gonna give that one a shot. I hardly ever used any energy weapons, so it oughta be a nice change of pace.

>>717798164
why would someone take two weapons types? like energy/guns or guns/melee?

>>717751243 (OP)
How the fuck do you autists have the perseverance to play thousands of hours in this game? I got bored playing a second time when I got to the lottery dude and realized there's going to be a lot of retreading on the same areas and beasts

>>717791273
>Caesar relies on the gigachad Courier to do that for him
Caesar is the reliant on the courier of all factions tho>>717791273
>No they don't. Their economy relies on women (not even brahmin) doing hard manual labour and traders making use of safe roads in their core territories.
Men are slaves too anon. You can criticize a slave economy, but I don't understand going on this tangent about women.
Trade is the lifeblood of post apocalyptic life though, it's a whole theme with the game.
>Their resources are scarce enough that the grunts only get football jerseys, cheerleader skirts, and a machete, while the NCR equips their grunts with leather armour, helmets, and mediocre rifles.
I don't think that's in
dicative of scarcity, just an aesthetic.
>Their army being better trained is less of a factor when the cannon fodder NCR troopers with only two weeks of training can usually shoot the cannon fodder Legionaries, and it isn't until Lanius shows up with his elite men and tactics that it becomes a real problem.
The NCR is already stuffering before Legion. Critically, their Intel is fucking awful. Nipton got wiped and they didn't know till you got there; Searchlight, the spy that's gonna blow up the monorail... The NCR is fighting a war blind.
>The Legion only has enough guns for their elite troops
What? Even the lowest grunt has guns. Check their inventory on the wiki.

>>717755019
>justice
>slavers
KEK

>>717793948
>The grunts get machetes
Nigger, play the game
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Recruit_legionary

>>717768271
Courier 6 doesn't pay taxes. He's a vagabond.

>>717798965
being too weak to win and too cowardly to die, that is a slave's justice.

>All these retards that have shitty view distance because they were too retarded to fix it
You will never see clear across the Mojave

>>717798784
>Caesar is the reliant on the courier of all factions tho>>717791273
What? Every faction relies on the Courier to fix their mess, but you are pretending that Caesar can do that, which is like saying that Kimball can find the spy at Camp McCarran.
>Men are slaves too anon.
For combat and gay sex, not hard manual labour.
>You can criticize a slave economy, but I don't understand going on this tangent about women.
In the world of Fallout, women are the same strength as men. It's still retarded to use them for hard manual labour instead of something that they are better at.
>Trade is the lifeblood of post apocalyptic life though, it's a whole theme with the game.
Retard financefag.
>I don't think that's indicative of scarcity, just an aesthetic.
No, it indicates that thr NCR has the industry to manufacture some equipment from new and refurbish some equipment, and its equipment is largely standardised. Meanwhile, the Legion have to rely on whatever they can find. Leather armour and service rifles are generally more effective than cloth (including skirts) and lawnmower blades.
>The NCR is already stuffering before Legion. Critically, their Intel is fucking awful. Nipton got wiped and they didn't know till you got there; Searchlight, the spy that's gonna blow up the monorail... The NCR is fighting a war blind.
Nobody cares about Nipton. The only NCR presence there is off-duty soldiers sneaking off to get laid. Again, a thinly-stretched unpopular foreign expedition is not the same as the core regions. Nice shifting the focus from combat (especially on core territory) to espionage in a non-core territory.
>What? Even the lowest grunt has guns. Check their inventory on the wiki.
The grunts CAN THEORETICALLY have guns, but in practice, they just have machetes. Have you not played a Legion route before?

>>717798967
>But the code says that they can spawn in with guns, even though they don't 99% of the time!
Play the game, retard.

>>717798967
now check the percentage at which they actually spawn with that in the code

>>717799714
>Every faction relies on the Courier to fix their mess,
Yes, but Caesar does that the least.
>but you are pretending that Caesar can do that
I don't see why he can't.
>For combat and gay sex, not hard manual labour.
Why would they not be used for manual labor?
>It's still retarded to use them for hard manual labour instead of something that they are better at.
Women are used for child rearing.
>Retard financefag
Pls play the game. Do you think your role as a courier is accidental?
>No, it indicates that thr NCR has the industry to manufacture some equipment from new and refurbish some equipment, and its equipment is largely standardised.
Legion equipment is also standardized. All the ranks gets the same equipment and as the individual goes up, he gets better gear.
>Leather armour and service rifles are generally more effective than cloth
They have guns and there's metal plates in their armor.
>Nobody cares about Nipton
Yes they do, so much that they sent you to check it
>Nice shifting the focus from combat (especially on core territory) to espionage in a non-core territory.
Imagine pretending intelligence isn't important in a war.
>The grunts CAN THEORETICALLY have guns, but in practice, they just have machetes
I've seen them with guns

>>717799812
>they don't
They do
>>717799849
They spawn with guns and Moore literally talks about them using guns in poor condition.
I dunno the percentage and I'm not inclined to open FNVEdit just for that.

>>717790471
the whole "50s bad" thing needs to die

>>717773863
Melee with VATS is fun. Knock them down then beat the shit out of them, or send them flying.
I love VATS. Fallout 4 really leaned into VATS and made me love it too.
Don't understand why people hate VATS.

I can't get TTW to work longterm with mods. No matter what I do, hours in my playthrough I get hit with corrupted memory crashes. Asking for help in the discord leads to them just being sarcastic saying "sucks for you"
I followed the guides
I avoid incompatible mods
What the fuck is wrong with this? On my last computer it worked perfectly and I did a super long playthrough, but the same setup on my more powerful computer makes it unplayable.
FUCK.

>>717754824
>recently learn that the ncr endgame was supposed to actually be difficult but because the ps3 was such a piece of shit, the entire mechanic where legion soldiers would descend from ceaser's camp during the battle for the dam AND the fight to cesaer's camp itself were cut

>>717783880
I just teleport to my house in the Big Empty. The sink has everything I need.

>>717779536
I'm 38. I didn't play them. I didn't get into Fallout until I randomly tried New Vegas after loving Skyrim. Only played 3, NV, and 4.

>>717765538
Yes, and the one female Officer we meet in New Vegas is by far the most ruthless

>>717801636
All I'm getting from this is that women are evil and shouldn't be allowed in positions of power.
Love from Kazakhstan

>>717769809
the quick vats is pretty cool, never used VATS again, sprinting is cool too

>>717800597
>Yes, but Caesar does that the least.
Not for this particular issue, where he does need the Courier to do it for him.
>I don't see why he can't.
Because this is one of the issues that he explicitly does need the Courier to do it for him.
>Why would they not be used for manual labor?
Because they are being used for combat and gay sex.
>Women are used for child rearing.
No they aren't. In fact, children are trained to be Legionaires from the moment that they can walk.
>Pls play the game. Do you think your role as a courier is accidental?
The Courier is delivering a specific package and the job allows them to be a blank slate (apart from Lonesome Road).
>Legion equipment is also standardized. All the ranks gets the same equipment and as the individual goes up, he gets better gear.
No, they get 200 year old football jerseys, cheerleader skirts, and lawnmower blades, which are crap that they found, not made. The higher rank Legionaries reinforce their equipment with crap that they found. Even the Centurions use bits of armour from their defeated enemies.
>They have guns
Only the elites.
>and there's metal plates in their armor. There's bits of metal trimming, not metal plate.
>Yes they do, so much that they sent you to check it
A bored ranger with nothing to do sends the Courier as an optional side quest. She then does nothing but describe the place as a shithole.
>Imagine pretending intelligence isn't important in a war.
Imagine pretending that a core territory will have as many holes for spies to slip through as a thinly-spread unpopular foreign expedition.
>I've seen them with guns
When? Once? At the second battle of Hoover Dam, where it's explicitly Lanius' best men, and the grunts still have machetes? Or Vulpes' pathetic gang at Nipton?
>>717800782
>They do
Cope, you secondary faggot.

>>717801352
But how else are they going to tell the plebs to eat the bugs and live in the pod?

>>717801803
?
Jon Sawyer Mod doesn't have anything you mentioned. You're confusing it with JAM.

>>717801636
She's a psychopathic retard.

>>717790471
F4's assault rifle was the chinese AK. It just got cut and they renamed the LMG.
>2015+10
>not one person has taken the underwater vault resources from f76 and recreated the underwater vault 4 was supposed to have

>>717801464
I'm almost sure I got a similar problem at some point. If I remember correctly the problem was some configuration related to NVTF. It's a bit technical to get the best configuration because every pc is different.
Other than that it could be a problem related to some mod causing bloat or leaking memory. I would deactivate the likely culprits using MO2 one by one until it stops crashing. Also remove the NVSE addons one by one too. For exaple, if the likely culprit is NVTF or stewie tweaks then remove it and see it stops crashing, if it does it means some configuration was fucking with your game, which happens sometimes.

>>717769809
>>717770061
Its a holdover from the early days of FNV modding. Nowadays the big community patches come with all the QoL improvements JS had and more without the intrusive "immersion" changes. But people still treat it as gospel because it technically came from an actual dev (the modern versions are fan made).

>>717802204
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/20614

>>717758869
It runs fine, you're too stupid to copy+paste files into the game folder

>>717802267
It probably is NVTF. I miss the days of the Stutter Remover before everything broke it. Yes NVTF is "better" but it was far more simple back then

>>717772119
Or you can just carry hollow points

>>717802410
Weakling. I will walk alongside my nightstalker and Gecko kin.

>>717801464
You got the save file shaver?

>>717751243 (OP)
This entire thread makes me want to play New Vegas again. It's been years but I remember it being fun. More fun than any of the slop being released today

>>717801636
Colonel Hsu > balding psycho cunt

>>717802727
It's aged like shit. Install the demaster mods and play it at 480p if you want any hope of enjoying it

>>717798052
>not just using the Laser RCW anyway
It's about the only energy weapon I've ever liked in the series to date. The pinnacle of pew pew firepower with the aesthetics of a converted Tommy Gun. Even better with max power and surplus cells.

>>717783880
Honestly, probably Vault 21 or the Lucky 38. Not the comfiest locations ingame, but in real life they would probably be the best real estate comfort-wise out there.
If I had to be a cozy wasteland settler, I'd probably live in Novac, and take good care of Old Lady Gibson's doggos if/when she passes.

>>717801973
She's hot though.

>>717783880
I feel like the Boomers are one of the only factions that have all the amenities and can withstand most attacks. Nellis might be the comfiest if you're trying to be safe but also among an educated community with healthy birthrates

Anybody here played the Rebuild the Capital mod? It looks really good and is making me considering playing TTW. But the setup is too much.
Also, are Someguy's new mods good?

>>717803568
Seven Graves, I'm Moving On, and Detour are all A+

>>717803220
>dragbody

Is Viva New Vegas still the way to go?

>>717795267
this was actually the anime girl equivalent of back then.
some art pieces of waifus and some cosplayer who was buried with daddys gear.

>>717767223
can you post the rest of the picture?
pretty please?

>>717801849
>where he does need the Courier to do it for him.
No he doesn't. The frumentarii can gather those people just fine
>Because they are being used for combat and gay sex.
And manual labor
>The Courier is delivering a specific package and the job allows them to be a blank slate
Ah yes, the only way to make your character a blank slate is by being a courier.
>No, they get 200 year old football jerseys, cheerleader skirts, and lawnmower blades, which are crap that they found, not made
And? Old shit in the fallout universe is great. Old riot gear from LAPD is almost as good as Power Armor. One of the best weapons in the game is a lever action rifle
The Legion deliberately dresses their soldiers in football pads, it's not a sign of scarcity.
>Only the elites.
All of them
>She then does nothing but describe the place as a shithole.
And also get surprised that they're this far from the Colorado river and didn't expect it.
>Imagine pretending that a core territory will have as many holes for spies to slip through as a thinly-spread unpopular foreign expedition.
Indeed, it will have many more.
>When? Once?
Multiple times. Near Forlorn Hope for example.

>>717795267
>there was a time when they would bury you with items to accompany you in the next life
>now they won't even have the decency to stack you 5x5 in an unmarked public grave
The absolute state

>Trying to complete a zero death, no reloads run (outside of crashes obviously)
>Jsawyer Ultimate and a some other mods
>Use various gunslinger builds which do well, but an explosive always does me in at some point
>Ignore melee because I'm worried I'll get ground down before I can whack enemies
>Decide "fuck it", and go explosives, melee, and Logan's Loophole
>Explosives either kill enemies or cripple them
>Logan's Loophole + Arcade makes stims heal a stupid amount of HP
>Buffout + psycho + med-x makes me very tanky
>Buy a chainsaw from Cliff Briscoe, which so far insta-kills 95% of enemies if I hit them with it in VATS
This might finally be the one.

>>717804023
Always has been, it even updated two days ago.

>>717805380
>No he doesn't. The frumentarii can gather those people just fine
So why doesn't a frumentarii get the part to fix the auto-doc in Caesar's tent from Vault 22, or the part to fix the artillery from Nellis before the end slides?
>And manual labor
No, you retarded faggot.
>Ah yes, the only way to make your character a blank slate is by being a courier.
Cope, faggot.
>And? Old shit in the fallout universe is great. Old riot gear from LAPD is almost as good as Power Armor. One of the best weapons in the game is a lever action rifle
Riot gear was practically military equipment. It often is in real life, too. Meanwhile, cloth is weak. The NCR trooper armour has the same defence as reinforced leather armour.
>The Legion deliberately dresses their soldiers in football pads, it's not a sign of scarcity.
You are a retard.
>All of them
No.
>And also get surprised that they're this far from the Colorado river and didn't expect it.
And then does literally nothing. Nobody cares about Nipton.
>Indeed, it will have many more.
No, the counterintelligence will be much stronger and there will be a much more dense concentration of troops. Your retarded smug "gotcha"s might work on reddit, but not here.
>Multiple times. Near Forlorn Hope for example.
The ones that have guns are the higher up Legionaries, not the grunts. Actual retard.

>>717806012
I'm not gonna tell you what to do,
but the Cowboy perk with Lucky/Mysterious Magnum/That Gun/Ranger Sequoia, fire bombs, and Chance's Knife/Blood-Nap is how /v/ likes to party, and for good reason. It's fun.
>>717753636
>>717753684

>>717762554
>what were they thinking
they weren't

>>717806369
>So why doesn't a frumentarii get the part to fix the auto-doc in Caesar's tent from Vault 22, or the part to fix the artillery from Nellis before the end slides?
Because Vault 22 is horribly, terribly irradiated and the boomers are a formidable threat.
>No, you retarded faggot.
Lmao. Seethe more
>Cope, faggot.
It's really sad how you missed such an important part of the game's thematic.
>Riot gear was practically military equipment.
And? It's 200 years old with no repair. It should be terrible.
>It often is in real life, too.
No, nothing that's 200 years old is good armor.
>You are a retard.
Your tears are delicious
>No.
Yes.
>And then does literally nothing.
Yeah, it's very incompetent faction.
>No, the counterintelligence will be much stronger
Nope. The rangers are in force in Vegas and they're still retarded.
>The ones that have guns are the higher up Legionaries, not the grunts. Actual retard.
Why do you cope against hard evidence? It's literally listed on their inventory.

>>717806392
Lucky is cooler but That Gun is a better pic due to the abundance and versatility of 5.56mm

>>717806392
I tried that, multiple times, and I'm bored of it at the moment. My first character with that build actually got very far. I only died because I forgot how to escape an exploding room in the Sierra Madre. I'm quite confident that if I had completed Dead Money, I'd have been fine to complete the rest of the game. I do love running cowboy builds even in zero death, but Christ explosives are a serious threat in the Jsawyer mod. Crits too. Explosives + Melee compliment each other so well. Explosives will often cripple enemy limbs, making them slower or greatly reduce their accuracy. Melee (and unarmed) is just busted in general, but it makes it easy to mop of the survivors. The one weakness of explosives is cramped indoor maps. But that's where melee shines, because you can just camp behind doors and corners and annihilate people when they walk inside.

>/v/ made a 500 post FNV thread free of shitposting
nani the fuck

>>717806750
>Lucky gets 38, 357 and JFP handloads
>That Gun can use 223, 5.56 and matchloads
44. Magnum is the one that gets the fucked the hardest because it's at the midway point of not being great or terrible. The trail carbine has the same problem with pic relate>>717753370. Why bother with the boring middle ground when the two extremes are still viable with some caveats.

>>717806836
You can thank the GODclave for this!

>>717806750
Their DPS is effectively the same when you have a high crit chance. The benefit of That Gun is that you don't need any lockpick skills to get it, the gun is relatively cheap, and ammo is plentiful. The benefit of Lucky, however, is that it requires 0 gun skills to use, has a lower strength requirement, and doesn't weigh as much. And it's a fun cowboy weapon. In a normal playthrough, That Gun is the better option. But if you're really roleplaying and beholding yourself to weapon requirements (strength and gun skill) to use the weapon, Lucky is generally better because effectively any character can use it IF you can lockpick it.

Damn, running out of posts again.

>>717759384
I was running drugs for these shits and they tried to jump me when I went outside to leave

>>717806591
>Because Vault 22 is horribly, terribly irradiated and the boomers are a formidable threat.
So diving into vaults isn't something that Caesar can do, since it involves significant resistance, so only the Courier can do it.
>Lmao. Seethe more
>It's really sad how you missed such an important part of the game's thematic.
You are literally make up fanfiction and pretending to be smart.
>And? It's 200 years old with no repair. It should be terrible.
>No, nothing that's 200 years old is good armor.
The game explicitly states that it's made by hand in the NCR in one of the loading screen tips. It's new.
>Your tears are delicious
You are only tasting your own tears because you are crying about me actually having played the game.
>Yes.
Cope.
>Yeah, it's very incompetent faction.
No, it's because nobody cares about Nipton.
>Nope. The rangers are in force in Vegas and they're still retarded.
Counterintelligence is always stronger in core areas, and there is an entire quest about Chief Hanlon falsifying intelligence.
>Why do you cope against hard evidence? It's literally listed on their inventory.
Again, they can theoretically have guns, but in practice, they have lawnmower blades. You are a secondary that only looked up the wiki instead of playing the game, and then share your fanfiction that is based on the wiki instead of observations of what happens in the game.

>>717806968
>Lucky is generally better because effectively any character can use it IF you can lockpick it.
It's not even that big of a deal to unlock once you understand the skill thresholds. You spec just below and make up the difference with Mentats and the lockpicking book you can get out of the Goodsprings county school. The hardest part is just ignoring it entirely because Lucky is just so good on all fronts. You feel like a chump for not taking advantage of it in the early game over other ballistic alternatives. 9mm is meh and the varmint is a heap of dogshit. You're better off saving that surplus for the Ratslayer a weapon that manages to punch far above it's weight class despite being a glorified rabbit rifle.

>>717806902
It's true. You can get the Trail Carbine pretty early by going to Bonnie Springs, but since .44 is so rare at that point in the game, you'll use the Cowboy Repeater a lot more.
>>717806968
The lockpick check is genuinely too much. I don't understand putting the gun behind it and then having That Gun easily stealable or for decent price right on the next town.
The reason to use Lucky are mostly flavor and it's a harder item to get. Should be the opposite.

>>717783880
I live in the abandoned BOS bunker, leaving my basement only to collect water, food, and occasionally trade. I become a legend in the Mojave, known as the man who single-handedly punched every Deathclaw in the promontory not only to death, but to gibs, with a power fist, moving at positvely inhuman speeds to the naked eye. Everyone who challenges me on my claim will be swiftly turned into a fine red mist, and the witnesses to my slaughter will spread my legend far and wide.

Eventually I'll find an Assaultron wife, and we'll lead a quiet life helping crush raider attacks, and having robot sex.

>>717807404
>you crush raider fucking shits
>she crushes your hips like a freight train
Living the dream

>>717807158
>So diving into vaults isn't something that Caesar can do, since it involves significant resistance, so only the Courier can do it
Neither of your example fit the situation though. The boomers aren't in a vault and there's no engineers or technically gifted people in V22.
>You are literally make up fanfiction and pretending to be smart.
Indeed, you don't play a courier in NV. Nice one.
>The game explicitly states that it's made by hand in the NCR
The patrol ranger armor. Not the black one.
>You are only tasting your own tears because you are crying about me actually having played the game.
Maybe if keep saying it will someday be true .
>Cope
Seethe
>No, it's because nobody cares about Nipton.
I guess they don't care about Searchlight or the Monorail either.
>Counterintelligence is always stronger in core areas,
According to...?
>Again, they can theoretically have guns, but in practice, they have lawnmower blades
And guns.
>You are a secondary that only looked up the wiki instead of playing the game, and then share your fanfiction that is based on the wiki instead of observations of what happens in the game.
Post a photo with hours played and a timestamp

>>717807404
I don't get the Assaultron meme.
It's an ugly robot vaguely shaped like a female

Came back to the game for the first time in years and finally tried a melee build.


Its forced me to not use as many skill checks to get through quests like I used to, so im seeing things i don't think I've seen before, which is dope, but I'm not enjoying beating the shit out of people nearly as much as I expected to, might be missing something.

>>717793948
>The grunts get machetes (even though the code shows that they're meant to get guns sometimes), while the elites get good guns.
Bullshit I'm playing the game right now and every legionfag I come across at a low level has a rifle what is this insane cope lmao. Also when they do spawn with melee only they have spears instead and that's only in the first few levels after that they all have hunting rifles or varmint rifles which lore wise is exactly what most tribals use anyways meaning they're not advanced in any way

Did you not play through Fallout 2 where even the tribals at the start have pipe guns? Like Jesus Christ dude

>>717807297
The Cowboy Repeater with all the upgrades is a very dependable weapon once you get used to the peep sights. Least you don't need to break an oldman's hands again just to get the side grade with a scope. 38 and 357 with the handloads works wonders on most thing up until you start trying to brain roboscorps, labotimites and irradiated deathclaws with it.

>>717801849
>You're a secondary of you're smart enough to notice that the Legion spawn with more than just machetes
Lol, lmao even. At hoover dam most of them have assault rifles and rippers ffs

>>717807297
The Jsawyer mod has clothes that boost lockpick by 5. You can boost your lockpick by
>Wearing the merc troublemaker armor (+5)
>Any headgear that increases percetion (+2)
>Mentats (+4)
>Lockpick magazine from Sunny Smiles (+10)
>If you get lucky and find Coyote Chew (+2)
>If you take the Early Riser trait your perception is boosted by 1 in the morning (+2)
So even without the chew and Early Riser trait, you can bump up your lockpick by a whopping 21 points in the Jsawyer mod, which lowers the amount of skill needed considerably. Even outside of the Jsawyer mod, you can boost your lockpick easily by 16 if you save the lockpicking magazine. Again, I completely agree that practically, That Gun is better on all fronts. But I'm at the point where this game is only fun if I commit to a roleplay. And if you're really committing to the roleplay, Lucky being easier to use compared to That Gun, and being lighter, is a massive upside.

>>717807619
Melee doesn't get good until you get Super Slam, doesn't become great until Piercing Strike (unless you're a loser using rippers, chainsaws, or thermic lances), and doesn't become bonkers until Slayer. Then you start swinging Oh Baby! or Blade of the West around like a whirlwind OR you turn off your cringe inhibitors and become the New Vegas Ninja with the katana.

>>717807670
I really need to find a mod that lets you buy the unique Cowboy Rifle either from the old man, or the Vendortron. It feels too gamey having to shoot the rifle to break it so the character puts it in his inventory, then trying to steal it.

>>717807764
The police pistol from Dead Money is the one that really gets mogged in this regard. Uses the same ammo type while having a very bad first impression because you can't oneshot ghost people with that shitty gun. Being forced to struggle with it when cosmic knife spears do a better job for a fraction of the cost involved just set the nail in. You won't ever give it a second look once you take everything out all 37 gold bars being mandatory at this point.

>>717807839
Pic sold me on turning off the cringe inhibitors and trying my best to RP as a wasteland weeb. Thanks for the advice and the laugh.

>>717807839
>chinky sneaky suit is just in an unguarded room in the dam
>you can have the best sneaky light armor in the game until dead money at level 1
what the fuck were they thinking??

>>717807670
>>717807841
Is he the only NPC That's completely friendly with an unique weapon? Feels like a quest was there to have him give up the rifle or something
>>717807764
Having 50+ in lock picking this early in the game is still pretty rough, you really need those points in other things to properly survive the early game hell.
It just really bothers me that it's such an unnecessarily high check. My first NV playthroughs I completely missed it because of it

>>717807617
To be fair, most people, myself included, staple big fat synthetic tits, asses, and thighs to assaultrons to "increase their energy reserves." But even outside of that, with ADA she
>has cute voice
>is cheerful, but not exhausting
>doesn't berate you for picking up crafting junk, in fact actively encourages it
>encourages you
>can be upgraded to be a literal death machine
She is one of the few only sane companions in the entire clusterfuck of FO4.

>>717807839
>no free predator camo from crouching anymore
Missed opportunity right there. Same with the missing Chinese assault rifles, pistols, discount Dragonstooth, trench knife and the R91. Marksman and assault carbines are fine but they really should've gone all out from the outset.

>>717807617
>It's an ugly robot vaguely shaped like a female
turn on your monitor

>>717792406
>>717792376
I just console it in and mod it so it works with Cyberdogs too.

>>717808075
>Having 50+ in lock picking this early in the game is still pretty rough
Yeah you absolutely have to tag it, then dump all your skill points into it for a level or two. It's not cheap, but I don't really find any of the level 2 perks THAT good. Like they're fine, but they don't make or break a build.
>you really need those points in other things to properly survive the early game hell.
Disagree here. It's pretty easy as long as you don't get hit by any explosives. Like, nigga, just get behind a wall or pull aggro'd NPCs to other NPCs and have them fight. I love pulling the convicts in Primm towards the NCR dudes and watching them get mowed down. Occasionally, though, the NCR grunts get killed by the convicts, in which case you get good early game armor (NCR armour) and a service rifle which is pretty decent early on.

>>717808075
You're expected to find it and remember it exists when you return to Primm for at least ED-E's quest. Since the hunting revolver consumes .45-70, Lucky with its high crit chance stays viable compared to the 12.7mm and the .44 Magnum. The low requirements are very misleading since it's intended to be a mid-game weapon, but it the low stats reward a player who's gone through FNV before and know to boost their lockpicking skill.

>>717807617
To be fair, most people, myself included, staple big fat synthetic tits, asses, and thighs to assaultrons to "increase their energy reserves." But even outside of that, with ADA she
>has cute voice
>is cheerful, but not exhausting
>doesn't berate you for picking up crafting junk, in fact actively encourages it
>encourages you
>can be upgraded to be a literal death machine
She is one of the few only sane companions in the entire clusterfuck of FO4.

>>717808267
If you're a shitty player, having Old World Gourmet at level 2 can make or break an entire ironman playthrough. Retention, Rapid Reload, and Light Touch are also fantastic perks to grab on the outset.

>>717808267
>any of the level 2 perks THAT good
I like to build the character through perks so I usually pick Lady-killer or Black Window
>pretty easy as long as you don't get hit by any explosives
NPCs aren't bad but the geckos, coyotes and other animals take a toll on you. Specially if you're exploring caves and they're super near.