LadyCrimson

I play Very Hard/non-hardcore.

Btw, boxing gloves do a base 1 dmg according to the geck item file. I'm not sure if this then means Boone would do 1x5 (for his STR) or 1x1.25 dmg (for his Unarmed) or a combo of both.

@thepixiesrock -- Now don't take this as gospel because I'm only guessing based on what I'm looking at, but my impression is that hands-only damage essentially=0 (it may not be quite 0) and all dmg is based on STR and perks affecting the base damage of a weapon. I base this unverified opinion on the fact that despite all the blood spots that appear on his shirt, when I hit either a "naked" Boone or an armored Boone with nothing but my fists (I have 6 STR), I do either 1 dmg or 0 dmg. Critical strikes still did only 1 dmg. (I have no str/dmg/melee perks and my unarmed/melee skills are below 20 on the chr. I used). Boone has STR10, 54 Melee Weapons and 15 Unarmed, and his stat sheet says Melee Damage 5.00 and Unarmed Damage 1.25...which I'm taking to mean that if he were to hit me w/only his fists, he'd do up to about 1-2 dmg. But without knowing more about the math involved I could be interpreting things incorrectly. So if anyone else can come in and show how I'm totally wrong/harder numbers I'd be glad to see it.

Damage bonus per point of STR is not a whole lot, for instance I think 10 STR gives you a 5dmg bonus (1 STR=.5) but I don't know what the base-base is. Most melee/unarmed builds I see people tossing around are at least based on things like Oh Baby & Love & Hate, not fists-only. I can try to look it up in the editor but right now I'm waiting for some ginormous videos to compress. edit:I should probably say I'm not sure if that's 5 pts of extra dmg. or some kind of 5 modifier, like a percentage.

I don't like melee combat, in any game. Not generally my thing. But yeah, I hear they kick butt.

Helping people like the nutter Boomers...it's all for the greater good, man, the greater good!! .....I think I had to reload 5 times to reach the Boomers. There weren't that many quests for them when I did it. I got the idolized doing just a few quests seemed like. I had more trouble doing the Omertias (sp?) & trying to find all those bloody people in the hotel, when the local map doesn't tell me what floor each marker is on.

For me it seems to be done in the background as soon as I go 'online.' It doesn't give me a big splash 'now downloading' screen, or 'do you want to download now' it just does it. I could see the icon in the systray blinking a little and if I mouse-hovered over it it would say %done and such. If the patch is big enough (hence slow to download) you can go into the Download section of the Steam menu and see it there. While in-game (a game loaded) if you hit ESC then Help, you can see the version number. Latest is 1.2 Edits: I'll still go for the next 'big' patch. Sometimes intermediate patches don't work as well as the final bigger one. But if that one makes anything much worse, I won't try any others if there are any others. Side bug note: the weapon/GUI lockup bug also affects my 357 pistols.

Six shots=2 decapitated heads, 1 exploded head, and 1 just plain dead guy (with apparently instant-rigor-mortis, judging by his upright arm) No more whiskey for you, dear. They should know better than to threaten me when Boone is standing BEHIND them... Sunny & Boone teaming up in the tutorial mission (grabbed him at lvl 1, then went back). Haha! Curse you Obsidian, you made him too sexy. Arcade isn't the same.

The store retailers are definitely the reason I can't buy hard copy PC games half the time anymore. Unless they're super-duper AAAAAA titles, they won't stock them, whatever the reasoning. So it's either online or DD. Based on my recent re-trying of Steam, I would not mind having to use them for the game-check so much IF they got rid of the must auto-patch feature, that still happens even if you have the 'don't auto-update' option checked.

With one of my characters, I decided I would collect every single teddy bear and toy car. It's like pillows in Morrowind...I wonder if you could create a giant stack of 'burned books'...

I know that, but when I start a new game, since I know of the quest, I may as well pick them early on and then I don't have to think about it later.

Boone definitely cares about your NCR rep. But I think you have to get to the 'you are hated' level before he starts warning you. Smiling Troublemaker isn't an issue tho. He'll also confront you if you kill too many NCR soldiers, w/the usual confrontation options. Gorgon, sounds like Boone recruit quest might be bugged. As long as you found the 'evidence' and used the right person, aren't hated by NCR etc., he should be willing to join.

If it's a repair quest, I just do it with a repair skill, or move on. I think it's cool that tin cans can be used in a quest or recipies and stuff, but there's enough of them that I won't bother hoarding them. At the same time, I have no issues skipping a quest that has me do stuff like that if it's not something my character is interested in doing. It was a Contreras related side quest from that guy who stands near the bench of the robot-run shop. I wanted This Machine and the non-tin can option w/Isaac required 80 in either speech or barter. And I also use Novac hotel as my storage. Lucky38 seems like too much trouble to get to, and all I need is 3-4 containers. It feels more private (hehe) and like it's "mine" too. Plus I didn't side with House and I think eventually you can't send your guys to 38 if you go against him? Also, am curious...the wiki mentions that waiting/fired companions in the Lucky 38 will sometimes "take" food items away, eg such items disappear. Occasionally from their inventory, too, if you have them carry such stuff for you. Has anyone actually noticed this happen? Wonder if it's a bug or by design. Re:survival - I am a packrat and often like alchemy in other games, but Survival/cooking has no motivation for me even so. There's nothing from it I'd want or need. So I pick herbs (early on) if I run by it and sell them, but that's it.

At least the actual save file tells you which chr. it belongs to. I've resorted to copying all saves of one character to my own folders and then copying them back and forth depending who I want to play...so all the saves in the list are of the one chr, at least. Pain in the butt tho.

Yeah...after a point in the game I started only getting stuff on the map, and didn't really go in to do anything because I was afraid of "breaking" stuff. So I still had to a lot of it to do from scratch. I'd still broken Papa Khan's bit tho. :/

Btw, is there some tech reason why the save game menu = one huge long scroll-fest list instead of having them separated by character list menus? Scrolling through 60+saves is bad enough when you have multiple chrs....I can't imagine going for all 1000!

Went back to my "main" character that was close to the endgame. She still had tons of sidequests left to do but gar, too much, maybe later. So I just barreled through the NCR main quests. Lvl 26, Very Hard. The stuff near the end became a bit tedious for me, at least on the NCR path. By that I mean, all the back & forth for quests...back and forth, back and forth...that NCR commander chick was annoying too. All business, no fun, get out of my face lady. heh If it wasn't for Boone I'd have whacked her a few times. Since I was using Boone the whole time, I was pleased that whatever I'd done gave him the relatively good epilogue. Not a happy one so much, but at least he didn't commit suicide or turn into a bitter, evil mercenary or something! Made me feel like I'd "saved" him from himself...kind of. He'll always be damaged. Poor Boone. Great job Obsidian, and of course I have to thank Jason Marsden for what I think is his awesome voice work on Boone. Now I can go back to mucking about. Fun stuff....fun game.

Since I can't use the cowboy effectively at the moment, I gave it to Boone, thinking he'd be fine with it. But the bug seems to affect Boone as well...it doesn't freeze my controls, but when I give it to him to use, he fires his shots, reloads, then crouches for long seconds as if stuck...it's actually quite funny.

Dear Obsidian: I have no problem with exploding heads, S&M armor, flying bloody body parts, or liberal cursing, but I draw the line at walking into the Dino-Bite Gift Shop and getting a nice view of Cliff Briscoe rooting around in his nose. Ewwww.....lol

I'm apparently not a comic person because titanium+knee+surgery only made me think of the 70's TV bionic man.

I just like Davison's Bumper expensive sword. But yea, he does have some cool dialogue.

I'd like to confirm that doesn't work for me, either. As soon as I went into online mode, Steam auto-downloaded the patch, despite my having that setting checked. Edit: also, that Boone now acts buggier/crazier than before, since the patch. Nothing major, but he goes melee a lot more often (draws it for a few seconds then suddenly switches to his rifle) and graphical glitches like his rifle being upside down or stuck to his chest when he holsters it. Last time, completely uninstalling the game and re-downloading it from Steam helped (not from backup) but I don't feel like spending an hour+ waiting for the download yet again.

It's called I didn't play dress up or with dollies when I was a child, and now thanks to the power of computer games, I'm making up for it.

P.S. I hear sometimes he can be bugged, tho. Oh, and @ Thorton_AP, there's the one quest that uses tin cans...so I stick those in a container too. lol.

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