LadyCrimson

I have a problem in that I don't like any of the factions enough to feel like supporting them very much. They're all a bunch of busy-bodies who take my weapons & clothes and tell me to do silly errands. Can I kill them all?

Nope. I figured there'd be one somewhere, but I haven't run across it yet. It's not the breathing that bothers me, it's just awkward overall. And companions don't seem to like it much either. Other: --Couldn't there be an option to show a mini-map in one corner, if a player wanted? It gets so annoying having to constantly hit TAB to pull up the PipBoy mid-jog all the time. --too...many...factions w/side quests! lol ... don't get me wrong, the choices are great. But I think I'm going to have to ignore some of them for other playthroughs!

I've been tempted to start pumping the skill to use Laser guns, because I keep finding the coolest sounding special lasers. I love the Nikola Tesla references... P.S. I don't like swimming in FONV.

I have a free day today so I'm going to play FONV until I drop. I love my life.

Dear Diary A pleasant sounding voice spoke through EDE today. It told me he was from Hidden Valley, he was interested in seeing my robot, and to meet some cronies of his at the REPCONN HQ. Boone argued against it of course. "It's probably a dirty Legion trap so they can get their hands on me." I had to remind Boone that the Legion weren't known for their technical prowess, and hacking into EDE wasn't their style. I was, as always, curious, and since it close to a trading post anyway, why not. Dear Diary REPCONN HQ uneventful, although the guard robots inside were a bit pushy about wanting to check ID's;they seemed unaware that all their employers were long dead. But I found a security badge on an old, moldering corpse and used that to make my way upstairs. On the executive floor, another annoying robot demanded not only a badge, but a verbal password check. Uh-oh. Boone leaned over and whispered in my ear: "Don't worry, I got your back." So I readied my weapons and took a stab in the dark at the password. "Uh....ICE CREAM?" The security robot didn't even blink an eye receptor. "Thank you, please proceed. And have a nice day." Boone gave me a funny look, and I mumbled, "Hunger and past dreaming. First thing came to mind." Boone shook his head. "First the gambling, now this. You have to be one of the luckiest bitches I've ever known." I just smiled. Oh and the meeting? We found the guys, all right. Turns out they were Brotherhood, and they were dead. But I found a recording with a password on their bodies, so I think we can still get into that bunker in Hidden Valley. And of course I stripped the corpses of their power armor;they wouldn't need it anymore. I don't have Power Armor training and even if I did I wouldn't wear the stuff - power armor tends to chafe in all the wrong places - but it fetches a tidy sum in trade. I did try to get my companion to wear one, seeing as how he already had on a Recon suit, but of course Boone wouldn't consider it. He literally threw it on the floor in disgust in front of his feet, saying he refused to wear anything that might declare him as part of a faction he didn't belong to. Whatever...the trade price of the two armor suits, as well as the fancy laser gun I'd also found, would enable me to restock in style. "Don't forget more .308 shells," Boone reminded me. "We're running a little low." "Again? You do know that's a sniper rifle you have there, not a machine gun, right?" Boone shrugged. "It saves your ass all the time, doesn't it, so don't complain." New Vegas to shop, than off to Hidden Valley. I'm sure Boone will complain the entire way.

Dear Diary: Boone has become restless & moody over the past few days. More moody than usual, that is. I asked if it was because I had yet to take him to the areas known to be crawling with Legion troops, and if my doing so might help his mood. "Couldn't hurt," he growled back. I reminded him that I'd already promised to do several tasks and I couldn't just abandon my responsibilities quite yet. Boone frowned and turned away, muttering "Bounties are nothing and I weary of people who can't do for themselves;I think you just don't know how to say no. They're not my concern." There's only so far you can push a man like Boone, dear diary, and I knew it. So I put on my best smile. "All right, but I at least want to explore a couple Vaults, maybe find some new gear before we take on the Legion, and I'm going to need someone big and strong like you to help plumb dark depths." Boone was having none of this flattery and hrumphed in response. "I really don't care about your treasure hunting," he said. "Although I admit that this Pushy contraption you found is a nice little toy...can't wait to try it on some Legionaries..." He grunted and folded his arms. "But I think I'll stay here & wait while you idiotically explore the Vaults, how about that?" "But I don't know what's down there, and you know I'm terrible in close quarters. I rely on distance and sharp aim. I don't have your strength or stamina - I can barely swing a machete. Just help me explore Vault11 a bit then we'll go kick Legion arse back down into the hell they belong in, I promise. Please?" He frowned. Then he abruptly nodded. "You helped me back in Novac and I've seen with my own eyes your hatred of the Legion. Killing Silus despite instructions not to was proof of that. You've earned a tiny bit of respect." His eyes scrunched down into narrow slits. "But you had better keep your promise." Then Boone pointed towards ED-E, who as usual was floating in a corner, making soft humming noises. "And tell that junk-metal basketball to stay in the hotel this time. In close quarters it'll just get in my way. Plus his damn cheery combat jingle is driving me nuts and has no place in combat. I wish you could Repair him to make him stop doing that." So I agreed to leave EDE behind. It's a useful robot when outdoors, with its long radar, but I see no need to bring it with us this time. We leave tomorrow morning. Dear Diary: I'm exhausted. We're resting inside Vault11 because I'm still recovering from a bad injury. Boone is standing outside a door, keeping watch. I think that man never sleeps. We had risen early this morning, packed some extra gear, and set off for the Vault. Upon arrival, I told Boone to take the lead, and he quietly sneaked through the many hallways, opening doors and confronting everything in his path. He 'hmm-ed' to himself as he went. I don't think he knows he does that, and it's not a nervous sound, either. More like a tuneless dirge. I was keeping several feet behind him, letting him do all the killing. As it turns out, there really wasn't too much danger:a lot of mutated, giant bugs and rats mostly. Boone was so efficient that it seemed only a few minutes passed and the first floor and living quarters had been cleared. I was able to safely scrounge through the wreckage for a while. It's amazing how many goodies were still lying around. I even found a Recon Armor suit in a battered storage locker, which I immediately gave to Boone since it was too large and heavy for me. Despite his claims that he didn't care about treasure, Boone seemed pleased by the find. When I was done scavenging, we decided to go further in. As we neared the stairs to another, lower level, Boone paused. "I smell a gas leak. Be careful what you do in here, don't wander and stick close to me. Real close." Things proceeded without event for the next few minutes. Then Boone went down another short flight of stairs and turned a corner, immediately stepping through the first doorway, 'hmm-hmm-ing' all the way. I started to follow, when Boone suddenly stopped mid-hmm and hollered, "Heads Up!!" I saw him dash forward and had time to shout "Crap what did you do?!" just before a massive explosion went off near my feet, which sent me flying back into the hallway. As I lay there groaning, Boone came rushing towards me. "I told you to stay close!" he barked, a look of scowling concern on his face. And I don't mind telling you, dear diary, that even through my pain I felt a small sense of satisfaction. Boone is a hard & bitter man who doesn't let people in close, but maybe he's finally beginning to see me as something more than just a second gun or occasional useful tool. Not a friend, exactly. I'm not sure Boone knows what that word means anymore. On some days I'm not even sure I still do. But in this wild wasteland, even the smallest sense of being needed or wanted is hard to come by - y'know, that feeling of knowing that someone might actually miss you a little when your head is finally blown off or torn to pieces? - and to see something that almost resembled that, on Boone's face, after all our adventures together...well, I hope it's true, and I hope it lasts. Not much does in this world. As he was rummaging through his gear for the stimpacks that would save my life, I managed a small grin and forced my burned lips to move. "Your sniper & combat prowess may be legendary, but your trap disarming sucks." Then I apparently fainted. Dear Diary: The stimpacks have done their magic and I'm all rested up. We're about to move ahead again...and this time I've told Boone to leave the traps alone & let me handle them. Wish us luck.

Ok, thanks! I'll look it up. I know nothing about ammo sizes and all that (which is better etc), but am assuming bigger the number the better. I just read in the wiki I could've just picked up a Sniper Rifle off someone's cot but oh well....that one can be mine. I love this game! Curious:Has anyone tried to seriously go (at least mostly) melee? How's that working out? Boone's supposed to...has a few. I don't know what triggers which ones tho....

Anyone know the biggest caliber rifle ammo/gun? I don't want to go all out on buying Boone ammo if there's going to be something w/a bigger ammo type later.... Cause I just bought Boone a .308 Sniper Rifle for 2200caps (ouch). He's loaded for bear (has 15DT nopenalty combat armor too). I ran him to the clump of DeathClaws near the Farm House (still on VH diff.) and he took out the 1st w/one shot and killed two others before the last two took him (and me, now lvl 11) down.

you could say they're important. she actually gives you the whole branch of McCarran quests linked to the Legion spy and Vault 3 I don't care much about the monorail/spy quest (especially since I hear it can bug out on some ppl) and The White Wash/No Not Much isn't a Boone thing. IIRC have a Vault 3 quest in my log that doesn't seem (yet) to have anything to do with her at all. Hmm. Edit:Reloaded the game, she's still stuck. Left area, waited 24 hours, went back, still stuck. lol Oh well, don't care. Or rather I kinda do, but I don't want to retrieve the corpse, kill Cook-Cook and all that again right now. My Vault3 quest had to do w/that bounty hunter dude.

Reporting that after 25 hrs. w/2nd chr., it's crashed only twice. Currently have the .dll vid. fps 'fix' back in and self-made mod to alter weight carrying capacity. Also, I put virtual memory setting at 0. If you have the memory to do the same, imo it sometimes seems to help with that sudden sense of lurching in the game (less/no swapping maybe?).

oh? Just side quests or important ones (or more Boone ones)? I was kind of hoping she might come out upon quit/reloading the game or something. As usual I went to bed after playing a while after that happened and didn't reload it yet. If she doesn't, I can reload the savegame from then and try again, but I'd rather not. That's what I get for trying to have my cake (some info from Silus) and eat it too (kill him for Boone). heh

Ok I found some of the companion NPC info. The stats I've seen for them are correct. But I can't find what perks (if any) they're granted. Their skills seem to be under named class categories and the window for those don't show anything but the base SPECIAL stats and order of TAG skills. If they have personal 'perks' (besides their special ones) I can't find them. Tag skill order (I don't know if this matters...) for Boone is Guns, Sneak, Melee Weapons, and Cass is Melee, Guns, Sneak. Boone is class "SuperSniper" and Cass is "CassClass" Under Confidence, Boone is "Foolhardy" and Cass is "Brave." ...there's gotta be perk info in this thing somewhere... *mumbles* Edit:found it but it doesn't say anything either. Oh well. But according to what I can tell, your Luck number is actually your critical chance number. I don't know if this means actual = percentage chance, but if your Luck is 4, your Critical Chance is also 4. (maybe you guys knew that already, I'm new to all this still). ED-E has Luck/Crit. 9.

I'm not sure. I've been trying to find the NPC info in GECK but I haven't located it yet. The best I know of Boone is that he does have very high crit. chance, even without his hat. From wiki they supposedly both have 10/10/10 in STR/PE/AG, but Boone has 2 more Luck. (6 vs 4)

I'd say something but....PG-13 fora...so I'll just go - Ick! Also, that evil gnome would make a good lawn ornament. If there were lawns.

Apparently I approached from the "wrong direction" during the retrieve the corpse quest. The NPC guard who's apparently supposed to warn you about the goons as you approach showed up right by the body after I'd killed everyone on the rooftops and then I got lost as to where I was supposed to take the body, so I was marching all over the place with it for long minutes. That was annoying. It appears that while you can rush to Vegas/away from the normal order of doing things, it can mildly mess up some of those scripting events. Same thing with Victor showing up. He all-of-a-sudden showed up in some radiated pool I was near, nowhere near any town, to tell me to meet House, and then got stuck in the pool trying to roll away. And I have yet to get the guy telling me about the star bottle caps. Also:this time I wanted the point w/Boone by killing Silus during the interrogation. So first I tried killing him right off. The NRC woman rushed in, admonished me, and left the room. The 2nd time I used INT to get half of Silus info then attacked him. But the NRC gal came in and started her spiel about 'great job' right as I landed the killing blow. She continued to tell me how awesome I was for getting info w/out killing Silus, and then turned to talk to Silus...only Silus was dead, so now she appears stuck in the interrogation room and won't come out. But I got my point with Boone!

I find that ED-E can't hit the broad side of a barn half of the time. True enough. He doesn't seem to do much damage either. But I mean at least EDE's tough enough to serve as a distraction while Boone & I are lining up our shots. :D

I haven't found EDE to be all that "weak" yet either, like I keep reading about. Course I also have Boone, but I mean EDE has been 'toe to toe' many times, shooting that little laser as a baddie tries to wail on him, and hasn't dropped once. ...seems like there were other unrelated things re:game things I noticed that I was going to comment on but by the time I get here/read everyone else's replies I always forget what they were...

My impression has been that companions can/will wear anything that they consider to be 'better' than their default weapons. If something isn't, they won't equip it. I'm not sure if for weapons it's damage or DPS based but I have the feeling it's more the DPS, since Boone preferred higher dps rifle to a high dmg. one. Other than I don't think there are any specific limits. On the companions & voices: ED-E has music for a voice, which he uses constantly for warnings...it's cute for a while but...he's NOT silent. Another thing I'm finding disconcerting about him is that far-sight perk. I'm undecided whether I like being able to see red lines sooooo long before I can see them. I haven't found any VO that I truly dislike yet. Some better than others of course. But considering how difficult it must be to read short lines like "No" "Yeah" and "All right" that won't sound annoying when repeated in-game 100's of times, it's fine. The longer dialogues have all seemed to be ok too. Sometimes for me it's more a disconnect between ch. appearance and the voice. If I just listen to the voice, the VO is actually fine, but if I listen and look at the face, it's not what I'm expecting so it seems strange, if that makes sense.

LOL....yeah...so far the bubble helmet is the only one I've found that makes Boone take off his red beret. It's been making me laugh for a while now.

Yup....8 Luck...won the oranges slot jackpot in about 10 minutes. I know about the casino-banning tho, and since I don't know what amount-'cleaning them out' I bet low & left with my 750caps winnings. I'll come back later, I have sufficient money for now. lol Playing the 2nd chr. it sure does feel like Luck also affects loot. But could also be coincidence. I found it interesting too that Boone prefers the Service Rifle (lower dmg./high dps) over the Hunting Rifle (much higher dmg, lower dps). He wouldn't equip the latter if I put both in his inventory. Guess he likes the fast-firing 20 bullets at a time dps. Giant Scorps & Caz-flies are not a problem. Neither was a mutant I encountered in the hills. Packs of those orangeish dogs were more troublesome. Things definitely hit a lot harder in Very Hard...but that's why I'm a sniper. ps I don't like ED-E making my weapons deteriorate faster tho. I think it's because of him...

WHHOOOOOHOOOOO SF Giants win the World Series! Neighbors banging fireworks, hollering. Whee.

I'm actually looking forward to those things. A lot. Very a lot. *rubs hands together* ...now that I have all the voice sound files, I've been listening to all the companion battle cries to see if any would annoy me so much I wouldn't want them. Cass has some funny lines ('wouldn't say no to a stimpack'), I think I'll have to try her next time. I don't like to switch my companions once chosen. I'm loyal that way.

On the PC, look in your installation folder under Game\Data\textures\interface\loading They are all in .dds format so you will probably want to convert them. Hey, thank you very much for responding, but [ ... ] Other than that, sounds like exactly what I'd want Hey Taviow, I got around to downloading a bsa converter and the dds converter and have all the loading screen files in jpg format now. One caveat is they all seem to be 1024x512 in size - but when viewed on my 1920x1080 desktop they still looked pretty ok. Depends on your video card I guess. Anyway, if you want them I can put them in a zipfile. Since I don't know which ones you want, and there's a lot of them, the file would be around 15MB or so if that matters to you.

Stayed up a couple hours later than I should have, on a day I had to get up early. Curses. Hope I don't fall asleep in the middle of a convo or something.

So I noticed someone on the Beth boards saying that after you do their quests, companions can die even in non-hardcore mode? Is this true or was the person just mistaken/full of it. I tried picking up ED-E, took him to the junkyard, talked to the lady, and ED-E spewed out a msg., but the quest log didn't change. There's no more map indicator, it's not completed, no new message, nothing. Oh well? I find his constant little gear-whine noise following behind me a bit annoying anyway. It reminds me of that sound TV's & lightbulbs make.