LadyCrimson

Tonight, like every other night, was another step in the journey towards jolly madness. This is a positive thing, in case you're wondering.

Any game that lets me carry a gun while walking around in my 'sexy nightwear' is my kind of game. Also...at least I can make it look like there's romance! ....Yes I know, I'm strange, as always.

But wouldn't getting to New Vegas at lvl3 or so with hardly any money or gear (cause you're not doing anything) be a bit difficult? I do agree about not wandering overly much tho...the game seems more geared (difficulty wise) for not doing that. After level 8 or 9 I stopped talking to new people when I discovered a location, I only tried to get places on my map so I could fast travel there when I needed to later. At Normal difficulty non-hardcore, once I became used to the combat, it became a little too easy at level 15 when doing "everything" along the way, except for those few badarse enemy types. If I go back to my first game I'll be pushing that up to Very Hard. Doesn't mean you can't wander...just depends what you want from the game.

Yeah but the cycling ones might be harder to find on the 'net, w/out the menu words in them. That big red one is all over the place.

Oh? You don't have to do anything but go to Vegas, if you can run yourself down there? Interesting. I'd think getting there that early & then trying to do the quests might be a little difficult. Intriguing! I'll leave Boone in the hotel (he'd fire at things...) and try it then.

The main menu has several cycling images. Unless you mean the red helmeted guy one that shows up when you first start the game.

I became slightly unmotivated after reaching New Vegas (that's typical for me, it's nothing wrong w/the game) and thus I made a new chr. w/higher sneak/luck & tried to get to Novac as soon as possible. By following the road and skipping most of the stuff you're supposed to do on the way there, I made it w/out too much trouble. The few bandits along the way were rather tough to deal with with my puny gear but not that bad. Did the check ranger station quest for Novac rep, grabbed Boone, & have my hotel room. Ppl of Novac still gave me the 'follow the men who tried to kill you' quest, even tho I hadn't gone to Primm yet. Hopefully I haven't broken any quests. Or maybe I could keep going and not have to do Primm? This should be interesting. I'm liking this character build better too. Higher luck definitely feels...well, luckier.

Could you elaborate? What menu screens? Are you looking for something w/artistic rendering or just screenshots of them?

The Legion I've met seem to use firearms until you get up closer to a certain distance. Or maybe they run out of bullets.

The only view I've seen through home windows or on porches are shirtless, potbellied guys holding a beer...husband included. I'm in a good mood today. The Giants are up 2-0 in the WS, it's the weekend & it looks like I have nothing pressing that needs doing for it, and FO:NV hasn't crashed on me yet today.

Making a pork roast and it's making the house smell nummy! In another couple hours or so it'll be in my tummy!

"My, you look tasty." lol Also, at least with a Luck of 5, the slots feel almost like real ones...while still losing overall, it pays out just enough for a long while to make you keep on hitting the lever.

I don't have issue with knowing what area the NPC is in, but exactly where in the area/compound etc. is another story. The areas are so huge sometimes I run around & run around because I can't recall if they're upstairs or in the left wing or the right wing or in this tent or that tent. Oh well....yellow notepad time. Or stop solving side quests. ;p

....yup, that was it, thanks. And it still says it's only taken 1 pot out of your inventory. heh

Can you place notes on the maps? I can place markers but don't see... I can tell I'm going to be frustrated with 'quest overload' and running around in circles like a chicken with it's head cut-off, being unable to remember where NPC's are located.

So...repairing the food processor in Camp McCarron. I have all the parts but it says I don't. Is this an instance of needing all non-stolen parts?

There may well be a decisive factor for the crashes, but for me at least, the crashes are seemingly so completely random that it's impossible to even try to test for triggers. It is definitely not specific area-triggered however. That is, there may be some actual area-trigger crashes in the game, but the overall problem I have of 'general random crashing' isn't.

DAM of 6, you won't be hurting anything with armor. Since even leather armor has a DT of 6. I know, which is why I said my skill was at lvl17. I haven't bothered using them, obviously. :D I was just wondering if others had their energy skill at 70+ while saying they're a lot weaker than guns. It doesn't seem to affect dmg numbers by giant amounts, but it does go up. Like the wiki says, mostly accuracy and sway. Which helps me a lot. While some fights are harder than others I haven't had that much trouble with most normal things (eg, not incl. things like deathclaws haha) unless mobbed into a corner of course. Maybe it's more because of my perks tho. (edit:)that and I often shoot in the 'hidden' stance even when not hidden. It steadies my rifle and seems to give me a lot more criticals when not using VATS. It also seems to still give sneak criticals even tho enemies have spotted me.

Oh another thing...by coincidence of timing, I entered the outskirts of Vegas and suddenly my companion kept saying "I knew you'd be the death of me" and "So this is how it ends". I ran around looting a hotel & exploring for 15 minutes thinking that he hated Vegas and that I was going to dump him if he was going to be this verbally morose every 30 seconds...and then finally I realized he had only 17 health left. Silly me. Got so used to his non-hardcore ability to pop back up full health that I never checked. LOL ... that's the best thing about companions imo, those funny little things they say.

My energy weapon skill is at 17, so mostl of them have dmg of like 6, the rifles & bigger ones somewhat more. In other words, I assume when some of you are saying they're not powerful enough, you have energy skill up to at least 50ish or so? I have yet to feel like my Guns skill really needs to be past 50-60, but I've only just reached the outskirts of Vegas at lvl 13. Misc: --I had great fun with the mini-quest where you get to force a captured Legion to talk for an NCR commander. With my high intelligence, I was able to do it without striking a blow. But now I'm wondering if that was a Boone influence option so I'm going to reload & try it again by tossing the Legion around the room a little. Boone seems to respond to violence. Hahaha. --The Boulder City showdown seemed a bit buggy for me. I had to do it three times before the game seemed to think I'd done it in the right 'order' & I gained influence with the town/NCR. The quest log first said "help the NCR kill all the Khan" and then when I started killing Khan, also said "Help the Khan kill all the NCR" and then quests wouldn't trigger properly. If I'd ignored the NCR standing outside, would the Khan not have been 'red' from the get go so I'd have an option to talk to/help them instead, even tho I'm chasing after them because at least one of them tried to kill me?

i have the impression it's a bit like Kotor2 (or other games w/similar) eg. it's influence. If you do something that a companion likes when they're in your party, they'll note it, and after a while when you talk to them, there will be more convo options or they'll say something new, until they give you a quest. For example, when I But if you do one of those things a companion likes, there's no indication that I noticed like "Influence gained" in Kotor2 only a quick spoken line, so it seems easy to miss. (edit:)and of course if you stick with one companion a long time, you may finish a lot of things/quests that would be influence for other ones...

Well, I tested it. The save file clock does continue to run in ESC/pause mode. At least I know I'm not completely losing track of time, then! Loaded up the last save game (left side), immediately hit ESC, went away, came back, hit ESC to re-enter the game then saved to a new slot (right side)

Was that near Scorpion Gulch, because for me that corpse held Brotherhood armor (+1 STR, +25 rad resistance, 40weight). And yea, too heavy (without mods, that is, of course). Random I assume. Interesting.

Does Steam clock work if you're offline? I don't think I see a Steam clock number. Anyway, strange. Had the game 7 days, a couple days I played 6-7 hours but the rest more like 4, so it shouldn't be more than 35ish.