Avellone's blog: FNV Perk Contest Winners

Human Goat made me burst out laughing.

 

He didn't post what Sole Survivor does. Just the conditions.

Edited April 3, 201114 yr by Tale

Fallout: New Vegas Game of the Year Edition spied on Amazon (VG247)

Loving all those perks.

 

Surely a Morricone inspired perk would involve the harmonicas which also have no bloody use.

Fallout: New Vegas Game of the Year Edition spied on Amazon (VG247)

 

Who actually hands out these GOTY awards and when did New Vegas win?

 

I never heard anything about it

i do, and i gave it to new vegas last year. i told everyone, where were you?

 

Avellone's blog: Results of Fallout New Vegas Movie Script contest

^---- "To cleanse the water, first he must cleanse the wasteland." I love it.

 

Anyways, the patch is up on STEAM now. No more patch notes than the ones detailing the weapon balance changes but there are other things as well in it (optimizations and bug fixes).

People are reporting the patch has broken the GECK - that is, they can't open mods/esm's, anything, in the GECK anymore.

 

You can use FNV Edit to check the changes, but until the GECK is either updated or whatever, modding may be out for a while.

Any good news about stability and performance?

Little early for that kind of consensus. No specifics in patch notes that anyone can see beyond the weapons changes.

Saw one post from someone saying they're having crashes at Crimson Caravan and another saying no micro-stutter difference for them. Without knowing what "stability fixes" means, it's just going to be play & see & individual results, as always, may vary.

 

GStaff did post that an updated GECK will be uploaded to the website, maybe tomorrow. It'd be nice if the new version fixed some GECK bugs too.

 

Edit: There are reports that the trader restock/day glitch may be fixed for some people. Or kinda partially fixed. lol

Edited April 26, 201114 yr by LadyCrimson

You should also see a significant increase in weapon mod and some ammo availability at vendors (most notably, Gun Runners). Some ammo prices have been increased and, of note, ammo like .44 Special, .223, and .38 Special should show up as "standard"/loose rounds in stores instead of as misc boxes.

It'd be nice if the new version fixed some GECK bugs too.

 

Yeh, but will never happen.

 

Wonder if there will be a day, where I can import my own heightmap or create lipsynch files without a hell of workarounds.

Hmm, haven't noticed Steam downloading any patches for NV, and version number is nowhere to be seen in the game or in the game files.

 

I don't care much for automatic updates.

What's not to lik about auto-updates?

 

Unless the update is rubbish.

 

Oh, OK, I get it.

Well, you can set your steam game not to be updated automatically.

Well, you can set your steam game not to be updated automatically.

Doesn't work. For a lot of people. It resets itself and starts downloading anyway.

 

@deathdealer - if your Steam game was updated, the .exe files and FalloutNV.esm in the game's main directory should have a new 'modified on' date of yesterday/today/when it was DL'd. Can't recall where to look while in game, offhand.

 

Edit: My PC/game didn't need optimization but I do notice less "pause lag" when things like Pushy's knock-back effect flash on screen. Happens a lot less often.

Cowboy repeater definitely a lot slower firing.

Had one game crash when trying to load an old save. Loading wheel went round & round forever, 'not responding', had to end task. When I restarted the game, it then loaded just fine. No loading problems since. Weird.

Edited April 26, 201114 yr by LadyCrimson

Well, you can set your steam game not to be updated automatically.

Doesn't work. For a lot of people. It resets itself and starts downloading anyway.

 

That's been my experience

Well, you can set your steam game not to be updated automatically.

Doesn't work. For a lot of people. It resets itself and starts downloading anyway.

 

That's been my experience

And mine.

 

Looks like the FalloutNV.exe has been modified yesterday, so I guess it's updated. I just wouldn't mind a version number to be showed somewhere, I don't much like it when I have to just trust the automatic updating has done it's job.

I can't believe somebody hasn't made a poker mod yet.

New GECK (1.3) is out now.

Performance thingie that I've noticed: that annoying delay between action & info txt msg popping up is largely gone, even from the very start of a new chr/game.

 

@deathdealer - the version # can be seen by loading a save game, hitting ESC, and clicking the "Help" menu option. It doesn't appear in the main/start in-game menu, have to load a save 1st. There might be another way too but that's the one I know of.

I love it when I click do not keep this game updated and low and behold its downloading a patch because some reason it reverts back to keep this game up to date. Now the patch has broken my mods so now I have to wait for an update on those mods before the game becomes playable. I don't like Steam. What's the problem with disk install of game, game owner updates the game at their leisure?

I'm not so attached to installing a game from disc, being unable to stop Steam updating games however is *very* annoying, the fact that there's a menu option which gets ignored only adds insult to injury.

I don't understand why they can't just have a message that pops up that informs you there's a new patch, do you want to download now, yes/no. I don't get it at all. If not patching the game means stuff like Steam achievements won't work until you do patch, they can tell you that in big bolded text & let you decide whether you care. Unless there's an insurmountable tech reason that = have to patch or your PC will run off with your first born child, when to update should be left up to the player.

Edited April 27, 201114 yr by LadyCrimson

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