High luck makes a huge difference for chance games (obviously), with 8 or more you can easily milk a casino for several thousands of bottlecaps before being booted out...especially on blackjack.

It also makes a difference for finding random stuff (bottlecaps, ammo), influences dialogue choices/options, skill checks, critical chance, and so forth. It's a skill that you rarely actively notice but influences just about everything.

damn, Derf's one sexy biatch

Oh dear. Then ending was just.... [insert scathing negative ramble here].

I'll have to withdraw my previous statement of wanting to award for this. Now I will have to withdraw my previous rating of and settle with a single out of 5.

Haha, a return to form eh?

The bug with the companions is obviously shit, and I'm not sure what happened with the Khans. But as for not knowing what was going on: I'm not sure that's the game's fault, tbh. I sided with the NCR and it was all fairly obvious for me what I had to do and what the implications of my actions were. So I'm not really sure how that went wrong for you. And while you won't hear me say the end fight was the best I ever did (the indoor sections can be pretty lame, as you said), the fact that I was able to TALK my way through the final showdown made up for a lot for me.

I'm interested how Caesar's Legion is fleshed out btw, quest-wise. The NCR had a lengthy series of (direct and indirect) quests that lead to siding with them at the end, and I'm sure the Legion must have a similar quest tree. I'll find out soon enough I suppose!

I am half tempted to play again as a brute moron tank. Not taking any shit from anyone. Specialise in Melee weapons and big guns. Ballistic fists pwn hard. 1-2 punches take down someone who would normally need 3-4 headshots to kill, and I don't even have any melee or strength of note!

But it was worth it to read. It's a shame I didn't really like Fallout 3, there's a lot of fun material, but the game simply didn't feel right to me.

Hehehe, I read that too. Was really cool. There are a lot of those things around in the world, some sad, some hilarious, some insane. The writing really is top-notch for a AAA title. How'd you type that over anyway? Alt-tab? Second PC? Can't imagine there's a copy-paste button in NV.

heh... I screen-shotted the screens, then had the images open in one window and forums in another. Then just typed it. Good thing I'm a fast typer.

I completed the game with my first character. I've started a second one now that's a bit of a psycho, with 1 int, 1 luck, 10 strength and 10 endurance. I can't recall much more in the way of specifics at this point. I'll probably screenshot it. I plan on being an evil bastard this time around. I'll also specialize in hand to hand combat and sneak. Sneak up on bastards and break them in half.

Some more screenies from my previous game.

Cool What was the ending like for you? GIMME SPOILERS!!

mmmm-k... my endgame (spoilers galore)



btw, having unarmed be your only fighting specialty, even with 10 strength, is really, really hard. I do squat shit for damage. The best I can say is that my boxing gloves will knock everything out if I punch them a few times... I can then beat them to death at my leisure. i've switched to using the 9mm most of the time... it does WAY more damage than my fists.

As promised, some of the additional mods I installed a few days ago:

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/ ... p?id=39256
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/ ... p?id=34784
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/ ... p?id=38652
http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34744 (recommended)
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/ ... p?id=38185 (experimental, so I dunno. May turn it off myself)

So, I'm still being evil in the wasteland. Slashing, dicing, punching, blowing shit up...and just be an allround asshole. I've mostly been working for the legion for now, and while the legion main camp (Fortification Hill) itself is a bit devoid of things to do, the questlines and the backstory of the legion is definitely on the same level as that of the NCR or other factions. And while Caesar is kind of a bastard, he's not completely chaotic evil crazy or anything. What he says makes a lot of sense, to some degree.

It's cool to see how the storylines come together again now I'm watching most of it from a different angle. Funnily enough, since I did some things that (inadvertently) made me appreciated to some extent by the NCR, they trust me enough to do shit for them at a fairly confidential level, giving me the opportunity to fuck up and sabotage a lot of their stuff.

Also Satis, while unarmed is a bitch early on, once you have a power fist or even spiked brass knuckles you can deal massive damage to most mobs. Nothing like punching someone's head clean off with a power fist.

(I messed up Veronica's NPC quest or even the chance to take her along...I was being a major dick to her and she dismissed me, now I only get to address her and say "goodbye". Too bad, would have been cool to roam the wasteland as two psycho unarmed bitches )

I stopped playing for awhile, so no news for me. I got kinda burned out after my first run. Once I get tired of X3:tc I'll probably start into New Vegas again.

Lol @ veronica. Did you pick up the trader chick, by any chance? I forget her name, but she's pretty psycho... her quest involves a significant amount of killing. It would mesh pretty well, though she's more into distance weapons.

I think I'll pick up Boone this time, when I start playing again. He seems engagingly evil. I'll also pick up Rex (the cyber dog) instead of E-DE this time, since I finished E-DE's questline anyway... I think. It's hard to be sure on that one.