My NV impressions

hiver · Oct 20, 2010

I wanted to know does taking multiple stimpacks increases the length of healing too, since Vince says it doesnt in his impressions posted over at IT forums.
Or if it increases the duration - it increases it very slightly.

Still, it seems you can shoot up several stimpacks at once thus gaining in effect regenerating health for a period of time, right?
The more you take at once the faster you heal while the effect lasts, right?

hoochimama · Oct 20, 2010

Edit: actually I've been testing it and the stimpak effect does seem to last longer when you take a lot at the same time, about 9 seconds when you take 2 stims, 15 when you take 3. But your total hp healed is still what you'd get from individually using each hp+8(6s) stimpak.

What's the difference though? So far most gunfights lasted less than 10 secs(outside vats), you won't be able to beat impossible odds thanks to stims, unlike fo3.

random_encounter said:
hiver said:

Does prolonged thirst affect your stats negatively?
And can you quelch it with whiskey?
Or other booze. or only hunger has that effect on stats?

Click to expand...

Yes to all three. Wine also quenches your thirst along with whiskey and they will affect stats (-1 INT for wine, I believe)

No, booze increases your thirst.

HanoverF · Oct 20, 2010

hoochimama said:
Lots of skillchecks in general, but they're hard skill checks and the ones I've seen so far you can retry those checks whenever you want, this encourages the powergamer in me to hang onto those magical pants of +5 bartering in case I'm a few points short of a skill check. Skill magazines seem to follow the same idea.

By the time you get to Vegas there start to be skill checks you can't retry, which I guess is sorta good, but sorta so I have to be psychic to guess when I need to use these stupid magazines?

hiver · Oct 20, 2010

hm, ok. thanks.
then it works in some manner at least as a deterrent. good.

I suppose it would be too much to hope there is less stimpacks in the game as previous poster mentioned?

How often can you find doctor bags and hydra stimpacks that also heal crippled limbs?
And is there any limit on using those dependent on medical skills?

Suchy · Oct 20, 2010

The bitch doesn't start. Crashes on the very startup, with standard Windows error.
Any ideas?
WixXP, GTX280, latest drivers.

HanoverF · Oct 20, 2010

bad torrent?

Suchy · Oct 20, 2010

Nah, runs on another computer.

Xor · Oct 20, 2010

So, is this different enough from Fallout 3 that I won't hate playing it? Also, what's this about a save bug?

hiver · Oct 20, 2010

hoochimama said:
No, booze increases your thirst.

Blasphemy!!!

FeelTheRads · Oct 20, 2010

Not removed it from inventory.

Being forced to only see one stat at a time when assigning the SPECIAL points is fucking enraging me. Fuck their jizzotron or whatever the fuck that machine is called, it's fucking retarded and for their failure to fix this from Fallout 3 I shouldn't even bother anymore with this game.

Darth Roxor · Oct 20, 2010

FeelTheRads said:
Not removed it from inventory.

Being forced to only see one stat at a time when assigning the SPECIAL points is fucking enraging me. Fuck their jizzotron or whatever the fuck that machine is called, it's fucking retarded and for their failure to fix this from Fallout 3 I shouldn't even bother anymore with this game.

Hint: click the arrow pointing right 7 times to get an adjustable list of all stats.

But if you were outsmarted by something as dumb already at the start, perhaps you really should not bother with it anymore.

FeelTheRads · Oct 20, 2010

Very smart, except in that screen there are no descriptions of the stats and I can't quickly get to one of them to see it without waiting about a second for each arrow press, now can I?

Darth Roxor · Oct 20, 2010

And I suspect you haven't played any single Fallout game before to know what stuff like 'strength' does, right? :retarded:

Multidirectional · Oct 20, 2010

hiver said:
How often can you find doctor bags and hydra stimpacks that also heal crippled limbs?
And is there any limit on using those dependent on medical skills?

I'm level 7 and I only had one Hydra so far. Doctor bags are more frequent but I wouldn't say I have lots of them. Also, limbs after being healed by doctor bags stay fragile. Maybe a bigger medicine skill would affect that, I'm not sure.

hoverdog · Oct 20, 2010

Raghar · Oct 20, 2010

FeelTheRads said:
Very smart, except in that screen there are no descriptions of the stats and I can't quickly get to one of them to see it without waiting about a second for each arrow press, now can I?

Well Strength refers to lifting capacity and ability to correctly use tanks. See Project A-ko.

Throw them at your opponent.

I'd guess you'd be able to decipher rest of stats without additional hints.

Satori (original) · Oct 20, 2010

hiver said:
hoochimama said:

No, booze increases your thirst.

Click to expand...

Blasphemy!!!

It's not actually, but dehydration. See Alexander the Great's army.

racofer · Oct 20, 2010

Fallout: NV is melting GPUs due to Engine Issues.

Fallout 3 : New Vegas has been one of the most anticipated games in the last year and now that it’s here and upon us something was bound to happen. Has Fallout 3: New Vegas melted your machine yet? Obsidian has officially admitted that it’s a known issue and that a fix is "a work in progress".

Fallout 3: New Vegas VATS screens aren’t framerate-limited, which means that when you're carefully planning your tactics, your graphics hardware renders the shit out of those screens, causing some bad overheating problems. Bethesda Softworks PR Manager Pete Hines mentioned the issue was on Obsidian's end and Bethesda, although being the engine developer, had nothing to do with these issues and is redirecting any customer complaints to Obsidian's support forum and localized phone numbers:
Code:
```
REGION      

E-MAIL
    WEB SITE     PHONE NUMBER
USA and Canada     n/a     Web Site     n/a
United Kingdom     E-mail     Web Site     Phone: 0161 827 8060/1*
France     E-mail     Web Site     Phone: 0825 15 80 80*
Germany     n/a     Web Site     Phone: 0190 771 882*
Spain     E-mail     Web Site     Phone: 34 91 747 03 15*
Italy     E-mail     Web Site     Phone: 02/937671*
Australia     E-mail     Web Site     Phone: 1 902 26 26 26*
New Zealand     n/a     Web Site     Phone: 0 900 54263*
```

This keeps getting better and better! :salute:

Stereotypical Villain · Oct 20, 2010

Isn't there an option to turn on v-sync? And if so shouldn't that fix all the problems?

Silellak · Oct 20, 2010

Stereotypical Villain said:
Isn't there an option to turn on v-sync? And if so shouldn't that fix all the problems?

Check the link - the URL, that is...don't actually click on it. I'm pretty sure the "article" is a modification of a Starcraft 2 issue that cropped out just after release.

Fake edit:
http://kokugamer.com/2010/07/29/blizzard-confirms-starcraft-ii-overheating-bug/

Sigh. Oh, Codex. :roll:

FeelTheRads · Oct 20, 2010

Darth Roxor said:
And I suspect you haven't played any single Fallout game before to know what stuff like 'strength' does, right?

Yeah, hurray for dumbing down... because... because it's not difficult! :thumbsup:

Redshirt #42 · Oct 20, 2010

I 'acquired' the game today and played it for about 2-3 hours. I created a character with max. strength, agility, endurance and 1 point in intelligence and charisma, focusing on melee and unarmed combat. Unfortunately, there's no special dialogue for dumb (or ugly) characters so I didn't feel particularly punished for my powergaming choices at the character creation. I also assaulted some random civilians to see how other NPCs in the starting town would react. While I was immediately attacked (and killed) even when I tried to kill their cattle (the Bighorners are the new Brahmins, I guess?) once I managed to slay a bunch of the NPCs and run away, I waited for an hour and came back to the town (where I obviously had a 'Vilified' reputation). But noone seemed to care that a butcher of innocents has returned. I could go to the shop, sell some items to the local shopkeeper and then gut him without any interference. I proceeded to kill everyone in the town (even the doctor who saved my life). I left the robot alive - and he was still as friendly as before.

Also, melee seems only useful when attacking unaware targets. When I tried to chase down one of the Goodsprings Citizens equipped with a rifle, he could back away faster than I could run and shoot at the same time. Luckily, his AI was retarded enough to get eventually stuck on a bunch of rocks and he was of course unable to escape once I started cutting him.

Maybe it gets better later on? I've never played Fallout 3 (so I can't tell how much it improved over that piece of shit) but New Vegas is still somewhat disappointing right now. It hardly seems like a worthy successor to the first two games.

hoochimama · Oct 20, 2010

The factions who vilify me shoot me on sight so I have to wear disguises to interact with them.

Could be your game is bugged, more likely it's because you haven't finished the tutorial.

DefJam101 · Oct 20, 2010

whoopsies, answered

Redshirt #42 · Oct 21, 2010

hoochimama said:
Could be your game is bugged, more likely it's because you haven't finished the tutorial.

Well, I naively thought that the tutorial was over after I had clicked on the dialogue option that said '... (Finish the tutorial)'.

My NV impressions

hiver

Guest

Liturgist

Arcane

hiver

Guest

Arcane

Arcane

Arcane

Arcane

hiver

Guest

Arcane

Royal Dongsmith

Arcane

Royal Dongsmith

Arcane

dog that is hovering, Wastelands Interactive

Arcane

Arbiter

Thread Incliner

Arcane

Cipher

Arcane

Augur

Liturgist

Arcane

Augur