Fallout: New Vegas

[retroed]

I dont think there is a dlc disc knocking about for this, it was for the first game. Which incidentally I need to send to Edward tomorrow as I have a weekday day off!

[DANGERMAN]

you'll never play it anyway

[retroed]

Probably true. Although I did fire it up the other day. My saves are in Anchorage though, so I couldn't play without losing gear and progress.

[radiofloyd]

First part of Project Brazil out this Friday.

Fallout: Project Brazil is a free fan-made expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. In fact it has been over four years in the making. The mod will be released in three installments one after the other if everything goes as planned.

From the Project Brazil Nexus site:

Project Brazil tells the story of your player character, an adopted resident of Vault 18, on the night of the last big Vault-Ball game of the season. The consequences of your player’s decision to dodge or tackle Johnny Matheson shapes the rest of their life, playing as an computer Nerd or a popular Athlete. When the war finally reaches the Vault after one prominent figure turns out to be a member of the Enclave, a civil war erupts overnight, forcing the player to pick a side and escape into the wasteland with their rag-tag party of Robots and Friends.

More information.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20577

[Sly Reflex]

So this is currently installing and I'm planning on playing alongside you Fallout 4 guys. Any advice I should take before starting my adventure? Ben, I'm aiming that at you since you were the one that played it to death when it came out. Other people's tips are welcome also. Not those tips though, I'm not falling for that again.

[DANGERMAN]

There's a sign in the graveyard that warns you not to go any further, heed that advice

[HandsomeDead]

Don't play it on hardcore mode.

[radiofloyd]

I played New Vegas for 40 hours before even reaching the Strip, which I'm not sure was such a good idea. I'd had enough by that point. Maybe it's best to follow the story for a while rather than wandering down every rabbit hole.

I played on hardcore mode though and liked it, it's not very intrusive.

I would say the enemies to be wary of at a low level are Cazadores if you run into them.

Also, for some reason, if you go into the main building in the Hoover Dam you are not allowed explore beyond a certain point. The game doesn't warn you but everyone will turn hostile, so be careful.

[Sly Reflex]

Remember when Ben did that Rio Ferdinand thing? I liked that and I've often asked myself how shit famous people would get on if you put them into games. So instead of WWRFD? (What would Rio Ferdinand Do?) I went with WWNED?

In true Noel Edmonds fashion, I'm being a bit of a dick, just like real life Noel Edmonds would react. I'm being egotistical and picking up all boxes so I can sell them to whichever vendor I come across. I'm being snarky whenever I'm talking to someone and at every opportunity if someone is alone they're getting killed and sexually interfered with. I'm going to do the right thing up front while being a bastard around back. See also: Everyone else that worked for the BBC in the last 50 years.

Here's hoping it turns out some interesting results.

[Jimboxy]

Remember when Ben did that Rio Ferdinand thing? I liked that and I've often asked myself how shit famous people would get on if you put them into games. So instead of WWRFD? (What would Rio Ferdinand Do?) I went with WWNED?

In true Noel Edmonds fashion, I'm being a bit of a dick, just like real life Noel Edmonds would react. I'm being egotistical and picking up all boxes so I can sell them to whichever vendor I come across. I'm being snarky whenever I'm talking to someone and at every opportunity if someone is alone they're getting killed and sexually interfered with. I'm going to do the right thing up front while being a bastard around back. See also: Everyone else that worked for the BBC in the last 50 years.

Here's hoping it turns out some interesting results.

Well, that has got my interest.

[Sly Reflex]

In today's episode of WWNED?

Noel saw this bastard off in the distance and thought it was pretty and hoped he wouldn't have to go up there because it was really far away and he was already tasked with going to Tipton or some other place he didn't really want to go to.

On his way to wherever the marker was placed, Noel came across loads of scorpions. "Come on then? Let's have a bareknuckle!" he shouted as he channeled his inner RONNIE PICKERING and punched those arachnid shitebags into carapaced corpses.

A bit further up the road were these ants. Normal people would have shot the ants from a distance. Noel's not been the same since the cancellation of his House Party back in the 90's. Because of that he dealt with them unorthodoxly, mainly by stabbing and punching them. Noel say's he's never stabbed anyone in real life, but I've looked into his cool icy blue eyes and I know he's telling porkies. Going off the deadness in his eyes I bet he's shanked at least 15 people, mostly those that have called into his radio show and pranked him live on air. Don't mess with Noel.

Noel saw that this place looked like a trap and decided to give it a wide berth. Noel is cunning. However further up the path Noel decided that the valley with snipers placed on either side was a bit much for him now. He decided to go back up to the previous areas to toughen himself up a bit to make it a bit fairer on himself.

This little prick here gave Noel a job, Little did he know that Noel was going to kill his woman and loot her and take the goods himself. This fool decided to use the whole facade of an easy solo kill on a defenceless woman to get Noel out in the stick so he he kill and loot Noel. You can't kill and loot Noel. The only thing that's going to kill Noel is his crippling addiction to substances, booze and his possible showboating by taking screenshots of his victims while being attcked by the local wildlife. You paid the price, Barton. You paid the price. You won't be on your own, Noels got a thirst for getting blood on his hands.

Why is Jack Whitehall here? And why can't Noel get him to cooperate and provide armour for the gang so he can fight Ringo's corner from those petty convicts outside? Noel promises to kill you one day when he can get on without tarnishing his whiter than white front to the rest of the Californian Wastelands. Before that of course Noel has to walk all the way back to that 100m high statue of two guys doing a Dutch rudder. It wouldn't be an open world game if you didn't have to do shit like that.

Just before this happened Noel met heavy resistance from somethings called night crawlers or some such. Noel was frustrated that VATS didn't work on these monsters so he had to use his aging reflexes eroded by years of coke and drink abuse to kill them. Luckily when he finally got to this point another hapless victim strolled in, a person bragging he'd won a lottery. He was alone and due to Noel's code had to go. He was helpless and shouldn't be part of this wild's ecosystem so down he went and into Noel's pockets went his belongings. After what happens here Neol had a conundrum. Although the people on the crosses weren't alone, they were helpless, so Noel decided to shoot each and every one of them in the head. He ended their suffering in lieu of providing a euphoria that could only dull the pain in his constantly erect penis which ached from been persistently ready to penetrate at a moments notice. After asking the Caesar dudes what the fuck they were playing at and being filled in he watched them parade off into the distance while making a mental note in his mind. "I. MUST. CONSUME. HIS. FLESH!" said Noels conscious through his gritted teeth.

Tune in next time to see what happens next on WWNED?

[Sly Reflex]

In today's WWNED?

Noel found this on his travels. It looked story related or something, so he left it alone because it wasn't marked on the map as a destination.

Noel's seen traps before having managed to thread his way through Operation Yewtree without any shit on him he saw that this trail the map markers were ordering him to walk through were clearly a set up. After climbing the highest peak and getting a good look it appears he was right, except instead of being ragged apart by tabloids and victims coming forward to get compensation, it'd have been abundant raiders and bottlecap mines that would have crippled him. Noel doesn't have time to be crippled. He's too busy being a bastard.

On his way he saw quite a bit of this going on. Of course all bodies dropped in these altercations were completely looted for everything they owned. Light fingered Noel needs the caps.

Noel finally got to his destination. Novac was totally in awe of Noel, he solved all their problems while lifting anything that wasn't nailed down. He even killed a random NPC out on the edge of town because if you're on your own and there's no witnesses to see what's going to happen, then you're in for a bad time.

Which leads to this issue. Noel's not going to be alone any longer unless this guy dies. So what's the deal now? Does Noel carry on and bring Boone into his seedy little world where it's all business up front and bastard out back or does Noel stay the good guy around him and only do the nefarious things when Boone isn't about to see? Speaking of nefarious things...

Noel does not trust this shitbag. I forget who said it, but Noel agrees with them. That robot ain't right.

I look forward to seeing what happens in the next WWNED?

[Sly Reflex]

What time is it? It's time for WWNED? Spoilers obviously, but you probably don't care about that.

Today Noel got himself kitted out in a space suit. He soon passed it off to Boone though, as soon as Boone equipped the suit Noel proclaimed him as a right old bobby dazzler. Noel also acquired energy weapons, Noel likes enemrgy weapons as they remind him of the plasma balls that follow him round. He calls these orbs Mummy, Daddy and If You Come At Me I'll Fucking Turn You Into A Pile Of Ash.

Here we see some deranged ghoul cult. Noel didn't care for these guys at all, in fact the thought crossed his mind once or twice that he should just murder them all and be done with it. However Noel felt bad for miserable Tobias Funke and did the responsible thing of fucking those walking corpses out of the way so he could maybe get on with his life.

"Go on, fuck off and have your shitty rapture." Noel whispered under his breath as he launched the lunatics across the wasteland. Noel hopes that their bodies aren't too charred because eventually when he finds them he's looking forward looting their fanatical corpses.

Back in Novac I told Hot Chocolate in the Dino shop that Noel was indirectly responsible for killing the silly old creep that run the joint. He wasn't best pleased but because he was so starstruck he forgave me and gave me a house to sleep in. I offered to buy all the junk he's been stowing away with a plan on selling it around to the various caravans in the wasteland. Noel wasn't aware at how much stock he had and could feel the warm glow of radiation whenever he stood near the open door. Now begins "Operation: Sell this junk to anyone willing to buy it"

OK, on a more serious note without the Noel roleplay going on. I have a house now. Am I right in thinking that I can stow away all my belongings there and they won't delete like if I left them in a random container in any other property I didn't own? In FO3 in Megaton I owned a house and left all the supplies that would encumber me in it without the worry of them being lost. As it is I've been on the cusp of being encumbered quite a lot, Boone alleviated that issue a bit but just before I finished up for todays session I dumped all the pistols and bits of crap I don't need on me there and then because I'm kind of tired of micromanaging my inventory. Also I'm going to start with the crafting of things and stuff which is a bit impossible now since this property doesn't have tables or firepits or any of the other stuff I need to do that. Are there other properties I can furnish with these items? I know I could go look at the wiki, but i don't want to go on a reading rampage and spoil it for myself. Thanks in advance for answering if you can be bothered to. I'll sling you an upvote just for being nice and stuff.

[DANGERMAN]

In today's WWNED?

Noel found this on his travels. It looked story related or something, so he left it alone because it wasn't marked on the map as a destination.

This location was posted in an earlier post in this thread

edit: no it isn't, I know I posted it and talked about it, no idea which thread though. Unless we had a thread for this on an older version of the forum?

[Sly Reflex]

I thought you'd come to answer my questions.

[DANGERMAN]

it will store stuff there yes. In fact I think that anything you store anywhere stays around, I've a memory of that being why the PS3 version was so fucked. Might well be wrong on that, but it's definitely fine in the motel

[Sly Reflex]

It depends. The containers in owned property never reset. If you go play TES 4, 5 or Fallout 3 then the receptacles outside of owned ones reset after a certain time has elapsed in game if you've not interacted with the place you've stored stuff in it vanishes. It worked on the same premise that picking ingredients or mining ores did in that if you leave them for long enough they'll restore. Even if you've never looted a chest once the week or month or whatever flips over it's contents are randomised if it's a chest that is allowed to do that. The ones that don't recycle tend to be very specific chests though from what I gathered.

I was asking mainly because I didn't know if I actually owned this motel room, mainly because it didn't do a splash screen telling me the benefits such as being well rested from sleeping in a bed I owned and all the other benefits of owning your own place, but also because it's in a place where I could eventually become hated and maybe lose access to it that way.

[Sly Reflex]

Come sit on daddy's knee and listen to the next installment of WWNED? Warning: Spoilers.

Having ditched all his junk in Novac, Noel was able to do a bit of rooting around and collect the crap needed to fix this thing. He assumed it was something to do with attaining a companion but wasn't sure. after shoplifting the parts needed Noel had it back up and running and gained a new ally. The new pair of eyes served Noel well when he went to clear out the Powder Gangers up in Goodsprings to look out for Ringo. If there's going to be a bad man in town it certainly isn't going to be pretenders. Noel's going to be the one they should fear, what with him being the devil in disguise.

Noel hates windmills. Like, despises them. Every time he sees one he goes on about how the view is blighted by them and that the landscapes would be much better without them obstructing the vista. I told him that the people are using them for clean easy power but Noel doesn't give a shit. Way to have your head up your arse, Noel.

Noel has no idea where the came from or why these scorpions attacked. He does know that the caps made from the glands from them make for an easy payday though. The team made light work of these

This guy was found between Novac and Boulder. He was alone and then he started badmouthing some of Noel's actions. You can guess what happened next...

"Thank for the silenced pistol, you clueless wanker!" Noel snarled to himself as he looted the Prospectors corpse. He didn't know the rules, but that's no excuse. You get caught on your own, then you deserve to die and get your stuff stolen.

Noel decided to pony up the caps to let the Khans out. The dude that shot Noel in the head needs as many enemies as possible, so paying the NCR to look the other way was the best thing to so. If it's in Noels interest then Noel does the fuck what he wants, including letting dangerous gangs roam the wastes.

Oh, what a surprise, it's this arsehole again. He's like a tabloid reporter this thing, just sneaking up on Noel and watching everything he does. If he ever spills about the unsavoury acts Noel's been committing there's a high chance he'll end up in Gibson's scrap yard where his remains will be pissed on by the thousands of dogs she owns.

After a relatively painless trip from Boulder to The Strip Noel finds out he can't get in here because he's 150 caps down from failing the credit check. Maybe paying off the for the Khans to be released wasn't the best idea. Now Noel finds himself being a debt collector and a pimp to make ends meet until he can get inside the strip. Woe betide anyone who gets in the middle of him and his objective, there's enough hot lead to go around everyone who thinks they can stand between the Telly Addicts host and that platinum chip he got shot in the head for.

[Sly Reflex]

Who's in the house? Noel is! Spoilers also.

Aye, it's this swine again. This time it appears it's on Noel's side. Benny is within grasping distance. Or at least he was. After meeting Mr House Benny duped Noel into a trap. Jokes on the guards though, the Mysterious Stranger showed up during the ensuing fistfight and blew them into pedigree chum. A fair bit of stuff happened here to Noel, he did a bit of debt collecting, did a bit of shooting idiots and turned his hand to pimping.

Noel took it upon himself to get another vice. This was his biggest win. He's hardly going to break the casino although rumour has it that Noel can revert back to a time before he lost a lot of money and go over it again. He calls this "Loading a previous save." I've no idea what the mad bastard is on about.

Eating a bad diet and getting a bit close to irradiated shit a bit too much left Noel with radiation sickness. The Dr sorted it out for cheaper than he could have treated himself.

Neol was contacted by Caesar to come meet him. When he got close to the port this happened. Unfortunately for Caesar and the guys guarding the port Noel had Boone with him who went absolutely bananas when he saw all the Legion guys down there. He was like a dog chasing a car and took out all of them pretty much solo before I could get him to stop. Noel decided to leave Boone behind and just have EDE tag along for this part. I went to see Caesar.

This guy is a bigger twat than Noel is. Eventually he's going to get killed along with all his cronies. In the meantime Noel and EDE did what Caesar thought he'd sent them to do which was use the Platinum Chip to do destroy some shit. To my surprise Mr House was down there as well. Noel doesn't really trust either party, but he trusts Mr House more so he went with his plan and fuck Caesar.

Caesar had no idea he'd just been bent over by Noel and took to his trophy like a BBC presenter would take to hosting a children's awards show. Taunts were thrown. Comeuppance was dealt.

Get fucked Benny. Ain't that a kick in the head?

Noel found a big stately house on the way back to New Vegas to deliver the Platinum Chip to Mr House. Seeing this worried him a lot, as that looks like it could be Mr House stood in front of what appears to be a 50ft tall robot. Noel hopes he never has to fight that, because if he does Mr House is getting mothballed.

Before Noel dropped in on Mr House he went and managed to convince this lady to go sell her vagina at one of the casinos in town. Proof that the offer of a never ending supply of drink will tempt even the most stubborn of women to open their legs to be plundered.

And to end on a high note, Kerching! Look what Noel found in the Mormon watchtower. That'll be something to hand in when Noel sees Mr House in the next episode of WWNED?

[Sly Reflex]

Less death and misery than an episode of Eastenders. Unless it's a Christmas episode. Eastenders has Christmas sew up for misery.