Final Battle Was A Joke!

[4K_240hz_MLED]

I've had a harder time clearing out Deathclaws from Quarry Junction and Dead Wind Cavern (if that's the name) along with the Veteran Rangers inside Camp Golf. Legate Lanius was the biggest disappointment of the story, I didn't even need to use any of my OP weapons like Gatling Laser, Q35 Matter Modulator, Anti-Materiel Rifle, C4 Explosives, Plasma Grenades, and Fat Man cause my companions killed him for me. They should've just replaced Lanius with a Mother Deathclaw equipped with Super Stimpaks as the final challenge, at least then I could use the Fat Man.

[Vex Hilarius]

If you think that's bad wait until you play Fallout 3's final quest.

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by Synthetic Pink:

If you think that's bad wait until you play Fallout 3's final quest.

also an anti-climatic piss easy ending?

i gathered all those extra allies for nothing...

[lukandroll]

If you have all DLC, by the time you'll do the battle of hoover dam, you're pretty much OP all over the mojave, with few exceptions like that got damn deathclaw cave, that place is a deathtrap

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by Luk:

If you have all DLC, by the time you'll do the battle of hoover dam, you're pretty much OP all over the mojave, with few exceptions like that got damn deathclaw cave, that place is a deathtrap

yeah i know that cave was pretty hard, had to keep reloading and quick saving

and also, no i just have base game not the DLC

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!:

Originally posted by Synthetic Pink:

If you think that's bad wait until you play Fallout 3's final quest.

also an anti-climatic piss easy ending?

i gathered all those extra allies for nothing...

Yeah the ending for Fallout 3 is just following a giant robot until you come face to face with a single guy in robes with 2 bodyguards

[4K_240hz_MLED]

booooooooooo!!!!!!! lame!

[Mr_Faorry]

Yeah the final battle is pretty small and not all that exciting for what it's built up to be, and the more allies you recruited the easier and less exciting it is.

There is this mod which adds more enemies to the battle which makes it feel more like what it's built up to be. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/47455

And if you just want huge Battles in General then a few of the mods from the Someguy Series have truly huge battles that feel like how Hoover Dam should have. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48925
Specifically Russel has a huge battle where you defend a town against a huge Legion assault right near the end of it, The Inheritance has a sidequest if you complete it's main quest and the vanilla unmarked quest 'Andy and Charlie' where you defend Ranger Station Charlie from a massive Legion assault, New Vegas Bounties 3 has a battle midway in where you defend the bounty hunting offices from a large outlaw attack, and Better Angles revolves around the biggest battle against the Legion of them all.

[Von Faustien]

persoanly I think that they should have had the fight start at the dam than end in vegas proper. the legion attacks the strip with its forces they snuck acrosson barges useing the dam assault as a diversion and you have to rush back and repell an assult on the strip this would also give the various casino factions a role like the boomers, bos and enclave where depending on your actions the white gloves and Gomorrah would help the legion or NCR/House.

the in game justification for why everyone wants the dam is a bit flimsy and tying in Vegas to the climax would help up the stakes and give you a more thematic final battle ground.

how much more cool would it be to fight lanius or Oliver at the top of the lucky 38 well the ncr and legion try and highjack or destroy houses secuitrons?

because lets face generic concrete hallway and legion camp isnt a very cool backdrop for the final fight

[Luis the Uma Loving Wizard]

If you thought the fight against Lanius was a joke, Ulysses bugged out on me and decided to strafe into a nearby pit oops

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Originally posted by Laptop gamer :):

If you thought the fight against Lanius was a joke, Ulysses bugged out on me and decided to strafe into a nearby pit oops

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😭

[DapperSpino]

Is the Legion side of the battle any more interesting? I'd wager it's more difficult with the Veteran Rangers with anti-material rifles but you'll also have to fight an even less threatening final boss than Autumn in the shape of General Oliver.

[Mr_Faorry]

Originally posted by DapperSpino:

Is the Legion side of the battle any more interesting? I'd wager it's more difficult with the Veteran Rangers with anti-material rifles but you'll also have to fight an even less threatening final boss than Autumn in the shape of General Oliver.

It's alright, it's mildly more fun since the enemies tend to have better gear and your main allies worse, but if you still allied every faction it's still easy especially if you're level 30+.

[alex.n.gregory]

This can be (partially) explained by the fact that, despite the variations the game throws your way for allying with certain factions, the programming and level design is being held together by spit and duct tape -- a fact that was reinforced by TriangleCity's recent video about the Hoover Dam cut content, which showed that Obsidian had to work miracles just to get all of the setpieces up and running correctly without melting down systems.

I consider the fight against Ulysses in LR to be the proper "final battle" of the game -- everything afterwards is just an epilogue. And I know that Hoover Dam is supposed to be the big finale, but I feel like I'm on rails the whole time, and the better I am at completing sidequests, the easier Hoover Dam is (to the extent that I feel like I'm just walking through a bunch of setpieces). I usually just end up half-sleepwalking through the whole thing with the Remnants, Boone and EDI at my side.

[george.atkinsontm]

Remember that all the cut content was down to only having 18 months to make the game and the fact that the home consoles were calculators compared to PC's and they had to cut everything down because of the PS3 and 360 not being able to do what they had planned for the PC version. Originally the Strip was meant to be one large area but console limitations wouldn't allow it, the same with Freeside. New Vegas still craps all over every Bethesda made Fallout.

[lukandroll]

Originally posted by alex.n.gregory:

This can be (partially) explained by the fact that, despite the variations the game throws your way for allying with certain factions, the programming and level design is being held together by spit and duct tape -- a fact that was reinforced by TriangleCity's recent video about the Hoover Dam cut content, which showed that Obsidian had to work miracles just to get all of the setpieces up and running correctly without melting down systems.

I can see that as the principal factor on why the battle is not bigger
Also the strip being subdivided into smaller less busy maps