What the fudge do I do?!

[Ubik Valis]

I got New Vegas (no DLC) here on Steam a little while ago, but only started playing it this week. And while it was fun, entertaining and exciting to begin with, I seem to have hit a wall or whatever you call it regarding this game.

Not only am I having the the "infinite load screen" bullsh!t whenever I load a savegame...ok, fine, that "little" problem can be avoided by starting a new game, and with just a few seconds extra waiting time, voila, I can load my previous save.

But what's really starting to piss me off, is that my character seems too weak to progress even this early in the game. I'm level 7, and I'm trying to reach Novac. I have discovered the Charlie outpost or whatever it's called. But everytime I get there, there's a gang (4 or 5) of Legion guys who are quite powerful and have good armor. No matter what I do, I either get overwhelmed with no help around me, or my weapons do JACKSH!T against them. In terms of best condition (over 90%) my weapons are Varmint Rifle+, 9mm pistol and 9mm submachine gun, and I just remembered one of my attempts before I ragequitted: I use VATS with my varmint+, have 95% to hit a legionaire in the FRIGGING HEAD, two shots, both hit, and his hitpoint-bar lost 1, yes that's right, ONE little "bar" or whatever you call it, meaning I would have to repeat that "succes" atleast 8-10 times more to just kill ONE GUY, while he has 3-4 allies not far behind just showering me with bullets.............WTF?!

[no1schmo]

Yeah, download Vortex. You have to make a free account but it's fine. Then download each mod via the "mod manager download" option. Vortex will then guide you through the process step-by-step. It's pretty hard to get wrong. If it doesn't give you an error, it's working. Now, old, possibly dead mods might be jacked, but the big, popular ones are maintained and should be fine.

[Ubik Valis]

I did try Vortex as a last resort, and have NVSE, 4GB, Stutter removal for Win10 and Anti-Crash. It says they're "enabled", and the launch thumbnail for the game says 4 active mods, so I assume they're all working like they should. Although, obviously, since I have played the game so little and not a single full playthrough, I haven't got much to judge by.

Tried another new game, and I'm still in Goodsprings, about to help Ringo and Sunny against the PG, before I search out the other locations near Goodsprings, and then it's on to Primm.

[Athena Parthenos]

Don't help Ringo yet. You will become enemies with the PG. If you delay completing Ghost Town Gunfight until after you go to Primm. Then you can go to the NCR Prison and they will not be your enemies. You can complete I Fought the Law at the prison. You can also recruit the sheriff from the prison. At the end of the I Fought the Law quest, you can either help the NCR or help the PG. If you join the NCR to take the prison, then go back to Goodsprings and finish that quest.

[Ubik Valis]

Dude, thanks! That thought had not crossed my mind at all, but I had some suspicion when I went sniping at the NCRCF, since I donned a PG outfit and went into that room where a named guy was still sitting after I attacked the PGers inside. Later I figured it was another one of those bugs that hadn't been cleared in the vanilla game, since I had several talking options with him, but nothing related to the sheriff-gig in Primm.

So after I reach Primm, should I first clear the Bison Hotel, and then head towards the NCRCF?

[no1schmo]

Yes. This will also save you the headache of all the random PG folks in little camps attacking you in the area east/southeast of Goodsprings. The PG at Primm are not considered part of the PG faction to kill them without fear.

[Athena Parthenos]

Цитата допису Ubik Valis:

Dude, thanks! That thought had not crossed my mind at all, but I had some suspicion when I went sniping at the NCRCF, since I donned a PG outfit and went into that room where a named guy was still sitting after I attacked the PGers inside. Later I figured it was another one of those bugs that hadn't been cleared in the vanilla game, since I had several talking options with him, but nothing related to the sheriff-gig in Primm.

So after I reach Primm, should I first clear the Bison Hotel, and then head towards the NCRCF?

Go to Vikki & Vance casino and talk to Johnson Nash. That will start the My Kind of Town Quest and then go to the Bison Hotel. Then you will go to the NCRCF.

I sent you a friend request if you want quest assistance on the side instead of the forum. I will help you get through the game. I have played through several times.

[Ubik Valis]

Цитата допису ArmyTech:

I sent you a friend request if you want quest assistance on the side instead of the forum. I will help you get through the game. I have played through several times.

Request accepted! :-)

Anyways, I've been having some issues with the game since modding through Vortex. The game runs fine like at least 90% of the time, but every once in a while some weird glitch comes along, and I've even started having stuff like: infinite loading screen, but this time it was during world map travel; and once after exiting the game it just gave me a blank/black screen, my laptop went silent, but was not shut down, so luckily I could close everything by signing out with ctrl+alt+del.

Any of you other modders had similar problems, and what can be done?

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to add which mods I'm using:
NVSE 514 beta
4GB patch
Stutter Removal for win10
NVAC

UPDATE: Weird, had noticeable but not horrible stuttering in a short playthrough I just did. Can't remember ever noticing it so much... :-/

[no1schmo]

Adding YUP is a good idea too. Also, how are you saving? That's another hang up; don't use autosaves and quicksaves. In fact, don't even save over existing save files. Always make a new save on a new slot and just delete old ones after every so many hours.

[Ubik Valis]

Цитата допису no1schmo:

Adding YUP is a good idea too. Also, how are you saving? That's another hang up; don't use autosaves and quicksaves. In fact, don't even save over existing save files. Always make a new save on a new slot and just delete old ones after every so many hours.

Is it risky to add YUP now to an existing playthrough? I've reached Novac and am currently working my way through the REPCONN facility.

Regarding saves, yeah, been definitely making a lot of new save files, never overwriting, never autosaves, which are disabled anyways.

BTW, if you could summarize the overall differences between Fallout 3, 4, 76 and NV what would you say? And would you recommend one of the others over NV? I ask because I've never really gotten deep into the Fallout Universe, but would like to!

[no1schmo]

I don't think you should have any trouble adding YUP. You can look in the description to see if it says otherwise. Otherwise, I can't imagine why you're having issues still. You have Tic Fix for windows 10, right? Not stutter remover? I don't have 10 but I'm pretty sure that's the program you want in lieu of stutter remover (and don't have both!).

Uh, the basic difference between Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout NV on the one hand, and all the others, is that the former are much more heavily focused on being RPGs. They focus heavily on world-building, conversation, exploring themes and the reality of life after the bomb, and for gameplay, far more on your build, on making choices and therefore sacrifices. Basically, good writing and roleplaying. The other games are not bad games, but they are much more focused on being more like adventure games. They don't really worry about consistency, about their writing having any depth or making sense, about characters being apropos of...anything, they just give you a flimsy excuse to get started and then the content is mostly about exploring. And far, far more combat. New Vegas is alot like older style RPGs in that department; combat isn't exactly rare, but each fight feels like a big deal, especially earlier in the game. The other games are, well, like the Elder Scrolls games are now; there's probably more faceless raiders to kill in 3 and 4 than there are non-hostile human NPCs. NV probably has you kill 100 people total, unless you just decide to go genocide on everyone. 3 and 4 will see you killing hundreds upon hundreds of goons, and also becoming a near-perfect demi-god of destruction (it's so easy to do this in 3, in fact, that the DLC basically cheated in order to make enemies threatening again). So 3 and 4 are sort of like summer popcorn movies, stupid fun you have to turn your brain off to avoid getting frustrated while playing. NV fans are usually the people who struggle to do that.

[psychotron666]

Цитата допису Ubik Valis:

Цитата допису no1schmo:

Adding YUP is a good idea too. Also, how are you saving? That's another hang up; don't use autosaves and quicksaves. In fact, don't even save over existing save files. Always make a new save on a new slot and just delete old ones after every so many hours.

Is it risky to add YUP now to an existing playthrough? I've reached Novac and am currently working my way through the REPCONN facility.

Regarding saves, yeah, been definitely making a lot of new save files, never overwriting, never autosaves, which are disabled anyways.

BTW, if you could summarize the overall differences between Fallout 3, 4, 76 and NV what would you say? And would you recommend one of the others over NV? I ask because I've never really gotten deep into the Fallout Universe, but would like to!

Fallout 3 and new Vegas are the most similar, though fallout 3 is a severely gutted down version of new Vegas with little choices in quests and no faction system like new Vegas. Still, it's fun for a play through or two, but doesn't have the replay value of new Vegas.

Fallout 4 is basically a mindless shooter/Minecraft clone, where choices don't matter but you can play forever killing zombies and building settlements. if you like that kind of thing, it can be fun.

76 is just awful though.

[Ubik Valis]

There's a few different YUP patches on Nexus, I'm assuming it's the one called 11.8.1. (Base game and all DLC), but I only have the base game..?

[no1schmo]

Цитата допису Ubik Valis:

There's a few different YUP patches on Nexus, I'm assuming it's the one called 11.8.1. (Base game and all DLC), but I only have the base game..?

Not to be rude, but did you try reading the description? Look under the section where it says "What DLCs does YUP require?" Every good mod creator will try to put some basic info like that in the description.

[Ubik Valis]

Цитата допису no1schmo:

Цитата допису Ubik Valis:

There's a few different YUP patches on Nexus, I'm assuming it's the one called 11.8.1. (Base game and all DLC), but I only have the base game..?

Not to be rude, but did you try reading the description? Look under the section where it says "What DLCs does YUP require?" Every good mod creator will try to put some basic info like that in the description.

Don't worry, I'm just a total n00b who also gets a bit confused with all the abbreviations YUP, NVSE, RAR; ZIP, FBI, KGB..... 0.o

Considering how I'm really liking the game so far, I'll probably end up buying all the DLCs, and then it'll be much easier to figure out which YUP I need. :-D

[Sgt.Random♿]

Цитата допису Ubik Valis:

Цитата допису no1schmo:

Not to be rude, but did you try reading the description? Look under the section where it says "What DLCs does YUP require?" Every good mod creator will try to put some basic info like that in the description.

Don't worry, I'm just a total n00b who also gets a bit confused with all the abbreviations YUP, NVSE, RAR; ZIP, FBI, KGB..... 0.o

Considering how I'm really liking the game so far, I'll probably end up buying all the DLCs, and then it'll be much easier to figure out which YUP I need. :-D

Every DLC with the exception of honest hearts is pretty great. Honest hearts is mostly average but has great loot that you'll probably find for yourself, it's neat for the loot but the story doesn't really bring you in with the DLC beyond "the burned man".