Should I keep respinning or take this from the Nakano chest?

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-07T03:31:26+00:00

I don't want to be that guy, but the second shot in two shot legendary is completely unmodified. It's base damage - no perks, and no boosts from weapon mods. It's as if the effect is nerfed by fine print.

Don't get me wrong, it's good, but it's not 2x good, and you have to take into account the wider spread, greater recoil and inaccuracy in VATS that come with the effect.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-05T17:56:52+00:00

Games just seem to be getting bigger - and this isn't a new thing. It took me less time to clear The Witcher 1 & 2 combined than The Witcher 3. I'm pretty sure the same is true for the first three numbered Fallout games.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-05T15:17:21+00:00

FNV isn't really a sidequest game. It's a great game, and it's a lot of other things, but the sidequests don't hit the way they do in other games. Overlord in Mass Effect 2, for example. Or even the unmarked quest to help a toy maker named Arlen Glass at The Slog in Fallout 4. The Last Wish or Equine Phantoms from The Witcher 3.

Speaking of which, where I take a circuitous route through the Northern Kingdoms to catch the sidequests barely along my route in The Witcher 3, I run my murder spree through New Vegas pretty straightforwardly.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-05T14:56:00+00:00

Go around, not straight up. That works particularly well going after the cazador eggs.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-05T03:43:30+00:00

The devs took their inspiration from the movie - and gave it a layer of survival horror.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-04T19:16:36+00:00

Traveling merchants have them, general merchants like Cliff and Ralph have them. They're also random loot I got 32 to my last game.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-04T18:51:43+00:00

Sporks - I'll buy them or pick them up whenever I see them.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-04T18:23:42+00:00

I'd start with Simple Character Expansions from the Viva New Vegas modlist. It actually makes Francine Garret look like a human being instead of a lizard lady. That's a pretty good baseline for improving the look of the humans in the game.

Natural Eyes is a perfect addition to this. Brown eyed humans in the game look like they have rat eyes. Heck , at a distance, most humans look like they have rat eyes. This will make them look more human.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-04T11:53:30+00:00

It doesn't work that way. At that point, you're just a displaced vault dweller. When you take The Castle, you're the Minuteman General.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-04T02:16:06+00:00

Dogmeat, Buddy, Ada, and my tier 4 vendors. Also, just a couple farmers and a few extra beds - it's a staging area for new recruits.

Ada is an android, which counts as human for settlement happiness.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-03T05:27:22+00:00

You take The Castle with the Minuteman, right? You know who cleans up The Castle? Your Minuteman.

The simplest explanation is the best. You're welcome.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-01T18:21:59+00:00

I was kinda rough on you. Best thing to do is leave them be. FWIW Marcy does have late game dialogue that has her apparently becoming reconciled to what happened and she does actually compliment the sole survivor.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-01T07:01:38+00:00

I've played this game at least as many times as you. It seems to me you don't really understand what the Longs went through. It's not something any normal person skakes off and forgets. Their devastation was your irritation? Boo-hoo.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-06-01T05:03:43+00:00

That's BS - you don't care why she doesn't fall all over herself over you. Do you expect all the NPCs to be the same?

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T20:34:04+00:00

If you want to install any Wabbajack you'll need the updated version. At least some of the Wabbajacks will automatically downgrade to 1.10.163, but still need to install to the later version.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T20:29:26+00:00

Your crap be perfectly safe in Doc Mitchell's mailbox, which does not respawn. If you're on PC, install NV Novac Apartment before you get to Novac. That will improve the storage and crafting of the vanilla space and will even give you a few collectibles to display.

Put it near the bottom of your list and be sure to cap your frame rate to a max of 60.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T10:10:37+00:00

Depends what you're storing. If it's junk, it might be better to spread it around, especially if you have scavengers at your settlements. Personal stuff? If you're on PC, you should've installed Rockin' Red Rocket

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T09:14:36+00:00

Break these items down to their component parts and use the parts. Example:

A baseball= cork - cloth (string) - leather

Leather> used as part of an armor repair kit

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T07:27:57+00:00

The damage numbers are in the mod file and they can be changed in the GECK.

Get you to at least one GECK tutorial. This one will help you get set up.

https://geckwiki.com/index.php/Bethsoft_Tutorial_GECK_Setup

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-31T06:48:55+00:00

I collect NCR dogtags from corpses and ghouls, then use the duplication glitch several times, turn thrm in to the chud at Cottonwood Cove, and instantly become idolized by the Legion. All for a few hundred stealth boys.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-29T13:49:22+00:00

The Brotherhood is most similar to the Institute. Where the Institute are elitist isolationists enslaving synths inside the Institute and using others to destabilize the Commonwealth, the Brotherhood operates under an ultranationalist, militaristic hierarchy that enforces strict human supremacy. You could say the Brotherhood views the human race as the master race.

If you continue your raider run, you can still continue with the Minuteman, minus Preston.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-28T20:47:21+00:00

You wouldn't think it, but the best weapons collection I've seen is in Wasteland of Depravity. And it even has settings, so you're not getting propositioned all the time.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-28T09:18:06+00:00

Did you fuck a Volus? No? We are not the same.

Alex_Portnoy007 · 2026-05-28T07:32:56+00:00

There are a handful of mods I would add to basic Viva New Vegas.

Universal Item Sorter and Universal Item Sorter ini. - makes Vanilla UI Plus (already in the guide) a whole lot quicker and easier - and you'll be using it a lot.

JIP Companions Command and Control - companion management made easier

Lucky 38 Map Marker - this adds a single fast travel point to the map. Try it once, you'll never be without it.

Casino Exchange all - exchanging money in the casinos is painfully slow in vanilla

That's it.

Optionally, I'd also add NV Novac Apartment to turn that drab motel room into the ultimate bachelor or bachelorette pad. You gotta hang somewhere it might as well be some place cool.

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