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TO BE FAIR...
Fallout 4 WITH mods actually make the game way more interesting and one of the mods for that, depravity, allows Kellog to become a companion.
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Fallout 4 WITH mods actually make the game way more interesting and one of the mods for that, depravity, allows Kellog to become a companion.
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Of course, i comment thinking about vanilla, who is fucking limited. Even you can't using Dogmeat and a companion at the same time.
I mean, Bethesda don't worked in that framework only for the sake of keeping the game stable, but with a fucking mod from nexus can allow the dog with a companion at the same time without problems.
I know those mods, like that Father one or Nate/Nora. Those are beautiful in their own ways.
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Mods are nice but I still always get bored trying to actually play fallout 4 for any extended period of time
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Unlike Skyrim, Fallout 4 isn't interesting in his own.
Man, even Tale of Two Wastelands, a mod what mix Fallout 3 and New Vegas in a one playthrough... at least for me is more replayable.
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For Bond, anti-addiction stuff because you better be drinking 24/7. Get Cass with you for Whiskey Rose, and get plenty of Sneak and related perks, especially ones for criticals. Go for headshots, and no Mysterious Stranger because that's your job. The light/no armor perks, since you should be wearing a tuxedo as much as possible. Also, Sean Connery for your character's looks.
For Ash, Wild Wasteland is mandatory, as is Bloody Mess, and Hand Loader, Mad Bomber, and Jury Rigging. Don't forget Explosives, and keep plenty of Powder Charges handy.
As to my own silly idea, Sterling Archer. 1 INT, high Luck, End, and Cha, insult everyone you see and resolve things as violently as you can even when they've somehow already been resolved peacefully, and take over Vegas for yourself.
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With Bethesda's character creation modes, you'll just end up with Daniel Craig.
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I wouldn't mind that I liked casino royale and the casino royale theme is unironically what inspired the idea
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I've actually got some more ideas for the bond character:
I think in general it could work with house ncr and even independent if you interpret the independent run as acting on the behalf of a 3rd party (Enclave secret service?) Max charisma is a must and try to speech through as much as possible and stealth lockpick and hack the rest ideally I would wear a suit all the time but stealth armor is likely a requirement. primary weapons would probably be concealable and silenced weapons with big and loud as a fallback I'm not sure how I would represent gadgets though It's a stretch but one could argue for energy weapons as a gadget substitute or you could flavor science, lockpicking and repair as using gadgets Unfortunately I only have consoles to play nv so mods are a no go
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Hmm, how about Tommy Vercetti in a New Vegas playthrough?
Independent Vegas is the only route to go, and you've got to make sure to get the Boomers, Brotherhood of Steel, and Great Khans to side with you as well.
Trying to figure what would be the ideal perks, skills, and stats for Tommy Vercetti would be.
Independent Vegas is the only route to go, and you've got to make sure to get the Boomers, Brotherhood of Steel, and Great Khans to side with you as well.
Trying to figure what would be the ideal perks, skills, and stats for Tommy Vercetti would be.
Being one of the Olds, I fell in love with Fallout 1 back in the day. It felt so free form on what you could do in an RPG. Either just go find the Water Chip asap or mess around and explore the world to see what you could find. Sure I could save the vault, but why, they've been holding me back, there's a whole new world out here. And Fallout 2 where you basically unknowingly become a porn star still has me laughing up to this day.
But in Fallout 3 and 4, even Obsidian's New Vegas, though you can wander around, as all other Bethesda games, no matter how many side quests you find, it still feels on rails. Sure I've put 100+ hours into both games, even using the awesome Sim Settlements mod and a few more, I just can never find it in myself to finish those games.
The only thing that seems to entertain me in Fallout 3 and 4 is I make a character that looks like Ash from Evil Dead and that's the alternate ending where he wakes up in the nuclear apocalypse of Army of Darkness. My every answer to an NPC conversation is the most sarcastic or dumbest, sometimes charismatic cuz Ash is all cheesy charisma and nothing really else, one I can select because it seems like being the smartest stealth sniper, or OP melee is the standard.
But in Fallout 3 and 4, even Obsidian's New Vegas, though you can wander around, as all other Bethesda games, no matter how many side quests you find, it still feels on rails. Sure I've put 100+ hours into both games, even using the awesome Sim Settlements mod and a few more, I just can never find it in myself to finish those games.
The only thing that seems to entertain me in Fallout 3 and 4 is I make a character that looks like Ash from Evil Dead and that's the alternate ending where he wakes up in the nuclear apocalypse of Army of Darkness. My every answer to an NPC conversation is the most sarcastic or dumbest, sometimes charismatic cuz Ash is all cheesy charisma and nothing really else, one I can select because it seems like being the smartest stealth sniper, or OP melee is the standard.
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Basically become the crime boss of the Mojave that could be an interesting set up you need to get every or as many weapons as possible from vice city of course you could actually get equivalents to quite a few surprisingly
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Playing through New Vegas has left me with even less respect for Caesar than ever.
He talks shit on some of the Brotherhood of Steel members he catches because according to him they didn't even know the name of their own founder.
But most of the legion don't even know the name Edward Sallow, nor do they know who the fuck the actual Julius Caesar is. If he's going to judge Brotherhood scribes for their ignorance of the past then holy fuck he must hate his own legion.
His response to having his ass kicked at the first battle of Hoover Dam wasn't to adopt new tactics to counter the NCRs strengths, but to double down on the same fucking tactics that lost him the last battle. The only change was putting an utter psychopath in charge so that this time if they lose they'll be too scared to retreat and get completely wiped out.
His entire plan to counter the Rangers, even if they HAD been stationed on the ridge, relied upon a piece of tech that they couldn't get working without the Courier going to the Boomers for a part. Pretty much any other faction could have gotten it working without thw Boomers by smithing a new firing mechanism, but the legion is full of absolute luddites who can't really make anything beyond a crude spear or machete.
His entire life is almost cut short by a tumor that is easily treated by an experienced doctor, but somehow the legion doesn't have a single one. Nor do they have a tech that can repair their autodoc, despite almost every single other major faction having access to both of these special talents.
Frankly I'm starting to realize that Caesar himself is a good military commander but a goddamn terrible leader and that even if he succeeds his reign will be a legacy of incompetence and stagnation.
He talks shit on some of the Brotherhood of Steel members he catches because according to him they didn't even know the name of their own founder.
But most of the legion don't even know the name Edward Sallow, nor do they know who the fuck the actual Julius Caesar is. If he's going to judge Brotherhood scribes for their ignorance of the past then holy fuck he must hate his own legion.
His response to having his ass kicked at the first battle of Hoover Dam wasn't to adopt new tactics to counter the NCRs strengths, but to double down on the same fucking tactics that lost him the last battle. The only change was putting an utter psychopath in charge so that this time if they lose they'll be too scared to retreat and get completely wiped out.
His entire plan to counter the Rangers, even if they HAD been stationed on the ridge, relied upon a piece of tech that they couldn't get working without the Courier going to the Boomers for a part. Pretty much any other faction could have gotten it working without thw Boomers by smithing a new firing mechanism, but the legion is full of absolute luddites who can't really make anything beyond a crude spear or machete.
His entire life is almost cut short by a tumor that is easily treated by an experienced doctor, but somehow the legion doesn't have a single one. Nor do they have a tech that can repair their autodoc, despite almost every single other major faction having access to both of these special talents.
Frankly I'm starting to realize that Caesar himself is a good military commander but a goddamn terrible leader and that even if he succeeds his reign will be a legacy of incompetence and stagnation.
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With the lack of tech to repair an auto-doc or smithing a new firing mechanism, I can imagine Caesar's excuse for a luddite army is "tech makes them weak, they gotta fight with spears and machetes" even though it all shows blatant hypocrisy when considering his personal guard and himself using pneumatic weapons in the form of power fist. I think another problem with his plan to counter the Rangers wasn't just using a howitzer that relied on the boomers giving tech, it also relied on a single howitzer. Sure that can fuck up the Rangers but I can imagine they'll find other ways to push through without getting blown up. I can imagine justification for not letting his old life be known because Caesar himself tries to be set up as something bigger and greater than "Edward Sallow, a wastelander born to scavengers or whatever in the ruins of LA of the NCR." Having a more humble background wouldn't go well with whatever images Caesar wanted associated with him but that just shows how much of a hypocrite and the like he really is outside of his army of Roman LARPers.
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If recent events are anything to go by, New Vegas has aged like wine. (In the story department)
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As to the Dam assault plan, Lanius actually did change the plan up, big time. Instead of massed maniples assaulting through the top he infiltrates in smaller, more elite units with the officers mixed in so the Rangers can't snipe them, and then sends you to assassinate Oliver, forcing the NCR to abandon the Dam as their chain of command loses cohesion. For all Caesar (and for that part Vulpes) think of Lanius as nothing but a brute, he is very talented at large-scale tactical and strategic thinking, as shown by how you can persuade him the Legion is too weak to hold both Arizona and California.
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I realize by now you've probably started and finished your playthrough, but I'd still like to put The Strip Open, Freeside Open and Outside Bets as necessities. The first two get rid of the giant gates breaking up Freeside and The Strip. The last one adds a ton of cut content (most importantly dialog) that is still in the game but unused for some reason.
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Part of it might be that Caesar can't use doctors and tech outside of very specific situations because it puts the whole structure of the Legion at risk. Look at who makes up Caesars army; a bunch of uneducated tribals who have never heard of Ancient Rome and really do think Caesar is the son of Mars and a God. Having them come into too much contact with civilization to kidnap a doctor, forage for parts for an autodoc, or find a machine shop to forge the replacement part for the howitzer makes them more likely to learn that Caesar is full of shit and they don't need to listen to him. Look what happened when Ulysses explored too much of the world, he left the Legion seeing how unsustainable they were. According to Sawyer one of the reasons he tried to kill Graham was because Graham was an educated man from civilization, knew Caesar was making shit up, and Caesar saw him as a political threat because he knew the truth. He can have the Courier do all this because the Courier is from civilization, knows its all a lie, but for some reason is working for the Legion so go enough for Caesar.
He has to keep his army as a whole ignorant and fearing of progress otherwise they will eventually learn he isn't a God, just a guy who read a lot of books and turn on him. His inner circle can have more contact with the civilized world because he knows they're loyal and fanatical, thinking nothing of their leader hypocritically using modern medicine and authorizing the use of more modern weapons. He can keep his closest followers under his thumb but if too much of the rank and file got too smart his ass would find itself lashed to a cross by his bloodthirsty goons.
Its kinda odd that the game shows that Lanius is actually intelligent, maybe even a little wiser than his boss because he can be persuaded to see how foolish it is to keep trying to take the dam, but the endings with him as the new leader of the Legion make him out to be a total idiot who does the stupidest thing possible. Maybe hes only good at warfare and not actually ruling a country. Or hes just a bloodthirsty butcher who gets off to mindless slaughter, whichever.
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I always liked the suggestion that Lanius is simply a mask -- Ulysses makes the observation that no one knows what he looks like, not even his slaves -- and so there may be more than one. Certainly it'd explain the wildly different characterizations we hear about him from different NPCs. It feels like an idea that wasn't really fleshed out, though, or maybe the idea was to leave his background murky. He's one of the most enigmatic characters in the game, and it may have been by design.
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It definitely seems Lanius was meant to be mysterious just because Chris Avellone wrote both him and Ulysses, who is just his mouthpiece on his thoughts on the Fallout series and might have wrote Lanius with that intention. I personally think Lanius is a character Caesar created as his ultimate warrior and intentionally made up several different backstories to sell the myth of Lanius to his men, hence all differing stories about his past, but the guy who is Lanius really is the Hidebarks tribal who killed all the men in the tribe when they surrendered to the Legion. I say this because of how frank and honest Caesar is in dialogue with you, he freely admits everything about his past and the Legion to you, so why lie about his top ranked generals origins?
The theory that there are multiple Lanius's running around Legion territory is kinda funny. The Lanius you talk down/fight at Hoover Dam could be a completely different Lanius than one in the east who is pushing Legion territory into Texas and could be a well spoken professional military officer instead of the butcher Caesar sent to Hoover Dam.