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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 01:56
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Comes out today for Aussies, came out yesterday for you lucky 'mericans. Anyone bought it yet? After 3 I'm really pumped for this one.
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 01:59
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its awesome

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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 07:26
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I'm actually not sure if I want it or not. To me the graphics look the same as FO3, and the gameplay seems the same. But the weapons and enemies... oh darn their luring beautifulness....


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Herakles
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 07:59
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The setting seems more interesting than the one in Fallout 3. To me, the graphics don't matter (there will be mods that improve the graphics), and there was nothing wrong with the gameplay in Fallout 3 (so I don't care if the gameplay is the same).

I'll let the mods brew for about a year before I play it. Mods make any game better.

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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 11:44
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graphics is just slightly different, I think they wanted the same kind of graphics tbh, and therefore they could fully focus on gameplay and story. Got this today and iam definitly trying it out when i come home!


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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 14:22
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I havent gotten far in it, i just got done with

Spoiler:


And it was pretty cool, i only have one weapon mod and its a silencer for my varminter and its done pretty well since it keeps the same damage and its common, and it takes out enemies in one headshot if your in sneak mode.

The only thing ive been disappointed in is the texture for the .357 magnum, its all white and doesnt look like metal really. But i plan to change that with the mod tools

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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 17:04
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Ok if anyone has a link to new vegas .BSA unpacking it would be useful, ive tried previous BSA unpackers and it hasnt worked for me, it throws errors when reading the New Vegas files. The new G.E.C.K works for me and i can see the model in there, but i cant access it and edit it and repack it.

And i have now just realized the texture resolution is way lower then it should have been. I have it set on high at 1600x900 and its really blurry.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 09:35
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I got it yesterday for pc, but because it's steam it doesn't work for me at all. It tried to make me buy it again and I accidentaly selected the wrong date of birth so now I can't play it at all. and you need constant internet connection to play


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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 12:56
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No you don't, just run Steam in Offline mode.

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Quik
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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 14:05
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I got to say that iam a bit dissappointed... it doesnt have the,, Fallout feeling that Fallout 3 had, and i think the storyline is very slow paced =/ oh well, i just spoilers:
but so far iam dissappointed =/


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bergice
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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 15:41
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Saw my friend playing from the intro and a little bit into the game, it looks worthy.

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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 18:54 Edited at: 24th Oct 2010 19:01
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Quik, thats because you arent doing the main story line, thats a side quest.

Im playing hardcore, and a big tip is to


Other then that, im looking forward to getting the
to join me as my friends say he is awesome in combat.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 19:55
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got it

its cool

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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 20:11
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Quote: "Quik, thats because you arent doing the main story line, thats a side quest."


yes yes ofc, but i noticed some stuff is happening now^^ but still it feels more slow paced than fallout 3 =/


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Posted: 24th Oct 2010 20:19
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ok i think the BIGGY tip that is the most important,,, more important then a good gun, is good armor.

Look for armor with a high DT (damage threshold). 5 would be the minimum i would go for, 10-15 would be good number.

If you find a good piece of armor, be sure to keep it intact by going to repairmen, (i dont think you can repair by yourself?)

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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 12:59
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I got this on Saturday, love it! - I'd even go as far to say I prefer it to Fallout3. Cooks my PC alive though, serious overheating problems with thus one, maybe time to look for some better cooling hardware.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 13:02
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Its not that your pc cant handle the graphics.

Your pc just cant handle the awesomeness of everything combined so it gets mad and , well, i know when i get mad, if im wearin a jacket, oooohhhh booyyyy, it is comin off.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 17:22
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to be honest, they have got to put too much polies on the chars

because everything runs fine

until there are more than 2 chars on screen at the same time.


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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 17:48
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Quote: "they have got to put too much polies on the chars"


If an Xbox 360 can handle it, there aren't too many polies.
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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 22:10
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weird. since my computer is quiet good and can handle crysis on medium + optimised settings for fallout new vegas is high :S


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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 22:28 Edited at: 25th Oct 2010 22:29
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my optimized settings are high for New Vegas on my HD4650. Does that mean i should run it on high? absolutely not.

Although Obsidian definitely did a poor job on optimization.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 22:49
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i did turn down antialialising and anisotropic filtering to off (i have noticed those dont like my comp xD)


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Posted: 25th Oct 2010 23:03
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try turning shadows off, that is a killer for my gfx card.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 00:37
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Lower Resolution? Resolution kills my computer.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 01:25
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lol travis, lowering res will always increase frames, its just, i dont want to play fallout new vegas on quake graphics.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 01:40 Edited at: 26th Oct 2010 01:41
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Quote: "lol travis, lowering res will always increase frames, its just, i dont want to play fallout new vegas on quake graphics."

I dont think you understand what resolution is

Smoke me a kipper, ill be back for breakfast.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 02:14
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why would you say that?

I understand completely what resolution is.

And i think you know what i meant.

What i meant was, i would MUCH prefer lowering shadows/distance/particles before i lower my resolution.

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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 11:38
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I got that Boone sniper dude to accompany me, damn useful. The most epic weapon I've found tho is the boxing gloves - if you see them, nab them...

Spoiler


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Quote: "just run Steam in Offline mode."

Yeah but you had to have it online before you can do that, anyway I found away around the problem. It's a really good game, I might go and plauy it right now


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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 12:29 Edited at: 27th Oct 2010 12:30
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Boone doesnt like me... xD

oh and the game really kicks up when you:
((SPOILER))<<<
>>> The story is now, magically, interesting. xD


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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 14:20 Edited at: 27th Oct 2010 14:21
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hehe i couldnt help myself.

Im starting to mod it with the GECK and other tools
(if you need help ask me on msn: [email protected])

The only problem i have so far, and there isnt any documentation, is this : I have made a custom variant of the varminter, and i have changed the texture and the values, the thing i dont get how to change is this, Make it spawn with certain Weapon Mod Kits Already applied.

The part i circled in red i am unsure of what changing this value does.



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Quote: "If an Xbox 360 can handle it, there aren't too many polies. "



Depends on the LOD settings. I know they use different LOD on the terrain - I think XBox and PS3 have it on the lowest in FO3 and on the PC you can have a much smoother terrain - XBox 360 and PS3 games tend to have around 'Medium' settings compared to their PC equivalent, though obviously depending on how intensive the games are.


However, with handling performance, comes down to optimisation and FO3 wasn't very well optimised when I played it (even lagged and over heated on lowest settings), but things could well be different for New Vegas.

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I am not the only one having the "multiple guys on screen at the same time = LAAAAG" GameSpot had the same problem it seems: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/falloutnewvegas/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review&page=2

:3


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@Quik: I had the same problem. On the 360 version it suffers alot if played for too long, at one point it lagged big time, I was in Camp Macarran, and bam! Frozen. It is a good game, but I've had to restart about 5 times now due to freezing. Also it does take sweet time to load sometimes.

Also...



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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 01:06 Edited at: 28th Oct 2010 01:18
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Does anyone know how to set the weapons scope to the default scope you would get from a mod?
I cant seem to find any parameters for it.

Maybe i have to write a script :S

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ok im blind.

there was a little check box next to it that says: Comes from mod.

Just had to uncheck it :S

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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 14:33
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Quote: "to be honest, they have got to put too much polies on the chars

because everything runs fine

until there are more than 2 chars on screen at the same time."


Lol, you won't get a huge slowdown because of polies. It's because of the extra processing that the AI uses.
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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 15:45
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Just because FPSC struggles to render polies doesn't mean every other game engine does Quik.

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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 16:00 Edited at: 28th Oct 2010 16:00
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stupid navmeshes

im in the process of unwrapping my service rifle red dot sight mod.
(the hard part was fixing the new faces i made from deleting the iron sights, not the rds lolwtf?)
Im also going to do a retexture at a higher resolution (they are using 256x256 wtf?!)

Here is the clay render (this is not my model, i have only deleted irons and made a sight):


Then i have to go through the iron sights method and just change FOV.

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Quik
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Quote: "Just because FPSC struggles to render polies doesn't mean every other game engine does Quik"


I have barely ever used FPSC xD not seriously anohow.
I am aware of that fact aswell


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xbox version is quite a mess.... graphics problems...

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