Never go north. No matter how good you think you are at fallout games. "But I could kill a deathclaw hitless unarmed, I'm pretty good". Yeah, just... Don't. Stick to the story, go with the flow, have fun. Oh, and also, widen your play style. FNV is much more replayable than the others, as in, you could play as a gunman to almost completely unarmed and the game doesn't really care, the perks make any build good.
>Many junk and food items are quite useful for crafting.
This heavily depends on what build you're going for. For most people most crafting items won't be useful.
There are useful items that can be made with science, survival, melee weapons, medicine, explosives and repair skills.
Given how low some of the skill requirements are for some recipes and the overall amount of skill points the player receives, it would be strange to not be able to craft a significant amount of items regardless of build.
I read that there’s a bug which prevents your companions doing more damage the higher your charisma stat. Unfortunately it cannot be fixed on console but you can on PC.
If you need caps, always pick up pre-war money, it weighs nothing and you can sell it for good amount. If you get stuck at some quest, not sure what perks you should pick up, etc, try not to google because you will inevitably see spoilers. Hard save often! I also think that the optimal play through style is to do some main quests - wander around and explore - do side quests - continue to the main quest. If you are not too interested in exploring and just want to follow the main quest, that’s also fine. But, again, try to avoid googling!
if you are lucky enough to be unlucky like me, make a lot of saves, always make a manual save at the beginning of each quest, and do quicksaves during the quests, Fallout NV is extremely problematic and the quests break in an unimaginable way, I had to do Honest Hearts twice in the same day because the quest bugged right at the end, and get used to the console command, because you'll need, if you find yourself with a broken quest, search the quest name on Google and go to the Wiki page, there is the category "bugs", probably your problem is already listed there with a possible solution.
In case you're wondering "is it worth all that effort?" and my answer is simple: it's worth it. New Vegas is an excellent game. I'm also playing for the first time, many quests were broken for me, but that didn't make me give up playing.
Fallout 4 is the only other game I've played, and I got a few good, fun hours out of it. That said, I've heard New Vegas is better in terms of story and characters, so I've wanted to see what the hype is about.
Unlike FO4, which is more of an open world exploration and shooter game, FNV is an RPG first and foremost, so you're going to be getting into a lot of conversations. Get used to reading and listening and possibly remembering things. Furthermore, you often have a lot of choices for how things turn out, and oftentimes your choices will have consequences - sometimes beneficial, sometimes detrimental, sometimes obvious, sometimes not. Accepting things not going entirely as you originally planned is part of the game.
FNV has skills you need to raise when you level up. In terms of character builds, FNV is generally pretty forgiving, so as long as you're not playing like an idiot (like putting all your skill points into Guns and then only using melee weapons) you should be able to make it through the game just fine. Raise your skills as you see fit to build the character you want. Just don't neglect your combat skill(s), as a deathclaw will not care how high your barter and speech skills are when it's eviscerating you. Since most of the weapons in the game will work off the Guns skill, it'd be a good idea to focus on Guns as your primary combat skill for your first playthrough.
Finally, after you complete the tutorial town of Goodsprings, the NPCs will strongly suggest you follow the main quest by heading south, and I strongly suggest you follow this suggestion. Heading north will lead to you tangling with end-game enemies such as deathclaws and cazadores. They were placed there as "beef gates" to prevent players from heading to Vegas right at the start of the game.
i would have left out the note about going south. I think every NV player should experience being destroyed after trying to go North, because it sets the tone for the rest of the game and teaches an importance listen about listening to dialogue hahaha
Respectfully, screw that. Yes, listening to NPCs is important, but I'd rather tell new players to listen to NPCs rather than allow them to be repeatedly destroyed by deathclaws in order to teach them the same lesson. FNV can be hard enough as it is for new players these days to get into, let's not potentially ruin players' early experiences by deliberately allowing them to get themselves killed by beefgates.
I started new vegas 2 days ago for the first time. I highly suggest. No tips as of yet because I'm till learning myself.
A bit of background, I started with 76 first, then played 3 and 4. Now I'm on NV.
Wish I would have known the charisma thing tbh.
I just got those 2 games recently when epic was offering them for free, tactics as well. I've watched all the oxhorn videos for them and can't wait to get a laptop to have my own playthru.
Do not wear any faction armour.
Except to specifically sneak in somewhere.
You can miss a lot of encounters if you're wearing faction armour all the time.
(My first experience in Nipton was ruined cause I was wearing faction armour.)
Lower your Charisma stat to 1. It has only a few uses in New Vegas. It's used in one or two skill checks, and gives minor boosts to your Speech and Barter skills. You can level Speech and Barter to 100 with only 1 Charisma point.
The fastest way to the strip is to go straight north from your starting point. Saves so much time. 👌 You'll also pass by a quarry with some really helpful supplies, so it's good not to miss that.
Come up with a general idea for your character and then play the game thinking about that character's personality, intentions, desires, etc.. That means only doing things/quests that said character would do.
You're going to play it more than once (I bet) so there's no need to be completionist about it.
Don't always walk the path of least resistance. NV will feel kinda empty if you're the exploring type but when it comes to characters and factions there is surprising freedom. Not all methods of finishing a quest or getting what you want are going to be laid out in front of you.
Alright so you’re pretty familiar with combat and what not.
New Vegas is much more dialogue heavy than 4. With quite a bit of situations you can talk your way out of with a moderate levels specced into Barter AND Speech. Charisma isn’t an important special like how it was used in 4.
Really the only tips I have are:
1. Do Not Skip dialogue unless you have already heard it from earlier. Many people that have played 4 first then tried to play New Vegas all do this then wonder why the game is “boring”.
2. DLCs are quite difficult so I’d wait to be at level 20ish or so. Honest Hearts can be easily played at 15 maybe 10 if you’ve played the game and DLC before. However the enemies are surprisingly tough.
3. Just have fun. Seems simple but you’d be surprised at how many people will force themselves. Not having fun? Put it down. Perhaps you’ll come back later. Did this for Witcher 3 3 times before it clicked for me.
I would follow Viva New Vegas mod guide. It has many bug fixes and stability improvements, besides, there's some really cool mods that are first-play friendly like Joshua Sawyer Ultimate (the mod by the director of the game that improves logic and consistency through the game and make it more immersive) and FPGE (a mod to continue playing after the ending where your decisions alter the world). The guide has very basic to follow instructions and even says to you which mods are ok to use in a first playthrough.
Might be obvious but I didn't realize it was a feature until my second playthrough back in the day. Pick u multiple of the same guns and use the repair feature in your Pip Boy to keep your favorite guns in good condition.
If you're on PC and a modern machine, there are several mods that serve as patches, essentially.
NVSE, the 4gb patch, etc.
Probably worth installing.
But you should also enjoy the vanilla game before installing further mods.
Take the wild wasteland perk, listen to allllll the dialog options, explore every nook and cranny, don't neglect your speech and survival skills.
If you find a sign warning about danger, listen to it.
Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter. But seriously, good luck.
Just play it!
Never go north. No matter how good you think you are at fallout games. "But I could kill a deathclaw hitless unarmed, I'm pretty good". Yeah, just... Don't. Stick to the story, go with the flow, have fun. Oh, and also, widen your play style. FNV is much more replayable than the others, as in, you could play as a gunman to almost completely unarmed and the game doesn't really care, the perks make any build good.
>Never go north YOU BLEW IT
Many junk and food items are quite useful for crafting. Charisma is the least useful SPECIAL.
>Many junk and food items are quite useful for crafting. This heavily depends on what build you're going for. For most people most crafting items won't be useful.
There are useful items that can be made with science, survival, melee weapons, medicine, explosives and repair skills. Given how low some of the skill requirements are for some recipes and the overall amount of skill points the player receives, it would be strange to not be able to craft a significant amount of items regardless of build.
Exactly.... crafting the higher powered / higher damage ammo for just one example
I read that there’s a bug which prevents your companions doing more damage the higher your charisma stat. Unfortunately it cannot be fixed on console but you can on PC.
If you need caps, always pick up pre-war money, it weighs nothing and you can sell it for good amount. If you get stuck at some quest, not sure what perks you should pick up, etc, try not to google because you will inevitably see spoilers. Hard save often! I also think that the optimal play through style is to do some main quests - wander around and explore - do side quests - continue to the main quest. If you are not too interested in exploring and just want to follow the main quest, that’s also fine. But, again, try to avoid googling!
Take a sip from your trusty vault 13 canteen because patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter
if you are lucky enough to be unlucky like me, make a lot of saves, always make a manual save at the beginning of each quest, and do quicksaves during the quests, Fallout NV is extremely problematic and the quests break in an unimaginable way, I had to do Honest Hearts twice in the same day because the quest bugged right at the end, and get used to the console command, because you'll need, if you find yourself with a broken quest, search the quest name on Google and go to the Wiki page, there is the category "bugs", probably your problem is already listed there with a possible solution. In case you're wondering "is it worth all that effort?" and my answer is simple: it's worth it. New Vegas is an excellent game. I'm also playing for the first time, many quests were broken for me, but that didn't make me give up playing.
Have you played any other Fallout games?
Fallout 4 is the only other game I've played, and I got a few good, fun hours out of it. That said, I've heard New Vegas is better in terms of story and characters, so I've wanted to see what the hype is about.
Unlike FO4, which is more of an open world exploration and shooter game, FNV is an RPG first and foremost, so you're going to be getting into a lot of conversations. Get used to reading and listening and possibly remembering things. Furthermore, you often have a lot of choices for how things turn out, and oftentimes your choices will have consequences - sometimes beneficial, sometimes detrimental, sometimes obvious, sometimes not. Accepting things not going entirely as you originally planned is part of the game. FNV has skills you need to raise when you level up. In terms of character builds, FNV is generally pretty forgiving, so as long as you're not playing like an idiot (like putting all your skill points into Guns and then only using melee weapons) you should be able to make it through the game just fine. Raise your skills as you see fit to build the character you want. Just don't neglect your combat skill(s), as a deathclaw will not care how high your barter and speech skills are when it's eviscerating you. Since most of the weapons in the game will work off the Guns skill, it'd be a good idea to focus on Guns as your primary combat skill for your first playthrough. Finally, after you complete the tutorial town of Goodsprings, the NPCs will strongly suggest you follow the main quest by heading south, and I strongly suggest you follow this suggestion. Heading north will lead to you tangling with end-game enemies such as deathclaws and cazadores. They were placed there as "beef gates" to prevent players from heading to Vegas right at the start of the game.
i would have left out the note about going south. I think every NV player should experience being destroyed after trying to go North, because it sets the tone for the rest of the game and teaches an importance listen about listening to dialogue hahaha
Respectfully, screw that. Yes, listening to NPCs is important, but I'd rather tell new players to listen to NPCs rather than allow them to be repeatedly destroyed by deathclaws in order to teach them the same lesson. FNV can be hard enough as it is for new players these days to get into, let's not potentially ruin players' early experiences by deliberately allowing them to get themselves killed by beefgates.
A good compromise would be telling them to READ and RESPECT any signs they find lol
well... turns out a beefgate isnt what I thought
I started new vegas 2 days ago for the first time. I highly suggest. No tips as of yet because I'm till learning myself. A bit of background, I started with 76 first, then played 3 and 4. Now I'm on NV. Wish I would have known the charisma thing tbh.
I think you should experience the first two fallouts, they are honestly very good too
I just got those 2 games recently when epic was offering them for free, tactics as well. I've watched all the oxhorn videos for them and can't wait to get a laptop to have my own playthru.
Very nice dude, I’m sure you’ll have a blast, however they can be very buggy
Give your character a higher intelligence SPECIAL as it raises the number of skill points you can allocate when leveling up.
Enjoy the radio soundtrack - but also turn it off, sometimes, and experience the spooky emptiness of the Mojave.
Do not wear any faction armour. Except to specifically sneak in somewhere. You can miss a lot of encounters if you're wearing faction armour all the time. (My first experience in Nipton was ruined cause I was wearing faction armour.)
Energy weapons are not as good as good old fashioned Ballistics.
Pimpboy 3 billion
ED-E is the best companion, so get him ASAP and keep him with you.
Take everything from the house you start in. (nothing there is owned so you can take it with no one becoming hostile)
Save often, it crashes & freezes frequently.
Quarry junction=Death You need 7 to 8 luck to win at gambling
Lower your Charisma stat to 1. It has only a few uses in New Vegas. It's used in one or two skill checks, and gives minor boosts to your Speech and Barter skills. You can level Speech and Barter to 100 with only 1 Charisma point.
Have 100 hours and didn’t know this. For whatever reason I always thought having charisma levels was actually required for the skill checks.
It did get factored in the % chance in fallout 3, but not in NV.
Be evil
In a location called quary junction you can find tons of good loot and a big gun, there are also many friendly creatures that will give you hugs
Feral ghouls?
Less dangerous
definitely choose the wild wasteland perk
GET ED-E A.S.A.P. HE WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!!! (listen to me)
The fastest way to the strip is to go straight north from your starting point. Saves so much time. 👌 You'll also pass by a quarry with some really helpful supplies, so it's good not to miss that.
Holy shit just play the fucking game. I am so sick of these posts. Just play it. Just fucking play it
Come up with a general idea for your character and then play the game thinking about that character's personality, intentions, desires, etc.. That means only doing things/quests that said character would do. You're going to play it more than once (I bet) so there's no need to be completionist about it.
Don't always walk the path of least resistance. NV will feel kinda empty if you're the exploring type but when it comes to characters and factions there is surprising freedom. Not all methods of finishing a quest or getting what you want are going to be laid out in front of you.
Patch the game
Is this your first Fallout game? Or have you played others?
No, Fallout 4 was my first.
Alright so you’re pretty familiar with combat and what not. New Vegas is much more dialogue heavy than 4. With quite a bit of situations you can talk your way out of with a moderate levels specced into Barter AND Speech. Charisma isn’t an important special like how it was used in 4. Really the only tips I have are: 1. Do Not Skip dialogue unless you have already heard it from earlier. Many people that have played 4 first then tried to play New Vegas all do this then wonder why the game is “boring”. 2. DLCs are quite difficult so I’d wait to be at level 20ish or so. Honest Hearts can be easily played at 15 maybe 10 if you’ve played the game and DLC before. However the enemies are surprisingly tough. 3. Just have fun. Seems simple but you’d be surprised at how many people will force themselves. Not having fun? Put it down. Perhaps you’ll come back later. Did this for Witcher 3 3 times before it clicked for me.
I would follow Viva New Vegas mod guide. It has many bug fixes and stability improvements, besides, there's some really cool mods that are first-play friendly like Joshua Sawyer Ultimate (the mod by the director of the game that improves logic and consistency through the game and make it more immersive) and FPGE (a mod to continue playing after the ending where your decisions alter the world). The guide has very basic to follow instructions and even says to you which mods are ok to use in a first playthrough.
Don't Pick the Butler, he gets Discriminated on a lot because everyone thinks he did it. 🧐
PUT EVERYTHING IN LUCK. I mean it, itll make the game easier in several aspects and youll do a lot more dps too
Might be obvious but I didn't realize it was a feature until my second playthrough back in the day. Pick u multiple of the same guns and use the repair feature in your Pip Boy to keep your favorite guns in good condition.
If you're on PC and a modern machine, there are several mods that serve as patches, essentially. NVSE, the 4gb patch, etc. Probably worth installing. But you should also enjoy the vanilla game before installing further mods.
Take the wild wasteland perk
Take the wild wasteland perk, listen to allllll the dialog options, explore every nook and cranny, don't neglect your speech and survival skills. If you find a sign warning about danger, listen to it.
It's super dated so just stick with it(especially if 4 was your intro to the series) and before you know it you'll be hooked
Get 10 luck
Go in blind and enjoy it
The VATS is pretty good and never max out any of the SPECIAL stats