Fallout: New Vegas info from Xbox 360 World mag

[King of Creation]

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<p>Thanks to tipster <strong>Nathan</strong>, DAC has a bullet-pointed summary of the important bits from a <strong><em>Fallout: New Vegas</em></strong> preview out of the UK XBox 360 World magazine. Some of you might already know about a lot of the stuff in the article, but for those who don't - read on:</p>
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<li>The tagline says: "A Safe Bet for RPG Fans"</li>
<li>Hardcore mode: Stimpaks take a long time to heal, you need a Doctor's Bag to heal broken limbs, and you suffer from Dehydration so you need to carry water.</li>
<li>Dynamite is one of the first weapons you come across</li>
<li>Obsidian have focused much more on the story than Bethesda did with Fallout 3</li>
<li>VATS now includes a special attack for every weapon</li>
<li>Weapons can be modded - one of the mods involves reducing the spooling time for miniguns.</li>
<li>All of your skills can be used to influence dialogue</li>
<li>A "Command/Companion Wheel" gives you control over your followers - the design of this isn't finalized yet</li>
<li>Nightkin are back and can cloak</li>
<li>The Hoover Dam is intact and produces electricity</li>
<li>Electricity seems to be one of the main things in the game</li>
<li>There are 3 factions - the NCR, Caesar's Legion, and (although unconfirmed) the Brotherhood of Steel</li>
<li>The Helios One solar tower controls an orbital laser platform</li>
<li>You can get a portable controller for the laser platform and use it throughout the game</li>
<li>Lots of "grey areas" in terms of actions and dialogue - a combined reputation and morality system means everything you do has an effect on something in one way or another.</li>
<li>New Vegas will have different endings, "instead of the single, potentially anachronistic 'man/woman saves the Wasteland' finale."</li>
<li>The overall theme of the game is about trying to find out who tried to kill you and why.</li>
<li>New weapon - The "All-American" - a rapid fire Sniper Rifle</li>
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[Yonmanc]

Wait, if they're fosucing on the story, wouldnt hooover dam be a logical target during the war?It's not as bad a beuilding a town around a bomb but come on...

[SenisterDenister]

The Hoover Dam has been in concept as a legitimate location since Van Buren, so circa 2001 probably. I'm fine with it, makes more sense than having over half of Washington D.C. in one piece.

[TwinkieGorilla]

3 factions? teh fuck?

[TheBearPaw]

Obsidian have focused much more on the story than Bethesda did with Fallout 3

New Vegas will have different endings, "instead of the single, potentially anachronistic 'man/woman saves the Wasteland' finale."

If these prove to be true, F:NV is gonna be fantastic. That's Fallout!!

[King of Creation]

3 factions? teh fuck?

NCR, BOS, and Caesar's Legion. I'm not sure if the magazine made up the figure or not. There may be more - remnants of the Enclave or something. Maybe the reavers!

[TwinkieGorilla]

NCR, BOS, and Caesar's Legion.

yes, i see that. i'm just a little disappointed if this information is saying, definitively, that there are only 3 factions within the entire game.

[SenisterDenister]

It doesn't have to be the Brotherhood of Steel, that far out it may only be the Circle, so they'd be too underpowered (numberwise) to count as a faction. There are still a lot of choices, though. Maybe canonically shit went south with New Reno or Vault 8 or something getting into the NCR.

Maybe New Reno and New Vegas are in cahoots.

[Cimmerian Nights]

NCR, BOS, and Caesar's Legion.

yes, i see that. i'm just a little disappointed if this information is saying, definitively, that there are only 3 factions within the entire game.

You know, I haven't been bowled over by anything these guys have done under the banner of Obsidian. But I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt that they could craft a more nuanced and complicated system of factions than Bethesda's track record of munchkinnery from MW -> OB -> FO3.

[General Alexi]

doesnt the "all-american" defeat the purpose of the sniper rifle? Id much rather trade that for the Deeranator anyway.

[TyphoidG]

This hardcore mode business turns me on....always wanted to die of dehydration...now i can

Thank you Obsidian
Thank you for making the dream a virtual reality

[Manoil]

reavers!

On the subject of Tactics, I think it would be a cute occurrence to come across pieces of Humanoid robots in junkyards/etc. Also, seeing BoS in T-51b wouldn't be too much of a ridiculous concept

[Frater Perdurabo]

doesnt the "all-american" defeat the purpose of the sniper rifle?

What, to kill from a long distance? I don't think so.

[Kashluk]

doesnt the "all-american" defeat the purpose of the sniper rifle?

What, to kill from a long distance? I don't think so.

I think he's refering to the whole 'not-aiming-before-firing-and-firing-then-some-more' doctrine.

[General Alexi]

And if im playing hardcore, id much rather not waste rounds with an automatic sniper rifle, unless they mean semi automatic?

[Kickstand27]

see semi atuto makes much more sense..

though most snipers are indeed bolt action, no?

[Kashluk]

And if im playing hardcore, id much rather not waste rounds with an automatic sniper rifle, unless they mean semi automatic?

Don't want to seem like an asshole here, but you call a firearm 'automatic' when it fires a round, removes the empty cartridge and reloads a new one with just the squeeze of a trigger. In that sense Colt 1911 is 'automatic'. Bolt action rifles, on the other hand, are not, since they require manual labor for the 2/3 of the actions. These terms are used loosely - but there certainly is a difference whether you're talking of 'automatic', 'semi-automatic' or 'fully-automatic' weapons. For the sake of simplicity, let's just call the latter two sub-categories of generally 'automatic' firearms.

[General Alexi]

see semi atuto makes much more sense..

though most snipers are indeed bolt action, no?

Id say its pretty even between the two. The ones that teenagers know about because of COD, Mag, and Battlefield, are mostly Semi-automatic. But if you were to ask them what there military actually used as a Sniper Rifle, they probably wouldn't be able to tell you.

[General Alexi]

I take that back, most are bolt.

[Mylar]

Wait, if they're fosucing on the story, wouldnt hooover dam be a logical target during the war?It's not as bad a beuilding a town around a bomb but come on...

Having taken a tour of the Hoover Dam, one of the many things they'll inform you about is that the dam is overengineered to the tune of about 75% above the durability needed for the function it serves.

What that means is that it'll still most likely be standing in 2000 years, and could withstand a direct strike from an ICBM. Which means that the first Superman film is even MORE flawed than we thought.

The dam's purpose, by the by, is not to generate electricity, as that's just a by-product. It's purpose is to control flooding in the southwest, which used to suffer disastrous flooding before the dam went up.

Incidentally, what's kind of sad about taking the tour is all of the things they point out, like the crushed marble flooring, that wouldn't be feasible today; nicer materials were all you had back then, so you got this amazing structure that's economically impossible to duplicate.