The world is funny like that...

I somehow managed to rip them all a new one on Normal. Still no clue how I pulled that off.

Wow. Bet you leveled for that! :P

Nah, he just decided to be dumb as nails for me.
Stood nice and stationary as I popped out of cover to nickel and dime him after a few sticks of dynamite dispersed the little butthump conga he had going with his buddies.

that sounds like one of the game's myriad bugs I've heard about.

Yeah, freshly released game that uses the Gamebryo engine
There's gonna be bugs aplenty. x3

That figures. I'm waiting to get it until they release the patches and the HD textures mod for the PC version. =p

Patch is going live on Friday.

My current main qualm is that occasionally, the game will crash, and that crash wipes all of the saves that I made during that session.

Yeah, I just said "ok do what you want" when I talked to him haha

I still no has the game, bit i'll make sure to save before i give it a try when i do!

since i pwned fallout 3, i think i can handle it XD

Well, that's the thing. I pwned fallout 3 too, and it's hard to remember you're not wearing power armor anymore, and all your guns are kinda crappy. :P

Beat Fallout 3 on hard without taking off my original 101 vault suit... (aside from the parts where it was removed by force, like ravens rock or the spacewalk and beginning of mothership zeta, but you get the idea)

needless to say, i got pwned multiple times, but i did it! [/nerd]

But... is there new power armor in this game? i know it's actually tied to the first two, unlike fallout 3 which was mostly a stand alone... and power armor was hard to come by in those. (with some exploits... like going straight to novarro in fallout 2)

Hmm... now that i think about it, i'm gonna replay fallout 2 before i get new vegas, lol.

God I hope I get paid soon...

Gah, everyone i know bought that game x.x and i dont have it x.x

"What the hell made you think you could take this lunatic on?"

Dynamite.

Jewel

Is it possible to level before encountering this guy?

I freakin' LOVE your description! XD

very nice!

The proper use of explosives can easily level the playing field, as well as all surrounding structures.

I saved and stopped playing right before reading this journal right after I did not attack that guy or his minions.

I'll kill them eventually to avenge their misdeeds though!

I managed to kill him. I separated him from his guard and then unloaded ALL of my weapons XD

The things we learn from (video) games.

D&D (and other video game RPGs) taught me when to loot the corpses.
ShadowRun taught me how to duck and cover and to conserve ammo.
Alpha Omega taught me to walk the line between angels and demons (and to always carry a really big gun).
Scion taught me to always have followers (and that sometimes they get in the way).
Paranoia taught me to always memorize the serial numbers on my assigned equipment (and that there's always someone trying to stab me in the back (but at least there's someone else stabbing his too)), but as long as you catch it on tape you're good.
BrontosaurusRex taught me how to connect with my primitive raptor-self (there's a whole guide, don't cha know).
And Munchkin taught me that sometimes things don't make sense.

when face aginst rathalos with crappy armor and weapons thas when its challenge ^^.

ore the revante http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV_3.....layer_embedded

I"m finding the healing issue to be pretty major. Also the fact that I nearly lost a couple of the townsfolk in the first attack. Haven't been able to get much past that yet due to time.

you were hopped up on adrenalin

Yeah I know I was like sure whatever you say I will tell people, right now helping the brotherhood of steel out raiding vault 11

two frag grenades made short work of him.

Although his posse was a bit more hardy than that. That's what made me book it.

That reminds me of decapitating the final boss of Oblivion in the middle of his evil monologue.

(Sadly, I did this only two days ago. I need to catch up on my video games! )

My lead pipe proved very effective against that Roman wannabe and his army of football rejects.

What made me think that?

The gun that lobs globs of napalm at the dog-headed freak.

Plus, you get a cool hat!

At least in fallout3 the death claws are more vocal. I head out of good springs for the first time and all I hear is a low growl, smack, and I'm dead =/ I'm sure there was things I could have done to or for that death claw to spare my life.

deathclaw in goodsprings? my dear sir I don't know what you found

Theres a hotspot of them between the cemetary and Sloan to the east. I saw a sign for it when I was just starting and turned right around.

totally missed them thankfully

HAHAHAHAHA!


When I saw the bodies something inside of my clicked.....I honestly hate what this represents........ so when all was said and done and they were walking away single file.... i took my shotgun ran in front of them..... and killed the fox bastard.

then ran around a building while taking out his dogs and proceeded to kill his guys one by one as they turned the corner.

I haven't come across another legion bastard yet but when I do my divine judgment shall be grand.

i almost forgot the game is coming out

Yeah, I knew what I was in for when I opened fire... And I whupped his ASS!

Well...more like he was dead via VATs and I spent the next several minutes playing cat-and-mouse (fox-and-rabbit?) with his flunkies until I had put them down one by one. It was pretty tough for a low-level on normal, but after all the time I've put into playing FO3, I'd like to think I'm savvy enough to pull off an underdog victory.

I would pull out my awesome Fat-Man and nuke them to ashes!

Woah, what game?

I learned ... saving is good, you never know when things are going to crash. Also its possible to fall through the ground. Life is harsh like that ;P

lols.

I already had 15 DT by the time I met that dude, plus a few kick-ass weapons and a shit-ton of dynamite and a robot sidekick, so the fight was pretty one-sided. XD

Probably would have been easier if I had remembered my Med-X. :V

Even if your only level 2 or 3, if you can go to Primm on the way and kill the escaped convict leader in the hotel (a very easy task) you can loot his Incinerator. Its like a flamethrower with a more napalm-y feel to it. Although I was level 3 and specialized in melee not energy weapons, that fight got a whole lot more possible when I burned away the dogs and melee thugs. Then its a matter of backtracking and firing guns/dropping mines.

Maybe, but it still would have been a really bad idea. That would have gotten the legion really mad at me, and even three or four levels and two companions later their hit squads tend to murder me a lot.

....But I want that helmet!