First look at the Vegas Strip + more info and screens

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 1:02 pm

[ Game -> Preview ] - News related to Top Story: First look at the Vegas Strip | More info on Company: Obsidian Entertainment | More info on Game: Fallout: New Vegas

The guys at Falloutnow.de have posted up a bunch of screen shots from Fallout: New Vegas. Check em out:

In addition, they've posted some new info which the guys at NMA have translated into English for us:

New information (many spoilers!):
- Vault 21 is an underground vault and lies under New Vegas.
- The NCR has lost contact to the west and is demoralized and underequipped due to the war with Caesar's Legion.
- Caesar's Legion dominates New Vegas.
- The NCR was fighting hard against the Brotherhood of Steel for Hoover Dam. The NCR has won this battle, barely.
- The NCR troops at McCarren Airport lost the contact to Hoover Dam as well.
- The main task of the courier has been to deliver a package to Primm. Then he got ambushed...
- The small and big weapons skills are merged into one weapon skill.
- Every weapon that made some asplozions before (like the rocket launcher or FatMan), are now in the skill category Explosives.
- Repcon, a former rocket factory, is supposedly inhabited by ghouls. As of late, explosions can be heard from there all the time.
- Craig Boon, one of the possible companions, will attack the player, if he sides with the Caesar's Legion.
- The orbital laser Archimedes 2 can only be used once a day.
- New monster: Cacadores, they look like bloatflies with shiny / colourful wings.
- Something like Bobbleheads will be in New Vegas as well and it will boost players stats. What it will be exactly isn't known yet.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 2:20 pm

Wow, New Reno!

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 3:07 pm

I'm hoping that merging of big and small guns is a typo/translation error. Don't understand why you'd dumb down your skill pool even more.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 3:32 pm

ok, this game is one ugly son of a bitch

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 3:43 pm

JE Sawyer was always pro cutting down the number of skills in SPECIAL, when working on Van Buren and, apparently, still to this day

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 4:52 pm

what the fuck were you expecting?

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:09 pm

Small guns/Big Guns as one? the fuck?

The strip looks entirely too neon-lit to be post-apoc. Dumb.

Barber's razor is a cool idea though I'm still unimpressed overall. This isn't helping quell my concerns for solving FO3's problems

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:41 pm

Ya small guns/big guns kind of weird, maybe mistranslation there donno. As far as the strip, hate to point out the obvious but someone built that after the apocalypse, hence NEW Reno or NEW Vegas, not to mention the Vault 21 sign which I'm sure wasn't built before the Apocalypse.

I don't think FO3's problems can be solved without a full revamp there pretty much just making one giant mod of FO3 with new story line.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:25 pm

Again. JE Sawyer designed Van Buren SPECIAL
* 3 "combat" skills: Firearms, Melee, Unarmed
* 3 "diplomacy" skills: Barter, Deception, Persuasion
* 4 "science" skills: Mechanics, Medic, Outdoorsman, Science
* 3 "stealth" skills: Security, Sneak, Steal

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:32 pm

thanks NMA

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:03 pm

pretty fancy casino there

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:50 pm

I actually don't mind the Van Buren SPECIAL. To me, big/small guns is neither here nor there. What I would be more interested in seeing, is actual worth in the SPECIAL system this time around.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 12:53 am

You don't care that it's being dumbed down but you are interested in seeing that it is not dumbed down? This makes perfect sense.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 1:35 am

Sawyer's VanBuren S.P.E.C.I.A.L. is dumbed-down how?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 1:41 am

To me, in the original Fallouts it seemed poor design to make small guns early game weapons, then require you to put skill points into heavy or energy weapons later in the game. All three should have been viable choices throughout the game - like the various non-combat skills - or simply rolled into one skill.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 1:58 am

it's very round isn't it icon_chew

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 2:28 am

What I meant, is I liked the simplicity and fairness of Van Buren's skillset, and wouldn't mind seeing it used in Future Fallouts, as long as the SPECIAL system is actually relevant this time around. For example, it didn't really matter what skills you chose in Fallout 3, it was an FPS and played like one. I don't so much care about the skills being simplified, as long as they actually have some use. Van Buren had, in my opinion, enough choices available to make completely different characters.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:16 am

If the German version is accurate, then no: there is no translation error. They are merged into one skill.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:11 am

are you guys fucking retarded or what? seriously. are you?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:05 am

The only Big Gun that is actually a gun in Fallout 3 was the minigun, so it will be the only one merged with Small Guns. The other ones will be merged with Explosives, which is now a pretty useless skill and will make it more useful.