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When Bethesda Softworks released the first trailer for the Obsidian Entertainment-developed Fallout: New Vegas, there were promises of more details from various magazine covers.
Those promises are coming true, as Fallout fan community Duck and Cover has started poring through the magazines passing on the first details on Fallout: New Vegas. The big takeaways?
You are not playing as a Vault Dweller, but you do run into someone who is, so you're eventually given access to the ever-useful Pip-Boy. The central storyline depicts the struggles between New California Republic vs. Caesar's Legion vs. New Vegas residents. The New Vegas residents are in a good place, too, since Las Vegas was largely untouched by the nuclear war.
Fallout: New Vegas will pander to the hardcore crowd, too. Literally. Fallout: New Vegas includes a "hardcore" mode where characters will be required to drink water to stay alive, ammo will have weight that needs to be managed, healing isn't an instant process and other details that will force players to pay much closer attention to detail in order to stay alive.
By and large, the engine driving the game is pretty much the same. If you played Fallout 3, you're going to be able to jump into Fallout: New Vegas without much issue. VATS has seen some improvements, however, including melee weapons with specialized attacks.
The dialogue system is also getting additional layers of complexity (an Obsidian strong-suit), with a brand-new "Reputation" system that sits alongside the already existing Karma.
More details are being added all the time to this thread on Duck and Cover. Hopefully, the deluge of information means we're going to be seeing much more of Fallout: New Vegas.
Source: Duck and Cover
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Fallout Fan
Hadcore Core Mode seems really fun it will be the most realistic game i have played in having to keep yourself alive and i wonder how much damage you would take in battle so I wonder i cover would be an issue also This is Fallout so I wonder how the you will first get introduced to the waste land???
katariak
ther is a web sight that shows pics "no mutants aloud.com"
p.s. the game looks awesome
dgray1978
I just hope that this new Fallout does freeze up as much as Fallout 3 did, so annoying! Especially been having problems with Broken Steel DLC, can't level up past 20 after I install it. GRRR!
jack.3556
one thing i would love to see but dont expect would be some sort of vehicle to travel across the landscape. i really dont care what it is just something!!
predator828
I CANT WAIT!!!!
StillWaitin
New Vegas sounds interesting enough. You get to run around Las Vegas with the possibility of killing everyone in your path or saving a god-forsaken wasteland. However, despite how ingenius hardcore moide sounds, how long untill us jaded gamers get bored making our characters die in a desert(and don't say you wouldn't do it). On the plus side, it would bring hours of realistic and addicting gameplay, but it could also bring frustration and bitter sweet tears of rage if they don't iron out all the kinks before release.With that ranted, I have to say it appeals to both the old school fallout gamer in me, and the new fallout gamer as well, mixing the best of all three games. My biggest hope for this game is more complex chracter trees, responses, more missions, and a more fluid VATS, instead of the delay between activating it and targeting, then the occasional want to throw the tv out of the window tryin totarget the body part you want to destroy. And I hope for a large amount of Karma andReputation situations, leading to a more in-depth immersive experience.
beniam3
I enjoyed fallout 3 alot though becuz i live in the countryside of maryland which is where you start out from the vault and where most of the game outside of dc takes place and u know the dickerson tabernakle church where you get a special sniper rifle? thats less than a mile away from my house its pretty cool and the montgomery county resevoir is next to my friends house the mutant infested police hq is next to my friends apt in germantown and ive been in there for stupid things ive done. its pretty kool to experience my area infested with creatures and radiationand bethesda studios r in my neck of the woods so vegas wont be as fun for me.
beniam3
I liked Fallout 3 cuz you didnt have to worry abut water and some things you could carry all u want of like ammo which came in handy even though i carridied a lot more guns and ammo i used. i liked the choice of how i like my enclave cooked, well done by a gatling laser or a mini nuke, or turned in too a fine green gravy by a plasma rifle.
bolo73
I cannot wait for the game to come out.
beniam3
Excited but I dont think ill be playing the hardcore mode that much, i like the fact that in video games you dont have to worry about things like food and water, just getting the job done.
Andy-Joe-II
OMFG! i cannot wait, especially for hardcore. i'm totally making an eli character!!!
typhoon_2099
"If you played Fallout 3, you're going to be able to jump into Fallout: New Vegas without much issue."
Provided the game isn't buggy as hell. I was glad to see that last trophy come up so I could delete Fallout 3 and be done with it. Which is a shame really since it's such a good game.
TheSledBaron
Wasn't this one supposed to be a MMORPG?
StrongestSaiyan
I'm not totally thrilled to not be a Vault Dweller since both the player and the character were new to the Wasteland, but a different perspective could be interesting too. I, like so many here, like the sound of "hardcore mode." Fallout 3 definitely played up that water was crucial to civilization getting back on its feet, but it wasn't necessary for the player to live. I'd imagine that since this takes place in what was already a desert, water could be tricky. Also, I like that ammo will have weight in that mode. It made 3 pretty easy when I had a bunch of high quality weapons and enough ammo to keep the Brotherhood going. This will certainly add extra challenge because now you won't be able to take all the ammo available and you might have to leave some weapons behind to make sure you have plenty of ammo for the few you can carry.
AnomalyOfMax
It would be cool for the dialogue if you could hear the player's character talk like in mass effect
Renaissance Spam
I am very stoked for this; it's great to see a throwback to the earlier Fallout games in terms of setting while embracing the Fallout 3 gameplay, all while adding to both.
Hardcore sounds intriguing, rather like what I was expecting when the whole "food/water" system was first announced for FO3. Definitely interested in seeing how it plays out.
It's great to finally see a reputation system coming into effect, it was a little annoying how now matter how high my rep was in a town (in FO1 and FO2 specifically) nobody seemed to care.
All in all it's definitely on my to-watch list. It was already, but now it gets an underline.
vanphelan
If that was my character in the teaser being dug up I would have some bones to pick with this doctor. If I am burried in a shallow grave left for dead and barely clinging to life wouldn't you want to help dig me up quickly instead of letting some robot do it a tiny big at a time?? For shame!
Fishstickuu
If it's going to be the same engine that was used in Fallout 3.. I'm cringing. I'm on the ground.. head, and groin shot percentage 95%.. waiting for the trauma that will either knock me out, or critically hit and kill my hopes.
What have they done?
Kaz_Hiryu
This news saddens me a bit. I still wish they would do the BoS/NCR war.
predator828
kind ofdisapointed about the ammo weight...but they will probably fix the unlimeted cap/ammo glich any way.
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