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Prepare To Enter The Wasteland Again -- First Fallout: New Vegas Details

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Posted February 8, 2010 - By pklepek




Prepare To Enter The Wasteland Again -- First Fallout: New Vegas Details 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???

    Posted: April 19, 2010 10:41 AM | Reply | Report
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  • katariak

    ther is a web sight that shows pics "no mutants aloud.com"

    p.s. the game looks awesome

    Posted: March 19, 2010 7:40 AM | Reply | Report
    katariak
  • 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!

    Posted: February 17, 2010 9:54 AM | Reply | Report
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  • 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!!

    Posted: February 16, 2010 11:33 AM | Reply | Report
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  • predator828

    I CANT WAIT!!!!

    Posted: February 11, 2010 2:10 PM | Reply | Report
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  • 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.

    Posted: February 9, 2010 6:11 PM | Reply | Report
    StillWaitin
  • 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.

    Posted: February 9, 2010 3:42 PM | Reply | Report
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  • 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.

    Posted: February 9, 2010 11:59 AM | Reply | Report
    beniam3
  • bolo73

    I cannot wait for the game to come out.

    Posted: February 9, 2010 11:44 AM | Reply | Report
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  • 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.

    Posted: February 9, 2010 11:37 AM | Reply | Report
    beniam3

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