No.33926
>>33921From what I understand the NCR mainly grows by integrating the people already living in a given place, not by colonisation. There are some NCR settlers in New Vegas from my remembering but I think in the NCR victory ending they make New Vegas a state outright.
"The New California Republic celebrated its second victory at Hoover Dam, establishing definitive control over the entire Mojave Wasteland. Soon after, they negotiated terms to annex The Strip, Freeside, and many surrounding communities. The Mojave Wasteland, at long last, had entirely fallen under the NCR's banner."
No.33931
>>33926They'll shove their cocksucking flag up New Vegas' ass and call it a state. Get your head out of your cunt and read a fucking book.
No.33933
>>33931what did anon mean by this?
obviously the NCR is imperialist in some senses, it doesn't mean bringing civilisation and order back to the wastes is bad
No.33935
>>33921>Unlike the early US, they don't have a population of mostly agrarian settlers. The vast majority of their population lives in urban areas and is content living there. Isn't it like, the complete opposite? A majority of settlers from NCR tell you that, sure, work is there… if you like mining or farming. Not to mention that a lot of farmers are fled out of the NCR into New Vegas to escape the emerging kulaks, who have a firm grip on politics and are not above using mercs to bully people of their land.
That's an issue that does pop up elsewehre, for example with the leader of the rangers, Hanlon, or OSI.
>>33898>>33894>>33885The Follower situation could be interesting, since it is fairly clear that many within the NCR feel that the FoA ae overstaying their welcome, but that they can't get rid of them since they form a major part of the formers intelligencia… which the advent of the OSI ruined.
No.33936
>>33935>A majority of settlers from NCR tell you that, sure, work is there… if you like mining or farming.Not sure what else anyone would expect given how fucked the former USA is, surely farming in the NCR is better than living in a shack in the wasteland
No.34083
>10-15 minute ending slideshow (if you do everything) for a fetch-quest DLC with early 2010s reddit humorAlso yes I'm the same anon as
>>33872 every DLC is shit but these two especially. Thanks for subscribing to my video game review blog.
No.34084
>>34083long endings are good though
No.34141
>>34084It's a DLC, it's not supposed to have long endings comparable to the base game.
Not to mention, it's also the fastest DLC to fully complete (all quests, challenges, unique items, locations etc). I only noticed that recently since this last playthrough was an autistic completionist min-maxing one.
No.34142
What was the way that you guys used to reach New Vegas in your first playthrough?
I honestly think I'm the only one in existence who went through Hidden Valley, then to the Scorpion Gulch, past the El Dorado lake and then continued on normally through the 188.
No.34143
>>31703They were raiding the entity who had them in chains lmao.
>>31702Nobody knows about this version of events because they show up at the start of the game and are portrayed as the fodder enemies hassling the poor townsfolk. Even without gamer brain, you'd still have to go out of your way to talk to them to realize there's an option besides killing them, and once you do that you are hard-locked out of their content. They might have been meant to be better fleshed out. A lot of stuff was cut from the game.
No.34146
>>31702>>34143The thing about the Powder Gangers is that they aren't really just one faction. There are 2 big groups with a coherent organisation with the rest being small bands in camps and roads that answer to no one.
The first of the big ones are that of Eddie's in the NCRF. These are anti-NCR, of course, but they're also raiders who harass towns not affiliated with the NCR like Goodsprings and Nipton (or used to for the last one), and also caravans.
The second one is that of Samuel Cooke in Vault 19. Cooke is who led the prisoner revolt in the first place, and then left NCRF with a group to the Vault. Under Cooke when the game is first started, they don't raid and are hostile to the NCR (infact they aren't even technically a part of the in-game Powder Ganger faction, so you can kill Eddie and most southern Powder Gangers without making Cooke's group hostile). The group is currently split between Cooke's faction who want to join the Great Khans, and Philip Lem's faction who want to surrender to the NCR. You can help either Cooke or Lem, ignore the quest, or blow up the Vault. Doing any of the latter two will result in the Vault 19 group becoming raiders in the endings, though.
No.34148
>>34143>They were raiding the entity who had them in chains lmao.They were mostly sent to prison for raiding IIRC.
No.34180
>>34083Thematically Dead Money is great and fits perfectly with the main story, but I agree it isn't very fun to play. Never cared for the other DLCs either.
No.34517
All of the fallout games are 75% off on steam. I'm going to grab all of them up to FNV but what's the verdict on 4 and 76?
No.34518
>>34517FO4 is 'ok', if you're bored you can get fun out of it, but in retrospect it's not particularly memorable, the story isn't very good and the characters are silly. If you had fun with Starfield you can enjoy FO4
No.34524
>>34517Expect Bethesda rather than Interplay or Obsidian and you'll have a good time
No.34526
>>34518Thanks. That about sums up how i felt playing it on PS4 when it was new but I was hoping the modders on PC had salvaged it.
>>34524I've only ever known Bethesda's Fallout 😭
picrel, a pretty good haul if you ask me
No.34527
meant to add, I own 2 but still haven't gotten over how old school it is enough to play it yet. one day
No.34528
>>34526I didn't play it with mods TBF so I'm sure there are ones that make it better.
I'm so fucking bored right now, tell me if you find anything decent to play
No.34530
I take it no one has played 76? I wouldn't even be asking about it as it was pretty widely panned when it was released but surprisingly it has crawled up to a 'mostly positive' rating on steam
>>34528Not to derail but ya Im in the same boat. I know my buddy is having fun with the new Rimworld DLC but i dont like Rimworld and him talking about it just made me want to play Factorio, i guess cuz its another isometric resource management game. Another game thats coming to mind is Kerbal Space Program 1
You probably dont want game recs from me my most played game by a wide margin is Victoria 2 idk if you get down like that (autism)
No.34532
>>34530I actually looked at the Rimworld DLC but I don't really like horror and the last DLCs just seemed lame to me. Overall Rimworld is just kinda IDK, ehhhhh, I tried to play it like a year ago and I just was bored after like 15 hours without really doing anything
No.34535
>>34526I never really bothered with mods for Fallout 4 aside from bugfixes, the first half of this guide covers everything important
https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/They also have a guide for an FNV overhaul and a modlist that lets you play FO3 and FNV in the same game, I haven't tried them but I hear they're good. Other than that, there's a settlement overhaul called Sim Settlements that just released a big update and is supposed to be excellent:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/73394 No.34541
Bethesda games are peak when you execute the uninstaller.
No.34545
>>34535This list is so fucking large. Just driving the point that FO4 is fundamentally fucked tbh.
No.34576
Im totally going to give 1 and 2 a fair shake, currently restarting after getting killed after aggroing Killian somehow but man the lack of any real exploring of the wasteland is a bummer cuz that's 90% of why I like fallout. Still, enjoying it so far.
>>34535Thanks anon. Not sure if its in that modlist but I saw someone on twitter recommend a mod called Better Locational Damage for removing bullet sponges which was always a gripe I had with the Bethesda games
>>34545Ya its crazy that most of that is just to fix the game I was thinking more along the lines of overhaul mods cuz I recall not being a fan of the map or story.
No.34577
>>34535FO4 is too fundamentally broken to fix with your typical mods tbh. Maybe any mods at all depending on how much support there is. When it came out there was none. You would essentially have to gut the core mechanics.
No.34582
>>33933muh civilization and order
No.34583
>>34582yeah let's all scratch in the dirt instead, and be at the mercy of deranged slavers
No.34703
>>34702colonel autumn/the enclave wanted to poison the water so it would kill anyone who was mutated though. that's the whole point of the story.
No.34742
The super mutants and deathclaws in FO1 are no joke. Starting to think small guns is a waste of skill points cuz even with it maxed out I can't kill them.
No.34748
>>34583>yeah let's all scratch in the dirt instead, and be at the mercy of deranged slaverslike the NCR?
No.34750
>>34748The NCR aren't slavers, they're capitalists which is objectively better than slave based economics. People in the NCR heartland are living the best lives in the whole USA in terms of basic needs.
No.34755
>>34752How are the NCR exploiting the rest of the wasteland? Their influence only extends to a few hundred miles outside their borders ie. the Mojave. They allow settlements to sign up to become part of the NCR if they want. Sure the people on the periphery have harder lives than the ones in the heartland but that's just the nature of the gradual economic development. Even if NCR is profoundly unequal (it is in a lot of ways) being a smallholder under the NCR where you're protected from raiders and slavers and having basic rights and living standards is better than living in the wasteland.
No.34756
>>34755Living under the legion is just as well
No.34757
>>34756Except the legion are deranged slavers who destroy every civilisation they come across and enslave most of the population that they don't exterminate.
No.34761
>>34757the legion is anti-imperialist
No.34763
>>34757yeah it's a real shame for the legion to destroy the proud civilization of *checks pipboy* insane drug addicted cannibals they are the real monsters
No.34766
>>34763The Legion massacred and/or crucified everyone in Nipton except for three people who won a 'lottery' just because the mayor agreed to sell out the NCR troopers/powder gangers to them that boozed there. Like the devs really can't make any clearer to you that they're psychotic mass murderers.
No.34787
>knight titus from the show represents titus interactive
>his death lets max step into the armor
>max is bethesda
<tfw
No.34801
>>34766oooh aaah the legion killed a bunch of people oh noooo unlike the ncr which definitely isn't committing genocide on "raiders"
No.34802
>>34801Both of them are bad, that doesnt mean the legion is better then the NCR. The legion is a bunch of weirdo larpers who fight primarily with swords, while the NCR hás tanks, power armor, and helicópters. They are extremely behind, its not even close.
No.34803
The only really good faction is the folowers of the apocalipse, the anarchist Saints of gaming.
No.34804
Legion is le multipolarist faction.
No.34805
>>34804Legion has 0% chance of winning. BRICS can send mankind to space and make the west bleed billions of dollars each year. Brics already won. They are not the same.
No.35063
Been playing Fallout 76 andI cant find any problems with it. I feel like new vegas fan boys lied to me about this game and I missed it completely because of it.
No.35064
>>35063it was dogshit on launch but it's supposed to be much, much better now
No.35066
>>35063what's the point of a fallout game with no NPCs or moral choices?
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