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Then that's the directory the NVSE files need to go in. There should be a file called 'FalloutNV.exe' in there, its icon is the head, shoulders and arms of the vault-boy. If you can't see it, try installing NVSE anyway as the file might be set as hidden or something silly.

it's not necessarily in /program files (x86)/. Wherever steam is installed, it'll have a subfolder called 'steamapps', then another called 'common'. In there should be your Fallout: New Vegas folder, which contains the game's exe, and the Data folder. It's not a matter of whether or not you have it, the game *is* that exe, all the other files are just data it reads.

Quoted for veracity. I'm sorry but Bethesda can't write good storylines to save their lives, or at least they can't write good RPG storylines. In FO 1, FO 2 and New Vegas the decisions you make will change your world. Do you allow Gizmo and his thugs to take over junktown, or do you side with the law? Do you side with the people of adytum and free them (on your own or with the help of the blades) or aid their oppressors in wiping out the opposition? I do fear if Beth make FO 4 we'll be left with what (in comparison to earlier games and New Vegas) will be shallow and vacuous choices that don't really do anything. Choosing Legion/NCR/House has a big difference in how you play the game, what quests you take, whom you meet and whom you kill. It'd take 3 different Fallout 3s with their fixed-style main quest to get close to that...

There was a mod that did just this for Fallout 3. Now I think of it, I really miss that mod. Would make flamers brilliant in claustrophobic caves and vaults... Here it is http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/6183

"Playing with firepower" by Talkietoaster. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41584 There, thread ended.

Do you have the Dead Money DLC?

Right. This has got silly. Here are the points: -Congress has set the amount of vegetable they see as one 'portion' to an amount that would allow schools to serve pizza to their pupils and still be considered to be serving them a 'healthy' meal (due to the 'portion' of vegetables). -The amount congress has set as a 'portion' of vegetables is actually rather small, much smaller than the size a dietitian or other expert would recommend. When you hear about getting your recommended "5 a day", a congress-sanctioned portion does not count for 'one' but much less. Hence, congress has said serving pizza is equivalent to serving a meal including one portion vegetables. It isn't, but the law says it is so legally it's fine. The point is, there's a big discrepancy between an actual portion and a congressionally set portion, which could have been motivated by a desire to allow schools to save money by not having to change the food they serve (depending on your opinions of the people and system/s involved). Now I'm off to my own politics where people who disagree with you are not automatically the heirs to the ideas of Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler. David Cameron is an incompetent boob with a shiny forehead, have a nice day.

Because in foreign translations the order of the letters changes. (i.e. in french I believe they're called la Republique Nouveau Californique, or RNC). Either that or they're idiots, depends whether you're open to the idea of other nations and languages existing or think your fellow countrymen are gibbering idiots. Personally I'm going for both.

Lasseiz faire, "let do", if you translate it literally. Closer to "let it be", or "leave it alone" if you look at the usage. Typical Classical liberal view on economics (and by liberal I mean Locke and Mill, not whoever fox news or any US network is calling a 'liberal' these days), the idea that humans aren't utter arseholes and can be trusted to operate in a pure capitalist environment, constrained only by each others' rights.

Hmm, I went in for too much 'look at this' and not enough 'this actually does [explanation]'. The whole point of my post was that these robots actually equip and display the weapons, so there's no need to change the model or refid to change the weapon. Simply putting the relevant gun and ammo into their inventory whilst your npc/creature is set up correctly will cause them to equip it, use it and show the model for it. Instead of messing with switching models and refids you can just change the inventory contents of the robots, if you still need to swap out the bots to change their attire that's a lot less swaps than having one for every combo of weapon and armour. i.e. instead of having a robot with 42 (6*7) different hat/revolver combos, you'd only need 6 - for the hats - and any of the revolvers would be changed out like human NPCs or supermutants deal with weapons.

Robco Certified. Upgraded Mr Handy, Robobrains, Assemblotron. And, more pertinently: the hoverbrain. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/712-1-1285533245.jpg Exactly what you want done, but with a different model. It can (and has) been done. Just because super mutants alook vaguely humanoid doesn't mean they use human anims. They've got a custom skeleton and their own separate set of animations. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=43331

However, given a good enough reason they'll help those around them, even if it's just a self-serving thing of having more people on their 'side'. According to the FO1 ending they helped organise the settlements in california to resist the master's army and ended up becoming a mid-level player in the local power structure, being the largest R&D house around. All self-serving of course. They helped the settlements because it gave them more trigger fingers to hold off the mutants and they became the top dogs at research so they got to chose who got what. But still, a good deed is a good deed.

First thoughts upon seeing this thread: Quetzlsacatanango? Mod? Previous experience indicates good things. Then I read the post and checked the WiP thread. Consider me very interested.

Actually, NCR territory's far safer than it was in Fo2 (as far as we can tell). It's not perfect, but the Vipers, Jackals and Khans are in Nevada because NCR stamped down on them hard in California. They may be growing in strength again a little now NCR's focused on the legion threat, but they're much diminished from their old selves - as demonstrated by the fact they're operating in the lawless frontier instead of the wealthier NCR heartland.

Two. There's a silenced .22 SMG as well.

There's a flares mod called "Light My flare" that has road flares as well as shotgun-fired flare rounds. I'd recommend it.

That was rude and incredibly blunt, but if you've soaked up enough rounds to know that first hand then I am not offended one bit and you're entirely justified. Human brains are strange and inconsistent organs we don't really understand yet. It does help they have armour plating though, laid out almost like that of an armoured vehicle with a thick, curved front designed to deflect impact. Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the times people survive being 'shot in the head' isn't it because they were either only grazed by a bullet or it was deflected off of their skull? Also how do you plan on dealing with the incapacitating affects of blood loss and pain from injuries? I understand that trained personnel and such can probably think clearly enough to keep going (at least for a bit) once they've been injured, but for the escaped convicts and drug-addled bandits of the Mojave how are they going to react?

Why? A bullet is not like a stab wound, the projectile doesn't cleanly slice through someone when it hits them, it smashes a path through and also creates a pressure 'bubble' in the wound. This bubble - if the round is big/lucky enough - causes a sudden spike in blood pressure as it squeezes the nearby tissue and blood vessels, causing hemorrhaging in soft tissue, like the brain. Now having thousands of mini-strokes will ruin your day, instantly and permanently. Aptly named 'terminal ballistics' are not a nice topic, but if you really want realism you're going to have to account for these affects too.

Yes, I admit it will help. In fact I use it myself (when I have FO3 installed). But the issue he's referring too is [slightly] different to the 'dumb autoaim makes you shoot a wall' one and I just thought he might be interested in the specific flaw he is encountering rather than 'autoaim's broke'. That said your description of the other issues with the autoaim is perfectly fine.

Actually, that isn't the issue, Black. the problem is in Fallout 3 bullets aren't created at the end of your weapon (the node placed in nifskope) or even at the weapon's origin, they are in fact created lower than that. To correct for this the game's auto-aim selects a flat trajectory several degrees off from the horizontal (always the same angle, btw). At close range this works, the bullet and your line of fire are pretty close together and you don't notice. However, at very long or very short range, the bullet will in fact be displaced vertically from the line of fire you perceive, which is the reason firing over low cover is annoying at times, and sniper rifles miss at ranges too long for the auto-aim. That file might help, but only if it sets the auto-aims max range to something very high, then stops it from otherwise affecting the path of shots fired.

Nope, the NCR-BoS war is Canon, it's why NCR paper money is worth crap, because it's secured against water and not the (destroyed by Californian BoS) NCR gold reserves.

But they don't need to control it. By giving medical care and knowledge to the locals they've made themselves invaluable to the local population, without them they'd be far worse off and these people know it, effectively without firing a shot and with no more than altruism and some books they've integrated themselves into the power structure. They don't have absolute control, but by the same token that means they don't bear responsibility. In the endings, if both the Khans and Followers leave vegas the two meet up in the north and the Khans found a mighty empire with the followers help. Now do you reckon such a power would go to war for the sake of the Followers of the apocalypse? I'd say so. Do they have to pay for the upkeep of its armies or manage the collection of its taxes? No. What they have is a force willing to defend them in exchange for what they would do anyway. I'm not saying the followers can control Vegas or anything, but they aren't helpless little babies. Also, choosing between Monarchy (Yes Man/House), more Monarchy (Legion) or Democracy -corrupt- (NCR) a quote from Churchill comes to mind "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the other ones that have been tried." If the world had been ruled by monarchies I'm pretty damned sure they'd have unleashed nuclear weapons too, democracy in the NCR is broken the same way modern US democracy is broken: people with money hold too much sway. The Government doesn't exist to further the interests of the rich, it exists to further the interests of all citizens. It took humanity millennia to move from Monarchy to Democracy, with this imbalanced status quo in favour of the rich brought with us. I'm not saying it's perfect (anything but), however I am saying it's easier to fix the problems with democracy (or use it as a springboard to something better) than it is to solve the plethora of issues surrounding tyranny (to use the original Roman meaning of 'one man rule').

It's a painting, behind his desk. At about shoulder/face level (middle of your screen) you should notice things.

Yeah, someone might do it. Pickinthebanjo ported all the weapons. Until then? Get out of here, STALKER!

Dragon Age Origins.