Some things never change. Like war!
Dec. 20th, 2012 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSo I'm playing New Vegas because, no shit, Assassin's Creed felt too much like work. I've installed a bunch of new mods so the gameplay is actually pretty different than the last time. Still, some things never change.
I'm bopping along with a good Perception, and Boone[1] and ED-E[2] in the party, so I've basically got RADAR. I see a red dot on the map and think "ah-ha! I shall sneak up on it and shoot it a lot! I have a good feeling about this!"
So I start sneaking up. And I come around a hill and three things happen simultaneously:
1) The red dot splits into FOUR red dots and starts dancing back and forth
2) I catch a glimpse of gossamer wings on the horizon
3) I crap myself. In the immortal words of a very stupid fish, "Good feeling's gone!"
And now I am sneaking away, keeping hills between me and them as much as possible.
(Right now, people who've played New Vegas understand. For people who haven't played New Vegas, GET ON IT, seriously, one of the best games ever - and what I saw was the signs of a flock of Cazadores, which is to say Giant Mutant Radioactive Tarantual Hawk Wasps. They are easily the nastiest things in the game, by far. Deathclaws? Not as dangerous as Cazadores.)
Anyway. This is a thing.
[1] Sniper AI teammate. Accurate, long-ranged, and his existence gives you the "Spotter" trait and causes enemies to glow in your vision when you aim.
[2]: Eyebot AI teammate. Floats, has LASERS, and his existence gives you "Enhanced Sensors" - non-aimed passive perception range is greatly increased.
I'm bopping along with a good Perception, and Boone[1] and ED-E[2] in the party, so I've basically got RADAR. I see a red dot on the map and think "ah-ha! I shall sneak up on it and shoot it a lot! I have a good feeling about this!"
So I start sneaking up. And I come around a hill and three things happen simultaneously:
1) The red dot splits into FOUR red dots and starts dancing back and forth
2) I catch a glimpse of gossamer wings on the horizon
3) I crap myself. In the immortal words of a very stupid fish, "Good feeling's gone!"
And now I am sneaking away, keeping hills between me and them as much as possible.
(Right now, people who've played New Vegas understand. For people who haven't played New Vegas, GET ON IT, seriously, one of the best games ever - and what I saw was the signs of a flock of Cazadores, which is to say Giant Mutant Radioactive Tarantual Hawk Wasps. They are easily the nastiest things in the game, by far. Deathclaws? Not as dangerous as Cazadores.)
Anyway. This is a thing.
[1] Sniper AI teammate. Accurate, long-ranged, and his existence gives you the "Spotter" trait and causes enemies to glow in your vision when you aim.
[2]: Eyebot AI teammate. Floats, has LASERS, and his existence gives you "Enhanced Sensors" - non-aimed passive perception range is greatly increased.
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Date: 2012-12-21 12:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:46 am (UTC)[1]: "Gutted, with a hunting knife"
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:59 am (UTC)(I am TOTALLY a good person. Honest.)
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Date: 2012-12-21 05:07 am (UTC)I'm level 11 because I stopped to gut the Crimson Caravan with a hunting knife, while they slept. Without that, I'd still be level 7ish, at the gates of New Vegas.
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Date: 2012-12-21 03:40 pm (UTC)Setting them to "Aggressive" means that they will shoot as soon as they've got a good shot, even at an enemy who hasn't currently detected you. This can result in Boone getting sneak-attack crits, which is always nice.
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Date: 2012-12-21 05:45 am (UTC)Also: I want the head of whoever made the economic system sitting on a pike in front of my house.
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-21 07:40 pm (UTC)Then again, that's probably the first thing I judge and possibly dismiss a game on: how fast your character goes.
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Date: 2012-12-21 05:42 am (UTC)-- Steve's running a level 28 character, which means specialisation doesn't matter much anymore, with a truly celestial karma rating. Said karma, however, doesn't mean that the Lone Wanderer doesn't have a small mountain of (usually headless) corpses to his account.
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Date: 2012-12-25 11:33 am (UTC)I've done everything I want to do with the base game and DLC - basically, everything except the House and Legion endgames - and unless some absolutely magnificent mods turn up I'm probably going to leave it at that.
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Date: 2012-12-28 11:45 pm (UTC)By the time I stopped playing, I could take them melee-style. Which is why my gaming time is basically all spent in Dark Souls lately, where I can still get my ass handed to me by a random shambling undead if I don't pay attention.
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Date: 2012-12-29 03:26 am (UTC)But yeah. My level 6-ish character ran off quietly. My level 38 character (same character!) drops into VATS and puts a silenced sniper rifle round through their heads.