New Vegas DLC soon, patch first

Yeah, what kind of jagoff would even entertain such lunacy?
Releasing DLC prior to patching the game proper... that some bush league shit right there.

 

I just logged into Steam right now, there's no patch yet... Or is it just me?

 

Did you even read the news or did you stopped at "patch"?

 

I've read it a little, not the whole thing, now I've read it again... Yeah, no patch yet

 

Y'know...the whole point of forums is reading and writing. Give'r a shot, cowboy.

Also: "A few weeks"?! My lord these people take their sweet time.

 

Optimization and stability over bugfixes. I can sort of get optimizing without fixing bugs per se, but how does the stability part work?

"Game crashing because of so-and-so isn't a bug, it's a feature. However, upon further consideration we've decided to go for a different direction and not crash/lockup the game here, so in the next patch this will be changed."

Although I'm not a programmer and I don't make games so maybe bug means something else, not "stuff that doesn't work right".

You can't read something "again" if you haven't read it before

 

The question is how can he comment on it before actauly reading it whole, its not even that long. How can you play Fallout without havign enough attetion span to read a few lines of text.

 

Optimization and stability refer to things like removing random, unexplained slowdown and freezing.
Bugs are program errors that occur when certain actions are perfomed and that can be reproduced (for example shooting with certain weapons in VATS make the game freeze, some weapon mods don't work as they should).

 

Soon. Very soon. You will be mine, next DLC, and then I will be happy once more.

Also, Chris Avellone had a perk contest. Might or might not be implemented into next DLC.
http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?act=module&module=blog&req=showblog&blogid=1

 

Awesome! Hope I can play the game without having to restart my ps3 every 20 minutes!

 

What I wonder is, if I can reactivate hardware support for my sound system again after the patch release. Needed to deactivate it, because it made FNV crashing all the time in VATS mode and sometimes out of VATS.

 

Adds half as much of what?

 

Chris' copy-paste function is not working all that well apparently.

 

He liked that perk? Isn't a bit...overpowered?

 

It's not overpowered, it only works if you don't have companions. Playing without companions isn't always easy.

 

Playing without companions is how I roll, so I like it. It's nice because it's a bonus for players who don't like to play with companions.

Haven't heard about the contest, but I have a couple that sound decent:

Mirror Mail: While wearing power armor, the player has a 25% chance of deflecting shots from energy-based weapons.

Scrap Armor: You are able to repair heavy armor using ten pieces of scrap metal.

 

I was thinking of this one.

The Courier with no name: Requirements: Cowboy. You are 10% more accurate and faster when shooting and reloading with any revolver and lever-action rifle, and firearms attack to the torso deal 10% less damage.

Vault Boy icon: the man with no name from A Fistful of Dollars with the steel plate on his chest.

It adds 60 skill points total to fighting oriented skills and 50Hp, it looks overpowered to me. Its only real drawback is that you have to give up the companions perks, that, I have to admit isn't a small one.

Also, I think it's debatable that the game isn't easy (even if only at times) without companions.

 

Thinking of one called "I got your back"

Companion damage thresholds are increased when they are in a certain range of the player.
But what range I am not certain off yet and how this exactly would work out.

 

Backstabber: 30% damage increase when attacking an enemy from behind.

This perk would synergize well with Silent Running and Ninja for stealth based characters.