What surprises me, is i really haven't run into that many bugs. You can imagine my sigh of releif when i fired up the game for the first time, and wondered if the doc would be doing that head twirl. He hasn't.

Evidently that was due to some corrupted files from the Steam server in the hours following the initial release. I installed on day 2, and did not see the head rotation and floating. I also downloaded the file that mookie posted the link to, and my frame rates are now good throughout the game. However, sometimes NPCs do still freak out and run off for no reason.

:hmmm:
Glad I got my copy on disc then. I didn't preorder it, but yet i got this as well:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mercenary_Pack
Feels like cheating. I guess Best Buy put whatever preorder copies they had left on the shelf and i lucked out.

Good to hear that worked for you. It's working great for me as well.

I got mine on disc too, but the problem was, evidently, in some files downloaded for validation. I think it sounds odd, but I never saw the problems anyway, so all's good.

Mine came with the Tibal Pack. I didn't use it for the same reason. Start me with a 9 mil, a few rounds and a jumpsuit. I'll handle the rest.

Grrr, waiting until next week for Amazon to get the game shipped here :shifty:

But I guess by then most of the initial bugs should be ironed out, right?

The only mod i've been using thus far is this one:
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloa...e.php?id=34859

Slow's down the day/night cycles. The time scale variable to be specific. I'd do it myself, but im too lazy to D/L the geck.

The file in specific i chose to use from this mod (if your interested), is TimeScale 1 to 12. One real world hour makes 12 in game hours that way. My fear was that if you slowed the time down too much, on hardcore mode it may have adverse results. With 1 to 12, So far, so good! :up:

A must, in my opinion. The time scale was always too fast, so the first thing I did after leaving Doc Mitchell's house was hit the tilde key and enter "set timescale to 6" (minus the quotes). Makes for a much more realistic day and night cycle.

Ooh...going home to do this now. You just have to do this once? Or everytime I load the game?

Just once. It is remembered in each save. If you start a new game, you'll have to do it again, though. I use 6 in Fallout 3 and 12 in Oblivion (different planet, different cycle is my reasoning).

EDIT: The normal preset for Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas is 30. Lower=slower.

Okay, so deathclaws are now living up to their name. Just got owned by a pack of those. They're much faster than they were in Fallout 3. The Super Mutants, however, are not as tough as the previous installment. The Nightkin are a little tricky, but nothing like an Overlord or Behemoth.

Well, I bit the bullet and bought a copy on E-bay for the PS3. For $40, what the heck.

Had no issues with FO3, despite all the sour claims going around on the net. Hopefully I'll be blasting around New Vegas by the end of the week. :cool:

Really? I got my ass handed to me when I tried to saunter on into Black Mountain like I owned the place.

Well, got the game a couple days ago, spent a few hours yesterday poking around Primm getting it fixed up. Then I made my way over to the south Mojave NCR outpost (or whatever it's called) and found a cowboy repeater along the way :arrgh!:

I'm liking it so far, listening to New Vegas Radio is good for some laughs.

I usually play a stealth-based character, so I tend to creep and take them one at a time. Sneaking + headshots helped so that Black Mountain wasn't too much trouble for me (love me that Boody Mess perk). What I had a hell of a time with was Dead Wind Cavern. The damn things were in packs, so shooting one sent the whole pack after you, stealthboy or not. And then there was that.........thing........in the last chamber. Legendary indeed.

If you were going to say that Fallout 3 was one thing, it would be post-apocalypic survival. New Vegas would be post-apocalypic politics. I spent more time in 3 worrying about where my next meal was going to come from, where I was going to sleep and where I was going to get ammo. In Vegas, I spend more time worrying about which town likes me, which faction would be better for my personal business and who's turf I am currently on.