Import fallout 3 character : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:03 pm

For people wanting gauss weapons and things like the Tesla Cannon, even if they don't exist in the vanilla game it's practically inevitable they'll get modded into it.

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:02 am

Well I actually hope for a DLC that is non-canon which brings a small shop in the middle of nowhere that has all the unique weapons and armors in fallout 3 that make no sense to have in New Vegas lore-wise.
Cause there are some weapons I will really miss.
(And I can't play fallout 3 anymore, I've played it too much, It's not fun anymore.

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That would be cool......especially if they had the merchant comment on what you purchased, or offer special items...

"That one?", said Jack as he followed the Courier's pointing finger to a laser rifle with a oddly shaped refraction chamber and pointed at it himself.

"Yeah", replied the Courier. "What's the story behind that one?"

"This, my friend..", said Jack as he casually picked up the odd laser rifle off the rack, tugged on the lock preventing a MF-cell from being loaded to make sure it was secure then held it up with one hand over the counter butt-first, jerking it toward him slightly in a silent invitation to take it, "....is called the 'Metal Blaster'. It's a pre-war laser rifle that was modified later into a sort of laser shotgun. Nasty weapon, I had it field tested and from what I was told I could make a mint selling these if I could find a way to duplicate the modifications.Came as part of a big lot of guns from some guy named Hoss who drifted in last year. He claimed he was a Paladin in the Brotherhood and walked here from the East Coast. Wouldn't say where he got the stuff, just that he figured he was far enough away to be safe from the guy he got it from.".

"Paladin? East Coast? Riiight....and I'm Chairman Cheng.", scoffed the Courier as he put his Nuka-Cola on the counter and carefully took the proffered weapon from Jack and examined the modifications to it with increasing interest. "Sounds like a Desert Rat who chewed on some irradiated Jimson Weed to me."

"Maybe he did, but believe me this guy wasn't your average desert rat. The Brotherhood did send a big expedition out East 20 years ago or so. Word is they all vanished without a trace and the Brothers get really bent out of shape if people even bring it up. He looked hard enough to be telling the truth, and more importantly to me his merchandise was top quality so I bought as much as I could afford and haven't regretted it a bit. He moved into the Gomorrah and began spending it on girls and booze......then a couple weeks later he just vanished. The last girl he was with insisted she saw him with a Brotherhood scribe just before he vanished and supposedly Mr. House had to intervene personally to broker a peace before things got out of hand in town. I called in a favor and got first call on the stuff the Gomorrah's management found in his room when his account finally dried up before they auctioned it. Fortunately for me they didn't look too close at it first. I've been in this business forty years and he had things I haven't seen before or since."

"Hmmm...do you think the Brotherhood grabbed him?" asked the Courier. "You would think they would have glommed onto any tech he had and not left it behind."

Jack walked around the counter to the window and looked out into the street. Satisfied no one was likely to come in right away, he walked back around the counter and took a seat at a small table behind the counter, then gestured at the seat across the table. The courier walked around, placed the Metal Blaster back in it's place on the gun rack, then picked up his Nuka-Cola off the counter and sat across from him. Once the Courier was seated, Jack looked directly at him and said "I'll tell you this. About a month after he disappeared a scribe and a rather scary guy in combat armor dropped in for a visit. The scribe offered me 10,000 caps for one particular piece or the name of who I sold it to, they didn't care about anything else he had sold me. They were polite but made it plain they didn't want it floating around out there and would do whatever they had to do to get it."

"I take it you accepted thier offer.", the Courier said wryly.

"Hell yes!", sighed Jack. "Hoss told me what it did, it's the most powerful portable weapon I've ever seen or heard of. Lobs eight mini-nukes at once up to 1000 yards away. Hoss called it the MIRV, said it was a prototype from a Army base in Washington. I would have tested it just to see it go off but do you realize how expensive eight mini-nukes are? Anyway, I knew what was coming if I said no, and to be honest the safest place for it I could think of is it being a vault under Lost Hills being worshiped by those techno-nuts...the NCR or the Legion would actually use it on someone. I haggled and in the end took 5000 and a truckload of MF and E-cells for it. They got thier new idol and I made a killing, good deal I'd say."

"What else did you get from him?"

Jack got up and opened the counter and removed a pistol, then closed it again. He pulled back the bolt, checked the chamber clear then placed it gently on the table in front of the Courier. The Courier looked down at it. The weapon was Chinese, a 10mm military automatic that was the favorite of raiders and poor Wastelanders everywhere. It looked new, but otherwise unremarkable. While the Courier picked it up to examine it, Jack fumbled through ammo boxes along the back wall for a moment then came back, placed a loaded stripper clip for the pistol on the table in front of him then sat down, looked at him and grinned. "You really won't believe this until you see it for yourself", he said. "There is a pistol range behind the shop, give it a try....on the house. Please keep on the targets...you'll see why right away".

The Courier got up, picked up the 10mm clip then walked into the back room and out the back door. Jack poured himself a glass of water from the pitcher on the table and waited. He heard two shots then a astonished cry, followed by the remaining eight shots. Jack chuckled then pushed the button on the intercom by the door. "Tommy? Get the fire extinguisher and put out the target dummies, would you?" As the Courier walked back into the front of the shop and placed the empty and smoking pistol on the table in front of Jack then took his place at the table, the faint hissing from Tommy's fire extinguisher could be heard as he put the burning dummies out.

"What in God's name was in that ammo?", exclaimed the Courier.

"Just lead....it's standard 10mm ball ammo from the Gun Runners, same stuff you can get from any merchant from here to the Boneyard. It's the pistol that's special..something about it ignites the bullets on the way out of the barrel. Clever fellows, those Chinese."

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:33 am

Are people just not aware that there is a search function? Or do they just blatently ignore it and repost because they're too lazy to search?
no.no.no.no.no.
you cant import your character
its a bad idea
end of story

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:42 am

My hope is that the face-gen data will stay the same, so that folks can transfer their character's facial characteristics and hairs over. That much I can see as legit, players should be able to "look" anyway they want, and transferring facial data doesn't affect game balance as you still start with the same gear. Lets hope!

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:20 am

I hope so, and I hope they're all Energy Weapons.

Man, when O:A was released, good times.

Umm the Fallout 2 Gauss weapons were slugs throwers which if I remember correctly were basically Rail Guns which accelerated metal slugs through a series of electromagnetic rings to hideously high speeds, which if those are the ones used in New Vegas probably put them into the Slug Thrower Guns category rather than the Energy Weapons one.

Back onto the topic at hand. Why would or even should we want to be able to import our Max level character from Fallout 3 into New Vegas or even be able to 'import' the exp, weaponry etc from it, I think that doing so basically defeats the whole purpose of the game and also deprives us of the fun of levelling our character up from scratch.
As others have mentioned why should we expect to be a 'Wasteland God" so to speak from the get go, doing that remove the uncertanty, thrill and satisfaction of surviving difficult situations due to the disability of being able to walk through most of the opposition in the start. Plus with the combat changes you could end up seriously mucking up your survival chances near the end game sections of the game due to having been able to blow through the opposition with no or little effort up to that point and due to that you would not have had the chance of learning how to cope with different types of foes which are resistant to different types of weaponry.
Personally I find at least half the fun of a RPG is in the levelling up, trying to decide what better fits the character concept I'm using for that character and also the uncertanty when you enter into combat of whether your character will survive or not.

Lastly as others have already mentioned while the concept of being able to import your character from the previous game in the series may work in linear series's like Mass Effect, Fallout is a disjointed series where each installment has a different main character from the others. To use a literary comparison Mass Effect is like a Trilogy in which each book follows on from the last one like the Harry Potter Set of books, while Fallout is more Terry Pratchetts Discworld series of books in which most of them are self contained stories set in the same world (before anyone brings this up, Yes I know that some of Pratchetts Discworld books can be considered to be a 'sequel' to another one or ones in the whole series, my point is that they all do not automatically flow from the previous book in the series to the next book in the series).

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:57 am

Umm the Fallout 2 Gauss weapons were slugs throwers which if I remember correctly were basically Rail Guns which accelerated metal slugs through a series of electromagnetic rings to hideously high speeds, which if those are the ones used in New Vegas probably put them into the Slug Thrower Guns category rather than the Energy Weapons one.

Which is why I think they should be Energy Weapons.

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:15 am

...This was confirmed a long time ago that you could not transport anything at all from Fallout 3 into Fallout: New Vegas, as they take place on separate sides of the country...

bliviongate: :brokencomputer: :brokencomputer:

» Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:07 pm

...This was confirmed a long time ago that you could not transport anything at all from Fallout 3 into Fallout: New Vegas, as they take place on separate sides of the country...

bliviongate: :brokencomputer: :brokencomputer:

Thank you for bumping an already resolved topic just to say it one more time.