A thought on.... : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:36 am

(I'm falling in love with my 'A thought on' series threads. :laugh: )

So I was wondering, There's Vic, NVPD securitrons and so on. But one thing I dont get is, the securitrons we see in screenshots fighting you, why would the ones on The Strip be tough but fair officers, and yet in the Wastes, they seem to be willing to kill you, perhaps the wasteland Securitrons are frenzied by time or something and hostile to anything they see? (Ala the USAF robots you'd randomly encounter out in the D.C. Wasteland)

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:25 pm

(I'm falling in love with my 'A thought on' series threads. :laugh: )

So I was wondering, There's Vic, NVPD securitrons and so on. But one thing I dont get is, the securitrons we see in screenshots fighting you, why would the ones on The Strip be tough but fair officers, and yet in the Wastes, they seem to be willing to kill you, perhaps the wasteland Securitrons are frenzied by time or something and hostile to anything they see? (Ala the USAF robots you'd randomly encounter out in the D.C. Wasteland)

I think that if you piss off House or NVPD then they send their own kind of hitmen after you.
Specifically designed to bring people in to justice. Or just execute them on the spot.

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:07 am

Being without maintenance for so long, maybe they malfunctioned?

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:47 am

Or they just want to be your friend, and hot lasery death is the closest the math gets to "hug."

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:09 pm

that's what they were programmed for. In "civilisation" - polite, tough. In the "Wasteland" - shoot first, read your rights later.

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:58 pm

I'd say frenzied robots. :stare:

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:53 pm

Dont you see? they're the advanced Borg Collective scout force! resistance is futile! run awayyyyyyyyyyyyy!

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:01 pm

they think killing is fun

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:27 pm

But one thing I dont get is, the securitrons we see in screenshots fighting you, why would the ones on The Strip be tough but fair officers, and yet in the Wastes, they seem to be willing to kill you,

Programming my good man, Programming.

The In Town Robots were programmed by Dudely Do-Right and the ones in the Wastes were programmed by Snidely Whiplash.

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:27 pm

Because their used to having everything that they try to make small talk with try to tear the arms off. They're just being proactive. :thumbsup:

» Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:50 pm

Personally I always found it funny when i'm exploring the wastes, and all of a sudden i'm getting lazored by a lowly securitron. If it continues in this game, I won't be disappointed! Desmond is never disappointed.