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I was a little disappointed that we never got to mention to Veronica that we met christine. That and when you finally give her a dress she never puts it on lol.
@@marklarizzle it would've been hilarious to get veronica and christine together, have em talk, veronica cries, they hug, and then you blow Christine's fuhkin pee brain head-off-right-gat-damn-there, man.
@@b.a.k5367 that's as funny as me forcing you away of a loved one for 5 years, then forcing you to watch me kill said loved one, then laughing when you start crying.
Rest in peace, Richard Herd. You absolutely perfected Father Elijah's voice. This DLC would not have been so intimidating and powerful without your voice. Edit: Barry Dennen, the voice actor of Dean Domino also passed away.
“and no objectives appeared on the Pip-Boy’s screen to guide the courier to freedom” Really stuck with me because it really feels like you, the player, were actually hopelessly trapped
I think "Dead Money" fits much better than "Dead Mans Hand" since the whole thing the Madre has going for it is its riches and the large amount of people who've died trying to obtain it.
Yeah much more fitting. And like the other guy said, its snappy. Just feels good to say. Fits the whole greed theme. Id call it a perfect name tbh, couldnt think of something better
I totally agree, but it would have been nice to see more wild west folklore-like stuff in NV. The whole Vikki and Vance unmarked quest is well funny, so that kind of story works really well alongside Fallout's satire
I pulled an all-nighter on very-hard survival mode the first time I played this DLC. The idea of neither stopping nor sleeping until the heist was done definitely betters the experience
Honestly its the only way of doing it, realistically if you arent standing around doing nothing and know a little of the DLC, it would only take 6 ish hours.
Just got the “christine taps her weapon angrily and takes a defensive stance” while playing, there are turrets in the switching station which have higher DT than the ghost people
I guess because it’s silent, a lot of players miss that, and they don’t hear the lines for God/Dog and Dean because one doesnt often bring them to the switching station
This is a misconception. The bug is not with their perception, the bug is with the day/night cycle. Because the game applies a -100 sneak penalty during daytime, even if visually night and day look the same in the Sierra Madre.
@@ChrissieBear This is not entirely true also. I quote from the New Vegas mod on Nexus Mods "Essential DLC Enhancements Merged": "Ghost People Perception Fix: In the vanilla game, Ghost People have a Perception of 0, and there was a misconception for a long time that the game interpreted this as an overflow and gave them virtually infinite Perception, which made it almost impossible to sneak past them. However, it is now known that the game engine interprets a Perception of zero as 1, and that the real reason why Ghost People are hard to sneak by is due to their high level (this has been proven by xNVSE devs decoding the relevant parts of the engine). There was an old fix that changed the Perception of all Ghost People to 1 to 'fix' this bug, and it is included here for completeness, and as the Ghost People are already edited due to the fix below, so it makes no difference if this change is made too. Plus, it satisfies those that still have the placebo effect regarding this." It also depended on the Ghost People's level. The higher the level of an enemy, the stronger they are at detecting your presence. "Ghost People Sneak Detection Fix: Reduces the level of Ghost People to fix a notorious bug where they can very easily detect the player, even when he is concealed and at a distance. As a side effect, this also reduces the XP received from killing them, which is an extra bonus as the high rates of XP from the DLCs is unbalanced anyway. The level changes are: - Tier 0: Level 5 -> Level 3 - Tier 1: Level 15 -> Level 5 - Tier 2: Level 25 -> Level 10 - Tier 3: Level 35 -> Level 15 - Tier 4: Level 45 -> Level 20 - Tier 5: Level 50 -> Level 25"
I suppose if I'm charitable, you could argue all of them get knocked out/disabled but Dog only drags the one person to the Sierra Madre, naturally being the player.
Considering Ulysses hacks Ed-e multiple times in lonesome road and elijah is a master engineer so it wouldn’t surprise me if he has some way to disable robots through dog’s collar.
@@grigger7000 Bethesda's Fallouts were good games in my opinion, they just weren't good Fallout games. They lack the passion required to make a good one. It would be a dream come true if Obsidian made another Fallout game or a New Vegas remaster with all the cut content.
@@arcturus4317 Well put. I liked Fallout 3 and 4, I think the way they conceptualized the gameplay (we wouldn't have 3D Fallout w/o 3) was really cool! But the stories feels a little... out of place in the overarching universe.
I remember when this DLC came out and everyone hating it. Especially the ones who didn't get into crafting much and were suddenly forced to do it. I think the fan backlash scared obsidian into making anything similar to it's in further DLCs.
It was so easy. Pick up melee, spam the most boring pkaystyle in the game, and hoard shit like you're townbuilding in F4. If they had more or better exploration, more than one kind of enemy, or anything that isn't spanking the same mob 50 times it would be OK. It took me like 7 days to beat it just because I would play for a few minutes, get bored, and turn off the game. Only played for the story and lore. Half a DLC. I felt ripped off.
Avellone talks about how Dead Money was supposed to be horror-themed, but I think all the DLCs had plenty of horror elements; Dead Money is a zombie-esque survival horror, Honest Hearts feels like old stories of being stranded in a foreign place and being forced to survive and find your way back to civilization, Old World Blues is both campy 50's sci-fi and genuine body horror, and Lonesome Road is like an apocalypse disaster within an apocalypse. They're all expertly written and to me are genuinely creepy.
Fells like a 4th wall break, as most of the location markers for objectives and items lead you to the exact place, compared to other games where the items can be in a room but not marked so you have to search it
@@josejuancerdabarraza3544 It felt like just the right amount of 4th wall breaking. We constantly hear “Let me mark it in your Pipboy” or whatever but this is the one time how the Pipboy functions in-universe (that I can think of) is mentioned outside of throw-away Preston Garvey comments. But it also would’ve raised other questions “Who writes in the objectives? Who’s been updating the topographic map of the post-WW3 US? Who’s operating the GPS satellites to track current Pipboy locations?” Probably better off never trying to define exactly how it works in-game as it’s just a player interface but since it’s a staple of the series it’s cool to hear it mentioned more.
@@ShakenBake145 What if its something like a Enclave AI? Dutifully doing it's task of Aiding Pip-Boy Owners in their lives, unaware the Enclave has been destroyed, simply mindlessly doing its task as demanded
@@ShakenBake145 Phones have motion sensors now which track your general location, I assumed the pip boy 3000 had the same meme. And I also assumed that the player updated his objectives himself, but died before he could even think of doing that
19:15 The barrel IS actually used as a trap in the escape sequence. Although, it kinda just tips over in front of the player, so it's more of a scenic thing than a trap.
Honestly, Dead Money definitely has one of my favorite stories in the game and I have always found it's challenge rewarding for that reason. It's always my penultimate quest for that reason too. In general I can flip whether I do Honest Hearts or Old World Blues first, even though HH is really meant to be first. Dead Money though? It's not just the difficulty but, honestly, also that it just feels at home as the penultimate quest before Lonesome Road. A last great challenge, a gauntlet to test your resolve, and a story to tie off the last few side-plot threads before Lonesome Road wraps up the present and The Battle of Hoover Dam puts a bow on it. A part of me will always feel like New Vegas would be just a bit less without it and I'll always appreciate it's inclusion. Honestly, talking about all this kind of makes me want to play it again.
This DLC literally made my character an alcoholic, he became addicted to multiple different spirits simultaneously just to counter the early bird perk.
Yeah if you go into it with the wrong build you are gonna have a tough time. And for the sake of your sanity I strongly suggest getting the light step perk.
It felt more like system shock 2 to me, maybe that's just because I'm more familiar with that one than Bioshock. Bioshock's design is more or less a streamlined SS2 anyway
It still angers me to no end that Christine couldn't come back to the Mojave as a companion, partly because she's voice by Laura-freaking-Bailey and partly because it would have been nice for Veronica and Christine to finally reunite after Christine's obsession with killing Elijah was over. They both deserved that much and I think her ending where she literally just sits in the Sierra Madre forever is complete BS. There's a lot of wasted potential in FNV as a whole, but that one legit took the cake.
@@RobinTheBot are you nuts. The game didn't come out in the 1950s. There were plenty of gay, les, and bi characters in media by the time this game was made.
@@markcarpenter6020 that doesn’t mean they were popular though. NV was released in 2010, lesbian couples still couldn’t be legally married in a dozen states at the time
@@charlesthoreson4162 there's no reason for it to not be remastered honestly. Pretty much the only game I've seen that people want a remaster for but for some reason Bethesda doesn't want some mad bucks to settle their greed.
Wow you people really hate the idea of a remake. News flash, if you have to comment on someone else's post and say something stupid, you are the real idiot. What type of person is so insecure that an updated version of a video game would threaten them? You guys clearly need therapy if this comment is the thing that got you angry. I know not all remakes will be destroy all human level of good, but shut up. You can still play the shittey version, just don't badmouth everyone else who wants the company to get off there lazy asses and make something good.
@@charlesthoreson4162 Charles, it's your grandmother, please get off the interwebs your room smells so bad. You haven't showered in weeks Charles please, you have to throw the poop sock away.
The part about arrow heart man is probably the most interesting to me, as it fills out a bit more of Elijahs previous attempt that got him trapped in the casino, and how it all went wrong afterwords. I feel like we also see some of his graffiti in other DLCs, but that might just be reused assets or me making things up.
On the subject of losing hours of progress... I was at Vault 34, getting the All American Carbine Rifle. By the time i left the Vault & made it to that gap of no radiation in the cave closest to the Vault Entrance, i had not only used all my Rad Away, bit had also found myself to be at the rad cap... Meaning if i took TWO steps in either direction, it was an instant death.
Love this DLC. Old world casino heist orchestrated by a mad brotherhood scribe? And I'm trapped with a croner Ghoul, Narcissist Super Mutant and Brotherhood assassin? Fuck yes.
Dead Money is my favorite Fallout anything. The characters, writing, atmopshere, setting, all the art-deco style, I love all of it. As always, a highly entertaining and informative video, thanks for making it!!
I will die on this hill: anyone who didn't like Dead Money didn't like it because it was the only part of New Vegas that actually punishes you for being bad at it.
Meh. I mostly find it annoying. It's not too hard I just don't like much of the loot you get either. Least favorite of all the dlc. Although the story is cool and liked how they wrapped up Elijah's story, and integrated him into other dlc's
No dead money is a shitty dlc only praised for the slighty above Medicore writing. The speakers kill all the middling fun and the ghost people get stale quickly
Lmao I don’t like dead money cause the opposite, it’s challenging until you meet dog then from there it’s a cake walk. Got to install mods to make it harder
This DLC came out right when my Postpartum Depression was at it's worst. The story and atmosphere dragged me in and had me hooked. Hearing Vera's hologram crying for Sinclair and help get me every time. I leave the gold. I leave her dress. I left my ❤️ in the Sierra Madre PS: I wish we could have gotten at least one or two lines letting Cristine know Veronica is ok. And vice versa
You sure about Dean's holo recording being cut? I remember hearing that whole thing, not just the first line, in my game. Same with the "E.B.E." note to Sinclair, I definitely remember reading that one in my game.
@@NintendoSunnyDee I remember the troopers in between forlorn hope and nelson. Legs blown off and groping the air. When I talked to them all they would say was "Kill me...." then it was removed with the first update.
This has been such a cool and insightful series. When it's done in a few episodes, do you think you could do a video talking about how you did your research and your thought process when writing/recording? One thing I'm really curious about is how much you got your hands wet digging around in the G.E.C.K. yourself versus how much you gathered information from modders and data miners.
Holy shit I thought this would be a 15 minutes video only to see an hour and fifteen minutes. Right, time to make some tea and put on the big TV screen. It's so nice to see such passion for a great game. There's no words to express the appreciation for your efforts. Thank you.
I feel Dead Money is a better title than Dead Mans Hand because its more unique and the concept of Dead Money as a gambling term is waaaaaaaay better for the whole "let go" theme the DLC is aiming for
Everytime i heard "leaving the gold behind" i scream internaly while saying to myself "not even having both legs broken Will stop me from carrying every single goldbar with me back into the Mojave" because by god i won't Let them go
@@zoltanz288 No, you don't understand...i ALWAYS get every single damn gold bar and i won't leave the sierra madre without them, i didn't came for the adventures, i want my damn gold
@@zoltanz288 a good trick is to strip down and leaver everything you don't need and had weight in a chest when you first go on the basement. Then just grab your stuff on the way out.
I found primm boring when I played fallout NV first time, but after learning about cut content around it, it is my favourite fallout location. I even had fun saving primm and doing runs for powder gangers, while imagining the developers original version of them
I love the comment where Chris mentions he misses the 'Road Warrior' feel! This is how I feel about Fallout and why I make gameplay where I'm fighting tooth and nail to survive. Every tin can, duct tape, bullet I find is a joy. Using these resources I find to craft makeshift mines or carry multiple blades cause they break after 3 hits makes me play more cautiously and feels so rewarding when I survive. I know people want Fallout to be fun and enjoyable, but Dead Money is by far one of my favourite DLCs in all of Fallout
I remember from the terminal entries that the ghost around the villa were construction workers for the villa / Sierra Madre, but once the gas was activated it made them go crazy and they couldn't remove their suits. Their suits were made to have filters to ignore the effects of the gas, but Dean Domino I believe had cheaped out and didn't actually spend money to implement this feature, and instead kept the money.
Considering all the other mistakes and oversights in the DLC I'm wondering if the ghost worship triggers not being placed is cut content or someone forgetting to place them or not having time to place them.
I’m always kind of curious how the ghosts would work with FO4’s ghoul system where you could have a functioning and aggressive entity while losing limbs since the ghosts in NV lose almost every bit of scare that they have when you realize just targeting one limb kills them pretty quickly (especially since all the DLC weapons do some form of extra limb damage). Would definitely add more to the immortal aspect that the ghosts have lore wise, and maybe making their head unbreakable to add even more scare to them since the normal tactics won’t work. Making them these immortal things that you can only delimb really adds to that idea you need to hack and slash them completely to stop them.
@@martyhalloway7935 I dont remember the original comment before its edit so mine feels out of context. Also i should go watch it later, it's currently too damn early to be up so im going to sleep and then I'll watch the speedrun for breakfast.
You seemed to have missed the fact that "The quick scribe jumped over the lazy paladin" is a nod to " the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" which is a sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet
The casino is probably somewhere in the Dead Mountain range in California. The Colorado river, that is mentioned my Elijah in the intro, connects from Hoover Dam and travels south to border Nevada and California. Dead mountains is situated about 10 km from the River. Far enough from even Searchlight and Nelson; even further from Big MT (presumed Bald Mountain IRL) to be under any substantial fallout from the nukes. Still close enough for dealings between the two parties to occur. And Dead mountains is a pretty spot on name.
16:16 I never knew all the years I've been playing this game there was a developer behind that wall having to control radio signals and ambient music.. I always just assumed the games code did all that, no wounder they get paid so much! I don't envy them.
every time my adhd rehyperfixates on new vegas i start rewatching your cut content vids, they’re just perfect to tide my brain over from wanting to play the game desperately while im at work. thank you for your hard work!
"Pretty as a picture" from Deans blackmail tape sent me on a wild goose chase looking for framed pictures all over the place, expecting one of them to be a secret wall safe holding the actual blackmail material.
The Duck and Cover skillbook under the bed in Dean's room is actually not inaccessible, just you would never know it's there without meta knowledge. But it's actually intended that you are supposed to use explosives to launch the book out from under the bed. Unfortunately due to some poorly designed hitboxes, this ends up being much harder than it should be, but it is definitely possible to do so.
I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way that was intentional. It makes 0 sense and you're saying this as if it's an indisputable fact. You provide no evidence of their intentions.
@@requiemdermorgenrote4465 It's clearly accidentally placed. I don't know what to tell you. It makes no sense that the devs would intend on the skill book being acquired that way when there's no chance that anyone would even be able to see it.
The skill book is completely out of sight under the bed. The only way to even see it is by throwing grenades, which nobody would think to do if they didn't have meta knowledge that it was there. I spent about 20 minutes throwing frag grenades towards the bed at all angles, and the book never came out. It seemed to be held in by an invisible wall. If you managed to get it out without noclipping, good for you, but there's no way that it was intended to be found like that.
It floors me how much of New Vegas' potential is kneecapped by its own confounding spaghetti code. Like, who decided hairstyles are linked to age? Why? And that's just one example of the many Gamebryo engine quirks...
“Designed to scare the hell out of fallout players. But it didn’t.” Bitch I was scared. The ghost peoples breathing sounds when their near. Especially when I didn’t have any equipment. The ambience of the haunting singing and other background noises was unsettling. I wasn’t constantly terrified like in a straight up horror game. But I was on edge for sure and my anxiety shot up when I’d hear ghost people lol
I'm pretty sure the foster daughter Elijah was referring to was Veronica not Christine, as Veronica was brought up by Elijah and Christine was her lover before Elijah forced them to separate.
“Sinclair! Sinclair! I’m trapped, oh god please- The security systems won’t let me out, they’re keeping me here! Sinclair! Sinclair! The doors, they sealed. I can hear the other guests screaming to be let out, to let go. We all pay for what we’ve done, I’m so sorry Sinclair. I’m sorry I- I should have trusted you. I- I’m going to die here, among the ghosts… I’m still being recorded by the holographic system… I came so far to be here, now I just want to leave.. Sinclair, Sinclair where did you go? Why did you leave me here? Let go, let go of what?” - Vera Keyes, October 23rd. 2077.
"We wanted every item to feel valuable" Me: [Lugging around 100 Sierra Madre Martinis] I would have made more but I didn't find more tin cans. The DLC is a much different experience when you are overleveled, I'll say that much.
Thanks for the community for finishing obsidian's games, fixing too, I play with the unnoficial patch so I would never know that Deam holotape was broken lol
I completely vibe with the desire Avellone had to go back to the "Road Warrior" feel with Dead Money, it's why I enjoy it. There's something to be said about how important decent difficulty is in keeping a game feeling like it's set in a world where survival isn't guaranteed and is a constant struggle -- if you're resource rich, kicking around in invincible armour with lasers that melt anything, you don't feel vulnerable and encounters don't carry weight.
When I just finished my first playthrough of Sierra Madre, I came into the DLC thinking it would be a very hard experience, having to utilise the repair and crafting mechanics to survive...but just some time in and discovering, that the enemies can still die and the cloud doing only little damage and loot abundant, I was a little let down... About a timer at the Gala Event...I just didn't want to deal with all those new spawned in enemies so I just ran through...that felt really tense and great :D
I remember when I was going to start the event. I put a good pair of suit I managed to get and repair and I made a save before I set off the fireworks. As soon the fireworks set off and the dead came I made a run that really felt like a movie Parkouring my way around to not get hit, running without looking back, all that while wearing my Grimy suit, my prewar hat and a good pair of sunglasses It was intense but also freaking amazing!
I really like the lines that call back to the pipboy belonging to a "Mitchell" from vault 21, aka Doc Mitchell from goodsprings who gave you the pipboy at the end of the character creation
i love these videos because they are so thorough. you literally show us a way out of bounds junk pile that you found just because we should know about it.
My biggest complaint regarding the "horror" part of the DLC is that the Ghost enemies are pretty much a non-threat unless you're badly underleveled as all it takes to kill them is crippling any limb which can be done in one or two good hits from the Police Pistol or the Knife Spear, depending on your character's choice of weapon style.
Ahh, Chris Avalone, always unwilling to allow the Fallout world to improve in a meaningful way. Thanks, retrieving the Sierra Madre technology would've been really interesting.
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I love Dead Money. It gets a lot of undeserved hate.
Please do a video like this for all the DLC's
I was a little disappointed that we never got to mention to Veronica that we met christine. That and when you finally give her a dress she never puts it on lol.
Kinda tragic that Christine can never reunite with Veronica because the game won't alow it.
@@marklarizzle it kinda makes sense though
@@marklarizzle it would've been hilarious to get veronica and christine together, have em talk, veronica cries, they hug, and then you blow Christine's fuhkin pee brain head-off-right-gat-damn-there, man.
@@b.a.k5367 that's as funny as me forcing you away of a loved one for 5 years, then forcing you to watch me kill said loved one, then laughing when you start crying.
@@beb_9345 cringe
Rest in peace, Richard Herd. You absolutely perfected Father Elijah's voice. This DLC would not have been so intimidating and powerful without your voice.
Edit: Barry Dennen, the voice actor of Dean Domino also passed away.
Same with Barry Dennen
That's really sad i didn't even know that Elijah's voice actor died
@@brucewayne33497 I think he died last year
@@brucewayne33497 Someone also pointed out that Barry Dennen died as well, he was the voice actor of Dean Domino.
Barry Dennen also kills it as Dean Domino. They got some _fantastic_ actors in this game.
“and no objectives appeared on the Pip-Boy’s screen to guide the courier to freedom” Really stuck with me because it really feels like you, the player, were actually hopelessly trapped
I think its a reference to the fact that one of the complaints for the new fallouts was the reliance on quest markers.
@@markshaw270 hear me out, it could just be referring to the fact the pipboy displays a objective marker
@@CourierSiix damn never could’ve thought of that
@@CourierSiix Based
theres a way out, IIRC theres a pistol and a bunch of bullets in there.
I think "Dead Money" fits much better than "Dead Mans Hand" since the whole thing the Madre has going for it is its riches and the large amount of people who've died trying to obtain it.
Little more snappy too
Yeah much more fitting. And like the other guy said, its snappy. Just feels good to say. Fits the whole greed theme. Id call it a perfect name tbh, couldnt think of something better
Yeah, “Dead Mans Hand” sounds like a Pirates of the Caribbean movie
I thought so too. Dead Money rolls off the tongue better, and it fits the meta of the theming in the DLC.
I totally agree, but it would have been nice to see more wild west folklore-like stuff in NV. The whole Vikki and Vance unmarked quest is well funny, so that kind of story works really well alongside Fallout's satire
I pulled an all-nighter on very-hard survival mode the first time I played this DLC. The idea of neither stopping nor sleeping until the heist was done definitely betters the experience
Feels in Character for the DLC too
I guess that makes you a pain freak
Shits crazy dog i envy the experience it must have been for you
Honestly its the only way of doing it, realistically if you arent standing around doing nothing and know a little of the DLC, it would only take 6 ish hours.
Just finished dead money the same way with no bud it definitely changes the whole experience of the dlc or even the whole game honestly
Elijah talking about killing the Courier sounds like he's narrating a children's book
"that kids is how I killed the courier"
Pretty fitting since he calls the NCR "Children playing with toys" everyone is below elijah in his mind even the player lol.
@@unoriginalperson72 (he says sitting on a couch in a room filled with small skeletons.)
He sounds like it was a fond memory
Yeah, it's a creepy touch
Just got the “christine taps her weapon angrily and takes a defensive stance” while playing, there are turrets in the switching station which have higher DT than the ghost people
I guess because it’s silent, a lot of players miss that, and they don’t hear the lines for God/Dog and Dean because one doesnt often bring them to the switching station
i'll give this a try and check with the other 2 companions
I got the dialogue about the bombs on the ghost people from Dean Domino once, it’s a speech check I think
If you have any patches like YUP they could easily be the reason it showed up. If not then idk
@@Koji44- ye i did this with YUP to be fair. Does that change the DT of turrets?
Kinda funny that there's an entire ghost stealth test area considering the ones in game are bugged to have max perception.
It's not a bug, it's intended.
This is a misconception. The bug is not with their perception, the bug is with the day/night cycle. Because the game applies a -100 sneak penalty during daytime, even if visually night and day look the same in the Sierra Madre.
@@ChrissieBear Because the sky in the Sierra Madre has the whole Batman Beyond type of sky, always red.
@@ChrissieBear This is not entirely true also.
I quote from the New Vegas mod on Nexus Mods "Essential DLC Enhancements Merged":
"Ghost People Perception Fix: In the vanilla game, Ghost People have a Perception of 0, and there was a misconception for a long time that the game interpreted this as an overflow and gave them virtually infinite Perception, which made it almost impossible to sneak past them. However, it is now known that the game engine interprets a Perception of zero as 1, and that the real reason why Ghost People are hard to sneak by is due to their high level (this has been proven by xNVSE devs decoding the relevant parts of the engine). There was an old fix that changed the Perception of all Ghost People to 1 to 'fix' this bug, and it is included here for completeness, and as the Ghost People are already edited due to the fix below, so it makes no difference if this change is made too. Plus, it satisfies those that still have the placebo effect regarding this."
It also depended on the Ghost People's level. The higher the level of an enemy, the stronger they are at detecting your presence.
"Ghost People Sneak Detection Fix: Reduces the level of Ghost People to fix a notorious bug where they can very easily detect the player, even when he is concealed and at a distance. As a side effect, this also reduces the XP received from killing them, which is an extra bonus as the high rates of XP from the DLCs is unbalanced anyway. The level changes are:
- Tier 0: Level 5 -> Level 3
- Tier 1: Level 15 -> Level 5
- Tier 2: Level 25 -> Level 10
- Tier 3: Level 35 -> Level 15
- Tier 4: Level 45 -> Level 20
- Tier 5: Level 50 -> Level 25"
@@ChrissieBear Then why do mods that set their perception value to 1 fix the problem? Because it's a bug with their Perception.
Courier: * walks into trap set by Elijah. *
Companions: * shrug at each other and then go home just leaving him there *
I suppose if I'm charitable, you could argue all of them get knocked out/disabled but Dog only drags the one person to the Sierra Madre, naturally being the player.
@@MediumRareOpinions So I imagine Ed-E just gets scared?
Considering Ulysses hacks Ed-e multiple times in lonesome road and elijah is a master engineer so it wouldn’t surprise me if he has some way to disable robots through dog’s collar.
Holy shit 1 hour of cut content for ONE dlc that shows how much dedication obsidian was
I hope now that Microsoft owns them, just maybe we’ll finally get a good game after FNV, instead of what Bethesda made..
@@grigger7000 Bethesda's Fallouts were good games in my opinion, they just weren't good Fallout games. They lack the passion required to make a good one. It would be a dream come true if Obsidian made another Fallout game or a New Vegas remaster with all the cut content.
@@arcturus4317 Well put. I liked Fallout 3 and 4, I think the way they conceptualized the gameplay (we wouldn't have 3D Fallout w/o 3) was really cool! But the stories feels a little... out of place in the overarching universe.
@@arcturus4317 No one that worked on New Vegas still is with Obsidian.
@@jim-wr3lp Obsidian really hasn't released anything that great since Tyranny
I remember when this DLC came out and everyone hating it. Especially the ones who didn't get into crafting much and were suddenly forced to do it. I think the fan backlash scared obsidian into making anything similar to it's in further DLCs.
Good. Dead Money is terrible. It is the only DLC from FNV I can safely say I just didn’t ever enjoy.
@@surprisedchar2458 That's your wrong opinion...
@@surprisedchar2458 it's the best, you're crazy
It was so easy. Pick up melee, spam the most boring pkaystyle in the game, and hoard shit like you're townbuilding in F4. If they had more or better exploration, more than one kind of enemy, or anything that isn't spanking the same mob 50 times it would be OK. It took me like 7 days to beat it just because I would play for a few minutes, get bored, and turn off the game. Only played for the story and lore.
Half a DLC. I felt ripped off.
Guess at the time they don't know what the damn concept of survival horror is. Ungrateful people
Avellone talks about how Dead Money was supposed to be horror-themed, but I think all the DLCs had plenty of horror elements; Dead Money is a zombie-esque survival horror, Honest Hearts feels like old stories of being stranded in a foreign place and being forced to survive and find your way back to civilization, Old World Blues is both campy 50's sci-fi and genuine body horror, and Lonesome Road is like an apocalypse disaster within an apocalypse. They're all expertly written and to me are genuinely creepy.
agreed.
i second
Fallout: Silent Hill
Fallout: Far Cry
Fallout: Bioshock
Fallout: Day Z
The only thing that lagged a bit for me was Ulysses’ story & dialogue. It felt lackluster. But I loved everything else.
Granted Fallout in general is kinda a horror game
Please never stop making these. I literally binge these things for hours.
Hey there’s the high-roller
Youve been causing quite a stir on the strip
I also binge these things all the time
You know, if you were serving you'd be halfway up to general by now
Yeah, now we can start the party!
6:30 “And no objectives appeared on the Pipboy’s screen” I really like that line for some reason
Fells like a 4th wall break, as most of the location markers for objectives and items lead you to the exact place, compared to other games where the items can be in a room but not marked so you have to search it
^^ It made me cringe in a good way 😭
@@josejuancerdabarraza3544 It felt like just the right amount of 4th wall breaking. We constantly hear “Let me mark it in your Pipboy” or whatever but this is the one time how the Pipboy functions in-universe (that I can think of) is mentioned outside of throw-away Preston Garvey comments. But it also would’ve raised other questions “Who writes in the objectives? Who’s been updating the topographic map of the post-WW3 US? Who’s operating the GPS satellites to track current Pipboy locations?”
Probably better off never trying to define exactly how it works in-game as it’s just a player interface but since it’s a staple of the series it’s cool to hear it mentioned more.
@@ShakenBake145 What if its something like a Enclave AI? Dutifully doing it's task of Aiding Pip-Boy Owners in their lives, unaware the Enclave has been destroyed, simply mindlessly doing its task as demanded
@@ShakenBake145 Phones have motion sensors now which track your general location, I assumed the pip boy 3000 had the same meme. And I also assumed that the player updated his objectives himself, but died before he could even think of doing that
19:15 The barrel IS actually used as a trap in the escape sequence. Although, it kinda just tips over in front of the player, so it's more of a scenic thing than a trap.
THANK YOU, thought i was the only one thinking that
Honestly, Dead Money definitely has one of my favorite stories in the game and I have always found it's challenge rewarding for that reason. It's always my penultimate quest for that reason too. In general I can flip whether I do Honest Hearts or Old World Blues first, even though HH is really meant to be first. Dead Money though? It's not just the difficulty but, honestly, also that it just feels at home as the penultimate quest before Lonesome Road. A last great challenge, a gauntlet to test your resolve, and a story to tie off the last few side-plot threads before Lonesome Road wraps up the present and The Battle of Hoover Dam puts a bow on it. A part of me will always feel like New Vegas would be just a bit less without it and I'll always appreciate it's inclusion. Honestly, talking about all this kind of makes me want to play it again.
It makes more sense doing DM before OWB though
@@themitheus why?
@@themitheus Not at all, owb references Elijah many times and narratively makes learning about him more interesting.
Isn't the right chronological order of playing the dlc like this? Honest Hearts > Old World Blues > Dead Money > Lonesome Road
@@greengarnish1711 dm is dlc1
"All of it was left on a cutting room floor" is just as iconic phrase now as "War, war never changes".
Both are iconic to Fallout. Unfortunate, for the former.
Let’s go, been waiting for this. Are you planning on covering the other DLCs as well?
lets hope so!
Can’t imagine how big lonesome road or old world blues are!
Old world blues would be nice.
He said fuck replying lol
Next up is honest hearts
If I'm not mistaken wouldn't that line from Elijah about a foster daughter be referring to Veronica not Christine?
Oh no, I meant Veronica 😭😭😭
You can also still trigger some dialogue about Veronica from him. ^^
This DLC literally made my character an alcoholic, he became addicted to multiple different spirits simultaneously just to counter the early bird perk.
Them Sierra Madre martinis
Yeah if you go into it with the wrong build you are gonna have a tough time. And for the sake of your sanity I strongly suggest getting the light step perk.
1 Endurance Dead Money run is a pilgrimage of suffering.
Wait, its impossible to shoot the bombs from their hands?
So much AP wasted :(
Yup
44:05 Sounds more like he's talking about Veronica there.
He is.
Yup! He is indeed talking about Veronica. I paused just to check the comments about this.
@@Tumbledweeb Same!
44:13 could this instead be referring to Veronica? She *was* the one with a grandaughter-grandfather relationship with Elijah after all
If you ever have a son name him nick
@Кот Бегемот Скажи Ник Херр вслух - звучит как "негр".
@@Look_Upon_The_Heart You Madlad!
I think they both did.
Someone should try to restore those cut lines where Elijah scorns you for exploring or sneaking poorly. Thats really immersive
is that a thing yet?
23:07 Honestly, Dean Domino looked cooler in concept art than in the actual game.
Everyone looks good in concept art.
I always got a Bioshock feeling from the DLC, good to know that it influenced it!
I get more of an old school resident evil feel
It felt more like system shock 2 to me, maybe that's just because I'm more familiar with that one than Bioshock. Bioshock's design is more or less a streamlined SS2 anyway
For Elijah's hair they could have just made a duplicate of Caucasian old and added the crazy hair to that race and then set Elijah as that race.
Or just added the hair to the existing race and save space
I'm always blown away by how well this unfinished mess worked considering how rushed they were
It's really mindblowing that it's such a good game considering everything
Fucking great video as always man! Keep up the good work!
watch your langauge; the kids
It still angers me to no end that Christine couldn't come back to the Mojave as a companion, partly because she's voice by Laura-freaking-Bailey and partly because it would have been nice for Veronica and Christine to finally reunite after Christine's obsession with killing Elijah was over. They both deserved that much and I think her ending where she literally just sits in the Sierra Madre forever is complete BS. There's a lot of wasted potential in FNV as a whole, but that one legit took the cake.
Agreed and then some
Well saying lesbians exists was enough for them. You don't think they, in that year, would have an active gay couple?
@@RobinTheBot are you nuts. The game didn't come out in the 1950s. There were plenty of gay, les, and bi characters in media by the time this game was made.
@@RobinTheBot incredible bait!!!! :)
@@markcarpenter6020 that doesn’t mean they were popular though. NV was released in 2010, lesbian couples still couldn’t be legally married in a dozen states at the time
This is just more proof that new Vegas needs a remaster. There is so much cut content that could be built on.
@@charlesthoreson4162 there's no reason for it to not be remastered honestly. Pretty much the only game I've seen that people want a remaster for but for some reason Bethesda doesn't want some mad bucks to settle their greed.
Wow you people really hate the idea of a remake. News flash, if you have to comment on someone else's post and say something stupid, you are the real idiot.
What type of person is so insecure that an updated version of a video game would threaten them?
You guys clearly need therapy if this comment is the thing that got you angry. I know not all remakes will be destroy all human level of good, but shut up. You can still play the shittey version, just don't badmouth everyone else who wants the company to get off there lazy asses and make something good.
@@HangOnThereSlick They should remaster both New Vegas & F3 with all the cut content reintroduced to the game.
@@charlesthoreson4162 Charles, it's your grandmother, please get off the interwebs your room smells so bad. You haven't showered in weeks Charles please, you have to throw the poop sock away.
@@M50A1wow you keep commenting out of spite even after a year, man this dlc has the perfect lesson for you, learn to "let go"
The part about arrow heart man is probably the most interesting to me, as it fills out a bit more of Elijahs previous attempt that got him trapped in the casino, and how it all went wrong afterwords. I feel like we also see some of his graffiti in other DLCs, but that might just be reused assets or me making things up.
On the subject of losing hours of progress... I was at Vault 34, getting the All American Carbine Rifle.
By the time i left the Vault & made it to that gap of no radiation in the cave closest to the Vault Entrance, i had not only used all my Rad Away, bit had also found myself to be at the rad cap... Meaning if i took TWO steps in either direction, it was an instant death.
Love this DLC. Old world casino heist orchestrated by a mad brotherhood scribe? And I'm trapped with a croner Ghoul, Narcissist Super Mutant and Brotherhood assassin? Fuck yes.
Dead Money is my favorite Fallout anything. The characters, writing, atmopshere, setting, all the art-deco style, I love all of it. As always, a highly entertaining and informative video, thanks for making it!!
I will die on this hill: anyone who didn't like Dead Money didn't like it because it was the only part of New Vegas that actually punishes you for being bad at it.
I loved dead money but the one thing that drove me off was when I got late into the dlc everything felt like a chore.
Meh. I mostly find it annoying. It's not too hard I just don't like much of the loot you get either. Least favorite of all the dlc. Although the story is cool and liked how they wrapped up Elijah's story, and integrated him into other dlc's
No dead money is a shitty dlc only praised for the slighty above Medicore writing. The speakers kill all the middling fun and the ghost people get stale quickly
It was easy it was just a slog. Didn't like it one bit. Took away all the guns I liked and replaced them with garbage. Only good part was the story.
Lmao I don’t like dead money cause the opposite, it’s challenging until you meet dog then from there it’s a cake walk. Got to install mods to make it harder
This DLC came out right when my Postpartum Depression was at it's worst. The story and atmosphere dragged me in and had me hooked. Hearing Vera's hologram crying for Sinclair and help get me every time.
I leave the gold. I leave her dress. I left my ❤️ in the Sierra Madre
PS: I wish we could have gotten at least one or two lines letting Cristine know Veronica is ok. And vice versa
Dead Money is the real reason I come back to New Vegas over and over again. Its an astonishingly high quality DLC.
Dang, even dlcs were heavily constrained, so much potential. Crazy how ONE poster can have so many references to cultural history.
RIP Barry Dennen and Richard Herd, some of the best voice acting in the game.
You sure about Dean's holo recording being cut? I remember hearing that whole thing, not just the first line, in my game. Same with the "E.B.E." note to Sinclair, I definitely remember reading that one in my game.
Didn't he say it doesn't play right due to an oversight?
@@MegaRazor619 Might be that he meant it was a PlayStation issue. I played on 360 and definitely didn't have that bug.
Y'all ever have Marilyn spawn? I did on the 360 version once. She stayed in the save, but ofc had no dialogue and it's yet to happen again.
@@NintendoSunnyDee I remember the troopers in between forlorn hope and nelson. Legs blown off and groping the air. When I talked to them all they would say was "Kill me...." then it was removed with the first update.
@@hyndquart5241 Oof that's a hard hitting removal
Another video from one of my favorite content creators, I can already tell this is gonna be a good one! Keep up the the hard work dude!
I mean, I always figured that Christine was lying, given that she names all the weapon skills lol
This is my favorite New Vegas DLC, there's really just nothing else like it in Fallout. Pretty excited to see the cut content for it!
Honestly I would love to see a full survival horror fallout game or mod if it's like dead money
i would honestly like to see a remake with most cut content added into the main game and anything that was removed through patches placed back.
This has been such a cool and insightful series. When it's done in a few episodes, do you think you could do a video talking about how you did your research and your thought process when writing/recording?
One thing I'm really curious about is how much you got your hands wet digging around in the G.E.C.K. yourself versus how much you gathered information from modders and data miners.
Holy shit I thought this would be a 15 minutes video only to see an hour and fifteen minutes. Right, time to make some tea and put on the big TV screen. It's so nice to see such passion for a great game. There's no words to express the appreciation for your efforts. Thank you.
34:42 So Dean is "Where is my hug?" guy.
Another reason to annihilate the prick
44:04 - Elijah is talking about Veronica for this most likely, you hear veronica talk so much about him even calling him sorta like a grandpa.
I feel Dead Money is a better title than Dead Mans Hand because its more unique and the concept of Dead Money as a gambling term is waaaaaaaay better for the whole "let go" theme the DLC is aiming for
Everytime i heard "leaving the gold behind" i scream internaly while saying to myself "not even having both legs broken Will stop me from carrying every single goldbar with me back into the Mojave" because by god i won't Let them go
yeah, it really must have sucked for all those noobs that dont travel light. i managed to carry out about 12 bars with a non str based char.
@@zoltanz288 No, you don't understand...i ALWAYS get every single damn gold bar and i won't leave the sierra madre without them, i didn't came for the adventures, i want my damn gold
@@zoltanz288 LMAO you’re the noob…many people have walked out with all 37 gold bars
@@zoltanz288 a good trick is to strip down and leaver everything you don't need and had weight in a chest when you first go on the basement. Then just grab your stuff on the way out.
I can't wait to see a cut content video for Lonesome Road. If it will have enough cut content for an hour long video, that would be great.
I found primm boring when I played fallout NV first time, but after learning about cut content around it, it is my favourite fallout location. I even had fun saving primm and doing runs for powder gangers, while imagining the developers original version of them
I love the comment where Chris mentions he misses the 'Road Warrior' feel! This is how I feel about Fallout and why I make gameplay where I'm fighting tooth and nail to survive. Every tin can, duct tape, bullet I find is a joy. Using these resources I find to craft makeshift mines or carry multiple blades cause they break after 3 hits makes me play more cautiously and feels so rewarding when I survive. I know people want Fallout to be fun and enjoyable, but Dead Money is by far one of my favourite DLCs in all of Fallout
Agree, it seems most people can't get into survival horror or hardcore elements.
I remember from the terminal entries that the ghost around the villa were construction workers for the villa / Sierra Madre, but once the gas was activated it made them go crazy and they couldn't remove their suits. Their suits were made to have filters to ignore the effects of the gas, but Dean Domino I believe had cheaped out and didn't actually spend money to implement this feature, and instead kept the money.
17:01 I'm sure someone has said it already, but you can get that Duck & Cover skillbook with carefully placed/thrown explosives and a LOT of luck!
Fitting, given the title.
You know one day this will come full circle and someone will be looking for TriangleCitys Cut content love this channel
The two mods in the description, Dead Money Fireworks Fix and Surprise Vending Restoration are included in YUP.
I actually find Dead Money to be a more pleasing title than Dead Man's Hand. It just has a certain ring to it.
"It's like, you get money... or u die"
Love how casual Dean is about being lit on fire.
He’s already a burn victim, isn’t he?
Considering all the other mistakes and oversights in the DLC I'm wondering if the ghost worship triggers not being placed is cut content or someone forgetting to place them or not having time to place them.
I love how all of the main DLC characters were all based on would be followers from Van Buren.
I was surprised to hear them reference Tomb of Horrors...partly because I reverse engineered the Sierra Madre into a D&D megadungeon adventure myself!
I love this
Rest in peace Richard Herd, you absolute legend
I’m always kind of curious how the ghosts would work with FO4’s ghoul system where you could have a functioning and aggressive entity while losing limbs since the ghosts in NV lose almost every bit of scare that they have when you realize just targeting one limb kills them pretty quickly (especially since all the DLC weapons do some form of extra limb damage). Would definitely add more to the immortal aspect that the ghosts have lore wise, and maybe making their head unbreakable to add even more scare to them since the normal tactics won’t work. Making them these immortal things that you can only delimb really adds to that idea you need to hack and slash them completely to stop them.
Duck and cover book under the bed in dean's room can be blown into the room by throwing a well placed grenade
or satchel charge
You can play the entirety of FNV faster that watching the entire cut content series
not yet, my usual run of FNV is ~45 hours and there arent enough videos in the series yet. hoping for more and just as long videos.
@@partydue123 have you not seen the world record speedrun? Josh sawyer has a video on it.
@@martyhalloway7935 I dont remember the original comment before its edit so mine feels out of context. Also i should go watch it later, it's currently too damn early to be up so im going to sleep and then I'll watch the speedrun for breakfast.
Remembering that I got this day 1 for my Xbox as a gift for Christmas and stayed up all night beating it
You seemed to have missed the fact that "The quick scribe jumped over the lazy paladin" is a nod to " the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" which is a sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet
The casino is probably somewhere in the Dead Mountain range in California. The Colorado river, that is mentioned my Elijah in the intro, connects from Hoover Dam and travels south to border Nevada and California. Dead mountains is situated about 10 km from the River. Far enough from even Searchlight and Nelson; even further from Big MT (presumed Bald Mountain IRL) to be under any substantial fallout from the nukes. Still close enough for dealings between the two parties to occur. And Dead mountains is a pretty spot on name.
16:16 I never knew all the years I've been playing this game there was a developer behind that wall having to control radio signals and ambient music.. I always just assumed the games code did all that, no wounder they get paid so much! I don't envy them.
every time my adhd rehyperfixates on new vegas i start rewatching your cut content vids, they’re just perfect to tide my brain over from wanting to play the game desperately while im at work. thank you for your hard work!
My favorite DLC and it's an hour long? This is my very lucky day!!!!
"Pretty as a picture" from Deans blackmail tape sent me on a wild goose chase looking for framed pictures all over the place, expecting one of them to be a secret wall safe holding the actual blackmail material.
Interviews with the devs, showing off unused assets, and even over an hour long? Earned yourself a sub my dude.
Awesome work man. I really enjoy all these cut content videos because seeing what was or what could have been is always fascinating.
Yeah. It even fullfills my dissapointment. Just seeing the videos is as fullfilling as seeing them in game itself
The Duck and Cover skillbook under the bed in Dean's room is actually not inaccessible, just you would never know it's there without meta knowledge. But it's actually intended that you are supposed to use explosives to launch the book out from under the bed. Unfortunately due to some poorly designed hitboxes, this ends up being much harder than it should be, but it is definitely possible to do so.
I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way that was intentional. It makes 0 sense and you're saying this as if it's an indisputable fact. You provide no evidence of their intentions.
@@Lorenzo_I. It's an explosives skillbook. You're supposed to use explosives to get it. What aren't you understanding here?
@@requiemdermorgenrote4465 It's clearly accidentally placed. I don't know what to tell you. It makes no sense that the devs would intend on the skill book being acquired that way when there's no chance that anyone would even be able to see it.
The skill book is completely out of sight under the bed. The only way to even see it is by throwing grenades, which nobody would think to do if they didn't have meta knowledge that it was there. I spent about 20 minutes throwing frag grenades towards the bed at all angles, and the book never came out. It seemed to be held in by an invisible wall. If you managed to get it out without noclipping, good for you, but there's no way that it was intended to be found like that.
No its clearly an accidental placement, just because you can knock it free with explosives, doesn't mean you were meant to
My jaw dropped when you covered the gas bomb issue. I heard him say that and tried FOREVER to target them in VATS, and it just didn't work!
i know this DLC is extremely polarizing, but man, i love it. It is the best DLC for new vegas and really, the survival elements were fantastic.
Dead money is my most favorite dlc in fallout and I thank you covering for some of the cut content that I did not know about
It floors me how much of New Vegas' potential is kneecapped by its own confounding spaghetti code. Like, who decided hairstyles are linked to age? Why? And that's just one example of the many Gamebryo engine quirks...
“Designed to scare the hell out of fallout players. But it didn’t.”
Bitch I was scared. The ghost peoples breathing sounds when their near. Especially when I didn’t have any equipment. The ambience of the haunting singing and other background noises was unsettling. I wasn’t constantly terrified like in a straight up horror game. But I was on edge for sure and my anxiety shot up when I’d hear ghost people lol
I'm pretty sure the foster daughter Elijah was referring to was Veronica not Christine, as Veronica was brought up by Elijah and Christine was her lover before Elijah forced them to separate.
“Sinclair! Sinclair! I’m trapped, oh god please- The security systems won’t let me out, they’re keeping me here! Sinclair! Sinclair! The doors, they sealed. I can hear the other guests screaming to be let out, to let go. We all pay for what we’ve done, I’m so sorry Sinclair. I’m sorry I- I should have trusted you. I- I’m going to die here, among the ghosts… I’m still being recorded by the holographic system… I came so far to be here, now I just want to leave.. Sinclair, Sinclair where did you go? Why did you leave me here? Let go, let go of what?”
- Vera Keyes, October 23rd. 2077.
"We wanted every item to feel valuable"
Me: [Lugging around 100 Sierra Madre Martinis]
I would have made more but I didn't find more tin cans. The DLC is a much different experience when you are overleveled, I'll say that much.
Thanks for the community for finishing obsidian's games, fixing too, I play with the unnoficial patch so I would never know that Deam holotape was broken lol
My favorite DLC, glad your finally covering it.
I completely vibe with the desire Avellone had to go back to the "Road Warrior" feel with Dead Money, it's why I enjoy it. There's something to be said about how important decent difficulty is in keeping a game feeling like it's set in a world where survival isn't guaranteed and is a constant struggle -- if you're resource rich, kicking around in invincible armour with lasers that melt anything, you don't feel vulnerable and encounters don't carry weight.
When I just finished my first playthrough of Sierra Madre, I came into the DLC thinking it would be a very hard experience, having to utilise the repair and crafting mechanics to survive...but just some time in and discovering, that the enemies can still die and the cloud doing only little damage and loot abundant, I was a little let down...
About a timer at the Gala Event...I just didn't want to deal with all those new spawned in enemies so I just ran through...that felt really tense and great :D
I remember when I was going to start the event. I put a good pair of suit I managed to get and repair and I made a save before I set off the fireworks.
As soon the fireworks set off and the dead came I made a run that really felt like a movie
Parkouring my way around to not get hit, running without looking back, all that while wearing my Grimy suit, my prewar hat and a good pair of sunglasses
It was intense but also freaking amazing!
It's made that way so people who didn't do repair and crafting can play but it's a lot easier if you have those skills.
I really like the lines that call back to the pipboy belonging to a "Mitchell" from vault 21, aka Doc Mitchell from goodsprings who gave you the pipboy at the end of the character creation
I love the Dead Money DLC, excited to watch this (especially since it's over an hour long!)
I would love for someone to make a full survival horror mod using dead money as a reference....like set it in New York or Portland or something
i love these videos because they are so thorough. you literally show us a way out of bounds junk pile that you found just because we should know about it.
Look, I'm a simple man. I see a TriangleCity video, I like it before I even start it.
My biggest complaint regarding the "horror" part of the DLC is that the Ghost enemies are pretty much a non-threat unless you're badly underleveled as all it takes to kill them is crippling any limb which can be done in one or two good hits from the Police Pistol or the Knife Spear, depending on your character's choice of weapon style.
That's a good point
Ahh, Chris Avalone, always unwilling to allow the Fallout world to improve in a meaningful way. Thanks, retrieving the Sierra Madre technology would've been really interesting.
“Tome of Horrors of Dnd”
Yep, as a DM and player as well for ToH, that sums up Dead Money.
Sweet! You're covering cut content on the best Fallout dlc.
Christine's "unable to pierce Target DT" line where she taps her gun is actually possible to see in game if she attacks the turrets inside the casino
Playing this at x1.5 speed actually makes this guy’s speech sound natural.
1.5? No. 1.25? Yeah
Super dope video. I love Dead Money so seeing some stuff I didn’t know about it is awesome