22:08 I mean, if some dude stripped in front of me and a set of super mutants, put on leopard print pajamas, and lurched up to us with a laser rifle on their back their dull, empty but hungry look in their eyes flipping through a magazine, looked me dead in the eyes and said "I am fearless and will claw out your eyeballs," I'd be kinda fucking freaked out man.
I'd like to think that the Jacobstown mercs saw Useless Steve walk up in leopard print and a cowboy hat and assumed he was some insane psycho killer so they backed down
Clearly they heard about how this unknown courier dragged a massive scorpion into goodsprings against it's will and forced easy pete to play fetch with it. Look, he is even wearing the hat as proof of his strength!
Look when you find someone dressed like that in a town full of supermutants out in the middle of nowhere on a world like fallout earth, you would do well to be wary. Either he's badass enough to not have to care, or you're possibly going to end up with a very pissed off big green ex to deal with - possibly multiple. Either way, not a wise gamble to make.
This is USELESS Steve we're talking about, the man is a walking diaster. He manages to literally fuck over everyone he can. Mash some buttons on a space ship navigation control, convenience a man to give himself the gun in mouth trick, killed an ENTIRE TOWN via radscorpian.... I'm just saying, Useless Steve's reputation at causing his "friends" to suffer horribly has likely spread all the way to Boston. If you're smart, you will avoid even talking to him cause you stand a better chance at surviving then being his pal.
Let's not forget, from a roleplaying point of view that was plain cheating. Obviously he knows the game inside out and does not try or pretend to play it normally. Which is fair. I very much prefer first time blind playthroughs but this, which is more of a guide is also ok.
"The way you do this quest usually" is not paying for the Weathers family. It's killing every legionnaire in cottonwood cove & emancipating the family that way.
5:00 Jon, the slave market is saturated. There are too many slaves, so the price has been driven Way down. Just, most of the trainers and holding pens are in the lower part of the Camp, across the river, and you never really get to go there. These three are just worthless new stock, they haven’t even been broken in yet. Really, you got a bit screwed on them, usually 300 caps is enough for one docile middle aged slave, but imagine how much work you’re going to have to put into breaking them, and then teaching them the way of things. Oh? You just wanted them to go free? Then you’re paying for the privilege of freeing them, and funding the training of Real slaves while you’re at it.
Now I think about it, it is odd that I don't think we see a single slave in the Mojave - in which case, who are Cottonwood Cove selling to? There's no other faction that utilises or buys slaves, so there shouldn't really be any market at all - just people shipped back to Legion territory if needed.
@@ManyATrueNerd Because the Mojave is NCR-owned territory, and therefore only unlawful groups like bandits would buy them. Gomorrah and the White Glove Society also might buy them. Apart from that, they're probably selling them to their own soldiers.
Many A True Nerd, there’s a whole market across the sum of Legion territory, where they catch women and children on the edges, break them in in forts, and send them deeper in to hubs to be trained and sent out to armies for entertainment, to be made to farm food, or to some of the eastern communities in trade for other resources they can’t be bothered to get on their own. Sometimes they’re also used as breeding stock, but given the overflow at the moment, that market has mostly shut down. Or, at least, that’s what I would do if I was put in charge of it. There’s no way their whole territory is empty, there’s got to be a demand somewhere. It would just be wasteful to let some third party turn a profit, if Caesar could be managing (or delegating) it instead.
The ant mound is something I always wondered why you had never shown off before. I'm glad you discovered something new after all these years and proud I knew something about New Vegas Jon didn't.
Speaking of rarely seen aspects of New Vegas, in my most recent playthrough I learned you can become the leader of the Great Khans. By completing We are Legion for Dead Sea in Nelson and then talking to Papa Khan, he names you his heir, then just kill him and you become he new chief and get to choose how the khans fight in the 2nd battle of Hoover dam.
In this week's episode of Infamous wasteland idiot, where our awful protagonist: -talks a struggling alchoholic into killing himself -Invests in the cattle industry -Scams a peaceful town full of mutants
And when you remember this isn't even the worst things he's ever done.... I'm just gonna say it. Benny is the one true hero. He met useless Steve one time, and realized 'oh god, this man is gonna kill us all horribly, I need to become the Grave Digger *TM*, and make sure he doesn't get a chance...But then Benny made a critical oversight. He shot him in the head. Assuming useless steve was a 'normal' person. But in reality, there is literally nothing in his head to shoot. Some say the bullet is still just bouncing around the empty skull to this day. He should've used my new product called "Steve away", scientifically proven to keep anyone with the name steven nice and far away....Just spray some on the steve in question, and watch the fun sizzling as they turn into a pile of goo! You can find it at your nearest Good spring villager that is still alive after steve's radscorpian pet. We developed it to avoid such things in the future.
MATN: "He just said that to Useless Steve - in a set of leopard print pajamas and the hat that he took off Easy Pete's corpse." Norton: OH GOD IT'S THE GOODSPRINGS SCORPION WHISPERER
I've played this game so many times and I know I've must of gone to the Tumbleweed Ranch at one point or another, but I never knew there was a Nightkin there selling"wind brahmin". That "Crazy with low prices" line was gold.
11:00 Naughty Nightwear can randomly spawn in dressers aswell, though it’s an astronautically low chance. I’ve founds one in Dead Money before, in the Suites, and one in the hotel in Primm, but that’s it, in over a thousand hours of gameplay. But, as for 100% chance, set locations, yes, Mick and Ralph’s is the only spot. Edit: 47:00 -Taking the Endurance Implant doesn’t count towards the cap at all, so if you take it, you can still take others.- Nevermind. Tested it. Not true. Also, sorry for snipping at you, Jon. Love the video, all the same :)
This comment needs so much more attention for the fact of the endurance implant. I always see people saying it doesn't help but it's basically a free implant
What were saying is with end 4 taking the int implant lowers your amount to 3 but if you take the end implant it stays at 4 meaning you don't gain or lose a slot
@@Sef_Era I mean right before I corrected myself I made a fresh character with no mods (because my first try I had a mod to let me have all implants regardless of my endurance) and at endurance one I was able to get any implant but only that implant even if I took the endurance one
It’s always cool to see people that play this game all the time discover something new. I found the ant mound on my very first playthrough, which led me down the rabbit hole of finding all the giant bosses in the game, but in doing so I skipped a bunch of things most people do every playthrough. It’s still fascinating to me how many different experiences one game can bring. New Vegas, like all Bethesda games, has its problems, but they all offer so many unique ways to explore and play, that people who have played thousands of hours can still occasionally find something new.
Each and every time I watch an episode, I learn something else, even if it's only - don't take a shotgun to the knee. In this one it was "free the slaves the right way", the Right Way in this case being "manage your xp so that his head explodes by itself". Beautiful. Ta, fella.
When Jon is entering the Lucky 38 and the video immediately cuts to the bar, I'd like to think Useless Steve doesn't understand what Mr. House is saying/planning and just starts nodding off while Mr. House talking.
Thank you for finishing my weekend on a high note, Jon. I always enjoy your Fallout New Vegas videos, especially when you create a unique character and follow a strict guideline on how to play. Looking forward to your return to the Darkest Dungeon, with all sorts of mods. Thanks again.
I've been enjoying the series so much that I decided to do the same thing. I also wanted to do things a little differently than you, and try some things I hadn't before in my 1500 hours of play, so I saved all my caps until I reached Novac and decided to buy the MF Hyperbreeder Alpha. I have to say this weapon is absolutely amazing for this playthrough. I never have to carry heavy ammo around with me, and I just pumped energy weapons to max as quickly as I could to do massive damage. The recharge is extremely quick, and I can take out just about anything within a matter of seconds with it. I'm now level 34, have completed most of the map as well as Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road using almost exclusively this. I got Pew Pew, and it doesn't even compare because of the long reload and lack of ammo capacity, plus having to carry tons of energy cells for it. The Q-35 is almost always one of my go to weapons, and it was just dead weight in my inventory this playthrough. My secondary weapon is the pulse gun from Vault 34, which was a difficult ordeal getting with this build, but once I got the gun it has to be if not the most powerful weapon against robots in the game then nearly so. I'm taking out Protectrons, most Turrets and Robo Brains with one hit, Gutsys with 2 hits, and Sentry Bots with 3 hits. It's amazing. On a side note, I don't think I could ever play New Vegas again the original way. One of the only complaints I have with this game is how easy it is, and I almost always download mods to make the game harder. This build was almost a perfect balance between fun and difficulty for me.
A little tiny Easter egg I'm not sure anyone else's caught -- when you talk to Marcus, the music in the background is the same as when you're in the Cathedral in _Fallout 1_ -- I'd recognize those bells in that pattern anywhere. It actually shows up a fair few other places in various other _Fallout_ games as well.
Many A True Nerd Fallout videos (especially New Vegas) are among my favorites on all of RUclips and I always look forward to them. There's something both entertaining and soothing about these series. Thanks, Jon.
Fun fact about the Test Site snow globe - Las Vegas in the 50's and the 60's was advertised as an "atomic" destination because on some buildings you could see nuclear detonations in the distance from the Nevada Test Site. Tourists flocked there to watch the mushroom clouds, this is probably why the Test Site snow globe is in the most prominent casino/resort of the pre-war Las Vegas. Ironically Howard Hughes (the inspiration behind Mister House) *hated* the Nevada Test Site and repeatedly tried to use his influence in the government to have it closed.
I think the reason the Test Site snowglobe is in the Lucky 38 is a reference to Vegas itself. Back when Nevada was used for above ground nuclear testing they would have watch parties for individual atomic detonations, which was one of the biggest draws at the time. Given the Lucky 38 has a full panoramic view cocktail lounge, as well as one of, if not the highest vantage point on the strip, it stands to reason it was a commemorative snowglobe for a nuclear test watch party.
Extremely cheap slaves *would* go a long way towards explaining why there are merchants and other relatively well-heeled people willing to support the Legion: they like the conquest because it floods the market with cheap slaves that they can easily make a profit on.
11:50 "Anyway while we're in Freeside we're not done yet..." He states while rounding a corner and coming face to face with a free side thug. Moving on scene change.
"that would screw over Jacobs towns, so im gonna be nice to Marcus".... after wiping out the towns treasury for your own personal gain. Steve would make a great lawyer.
Mad Turnip Wait isn’t there? I’m pretty sure that there is. However, by then Jon will likely not be low int (unless he wants to stay ultra-gimped in general)
If you want a big boost to a couple special stats, the simplest way in my opinion is just to do Old World Blues. The perks from getting your organs replaced are quite powerful. Plus I’d love to see a conversation between Useless Steve and the Think Tank
For the young folk out there, Festus is probably an homage to the character of the same name from the TV Western series Gunsmoke which ran from 1955-75. RIP Ken Curtis.
@Cara Salusc I'm in my mid 50s. I used to watch the show when I was a kid and also in reruns. I don't live in the US, but back then there weren't many channels and Canada got most of the US ones. ;-)
Genuinely amazed that after all your playing New Vegas that you never stumbled into the fire ant nest. It's amazing the random stuff we find in this game even years later.
It's interesting that there's different amount of XP given depending on who you talk to first for a quest. I have always found Frank Weathers before his family at Cottonwood Cove. I love this series.
John, things are going crazy over here in the states. Thanks for helping take my mind off things. If only for 1:17. All the best to you and keep up the good work!
Been enjoying these weekly episodes. Have to say that I've seen the inside of the ant mound before but you've shown me at least a few things I haven't seen before.
28:48 The test site snowglobe is there because Howard Hughes (one of the inspirations for House) famously hated the real Nevada Test Site, blaming it for killing John Wayne.
"The tumbleweed ranch is full of...well, tumbleweeds." NO. WIND BRAHMIN. YOU BUY! And... Of we're all being honest about it... They _are_ *very good* wind brahmin.
Jane will actually explain the test site snow globe if you go through the options. When asking about the snow globes she will say that Mr. House has misplaced one in the casino
John. You can order the cleaning Mr handy in the building to go sweep the factory floor. Once he is done he deposits a large amount of caps into the trash next to the door.
The reason I think the slaves are so cheap is because they haven't been broken and trained for service. So your effectively buying a product that isn't finished, or anywhere near finished really.
This is why i love new vegas , the Ant queen that ive known about since my frist playthrough due to just many a true nerding around the map and Jon only finds it now years and many many playthroughs later , also the wind brahmin are the best
Jon the Michael Angelo's quest does require you to go to the farthest reaches of the wastes. You have to go through all the loading zones on the strip! TWICE!
If you drink then check without leaving the pip boy, the game does not display your current star caps. Put the pip boy down and check it again and it will be updated. Also this episode was so helpful
The test site snowglobe is at the Lucky 38 is because House is based off the real life billionaire Howard Hughes, who absolutely HATED the test site, he tried to bribe Nixon to shut it down, so it's there as a little joke if you get it.
I made my millions in New Vegas by making weapon repair kits with the plentiful free and cheap ingredients available, fixing up all the weapons you pick up that get the best prices and then selling them. Also my bathroom in Novac is so full of pre-war money that I can barely get in it to add new souvenir plungers to my plunger collection in the bin, and the sheer amount of it all makes the whole place shake and rattle so much that you have to walk real careful in there cos it makes you feel as if you've had a few too many wasteland tequilas. I'm just waiting for the whole place to collapse down into the motel reception...
@@seanb.6793 In an old RT podcast they talk about 'what if theres like a suicide button in your brain that you can press' and they joke about it being the phrase Orange Monkey Eagle
22:08
I mean, if some dude stripped in front of me and a set of super mutants, put on leopard print pajamas, and lurched up to us with a laser rifle on their back their dull, empty but hungry look in their eyes flipping through a magazine, looked me dead in the eyes and said "I am fearless and will claw out your eyeballs," I'd be kinda fucking freaked out man.
Useless Steve is the true terror. Not Evil Jon.
@@ryantoth676
Evil Jon wishes for the destruction of all life. Useless Steve is the gaping abyss. Both are terrifying, but one existentially so.
I'd like to think that the Jacobstown mercs saw Useless Steve walk up in leopard print and a cowboy hat and assumed he was some insane psycho killer so they backed down
Clearly they heard about how this unknown courier dragged a massive scorpion into goodsprings against it's will and forced easy pete to play fetch with it. Look, he is even wearing the hat as proof of his strength!
I think they assumed He made a town full of supermutants his personal sexslaves and don't want to end up suffering a similar fate...
*Assumed he was some sort of Gigolo*
FTFY
Look when you find someone dressed like that in a town full of supermutants out in the middle of nowhere on a world like fallout earth, you would do well to be wary. Either he's badass enough to not have to care, or you're possibly going to end up with a very pissed off big green ex to deal with - possibly multiple. Either way, not a wise gamble to make.
This is USELESS Steve we're talking about, the man is a walking diaster. He manages to literally fuck over everyone he can. Mash some buttons on a space ship navigation control, convenience a man to give himself the gun in mouth trick, killed an ENTIRE TOWN via radscorpian.... I'm just saying, Useless Steve's reputation at causing his "friends" to suffer horribly has likely spread all the way to Boston. If you're smart, you will avoid even talking to him cause you stand a better chance at surviving then being his pal.
“The nightkin thinks he has outwitted me, but I have outwitted him”
- Jon, the man who just gave him a free bottlecap
Ok then
Well, given that if you refuse he tries to kill you, it's not a bad deal for not having to fight a nightkin, especially if you're Useless Steve.
Antillicus also those are some mighty fine wind Brahmin 1 cap is a steal.
True the nightkin did profit 1 cap however little we think that is he still profited off of you Jon!!! Lol
Let's not forget, from a roleplaying point of view that was plain cheating.
Obviously he knows the game inside out and does not try or pretend to play it normally. Which is fair.
I very much prefer first time blind playthroughs but this, which is more of a guide is also ok.
Aah, Jon discussing value of human lives in new vegas, and value of child slaves.
"The way you do this quest usually" is not paying for the Weathers family. It's killing every legionnaire in cottonwood cove & emancipating the family that way.
Sure, but that's a variant on 'discovering the family and releasing them immediately thereafter'
But then you can’t set off the dirty bomb for that sweet irony
@Victoria Carson you still can, the one guy who takes you across will be wearing a hazmat suit and have a dialog line about the waste barrels
@Victoria Carson I want their blood on my hands
@@ManyATrueNerd Useless Steve wouldn't be able to crack it anyway
5:00 Jon, the slave market is saturated. There are too many slaves, so the price has been driven Way down. Just, most of the trainers and holding pens are in the lower part of the Camp, across the river, and you never really get to go there. These three are just worthless new stock, they haven’t even been broken in yet. Really, you got a bit screwed on them, usually 300 caps is enough for one docile middle aged slave, but imagine how much work you’re going to have to put into breaking them, and then teaching them the way of things.
Oh? You just wanted them to go free? Then you’re paying for the privilege of freeing them, and funding the training of Real slaves while you’re at it.
Now I think about it, it is odd that I don't think we see a single slave in the Mojave - in which case, who are Cottonwood Cove selling to? There's no other faction that utilises or buys slaves, so there shouldn't really be any market at all - just people shipped back to Legion territory if needed.
@@ManyATrueNerd I think it's being sold more east.
@@ManyATrueNerd Because the Mojave is NCR-owned territory, and therefore only unlawful groups like bandits would buy them. Gomorrah and the White Glove Society also might buy them. Apart from that, they're probably selling them to their own soldiers.
Many A True Nerd, there’s a whole market across the sum of Legion territory, where they catch women and children on the edges, break them in in forts, and send them deeper in to hubs to be trained and sent out to armies for entertainment, to be made to farm food, or to some of the eastern communities in trade for other resources they can’t be bothered to get on their own. Sometimes they’re also used as breeding stock, but given the overflow at the moment, that market has mostly shut down.
Or, at least, that’s what I would do if I was put in charge of it. There’s no way their whole territory is empty, there’s got to be a demand somewhere. It would just be wasteful to let some third party turn a profit, if Caesar could be managing (or delegating) it instead.
The economics of slavery
The ant mound is something I always wondered why you had never shown off before. I'm glad you discovered something new after all these years and proud I knew something about New Vegas Jon didn't.
Speaking of rarely seen aspects of New Vegas, in my most recent playthrough I learned you can become the leader of the Great Khans. By completing We are Legion for Dead Sea in Nelson and then talking to Papa Khan, he names you his heir, then just kill him and you become he new chief and get to choose how the khans fight in the 2nd battle of Hoover dam.
Really?
@@silverblack9286 Yup, learned about it a few days ago
Really? Damm , thats awesome. Had no idea
Melee weapons: 7
Unarmed: 9
Useless Steve is so useless he's actually better off in a no guns fight with no weapon at all.
I clear almost the whole NCRCF with a tire iron and Buffout. Kill dude for his sunglasses. XD
In this week's episode of Infamous wasteland idiot, where our awful protagonist:
-talks a struggling alchoholic into killing himself
-Invests in the cattle industry
-Scams a peaceful town full of mutants
And when you remember this isn't even the worst things he's ever done.... I'm just gonna say it. Benny is the one true hero. He met useless Steve one time, and realized 'oh god, this man is gonna kill us all horribly, I need to become the Grave Digger *TM*, and make sure he doesn't get a chance...But then Benny made a critical oversight. He shot him in the head. Assuming useless steve was a 'normal' person. But in reality, there is literally nothing in his head to shoot. Some say the bullet is still just bouncing around the empty skull to this day. He should've used my new product called "Steve away", scientifically proven to keep anyone with the name steven nice and far away....Just spray some on the steve in question, and watch the fun sizzling as they turn into a pile of goo! You can find it at your nearest Good spring villager that is still alive after steve's radscorpian pet. We developed it to avoid such things in the future.
@@doctordragon9798 I mean. I thought it was funny, and really that's all I go for. Not tryin' to win the internet or please everyone.
Top tier quarantine viewing here.
I'm off school the next 2 weeks. Jon's helping me get through it.
Yup yup
Yesss
This comment is still relevant 8 months later... makes me want to dust off my New Vegas.
yep
Useless Steve is honestly the most likable fallout character you've made yet.
I personally find Evil Jon the most relatable.
James Derrick Yes, I too have an irresistible urge to kill and eat everyone in sight
idk man PD Shoot.... probably the most relatable.
@@hugmonger PD Shoot/ON Again is pretty interesting. Especially in how they'd try maintain neutral karma in f3.
I like Bacon, just for her name tbh.
Jon doesn't want to screw over over Jacobstown but empties the town's treasury anyway.
MATN: "He just said that to Useless Steve - in a set of leopard print pajamas and the hat that he took off Easy Pete's corpse."
Norton: OH GOD IT'S THE GOODSPRINGS SCORPION WHISPERER
"This sounds like a get rich scheme."
"Yes! You will all get rich quick."
Micheal how is this not a pyramid scheme
I've played this game so many times and I know I've must of gone to the Tumbleweed Ranch at one point or another, but I never knew there was a Nightkin there selling"wind brahmin". That "Crazy with low prices" line was gold.
@@TheHuffmanator Don't recall, then again I can't remember every detail of every NV run he's done, bub.
@@TheHuffmanator Yes because remembering minor things from videos he's done spanning years now is why up there on the importance scale. Twat.
@@TheHuffmanator Literally no one cares but you kid, run along now.
@@TheHuffmanator Troll harder please, your attempts have been pretty pathetic.
The Huffmanator I give you props for not being like the current “trolls” these days.
8:03 You literally blew Frank's mind.
Perhaps he ate a nade...
Morpheus: _Free your mind_
Neo: *head explodes*
11:00 Naughty Nightwear can randomly spawn in dressers aswell, though it’s an astronautically low chance. I’ve founds one in Dead Money before, in the Suites, and one in the hotel in Primm, but that’s it, in over a thousand hours of gameplay.
But, as for 100% chance, set locations, yes, Mick and Ralph’s is the only spot.
Edit: 47:00 -Taking the Endurance Implant doesn’t count towards the cap at all, so if you take it, you can still take others.- Nevermind. Tested it. Not true.
Also, sorry for snipping at you, Jon. Love the video, all the same :)
This comment needs so much more attention for the fact of the endurance implant. I always see people saying it doesn't help but it's basically a free implant
Actually no, the endurance implant doesn't raise the implant limit. Unless the wiki is wrong.
What were saying is with end 4 taking the int implant lowers your amount to 3 but if you take the end implant it stays at 4 meaning you don't gain or lose a slot
I stand corrected, I just made a character to test this and starting at one endurance and taking the implant for it and now I can't take another
@@Sef_Era I mean right before I corrected myself I made a fresh character with no mods (because my first try I had a mod to let me have all implants regardless of my endurance) and at endurance one I was able to get any implant but only that implant even if I took the endurance one
It’s always cool to see people that play this game all the time discover something new. I found the ant mound on my very first playthrough, which led me down the rabbit hole of finding all the giant bosses in the game, but in doing so I skipped a bunch of things most people do every playthrough. It’s still fascinating to me how many different experiences one game can bring.
New Vegas, like all Bethesda games, has its problems, but they all offer so many unique ways to explore and play, that people who have played thousands of hours can still occasionally find something new.
Jon seeing as we are all self quarantining our selves for the most part, can we get some extra the worst courier!
In these hard times, RUclipsrs are our door to sanity.
I agree, but don't want to up the likes from 42 for obvious reasons.
Doing a special week of just useless steve would be great for me
After doing Michelangelo's quest, It is my head cannon that all the companions are just camera shy
"It's always fun to find a new bug in New Vegas"
There are enough for everyone. No reason to rush.
Each and every time I watch an episode, I learn something else, even if it's only - don't take a shotgun to the knee. In this one it was "free the slaves the right way", the Right Way in this case being "manage your xp so that his head explodes by itself". Beautiful. Ta, fella.
When Jon is entering the Lucky 38 and the video immediately cuts to the bar, I'd like to think Useless Steve doesn't understand what Mr. House is saying/planning and just starts nodding off while Mr. House talking.
Isn't there s line of dialogue somewhere about the Snowglobe being misplaced in the Lucky 38? That's why it's not at the test site.
Yes, it was misplaced moving it around
Thank you for finishing my weekend on a high note, Jon. I always enjoy your Fallout New Vegas videos, especially when you create a unique character and follow a strict guideline on how to play. Looking forward to your return to the Darkest Dungeon, with all sorts of mods. Thanks again.
You still paid that nightkin a cap when you didn't need to, he gets the last laugh on this one
The bonus you from the fire ants was from "Youl'll blind someone" achievement. It's from dealing enough damage with energy weapons.
I've been enjoying the series so much that I decided to do the same thing. I also wanted to do things a little differently than you, and try some things I hadn't before in my 1500 hours of play, so I saved all my caps until I reached Novac and decided to buy the MF Hyperbreeder Alpha. I have to say this weapon is absolutely amazing for this playthrough. I never have to carry heavy ammo around with me, and I just pumped energy weapons to max as quickly as I could to do massive damage. The recharge is extremely quick, and I can take out just about anything within a matter of seconds with it. I'm now level 34, have completed most of the map as well as Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road using almost exclusively this. I got Pew Pew, and it doesn't even compare because of the long reload and lack of ammo capacity, plus having to carry tons of energy cells for it. The Q-35 is almost always one of my go to weapons, and it was just dead weight in my inventory this playthrough.
My secondary weapon is the pulse gun from Vault 34, which was a difficult ordeal getting with this build, but once I got the gun it has to be if not the most powerful weapon against robots in the game then nearly so. I'm taking out Protectrons, most Turrets and Robo Brains with one hit, Gutsys with 2 hits, and Sentry Bots with 3 hits. It's amazing. On a side note, I don't think I could ever play New Vegas again the original way. One of the only complaints I have with this game is how easy it is, and I almost always download mods to make the game harder. This build was almost a perfect balance between fun and difficulty for me.
A little tiny Easter egg I'm not sure anyone else's caught -- when you talk to Marcus, the music in the background is the same as when you're in the Cathedral in _Fallout 1_ -- I'd recognize those bells in that pattern anywhere. It actually shows up a fair few other places in various other _Fallout_ games as well.
27:17 "Completely safe areas" he says as there is a big firefight going on in the background.
Many A True Nerd Fallout videos (especially New Vegas) are among my favorites on all of RUclips and I always look forward to them. There's something both entertaining and soothing about these series. Thanks, Jon.
Fun fact about the Test Site snow globe - Las Vegas in the 50's and the 60's was advertised as an "atomic" destination because on some buildings you could see nuclear detonations in the distance from the Nevada Test Site. Tourists flocked there to watch the mushroom clouds, this is probably why the Test Site snow globe is in the most prominent casino/resort of the pre-war Las Vegas. Ironically Howard Hughes (the inspiration behind Mister House) *hated* the Nevada Test Site and repeatedly tried to use his influence in the government to have it closed.
I've been playing this game on and off for years, maybe five/six full runs, and it's amazing there's still so much content I've never seen!
I think the reason the Test Site snowglobe is in the Lucky 38 is a reference to Vegas itself. Back when Nevada was used for above ground nuclear testing they would have watch parties for individual atomic detonations, which was one of the biggest draws at the time. Given the Lucky 38 has a full panoramic view cocktail lounge, as well as one of, if not the highest vantage point on the strip, it stands to reason it was a commemorative snowglobe for a nuclear test watch party.
Even after all these years, it is still glorious to find out new things about this game.
I wonder if there is an achievement for killing the Queens?
Extremely cheap slaves *would* go a long way towards explaining why there are merchants and other relatively well-heeled people willing to support the Legion: they like the conquest because it floods the market with cheap slaves that they can easily make a profit on.
Thanks again for making such nice Fallout playthrus. They're comforting and enjoyable during the stress of this coronavirus situation.
There are not many series that cause me to insta click a notification. This is one of them!
Same, there's just something about Useless Steve that brings New Vegas to life again.
*slaps animal pen*
*"This badboy can fit so many wind-brahmin inside it."*
11:50 "Anyway while we're in Freeside we're not done yet..." He states while rounding a corner and coming face to face with a free side thug. Moving on scene change.
I'd love to see useless steve return to do the dlc, I know John is busy with the YOLO for fallout 4, but that would be a great series to return to
Oh hell yes. I’ve been looking forward to this. Thanks Jon, for bringing us this treat during these trying times!
Mr House pays you 1000 caps for the platinum chip and 2000 caps for every snow globe.
30:09
Actually, there is a Star bottle cap at NCR Correctional Facility Visitors Center that can only be stolen.
It's on a counter and marked in red.
I’m so glad you went over legend of the star, it’s probably my favourite quest all of new Vegas!
I checked and the camera has no strength or skill requirement. It would have been pretty funny if Useless Steve was too useless to shoot a photo.
Hey, photography takes skill.
Also, don't forget that alcohol is +2 to Speech. It's not much, but it can make a difference and save you two skill points.
"that would screw over Jacobs towns, so im gonna be nice to Marcus".... after wiping out the towns treasury for your own personal gain. Steve would make a great lawyer.
Still hoping Useless Steve will do the DLCs.
If there was a low-intelligence speech option when talking to the brain in OWB, that would be priceless xD
@@MadTurnip there is a black widow one which is hillarious
Mad Turnip Wait isn’t there? I’m pretty sure that there is. However, by then Jon will likely not be low int (unless he wants to stay ultra-gimped in general)
@Samuel Hunt "Uselysses" is their slash-fic name
Jon: 300 caps for children is quite cheap
Game: How about 300 caps for some Naughty Nightwear? ;)
How about 300 caps for some slaves? The girls 150, boy 100, and hag 50.
*_LEGION DID NOTHING WRONG_*
If you want a big boost to a couple special stats, the simplest way in my opinion is just to do Old World Blues. The perks from getting your organs replaced are quite powerful. Plus I’d love to see a conversation between Useless Steve and the Think Tank
I don't know why, but it tickled me to death when you skipped over that guy in a freeside when you rounded the corner. 11:53.
For the young folk out there, Festus is probably an homage to the character of the same name from the TV Western series Gunsmoke which ran from 1955-75. RIP Ken Curtis.
@@CARILYNF Your dad is a wise man. :-)
@Cara Salusc I'm in my mid 50s. I used to watch the show when I was a kid and also in reruns. I don't live in the US, but back then there weren't many channels and Canada got most of the US ones. ;-)
Genuinely amazed that after all your playing New Vegas that you never stumbled into the fire ant nest. It's amazing the random stuff we find in this game even years later.
I'm almost caught up with this series and now I feel like playing Fallout NV which I guess is not a bad result of watching this.
Rare it is to see a few new to me things in New Vegas.....great episode
I always love your New Vegas content! This is one of the best series ever!
It's interesting that there's different amount of XP given depending on who you talk to first for a quest. I have always found Frank Weathers before his family at Cottonwood Cove. I love this series.
It's always a jolly holiday with you, Jon.
Glad to see you uploading, this quarantine thing is getting long.
John, things are going crazy over here in the states. Thanks for helping take my mind off things. If only for 1:17. All the best to you and keep up the good work!
You discovered something brand new! Granted, I knew about the ant mound myself, but grats on finding it for yourself!
Been enjoying these weekly episodes. Have to say that I've seen the inside of the ant mound before but you've shown me at least a few things I haven't seen before.
I guess since I can't sleep I'll watch some New Vegas cowboy stories by an english man
11:52 "we're not quite done yet" as someone comes around the corner ready to fight
28:48 The test site snowglobe is there because Howard Hughes (one of the inspirations for House) famously hated the real Nevada Test Site, blaming it for killing John Wayne.
I applaud your optimism in your endeavor to make a crit build out of Steve. Now you're going to have to get the 1st Recon beret too.
"Arguably one of the most valuable skill books in the game"
*He says about every skill book he comes across.*
Damn, Frank. Talk about biting the bullet.
Oh boy do I need some of this right now.
"The tumbleweed ranch is full of...well, tumbleweeds."
NO. WIND BRAHMIN.
YOU BUY!
And... Of we're all being honest about it... They _are_ *very good* wind brahmin.
This is my favorite sort of episode you do.
(To clarify, informative fun with a theme)
I've played New Vegas dozens of times, and have never seen that ant mound ever in any of my playthroughs. The layers this game has, holy shit
loving this series man thanks for making this for us to enjoy!!
Yes! More useless Steve! Beginning to be my favorite thus far.
“Fairly well hidden in the middle of the floor” -10 perception speaks its peace
Living with this pandemic almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter.
Jane will actually explain the test site snow globe if you go through the options.
When asking about the snow globes she will say that Mr. House has misplaced one in the casino
was so happy to see this after I clocked out. played it on the way home xD
John. You can order the cleaning Mr handy in the building to go sweep the factory floor. Once he is done he deposits a large amount of caps into the trash next to the door.
4:49 So we're not gonna talk about "vagina dentata" in the speech check? Google that sometime for an interesting series of results.
@18:50, pretty much a repeat of the Fallout 2 "Raiders are attacking our town" con the NCR tried to pull...
Patrick Jackson Yep, think that was a direct reference. Obviously Marcus was FO2 as well
The reason I think the slaves are so cheap is because they haven't been broken and trained for service. So your effectively buying a product that isn't finished, or anywhere near finished really.
11:54 freeside thug comes round corner with his fists ready to fight. Cuts to Jon with plasma rifle out. We all know what happened.
This is why i love new vegas , the Ant queen that ive known about since my frist playthrough due to just many a true nerding around the map and Jon only finds it now years and many many playthroughs later , also the wind brahmin are the best
Jon, they're not slaves... they're captures; just ask Canyon Runner he knows the difference :3
Jon the Michael Angelo's quest does require you to go to the farthest reaches of the wastes. You have to go through all the loading zones on the strip! TWICE!
This series is keeping me alive
38:57 I feel like you missed "festus is the bestus" 😁🤙
Oh I needed this in these dark times
If you drink then check without leaving the pip boy, the game does not display your current star caps. Put the pip boy down and check it again and it will be updated.
Also this episode was so helpful
Four years later and I am so taken with Jon's happy realisation that Pew Pew goes Pew Pew
The test site snowglobe is at the Lucky 38 is because House is based off the real life billionaire Howard Hughes, who absolutely HATED the test site, he tried to bribe Nixon to shut it down, so it's there as a little joke if you get it.
I made my millions in New Vegas by making weapon repair kits with the plentiful free and cheap ingredients available, fixing up all the weapons you pick up that get the best prices and then selling them. Also my bathroom in Novac is so full of pre-war money that I can barely get in it to add new souvenir plungers to my plunger collection in the bin, and the sheer amount of it all makes the whole place shake and rattle so much that you have to walk real careful in there cos it makes you feel as if you've had a few too many wasteland tequilas. I'm just waiting for the whole place to collapse down into the motel reception...
Frank just thought 'Orange Monkey Eagle!' really hard
thetallwarden damn, that’s an old one
I see that's connected with Gus from Rooster Teeth, but what does it mean?
@@seanb.6793 In an old RT podcast they talk about 'what if theres like a suicide button in your brain that you can press' and they joke about it being the phrase Orange Monkey Eagle
Wow thanks a lot... I just tried it and my head exploded.
Marcus is voiced by Michael Dorn, knew it sounded familiar
37:45 “So guys, I did a little bit of offscreen mining”
Jon, that one guy's corpse has 6 or 7 star caps on a string. That's way more than three.
Daniel Bob he means statically placed in a room presumably
5:28 - *"... classic symptoms of, uh... vagina dentata."*
LOL
With that voice of Marcus I can't help but head cannon that all the honor bound denizens of Jacobstown go to Sto-vo-kor after death.