Forum:New Vegas Details straight from OXM!!!

Everyone put on your hardhats, go out to your nearest Wal-Mart/Bookstore/Newstand, and prepare for your minds to be BLOWN!

Offical Xbox Magazine's April issue is on stands now, and covers details about Fallout: New Vegas!!!

I would post pics, but my scanner don't work with this computer. But if you want pics, Look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blAJP_DVUGs&feature=related

Here's what I know:

The level cap is 30 :-)

You can chose not only your character's apperence, gender, and name, but their AGE. That means you don't have to be an eternal 19-year-old anymore!

Secondly, your SPECIAL stats are determined by playing a bar game called the Vit-O-Matic. Also, to determine your Tagged skills, you take a Rorsach Inkblot Test from Dr. Mitchell, who is apperently a psychiatrist.

The jumpsuit you get is from Vault 21, and you have a PipBoy3000 to accompany you.

Anyway, the first town you find is called Goodsprings. Actually, "Find" isn't a good word. You wake up here.

And the companion AI is controlled Via a wheel system, with commands such as "Be Passive" "Be Social" and "Follow".

As for quests, there are two detailed here: One is called "GhostTown Firefight", which you must either Protect Goodsprings from a gang of Powder-keg crazed people, or BURN IT TO THE GROUND! To build up a stike force to fight the Powder Gangers(yes, that is their name) you must build up a small militia from the people. There is more of an emphasis on skills when using conversation, as evidenced when you must pursuade a man who is hoarding some dynamite that could be crucial to the town's survival to GIVE IT UP!!!

And then there's the weapons. OOh the weapons.

You can Mod weapons, as you may well know, but you can't UN-mod them: In other words, I hope you like your new scope.

The 9-Iron golf club's special attack, Fore!, Knocks enemies to the ground, much like a Gauss rifle crit in Fallout 3.

There's also a weapon called the Grenade Machine Gun, which does as advertised: In other words, rapid-fires grenades.

Now let's talk NPCs. I've heard talk of a Female super mutant, but, like a certain delicious cake, it is a lie. "She" is called Tabitha, and is actually a bat-(censored) insane MALE super mutant, who falls in love with a Local ghoul. Wow.

There are also new enemies called Nightkin, who are SuperMutants addicted to Stealh Boys (is that even possible?). This means that they are constantly invisible, and Invisiblility+Sledgehammers+Superhuman strength=Decapitated Courier.

Last Enemy type I know is called the Gecko. Although they look more akin to Frilled Lizards or Crocodiles than actual Geckos.

Super Mutants are much more intellegent this time around, and you can actually talk to them, and pursuade them to do certain things for you, Such as attack the Nightkin, who are apperently a different Faction.

And now for some locations!!

The Hoover Dam and Goodsprings are Two, obviously. And then there is the Strip, and The Black Mountain Radio tower, where you fight Tabitha. Then there are some of the more offbeat locations.

For example, there is a giant wooden Dinosaur Called Dinky. Sadly, I can't post pics from the mag, and it ain't in the video. So to give you an idea of what it looks like....

(sorry if the pic is inserted a litle weirdly, The image insert may have screwed up)

And you can climb into it's mouth to snipe from it!

And lastly, there's Helios 1, a pre-war solar power station. That shoots lasers.

Wow.

More info to come, hopefully! and if anyone can find pictures from the magazine, please post them on the site!

War. War never Changes. But what about Vegas?

--Ih8pkmn 22:45, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

We already know this... sorry :). Nukey (Talk) (User blog:AreYouGoingToEatThatNuke? 22:47, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed. In addition, none of the Nightkin have funtioning Stealthboys. In addition, the name "Grenade Machine Gun" was made up here first, so you're either a well-meaning troll, or somebody else is a dirty copy-cat. Nitty Tok. 22:48, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Well nuke me up the rear! This is so embarassing..

And yes, there really IS a grenade machine gun the game.

Would OXM lie? And could someone post pictures? Plz? My scanner honestly doesn't work.--Ih8pkmn 22:52, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * We called it a grenade "machine gun" because it's visually similar to things like a Browning M2. It might be semi-automatic. Nitty Tok. 22:54, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll be glad to nuke you, and even though most of this is old, you obviously decided to make up false info (as wonderful as it sounds), and mislead people into believing it. By the way, we can't post pictures because the magazines aren't okay with it, and they're copyrighted. Nukey (Talk) (User blog:AreYouGoingToEatThatNuke? 22:56, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

False? Are you kidding me? it's straight from the DAMNED MAGAZINE. What parts are "False" Exactly? Geez.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to test the effects of the MIRV on the residents of Megaton! --Ih8pkmn 23:09, March 30, 2010 (UTC)