Forum:Reputation Behaviour

We all know that the reputation system in FNV can be easily messed up by wearing faction armor, but there's some things happening in my game very strange. In my current playthrough I was liked by the NCR and accepted with Caesar's Legion. I forgot that with this reputation with CL, Arcade can't be recruited and I achieved this reputation very early in the game because I wanted the Legion drop boxes that came with the quest Caesar's Favor. Long story short, I equipped the Ranger Combat Armor because of his magical properties of erasing most of the reputations in the game and recruited Arcade for gainning two of his story points. Then I dismissed Arcade and unequipped the armor, my reputations became normal again. Then I completed the quest "We Are Legion" by killing all the officers in Forlon Hope.

I kill them with the help of a stealth boy and all the kills were sneak ones, I used my normal Combat Armor MKII, not a faction one. The strange thing is, my reputation didn't changed with the NCR, I'm still liked. Is this correct? I should at least become mixed or one of the lower reputations, isn't?

A strange thing also happened with the BoS. I helped McNamara and completed all the quests for him, being liked by them. When I destroyed the Hidden Valey bunker my reputation with the BoS turned to merciful thug. After this I recruited Veronica, she warned me not to work against the BoS and said this was the last warning. Is this right? She should leave me permantelly, isn't?

I don't use faction armor because of this things, but this time I needed for recruting Arcade. This could explain this behaviours or not? Brfritos 08:23, February 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Its like pickpocketing, if they didn't see you do it, you didn't do it. Sneak killing NCR members will not effect your reputation, the excepts are main story line critical characters like the ambassador or the colonel, those will put you to instant vilified. Trust me I know, I wiped every NCR solider out I could find in every camp and outpost with a silenced sniper rifle while sneaking, wasn't till I killed key people did my rep change. And the companions as far as I know don't leave until you hit vilified level, otherwise they just give you some choice words about your actions. ☣Avatar☣ 11:06, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, this explain why I don't loose reputation with the NCR. But now you disappointed me a little. :( I mean, if I hit a reputation like sneering punk or merciful thug I'm shotted on sight by the members affected by this reputation. Veronica should be like Boones and Arcade, wich can't be recruited if your reputation with Legion is above neutral, regarding my reputation with the BoS. If my reputation was merciful thug or sneering punk she should leave me (hey, it's a RPG, the player needs to own his/her decisions). Brfritos 08:44, February 6, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Brfritos, Veronica is an individual case. If you told her to stay as a member of the BoS she will indeed give you a warning (something about no fighting? can't recall exactly what she said) but that's it. Similarly, even if you never recruited her before you get just the one warning. Ah well, there's always Cass hopefully - LOL (P3dantic)  86.133.52.220 12:37, February 6, 2011 (UTC)