Forum:Anyone else beaten Lonesome Road yet?

I just beat it. Took me four hours. My favorite DLC, hands down. Ulysses was amazingly well written, and so was ED-E's story. I wanna hear everyone else's thoughts. Unless I'm the only one that's beaten it... CptSprinkles5 14:22, September 20, 2011 (UTC)

Play it again and do everything the other way. It's almost noon in the central US and it is not on Steam yet so.... I hate youz /jk Squalor 16:31, September 20, 2011 (UTC)

Four hours?! I could have sworn it took people several seconds to complete a new game, DLC for a game, etc. Always someone out there who's beaten a game before most people even get it. How long has it been out? It seems to be out on Steam right now, though their slow you think? I have yet to play it. --Tag! 19:56, September 20, 2011 (UTC)

Me. I'm about to make a new character. SPOILER: it makes no real impact on the Mojave. At least not what I was expecting. (I was expecting people to start flipping shit once I nuked NCR. It wasn't even mentioned by one of the no-name NPCs.) but it was awesome otherwise. 71.251.145.118 22:48, September 20, 2011 (UTC)

Does anyone know when it is being made available in the U.K.?
 * Its already out, and beaten on Steam UK; just a quick question, nuking the legion opens up the ability to go to a nuked dry wells; Anything similar open up on the other options? Agent c 02:58, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

yeah i just beat it but im gonna have to load my game all over because i had my special all maxed out and it wouldnt let me exit afterword with out adding a point to an attribute with the perk i got for beating it. pisses me of cuz now i gotta start all over and lose like 12 hours playtime to my next earliest save. FatmanNATI0N65.32.203.37 04:52, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

I had the same problem as the person above. Special maxed out and not being able to continue. Im playing on XBOX so what I did was use a HEX editor on my computer to lower one special point in my save file, rehash and resign, re-insert file on harddrive, and it all worked. Take that FO:NV developers. On a side note. The "message" ulysses had was pointless. I wear all sorts of flags for disguses and easy infiltraion meathods. Not to show what faction I "truly" belong to. I think his message is just to encourage everyone to do the YES MAN ending for an indenpendent Vegas becuase thats most likley going to be the canon storyline for New Vegas refreances in future fallout games. Does anyone know what that smoke is coming from near Black Mountain after you nuke the mojave? It goes away before I can get there and I dont notice anything different. --76.90.232.112 05:47, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

I beat it. Spoiler warning, perhaps: has anyone found any real indication of a community having existed as Ulysses insists there had been? It'd be nice to find a note or something. Just having Ulysses' word for it kind of makes the arc feel like "For me it was Tuesday," on the Courier's part.--OvaltinePatrol 11:29, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

ok let me re-phrase the question... does nyone know when it is being made available in the U.K. on the ps3? ie on playstation network store?

Not yet, heavy class schedule yesterday. XxSick DemonxX 13:39, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

BIG SPOILERS:

I beat it, but I'm kind of annoyed at the post-game content. If you nuke the NCR, you can go to the Long 15 and get a unique power armor and grenade rifle. Nuke the Legion, and you can go to the Dry Wells and get a different armor and different grenade rifle. I stopped the nuke, and there are no rewards? What the hell? 24.144.160.195 13:41, September 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * I nuked both (House) so I got 2 new locations and 2 unique armors and grenade rifles! Hurray for violence Fallout: Shades of Grey, coming 2012 14:38, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

The rewards seem pretty horribly skewed - after chasing down Ulysses it ends up being FIRING THE NUKES AT EVERYTHING that yields the most rewards. Excellent DLC though, it actually provided a bit of a challenge. (Incidentally, has anyone else found Rawr yet?)


 * I found Rawr by total accident. It was actually kind of funny, he just stood there the entire time so I just unloaded on him with my 12.7mm SMG until he died.  His fist is no good to me though, I pretty much ignored the unarmed skill.  And yes, the rewards are ridiculously skewed. 24.144.160.195 02:30, September 22, 2011 (UTC)

rawr killed my first time because i tried running but the way out collapsed, so i re-loaded, scared it with a flare by shooting it between the eyes and setting it on fire, it ran off so i blew a nuke up and killed it (8) unarmed aint high enough for me to craft fist of rawr, and im lvl 50 now :( LUCIAN-44 01:52, September 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * That sucks, it's a really good unarmed weapon. Probably the best. Good damage, quick attack speed, bonus crit chance and damage, and bonus limb damage. I don't know the specific stats though, I would certainly like to see them.

I beat the DLC this morning. Overall, it was quite hard, but pretty darn fun. The rewards were ridiculously messed up; if you choose to stop the launch, you only get the loot from the locker at the end because ED-E dies, you don't get the awesome Lonesome Road perk or any of the other loot back in the Mojave. That would have been my preferred ending by far. Also, it gave me the wrong duster!

Aside from that; - item rewards were generally top-notch - the perk rewards were second only to becoming a cyborg in OWB. - there were no proper side quests, but at least you can roam the Divide looking for the eyebot upgrades and the warheads. - the story was pretty awesome what with hearing about Ulysses, your past and a brand new area. However, the plot would have been very confusing for someone who had not done any of the previous DLCs or wasn't paying attention. Q-35 16:16, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

I finished it. I let Ulysses live and stopped the launch (poor ED-E!). Wasn't too crazy about Lonesome Road. I felt like I was being told a story (I guess I was actually), but everything I was doing in the expansion had no other consequence then to just get Ulysses to tell me another installment of the story, which was a bit difficult to follow sometime given Ulysses' tendency to rant and not get to the friggin point! Any other NPC was there as a distraction since they had to be killed to move on (unless I missed something). Plus I don't know if Ulysses was feeding me a load of BS since we had nothing to back up his story, especially since his ultimate goal was to get his hands on ED-E. My character's story is now complete, it just feels a little hollow. Gambit001 18:43, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Fucking. Epic. All I can say. I loved the tone of this DLC as it slowly reveals the couriers dark past. I love how you're in the wrong place at the wrong time when you launch the warhead at Ashton at Ulysses later questions you about it. I had a nerdgasm walking into the temple to hear the stinger played only once before as you exit Doc's house play once more. I also totally agree with the skewed rewards. Cancelling the launch nets you rep with the Brotherhood and the Followers. Nuking both the Legion and NCR nets you rep with the Boomers and Powder Gangers PLUS access to 2 new areas both with notable unique loots. It seems to be a rule every now and then with New Vegas where if you want a nice piece of loot you might have to murder for it like La Longue Carabine. So if they don't want to give loot rewards for stopping the nuke they should reward rep with another 2 or 3 factions. In fact stopping the launch should give you boomer rep instead of launching because the Boomers would not like knowing they aren't the only ones with that kind of ordinance. Other factions I dunno, but ya you can't make people feel bad for picking the good karma option... there also isn't even an ending dialogue for stopping the launch... I don't know if that's acceptable. an0my(talk) 20:16, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I am finding it kind of boring. Problem with this drip, drip, drip of DLC is that you forget the story and usually haven't played the game for a while. I had pretty well forgotten all the factions, and didn't really care who I was in favour with and who I wasn't. It's not like it's hard to get the favour of a particular faction anyway, is it? If you have finished the main campaign then there is not much point in going back to it, (unless you like roaming around pointlessly). I'm also put off by the idiotic talking stealth suit I picked up, and the script in some of the DLCs. I know they are going for humour, but it just comes across as mostly lame and embarrassing. It all tends to come across as same shit different day. BTW Willow can follow you into the divide.


 * There is no companion in New Vegas named Willow, so how can Willow follow you into the divide?--Alpha Lycos 05:53, October 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * it's a mod ;) 82.173.213.195 11:11, October 4, 2011 (UTC)

I found this story to be immensely confusing. I'm still kind of confused. So were Hopeville and Ashton rebuilt post-war towns that were largely functional and back to pre-war levels of civilization...or were they towns that hadn't been affected at all? Had the Legion and the NCR encountered the towns BEFORE the devastation or only after? The Courier and Ulysses both visited the town pre-underground explosion. For some reason Ulysses really fell in love with the town(s) even though based on everything else we know about his character--he shouldn't. And was the Courier there or not? The game seemingly allows you to roleplay either option because you can deny knowing anything about it or just argue that you didn't know that the underground detonation was going to happen. And was it the Ed-E that the Courier brought? Or just it just an item that was later used to cause the detonation? (I think this might have actually been explained but I missed it). I found the Marked Men to be pretty boring adversaries and the tunnelers to be kind of ridiculous. --MikeJTanner 19:01, October 4, 2011 (UTC)MikeJTanner

Good DLC and a nice ending to things, although I was a bit disappointed at the lack of rewards for the stopping the nuke ending. Also, the DLC seems to think I sided with Mr. House even though I've killed him. I could still side with Yes Man or the NCR (sided with NCR in my first completion with my courier) but Mr. House just makes no sense! - Evar of Zentral

Yeah I got the NCR jacket which was disappointing. I didn't do Lonesome Road until right before the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam. Although I had a really high NCR rep, I was moving for an independent Vegas with Yes Man. I think because I must have answered the [NCR] option a couple of times during the Ulysses conversations. I thought I'd really like Duster.. but sleeveless long coats are kind of lame.--MikeJTanner 23:56, October 6, 2011 (UTC)

@last two posters; there are so many threads in this forum about this already and it's already on the page about the Courier duster; so think before you post! Q-35 09:21, October 7, 2011 (UTC)

I seriously have no clue what this last comment is about. Are you chastising us for discussing the duster? Why?--MikeJTanner 17:08, October 7, 2011 (UTC)