Forum:So I sided with House (LR Spoilers)

...but I was at the point in the questline where I suddenly gained the 'Idolized' status with the NCR to protect Kimball and all that and it carries on being at 'Idolized' as I get to the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam; i.e. right near endgame.

I do all of the other DLCs and do a playthrough of Lonesome Road and I feel a little insulted by Ulysses constantly insinuating I'm NCR every time he talks to me and I don't even get the option to go 'Screw the NCR, that was just fake reputation to help with House's agenda' (except something among those lines in the end conversation, when it's all too little too late)

I carry on and all the meaningful sounding talk about 'whose flag I carry' and who the courier is is kinda lost as I'm thinking: "This 'NCR' courier is not my courier". In the end I bombed the NCR to metaphorically defecate on Ulysses' idea of who my courier was. Doesn't stop him giving me a two-headed bear duster though does it? Its 25 carry weight increase is welcome but kind of unneeded as I have a high carry weight anyway. The big thing though is that the 'journey of discovery' about the courier's connection with Ulysses didn't seem to happen as he failed at making me believe he knew my character at all, and all the build up felt like it led to nowhere.

I know I can go and alter the end bit to get a different duster and what not but frankly it's not that I want to change. I'd rather do all of the dialogue again for who I was actually affiliated with. Just a little rant and maybe I should be thankful, I've heard Ulysses speeches go around in circles if he knows you sided with House.

Hello there, the reason you're having all that talk with Ulysses about the NCR when you're actually with House is because the game thinks you're aligned with the NCR due to your high reputation with them. There is no House faction as such, so there is no reputation associated it and since the system bases on reputation, it chose the next highest reputation, assuming that you have negative rep with the Legion and had nothing to do with Yes Man.

TL:DR - the game doesn't recognise House as a faction so you're highest faction rep is NCR so you got the wrong duster and small-talk with Ulysses. Q-35 10:55, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

It'll be interresting when I do it considered I sided with Yes-man (to the point where I have to get the boomers and what not) and I also iniated positive conversation with Caesar which gave me his main questline to kill house and what not. Because I didn't want to be evil with caesar, i turned in the 'kill house' questline and now he wants the boomers. Yes man is installed, caesar thinks im working with him, and NCR has no idea about it all. Although I'm idolized by everyone.... The game is just going to explode when I try and get a duster. I'll have 2 headed bear with 1 head being a bull and a "21" slapped on the bear's side. --24.36.136.171 13:18, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

For me he thought I was working with House, although I'd killed House and installed Yes Man. It was really irritating.

^^^ Seconded. I had the same thing. I'm all for people not placing blind faith in flags and symbols, so would have thought the yes man ending would be the easiest to explain to Ulysses as being an attempt at getting away from subscribing to symbolism. All in all, very annoying as I thought House was smarmalade on toast, it was his condescension and dismissive attitude that convinced me that he wasn't up to running Vegas for the good of anyone or anything, other than his bank balance. 87.102.49.21 22:46, September 25, 2011 (UTC)