Talk:Heist of the Centuries/Archive 1

Anyone else thing the devs got REALLY FSCKING LAZY at the very end? If they wanted to make it as hard as possible to get out of the Sierra Madre with the loot, they could have just said that Elijah is familiar with Stealth Boys and immune to the Holorifle - which is the most powerful weapon available. It would make perfect sense for Elijah to give the key player a weapon he'd come to depend on, yet he was immune to! Instead they just waved the Magic Developer Wand and said "OMG I IS NO CAN HURT BY HOLOW GUN LS I TURN ON FRZFILD OK HER I GO SHUTE ME - I CAN SEEZ U STELTH BOY I MAK FRRZFILD GO SLAM SHUTE ME NOWZ". Better yet, he can run through the fscking forcefield even if it's on, as long as he's running from me! What. DID HE TURN IT OFF JUST TO FSCK WITH MY HEAD? And the security system's version CAN lock him in? Give me a break.Kalaong 19:36, December 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Damn dude calm down, it’s a game! For one thing it makes perfect sense that stealth boys would have little to no effect on him.  He's a former Brotherhood of Steal and he would be trained in stealth boy technology.  Because he’s coming down there against his better judgment he’s obviously going to be alert to any suspicious activity on your part.


 * Stealth boys don’t make you invisible, just very hard to see to the unknowing observer. I’m sure you can notice Nightkin when they’re cloaked cant you?  Similar to Operation Anchorage in Fallout 3, once you knew to look for them the Chinese wearing the stealth armor were pretty easy to spot.


 * Secondly he isn’t immune to the Holorifle, you can kill him with it. What happens is he is immune to any weapon until he sounds the alarm and turns on the force field.  It might be a little bit of a shortcut on the developers part, but I’ve seen worse.  Basically they didn’t want you getting out with all the gold.  If you’re encumbered, you cant move fast enough to either sneak past him and get to the elevator or escape the vault if you kill him in time.  Give it time, I’m sure some clever person will figure out a workaround or exploit to getting out with all the gold. ReapTheChaos 17:16, January 11, 2011 (UTC)

Not to anger you, but you need to remember that they run a budget, and most of it went into making a massive open world game. So before you start bitching again, you try making a fallout with a Small budget... you skittish bastard.--The OutCasts 10:49, December 23, 2010 (UTC)--The OutCasts 10:49, December 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * The critic does go a bit overboard but he/she has a point. Fallout 3/New Vegas and associated DLC are in some ways very well designed, but this makes their slips all the more obvious. Perhaps Elijah could see you with a stealth boy on (one would think it would be harder, though, even for him), but all too often in these games, stealth boys work and don't work in a weirdly random way. There are, to put it politely, a LOT of loose ends and the "on a budget" excuse won't fly for all of them. My own personal pet peeve is that the engine obviously needs replacement. The first time I ended Dead Money, I dashed to the door after killing Elijah only to have the game crash to desktop as soon as I tried to access the elevator. New Vegas in general has 1995 levels of stability and the various patches have done little to cure the problem. In Dead Money alone, I had at least a dozen unexplained crashes and freezes (and yes, my system specs are well above minimum). No wonder some people get hot under the collar and blow off steam at what seems like nothing to others. Wunengzi 14:18, February 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Stealth Boys work as intended, but in NV they are not "magical superpowers" like FO3. Not only the sneak level counts, but your armor too, if you have medium/heavy armor they make noise and even if you have 100 sneak + a stealth boy, running instead of walking next to a foe wearing medium/heavy armor makes them listen to you (unless you have the Silent Running perk). They don't find you, but they will be alerted. This is also true regarding Elijah, he can't find you but he will be aware that you are in the vacinity. If you wish to test, wear a medium armor and then a light armor, you will see the difference or try to complete the quest Come Fly with Me without killing the Nightkins, you'll have a hard time because they can see beyond a stealth boy and will spot you if too close to them. They are trained for this, remember? As for the bugs I agree with you, NV looks like CoD Black Ops, too buggy for my tastes, but I can overlook because of the story. But is too buggy, no one can denied it. Brfritos 01:43, March 1, 2011 (UTC)

not possible to get all gold
So it's basically impossible to get out with all the gold. Whoever wrote those steps must have come across a glitch. Elijah will see you when you go on the stairs and then activate the forcefield leaving you screwed. Is there any way to do it? I just can't figure out how. It sucks how they tease you like that. --155.138.3.20 01:16, March 23, 2011 (UTC)Skrote

The whole ending just plain sucks. I'm stuck trying to use the exploit mentioned and it's just NOT WORKING AT ALL. I won't go forward though, I've played through three times and I'm NOT doing it again. Someone PLEASE tell me how to get the gold so I can go back to Mojave.

It reminds me of Fable 2, where I hunted down all freakin' 50 gargoyles to get the reward, which turns out to be a ROTTEN APPLE! What the HECK?? --- HelenaHanbazkt


 * Wow, way to miss the point of the story. --80.5.222.104 23:31, April 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wow, way to miss the room in the back containing the awesome crossbow LucidDreams 01:55, April 10, 2011 (UTC)