After my 4000-word essay on Fallout 4 from a few weeks ago, I got a bit nostalgic for the good times I had in Fallout: New Vegas. After reinstalling it and all the DLC, I started a new playthrough last night. I built myself a Speech/Lockpicking/Science character with a heavily INT-focused SPECIAL build and got started. Almost immediately everything started rushing back to me, from the layout of Goodsprings to the locations of the skill magazines and snow globes I would need to pick up. It was like coming home, especially compared to the aborted Skyrim replay I started and abandoned less than two hours in a week before.
I finished the immediate intro and then headed to the Prospector's Saloon, and when I got there I decided to do Sunny Smiles' tutorial missions to get the free Varmint Rifle, even though my Guns stat is so low I likely won't be able to do much damage with it for a while. After clearing out all the Geckos, I ran into Barton Thorn, an NPC I somehow managed to miss every single time I've played this game in the past. I went up the hill to kill some more Geckos for him, survived his ambush, and then started to walk back to town.
While walking through the streets of Goodsprings, the music sting played, and "QUEST FAILED: GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT" swept across the screen. I was very confused, because not only had I not done anything to fail the quest, I hadn't even spoken to Trudy or Ringo to trigger it yet. I made it back to the Saloon, and immediately everything became clear. A Giant Radscorpion was sitting on the front porch, several dismembered corpses strewn around it, with Cobb from the Powder Gangers pointlessly firing shots at it. Its HP had barely gone down at all. With my pathetically low Guns stats and a fairly low-condition Varmint Rifle providing no benefits, it killed Cobb and then took me down in two hits too.
I don't know how that Radscorpion made it to Goodsprings less than half an hour into my playthrough, or why it decided to murder every living thing within range, but I laughed my ass off. I hadn't even saved my game yet, and my only autosave thus far was still after the scorpion had failed the questline for me, so my only recourse was to just start the whole game over. Luckily all I lost was about 20 minutes of my time.
I love this stupid, broken-ass game. Is anybody else replaying New Vegas right now? Share your glitch stories! I want to hear about all the ways it breaks for you too.
I finished the immediate intro and then headed to the Prospector's Saloon, and when I got there I decided to do Sunny Smiles' tutorial missions to get the free Varmint Rifle, even though my Guns stat is so low I likely won't be able to do much damage with it for a while. After clearing out all the Geckos, I ran into Barton Thorn, an NPC I somehow managed to miss every single time I've played this game in the past. I went up the hill to kill some more Geckos for him, survived his ambush, and then started to walk back to town.
While walking through the streets of Goodsprings, the music sting played, and "QUEST FAILED: GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT" swept across the screen. I was very confused, because not only had I not done anything to fail the quest, I hadn't even spoken to Trudy or Ringo to trigger it yet. I made it back to the Saloon, and immediately everything became clear. A Giant Radscorpion was sitting on the front porch, several dismembered corpses strewn around it, with Cobb from the Powder Gangers pointlessly firing shots at it. Its HP had barely gone down at all. With my pathetically low Guns stats and a fairly low-condition Varmint Rifle providing no benefits, it killed Cobb and then took me down in two hits too.
I don't know how that Radscorpion made it to Goodsprings less than half an hour into my playthrough, or why it decided to murder every living thing within range, but I laughed my ass off. I hadn't even saved my game yet, and my only autosave thus far was still after the scorpion had failed the questline for me, so my only recourse was to just start the whole game over. Luckily all I lost was about 20 minutes of my time.
I love this stupid, broken-ass game. Is anybody else replaying New Vegas right now? Share your glitch stories! I want to hear about all the ways it breaks for you too.
