In Fallout: New Vegas, there are fundamentally two different types of quests. For when we say that Fallout: New Vegas is a game about doing what you want, treating people however you'd like, and making both easy and complicated choices with lasting implications, well. As we mentioned earlier, there are main tasks to complete to inch closer to the end of the game, but the real meat of the game rests with everything else. The fully-realized, extremely expansive Mojave Wasteland is quite literally yours to explore as you'd like, so long as you can survive long enough to do so. So let's get to it.Īt the heart of your Fallout: New Vegas experience will be open-ended exploration. And then there are choices to make, people to meet, and a bunch of other important aspects of the game that we'll discuss in subsequent sections. The open-world nature of the title means you can explore whatever you want whenever you want (as long as you can survive long enough to do so), and it's easy to get sucked into dozens of hours of simple exploration without doing anything mandatory to get through the game itself.

But New Vegas provides you with so much more than that. There's a main task in the game, to be sure, and you'll follow along with a series of missions to get to the end of the game. What's most notable about Fallout: New Vegas (and Fallout 3 before it), however, is just how incredibly non-linear it is. Your lone character in New Vegas will be customized at the beginning of your adventure, both statistically and aesthetically, and you'll be stuck with that character moving forward with your experience. Many identify Fallout: New Vegas as an RPG - or more succinctly, a western-style RPG (WRPG) - though it has shooter and action elements as well. The game is intended to be played in first-person, though you can also play in a far clunkier third-person mode as well. A direct follow-up to 2008's smash-hit Fallout 3, New Vegas was developed by a different studio, but is essentially Fallout 3's spiritual successor (it's important to note that this isn't Fallout 4, which is upcoming in the next couple of years). If you're new to Fallout games, Fallout: New Vegas is the second Fallout game of its kind. Intermediates and experts, however, can feel free to jump around at will, as there's no doubt plenty of information here that they already know, sprinkled with plenty of information they don't yet know.

Novices and other players new to the Fallout universe will generally want to read this lengthy Basics section from front to back, starting here and working your way sequentially through each Basics section. all of the basics, fundamentals, and things you absolutely must know in order to survive your time in the Mojave Wasteland. Welcome one, welcome all, to the gigantic Basics section to our Fallout: New Vegas strategy guide. The Fundamentals Intermediate Tactics Advanced Tactics Ten Tips

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