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radramblog · 4 years

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Have a plan to kill everyone you meet- Fallout New Vegas Genocide run notes

For some reason, and I can’t say why, I’ve had a hankering to play through Fallout: New Vegas again. There’s always a few quests I haven’t beaten, I guess, 100%% achievement completion or not.

However, video essays on moral choices in video games have been part of my feed recently, and like many, apparently, I’m someone who usually tries to pick the goody two-shoes options. But NO MORE! In this hypothetical future playthrough I wanna try and fuck over every single person, and for once end up with Bad Karma at the end.

I’ve seen a few things online about people doing murder only runs of this game, but I don’t think anyone’s tried this particular undertaking. Specifically, I’m not just gunning to gun down everyone I see, I’m going out of my way to kill as many named characters as possible. Using the Fallout Wiki as a hitlist, everyone it is possible to kill will be killed.

The following are my notes about routing such a playthrough. I hope they’re entertaining enough! :p

New Vegas Genocide Mode

The following characters cannot be killed for any reason:

The Forecaster, Melody, Max, Stacey, Lindsay, Pete, and Hector are all children and as such are undamagable- I’m sure a mod exists but I’m not gonna go download that, I don’t wanna end up on a list.

Festus is a robot whom projectiles pass through and who takes no damage from physical attacks. Besides, his artificial intelligence is limited enough that are you really actually killing anything there?

Vendortron is in an impenetrable booth, and while I’m pretty sure you can glitch into its box, I’m also pretty sure he respawns anyway.

Yes Man can be killed as many times as I like, and I will, but he always respawns so even if you piss off/kill off other factions you still have a path to endgame.

The following characters are mutually exclusive- i.e. you can get one, but not the other.

Ranger Stevens and Cato Hostilius- The missions You’ll Know It When It Happens and Arizona Killer are about being on the opposite sides of an assassination attempt on the President of the NCR. Ranger Stevens only shows up if you’re trying to stop it, and Cato Hostilius is your contact for trying to cause it.

Gabban, Alerio, and Martina Groesbeck- This all comes back to Vulpes Inculta. Vulpes shows up in two events- in Nipton when you first arrive there, and in the Strip when you leave the Tops after confronting Benny. Gabban replaces Vulpes in Nipton if you kill him in the Strip, and Alerio replaces him if you kill him at Nipton. If you don’t kill him at either, he returns to the Fort where you can receive a quest from him involving Martina. To my knowledge, she doesn’t spawn without that quest. I do need to investigate if in theory you can get the quest from Vulpes before killing him and without visiting Nipton, letting you kill both him and Gabban.

The Big Problem: Reputation

There are four characters whom only show up in their faction’s respective safehouses, requiring a significant dedication to not murdering people to unlock. In addition, access to certain quests with named characters (e.g. I Fought the Law) requires not being hated by the relevant faction. As such, we can’t start wantonly killing people until a certain point.

This gets complicated when it comes to the main 2 factions, being the Legion and the NCR. Fortunately, however, after the first act of the main story, reputation with both gets wiped (by Vulpes/Alerio and Crocker), which we can manipulate pretty well. It makes sense to do the NCR first, as reputation with them is more relevant overall and often costs Legion reputation.

This is the route I’ve figured out for how to work around this issue, including every quest that spawns uniquely named characters for us to murder. DLCs and Companions are currently not included, but shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. Except maybe Joshua Graham.

Start the game as a male character (Legion won’t let you in the pit fights if you’re a woman bc they’re sexist) and take Wild Wasteland (necessary for one event).

AVOID THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS/QUESTS: NIPTON, anywhere with major Powder Ganger concentrations, Ghost Town Gunfight/Run Goodsprings Run, Boulder City Showdown. We’re trying to maintain relationships with the NCR, Powder Gangers, and Great Khans as long as possible.

(At some point get enough Sunset Sarsaparilla Star caps to get Malcom to show up)

Head to Primm, picking up Ed-E and beginning his quest. This quest needs to be continued at minimum until April Martimer spawns in Freeside.

Solve Primm’s deputy problem somehow so Layla spawns later.

Make way to Freeside/New Vegas, however necessary.

Donate medical aid to Julie Farkas, raising Followers of the Apocalypse fame, until access to the Followers Safehouse is granted.

Go to the Atomic Wrangler and get Debt Collector (spawns Caleb McCaffery)

After acquiring the Cannibal perk, proceed down Beyond the Beef by working with Mortimer until Carlyle spawns.

Get and complete Bye Bye Love, spawning Big and Little Beard, making sure to kill everyone involved after Joanna gives the quest How Little We Know (spawns Cachino)

Go to Camp McCarran, and acquire quests Dealing with Contreras (spawns Keller), There Stands the Grass (spawns Keely), and Silus Treatment (lets you into Silus). Suck up to the NCR until access Colonel Hsu lets you into the Ranger Safehouse.

Go to Jacobstown and proceed along Guess who I Saw Today until Norton shows up.

Go to North Vegas Square and get Someone to Watch Over Me, proceeding until Greasy Johnny spawns.

Go to the Great Khan Encampment to get Don’t Make a Beggar of me, spawning Tyrone.

Go to the NCRCF and proceed down I Fought the Law, then betray the Powder Gangers to get Sergeant Lee to spawn.

Go to Hidden Valley and start Still in the Dark, spawning Ranger Dobson and killing him. Complete the quest to gain access to the Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse.

Go confront Benny at the Tops, resetting negative reputation with the Legion and NCR.

Proceed to the Fort and start the Legion questline, making sure to complete Laurifer Gladiator and start The Finger of Suspicion.

Keep going down the Legion Questline, eventually reaching Arizona Killer- make sure to kill Cato after assassinating Kimball and Watson.

If Lucius hasn’t given access to the Legion Safehouse yet, do bullshit for the Legion until he does (e.g. give Aurelius NCR Dogtags)

Once access is granted, it is now safe to start killing everyone! Have fun.

After the blood of your enemies, friends, and strangers covers everything, proceed down the Wild Card route to the endgame, making sure to kill Yes Man after every conversation, so you can get to the Second Battle of Hoover Dam and murder Legate Lanius. Don’t let Yes Man kill Lee Oliver, do it yourself!

As the credits roll, use glitches/godmode to regain control so you can go behind the slideshow and kill Ron the Narrator.

Still during the credits, end it all the only way we know how- blow yourself up, killing the last named character available to kill.

Maybe consider using console commands to spawn in the 2 characters that were mutually exclusive just to kill them. Might as well.

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juniorformulamotorsport · 6 years

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Saturday 1st/Sunday 2nd, July 2006 – Brands Hatch, London

Well, we had a really relaxing weekend at the DTM meeting at Brands Hatch. Charlie Kimball, being the lovable guy that he is, had very kindly got us some passes from his team (Signature Plus), as had our friend Mark Hillier who was running Julia Kuhn in the Euroseries F3, and was also working for Audi on Vanina Ickx’s car (we didn’t see much of Mark – he was a high speed blur in the distance, changing shirts so often it was a wonder he ended up wearing the right ones… Anyway, knowing there were passes at that end of the trip we dragged ourselves cross-country on Friday to go and stay with Angela and Gordon, who live about 15 minutes away from the circuit. It shouldn’t have been a cross country journey, but the roads seemed to be full of idiots, most of whom were spending Friday running into each other. The upshot of that was we went by a very convoluted route from Towcester to South East London and didn’t get there till about 9.30 that evening. Given the absurdity of the timetable on Saturday and Sunday, it was an early-ish night after a cold supper for us…

Saturday we needed to be at the circuit by 9.30 am, so we left at 9.00, meeting Bob and Andrea at the circuit in good time. Charlie came to meet us at the gate, and we managed to round up Mark’s Dad and Sister inside. As the passes from Mark were a) labelled with our names, and b) allowed us onto the grid for the F3s, we hung onto those. A swing through the F3 paddock revealed that we weren’t the only people spending our weekend off at an F3 race. There were several members of Carlin Motorsport and Raikkonen Robertson Racing swanning around, and Fortec Motorsport and Hitech Racing were both actually competing in the rival series. Basically, anyone who is anyone in F3 was there, pretty much. It wasn’t long before they started rounding up the cars in the assembly area, ready to let them through into the centre and the pit lane, so we hung around there taking lots of photos, and then made our way across to the grid, just because we could. Things overheard that amused me included one end of an exchange between Esteban Guerreri and one the Manor Motorsport boys. Having had all his times disallowed from qualifying, he was starting from the back of the grid. Manor boy, walking towards him from the front end of the grid, was heard to ask “Can you see the lights, Esteban?” I don’t know what sort of answer he got, but I’ll bet it wasn’t too polite. Anyway, we legged it back to the outside just after the five minute board was hung out, and had it not been for one of the orientals pitching into the gravel trap on the warm up lap, it’s unlikely we would have made it to Paddock Hill Bend in time for the start. What followed was one of the most processional races I’ve ever seen… What possessed the organisers to opt for the Indy circuit, and 57 laps of it at that, I have no idea, but the result was a very dull race indeed. There were the odd bits of entertainment, one of those being watching Guerreri try and hack his way back up the order, the other being Sebastian Vettel, the Euroseries’ 12-year old girl (to look at anyway – every series has one – it may be compulsory) attempting to glue himself to Paul di Resta’s gearbox im search of a way to get into the lead. And that was pretty much it. Charlie made up a couple of places at the start, but the car was horrible, and was understeering all over the place, so he couldn’t really do anything. He cheered up enough to invite us all to stop and have lunch, which was excellent. Note to self; if befriending a driver, try and persuade him to drive for a French team… Anyway, by then it was around 14.00, so we headed back to Eltham, stopping to buy Pimms on the way. A lazy afternoon in the garden, drinking said Pimms, was followed by a fairly busy evening.

Marc Hynes, 1999 British F3 Champion, and all-round good guy, has recently started a new business venture. He and his brother, along with a friend, have opened a bar and restaurant near Waterloo Station, something of a trendy area for bars and restaurants these days. Jack’s has been open five weeks now, so we figured we’d get ourselves there and see what it was like. Marc reserved us a table, and we arrived around 8pm. The actual bar is built into a huge railway arch, and the entire front is glassed in, the glass sliding across to open out onto the pavement. There were tables on the pavement, as well as inside, given the heatwave, but we were at the back in a semi-private room. The food was excellent (although the service got a bit disorganised – we never did see the French fries, though they also didn’t appear on the bill), the confit of duck being served on some interestingly pickled vegetables with Japanese pickled ginger that really too the fatty edge off the meat, and we drank a lovely refreshing rose wine for most of our stay. Apparently the chef was previously at the Oxo Tower, so it’s not surprising that he knows what he’s doing. I’m reliably informed that both the sausage and mash and the calves’ liver were also very good, and three courses and wine came out at around £30 each. By the time we left a handful of the Carlin boys and girls – including Olly Jarvis – had arrived, and they tried to drag us into a drinking contest, but we had more sense and went home instead! Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Don’t need to do it again…

Sunday we set off even earlier, which was just as well. The traffic into Brands was more than slightly horrible, and we ended up having to trek cross-country, down lots of tiny Kentish lanes, some of them only wide enough for a single car in one direction. We eventually got there around 9.30, the trip having taken an hour. This time we didn’t go on the grid, having decided it was too hot to rush back to get to somewhere where we could see. It didn’t seem worth the effort. Instead, we went to the start/finish line suites, having been invited up by Mike Conway’s father. It was lovely and cool up there, and we watched yet another less than scintillating F3 race, before retreating back to the paddock for lunch at Signature. Then we headed for the hills, getting out before the DTM’s finished. There were an awful lot of people there and we didn’t want to get caught up in traffic getting home. As it was, we were home by around 16.30, so we collapsed in the garden for a while, watched the Grand Prix and went to bed early.

Travel 2006 – Brands Hatch, London Saturday 1st/Sunday 2nd, July 2006 - Brands Hatch, London Well, we had a really relaxing weekend at the DTM meeting at Brands Hatch.

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Rules of the road

I love traffic lights. It doesn’t matter if they are red, yellow or green. It does not matter if they are flashing or solid. They help to keep the flow of traffic moving and are intended to add safety. They have proven to me to be a beneficial addition repeatedly. For me, they add a sense of security that I am in the proper lane for turning left or right or moving straight ahead. I have a view of such directional driving aids that, were they lacking, I might be in a position where I need to rely on the arrows painted on the road that are sometimes faint from years of existence or quite often obscured by vehicles. While many of us are aware that stop signs and yield signs are frequently ignored in our area anyway, not to mention the lack of lane changing signal use which is another story in its entirety, having the additional traffic light aids of blinking arrows are a definite positive addition to our traffic safety.

I’m just watching the news on television about the bicycle that was hit. He was obviously riding in the middle of the road where there are two double yellow lines, way over from where he should have been and he got hit. And now, it’s the motorist’s fault. I submit he should stay on the right hand side of the road … Stonehouse, same thing. They think they own the road, but they don’t. If they want to sue for their rights after they’ve been run over and killed, so be it.

Colonial Williamsburg

I think it would be good to temporarily reduce Colonial Williamsburg’s real estate taxes, except on property that has to do with: serving food, lodging, selling merchandise, luxury services (such as golf, spa), or is leased to others (U.S. Post Office downtown, a downtown bank, shops in Merchants Square area). If CW wants to be a not-for-profit museum, OK great, reduce taxes. But if they want to run businesses, CW needs to pay taxes like any other business. CW owns 302 parcels in Williamsburg, 11 in JCC and 13 in York County (326 total).

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My whole family is so upset and dismayed about the closing of the Kimball Theatre and other changes in Colonial Williamsburg. I believe I can sum the problem up in just a few words: Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.

Perhaps with all the changes at Colonial Williamsburg, management of the famed Williamsburg Inn’s Tranquility Pool seems to have gone the way of other CW institutions. On a recent long weekend, the noise and rambunctious levels rivaled a neighborhood pool party gone wild. From the loud-mouth bachelorette groups to the children playing Marco Polo, there was absolutely no enforcement of the pool’s former “quiet only” policy. In the event that an adult supervisor cannot monitor the policy, perhaps a few more signs might help guests better understand the word “tranquility.” Otherwise, you might as well go to Water Country USA for some peace and quiet.

With all of the recent negative news regarding the financial situation with Colonial Williamsburg and the termination of some employees, as well as the closing of the Kimball Theatre, we now are made aware that the solution to this problem is to have real estate taxes waived for the foundation.

I have been following the changes taking place at CW regarding outsourcing. It seems that the hotels will still be run and staffed by CW employees. Unless this is changed, the savings that CW hopes to make from outsourcing will not be realized. The hotel staff is union and well paid. Many are in tipped positions (bellmen, for example) and make tipped wages. One of the reasons I suspect CW wants to keep the hotels run and managed by its own staff is so the foundation can dictate the costs of food and beverage, lodging and other services that the hotels provide to the foundation for donor events and other entertainments. If the hotels were outsourced, those running the operations would not put up with this financial arrangement. Check out the losses the Inn and Lodge have incurred for the past 20 years if you want to have some idea of where CW is bleeding. Again, it’s not enough to outsource just the non-union jobs (golf course, maintenance, etc.). The real savings would be in having the unions go away when those hotel jobs are outsourced. I guess CW is not ready to take on that political issue; consequently they will not achieve their savings goals.

The Fourth of July fireworks in Colonial Williamsburg were beautiful, although the accompanied music was a distraction. First, the music selection was inconsistent with a patriotic celebration, but the biggest issue was the loud volume the music was played at. At times, the music overtook the sound of the fireworks. To add insult to injury, there was an announcement made during the grand finale! Please, leave the fireworks to the professionals.

Try apprenticeship

The average student loan debt for 2016 college graduates was $37,172 and 70 percent of the graduates left school owing money. Another more affordable choice is an apprenticeship, trade school or community college, all of which are an alternative to a college degree for starters. These students pay much less money to attend smaller and more flexible classes while graduating with the needed in demand skills to obtain a rewarding career with little or no debt.

Restaurant closed?

The Zaxby’s in this area was a great place to eat and recently it was temporarily closed. But then, when I went the day after when it was supposed to open, they said it was permanently closed and had no further information. So, does anybody know if we’re going to have a Zaxby’s? Are they going to open up in another location? Thank you.

Looking for …

Could anyone give me a reference on the nursing home called the Envoy of Williamsburg? I was thinking about entering a nursing home, and I wanted to know what the public thought of the Envoy. Thank you.

The Williamsburg Youth Football and Cheerleading League is in need of cheer coaches for cheerleaders ages 5-12. No experience is needed, just enthusiasm and a willingness to guide young people. Please contact Jen Waymire at 757-604-1450 or [email protected] for more information.

I was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia and I was wondering if there is a support group here in Williamsburg.

I noticed someone was asking how to get a phone book with the residential numbers. That number is 1-877-243-8339.

New stores

I was told at one time that we were going to get a Costco in this area, and it was going to be located where the closed JC Penney and the Best Buy and Target stores were out there on Route 199. Does anybody have any information on the status of Costco? And possibly a good recommendation to have some kind of food place out there for people who shop to have somewhere to eat? Thank you.

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