Isn't the Sierra Madre supposed to be open for exploring?

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mikeyhorror

First time out of the vault
Hey guys, need a little help here. I have the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition and it says that it includes all DLC now open for exploring. So my question is if all DLC is open for exploring, hiw do you go back to the Sierra Madre Casino?
 
Unless they changed it for the Ultimate Edition, once you complete Dead Money you can't go back to the Sierra Madre, sadly.
 
That's the thing. The back of the game case leads you to believe that you can go back. It reads, and I quote: "New Vegas is more expansive than ever with the Sierra Madre Casino, Zion National Park, Big MT research crater and the treacherous Divide now open for exploring.
 
Are you on a console or PC? For the PC there is a mod that gives you a hatch in the Brotherhood bunker that you can use to return to the Sierra Madre after you have finished Dead Money.

Sierra Madre EXIT Door
 
I believe it's just an expression. I mean, it's indeed open for exploring... while you're doing its main quest.
 
^ What Oppen said. It's "open for exploring" in the regard that, in the vanilla game, it was not. Poorly phrased marketing copy, I think, but not enough to win you life on easy street via a false advertising lawsuit.

Then again, I don't own the Ultimate Edition, myself. There may yet be hope. I doubt it, though.
 
Only to get all the rest of the gold... which would be against the point of the DLC. It is the only FNV DLC where it makes no sense to be able to go back again.
 
Once you finish the DLC, you're locked out of the casino vault anyway-- you wouldn't be able to go back to get the gold regardless of whether they let you return to the Sierra Madre. I can see wanting to return to complete the Dead Money challenges and achievements, or if you'd missed out on unlocking certain items in the vending machines. Only getting one chance to break the bank at the Sierra Madre casino is kind of a pain, too-- I'm never, never in the mood after completing a Dead Money run. It seems like too much of a break in the tension if you do it before finishing your business there, and as much as I love the DLC, once I'm done with the main story my overriding instinct is always to get back to freedom as soon as possible.
 
Yamu said:
Once you finish the DLC, you're locked out of the casino vault anyway-- you wouldn't be able to go back to get the gold regardless of whether they let you return to the Sierra Madre. I can see wanting to return to complete the Dead Money challenges and achievements, or if you'd missed out on unlocking certain items in the vending machines. Only getting one chance to break the bank at the Sierra Madre casino is kind of a pain, too-- I'm never, never in the mood after completing a Dead Money run. It seems like too much of a break in the tension if you do it before finishing your business there, and as much as I love the DLC, once I'm done with the main story my overriding instinct is always to get back to freedom as soon as possible.
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This.

I hate that damn cloud
 
I think the police pistol and the Automatic Rifle (FND version of BAR) are the real treasures of the Sierra Madre.

So what about the gold... if you actually need it to buy stuff in FO NV, then you are doing "IT" wrong.
 
I aways drop the Gold on the Lucky 38 as decoration. Same Thing I do with the Scripture in Honest hearts, placing the Gold Bars well it's a lot harder since you can't Z drop them.
 
I take about 4 gold bars. As much as I can carry without giving up my unique equipment anyway. I keep one in my house and sell the rest. Still haven't been able to afford the Bozar. That thing costs an arm and a leg. Also my barter skill is pretty rubbish and I spend loads of caps on implants. As for returning to the Sierra Madre it wouldn't really make sense with the themes of the expansion.
 
How to get back

It's very simple actually all you have to do is
Delete and reinstall the DLC and volla your back in the villa
 
Yamu said:
Once you finish the DLC, you're locked out of the casino vault anyway-- you wouldn't be able to go back to get the gold regardless of whether they let you return to the Sierra Madre. I can see wanting to return to complete the Dead Money challenges and achievements, or if you'd missed out on unlocking certain items in the vending machines. Only getting one chance to break the bank at the Sierra Madre casino is kind of a pain, too-- I'm never, never in the mood after completing a Dead Money run. It seems like too much of a break in the tension if you do it before finishing your business there, and as much as I love the DLC, once I'm done with the main story my overriding instinct is always to get back to freedom as soon as possible.
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I have to force myself to stay and clean out the blackjack tables but i know what you mean when you get out of the vault you want to gtfo back to vegas
 
outofthegamer said:
Is there a good reason for going back there? I was happy when it was over, and didn't want to ever go back.
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Haha, same here... :D

I even went as far as to uninstall the DLCs, and leave only the vanilla game. The only times I miss the DLCs is whenever I come across the very obvious "gateways" there, such as the entrance to the abandoned BoS bunker.

I just really liked the feeling and atmosphere of the vanilla game, and each of the DLCs broke so fiercely with that environment, each one felt - to me - like wandering around a bad dream (in this respect, the Sierra Madre one was the most nightmareish, for obvious reasons... )

NOW
to be completely fair
I was severely sleep-deprived, and played through all DLCs in one setting, none the less, I hardly miss them.

The one with the red canyons glitched a lot, and would get this strong green hue, that completely ruined immersion whenever it happened,
and the one with the huge laboratory area was also glitched, and crashed a lot on me, especially when entering doors (for some reason)

I also didn't like the idea of my brain being taken out of me, I appreciate the creepyness-factor etc, but once I was back in the wasteland... I kindov felt violated and traumatized, so...

vanilla wasteland for me :'I
 
Yes... let go of the gold, after all, that's the point of the DLC!

Over my dead body, or Elijah's, actually. To this day I've never left a single gold bar behind, since I found out if you kill him fast enough in the end, the force field on that door won't go back up and you can just waltz on out.

No, I'm not missing the point of the DLC and how greed dooms you, who said that? Not at all!

Totally.

G-gotta get the gold. :twitch:
 
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