Rewriting Fallout: New Vegas

[Atomic Postman]

I agree that the uniform doesn't really sell Roman aside from the skirt/uniformity/kind of the color sceme, but I think that's a good thing - if they looked like Romans, they would look half way noble and not like an army of tyrannical slavers that in reality have very little to do with Rome. Plus I think a leather galea would probably look dumb.

Just a simple leather football cap works really well with the rest of the outfit, and the addiotion of the feathers as an imitation of a horsehair plume both because horses are extinct and to signify their tribal influence works perfect for me.

I would argue that them being sold with such strong aesthetic premise is precisely the kind of thing you want out of a group like the Legion. Again, I agree the post-apoc interpretation of the plumes is good too. I didn't think the leather galea looked dumb on the Skyrim Imperial Soldiers, and combined with the Mad Max style face-cloth and goggles I think it'd look really good.

 

[Hardboiled Android]

I would argue that them being sold with such strong aesthetic premise is precisely the kind of thing you want out of a group like the Legion. Again, I agree the post-apoc interpretation of the plumes is good too. I didn't think the leather galea looked dumb on the Skyrim Imperial Soldiers, and combined with the Mad Max style face-cloth and goggles I think it'd look really good.

Eh, agree to disagree.

 

[TheGM]

Sometimes I think people forget the Legion are a bunch of Tribals larping as the Romans based on what a guy who read a book told them.

As for rewriting stuff....is it really a rewrite when half of the legion stuff isn't implemented? It would have been great to see what Legion territory looks like besides their frontier military encampments.

 

[Sublime]

Sometimes I think people forget the Legion are a bunch of Tribals larping as the Romans based on what a guy who read a book told them.

As for rewriting stuff....is it really a rewrite when half of the legion stuff isn't implemented? It would have been great to see what Legion territory looks like besides their frontier military encampments.

More than a rewrite, New Vegas needs a remake/expansion I'd say

Anyway I always found strange that the NCR didn't annex small communities such as Primm or Goodsprings for taxes and recruits

 

[Iprovidelittlepianos]

Anyway I always found strange that the NCR didn't annex small communities such as Primm or Goodsprings for taxes and recruits

Sergeant Hayes says that NCR doesn’t have the manpower to “annex” towns like this, until after the second battle of Hoover dam at least. The NCR sees towns like Primm and Goodsprings as not worth their time.

 

[Sublime]

Sergeant Hayes says that NCR doesn’t have the manpower to “annex” towns like this, until after the second battle of Hoover dam at least. The NCR sees towns like Primm and Goodsprings as not worth their time.

Thanks. I must have missed that bit of lore

 

[Iprovidelittlepianos]

Thanks. I must have missed that bit of lore

No problem, it’s explained during the My Kind of Town quest. You have to convince the guy at the Mojave Outpost (Major Knight I think?) that Primm is an economically strategic town to have under your control before he’ll send Hayes another unit to help police the town.

 

[Iprovidelittlepianos]

If this thread includes the DLCs, I’ve had an idea for a while regarding the vending machines at the Sierra Madre.

These machines are just way too powerful how they’re presented, able to create pretty much anything and having no apparent downsides. It doesn’t make sense that Sinclair is the only one that saw potential in this. The US government alone would have so much to gain from investing in this technology. And even if this tech is so recent that it hasn’t been introduced yet (Elijah calls them common pre-war conveniences, but I think Old World Blues retconned that) I don’t like the idea that the world of Fallout was just a few years away from some kind of Star Trek utopia. It doesn’t seem thematically appropriate to me that advanced technology could’ve saved the pre war world if only they had enough time. I like to think of the Great War as inevitable. That being said, I do like the machines and how they play into the world of Dead Money. It’s not so much that I don’t think this tech should exist, it’s just that there should be more convincing reasons that this stuff isn’t everywhere already.

Now combine this with the Cloud. A cool idea in my opinion, unique and mysterious and feeling right at home in the Fallout world. Then Old World Blues goes and cheapens it by revealing that it’s some toxin created at Big MT and they simply used the Sierra Madre to test it. I hate this for the same reason I hate most Vault experiments. It’s so unnecessarily evil. “Instead of testing on POWs or convicts, let’s test this poison on a bunch of unsuspecting civilians at some private resort casino!” It’s like, what’s the point?

So I figured we should just combine these two. The Cloud is created by these Vending Machines’ “exhaust” (whatever arcane radioactive gas that may be). It makes the Cloud more of an unintended consequence of advanced technology, as opposed to a purposely engineered weapon. And it makes it so that this unbelievably advanced Vending Machine technology was doomed from the start, as opposed to being utopian technology in a dystopian world.

sorry for the double post

 

[Hardboiled Android]

Personally I feel like the best solution to the vending machines is to just take away all of their magic powers, just handwave it and say they're connected via pneumatic tube to a central depository or something, though your solution is a lot more elegant. I'm more mixed on the Cloud.