I Can't Believe I Never Knew This! : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:31 pm

Wow, wow... Thanks OP! I had no idea and actually I was not selling stuff sometimes just because it was a mess finding things on that list.
Continuous drinking is a new one too, I love this thread.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:19 pm

I've been playing Fallout 3 for years and New Vegas since it came out a day or so ago and I NEVER EVER knew that you can click the little arrows at the top of a trade screen to sort by item type.

Oh... My... God... Becky. Look at that list... *dum dum dum dum* I like BIG BUTTONS and I can not lie!

*kills himself and then the hostages*

This is the single most useful post I have ever seen on the internet.
Really.
I completely missed that feature.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:23 am

This is the single most useful post I have ever seen on the internet.
Really.
I completely missed that feature.

I agree. Even though it makes me feel I've been riding the Fail Train. :facepalm:

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:55 pm

You do also know that you can turn on flaslight by holding the pip-boy button ...

I didn’t discover this until well into my second play through of F3. So ….some two hundred something hours of game play to figure out what most people knew from the start. Ever since I started using Steam I stopped reading manuals - used to read them while waiting for the game to load from the discs.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:10 pm

I'm glad you guys found this post useful

I don't feel like such a big doofus now :foodndrink:

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:04 pm

I've been playing Fallout 3 for years and New Vegas since it came out a day or so ago and I NEVER EVER knew that you can click the little arrows at the top of a trade screen to sort by item type.

Oh... My... God... Becky. Look at that list... *dum dum dum dum* I like BIG BUTTONS and I can not lie!

*kills himself and then the hostages*

I didn't know that for FO3 either until I requested a mod for it like a month or so ago and people were like "It's already in the game!"

D:

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:08 pm

Huh!

Next time you're surrounded by enemies...

Push and HOLD the VATS key.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:37 pm

Huh!

Next time you're surrounded by enemies...

Push and HOLD the VATS key.

Ach, don't leave me hangin' man, what's it do?

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:05 am

Great thread.

I didn't know about the continuos drinking either, nor about the F1-3 shortcuts, thanks for those advices!

Today I just found out accidently that you can push brahmin, that's so funny (poor brahmin though).

All the time that I was playing FO3 I didn't know this clock-like thing at the left of the pip-boy shows how irradiated you are. :whistling:
I thought it was pure decoration and did always look in the pip-boy menu to find out my rad-level. I figured it out when I read the NV-manual.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:24 pm

Epic revive man.

oh well, I guess this will help someone.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:10 pm

ok, truth time. duh.

I didn't know about the Pip-Boy light either.
I didn't know how to grab an item and carry it in front of me.
I never ran into DogMeat and didn't know you could have 2 companions. I only had Fawkes late in the game.

I had a great time in Fallout3 even though I did everything I could to unknowingly make it harder.

:fallout:

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:55 pm

I recall a thread where someone listed being unable to sort items and having to scroll the entire list as a point in a vitriolic complaint. So you're not the first.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:53 pm

you can do that in oblivion too OP.

» Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:59 am

I've had Fallout 3 since release day and only just realized that activating a tame Brahmin while in sneak mode makes your character push it over. Did you guys know that?

Are...are you serious? Never knew that, never thought to try to steal from a brahmin in sneak mode.... interesting.... *runs to shelf and frantically gets out FO3

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:25 pm

Epic revive man.

Oops, I didn't realize the thread was this old. :unsure:

Oh well, I guess that's okay since the thread is about confessing you were dumb. :tongue:

@Rini20: No need to get out FO3, you can do that in NV too.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:46 pm

Oops, I didn't realize the thread was this old. :unsure:

Oh well, I guess that's okay since the thread is about confessing you were dumb. :tongue:

Hey, no complaint here. Now I have to go home and hold down the VATS button to figure out what the heck it does. I use VATS a lot!

Also, better to consolidate into fewer threads than to have a dozen threads on the same topic. Makes searching easier.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:55 am

Actually last night I just figured out you can continously drink water out of like the sink and lake and stuff, I had been pressing X every time.

» Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:27 am

If you have sidescroll on your mousewheel you can use it to sidescroll through the tabs in your PipBoy.

» Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:34 am

You can use the wheel to move through the item categories too, though this tiny hidden feature is rather buggy and sometimes it won't respond unless you click one of the arrows first.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:11 pm

Actually last night I just figured out you can continously drink water out of like the sink and lake and stuff, I had been pressing X every time.

And toilets. Everybody loves drinking from the clean, clean Mojave toilets...

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:51 pm

Holy pancakes, I never knew about item sorting or continuous drinking!!! I'm gonna try out that holding V thing too. Pushing brahmin is actually a throwback to Fallout 1 and 2, where you could do the same thing.

» Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:28 am

Does the VATS scanning work on the 360? How about drinking continuously?

My brother plays on the 360 and put about 200+ hours in FO3 and he didn't know about the option to pick up items and hold them in front of you until NV came out and I described it to him.

Also of note: I have yet to be yelled at or attacked for picking up items and holding them in front of me, walking to a place I am hidden, and then stealing it. Anyone else? First time I had to do this was when I'd stolen some NCR armor, tried to give it to Cass and she dropped it to the ground in the middle of the strip. I just picked it up, wandered out of sight, went to sneak-mode and "took" it again.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:57 pm

When playing fallout 3, for the first 2 or 3 weeks, I didn't know you could "wait." I pressed select by accident, and saw the wait option. a true "d'oh!" moment.

» Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:09 am

When playing fallout 3, for the first 2 or 3 weeks, I didn't know you could "wait." I pressed select by accident, and saw the wait option. a true "d'oh!" moment.

Holy hell. I did that in oblivion through 76 hours of gameplay. When I found out, I scrapped the character because it was a level 12 jumper, level 2 swordsman.

» Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:01 pm

I got the Pipboy light thing from the manual I think but it took me a couple of months to realize I could hold down the E key and drink continuously. Did it by accident and was all like

SAME, I was talking to someone on the same room as me (IRL) and kept my finger
on the space-bar, I looked back and was like OMG!!!!!!!