as far as the choice at the end goes?

my plan was to stop the launches and be a hero. . .then I realized that you sacrifice ED-E to do that my thought process:

*looks at ED-E sadly. . .looks at the button that will rain fire on the west. . .*

"the west had its chance !"

*presses button!*

my reason for nuking both and not just one? I don't discriminate so what did you choose and why?

Same as you but not because of ed-e. I didn't even know you had to sacrifice it to stop the launch. I've always launched at both sides. For recreational purposes usually.

It depends..... my first time through I bombed both sides and went back to finish up with Mr house. Made things interesting to fight multiple assassin squads, but when your working for house your not in it to make friends anyway. Otherwise depends on the character, I have had a few that stopped the bombs even though they worked for a specific faction, just seemed too cruel. Other guys have been pretty "gung ho" about nuking the enemy back to the stone age.... again;)

I usually plug the mouthy one and then nuke the legion. Since I am on Houses Side, it makes sense to me.


I want NCR to bleed enough at the Dam to be evicted. I don't want them to bleed out and bleed so hard that Vegas goes [censored] up. After all, the Legion might do some business in Vegas, but a Vegas under the Legion will slowly die out, and a Vegas under NCR will see everything not bolted to the floor go back to the NCR bureaucracy.

So. I hit the Legion as hard as I can, then make sure that the NCR suffers a defeat, but not one that is too costly in manpower or loss of face. After all, I do want their caps to migrate to Vegas.

Aaand… well, Ulyssus. I plug him because I think the guys is flawed to the point where he is crippled. But thats an old horse and Id rather not drag it out of the barn again.

Your not sacrificing ED-E, your sacrificing the hardware he is riding around in. Much like Victor's AI could move from one Securitron to another, so does ED-E's AI. Once I realized this, the decision was easy.

You can still listen to the audio logs and have all of ED-E's new abilities in the Mojave.

Before that, it haven't been?

Which reminds me of http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/9413135.jpg

I sacrificed the E-DE (or his hardware) to prevent launch. I always do things that way, preventing the bloodshed when I can.

Honestly, I launch at both sides just to open up two new areas to explore.

I never rescue E-DE anyways(that lonesome road perk), so it's always an interesting choice.

ED-E becomes the valiant sacrificial hero that stops the nuking of NCR and the Legion and I reason with Ulysses as I don't think he deserves death, just angry and needed to get answers for all the dead there.

Only an idiot thinks launching nukes is a good idea, despite the evidence of nuclear fire 200 years ago being all around them.

My Canon is using Divide ED-E to stop the launch after talking to Ulysses and killing many Marked Men with Him.

I have launched at both sides in a few playthroughs for Loot, but I do not like fighting Hit Squads for twenty Hours or More of Gameplay.

I have done all of the possible endings for the DLC, except just walking away.

You can hit them really early in game Bradley and then go to strip and get rep restored, pretty messed up, but it works. This is from what I have heard, I like to explore and play out my characters mistakes, so I don't tend to meta-game my way through stuff as others on here seem to prefer.

Only finished it once, NCR-aligned, although I haven't yet decided NCR or Indy. But I think I'll go NCR. Ulyssess' final message convinced me.

As for the ending, I talked him down, and am glad I did. He killed most of the Marked Men, I probably only killed one or two.
As for the nukes, my character is villified with the Legion, so the choice seemed obvious, but I couldn't bring myself to launch the nukes at anyone, so I cancelled the launch. I was glad to find out that my trusty robot had sent ot's data to the original ED-E, as he had been my character's only friend on this hellish road

I negotiated with Ulysses and stopped the launch. Earth's seen enough nukes going off, and doesn't need more ash and radiation in the upper atmosphere drifting all over the planet. I emasculate the legion by killing Caesar (and Lanius later).

I actually think the NCR is cool, they just need to learn that the whole world isn't untapped wilderness for them to conquer. And the Legion is a bunch of brainwashed slaves so I feel bad unleashing nukes on them. And, well, Ed-E seems really gung-ho about stopping the launch, and who am I to argue? I don't agree that the sacrifice is meaningless, since the other Ed-E it sends its upgrades and memories to isn't the same one, so I always come about as close as I've ever come in Fallout to shedding a tear when the little beeper goes up.

As for Ulysses, I talk him down. Apart from anything else he's a tough son of a [censored], and I'd rather have him on my side when the Marked Men show up.

I stop the nukes, it's been 200 years since the bombs dropped and the world is still effed. Dropping 1 or 2 more sets it back another 100 years at least.

Besides, if I need to, i can kill their entire armies myself. Duh.

I just can't bring myself to drop more nukes on the world - hasn't it been nuked enough already and do I really need more loot that badly at the late stage of the game? - so I always stop the launch. As far as Ulysses goes, I've both talked him down and killed him.