why cant i use caps to get nuka colas from vending machines : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:14 pm

correct me if im wrong but i recall in fallout 2(froget about 1) you could put a cap in and a nuka cola shot out at you why cant you do this anymore?

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:40 pm

Because you can loot the machines for free?

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:45 pm

Because you can loot the machines for free?

yea but i think it would be cool to put a cap in it and out pops one out and if you have a high enough lockpick you can pick it open

» Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:05 am

yea but i think it would be cool to put a cap in it and out pops one out and if you have a high enough lockpick you can pick it open

it would quickly become a redundant immersion mechanism.

» Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:52 am

Why would it take a bottlecap to by soda from a Pre-War vending machine? The Nuka Cola Corp would have lost loads of money if all you had to do was put a bottlecap in to buy a drink.

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:02 pm

Why would it take a bottlecap to by soda from a Pre-War vending machine? The Nuka Cola Corp would have lost loads of money if all you had to do was put a bottlecap in to buy a drink.

Yup. Bottle Caps wasn't a currency before the war, so putting a bottle cap in there wouldn't do much.
And let's just think that the player finds something to pry open the door.

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:47 pm

And let's just think that the player finds something to pry open the door.

whho said prying i would just blow it open with my c4

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:42 pm

whho said prying i would just blow it open with my c4

I'd open it with my 'Nuka Cola Quantum' :hubbahubba:

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:01 pm

Colonel that sounds hella wrong lol>but my lock picking tool would be my riot shotgun or this machine ;p

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:58 pm

Fallout 2 didn't use Caps as currency. Are you sure it wasn't the NCR coins that make it work?

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:04 pm

That would be interesting. You buy nuka cola, take the cap off, put it in the machine to get another nuka cola, and repeat...

» Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:36 pm

Yup. Bottle Caps wasn't a currency before the war, so putting a bottle cap in there wouldn't do much.
And let's just think that the player finds something to pry open the door.

I'd imagine it's that magic screwdriver we (and no one else, apparently) seem to have, no matter the situation -- virtual reality, all items removed by casino security, whatever.

» Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:46 am

The other soda companies probably did that and went under cause of bankruptcy.
I mean, buy one soda, then pop in it's cap and get a new soda for free, then pop in "it's" cap and buy yet another soda for free!

And Fallout 2 didn't use bottle caps as currency, they used gold, sweet previous gold.