Fallout: New Vegas - Non-lethal + Stealth

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Published on August 23, 2021 5:00:20 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Li9fwO06M

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Fallout: New Vegas (2010)

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Yes, you can complete the main quest without kills and without being detected by any hostiles. Though once again, I was routing this while recording, so it's not optimal by any means.

This playthrough was haunted by a shadow. Like Daniel in The Dark Descent, something sinister was constantly a few steps behind, hunting the Courier. Every now and then you can see the VATS combat tip appearing in the corner of the screen and the stealth indicator reads [CAUTION] for no reason. It also causes all the NPCs to panic. It was rather creepy. I guess the game can't really handle it when the player is never attacked by any hostile entity and then leaves them all alive. So, all those hostile enemies are stuck in some adjacent cell of the Gamebryo engine, trying to break free. Like Z̘a̴̳̝͇l̰g̖o,̻̞ ͈w̱̯ai̘̲͈t̵̥̪i҉n̶͈̠g͖̪̠ ͙̣͈b̠͟eḩ̱i͔̲̫n̩d̥̞͉͜ ͉͉̀T͏he͉̳̳ ̷̭̮ͅWa̷ll.͙͈

I decided to try and do all of Yes Man's side content as well, however for some reason it didn't let me do the presidential protection detail quest, and also allying with the Brotherhood would require a whole string of other quests that are extremely difficult to do stealthily, plus a whole bunch of NCR quests to get the two factions to form a truce. So I just did the bare minimum quest for them and called it a day. I barely had enough Stealth Boys for the epilogue anyway. Also, Hardcore Mode is on because I've never played the game with it off.

This is one of those games where stealth only exists when you're crouched. The enemy AI is incapable of not knowing you're there if you're standing upright, even when you're literally invisible, in pitch black darkness and behind a wall. As soon as you stand up they will start detecting you and after a second or two you will be in combat. -And even when crouching, the stealth skill and its related perks barely do anything, especially outdoors. That's why you need to hunt for the Stealth Boy items and use them strategically. In other words, the stealth skill is basically just as terrible as it is in Fallout 1 and 2.

The fast travel might not make sense all the time because I'm constantly going to the hotel room to get the Well Rested status effect for extra XP. I'm editing it out because the video is too long already. For the fast-forwarded travel I used the Fallout 2 car travel song because it's comfy.

The only mods used are superficial. "Clarity" removes most of the color filters and allows the game world to be displayed as it is instead of in a yellow hue. "Easy lockpicking and hacking" removes player skill from those minigames because only character skill should be checked in a RPG and the minigames should not exist.

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