One of the best thing about the Fallout games
is modding community that continue to support and make new things for the games even a decade
after they’re released. Some mods are bug fixes or tweaks to make
the game run better, others add in new weapons or replace textures to make the game look
nicer. But then there are the monster mods, the mods
that are effectively a fan-made DLC. Can You Beat Fallout: New California Without
Taking Any Damage? Unlike a DLC, you don’t have to start a
new character in New Vegas just to get to New California. Start a new game, choose New California, and
your journey begins with a surprisingly well put-together cutscene showing the Great War,
the basics of what a vault is, and a bunch of dead bodies piled up a few feet from the
sand. Getting sand out of a backpack is difficult
getting sand out from the corner of someone’s eye to prepare them for their funeral is impossible. More war stuff happened, we’re shown glimpses
of the game world just as you would be in Fallout New Vegas, and gameplay begins with
a football game. I chose the path of the Warrior because I
ain’t no fuckin’ nerd, I made the noise-in game of breaking something but I blacked out
before I felt anything break, a character was made to fit the image of someone who isn’t
me and dialog begins with a conversation between myself and Coach John Bragg. Bragg yapped on and on about my future, my
past, the Vault, and he cleverly surmised that I have a high endurance. He’s almost right. I’ve always prided myself on my ability
to take half a punch without bursting into tears. The vigor tester looked cool, lots of blues
and yellows. I knew next to nothing about this mod so I
wasn’t sure what my SPECIAL stats should look like. I obviously drained Endurance and put points
into Charisma and Intelligence to help with leveling up and hopefully avoiding conflict,
Luck to boost all skill and critical hits, and Agility to give a small boost to my ability
to handle firearms. I also chose Skilled and Trigger Discipline
as my Traits, they’re always what I fall back on. I named myself Noodle God as in, like, a limp
noodle that’s a killing machine. This is the 2nd time I’ve disappointed a
coach. The first was in high school when I was so
bad at bowling that I wasn’t even kicked off the team, the coach just told me that
I’d never be put in a match so there wasn’t any point to me showing up. He was mad. He kicked me out of his office, Bragg, not
the bowling coach. He’s dead now and I feel nothing. I took a look through my Pip-Boy to see what
I had: a nerf football and a special helmet. I insinuated that Jen is an idiot, looked
at all the trophies that I’ll ever have, spoke to mister mop, and wandered around Vault
18. This really looks a lot more like a Vault
than any of the vaults in New Vegas did. My task was to report to Lieutenant Chevy
regarding a security job. Cliche’s and whatnot, turns out she’s
not only Bragg’s sister, she’s also got an eyepatch. This mod surprised me. Normally when you see a skill check, it’s
like a siren calling out to you to click on it because it’s the right choice or will
skip something and save time. Not here. That charisma check is missing a period by
the way. Choose it like I did, throw in a word that
I’d never say because I’m a good Christian boy, and that was it, I was on mop duty for
life. To make her pay for her crimes, I threw not
one, but two nerf footballs at her head. They didn’t bother her. I think my fist tickled her, not in the fun
way. The next time I chose what I thought were
the right options and got myself a spot in Vault Security. From her hole I retrieved a Colt N99 10mm
Pistol. Back in other Bragg’s office, I ran through
the gambit of dialog options to get some backstory. Short version is he’s running for overseer
and they’re running a drill with the security team tonight to test for their preparedness. I made my way to the lower level apartments,
apparently I’m the jock rooming with the board-game playing losers. With my pants metaphorically off, I went to
bed, rebuilt my character because I’m stupid, reassigned SPECIAL points as closely as I
could to whatever they were originally, even now I can’t remember what they were. Upside was I could reselect my Tag skills. I went with Speech, Guns, and Repair. I leveled up twice in the night, raised Speech
and Guns, and watched another cutscene. Bragg and Bragg are up to no good to no-one’s
surprise. They’re taking over the vault by force. An explosion rocked the vault and knocked
me from my bed so violently that I took damage. The sigh I let out when I saw I had to assign
skill points and watch that cutscene again could’ve been heard from 50, maybe even
60 inches away. That was a lie. I didn’t have to watch the cutscene again. But there was no way to avoid taking damage. I don’t think I need to explain why. There’s an explosion while I’m in bed. Moving isn’t an option. So I made an executive decision on par with
launching nukes at Britain because it annoys me that they put a “u” in “color”. If I can’t get through this without taking
damage, I might as well enable God Mode to survive the explosion. I already failed, any damage is a failure,
so at this point it doesn’t matter if it’s 1 damage or 100,000 damage. After I got up, I returned to the world of
mortals and began assessing the damage done to the vault. My roommates are dead, anarchy is the new
rule of law, all things considered, not bad. Officer Mark told me to pass through the Upper
Apartments to get to the hydrodome and meet up with the other hydro homies. Riot shields are also an option, but we know
from Modern Warfare 2 how horrible they are. Johnny got and repaired his gun, I found Jenn,
she annoyed me so I shot her in the face. She shot me back and I didn’t take damage. Turns out I’d taken Buffout or something
that boosted my health. After I died, I waited in place for many minutes
while I went through withdrawal, Terra Mayson was concerned that I wasn’t in the opening
assault, so I followed her into the Atrium where many an Enclave Patriot were lying unconscious
on the floor with bullet holes all over their bodies. Chevy gave me my orders, but she’s a monster. I blew off her head with a shotgun. I gracefully ended the suffering of some poor
sap who’d been crucified, this Matheson character did his best mime impression, but
his best wasn’t good enough, I bashed his skull in with a bat, made my way to the Upper
Apartments, dropped off Jenn in an apartment, and lost a considerable amount of progress
when I died. Her frail body could be an excellent shield
should I be assaulted by an unfriendly swarm of bullets, so I let her stay with me while
I picked off more Enclave goons, talked Norman, helped a dead body be on its way to heaven,
passed through Doctor Rossman’s secret cave (he’s kind of a big deal), and got word
from Chief Paul Evanson that the remaining Bragg brother is about to storm our position. And what a storm it was. There were a lot of Enclave soldiers. One thing I want to point out is that any
frame rate issues you may notice aren’t a fault of the recording, the mod itself was
pretty choppy at times, specifically in large areas with a lot of buildings or in combat-heavy
situations. Colonel Bragg bragged his last brag, I looted
all the bodies, and only one man remained: Colonel Bragg. That’s right, I killed him twice. I honest to God have no idea why that happened. Chief Paul then asked me to check on the Overseer. I’ll let you in on a little secret, he’s
a maniac. He saw that the best way to not lose at Monopoly
is to pull a gun on the banker, he activated the Vault’s self-destruct program. But this banker was raised on the streets,
he pulled a bigger gun and removed the Overseer’s brain form the rest of his body. It sure is a shame that the Overseer killed
himself like that. All that was left was to run for the Vault
door to escape. The elevator carried me towards the surface,
but more explosions erupted from down in the vault, damaging my exposed and muscular back. This time, because damage was unavoidable,
I gave myself a fair 150 health to survive the blast, and this fuckin’ idiot made my
day by surrounding himself in a ceremonial circle of dead bodies, then lost all his cool
boy points by telling me that his name isn’t Ben, his name is Kurtz, ignore the fact that
his name is Ben Kurtz. Together we ran for the exit and found the
vault door. Naturally, I massacred everyone else who was
waiting to escape the vault with me. The cavern past the vault door seemed a lot
more appropriate than most of the small passageways leading to a vault in most of the vaults in
Fallout or New Vegas. And at long last, we were outside. Some guy who just came from the carnival interrupted
my running for my life. Thankfully I was able to convince him to buzz
off. Explosions happened behind me and I couldn’t
help but notice how good this area looks. Mod reviewers take notice, this is how you
review a mod. Ben and I found shelter in a tunnel, obviously
the safest place to be when an almost nuclear blast is about to ravage the landscape. And, surprise surprise, you take damage from
the explosion. Again, this damage can’t be avoided, a console
command gave me health to survive the dust in my face, I set my health back down to 1,
and I fled from the radiation with flat nose. Along the way we discovered Pinehaven and
met a new NPC: Kira, a bitch with hair like the void of space. The 3 of us found Doctor Rossman’s house
on the mountain, I found a buttload of ammo and guns, stuffed them somewhere safe, dressed
myself in the cleanest dirty wasteland clothes I could find, spoke to Kira and Ben, and claimed
the only bed for myself. In the night, a band of raiders surrounded
the house and were looking for trouble, the board game of course. My options were open fire on a crowd of people
for the 4th time this week or settle things diplomatic like. Always the smooth-talker, I opted for the
option that didn’t end in bloodshed. That didn’t end well. I got bopped on the nose, fitted with a slave
collar, and talked to by store brand Vaas. He was trying to compensate for something
with that name. “Elsdragon”, what a nerd. Anyway, he dropped me about 200 feet down
into a hole and I somehow survived the fall thanks to some really powerful speakers. It’s an acoustic net or some shit. Melvin the Voiceless informed me that I was
now banished to the darkness. Melvin’s a dumbass and let me convince him
to use him and all the other Voiceless as cannon fodder to take on the big one. Inside Athens-Tec Mine Level 27, we cleared
out a few ghouls, I got to take an up-close look at Festus and examine his raw beauty,
I gave a speech, and we marched towards the big one who is actually Behemoth. They lined up so perfectly as they ran towards
their doom, I couldn’t resist the urge to kill them all. Then came more, and more, and more, and more…
and more… and more. What the Voiceless lacked in usefulness or
value to this world they made up for in numbers. I shot a lot of people. I don’t think you quite understand how many
people I brutalized. I’ve said this before and it’s always
been an exaggeration, but this time I really mean it. I killed an ungodly amount of people. Just look at all these bodies, and for every
corpse there was 1000 more Voiceless ready to take their place. The Behemoth was rather tough, he took quite
a few bullets to kill. I retrieved the elevator key from his body,
and with my infinite army of voiceless men and women, we stormed our way out of the pit
towards the sunlight. I also took one last look at all the Voiceless
I killed to remind myself what all the others are dying for, which is my amusement. One last guardian stood in our path: Mandrake,
an invisible Nightkin with a gun. He took all my missiles to die, which was
unfortunate, I didn’t have any missiles left to use on Elsdragon and his men. You’d think that with an army of slaves
it wouldn’t matter, but it did. It took a couple tries to get through them. What I did was lay down a few time bombs then
attack the guards behind me so that the bombs would strategically go off once the carnage
came to town. Quite a few more stood between me and the
outside world. My Trail Carbine that once belonged to someone
who was alive made quick enough work of them, Kira informed me that she’d been tortured,
the people who tortured her think I’m some sort of genetic freak, I am by the way, just
wait till the face reveal, you’ll see what I mean. I gave her a Hunting Rifle and a single bullet,
and my band of slaves armed with shovels took the fight to those surface-dwelling pricks. Escaping their base was far tougher than I
would’ve thought. See this sort of canyon here? I assumed this was it. It wasn’t, not by a long shot. Speaking of long shots, Rossman’s Rifle
that I’d gotten back at the vault actually had some ammo, it showed 0 of 0 in my Pip-Boy
but I actually had 25 electro-charges. These few guys in particular gave me trouble. It’s mostly stuff I’ve dealt with before,
pinned behind an object and basically having to kill each of the multiple targets in one
shot without missing or else I die. And die I did, a lot. Once I got the Raiders in the immediate vicinity
sent to Hell to be annoyed by my dead dog’s barking forever, I could take inventory of
all the weapons their former life vessels had in store for me. My objective was to escape, that was it. And unfortunately there’s not really a whole
lot to talk about. With my Guns skill at 100, the Marksman Rifle,
and sneak attack bonuses, I was able to take out most of the Raiders with 1 or 2 shots. Most of what I did was move forward, kill
all the Raiders I could see, move onward, kill Raiders, sometimes I’d die and have
to figure out where they were shooting from, but none of it was very troublesome. Time consuming for sure, but that’s pretty
much it. At one point I noticed a vertibird and saw
that one of my options was to escape via that metal bird, I figured I’d probably need
a high Science skill, so I ignored it and ventured onward until I finally made my way
out of the mine. I was out of the pot, but the pot itself was
in the oven so now we’re facing a more direct heat. Does that make sense? Probably. They had outposts or bases pretty much everywhere. This quarter of the map pretty much belonged
to Elsdragon and his stupid name. Lotta death, both mine and theirs, I took
too the rocky hills to avoid as many bases as I could, saw a school I think, no kids
to kill, I ignored it, and after 45 minutes of shooting, I was barely half way to my goal. It was pretty much smooth sailing from this
point though. There were groups of Raiders patrolling the
wasteland, none posed much of a threat, they were about as threatening as a toddler with
toaster. Before long, I found myself at I-15 I-138
Black Bear Junction. a real place that exists, just take my word
for it don’t look it up. Ranger Kerry requested my help on a mission. I’ll save you some time and just tell you
now that that mission was a pain in the ass and it wasn’t a part of the main quest so
I ran away in many different directions until I didn’t get blown up by their mortar fire
and eventually arrived at the NCR base, but those sons of bitches won’t let me in. Turns out that mission I just ignored had
to be done. And that was a real motherfucker of a mission. Here’s the situation: there’s a raider
commander up the hill that needs to be made to be a skeleton. There are many multiple Raiders and they have
artillery. I’ll give it this though, it felt like a
giant full-scale battle. Not like the Hoover Dam where there are like
a dozen Legion soldiers atop the Dam before you get to the offices. But then it’s not really a fair comparison,
the Raiders here, from what I could tell, were infinitely respawning. So basically what you’ve got to do is press
forward through the infinitely respawning enemies to get through that area so they’ll
stop respawning in that area. Then you do it again and again and again. As you can imagine, this is not easy when
you can’t take damage. You could say that it’s good because it’s
free experience and it levels me up, but levels don’t really mean anything anymore. Speech is at 100, Guns is at 100, Repair is
at 100, Explosive and Energy Weapons are both getting there, my best weapons can kill most
Raiders in 1-2 shots, killing for the sake of killing is rude and unproductive. I managed to kill the Survivalist Commander,
that face pain guy from earlier, which got me into a bit of a pickle. A quicksave out in the open with multiple
people shooting at me and nowhere to go. I got stupid lucky after a dozen or so deaths
and got inside the bunker where I could destroy the artillery targeting computer then regroup
with NCR Captain Less Jameson. Finally, I could get inside the NCR Headquarters
which also felt much more like a base than Camp McCarren did, and meet General Silverman. We talked for a bit, that talk got interrupted
by the Raiders raining down artillery on the base. My body freaked out and tried to hide in the
pavement to save itself from the artillery. In response, my brain messed with my perception
of reality and allowed me to clip through a door. Then my legs were like “what the fuck are
you guys doing” and locked me in place while my body continued to spasm uncontrollably. Everyone calmed down once I reloaded the game. Once I got to the front lines I realized that
this was, you guessed it, another instance of infinitely respawning enemies that you
have to fight your way through until you kill the big bad guy and then the bullies leave
me alone. The first time this was a cool idea, something
you don’t really see in Fallout. Second time it was a little repetitive. Now it’s just annoying. A solid chunk of what’s being thrown at
you are Raider Slaves with no armor and only melee weapons so they die in a single shot
that you probably won’t miss unless you forgot to put on your Gamestop branded gamer
glasses that your grandma got you for Christmas because she knew you liked to play the computer
games. With the commander or whatever the fuck dead,
I reported back to Silverman who gave me a new mission: trekking across the wasteland
to both restore their power and fix their water situation. Before heading out I spoke to Senator Paul
DuVille who offered me big money to do things his way instead. I lost interest around the time he opened
his mouth for the first time because his voice just annoys me. I bet this is what most people think the first
time they watch one of my videos. I also stopped by the Gun Runners to sell
all the stuff I didn’t need. Some weapons looked cool, they had 1911’s
and M4’s and those kinds of things. The only weapon I bought was a L96A1 since
it did more damage than any of the snipers I had. With my weapons assigned to hotkeys and more
bullets than you can comprehend hidden in my purse, I set off for the Power Fixery Place. I killed some geckos and a few raiders on
the way there, arrived at the power plant, predictably had to defend the place against
a hoard of savages who conveniently started got there right when I did. The one good thing I’ll say about this is
that it sounded ominous as fuck with all the savages screaming. The savages themselves were just like the
Raider Slaves and weren’t in any threat. With the power restored, my next stop was
across the world to restore power to Union City, that’s the NCR Headquarters. Some chick on a Sand Crawler told me that
I’d better get up to her position because another hoard of Raiders are about to attack. I didn’t even bother fighting, I pretended
to be a parent at Chuck E Cheese and just left her to her own devices. Maybe she lives, maybe she dies, I don’t
care. About 10 minutes later I found the California
Tribe who sent me to Chieftain Raz O’oga. That’s his real name. He said the water is a ghost being guarded
by spirits and that I had to wake it up. Or I could just haul 90 cases of water across
the continent. Thankfully, I saw the potential for manual
labor in a vision and I knew I wasn’t going to do it. I put some points into Science when I leveled
up and used that power along with a magazine filled with pictures of trees in sexually
suggestive poses to turn on the generator and wake up the ghost which turned out to
be a hologram of Doctor Rossman. I used skills I’d learned during Kindergarten
Show & Tell to show him my Pip-Boy from the Vault and convince him to help me out. He did his see-through magic to get the water
working, I took all the credit by cranking the wheel, survived another ambush outside
the cave, and returned to General Silverman to let him know my job was done. My next mission was to join Captain Jameson
in a quest to take over Fort Daggerpoint. Senator Paul bribed me with the prospects
of having millions of dollars, got a Steam key to Daggerfall from some bounty hunter,
and I told Jameson that I’d meet him at the Fort. Here’s the thing about that, I didn’t. What happened is I told Jameson I’d meet
him at the fort, I just told you but I thought you might’ve forgotten so I said it again. The issue is that my only map marker was Jameson
himself, not the fort. And for some reason I couldn’t for the life
of me find a map for this mod to figure out where to go. At first I thought “Alright, I’ll just
wait for a day, that’ll teleport him to the fort and I can head there”. Nope. I waited for days and days and days, and when
I checked on where he was he was maybe 50 feet outside the gate. I had to follow that fucking prick all the
way there, across the entire map, again. My only trick was waiting in 1-hour chunks
to make him go a bit forward. It took a solid 30 minutes to get to the fort. There were a couple instances of combat here
and there, nothing particularly crazy. There were a few Raiders guarding the outside
of the Fort. Inside the Fort were some tough cookies. Multiple Sentry Bots guarding something. It took an L96A1, Guns at 100, and a sneak
attack to be able to kill a Sentry Bot with a single shot. With all the robots cleared out, I checked
the weapon lockers and found a Fat Man and Mini-Nukes that I couldn’t even use, and
Jameson informed me that my companions that I forgot even existed were being volunteered
against their will to help move debris out of the tunnel. I had to go it alone, that was a sign that
something nefarious was about to happen. The second sign was being told to explore
the Fissure of Sorrow. It’s probably about as fun as the pit of
torment or chambers of unending pain. It was a trap, there were mutants waiting
for me. I know that because Vayger the Gatekeeper
literally told me it was a trap. Then things got weird when he said I’d make
a gorgeous addition to their collection. Long story short, he wants to melt my body
down, turn it into a milkshake, and dump it all over his naked body. At first I didn’t want to be a milkshake,
so I pulled out a missile launcher and blasted them all. Vayger was probably the toughest thing in
the game, taking the impact of multiple High Explosive Missiles like they were nothing. Alternatively, you can call down a missile
from the sky with your mind to kill him and get launched into a wall, but that does damage
so it’s not an option. I spent a while killing him and his fellow
mutants behind the overturned trucks. Once he dies, my objective becomes “Escape
Fort Daggerpoint”. Problem is, mutants and ghouls spawn infinitely
in the single path I have out of there. Remember those Failed FEV Subjects from Vault
87 in Fallout 3? Those are here too and they’re just a delight
to look at. They’re as pretty as they are tough. Soon enough it dawned on me that fighting
my way out was not an option, so I agreed to go with Vayger on the condition that I’m
allowed to say no. But I probably won’t, because of the implication. Another sign of bad tidings this holiday seasons
was Project Brazil: Experimental Complex in neon sign on the wall. I got blinded by a white light and woke up
in some sort of a cell chamber hole. The way he said the Project Brazil parasite
inside me allowed me to survive my own mortality made me think that this was the game’s way
of explaining why I could respawn. Or not. I’m not a big smart. He recognized my superior intellect when I
told him I played Roblox and allowed me to ask some questions before the transformation. I had the option to leave, maybe, but I didn’t
take it. I knew what my destiny was. I’ve always wanted to drown in thick green
goo that melts away my skin and modifies my existence on a molecular level. I dove in head first and the game revealed
what happened. It was my body that allowed the new type of
mutant to manifest itself and take over the globe for thousands of years. Then, no joke, a giant eyeball flies out into
fucking space. That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen
in my life and I love it. And with that, I did not beat Fallout: New
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