How many hidden Vaults in Fallout: NV?

By Robert Purchese Published 15 October, 2010

Obsidian's Bergman says, casino the answer.

Obsidian has hidden five underground Vaults in Fallout: New Vegas for you to find.

Fallout 3 began with a stylish tutorial that culminated in your escape from Vault 101. The wider world was also littered with other mysterious Vault settlements to explore.

"Yes there are [Vaults]," answered FNV senior producer Jason Bergman on the European PlayStation blog.

"We have five different Vaults in the game.

"They serve as unique dungeons, and depending on what path you follow through the main storyline, you may have to venture into one of them to retrieve something."

Bergman went on to clarify New Vegas' level cap as 30, and to extinguish any hope of a demo. "We wanted the focus to be completing the full game," he wrote.

But Fallout: New Vegas will expand through DLC. Bergman wouldn't be pushed on "specifics", but said Obsidian had "a plan" - "and we think it's a good one". He'll have more to say "soon".

Other tidbits to spill from the Q&A were confirmation of a 5GB game install on PS3, talk of a "more natural" shooting mechanic with iron sight aiming for "most weapons", and word of a monorail travel system that can take you from The Strip to Camp McCarran should you be friendly enough with the NCR.

Fallout: New Vegas detonates next Friday on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The most obvious change will be brighter and more colourful setting on the West Coast of America, but the most significant is the focus on factions and your reputation with them.

An evil Tom Bramwell lead us through his close encounter with Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout: New Vegas on TV.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • ZizouFC #1 2 years ago

    Can't wait!

  • MadCaddy13 #2 2 years ago

    Eeeeee!!

  • CaptainQuint #3 2 years ago

    As an old Oblivion player, but someone who was put off playing Fallout 3 by the inventory system (I hate rpg ingame menu screens, ever since Oblivion), can someone be kind enough to tell be how this new game might differ from the last, in terms of interface? Is it more of the same, albeit different locale?

    I'd love to give this a go, if they've streamlined the loot management system - nothing turns me off an rpg more than the amassing of dozens and dozens of useless items which are also a pain to organise. I prefer 95% actually playing the game, exploring and fighting etc; as opposed to 50% of my time scrolling through menus.
    Edited by CaptainQuint at 15/10/10 @ 11:37

  • randompanda #4 2 years ago

    Plan to expand through DLC roughly translated into "Level cap increase" (for a fee).

    What a great plan!

  • AllenSpawn #5 2 years ago

    Calsberg don't do sub headings... But if they did, it would be that one. Very good.

  • patch #6 2 years ago

    I don't want to disturb the fanboys so I'll ask quietly, are there any known differences between the 360 and PS3 versions? I'm thinking DLC exclusive-wise etc. Will help make my pre-order decision.

  • Cosquae #7 2 years ago

    I'll wait until the GOTY edition with all the DLC comes out at half the price.

  • overcorpse #8 2 years ago

    @Patch; if it hasn't been announced this close to release i suspect that both versions would be the same.

    Am now officially excited and will be down at Tesco at midnight.

  • randompanda #9 2 years ago

    patch - If it's built using the previous engine then there might be a few framerate problems on the PS3 version, but this is Obsidian - there's gonna be problems with both versions no matter what.

  • Genji #10 2 years ago

    Wonderful, wonderful pun in the tagline. Bravo!

  • thewool #11 2 years ago

    Am I going mad or did they previoulsy say before they wouldn't be any DLC because of the story line limitations?

    May also cancel my PC pre-order and wait for GOTY now. Don't appreciate being told porky pies...

  • Soton4084 #12 2 years ago

    I'm waiting for the reviews on this one, but if it's good I'll definately be picking it up.

  • Seoh #13 2 years ago

    @CaptainQuint

    If the inventory system is a complaint then get the PC version, for fallout 3 there were dozens of mods and fixes that improved it

  • Gaol #14 2 years ago

    He answered every question exept the one that interests PS3 owners the most - is it fixed? Fallout 3 GoTY became unplayable once your save file reached a certain threshold.

    I might find out the hard way as I don't have easy access to my gaming PC at the moment so will be risking the PS3 version.

    As for waiting for a GoTY edition, why wait a year or more when the base Fallout games present so much value? This is one game I have no issues with paying full price day one.

  • Markitron #15 2 years ago

    Any ideas when the review will go up?

    Edit: a bit of googling says its Tuesday. Im also curious as to whuch version will be better, Id rather get the PS3 version but if its as bad as the last one............
    Edited by Markitron at 15/10/10 @ 12:29

  • Spuzzell #16 2 years ago

    @CaptainQuint

    Certainly on PC I didn't notice anything awkward about the inventory system at all, and I'm easily frustrated by that sort of design flaw. (Mass Effect, I'm looking at you)

    Fallout 3 is fantastic, give it another go.

  • geeza2020 #17 2 years ago

    I loved Fallout 3, but just can't seem to get excited about this, no matter how many hidden vaults there are. It just seems very, very similar for a brand new game, so I'll wait for reviews and then probably a price drop.

  • chrisola #18 2 years ago

    after reading the random free copy of PC Gamer i got in the post yesterday i'm even more excited by this.

    It basically says (over Fallout 3):

    1) the hardcore 'realistic' mode is brilliant and a much, much needed shake up to these types of games - and it means you get to use all of the random junk you pick up and you don't get to the level 25 owns ALL with no challenge stage of character development
    2) the game is closer to the dark tone of the first 2 games more than Fallout 3 was
    3)the characters are better and much more layered and interesting
    4)the dialogue is better but still not as long or wordy as the original games
    5)it has a country and western music soundtrack

  • darkmorgado #19 2 years ago

    Am I going mad or did they previoulsy say before they wouldn't be any DLC because of the story line limitations?

    No, they just said that you can't continue playing after the conclusion of the story (so I expect your character dies or something). They never said anything about DLC.

  • secombe #20 2 years ago

    Would love to play this, but motion sickness ruined F3 for me. In theory 3rd person should be fine for sufferers, but F3 had an odd 3rd person mechanic that felt very first person in nature.

  • darkmorgado #21 2 years ago

    the game is closer to the dark tone of the first 2 games more than Fallout 3 was

    I always expected this, considering it was the guys from Obsidian that invented the franchise in the first place.

  • Cappy #22 2 years ago

    After Fallout 3 GOTY on the PS3 I'm not touching this for a long, long time so I can get a full rundown on the bugs. Fallout 3 was so bad that at points I wasn't even certain I'd be able to reach the end. The developers fix? Start the game again and try to wrap everything up that you want to do in 50 hours.

    News of a massive mandatory install on the PS3 isn't encouraging, points to another cash-in port.

  • Markitron #23 2 years ago

    Actually id say the mandatory install will end up being a good thing, although very inconvenient obviously. If thats what it takes to get the performance up to scratch im willing to take the hit (but I wont be happy about it)

  • CatWeazle #24 2 years ago

    @CaptainQuint - yes Fallout3's inventory system is a bit more streamlined that Oblivion's. For example, you now have a keyring which contains all your keys rather than having 100s of them littering your inventory. However is it definitely an RPG, and not a dumbed down Action-RPG. Personally - I love scrolling through all those stats, and having a deep inventory system to maintain.

  • ryandsimmons #25 2 years ago

    Was the PS3 version really that bad? And were the issues ever fixed?

  • Markitron #26 2 years ago

    @ryandsimmons

    When the original version was released, recieving messages over PSN could cause the game to crash. Bethesda's advice: Disable incoming messages in your system settings. Thats how bad it was

  • ThemisB #27 2 years ago

    After the first patch, the PS3 version was playable. The GOTY version, however, was a complete and utter joke. The framerate was laughable at times, it constantly froze and every time I tried to start the Mothership Zeta episode the game just crashed.

    I loved FO3, but I got rid of the GOTY version without even bothering to finish most of the episodes. I didn't even start Broken Steel. No idea if they've patched it since.

    So the vanilla version is ok now, but unless you can find out whether the GOTY edition was patched, I'd avoid it.

  • Miths #28 2 years ago

    @Markitron

    I played the PS3 version of FO3 for around 60 hours, and aside from running into a few non-game breaking (and reportedly mostly multi-platform) bugs here and there, I thoroughly enjoyed playing that version.
    (Edit: I should probably note that I only played the main game on PS3, I only bought DLC for the PC version)

    Sure, when I bought the PC version a few months later (I never did do a full second play through, but probably clocked in around 30 hours) I was obviously able to run the game at a much higher resolution, at 40-60 fps and taking advantage of a huge pile of mods (including high resolution texture mods that had a significantly larger visual impact than merely going from PS3 to PC version), but it certainly didn't make me feel that the PS3 version was terrible - far from it.

    I only plan on buying the PC version of New Vegas, but I wouldn't hesitate for a second in picking up the PS3 version if I didn't have a PC that was up for the job of running the game at higher resolution and substantially higher framerate than either console version (and mods are obviously a big draw as well).
    Edited by Miths at 15/10/10 @ 14:11

  • SYS64738 #29 2 years ago

    Pending a decent review I'll definitely get this, especially in light of GT5 being delayed. Having completed FO3 and all DLC on PC previously (stopped short of 100 hours playtime), I'm a bit nervous about getting this on the PS3 after reading these comments here... the PC is long gone so don't really have a choice. Fingers crossed it's not a botched job.

  • Cyclone #30 2 years ago

    @darkmorgado

    No, they just said that you can't continue playing after the conclusion of the story (so I expect your character dies or something). They never said anything about DLC.

    It might just be that your influence in the endgame has a massive effect on the gameworld, in terms of changes. In that case it's simply easier to end the game than code these changes. If they do have the main character die twice in a row (even if they did later change the ending to 3) it would be a bit predictable and anticlimactic.

  • Death-Jester #31 2 years ago

    @randompanda

    The Fallout 3 modding community had increased the level cap long before it was 'officially' increased via the Broken Steel addon. In fact I distinctly remember levelling a character over 70 due to using a mod that raised the level cap to 100, and other mods that make the game harder (and thus gave more exp).

    Seeing as FO3:NV is essentially the same game, a lot of mods will hopefully be compatible with little or no tweaking. I expect the cap to be modder-raised within a week of it's release.

  • trip919 #32 2 years ago

    Level cap at 30? Have they learned *FUCK ALL* after the Fallout 3 debacle?
    Edited by trip919 at 15/10/10 @ 18:30

  • RandyKleen #33 2 years ago

    Titbit, not tidbit.

  • FuzzyDuck #34 2 years ago

    Played the PS3 version of Fallout 3 for 60 plus hours (albeit without DLC) and i never had a crash or any other issues for that matter.

    Will hold off on getting this for a while (purely because i don't have the free time and i know what the previous game did to my schedule), but it looks pretty tasty.

    Edit - Am I in the minority when i say i'm all for PS3 installs?
    Edited by FuzzyDuck at 15/10/10 @ 21:16

  • Seehuusen #35 2 years ago

    I'd like to explored a vault with "normal" people for once. Imagine helping them with some mechanical issues by getting gear in vegas, or to choose and destroy the whole place and abuse the vault dwellers.