I was able to complete this one by passing a speech check with the bar maid to get her to recruit more people. There’s also a side quest in the starter town of Good Springs to help the townsfolk stop an oncoming gang of troublemakers. That mission can be completed without you yourself doing the killing, but I didn’t know that at the time.
There’s an optional mission to continue that combat training by hunting lizards, but I skipped it. It’s essentially a lot of “go here” goals, and some shooting bottles to learn basic combat. The tutorial is pretty easy to get around. I’m talking about Fallout: New Vegas, which you knew by the title.įor this I used the guide written by Anthony Burch which can be found here, as he was the one who recommended it (first publicly in a few places, then directly when I met him at GDC). This will set up the player to pass a lot of the speech checks early on. For the first time in my New Year’s resolution to avoid killing in games, I’m playing a hardcore action-heavy game that can be completed with out killing.
