To celebrate my new promotion, as well as to give some attention to my favorite VGU mod, @Cpt.Rex's magnificent Clones Ultima, I've decided to begin a new playthrough, but as a legendary Republic Commando. Even though my character, designation RC-2149, isn't my clone trooper captain of the 416th Tactical Battalion, and even though he doesn't have painted armor, he's gonna blast his way through the Mojave... on Hardcore mode.

From the start, I gave myself Power Armor training, along with the Clone Commando armor from Clones Ultima, and all of the Clone Commando weaponry, and it is on Hardcore, so now begins a pretty desperate struggle survival. I do have the Essential Courier mod active; do you guys think that that's cheating somehow?

So... you have power armor training and a ton of good gear from the start, not to mention a mod that prevents you from dying.

Isn't that like, the absolute opposite of hardcore?

this looks nice cant wait to be able to play
the republic commandos are some of my favorite special forces just behind ARCS but still awsome

Sounds awesome man. One of the reasons I joined was so I could get that mod. I can't wait to here about you silly antics.

@Tesvixen

I never said I was like hard-on, hardcore or anything. I still die really easily, and besides, I'm roleplaying as a Republic Commando. I'm not flying around with cheats and bragging about how amazing I am. I'm just playing the game the way I want to play it.

And besides, if you ever played Republic Commando, that's pretty much how it is - you start with powered armor, shielding, a modular weapon system, and an inability to actually die unless your entire squad kicks the bucket. In this, you have to worry about serious injuries and food, water and shelter. Plus I downloaded a power armor enhancement mod that requires constant charging, and the power units are rather heavy.

Actually I'm not a fan of 'difficult for the sake of difficult' either. And I wasn't accusing you or bragging or something.

I thought you were announcing a 'hardcore' difficulty playthrough as a specific character, so I didn't understand the use of overpowered items and an essential mod. You, yourself, asked "do you guys think that that's cheating somehow?" did you not? :p

So I guess I misunderstood what you were implying/saying in the original post... I didn't gather that you were talking about RPing being the main theme of the playthrough.

That explains those guys shooting my robots and claiming they were part of a "CIS". What the Hell is a CIS anyway? Some type of raider organization?
JK that story was well written. Good Job Maccrawinthejaw.

I also love how you use the phrase "slug throwers". If I'm correct that's what Clones call weapons that use bullets

I tried playing a role in fallout, the basic premise of this was that I am a beta tester for the doctor who fallout mod "Fallout who" (if you are bored go check it on the nexus it is great) however that ended abruptly when I couldn't handle being a pacifist and shot Benny in the face.... repeatedly. your story wins here

A serious issue has presented itself, and has prevented me from checking in recently. My Katarn-class armor is out of power, and with no energy units or credits ("caps", in this local region) I was forced to do something that might haunt my memory.

I returned to the gunship that I had crashed aboard, and was forced to look at the mangled bodies of my comrades from the Six Pack - Raptor, Screech, Thud, Chomper and Crash. My brothers in arms and my dear squadmates, all dead. With my personal armor almost dead, I was forced to remove it and buckle up in the personalized armor of CT-5604, or Screech. I still held onto my personal weapons, since they were good to go on ammunition and grenades.

- The armor of CT-5604 "Screech."

Despite all of these misfortunes and inconveniences, I have been positively influencing this desolate planet. In fact, I've befriended a group of locals that I really have a lot in common with - they call themselves the "Boomers", and we met through a barrage of explosive artillery and mortar shells. They, like me, enjoy causing havoc for a righteous cause, and they also smile on blasters - though these oddballs use slugthrowers - and missile launchers.

I wish you're friends would stop trying to take over New Vegas, my boss (Mr. House not Olly Oxen) called me over there three times this week to repel an invasion. Its quite humorous how they just run straight forward in to a wave of laser beams. I also now collect they're weapons and armor for my trophy collection.

id love to play with that mod in new vagas