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I just recently beat Skies of Arcadia, an RPG I've wanted to play for a while.
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Mono
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Replaying Fallout New Vegas, currently in my favorite DLC, Dead Money. I am currently stuck on something though, and was wondering if anyone here could help me justify using console commands to fix something.
I wanted to start an in-game collection of Dead Money items, including all the Caravan playing cards you can find. I temporarily stored the ones I already found in a container. When I pick them up again from the container though, they disappear. It turns out I was never supposed to be able to store them, being able to do so was only because of a bug. When picking them back up, this is fixed. What is supposed to happen, is that the cards are added to your playing deck for use.
This really, really bums me out. I can either replay 7 hours, complete the DLC and only store them once in the container back at home I had planned to use, or use console commands to manually add the cards. I use any bug and glitch to my advantage, but console commands do feel like cheating to me. I thought I was so well prepared.
If I had never stored them temporarily, this would not have happened. But replaying it just for this feels like such a waste of time. I doubt my compulsion will ever not see it as cheating, though. Looking through my items later, I'm not sure it will ever feel like I actually earned them. I think I'd just as soon abandon the whole idea of gathering any Dead Money items now. It would already feel better to me if I could use console commands to move items from one container to another, rather than deleting them from one and adding them to the other. If that makes sense. Can't continue until I figure out what to do... Does anyone have advice on how to not see it as cheating or what to do otherwise?
Edit: I'm not above using console commands to remove the quest flag of quest items that are stuck in my inventory after completing quests. That way I can store them. This is perfectly fine for me, so I have no clue why the above is such a problem for me.
Edit 2: I think my problem might be that the items I add manually are not the actual items I picked up. And that's why I want to move them, rather than delete/add them. It doesn't feel the same.
I wanted to start an in-game collection of Dead Money items, including all the Caravan playing cards you can find. I temporarily stored the ones I already found in a container. When I pick them up again from the container though, they disappear. It turns out I was never supposed to be able to store them, being able to do so was only because of a bug. When picking them back up, this is fixed. What is supposed to happen, is that the cards are added to your playing deck for use.
This really, really bums me out. I can either replay 7 hours, complete the DLC and only store them once in the container back at home I had planned to use, or use console commands to manually add the cards. I use any bug and glitch to my advantage, but console commands do feel like cheating to me. I thought I was so well prepared.
If I had never stored them temporarily, this would not have happened. But replaying it just for this feels like such a waste of time. I doubt my compulsion will ever not see it as cheating, though. Looking through my items later, I'm not sure it will ever feel like I actually earned them. I think I'd just as soon abandon the whole idea of gathering any Dead Money items now. It would already feel better to me if I could use console commands to move items from one container to another, rather than deleting them from one and adding them to the other. If that makes sense. Can't continue until I figure out what to do... Does anyone have advice on how to not see it as cheating or what to do otherwise?
Edit: I'm not above using console commands to remove the quest flag of quest items that are stuck in my inventory after completing quests. That way I can store them. This is perfectly fine for me, so I have no clue why the above is such a problem for me.
Edit 2: I think my problem might be that the items I add manually are not the actual items I picked up. And that's why I want to move them, rather than delete/add them. It doesn't feel the same.
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Seems to me it's down to what you want to get out of the game?
For me, especially these days now my reflexes are not up to being really good at these, I sometimes play them more as an interactive movie where the pleasure is seeing the next stage in the storyline.
As I also hate repetition, and can think of nothing more tedious of having to replay something simply because the game didn't handle something correctly is anathema, and I'll happily use a cheat to get past a few hours of tedious and unengaging play because in the end I'm more likely to get bored and give up playing it.
It's down to the challenge in question, if it's just the mechanics of repeating something for the sake of getting past, I'd much rather go on to the next 'chapter'. If it's a question of finding a way of completing something that's based on logic and imagination then that's a little different, solving a good puzzle is one of the pleasures.
For me, especially these days now my reflexes are not up to being really good at these, I sometimes play them more as an interactive movie where the pleasure is seeing the next stage in the storyline.
As I also hate repetition, and can think of nothing more tedious of having to replay something simply because the game didn't handle something correctly is anathema, and I'll happily use a cheat to get past a few hours of tedious and unengaging play because in the end I'm more likely to get bored and give up playing it.
It's down to the challenge in question, if it's just the mechanics of repeating something for the sake of getting past, I'd much rather go on to the next 'chapter'. If it's a question of finding a way of completing something that's based on logic and imagination then that's a little different, solving a good puzzle is one of the pleasures.
Mono
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Thanks for your reply 
This DLC is my absolute favorite Fallout New Vegas content. The writing, characters, location, atmosphere...
Secondary for me is that I love to collect in-game items. What I wanted was to also collect said cards that the game allowed me to do due to a bug. I didn't know it was a bug, nor did I know it was a bug that would fix itself when storing/unstoring them.
Absolutely nothing would be different if I restarted the DLC, except that I would not store the cards until I settled on where exactly I wanted to store them.
I have deleted my earlier saves, removing the option to restart the DLC. Options left are either not collect the cards, or add them manually through console commands. I can't figure that out yet, so I've decided to just press on for now and see how I feel about it later. I still have a long way to go before I finish the DLC.
This DLC is my absolute favorite Fallout New Vegas content. The writing, characters, location, atmosphere... Secondary for me is that I love to collect in-game items. What I wanted was to also collect said cards that the game allowed me to do due to a bug. I didn't know it was a bug, nor did I know it was a bug that would fix itself when storing/unstoring them.
Absolutely nothing would be different if I restarted the DLC, except that I would not store the cards until I settled on where exactly I wanted to store them.
I have deleted my earlier saves, removing the option to restart the DLC. Options left are either not collect the cards, or add them manually through console commands. I can't figure that out yet, so I've decided to just press on for now and see how I feel about it later. I still have a long way to go before I finish the DLC.
Mono
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For me it depends on my playthrough. Both collecting and casual runs are fun to me for different reasons. But yeah, the items do absolutely nothing for the story, it's just stuff I'd store in a container. But it's also something I planned on doing and that is now not going according to my script 
I'd only 'cheat' because the game screwed me over. At the same time I wasn't supposed to have the cards as transferable items in my inventory. It doesn't happy for any cards in the vanilla game or the other DLC. So I will try to accept the game mechanism as intended here and just let it go. Funny, letting go is the whole theme of the DLC.
But for this evening, it's Day of the Tentacle and some drinks One of my all-time favorites.
I'd only 'cheat' because the game screwed me over. At the same time I wasn't supposed to have the cards as transferable items in my inventory. It doesn't happy for any cards in the vanilla game or the other DLC. So I will try to accept the game mechanism as intended here and just let it go. Funny, letting go is the whole theme of the DLC.But for this evening, it's Day of the Tentacle and some drinks
One of my all-time favorites.
Sadly I'm terribly impatient and rarely see an idea through to it's completion before getting so bored I have to move on to other things. Always been like that, love working some new idea out, soon as I have I can't be bothered with it any more however compelling it was originally. Hence why I can't stand redoing the same game sequence again and again just to randomly try every possible tactic until something works. After the 10th attempt I'm so fed up with the repetition I hit google for the cheat codes so I don't end up giving up entirely and not playing the rest of it.
No staying power, that's my problem!
No staying power, that's my problem!
faeblitzbean
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i like the sims the sims 2 the sims 3 the sims 4 Mario kart and Hogwarts Legacy and more
and Zelda minecart and red dead and gta 5 even mysims and stars wars battlefront and gotham knights even more
and Zelda minecart and red dead and gta 5 even mysims and stars wars battlefront and gotham knights even more
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