Someone made a mod for Fallout: New Vegas that gives Reginald Cuftbert a tombstone in Goodsprings. (The starting town.)
Thanks to modder FinalFrog. Also thanks to the couple of readers who alerted me to this. I do hope you’ll download the mod and dance on his grave. I know he would’ve wanted it that way.
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Amazing.
That is to say, it is quite neat and interesting in a somewhat-curious way. So what do you get when you dig up the grave?
No digging of graves in the new Fallouts unfortunately.
Though I would imagine some poorly maintained weapons and armor along with enough drugs and alcohol to let the town of Goodsprings party for a month.
actually you can dig into the graves in Fallout: New Vegas, you just need a shovel in your inventory and you’re good to dig.
you;ll just find some ammo or a few caps here and there, but it’s the gesture that counts :)
I was just coming back to comment that I was wrong. I just started playing the game and didn’t realize that you could dig.
Needs more alcohol, I say. Reginald would have liked that.
Can anyone decipher what the tombstone reads? I’m not able to make it out.
Tombstone reads:
Here lies
Reginald Obvious Reasons Cuthbert (Though I could have sworn it was Cuftbert)
Power armored boyscouts,
Don’t like sneaky pickpockets,
No stimpacks. Uh oh.
Ohhh,it misses “Definitely was not a mercenary”.
Almost a Haiku
Six syllables in first line
Unless you say “powr”
A better edit would be to remove the -ed from armored. Powr would still be pronounced pow-er thus not losing the extra syllable.
So I find this mod then tell Shamus about it in an email then log on to Twenty Sided then see this post here. Oh well. At least with Shamus’ email issues he may never even get my email so he won’t be alerted after the fact.
Hmm. Used wrong email apparently to post.
Does this mean that you guys are officialy e-celebrities? Is this going to be a thing for you guys, akin to the Freelance Astronauts and their replacement of moon graphics in every game they play?
Yes,and they can now bask in their internet moneys.
So if the Spoiler Warning crew ever does Fallout: New Vegas we will have zombie Cuftbert?
God save us.
I hope they do New Vegas. I’ve only started playing, but so far it’s much better than Fallout 3 could ever have hoped to be. This is with no mods too! I can’t wait until the mod community really gets their hands on this.
100% agree with you. The world in New Vegas actually makes sense, and it is not just a bunch of non-interactive set pieces. Of course the NCR and the Legion are far better factions then the Brotherhood and the Enclave any day. (At least the Fallout 3 versions of those organizations)
Of course I am still dreading the inevitable Obsidian ending.
Do they have relents of the Outcasts?
I don’t know why, I liked those guys…
I agree to an extent. Storylines, quests and dialogue are in another level of existance. They even made each town insert itself into the “world” economy by pointing out what they produce.
However, we have to admit that Bethesda did something right, and that is ambience. The Mojave Wasteland doesn´t look as good as the Capitol Wasteland. And building interiors are now huge, realistic and laberynthic: it´s harded to find what you are looking for. It almost looks like they made the layout on an isometric view…
Lastly, I find combat extremely difficult. The player starts as a common mook who fights groups of three or more common mooks. Sure, to die they need to hit you with 7 or more bullets, but so you. Good thing is that VATS is not needed anymore, but not because combat is better, but because you suffer more damage while in VATS, meaning it´s almost useless, from my experience. I died constantly even on easy, until I got Boone, the sniper companion. Now he kills everything for me. Go, Boone, go!
ED-E’s detection capability is what keeps me alive. Gives you an insane heads up on the radar of where baddies are. I find a piece of high ground. Take out my trusty cowboy repeater, crouch, aim, shooting gallery. When the radar is clear, I go loot. :D
Eyebot for the win.
I will agree that Bethesda is good at creating settings. That’s it though. Everything else they do is just bad. From what I’ve seen of the Mojave I like it better than the Wasteland. Personal taste I guess.
Combat is definitely harder, but I’m not having that much trouble. I’m just being rather careful with how I approach things. I got a little worried when I encountered a pack of ghouls outside of Primm, but I managed to take them down barely. What did kill me is when I got too far out and found a Reaver. At level 3.
Well, on the mod front there’s good news. Since New Vegas and Fallout 3 are pretty much identical under the surface, Fallout 3 mods can be ported with relative ease.
So yeah, don’t be surprised if most of the Fallout 3 mods are quickly put into New Vegas.
Of course we’ll have to wait a bit. Modders have to play the game too you know ;)
Nay! I wan´t my WH40K Enclave Commander right now!
=P Glad to see this was appreciated. It’s an incredibly small mod, but it took me a ridiculous amount of hours to make. (Mostly because I got sidetracked trying to make a decent tombstone mesh and failing for the most part. The vanilla ones are incredibly stupid for reasons I won’t trouble you with.)
I suck at writing Haiku as one of you already pointed out, but I like the wording and will leave it be.
I’ll be making one last update in a few minutes to this tiny mod. I realized today I don’t have to use an new mesh for the hat. (Obsidian added a easy way of making easily compatible re-textures. Woot!) I’m just going to remove the redundant mesh and make a few tweaks to the esp.
A few small questions;
Can you pick up the hat, and wear it?
Can you dig up the grave, and if so, what’s in it?
Madness.
In that grave lies only madness.
Did Malkav get married there by mistake?
(Intentional spelling error is intentional)
I think Jarenth might be right, but my alternative theory is that there might be a booze cabinet buried under there.
And infinite booze cabinet.
An infinite booze cabinet of madness.
And drugs.
Soooo it’s filled with Absynthe?
To absynthe friends…
I love the mod, except for the fact that you got his name wrong!
Nooooooooo!
Well he has a son at the very least. A big daddy son, but a son none the less.
Who is the mother though? The new Mass Effect 2 Shepard?
That’s her! Reginalda Cuftbert-Shepard.
With Josh at the helm, anything is possible.
This would just be too awesome!
…but he already died so many times before this for similar reasons. Why did it stick this time?
He completed a main quest and hadnt bought the DLC.
He got sick of not getting payed.
Nah old Reginald was delivering a package when he was cornered by some Vegas type and some Great Kahns. They took the package, shot him, and dumped him in the grave. Soon he will be dug out by a friendly robot.
Sheesh people. ;)
A too friendly robot.
God yes… If I wasn’t playing my first playthrough with Neutral indifferance then this robot would have died so quickly. He’s just so creepy.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the vault, fresh from my bed.
Now far ahead my dad has gone,
and I must follow, rail-roaded,
Pursuing him with heavy feet.
Until it leads to better quests
Where idiocy and nonsense meet.
As days have gone, not my best.
– Spoken by Reginald “Obvious Reasons” Cuftbert on exiting Vault 101
It’s almost as if he knew…
that sounds familiar, what piece of poetry is it paraphrased from?
Lord of the Rings… The Road goes ever on and on
That. Is. Excellent.
And I agree. “Definitely not a mercenary” should’ve been on there. But two thumbs up nontheless.
EDIT: I love Newbie’s poem too.
I’m so gonna install this when I get the game. I’m thinking of bringing a beer bottle and some booze to his grave, maybe some various drugs for decoration, and then get addicted on a random substance to honor his memory.
Sounds about fitting.
“Here lies Reginald Cuftbert. Or at least, his hat; that’s all we found. But we’re very certain he’s actually dead.
Hopefully.”
“By the way, you may want to avoid stepping on the grave. Somehow, you’ll end up a lot poorer, though you will own a new grenade for a few seconds.”
I found the perfect mod to use when dancing on his grave.
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35297
dont forget to take ‘all the drugs’ when you visit, a suitable tribute.