Live change

Had an unusual time playing New Vegas today.

First, before I even started I checked out the 1 day only sale on Xbox Live and the DLC expansion pack Dead Money was on sale for 5 buck. I figured that it's a good deal since any future DLC combo discs would be about 20$ for 4 DLC at the cheapest.

So I bought it then went on with playing the game (surprised to receive a message that the DLC also raised the level cap to 35), planing to do the DLC after I finish exploring. The first place I got to was a crash site surrounded with high powered robots, and apparently cattle rods don't do much damage against robots. So I used my last pulse grenades and mines to get rind of most of them and used a shocker glove to get the rest (counts towards unarmed not melee).

After exploring a few other locations the web browser I was viewing the location map on disappeared. Turns out a nasty little mal-ware program snuck on my computer and was messing u my browser and every other program. So I deleted the program and then ran a full virus and spyware scan, and while that was going I finally go back to the game.

With the browser off while the scans were running I couldn't check where other locations were or what plot they were related to, so I played it safe and just explored the 2 close ticks on the compass. After that I decided to compensate for the melee hits I missed from the robots by taking on some deathclaws. A whole family of Deathclaws in fact, including 2 alpha males and a giant mother. Surprisingly the knock out effect of the cattle prod has the same effect no mater the size of the creature, so I picked them all off one by one with the cattle prod and then finish them off with a Riper and then shovel when the Riper broke.

So the scans should be done by tomorrow and it will be back to exploring the wilderness.