Fallout New Vegas 101 - Reputations

Hello everyone, my name is Nilsor and welcome to my vault Today on Fallout New Vegas 101 we’re going to see how the reputation system works Reputation is the measurement of how a faction or town is going to treat you It is composed of 2 factors Fame and Infamy They are counted not on an opposing scale but rather in a combination of the two You can gain points through many ways like completing quests talking with certain individuals or killing people The points gained in either of them will remain until the end of the game except in some really rare cases The value of fame or infamy needed to change your reputation varies upon who you’re dealing with For example to be idolized at Goodsprings you will need to have at least 15 points in fame and only between 0 and 2 in infamy To be idiolized with NCR you will need a minimum of 80 fame points and between 0 and 11 infamy points Having a good reputation can make you benefit of certain advantages and is sometimes required in order to complete quest On the contrary having high Infamy will most likely make you being shot on sight Town’s reputation differes slightly from faction’s reputation in a way that having a negative reputation with townfolks doesn’t alienate them against you They won’t be permanently hostile and most of the time spending a few days outside of town will remove any hostility towards you Using a disguise by putting on a faction armor is a good way to bypass your current reputation with that faction When you put a faction armor on It masks your current fame and infamy with that faction It sets you to neutral towards it And it also makes you share its relation with others factions For example if you are vilified with NCR putting an NCR armor on will make you neutral But in the same time your reputation with Caesar’s Legion will be set to hostile since those two factions are at war While having a faction armor on the fame and infamy points that you gain will still be added to your normal reputation once you remove your disguise Wearing a faction armor can therefore allow you to do quests for a faction that you were normaly hostile to But beware some people can see through your disguise like lieutenants security guards or trained dogs Also if you are trying to avoid infamy while killing faction members you can do so by staying hidden while shooting them We previously said that there was no way to reduce fame or infamy once gained but there is actualy 3 exceptions Two are coming at one point in the game when NCR and Caesar's Legion will both offer you a one time opportunity that will reset your Infamy towards them The third one is to give money to James Garret at the Atomic Wrangler He can propagate rumors in order to increase your fame or lower your infamy within Freeside Reputation plays an important role in New Vegas it will heavely impact your playthrough and modify the outcomes of the game Being in good term with everyone is impossible simply because some factions aren’t compatible like the democratic NCR who can’t stand the dictatorial ways of Caesar’s Legion or the Brotherhood of Steel who is looking negatively at the Followers of the Apocalypse because they dare to share technology instead of keeping it lock in order to avoid misuse You will therefore need multiple playthroughs to experience all the possibilties that the game has to offer Now we’ll continue our journey through the Mojave Wasteland and head to Primm so clic the link to learn more Thank you for watching, and see you later