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The 2025 version of charity fundraising speedrun occasion Awesome Games Done Quick has been working for the final week, that includes such splendidly absurd runs as an Elden Ring saxophone-controller boss showcase and a Crazy Taxi speedrun carried out with a reside band. As a Fallout sicko, I used to be happy to see Tomatoangus (also called Tomatoanus) tackling a New Vegas all-romances run, a considerably area of interest speedrun document we have written about earlier than.
There are 12 romanceable characters in Fallout: New Vegas, and gathering all of them Pokémon-style in a single playthrough would usually be not possible. Its NPCs have predetermined sexualities, and there is usually no option to change your character’s intercourse to go well with their preferences mid-game. However, as Tomatoangus explains on this run, quicksaving and quickloading proper earlier than the second you are requested if you happen to’ve finalized character creation means the pop-up retains showing all through the sport, letting you sneakily rebuild your character midway by.
Abusing the quickload is a recurring theme, as it might probably allow you to skip by dialogues and likewise launch your self ahead. A glitch within the revolver-reloading animation also can present free dashes, infinitely chained if you happen to soar in the course of it. There’s lots of stuff a standard New Vegas enjoyer would don’t know about, which is a part of the enjoyable. Did you already know if you happen to clip out of bounds you respawn on the entry level of the situation you are in? It’s a handy method of getting round New Vegas at pace, which you’d by no means learn about if you happen to weren’t attempting to hop throughout the waste in document time.
One extra trick that is central to this run is time-stopping, which is triggered by right-clicking the Pip-boy map. For some motive this freezes the AI and allows you to run round finishing quest goals in relative security, like gathering all of the monster eggs you’ll want to impress one in every of your romance companions. That’s what the women like.
I’ll go away the remainder of it so that you can uncover for your self. If you are searching for extra of the identical, again in 2020 Tomatoangus carried out a legendary Fallout Anthology speedrun, wherein he demolished Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 back-to-back in 2:16:21. It’s an entertainingly wild journey.
