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Bigass Moth posted:All you bros who've used shotguns in the game: which do you consider best? Riot Shotgun? I've been a 45-70 and 308 man for too long... Yeah I was hoping for a unique lever-action shotgun, or at least maybe some higher tier 20ga options, but I suppose shotguns were fairly well represented already compared to some of the other gaps the GRA filled. At least they have great perk support. Maybe too great - And Stay Back basically means you win every fight unless there's 4+ mobs on you at once. edit : also, regarding the best shotgun, I didn't think much of Dinner Bell at first but it really grew on me. It's a sniper's shotgun. Hard to beat the raw power of the Riot Shotgun though! Kalko fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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Wolfsheim posted:Holy poo poo, the MF Hyperbreeder Alpha, the unique Recharger Pistol added by GRA, is insane. It seems to make even the upgraded GRA Plasma Defender entirely irrelevant, and kills anything without armor in basically under two seconds. 
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Ddraig posted:It's really weird how the DLC areas work. You'd think that the more powerful you get the easier they'd be but they scale all the enemies to your enemy, so when you go there as a level 30+ powerhouse all the enemies are bulletsponges. I just started OWB at level 3 and... It's not easy. Robots take loving forever to kill. That said, I gained two levels doing the basic school test so I'm catching up 
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I got a GRA ripper just now at level 5. I almost got through the god drat cazadores, but after one of my many deaths they decided to respawn. At that point I toggled god mode and punched them all to death. After that point it was smooth sailing to the Gunrunners booth. I got all my chips the legit way, by stealing everything that wasn't nailed to the floor. I wonder if the Cowboy perk affects rippers? I will need to check the wiki. I don't think something like Rushing Water or Slayer would affect it. Chainsaws and rippers and poo poo own but if I could manually swing them rather than just hold them out they would be a million times better. I think a cool thing would be Heavy Handed + Elijah's Rambling + Slayer + Rushing Water + Cowboy + Grunt + Blood Nap. Or all that and Gahenna with Pyromaniac. Yep. That is pretty much some unstoppable poo poo right there.
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 On one of my recent runs, I made a new friend   And then while doing one of the GRA challenges I decided to send a little message to the Omertas: You all sleep with the fishes... minus your heads.
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rope kid posted:The Plasma Defender is what you use when they have armor. No joke, even on hard difficulty at levels 48-49, I killed most of the Death Claws in Lonesome Road using the Plasma Defender. That gun is amazingly effective for a pistol.
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penis bandana posted:This guy knows his poo poo. Also, 20ga ammo is usually quite plentiful compared to 12ga. 20 gauge? Child's play.  I gots me eight 12 gauge magnum loads in my tube 
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I kinda regret taking Meltdown. It looks cool but it makes energy weapons much more situational and it's really more trouble than it's worth.
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Sep 30, 2011 03:37
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Suck it up and glue your legs back on with a doctor's bag.
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Snark posted:I kinda regret taking Meltdown. It looks cool but it makes energy weapons much more situational and it's really more trouble than it's worth. If whatever you're fighting is getting that close to you, you're doing something wrong. Also, since finding .308 is kinda impossible at low levels, I haven't had a real chance to use This Machine. So what's the second best option I can grab that uses .357 (which you get a poo poo ton of in OWB) or even 5.56 ammo? I figure I shouldn't have much problems getting to 11-12 or whatever level snipers enter the merchant tables but having something beefy for those first levels would be awesome. Looks like the unique cowboy repeater is also in McCarran but you'd have to kill Sterling to get it. 
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If whatever you're fighting is getting that close to you, you're doing something wrong. Also, since finding .308 is kinda impossible at low levels, I haven't had a real chance to use This Machine. So what's the second best option I can grab that uses .357 (which you get a poo poo ton of in OWB) or even 5.56 ammo? I figure I shouldn't have much problems getting to 11-12 or whatever level snipers enter the merchant tables but having something beefy for those first levels would be awesome. I'm using Lucky. I think a cowboy repeater uses 357 too. You can just wait til he sleeps in the barracks and sneak attack crit him. That's how I got it. Nobody else woke up. Cousin Todd fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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Kharmakazy posted:I'm using Lucky. I think a cowboy repeater uses 357 too. Yeah I'm running with a repeater right now for general stuff / lobotomites, then the Sonic Emitter + Proton Axe for robots. I'm also finding not having Jury Rigging is seriously cramping on my ability to maintain my good armors repaired at this low level. Had to take off my Riot Gear around level 7 because it had gotten too damaged  .Kharmakazy posted:You can just wait til he sleeps in the barracks and sneak attack crit him. That's how I got it. Nobody else woke up. I'll add this to the little "Power Start" I posted earlier but I'm already halfway through OWB and gently caress doing the school and stealth missions yet again.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If whatever you're fighting is getting that close to you, you're doing something wrong. I guess Meltdown's useful for the times I think Lily needs a time-out.
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Just cobbled together 400 rounds of .45 Super Hand Load. Oh yeahhhhh.
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I like how getting Explorer perk before DLC shows where everything is.
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I got Explorer perk on my last run after doing pretty much everything at level 44 and realized I had yet to visit about 60% of all locations. 
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J Bjelke-Postersen posted:Just cobbled together 400 rounds of .45 Super Hand Load. Oh yeahhhhh. Try crafting 600+ of it at once. 
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I got Explorer perk on my last run after doing pretty much everything at level 44 and realized I had yet to visit about 60% of all locations. I think I got it while doing Honest Hearts, and when I got back to the Mojave and opened the World Map.....  Even mousing over some of the names is exciting, imagining what kind of crazy poo poo you'll find at a place called "Crashed Vertibird". Oh yeah, and I convinced Raul to take up the gunslinging lifestyle again and he kept mentioning how good he was. I kind of took it with a grain of salt until we fast-traveled to Vault 3 and a bunch of Fiends bumrushed us. I was more annoyed than anything and went to draw my gun.... and then they were all dead and Raul was grunting,"I've been at this a LOT longer than you have." 
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Get the Sierra Madre jackpot --> spend all of it on .308 ammo. That's 3000+ rounds, turn it all into JSP, and you'll just nearly have enough to tackle OWB.
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Kharmakazy posted:I like how getting Explorer perk before DLC shows where everything is. Explorer only showed locations in DLC for me when I took it while in the DLC location. I don't have the locations in Lonesome Road, despite my character having taken Explorer long before it came out (I took it while doing Honest Hearts).
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I like spending my Sierra Madre winnings on shitloads of Steady since it's hard as hell to find in large quantities otherwise (most chems are, really) probably a good thing that there wasn't a Turbo code for the vending machines.
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I just beat Honest Hearts for the second time and I finally got all of the survivalist caches. I actually choked up a bit when I found the park ranger's corpse, preferring to end his lifetime of pain by freezing to death on his own terms than letting the children he was the Wasteland Santa Claus of watching him waste away and die from cancer. That final note that was on his corpse. 
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Dude went out on his own terms and left the world a better place than he found it, and that was why I decided gently caress you, Daniel, we're fighting to keep this place - we won't let that man's sacrifices be in vain. 
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YggiDee posted:Did you take Explorer before or after you installed Lonesome Road? Before.
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Okay, are all the casinos IN new vegas? I was looking around Primm, but I don't think you can use those slot machines or anything. Is there another place I can bilk of their sweet bottlecaps? edit:vvv I tried using them, but nothing happened, in the viki and vance. Maybe I need to do something special to use them? Deep Thoreau fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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Bash Ironfist posted:Okay, are all the casinos IN new vegas? I was looking around Primm, but I don't think you can use those slot machines or anything. Is there another place I can bilk of their sweet bottlecaps? I thought the slot machines in Primm worked? The next closest casino is in Freeside I guess. You can always play caravan as well
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Bash Ironfist posted:Okay, are all the casinos IN new vegas? I was looking around Primm, but I don't think you can use those slot machines or anything. Is there another place I can bilk of their sweet bottlecaps? Wiki says that you have to complete "My Kind of Town" before you can use Vikki and Vance's slot machines and Blackjack boards.
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closeted republican posted:Wiki says that you have to complete "My Kind of Town" before you can use Vikki and Vance's slot machines and Blackjack boards. Yeah, I finished my kind of town.  edit: vvv no, I didn't know that happened. Or that I had to wait 3 days. 
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Bash Ironfist posted:Yeah, I finished my kind of town. Did you go inside the casino after 3 days away from the town and deal with the deserters?
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I've decided its for the best to recruit ED-E and then just ask him to wait someplace random so I get to keep his perk. Edit: Yeah primm. You have to go back into the casino and be confronted by deserters. then sometime after that the casino opens. But they have like.. a small rear end limit then they kick you. Something like 6k caps?
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For the record, your NCR rep resets when you actually talk to Crocker, not the guy outside the Lucky 38. I know this because I walked in the embassy at 'Sneering Punk' status with every MP in the building calling me an rear end in a top hat and telling me to leave, and then after speaking to him for two minutes they were patting me on the back and I was 'Accepted'. Word travels fast, I guess.
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Wolfsheim posted:For the record, your NCR rep resets when you actually talk to Crocker, not the guy outside the Lucky 38. I know this because I walked in the embassy at 'Sneering Punk' status with every MP in the building calling me an rear end in a top hat and telling me to leave, and then after speaking to him for two minutes they were patting me on the back and I was 'Accepted'. Word travels fast, I guess. It's not all the rep, just the negative one. Each faction has 2 kinds of rep, positive and negative, it's not just a sliding bar like karma. Kind of nice how it avoids a situation like nuking Megaton and then giving water to a beggar and having everything be honky-dory.
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Jerusalem posted:Oh yeah, and I convinced Raul to take up the gunslinging lifestyle again and he kept mentioning how good he was. I kind of took it with a grain of salt until we fast-traveled to Vault 3 and a bunch of Fiends bumrushed us. I was more annoyed than anything and went to draw my gun.... and then they were all dead and Raul was grunting,"I've been at this a LOT longer than you have."
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doggiebiscuit posted:It's not all the rep, just the negative one. Each faction has 2 kinds of rep, positive and negative, it's not just a sliding bar like karma. Kind of nice how it avoids a situation like nuking Megaton and then giving water to a beggar and having everything be honky-dory. Well, if you think about it, there's what... maybe 3 or so people that know that you blew up Megaton? The beggar that you give water to can run all over the place and talk about how awesome you are. The word of mouth about how awesome that vault guy is obviously outweighs a destroyed city, where almost nobody will know who did it .
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The best was Megaton coming for revenge and just casually gunning them down without breaking a sweat. Idiots.
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Business Gorillas posted:Are the gigantic red gems in OWB ever explained? Radiation. edit: alternatively, a Radioactive wizard did it.
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