Fallout: New Vegas: Ain't that a cuck in the bed?

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FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

How to succeed at unarmed:

1. Run up to thing.
2. Hit thing.
3. Run up to next thing.
4. Hit thing.

High level unarmed is hilariously awesome, you can knock the head off almost everything. Not sure hw to deal with cazadores, tho, but gently caress those drat butterflies.

Also, superheated saturnite first FTW.

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fish fingers: Jun 25, 2008

Does anyone know of a good place to get InstaMash? I need it to make stuff and I can't find it anywhere

edit: \/ ta didn't think of that

fish fingers fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Oct 25, 2011

# ? Oct 25, 2011 17:32

AlmightyBob: Sep 8, 2003

The Sierra Madre vending machines

# ? Oct 25, 2011 17:55

Spuzzz: Mar 27, 2005; I have hit my head some many times I am surprised I can remember my own name.

FrozenVent posted:

How to succeed at unarmed:

1. Run up to thing.
2. Hit thing.
3. Run up to next thing.
4. Hit thing.

High level unarmed is hilariously awesome, you can knock the head off almost everything. Not sure hw to deal with cazadores, tho, but gently caress those drat butterflies.

Also, superheated saturnite first FTW.

You go unarmed/explosive and blast the wings of cazadores before they get near you. My guy was unstoppable, Annabelle wasted Deathclaws before they got near and everything else got its head punched off.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 17:56

MrL_JaKiri: Sep 23, 2003; A bracing glass of carrot juice!

FrozenVent posted:

Not sure hw to deal with cazadores

Hit them

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:00

AG3: Feb 4, 2004; Ask me about spending hundreds of dollars on Mass Effect 2 emoticons and Avatars.; Oven Wrangler

FrozenVent posted:

Not sure hw to deal with cazadores, tho, but gently caress those drat butterflies.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Hit them

And

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Snakebite_tourniquet

At least for the first one....

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:14

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

AG3 posted:

And

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Snakebite_tourniquet

At least for the first one....

Finishing OWB seems to have helped as far as poison is concerned, too... I don't think I've been poisonned since.

And those tourniquets, along with the auto-inject stimpaks, are pretty awesome indeed.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:22

Rev. Melchisedech Howler: Sep 5, 2006; You know. Leather.

I'm looking forward to my next run when I get back to my proper gaming system; first time with a Legion loyal character and melee and explosves expert with 1 intelligence. The descriptions of heads exploding off with single hits is fantastic.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:23

Ygolonac

Nov 26, 2007

pre:

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CLUTCH  NIXON
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The Hero We Need

Hey, the Two-Step Goodbye might be good for Cazador swarms, if the one you kill is knocked back into the crowd...

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:23

Deep Thoreau: Aug 16, 2008

Places I've depopulated so far: Goodsprings, Primm, Novac, Mojave Outpost. Game needs more people. I can't stop murdering them!

Melee+sneak is hilariously fun. You can murder all the guards at the outpost and still be liked by them.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:25

King Vidiot: Feb 17, 2007; You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

FrozenVent posted:

High level unarmed is hilariously awesome, you can knock the head off almost everything. Not sure hw to deal with cazadores, tho, but gently caress those drat butterflies.

Here's how you deal with cazadores: go into Big MT and get all the cazador implants from the Auto-Doc, and when you leave just keep your Artificial Heart. You'll never be poisoned again and cazadores will be much easier to kill.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 18:26

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Bash Ironfist posted:

Places I've depopulated so far: Goodsprings, Primm, Novac, Mojave Outpost. Game needs more people. I can't stop murdering them!

Melee+sneak is hilariously fun. You can murder all the guards at the outpost and still be liked by them.

Yeah. I did that with every major settlement. Things get boring pretty quickly

# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:17

hairrorist: Mar 29, 2011

Is there a part near the beginning of Lonesome Road where your vision is -supposed- to go blurred/double for over five minutes or am I experiencing some kind of bug or mod conflict? On my way to the tunnel I start picking up +10rads/sec and my vision gets so terrible it literally makes me nauseous in real life. It doesn't seem to go away. Its happening right after I pick up the laser detonator.

hairrorist fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 25, 2011

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Smol: Jun 1, 2011; Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

Inzombiac posted:

I don't know why anyone would not take Small Frame on a non-hardcore build.
Stimpacks (and supers) are being vomited out of the populace in such a large quantity that you may as well bathe in them.

Now, if they put in Stim addiction like FO2...

I'd say that Skilled and Good Natured are a better choices in most cases. Stats play a relatively minor role on Fallout games; skill points are much more important.

Smol fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Oct 26, 2011

# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:24

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Epileptic Nazi posted:

So now that all the DLC is here it's time for me to replay! I completed the game back on release and left it to rot.. now I'm keen to play again and do one of these fancy Unarmed runs.

What should I know before I do this unarmed run? Anyone got SPECIAL & Trait reccomendations?

Thanks a ton!

I used a bladed gauntlet for the first half of the game, and superheated saturnite fist for the second half. Paralysing palm works with unarmed weapons, piercing strike is a must. VATS is your best friend in close group combat. I understand you even do more damage in vats.

All unarmed weapons are silent, so get that sneak up so you can upercut peoples heads off right in front of them without them noticing.

Jury rigging is even still nice to have on hand because the unarmed cross repair list is pretty wide.

Also: Fist of the north Rawr :black101:

I really wish there were more things you could do to unconscious people though. you cant even pickpocket them... Need a coup de grace mod to make golden gloves fun to play with.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:26

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Coughing Hobo posted:

This isn't a SPECIAL or trait recommendation, but take lots of drugs all the time. Be the Hunter S Thompson of the Mojave Wasteland.

But the game won't let me shoot myself to death.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:38

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

But the game won't let me shoot myself to death.

You don't know what happens 30 years down the track when the Courier feels old age and general despondency catching up with them.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 23:22

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

I always take wild wasteland and the trait that gives you +s to skills for loss of XP. who the hell wants to level up faster anyhow.

# ? Oct 25, 2011 23:23

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I just did a playthrough with Morning Person; it's not bad as long as you plan everything around that loving period where you have minus to everything.

You're awesome in the morning, meh in the afternoon and absolute poo poo at night, basically... The most annoying thing about it is suddenly becoming encumbered at noon.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:10

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

Skilled is nice because it basically has no downside, I take Hoarder (usually switching it from Logan's when I hit up OWB) for the same reason

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:19

fez_machine: Nov 27, 2004

Johnnie Ray's Street of Memories has been serving as an integral part of my soundtrack for Lonesome Road and good part of New Vegas as well, if only it had been actually in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1fEnLixkHc

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:29

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Kharmakazy posted:

I always take wild wasteland and the trait that gives you +s to skills for loss of XP. who the hell wants to level up faster anyhow.

Agreed on Skilled the reason I avoid Wild Wasteland is that most of the jokes are only funny once, and you miss out on one of the best energy weapons in the game, if not the best.

There's just so many better perks to fill that spot with negligible downsides: Hoarder, Built To Destroy, Small Frame, Good Natured.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:34

LLCoolJD: Dec 8, 2007; Musk threatens the inorganic promotion of left-wing ideology that had been taking place on the platform

Block me for being an unironic DeSantis fan, too!

FrozenVent posted:

How to succeed at unarmed:

1. Run up to thing.
2. Hit thing.
3. Run up to next thing.
4. Hit thing.

High level unarmed is hilariously awesome, you can knock the head off almost everything.

Melee pretty much works the same way. My character has 10 strength, 100 melee, and most humanoids cannot withstand a crack on the skull. Throwing spears at people's heads is fun, too, since the heads go flying with the spears stuck in them. That's how the fine folks of Goodsprings met their fate when opposing Joe Cobb and company.

LLCoolJD fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Oct 26, 2011

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Deep Thoreau: Aug 16, 2008

Wolfsheim posted:

Agreed on Skilled the reason I avoid Wild Wasteland is that most of the jokes are only funny once, and you miss out on one of the best energy weapons in the game, if not the best.

There's just so many better perks to fill that spot with negligible downsides: Hoarder, Built To Destroy, Small Frame, Good Natured.

What energy weapon? I've usually taken WW, but if this is true gently caress that.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:35

LLCoolJD: Dec 8, 2007; Musk threatens the inorganic promotion of left-wing ideology that had been taking place on the platform

Block me for being an unironic DeSantis fan, too!

Bash Ironfist posted:

What energy weapon? I've usually taken WW, but if this is true gently caress that.

North above the Horowitz Farm or that one near it, you'll find a campfire with several bandits. One of them has the unique Gauss Rifle, I think.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:37

Node: May 20, 2001; KICKED IN THE COOTER; Taco Defender

Bash Ironfist posted:

What energy weapon? I've usually taken WW, but if this is true gently caress that.

The YCS-186, named after a forum that was too glorious for the internet.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 00:37

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Wolfsheim posted:

Agreed on Skilled the reason I avoid Wild Wasteland is that most of the jokes are only funny once, and you miss out on one of the best energy weapons in the game, if not the best.

There's just so many better perks to fill that spot with negligible downsides: Hoarder, Built To Destroy, Small Frame, Good Natured.

I have to repair my poo poo too often as it is without it degrading faster.. no way I can justify built to destroy. But I guess good natured makes sense seeing as how im trying to up speech and repair early on anyhow.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 01:35

Berk Berkly: Apr 9, 2009; by zen death robot

Melee-weapon builds can use the Heavy Handed perk quite effectively and efficiently since melee weapons don't consistently have great crit-multipliers and bonus crit damage, thus a negligible downside. There is even the opportunity after finishing Dead Money to negate the downside pretty much completely.

Obviously there are some exceptions like Old Glory, but even then the perk is still powerful. With power-hitters like Knock-Knock, Chainsaws, etc, you really just loving maul folks.

Kharmakazy posted:

I have to repair my poo poo too often as it is without it degrading faster.. no way I can justify built to destroy. But I guess good natured makes sense seeing as how im trying to up speech and repair early on anyhow.

Good Natured is great because while most characters tend to focus only one, maybe two offensive skills. While all the utility/non-combat skills tend to have great value all through the game for any character. So you might end up trading away 10-15 likely irrelevant points, and 5-10 desired points for +25 better distributed ones. This is just plain min/maxing, helping you hit those critical/useful value points earlier, like 50 science or 80 repair for Jury Rigging.

Berk Berkly fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Oct 26, 2011

# ? Oct 26, 2011 01:59

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

gently caress it, Imma take Esther as my signature weapon and end it all..

# ? Oct 26, 2011 02:05

DJ Commie: Feb 29, 2004; Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

I can't seem to unholster my weapon. I can change weapons and it shows up on the Courier when in third person, but the fire key, VATS, nor the R key do anything, not even a not-allowed sound like when activating the Use key when not focused on a usable item. Ideas?

DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Oct 26, 2011

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Flame112: Apr 21, 2011

Are you holding R or just pressing it?

# ? Oct 26, 2011 03:10

DJ Commie: Feb 29, 2004; Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Flame112 posted:

Are you holding R or just pressing it?

Using it in the normal manner, holding it. ususally triggering the fire key(s) unholsters the weapon too. I do have 130ish hours in this game, so unless someone programmed something to mess with button activity on the third OWB playthrough only in X-8 on Tuesday evenings...

# ? Oct 26, 2011 03:12

Chairman Mao: Apr 24, 2004; The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

So I walked out of the Sierra Madre with enough Mentats and Stimpacks to last a lifetime, and I can buy just about anything I need with all the pre-war money I got from playing at the casino.

Really REALLY tried to get those bricks out with me at the end. Oh well.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 03:54

Nostalgia4ColdWar: May 7, 2007; Good people deserve good things.

Till someone lets the winter in and the dying begins, because Old Dark Places attract Old Dark Things.

...

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# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:16

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

I caused my game to have an aneurysm. On my legion run all I had left to do was meet with the guy and do that last thing. Only it froze there for some reason. So I teleported back to ceasar and murdered the crap out of him. Then I went back to the guy and he was ready to attack the thing for some reason...

Midway through attacking the thing... I Found the target general guy sitting at a desk and he was all like... debug debug... we need to to take out that guys encampment.... im all WTF..... So I was like... Sure... switch sides during the final battle? Why the hell not. And the whole thing went off without a hitch. The end slides pretended that I helped the NCR instead of the legion.... but whatever.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:16

Astroturf Man: Nov 2, 2006; Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!

Logan's loophole is the only way to roll. :catdrugs:

Other trait is either built to destroy or skilled.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:26

Cryptozoology: Jul 12, 2010

50 Foot Ant posted:

There's 2 way I know of to get the gold.

One, is to have the Turbo implant and at least 10 Turbo in your inventory. When you grab the gold you hit the turbos. You can escape, but it's pretty tight. One of the helpful things to do is to locate the holograph emitter on the beam above where you have to destroy that generator thing and drop the force field. You do the whole conversation, run over, grab all the gold, then sneak out past him. It can be done.

This is amazing.

The Courier stands in front of a mountain of gold bars and bites his lip as he does the math in his head. He knows that the thirty seven gold bars weigh twelve hundred pounds, and if he were a better man, a lesson would be learned here about letting go of your obsessions.

The Courier injects all of his drugs into his chest at once, throws the thousand pounds of gold into a duffel bag and runs out of the vault in slow motion.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:30

Cousin Todd: Jul 3, 2007; Grimey Drawer

white quilt posted:

This is amazing.

The Courier stands in front of a mountain of gold bars and bites his lip as he does the math in his head. He knows that the thirty seven gold bars weigh twelve hundred pounds, and if he were a better man, a lesson would be learned here about letting go of your obsessions.

The Courier injects all of his drugs into his chest at once, throws the thousand pounds of gold into a duffel bag and runs out of the vault in slow motion.

Last run I made LR ED-E carry most of it... seemed fitting.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:34

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I only brought two gold bars out of DM, but I got so much loving Pre-war money out of the casino, I can't even get rid of it. Seriously, I've got like 12k of the stuff. Can't dump it in one go, and it'd take too long to scroll that inventory thing down to a manageable amount for a vendor.

Eventually I'm gonna go back to Novac and fill out the bathroom of that hotel room with cash, but right now I'm just walking around with it and grumbling.

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Berk Berkly: Apr 9, 2009; by zen death robot

white quilt posted:

This is amazing.

The Courier stands in front of a mountain of gold bars and bites his lip as he does the math in his head. He knows that the thirty seven gold bars weigh twelve hundred pounds, and if he were a better man, a lesson would be learned here about letting go of your obsessions.

The Courier injects all of his drugs into his chest at once, throws the thousand pounds of gold into a duffel bag and runs out of the vault in slow motion.

After basically the whole Universe going out of its way to drill that message into you brain... only to end a brilliant, defiant flash of "gently caress LETTING GO!"

Truly spitting in the face of destiny, wisdom, karma... and getting away with! Never quit, never surrender :clint:

If you need a huge cash-sink, buy and upgrade the Red Glare in LR. The Commissaries also carry 6k and replenish pretty fast if you cashout through them.

# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:45

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