Fallout: New Vegas, ridiculous jackpots...

[AlternatePFG]

So after I beat the game the first time, I decided to try my hand at 10 Luck character. I assumed this would help out with gambling but I didn't realize it had this big of an impact. Within a couple minutes of gambling, I was kicked out of the Vickki and Vance Casino. Soon after the Atomic Wrangler. I didn't get any huge single jackpots there, but I was still making some serious money.

The gambling system is so broken in your favor when you have a high Luck skill. I knew it would help, but I didn't realize that in some cases the game will say you won even when you didn't (For example, I had a terrible hand in Blackjack (which in and of itself is pretty rare with a high Luck), but the game said "You're feeling lucky" and I won it anyway).

Anyway, once I got inside the Strip, I did a couple of quests. I went to the tops, just to explore, and I randomly walked up to a machine and put 200 chips into it. My mind was blown when I got 32,000 chips from one single random spin. I was instantly banned from anymore gambling, but I now had like 51,000 caps in total. I am only Level 14 at the time.

It just seems like that the whole gambling system is just another way of getting money with a high enough Luck skill. I understand that that's one of the main reasons why you'd invest in Luck but regardless it kills alot of the fun the casinos.

What's your guys opinions? Have you guys gotten any huge jackpots like this?

 

[Raregolddragon]

well if you have 10 luck you have 5 or less in everything else.

 

[ThreeDogsToaster]

well if you have 10 luck you have 5 or less in everything else.

I don't see why that would be....

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Aye, what the guy 2 above me said. But i geuss if you wanna look at it that way. And I have had no luck at the tables

 

[AlternatePFG]

well if you have 10 luck you have 5 or less in everything else.

Not at all. I had 1 Strength, 10 Percision, 1 Endurance, 10 Charisma, 10 Intelligence, 1 Agility, and 10 Luck. I did invest in Intense Training a couple of times to boost my intelligence, but it's still possible.

 

[twistedheat15]

I haven't really gambled much. I started to get a bit hooked on the roulette table and got the idea "hey I should save the game then put all my caps on a red roll then when I hit I'll get an instant 2x!" then got slapped in the face with the games cock as it only let me put 200 max and proceeded to call me a dumb ass. ._. I've been too ashamed to go back atm.

 

[oplinger]

One, the stats have a HUGE impact on your character as its only 1-10. 1 stat point has a big impact in other games like it too.

But no the gambling system is not broken, FO1 had broken gambling. You raise your gambling over 50, and paste down the proper keys, and watch your caps shoot through the roof...That was broken >.>

But New Vegas isn't broken. You're not abusing the system, you're just -really- lucky. ...and then not allowed to gamble anymore.

 

[Burst6]

well most of the good weapons and armor in the game can't be bought so an absurd amount of caps isn't as important as you think.

 

[thenamelessloser]

well if you have 10 luck you have 5 or less in everything else.

Not at all. I had 1 Strength, 10 Percision, 1 Endurance, 10 Charisma, 10 Intelligence, 1 Agility, and 10 Luck. I did invest in Intense Training a couple of times to boost my intelligence, but it's still possible.

Actually if you want even higher stats you're probably best off putting some points in Endurance because of being able to buy the implant perks later in the game.

 

[Yureina]

I broke the bank with my second character. Walked away banned from all the strip casinos with ~100,000 caps. ^_^

 

[Snowalker]

well if you have 10 luck you have 5 or less in everything else.

Not at all. I had 1 Strength, 10 Percision, 1 Endurance, 10 Charisma, 10 Intelligence, 1 Agility, and 10 Luck. I did invest in Intense Training a couple of times to boost my intelligence, but it's still possible.

Wow, wait, what the fuck is precision? I have perception on mine.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I do remember seeing the "You`re feeling lucky" about once every 10 hands or so though.

It got to the point where it's every other hand for me.

I wouldn't call it broken, but at this point there seems to be little risk invovled. I wish the max betting amount was higher than 200 chips.

Edit: I meant Perception my bad.

 

[LegionOfMany]

Yes, I have.

Secondly, I made names for the 10-point-skill-set-tactic.
Leprichaun - 10 LCK
Arnold - 10 Strng
Speedy Gonzalez - 10 Agility and a funny accent
E=MC2 = 10 Intl.
Layoffthedrugs - 10 Percep.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

My luck, agility, and perception are pretty high, but my strength and endurance is crap. But it doesn't matter if they can't hit me! *Dissapears into shadow*

 

[AlternatePFG]

Well, I just got kicked out of every casino in the Strip and got the achivement, and in total right now I'm sitting on about 81,000 caps.

 

[kouriichi]

Eh, i havent bothered with gambling.
Ive been hoping that someone will make a mod that lets me drop items known as "Pile of Caps" that i can use to make a giant treasure room like my one in fable 3.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Actually, you could easily get a silly high SPECIAL score without ever once purchasing an upgrade.

You start out with A total of 40 SPECIAL points. You can purchase up to an additional 7 (at a cost of 28,000 caps) in the form of implants, but only if you have an endurance score of 7 to start. Since HP is silly easy to come by anyhow, that really isn't necessary but with a score of 6 you can buy implants for each of the other areas. Thus, for the cost of a mere 28,000 caps, you can have a special score that looks like this:

Strength - 6
Perception - 6
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 6
Luck - 9

That's impressive enough I suppose but carry that forward a bit and lets make it a bit more useful. If you choose the four eyes trait and the small frame trait, your score could now look like this (assuming you're wearing glasses of course):

Strength - 6
Perception - 7
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 7
Luck - 9

That's a bit better. During the course of the game, you may run across a unique set of sunglasses called "Lucky Shades". With the four eyes perk, these glasses apply an astounding +3 perception and +1 luck so now we have a score like this:

Strength - 6
Perception - 8
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 7
Luck - 10

Better still, there are any number of hats that provide an additional +1 to perception (the best candidate is probably the NCR First Recon Beret), so now, after only using up some fairly useless slots, we have this:


Strength - 6
Perception - 9
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 7
Luck - 10 (15 for the purposes of getting a critical hit!)

Finally, we can throw on a suit of T-51b power armor (just the armor, not the helmet of course) and end up with:


Strength - 7
Perception - 9
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 7
Luck - 10.

And, all told, you have a 15% base critical hit chance, 83 base AP (sufficient to fire the sniper rifle twice for example), a Damage Threshold of 25, the ability to pick up a target on your compass at fairly absurd distances and you'll gain 12 base skill points per level up. In a pinch, your intelligence and perception can be pushed to the max, your AP pool could be as high as 183, your critical chance with a sniper rifle is 75%, you could deliver upwards of 500 damage in a single round, you'll find better loot throughout the game and you did all of this without ever once resorting to wasting a perk on an attribute. And, better still, you could reasonably do all of this before level 15 if you play your cards right.

 

[C95J]

I would definitely say it is NOT broken, but just easy if you have a good luck skill. 1 or 2 points can effect your character massively. And you get kicked out of casino's permanently after a certain cap limit anyway so it does stop you from earning unlimited caps.

Also, some of the best stuff is really expensive anyways, and sometimes if your playing on Very Hard/Hardcore a high luck skill can really help you out