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The Cowboy Repeater is an extremely strong weapon early on, really expensive to get fully repaired, but very well worth it.
Speech, Lockpick, Science, and Repair pay dividends if you get them leveled up high enough.
Wild Wasteland is an awesome perk that's great for those who don't mind a little silliness.
Speech, Lockpick, Science, and Repair pay dividends if you get them leveled up high enough.
Wild Wasteland is an awesome perk that's great for those who don't mind a little silliness.
I also recommend Wild Wasteland. You ultimately get more stuff, and there's not really any negative side-effects unless you prefer the serious, dark, gritty version, and even that's not really affected overall.
If you can get ahold of the Classic Pack somehow, do it. The Weathered 10mm Pistol and Vault 13 Armor is a Godsend for a starting player.
When leaving the first town, DO. NOT. GO. NORTH. I can't emphasize this enough. Just don't go north. I'm serious.
Do whatever you can to get Boone as a companion. For a low-level player, he's perfect.
The 9mm SMG is pretty crappy. I wouldn't bother with it unless you're desperate.
If you can get ahold of the Classic Pack somehow, do it. The Weathered 10mm Pistol and Vault 13 Armor is a Godsend for a starting player.
When leaving the first town, DO. NOT. GO. NORTH. I can't emphasize this enough. Just don't go north. I'm serious.
Do whatever you can to get Boone as a companion. For a low-level player, he's perfect.
The 9mm SMG is pretty crappy. I wouldn't bother with it unless you're desperate.
Add barter to that list. That way you can lower the buying price and increase the selling price. And I would suggest having a high intelligence and strenght.SlainPwner666 said:
This is just me, but avoid the Dead Money DLC.
The speech skill comes in handy quite a bit in New Vegas. Also, there are speech challenges that require more than just speech. Some options can't be done unless you have a high enough computer/medicine/barter/etc skill, so having your skills well rounded is a plus.
Companions are your best friends. If ever you find yourself struggling at any point, find a companion. I can't describe how helpful they are. My personal favorite is Raul, though that may partially be because I find him to be a fascinating character with a great back story.
Avoid giant radscorpions at all costs until you're about level 15+, unless you have large amounts of ammo to just throw away.
If you see any more than one Deathclaw coming at you and you don't have a companion or a really strong weapon, either run or make your peace. Deathclaws are far more vicious in this game as opposed to Fallout 3.
The speech skill comes in handy quite a bit in New Vegas. Also, there are speech challenges that require more than just speech. Some options can't be done unless you have a high enough computer/medicine/barter/etc skill, so having your skills well rounded is a plus.
Companions are your best friends. If ever you find yourself struggling at any point, find a companion. I can't describe how helpful they are. My personal favorite is Raul, though that may partially be because I find him to be a fascinating character with a great back story.
Avoid giant radscorpions at all costs until you're about level 15+, unless you have large amounts of ammo to just throw away.
If you see any more than one Deathclaw coming at you and you don't have a companion or a really strong weapon, either run or make your peace. Deathclaws are far more vicious in this game as opposed to Fallout 3.
Some conversations, and ultimately some quests, are made easier by having a high barter. See, this game goes by the old style of speech challenges, in that it's not a randomly determined stat based on your speech and charisma, but rather whether you fail or succeed is based off of how high a certain stat is. For example, I think one early quest has you ask a merchant for help as an optional part of it. If you don't have the 25 barter necessary, you fail the speech challenge and don't get his assistance, so it does pay to put a few points here and there.
That being said there are magazines that temporarily increase your skill in a particular area, such as bartering, for a very short period of time. They are 1 time use though, and when I say short I mean REALLY short, so use with caution.
Honestly, I think the biggest thing you can prepare yourself for in this game is the bugs, because going into it with a good mind set can definitely ease the frustration. Slowdown, stoppage, and random freezing occur more frequently the more you play, with some areas being almost completely unplayable to the point of powerpoint presentation if you've been playing for a long period of time. Going into this game realizing that freezing and slowdown are major issues will help in the long run, my patience ultimately worn too thin after the 15th time it happened to me and I returned it, but I do regret it simply because the game had an amazing story.
Gameplay wise... same old Fallout stuff. Collect everything, sell everything, help people for benefits or just murder and pillage everything they own. One thing I found somewhat frustrating was the lack of house really early on, but I guess you can use one of the houses in the starting town without being explicitly told that you can, but otherwise its a great game with a great story.
Hmm... one last bit. I'd stay away from energy weapons, they are really underpowered in this game and eat through ammo like it's no one's business. I've heard making your own ammo for guns is the best way to get through the game, but I never bothered to try.
That being said there are magazines that temporarily increase your skill in a particular area, such as bartering, for a very short period of time. They are 1 time use though, and when I say short I mean REALLY short, so use with caution.
Honestly, I think the biggest thing you can prepare yourself for in this game is the bugs, because going into it with a good mind set can definitely ease the frustration. Slowdown, stoppage, and random freezing occur more frequently the more you play, with some areas being almost completely unplayable to the point of powerpoint presentation if you've been playing for a long period of time. Going into this game realizing that freezing and slowdown are major issues will help in the long run, my patience ultimately worn too thin after the 15th time it happened to me and I returned it, but I do regret it simply because the game had an amazing story.
Gameplay wise... same old Fallout stuff. Collect everything, sell everything, help people for benefits or just murder and pillage everything they own. One thing I found somewhat frustrating was the lack of house really early on, but I guess you can use one of the houses in the starting town without being explicitly told that you can, but otherwise its a great game with a great story.
Hmm... one last bit. I'd stay away from energy weapons, they are really underpowered in this game and eat through ammo like it's no one's business. I've heard making your own ammo for guns is the best way to get through the game, but I never bothered to try.
For PC gamers there's a few Energy Weapon de-nerfing mods and a Gauss Rifle VATS bug fix... or ignore them all and buy the Anti Material Rifle for Boone, a shit pot of .50 ammo (.50 incendiary is the tits) and never have to worry about anything hostile ever coming near you.Blazingdragoon04 said:
I had a high intelligence, speech, lockpick, guns and science. Speech is a must. If you are taking on something strong, find a nice sniper rifle.
New Vegas is a great RPG, just choose what kind of character you want to be and make it. That's the greatness about it, just do whatever you want. Although I do recommend saving often and also enter Quarry Junction at your own risk 
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Also if you want to have a fun challenge, try beating the main quest without violence.
.Also if you want to have a fun challenge, try beating the main quest without violence.
A few tips I can give for play New Vegas are:
Get Repair maxed out ASAP. Repair 70 lets you get the Jury Rigging perk which allows you to repair an item with a roughly similar one, like fixing Power Armor with Metal Armor, or even touch up a hat with a pair of shades! Repair 90 gives you access to the Handloader perk, which unlocks all bullet recipes at the Reloading Bench, along with making them use less resources.
The Speech skill is ridiculously useful and can get you out of most any scrape with a moderately intelligent foe, so long as you're talking to them. Having Speech 100 actually does have a use later on...
If you want to be a sneaky killer, then go for Guns as your weapon skill. Bullets are more common than other types of ranged weapon ammo, and more often than not, ballistic weapons can be fitted with silencers.
My final bit of advice for Fallout: New Vegas would have to be:
The cap glitch still works.
Get Repair maxed out ASAP. Repair 70 lets you get the Jury Rigging perk which allows you to repair an item with a roughly similar one, like fixing Power Armor with Metal Armor, or even touch up a hat with a pair of shades! Repair 90 gives you access to the Handloader perk, which unlocks all bullet recipes at the Reloading Bench, along with making them use less resources.
The Speech skill is ridiculously useful and can get you out of most any scrape with a moderately intelligent foe, so long as you're talking to them. Having Speech 100 actually does have a use later on...
If you want to be a sneaky killer, then go for Guns as your weapon skill. Bullets are more common than other types of ranged weapon ammo, and more often than not, ballistic weapons can be fitted with silencers.
My final bit of advice for Fallout: New Vegas would have to be:
The cap glitch still works.
Small Guns and Repair are your friends again.AvauntVanguard said:
Get Speech up to 70-80 as quick as you can, most missions in the game have a Speech check.
Energy Weapons suck.
Wait until you have armor piercing ammo and a Sniper Rifle before you take on Radscorpions and Deathclaws.
Save every 5-10 minutes. The game is unbelievably unstable.
Play it on hardcore mode, or it will feel like a retread.AvauntVanguard said:
If you're not enjoying the game 15 hours in, wait til you got veronica. I hated it til I got her. Now it's an okay game.
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1. Play it on a computer. Never ran into any game-breakers, and the mods will add a lot.
2. Don't eat Strange Meat.
3. Deathclaws are nature's way of saying "GTFO".
4. If you see several red blips on your compass that are moving quickly side-to-side... run, and never stop running.
5. ???
6. Profit.
2. Don't eat Strange Meat.
3. Deathclaws are nature's way of saying "GTFO".
4. If you see several red blips on your compass that are moving quickly side-to-side... run, and never stop running.
5. ???
6. Profit.