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VikingScott wrote:Heh. That's why 100 speech is useful. Aviod the fight completly.

I can do that in 5 levels or 4 and a meeting people.

How do you dodge it with high speech?

High speech was always fun in Gotye, but blowing stuff up is way more fun.. except for Operation: Anchorage. It was just funny watching the Chinese General dude impale himself on his own sword.. apparently he was really tough to fight as well.

Fallout 3 was a letdown after 1and 2. NV makes up for that as it actually references previous games noticably.

By choosing the right options. Like you don't have to fight. Then you convince him that by the time they take the west the east would be lost.

VikingScott wrote:Fallout 3 was a letdown after 1and 2. NV makes up for that as it actually references previous games noticably.

By choosing the right options. Like you don't have to fight. Then you convince him that by the time they take the west the east would be lost.

Hrm, the legate just charges me when i go anywhere near his tent.

did you shoot him first? You can just talk to him if you don't.

(I wasn't at max legion hate either at this point. That may have had something to do with it.)

VikingScott wrote:did you shoot him first? You can just talk to him if you don't.

(I wasn't at max legion hate either at this point. That may have had something to do with it.)

Im shunned by the legion for being independant but not vilified, though i killed ALOT of legion on the way to the legate...

Hmmm. I don't know then. Were you wearing faction armour?

VikingScott wrote:Hmmm. I don't know then. Were you wearing faction armour?

Power armour, that may explain it also.

Ah, I had just plain old combat armour. And the space suit helmet.

VikingScott wrote:Ah, I had just plain old combat armour. And the space suit helmet.

I just sold the space suit and helmet, went for 1 and a bit Kcaps i think another reason for my failure against the legate was my advanced radiation sickness and lack of any stimpacks...

I set up 30 Frag-Mines, and 5 C-4 to kill the Legate. With his 1 HP left, Boone got his revenge, and put a bullet between the Legates eyes...

My Explosives skill was only 20 though.

So.. this legate dude is pretty tough, right? Damned Legion..

I just checked, my endurance was actually at 2 in said fight.

Wow. I went for Endurance 7 to start with. Then boosted it to 8 with the implant.

VikingScott wrote:Wow. I went for Endurance 7 to start with. Then boosted it to 8 with the implant.

Yeah the character I went independent with was special; strength 4, endurance 4, intelligence 9, perception 8, luck 6, charisma 4, agility 5 with the four eyes trait and the int and per implants.

I always meant to save up for the sub dermal armour but never got there.

I went independant too if you mean took out Mr H and let Yes Man help the courier.

VikingScott wrote:I always meant to save up for the sub dermal armour but never got there.

I went independant too if you mean took out Mr H and let Yes Man help the courier.

Yeah, it annoyed me that I couldn't reprogramme (I have science 100 for feths sake) or kill Yes man as it was obvious he would betray me and go skynet.

Urgh Science. I got that to 30 and left it. I hate hacking.

He didn't really go all skynet. He said he would go and become more assertive. The ending sequence probably would have mentioned it otherwise.

VikingScott wrote:Urgh Science. I got that to 30 and left it. I hate hacking.

He didn't really go all skynet. He said he would go and become more assertive. The ending sequence probably would have mentioned it otherwise.

Dude when the AI that controls a vast robot army armed to the teeth says he will become more assertive you know he will go skynet.

As for hacking I just have a 6th sense for picking the right ones If you actually use the "you got x letters correct" system you will go wrong as its complete gak and you will be told that 0 letters are correct when the correct answer shares several letters to the word.

Hacking requires lucky guesses. I don't possess enough luck and would rather blow the damn terminal up. I did get medicine and repair both to about 60. Along with guns arround 70.

Is it just me or did energy weapons get weaker? The plasma rifle shoots stupidly slow now,

VikingScott wrote:Hacking requires lucky guesses. I don't possess enough luck and would rather blow the damn terminal up. I did get medicine and repair both to about 60. Along with guns arround 70.

Is it just me or did energy weapons get weaker? The plasma rifle shoots stupidly slow now,

If you feel energy weapons are too slow grab a laser RCW whereas if you feel they got weaker pickup a gauss rifle and decimate all you survey.

I had a RCW near the begining. Sold it on quick as I had little to no ammo for it.

I never got a guass rifle.
I used melee a lot. It was effective in 3. I smashed my way through the final battles with a thermic lance. Shame melee only works well vs human opponents.

VikingScott wrote:I had a RCW near the begining. Sold it on quick as I had little to no ammo for it.

I never got a guass rifle.
I used melee a lot. It was effective in 3. I smashed my way through the final battles with a thermic lance. Shame melee only works well vs human opponents.

I was disappointed in the thermic lance, I thought it would be some form of awesome melta lance but it was just a fancy form of cattleprod :(

The chainsaw on the other hand...

Yeah I was expecting to be cooler than it was. But it's great for keeping enemies away from you as it has a long reach.
But if the enemy can jump or do some sort of leap attack they can still get you.

Chainsaw didn't have more damage than the lance so I didn't bother.

VikingScott wrote:Yeah I was expecting to be cooler than it was. But it's great for keeping enemies away from you as it has a long reach.
But if the enemy can jump or do some sort of leap attack they can still get you.

Chainsaw didn't have more damage than the lance so I didn't bother.

My high STR and END character has a chainsaw, ballistic fist and minigun on him at all times

corpsesarefun wrote:As for hacking I just have a 6th sense for picking the right ones If you actually use the "you got x letters correct" system you will go wrong as its complete gak and you will be told that 0 letters are correct when the correct answer shares several letters to the word.

Hacking has to have the letters in the same spot as well as identical letters.

For example. HATE is the password so PASS would have 1/4 in common while THAT would have 0/4. Get it?

Also @ darkvoid40k that's ingenious I never thought to "move" the stuff thanks man.


I imagine my character as Mr. House's executioner, the terror of the wasteland. Cross the House and feel my wrath!! Pretty fun.

The next character I am gonna do is a fast draw desperado. Luck and Perception both at 9 to maximize crit shots with guns. So I will be the faster gunslinger this side of the Mississippi.

If you want to hack computers, just do it my way.. sometimes takes longer (especially in F:NV for some reason..):

Step 1: try a random word, reducing your chances to 3.
Step 2: find all the brackets and remove all the duds. Usually one bracket will replenish 3 chances up to 4.
Step 3: try and get the right word.
Step 4: if you get down to 1 chance, restart (the terminal) and repeat.

You're welcome, Pael. Frankly, my favorite is the Plasma Defender off there; awesome little pistol that it is.

Luckily hacking isn't as nesserecy as it was in previous games.

Though it is of use. I just wish I had gotten 100 Science before the end of the game...

Footsloggin wrote:Though it is of use. I just wish I had gotten 100 Science before the end of the game...

why?