You can. I did not.
Just killed the family whole-cloth.
Like I did to the slavers of paradise falls and Talon Company. 
The regulators love me.
So with big guns over 90, the flamer is nuts. It doesn’t have the headshot, but it don’t matter. Its gotta be the best close range weapon in the game. Especially if 2 or more baddies are dumb enough to stand next to each other. Its very good for the run and gun as opposed to VATS. Easy to aim and seems to negate body armor. Though it burns through ammo…
Now though the downside, other than that big guns either go through ammo too fast (flamer and mini) or they just don’t have much ammo around (launcher) is that there is nothing for medium range really. Flamer is pretty short. Mini I suppose would do it but its hard to aim and is really a waste in VATS. And if its something that is charging you (Yao Guai or Deathclaws) or you’re indoors, it just takes too long to fire. Missiles are good, but they are a bit rare/expensive and its more of a long ranged weapon like the sniper rifle. So I guess I need to figure out how to fill that space. Like what you would use a hunting/assault/laser rifle for.
i ended up going plasma rifle and ripper/powerhammer.
i liked turning the bad guys into steaming piles of green ooze.
but i would use the heavy weapons as i found them for fun. i would pick em upp and exhauste the ammo then dump it on cheron.
honestly though, Cheron is too good. half the time he starts a fight before i see the guys and when i get my lock on, hes already killed them.
**** pre war brain washed super spy.
That’s what I did the first time before I had to restart. Big Guns are totally different though if you raise proficiency. Things die, very fast.
For the VATS game the plasma rifle is hands-down the best weapon.
I have a huge stockpile of ammo for all my guns (like… more than 100 sniper rifle rounds, over a thousand 5.56 mm rounds and so many caps I have no need to sell off ammo) but the plasma rifle so often uses only 1-2 shots to kill an enemy that I just have no need to use anything else.
Concentrated fire + sniper is the sickest combination of perks for VATS btw.
at lvl 16 i have
energy weapons 100
science 100
lockpick 100
then i have some mid stuff like
medical 60
melee 60
and some other stuff.
I got into the habbit of picking up every piece of ammo in the game i found. if i didnt use it, 500 rounds will get you some caps.
did you guys ever find the T-51b Prototype power armor. its like old school Fallout.
i want to get vampirism along with all my genetic modifications, cybornetics and radiated mutation, it would be rad.
No I did not. Where did you find it?
The best armor I have found is Tesla Armor (total dr of approx 40 between armor and helmet and a +10 to energy weapons)
Currently the biggest problem is finding merchants with money with which to buy all the swag I’m selling. I haven’t tapped out the wandering caravans but moira only really can buy enough for me to recoup repair costs and flak and shrapnel are running out of money too.
you need to get the mission in underworld
underworld is the museum of history in downtown DC.
there is a goul there named Mr. Crowley.
*MINI SPOILER *
He gives you a mission to assassinate 4 (called something like “you gotta shoot em in the head” ) people for being goul haters. you find out he only wants one dead for being a hater, Mr. Tenpenny. The other 3 hold special keys. u can talk them out of these chaps and never have to kill anyone. get the location of Fort Constantine from one of these guys. Its in the northwest sector. Take the keys to the fort, dont go in the fort, but go into the CO HQ. find the stairs down and eventually you will find a door that takes a special key, then another and then the last that opens into a room that is in tact old world technology. you get a fatboy and some mininukes and the armor. There are lots of doors but the one you want that is actually the room with the armor has some dead raider chick lying in the doorway.
i was using the tesla armor too but right as i found the T-51 i also lvld my energy weapons to 100. armor and helmet give you 60 armor total. so its not a lot better than the tesla, but its unique and looks old school
oh and that perk shadowy figure or what ever is totally awesome. when it works.
every now and then the guy pops out and kills something you didnt get killed in vats. and he gets his own soundtrack like james bond.
a few times i had used vats on things that were across an expanse or an area i couldnt reach. and he would appear over there and finish em off.
i have a 9 in luck and finess for another 5 luck points worth of crit chance, so i crit alot. but i can only do 3 shots with a plama rifle in vats unless i take a quantum cola.
i made my character really lucky and really smart. i get tons of intellegence things to say in conversations. like im smart or something.
Buffed agility, intelligence and perception. In addition got in-game bennies that gave me massive strength (8) though it was accidental.
[QUOTE=SimonM;897715]Buffed agility, intelligence and perception. In addition got in-game bennies that gave me massive strength (8) though it was accidental.[/QUOTE]
kinda like the rad regen thing i got during that experiment.
if i have advanced rad poisoning, my limbs will regenerate to full health. likewise my body will perform at peak levels till the moment of death from rad poisoning. which is tight. if i get crippled i just find some poo water and save my stem packs.
lol
Getting close to beating the game again… been trying to take it slow and find more side-quests but I’m running low. I am doing the statesman hotel again now and know of 3 other side-quests I haven’t done yet. I will hit lv. 20 WAY before I finish though.
Next time through I think I’ll make a ninja.
ya i still have like the whole top half of the map nearly un explored.
im thinking about playing it again and just not even doing any of the story till i hit 20.
im thinking a super stealthy explosives expert. ill go science right away for those comp skeelz.
i remember reading at tip, that if you pick pocket someone, and put a grenade in their pocket instead of stealing, it arms it and they blow to little bits.
i want to see that one.
I did that once. It was funny.
[QUOTE=SimonM;897944]I did that once. It was funny. :D[/QUOTE]
lol i bet. i gotta try that out next time i play.
u know that bomb in megaton, there is a storehouse with 23 of those suckers up by fort constantine.
im wishing i knew if there was a way to nuke the whole of DC !!! :eek:
I gotta find this fort constantine place.
[QUOTE=SimonM;897978]I gotta find this fort constantine place. :D[/QUOTE]
i didnt know you could get a dog!
i was just reading this thing online that between the minefield and the megaton there is a doggy you can get to be your pal and keep with you in the game.
Yeah, just be careful because he dies easy. I usually just keep him back at my house at megaton unless I’m doing a really easy mission…
and NEVER take him to do the mole rats mission because he kills the mole rats before you can hit them with the stick.
can i have cheron and the dog or is it like how i can only have either the super mutant or cheron?