Poll: In Fallout 3/NV, which do you like finding more?
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ammo. it's weightless (unless you're playing hardcore), useful, can can be easily traded for caps.
And if that doesn't distract him, he will be when Nestor the Chain-Smoking Sniper throws himself after them, shouting "Miiiiiiine!!" :3gmaverick019 said:
Wonder if the Legion's ever going to catch on, and lure my character into a trap by leaving a trail of cigarettes and absinthe out on a minefield?
hahaha, good stuff.Muspelheim said:
Nah, they've got too much pride for that. Using modern technology for smart warfare? Pah, we'll run in with our fists and glory! * legionnaire zerg rush attack*
I usually play sneaky and since everything dies in a few hits from my finessed better critical silenced 12.7mm pistol I end up trucking around a mountain of ammo that I don't use. Don't really have to use stimpacks either.
Early on, clean food and water (even in 3, after I had basic needs modded in). Later, rare ammo. I very rarely use stims, almost always have more ammo for my mainstay weapons than I can use, and bottlecaps... well, I trade for everything and tend to let the excess bottlecaps fall on my side of the barter, so I pretty much just hoard the things.
It's better to keep though since the 1:40 weight to cap ratio is WAY better than almost anything.TheOneBearded said:
In Fallout 3, eh, doesn't matter. Got more caps and ammo than I need.
In NV, things are a bit more expensive so I'm not quite as settled as I am in FO3. I still can't use my flamer as much as I want, can't find or buy enough fuel. I like to use overcharged ammo in my lasers, and repairs are expensive. I'm also trying to save up ammo to use in some of the more powerful guns, so I can't convert it to ammo for guns I do have or sell it for caps. I do have around 8000 caps though, but again, things are more expensive...
In NV, things are a bit more expensive so I'm not quite as settled as I am in FO3. I still can't use my flamer as much as I want, can't find or buy enough fuel. I like to use overcharged ammo in my lasers, and repairs are expensive. I'm also trying to save up ammo to use in some of the more powerful guns, so I can't convert it to ammo for guns I do have or sell it for caps. I do have around 8000 caps though, but again, things are more expensive...
Genius! With my love of Psycho and my Strength at 10, the thrown carton will act like a bullet from a 50. Cal - blowing off a chunk of his body.gmaverick019 said:
On your answer: There is something exhilarating about using the Fat Man and its super Gun Runner version in Fallout: NV. With ammo being rare as hell, I rarely use the gun (I do buy the GR version of the nukes, but they only come in about a good 9 per day or so and they are expensive as hell.). So when the time comes to actually use the weapon, I get happy inside - especially with the Big Yield nukes, which is the greatest thing to watch when roaming the wastes.
Good God! I have found my equals.WeAreStevo said:
I don't even carry generic weapons anymore - all of them have a name. I loot every weapon and bring it to my Novac house to place them into the cabinet, which must have a black hole in it or something to hold all my stuff. I put them in there to later sell them for drug money, but deep inside I know that that will never happen.
Ammo. There's not much worth buying, the best guns are found and it doesn't take long to find enough stimpacks to reduce the game to a joke. While you usually have enough servicable ammo to take anything down, knowing you're sufficiently stockpiled to hand out magnums and .50 armour penetrating rounds like candy is always good.
.44 rounds (Fallout 3 & New Vegas) or .44 / 45-70 rounds / 12.7 rounds (New Vegas). My favorite calibers for these games.
Ammo
Money
Health
The only thing I spend any caps on are implants and ammunition. So just finding ammunition is really cutting out the middle man and saves me the time it takes to fast travel place to place buying up their supply.
However
In hardcore mode stims are everything.
Money
Health
The only thing I spend any caps on are implants and ammunition. So just finding ammunition is really cutting out the middle man and saves me the time it takes to fast travel place to place buying up their supply.
However
In hardcore mode stims are everything.
Most recently I played through New Vegas as Charlie Sheen, I was more psyched about finding drugs and alcohol because he was addicted to pretty much everything before I got to the Mojave Outpost. Money was just used to buy more drugs and booze so I prefered to cut out the middle man.
I'd never tried a drug addicted/alcoholic character before. Made some parts easier and some parts way more challenging of course, it also prevented me from acquiring money as quickly. It also caused me to drink a lot more dirty water since hardcore mode makes alcohol dehydrate you.
I'd never tried a drug addicted/alcoholic character before. Made some parts easier and some parts way more challenging of course, it also prevented me from acquiring money as quickly. It also caused me to drink a lot more dirty water since hardcore mode makes alcohol dehydrate you.
Health stuff. Especially Doctor's Bags. Especially especially Hydra, though THAT means I'll need to keep Fixer handy.
Didn't you read the Surgeon's General warning, Snake?Muspelheim said:
Named items.
Ammo, I trip over enough of it that I have 5000 rounds of each type by end game.
Health Stuff I never use all that often, or at all.
Money, well local economy of every location, including The Pitt and Point Lookout are dependent on me by 10th level. Whenever I need new supplies, I just take an Enclave Power armor out of the closet and use it for coin. I've even handicapped myself a few times by making Bottlecap mines. Can't find enough cherry bombs in the wasteland however.
I tend to go really stupid just to get a named item. "Wot? There's a Gatling Laser inside the Deathclaw sanctuary? It's called Vengeance? I'm there!"
"The Break is in Paradise Falls? I guess I'll cold blooded murder all of these fuckers to get it."
Wow, there's a special medical power armor in another Deathclaw infested area? Where did I leave Fawkes and my post Broken Steel Dogmeat?"
Other than that, I do the hoarders thing and gather enough items to get a small insurgency going. Which is how I see myself Post game, doing the Fallout Tactical RPG simulation. I'm going to have one hell of a retirement going knowing that most of the East Cost is mine to control. Although the Collective, or whatever that science loving robot slave culture might be the biggest challenge, I can use my BoS connections for a few vertibirds.
Ammo, I trip over enough of it that I have 5000 rounds of each type by end game.
Health Stuff I never use all that often, or at all.
Money, well local economy of every location, including The Pitt and Point Lookout are dependent on me by 10th level. Whenever I need new supplies, I just take an Enclave Power armor out of the closet and use it for coin. I've even handicapped myself a few times by making Bottlecap mines. Can't find enough cherry bombs in the wasteland however.
I tend to go really stupid just to get a named item. "Wot? There's a Gatling Laser inside the Deathclaw sanctuary? It's called Vengeance? I'm there!"
"The Break is in Paradise Falls? I guess I'll cold blooded murder all of these fuckers to get it."
Wow, there's a special medical power armor in another Deathclaw infested area? Where did I leave Fawkes and my post Broken Steel Dogmeat?"
Other than that, I do the hoarders thing and gather enough items to get a small insurgency going. Which is how I see myself Post game, doing the Fallout Tactical RPG simulation. I'm going to have one hell of a retirement going knowing that most of the East Cost is mine to control. Although the Collective, or whatever that science loving robot slave culture might be the biggest challenge, I can use my BoS connections for a few vertibirds.