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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Maybe it's just like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNJeS6O6ds

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Frankston
Jul 27, 2010


I'm watching a stream and the power armour and gun modding looks like a lot of fun :)

Seashell Salesman
Aug 4, 2005

Holy wow! That "Literally A Person" sure is a cool and good poster. He's smart and witty and he smells like a pure mountain stream. I posted in his thread and I got a FANCY NEW AVATAR!!!!

Frankston posted:

I'm watching a stream and the power armour and gun modding looks like a lot of fun :)

Which stream? Streamcountry seems to be offline ATM.

Baller Time
Apr 22, 2014

by Azathoth

That's exactly what 60 year old trophy wives and porn stars look like, so if she is either of these they loving nailed it.

Robot Danger
Mar 18, 2012
How many points to you get to add to your SPECIAL at character creation? I assume each category starts with 5 points by default, right? It's been a while...

Frankston
Jul 27, 2010


Seashell Salesman posted:

Which stream? Streamcountry seems to be offline ATM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7Ije8Zjxo

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWc6J8Dq_ys

lmfao at everything about this guy

Seashell Salesman
Aug 4, 2005

Holy wow! That "Literally A Person" sure is a cool and good poster. He's smart and witty and he smells like a pure mountain stream. I posted in his thread and I got a FANCY NEW AVATAR!!!!

Robot Danger posted:

How many points to you get to add to your SPECIAL at character creation? I assume each category starts with 5 points by default, right? It's been a while...

You get 28 points total.

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that

Ersatz
Sep 17, 2005

Ramadu posted:

how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that

Dogmeat's ghoulish.

Also, a legend.

Iymarra
Oct 4, 2010




Survived AGDQ 2018 Awful Games block!
Grimey Drawer

Ramadu posted:

how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that

He's a cylon


Real answer : Each puppy is Dogmeat, every puppy is Dogmeat.

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Ramadu posted:

how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that

Legacy name. It's nothing to worry about.

Unrelated, but I want to make a dumb lucky muscle fucker. How's this?

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!

Ramadu posted:

how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that
It's not the same Dogmeat, Bethesda are just gonna give you a dog companion every game and call it Dogmeat. I'd say they were cheaply capitalising on nostalgia for the old games but at this point they're really cheaply capitalising on nostalgia for Fallout 3.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Lakbay posted:

The musket is a dumb early game weapon you use until you find the regular laser rifle. Unless there's a musket variant later that makes them worth using.

No it isn't. The Musket is actually extremely good.

You crank it multiple times to load ammo. The more you crank the more powerful your shot. You can upgrade it to crank up to 6 times. That means a tremendously boosted shot to use, for example, with a stored critical hit. If you get the x6 upgrade (and there's a quest that rewards you with a mod for it) you can reliably do hilariously absurd amounts of damage.

Protons
Sep 15, 2012

Lakbay posted:

The musket is a dumb early game weapon you use until you find the regular laser rifle. Unless there's a musket variant later that makes them worth using.

Laser musket bayonet.

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

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Inverness
Feb 4, 2009

Fully configurable personal assistant.

Seashell Salesman posted:

You get 28 points total.
This is wrong.

You start with 21 points to allocate. All SPECIAL start at 1.

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

Roobanguy posted:

cool. thanks.

wait im dumb

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 8, 2015

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

2house2fly posted:

It's not the same Dogmeat, Bethesda are just gonna give you a dog companion every game and call it Dogmeat. I'd say they were cheaply capitalising on nostalgia for the old games but at this point they're really cheaply capitalising on nostalgia for Fallout 3.

Dogmeat has appeared in every numbered Fallout. It's just a thing the franchise does at this point.

Animax
Nov 7, 2015

Ramadu posted:

how is dogmeat alive? hes like 200 years old and on the wrong coast whats the deal with that

Taking into consideration that androids are a thing I suspect dogmeat might be one.

Seashell Salesman
Aug 4, 2005

Holy wow! That "Literally A Person" sure is a cool and good poster. He's smart and witty and he smells like a pure mountain stream. I posted in his thread and I got a FANCY NEW AVATAR!!!!

I'm thinking this. Gives access to the best perk in the game (Idiot Savant) and all the sneak attack, melee, and VATS perks.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

yeah that guys got issues i think

Seashell Salesman
Aug 4, 2005

Holy wow! That "Literally A Person" sure is a cool and good poster. He's smart and witty and he smells like a pure mountain stream. I posted in his thread and I got a FANCY NEW AVATAR!!!!

Inverness posted:

This is wrong.

You start with 21 points to allocate. All SPECIAL start at 1.

So, in other words, your total number of points is 28?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

I will give you a warning here:

VANS is not worth a perk point. It is a 100% waste of a perk point even if you want help figuring out where to go.

Protons
Sep 15, 2012

WoW you can get a perk that lets you breathe underwater. How hosed up and dumb.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock
Actually, 29 points. (Really early game spoiler) You can look in the SPECIAL book in your child's bed room (before/after the bombs go off) to get an extra freely assignable point, supposedly

deathbagel
Jun 10, 2008

Seashell Salesman posted:

Apparently the crank just loads cells into the thing to fire. Not sure why you need to crank them in (and from where?) when you can just shove them into the laser rifle/pistol.

Maybe it's an example of people not quite understanding the superior technology from the past and just trying whatever they can to make it work somehow. It wouldn't make sense to the engineer who designed the energy rifle, however someone who was not trained in any way and just happened to be good at tinkering and trying things out managed to get it to work like that.

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

Been walking around forever and not come across a single enemy.

TexMexFoodbaby
Sep 6, 2011

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

ImpAtom posted:

I will give you a warning here:

VANS is not worth a perk point. It is a 100% waste of a perk point even if you want help figuring out where to go.

Yeah it looked like a bad option, but it's nice to have confirmation.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Protons posted:

WoW you can get a perk that lets you breathe underwater. How hosed up and dumb.

Countdown until someone mods in the perk giving you gills starts now.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

This guy seems like a cool guy without crippling issues

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Seashell Salesman posted:

I'm thinking this. Gives access to the best perk in the game (Idiot Savant) and all the sneak attack, melee, and VATS perks.

My question is, why would you sink a full 10 into AGI when SPECIAL-Boosting Bobbleheads are confirmed?

old-timey newspaper gal
Feb 23, 2005
I think we should start a new thread to discuss why we crank the laser gun before we shoot the bad guys. It makes no sense todd.

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


Protons posted:

WoW you can get a perk that lets you breathe underwater. How hosed up and dumb.

You would think they'd it make so that you can hold you're breath longer and implement it into either action boy or sniper.

TASTE THE PAIN!!
May 18, 2004


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

Seashell Salesman posted:

I'm thinking this. Gives access to the best perk in the game (Idiot Savant) and all the sneak attack, melee, and VATS perks.

I wonder how much strength actually boosts your damage, because the strength perks don't seem all that valuable for melee past those initial 3 points. Rooted at 9 STR gives you a sizable boost, but who the gently caress wants to stand completely still in combat? That's how my 60-year old dad plays video games. May still be valuable if it applies to VATS though.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Back Hack posted:

You would think they'd it make so that you can hold you're breath longer and implement it into either action boy or sniper.

Sniper lets you hold your breath longer.

cheesetriangles
Jan 5, 2011





http://www.nukahub.com/tools/special?s=4&p=4&e=1&c=6&i=9&a=3&l=1

I might change things around once I found out what radiation weapons actually are. I wouldn't mind getting END 4 because I really liked chems in new vegas.

Seashell Salesman
Aug 4, 2005

Holy wow! That "Literally A Person" sure is a cool and good poster. He's smart and witty and he smells like a pure mountain stream. I posted in his thread and I got a FANCY NEW AVATAR!!!!

widespread posted:

My question is, why would you sink a full 10 into AGI when SPECIAL-Boosting Bobbleheads are confirmed?

Because I hate scouring the game for bobbleheads and don't want to read a guide for my first playthrough. Once I have found them all I'll take them into account for future playthroughs.

Can someone who has the game or strat guide confirm if Gun-Fu works for melee/unarmed?

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CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Going to play new Vegas for real then decide if I want this game, not hyped but it looks like it could be cool.

I know that people are down on the graphics but playing Vegas I have seen what passed for Ultra quality back then, and yet it is still pretty fun. Hopefully Bethesda understands that the writing saves it more than the gimmicks

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