I'm getting this over with. I'm sick and tired of seeing this shitty game in my backlog so I'm gonna finish it at once and I need your help.
I want to go through with it as fast and painless as possible so I need to know what are the meta stats and skills. I'm guessing Energy Weapons/Lockpick/Repair? And the SPECIAL stats to go with them with high perception, high intelligence and high strenght/endurance right?
I'm playing vanilla, no mods for me.
I honestly can't even play this without mods. I use kb/m and the vanilla mouse movement is a fucking joke
Stealth Sniper with Speech is the easiest build to have.
no don't tag lock pick. you only need to be able to get it up to 50 in order to finish every sidequest in the game, and keep in mind that locksmith magazines add 10 temporary points to your skill. you're gonna want to go with Guns/Speech/Sneak.
Alrighty then. So that means I invest in Agility instead of perception right? I thought Energy weapons were endgame.
Turn on tgm and give yourself the debug pistol if you want it done that quickly
>no mods
At least get YUP you chump
energy weapons have the highest damage potential but Guns are good enough and very common, if you don't want to spend thousands of caps on ammunition and get through the game quickly, Guns is your best bet.
In SPECIAL just science and lockpick
In weapons, Rifle Gauss and any iron fist
And this
even the coolest armors look like shit on this, fuck me.
Were you born in 2002 or something faggot? Jesus christ.
Rushing to get through the game as quickly as possible defeats most of the reason to play the game. If you plan to just rush the main story and ignore everything else, I wouldn't even bother.
Get a few simple mods to improve graphics and at least get the bugfixing patch. Explore, have fun.
>being this butthurt over criticism
Not an argument
visually is shit but is useful, this fucking fans in the back are ugly
why did the balance man cut weight in half
i mean i know why he did it but why would you do that, it makes the game either tedious or unrewarding
i think the next fallout game should use weight to determine how much stuff you can have equipped instead of how much you can have in your inventory
>I want to go through with it as fast and painless as possible so I need to know what are the meta stats and skills.
literally just max speech
muh realism, you're supposed to have one gun, a sidearm and a few magazines for them plus some essentials.
>"forcing" yourself to play a game
wtf? why would anyone do this?
you get way too much weight in vanilla, even with 1 strength there is absolutely no strategy needed when it comes to weight management
Guns are better than energy weapons since they're more varied and common. Energy weapons only really come out ahead later on in the game. You only need 6 perception (better criticals perk), your strength only need to be high enough to properly use weapons (5~ should do) and a high endurance isn't necessary. You essentially just want a high intelligence to maximize your skill point gain and then enough of the other specials to grab the perks you need.
alright off the top of my head this is what i remember:
weapons have a skill requirement and a strength requirement, if you're doing an energy weapons character then you want 5 strength to meet the requirements of most energy weapons (all the best ones)
at level 4 you get access to the educated perk, take it there and then as it gives you more of a bonus the earlier you take it
better criticals is the best damage increasing perk in the game and requires 6 luck and 6 perception (note that if you take the "four eyes" perk your base perception is lowered by one, i.e. if you set your perception to 6 then take four eyes the game will treat your perception as if its actually 5, so keep this in mind)
jury rigging is the best source of money making in the game, its available at level 14 and requires 90 repair, it's also generally useful for maintaining equipment
speech is insanely useful
at the start of the game you can pick traits, if you plan on using energy weapons then you should avoid the "wild wasteland" trait because it locks you out of getting an extremely good energy weapons (you do get another weapon which is pretty powerful but has limited ammo)
the laser rifle with all mods is the best all around energy weapon that you can get early in the game, it's really good with a scope
vigilant recycler (70 science, level 6) is an extremely good perk for energy weapons as it lets you create optimised ammo and lets you recover more drained cells (which you can convert back into real ammo)
with a highish luck gambiling in casinos is extremely biased in your favour so you can make a lot of money from playing blackjack once you get to new vegas
>high intelligence
not really necessary, in fact it's been proven 4 is the optimal intelligence
If you plan on getting every single skillbook and minmaxing maybe. In his case he wants high INT.
If you don't want to play it then don't.
Rushing through a game like NV completely defeats the point.
My point was that skills points are plenty in NV, you don't need high int to get lots of skill points, just put 6 or 7 special into it
it's pretty obvious, the way people talk and everything that's going on, that once you arrive in Vegas the battle for hoover dam only takes place a few weeks later at most.
and your point is
>tfw can't let go of playing this fucking game
Help me Sup Forums, what else do I play?
skip lonesome road because its terrible
that canonically there's nothing wrong with rushing through the game, despite the fact that it is an RPG, the story has a sense of urgency that does not lend itself to exploring corrugated metal shack #14.
Why the fuck do you play video games if you don't enjoy them? Do something productive instead at least.
those two things are completely unrelated
yeah, that's my point. the real courier wouldn't be doing stupid things like that. he'd either be dead long before reaching vegas which is the most likely option, or using every minute of every day to propel himself to a position of power and leave the dusty wastes behind forever.
>being this butthurt over criticism
Not an argument
you might actually be retarded
>I'm playing vanilla, no mods for me
Install some of the stability and performance mods at least.
but crashing and bugs are the vanilla experience
>what are the meta stats and skills
If you want to completely and utterly trivialize the game start with 10 Luck, go to casinos and play blackjack after getting to Freeside and New Vegas proper. You get ridiculous amounts of money that lets you buy endgame tier gear and all the cybernetic augments that raise all your SPECIAL stats by one, give extra armor and small HP regen. You need high 9 END to be able to install all the augments though.
INT is a really good stat since it increases the amount of skill points you receive at each level-up by a rather notable amount, meaning you can max all skills earlier than any other build and end up with much higher leveled up in general when and if you hit the level cap. Basically each level-up is more valuable with high INT.
Speech is obviously the go-to skill to get the best reward / outcome out of most quests, though some other skills get used rather often in dialogue as well. While only tangentially related, high CHA stat also makes your companions extremely tanky and dish out massive amount of damage. Combined with Boone, a sniper companion you can recruit rather early and he's not really hidden, you can let him pretty much solo the vanilla game for you.
PER is actually a dump stat apart from a being a requirement for a mere handful dialogue checks and one really good perk, but it isn't necessary to have. There's a mini-companion (that you can have alongside any proper humanoid companion) that grants you the same radar capability high PER would've done, though he's somewhat hidden and requires rather high Repair and / or Science checks, or scrounging up certain trash items.
you might actually be really mad, and not very good at hiding it.
I wasn't saying it as an insult, I literally have no clue wtf you're talking about, and you seem to be all over the place
Get help
i'm talking about the fact that it's okay to rush through the game despite the fact that it's an RPG, because that's what the main character would be doing. for example, let's look at option A: live in the most luxurious building for 500 miles in every direction. now let's look at option B: run into a dusty quarry with low visibility and fight a pack of hungry deathclaws so you can get some free stimpaks from a drug dealing construction worker.
>What are the best meta build so I rush through this game quickly
Its a Role Playing Game dude, trying to complete it in as fast and efficient as possible will just take away from the experiance. Don't follow a pre-set build path on your first time either, just go with the flow.
you started off so well and then went literally wtf
theres literally no point to rushing through and suffering through a game
this
the most fun ive had with new vegas was in limiting myself to a specific kind of playstyle and character, picking dialogue options, equipment, quests etc based on what felt right rather than was was the most optimal
new vegas is very well written and has an interesting setting that's worth discussing but it's primarily set up to allow you to role play, not to experience all of the content in the most optimal order in a single playthrough
if you can't easily understand what i'm saying then you're really stupid or you're pretending to be, which is more likely.
Honest question, and no offense meant by it: Is english not your first language? Because that's the most likely explanation here
ah, i see what's going on here, you need to get the last post or the modicum of self esteem you somehow have left will disappear. alright then, have at it.
???
I'm not trying to pick a fight, you are just literally the most perplexing person I've ever talked to
Am I being trolled??