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Rex

There you go!
Qs, got myself that Overseer sniper rifle, and with a bit of mods to it I agree that it is awesome. However, another favorite has emerged! Desdemona gave me a gauss rifle as a reward for a mission. Now THAT is a weapon! 268 AP damage with a mod or two. The only drawback is the ammo; I've been hoarding those cartridges throughout the game, though not buying any, because I figured it would be worthwhile. Doesn't seem to be too much ammo for the rifle around though.

Qwiss

I gave my gauss rifle and one round to mccready and now he blows the shit out of things with it. He also picked up a missile launcher himself without me noticing and absolutely destroyed a raider camp i was trying to quietly pick off one by one.

Rex

Think I'll try the opposite with guns for a while actually. Downgrade. I've been so busy trying to get more and more powerful guns, but in exchange the game isn't very challenging anymore, is it? Honestly, you don't even have to bother sneaking around anymore at this point; you can go straight into any situation and just blast your way through without much trouble. I've done that a few times to help my stupid settlers who always get bothered by mutants or kidnapped by raiders. Can't even remember the last time I died! Realized something wasn't right last night but couldn't put my finger on it until just now. To get mutants out of the way quickly, I just went head on and took out about 10 of them without even breaking a sweat, and they had a suicider, a few brutes and skirmishers, and I also think there was a legendary one.

I remember telling you guys I was having trouble with a certain set of mutants early in the game. When I eventually got back, when I was strong enough, I still had to sneak around, use mines and a missile or two to get the job done. That was actually way more fun!

Rex

Qs, don't know if it's because Cait is Irish, but the stupid woman keeps going back to her stupid hunting rifle all the time despite I giving her a great gun. 😉 Have had to constantly go into settings and make her use it, and she still only does it for a short while. Won't bother with that anymore either. 🙂

Qwiss

They all do that. They change guns so randomly. She mostly used a shot gun when I was travelling with her.

As for your comments on being OP thats one of the reasons I don't like power armor. I found some raider power armor randomly yesterday and decided to use it till the fusion core died and then just dump it, anyway I got attacked from behind by a deathclaw while wearing it and I was still able to kill him easily without any real risk of death myself.

The only things that usually kill me are explosions. Mainly missle attacks. BEing able to take the legs off powerful creatures and render them completely useless makes the big bads too easy. I haven't faced an albino deathclaw or a chameleon death claw yet though.

If its too easy Rex why not up to survival mode?

Rex

I haven't faced any of those either to be fair. Yeah, may try survival mode. I should have mentioned that I used the Big Boy for the first time clearing out those mutants. The Big Boy, if you don't have it, is a Fat Man which shoots two nukes instead of one. It was pretty satisfying using it... Fired it twice, then went in and just cleared the place in about a minute. 🙂

Qwiss

Did you buy it? Its so bloody expensive. I want to buy it and play with that mod where it shoots up and then scatters for carpet bomb like effect.

Rex

That's what the mod does?! Not sure I have the right perks to modify it, but damage went from like 400 to 40 by doing it so I wasn't that interested! Yeah, I bought it. Setting up stores, selling all chems I come across, and selling all ammo I don't have any use for has me minted. Have like 25k in caps right now. Good thing about setting up stores in your settlements is that when you trade with them you actually make money. 🙂

Qwiss

I keep just spending my money on shipments from vendors. Haven't set up any settlement stuff yet. Bringing technical documents to the BOS pays extremely well though. And there are loads of them in every building and they don't weigh anything.

That mod splits the mininuke into little shells all of lower power but there are loads of them. I'd like to try it out, looks brilliant. I probably don't have the perks to mod it either if it needs science or demolition.

Rex

That Big Boy mod is certainly really cool. Go for it!
Oh, I also upgraded my power armor with the stealth boy mod. Means that whenever you crouch you are virtually invisible. Very cool, but doesn't exactly make the game harder!

Qwiss

I have some regular armor that does that. It makes things quite easy but can be good fun when an enemy runs right past you and you just shoot him in the head for x5.3 damage. I'm going to start carrying a dagger for the x10 damage on that too.

Rex

What kind of armor is that though? I haven't seen anything around that is very good and not heavy as fuck, so I'm still rocking that shroud armor. You can't mod that either.

Qwiss

I have 2 pieces. One I bought from a main mission seller the other is a random legendary drop, its called Chameleon armor. Best thing about armor is the legendary effects. I have a couple of bits for that stealth thing, a could for vats and one that boosts my intelligence and charisma.

Rex

I have Piper wearing that Wastelander's chest piece I picked up somewhere. That weighs nothing, and has good enough stopping power. May have to take that back from her. Not like she is going to need it at Castle anyway...

Asterix

Haha - you guys have really got into this haven't you? So have I to be fair - probably more than Skyrim even. I've got several of my settlements connected. I keep getting distracted with side quests so I'm only up to the Freedom Trail in the main quest. Luckily I've already dealt with Swan. I just got the Overseers Guardian gun this morning too - wow. I also have a shottie that does extra damage to mutants. However I'm still having trouble with a bunch of legendary super mutants at some radio tower location. They keep mutating. I think the Overseers Guardian should deal with them now though.

I like bashing Mirelurks with a baseball bat. They kind of get stunned if you time it right. I also tried to romance Piper but she wasn't having it.

Yet.

Qwiss

Ive romanced Cait, Hancock and McCready. Once they put out i send them to my harem at red rocket and start working on someone new.

Asterix

Haha. Nice. Are you playing as a bloke or a girl? I'm a sweet looking girl called Daisy.

I have some unresolved issues.

Rex

Those are the same mutants I had trouble with early on. Klaus gave sound advice; place a couple of mines, fire a shot or two and they'll come running every time. For the suicider, focus on crippling his legs first, then you can pick him off at a safe distance.

As for companions, I rocked with Codsworth for quite a while, so I've only had Piper and Cait after that. Cait is starting to annoy me no end, so she is soon gone. If you do the Trinity Tower radio broadcast quest, then you get the chance to have a super mutant as your companion. Try wooing him, Qs! 🙂

As for armor, I FINALLY figured it out. Ballistic weave is where it's AT! total coincidence that I figured this out, but with the armor perk maxed out you can get a simple Trilby hat modded up to like 110 in damage protection. Seems to only work with regular clothes, but then you can further upgrade your overall protection by wearing conventional protection like a chest piece and such on top. Somehow think I got this 'ability' from doing some side quests for Tinker Tom, but not sure.

Qwiss

Yeah you did. I'm gonna team up with Strong next, right now I'm working on Piper. Maxxed out Deacon but didn't bed him, didn't seem to have the option. Definitely gonna get in Pipers kickers I reckon, she's mad for it.

Found some mkIII X-01 armor last night. Rushed straight back to Red Rocket to store it and keep it safe. In the mean time I headed out to level up so I could max out my science perk and make it totally bad ass. Came back a while later and it was fucking gone!

Klaus

Hmm. Did you remove the core from the power armor? Because I've seen my companions use it without me telling them to do so on at least one occasion. I store all of the potential companions in Sanctuary when I don't use them. One day when I got back Cait was walking around in one of those things. It happened again a few weeks later. She hasn't touched any of them since I ripped out the fusion cores though.

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