Robotics Expert (can be helpful for dealing with problematic robots) Lastly if you’d like to keep a holdout weapon like a Silenced Pistol / SMG or an overly powerful sidearm like a Hunting Revolver, then do so for close range combat. Cowboy Repeaters are very strong, fire quickly and are all around a great weapon to carry for mid to long range encounters. A Sniper Rifle helps with extreme range shots although these wear down easily, so using them for close encounters is a bad idea. With this build you’ll find that it’s very important to carry around a few separate weapons. VATs is a death sentence for your enemies by level 12 – 14, since the repeated, very accurate, headshots will kill most foes in no time. Later on, when you have a good sniper rifle, you can use that to take shots on the enemies from far away without needing to use VATs quite as much. You will rely heavily on VATs for the earlier portion of the game, but with the right guns this can be incredibly deadly. To be frank, a sniper is probably one of the easiest ways to play through Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. While Gannon can help keep you healed, you'll reallyneedBoone's extra damage dealing talents here. Get Boone some good weapons and armor and he will keep you covered from a range when a fight breaks out, weakening or killing enemies for you.

Partners: Ally with Boone and Ed-E as quickly as possible and stick with them. Ranger Andy in Novac can be talked into teaching you a NCR Ranger power move that is very helpful, if you give your follower Veronica a dress of any sort she will teach you a counter attack, complete the side quest: Aba Daba Honeymoon to learn a nasty Khan trick, and if you’re siding with them, Lucius of Ceasar’s Legion can teach you another nasty attack. To maximize the effectiveness of this build you will absolutely want to complete a few side quests and associate with a few followers in particular. Much like the melee build we have mostly focused on taking the perks that will enable us to deal more damage with our hand-to-hand attacks to kill enemies before they deal too much damage. There are a few areas where you can talk your way out of fighting entirely which is very helpful during any unarmed playthrough.

While increasing the three Tagged Skills, especially Unarmed and Sneak, you will also want to increase Speech.

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