Where put skill points

Speech
Sneak
Gun
10 luck, rest doesn't matter

Guns, Repair, and Sneak if you don't want to be mad squish until Vegas. Hopefully you weren't a complete retard and you inveated in INT and LUCK, too, so you are already at 100 Guns, Repair, Sneak, and many more before long anyway, and so you can also rob the casinos blind and buy an end-game arnament before you even hit 20. After that, I'd recommend Science, Medicine, Explosives, etc., basically just max out every other utility trait before you start investing into non-factor traits like Speech, Unarmes, Melee, etc. This is all assuming you haven't logged too much time into the game, you are using guns, and you are not a fucking savant about New Vegas already.

Guns/Energy/Melee/Whatever Damage
Speech
Science mostly for skill checks, seems to have a fuckton
Whatever else you want

I just used console commands to give myself more skill points so I could experience the whole game in one play through.

BBC

Go for the any of the 4 S's
>Survival
>Speech
>Sneak
>Science

If you have high int, you will have more than enough skill points to do whatever the hell you want by the end of the game, assuming you have all the dlc.

This is a low INT move right here.

Into a better newer game

Reminder that half the companions are gay sjw shit and it's best to play solo.

Aim for 50 speech, lockpick, and science by the time you reach Vegas. You don't need to level whichever weapon type you plan on specializing in too much; just enough that you're able to handle whichever gun you're using. Level sneak until you're comfy.
Shotgun points into repair until you reach 90 to get Jury Rigging and break the repair ecosystem.

speech, repair, weapon of your choosing
repair is god tier

Guns > Energy Weapons
statistically guns are better in performance but really just do whatever the fuck you want thats part of the fun anyways

swimming

you just killed part of its replayability good job user

>gay sjw shit
How so? Arcade and Veronica barely bring up their gay

I thought energy weapons were kinda meh until I discovered that the flamer scales with the skill
flamer is a good time
this
plus resistance

Is the ranger armor the most aesthetic armor in gaming? After all these years I still get a little hard when I see it.

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This is a fucking cringe ass post man, just fucking stop posting.
10 STR, 10 END, 10 AGL, 7 LCK is the only acceptable starting SPECIAL and maxing Unarmed then Meleeweapons is the only acceptable skill goal.

Doesnt matter because you'll end up as a jack of all trades anyway

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Enjoy the game as an rpg, its not a hard game at all and minmaxing it isnt necessary

No it isn't, Josh

arcade only mentions the fact he is gay like once
veronica is implied only by DM never outright stated
its not even trying to get in your face user

>lockpicking (access)
>science (access, math wrath)
>repair (hand loader, jury rigging)
>anything else relevant to your build

>10 luck
>better crits
>one agile skill that increases pistols crit chance by like +5
>that gun
>luck up gear
Shits wack yo.

Just install the jsawyer mod, it's the way devs wanted it to be played but they toned down the difficulty to meet consoletards standards.

Name a better armor that doesn't suck balls then.
Hard mode is no enclave armors.

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>veronica is implied only by DM never outright stated
So you didn't talk to her and are just making shit up? Cool, cool, that's a good way to debate.

Get 8-ish luck, grab an NCR uniform, sneak around the deathclaws through hidden valley, board the tram to new vegas with your stolen uniform, win all the games for tens of thousands of chips, max explosives. kill every enemy with mad bomber fat mines or those insanely hilarious cluster plasma mines.

>t-this game isnt new? GAME BAD!! GAME BAAAD!

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get the gay perk

For me, it's the reinforced combat helmet mk 2, rebreather, and remnants power armor.

i did this first playthrough
if you go into DM without some investment into unarmed and melee you will have a hard time as ammo is scarce. my favorite DLC though

This is the most cancercous, baity shitpost I've ever seen. You want to LARP as a samauriu swordsmanu pussy-slayer survival God, go play that gay Skyrim shit, you insufferable gatekeeping pole smoker faggot.

with this you turn the entire mojave bisexual

I prefer the SWAT version in Lonesome Road

Combat Armor from classic Fallout
Tribal Power Armor

that doesnt exist

I play with Raul Tejada

you can just go through mccarran to get to the tram

I sincerely hope after your mom picks you up you hang yourself. You are literally worthless. I'm like your dad, I hate you.

Raul is pure suffering
>They had to sleep. I didn't.
god damn, man

seethe

On my min-maxed OP Very Hard Hardcore build I went for power armor and melee weapons with high INT for the skill points and made my own chems the entire time. You can get cybernetics to bring some stats from 9 to 10, so do that at least.

>SEETHE SEETHE CRINGE CRINGE SNOOOYYYY ONIONS ONIONS ONIONS SNOY ONIONS CRINGE BASED CRINGE BASED BASED BASED

What's the point of playing on very hard? Enemies have a lot more HP, and the AI is still shit.

Found the stealth archer faggots.
Take your 100 Sneak and Ratslayer asses and fuck off.

There really isn't one. I did that one OP character who could faceroll pretty much everything and that was enough for me. Honestly, Beth Fallouts are more fun with cheats and mods IMO - simply avoid making yourself too powerful if you still want the risk of death.

I rescued him at level 2, now that was true suffering.

Fallout: New Vegas, unlike every single other Bethesda game, is actually playable on Very Hard, the balance feels spot on desu.

Unarmed and Speech then 9 END/LUK. Perfect build, no weaknesses. You can buy the extra SPECIAL stats with implants.

>REEEE DON'T ENJOY VIDEO GAMES ON MY WATCH REEE YOU'LL MIN-MAX YOUR MELEE BUILD AND YOU'LL LIKE IT LIKE THE REST OF US REEEEEEE I'M SHAKING AND CRYING I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULDN'T PLAY THE GAME LIKE I WOULD I FUCKING HATE YOU REEEEEEEEEEE MELEE MELEE MELEE OR I DON'T GET MY WAIFU

what kind of weapons were you using to go toe to toe with supermuties at level 2

>remnants
Hard mode failed
You and i both know isometric fallout is cheating user.

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have sex

Grug be gone please. STR, and END are bad stats.

Bullshit, I played it on Very Hard. You just have to hit the enemy with x more bullets.

>HAVE SEX HAVE SEX HAVE SEX INCEL YOU INCEL HAVE SEX INCEL YOU R SO CRINGE U R CRINGE INCEL HAVE SEX ECHO ECHO ECHO HAVE SEX HAVE SEX ECHO

At creation get high luck. Perception and agility are good too.
For skills, get small guns, speech, and whatever else.
Lockpick and science are good for getting more loot.
Get any perk that has to do with critical hits.
Other good perks include stuff that improves the effectiveness of your guns or your performance in VATs.
Luck and criticals are the god mode combo of fallout NV.

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>SCARECROW. FALLACY FALLACY FALLACY IT'S A FALLACY YOU WROTE YOUR INSTEAD OF YOU'RE YOURE ARGUMENT IS INVALID SCARECROW FALLACY FALLACY I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I PLAYED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE IN SPEECH AND DEBATE

Playing it on Survival is best.

The issue is, with a good build on Normal or lower everything dies before it ever has a chance to even come close to threatening you.
On Very Hard they can at least do enough damage to almost stand a chance, although the game still feels easy even on V. Hard. Fallout 3 on V. Hard is boring as shit, so it F4, NV is good though.

Guns are absolutely fucking busted in comparison to energy weapons. I have a mod that makes energy weapons a tad better, they ignore a bit more armor for both you and enemies. They still lack in power when compared to practically any half-decent gun, it's ridiculous how fucked energy weapons got in NV.

I made both an explosives-only and shotgun-only character, they both ass fuck everything in the game before reaching level 20 with bare minimum perks to help in combat. Energy weapons are still really fun and making an energy weapons only character is nice. But the best energy weapon is DLC (Holorifle, it's efficient as fuck so it's the "best" in that regard) and the best ones you can use in base game are expensive. The ammo can be rare and maintaining their condition is also a hassle, I dunno why they thought making energy weapons such a huge chore sometimes.

Most of them can't do what a simple shotgun can, even at higher levels unless you use the best ones. So it ends up being less about energy weapons and more about "get the best 3 energy guns, everything else is shit".

This, but i'm fond of barter and plan on leveling it up more. Feels good to be vegas smooth talker that swindles the locals out of caps.

What mod manager is considered best for new vegas these days?

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Actually its strawman.

riot shotgun with all its perks essentially makes you god

it's obligatory, but not what I was talking about
I see your point, but for me, Very Hard was more fun in Fallout 3, with only a Chinese Pistol

I had a 9mm and found a recharger laser weapon in a bright man body.
Went like this. I climbed the side of the mountain then ran into his building first, got lucky and didn't get blown up by annabelle somehow, then tried to use Raul to kill the muties, but he just instantly died cause of hardcore mode. So I had to go outside and run to the other building without him, where I went aroudn the back and sniped the rocket launcher mutie with a hunting rifle I got from another mutie I killed with the 9mm pistol, and then I spent like 5 minutes just shooting 1 nightkin on the head who was trying to hide from me but couldn't. Then it was safer for Raul so I took him out and we both killed Tabitha.

Couldn't even get any help from Marcus the cunt, he just waited in an area too dangerous for me.

kek

Wait, I meant Neil not Marcus

This game is ruined at the VERY START because of overpowered DLC weapons and items.
If you sell them you get a big bonus to money = CHEATING
If you use them you get a big bonus to damage and have a ton of ammo = CHEATING
If you delete them you might delete things you are supposed to start with unless you painstakingly research it on autistic filled forums with people saying "dont worry about it" or some other drivel = RUINED ROLEPLAYING EXPERIENCE

From the start the game died.

Repair, lockpick, speech, nothing else matters to me, any build i do will have these 3

Yeah I just threw those away at the start.

>If you delete them you might delete things you are supposed to start with
Nah it's pretty straight forward

based

whenever i try to play it i notice how empty and lifeless all towns are and drop the game

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