{"id":11665,"date":"2011-05-17T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:46:56","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e17-best-weapon-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11665","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E17: Best weapon in the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FK6zEMGWY6U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FK6zEMGWY6U'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Also: New credits.  Yay.  <\/p>\n<p>I thought I was done with New Vegas.  I really did.  But I re-installed it this weekend and began yet another playthrough when I heard there was a vault that I&#8217;d completely missed.  <\/p>\n<p>One problem I&#8217;ve always had with these sandbox games is that I can&#8217;t take a break from them.  If I take a week off, then when I come back I&#8217;m compelled to begin a new game instead of just piecing together what I was doing in the old one.  As a result, I have many, many aborted play-throughs under my belt. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, unarmed is still the most powerful weapon class (zuh?) in the game.  With a strength of 8 and the bladed gauntlet (available in Primm) it&#8217;s impossible for me to hit a foe more than once without abusing a corpse.  As a bonus, you don&#8217;t have to worry about ammo, which is a real boost to your income <em>and<\/em> your carry weight.  With guns, you need your good gun, and its ammunition.  Then you need a backup gun, and its ammunition.  You might even carry a third.  But if you&#8217;re a wasteland pugilist, you can walk away from every shopkeeper with minimal encumbrance.  Also, I tend to use VATS with guns to save on ammo, but with fisticuffs I can just jump in and start swinging without bringing the game flow to a halt. It&#8217;s also less of a skill-point sponge in the early game.  With unarmed, I&#8217;m one-shotting raiders with just 40 skill points.  With guns, I usually need 60 skill points before I start to feel effective, and it&#8217;s not until the 70&#8217;s that you can one-shot mooks.<\/p>\n<p> I tried playing as a gunslinger.  Got myself the best sidearm I could find, spent a mess of skill points and perks, and wound up with a nice, reasonably competent gunfighter.  As opposed to my unarmed game, where I can kill guys faster for half the skill points and without using any perks. I think it was an odd decision to give so much power to the melee skills in a game with such a heavy western theme. <\/p>\n<p>Then again&#8230; Ballistic Fist!<\/p>\n<p>DONK! DONK! DONK! DONK! DONK! DONK! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Also: New credits. Yay. I thought I was done with New Vegas. I really did. But I re-installed it this weekend and began yet another playthrough when I heard there was a vault that I&#8217;d completely missed. One problem I&#8217;ve always had with these sandbox games is that I can&#8217;t take a break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}