Thanks for that . I turned the gun turrets against the brotherhood and sat back for a while to let them do their work, then I went down to the scribes area and stealth-killed the lot of them, picking up my Zap Glove, and a few other tasty items. Surprisingly, not everyone in the bunker turned hostile towards me this time, so I might be able to go back there in a few days time and make use of their facilities? Anyway, it’s something to check out.
Or else you could have used the Pulse Gun. Takes out a paladin in a single shot.
I have the Pulse Gun, but from the start I decided I’d be a fully projectile weapon character. The only ‘energy’ weapons I use are plasma mines.
This made it hard in the MT with the robo-scorpions, but I managed to survive. I also don’t use VATS, because that takes me out of the game.
After playing this game for over a year I noticed yesterday that my Vicki and Vance chips were still in my inventory. Apparently there’s a glitch there and you can cash them in over and over and over and so now I have something like 1.5 million caps.
I feel like I’m the last person to know this.
I know this is an old thread, but it was just posted to a couple of months ago, so hopefully this bump is OK.
I’ve been playing this game obsessively for the past few weeks and just finished it, and am about to start in on my second go.
I saw some people early in the thread talking about finding the computer-hacking minigame to be annoying. Here’s my strategy, which is pretty basic and works every time that I’ve tried it:
Choose the first word. When it tells you how many letters are correct, move to the second word and see if it fits the criteria. If it does, choose it. If it doesn’t, move to the third word, etc.
If the second word you click is accurate, great, you’re in. If not, then when you move to the next word, compare it first to the first word, then to the second. If it fits both, click it. If not, move on to the next one.
This almost always works in the first three guesses, no matter what the difficulty level. I hope my explanation makes sense. (This might be obvious to some people, but I thought I’d share it anyway.)
My strategy for those (and the lock picking in this and the other bethesda games - skyrim, oblivion, fo3) was to save game right before, attempt, and if fail load from the save.
On every pick? That seems a bit much. I load not to save picks, but to save myself time.
In NV, save scumming the casinos is much harder due to the post-load timer. What I do there is buy some fixed amount of chips, e.g. 1000, and load if I lose them all, and save if I double or 1.5x my amount.
I actually made it through my first play-through without playing any casino games at all. I might this time just to get the Steam achievements.