Fallout 4

Dafuq? I rocked those bitches with my sniper rifle. Ninja sniper wanderer best wanderer.

yeah. I don't get the fright as much either. FO3 vanilla was my main source of FO. And, also, stealth/guns. Sniper rifle 1 shot pretty much everything, colt 45 to the skull everything else. walk around in stealth all the ways. Dunno, maybe vanilla's difficulty was just that fubard.

looking at the wiki, it does seem NV buffed them quite a bit.
FO3 had 2 kinds.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Deathclaw_(Fallout_3)

Basic and Enclave.
both had 500 hp, 0% DR/DT. 8 perception, and 100 melee damage.

NV had a whole host of them.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Deathc...out:_New_Vegas)
Basic have 500 hp, 15% DT,0%DR, 7-8perc, and 125 melee damage.

Alphas increase to 750 hp, and 300 melee damage.

Legendary has 1000 hp, 250 damage.

Reintroduction of DT might make their damage vs you less in relation though too.

I guess it depends on the difficulty level you select. The normal level, at least when I played at launch is laughably easy and DT was a joke. Move that up a notch to something not causal and DT was the real deal and if you didn't swap ammo it was almost impossible to kill something and if you did swap ammo it still took quite a few shots to the face to kill enemies with high DT.

Can still one-shot any of them on the highest difficulty in either game by using the right perks and gun (only the Legendary requires using the AMR, from what I recall). Unarmed weapons such as Fisto! and Industrial Hand tear them apart as well.

Is it retarded for a new Fallout player to totally ignore strength at character creation? Is carry capacity a huge deal?

Strength in FO3 was pretty much needed if you intended to wear power armor, since that shit weighed a ton. I felt like a damned EQ1 monk in that game (dumping shit to stay under weight cap).

I don't remember if strong back had a pre-req for str but that is a great perk to add carrying capacity.

I haven't decided what I want to do for my first play through since I'm such a Fallout newb.

Stealth/Snipe sounds fun, but seems a bit cheese. I don't want things to be too easy.

What do you guys think of a STR/Luck/End focused build. Uses rocket launchers at range, then sprint/charge + knockdown with shotguns for close range?

All my NV characters started with 7 str, ended with 10. CH is your dump stat, not ST.

Edit: Looking back through some random notes I had about Fallout 3, my standard SPECIAL there was 7671487 too.

Dandai_sl said:

Do you only get to say asshole things? Or you just don't get special conversation trees that are unlocked with higher charisma? I vaguely recall putting some points into CHA in both games and getting to skip bear ass collecting.

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Even a 1 CH is really 4 after a short while, just from clothing, hat, and bobblehead. Then if you're really desperate you can use grape mentats for +5 more. That gives you 9, can't remember if alcohol stacks to hit 10 or not. I'm thinking not, but it's been a long time. Regardless, 9 CH and 100 speech skill will give you 100% success on the vast majority of checks in the game. You'd have about a 40% chance on the hardest check in the game, but there's pretty much zero reason to complete that particular quest with the speech skill when there's a simple way to bypass it.