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Fallout: New Vegas34 views4 min readby gambitUpdated 20 May, 2025View on Steam ↗

SPECIAL and traits and TAGs

Strength: 5
Perception :5
Endurance:9
Charisma:1
Intelligence:5
Agility:6
Luck:9

TAG: guns, repair, medicine/energy weapons

TRAIT: fast shot & built to destroy

Be sure to pick skilled at the start of character creation then switch it back when leaving Goodsprings
so you will get the extra 5 points to every skill. The EXP penalty won't apply after changing it to something else.

Perks

2 rapid reload / light touch if you take repair as tag
4 educated
6 bloody mess
8 commando/gunslinger
10 finesse
12 sniper
14 jury rigging
16 better criticals
18 math wrath
20 hand loader
22 laser commander
24 grim reaper's spirit
26 nerves of steel
28 concentrated fire
30 implat GRX
32 implant GRX II
34 Chemist
36 Voracious reader
38 comprehension
40-48
50 Just lucky I'm alive

Recommended perks: gunslinger/commando,toughness,action boy, adamantium skeleton, mysterious stranger, centre of mass,light touch

So basically you should be having around 15% base crit chance alongside an extra 5% from
VATS and 30% action point cost reduction (fast shot & math wrath). Commando and Gunslinger removes the accuracy penalty. Hand loader will let you craft hand loaded ammo which has higher damage multiplier. Combining this with the crits you should be one hitting most creatures and due to the AP reduction and grim reaper's spirit you can regain your AP instantly from a few weapons (any weapon which has 28 or lower AP cost/shot).

equipment

Armour:

1st Recon beret / SOW's helmet
Sunglasses (for swag)
Rebreather
Elite Riot Gear/Ulysses' Duster

Ulysses duster+ beret is a better combo but also makes you squishy. If you need further DT pick Elite Riot Gear and SOW's helmet for further increase.
[SOW= salt upon wounds]

Weapons:
Tri-beam Laser Rifle (insane damage and good crit chance)
Q-35 Matter Modulator (decent damage & insane crit chance)
Paciencia (insane damage & good crit chance)
Christine's CoS Silencer Rifle (good damage & insane crit chance)
Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle (good damage & crit chance)

Q-35,CoS Silencer Rifle can reach 90+ crit chance naturally
If you add true police stories in the mix with comprehension you can reach 90+ with the other weapons

Holorifle,Li'l Devil,AER-14, light shinning in darkness are alright but they lack the damage output or the crit chance multiplier.

walktrough


To start off do this shortcut to vegas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjEf_50G-0
once you leave the deathclaw infested part of the map head to Repconn HQ and take Q-34 then straight to Vegas to get banned from all casinos. Once you are done take the money and buy all the implants from the clinic. Then go to gun runners and buy an armour (your preference) then hit the road to Novac and get Paciencia from the dino shop and the 1st recon beret.
There are 2 ways to get the Tri-beam laser rifle early on (maybe there are more) : straight up steal it from the silver rush and have it repaired, option 2 head down to hidden valley and start how little we know and once the vendor is unlocked you can purchase it from her alongside with mods.
You are pretty much set for most of the game.
DLCs:

You can start Honest Hearts right after getting those 3 weapons, there are 2-3 things needed from here:
  • Desert ranger armour for DT
  • light shinning in darkness
  • Joshua graham's armour( granted you want to go for high crits)
  • take SOW's helmet
OWB
  • Find Elijah's Advanced Lear and all the mods for it or LAER
  • From implants Y-3 and Y-5 is the most useful but I recommend getting all of them
  • From perks:
  • -Reinforced spine
  • -Big brained
  • -Heartless
  • Optional: skill book recipes and upgrading the sink besides the auto doc
  • Christine's CoS silencer rifle
  • There are a few challanges that give you some additional damage to cazadores or night stalkers DNAvenger etc.

Dead MoneyI strongly recommend starting it after getting jurry rigging.
  • Get all the holorifle,Chem,stimpack,weapon repair kit and ammo mods
  • You can gamble in the sierra madre-> get banned -> recieve the Complimentary voucher which will be sent to the bunker every 3 days (free 1000 chips)
  • Perhaps get Sierra Madre armor, reinforced



Lonesome Road
  • Don't retrieve ED-E from the temple so you can get the Lonesome Road perk
  • Take the Elite riot gear and Ulysses' Duster
  • put the perk point on agility or wherever you want to
additional info:
Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle can be found in the sniper's nest near cottonwood cove.
Li'l devil is sold by Mick
AER-14[fallout.fandom.com] is found in vault 22

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