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Sheepherder
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Too much Dex. Not enough Str and Attention. To be able to fire probably the best sniper rifle (VVE) once per round you'll need 6 AP for aimed shot and 7 AP for burst (yeah, it bursts). So 2 or 4 Dex and it requires 8 STR. Maybe past mountain pass there are better rifles, but I haven't found any yet. You also want Crits on a sniper as a lot of rifles add to crit chance. So get more Luck.
Rifle is in the second bunker. There are also at least 3 stat increases in the game. +1 Luck and twice +1 to any stat.
AdolfSatan
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Yeah, I knew already about the bunker; was wondering if there was any official way of "catching" them. Thank you all for your answers.
It seems you would want to do more then shoot per round no?
Without having tried or gotten anywhere near it I am going to stake my rep on it and say unequivocally yes. In fact, I'm going to start a new game and go MA. Pistols is a given seeing as you can pistol and shield together and just look at the perk tree thing for both. MA seems like it should be the hardest though (just guessing as I don't know for certain, just looking at the system and perks).
I've been picking the high setting since normal doesn't explicity state it doesn't allow saving during combat. Does it? I'd rather do my first serious playthrough on normal but not if it allows saving during combat because that really means normal is storymode.
Sheepherder
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Max AP is 10. 12 with the perk that gives you 2 more AP when you're below 50% HP, but that's risky and the perk is deep in melee tree. Rifles that have a 5 AP cost aimed shot do substantially less damage (something like 10-20 if I remember correctly) than the ones that cost 6 or 7 AP (25-40 @6 AP and 25-45 @7 AP but this one requires a reload after every shot and doesn't work with the scope perk). So 2 or 4 DEX is plenty and you'll do well even until you can get either of those rifles as most rifles have similar 6 or 7 AP costs. There may be better ones in the dead city or beyond, but as I said, I haven't found them yet.
Make it a crit build btw, rifles have +crit chance bonuses on them and rifle perks enhance your crits and crit rate.
that old hunter will give you an old rifle for picking a corn in his garden.. no ammo tho
Shields are equipped in backbag slot. Doesn't matter whether your weapon is one or two handed I think.
croitav
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3d gfx and rotatable camera doesn't bother you?
It does.
Of course it does. Its wasted resources that does and adds nothing. Just fluff for retards. The inability to rebind keys is also horrible. But, its crpg goodness is enough to put up with it. It is a great crpg (so far) despite these obvious flaws.
Really? That's just plain crazy. But, I haven't seen a shield yet so can't disagree.
bataille
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Pistols are totally viable during most of the game provided you don't go full retard with Fidel and Soviet Writer and make them gunners/snipers. Nagant just munches through early-mid game with its hordes of enemies if you have 10 dex, the -1 AP perk, and armour piercing rounds. It's five shots a turn... Just don't buy into shit like TT or Mauser. All you need is Nagant for long range and Scorpion/PPS for burst-firing at point blank range. Later on, desert eagle can replace nagant to do the same damage in 2 seconds instead of 6...
Although, it's cutting it real close. I haven't been able to battle my way through: the showdown with the bandits from the beginning of the game AND the battle with Syoma's gang in the container city. Tbh just do yourself a favour and plan to branch into automatic weapons. I love my desert eagle and all, but it's been painfully obvious for some time now that unless I get to using a machine gun/assault rifle, it's bye-bye city. You either dispose of gunners/grenadiers before they can act or you reload, it's as simple as that. No random chance or anything. You HAVE to kill that one bastard with RPK to get through the battle. Good luck doing that with a pistol (they have Soviet-grade bulletproof vests most of the time).
Although, to be fair, there's no way anything in the main quest is harder than Syoma's gang/showdown with the bandits/Death Crew battles. And they are barely possible with pistols/submachine guns as it is. I didn't have the patience to munch through the first two, though. So it's probably more than possible to finish the game with pistols (is 50 damage a turn really not enough? Do you really need those 100 damage bursts? Idk, the main quests may prove to be tough nuts to crack).
Whatever, just get an AK around the point you pick up a plasma rifle in Fallout, lmao. It's something like 10th level in both games. Save your nerves for more productive things.
Although, it's cutting it real close. I haven't been able to battle my way through: the showdown with the bandits from the beginning of the game AND the battle with Syoma's gang in the container city. Tbh just do yourself a favour and plan to branch into automatic weapons. I love my desert eagle and all, but it's been painfully obvious for some time now that unless I get to using a machine gun/assault rifle, it's bye-bye city. You either dispose of gunners/grenadiers before they can act or you reload, it's as simple as that. No random chance or anything. You HAVE to kill that one bastard with RPK to get through the battle. Good luck doing that with a pistol (they have Soviet-grade bulletproof vests most of the time).
Although, to be fair, there's no way anything in the main quest is harder than Syoma's gang/showdown with the bandits/Death Crew battles. And they are barely possible with pistols/submachine guns as it is. I didn't have the patience to munch through the first two, though. So it's probably more than possible to finish the game with pistols (is 50 damage a turn really not enough? Do you really need those 100 damage bursts? Idk, the main quests may prove to be tough nuts to crack).
Whatever, just get an AK around the point you pick up a plasma rifle in Fallout, lmao. It's something like 10th level in both games. Save your nerves for more productive things.
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Lhynn
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Yeah tbh unarmed is pointless, the damage is roughly the same as with a gun, but with a gun you have range. and some guns triple the damage while unarmed has nothing to compensate for that. Ill restart with a new character, a glutton lucky one with decent unarmed to carry me through early game and then ill pump automatic for endgame.
Atomboy could you include any way for the player to put their own custom portraits? it really is a must.
Atomboy could you include any way for the player to put their own custom portraits? it really is a must.
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Thanks Sheepherder. How does Luck influence crit chance based on the above example?
bataille
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You may want to screw around with custom made guns; it's pretty fun. They are more than sustainable from the very start and provide a pretty cool stepping stone to actual factory-made firearms.
RegionalHobo
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you let them go, investigate the hideout, them they'll come back
as for the pistol discussion... two crafted revolver + plus that -1 perk gives me a lot of shots before having to reload. it actually did the job + stimpaks so far and i'm pretty far into the game. that said i'm using skill points in auto weapons just so i can have the same burst dmg but with the option of having a stimpak in one hand
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Go to the bar and talk to Katya. By the way, the mayor of the town isn't the guy who gives you the water pump quest. It's the old man sitting on the couch in the shack with a safe, the one that's literally next to the village's perimeter. And yes you can store shit once you manage to rescue someone from the bandits' camp.
Stakhanov
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I managed to get a Soviet army knife for free by passing some kind of check. I think it might have been a dude playing with it in KZM docks, but I can't remember exactly where it was. Taiga machete can be found in a locker in a bunker, but there are so many containers in each endgame area I can't remember which one...Sorry I can't be more specific
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