Fallout: New Vegas PCR

Fallout: New Vegas PCR

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EZ fnv guide for new players Rob the casinos
By Frito
This guide is made for new fnv players. With this guide you will easily progress throughout the entire game and all DLCs.
   
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SPECIAL
Lets talk about SPECIAL, in this run we want to have the easiest experience possible and some special stats are better than others so we are going to talk about this for a moment.
Charisma - the worst special perk in the game, there are little to none speech checks requiring charisma, and low charisma doesnt stop us from leveling up speech and barter skills so we want to lower our speech to 1 so we can add more points to other special stats.
Luck - In my opinion the best special perk in the game, it slitghly affects all of our skills, and increases our Critical Chances, but the best part is that it makes earning chips SO easy once you make it to new vegas casinos, Luck 10 is a 51.500 guaranteed chips!
Inteligence - My second favourite special stat, the more inteligence you have the more xp you gain so you lvl up faster and you're able to aquire perks quicker in the game which makes it much easier
I like to keep other SPECIAL stats at a moderate level (between 4-6) because they don't give that much of a reward at higher levels and are too much punishing when they are below 4.
NOTE: Don't level up ANY skill to 10 at Doc mitch house. The reason is you can get an implant in New Vegas medical clinic which gives +1 to any special stat for 4.000 caps only.
I'd reccomend special stats like this:
S - 6
P - 5
E - 5
C - 1
I - 9
A - 5
L - 9
Traits
Traits are your charachter passive abilities that comes up with a benefit and a penalty. Max number of traits you can have is 2 but you don't need to take any traits at all but there are few traits that are worth considering:
Good natured
+5 to medicine, repair, speech, barter and science.
-5 to energy weapons, melee weapons, explosives, unarmed and guns.
Worth taking if you want to have a more pacifist type of run, or if you want to rush one of these skills to a 100 real fast.

Skilled*
+5 to every skill
-10% gained experience
*There is quite useful bug in Old World Blues DLC. We have a option to change our Traits(only once) and this allows us to take Skilled once more which will give us +5 to every skill again while the -10% gained xp stays the same (because +5 is a flat value and the negative gain of xp doesn't stack because we don't have 2 skilled traits, we just delete the old and swap it for a new one). With this bug it is easy to have all Skils to 100
Hoarder
+25 total carry weight
- 1 to SPECIAL attributes while current equipment weight is below 160 lbs.
Take this only if you know you will take lots of things, trait made literally for hoarders.
Wild Wasteland
+ Wild wacky random encounters
+ its fun
+ just take it
- a part of original content is replaced so you might be missing out on some things
+ but who cares, just take it is more fun this way
Perks
Every second time you level up you are allowed to take one perk, now there is a lot of perks so I will go only on those that are really good or really bad.
Bad Perks
Intense training
Swift learner
Here and now
Lessons Learned
These perks look good at first glance but let me explain. The maximum level of your character is 50 which comes to 25 perks max. They are simply a waste of perk, these perks give you something you can obtain by other methods, like Implants, and faster xp gaining isn't worth considering that we have INT at 10 so we are already gaining xp fast.
Good Perks
Tag!
Educated
Black Widow/Confirmed batchelor
These perks are very universal and are usefull to lots of diffrent builds
Places to go
Casinos
With our luck, not visiting any casino is not only stupid, but also making the game harder for no reason at all.
There are 6 casinos total in game (including all dlcs). 3 of them are in New Vegas strip, 1 is in New Vegas freeside, 1 is in Sierra Madre casino (Dead money DLC) and 1 is in Primm (A Team of Moronic Mercenaries quest has to be finished).
Vikki and Vance Casino is located in Primm with 2.500 caps as the winning limit
Atomic Wrangler casino located in New Vegas freeside with 5.000 caps as as the winning limit
After earning some caps from these 2 casinos we should have enough caps to get 2 implants for 4.000 caps each. +1 to luck and +1 to intelligence.
Gomorrah located in New Vegas strip with 9.000 caps as the winning limit.
The Tops located in New Vegas strip with 10.000 caps as the winning limit.
Ultra-Luxe located in New Vegas strip with 15.000 caps as the winning limit.
Sierra Madre casino from Dead money dlc with 10.000 Sierra madre chips as the winning lmit.
NOTE: Sierra Madre chips are exchanged for Pre-war money instead of caps. This results in even more caps because the price of pre-war money is dertemined by players barter skill.
NOTE2: In order to play in Primm casino one must finish an unmarked quest "A Team of Moronic Mercenaries" wich is followed by "My kind of Town" quest. After restoring order to the town of Primm, the Courier must travel to a different location and pass three days without visiting Primm. Courier will be approached by thugs, there are three possible ways to handle the group:
Convince them that there is law back in Primm with a Speech skill of 30.
Pay them off with 100 caps (they will accept 50 caps if the Courier does not have 100).
Fight them.

After completing these two quests, wait for 2–3 days and the casino will re-open

New Vegas medical clinic
Its where we buy all our implants, I suggest to buy 1 for luck and 1 for inteligence sooner than the others. It is located east and right next of Crimson Caravan Company and somewhat southwest of the mole rat ranch.

Vault 34
You will need to come with some decent gear, but the gear inside is even better and worth the effort.
Note that it is easy to get lost in this vault, I'd recommend watching some walkthroughs on youtube if you have difficulties.
Scamming the casinos
Casinos have this mechanic called winning limits which limits your potential winning.
However there is a way to cheese said mechanic.
Lets say we are at The tops casino with a winning limit of 10.000
We go to a blackjack table and we win ourself a small amount of caps, lets say 9.800 caps so we are allowed to win 200 more caps.
But if we leave a blackjack table, and go to the slot machines. So we play slots,(recommend saving before) we bet 40 caps and wait for the big win, 3 oranges which multiples our bet by 100. So we are at 9.800 chips we play for 40 chips so now we are at 9.760 we get 3 oranges (40x100=4.000) which sets us at 13,760 exactly 3.760 chips more then theoretically we are allowed to win at tops
Last words
This guide allows you to go for pretty much any build that you like with a freedom of change if you plan on playing to max lvl. I did not included tag skills in this guide because it depends on what you want your character to be really, personally I'd choose speech lockpick and guns but you can pick whatever you want. Have fun playing this build, its really fun winning all these caps at casinos and getting kicked out of every casino in the game which will grant us The Courier Who Broke the Bank achievement!
Thanks for reading
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2 Comments
60hzbit 21 Jul, 2022 @ 10:59am 
Don't wan be rude but tag is a garbage perk. Level cap is 50 with all dlcs. with 10 intelligence you almost max everything out without books if you take comprehension and books you easily can max it even in base game.Might as well take educated and you will get more skill points over time.
g4rt 10 Nov, 2021 @ 7:31am 
Well layered, the explanation is plain and clear... even useful for me.
Old dog, new trick. :_spades: