Can You Beat Fallout: New Vegas With Only A Fat Man?

When you think “Fallout”, there are probably a few images that appear in your head. Big Iron, Liberty Prime, all the different ways to torment Mama Murphy, Dogmeat, the list goes on and on. But you probably think about nuclear war, too. So what if you could harness the power of a nuclear war, tone it down by like 99%, and use it as a weapon? Can You Beat Fallout New Vegas With Only A Fat Man?

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Can You Beat Fallout New Vegas With Only A Fat Man? (in text form)

After giving myself a callback name to a simpler time, I began making my character. I had some great ideas for what he should look like but things kinda got out of hand and somehow I created the a 4th generation inbred monstrosity coming from the Paul x Paulina bloodline. As for SPECIAL points, the Fat Man is an explosives weapon if you can believe that, which makes the build based around Perception. However, something we’ve never really experienced before in a run is the Strength requirement which greatly complicates things. You can use any weapon regardless of your strength, it’s just not gonna be a great experience. Strength of 8 eats up a good amount of points. I put the rest in Intelligence for obvious reasons and Luck because Fat Men are not cheap and neither are the things they fire from themselves.

Prior to selecting my Skills, I played around with an idea, a first of its kind idea. What if I was Doc Mitchell? I almost sorta look like him, or maybe his brother who was dropped by our family’s least favorite uncle shortly after I was born. I sat in his seat to see how it feels to be him. I wanted to know what happens if you never do the interview. I’ll tell you now this went off the rails faster than most things do, except for the Wii Sports video. That was a cluster of an idea that surpassed what even I thought was possible. I eventually sped up the game time by 1,000,000%. I can’t be bothered to do the math on this, but if my math is correct, something like 3,000 in-game days are passing every hour. Don’t think for an instant that it didn’t destroy the game. It did, quite badly. Setting the time scale back to 1 broke both my legs on a cosmic scale. Which gave me the idea for a jump-only video but it seems that our universe died in that disaster and in this new universe, walking simply isn’t a thing. Doc Mitchell wasn’t moving either. I had to quit the game to fix it.

Onto the Skills after wasting so much time… Skills were Barter because my future is going to be frustrating enough as it is. Medicine to endure the pain of everyday life by numbing my entire body with substances, and Explosives to turn that pain into ways to hurt others.

Traits were Skilled for the same reason as always and Fast Trigger. The Fat Man fires slowly enough as it is, the 20% fire rate bonus is going to vastly outweigh the accuracy penalty. The thing about the Fat Man is that there are 8 of them you can find in New Vegas and the ammo is even more rare. Oddly enough, despite being harder to find in New Vegas than in Fallout 3, they also do significantly less damage. I truly cannot believe it, after all these years, I finally found a flaw in Fallout New Vegas. It probably goes without saying that my first destination was the Strip. Can’t attack anything until I get my arms around a Fat Man and I didn’t want to be limited by only having a few nukes, this means caps out the ass.