You can trivially skip Jury Rigging with its 90 Repair requirement and just craft weapon repair kits at 50 Repair.
I play FNV almost always as a jack of all trades storyfag, and invest noncombat skills straight away, Jury Rigging is irresistable to me.
pack rat too. I loot all of them and carry away.
Who can say NO to hoarding, I ask?
So Jury Rigging is a very obvious route for me. I just can NOT unpick JR. IMPOSSIBLE!
JR strike straight at the heart of player such as me, I am afraid.
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Weapon Repair Kits are limited by number of ingredients. If you play like me and rely too much on WRK, you will find that situation staring at you right in the noggin.
A very good tactical combat
Are you serious?
As I said somewhere before, Fagout 3 has two main types of AI.
One is simple "bumrush towards the player", second is more cautious one, using cover and fucking around (not very smart but already something).
The problem is that 90% of enemies in the game have bumrush AI. The cautious one is used mostly by Enclave, BoS (whom you won't be fighting) and mercs.
All the hordes of mutants and raiders will just bumrush you so no need for any thought and only need for more firepower
I am sure that FPS players like to play F3/FNV that way, and they find the games VERY easy. Obviously, since the games are not FPS Shooting action game in the first place~
Since I play the game as a tactical RPG, I dont do twitch shooting. Did you know VATS make a very acceptable method of stopping and look over the battlefield? I am sure you dont.
And of course, when you treat the game as a tactical RPG, you are going to have to set difficulty at Very hard or it's no talkee around here.
And VH only work until you get familiar with mechanic. After that, you are going to install mod to beef up difficulty. More hostiles, better HP and tougher armors for THEM, etc...
Did you know, explosives and missiles make acceptable combat tool if you play at low level (thus low skill and low HP, less equipment) against a bunchaton of enemies? That show how easy vanilla fallout new vegas is. Fallout 3 is actually much harder but that's not saying much.
If you dont break out a bunch of frags and throwing around like free money in an encounter, you aint playing hard enough.
And if you dont eat frag thrown at yourself at least TWICE per enc, you aint playing hard enough.
F3 hostile AI can throw grenades and use missiles which are simply damaging you just by missing. You dont get that in vanilla because their vanilla inventory is limited as fuck to prevent FPS shooters get frags right and left. Any melee type with throw grenades before they rush at you.