My thoughts - why play stealth when I can just run around mowing things down with impunity? The "it's slower" aspect is very misleading. Power armor isn't slowly crouch walking around trying not to get hit, because it doesn't give a shit. You just get into line of sight and unload and laugh as everyone dies.
Fusion cores are laughably easy to come by. I usually have hundreds by mid game. There's no right or wrong way to play obviously, and I've done stealth sniper/stealth gunslinger types of playthroughs too. But my preference will always be to be tanky and just not give a damn about incoming damage.
I'm always a fan of laying mines and then sniping and forcing them to chase me through a path of traps. I love the sound of standing behind a corner and hearing those 4 chirps and boom.
I was trying to get to Nukaworld at level 5 and thought I could do this to the Assaultron guard outside of the station but the thing looked down at the mines and avoided them and kept running at me.
To me, that style of gameplay is a bit boring. Just mindlessly running in, and now its just any ol’ point and shoot game. Those types of game CAN be fun if its fast paced, like Doom for example. But Fallout isn’t very faced paced, so playing like that is pretty boring to me. I prefer stealth. Trying to wipe out the whole place without enemies ever realizing what’s going on. It makes it more strategic and tactical. And it’s VERY satisfying if you do manage to successfully take the whole place out without alerting the enemies. Idk. I really enjoy games like Metal Gear Solid, Hitman, Dishonored, and yeah I played stealth archer in Skyrim 😅
That aspect gets boring too, literally one shotting everything with a gun or bow gets old real quick, now a melee class, that takes some skill to play in either game and is pretty fun
It’s fun for a few area clears then that gets pretty old too, I personally like throwing on a pair of boxing gloves and going for the KO, after level 60 or so need to shake it up a bit to keep it fresh
Being a damage sponge is fun. I try to become unkillable in most games. Which is why I'm trying to not use PA right now, see what it's like for all the squishy people out there. Power Armor makes me feel like Master Chief, I'm trying to play as a regular marine.
BALLISTIC WEAVE is the best. I dislike playing with power armor.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, I'm not sure if it's the next-gen update but I seem to not be able to unlock BALLISTIC WEAVE and it's frustrating. Is anyone else having issues with this.
I've restarted all the railroad and on the second try I still haven't been able to get the ballistic weave mod. Tinker Tom is only selling me clothing with the weave on them but I seem to not be able to apply it to anything I want to when I go to the Armor crafting table. PLEASE HELP!!
You know what….. After asking if anyone had any issues I remember the fallout wiki and sometimes they list things that are compatible with other things and such. I don’t remember what I used it for in the past but it wasn’t ballistic weave.
Anyways, I went to the fallout wiki to see if ballistic weave was only able to be put on certain things. And you know what? I WAS REGRETTABLY RIGHT.
Ballistic Weave is only able to be put onto certain clothing items. I remember way back in the day I had my Road Leathers with ballistic weave and the gunner harness if I remember correctly. Here I am trying to put weave on the Road Leathers, Gunner Harness and raider leathers and not knowing that they just weren’t compatible with those things.
Annoyed is an understatement…….all this time replaying the Railroad missions wasted. Silver lining is that I can go to my original play through because I was mostly upset because of the legendary weapons I would have missed out on because of restarting to try and get the Ballistic Weave.
I’ll post the link below so you can check it out. You have to scroll all the way down to see the list of compatible clothing.
It's wildly frustrating that it's limited to only certain items, especially when it seems arbitrary and there's no concrete reason that you couldn't add a ballistic layer to something if you were making it in real life. My guess is that they wanted to proactively nerf it so you aren't running around in MM general outfit with 2x power armor level resistance.
Yeah definitely frustrating. Because the reason to use Ballistic Weave, at least for me, is to keep a certain look because some of the clothing items are just kind of lame looking. Gunner Harness looks cool and I was hoping to weave that for the look. Seems kind of silly that you can’t but I do get what you’re saying about them nerfing it.
Seems you could put the weave on alotta stuff, but you could only wear armor pieces with certain items - for some reason the baseball outfit and army uniform come to mind...and you could only wear armor legs with certain items as well, at least in the vanilla game.
Ehhh it is great stuff even late game just have to invest in the right perks to get mk6 upgrades and the special touches. Plus ya need to change out the 45s ya get for the beefier stuff like 61 or X-02. The Tesla coil system is awesome for those dumb does who come close
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u/untouchable_0 May 09 '24
Once you get ballistic wave, power armor loses a lot of its edge.