• Karyoplasma
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    321 month ago

    The best route is Jean Sky Diving -> discover Hidden Valley. Fast travel to Hidden Valley, turn right, run through the gap in the fence towards Black Mountain. Ignore the 2 scorpions and the centaurs, they are idiots and won’t successfully connect an attack. At the centaur camp, hog the left wall which leads to a ledge you can use to jump the Black Mountain fence.

    Hug the right side once you jumped and continue upwards the mountain until you discover the location. Immediately fast travel to Black Mountain. turn around and walk straight North. You will hit REPCONN HQ and you can choose to go to the 188 for Veronica or take the Eastern road North to Vegas (along the Grub n Gulp).

  • @[email protected]
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    221 month ago

    Love that this was always an option. Never managed to survive this strategy without mods or console commands though.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      I did it on my first playthrough (which I understand was really weird). I started Lonesome Road at level 2, and then spent pretty much all the ammo I got taking out the Deathclaws (and even then it took multiple attempts).

      I apparently did the DLC in reverse order (starting with Lonesome Road, then Blue Mountain Blues, and then the Sierra Madre), and never met a Ghoul until after finishing the game and backtracking with an older save.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      I just ran. Nothing more to it. Didn’t stop until I was close to The Strip. Made the game a lot funnier to me to get encounters that you’d typically get earlier on very late.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Haha sometimes the simplest solution is the most effective. Can honestly say I never tried that strategy. Haven’t played in 10ish years though.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      With a high Luck/sneak and a stealth boy, it’s not impossible, after fifty tries, to just sneak through the thin net of death claws and just walk to Vegas

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Second play I headed due north of Good Springs all the way to the Great Khans, keeping as far distance from the doom flies as possible, I think one or two chased I didn’t stop to look.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    101 month ago

    I tried this route three times before I just used the recommended route.

    I love the retro games that do things like this.

  • SSTF
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    91 month ago

    Want a rush? Sprint past quarry junction towards Vegas and get any deathclaws chasing you stuck in the rocks with their janky pathfinidng.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      You need a mod to sprint. I know that everyone who plays Bethesda games mods them, just saying.

      • SSTF
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        41 month ago

        I was being colloquial with “sprint”. You can get past quarry junction on vanilla by relying on areas where small rocks disrupt deathclaw path finding and get them confused.

        • andrew_bidlaw
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          41 month ago

          Also explosives. Hurting their legs is very easy with any mine or grenade and that makes them unable to run. Outrunning them or feeding them bullets becomes trivial.

          Cassadores are the only deadly enemies because they have no legs to hurt, grant you a semi-unique poison status that can be healed by otherwise useless consumables and have the worst movement pattern of everything in Mojave.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    I always go the death claw route first and double back I guess I just like sniping them I always have a high perception guns build though.