I'm more of a reading man Chomps.

I thought it was to heal Snuffles' leg, smh 😔

Reasons to go to Sloan at level 1: 1. Heal Snuffles leg. 2. Repair the generator. 3. Rob them.

Intelligence 1. Gamebryo engine: You read Dean’s Electronics. You can now disarm the nuclear bomb.

I love the stop and stare when he passes Snuffles He’s like “domesticated mole rat wut?”

I went to Sloan in my first playthrough once I was around lvl 6-10 it was nice seeing a standing mole rat and healing its injury. I proceeded to get torn to pieces by deathclaws mins later.

I imagine a great deal more fallout veterans elect to read those books at level 4.

real veterans go to sloan specifically to fix snuffles’s leg.

A wise man once said : ""

Thank you for giving Snuffles some screen time 🙏🏻

Yes every playthrough take the skill books, donation money, ammo, medical supplies. But also with the skill books there's on in good springs, lone wolf radio, Sloan of course, bison Steve hotel, Nevada highway station, the gas station before ncr outpost and ncr outpost. So you can get a lot of skills raised early because of those. I mean there are tons more I just personally feel like the early early game is right down to Mojave outpost and then it sort of picks up more.

better pro route: Make your build with 9 intelligence, tag lockpicking and take good natured. Run right for repconn HQ, steal the power armor and money from the top, anything else you can get your hands on (microfusion cells, nikola tesla book). Head to the gun runners, then go up to the sacked caravan to loot combat armor and plasma rifles. Sell loot to the gun runners, will have to wait a few days for cap refill (the vendor in crimson caravan can help speed it up). Head to the clinic, and get the intelligence implant. This way you get 10 intelligence before your first level up for the bonus skill points, but don't have to actually spec 10 into it, so you have an extra point to spend elsewhere. Using the black mountain pass, you can loot the ncr soldier for his uniform and use it to take the monorail to the strip. Walk into the tops and get free 3 levels or something just from seeing Benny. Be sure to grab a locksmith magazine from a mailbox in good springs or from asking sunny about work in goodsprings, to get in the first floor locked repconn door.

You monster. Snuffle's needed your help, and all you did was steal from his friends

In all my playthroughs I've never once visited Sloan, didn't even know the existence of Snuffles' till recently.

*Real veterans* play the game without worrying about maxing all stats as quickly as possible.

Who else just makes a beeline for cazador canyon with a grenade launcher

there's also a generator that can be fixed, it's pretty easy to miss though and of course, there's snuffles

I never knew about this. My typical route to Vegas always takes me through Sloan.

Imagine waiting for you mail, only to see the mailman steal everything you own before handing you your mail.

Fallout veterans also run straight through Deathclaw valley there and into new vegas with no regrets

I used to avoid Sloan early obviously because of the deathclaws. Think I'll try this on what is like my 8 or 9th playthrough.

Remember the metal box with the pulse grenades in Sloan is actually duplicated for some reason and you can get 12 instead of 6.

My first visit as veteran was Black Mountain to get Raul as companion. There is this rocket launcher too, called Annabelle.

Steps to Profit in the Mojave 1. Go to Sloan 2. Steal everything 3. Profit

You fool! You need to take the perk to get another skill point out of books before reading them!

I love the one second acknowledgement of snuffles

Fun fact: Snuffles, the mole rat at Sloan, has a higher INT stat than Caesar

Real veterans go straight to the Divide so they can reset their faction rep later. :p

Wanna know how New Vegas Veteran play it ? Put all SPECIAL points in Luck, then choose Sneak, Barter, Speech. Sneak around Deathclaws in Sloan area a run straight to Atomic Cowboy to break a bank. That's how I got myself around 50-60k at level 4 ( banned from all casinos)

fix Snuffles leg *Fix Snuffles leg* *FIX SNUFFLES LEG*

I always collect all the books and magazines until I am able to get the perk that gives you the extra skill point from books just to maximize on skills

Notice how the second building he goes in, is a copy of the main building in the republic of Dave

Dang, I always passed Sloan after getting the stealthboy from victors shack and just run to Vegas, thanks for the tip!

I feel like I should get Karma for not stealing it but I guess I'd have had to bother noticing it was there in the first place. At level one, I more often than not loot enough material to repair ED-E, repair him, then dip into 'Lonesome Road' so I can get the first circuit board upgrade that lets him repair my equipped weapon (13hr cooldown). Then I return to the Mojave and carry on. It's handy to keep my weapons in good shape but it also lets me restore unwanted weapons I can use to barter for stuff I do want. More rarely, I'll grab a stealthboy in Goodsprings, steal a NCR uniform at the camp outside of Primm then use the stealthboy to sneak past the Deathclaws down the road from Sloan (not the quarry), get to the trading post, recruit Veronica (get her some power armor from the Rocket Museum), proceed to camp McCarran, put on the stolen NCR uniform and ride the monorail into the strip. Then after dealing w/Mr. House I can turn in a pair of snowglobes for some starting funds, bleed the casinos dry at the blackjack table and then get some implants from Dr. Usangi.

also if you head east you can reach the strip and grab a dead ncr outfit so you dont need any caps to enter

ohhh he stealin... he stealin y'all

Cant be the only one that made it past the deathclaws on my first playthrough and didnt even know primm and beyond existed untill like 20 hours later

New Vegas Strip or bust! Honestly. You get the cigarette butts from the grave outside Goodsprings, go to the Strip, level up like 4 times from just walking into the Tops and seeing Benny, level Speech up to 30, ambush Benny in his room, and badda-bing, you've got the best 9MM in the game. From there, you can go where you want.

Wow, I wasn't aware of all the books and caps at Sloan. I just go there to heal Snuffles lol

I went to sloan at level 14 but then a deathclaw alpha somewhow glitched thru the quarry walls and ended up in sloan, i couldnt get out because if i went outside one of the buildings it would kill ke instantly, i had no other saves then and i had to reload to when i was level 12... Bruh.

I stole the last conducter i needed for a new sheriff and then i got caught in the cabin while they were all sleeping, i tried to run away until i noticed one of them took alot of my supplies including the rest if the conductors, so i went back, in the end that cabin became a bloodbath 😅

I tend to wait until level 6 before consuming the mags mainly because to the extra points instead of 3 get 4. Max out all skill to 100 by between lvl20 to 25 with dlc.

Using the grenade rifle, i go take on three super mutants just past Neil's shack. That early on, they are equipped with only hunting rifles.

other than the skill books, all the fallout 2 references like the deathclaw omelet and the music (which is the theme of the town modoc in fo2) makes me a very happy salesman.

No one even mentioning the sawed off shotgun that's there smh

The cheeky steal from the vending machine at the end was the icing on top

There’s Also pulse grenades in a box between the beds, great for killing any robots early game. And a star bottle cap in the mess hall

*(Crouches. Shoots Snuffles in another leg)*

Lmao all these years and I never knew there was a decent amount of caps in that shed

I did not know about that hidden Deans electronics skill book, cheeky af

Easy Pete Dynamite > Chances Knife > Schoolhouse > Sloan > Tribal Village is the best start IMO. Especially if you do the tutorial and save the villager to get free water.

love the zoom in on snuffles

I have just learned something new and I have logged alot of time on this game.

If you aren't heading straight into lonesome road at level one and clearing out that missile silo... Well ya should. Especially for the 6-8K caps worth of loot inside and free set of us army combat armor + general outfit and various mid game weapons.

If anyone is interested I got the fatman today at lvl1 .. got a pip boy from the safe in the school house at good springs, and then used sneak to get the fatman from cotton wood crater. Fun to mess around with using ammo glitch, and you can have infinite nukes at lvl 1. I used 3 weapon repair kits btw to fix it.

Definitely not to reload a revolver at 60mph past the deathclaws

Knew about the caps, had no idea about the skill books though! Good luck in the game with Senegal!

I just started my first play through of New Vegas ever. That's cool but this seems like just another route. Plus now I have the perks to make those books even better. I haven't had less than 1000 caps since I made that much, have about 2000 right now at level 6. Okay with NCR, Idolized by Goodsprings, Powder Gangers are dead except those that went east or something, I have two sets of armor fully maintained, so...much...ammo, and like 10 guns nearly fully maintained.

There's always a sawed off shotgun in that easy locker too, the earliest possible one you can get.

Only reason I swing by is to patch up my hard-R, Snuffles.

I also abuse the Cazador filled camp with the mercenary grenade rifle for an easy level, caps, and gear. Sorry J Sawyer but I always will

Lol I’ve played this game more than any other and I never once went to Sloan first; I guess I’ve been scarred by my experience of going anywhere near that area when I first started playing long, long ago as we all know there’s Cazadors, scorpions and even deathclaws if you venture too far away from Sloan. I basically go after the first weapons and buff up my skills to complete the first set of quests tailored to the specific character I’m playing; if I’m playing with energy weapons for example, I’m likely role playing as part of the Brotherhood or an Enclave remnant, so after getting ED-E first thing after good springs and getting to Primn, if I want to I’ll skip all the way to Repconn Headquarters and get the Q-35 Modulator without the need of any lockpicking but a luck skill of 7 (I always put luck at 8 on this build from the start) to pass the speech check with the robot on the third floor to not trip the alarm, get the key from the suitcase to the 100 skill door and computer where the gun is at, nab that mf for free, unlock the door with all the ammo, run to the Repconn Test Site probably with Boone as well and after working on my science, speech and repair I think since Goodsprings, finish Come Fly With Me with flying colors, idolized by Novac, free house, lots of ammo and soon after I’m off to do the Brotherhood quest line before I really touch anything else unless it’s associated with the Brotherhood quests such as going to the Boomers and having to talk to Mother Pearl before being able to retrieve the holotape from the dead Brotherhood Patrol because you’ll just get shelled, saying screw it I’ll just do the Boomers quests now because I’m already here. I know I was all over the place but you catch my drift lol

And yangzi before, duffle and grave, black mountain for 45-70, onto hidden ranger station, repcon, dead van grafs, gunrunners.

As a non-fallout-fan, I have absolutely no idea what just happened and I don't know the significance of it at all.

"Wait, why is he spending so much time on the books, won't he pick the stash of ca... oh, there it is"

I go to Sloan as a short cut to New vegas and take advantage of the Gun runner kiosk and Crimson Caravan kiosk

in quarry junction have even more caps, there's like 30,000 caps if im not mistaken, in a container near those giant tractors, you should absolutely go there if you're first time playing, everyone did

It’s honestly really easy going past the deathclaws too all you have to do is stay on the side of the mountain and be sure to keep going along it and are high up so deathclaws won’t hit you

And thats all i needed to start yet another playthrough

I always run straight for Lone Wolf Radio. Should probably make a save where I use a different safe storage place as my base.

You can also heal snuffel's and repair the generator

I didn't know they had books, thanks.

Yea because wasting skill books without the comprehension perk and getting an irrelevant amount of caps while fighting coyotes is big brain. I prefer starting the lonesome road dlc really early, not going too deep into it, but getting some impressive armor and weapons without leaving the silo. Then you go back to the Mojave lvl one with Riot armor and some arc welders, etc.

was about to be pissed if you didnt get the caps out of the office, but damn i knew about duck and cover but had no idea there was a dean's in there

That snuffles zoom was straight out of Looney Tunes lmao.

I go only and only to cure snuffles.

Level 3-4, in my case, because I don't want to make a second trip to get the XP for fixing the generator and healing Snuffles, and I need those levels to get repair and first aid high enough.

I’m doing a Good Karma wasteland gunslinger kinda thing..don’t steal..but also on my first ever play through so I have no clue what I’m doing.

You go to Sloan to steal from humble miners. I go to Sloan to fix Snuffles injured leg. We are not the same.

You also have a chance to get a stealth boy inside one of the houses, making it very easy to sneak past the deathclaws and go straight into NV to buy an int implant at level 1.

Man even the cigarettes 😂

Dat snuffles zoom in

On my first attempt to go to Sloan I ran into a dozen Giant Radscorpions and needed Victor to save me while I ran away. Needless to say I was level 18 before I tried again.

Dont forget 12 pulse grenades in the metal box between beds on the right side as you enter that shack. Its 6 grenades in that box,but the box itself is duplicated. Loot one and hover the croshairs on the box and move them slightly until metal box without [empty] shows up for another 6.

I prefer the Primm path, completing Lonesome Road right at the beginning makes your character a Demigod

Always went through here on new playthroughs to get to the strip early

I did this on my first run by accident and always do since then. That's when I got my Deathclaws PSTD too

My HDD died just as when the game went free on epic, ngl watching till my new HDD came

I remember coming here early game and like 20% chance deathclaw attacks the town

I always go to Sloan at level 1... and then reach Vegas Strip for some sweet exp right off the start of every playthrough.

To bad I have an allergic reaction to getting bad karma

ive only ever came for snuffles and those caps, how long have i been missing out on 6 whole skill points :(

a way to shortcut way through black mountain to the strip

The first thing I do is grind levels until I'm at level 14 when Jury Rigging becomes available and literally all of the skill points go into science, repair and lockpicking. I do this in preparation for Dead Money because even though it's fun, it's still kind of a drag to lose all your gear while playing through it. I just want over and done with.

Oh, usually I head over there just to shoot shuffles, but this works as well

Aww man, guess I am not a veteran... Time to activate my stealth boy and sneak past the cazadores again!

I go straight to the Divide when I'm done with Doc Mitchell and sell what I find at the beginning to get riot gear and good weapons then head back to the Mojave

Better wait ulti lvl 4 to get the comprehension perk first

Not waiting for Comprehension? Oof.

Knew about the cash (though there would be way more?) but not the books, seems like I've skipped rest of the shacks...