It's quite good.

Even if you are running a pacifist build you can still repair to make them sell better

Being able to pick up all my enemies weapons and repair them to full and sell them for way more is nice, Especially in lonesome Road where all the weapons you pick up weigh a tonne but are worth heaps :)

It's an essential for sure. My favorite combo is probably science survival though.

jury rigging literally breaks the economy so bad, it’s not even funny

I've stopped taking jury rigging. 50 repair for weapon repair kits is enough (and armor repair kits with Jsawyer Ultimate).

@@benito1620 that does kinda speak to strong the skill is. it's busted at 50, and it still gets better later.

Jury rigging is a crutch. A real player doesn't need it.

I just modded my game to have repair costs cut to a quarter, and also armor and weapon sale prices halved so that maybe jury rigging isn't the way to go for everything... and it was still insane at making me money. Utterly absurd perk.

Just play Dead Money and you can print basically infinite repair kits. I ended up with like 15k SM chips and could get almost 800 repair kits. The gold bar trick with either the Stealh Boy or C4 options makes the money you can get redundant even with JSawyer mod that "nerfs" gold bars

That’s what I’m doing for my gunsmith play through

There are a lot of barter check but imo they aren't as impactful as speech checks. Most of the time barter checks just give you extra money, while speech checks often help you skip entire quest steps, avoid a combat encounter etc. Neither of them is necessary but at least for roleplay purposes speech gives you more options

@@exantiuse497 Yes you're right. Speech checks are indeed way more impactful than the barter checks. Speech is made to be THE strongest skill in the entire game for a reason. You can skip entire quests, difficult fights heck even the final boss fights with Speech check because at the end of the day from a lore in-world perspective, a master communicator who's charismatic and borderline manipulative with his words, will always find a way out of situation. My point was merely that, this gets stale in a while. Once you play a max speech character a couple of times, it's just extremely predictable. Yes you have strong words and yes you use it to get out of all situations but, how many times have you done it before courier? That's when I feel like Barter kicks in because not only does it provide a way for you to solve things without violence (the only ways to not fight is either manipulate, or bride; Speech, or Barter in real life too), but at the same time with consequences (loosing caps). A lot of the times these barter checks "feel" more realistic because, I personally feel like Speech-checking literally the entire final boss (which is an awesome move btw) along with literally all of the DLC bosses, feels a bit; overpowered (personal opinion). Barter just feels more realistic a lot of the times, and in my opinion, after the first couple playthroughs, give way for unique options, dialogues, and just a different experience. You can't speak your way out fo every issue with everyone, and there's only so many people you can buy out with caps, which goes well with your weapon playstyles (since you can completely ignore any combat if you go speech alone, unlike Barter where you need a weapon skill for situations a lot)

Speech turns you into Jesus Christ. Barter turns you into Saul Goodman.

@@yucandui Max out both, and you're Napoleon

I also like barter for the Pack Rat and Long Haul perks. The ability to carry lots of small things at half the weight means you can sell more and fast travel to all the merchants without making any extra stops.

just put on a dress, pop some mentats, and reed a magazine.

Why

And in Hardcore is useful due to pack rat.

​@sanlorenzo7896 I never take Long Haul, Burden to Bear or Strong Back, but Pack Rat is a MUST for an Explosives build

That can be very true too.

Having 50 skill in survival will pretty much cover the essentials regarding steaks. Unless I want to eat coyotes and unlock the .44 SWC recipe from a certain NPC, I’d bump it up to 60 at the highest. Then again, setting it to 75 can be useful just by using Rad Child on a hardcore playthrough.

It gets stupid when you have jurry rigging. You can buy a broken super sledge and a fully repaired pool cue for 100 caps. You can then use the pool cue to fully repair the super sledge and sell it back for 2k.

how does repair make me money??

@@juvidisciple have you played this game?

Lockpicl and computer seem almost required cuz of all the locked doors amd such

Rushing Water turns your semi autos into machine guns too, and some of those healing items are insane like desert salad and wasteland omelet. Survival makes JSUE on Hardcore/Very Hard easy.

Yeah that is true, those are nice items to add to your characters.

im a zoomer and played it when it came out lol

Bruh Zoomers ARE aware of this game.. hell for some its nostalgic.

I’m 24 and bought it with my birthday money when it came out, mad that I’ve been playing it for over half my life

There are 26 year old zoomers out there. Gen Z started in 1997

I’m a zoomling and been playing it since my friend in 2011 showed it to me when I stayed over

Or just get the ED-E upgrade in Lonesome Road that lets you repair your weapon once per in-game day. You can get the upgrade right at the beginning of the storyline and before entering combat

Or just get the weapon repair kit code in the police station in sierra madre, and you have yourself unlimited weapon repair kits, you no longer need to keep crafting..

Funny enough I often run that set up ngl

Playing as marty mcfly

Thanks, and yeah Unarmed can be awesome. It's really strong at every point in the game.

One word: Lucky

I actually prefer the stock rifle over the Gobi as it can mount a suppressor.

@@Justanotherconsumer yes!

Benny didin't know the game was double rigged from the start

I had to do that. The satisfaction of getting the gold bars was enough to keep me going to Novac. Then the other chore was to drop them on the table inside the room. Fun times lol

I just dropped off my gear and the bars at the BoS bunker and had EdE help me transfer them back to Goodsprings. No need to waste a perk.

@@tonysoprano4587 yeah, but I solo.......

Tgm

@@ArdannaL yes, but that is cheating.

Very cool, and I will be doing some Fallout 4 stuff in the future.

Yeah that is true. Or if you want to rush Pack Rat.

Making Phillipe have a mental breakdown is up there with talking Carlyle St Clair into knocking himself out

Lockpock and hacking are tricky for gsmes. Either they are worthles to get(skyrim) or required by pretty much all builds to get stuff. I think you should be able to blow up locks and stuff with explosive skills. Then lock pick would be useful for sneaky thieves but not required for non sneak

There's always another way, usually a key that can open the door in NV.

@@MK_ULTRA420 not always some the loot locked in safes or behind doors require lockpocking skill. Lucky revolver for example, i dont know of any key. Again i think they should allow you to blow up safes or smash your way in. That way in the dungeon type environment you can get the loot, but lockpick would still be required if you wanted to be a sneaky type.

@@travisrolison9646 I still think Lockpicking is underwhelming in New Vegas.

@@MK_ULTRA420 exactly. Its a tough balance between making soemthing a must have skill for everyone, or a dont bother at all skill

I enjoy barter more than speech lately, especially if you use mods that rebalance the vendors the extra caps are actually useful. Pack rat is massive on hardcore and makes weapons like grenade machineguns viable. The novelty of skipping quests/bossfights with speech also wears off if you've played through a few times.

Awesome, that can be fun.

Don't worry about it, the roleplay is great in Fallout.

Don't forget the OP buffs like Rushing Water and all of the stacking damage reduction you can get

if not melee ofc

I agree, it is rough to not have Pack Rat on hardcore.

Both lonesome roads and dead money give you unlimited repairs so it's the most overrated perk in the game imo, crafting repair kits before doing the DLCs isnt hard either.

I put barter at 70 in my most recent playthrough for Pack Rat and it felt great in hardcore. Felt like it upgraded my carrying capacity more than strong back would and you'll feel much more free to pick up or carry the little goodies you come across.

Barter is pack rat, which has become much more of a staple in my builds than jury rigging. Themselves good eatin + chemist + pack rat = infinite healing items / hardcore food at take up almost no weight

Speech is super easy to boost with clothing, drugs, booze, skill books, and magazines.

@@MrGhosta5 Yes however Pacifist runs exist and speech is the only combat skill they have. In the video a few of the skills were placed based off differing play styles Speech shouldn't be an exception because Pacifist is the least common play style.

Also not a useful perk for weapons that have low damage per shot

I use Meltdown for those easy double or quadruple kills. Nothing’s more satisfying than scoring a critical on an unsuspecting raider, bug, or animal in a group and seeing them fly in the sky. Also, shooting the tiny mantises in vault 22 never gets old.

I would agree, but the food and Rad Child are much better on the hard core mode where you always have healing over time.

You should try it for the buffs! My favorites are Rushing Water (works on everything except fully automatics), Slasher, and Battle Brew

It can be pretty strong.

You bet

Barter gives you a lot more caps are the vendors so it makes sense it isn't as strong of a dialogue perk compared to speech which does one thing. I think barter is necessary if you do a explosives only/mostly build, you really need pack rat for carry weight (esp on hardcore) and the ammo is a lot more expensive and can't be crafted.

Survival skill and Healing Poultice will help you out a lot.

That is true, the Q-35 is pretty crazy!

@@ReapeeRonagreed. Plasma caster is a bit better though because of the lower AP costs and the fact you can steal it for free from the Van Graffs. I only really use the plasma rifle early on because of how good it is at dealing with the legion assassins early if you decide to kill Vulpes.

Nope.

Yes... no... kinda... any skill can be pushed past 100 if you boost it with skill books/magazines clothing and i think implants/ intense training. This does not do anything or even show up but if you are have say -2 agility from metal armore which drops your guns skill by 4 you can make up for it by using 1 or 2 guns skill books if you have 100 guns when you used them. In fallout 3 unarmed damage scaled past 100 adding 1 damage for every 20 points. I am unsure if this holds true in nv.

Having skills past 100 doesn't increase the skill any further. Having skills past 100 helps reduce the negative effects of penalties. The only way that I know of to get a skill past 100 is to only to get it to 99 then use a skill book to put it past 100. The other way is to get a penalty from radiation sickness, chem/alcohol addiction, cripple limbs, early bird/claustrophobic traits, and penalties from armor.

That is very true.

It doesn't apply the full amount of damage that it says it does. The crit chance is less then it should be. it says 15% but it is 1.15% in the game code.