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[Elfeater]

If you get the pulse gun from the vault (34 I think...?) you can breeze through Old World Blues.

[Bohandas]

If you get the pulse gun from the vault (34 I think...?) you can breeze through Old World Blues.

Or if you're a melee character you can kick serious ass with the melee pulse weapons that OWB itself provides

[Krevsin]

...but the whole affair feels too much like a standard FPS, focusing way too much on combat and combat-related gimmicks (Hey, blow up these here nukes to blow up enemies and progress!).

Plus the explosions from the so-called "nukes" were ridiculously small, even if we assume that the explosions are to the same distorted scale as the roads.

Y'know, now that I think about it, all the DLC had one thing in common, they all had stupidly overpowered enemies, the roboscorpions, the ghost people, the tunnelers, and a buncha tribals capable of taking out a person in full T-45d power armor.

At least the first three were kind of plausible in-world. The super resilient tribals don't make sense any way you look at it; there was a similar problem with the Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3. And you left out the most overpowered enemy of all, the security holograms from Dead Money, which couldn't be attacked at all.

But those sorta made sense. You can't attack light after all. And of course yoou can just run past them so they are never a serious issue.

[SOLDIER First]

If you get the pulse gun from the vault (34 I think...?) you can breeze through Old World Blues.

I honestly have no idea why, but NRG Weppinz are laughably bad in OWB, for me. Even with 75+ in the skill. And Elijah's advanced LAER.
With a plasma pistol it takes an inordinately large amount of shots to kill lobotomites, much less the Cyberdogs. Or Robobrains. Or Mister Gutsies, or the skellington suits... Don't even get me started on Mobius' goddamn scorpions...

[Elfeater]

I unno, Im using the Nevada mod which rebalances it, havent done OWB but i might soonish with it.

[Bohandas]

If you get the pulse gun from the vault (34 I think...?) you can breeze through Old World Blues.

I honestly have no idea why, but NRG Weppinz are laughably bad in OWB, for me. Even with 75+ in the skill. And Elijah's advanced LAER.
With a plasma pistol it takes an inordinately large amount of shots to kill lobotomites, much less the Cyberdogs. Or Robobrains. Or Mister Gutsies, or the skellington suits... Don't even get me started on Mobius' goddamn scorpions...

Were you actually hitting them? The plasma weapons in FNV remind me of Ignignokt's gun from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, where the projectile moves so slowly that people can just calmly step out of the way.

[SOLDIER First]

They're okay at medium range (static or directly approaching targets) and close range (less time for the enemy to "dodge"), I've noticed. Also VATS.
Lots of VATS.

[Rolan7]

Gauss rifle took care of most things pretty well.  I used the Hyperbreeder Alpha from GRA for short range stuff, but it almost felt like cheating.  Except against the nightstalkers, they were fast and oddly tough.  Almost as bad as the tunnelers in LR.  The scorpions were dangerous but slow moving.

Been a while since I played OWB though.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I just use mods so I can have a sodding companion with me so Niner can unload with a FUCKING TOMMYGUN.

[hops]

At least the first three were kind of plausible in-world. The super resilient tribals don't make sense any way you look at it; there was a similar problem with the Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3. And you left out the most overpowered enemy of all, the security holograms from Dead Money, which couldn't be attacked at all.

You're supposed to destroy their emitters, dude.

[GiglameshDespair]

And you left out the most overpowered enemy of all, the security holograms from Dead Money, which couldn't be attacked at all.

That was kind of the point, that you couldn't just unload a shotgun into them and call it a day.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Eeeh, Holograms were the only enemy I truly despised in Dead Money because it felt like I was being strung along and forced to do things in one or two ways because if I didn't the holobutts would zap me.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Eeeh, Holograms were the only enemy I truly despised in Dead Money because it felt like I was being strung along and forced to do things in one or two ways because if I didn't the holobutts would zap me.

The EndGame section of Dead-Money was the worst, though, with those holograms there, it took me half an hour and countless quickloads before I cheesed the entire section by finding the annoyingly hidden hologram projectors (That required a straight up 100 repair, by the way, good thing I was horrendously overleveled for that DLC or I would have been screwed!) instead of the 'actual' way which involved this bullshit step by step plan that required very specific actions, and because the computers needed to be those good old green-screen monitors,  I had a great time figuring out what 'water valve guard' compared to 'east buttocks patrol' meant.

[Bohandas]

At least the first three were kind of plausible in-world. The super resilient tribals don't make sense any way you look at it; there was a similar problem with the Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3. And you left out the most overpowered enemy of all, the security holograms from Dead Money, which couldn't be attacked at all.

You're supposed to destroy their emitters, dude.

Yeah, but until you find the emitters they can't even be stunned or slowed down

[Krevsin]

Eeeh, Holograms were the only enemy I truly despised in Dead Money because it felt like I was being strung along and forced to do things in one or two ways because if I didn't the holobutts would zap me.

The EndGame section of Dead-Money was the worst, though, with those holograms there, it took me half an hour and countless quickloads before I cheesed the entire section by finding the annoyingly hidden hologram projectors (That required a straight up 100 repair, by the way, good thing I was horrendously overleveled for that DLC or I would have been screwed!) instead of the 'actual' way which involved this bullshit step by step plan that required very specific actions, and because the computers needed to be those good old green-screen monitors,  I had a great time figuring out what 'water valve guard' compared to 'east buttocks patrol' meant.

I just ran past them.
Worked like a charm.