There is an STR requirement for most weapons, also it affects Unarmed damage.
I am about finished with this game. All the bugs, freezes, and gimped combat just kill the replay value for me. I’m pretty sure Unarmed is the best now outside of situations where you can snipe at a distance. Explosives don’t really work as well as I had hoped, especially since you need to reload for so long and usually between each shot.
I only have the Legion quests left, but I’m lost in Vault 34. Vault 34 is really lame because iirc you need to find a tiny keycard somewhere in there to advance forward, but the entire time you are being bombarded with radiation. I know I’ve completed it at least once before, I believe you get the Pulse gun at the end. That’s par for the course with this game though, lots and lots of, at least to me, annoying things that aren’t difficult but just aren’t fun. If it’s fun for you don’t let me dissuade you from playing it, it’s just my opinion on this.
I have to go check how to get through this now. Actually for all I know maybe it bugged up and that’s why I can’t get through, that wouldn’t surprise me as that is common as well. I’m waiting for my char to die of radiation now as I type this, I’m sick of looking for the stupid keycard. You need the keycard because they won’t let you pick the lock.
What’s worse is the NCR Rangers are after me. The first time, I told them we should finish it right there, but they threatened me with death while fleeing.
The second time I didn’t wait and just killed them all. This was pretty tough because the computer gets to cripple headshot you all the time now and do lots of damage, while your ranged weapons generally don’t do much. I lost most of my food in this fight. Wasteland Omelettes ftw. With explosives, I cripple myself even if I attack them all the way across the room. If I get much further of course I can’t really hit them because it’s so far. But somehow I get crippled and they are barely damaged with 100 Explosives skill. Brilliant game design.
Oh look the game just froze again before I could finish my post. This has been happening frequently lately.
Anyway now when I exit, while riddled with radiation, they will attack me for the third time. Somehow they resurrected themselves. That is stupid. I gave them the slip before by jumping off of a cliff, but somehow they have GSP and can follow me deep inside, while being immune to radiation of course themselves.
I wanted to like this game, I really did. But once I clear these last couple of achievements and get the Legion ending I might destroy the disk. It’s still playable on PC because people have fixed a lot of the problems with mods, but if you are thinking of getting this on Xbox or even worse PS3 (they’re even worse on bugs for PS3 for some reason), do yourself a favor and don’t. Go get Fable 3 instead.