In this video we will be walking through how to get the basic Riot Gear from Lonesome Road at the start of the game :) Enjoy! Discord: / discord Twitch: / xxfrobro45xx Twitter: / frobro45 Patreon: / frobro45 #Fallout
Bro, I beat this fucking DLC at lvl 2 with not many things, it was my first real mission right after helping out Ringo with the powder gang for no reason at all, so then I accidentally rushed to the silo, and I started at lvl 2 finished it at lvl 18
"barter is a trash star" Nods head in agreement *Instantly remembers having 100 Barter and having 200,000 caps from selling Armor, water, energy weapons, alcohol and MF cells*
Yeah, but what do you but with all those caps? Why do you need but don't already have? I mean, I get it, I'm the same way. I just don't understand WHY.
@@cymond don't worry trust me I'm in the same boat with you once you get all the upgrades for all the weapons and all the ammo you kind of need you kind of don't need money anymore once you're able to get the upgrades for the weapons you want for the certain build you're doing whether that be Cowboy only energy weapons only it doesn't matter once you get enough money to basically get good armor and ammunition and stem packs you kind of don't need it anymore
@Race Burum I got it lol I didn’t know they were mods or dlc that were only for pc player , Bc i was playing on my ps4, but I got on my gaming laptop & then I bought fallout New Vegas ultimate that comes with every mod or dlc pack, whatever it is , in the game so now I own every game pack and have everything unlocked for fallout
Courier: *enters the Divide* Ulysses: Great you have come. *begins to mumble about the Bear and the Bull for 3 hours* Courier: Takes Riot Gear and leaves Ulysses: 👁,/||\,👁
Never knew you could leave Lonesome Road. Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Dead Money all trap you in the DLC. Didn't think Lonesome Road would be different. Learn something new every day
It literally tells you that the first time you activate the door to travel to Lonesome Road. "If the journey proves too difficult, or you need to resupply, you can retrace your steps and return to the Mojave at any time."
well it does lock you in at the start, but once you fire the nuke in the start it reopens. I like to RP that my guy was curious to check it out. But every time he would run into a road block, he would turn around and come back later. Even in fallout 3, Mothership Zeta, operation Anchorage, The Pitt all had you stuck there. But Broken steel and point look out allowed you to leave whenever you wanted, granted broken steel is less of a dlc and more of a additional content for places we already had. But the new locations were ok, was stupid that you couldn't be aggro against the new brother hood even if you were an enemy of the brother hood in the capital wasteland, so there's no way to chose to help the Enclave except after you defeat them. But I think fallout 4 dlc is all different, you can come and go as you like, and some of it isn't even outside the common wealth. So long shot calling it dlc, just fleshed out content
"Nobody takes barter because there's so much money in New Vegas" But if I have anything to say about it, everyone is gonna give me just a little bit more. 🤑
but ending the game with 500,000 caps and having all the good weapons makes that meaningless. If caps are just used for buying and repairing. Then I don't even need to pay a repair person at al. You will never be the richest person, that will always be house. Kill him and you won't get any of his money. It wouldn't be hard to believe that house has many places like fortification hill or the el dorado power plant. But not as important to him taking over. specially if places like the Sierra Madre had a full room full of loot and goods. What else does
I did this in my current playthrough. And also literally used barter as a dump stat as well. Kept me alive against some Giant Radscorpion's early on. Now Boone has it. And he looks great in it.
Fun fact - if you go left instead of right immediately after walking the Road, you can go up and grab a free duffle bag without having to fight anything.
I don't get the statement fun fact, its never fun, but it is a fact. In fall out, if you go one way and it keeps going, go back and try the other way first. It usually just a supply cache or something.
1:27-1:35 - In the game, Primm looks and feels like a town, but in real life, Primm is actually quite a big city. Since the developers obviously had to scale down every location, Primm is a city, canonically speaking.
Even if any of that are true, which is isn't, this isn't the real world anyway. It's an alternate reality that diverged in the 50s. So what you invent in your brain is even more wrong
* cries in survival mode * It also opens up a lot of dialogue options though. Many of which usually appear right alongside speech choices so it works as a great alternative if you don’t want to break the game but still want a charismatic character.
@@DIEGhostfish Yea I forgot about that haha I mostly remember how it felt like a balanced version of speech. I love that perk though it's a much more interesting method of increasing carry weight than a encumbrance limit increase. Led to a lot of interesting decisions as someone whose played creation engine games their whole life.
I remember finding the entrance to Lonesome Road/the Divide early in my first playthrough when the game first came out. It was mystical and enigmatic, especially since the location never came up in the base game.
I first played new Vegas on 360 with the 2011 game of the year edition which didn’t have any of the DLCs and was bugged beyond all hell, still was a favorite to play hours on end and once I bought it on PC and got the DLCs it was like I finally felt complete in my journey and lonesome road has to be one of my favorites of the DLCs after playing it and getting all the new content from it
The location actually is mentioned once or twice by ingame NPCs, especially John Nash, the old guy in Primm. He complains that Ulysses flaked on his contract to carry the chip, and that he hopes those Divide sandstorms tear him apart.
@@haydeen6535 Reverse pick pocket rules should apply. Take his ammo and travel far away for a day or two. On return he should have his combat knife equiped. You could also try; you can hit him with a punch to get him angry, then when he draws his weapon shoot his arm with a weak weapon to disarm him but not kill him. Then holster your weapon and he'll become friendly again leaving you to pick up the gun and avoid a fight to the death. Just make sure you don’t have any followers because they will kill them if you do it this way.
I usually enter Lonesome Road at level 8 or so, when I have Lockpicking at 100. I arrive loaded up with all the gear I've found till then. I get ED-E to repair everything and sell it at the terminal. I don't buy anything except 40mm grenades. I take in the Grenade Rifle you get at game start, the grenades make short work of the sentry bots. I repair and sell everything I find in the first area, then head on out into Hopeville beyond, where grenades own everything as well. You can get a Tri-Beam Laser Rifle from the first couple of guys there, and sometimes a Hunting Revolver or Carbine as well. Then into a building where a guy drops a unique sword, either Shishkebob or Blade of the West usually. I pick a Hard lock in that building to get the Armory codes, then go into the Armory to get a Riot Shotgun, two sets of Riot gear, tons of rockets, etc. Then up over a truck to get into the next area, where the lone bad guy has a Red Glare with another on the ground in the second floor of his building. Pick up the Laser Detonator, explode the nuke to be able to get back out, repair and sell everything again, then go back to Mojave. It means that at level 10 or so, I have enough caps to buy all the implants at the Clinic. I also have two sets of Riot gear, the Riot Shotgun, a Red Glare, a Tri-Beam Laser rifle and a Plasma Defender. Oh, and ED-E is upgraded to repair my weapons and give me energy ammo every 13 hours as well. Once I'm back in Mojave, I do a quick and safe run to Sniper Nest and pick the Very Hard lock to get the Goby sniper rifle. Riot Gear, Goby and Riot Shotgun (with the Shotgun Surgeon and the And Stay Back perks) is basically my go-to gear for the rest of the game.
@@frankswimsdead money is good if u watch guide u can get every thing and all holo taps and free seri madre and It will help u ez to get stimpak and everything u need
The only difficult part right after getting rid of the Sentry Bots might be hauling all that loot back to the Mojave when your movement speed is slowed down to walking, but other than that it's actually pretty cool for a quick start if you can't be bothered to go through the usual difficulty curve. Great video!
I've gone through that early part of Lonesome Road a few times. You can take out a single sentry bot with the arc welder (bonus damage to robots) at level 1 and then loot most of the place. Turning on the switch that brings in more enemies/unlocks the door outside presents a much more serious challenge.
It blows my mind that this isn't a better known strat. It's so simple, and while it's clearly not risk-free, it's a pretty low risk for a pretty high reward at that stage of the game.
I think it takes a lot of the challenge out of the early game, where you're wearing whatever armor you can find and you're trying to get buy with subpar weaponry. I can only imagine leaving The Lonesome Road at lvl 2 and riot gear, I imagine you laugh away at most early game enemies firing weapons at you
Fun fact use the arc welder to kill the sencery bot, even at level 1 with the arc welder you can kill it and it drops missles and rockets that sell for a lot and you can use the repair kits that come with couriors stash to repair the arc welders for extra money so you don't have to sell as much, as a collector I keep all the named couriors stash stuff in every play thru
I did this years ago in my 2nd playthrough of this wonderful game. I really did it for the way the riot gear looks because I love the trench coat. You made this look so easy, I had a hard time when I did it but it was totally worth it and IMO the only armor that looks better than this is Randall Clark's Desert Ranger Combat Armor but that is buried pretty deep in Honest Hearts so it's way easier to get this armor early on first. Thank you for this streamlined way of obtaining this armor early on as I am thinking of another overdue playthrough of this amazing game on my GTX 760 rig I miss playing on.
Love it, reminds me of speed running Fallout 3’s Anchorage DLC to get that winterized power armor right away. Now only if the Riot Gear lasted longer as it probably breaks a few hours in and you won’t have anything to fix it for a while 😂
I always rush lonesome road for the duffel bags and free gear you can find before the first enemies. There is even loot outside the bunker before you enter it
After this, immediately head to the BoS bunker to get to the Sierra Madre. By the time you finish dead money, you'll have riot gear and be literally made of caps before we even finish Goodsprings. 😃
Every single play through I hit the divide first to equip my character and get ED-E up and running. The riot helmet is worn across the board in every play through and it gets updated with the advanced version later on
Any new play through of NV I do, I always hits up lonesome road! You can get some decent weapons that normally would take you awhile to find in the Mojave
usually...? fallout 2 has a Enterprise shuttle crash, goes back in time to break the water chip in the first fallout. A water chip is all they need for clean water? It's literally a computer chip, not a philter or set of philters. Though I can see how a FEV can be real, I don't see it working on non humans. So Wannamingo are a bit out there. Most stuff doesn't make sense and isn't really plausible. The only thing that seems majorly possible is the war with communism. And though I believe the transistor is responsible for most things we have today. It's hard to believe the japanese didn't create it still and no one else did. They can make plasma rifles and power armor, but they can't make a transistor. Make Rockets to the moon but can't come up with something so simple as a transistor?
I'm glad I found this because I just encountered the faction reputation reset glitch whenever I try to wear the standard NCR Ranger outfit. But this gear doesn't count as faction armor, so now I can wear something akin to the Ranger outfit like I wanted to, while still keeping my different reputations as they should be.
I once played New Vegas and started Lonesome Road immediately. I went in as a level 1 dweeb and came out as a level 17 killing machine. It was good fun, very hard at first, but Lonesome Road supplies you with so much high-level gear that it got fairly easy near the end. The rest of my play through was stupidly easy.
I played the vanilla for hours before getting ultimate edition with the dlcs so on my first playthrough of ultimate I went lonesome Road straightway cos its right by good springs (and I knew its the only one you aren't stuck in). Literally came back out, did the normal path through primm, nipton and novac and I felt like a god one shotting the early enemies. Obliterated vulpes and the legion in nipton with red glare who are usually a big challenge if you try and take them at that point in the game
One of my favorite starts is 8 luck/gamblers hat/hit the casinos and then go decimate a ranger camp for the cool ranger “casual” outfits. Then off to the clinic to become a cyborg. Finally, retirement picking off Legion ants with the Gobi campaign rifle.
Nice! Definitely gonna do something like this next play through. Maybe not level 1 off of the rip but that armor does look amazing. I totally forgot that you could leave the divid whenever you wanted. Guess I thought it was similar to the Zion DLC in that regard.
Lmao I just downloaded NV like two weeks ago, bought all the dlcs just for pure nostalgic memories. I forgot how I got Ranger armor many many years ago when this game came out.. so thanks man! I’ll wear the armor with pride! Thinking about the Long 15 thing too to get the badass power armor.
regarding your question about the video length: definitely do longer vids as you feel the necessity. this one is a good example :) looking forward to more of these. now let me check if i am actually subscribed
Barter is a perfectly fine stat. Especially with all dlc installed, buying all the unique weapons costs an insane amount of caps. Even if you get all the gold bars out of the sierra madre it's not enough to buy all the weapons without barter.
When I play fallout new Vegas I put points into barter as early as possible as one of the ways that I make money is to fix weapons and sell them at full condition so the higher your barter skill the more money you make from the fixed weapons and you also get things a lot cheaper as well it's worth getting barter up to 75 as soon as you can along with science and repair which I consider to be the three most important skills
Doing a randomizer run and killed a power ganger at the start who was wearing the elite riot armor. Life felt perfect, especially after Malcolm Holmes talked to me while wearing the sierra scorched power armor. Just need the training now
I almost always tag and put points into barter coz there's a decent number of dialogue checks, often as an alternative to speech if needed, and bring rich is fun lol
Just saying, you can cut through the ncr camp and up the hill to the playground by sticking to the cliff on the right side. Just saves a few extra minutes, but it's a nice shortcut
Always up my Barter to 70 for the Pack Rat perk, then again I guess most people only play on Hardcore mode for the achievement so Barter ends up as a dump stat for them.
The only reason I want barter is for pack rat since I’m a hoarder!! It dramatically drops the weight difference. I remember before getting it I was always around 120/130 in weight. After it dropped me below 80 lbs. definitely worth it. I spend so much time going to and from vendors/warehouse to sell/store. After so many hours in the game it’s vital, depending on your play-style
ok that isn't bad idea, I hate fallout nv for its freezing. So I feel if I see an item, to help keep it from crashing. I pick it up and drop it off in the casino. So that way the game doesn't have to remember every location and where what items are. They are all in my base, though it sure takes forever to do one single mission
You can use the nail gun to kill things here at level 1 and make it to the other side. Get password to armory on the other side and get a free one. You just need to buy some nails in the commissary
If you go down into the armory in Hopeville you will find two sets of riot gear in the lockers, or at least I did at lvl 40, but this is another way to get it faster
Barter is great till 70, then useless. Packrat is God-tier on Hardcore and can easily grant more carry weight than Strong back. Ammo weight is no joke, also grabbing the spiked nuckles from Prim helps big time with low level Lonesome road. Was fun seeing someone doing the goofball shit I do in FONV
Thank you for this. I knew it was there, but it never occurred to me to actually go get it; just slipped my mind. I love the barter skill; it keeps me from having to scrounge and loot and waste my time gambling. most people play NV to min/max; but considering that on the hardest level, it's a breeze; why bother.
With all the DLC and the skill books you can get all skills to 100. So on my playthroughs I usually have barter 100 but, same goes for all other skills by the time I hit level 50.
*Ulysses overlooking
"Did he just get the Riot Gear & leave?"
Lol
Yep. He left, sir. With the riot gear. 😐
Bro, I beat this fucking DLC at lvl 2 with not many things, it was my first real mission right after helping out Ringo with the powder gang for no reason at all, so then I accidentally rushed to the silo, and I started at lvl 2 finished it at lvl 18
@@leox8279 how did you even beat the hordes of droids after you activate the silo
The funniest thing about going straight to Lonesome Road is that none of the DLC or Ulysses' holotapes will make sense.
"barter is a trash star"
Nods head in agreement
*Instantly remembers having 100 Barter and having 200,000 caps from selling Armor, water, energy weapons, alcohol and MF cells*
There is too much easy money in base FNV but barter is REALLY for the Pack Rat perk half weight on everything 2lbs and lighter.
Motherfucking cells
Yeah, but what do you but with all those caps? Why do you need but don't already have?
I mean, I get it, I'm the same way.
I just don't understand WHY.
@@cymond don't worry trust me I'm in the same boat with you once you get all the upgrades for all the weapons and all the ammo you kind of need you kind of don't need money anymore once you're able to get the upgrades for the weapons you want for the certain build you're doing whether that be Cowboy only energy weapons only it doesn't matter once you get enough money to basically get good armor and ammunition and stem packs you kind of don't need it anymore
@@cymond It's the call of the loot goblin. Some of us can't turn that instinct off.
This is genius. Level 1 and legit has iconic armor of NV.
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@@gaymansupreme You sir are a man of good taste. God bless.
Hey bro if you think this is cool I'll show you how to get the iconic Skyrim armor at level 1!
Bruh why can’t even open the door for divide, nothing pops up
@Race Burum I got it lol I didn’t know they were mods or dlc that were only for pc player , Bc i was playing on my ps4, but I got on my gaming laptop & then I bought fallout New Vegas ultimate that comes with every mod or dlc pack, whatever it is , in the game so now I own every game pack and have everything unlocked for fallout
Courier: *enters the Divide*
Ulysses: Great you have come. *begins to mumble about the Bear and the Bull for 3 hours*
Courier: Takes Riot Gear and leaves
Ulysses: 👁,/||\,👁
😂
only real Gs play lonesome road for the Riot Gear.
he tells you mutiple times to just leave and forget about the divide so this is lore accurate as well
I’m fuckin Hollering
Courier: kicks open door. Takes riot armor. Leaves.
12 years later and my TH-cam subscription box still looks like this game came out 2 days ago 😂
Never knew you could leave Lonesome Road. Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Dead Money all trap you in the DLC. Didn't think Lonesome Road would be different. Learn something new every day
There's graffiti everywhere that says "You can go home, Courier"
@@nickoliekeyov746 guess I missed that lol
It literally tells you that the first time you activate the door to travel to Lonesome Road. "If the journey proves too difficult, or you need to resupply, you can retrace your steps and return to the Mojave at any time."
@@nickoliekeyov746 "I dont have a home you mysterious wall"
well it does lock you in at the start, but once you fire the nuke in the start it reopens. I like to RP that my guy was curious to check it out. But every time he would run into a road block, he would turn around and come back later.
Even in fallout 3, Mothership Zeta, operation Anchorage, The Pitt all had you stuck there. But Broken steel and point look out allowed you to leave whenever you wanted, granted broken steel is less of a dlc and more of a additional content for places we already had. But the new locations were ok, was stupid that you couldn't be aggro against the new brother hood even if you were an enemy of the brother hood in the capital wasteland, so there's no way to chose to help the Enclave except after you defeat them.
But I think fallout 4 dlc is all different, you can come and go as you like, and some of it isn't even outside the common wealth. So long shot calling it dlc, just fleshed out content
"Nobody takes barter because there's so much money in New Vegas"
But if I have anything to say about it, everyone is gonna give me just a little bit more. 🤑
but ending the game with 500,000 caps and having all the good weapons makes that meaningless. If caps are just used for buying and repairing. Then I don't even need to pay a repair person at al. You will never be the richest person, that will always be house. Kill him and you won't get any of his money. It wouldn't be hard to believe that house has many places like fortification hill or the el dorado power plant. But not as important to him taking over.
specially if places like the Sierra Madre had a full room full of loot and goods. What else does
@@ravinraven6913yep
Just from the looted gears alone you could make tons of cap, without heavy investments in Barter or Repair
I did this in my current playthrough. And also literally used barter as a dump stat as well. Kept me alive against some Giant Radscorpion's early on. Now Boone has it. And he looks great in it.
Fun fact - if you go left instead of right immediately after walking the Road, you can go up and grab a free duffle bag without having to fight anything.
I don't get the statement fun fact, its never fun, but it is a fact. In fall out, if you go one way and it keeps going, go back and try the other way first. It usually just a supply cache or something.
Buzzkil, 😢
I stash my loot there when I don’t feel like leaving the road to dump the rest of it.
There's a second one at the top of the fallen transmitter tower you have to duck under just before you enter the silo.
1:27-1:35 - In the game, Primm looks and feels like a town, but in real life, Primm is actually quite a big city. Since the developers obviously had to scale down every location, Primm is a city, canonically speaking.
In real life, it isn't a city at all. It's an unincorporated place with two casinos and a mall.
“Canon”
It's the Bordentown between cali and Nevada I live an hour away. It's not a city lol it's a hotel lobby with tourists and a Rollercoaster or two.
Even if any of that are true, which is isn't, this isn't the real world anyway.
It's an alternate reality that diverged in the 50s. So what you invent in your brain is even more wrong
Google search Primm and first thing that comes up is "Town in Nevada" lol
Barter is pretty useful for the Long Haul perk. You need 70 Barter to get it.
Exactly what I was going to mention, critical in my opinion during survival mode. ESPECIALLY if using energy weapons.
* cries in survival mode *
It also opens up a lot of dialogue options though. Many of which usually appear right alongside speech choices so it works as a great alternative if you don’t want to break the game but still want a charismatic character.
Pack rat to halve the weight of everything 2lbs or lighter. Very good in survival if you aren't using stewietweaks to disable ammo weight.
@@DIEGhostfish Yea I forgot about that haha I mostly remember how it felt like a balanced version of speech. I love that perk though it's a much more interesting method of increasing carry weight than a encumbrance limit increase. Led to a lot of interesting decisions as someone whose played creation engine games their whole life.
@@TheFloodFourm I like stacking both of course and AWOP storage devices.
I remember finding the entrance to Lonesome Road/the Divide early in my first playthrough when the game first came out. It was mystical and enigmatic, especially since the location never came up in the base game.
I had the same thought when I found the northern passage. I was like where the fuck does this go?
I first played new Vegas on 360 with the 2011 game of the year edition which didn’t have any of the DLCs and was bugged beyond all hell, still was a favorite to play hours on end and once I bought it on PC and got the DLCs it was like I finally felt complete in my journey and lonesome road has to be one of my favorites of the DLCs after playing it and getting all the new content from it
The location actually is mentioned once or twice by ingame NPCs, especially John Nash, the old guy in Primm. He complains that Ulysses flaked on his contract to carry the chip, and that he hopes those Divide sandstorms tear him apart.
I thought the location poped up on your pip boy automatically once you bought the DLC?
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606brooooo basically the same exact thing for me
I always put enough in to barter to get the mysterious magnum cause I don't want to be rude and kill the lonesome drifter
Good man.
Based.
I just pick his pockets
@@YAFFE-It didnt show up for me
@@haydeen6535 Reverse pick pocket rules should apply. Take his ammo and travel far away for a day or two. On return he should have his combat knife equiped. You could also try;
you can hit him with a punch to get him angry, then when he draws his weapon shoot his arm with a weak weapon to disarm him but not kill him. Then holster your weapon and he'll become friendly again leaving you to pick up the gun and avoid a fight to the death. Just make sure you don’t have any followers because they will kill them if you do it this way.
I usually enter Lonesome Road at level 8 or so, when I have Lockpicking at 100. I arrive loaded up with all the gear I've found till then. I get ED-E to repair everything and sell it at the terminal. I don't buy anything except 40mm grenades. I take in the Grenade Rifle you get at game start, the grenades make short work of the sentry bots. I repair and sell everything I find in the first area, then head on out into Hopeville beyond, where grenades own everything as well. You can get a Tri-Beam Laser Rifle from the first couple of guys there, and sometimes a Hunting Revolver or Carbine as well. Then into a building where a guy drops a unique sword, either Shishkebob or Blade of the West usually. I pick a Hard lock in that building to get the Armory codes, then go into the Armory to get a Riot Shotgun, two sets of Riot gear, tons of rockets, etc. Then up over a truck to get into the next area, where the lone bad guy has a Red Glare with another on the ground in the second floor of his building. Pick up the Laser Detonator, explode the nuke to be able to get back out, repair and sell everything again, then go back to Mojave.
It means that at level 10 or so, I have enough caps to buy all the implants at the Clinic. I also have two sets of Riot gear, the Riot Shotgun, a Red Glare, a Tri-Beam Laser rifle and a Plasma Defender. Oh, and ED-E is upgraded to repair my weapons and give me energy ammo every 13 hours as well. Once I'm back in Mojave, I do a quick and safe run to Sniper Nest and pick the Very Hard lock to get the Goby sniper rifle. Riot Gear, Goby and Riot Shotgun (with the Shotgun Surgeon and the And Stay Back perks) is basically my go-to gear for the rest of the game.
DLCs give you shortcuts, unless you're dead money.
Dead money was such a shit dlc
@@frankswims dead money is better than honest hearts and old world blues in my opinion
@@OneFatLizard nope, dead money is the worst one by far.
Old world blues is the best dlc
@@frankswimsdead money is good if u watch guide u can get every thing and all holo taps and free seri madre and It will help u ez to get stimpak and everything u need
This is an instant FroBro classic. Loving those longer videos man!
Love the longer ones that really go into detail, great video :D
I always pump Barter to 70 for the Pack Rat perk. Does wonders for a survival playthrough
A salesman weekly and a stealth boy that you can both get at the Goodsprings Schoolhouse would help out even more with this endeavor
The only difficult part right after getting rid of the Sentry Bots might be hauling all that loot back to the Mojave when your movement speed is slowed down to walking, but other than that it's actually pretty cool for a quick start if you can't be bothered to go through the usual difficulty curve. Great video!
I've gone through that early part of Lonesome Road a few times. You can take out a single sentry bot with the arc welder (bonus damage to robots) at level 1 and then loot most of the place. Turning on the switch that brings in more enemies/unlocks the door outside presents a much more serious challenge.
Yeah these longer videos are really cool, it reminds me there's always something to do in New Vegas
It blows my mind that this isn't a better known strat. It's so simple, and while it's clearly not risk-free, it's a pretty low risk for a pretty high reward at that stage of the game.
Everybody knows
I think it takes a lot of the challenge out of the early game, where you're wearing whatever armor you can find and you're trying to get buy with subpar weaponry. I can only imagine leaving The Lonesome Road at lvl 2 and riot gear, I imagine you laugh away at most early game enemies firing weapons at you
@@Gigean23373it definitely is if you play normal difficulty during the early game.
Fun fact use the arc welder to kill the sencery bot, even at level 1 with the arc welder you can kill it and it drops missles and rockets that sell for a lot and you can use the repair kits that come with couriors stash to repair the arc welders for extra money so you don't have to sell as much, as a collector I keep all the named couriors stash stuff in every play thru
Theres the cache of goods left after entering the Lonesome Road, dont remember how valuable it was but its there and unguarded.
Of all the years I have played this game, it has not once occurred to me that you could do this. Well done.
I did this years ago in my 2nd playthrough of this wonderful game. I really did it for the way the riot gear looks because I love the trench coat. You made this look so easy, I had a hard time when I did it but it was totally worth it and IMO the only armor that looks better than this is Randall Clark's Desert Ranger Combat Armor but that is buried pretty deep in Honest Hearts so it's way easier to get this armor early on first. Thank you for this streamlined way of obtaining this armor early on as I am thinking of another overdue playthrough of this amazing game on my GTX 760 rig I miss playing on.
Love it, reminds me of speed running Fallout 3’s Anchorage DLC to get that winterized power armor right away.
Now only if the Riot Gear lasted longer as it probably breaks a few hours in and you won’t have anything to fix it for a while 😂
This is a good point i can't remember what level jury rigging is
I had no idea you could just go there, grab that arm or and go BACK! That’s awesome!
I always rush lonesome road for the duffel bags and free gear you can find before the first enemies.
There is even loot outside the bunker before you enter it
Longer videos are even better, good stuff
After this, immediately head to the BoS bunker to get to the Sierra Madre. By the time you finish dead money, you'll have riot gear and be literally made of caps before we even finish Goodsprings. 😃
Sunny Smiles: reckon you didn’t come here to fight Sarsaparilla bottles- *Courier pulls out Red Glare and eviscerates the Saloon*
you can also loot stealth boys in Goodsprings and sneak past to Crow's Nest for upgraded riot gear
No way you get to Crow's Nest with 2 SBs at best.
@@Bodya_CN You may be able to find more on the way.
Not sure what is nicer; the AP meter at 13/37, or the 69 comments as I'm typing this. YOU DECIDE!
I usually play honest hearts around level 10 to get the Desert Combat armor but this is way better!
Every single play through I hit the divide first to equip my character and get ED-E up and running. The riot helmet is worn across the board in every play through and it gets updated with the advanced version later on
Any new play through of NV I do, I always hits up lonesome road! You can get some decent weapons that normally would take you awhile to find in the Mojave
The entrance to lonesome road looks different for me
“It’s easier without barter” *not realizing barter would give him more caps from selling shit or make the armor cheaper.*
This is why we love old Fallout. Because in old Fallout, whatever it is, it's usually possible.
usually...? fallout 2 has a Enterprise shuttle crash, goes back in time to break the water chip in the first fallout. A water chip is all they need for clean water? It's literally a computer chip, not a philter or set of philters. Though I can see how a FEV can be real, I don't see it working on non humans. So Wannamingo are a bit out there.
Most stuff doesn't make sense and isn't really plausible. The only thing that seems majorly possible is the war with communism. And though I believe the transistor is responsible for most things we have today. It's hard to believe the japanese didn't create it still and no one else did. They can make plasma rifles and power armor, but they can't make a transistor. Make Rockets to the moon but can't come up with something so simple as a transistor?
saving this for a future playthrough, thank you
4:42 Turned gay like nothin' happened.
I'm glad I found this because I just encountered the faction reputation reset glitch whenever I try to wear the standard NCR Ranger outfit. But this gear doesn't count as faction armor, so now I can wear something akin to the Ranger outfit like I wanted to, while still keeping my different reputations as they should be.
My favorite NV trick. Having a mobile repair bot for your weapons are great.
I once played New Vegas and started Lonesome Road immediately. I went in as a level 1 dweeb and came out as a level 17 killing machine.
It was good fun, very hard at first, but Lonesome Road supplies you with so much high-level gear that it got fairly easy near the end.
The rest of my play through was stupidly easy.
I played the vanilla for hours before getting ultimate edition with the dlcs so on my first playthrough of ultimate I went lonesome Road straightway cos its right by good springs (and I knew its the only one you aren't stuck in). Literally came back out, did the normal path through primm, nipton and novac and I felt like a god one shotting the early enemies.
Obliterated vulpes and the legion in nipton with red glare who are usually a big challenge if you try and take them at that point in the game
Taking on LR right away gives you a boosted start. Very helpful for hardcore runs!
One of my favorite starts is 8 luck/gamblers hat/hit the casinos and then go decimate a ranger camp for the cool ranger “casual” outfits. Then off to the clinic to become a cyborg.
Finally, retirement picking off Legion ants with the Gobi campaign rifle.
I would die on the cross for ED-E
+ You can keep the Bowie knife which deals 30 dam with heavy handed, great for a melee run
Cool guide, very unique, another fabulous video
That's rad, I feel lucky because I was looking for this specific armor. Big thanks!
Nice! Definitely gonna do something like this next play through. Maybe not level 1 off of the rip but that armor does look amazing. I totally forgot that you could leave the divid whenever you wanted. Guess I thought it was similar to the Zion DLC in that regard.
- (Enter LR)
- Ulysses: "Ah Courier, me-me angy. Me rant."
- (Courier speedwalks past)
- Ulysses: "Eh? Whaa?!"
- (Grabs Riot gear)
- (Leaves and refuses to elaborate)
- Ulysses: "fine, I didn't want to rant anyway.. stupid Courier doesn't know.. dumb shooty-bang Courier.."
Lmao I just downloaded NV like two weeks ago, bought all the dlcs just for pure nostalgic memories. I forgot how I got Ranger armor many many years ago when this game came out.. so thanks man! I’ll wear the armor with pride! Thinking about the Long 15 thing too to get the badass power armor.
Putting a grenade in a rangers pocket is a good way to get the ranger armor.
I'll have to remember them for my next play through 😂
regarding your question about the video length: definitely do longer vids as you feel the necessity. this one is a good example :) looking forward to more of these. now let me check if i am actually subscribed
Thank you for the fresh start I’m new to new Vegas and it’s 2023 😅 so this helps!
Best game I’ve ever played. Best quick tips channel for that game 🙏
The iconic armor at level 1? What is this, a Bethesda game?
I talked Lanius out of fighting with 100 barter one playthrough. I had a lot of money that time.
I always thought that lonesome road had a rock slide so you couldn't leave until the DLC was completed
Huh, didn't realize I could do this so early, many thanks on the tip!
Bro a menace going into a level 25 dlc at lv 1 😂
Nice for my Prospector bulid, a decent armor for the most of the game while i sell everything i find
Barter is a perfectly fine stat. Especially with all dlc installed, buying all the unique weapons costs an insane amount of caps. Even if you get all the gold bars out of the sierra madre it's not enough to buy all the weapons without barter.
When I play fallout new Vegas I put points into barter as early as possible as one of the ways that I make money is to fix weapons and sell them at full condition so the higher your barter skill the more money you make from the fixed weapons and you also get things a lot cheaper as well it's worth getting barter up to 75 as soon as you can along with science and repair which I consider to be the three most important skills
I actually like the short informational videos!
FROBRO has added a new play through
I never ever ever ever like videos.
Today, that changed. 🎉
Doing a randomizer run and killed a power ganger at the start who was wearing the elite riot armor. Life felt perfect, especially after Malcolm Holmes talked to me while wearing the sierra scorched power armor. Just need the training now
Love this, essentially a speedrun from Courier 6 to THE MOTHERFUCKING MAILMAN
arrives in divide, scavenge one area, bought the riot gear, refuses to elaborate, leave
I almost always tag and put points into barter coz there's a decent number of dialogue checks, often as an alternative to speech if needed, and bring rich is fun lol
Just saying, you can cut through the ncr camp and up the hill to the playground by sticking to the cliff on the right side. Just saves a few extra minutes, but it's a nice shortcut
Always up my Barter to 70 for the Pack Rat perk, then again I guess most people only play on Hardcore mode for the achievement so Barter ends up as a dump stat for them.
If you have to min/max it’s pointless but it’s one of the most fun skills to level in the game.
Even with weightless ammo it is useful.
That was super duper, I really enjoyed this
I'll remember this when i start my next playthrough.
The only reason I want barter is for pack rat since I’m a hoarder!! It dramatically drops the weight difference. I remember before getting it I was always around 120/130 in weight. After it dropped me below 80 lbs. definitely worth it. I spend so much time going to and from vendors/warehouse to sell/store. After so many hours in the game it’s vital, depending on your play-style
ok that isn't bad idea, I hate fallout nv for its freezing. So I feel if I see an item, to help keep it from crashing. I pick it up and drop it off in the casino. So that way the game doesn't have to remember every location and where what items are. They are all in my base, though it sure takes forever to do one single mission
This is actually hilarious. Thanks for this info.
"Barter is a garbage stat", literally the stat that would make getting this armour way easier.
I literally do this every playthough just to get that arc welder on the shelf. Nearly a thousand caps just from that alone
I put points into barter because money talks, especially when you encounter Lanius.
Im lv 7 rn this will surely help me getting good armor n stuff
Not sure if anyone could use this info but you can use ED-E to kill the sentry bot which allows you to loot more of the area
Brilliant! I stupidly didn't buy the ultimate edition with all the dlc stuff. But I will do this for my 2nd profile run.
A fav of mine is to grab that.
You can use the nail gun to kill things here at level 1 and make it to the other side. Get password to armory on the other side and get a free one. You just need to buy some nails in the commissary
you can also find a dead body further in with the armor to, thought you do have to avoid or kill marked men to get it lol
If you go down into the armory in Hopeville you will find two sets of riot gear in the lockers, or at least I did at lvl 40, but this is another way to get it faster
My usual courier is a house toadie so I give him high barter it doesn't matter that you naturally pick up loads of caps I NEED THEM ALL
Just get to 10 mins frobro! Take the midroll it's fine ❤️
Bruh you just blazed past a desk and password I didn't even know existed
Confirmed Bachelor Pog
Im enjoying these longer videos
Barter is great till 70, then useless.
Packrat is God-tier on Hardcore and can easily grant more carry weight than Strong back.
Ammo weight is no joke, also grabbing the spiked nuckles from Prim helps big time with low level Lonesome road.
Was fun seeing someone doing the goofball shit I do in FONV
100 barter gets you a peaceful Kings/NCR/House result and a House/NCR alliance, long haul is a good perk too
Thank you for this. I knew it was there, but it never occurred to me to actually go get it; just slipped my mind. I love the barter skill; it keeps me from having to scrounge and loot and waste my time gambling. most people play NV to min/max; but considering that on the hardest level, it's a breeze; why bother.
With all the DLC and the skill books you can get all skills to 100. So on my playthroughs I usually have barter 100 but, same goes for all other skills by the time I hit level 50.
Like the longer vid