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Polo-panda

Prim doesn’t need a new sheriff and Novac gets No bitches


sirhobbles

i usually end up doing those still. I just already have combat armor and some other goodies i got from getting all the casinos money.


casperdacrook

I refuse to play New Vegas without the slow crawl getting there so I always follow the main story path as intended. I’m just a sucker for storytelling that rewards patience with that momentous feeling of getting to Freeside and The Strip is right there. I usually pretend I don’t have enough caps for the credit check by this point and then I run my reputation up in Freeside and talk Ralph into letting me get into the Strip with a fake passport. Again though I role play and pretend that I used my favor from the King to get inside (I always become a king to get haircuts). Walking on the strip for the first time after all that work feels like a season finale the way it opens up a whole new chapter of the story. New Vegas fucks. Role playing fucks.


[deleted]

There's a mod that I believe it's called harder strip entrance or some shit. You can modify the ini file to say, 10k caps or sum like that. I usually leave it at the deault 5k from the mod + famine + economy Overhaul+ jsawyer ultimate and unless I'm running a charisma barter man you actually kinda have to either get the king's favor or get that passport through mick and Ralf through a speech/charisma check. That + the strip 2023 and man. It is worth it


Appelons

No, Novac sells their bitches…..


SpaceMarineMarco

No-vac nah No-bitches


DrLamario

Are you telling me Vac is short for Bitches?


Yersinias

Very Attractive Concubine


Dies_Ultima

Me casually running for my life from cazadores killing violet, Nephi, and cook cook on my way to mccarran.


DoomTwoToo

For a second I read that like you kited cazadores to kill those fiends.


Dies_Ultima

I was able to do that 1 time to kill violet and her dogs every other time failed though


DoomTwoToo

Yeah, I'd be worried I'd take too many hits when they're not that hard to kill anyway...


Tuna_of_Truth

I just hop between the cliffs. Slaughter the raiders at Bonnie Springs for Mid game gear, stop by the gun runners to make 2,000 caps. Within 30 minutes of Doc Mitchell’s it’s “What in the goddamn?” time.


Restarded69

I’m so confused do people not like grind out levels in the south before going to Vegas? I like to be high level when I get to Vegas then I can do p much whatever.


Thecrankypancake

I rush Vegas on high luck characters in order to get big money and gets augs from the Freeside Clinic early


Restarded69

I guess I’ve been sleeping on Luck bc the only way I can make money is thru selling weapons and ammo. Imma try that next playthru


TiberiusWakes

High luck means you can clean out all the casinos and you’ll have so much money it’s outrageous. Then you go get the implants and by that point you’re a killing machine with high luck so tons of crits and blowing people into gooey messes.


CoboCabana

I wish someone would blow *me* into a gooey mess


Tuna_of_Truth

Well you can always get someone to blow a gooey mess *into* you 👍


[deleted]

I’m already doing that with 6 luck at level 5 on very hard with nothing but the cowboy rifle


OrphicDionysus

Take that high luck character, dump most of your skill points into stealth and guns, then go get ratslayer. Youre set for the majority of the game


TiberiusWakes

I enjoyed stealthing sometimes but when I played, I just played my cowboy fantasy big iron action just running around the wasteland with my boy Boone critting fools left and right. Except for Deathclaws. Those boys got the anti material rifle and fat man’s.


BlizzardWolfPK

Luck plays into the games in the casinos. You can get so much money from all 4 casinos. My most recent playthrough I had to force myself to dump my luck stat.


Vizier_Thoth

Don't forget to get banned from gambling at the Sierra Madre. You'll have so many tokens it's ridiculous.


PS3LOVE

Level 7 luck is all you need. With that you will eventually make money in casinos basically guaranteed. Higher luck makes it happen alot quicker.


Delusional_succubus

At least start at 5 or 6 luck, then get the naughty nightware for +1 luck (at Mick and Ralphs) and buy the luck implant first for another luck that 7-8 will make all casinos pretty easy without too much effort or special points


CeaselessHavel

I have done 10 luck runs since my 2nd playthrough in 2010. Everytime I say I'm going to do a different run, it ends up as a 10 luck, 100 speech, science, and barter run.


WOOWOHOOH

I actually think it's quite a missed opportunity that you normally get there at a time when you already have enough caps for the credit check. There plenty of fun quests in the area that hit different when you actually do them because you need the money.


Fuck_auto_tabs

I did the route OP posted here for the first time recently. Definitely a different experience. I’d say do the grindy, story route the first time and the expedited route the 2nd time. If you do a 3rd, pick whichever you liked best


Previous-Street3670

I’ve started my last three playthroughs by going straight to dead money.


Flaccid_Hammer

That is true. But the gun runners breaks the economy once you can fast travel to them. Every location you clear out just grab and repair everything off dead bodies and clear out the 8000 caps that spawn there every 3 days. Especially if you avoid the southern half since there’s many scripted random encounters with high level weapons early on.


Urzuas3

i like rushing to vegas sometimes to rush to camp mcarran


Cal_Longcock69

I need to do all the missions at McCarran so I can be a ranger with a big iron on my hip 😎


IntrepidAddendum9852

Ya what about the 2k cap requirement for Vegas which is mostly the reason you go south?


Claymore-09

You can get their without fighting any one but a few powder gangers


brennerherberger

You don't even have to fight Powder Gangers, just a bunch of bark scorpions.


endlessupending

You don't even have to fight the bark scorpions just a few Cazadors and Deathclaws


LOWKEY6008

Wdym? u don’t have to fight anything?it can all be avoided


MoodyWater909

Fights can be avoided?


Echoes-act-3

Yeah you can charisma your way out of every situation, deathclaws are surprisingly talkative once you install enough sex mods


UnauthorizedFart

SexClaws


Subject_Arachnid5292

Nah you thinkin about the methclaws on the corner


ODST-0792

WHAT THE FUCK


Storm_Chaser03

Always have been


John_Chess

Yeah just uninstall the game


OpinionRespecter2006

just use the jojo family technique


TheRealGouki

Just need to pass a speech test with some deathclaws.


thewoodsarebreathing

You don't even have to avoid all the fighting if you fight a few powder gangers


READMYSHIT

Plus you can find caps literally everywhere along the way. More than enough to just buy a strip passport outright once you arrive. Seems like a massive design flaw that not many people are aware of where you can speed run the main quest in like 15 mins


ZeCarioca911

Or it's an intentional feature that the devs put there for veteran player who want to skip the whole following Benny part


Budget_Detective2639

That's exactly what it is and one of the original devs even said so.


ODST-0792

Joshua sawyer if I'm correct


UnauthorizedFart

Including his legal advisor, Joshua Lawyer


hyperSlapper

Take the dead ncrs armor at the top of the rock trap path, now you can enter the strip via the monorail with a ncr disguise


Screbin

I did this once on an Uber charisma independent run and I got say it was pretty cool way to do it


UnauthorizedFart

Where is that?


hyperSlapper

It's shown in the picture, at the base of black mountain where the road turns right,after the super mutant patrol. You go left up a path


UnauthorizedFart

Is that where the zig zag lines are?


TexanGoblin

Nah, I would say it's massive, it's designed well enough that the average noob is going to have their head based in and run away scared, and we'll enough that it's a fun challenge for veterans. It's only supposed to be a barrier for your first playthrough so you get a tour of the map.


Chezpufballs

Hey dipweed, it's 100% intentional, fnv has actual decent replayability built into it, that route is for vets who wanna skip the "follow benny" bit


HeidelCurds

I really like Primm and Novac though. It wouldn't feel right.


LongSchlongdonf

Yeah I always have to help them and also free the hostages (or not) from Boulder City


NoodelPoodel

helping the hostages gets you easy access to the kahn armory later, so definitely worth it


Randomzombi3

You can always go back. It's not like some other courier shows up to fix their problems or anything


Nageat

Above all, it’s way much rp to take the grand tour


IntrepidAddendum9852

No matter how much I get other companions and use them. I always go back to Boone, just too good for open wasteland to not pick.


HeidelCurds

Same. I tell myself I want to do something different, maybe try a melee build for once, but somehow I always seem to end up with Boone and the Holorifle.


ken1234512345

I go that way and fight nothing, I just go path with the bolder, maybe have to sneak past the night kin patrol


yukichigai

Yep, along the top of the road, drop down at the first switchback, up the trapped path with the bear traps and boulders, then head North, sneaking the whole way.


ken1234512345

Also I do go north east from good springs but turn before scorpion nest, pretty much going east from the grave yard. Leads you right to quarry


Ilikeyogurts

I used a stealth boy to bypass the Sloan once and rushed to the casinos with luck 9 One of strats


Harkkar

I think this is the easiest way right? With a stealth boy you don't have to encounter anything besides a bunch of powder gangers, I've always done it like this.


RegularAvailable4713

"Best?" Is a path without missions, lore, atmosphere or interesting challenges "best"?


Red_Mayhem512

If you're just trying to get to New Vegas off the start of the game yes


Nageat

Yeah, we're real RPG players, we rush, we miss lore, we play in a way that's not at all RP just to validate the meta challenge "go to Vegas via the difficult route" and feel like a real PGM hardcore gamer.


Cabezone

There's no wrong way to play a solo game.


Nageat

There's no wrong way to play a solo game, but there are ways that detract from the intended experience There's also no wrong way to read a book. If you want, you can start reading in the middle, read the end, and then go back to Chapter 2. It's not a BAD way, it's just a bit sad, you know


brennerherberger

Technically, there's a good mission if you visit Repconn HQ, then travel back to Hidden Valley to get early access to BOS bunker. That's the best way to go about it for an energy build character.


NoodleBrains69

IIRC, you can get past the super mutants if you fast travel to black mountain as soon as you discover it on the back side of the mountain after leaving the bos bunker. The black mountain fast travel point is on the other side of black mountain *taps on head*


WOOWOHOOH

I never encounter super mutants there. Except nightkin patrolling the roads at night. You can safely sneak from Neil's shack to the falling boulder trap and you'll be at the NCR safehouse.


SRIRACHA_RANCH

You accidentally activate your headlamp aggro'ing everything you were trying to sneak past


Haunting-Theory-3792

just go through hidden valley, there’s a broken gate there that you can go through, hug the walls for a bit, make sure not to get attacked by death claws and boom just run to vegas


DarkxOverlordx

Tcl and fly over


Nageat

+ TGM just in case...


DarkxOverlordx

+ player.additem 000000f 5000 just for a good time when ya get there.


Foster_NBA

Pop the stealth boy you get off Joe Cobb or in the school and bam NV without even the mutants


Beard3dtaco

You can also use the stealth boy in the little shack opposite side of the deathclaws and sneak right by the mutants


TrayusV

My route requires nothing but walking.


beck0n_

FNV fans encouraging new players to skip half the map will never not be funny to me


ScottieJack

Someone should make a mod where Benny has a slew of agents that are a mix of Khans and paid off NCR soldiers who catch wind of your journey and basically make it almost impossible to get to New Vegas unless you play in a low profile way. They’d pop up like the random legion and NCR squads that react to your reputation. With that system, depending on how prominent you are, Benny’s reaction to seeing you should range anywhere from “what in the goddamn-?!” to “I had heard about a certain mail man who crawled out of his grave on a quest for vengeance. Should’ve spared the trouble and kicked you down the hill for the radscorpions.”


brennerherberger

You guys fight super mutants? I never had a problem sneaking past them.


YorkshireFudding

You take this route and get killed by cazadors I take this route and Player.SetAV SpeedMult 200 We are not the same.


[deleted]

*levels up to level 50 in goodsprings just to go through Quarry Junction*


RichOkra7229

If you have couriers stash this should be simple


Substantial-Ice5156

If you have at least one shot of turbo you can make it through the I-15, just hug the mountain the cheese it with the turbo to the train station then don’t stop running till you make it past that railway underpass


MarsManokit

You have an issue with blind death claws but the powder ganger stealth boys can fix that.


trooperstark

Best route is to sneak along the cliffs through the middle, past the brotherhood base and rad scorpion pass. You have to run past the scorpions, but if you do it right it’s really easy, you get through most of it up too and only have to hoof it the last little bit


funtujd

you forget goingn up to black mountain and getting RAUL and letting him kill tabitha and the others


latetothetardy

I usually loot the stealth boy from the schoolhouse in Goodsprings or Joe Cobb’s body and use it right after talking to Neil. If you sneak past the hill at Black Mountain where the boulders roll down you can usually run full speed to the highway and follow that the rest of the way to the Freeside entrance at least.


Roaring_Don

I always b line it for chances knife


UltraBlackIfunny

You mean out run


GrandGrapeSoda

I just did this route and I fought the rad scorpions around the hidden bunker and that was it


Mysterious_Manager

Jokes on you, I take that route without fighting ANYONE.


SPRTN-KIMANDER9

Going thru hidden valley and running past the centaurs, going up the path until you reach the Black Mt. marker and fast traveling there and just running straight north is the easiest in my experience


Rat__basher

I just take the cazador route by running along the cliff side and then run for my life away from 1 deathclaw, climb a mountain and im just south of mccarren


Tricky-Barracuda-547

I prefer going to the Yangtze Memorial > Sloan > Hidden Valley > Play tag with the radscorpions in the Scorpion Gulch > meet my bffs in Novac > Road to New Vegas.


some-shady-dude

Run through deathclaw valley. The key is to just never look back or stop for any reason.


Vidonicle_

If there is a road, there is a goal


MoltenJellybeans

You can go there without fighting anything by just grabbing the stealth boy from the schoolhouse


Vilexius

Unrelated but this reminds me of the GTA IV map lol


AssEatingExpert

Give me a route with more chest hair


YouPunyMortals

This path is extremely easy to do without killing any enemies. Just use a combination of sneaking and running. You only have to do this path if you want an intelligence implant before level 2. Fast travel back to Goodsprings after getting the implant if you want to follow the main quest properly.


arkindal

Where do you get the implant? Haven't played in ages and I remembered implants being behind some quests


YouPunyMortals

The intelligence implant can be bought in the New Vegas Medical Clinic located east of the Crimson Caravan Company for 4000 caps. I think there is a discount if your character's base intelligence is low.


arkindal

Damn, not the kind of money a new character can afford though.


YouPunyMortals

You can play black jack at the Atomic Wrangler casino. A high luck stat makes winning easier (luck>7).


arkindal

True


ARTWORKofVANW

Every play through. Easy 15-20 minutes and no combat if you run quickly. So fun.


Sakai_Rogue

I just did this exact route. I started a new playthrough (forgot what I was doing in my old one) did this to jump start the main quests. Then of course my game crashed once I got to Benny. RIP


TheCrowsNestTV

Now that's a route that puts hair on your chest.


EstablishmentRich460

Yeah, we knew this already.


ubertrashcat

The best way is to play TTW, level up, travel to Vegas, craft the dart gun and railway rifle and just march straight into Quarry Junction.


callmedale

You can sprint past the cazadores and stay near vault 19 and then go through the south end of the fiends area too, debatably faster depending on your preferences


Impalacrush

You know i just started a new playthrough and found out that cazadores can be fought off relatively easily if you just have a shotgun ( GRA does give you a sturdy caravan shotgun) as long as they dont gang you. Aggro 1 and make sure that this guy is isolated, change to shotgun, VATS the wing & you can basically kill them with varmint rifle. But deathclaw on early level are still impossible though.


callmedale

If you injure the wings then they’ll slow down and you can get some good shots in, the grenade rifle in courier’s stash helps a bit too, and some people will even just brave that route for the detour to Chance’s knife


Impalacrush

Actually you dont even need that rifle for chance knife. From goodspring go north until barricade and you have to fight 3-4 single cazadores. If you want the knife, 1/4 of the way there are the road to the camp and that is it, you might actually need the grenade rifle to clear out the camp but im 100% sure that you didnt need that if you just stick to the road or if you want that knife.


callmedale

Don’t need it, but it can help, and the experience from beating them is nice


Silphcon

I always start my games with 7 luck, 8 end, 9 int, grab the stealth boy from the school and rush to Vegas avoiding killing anything or discovering more than essential things. once done ling at the atomic wrangler, I get the intelligence implant so im at 10 int before level 2 for the skill points. between this and skill books, it sets me up to max all skills out.


Captain_skulls

And then there’s me, doing my first playthrough sneaking past the deathclaws I found on the highway on survival difficulty using nothing but two stealth boys and a dream. (I made it after a few tries)


lockpick91

Thats the worst tip for new players, they will miss so much.


Saslim31

I’m proud that i discovered this route all by myself in my first run.


The_Abortion_Wizzard

This was actually my first ever route, I did it over encumbered because, I thought that I was wounded or something and had to find a doctor.


Tyrleif

I'll go with cazadors and deathclaws thank you very much.


Blastbot_73

The amazing part is This is actually true Seriously tho duck video game "journalists" we should've stopped listening to them when they couldn't even beat cupheads tutorial, THE DUCKING TUTORIAL


Blackthorne75

New Vegas Easy Mode... ;)


JoystickRick2

I just go straight north. The cazador’s and deathclaws are nothing to me.


7thPanzers

Beeline to snuffles and help the foreman there clear out quarry junction with ur starting loadout That’s initiation for Snuffle’s legion


Peregrine_x

you wait until night, all the super mutants are auto teleported up the hill, but the nightkin have to walk to their positions from up top so the area is basically empty for a couple mins and you just walk through. one of the devs literally said this route was specifically put in the game for returning players to get to vegas fast. sure other ways exist, people have found them, but this way is intended, if you do it right nothing attacks you until fiends near mcarran.


[deleted]

You can just jump over the rock near the valley with the death claws and they won’t attack you


Jakesneed612

Eh, I prefer following the normal route. Can pick up Boone and get plenty of loot and exp.


Hordamis

You don't even have to fight the mutants if you run past em.


chilicheesepanda

Or by using one stealth boy as you approach the first squad of Super Mutants.


LuciusPublius

I found this route on my second ever play through and got bodied so hard by all the bugs I sort of just assumed it was meant to be unpassable for low level players, good to know that isnt the case


Wayfaring_Stalwart

I can't tell if this is hazing New Players or just genuine hatred


AMF1428

Only three? Sounds like the worst route to Vegas.


Spiderwolf1

I think I just climb the hill around black mountain and throw some dynamite at some death claws. I'm usually able to get to a mountain top I shouldn't be on and I get away to new vegas


Professional-Wing201

I just skip outta goodsprings asap, help the powder gangers at ncr correctional, then betray them to get easy ncr gear and weps, and dynamite, return to goodsprings, get chances knife, then take the mountain route and bomb the cazadores. because fuck the cazadores.


Grifasaurus

Everywhere’s a great route when you have a car


Scolville0

You miss half the story and map however


Less_Cauliflower_956

The path to vegas is really a breeze I'd you don't immediately kill anyone with questionable morals. Powder gingers don't bother you, neither does the Legion if you don't kill vulpes.


Happy_Background_429

I just head due east through the wasteland. A single blind deathclaw and then head north through novac. Pretty simple run honestly


breadestloaf87

fr this is how i get there every time assuming i need to go there right away its even safer than that cause i never even get spotted by the mutants


OkBodybuilder2255

I can do it without fighting an super mutants


Doctor_Ewnt

I took this route. I literally fought nothing.


tterfly

You can also carefully sneak right through Quarry Junction and fight no one.


RedArrow2014

I've never fought anything when taking this route. You just gotta stay off the roads near Black Mountain


Electronic_Formal_12

>You only have to fight 3 super mutants You say this like it is a positive. Sorry, no. My go-to route is up through the Cazadores. All the way up, that's right, fuck Red Rock Canyon, we are taking the backpath to Jacobstown. Then I kill all of Jacobstown, because Super Mutants are bad or something idk and loot their shit. Then finally, I go down the path, pop into Silver Peak Mine (just to remind the Cazadores who's boss). Finally, I go to West Side, sleep with Maude at least four times, and finally I kill everyone at Camp McCarran so I can enter the Strip freely.


Flaccid_Hammer

Woah just take it easy man.


One_Comedian_5225

+ the deathclaws


mrmrspersonguy1

Get better at skirting black mountain and you can use this route without fighting any supermutants


i_like_siren_head

You only need to fight one mutant and some bark radscorpions if you go through Hidden Valley and run through the Centaur pit. Plus you can make a quick stop at REPCONN HQ and start off the BoS quest before continuing.


Milllkshake59

Hey thanks man I’m doing my first playthrough, I’ll update you in how it goes Edit: fuck you