Few short questions:

1) Do explosives still not do crit damage after the latest patch?

2) Does a critical hit have any effect what so ever when using explosives? I specifically thinking of knock down effects.

3) If you're an explosives based character does having 1 luck affect your effectiveness w/ explosives what so ever?

Thanks in advance and sorry if these questions have been answered in another thread.

1) Nope doesn't look like it.
2) Nope; there's a null reference where there could be something.
3) Ironically, if you're going with just Explosives, it's best to have your luck at 1 due to the answers above. Well that and you'll probably need the SPECIAL points to help ya compensate for how heavy explosive weapons are and/or ammo if you're playing hardcoe mode along with more health in the event you blast yourself to bits every once in a while.

that's what I thought, just wanted to confirm before I started a new character.

after all these discussions I just don't understand the lack of critical hits w/ explosive weapons. The mystery continues.

I have knocked over people with an explosion before, but it wasnt a crit.

Haven't experienced this myself in terms of explosions I made.

Explosive traps / objects however....

I remember distinctly when i murdered Jeanie May with a grenade launcher.

Huh... http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/celica62/New%20Vegas/KnockDown.png

I must totally be unlucky then as

Thanks for that info skyline.

Anyone know what influences knockdowns?

I was using the grenade rifle.

Well the grenade rifle does use 40mm's.

The knock down function is on the explosion that is connected to the ammunition rather than the weapon itself.

Yeah, i just said that because you didnt include 40's

Didn't say it because it was in the picture I took.

Course, the issue with some forums is that linked text doesn't go all fancy colour so sometimes, you can never tell.

Edit: Probably should of put "also" in that spoiler. I'll do that now.

:facepalm: I really need to get that Perception implant.