so my brother told me this was an great game i tried it but i kept trying to get to las vegas but i keep dying from "clawreapers"

i shoot and shoot with my 9mm pistol but it doesnt hurt it? do u have to hurt it with a potion or something? is there potions? i would ask my brother but hes at work now and im DYING to know, please help out!

THANKS!

come on im dying to know! please respond!

I just read your other thread and now this one.

They are Death Claws, and if you bothered to talk to the people of Goodsprings or read your quest tab you would know that your not supposed to head through quarry junction. And you aren't hurting them with your weak pistol because its damage is less than the DT of the Death Claws.

Go to your quest tab in your pipboy and jsut follow the main quest for a start.

yeah but thats a whole lots of trouble! i have to go all the way to the other side of the map why? when las vegas or new las vegas my bad, is right there! so is there a potion or not?

There are certain areas in this game that you shouldn't go to till you are a higher level, or you will keep getting slaughtered. The Deathclaws are a much higher level than you are. Also, weapons with a low DAM won't do much damage to something with a high Damage Threshold, or DT.

The game literally explains it to you.

There is a chemical you can take called Psycho, it increases your damage by 25%. But, even with that chemical you will still have a very hard time killing Deathclaws. If you take a chemical to often, you will become addicted to it, so be careful.

Read your quest log... You supposed to go around the long way for the main quest only, so you can pass through Primm and report on your delivery assignment from before you got ganked in the head. Also the main reason not to go directly north is becasue of the Death Claws and Quarry juntion. And west of there there are cazadores and the tribal villiage. It is set up to direct starting players to the south and east first.

oh so im SUPPOSED to go the long way!

Yes you are. New Vegas requires patience though, you can't just run halfway across the map and pull the trigger at everything. Pay attention to a weapons CND or condition, it effects its effectiveness. Also, a weapons DAM is important.

Your skills also effect how you play the game. Same with perks.

There are chems that can temporarily boost your damage resistance, damage and other things. These aren't potions. I'm assuming you came from the Elder Scrolls, one of the main differences in New Vegas is that enemies aren't scaled to your level. This means that you will find many enemies that can easily kill you such as Deathclaws and their stats won't change at all during the game. Killing a Deathclaw with a 9mm Pistol is very difficult even under the best circumstances.

Your weapon is barely doing any damage because of the Deathclaws Damage Threshold(DT). Deathclaws have a DT of 15 and a fully repaired 9mm Pistol has a damage of 16(under ideal circumstances). This means that only 1 point of damage is actually getting through the Deathclaws armour, it works exactly the same way with your own armour and every other living and robotic thing in the Mojave.

You can go out and do anything at the beginning of the game, but for a starting player I would recommend following the route the main quest suggests. I'd also recommend not playing this game like an FPS, its not designed for it. Enjoy the story, explore the wasteland, talk to people and make choices about your character. New Vegas and the Strip can wait, besides, the journey always beats the destination.

Unless you are good at navigating your way through scorpian gulch, or whatever its called. You can get to Novac pretty quickly, if you can run fast. Just have to go through Sloan, Hidden Valley, and you will hit Helios after the scorpian gulch. Just make sure to save in Hidden Valley incase you take a wrong turn afterwords.

Here is a good Fallout: New Vegas starters guide.

http://www.gamerzines.com/guides/fallout-new-vegas/fallout-vegas-beginners-guide-tips/

thanks u too have been alot of help!

The game isn't about "shoot shoot shoot, kill kill kill!" It's about following a storyline, the storylines requires you do it in a certain pace, which is a U-turn around the map.
Follow the games storyline and you'll get to Vegas.

Potions are called Stimpacks, Super Stimpacks, Healing Powder and Healing Poultice.
You can craft your own at camp fires if you have the requires Medicine and/or Survival skill.

yes, but which potion helps me kill the deathclaw? (i think its deathclaw)

Potions are chems in Fallout. The chems are not nearly as important as the weapon you use and the stats you have. Each weapon has different requirements, one for Strength and one for a skill. The 9mm Pistol you said you have has a Strength requirement of 2 and the recommended Guns skill you need is 0. You don't need to be proficient with Guns in order to use this weapon and while you could use it if you had a Strength of 1, your accuracy would suffer.

In the Weapon/Inventory section of your Pipboy you'll see the requirements and the damage/DPS done by the weapon you have highlighted. You'll need far more powerful weapons and higher stats to take on a Deathclaw. Luckily they are only found in a few places around the Mojave and they are all off the beaten path.

None.

Anti-Material Rifle.
Gauss Rifle.
Prototype Laser Rifle.
Multiplas Rifle.
Grenade Machine Gun.
Missile Launcher.
Punchy.
Ballistic Fist.
Oh Baby!
Brush Gun.
Hunting Rifle.
This Machine.

Those are weapons that can kill deathclaws.
You can theoretically kill a deathclaw with a 9mm pistol as 20% damage always goes through the DT.
But it's going to take at least 1000 rounds of ammo to do so.

So you simply cannot kill deathclaws at that level.
Leave them alone and go south.

First off, to countermand the dikes in here going 'questlog!' and 'YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO...', ignore them

It's STRONGLY recommended you do the 'U turn' because the pass north is filled with dangers such as Cazadore and Deathclaw, which by the time you reach Level 20 (Or even 10 if you get good enough) are basically dust bunnies. But for now, the best advice is to listen to all the dialogue when people talk to you, it contains useful tricks and tips on how to survive. In the words of Ulysses, 'Eyes upfront, keep your eyes on the road ahead'. New Vegas can be a little tough for newbies, but hey, we all start off a game as a newbie somewhere right?

Also, New Vegas isn't a shooter, it's an RPG, so what does that mean? You can build a character to your play style. Me? I mainly use a character that uses speech and barter than a gun. You however might prefer to let your 10mm Pistol do the talking. New Vegas is your game, play it your way.

Edit: Also, if you're using hardcoe mode, learn to scavenge animal parts like Gecko Meat, beef up your Survival skill, and learn to use campfires, those will become your best friend. If you like to use guns, so will learning to use reloading benches

Edit 2: Use http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_crafting and bookmark that website, there's a phrase around here 'The Wiki is your friend!'. Why? Because it is literally a free and highly detailed guidebook.

Okay thanks you guys

i read some journals and i found out that i put my stats in energy weapons yet i use guns! lol

this game is starting to get more fun

You can find some energy weapons if you want, when you get to Primm go through the entire Bison Hotel, I found a Laser RCW in one of the rooms there.

I'm playing a melee weapon and gun using Legion supporting tribal so I sold it for ammo and stimpacks.

Well, for me, when I play the game, I do this:

I slide the game (delicately) into the PS3.
I grab the controller and wait for the game to load.
As the game starts, I place the game in between my feet and play (using toes to push buttons) as I text my friends.
I make sure it's on Very Hard and hardcoe, and it's still too easy, but it's fun.

There, that's how I play.

i got to niptown this game is fun!

Glad to see you're enjoying the game OP! Remember, just use the Wiki when in doubt, or post here.

I wonder what faction you'll end up joining. You'll have to tell us.

House is the only way to go.

Well said.