Thank you sir i thought so but was not sure. The issue for me is now i can fight the batle of the dam at level 33 and 3/4 but that ends the game and so with the DLC having to be done before the game ends do i stop playing with this current character? Another thing is that as thorough as i have been in this play squeezing out every XP point i could i still have close to 20 locations the explorer perk has shown as not visited, which is alot of content that if done at this point will not yield any XP after a location or 2 pushes my character to 35. I am now truly stuck lol.

Asai

LVL 50 = pwn the hoover dam with the mighty 22LR

Is there a way that we can only get 5 Skill Points per level regardless of Intelligence after Level 35. That's the only way I can see this working without the system getting broken although even that's doubtful.

The hoover dam battle has always been anti-climatic in my opinion. At level 25-30 with normal combat armour, an assult rifle & the AMR, (both with AP ammo), I'd stride through it like a demi-god laying waste to anyone dumb enough to show themselves in my path. Now clearing out Ceasar's camp, that was hard and took some thought about how to do it. The deathclaw quarry took planning and skill to clean that out. Dead Money took planning and thought to finish it. There are alot of places in FONV that are alot harder then the Hoover Dam battle. It shouldn't be that way,... but it is. I'm guessing any of the 3 remaining DLCs will be conciderably harder then the Hoover Dam battle.

The game was ok before the first level cap, then is become a little broken when the first raising came, now, with level 50, you become a walking demigod, Jack Of Trades Master Of All,
There is no way to roleplay in that way

I am baffled by the basic messages in many of these posts.

People want to be gimped, but they don't want to take the responsibility of handling the gimping themselves. "Obsidian! I don't want to be strong, but I don't have the discipline to gimp myself! Please make me a weakling so you don't ruin the franchise!"

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme... oh, hey, you gave it to me! But, waaaaahhhh, it doesn't have ____!

Moar weapons! Moar armor! More options! Hey, you gave us moar... BUT... now the game's too easy! I know that I can CHOOSE to not use but since you put it there I deserve it even though it's OP! How can you expect me to not use it when you put it in?! I shouldn't have to be responsible for these decisions myself!

What do you mean you're raising the level cap??? OMG the world IS GOING TO END!!!! I know that I don't have to go earn those levels, but my specialized, gimped character still wants to go do everything even though he's not good at it and if I do that, I shouldn't benefit from the XP!!

Amazing.

I just don't understand it. I *want* to understand it... but I don't think I'm going to get any clarity here.

Somebody explained this pretty well. With DM the devs showed us they can take us out of our comfort zone any time they want. By the time we reach the divide, we most likely are going to need to be a jack of all trades to face down the Monster Ulysses.

Don't waste your time, they're just here to complain.

Even better than the people who complain that they have to gimp themselves are the ones who complain that they can't role-play because the meaningless skill proficiency numbers on skills they don't like are too high. Makes you wish they all lived in Nipton.

We should all be massacred for caring about game balance .

Why should we have to force our selves to gimp and play with lower stats just to avoid the game being broken. The game shouldn't be broken in the 1st place but I guess money talks.

Different strokes for different folks.

Balance is always on the player. Some people choose not to use exploits to make the game easier. Why you can't choose to be even more restrictive is baffling.

lol with all the dlc in fo3 your guy got punished alot more than nv. They brought out monsters with over 1000hp that could snipe with a tri beam lazer rifle. I m sure you have a cake walk through the presidental metro too. nv has nothing that can stand up to fo3 reavers and sm overlords besides full grown death claws. fo3 albino rad scorpion is the strongest creature in either game.

Over all my people lost much more hp in fo3 than nv. Followers were killed a lot more too. Excluding Fawkes, and Rex of course.

I didn t use them too much because they couldn t be killed.

If you follow the main story line in nv there is barely any combat at all.

Im not sure why you think its geared for "fo3 players" like if I liked fo3 Im less than people who don t like it.

Ohh so i should run a round with boxing tape the rest of my time with fonv because obsidian are gagging to break the game?

No, just don't buy the DLC if you don't want the contents of it.

Plus the dlcs themselves may contain enemies like the Point Lookout tribals. These people may wish they did level up. lol

But i do want the contents just not nasty thing that will ruin the game and a lot of ppl agree with me .

They give you an option, they may bring hard enemies into the game. I don t know what else you wanted them to do. They tried to make everyone happy. Thats all anyone can ask for.

Ohh gawd. Point lookout hillbillys...

They are not changing things to suit you now. The DLC exist, you know what's in them now, and if you don't like it, which you don't, don't buy it.

Kind of a blunt and bland way of putting it but yah. If you dont like it dont buy and if you buy it and dont like it thats your own fault because you bought it and you knew what was going to happen.

I undertand that you will have to wait for Old World Blues for the cap Trait, so a simple solution would be to wait until Old World Blues comes out, then play Honest Hearts and Old World Blues. Hell, if Dead Moneys level additions ruined it for you, then make a new file with it uninstalled, wait for Old World blues, install all of the DLC and pick the trait that will limit the level cap, seeing as how it respects traits already chosen.

They're trying to give people options, in spite of what Sawyer said, so people didn't feel as though it broke the game in the long run (I'm on PC, so this won't be an issue for me). Methinks its just easy for people to complain about seeing as they want Obsidian to make it the hardest game since Demon's Souls, but just be happy there are options and think of solutions as to take advantage of the options. Most game developers aren't so generous.

Yeah the hillbillys and the tribals were hard as well. 2 clips of top Chinese ar rounds did almost nothing to the tribals on very hard.

Good thing that ghoul showed you that trick the boosted your dam and dr while standing still. lol

By far the worst way to do difficulty. I wouldn't have played through that without the Hei Gui.

What about the turtledove detention center?? That place was crazy with all the ghouls.