Hey - today i started a new character in NV. It's focused on the gun skill, and the explosive skill. I only use one handed guns, and i just use the explosive stuff i can find. Dos any of u how some tips? Im having a hard timee, cause it's not the easyest combo to play trough with :whistling:

Thx guys! :icecream:

Since you just started, maybe a 9mm Submachine Gun for Self-Defense, and I am pretty sure a Grenade Rifle is find able and dynamite is common.

Take both Cowboy and Grunt perks (if you have the DLC); this covers pretty much all the pistols and dynamite/frags/launched grenades as soon as you can.

Work towards hand loading asap.

Get Lucky as soon as possible.

Light Armor is not going to cut it, there's several ways to get Combat Armor early, check the Wiki.

If you can get the drop on enemies, throw down some mines, toss a grenade from stealth to whittle down their health (maybe even kill) then pull back behind your mines to cover while potshotting.

Get all the powder charges from the Powderganger camps, and the schematic as soon as possible. While they aren't the most potent mine, they help, and are easy to make.

Dynamite is cheap and abundant, don't hoard it. Long Fuse Dynamite svcks. Even if you throw it in VATS from stealth, unless they just stand there you're most probably going to do little if any damage to anything but dirt. If on pc, get a mod to let you convert it to dynamite.

Stealth is going to be important for the early levels, unless you've got the HP and DT to run in behind your nades with pistol blazing.

Swap ammos. For a standard playthrough you can pretty much ignore the various ammo types if you like, because you've got a wide variety of weapons to choose from. With only pistols, you need to swap out ammo per target.

If you like VATS, go two shots to the right arm, then the rest to the dome on everything, at every opportunity. Get NoS and GRS when they become available. When stealth attacking, this is a decent way to toss nades as well, though the range is pretty limited and bounce can get wonky.

Getting the Mysterious Magnum might be a good choice, you can get it pretty easily early on, just a ton of running.

Thx for the awesomeness!! :shocking:

Explosives + Pistols...

You can reliably find a Grenade Rifle in Nipton, sometimes you can buy one at the Mojave outpost. Viper Gunslingers are a good source of Grenade Rifles for repairs. Ammo can be bought as early as Primm, so start stocking up in advance.

Get Jury Rigging. Grenade Launchers don't drop very often'; few if any characters carry them. But Grenade Rifles can be obtained from Vipers, and with Jury Rigging you can use them to repair Launchers.

With Explosives, if you use VATS, aim for the legs. This way if you miss, the projectile explodes on the ground and hits the target with splash damage. If you aim for the head, the projectile might simply fly by your target and blow up uselessly way behind. Hobbler perk increases your chance to hit an enemy's legs in VATS.

You might want to boost your "inherent" DT to have more protection against your own explosives. Toughness, subdermal armor implant, Cass as a companion to get some DT from alcohol. Also, don't take Small Frame, and you might want to consider Adamantium Skeleton, to protect yourself against broken limbs.

Sometimes I play with just clothing and do just fine....in fact I like the challenge of it. Combat Armor is so not sixy.

I don't know, I rather like combat armor (just so long as it's not reinforced or mkII). Though it's not as nice as the desert ranger armor, or ranger combat armor.

My favorite Fallout 3 armor: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Winterized_combat_armor