When to use VATS : Fallout: New Vegas

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:18 am

How often do you guys use VATS? When is it okay to use it, and when does it make fighting too easy?

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:26 am

Never.
I use it to pause the time when attacking Hidden Valley but I never fire with it or use it as a scanning device.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:58 am

I like to watch peoples heads explode...also I like watching my bullet travel all the way across the map to kill an enemy(though that isn't VATS dependent)

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:13 am

Since I mostly play as a sniper VATS really doesn't work for me. I can snipe much farther on my own and I'm not too bad of a shot either.

I'll use it in certain tight spots but generally I don't need it often.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:07 am

When I first played F3 I used it constantly because if was so much fun....now that I'm used to it, I only use it if I know I'm facing certain death....but I've been gravitating towards fighting enemies without it on my 4th playthrough.

bliviongate:

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:22 am

I more just use it for aiming now, dont get me wrong if im fighting someone and I can take them down in vats then I will, but in the bigger firefights I usually dont use it that much.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:55 pm

I use VATS more often in Fallout 3 then I did in New Vegas. I would only use VATS in New Vegas if somebody is at close range or I'm fighting a Deathclaw and I need my weapon to get a guaranteed Head Shot at close range so that I don't die. Iron Sights Mode is superior to VATS.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:25 am

I use it a often as possible because it is just so damn cool. Now most of the time in the wastes I open combat with long range attacks outside of vats range. In mid range to cqc I use it as long as I have action points. Vats is much more entertaining than just spraying bullets or hip firing.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:52 am

Only in short ranged combat against fleeting targets, that are aware of me.

Since I'm playing "Fallout: Sniper" I don't use VATS all that much.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:54 am

Never.
Did use it when I 1st started the game to see how it worked. Couldn't stand it. In the short time I tried it tho, I became used to hitting the vats key as a 'panic' button and it took me a while to get out of that habit. After that...except for a couple times when I wanted screenshots, haven't touched it at all, period, since.

For me it's partially about vats being too much like a win button (not always, but often), but even more, it's completely immersion-breaking.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:10 pm

Like Crimson, used it like in FO3, didn't work well, ditch it all together.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:57 pm

With the addition of iron sights I don't use vats nearly as much as I did in 3. I like to pull it out for shooting dynamite/grenades out of enemies hands or using explosives myself.

I'll use it more on my current playthrough since I took the kamikaze trait but most of the time I just like to pull out the iron sights and go to work that way. Plus vats likes to do little things like missing four 95% hits in a row on a nightstalker running away from me. Moments like that make you almost want to never use it again.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:57 am

In NV, rarely, since the accuracy is garbage compared to real-time shooting. It's relegated to the role of close-range panic button mostly.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:26 am

I said Often. I try to do without it more and more but with my latest Unarmed character using Pushy and the way companions jump in front of you, I found that I kept giving Boone concussions. I'm using Vats more right now.

I also use EW a lot and Vats helps there too.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:43 am

I found that I kept giving Boone concussions.

I just had to :rofl: at that. Silly companions.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:28 pm

I just had to :rofl: at that. Silly companions.

And you know how you got that screenshot of Boone giving himself a Stimpak? I finally saw it too. He stuck himself in the hip with it after groaning in pain. I wish I'd gotten it on video. Good to see you.

:fallout:

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:20 am

Only if a deathclaw is dancing on my chin but other than that it's a waste of ammo the percentages are bit unfair at any distance.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:16 pm

The sound effect in VATS when firing is fantastic, of course providing you have good sound system. However I use manual aiming 99% of the time.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:36 am

Never.
Did use it when I 1st started the game to see how it worked. Couldn't stand it. In the short time I tried it tho, I became used to hitting the vats key as a 'panic' button and it took me a while to get out of that habit. After that...except for a couple times when I wanted screenshots, haven't touched it at all, period, since.

For me it's partially about vats being too much like a win button (not always, but often), but even more, it's completely immersion-breaking.

Me too, I still have trouble trying to stay away from the life alert button.

"AAAAH, Cazadores!? Where did they come from?!" - Whenever I see a cazadore.

I don't blame anyone for using VATS on these little bastards, you need something to bring them down a notch.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:38 pm

Sometimes, I mostly use the iron sights since most the guns I use my hands don't shake at all and when using hand-to-hand/melee combat just stay out of V.A.T.S. unless I want to preform a Cross or Uppercut three times in the row. Never use it for sniping unless I got a character who can't snipe worth [censor] because that's what Steady comes in handy. Only use V.A.T.S. to scan invisible enemies (like Nightkins), final blow kills, and like I said about the hand-to-hand/melee combat. Try not to over use it when playing. Like Fallout 3 for me, the game will freeze easily if using it too much.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:01 am

VATS is cheating. It is a built in cheat but really. I hit "v" once a game to get the "press v to enter VATS" to go away.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:05 pm

VATS is cheating. It is a built in cheat but really. I hit "v" once a game to get the "press v to enter VATS" to go away.

Its an RPG, not an FPS. By using VATS you are using your character's skill. The skill you built up. Kind of like a turn based RPG except you can be attacked while doing the attacking. I see there's a bunch of liars that voted in this pole. "Sometimes" my ass.

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:27 am

come on D: vats is always my first move,
as soon as a threat is in my visuals they already got 2 to the head, and 3 to the chest
besides

if i'm lucky Lady Misfortune might make an apperance

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:26 pm

Its an RPG, not an FPS. By using VATS you are using your character's skill. The skill you built up. Kind of like a turn based RPG except you can be attacked while doing the attacking. I see there's a bunch of liars that voted in this pole. "Sometimes" my ass.

Except for the random time it takes to complete an attack. Sometimes I can empty a clip without getting hit once, other times I would be taking a clip or two just to enter and exit VATS, with the same weapon against the same type of enemy..

» Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:42 am

I voted sometimes. Because a rookie/noobie at the game will probably want to use it much more often then say a very experienced/expert at the game. So VATS is more recommended for rookies then vets. Though either way it isn't a bad idea to use it in close to possibly mid quarters.