Fallout series

[Boxless]

We would be here all day if we talked about retcons from Bethesda, hence why most of the fanbase(ie not tourists) doesn't consider Bethesdaslop canon anymore, if they ever did. It's funny that they care so little for the lore they retcon their own games, tho, not like that would be the first time either since they did this with Elder Scrolls as well.

It does not irritate me any less due to making it incredibly hard to filter the actual genuine interest from the tourism, but yes, if we talked about that subject directly we'd be here for at least a week.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

I heard that melee/unarmed builds were OP and people who used them didn't have issues with that boss. I didn't use the Gobi rifle because I wasn't aware of its critting potential.

Can someone give me some specifics about this fight? It's been bugging me for years!

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That's the problem.
Be a man and use a switchblade against Lanius.

 

[Catboi]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

I heard that melee/unarmed builds were OP and people who used them didn't have issues with that boss. I didn't use the Gobi rifle because I wasn't aware of its critting potential.

Can someone give me some specifics about this fight? It's been bugging me for years!

I just use a chainsaw on everything and that worked. Brrrrr

 

[Boxless]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

I heard that melee/unarmed builds were OP and people who used them didn't have issues with that boss. I didn't use the Gobi rifle because I wasn't aware of its critting potential.

Can someone give me some specifics about this fight? It's been bugging me for years!

He's got 19 DT, a minimum of ~850 Health, and if you don't instakill him he'll heal ~8 HP for around three minutes straight. Your Explosives skill probably sucked.
Or you were using hollowpoints on something that wasn't a sniper rifle.
He's not overpowered, there's plenty of hard counters- he's not even immune to knockdowns.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

I heard that melee/unarmed builds were OP and people who used them didn't have issues with that boss. I didn't use the Gobi rifle because I wasn't aware of its critting potential.

Can someone give me some specifics about this fight? It's been bugging me for years!

I've never actually fought the guy lol
Always speeched him away

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

He's got 19 DT, a minimum of ~850 Health, and if you don't instakill him he'll heal ~8 HP for around three minutes straight. Your Explosives skill probably sucked.
Or you were using hollowpoints on something that wasn't a sniper rifle.
He's not overpowered, there's plenty of hard counters- he's not even immune to knockdowns.

I mostly used the Anti-materiel Rifle with AP ammo, if I remember correctly.

Is there a detailed New Vegas update history somewhere? I want to make sure if they changed his stats at any point.

 

[Übertroon]

The TV show is stupid because Vault-Tec starting off the war removes all the consequences of the Great War being the predicable result of unrestrained American consumerism and jingoistic war.

Wow there partner.
I'm pretty sure the reds invading Alaska warrants war.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

He's meant to be a ten ton gorilla charging at you with a sharpened car bumper. Toss all your good shit at him and use the fanciest ammo you have. For me that was high end AP rounds. Another run the good shit energy weapons.

I remember my first run I had to kite him a decent while and be smart about exploding his back-up. Died a few times to him but I eventually did it. I can't remember if you can effectively cripple his legs to kite him. That was always my go to for most melee powerhouses like Deathclaws.

 

[Boxless]

I mostly used the Anti-materiel Rifle with AP ammo, if I remember correctly.

Is there a detailed New Vegas update history somewhere? I want to make sure if they changed his stats at any point.

If there was, it's gone now or tampered with.

He's meant to be a ten ton gorilla charging at you with a sharpened car bumper. Toss all your good shit at him and use the fanciest ammo you have. For me that was high end AP rounds. Another run the good shit energy weapons.

I remember my first run I had to kite him a decent while and be smart about exploding his back-up. Died a few times to him but I eventually did it. I can't remember if you can effectively cripple his legs to kite him. That was always my go to for most melee powerhouses like Deathclaws.

He fullheals his limb health at 2/5ths HP and has absurd limb HP to start with. On top of that he moves twice as fast, so crippling is less effective to begin with. Like you said, 10ton gorilla.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

He fullheals his limb health at 2/5ths HP and has absurd limb HP to start with. On top of that he moves twice as fast, so crippling is less effective to begin with. Like you said, 10ton gorilla.

That explains the reason of always nuked him with the old glory, 10 luck, finesse, ninja, 1st recon beret, armor of the 87th tribe, better criticals, just lucky i'm alive and elijah ramblings.

Basically i'm god.

 

[BigBadBastich]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

He hits like a truck and has backup from endlessly respawning Legionaries but depending on quest choices you could either have a Securitron or even an Enclave remnant helping you as well. Last time I played the game I was doing a melee/energy weapons build but with modest armor and no chems and I couldn't get too many hits on him without 1/4 of my health being taken off.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

On top of that he moves twice as fast, so crippling is less effective to begin with.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Even if you are camping from max range, he can get within melee distance really fast. I don't think there's a single encounter harder than this in Fallout 3 or New Vegas including the DLCs.

 

[Internorth Inc]

Mechanically non-training, lore-wise it's because they (probably) can't keep them fixed up to pre-war standards.
Which makes sense, because their R&D is the Followers of the Apocalypse and their fork the OSI. The only people they can actually stick on reverse-engineering weapons tech are idiots like Fantastic up until 2275, so there's not a lot of working examples to decipher even the older, more resilient models.

I believe there's a voiceline from somebody in the Dam explaining that the heavy trooper armor has had all its electrics (motors, servos, etc.) ripped out, basically making it into super-heavy metal armor; hence the only soldiers issued it are always on guard duty, anything else is too cumbersome.

I was always felt it odd that the NCR used T45d armor when the BOS (who the NCR got the armor from as booty) exclusively used T51b.

Spoiler: Personal Headcannon

My explanation is that the BOS had both T51 and T45, but had more than enough T51 to equip their troops and therefore kept the shittier T45 in reserve. Following the conclusion of the NCR-Brotherhood war the NCR captured both types of armor, however they did not have the technical know-how to keep the armor they captured functional for long. So they simply stripped out all the complex components and issued them as heavy armor. The reason why the player only sees T45 being:
1. The NCR captured many more intact T45 examples than T51.
2. The T45 being simpler made it more conducive to the NCR's "refurbishment".

 

[Boxless]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Even if you are camping from max range, he can get within melee distance really fast. I don't think there's a single encounter harder than this in Fallout 3 or New Vegas including the DLCs.

I'd say that a head-on Roboscorpion fight is harder, but that's from deliberately being obtuse or having less than 4 INT. The post-nuke Lonesome Road bosses are also pretty brutal.
The only encounters i can think of from 3 are the Tribals with their stupid fucking -HP per-pellet attacks.

I believe there's a voiceline from somebody in the Dam explaining that the heavy trooper armor has had all its electrics (motors, servos, etc.) ripped out, basically making it into super-heavy metal armor; hence the only soldiers issued it are always on guard duty, anything else is too cumbersome.

I was always felt it odd that the NCR used T45d armor when the BOS (who the NCR got the armor from as booty) exclusively used T51b.

Ultimately it just comes down to t45 being manifested and then retconned into the armories of the West Coast.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Question for New Vegas veterans: do you think Legate Lanius is overpowered?

I finished NV when it came out (or shortly after), so I can't remember what version I was playing. Maybe they nerfed him later, I dunno. I played on very hard + hardcore. My character had all the best armor, guns etc. I completed pretty much every quest I could find. I had Boone with me.

That mofo was almost impossible to beat. I remember putting multiple mines in front of him and detonating them, using all kinds of buffs and he would still just run up to me like nothing happened.

I heard that melee/unarmed builds were OP and people who used them didn't have issues with that boss. I didn't use the Gobi rifle because I wasn't aware of its critting potential.

Can someone give me some specifics about this fight? It's been bugging me for years!

He's a strong opponent for the base game, but by the time DLC and mods came out, he's little more than a pushover. I've killed in him variety of ways, both on my Xbox with no mods and on PC with them. Blowing him off the face of the earth with Euclid C-Finder/Esther, sniping him with a Gauss Rifle/Anti Material Rifle, fighting in unarmed combat, knocking him on his ass with unarmed moves and preventing him from getting up like getting an infinite in a fighting game, getting my companions to kill him for me, or getting a critical hit with a Sonic Emitter Tarantula and killing him one hit(that gun is bugged and any critical, including a sneak critical, is an insta-kill). My favorite one was my last playthru where I tripped him up with a poisoned Blade of the West. After only a few hits, the poison killed him off before he could even get back up, he didn't even get into his running away and healing phase since the fight lasted like 10 seconds. The skill checks to pacify him and make him run off got old years ago.

Is there a detailed New Vegas update history somewhere? I want to make sure if they changed his stats at any point.

Triangle City is the closest you're going to find, altho I don't remember him making a video like that.

He hits like a truck and has backup from endlessly respawning Legionaries

Pretty sure he only has one wave of reinforcements, and the dogs if you haven't jammed their kennels shut/drugged them.

 

[Star Classic]

He's a strong opponent for the base game, but by the time DLC and mods came out, he's little more than a pushover.

Bingo. while I don't really play modded anymore but one mod I ALWAYS used was making Lanius scale to level 50 instead of the vanilla cap at 30. Boggles my mind since I think characters like Beagle scale with the player but for some reason they forgot to make the final final boss scale with the player. In fact, General Wait-and-see is capped at 50 as well. I don't think Lanius needs to be a super ultra enemy that will one shot you, but he shouldn't really be a push over.

 

[Boxless]

After only a few hits, the poison killed him off before he could even get back up.

Doesn't he have 100% poison resist or something?

 

[Star Classic]

Doesn't he have 100% poison resist or something?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Doesn't he have 100% poison resist or something?

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An unmodded game of Fallout 3/New Vegas has all resistances cap out at 85%. This means that while theoretically he should be immune to poison, Obsidian overlooked the in-game resistance cap for all entities in the game and it reverts back to 85%, making him vulnerable to poison. Actual immunities are handled by perks/object effects/spells in the background(for example, the heartless perk in Old World Blues)
Granted, you can easily uncap the resistances with a mod, so I guess in a modded game of TTW or NV he would indeed be immune to poisons. I did this on a console and I can confirm his health was going down since I had the perk that lets you see the exact HP the NPCs have. It was a few helpings of Bleak Poison, the second strongest poison in the game and the strongest in the base game, so I guess even 85% poison resistance doesn't help much if you're a human NPC.