Can You Beat Fallout: New Vegas With Only Throwables?

[@ItsJabo]

Obviously this video was inspired by the works of Mitten Squad and Nerbit. Love BOTH of their content - really inspired me into the video making process... my twitter - @its_jabo

[@memebender5626]

It' insane how there are so many different ways to play Fallout: New Vegas. I've been binging all Can you beat videos from all of you and I'm still certain that you're far from running out of ideas.

[@tyenevins6208]

This was a joy to watch mate, the video was put together wonderfully. Feels professional compared to most other youtube channels that make challenge videos, not that I don't enjoy them all the same.

[@angryrollofbread]

having found you off the sidebar of a nerbit video, this makes me very happy

[@BadBackJordy]

glad too ya gave credit too em@! , great video btw man keep up the great work!

[@leahnani8564]

I like there content but they take the easy way out and play on normal or even on easy sometimes, just isn’t as entertaining as the harder challenges

[@joeblow8982]

Let's be honest here. The most impressive part of this run was having 9 luck and still somehow losing money at the casinos. I honestly didn't know that was possible. Well played Jabo.

[@gladyspenaloza7722]

im trying to get the sierra madre voucher and i gotta admit that my luck still makes me lose money in the slots,still you get the overall win

[@joeblow8982]

@@gladyspenaloza7722 really? Slots is how I cheat the casino win limit. Say the limit is 10K. I'll play blackjack until I have a winnings total of around 9,700. Pop a quick save and go play slots until you hit a jackpot worth 3K+ before losing more than 700. If I get to 9000 without hitting a big jackpot, I'll reload that save. Cool way to get the casinos for a few thousand more caps each

[@ammarsalim1185]

How tf

[@killinfantsons3193]

when i go high luck my irl luck is still so bad that i lose a decent majority

[@joeblow8982]

@@killinfantsons3193 😭

[@mattlech29]

if you can "throw" yourself at Benny, I think it's safe to say you could've thrown lead at those bottles in the tutorial

[@DingaLingu]

JaboHappy JaboGun

[@rileymiller3154]

Bruh the point of a weapon limited run is you can't kill anyone with anything that isn't in the challenge category that means you can shoot a few bottles because there not even npcs

[@LazyBuddyBan]

oh right, non-explosive throwable exist...

[@Gruntman1234]

Funnily enough, you would of gotten a good supply of throwing spears by killing Legion instead of joining them.

[@MishraArtificer]

Not to mention a very specific Challenge in-game: "Even A God-King Can Bleed".

[@Brando216]

True. But legion is to tanky.

[@TheElusiveReality]

Thats exactly what i was thinking, siding with yes man wouldve been the better idea

[@sloganwade4994]

I kept expecting him to turn on Caesar and take the Mohave for himself, would've suited an unhinged bomb toating maniac imo. I wouldn't imagine that a character like that would bow to a bunch of guys with sticks.

[@UncannyLiving]

I think he should have just the retrivable throwables mod. I don't count that as cheating cause the biggest issue becomes getting the stuff in the first place

[@jonathanclarkson7379]

The mfc cluster grenades are devastatingly strong. Easily one shots a Sentry Bot and is one of my favorite throwables. To be fair, its basically the mfc Grenade but you throw like 8 of them at once.

[@vincentstark4496]

I used about 8 of those and a Fat-Mine to 1 shot the legate

[@jonathanclarkson7379]

@@vincentstark4496 That sounds like overkill but now I want to try it because it also sounds like fun.

[@vincentstark4496]

@@jonathanclarkson7379 the 1 downside is I couldn't find his corpse, so either it got launched all the way to the fort, or I completely vaporized him.

[@jonathanclarkson7379]

@@vincentstark4496 I would like to think it was both. Somewhere outside the boundary of the Fort, floating in mid air, was an ash pile.

[@orbitalbutt6757]

While doing a house playthrough, I killed the Legate (with bombs) and then tossed like 75 MFC Clusters by the gate Oliver enters through. The General and his crew walk in but since it’s scripted it didn’t set them off. As soon as Oliver was done talking, all 450 or so MFC grenades went off at once. My computer nearly died too, and when it finally stopped processing explosions Oliver and the Ranger Vets were just gone. Nowhere to be seen. I like to imagine that they sailed back to California Didn’t work with Yes Man, the Securitrons set them off early.

[@zanethezaniest274]

I remember watching the VOD during the Honest Hearts section, funniest part had to have been when one of the White legs, near the Red Gate, just snatched up the Survivalist Rifle and proceeded to bully Jabo, who at this point had close to non throwables.

[@fallenabr7654]

Do h’what?

[@zanethompson3191]

We have the same name

[@Awesomewithaz]

@@zanethompson3191 wrong

[@capperbuns]

​@@Awesomewithazzane and zane, they have the same name.

[@DovahZ]

⁠@@Awesomewithaz ☝️🤓 “wrong”

[@JimUK]

I think all these "Can you beat New Vegas with just" type challenges should treat the speech skill as a weapon, it's that overpowered.

[@gamingguy808]

Speech is for nerds

[@frankuraku5622]

That's my first playthrough basically. Trying my best to mix guns and speech to have the Blondie from the Dollars Trilogy build.

[@FecalMatador]

Speech, repair, and lock pick are always maxed out for me. I feel naked without them

[@NicoTheMilkman]

The speech skill is so strong, that it is its own type of weapon. They do treat it as a sort of weapon. So, it's excluded from these challenge runs.

[@SkullpunkArt]

@@FecalMatadorcan’t forget sneak for Elijah

[@House0Brick]

Doing a explosive only run because of this play through.

[@bloodangel19]

Do you mean only thrown explosives or anything with a boom? Cuz on the 2nd it won't be much of a struggle

[@House0Brick]

@@bloodangel19 any big boom

[@gibberconfirm425]

@@House0Brick Consider not killing the Boomers, they have a vendor a lot of people don't even know exists in the building across from Loyal's workshop. I don't know how many times I played through the game before I made good use of the grenade machingun (spoiler alert, it wrecks motherfuckers.)

[@deacon6221]

Step 1: Get a stealth boy. Step 2: Go to Dead Wind Cavern and get Mercy. Step 3: Get Ammo. Step 4: Profit.

[@Brookland-et9is]

Most fun I've had on nv was melee and explosive build.mfc clusters were probably my favourite

[@zachlewis9751]

Jabo: can you beat FONV with X weapon? Also Jabo: you can beat it without anything so of course you can.

[@JudgeFromHel1]

I always feel confuse that some player thought the strip robotguard will took away 2000 caps. The guard actually is just take a peek at player's "wallet" to be sure you are rich enough to gamble, not let any hobo sneak in.

[@mikehawk1502]

I thought that my first playthrough and I was actually pissed he didn't take it but hey I kept the money and kicked ass so I don't mind

[@Mothlord03]

I wasted a king favor on a pass to the strip when I coulda got a bunch of caps for that lol

[@cdru515]

To be fair, that's how things generally tend to work in RPGs - if you're being checked for money, they're generally being taken away

[@MicheallikeMJ]

It took SEVERAL playthroughs before I figured that out.

[@jucalebre7540]

@@MicheallikeMJ same here

[@baileywright729]

There are two things that make this run possible without Mad Bomber. The Boomers offer a really good stock of explosives, their storage has a bunch available. Also by going legion you doomed the throwing melee weapon part of the run. The best source of throwing spears is legionnaires. You could have farmed a bunch before getting the chip and then gone that run anyway, really. VATS with grenades is very helpful because it locks the target of the grenade in place, making it very likely for them to take point blank damage. Finally, you need sneak for throwing weapons

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

It is frustrating that you can’t buy Legion specific weapons from them; throwing spears, knives, anti venom and poisons, things that help them fight. It’s so lame

[@Axialmat]

@@quinnlee-miller9792 I agree, I’ve always wondered where is the legion supply house? I wanna buy armors, weapons, ammo crafting materials, ect

[@RM10Prod.]

Kinda disappointed that you went to Zion and didn't get the desert ranger armour, it's actually the best medium armour that you don't have to go to lonesome road to get

[@SkullpunkArt]

Where is that?

[@RM10Prod.]

@SkullpunkArt it's in a cave in the northern part of the map. If I remember correctly it's right near the sorrows camp but I could be wrong on it The Armour is basically ranger Armour but it's factionless

[@SkullpunkArt]

@@RM10Prod. thanks!

[@fjparasite1172]

Imo the most rare weapons to appear before me are thrown like throwing spears knives and the hatchet that only found twice.

[@Mikey-xz4vn]

One thing F:NV needed was a way to craft (melee) throwing weapons out of scrap metal or miscellaneous items at a workbench. If it's a balancing issue, then make it 'cost' a perk, like 'Mad Bomber' or 'Hand Loader/Vigilant Recycler'

[@smitegod2577]

You can craft Cosmic Knife Spears which are basically just Throwing Spears

[@Mikey-xz4vn]

@@smitegod2577 Sadly not. The _craftable_ Cosmic Knife Spears are the non-throwing variety you make by actually combining a throwing spear with more cosmic knives, making a 2-handed melee weapon

[@smitegod2577]

@@Mikey-xz4vn ah I didn't know that. Legit thought they were just buffed throwing Spears when I saw them in the workbench lol.

[@Mikey-xz4vn]

@@smitegod2577 I thought the same thing when I first played Dead Money ;__;

[@sweetschmeat7417]

Agreed. The throwable "melee" weapons always felt like a really undercooked and borderline useless part of the otherwise amazing weapon sandbox. Surely someone has made a mod to flesh out this category of weapon.

[@_IanOfEarth]

Jabo runs across the desert, hassles a robot, commits a war crime, walks near a man, becomes more convincing to others because of it, hassles another vendor, throwing knifes 3 bottles, and then pins an old man’s head to a wall with a spear. Reward: 2 Sticks of Dynamite

[@dylandrake2442]

Literally watched so many of these challenge vids (and love them everytime) and this was the first NV run (or video I've seen in general) to point out the just fucking leg it strat to get into the strip so kudos for actually showing me smth new

[@mufasaiam7794]

I have 100+ hours in this game and i didn't even know throwing knives existed

[@vincentburlingame8646]

That's cause their both rare and pieces of shit, I tired repeatedly to get them to work but I couldn't even take out one NPCs with it

[@grroppen2140]

Yeah me too pal, me too

[@DrVitaminAwesome]

Loved at the end of the run that Jabo streamed where he almost pooped the bed fighting General Oliver when he ran out of healing items, and had to gorge himself on water and fight like a rat to win.

[@aidan495]

Incredibly interesting run, never even heard of mfc grenades. You should do more of the DLCs, Dead Money might be chalked but OWB would be cool I think.

[@dosbilliam]

Your first problem was not using stealth all the time; each throwing knife is worth much more when it's taking out an enemy with a single knife, even more so when you're using spear or tomahawks. :P

[@Mygoditsfullofstars]

How’s it possible to lose money on 21 with 9luck???

[@boiyeetus]

I'm not gonna lie I was born at a very young age

[@anonopossum]

I feel like an ncr run would've probably been easier just because you'd be able to loot dead legion

[@amazingandy007yt3]

can you do "can you beat fallout new vegas by only using weapons that deal fire damage (or as a pyromanic)"

[@coopsjosh051]

as cook cook

[@john_doe406]

That's super easy. All you'll need to do is to spec into melee/energy weapon or explosives.

[@davidteachout1888]

I tried a pyro build and they're actually pretty damn powerful. Super-Heated Saturnite fist and Cleansing Flame put in work with the Pyromaniac Perk.

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

May I remind you that Cleansing Flame/Gehenna couple with Pyromaniac shoved into an explosive/Energy/melee build are extremely broken

[@James-cr5mc]

I havent played fnv for a while but ive done damn near every playthrough you can think of on xbox 360 (no mods ever) mostly cuz i had the thick ass book for the game and i tried every build and wanted to get every single ending. Throwing weapons only (NOT counting explosives) was fun to me. Took a while to get use it tho.

[@guerillagorilla4423]

As soon as you picked female I knew what you were gonna do

[@21380]

Killed benny with a flying fuck.

[@chessemchesse3676]

Honestly i still wish there were shurikens or thrown clubs

[@amazingandy007yt3]

8:15 he's not wrong tho. kinda true

[@Bluuuu222]

That's one thing I hated about new Vegas. Throwing items are so low. I always play a stelath character with the silenced 45. Being my go to, but I love using throwing knives, they look cool and go with my play style, but I never ended up ever using them because there's only like fucking 13 in the whole game. Or that's the most I ever had at one time.

[@MishraArtificer]

Those REALLY should be recoverable in loot from bodies, just like arrows in the Elder Scrolls games...they're MEANT to be reusable, dammit!

[@shinyrayquaza9]

no old world blues throwing axes?

[@bonfiregaming1747]

He killed benny by throwing it back.

[@jazzyj7834]

Just FYI, you can complete the tutorial simply by knocking the bottles off the fence, they dont have to be shot off. Punching them off works just as well, and while I've ever tried it with throwables, I have with grenade launcher (thanks NV Randomizer) and it did work. You just have to knock 3 bottles off the fence to complete the first step of Sunny's quest.

[@jackdaniel3135]

A tomahawk created out of a pipe and some blades is the most metal thing I’ve seen all day. Can’t believe I never looked at those in my hundreds of hours of playtime.

[@fistingendakenny8781]

Can you beat fallout by only moving backwards?

[@DoctorSwellman]

look maaaa, another Jabo banger

[@JohnSmith-tg9wc]

You threw your back on Benny. It's a valid run.

[@PinkGreenTaffy]

Aren't throwing spears basically limitless in dead money though

[@2numba9s]

The fuckin guy man... My challenge is to not die of starvation Plan 1- lick windows for moisture Plan 2- stay really really still for a long time Plan 3- do some research on my challenge and... Oh it's... It's actually that easy

[@TheAgarillobob]

I remember watching the life stream of this it was really great, jabo and chat trying to figure out how the run wouldn´t die and where to get throwing weapons, it was great fun, everyone should check out the stream over at twitch

[@auxnull]

You have to be pretty bad at blackjack to actually lose with a luck of 9. Seriously though how lol in my experience I found it harder to lose than win

[@crying2theocean203]

I thought this was a Mitten Squad video for a good two seconds

[@Pronessboss]

Can you still get the infinite dynamite from the powder gangers without doing the good springs fight and side with cobb

[@vault_tec_404_4]

For the early game there’s an encounter between traveling merchants and legion. Usually the legion soldiers carry throwing spears and they almost always lose.

[@CaptainChloroform]

Yo just as I got sick you come out with another banger to kill some time.

[@Simon-Zephyr]

I've been watching a whole bunch of yours and Nerbit's Fallout videos recently. I really need to play New Vegas. I have a couple hundred hours in Fallout 4. I needa go back in time a lil to New Vegas, your videos just make it look so fun and a great game!

[@Testosterone.and.Steroids]

Make sure to take a look at a couple guides on how to stabilize the game. Because it runs on an older engine, it's very prone to crashes.

[@MishraArtificer]

Don't forget to hop over to MittenSquad's channel, too!

[@SEVENTEENPOINT1]

I see you did hard “c” Caesar. Yeah sounds like a Legion play through.

[@ItsJabo]

Usually I pronounce it with a soft c, but... I couldn't do that whilst doing a Legion playthrough.

[@harktischris]

Mad Bomber is a ridiculous perk, and iirc there's a grenade you can craft that tosses a bunch of tiny grenades. Absolute room clearer,.

[@aurochtamer]

Your mistake was siding with the Legion. Respawning Legion soldiers are an amazing source of throwing spears

[@N2tha4th]

Tried this challenge. Without console, becomes more can i get enough throwing weapons to beat new Vegas

[@luissantiago5163]

Was just thinking about this channel. He'll yeah!

[@milodmulholland7448]

He will indeed yeah

[@luissantiago5163]

@@milodmulholland7448 lol

[@rustyjones7908]

7:23 nice job evading that feral windbrahmin ambush.

[@marleonka.]

Darn, I was hoping for this to be the first ever time that anyone picked Loose Cannon as their starting trait

[@MutantMasterRace]

Worst part is, that trait makes throwable builds even worse

[@marleonka.]

@@MutantMasterRace true but still. Never really saw anyone use it

[@MutantMasterRace]

@@marleonka. honestly he should've done it for the challenge. Would've made it harder lol

[@payne267]

Slightly miffed you didn't grab the holy hand grenades

[@Hanna_Stefanowska]

I got deja vu. I did most things in the same way in my legion playthrough, I even killed many of the npcs you did, and used melee/throwables most of the time, to fit in with my fellow legionaries. The only major difference was that I spared benny after sleeping with him and then crucified him at the fort lol.

[@drakejohnson5386]

Could you beat fallout 4 (survival mode optional) with only throwables?

[@kinsan89]

Ahhh, someone who pronounces "Caesar" correctly. Ave Edit: Educated and Skilled are what I ALWAYS take, to the point where I found a mod that lets Wild Wasteland be a toggle instead of a trait lol

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

...You know, come to think about it on seeing that thumb nail, it's weird that there's no shurikens in New Vegas. They're not exactly hard to make out of even crap metal, and they would have made for a pretty solid justification for an improvised throwing weapons.

[@bloodangel19]

It does make sense as they make for very poor weapons....

[@haroldbalzac6336]

Throwing Knives and Shurikens as deadly weapons is a Hollywood fantasy. Throwing Knives were only used for sport and Shurikens just for harassment not actual combat. Axes and spears are actual deadly weapons that was used in war.

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

@@haroldbalzac6336 ...You do know your talking about the ray gun game, where radiation is 50's magic~, and the commie menace doomed us all? Just saying. Fallout isn't exactly what I'd call a high-realism setting.

[@haroldbalzac6336]

@@LORDOFDORKNESS42 Dog shit argument. Gravity, speed, and mass pretty much works the same way as it does in reality, so rouge larp weapons wouldn't work.

[@worsethanyouthink]

I'm also kinda sad he slept on the mfcluster grenades, it's literally just mfgrenade ×8 like the MIRV but landmines. the ones that don't go off can be picked up for mf grenades. Just 1 or 2 will kill ANY group or enemies. I let it Cary me through dead money along with Rawrs talon. Rawrs talon works since before you turn it into a weapon it counts as a quest critical item and can't be removed from your inventory meaning free op unarmed weapon..

[@liammeadows9782]

I really thought you were going to utilize making poisons for the spears and knives but mfc grenades are a nice surprise

[@kayzeaza]

4:30 but when you sneak thru black mountain you come across a dead ncr soldier whose outfit you can take an wear to access the monorail without being shot

[@cornerroutespecialist792]

I’m just here for the Throwing Spears.

[@Rex-go6gb]

Anyone else wanna question Jabo's choice not to stock up Pulse Grenades to wipe out both the Securitron Vualt or the BoS?

[@goblintacos88]

I love these kind of challenges, and to see you do one is awesome, just love your commentary anyway, great video as always! Early Congrats on 50k subs!

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

The choice of Yakuza 0 song is on point

[@AveryCubed]

dead money has a near infinite supply of throwing spears if you don't mind having to actually play dead money

[@bluraspjell0878]

PLEASE do more stream highlights and such, I don’t have the time to sit down and watch full streams but I absolutely love the content.

[@metroidhunter965]

I would have named my courier “Yeetus Deletus” but, Big Arms? is good too.

[@Sunsetradi0]

This sounds like a really fun playthrough You craft a ton of MFC grenades, pair it up with the cannibal perk so you never run out of health and also sell all of the loot you are not using to fund all your chem reserves You could also try to kill all of the powder ganger camps at the start of the game to get more dynamite, maybe even kill everyone at the correctional facility

[@BubbyBoy]

Cannibal is a great plan on paper, but it just becomes too tedious to watch the animation, even with the dine and dash option

[@smileyshy3d]

i was going to ask one of the other "can you beat fallout" youtubers to do this yesterday

[@konstantinyanov881]

Love your content! I'm glad you someone's finally talking about how great mfc grenades are in fallout new vegas

[@rickiecomeaux8287]

Tip: You can use poison on your throwables, like spears and knives.

[@hedgehog3180]

I sorta saw the lack of spears comming when you said you were going Legion, if you had gone NCR instead the constant Legion attacks would have gotten you a steady supply from looting the corpses.

[@Goatcha_M]

My initial thought was, god save you from CTDs. But the thrown crashes mostly happen when people throw spears at you, with the worst place being Dead Money.

[@joelfilho2625]

CTDs? what

[@Goatcha_M]

@@joelfilho2625 Crash to Desktop.

[@platinumshadow5626]

Damn the title made me think this was a melee throwables only challenge. Still fun but explosives change the dynamic.

[@travisbougie4280]

I do really enjoy the honest heart's dlc

[@TheImNotAwesome]

MW2 load music hit like a mf freight train.

[@saint5837]

need to check out your twitch cuz your my favorite fallout content creator

[@TheVeryAngryShrimp]

Your body does count as a throwing weapon (with regards to Benny). You're throwing those big fat juicy Charlies on his face for him to say hello.

[@nicolais665]

XD

[@gooseloose682]

damn, that easy pete kill actually made me feel bad. He was just minding his bussiness

[@Saurophaganax1931]

I’ve never heard someone pronounce “Caesar” with a hard C.

[@danshive4017]

I really like thrown weapons in New Vegas for ranged stealth kills while focusing on Melee / Unarmed, so I knew it was a mistake to go Legion if you wanted their throwing spears. Best source is looting Legion corpses. That said, I had no idea about the MFC grenades.

[@zerotsc3583]

The MFC cluster is also really great

[@MyArchive930]

Is there a mod that lets you pick up thrown weapons after they’ve been used?

[@ll_kennyll]

Ok now so fallout 1/2 you won’t no balls

[@tylers1128]

I noticed you said "caesar," but it's pronounced "caesar"

[@cruncmcfuncle564]

Wake up honey new Jabo just dropped

[@coal4457]

Did you know? They hardly even know how to fight.

[@Hazerithious]

When I saw "Big Arms?" as the character's name, I was reminded of a quest in Runescape called "My Arm's Big Adventure" in which a troll named "My Arm" (As for some ungodly reason trolls in Runescape are named after the first thing they try to eat) learns to be a farmer on a mountain growing what are basically super potatoes. (I haven't played this quest in ages so I have no idea how accurate I was with the summary but it should be somewhat close.)

[@VintageJunior]

Still waiting for "can Jabo get through a game challenge without saying 'GEEHHM' once" challenge

[@QwikID]

I've only just started wasthing these "can you beat..." challenge videos. Didn't know new uploads would be posted so often. This is a good one too.

[@thegoldentouch5911]

18 seconds ago nice

[@alfredbanuelos7312]

True throwing build would require VATS since you do double damage with melee. I would add crits into the build and do more sneak attacks. You also can poison the spears for extra damage. Dead Money is a good supply of spears and powerful poison ingredients. Should've gone with survival tag instead of science and sneak instead of explosives.

[@dylandinino1295]

I've never heard someone pronounce Caesar, as kyzar

[@unkindwinner0790]

When I saw the “when in doubt” my immediate thoughts were the sierra madre and all I could feel was fear, thankfully you chose a much easier option

[@jack_corvinus]

This challenge becomes trivial (but also still kinda challenging) if you use the ammo hotkey glitch with the Holy Frag Grenade. Infinite nukes

[@Lawbase]

But you didn’t kill Benny with a throwing weapon