Wasteland 3 Post Supreme Jerk Tips (SJW)

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Wanted to put my thought's on character creation in wasteland 3 after finishing my first run of Supreme jerk. BG 3 is just around the corner so I know that I could likely give out more tips but it's not likely ill have time to add to this guide.
Some information is contradictory to my Ranger guide but that will happen when playing in such a short time and only once or twice.
Cheers, hope this was helpfull.

[@michaq11]

Okay, so I know I'm late for the party here but here's my OMEGA list of tips for supreme jerk in comparison to what Ronin Jeremy said in video: 1. Bronco & Kickboy have the 10% critical strike utility item, which is massive, but I didn't like starting with premade characters nor trashing them and creating another pair after you got to HQ first time. You can play without this items, there are many good utility items in the game, but you only got 2 starting characters ;) 2. Sex machine background + cricus freak quirk is a great combo, especially for the SMG guy, you have all the speed you need on those two, literally played him with 1 speed whole game, and you don't have to waste points in speed otherwise put into awareness, inteligence, coordination. With perk on automatic weapons level 8 - stormer, you essentially run 6 squares to get free attack 3. On snipers, always take death wish quirk for +3ap, you can then shoot twice every round - you have 14 ap base at max coordination. 4. Sneaky shit I feel was very good on rocket launcher character. You got guaranteed critical strike on explosives lvl 7 perk, and with level 10 sneaky shit perk giving you another +100% damage is just nuts damage. I even managed to get level 7 small arms perk on him, which gave me at least 2 rockets fired in turn 1, because it makes firing after realoding free, so you only pay for reloading after the first rocket ;) Played sneaky shit on sniper too, idk if its worth, but I had every skill covered by my 6 characters (played without HQ rangers chars for modding and barter for additional challenge) 5. Oh boi I need to tell you about weapon modding. It's amazingly good. Making your shotguns and flamethrowers range longer works amazing. But the best thing about mods, is obv damage mods! Not only incendiary linkage, for example, on your SMGs (this combo is super strong but besides the point). Some weapons hits multiple times, so maybe 8 damage isn't even noticeable on sniper rifle, but oh boi does it do the difference on heavy guns and late game smgs? Minigun shoots 18 bullets, every one of them has 8 dmg more, you can calculate how much it actually adds. Same thing on late game SMGs, 10 bullets every attack. You can also add linkage which adds flat damage, for example Toxic one gives you another 8 damage! It's huge. 6. Flamethrower characters need to have certain combo to feel good: background Disciple of the Metal and quirk Pyromaniac plus heavy investment on weird science for +30% fire dmg, you got the overcharge perk there, which is amazing with flamethrowers, also you need level 7 toaster repair for another perk giving you another +25% bonus fire damage. Very important, mod your weapon on this build, magazine giving more shots before reloading and choke for EXTRA RANGE, which is huge when you fry like 5-6 enemy characters at once, 2 attack in round, and at least one is your overloaded torrent strike (strong attack). You need your leader to rally and max coordination ofc to have enough ap for this combo. 7. DoT damage is, sadly, garbage. I mean, sometimes it procced and actually helped in fight, but it was maybe like twice in a whole campaign. Not only it proc on the end of the round, but also if its a human, he will for sure heal himself. Its okay, because it prevented him from dealing damage to some extent, but nothing to be building your characters around. 8. Didn't know about crouching exploit. (never mind, just checked in game, didn't work for me, I guess they patched it). Don't like things like that, but if you are really struggling, who am I to stop you if it works for you :) Okay, so from me some other tips: - use Show stat button in attributes page, for example you can check your speed there, but essentially there's all of your stats. - when crafting mods for weapons, you can check what ony mod does by pressing shift with your mouse hovering it - you can throw some snowballs if you don't have anything other to do in a turn, they help That's all from me, will edit if something comes to my mind. Noone will read it anyway ;)

[@RoninJeremy]

Thanks, it's been a long time since i have played this game, really appreciate the tips. Hopefully not too much has changed and the old advice still holds up, at least some lol. Cheers and thanks again for the info.

[@damgaronfire]

Very interesting. I always thought heavy weapons + explosive expert was the way to go. But oh well.

[@RoninJeremy]

@@damgaronfire the game does change from time to time but usually have to break down damage per ap.

[@damgaronfire]

@@RoninJeremy oh wait I mispelled, I wanted to say I THOUGH it was the way to go. But it truly is interesting to see what strategy people find !

[@L0-C01]

The item is definitely worth it. Either 10% increased range damage or 10% critical chance. Thats huge

[@Cephlin]

Yup totally worth it… just make new characters at hq asap

[@Cephlin]

Pro tip would be to put 1 animal whisperer on every character and walk around with an army of chickens, they do lots of damage and give you an xp bonus… although they can be quite frail so 3 points plus the perk is great too if you can afford it

[@Zharghar08]

Unless the level 3 perk is still bugged and messes up your weapon level. I just came back to play this game since before Steeltown came out, and I have no idea if it's still bugged. I just avoid it and pick up more useful perks.

[@cs0345]

Chickens are plentiful in this game

[@janedoe7621]

The strike rate is an increase above base. You get more strike gauge increase for hitting explodables and multiple enemies, so the bonus applies multiple times in that instance. It's really good.

[@RoninJeremy]

Thanks will take note of it if i ever play it again. Cheers!

[@bmoraski]

Getting ready to try supreme jerk. Thanks for the info.

[@RoninJeremy]

Awesome, it was brought to my attention some things might have been patched but i think for the most part it should be solid still. Good luck. Might try it again after the dlc launches.

[@bmoraski]

@@RoninJeremy Yeah June 3 !

[@RoninJeremy]

@@bmoraski ill have no internet access until starlink installs late sumer they claim. Ill likely have to wait to try it.

[@bmoraski]

@@RoninJeremy I hate great releases in spring/summer. To busy doing outside stuff. I wish they would release these titles in late October. lol

[@RoninJeremy]

@@bmoraski i hear ya, taking on a lot of projects myself with this final move. Renovating my great grandfathers house and hopefully build an addition . Winter is gaming season.

[@gawaniwhitecrow2731]

Just about to start the Jerk mode... Cheers for this dude..

[@RoninJeremy]

I think most should still apply. I know since i last played they have made changes but mostly just the Exploits. GOOD LUCK !

[@thewiseone2911]

Finished ranger difficulty couple days ago, now on a supreme jerk run. Just wanted to share a few things. Somewhere along the way they added crafting and one of the new weapons is a sniper rifle called freeze ray. Now what's interesting about that particular rifle is its very high chance to hit (base is 90%), in addition to that you will be able to use the skill risky shot. In that run I ended up with 151% chance to hit and there's still room for improvement. Essentially, you will be able to crit with every shot your sniper fires because risky shot doesn't have a cooldown so it will pretty much replace your default attack. But there's more - it deals cold damage which is excellent against organic targets and the shot will be piercing, or going through everything - much like ray tracer so you can line them up for a good shot. Fairly common to one-shot at least 2-3 targets, with patience and timing you can get even more (5 targets was the max for me). I put lockpicking on my ranger since you get a ton of exp from picking locks in this game (is it the highest? more than explosive, hacking etc?) but it might even be better on a character with high charisma to squeeze as much exp out of those locks as you can. I was fairly disappointed with animal whisperer. Outside of providing specific buffs like crit chance/damage for your sniper or evasion for your tank, the enemies rarely focused them. Not sure if they changed that since I got the game with version 1.4 already. For distraction purposes decoy seemed a million times more effective. Also, a lot of pets actually get in the way of your MG/shotgun's strike skills which is quite frankly extremely annoying. I'm noticing that especially on my SJ run right now where I gave everyone 2-3 points in animal whisperer to have some additional meat shields but so far the enemies are avoiding them almost entirely. Weird science could be extremely potent on modded miniguns - one with cold/fire damage for organic targets and the other one with energy damage. I'm thinking specifically about the perk microwave research which adds flat damage. Evasion seems to be the way to go on SJ if you want a tank, though I'm not sure you really need one? I'm currently looking to achieve 100% evasion with the help of Defend, which adds 5% evasion for every AP spent and it seems fairly managable to get to a base evasion of 50-60%, meaning you'll need about 8 AP to get that sweet 100% evasion. With smoke grenades or the pet Polly (5% evasion or 10%, if you pick the 2nd animal whisperer perk) you can push those numbers even higher. I missed this one the first run but the merc Wolfe will reward you with a pretty amazing skill to level (crit chance, up to 50%) if you hunt down all the synths. Definitely something one should utilize though I'm not sure what the best way to go about it is as of now. Initially I was thinking about a sniper but with freeze ray and risky shot you crit anyway, you don't need more. So perhaps this could be put to good use on a minigun character or shotgun.

[@RoninJeremy]

Thanks for the feedback, i did play 1.0 so things might have changed a bit since. Sounds like decent changes but i don't think enough to bring me back to the game, at least not yet. For SJ i feel like building a tank could work but that is a bit risky imo. A dead enemy can't hit you. And even with full tank stats i could still die in one turn. It also only works if they target the tank. Give it a shot, sounds like the sniper would still be your carry though. I still think 2 snipers is likely the way to go for SJ. Mind you i heard that the jackhammer got nerfed so don't follow my run through lol. I abused that a little after a while. Cheers!

[@thewiseone2911]

@@RoninJeremy Completely forgot to to put that in my initial comment but well done video! Perhaps a bit lenghty but very useful :) I will restart with maxed charisma and see how things go from there. This is probably the most interesting takeaway for me from this video, never considered that even though it seems a bit obvious if you want to maximize the exp gain. I also just loaded up a save that put me close to endgame, the fight at the ranger HQ, to test the jackhammer. With the strike skill I still hit Greatski for about 1.9k dmg, not quite enough for a one-shot but still decent. I guess it must have been absolutely nuts in version 1.0. Cheers

[@RoninJeremy]

@@thewiseone2911 yeah i do talk a lot but i do give out what i experienced to work out, unlike other bigger channels lol. It was really nuts with the stealth perk. One shot group's, but now i would imagine you could line it up with the crafted sniper riffle

[@grone1778]

You can take the item and just create new chars at HQ…

[@Electronite1978]

My experiences after 1 play through with Ranger difficulty. At Ranger difficulty early and mid game can be a challenge but endgame is way too easy. Finished the final fight against Patriarch in 3 turns, which was very disappointing fight. Skills/Perks On Armor modding Perk Tendering Loving actually quite nice as it give +8 Armor to all team members. Personally I used this in endgame but this is something I have to reconsider. Nerd stuff is good for melee characters as Targeting override means that enemies will attack the bots/turrets you have overridden. If you have fast melee characters it means 2 enemies are out and function as shield/decoy for your team. Combined with EMP grenades and fight might be over in 1 turn as all enemies are on your side. Stupid thing is that you can override even bosses with EMP grenades. (Synths, robots and turrets) Animal Whisperer is a great perk line as well, which I certainly did not use on best possible way. Animals work as decoys/tanks and do good damage, they give nice buffs (spirit animal). Secondly this perk line makes it super easy when fighting animals as you can charm them.

[@RoninJeremy]

I haven't played since release, but IMO armor is pretty negligeable since not getting hit in the first place was my goal / playstyle. I agree with the end game being disappointing, it's a problem in a lot of tactical games with RPG stats. The games should rely on tactics not stats for their end game. More Environmental elements and mechanics IMO. Thanks for the comment, Cheers!

[@Zerashadow]

A few years late to the party, and not sure how much has changed, but these tips were really good since i kinda got into the game and finnished the game on normal with premade characters, now i wanna try higher diff. But when you talk about your sniper using 6 AP for each shot, don't you use the best snipers? (for me those cost 7 AP per shot) ahh yes, later when you looted the agent-2000 rifle, i saw the AP cost used to be lower.

[@RoninJeremy]

IIRC snipers or sneak attacks were very powerful, same with pets/summons. Good luck on your next run. If you liked Wasteland 3, Jagged Alliance 3 is IMO a much better game for you in the same Genre. If you want to see more current content I'm on Rumble now due to YT censorship, you can see gameplay there. Cheers! wish you the best with the SJW run.

[@Zerashadow]

@@RoninJeremy Thx, will be an intressting run ^^ i'll probably get Jagged Alliance 3 sometime soon, if it's on Xbox (my comp is a bit out of date, and cba to upgrade when most good games work on series S)

[@RoninJeremy]

@@Zerashadow Yeah sorry i even forget consoles are a thing lol. Hope you can find it on Xbox

[@sususegar]

I just started playing last week. After a first few somewhat frustrating hours, I finally understood the mechanics and think about it all day while at work. One thing I wanna point out, I read somewhere that Leadership does not stack but instead goes with the highest level any character has. Would be pointless to have more than one character having that skill, wouldn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@RoninJeremy]

Not entirely pointless. It's been a while but if it's like divinity original sin or many other similar games, leadership doesn't effect the character with it. So depending on the perks you get from it a second person gives it to the leader. Also can help with its limited range. But wasteland has a lot of skills to try to get across the party, so likely a second leader would be later in the game if you even feel you'll want one. Hope that helps.

[@sususegar]

@@RoninJeremy you have a point, I did notice the leadership companion himself did not have the effect. I'll probably apply it on someone later, I've just spent most of my money retraining 3 characters to optimize their skills and abilities because I was so clueless at allocating earlier!

[@RoninJeremy]

@@sususegar yeah if you are new to the series it could be overwhelming at first. Enjoy your first run.

[@theosgift654]

bonusees from leadership stucks, i has two leaders and both had their bonuses active, such as +hit chance

[@SquallSf]

@@theosgift654 Nope, it doesn't!

[@Jorquay]

Sorry dude, this was great up until you mentioned the cheat glitch. Small gains true, but probably significant in SJ mode. Still I’m looking forward to the difficulty once I finish with my first play through!

[@RoninJeremy]

Good luck, not sure how the game has evolved since launch, I don't think it would have changed enough to warrant a new run-through, IMO. Typically the tips I give out are from my own experience so I hope they still work out regardless of patches. Also, I don't remember a cheat glitch, if I usually use a cheat or mod I'm very upfront about it so that people know that the playthrough is valid. GL, HF Cheers!

[@Jorquay]

@@RoninJeremy Cheers fella, there were lots of great tips, a useful video. The cheat glitch I was referring to was the permanent crouch bonus you mentioned at one point. Regardless, thanks for the tips!

[@bobbybee2975]

Making your healer/buffer the leader and using rally at the start of combat can get your sniper that extra two AP you apply their focus target ability...or whatever that ability is called where sniper marks target.

[@RoninJeremy]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that if i ever get back into the game.

[@SCARaw]

You are wrong about nerd stuffs You can keep robot hacket forever bcs cd is as long as time of eff3ct

[@RoninJeremy]

could it have been changed since release? clearly worked on the highest difficulty so the tips were good. Cheers!

[@SCARaw]

I said about nerd stuffs specifically dont wanna discredit whole guild over 1 skill

[@RoninJeremy]

@@SCARaw no worries, haven't played since launch. things change or better information comes out with time. always open for comments ;)

[@Mustang1984]

Wait, are you secretly implying that you're a social justice warrior? :P

[@RoninJeremy]

Or at least make fun of them

[@Mustang1984]

@@RoninJeremy Ahh, my man :) Love your Divinity video's btw!

[@RoninJeremy]

@@Mustang1984 Awesome, it's nice to hear when people enjoy what's being put out. Thanks! I have stopped uploading to YT due to censorship but you can find all the new stuff on rumble.com rumble.com/user/RonjnJeremy/live cheers!

[@GuiSilva84]

Is this a Social Justice Warrior build guide ???

[@RoninJeremy]

Supreme jerk , just a play on the difficulty wastelander.

[@taconinja5675]

For the trophy/achievement Supreme Jerk, would it unlock for me if I joined someone else's game right before the final boss and had the other player whose game I joined defeat the boss? Does it work this way?

[@RoninJeremy]

No idea, give it a shot but that would be pretty lame.

[@nickventruella2493]

R u Zach galafanakis?

[@RoninJeremy]

No but i am between 2 ferns