The Most Overlooked Boost in Fallout: New Vegas

[@Nerbit13098]

Now we can finally get Easy Pete to give us his dynamite

[@rangerleaf1505]

Speaking of that can you beat fallout New Vegas using only Dynamite

[@Rifky809]

@@rangerleaf1505 if you can level up your explosives maybe?

[@gusstr20]

New Vegas, but you can't run. Only walk.

[@rangerleaf1505]

@@Rifky809 I it will be like the recharger rifle video

[@rangerleaf1505]

@@gusstr20 like a permanent over encumbered run?

[@dishonestswit869]

I do this everytime I do a new playthrough, however the most annoying thing is remembering what my special stats were beforehand.

[@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466]

I always just make a note on my phone

[@snaiper195]

Its cheating

[@JVLeroy223]

Write 'em down on a slip of paper as you would with cheat codes back in the day.

[@JVLeroy223]

@@snaiper195 It's whatever you want it to be. Cheating, using exploits, glitching. It's all the same, it's just a game. I mean, as long as your having fun right?

[@houstonswisha143]

You cheat at the start of every play through lol why just play the game naturally

[@ilovecody7514]

I personally love skilled because it allows me to level up slower thus not reaching the level cap as quickly. I will take any opportunity to make a New Vegas playthrough last as long as possible. It's also why I stopped fast traveling for the most part.

[@jadesgonzales7636]

Same! Gives me reason to shoot stuff and complete quest more often.

[@Vanessa80808]

Its so rare for me to actually hit the level cap

[@Xxbte96xX]

Yup, I feel the same way.

[@JVLeroy223]

For me, I can make my playthroughs last as long as my frame rate, if that makes sense.

[@dragonfell5078]

Pretty based

[@corneliuscornwallis]

Alternatively, pick good natured & skilled to boost all the stats that good natured boosts by 10 with your weapons skills remaining the same. You can also repeat this to boost the good-natured skills by 30.

[@zangatsubankai]

This is what I always do on runs where I'm twinking.

[@Sephiroth5200]

This is my go to. Tag skills start at 45 for level 1.😎

[@SciontheDark]

@@zangatsubankai have to twink with Confirmed Batchelor

[@NoPrefect]

@@SciontheDark I mean, Gannon is kinda twinkish.

[@CallMeMimi27]

good natured doesn't bug like skilled.

[@FIFAssassinHD]

This has made me want to play new vegas again for the 101st time

[@zanethezaniest274]

If anyone does plan on reassigning their Traits when you reach OWB. You should probably pick another trait besides Skilled because most likely with 9-10 Int you’re gonna have an over abundance of skills around the 45-48 level. So do yourself a favour and get yourself a shiny new trait once you reach OWB.

[@SkeweredGlaive]

Well by that logic, maybe I wanna max out my stats

[@cleanerben9636]

to be fair you only need 80 plus magazines. if you plan on maxing out high intelligence probably isn't that important tbh.

[@Kee715]

There's an issue you can run into it high levels if you like find all the skill books and stuff where you actually can have too many skill points - all your skills will be at 100 but you'll still have extra points to assign and you won't be able to leave the level up screen without a mod or maybe some console commands.

[@Thriving_in_Exile]

@@Kee715 I've never seen this issue. Maybe it's happened before, but on my recent playthroughs, (I just got done with four of them. @__@ ) the game stops rewarding you skill points after you max everything out.

[@Kee715]

@@Thriving_in_Exile I've never run into it either but I think it only applies if you do everything to completely max out your skills and you've gotten all the skill books before level 50. I know it's happened because I saw a mod to bypass the issue on Nexus, but it's a rare occurrence for most people I think.

[@brettb9222]

Using the Chet infinite xp/9mil/caps glitch, you can hit the level cap and then try to rebuild your character. The game only resets your pre-lv6 perks on character creation as it was assumed to be impossible to go above that without leaving goodsprings! However the DLC perks at lv2-6 will remain after a reset, meaning you can double up on your perks and have dozens extra!

[@TheGlenn8]

Tbh why not use console commands at this point?

[@Arcadia95]

@@TheGlenn8 Because consoles are a thing? One of the few games I would occasionally get PS Now for nad after having put 3k+ hours into it, whenever I play I just want to enjoy the game without worrying about levelling stuff.

[@hermos3602]

@@TheGlenn8 Because not everyone plays on PC.

[@hermos3602]

@@Arcadia95 Sometimes it seems like PC players forget console players exist.

[@GaiusCaligula234]

@@hermos3602 I mean, can you blame them? Why would you ever play on a console

[@JVLeroy223]

I genuinely did not know you could do that up until this point. The more ya know. As always, I enjoy these short and to-the-point videos, and your narration. Even years after launch, you share information that is obscure but helpful in a game that came out years ago. And I thank you for that!

[@wrath2008]

Another thing you can do is take the trait that caps your level to 30 to use infinite drugs and then once you're close to 30, go to OWB and get it removed. Therefore for the last 30 levels you were able to abuse the living crap out of drugs and anything addictive without any downsides.

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

I like how instead of re-recording 1 minutes worth of lines, you just correct it on screen. Nothing but the best from the fine folks at TK mantis

[@Trailango]

I have 600 hours in FNV and never knew about this glitch. I've always selected Skilled and WW as perks and thought my char was OP by lv 40 - two more stacks of that and I'd be maxed by then

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

Does your game crash and corrupt saves as often as mine? XD

[@Trailango]

@@rogermcbadlad2812 Before mods, definitely lol

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

@@Trailango mine does even with the mods. It’s the best game ever but I keep lots of CASM hard saves in case of corruption. Edit: Okay, apparently deleted mods mid playthrough can cause that. Also saving only in interiors can help too.

[@samsh0-q3a]

not exactly overlooked when we often patch it out of the game lol for a non-glitch start i go with skilled and Good-Natured then dump my points into weapons, and barter

[@Kacp3rrak]

this would be fun to do with the Logan's Loophole trait and make your character very op. Having all stats at 100 and being able to take all the drugs you want without addications and double duration time

[@anchorage3856]

You also can swap wild wasteland out after killing the aliens to be able to positively get the mercenaries to respond and get both the alien blaster and ycs 186 but that's when you have to get to old world a blues to do it

[@theskulldestroyer5026]

i have to hand it to ya Mantis. a lot of these videos I've known before hand but I've never truly known this. good find

[@caitheoutcastranger]

Quick wild wasteland tip, don’t pick it in good springs if you want to grab both the unique gauss rifle and the alien blaster, instead pick it at the autodoc in old world blues after you’ve grabbed the gauss rifle, this will then cause the alien ship to spawn and allow you to collect both, it can also make “the one” bomb appear and many other wild wasteland encounters show up after the fact.

[@JJ_SDWR]

What is "The One" bomb thing you mention? I don't remember that.

[@caitheoutcastranger]

@@JJ_SDWR up in the right top of the map near the devil’s throat location there’s a camp fire with three mutants around it, with wild wasteland next to the camp a nuclear bomb will be there named simply “the one” it can be looted for a bunch of components but not much else

[@Tucher97]

So fun detail, in fallout 3 point look out, there is a point when you learn where the cult are getting their orders, if you go to whats his name the ghoul, he will get annoyed with you about telling him and not going straight there. However if you know where to go and go there after learnign about where teh cult leader is getting their orders, you do not get a scolding.

[@BarrelsoupChef]

Instead of Wild Wasteland, take Good Natured. This will help get all of them skill checks (and in turn, exp) in Goodsprings. Ofcource you can switch out Good Natured afterwards (altho I like it a lot for early game as well)

[@WolfyFancyLads]

I mean, I always pick those traits, so I wasn't missing much by missing out on this. Especially once you know which quests need what skill checks, it really helps you level up fast and avoid the worst or unprofitable outcomes. And Wild Wasteland, well that just gives you a bunch more chances to get extra loot, extra XP or just find a powerful weapon... Or snazzy hat. :P

[@zekramnordran9526]

"You should always get Wild Wasteland" *laughs in YCS-186*

[@Thriving_in_Exile]

What I like to do is stack "Skilled" twice for the extra ten, take "Small Limbs" to meet the agility requirements for a few perks, (usually Slayer or Nerves of Steel depending on the build) and in Old World Blues, re-spec to "Built to Destroy" (for crit builds; just bring Raul along to offset the condition penalty) and "Four Eyes" (I usually rock the Lucky Shades) for for maximum effective Perception. Hunting for Skill Books usually ensures I max out every skill by the Courier's mid-forties. 👍

[@joshuabeatty7371]

For modded playthroughs I'd recommend using better character creation to have wild wasteland as an option not a trait, this way you can choose skilled and good natured to give you a bigger boost, the only skills that aren't boosted are combat related.

[@hermos3602]

Console players can't use mods tho.

[@jamesmeow3039]

@@hermos3602 console players are fucked 24/7

[@leepoleschuk6692]

@@hermos3602 that sounds like a console problem... avg new vegas player has already bought it on PC

[@joshuabeatty7371]

@@leepoleschuk6692 Also the fact you need to patch new vegas so that it doesn't crash as often.

[@leepoleschuk6692]

@@joshuabeatty7371 yes and 4gb patch too

[@pwojo9776]

This isn't really an easter egg or anything, but I found a line of dialogue I found interesting, like out of nowhere, playing Fallout 4 the other day at Bunker Hill. The merchant there, I think her name is Deb (I got to a point where I stopped looking at names; usually it's either "bitch in the tacky jumpsuit", "the junkie wearing too much make-up", "vault-tec guy mah' man", etc.), but anyway. This was a post-game encounter after defeating the Institute and the Bunker Hill boss telling you "hey you're cool, you can hang here", which gives you access to the BH settlement, but this can also happen after the Battle for Bunker Hill quest regardless of who you side with. Anyway, I talk to Deb to unload some legendary stuff and clean her out again because I have more caps than I know what to do with because of console commands and a levelling/perks/skills mod. She makes this very snide remark that's like "Oh, if it ain't the General of the Minutemen coming down from his castle to spend some caps at my little shop". I was expecting a dialogue option to react to that response, but no. It just seemed so out of nowhere, she's not usually like this. Sure, I know not everyone at Bunker Hill likes the Minutemen, but after saving their asses from the Brotherhood and the Institute turning their cluster of huts and brahmin dung into a warzone, I feel like she should be a bit more, I don't know, grateful.

[@xixor788]

You can re-select it when leaving goodsprings and it doubles the skill adds with on the initial 10% experience drop, and then again at the auto doc in old world blues. That's plus 15 to all skills and plus 10 at lvl 1.

[@xixor788]

Lol I jumped the gun on that one I was just so excited.this and wild wasteland every paythrough since my first.

[@Daikon_Micucci]

I've known about this one for a while, and let me just say, when all cards are played just right, you can max out every skill before the game ends, and just collect perks every two levels.

[@briitash]

Theres an exploit in which you can do an infinite xp gain using the store clerk and passing a speech check that level you to max level, and if you edit your character before leaving town, certain perks you previously selected will be retained whilst also allowing you to reallocate the xp earned to level up again and select all new perks. This means you can leave with a max level character, all level 10 SPECIAL and 2x as many perks at max level as you the game would normally allow you. I did this exploit on ps3 with all the DLCs to maximise my level cap and it took me about 4 IRL days of playtime repeating this speech check exploit to reach max level, with the final levels taking around 2 hours of repeatedly pressing certain button combinations to complete the exploit as fast as possible.

[@wiictvchannel1112]

What a waste

[@briitash]

@@wiictvchannel1112 I mean I had a maxed out character base model that I could reload whenever I wanted to do a new play through that was an absolute beast and got plenty of hours of playtime out of so it was well worth the time investment.

[@wiictvchannel1112]

@@briitash You're right, enjoy the game as you see fit. I was in a bit of a bad mood last night. So apologies for that

[@forestwilder7877]

I literally just found out about this and did this same thing two days ago and now you made a video about it, how cool is that.

[@hermos3602]

When I make specific builds, I chose other traits, but Wild Wasteland is usually my main choice and Sith it to something else after discovering all the easter eggs.

[@TheCapefarewell]

I cannot believe I never found this trait stacking strategy. THANKS SO MUCH!!! I gotta do this first thing I do on a new playthrough.

[@bfbuilders]

And it’s made even better because after leveling up for the first time you can select the swift learner perk with will nullify the penalty of skilled

[@johnknoneborg]

You can also take skilled twice and good natured and you’ll have everything at 100 before level 45.

[@thelocustgod9098]

What do you know, I actually didn’t know this one. Always love to hear new stuff from New Vegas.

[@vico8762]

Absolutely love your new Vegas videos man

[@bananaman2]

Used to be able to pair this glitch with the infinite XP glitch (repeatedly transfer mantis foreleg between the inventory of an enemy's corpse) to double the amount of perks you can choose in a playthrough.

[@K-norr]

I personally like claustrophobia and early bird because they can negative each other if you pay attention to the time of day in the game or they can stack if you are outside and it's early morning in game.

[@ultramavor1094]

Holy balls I never realized it stacked

[@cinnabunz1532]

That is so op and I hate that I didn't know it. Welp- time for another playthrough

[@Pyrotrainthing]

“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”

[@utterlybrandsky14]

Recently playing Fallout 4. Playing the Nuka World DLC again. On the way to Bradberton you can find a broken down house. Inside it there's a Binfire with a chinese officer sword sticking on it. Pointing at the bonfire will give you an action to kindle. Once you kindle it, three stimpacks will drop. Guess it's a reference to Dark Souls.

[@Ricardo7250]

I play with Yukichigai Unofficial Patch which fixes this exploit. But even if I played vanilla, I wouldn't do that, as Skilled is already an incredibly good trait.

[@patrickiamonfire965]

You can have infinite perception in fallout 4 by duplicating the your special book and drinking the drug water from Halocigen inc.

[@Bonk4Me]

As you do

[@ANukeWithLegs]

Trigger Discipline and Heavy Handed are my go to perks no matter what.

[@LadyMistborn]

I hate that I have at least 1000 hours into this damn game yet still learn something new almost every day from your channel lmao

[@Azoriu]

If you do this 1 time, have 10 points in intelligence and luck, aaaand do the lvl 30 exp glitch in goodsprings before finalizing your character you can do it again to have 4 or 5 skills at 100 before you even do it a second time and go off to play missions, allowing you to make any build you want to start your playthrough as a lvl 30 character going into the game. Not to mention doing the glitch in goodsprings also nets you a million caps and all the armor and ammo you could want

[@kurtisharen]

I always forget about the stacking Traits bug. Usually, I go with what people mention on here, combining Good Natured and Skilled, since I'm usually the type of player to pick a favorite weapon and stick with it, so losing out on Skill Points for weapons I never use isn't an issue for me. I do admit that I usually play with mods, so in the long run, this isn't really relevant. I typically go with a mod to activate Wild Wasteland without wasting a Trait, since it doesn't seem fair to lose out on character building because you want to see content that's already part of the game, and a level-cap remover alongside a mod called "Limitless Stats" that allows Skills/SPECIAL to go above 100/10. This is mainly because I like to play TTW and don't want to hit the caps halfway through my run. I'd like leveling and combat to remain relevant throughout the whole game, and TTW is the only way my computer will run FO3 anyways. (Vanilla FO3 won't run properly, but New Vegas will, for some reason) I'm considering one last playthrough, since TTW 3.3 is out now, and if I play the game in the future, it'll probably be the FO4 fan remakes. This is nice to know when I start my run. If the bug hasn't been fixed in TTW, the same thing should be possible when leaving Vault 101.

[@TheJoeWhoSoldTheWorld]

something else you could do once you level up for the first time is take the perk that grants 10% more xp wherever xp is earned to offset the skilled trait downside

[@austinwayda94]

Yeah, I never knew about that, but I wasn’t going to choose the wild wasteland trait next play through because I wanted to get the YSC-186 gauss rifle lol

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

wild waistland is the funnest edition to any 1st/3rd person shooter varieties of fallout I have unintentionally made a Hunter S Thompson character whose first companion is Raul so many times I forget the count yes his 4 eyes trait f*cks with my opening game plans

[@cnlbenmc]

As the Fallout Wiki article essentially said; experience can be found practically anywhere but skill points are hard to come by.

[@thetrophygamer3606]

Didn’t know about that even though this usually what I do for any character I play. That’s pretty interesting

[@Andaril2]

Ok this one surprised me. I miss old outro somtimes I still do " get fooked " when see star.

[@Slender_Man_186]

If you do this while taking good natured both times instead of Wild Wasteland, or even just take it the first time in Doc Mitchell’s house and swap it out when you rebuild your character, you get gains.

[@sparkygoldman510]

Thanks! As many times as I've played this game I never knew this. I'll be sure to do this on my next trip through the Mojave! Thanks again!

[@lokundjoside]

cant believe I didn't know this. that search for all the skill books won't be as bad now

[@couriersix2443]

This! Along with high intelligence & the "educated" perk, it's pretty much impossible to not max all your skills by the time you get to lvl 50

[@stormer9952]

I usually go for Trigger Discipline to save ammo and Wild Wasteland to get unique stuff.

[@Hyperion-5744]

I'll try this on my next playthrough.

[@TheWoWisok]

I had no idea about that that's pretty awesome. Every time I uninstall this game your videos keep on pulling me back in just like Scarface.

[@littlepip0025]

Earned a sub definitely, helpful af and well presented, now to watch more of your vids!

[@BlueSmoke216]

I always take Built to Destroy because I love playing with the crit chance and repairing weapons isn't too bad. My latest run I also took Hot Blooded, mostly for thematic purposes but it's been useful in a pinch.

[@relentlesschaos7445]

I'm sure everyone just picks ild Wasteland for the strange encounters and the unique weapons that can be left behind with those encounters

[@brettb9222]

Well its a toss-up because some people prefer having the unique Gauss Rifle but in WW the Alien Blaster takes its place. I've never used up all of its limited ammo supply in a playthrough but the Blaster is finite, while the YCS is not a limited resource.

[@marionwolf9978]

Such a great trick! 5pts per skill x 13 skills = 65 pts. Even for a 10 INT character with Educated that's almost 4 levels worth of skill points, free, right out of the gate. On my current playthrough I got all skills to 100 at level 39 and that was without stacking Skilled again in OWB or getting every skill book.

[@Kazic5000]

Oh shoot, I did not know you could select it again. Big brain moves right here.

[@PaladinKnox]

Wow that’s actually really useful I’ll have to try that next time I play

[@Redh3adTheRedFox]

Hoarder and Wild Wasteland have always been my picks. I like having the extra carrying weight

[@seriousspikesam7770]

No real downside with Hoarder (apart from heading to Zion as there is a carry limit.)

[@FlashKillerX]

Alright this one I genuinely never knew about. That’s pretty great

[@remmietherat199thofmyname5]

You can also take a perk that gives you 10% exp boost up to 3x to negate the -10% exp loss if you want to not that it’s the best option overall

[@shutupkittyxD]

The powder ganger glitch still works as well where you agree to help take over good springs kill ringo then talk to cobbs which gives you two speech checks with chet to get supplies for the gangers kill cobbs before you talk to chet and the speech checks stay in chets dialogue forever. Takes forever to get the levels up which is why i don't take skilled because it makes the process even longer but you can still use it to keep perks like jury rigging after rebuilding so you can have a low repair skill but still have jury rigging comes in super handy this method like doubles the amount of perks you can get because every perk you take stays after you rebuild

[@brettb9222]

The game still removes perks from 2 4 and 6 so its important to grab DLC perks at these levels BEFORE resetting as they won't be removed

[@thelaughingrouge]

Yup, I use this every time I do a run.

[@tsarfox3462]

Definitely doing this on my next playthrough.

[@MrLordNeptune]

I've always took Skiilled trait, but didn't know about this exploit.

[@WoodlandSocialist]

I always choose skilled and the negative part can be negated with a different perk on your next level.

[@leonardoburgos-medina8541]

This game has been out so long and I have made countless builds, yet I had no idea of this. Wtf am I on?

[@MXOY99]

I'm fuming!

[@kennethcastillo9667]

That is my go to. I never had a game where i dont take that skilled perk.

[@thomasflakker6124]

I tend to pick Skilled and Four eyes. Especially when going for an Energy Weapons build.

[@MJ-ct4kg]

I never knew that could happen

[@renegaderaven3777]

Yeah, I discovered this likely unintentional boost years ago and do it every playthrough.

[@decimation9780]

While I don’t have OWB, this will be quite useful when I boot up F:NV.

[@syndicalistcat3138]

That -10% xp actualy sounds good for me because later in the game there are a lot of enemies that give 55xp or even more and i find that i level up too quickly.

[@UndyingZombie]

Wow.. I normally rush Old World Blues when I make a new playthrough.. So this would make it easier.. Good to know! ( I typically Do the stuff you can do in Good Springs, then head to the OWB DLC. I do loot everything along the way to it but other than that I basically rush it. I also play with the hardest settings + survival mode.. I just really like OWB and to me its really fun starting it when you are not even at recommended level for it. Always get that feeling like your character is overpowered when you finish it.. It also has some of the best items in the game to obtain.

[@owenstokes3917]

Yeah I was like 13 and my cousin told me you can take skilled 3 times it's ten years later and I still do this every single playthrough

[@smokestack3327]

“We assume the role of thr courier.” No i take the role of fartslapper a demolition expert.

[@SicknessX9]

Get the the wild wasteland after the autodoc so you can have both the ycs/186 and the alien blaster.

[@enclavecommando4653]

HOW HAVE I NOT DONE THIS BEFORE?!?!?!

[@SunshineSuperstar]

No Mantis...you should re-edit this. You start off and put more skill points into your combat skills while leaving the non-combat ones intentionally a little bit lower. Then you pick skilled and good natured in the docs house and again whilst leaving Goodsprings. This boosts all skills up nice and evenly. Then you head north, past Brookes Tumbleweed Ranch, and kill the mercenaries to get the unique YCS gun. Then head to Old World Blues and do the third and final skill stuff and only then do you select Wild Wasteland. Now once back in the Mojave Wasteland go back to where the mercs were and there'll be aliens now instead. Boom! 2 unique weapons for the price of 1. But don't use the alien blaster because there's barely any ammo and it's irreplaceable. I prefer to save it till I've completed all quests and saved. Same with the holy hand grenades. That way I can waste them having fun and just reload my old save!

[@michaelknasel1641]

Holy hell i didnt know skill even existed. Also thank you Mantis. You inspired me to pick up New Vegas again for the first time in like 8 years

[@conmancobb8037]

To add on to this perks are also affected by this. For example if you are level 30 and rebuild your character you can choose a completely new set of perks while keeping the old ones.

[@ThatGuy-bm9cs]

I knew about the rebuild did not know that skilled stacked though

[@dem0n0maniac]

Fallout: a perfectly balanced role-playing game

[@maximus4765]

Skilled + good natured = free points lol Also wow that's a pretty interesting oversight

[@brettb9222]

Heh, 'oversights' *casually listens to Chet say, "not this again!" 5800 times*

[@nonstopmaximum2141]

With this trait plus comprehension, gifted and skill books you can max 100 on all skills.

[@captainrumia2607]

This works better with Logan's Loophole, in my opinion. The extra skill boost is more impactful when you have less levels to increase your skills.

[@juandemarko8348]

I usually pick small frame and four eyes trait freeing up 2 special points to place where needed

[@Kanezeran]

Yo Mantis, I've been thinking: how about covering Emerson Brooks, the guy who did almost every single male voice in NV? The guy pretty much carried most of the story and I think he deserves a shout out.

[@donaldbell2554]

Awsome can't wait for another play through thank you

[@Eldrick_]

I always pick Skilled and Small Frame for that extra special point. 4 eyes is bugged and doesn't count positively for perk checks

[@brentbarr498]

Damn.. I had NO idea about that.. thanks!

[@supersonicbro8643]

Huh that’s actually really useful Thank you for this information

[@lucaserpi8857]

Always took skilled in my run since the first one, basically not even a downside

[@TheRandomEevee]

Good to know,still picking good natured and skilled though

[@InternetTAB]

wild wasteland is a mandatory mod in trait for me lol.