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Has anyone here ever actually recruited Dogmeat early and kept him alive in FO1? (I haven't)
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I always keep him alive. Save scumming like a motherfucker to do it because combat is a merciless bitch in the OGs and I actually need him to do work.
Exact opposite reason I save scum like a motherfucker in FO2: "Who the fuck gave Vic grenades and a machine gun?! Asshole keeps killing me!"
By the end game areas, I am surprised you still find Dogmeat being useful, and especially so much that he's important to combat planning.
He's hella fast and can knock dudes down pretty easy, effectively taking them out of the fight for a round or two.
He's less useful in 2 but more because Marcus, Suilek and the super computer robobrain are just OP af.
Yeah, but I'm thinking of multiple super mutants in a room. I'm not sure how you keep Dogmeat from dying. You'd basically have to alpha strike to keep him from being shredded in the crossfire by any of the minigun fire directed at you.
FWIW, I mostly commonly solo with a high luck, high AP sniper build with a Special Edition BB gun. It can fire three times a turn and not uncommonly one-hit kills super mutants. Even then I get a little return fire back which I assume would shred Dogmeat.
You can talk your way out of literally every non-random combat scenario in the first game, so it's actually not really a problem. Barely an inconvenience. By the time I get to the rooms of super mutants, which are basically just where The Master is, I'm suave enough to just talk my through everyone, including The Master himself lol
Plus, with Power Armor I can just get aggro from everyone so nobody attacks anyone but me, using a rocket launcher or something to blow up half the enemies in the room as my first action. And then of course, save scumming when the damn dog just runs into a wall of bullets.
My favorite thing about FO1 is the fact you can beat it without fighting, so that's generally how I play. Though sometimes I like playing a dumbass, too.
Can you elaborate? Are all combat playthroughs the dumbass way?
No, playing a character with 3 or less INT. Your dialogue completely changes to just grunts lol
Oh yes. That's totally different. I once did a 1 INT run. My character was too dumb to gamble, even with mentats.
I played with 1 INT 10 Luck once. Found the Alien Blaster right outside the vault. It carried me the whole game.
The amount of times either Vic or Sulik burst fired someone to pieces and I had to reload was infuriating.
I mean, Ian in FO1 is also deeply in love with burst-firing SMGs at enemies standing right next to the player. The OG Fallouts are very consistent in this regard.