Man, I've never understood you guys who play Fallout games using pistols and light armor one second longer than necessary.

Step One: Find Arcade. Pester the fuck out of him until he and his formerly fascist buddies teach you how to use Power Armor. (Because honestly, dealing with the Brotherhood is just fatiguing.)

There is no step two. You load up the heaviest, awesomest, death-dealingest hardware available and murder everything. I'm talking the Gobi. The riot shotgun, for close quarters work (a favorite for clearing ghouls out of vaults or super mutants indoors.) The SMMG. The Smitty Special. The Sprtl-Wood 9700. The Q-35 maybe, if I'm going to be out in the field away from my repair benches for awhile. Really, anything using plasma. Red Glare if I'm feeling nasty.

Pistols are for that awkward period when you're still basing out of the hotel in Novac and the hunting revolver still seems like the best weapon ever.

-Merc
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