When To Do Mothership Zeta?

[dwaynegand]

In my opinion, Mothership Zeta is the hardest of the DLC's at higher levels. This is due to a higher amount of those aliens using the inertia suppression field. When I went through the DLC on my current character, I was at level 30 and there were a lot of them. Most of them I could take out with sneak attack criticals, the rest I had to roast with a flamer as their shields are useless against flame or electrical attacks. Some of them have more health points than others.

Now I know that Energy Weapons are quite common throughout the dlc and that getting the Novasurge requires a Science skill of 75. Modifying the healing arches to heal all of your health requires high science as well.

With all this in mind, when should I tackle this dlc so I don't have to encounter so many of those shielded aliens and have an easier time?

[eddie_southall]

hi well i done it at level 20 with chinese stealh suit with dart gun fully upgraded hope that helps

[dwaynegand]

What else should I bring with me? The last time I did the DLC, I brought a Flamer with me because I heard that those shielded aliens still take full damage from fire and electrical attacks as the shield is useless against those attacks.

[Unseen]

Really you can do zeta anytime, lot of the time I do it first before even the main quest. Everything you need to beat it at base level is in the xp, lasers and all kinds of cheap alien weapons. It kinda reminds me of system shock, in that its all a connected hub where you explore and beat it, without really running into anything cheap that's gonna kill you outright. The aliens got powerful weapons, but it don't help them much when they basically hand them over to you.

You might get bogged down in exploration however, its a fairly puzzling ship, but it doesn't take to long to explore. You basically have to open pathways through various console triggers.

Zeta's finale is epic.

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It was the last thing I did before moving to New Vegas, didn't have too much trouble with a high Energy Weapons skill.