Help me get a ballistic fist!

[Sand]

None of the traders listed on the wiki as selling ballistic fists actually seem to have them. I can't check with the quartermaster at Hoover Dam as my NCR reputation is mixed, and as I'm doing a Legion playthrough that's only going to get worse. This also means I can't kill the Praetorians for them as I can't stealth-kill them without the right tools.

The only place I haven't tried yet is the Brotherhood of Steel quartermaster as I'm not that far, yet. But if she doesn't have one, am I screwed?

[red255]

Isn't the two step goodbye a ballistic fist?

shop inventories are leveled, you need to make the proper level first, and they refresh twice a week. so.... if it doesn't have it and you are the proper level for it to appear in the shop, wait for a refresh.

[MannsOverMeta]

Don’t the guys at the Fort have ballistic fists?
If they don’t like you just kill them and take the good stuff.

[fоreskin feta]

Originally posted by MannsOverMeta (WEMP):

Don’t the guys at the Fort have ballistic fists?
If they don’t like you just kill them and take the good stuff.

Originally posted by Yevaud:

I'm doing a Legion playthrough

Have Caesar die during the operation and take his displacer glove.

[ADEC Inc]

Wear an NCR uniform into Hoover Dam, or pickpocket a grenade onto anyone carrying the fist.

[Sand]

Originally posted by red255:

Isn't the two step goodbye a ballistic fist?

shop inventories are leveled, you need to make the proper level first, and they refresh twice a week. so.... if it doesn't have it and you are the proper level for it to appear in the shop, wait for a refresh.

The Two-Step Goodbye might be my only hope now, yes. It costs 25k caps so I was looking for something to tide me over until I can afford it, but I've just checked and, unlike ballistic fists at other merchants, it is actually available. So all is not lost. But I'm not sure refreshes are working; Mick & Ralph have each had like 30 caps for what seems like forever. I'll do some more investigating. Thanks for the help.

Originally posted by MannsOverMeta (WEMP):

Don’t the guys at the Fort have ballistic fists?
If they don’t like you just kill them and take the good stuff.

The guys at the Fort do like me; as I say, I'm doing a Legion playthrough. I'm also trying to do it in Legion "style," so melee weapons/unarmed combat. Hence my desire for the fist. If I could kill them stealthily I'd do so, but you can't retrieve your weapons, even when hidden, without turning the Legion against you and failing all their quests. Thank you just the same.

Originally posted by some mbmc poster:

Originally posted by MannsOverMeta (WEMP):

Don’t the guys at the Fort have ballistic fists?
If they don’t like you just kill them and take the good stuff.

Originally posted by Yevaud:

I'm doing a Legion playthrough

Have Caesar die during the operation and take his displacer glove.

I intend to save Caesar; that's the ending I'm after. And I'm covered for a Displacer glove by the Paladin Toaster. Thank you, anyway.

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

Wear an NCR uniform into Hoover Dam, or pickpocket a grenade onto anyone carrying the fist.

Does the Quartermaster sell to you when wearing an NCR uniform? I admit, I forgot to try that. And pickpocketing grenades onto Praetorians would be my prefered method of getting a ballistic fist (after buying one, of course) but I can't get any explosives into the fort as I'm doing a Legion playthrough. Thanks for replying, though.

[ADEC Inc]

Originally posted by Yevaud:

Does the Quartermaster sell to you when wearing an NCR uniform? I admit, I forgot to try that. And pickpocketing grenades onto Praetorians would be my prefered method of getting a ballistic fist (after buying one, of course) but I can't get any explosives into the fort as I'm doing a Legion playthrough. Thanks for replying, though.

I'm not sure if you need high rep to buy from him but it's worth a shot. You can smuggle in various explosives by choosing to keep your holdout weapons.

[Sand]

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

Originally posted by Yevaud:

Does the Quartermaster sell to you when wearing an NCR uniform? I admit, I forgot to try that. And pickpocketing grenades onto Praetorians would be my prefered method of getting a ballistic fist (after buying one, of course) but I can't get any explosives into the fort as I'm doing a Legion playthrough. Thanks for replying, though.

I'm not sure if you need high rep to buy from him but it's worth a shot. You can smuggle in various explosives by choosing to keep your holdout weapons.

You do indeed need high NCR rep, and it has to be virtually squeaky clean; I'm at mixed and I can't do it. The only other way is if you get Colonel Moore's approval, but you need to go right the way through the NCR storyline (i.e. you need to have sided with them) to get that.

I've tried smuggling in holdout weapons, but all I keep are a few small melee weapons; no explosives. Do I keep more with a higher sneak?

[ADEC Inc]

If you have 50 sneak you can bring in all kinds of goodies.

[Sand]

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

If you have 50 sneak you can bring in all kinds of goodies.

Oooh, that's interesting. Thank you!

[Yhwach]

You can kill veronica for a free power fist

[talgaby]

25,000 caps is almost nothing. Especially if you are with the Legion, since you should have the stash near Cottonwood unlocked. It spawns 5-20k caps worth of stuff every 3 days.

[Sand]

Originally posted by Meliodas:

You can kill veronica for a free power fist

I have a Power Fist; I'm after a ballistic fist.

Originally posted by talgaby:

25,000 caps is almost nothing. Especially if you are with the Legion, since you should have the stash near Cottonwood unlocked. It spawns 5-20k caps worth of stuff every 3 days.

I'd completely forgotten to try that, thank you!

[CJOLL4]

If all else fails... you can use the console to spawn a ballistic fist and discard the appropriate amount of caps as though you had bought it. That doesn't count as cheating, does it?

I once had a character that I role-played as a Tribal. Her weapon of choice was the throwing hatchet, but throwing hatchets are painfully rare, so I used the console to "buy" them or to "recover" them from corpses.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Open the game console and use the following command:

player.additem 0015ba03 1

"player.additem" adds an item to your inventory. The string of numbers and letters after it are "item Base ID" and the number after that is the quantity. In most of Bethesda's games' that is how the invientory system is loaded into memory by the game engine. The only really organized version of this is Skyrim, where related crafting items are listed in order by hexidecimal number. Inguts with ingots, ores with ores.

[Sand]

Originally posted by CJOLL4 (Harold):

If all else fails... you can use the console to spawn a ballistic fist and discard the appropriate amount of caps as though you had bought it. That doesn't count as cheating, does it?

I once had a character that I role-played as a Tribal. Her weapon of choice was the throwing hatchet, but throwing hatchets are painfully rare, so I used the console to "buy" them or to "recover" them from corpses.

Yeah, this guy's a Tribal, or grew up as one, at least. I still haven't worked out in my head what might've happened to change that, but having come from that to live among "civilisation" for a few years he looks at the Legion and sees, in basic terms, family. Spawning it is something I'd consider as a last resort, but it looks as though I'm not far off that. Thank you for the idea.

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Open the game console and use the following command:

player.additem 0015ba03 1

"player.additem" adds an item to your inventory. The string of numbers and letters after it are "item Base ID" and the number after that is the quantity. In most of Bethesda's games' that is how the invientory system is loaded into memory by the game engine. The only really organized version of this is Skyrim, where related crafting items are listed in order by hexidecimal number. Inguts with ingots, ores with ores.

Aaand here's the method to make it happen. Thank you!