Is rdr's Dead eye power or VATS superior?

[👽GLEEPUS👽]

Let's say Arthur Morgan and Courier six (assuming they're armed with a pistol/revolver) decided to have a duel. To the death.

Without any bias, who would, realistically, get out alive if Arthur Morgan used deadeye and the courier used VATS?

[MurderMoose]

This would be a squash match. Courier has much stronger guns with faster rates of fire, and the VATS is automatic aiming besides. If you want to consider other things like the potential maximum health or damage resistances or ammo types or chems or other video game abstractions, then it just gets heavier in the Courier's favor.

To address the title specifically: Dead Eye is an abstraction of the character's knowledge and ability with revolvers. VATS is effectively an in-universe aimbot, no skill required. My money would be on the automated assisted aiming.

[Tribe Reimanen]

Both have their own functionality.

V.A.T.S. was added in order to keep the turn based combat alive in a different way when Fallout switched to first person combat. You completely freeze time so youre able to carefully decide what you wanna do in what order. Fiend 1 is running at me with a knife, his leg is almost crippled, lets shoot him there so he cant run at me so fast. Fiend 2 is aiming his shotgun at me and is about to fire, lets blow his head off. He has priority, so lets undo my action on Fiend 1 and focus on blowing off Fiend 2's head off first and THEN crippling Fiend 1's leg.

Dead Eye is meant to encompass the western / gunslinger feel. It doesnt stop time, so you need to quickly decide what to do, switching from enemy to enemy in a rapid pace.

Both are great gameplay systems, but VATS stops time and if the Courier has a good amount of AP he can take as long as he wants in killing Arthur.

[NightmareGats]

Just bullet time is the right answer

[psychotron666]

Realistically (as you put it), neither of vats or dead eye mean anything beyond the person's natural skill with the weapon. They don't actually slow time or stop time, it's a game mechanic to make up for the player's lack of reaction speed and show the character is a better shooter than you, the player.