Easy way to get to New Vegas without getting ass raped?

[snugharpoon]

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cazadors and radscorpions, mainly. Currently level 8, have nothing better to do, may as well confront Benny.

[hghwolf]

Take the route you`re supposed to take.

Or use stealthboys.

[gas chambers for pit bulls]

climb the cliff to the north of goodsprings and follow the cliff face as far as possible. that'll at least get you past the radscorpions and some of the cazadors. I don't know a full route because I never bothered to try and rush it so early.

As the other poster said, kill Joe Cobb for his stealthboy and crack the safe in the schoolhouse. Four minutes of invisibility might help a lot.

[Ladez]

Easiest route is the intended one.

[Sonny]

If you don't want to go the way you're supposed to, get a varmint rifle, or service rifle and as many 5.56 rounds you can get your hands on, preferably armor piercing. Get some dynamite and backup weapons too.

Go to Scorpian Gulch. There are Radscorpians there, but don't go through the gulch toward Novac yet. Instead, jump on to the cliff where the scorpians can't reach you, and start shooting them from there. I've managed to get to Vegas early easy this way. If the scorps run away, you may have to jump down quickly to get them to come back and jump back up.

[JBrown247]

Stay as far west as you can get and go north. You will have to take on a few cazadors. Use explosives. Once you get through those, it is pretty straight forward. Make sure you pay attention because the enemies in that part of the map are leveled much higher.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

google it
there are atleast 2 ways there at lvl one without (with a little luck) ever being spotted by anything

[Vassago Rain]

Git gud.

[Gralzeim]

Don't feel bad. Even with better gear, Cazadors can still be fairly nasty if you don't take them out at long range, because of their speed and venom (that venom still hurts if you run out of antivenom!).

Personally I find Deathclaws to be easier than Cazadors because they're not nearly as fast (and they're much bigger targets), and one hit from them doesn't result in a good chunk of your health draining even after you kill them.

But yeah, it's totally possible to deal with them, especially if you can spot them far enough away and keep your distance (stealth helps, as does having someone like Boone along to help spot far-away hostiles, or ED-E to put said hostiles on your compass from a longer distance away). That way you can engage them before they can close with you, or avoid them altogether.


Not saying it's never possible to take them on up close, just that you have to have pretty good gear and a healthy amount of HP and antitoxin to do so without making it dangerous.


What I'm saying is that I sympathize, and yes everyone finds Cazadors to be difficult to deal with at first. Even in power armor they're still annoying pests if they get close (because somehow venom goes through sealed power armor).

[Discreet_Pigeon]

The easiest way to get to New Vegas without getting raped would be to use console commands and tgm. All jokes aside now, the best way to get to New Vegas is to stay on the intended path and not to wander off it for it is much safer than accidently meeting up with strong enemies such as deathclaws or the cazadors. An alternative is to find decent gear(weapons, armor, and misc supplies) and then wander off into unknown territory for you should then be prepared for anything.

[red255]

cazadores can be taken easily at level 8 with a 9 mm smg and grunt and hand load perks.

radscorps can be taken with a service rifle and AP ammo.

Ideally a Plasma pistol or rifle with decent ammo but if you put the points into guns you put the points into guns. which I'm assuming you did since you are having trouble.

a 9mm SMG will shred cazadores a few shots to their wings with the spread and the thing is probably not much of a threat and its not like it survives many hits from the weapon.

also works on cazadores.

a varmit rifle is only good with jury rigging to repair a decent gun. like a trail carbine or hunting rifle or brush gun.

a hunting rifle with mods and AP ammo is probably your best bet in the long run for armored targets (couldn't find enough 5.56 AP ammo to make it work except in Lonesome road.)

but I used the marksmen carbine (all american) with AP rounds and wasn't super displeased with it.

or you could just use a laser rifle and kill everything from long range or short range. or a tribeam if you need more firepower.

[bermuda]

Go south to the Mojave Outpost, east to Nipton, north to Novac, and then north to Boulder City, after that, you need to get through freeside to get to the strip.

[snugharpoon]

Originally posted by ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!:

Go south to the Mojave Outpost, east to Nipton, north to Novac, and then north to Boulder City, after that, you need to get through freeside to get to the strip.

Out of all the suggestions i got, i went with this. Worked first try, thanks.

[red255]

Yeah, thats basically the way the main quest wants you to go. Except the Mojave outpost is optional and only suggested by various sidequests. good to go there though, to pick up a service rifle and some AP rounds.

[mjsummers]

Not only is it a good idea to stop at the Mojave Outpost for supplies, but if you pay attention to who is there you may be able to pick up a fresh companion if you stopped in Primm and had the parts to repair the eyebot

[bermuda]

Originally posted by mjsummers:

Not only is it a good idea to stop at the Mojave Outpost for supplies, but if you pay attention to who is there you may be able to pick up a fresh companion if you stopped in Primm and had the parts to repair the eyebot

You can also pick up Cass if you do a quest for her. She does pretty well in combat, but sometimes she'll disappear, or turn agressive, if you enter Vault 22