Any good builds for hard or very hard/hardcore mode?

[Gustavo Eats His Own Chicken?]

Any suggestions will be obileaged :D i think i spelled that wrong >:C

[Mauno]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=130695347

'obliged'

[floyd ryan]

CHA 1? That's a p u s s y powergamer build, where is the fun with that?

[Gustavo Eats His Own Chicken?]

I kinda agree with ryan a wee bit like i do wanna have CHA because im more of a reasoning person.

[Mauno]

Originally posted by T-Dog:

I kinda agree with ryan a wee bit like i do wanna have CHA because im more of a reasoning person.

That's what Intelligence is for.

The only thing Charisma actually does is determine your starting skill level in Speech and Barter, and how good your companions are. Utterly useless stat if you're not roleplaying in a way where your character's power is not an issue.

Speech & Barter are excellent skills, but the slightly higher starting level is not worth the SPECIAL points. Yes yes, all builds are entirely viable, but if you're going to play on bullet-sponge mode (Hard or Very Hard), you should probably try to make your character good.

[aloha2k]

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[EolSunder]

well hardcore mode isn't really super hardcore, its more annoying than anything having to deal with the notices on water/food/etc level. More trouble than its worth and to me doesn't add to the game much. As for playing on very hard mode, personally thats all i play on now, having did the game a bunch of times even very hard mode isn't very hard with a sniper build. If your going with very hard mode, you want a nice sniper build which will still let you kill most things long before they get close to you. The only problem on very hard mode is in certain tight areas with hard foes, like deathclaw caves where you instantly are attacked by 3+ deathclaws, making killing them fast kinda hard unless you are really topped off with gear, weapons. Most foes in the game/wasteland you can just hide/stealth kill all day long with no problem. Modded varmit rifle until you can get ratslayer, until you can get good sniper weapon. Good strong unarmed weapon (spiked knuckles until strong power fist) for sneak attacking all the generic npcs in the game for loot like ncr troopers, boomers, power gangers, mercenaries, etc).