Nuka world or Far Harbour?

[Mari]

my time has come and I must go, but what awaits there, where is easier where better?

[MoonC A T]

I am probably in the minority in liking Nuka World better. I find the constant fog to be annoying and the storyline to be a bit on the droll side.

[Death Approaches]

Why in the world would you want EASY?! I don't like you. :-)

Neither are hard, but if you insist on playing NW as a good guy, you'll be upset at how little there is to do, so do that first. Actually, do NW first anyway. Because after doing all the bad stuff and making good people hate you, you need some good karma, go do FH and be a hero... then wipe out the raiders if you want, or go full evil and wipe out everyone else. (it's hard to end the game that way, but it's sure fun!)

grumble grumble... wants it to be easy... I swear... grumble grumble... these kids today don't understand nothin...

[hawkeye]

Far Harbour is great with scenery mods and no fog, if scenery appeals to you. Rural adventuring. With fog it's difficult as you can't see much. Nuka World is raiders and theme park rides.

[Shadowrun]

i would do far harbor first because you can come back t the commonwealth normally afterwards

when you do the nuka world quests all the way through it will lead you back to the commonwealth with raiders who will expect you to be raiding your own settlements :P

[Shadowrun]

personally i found nuka world to be more fun. but i'm also the person who likes to save the best for last.

[Death Approaches]

yeah we really cannot tell you without spoilers, but there's a lot of people that will be mad at you after NW if you play "correctly" - and wouldn't you know it, they're flagged essential so you can't just shoot them in the face when you get back to the Commonwealth.

But you're going to love (hate) Red Eye!

"Hey, here's a friendly reminder: Sure, nobody likes the traders... but you can't kill 'em all, or else there won't be anyone around to do all the s***ty work you a**holes won't do. Think about it!"

[Ron_1953]

I enjoyed Far Harbor, good story, interesting locations, NPCs and monsters. I ditched Nuka World when it became obvious where the plot was going and never bothered with it again. Not my thing. But to each his own.

[Death Approaches]

Ron's NW experience is a lot of people's they simply refuse to play bad, evil characters.

Did you know there are mods for the Christians that take the false idolatry thing too far, to remove the Daedra worship from Skyrim? Yes it's a game, but it could be a tool of the Great Satan! It might entice you over to devil worship and heavy metal music!

Fallout 3 the first 3D FPS one, had slavery and torture and sex workers, and some people ONLY play for that, have all kinds of mods for 3, NV, and this one. (that we cannot actually talk about here) There are realistic screaming and crying sound mods because people literally want that experience.

I only wish I was kidding about either of those but I'm not... and that's the thing, everyone can do what they want, it's one of the reasons all the Bethimax games are old now and still played daily by new and veteran gamers in the thousands.

I still say do NW first, but you are free to start both and jump back and forth without ever advancing either storyline... that's Fallout, baby! ;-)

[Bored Peon]

Far Harbor is a bit easier in my opinion because things get nastier the farther you venture into the island. I think you can start at 15 or 25, or just go there. Nukaworld is just nasty from start to finish.

[DouglasGrave]

You're not locked into either one (apart from a relatively brief section at the start of Nuka World), so you can just try whichever takes your fancy and progress through it as you see fit.

[Germaine's Bra]

Basic Breakdown,

Do you want the option to be a Good Guy? Far Harbor

Do you want to be a Raider? Nuka World

Do you want to be Child of Atom or Fishmonger? Far Harbor

Do you hate Nuka Cola? Far Harbor, If you love it, Nuka World

Do you want to be morally Grey? Far Harbor

Do you want to be Pure Evil? Far Harbor

Do you like Theme Parks? Nuka World

Do you want have to do more Settlement stuff? For Raiders Nuka World, for Fishmongers or Children of Atom Far Harbor.

Do you want an AK-47 Nuka World

Do you want a Level Action Rifle? Far Harbor

Do you want more of Nick Valentine? Far Harbor

Do you want a new Companion that is more evil? Nuka World

[DouglasGrave]

Do you want a new companion that is old and grizzled? Far Harbour.

Do you want a new female companion? Tough luck, try mods.

[Xenon The Noble]

Don't go to Fah Hahbah until you have the maxed the ghoul rewards. That way the fog won't kill you.
Don't go to Nuka-world until you have level 3 the lockpick and hacker rewards. I recall some locks and hacks were necessary to run the gauntlet, but I could be mistaken.
IMHO, both have boring rigmarole that you have to complete to get there, which is boring if you have to repeat it once every play through

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

Don't go to Nuka-world until you have level 3 the lockpick and hacker rewards. I recall some locks and hacks were necessary to run the gauntlet, but I could be mistaken.

Any lock necessary to continue in the main quest (of the vanilla game or DLC) will always be of Novice level and not require any perks. (Having a tougher lock than that in the Gauntlet wouldn't be done, as you can not leave there once entered. So if you didn't have the perk, you would permanently be stuck and could never leave.) The locked doors instead open shortcuts, to bypass some of the Gauntlet.

As far as I remember, I think the same applies to any lock involved in a quest. The only exceptions are quests where you are given a companion that can bypass the lock (like with Deacon and getting into the Switchboard), or are given other options (like finding Kelloggs keys below his house).

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

Don't go to Nuka-world until you have level 3 the lockpick and hacker rewards. I recall some locks and hacks were necessary to run the gauntlet, but I could be mistaken.

Any lock necessary to continue in the main quest (of the vanilla game or DLC) will always be of Novice level and not require any perks. (Having a tougher lock than that in the Gauntlet wouldn't be done, as you can not leave there once entered. So if you didn't have the perk, you would permanently be stuck and could never leave.)

As far as I remember, I think the same applies to any lock involved in a quest. The only exceptions are quests where you are given a companion that can bypass the lock (like with Deacon and getting into the Switchboard).

I think that it would be a good rule, and maybe there's a way to do it with no perks, I just don't know it and don't like spending half an hour dying from gas or some other stupid thing.