Chain sword quest

[Kurio]

I really gimped myself and Im 100 unarmed with low endurance. Im struggling through and managed to get by by chucking grenades. I heard theres a chain sword in the game and my melee is 70 with a STR on 9 so I was gonna try and bank on that.

Speechcraft 100 and I still fail sometimes. Othertimes you just need to be able to beat ass.

I am by Leningrad statue and am unable to find the quest. Anyone tell me who gives it?

[Kurio]

bump. Sorry to pester but its getting to the point where I have to save scum just to inch forward. Even with perks, unarmed is working like real life. Get shot before you get close.

[Worm]

Not a really chain sword, but you can get a taiga machete with AP cost of 4/5/4, +5 sequence, 11-29 DMG and 20% chance to ignore armor down the line if you do quests for Mycelium. It requires 100 Melee and Dex though, but by just looking at its stats its pretty fun to use on max STR/DEX character.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

You need level 10 and a lot of patience, you also get the car so this is where the game takes off
Melee is not viable as a main combat skill....at least not for now, it depends on what the devs add
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRDAPO0ZMk&t=2s

[Kurio]

Yeah, I eventually got the chainsaw but never understood how to reload it. I had all the gasoline in the world, and I even tried diesel but I could not get it to reload no matter what. Just said no ammo when I tried the classic cycle with right click to reload. Tried putting it down and applying gasoline. No luck.

I finished the game and yes, Melee to total crap. I had to cheese the final battle with multiple time bombs that I never figured out how to use till that point.

Never got a car in the game. Spent the whole thing walking.

It was pretty fun and worth the money but I would never replay it. And yes, melee as your only combat skill is ♥♥♥♥ and a headache.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Sounds like you had a lot of fun:) maybe it will work now
Only walking seems to have been a challenge run:)
Did you get the dog and the other 3 companions?
If you finished it means you liked it a lot:)
You could replay it again, with doing some quests in order and the right character build you could skip a lot of time but i guess you can wait for the devs to get more content since they promised

[Kurio]

I got fidel and hexagone. I heard the goth girl is a companion. I also let the slave girl go in Kraz. Took 55 hours to beat.

Also I heard you could make Red Fighter into a settlement. I recruited Hexagon and never visited again.

[SKRONK]

Originally posted by Neyreyan:

You need level 10 and a lot of patience, you also get the car so this is where the game takes off
Melee is not viable as a main combat skill....at least not for now, it depends on what the devs add

Melee is absolutely a viable main combat skill. I don't know why people keep saying the opposite. Picked up the game two weeks ago and I've been playing a black belt/sex appeal female with 7 dex (raised to 8 via serum) and 4 str (raised to 5 via fish, +1 from death helmet) wielding a leningrad knife I purchased early-ish from a caravan and later the taiga machete. I use the Lenin's Wrath chainsaw when fighting armored guys, and occasionally beef up my dex with sweetrolls for harder/longer combat sequences. Main character outclasses AKMS Hex and Stetchkin Fidel every round, aiming at the eyes even before grabbing melee perks late game.

Melee isn't viable with super low dex/str but then I don't know why you'd bother.

[edit]: With 9 AP from 8 dex, bullrushing into combat I can get off a machete to the eyes and leningrad knife to the eyes, when standing still. I wield one in each slot to switch back and forth.

[SKRONK]

Originally posted by AirLonnie:

Yeah, I eventually got the chainsaw but never understood how to reload it. I had all the gasoline in the world, and I even tried diesel but I could not get it to reload no matter what. Just said no ammo when I tried the classic cycle with right click to reload. Tried putting it down and applying gasoline. No luck.

Through a lot of frustration, trial and error, I discovered you have to have it equipped in a slot, go to inventory, drag diesel or gasoline onto it. That's the only way to refuel because the in-combat action is, as noted, broken.

[Kurio]

feel like aiming for the eyes didnt do much until the last patch.

My experience was me catching a burst shot to the face and dying. If I got to go before my opponents I could kill one quickly. The rest I would have to funnel around corners or whatever.

The gun is infinitely more viable even without perks. My toon was low endurance so that probably had something to do with it. Fighting a stack of 5 to 10 guys with guns vs melee has not been viable in my experience .

Take melee for RP only or if you want a challenge. Impossible? Not at all.

The game will be much funner if you take a gun tho,

[omegazeda]

requires 120 melee skill to wield properly XD

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

I guess melee is viable if you use grenades?:D still counts as melee
i think the melee has a problem because shields are not working proper and melee weapons don't have a tie in with throwing weapons.
For example, imagine blocking bullets and throwing tomahawks at the enemies before engaging them in melee and scalping them:)
I was using a quality knife for a good part of the game until i got the SKS, i shot a bullet, stab someone or stab and run a little back.
But with a str/end/dex build it would be crazy strong to use melee and some secondary weapons:) especially because you can get the vest, the death helmet, a good shield and some perks to practically be bullet proff.....but not critical bullet hit proff:)

[Kurio]

My thrown weapon was somewhere around 50. Yeah it definitely carried me through some early fights. I just prayed the grenades would knock em down.