Skip New Reno completely - Still acceptable level in endgame?

AlbertCole

AlbertCole

First time out of the vault
In my current playthrough I'm trying to play a guy with a strict moral code. Now I reached New Reno and this is pretty much a hive of scum and villainy. So I'm considering to skip the whole place and continue my journey to the NCR.

Now I'm wondering: By skipping New Reno I'm leaving out a lot of quests. Can I still reach an acceptable level to defeat Horrigan in the end? I don't want to spend the whole fight injecting stims.
 
Your guy may have a strict moral code, and New Reno is basically Sodom and Gomorrah 2.0, but at the same time I'm fairly certain there are opportunities to clean up the city. For example, if you have the restoration patch, you'll be able to help open up an orphanage for the homeless kids running around, and I'm pretty sure there's more quests like that in the vanilla game as well. If someone sees themselves as a good person, then wouldn't the best course of action be to try and clean up this city instead of leaving it rotten to the core?
 
Screw them. The only thing valuable there is the unlock of the Sierra Depot and the sweet tainted sunglasses :-P (which i firmly believe that those are a Trigun reference). Those are actually part of the Wright family quests, and they are kinda the earnest out there, right? Though weakness means humility...
Anyway, the first time i played i didn't bother. Having no car makes the countdown a real issue.
 
Blowing up the stil is a good thing i guess?
Getting the doctor a pair of new glasses is not to bad.
Boxing is neither good or bad imo.
I guess you could work something out with the guys stealing the car for the uppgrade.

Might be missing some quests/stuff to do but it have been a while now :P
 
Of course my guy helped with the orphanage in the Den. In New Reno however you could argue, that the Wrights are somehow 'the good guys' but in the end they are still part of the system, as they supply the other families with alcohol and so on. And I'm not seeing my character involved in any family business in New Reno.

In my first playthrough I did everything in New Reno but now I'm really trying to act in a consistent manner, which is quite interesting and challenging at times. My guy's a goody two shoes: No stealing, no hookers, no jobs from shady types and so on. I'm missing out a lot of stuff and xp. :/

Edit: I'm still doing the 'neutral stuff' in New Reno though.
 
you could go and wipe out all the families except the wrights which gets new reno a good ending in which they open up schools and churches or get a flamethrower and burn new reno to the ground cleanse the wasteland of their sin
 
So, what do you guys think? There should be enough XP around besides New Reno to assemble an decent endgame character, right?

mutatedchihuahua00 said:
you could go and wipe out all the families except the wrights which gets new reno a good ending in which they open up schools and churches or get a flamethrower and burn new reno to the ground cleanse the wasteland of their sin
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The Wrights have slaves working for them. Goody two shoes and and the Wrights won't be friends.
 
AlbertCole said:
So, what do you guys think? There should be enough XP around besides New Reno to assemble an decent endgame character, right?
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Yes, if i remember you will go into S.Francisco at ~20th level and you could do their quests and hunt deathclaws/centaurs north-east of town 'till you hit 24th. Or even higher.

If you skip "crime" quests in Reno, you would roughly lose on 14.000 XP - thats ~20 Deathclaws around S.F.

Have fun.
 
Taxi said:
Yes, if i remember you will go into S.Francisco at ~20th level and you could do their quests and hunt deathclaws/centaurs north-east of town 'till you hit 24th. Or even higher.

If you skip "crime" quests in Reno, you would roughly lose on 14.000 XP - thats ~20 Deathclaws around S.F.
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Thanks for the info. That was exactly what I wanted to know.
 
Depending on your build, you don't need a high level to defeat Horrigan at all. Getting Enclave officers to help you against him in a fight (high speech/CH) and hacking turrets (you need a presidential key for that, and that means killing President in a single turn - preferably in Sneak mode) makes the end fight extremely easy. So easy you don't even need to fight at all. Just sit back and watch Horrigan reduced to bloody pulp.

Of course, depends on difficulty. This is written from the perspective of Normal.


tl;dr Yeah, New Reno isn't that important, you can skip it.
 
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