I am too. :shifty:

I was hoping you could dial it up to 11 with said improvement, guess not :whistling:

In that case, I'll do

S P E C I A L

9 2 9 1 1 9 9

:)

Don't tell people not to go to 10. That's not a blanket statement. For one, you cannot boost all your SPECIAL without meeting certain conditions.

Maybe you're the person to ask... does New Vegas have a lot of unique dialogue choices for idiot characters? I knew there's a few but it's hardly worth a playthrough if it's just every now and again.

I went with

 S  P  E  C  I  A  L10  2 10  2  2 10  2

Davor is correct that you can eventually boost stats, but I wanted to have 10s right when I started out. I do not regret this decision in the least. You won't get to the implant store for a long time, and every point counts in the early game.

My character ONLY uses hand-to-hand weapons and explosives. That turned out well. When some guy 100' away is picking at me with a rifle, well - sometimes it's fun to charge at him and get shot in the face 5 times before you get there, but it's nice to just throw a stick of dynamite at him instead to soften him up or knock him over BEFORE the charge. (My tags were Melee, Explosives, Survival.)

The most important piece of advice I can give you: GET GOOD MELEE PERKS. Perks make a huge difference in combat. Check out the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_perks and plan ahead. At low levels, there aren't really any melee perks. Get to level 8 however you can and get Super Slam. Super Slam rules - you hit the enemy and they often go all ragdoll on you. They can't fight back when they're like that. It's just incredible. I also like Stonewall a lot. Piercing Strike at level 12 is another insanely good perk - but again, plan ahead. You have to invest in a 70 Unarmed for Piercing Strike. Worth it in my opinion, even if you're melee only.

Let us know how it goes

My character has a 2 IN, and I have noticed one (1) unique dumb dialogue option. It's true that the character doesn't talk much, and I tend to cut conversations short with her, but even so, it's mighty disappointing.

Although the one instance was pretty hilarious:

I want to do that but I'm waiting until a patch fixes the bug that prevents some/most the "my character is a dummy dialogue" from showing up.

Why not do both (INT and STR)?

You could do STR 9, PER 3, END 7, CHA 1, INT 9, AGI 6, LUC 5

Then you could play Caravan and earn 4000 caps and sneak over to the autodoc and pump INT to 10 before you level to second level, so you get all the skill points.

You'll be able (with 7 implants) to get the 2 special ones plus 5 stat boosts, one of which was already spent on INT, so you could still boost STR, PER, INT, AGI.

So at that point you'd have:

STR 10, PER 4, END 7, CHA 1, INT 10, AGI 7, LUC 5.

Then during your career you'll buy Intense Training 3 times to get PER up to 6, and LUC up to 6, and thats ONLY if you want to buy the perks that require PER 6 or LUC 6 or AGI 7. If you dont, it makes life even simpler.

Would be a silly build but funny.

Lewis

I did, that is how i one-man army'd hoover dam.
Wait, did i actually manage to do that?
*Sunglasses*
Dam i'm good.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Nikolai is aliveeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Fun so far (lvl 3 now), looking forward to being able to deal more damage though!