Is he the most intimidating character in Fallout history?

>first playthrough
>"whoops I guess 80 Speech wasn't enough haha time to fight"
>die in two hits
>reload
>equip one of the anti-materiel rifles I got on the Dam
>ingest every chem I have
>sneak and shoot
>Lanius' head explodes so hard I can't find his body afterwards
>his bodyguards were so confused about the whole thing that their AI broke and they just stood still as I killed them
It was one of the most hilarious things I've seen in a while, I'll give him that.

>[Speech 100]: Just go back east bro

did you never play fallout 1, 2 or even brotherhood of steel?

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Lanius themesong

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R.I.P.

Colonel Augustus Autumn

Everyone else is smalltime

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>[Barter 100]: trade routes lol

Nope.

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getting caught by him is part of the speedrun

Nah.

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this better than horrigan not having any other fucking solution to him

No it's not

based, i gave Boone both an AMR and a Gauss Rifle so he could alternate between ammo. I was actually underleveled (supposedly) for this fight and Boone just blew his head off before I could get any good hits in.

It would have been better if the speech and barter options would let you convince some of his troops to turn on him rather than him just leaving.

Malcolm Holmes gives me anxiety

He could sneak up on me anytime, anyplace

This is a good idea actually

>he doesn't take Boone to go kill everyone in the Fort before the final battle

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Horrigan does have atlease a speech option as you can talk to some enclave guards as well as hacking the terminal to have assisting turrets

YOU THINK YOU CAN TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE MUTIE, WELL FRANK HORRIGAN ONLY LISTENS TO HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER, AND FRANK HORRIGAN DOESNT HAVE ONE

No

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Ulysses should have been the only [Speech 100] check in the game.

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Yeah but you need VERY high Speech/Science to do those things. But if all else fails you can kill Richardson with a bomb and use his keycard to activate the turrets.

You need zero speech skill to refute a liar who's trying to justify blowing shit up by spinning a story that attempts to make you responsible by affiliating you with the destruction of a place that never existed and whose existence he never even attempts to prove in any way.

>Thumbs down, you son of a bitch

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>a place that never existed and whose existence he never even attempts to prove in any way.
Yeah the Legion had a bunch of soldiers halfway into California just for shits and giggles

I don't think thats a bad thing. It is supposed to be the end of the game after all.

Boone is such an absolute fucking bro when you're playing a Legion-hating Courier.
>I see any crimson, I'm taking the shot. Hope that's not a problem.
>That's not a problem. That's a solution.

It's not about whether or not Ulysses is right, it's how strongly he believes in what he says.

Ulysses' convictions are so over-the-top strong that he's willing to literally nuke the world just to prove a point. I can't imagine a better opportunity for a Speech 100 check (and I like the way the game handled it)

its diffiuclt to make scary npcs in rpgs. as soon as the player gets to a high level everything becomes inferior to him and no one actually compares to you so all their shit talk is just shit talk without anything to back it up.

you need zero speech skill to refute the lie, you need 100 speech skill to convince the psychopath.

99% of people dont understand the speech skill

I never played 2. Does the game at least have some pivotal moment you can speech/science your way through before the final boss? I don't mind having to fight at the end if I had to do something else as well.

only correct post itt

Was Lanius supposed to be a hard fight? On my scientist playthrough I just equipped the Tesla-Beaton prototype and deleted him.

yup 2 has tons of moments where you can apply skills instead of blunt violence

Well that's good to hear. I need to get around to playing that.

You can get through the final area of 2 without firing a shot if you prepare.
>Get Enclave armor from Navarro (which can also be infiltrated without violence)
>Find Richardson and use Super Stims/bombs to kill him without alerting the base
>Get the keycard off his body
>Force scientist to sabotage reactor
>Convince Granite to help fight Horrigan
>use keycard to activate turrets
>stand back and watch as Horrigan fights the guards and turrets

So it's not so much that you have to fight him, per se. You just need to make sure he dies. Clever.

>getting to experience F2 for the first time
Ah man I'm jealous

It starts a bit slow but believe me when I say that once you reach the first real town, it takes off hard and never stops surprising you with cool shit

Just make sure to have high Agility, it's a lifesaver in the early game

>Damn right. You and I, we're just a couple of problem solvers.

>can talk your way out of a boss fight
so retarded

>need to be 100 speech
>literally meaning you're the greatest speaker on earth
It's fine you dumb faggot.

the master, frank horrigan, and the lieutenant are kind of scary

I think people have issue with how easy it was to level it up in the first place.

You wish, mutie.

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I hope you all made the right choice and exterminated all of the White Legs instead of running away from Zion like a pussy, you wouldn't want to disappoint Randall Clark would you?

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There is literally zero evidence left of the existence of the Divide city there. All over Nevada you have 200 year old computers still running and printed documents lying around giving you insights into the world before 2077. Skeletons of families with their clothes still visible on them. But a town that was supposedly only decades old left no trace of its existence. Among all of junk left from before the war in that same location. Ulysses is lying. There never was a city. He's literally the only person who has ever said a word about it.

yep, and if i may
*reloads .45*
FUCK WHITE LEGS, FUCK DANIEL, AND FUCK CAESAR

not just that but the fact that you can boost your speech to hit 100 in the most retarded ways
>wear gay pajamas and drink some booze
>can suddenly talk your way out of a war

You mean all the 200 year old lead lined shit lived while the recent possessions got wiped away and stolen or was owned by marked men?

AND FUCK GOBBLEDIGOOK

Everything in gamebryo is so janky and poorly modeled that nothing is intimidating.

Goddamn hippies who refused to repurpose any pre-war tech like what everyone in America does all over the place. Or goddamn picky marked men who only stole those and left all pre-war stuff alone. Stole and hauled away from the level so the player couldn't stumble upon any computer used by a Divide resident who totally did exist by the way.