Edit: Stop fucking replying to this 2 year old comment 2 year old message: it's a dlc bug, you can't easily patch dlc bugs without reinstalling the whole dlc. And with gamebryo you could potentially corrupt everyone's save file...
Not to mention absolutely no main faction uses energy weapons in NV (besides the brotherhood but they're not really seen around outside the bunker). The only instance I can see this perk being useful for side quests or roaming around the mojave (if it worked) is in the old world blues DLC, doing the birds of a feather/heartache by the number quest, going up against fiends, or killing Jason Bright and his followers for shits and giggles.
As a programmer, I've often said: "The best thing about programming, is that the program does exactly what I tell it to do. The worst thing about programming, is that the program does *EXACTLY* what I tell it to do."
programming always sounded to me like commanding your wishes to the genie in the bottle - you have to be VERY careful so that the genie doesn't twist your wish from what it sounded in your mind
@TheBarber5550 dead wrong. Fiends, Gunners, BoS, Super Mutants and the institute synths all use laser type weapons as do most of the mechs. That being said, having 5 more DT isn't that serious at all.
a great offense is a great defense. a great defense is a great offense. its all about how you like to play. i play on survival so defense n offense are a really hard battle to choose.
I mean that doesn't really make much sense, you happen to have not picked a perk that didn't work due to an error, but the concept of the perk itself is still reasonable. Why would having a bonus to energy weapon damage negation sound stupid to you? There are other perks that are far more nonsensical than "bright armor makes bright lights bounce"
Same, even before I knew it was glitched I never got it because you needed to have a combination of wearing metal armor and being shot at with energy weapons for it to work, there's just too many other awesome perks that give you so much better variety to waste a point on that
I never went with the perk as well because I never wore metal armor because of how it lessens your agility and in easy games like that I'd rather go offensive instead of defensive
Until I learned about this bug I assumed I just wasn't encountering enough energy weapons or I wasn't paying enough attention to notice a difference. When I got this perk I mean.
Same. I think I picked it and never paid attention because I never ran into a lot of them and I played Sniper and used the jacked up lever action shotty
@@TheDIE00 It applies to both. Because NV had to be developed in a staggeringly short 18 months, they basically used like 90% of FO3's code, which included this oversight.
Do one for "Big Brained." It's been over a decade and I still keep finding conflicting information about whether that perk is bugged and doesn't work as intended, bugged and doesn't work at all, not bugged but behaves unexpectedly, or perfectly fine.
works for me.... i can stay on spot and enemies kill themselves when they shoot at me (bullets nor energy weapons).... if that isn't how the skill works idk.
Also, Certified Tech only adds 0.25% critical chance against robots, not 25%; but on the flip side, Chemist doubles the duration of every consumable item effect in the game, not just chems.
A very strong perk. I built an entire build of a drug addict killer with an automatic weapon based on it. With med x, buffout, psycho, energy drink, quantum nuclear cola and turbo, my courier tore apart everything living and non-living. I achieved a turbo duration of 6 seconds. Considering the turbo injector from the big mountain, I could slow down time every battle. I invented the Sandevestian build long before it existed! You could dodge robot missiles while shooting along the way, or cut your opponent with a katana at monstrous speed.
@@slumsnake1303 Took me forever to begin playing as someone who used consumables. That perk when playing it ended up being hilarious. Because of it I'd take the stupid ass path in the center in New Vegas if I had enough Jet and dump on the few I needed to kill to beeline some things. Fallout and the Elder Scrolls are the games that broke me of my old school habit when playing RPG's of never using items like that.
I hope they bring this back in a future game. At least a working version would be interesting with shiny power armor. Edit: Ok, after the feedback, I have come to a conclusion. It should work most of the time but it will randomly not work based on luck. If a player dies to this they earn an achievement with the description " was that energy or energyweapons damage?"
@@YooranKujara You could even say reflector is better because it works even without armor. But the original perk had style because it actually would have made sunglasses useful. I think it is more interesting to give something you speck in better rather then general buffs. Also that would have made sunglasses builds a thing and that is hilarious. Plus like I said, it could be interesting if it was reworked for power armor builds it would be more interesting.
@@YooranKujara Eh, they kind of mixed perks and traits together already in the newer games. Though, there would be no reason not to take both for a tanky build. Especially if the perk is reworked to give something more than just a stat buff. The description says that later beams literally reflect off, so it could be a luck perk that actually sends energy weapon shots back at enemies near you.
Another perk in Dead Money that doesn't work is "Junk Loader" where devs left placeholder recipes, and didn't finish. So instead junk items giving you appropriate number of JNK rounds, each recipe gives 1 normal round.
And yet Bethesda can't figure it out. It says volumes about their capacity as developers when they're making the buggiest and most broken games ever made.
Literally all they had to do was go into the, I'm guessing C+ file, for this skill rename it to check EnergyWeapons instead of Energy. Would take maybe five seconds.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 Bethesda didnt make this game the only published it. its not there fault some coder at obsidian forgot to make it search for a weapon type that exists
@@mhm5020 well that's what happens when you demand they make the entire game with multiple ports to notoriously difficult systems they hadn't worked with. In the span of months. Then screw them out of pay. Little things don't have the time to get fixed, especially when they're busy fixing the base code Bethesda gave them (fallout 3)
Another big issue is you simply don't come across that many energy weapons in base game. Maybe the fiends but you can drop them with a varmint rifle, by dlc like lonesome road or old world blues you're already well enough to not need this perk
@@gabrielsantana6161 Fallout New Vegas is a role playing game. You don’t have to play to be an amazing courier with no faults. I’ve played NV while wearing a dress all the time.
the fallout franchise is know for its shitty bugs. like seriously, all of fallout games are literally a game that is being hold by paperclips and rubber bands.
Only reason why I never took that perk was because I just never wore metal armor. Usually wore lighter armors to move better and carry more stuff before ultimately just finding better armor
Always wondered why you would take a skill giving +5 like that’s going to save your life. So many better options I feel like, especially now knowing it doesn’t even work
FONV fans: *giving praise to Obsidian, pretending they didn't get funding and assets from Bethesda and the series wasn't totally doomed before its revival* Also FONV fans: *blame a broken perk on Bethesda, which is not at all representative of their famous bugs, instead of blaming the developers who actually made the game and the typo*
Start game with 10 intelligence and 7 agility. Do tutorial stuff to level up and get the agility perk which negates crit damage while wearing light armour. Leave starting area and respec to whatever you want...I recommend 8 endurance 1 agility and 7 luck. It'll let you choose your level up perk again... And you'll keep the previously chosen perk. The stat choices I recommend are because of implants, the dead money clothing return exploit, and the implant/naughty nightwear combination which brings you to 9 luck which is more than enough to get kicked out of all casinos while still providing enough stat points to go around.
Why would you tryhard in a rpg? What's the point of creating character with stats if you just are gonna maximize everything with an exploit? Why don't you just give max stats and perks at that point with console command?
@@lepathewarrior4445 because there is a difference between cheating with console commands and exploiting built in parts of the game. It's like having a key for a door but you'd rather lock pick it because it takes time and thought.
I never liked this perk regardless. Think about it, New Vegas has way more ballistic than energy weapons. This is too niche. I always just get toughness twice because it's not specific to a damage type
Off the top of my head, I can only think of some Fiends with Laser RCW's and the Brotherhood as enemies that carry laser weapons. Oh, and the Roboscorpions in OWB. Edit: I guess there are a handful of robots around also.
Sounds like less of a "bug" and more of a "QA either didn't catch this one, their notes got ignored, or things got rushed and this one got lost along the way"
That qualifies as a bug, yeah. Every single bug that has ever existed is because the devs made a mistake somewhere when, you know, developing the game.
I disagree with that, the only way for a light armor sneaky character to be as effective is with perks. Shotguns, laser weapons, and pistols wouldn’t even be effective without perks.
It’s a bad perk anyway. Why would you restrict yourself to wear low tier armor and sunglasses for an entire game? Edit: it’s metal armor only so its even worse than I thought.
@@logicalwren8061 I checked the wiki, it says it goes with metallic or reflective armors It lists things like power armor, rad suits, metal armor, NCR ranger armor, legionary armor. Obviously it wouldnt restrict you to just metal armor and shades. Shame it didnt work in the first place.
Even if it wasn't bugged, most people wouldn't take it, unlike it's brother perk, Stonewall that is very valuable giving you +5 DT (regardless of what you're wearing) vs the most common type of dmg aka melee and unarmed weapons (including animals, monsters, mutants and robots melee attacks), also giving you a nice bonus of having knockdown immunity (good vs both melee and explosives) This perk just doesn't give you enough value to justify itself in most situations, energy weapons are very uncommon unless you plan on fighting the brotherhood, the van graphs and/or big mountain robots on a daily basis, with no bonus secondary effect like stonewall has
The chances of you encountering Enemies with Energy Weapons is not that high. Except for the Van Graff's (If you choose to eliminate them) you will probably not encounter many Energy Weapons wielder so this Perk is not that good anyways.
ok but even if it would work its like a piss in an ocean, I hate when games have this "new skill" that gives you +0.00000001% to your whatever, its like telling you that you`ve spent all this time level for absolutely nothing.
Yeah it just felt too situational, too early for it to be useful, and not strong enough to justify it over other perks by the time you get power armor.
They´re a small indie company, you can´t expect them to fix something of this magnitude in 10 years even if the entire playerbase has known about it since 1.01.
That is so braindead. This can be fixed in 5 minutes. All it takes is one or two people to fix this. Not to mention it most definitely is not a small indie company. They have more than enough hands to fix this bug. They simply chose not to.
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The sad thing is the patch for this would take about five minutes to create and upload to the server.
Yeah lmao. But y'know, Bethesda
@@Kyure. Thing is, Bethesda didnt develop this they just published it.
@@Kyure. Because Bethesda made this game obviously
Edit: Stop fucking replying to this 2 year old comment
2 year old message: it's a dlc bug, you can't easily patch dlc bugs without reinstalling the whole dlc. And with gamebryo you could potentially corrupt everyone's save file...
I think nobody noticed the bug because the perk itself is pretty useless so not many people picked it up
Don’t let this distract you A settlement needs your help I’ve marked it on your map
This one always gave me a bad feeling I’m glad I trusted myself
To be fair there's not really a lot of situations where it would be useful in the first place maybe before you would engage the brotherhood?
Old World Blues maybe, I sometimes get robotics expert because robo scorpions at high levels are a pain.
@@Jade0603 I did every single DLC in the wrong order at level 1 because I like pain
@@joshuagraham1800 MATN did that, it did not look fun.
@@Jade0603 I like challenging stuff so it was fun
@@Jade0603 never played any of them before by the way that was my first time
Not to mention absolutely no main faction uses energy weapons in NV (besides the brotherhood but they're not really seen around outside the bunker). The only instance I can see this perk being useful for side quests or roaming around the mojave (if it worked) is in the old world blues DLC, doing the birds of a feather/heartache by the number quest, going up against fiends, or killing Jason Bright and his followers for shits and giggles.
This perk is basically a mindset to have
I knew about the bug, so I never picked this perk. I always thought the perk was dumb anyways
They need to add the enclave shocktrooper power armor to the dead prospect in promontory
You know there’s a kid out there with this perk acting like a god against energy weapons lol
I always wondered why it never worked. Ty
Thanks Todd
This is FNV, but nice try
Some perks are just useless but I don't see the description so damn I keep took the wrong perk
The good news is that the game doesn’t really punish you if you make a bad build lmao
Is this the same across all fallout games or just the older ones?
I never picked this perk up in any of my builds
Go figure the perk I never pick is also trash. 😅
Glad I never got this perk.
Not sure they’re gonna update the game after 12 years..
As a programmer, I've often said: "The best thing about programming, is that the program does exactly what I tell it to do. The worst thing about programming, is that the program does *EXACTLY* what I tell it to do."
As someone trying to learn programming I feel you there lmao
@@Ghost_Void226glad I found the student programmer support corner. I felt this so hard doing my coding final yesterday.
programming always sounded to me like commanding your wishes to the genie in the bottle - you have to be VERY careful so that the genie doesn't twist your wish from what it sounded in your mind
The main problem i currently have with programming is that the program doesn't do what i tell it to do
@@MIIRBHwell maybe you don't realize you actually told it to do something different somewhere along the lines
Thanks dude, helped me dodge a laser.
which you’re gonna have to do a lot since you don’t have that +5 DT
@@blank_home1229 which you didn’t have to begin with
Not enough enemies use energy weapons except for the Brotherhood of Steel
@@TheBarber5550fiends do
@TheBarber5550 dead wrong. Fiends, Gunners, BoS, Super Mutants and the institute synths all use laser type weapons as do most of the mechs. That being said, having 5 more DT isn't that serious at all.
Now I know what I'm gonna do during my 1 intelligence playthrough
like player like character
Best comment 😂
I genuinely belly laughed at this
This joke probably went over most heads 😂
Now THAT is roleplaying
I’m so glad I always thought this was stupid
a great offense is a great defense. a great defense is a great offense. its all about how you like to play. i play on survival so defense n offense are a really hard battle to choose.
I mean that doesn't really make much sense, you happen to have not picked a perk that didn't work due to an error, but the concept of the perk itself is still reasonable. Why would having a bonus to energy weapon damage negation sound stupid to you? There are other perks that are far more nonsensical than "bright armor makes bright lights bounce"
@@Bocchi-the-Rock_ i think it might be cuz they never use metal armor or cuz energy weapons aren't that common so other perks are better
@@Bocchi-the-Rock_ Sure, but there’s many other better perks to choose from
@@XBOWTOTHEFACE tbh when I’m survival the best offense is a really good defense
I always just instinctively avoided this one based on vibes, guess I was right
Me too, besides I rarely wear metal armor in a normal playthrough anyways
Same, even before I knew it was glitched I never got it because you needed to have a combination of wearing metal armor and being shot at with energy weapons for it to work, there's just too many other awesome perks that give you so much better variety to waste a point on that
Same
I never went with the perk as well because I never wore metal armor because of how it lessens your agility and in easy games like that I'd rather go offensive instead of defensive
Yeah I figured it only worked on literal Metal Armor sets and I don’t wear anything that’s gonna debuff agility
Good thing I got literally any other perk than that one
Same, I never liked wearing such heavy gear in the first place so I never got the skill since it’s so specific with armor types.
I got the option for it today, good thing i didn't choose it haha
Even dark vision?
Be better off with Logan's loophole
Yes, even Dark vision
when i was like 12 i picked this perk and actually expected my armor to begin shining as if it was new, lmao idk what i was thinking
But it does reflect that 12 is your IQ digit.
@@YourOwnDamnVault31 ah yes, for *checks notes* trusting a Bethesda game?
@@YourOwnDamnVault31 2 is your IQ digit, because a number isn't a digit, dumbass.
@@christianjesse8980this is such a Redditor comment
@@theconmantube3449"checks notes" is more Tumblr-coded than Reddit tbh
Until I learned about this bug I assumed I just wasn't encountering enough energy weapons or I wasn't paying enough attention to notice a difference. When I got this perk I mean.
I just assumed the enemies had stronger energy weapons 🤷
Which fallouts this for if it’s 3 or Vegas I can make a very easy fix and dm it to people who ask
@@thekingofgames1210 it‘s defo been Fallout 3! I honestly can’t remember if it also applies to NV
Same. I think I picked it and never paid attention because I never ran into a lot of them and I played Sniper and used the jacked up lever action shotty
@@TheDIE00 It applies to both. Because NV had to be developed in a staggeringly short 18 months, they basically used like 90% of FO3's code, which included this oversight.
Do one for "Big Brained." It's been over a decade and I still keep finding conflicting information about whether that perk is bugged and doesn't work as intended, bugged and doesn't work at all, not bugged but behaves unexpectedly, or perfectly fine.
works for me.... i can stay on spot and enemies kill themselves when they shoot at me (bullets nor energy weapons).... if that isn't how the skill works idk.
@@LawlietNote sounds like you have ricochet perk
Took this on my first run, was wondering why it didn't work till I googled it, seems so long ago
Which Fallout is it?
@@Quisiio0303456 New Vegas? I mean, that's what the video's about
@@PepperoniMilkshake I only played Shelter and a remake of the first one. So I didn't knew.
@@Quisiio0303456 play New Vegas
@@JamesV1 don't play new vegas.
Also, Certified Tech only adds 0.25% critical chance against robots, not 25%; but on the flip side, Chemist doubles the duration of every consumable item effect in the game, not just chems.
A very strong perk. I built an entire build of a drug addict killer with an automatic weapon based on it. With med x, buffout, psycho, energy drink, quantum nuclear cola and turbo, my courier tore apart everything living and non-living. I achieved a turbo duration of 6 seconds. Considering the turbo injector from the big mountain, I could slow down time every battle. I invented the Sandevestian build long before it existed! You could dodge robot missiles while shooting along the way, or cut your opponent with a katana at monstrous speed.
@@slumsnake1303 Took me forever to begin playing as someone who used consumables. That perk when playing it ended up being hilarious. Because of it I'd take the stupid ass path in the center in New Vegas if I had enough Jet and dump on the few I needed to kill to beeline some things. Fallout and the Elder Scrolls are the games that broke me of my old school habit when playing RPG's of never using items like that.
I hope they bring this back in a future game. At least a working version would be interesting with shiny power armor.
Edit: Ok, after the feedback, I have come to a conclusion. It should work most of the time but it will randomly not work based on luck.
If a player dies to this they earn an achievement with the description " was that energy or energyweapons damage?"
It's just Reflector in Fallout 4
@@YooranKujara
You could even say reflector is better because it works even without armor. But the original perk had style because it actually would have made sunglasses useful. I think it is more interesting to give something you speck in better rather then general buffs. Also that would have made sunglasses builds a thing and that is hilarious.
Plus like I said, it could be interesting if it was reworked for power armor builds it would be more interesting.
@@rolay7730 I think we should keep Reflector and maybe turn this into a trait like Four-Eyes and Wild Wasteland
@@YooranKujara Eh, they kind of mixed perks and traits together already in the newer games. Though, there would be no reason not to take both for a tanky build.
Especially if the perk is reworked to give something more than just a stat buff. The description says that later beams literally reflect off, so it could be a luck perk that actually sends energy weapon shots back at enemies near you.
@@rolay7730 Ricochet
Another perk in Dead Money that doesn't work is "Junk Loader" where devs left placeholder recipes, and didn't finish. So instead junk items giving you appropriate number of JNK rounds, each recipe gives 1 normal round.
Wow, a bug that literally even I, With no programming skills could fix
And yet Bethesda can't figure it out. It says volumes about their capacity as developers when they're making the buggiest and most broken games ever made.
Literally all they had to do was go into the, I'm guessing C+ file, for this skill rename it to check EnergyWeapons instead of Energy. Would take maybe five seconds.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 This was Fallout New Vegas though. Bethesda hater blindly hating no way.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 Bethesda didnt make this game the only published it. its not there fault some coder at obsidian forgot to make it search for a weapon type that exists
@@mhm5020 well that's what happens when you demand they make the entire game with multiple ports to notoriously difficult systems they hadn't worked with. In the span of months. Then screw them out of pay. Little things don't have the time to get fixed, especially when they're busy fixing the base code Bethesda gave them (fallout 3)
Either YUK's Unoffical Patch, or Josh Sawyers FNV patch fixed that bug
Just started a big guns im level 20 and this was my next pick so thanks for the save🤣
Welp, never gonna be fixed. Doesn’t break the game so you’ll never see it in a patchnote. Hell some bugs that _do_ break the game never get fixed.
That, and New Vegas is 12 years old. Really, I'm quite positive that's the main reason.
Its obsidian what do you expect lmao
Another big issue is you simply don't come across that many energy weapons in base game. Maybe the fiends but you can drop them with a varmint rifle, by dlc like lonesome road or old world blues you're already well enough to not need this perk
Hey wassup this is 2 years in the future
In Fallout, you don't really want metal armor anyway, too heavy
i want,not everyone plays in your style
Sounds like your characters are all weak little bitches.
@@HowToKillAliens bro, the defense value is shit, it's heavy and it weighs a ton
Power armor is metal. Always good to be able to switch to that in a pinch.
@@gabrielsantana6161 Fallout New Vegas is a role playing game. You don’t have to play to be an amazing courier with no faults. I’ve played NV while wearing a dress all the time.
Lmao people here blaming the bad on Bethesda then all the good on obsidian
Cause theyre moronic tards
Right? The playerbase needs to he educated.
the fallout franchise is know for its shitty bugs. like seriously, all of fallout games are literally a game that is being hold by paperclips and rubber bands.
It's held together by duct tape and wonderglue
No that’s just Bethesda
Fallout 3 on GoG works perfectly fine with maybe a single crash every 5 hours
@@crimsonlanceman7882 Yeah, I never had a crash more than 1 every 3 hours (Without mods, LMAO) on FNV and 3 on GOG.....
@@henryjw15 bruh NV is buggy as shit too
Even if it worked, there are so few enemies with energy weapons it wouldn't be good.
Was in the Middle of old world blues and saw this just before I was going to take the perk. Thanks 👍
It's better to just drink one of the 500 Atomic Cocktails you get in the Mojave
Accurate result of testing the idea “I’m gonna polish my armor so that the death laser doesn’t kill me!”
If a patch and mod is in order, have the shiniest armor effects calling my character "Crow Man".
Unless you use the Unofficial Fallout patch or use the mod that adds the perk to Fallout 4
Only reason why I never took that perk was because I just never wore metal armor. Usually wore lighter armors to move better and carry more stuff before ultimately just finding better armor
Power armor is metal
Everyone: avoids it
Meanwhile: downloads mod for all perks “HAHAHAHAHA IM INVINCIBLE BABY”
"I'm the joker baby"
That's commonly refered as "Cheating"
On a happier note, the Cowboy perk is tons of fun 😀
I think even that perk is bugged, or just not perfectly distributed, because it leaves a lot of lever action guns, knives, out from the DLC
Always wondered why you would take a skill giving +5 like that’s going to save your life. So many better options I feel like, especially now knowing it doesn’t even work
FONV fans: *giving praise to Obsidian, pretending they didn't get funding and assets from Bethesda and the series wasn't totally doomed before its revival*
Also FONV fans: *blame a broken perk on Bethesda, which is not at all representative of their famous bugs, instead of blaming the developers who actually made the game and the typo*
Even if it did work, it would be kinda garbage.
Two specific conditions in turn for at best mediocre buff?
No thanks
Metal armor is the best class of armor in the game.
Start game with 10 intelligence and 7 agility.
Do tutorial stuff to level up and get the agility perk which negates crit damage while wearing light armour.
Leave starting area and respec to whatever you want...I recommend 8 endurance 1 agility and 7 luck.
It'll let you choose your level up perk again... And you'll keep the previously chosen perk.
The stat choices I recommend are because of implants, the dead money clothing return exploit, and the implant/naughty nightwear combination which brings you to 9 luck which is more than enough to get kicked out of all casinos while still providing enough stat points to go around.
@Matthew Edwards spiderman no way home
Why would you tryhard in a rpg? What's the point of creating character with stats if you just are gonna maximize everything with an exploit? Why don't you just give max stats and perks at that point with console command?
@@lepathewarrior4445 exactly
10 luck with the lucky shades 😎
@@lepathewarrior4445 because there is a difference between cheating with console commands and exploiting built in parts of the game. It's like having a key for a door but you'd rather lock pick it because it takes time and thought.
when you use a String where you shouldve used an Enum
Never chose this perk anyways since I was either a Tech whizz or a Cowboy.
Weird that this just HAPPENS to show up when I looked up this perk the other day... but good to know lol
"It just works" - Hodd Toward
this is new vegas it wasn;t made by bethessda
It just works@@oliverpuppetproductions8753
Lol notice how all the obsidian simps hasnt jumped on here? Guess this obsidian simp didnt know his game that well
Funnily enough I was considering getting this perk on my last level up, and I decided against it. Dodged a bullet...or, a laser. I guess.
that's the dumbest mistake, that's like entry level programmer stuff. don't let interns touch your stuff
quite silly
the simplest mistakes are the most likely to go unnoticed
Thats actually the best devs obsidian could muster. ..
I don't remember ever making this comment, wtf
I don't remember this fact either.
I have a weak brain :(
Kinda sucks too since it's a DLC perk and Obsidian couldn't easily patch those unless they wanted everyone's save files getting corrupted
Toughness is all you need
Toughness is wrath
Toughness is fury
Toughness is *L i f e*
nuh uh
stonewall
Someone probably fixed this on the Nexus somewhere.
Im so happy that i constantly procrastinated grabbing this perk when i had my energy weapons run.
Hey Ben how's the last two years been
I never liked this perk regardless.
Think about it, New Vegas has way more ballistic than energy weapons. This is too niche. I always just get toughness twice because it's not specific to a damage type
Off the top of my head, I can only think of some Fiends with Laser RCW's and the Brotherhood as enemies that carry laser weapons. Oh, and the Roboscorpions in OWB. Edit: I guess there are a handful of robots around also.
And this, gentlemen, is why you check the code.
If they can't patch this I will. Someone was not drinking coffee and probably input the wrong tag
Oh well, I got the other deflector perk
As a software dev I find this really funny
Sounds like less of a "bug" and more of a "QA either didn't catch this one, their notes got ignored, or things got rushed and this one got lost along the way"
they only had a year to make the game so yea probably just rushed and didnt notice.
This isnt like a bug, its more like a typo from the devs
That qualifies as a bug, yeah. Every single bug that has ever existed is because the devs made a mistake somewhere when, you know, developing the game.
“And it’s actually because of a bug”
NAW REALLY? Bethesda games being buggy? Couldn’t be.
After playing new vegas for 10+ years. I can tell you that none of the perks matter. Nor skills. You're a walking tank no matter the play style.
Nor skills? Lol that's just bullshit. Go play fallout 4
That's complete bullcrap, and I have been playing for 8+ years.
I disagree with that, the only way for a light armor sneaky character to be as effective is with perks. Shotguns, laser weapons, and pistols wouldn’t even be effective without perks.
For anyone that says it takes five minutes
Then
HAVE YOU DEVELOPED A GAME ??? DO HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED FIXING A GAME BUG
It’s a bad perk anyway. Why would you restrict yourself to wear low tier armor and sunglasses for an entire game?
Edit: it’s metal armor only so its even worse than I thought.
Why is power armor and NCR Ranger Combat armor low tier? I always thought they where pretty advanced.
@@sithalo If I remember correctly it's only metal armor in specific, but I could be wrong
I prefer looks over min maxing stats. Thank you.
@@logicalwren8061 I checked the wiki, it says it goes with metallic or reflective armors
It lists things like power armor, rad suits, metal armor, NCR ranger armor, legionary armor.
Obviously it wouldnt restrict you to just metal armor and shades. Shame it didnt work in the first place.
@@sithalo oh cool, guess I was wrong
I mean, wouldn’t it be like five minutes in GECK to fix the code in this perk?
Bethesda moment
Obsidian*
Obsidian moment
Oh, forgot there was other people that worked on these !
But with bethesda reputation it still would work on other stuff I'm sure
Let’s all just blame Bethesda for literally everything yeah?
It's a Bethesda moment, had by Obsidian, because of time constraints.
Quick lil mod fixes it and it is quite good, but the amount of NPCs that use energy weapons isn't high.
Lmao. It's a classic "It 👏 just 👏 works 👏" moment from Godd Howard.
Even if it wasn't bugged, most people wouldn't take it, unlike it's brother perk, Stonewall that is very valuable giving you +5 DT (regardless of what you're wearing) vs the most common type of dmg aka melee and unarmed weapons (including animals, monsters, mutants and robots melee attacks), also giving you a nice bonus of having knockdown immunity (good vs both melee and explosives)
This perk just doesn't give you enough value to justify itself in most situations, energy weapons are very uncommon unless you plan on fighting the brotherhood, the van graphs and/or big mountain robots on a daily basis, with no bonus secondary effect like stonewall has
The chances of you encountering Enemies with Energy Weapons is not that high. Except for the Van Graff's (If you choose to eliminate them) you will probably not encounter many Energy Weapons wielder so this Perk is not that good anyways.
ok but even if it would work its like a piss in an ocean, I hate when games have this "new skill" that gives you +0.00000001% to your whatever, its like telling you that you`ve spent all this time level for absolutely nothing.
Obsidian still managed to make a better game than Fallout 3 and 4 in just 10 months
Good to know, currently playing NV for the morbillionth time so I won’t take this.
Not a bug, just bad coding. There’s a difference.
And I bet the devs have never bothered to fix this.
Jerks!
Shittesda sucks, even when Obsidian fucks up they still leave with a better product, seethe bethesdadrones
Yeah it just felt too situational, too early for it to be useful, and not strong enough to justify it over other perks by the time you get power armor.
And the bug was never patched. Along with every other bug in the game unfortunately
They´re a small indie company, you can´t expect them to fix something of this magnitude in 10 years even if the entire playerbase has known about it since 1.01.
That is so braindead. This can be fixed in 5 minutes. All it takes is one or two people to fix this. Not to mention it most definitely is not a small indie company. They have more than enough hands to fix this bug. They simply chose not to.
Unnoficial patch users: 😎
Aw yeah~
This is why you use enums or consts instead of just strings. This is abhorrent code
I think Fallout nv unofficial patch fixed this. Pc only of course
How hard would it be to just go into the files yourself and change that single line?
Im sure theres a mod patch if u really cared for this perk
It should actually make the beams ricochet and hit other enemies
Still waiting for the “weapons” patch
nooo don't tell new vegas fans that their game is a buggy mess
bros don't even know how to code their own game
Should we fix simple bugs that require retyping one single word? Nah, let’s spend years adding five DLCs and leave the base game’s problems untouched.
Did those unofficial patch mods patched that bug?
To be fair,as a NV fan,i say
This fucking sucks!
Never base your fight style off a perk
Sounds like a posible simple fix, just replace some code, test and nada bing Bada boom onto nexus mods it goes.
You're not wrong, already done a long time ago.