Forum:Fallout: New Vegas and Crafting

I am rather disappointed at how many things you can craft in Fallout: New Vegas. There are only handful of armor and weapons you can make. Only thing remotely interesting is Dog tag fist and few other melee weapons. You can also make two new armors.

What happened? I remember that in Fallout 3 making new items was more interesting. You could even make heavy weapons, buy new schematics or even get them from quests. Why even add items to world when there is no use for them? In Fallout 3 it was really worth it to pick up items and use them for making items. Now? I suggest you just pick up ammo and weapons, and maybe something that you can sell for high price.

Also few of the common items are really hard to make. For example Bottlecap mines when the lunchboxes are rarer than owls teeth.

Also most of the items require you to have less than 65 skill in science, survival, explosives or repair. There are little benefits for getting skill to 100. Why are there not several items that require skill of 100 to make? Or why are there not several items that would need 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90 skill to make them?

Fallout: New Vegas failed in crafting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.86.38.41 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

I have moved this discussion to the proper location. -- 14:15, July 21, 2011 (UTC)

I find myself only collecting the things I need to craft Weapon Repair kits and Nuka Colas.

So you craft a weapon? Then what? Craft it again? Do you really need more than one Shishkebab? I prefer the workbench being used strictly to make explosives or stims, etc. Consumable/expendable items. Things you can actually run out of. That way, the workbench always serves a purpose. You can't "run out" of a Railway Rifle, unless you lose the thing.--174.0.106.101 17:28, July 21, 2011 (UTC)

I have plenty of ammo, stims and etc. I do not need any of those. I would rather have one new weapon than 20 different kinds of ammo. What bothers me is that most of items in world are now useless (example Paint Gun). It is not worth it to pick them. I will probably concentrate on picking up materials for weapon repair kits and that is about it.