>>719339283
You pick light armor and all the perks that make you run faster, do all the drugs med-x, psycho, slasher, turbo, all of them. I'm not sure what's the end meta but there's a knife in some grave early on that's real good.
Should be easy from there.

>>719339283
try baiting people into corners, or bum rush them if youre in close quarters

literally everytime i play new vegas I can only use guns and maybe explosives

energy weapons suck and satisfyingly/harder to RP with and melee/unarmed is antifun

>>719339283
You take all the perks the benefit melee/unarmed, critical hits, and vats.

2: intense training
4: educated
6: toughness
8: super slam
10: finesse
12: piercing strike
14: unstoppable force
16: better criticals
18: bloody mess
20: ninja
22: action boy
24: slayer
26: nerves of steel
28: grim reaper's sprint

I haven't played FNV in years so I'm just jotting down shit from the wiki perks list.

>>719339896
The Q-35 makes energy weapons very satisfying.

>>719339283
Chances knife -> chainsaw -> thermic lance, toughness X2, all melee perks with unarmed and melee levelling for perk requirements that's literally it.

>>719339283
I'ts New Vegas, anon
The combat and most of the game design was an afterthought after Shitsidian spent months trying to put together an isometic game even tho Bethesda said make it 3d like Fallout 3

Melee, like all playstyles is easy
Just get a high DT armor
Use stimpacks if needed and drugs if really needed
Otherwise for the most part, you just crit build without light touch since you won't have light armor

>>719339283
drugs + melee perks + drugs + alcohol + armor

>>719341642
>after Shitsidian spent months trying to put together an isometic game
you're kidding me, qrd?

>>719341835
It wasn't exactly 'months' but more like 2-3 months after they got the contract, they had done a pitch of how they wanted to draw on the older mechanics, like DT based on armor type, combat being more strategic, like plasma affecting steel armor more but lasers affecting it less (perk for energy weapons being worse in general against you in metal armor is in the DLC) and then a whole more of a situation with companions being literally more controllable like it was in older CRPGs but Bethesda went 'it's a fucking 3d game retard' and Shitsidian ended up hiring actual modders to do a lot of work and show them how to use the Geck

Avellone went on a bit of a rant in some magazine blaming Bethesda on not teaching them the engine and Sawyer had his little bitch fest about how it got out of scope and Bethesda never should have let the project get that big despite their former biggest complaint was producers interfering in their game developerment so Bethesda let them do whatever but stick to the time frame

Then Sawyer and Avellone started sucking Bethesda off when there was rurmors of NV 2 out since they are like most hacks, retarded faggots

>>719339283
my first build was melee, i only had trouble when on the highway pass in lonesomeroad (where its full of deathclaws), at least the gave a gun to stun them