Allow me to introduce to you a man.
A man who would rather die than engage in combat that is not punching people directly in the face.
A man to whom the mere concept of guns sickens.
A man who is so focused on the purity of punching people, that even the use of a baton enrages him.
Meet, Sir Reginald Von Pugilism.
A man who would rather die than engage in combat that is not punching people directly in the face.
A man to whom the mere concept of guns sickens.
A man who is so focused on the purity of punching people, that even the use of a baton enrages him.
Meet, Sir Reginald Von Pugilism.
Now, the concept of doing a melee run in a game like fallout is pretty blasé. It's been done. Even a melee run with permadeath is a drop in the bucket. Hum drum, who cares.
So, I am going to try something a little different. Sir Reginald Von Pugilism is a melee permadeath run in Fallout 4, without sneak attacks.
The concept is to run through the entire campaign only punching people in the face, not using any other type of melee weapons other than things that improve my ability to punch.
This means no Shishkebabs, no Super Sledges, no Baseball Bats. But Power Fists and Deathclaw Gauntlets are thumbs up okay.
Is this even possible? I doubt it. The entire premise behind a melee character is to boost criticals and sneak attack. Without that bonus, its going to be damn difficult, if not extremely short lived.
So we start at the exit of Vault 111 having punched nothing, as Sir Reginald picked up a baton out of habit and then could not drop it.
So, he then spent the next 15 minutes luring radroaches through an electrical field so he could leave the vault without breaking his own code of honour.
Off to a sterling start there, Sir Reginald.
So, I am going to try something a little different. Sir Reginald Von Pugilism is a melee permadeath run in Fallout 4, without sneak attacks.
The concept is to run through the entire campaign only punching people in the face, not using any other type of melee weapons other than things that improve my ability to punch.
This means no Shishkebabs, no Super Sledges, no Baseball Bats. But Power Fists and Deathclaw Gauntlets are thumbs up okay.
Is this even possible? I doubt it. The entire premise behind a melee character is to boost criticals and sneak attack. Without that bonus, its going to be damn difficult, if not extremely short lived.
So we start at the exit of Vault 111 having punched nothing, as Sir Reginald picked up a baton out of habit and then could not drop it.
So, he then spent the next 15 minutes luring radroaches through an electrical field so he could leave the vault without breaking his own code of honour.
Off to a sterling start there, Sir Reginald.
After quickly running through Sanctuary Hills and finding Dogmeat at the Red Rocket Truck Stop and promptly sending him to Sanctuary Hills, we break from the main storyline and go explore the wastes.
Almost 100% because I have no idea how I am going to punch a Deathclaw to death.
I promptly find Abernathy Farm, pick some melons they have for money, steal almost everything they own (Sir Reginalds code of honour extends only to punching) and picking up my first quest! To retrieve a silver locket for the farmer that used to belong to his daughter.
Fair enough. Lets go punch some stuff. Halfway to the location, I run into my first set of enemies. Just some random raiders, but one quickly closed to melee range.
Holy be to he who punches! One of them had a set of knuckles.
I took more damage than I expected, but I took them all down, stripped their corpses of everything useful and was on my way!
Almost 100% because I have no idea how I am going to punch a Deathclaw to death.
I promptly find Abernathy Farm, pick some melons they have for money, steal almost everything they own (Sir Reginalds code of honour extends only to punching) and picking up my first quest! To retrieve a silver locket for the farmer that used to belong to his daughter.
Fair enough. Lets go punch some stuff. Halfway to the location, I run into my first set of enemies. Just some random raiders, but one quickly closed to melee range.
Holy be to he who punches! One of them had a set of knuckles.
I took more damage than I expected, but I took them all down, stripped their corpses of everything useful and was on my way!
The fight at the satellite facility was nothing to speak of. I was getting a little confident that I was going to breeze through this until I met Ack-Ack, the bitch with a Minigun.
She RIPPED through my health and this run was almost over before it began!
I got really lucky and she got trapped behind a wall, which allowed me to kill her, retrieve the locket and get away.
Man, fuck you Ack-Ack.
She RIPPED through my health and this run was almost over before it began!
I got really lucky and she got trapped behind a wall, which allowed me to kill her, retrieve the locket and get away.
Man, fuck you Ack-Ack.
On the way back to the farm, I ran into a quarry. I completed this mission in my private run and remember it being a breeze. So I thought, why not? Free XP.
Oh how wrong I was.
The quest is simple. Go into the irradiated water and fix some pipes. Easy done.
Start the generator to drain the quarry. Couldn't be simpler.
Fight off the extremely armoured Mirelurks at level 1. Not so simple.
After several dozen seemingly crippled limbs later, they were dead and I reached level 2 and immediately invested in adamantium skeleton.
Oh how wrong I was.
The quest is simple. Go into the irradiated water and fix some pipes. Easy done.
Start the generator to drain the quarry. Couldn't be simpler.
Fight off the extremely armoured Mirelurks at level 1. Not so simple.
After several dozen seemingly crippled limbs later, they were dead and I reached level 2 and immediately invested in adamantium skeleton.
The walk back to the farm was largely uninteresting, but the amount of xp received allowed me to level up and obtain basic melee mods. Which, along with my adamantium skeleton allowed me to live out one of my fantasies. Apocalyptic wolverine.
Next? More main storyline. Probably not to the point of a Deathclaw yet, but let's see how well I survive bitches with guns now that I am post apocalyptic wolverine.
Sir Reginald Von Pugilism Part Two
Sir Reginald Von Pugilism Part Two