Very funny though
What Benny was really missing was being too fancy to go for the double tap on the Courier. Had to be all "one shot one kill" instead of "CIA award for excellence in journalism" style :picard:
I have a Glock 22 in 40S&W, not because I wanted bigger bullet holes, but because once the FBI switched back to 9mm most local law enforcement did too, and you could get them used for next to nothing. Sadly, everything I saved on the pistol I've spent several times over on ammo because 40S&W is fucking expensive.
I'm sure you've considered it but if you like the gun I think 9mm conversion barrels are pretty reasonable
I thought about it, but my next purchase is just going to be a P365X macro, the 22 prints no matter where you try to carry it, it's a big gun. I'll save the glock for backcountry hiking in Glacier National Park or something.
Nice, I think you're right that .40 is a good choice for large predator defense. A friend of mine got a P365X and while I haven't shot it, the hand-feel was off the charts. Very nice gun.
Bear spray is a good choice for large predator defense, and 12ga semi-automatic shotguns with slugs are good large predator defense. If you're carrying a pistol in to the back country it's to make yourself feel better.
Pistols have a much better success rate against bears than most people believe: https://sportingclassicsdaily.com/defense-against-bears-with-pistols-97-success-rate-37-incidents-by-caliber/
tries to bear spray the Emus chasing me
Uhhh, I think it just made them mad, anyone got something stronger than a .303 Lewis Gun round? We already know those don't work for...reasons...
Tbf you eventually outspend on ammo whatever you save on any gun
The broken rifle is one of my favorite clues because you have to imagine where the detective is carrying it. Probably from the same space he can summon money from when saying Libertarian stuff.
Bethesda's fallout is poorly thought out. In older fallout games pipe rifles existed but only showed up once or twice in game. The common hunting rifle was an ancient 7.62/.308 rifle that had been maintained in working order since the war. Lots of people had wwii vintage guns that were pulled out of government stockpiles and kept in working order.
It’s game mechanics in action. A level 1 Courier with the minimum possible hit points can in-game take two critical hits to the head by Benny armed with his “Maria” and survive.
He’s not an adventurer, he’s a former tribal leader who got really lucky.
And of the three people he actually killed, one was by pure chance in a knife fight and the other two were poisoned. Benny likely hadn't fired his gun until that point.
Isn't his SPECIAL very stacked towards luck?
Lol the luck should make it so that the courier dies like every 1 in 10 times the game starts
:lets-fucking-go: HOW MANY WORLD WARS WERE WON BY THE TEAM WITH SINGLE STACK 45 ACP MAGAZINES? THAT'S RIGHT BABY YOU CAN SHOVE YOUR EIGHT EXTRA ROUNDS RIGHT UP YOUR ASS WOO
Should’ve used a 10mm like everyone else instead of being a 9mm hipster Benny
To be fair, .45 ACP in the Fallout universe is supercharged by the power of game balance .
I think it's funny that Sawyer is enough of a gun nerd to be bothered by being slightly inaccurate like that.
What’s crazy is that there are people who didn’t immediately kill him upon finding him in their first play through
I had picked the Black Widow perk, so every time I saw I had a dialogue option from it I felt like I had to pick it to get my perk point's worth.
Using black widow to get into his room then punching the gun out of his hand and killing him with it is cannon
I did a death by 1,000 cuts to him while he was tied up in Caesar's tent. Which then turned the whole legion hostile to me iirc.
I like to forgive him if only because it's actually way harder and you need to get your diagloue choices just right to let him go without him screwing you over
But like, it's still a bullet to your head from one meter away. Even if it's small I don't understand how you live that. I have to assume that Benny was so focused on giving his cool speech that he wasn't paying attention, and just grazed the side of the players head with the bullet
You ever just walk around in New Vegas? Imagine being a fucking mailman having to deal with cazadores all day long. After a while it's safe to say the Courier is just built different.
eh, phineas gage took a rod of rebar to the dome and was just an asshole afterwards
maybe the bullet caused brain damage but the damage only impacts your ability to walk diagonally or something
The courier has to pretty much relearn a bunch of stuff despite being assumed to be a good wasteland survivalist before getting his brainpan scrambled by Benny.
Dude carried the spike around with him apparently.
Also from the Wikipedia page it seems like his personality change was likely exaggerated and/or temporary.
It happens. There are lots of edge cases. The bullet goes under the skin but can't penetrate your skull so it skids around the top of the skull and goes flying off the other side. The bullet penetrates but doesn't hit anything important in the brain. Things like that. You can survive a startling amount of head trauma with no obvious negative results, it's just very rare.
Your skull is very very hard, people survive gunshots to the head with varying levels of injury all the time. And the forehead is the hardest part of the skull.
Little baby .38 special was more than plenty for pretty much all Mexican and American cops for the better part of a century, but no, must have all the cool army man toys now.
China has special cop revolvers with a special low-power round that only works in those revolvers intended to be used by police who need a firearm but aren't serious counter-terrorism cops. The low powered round reduces the chance of killing anyone. The unique pistols and ammo are instantly traceable if found in the wrong hands. And criminals with guns is almost unheard of so in the rare cases they are used it's almost always against someone who is considered dangerous but doesn't actually have a gun.
1.) Cops didn't really kill that many people
2.) There weren't a lot of better options
3.) The wonder-9s that were a clear, unambiguous no notes improvement over any revolver only really showed up in the 80s
4.) And 4 cops didn't really consider killing people to be their primary job until post 9-11. They were always assholes but the "warrior cop" mentality is very recent. They just weren't as concerned with being caught in sustained gun fights bc they didn't have delusional trainers teaching them Killology.
I think the plot of the game revolves more around the fact that Bemny cheaped out and bought ball ammo for use in a combat pistol
I thought this was screenshot from the hit 1988 movie "Die Hard" where New York City policeman John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, is visiting his estranged wife, played by Bonnie Bedelia, and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him
I thought this was the scene in casablanca where they shoot the Nazi.
At that range it would probably do more damage. Having a bullet ricochet around your skull is bad.
Maybe he's talking about 9x18 Makarov. It is an inferior cartridge. Used in the sidearm of the KGB and Red Army. Not much better than .380, no stopping power.
The 9mm is a perfectly good cartridge you overcompensating gun nut
counterpoint: it failed to kill Reagan
Technically 9mms also failed to kill reagan. If 9mm rounds would just fly in to the sky and wip around to take on arch-fascists it'd definitely be the best caliber.
counter-counter-counter point: buying ammo with the word "luger" on the box is cringe
counter-counter-counter-counter point: Buy Wolf 9mm ammo - It's made in the Tula Cartridge plant
Counter-counter-counter-counter-counter; wolf has notoriously poor quality control and buying ammo bc the plant has distant soviet heritage is cringe
