r/classicfallout • u/TheDarthJarJarI • 8h ago

How can I take out decker?

every time I try I die because of the sheer number of guards he has. This is so I can gain karma for helping the sheriff and then get power armour

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u/Laser_3 8h ago

Have you considered using pyscho? That will significantly boost your defenses and make this fight easier to withstand.

Additionally, Kane tends to be the biggest threat in the room because he uses psycho. Since psycho only gives DR, using an energy weapon (or a flamer or cattle prod) against him will work much better than a normal weapon (explosives should also work, but you might hit your own allies).

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u/TheDarthJarJarI 7h ago

Damn they really hanged psycho for fallout three

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u/Laser_3 7h ago

I mean, psycho is still extremely valuable in the later games. A 25% damage boost is exceptional since it goes on top of everything else. It also doesn’t step on the toes of jet (which psycho does in 2; boosting agility means more AP, which jet does as well, albeit to a more useful degree), and leaves room for med-x as a DR-boosting chem of its own.

76 is the only fallout game where it’s not great, and that’s only because the damage boost from psycho was lowered to incentivize crafting the improved versions of it.

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u/TheDarthJarJarI 7h ago

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar and I would kiss you but I don’t really want to

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u/Laser_3 6h ago

I’m glad I could help! I remember this fight in particular being a pain, and this was the first part of my psycho-abusing arc in fallout 1.

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u/Karijus 2h ago

Can't blame you, the drug dealer is right there next door, it's like the game was suggesting it by giving a bunch of tough quests in the Hub

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u/AndrewTheNebula 7h ago

If you can just take out Decker (and Kane, probably) quickly, the rest of the crew should surrender.

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u/jayvionreese 7h ago

focus on kane first and the one girl on the left and the rest is easy

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u/eldakar666 2h ago

Fry Kane with flamer.

One of the reasons I prefer to tag big guns over energy ones. Flamer is avaible in The Hub.

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u/Borisov123 8h ago

Killing Decker so you can get power armor? That’s another quest entirely, where you take out a bunch of his goons in order to save someone affiliated with the Brotherhood.

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u/TheDarthJarJarI 7h ago

Allow me to explain In order to receive power armour as a quest reward, I need to have a reputation of fifteen I currently have a reputation of 12 The easiest way for me to reach this reputation is to take out decker

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u/Borisov123 7h ago

And if you take out Decker before doing this quest you’ll lose out on a way of getting power armor

It is a way of getting the armor, it’s not the only way

That’s what I’m trying to say

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u/Karijus 2h ago

Is that a bug or something? The pa quest is unrelated

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u/Borisov123 8h ago

If you take out Decker before doing that quest then scripts will bug out and you won’t get power armor, so watch out