The good doctor gave me a boxing glove for a weapon and I thought it was a joke item that can be thrown away when I saw it at first. My hardcore playthrough was pretty tough at the start, like more melee characters in all Fallout games. If you are playing a Melee Weapons build, you might be better off dropping luck and dumping perception so you can have more points to spend somewhere else. I'll just sum up my build by saying that it's mostly a crit-fisher unarmed build, taking advantage of the fact that Unarmed's crit damage is through the roof (2x I think). Especially since you are spending some on Melee Weapons if you are playing Unarmed. Tagging isn't as important in Fallout 3/New Vegas, but with your INT at 4, every bit really helps. You need to get the Legion Assault Kung-Fu move from one of his lackeys in his tent at The Fort.Д«efore I forget, my tagged skills are: Unarmed, Sneak and Speech. Anyway, once you are in the game, do NOT piss off Caesar too much. The rest should be more or less up to you because by then you should be one-hitting Deathclaws (or so I heard :p). The rest should be no-brainer:ДЎ6: Paralyzing Palm/Action Boy (I haven't decided yet)Дў0: Action Boy/Toughness (anything you want really)

Plan ahead, make sure you have 45% into Melee Weapons to qualify for the Super Slam perk by levle 8 (yes, even if you are making a pure Unarmed build). In New Vegas, perks for Unarmed/Melee should be very straightforward.

This build though, is very similar to most of my Unarmed/Melee character builds in all the Fallout games I've played, but they are usually very easy to screw up and shoot your own feet by wasting 1 stat point or picking the wrong perk. I could probably drop -1 INT for +1 AGI to be REALLY REALLY min/maxing, but that would involve me running to The Strip at level 2-3. I probably metagamed abit, like finding out if certain implants are available (especially for my 5 Perception). I - 4 (I wish I had the old Gifted trait to turn this into 9 =/, 4 for Comprehension/Educated perk) P - 5 (+1 from implant to qualify for Better Critical perk at level 16, enough time for you to play around the world before entering The Strip) For Fallout 3 onwards, depends if you want to screw your VATS AP or not. It's good to have, not bad to lose it either.ДҐ) AGI should be 8 or above for FO1 and 2. In Fallout 3 and New Vegas, it's so bad you might as well dump it no matter what character you play unless you like seeing your companions being badass instead of you.ДЈ) Never EVER dump INT unless you are forced to.Д¤) END is not as important in most builds, including this unarmed/melee build. AGI might be an exception.Дў) Check if CHA is useless in the game. Seems that all Fallout games have this weird effect on me.ДЄnyway, I followed the basic rules of assigning stats I have for all the Fallout games I played:ДЎ) Never put 10 in any stat. I've been playing quite a bit of Fallout: New Vegas this weekend, and again I'm tempted to make a pure unarmed/melee character despite how much I love shooting people down.

The pure melee build I came up with is actually more straightforward and is posted all the way below. This is specifically an Unarmed-Critical build. NOTE: For those coming here to look for the pure Melee build, you can skip all this to the bottom of the post.

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