| Litte spoilers ahead.
There is almost no reason to not have Gifted/Fast shot in Tactics if you play with CTB. It's obscene, yeah I think Sniper is broken, I didn't check the 1.27 patch to see if they fixed it. If they didn't just go with more/better criticals, and tag energy weapons. As soon as you get an energy weapon, you just tear through that game, and if you get the special energy weapon from one of the missions, it smashes everything in the end game so fast without aimed shots, they just become uneeded. The thing about Tactics, is unlike Fallout 2, the end game enemies have mediocre armor ratings so Fast shot is always worth it. Broken down Tactics imo looks like this
Early game: Fight humans then death claws, low leveled, aimed shots not needed due to lack of enemy armor
Middle game: Fight mutants then some humans, mutants have no chance against burst weapons and there armor is fairly weak so again, aimed shots not needed. The other humans you fight only get Enviornmental armor, and you can break through that pretty well without aiming, and you only fight, I think 3 humans in power armor as well, and its only regular power armor, so you and your team can smash it fairly easily.
Late game: Fight robots, from what I've seen robots have deep HP but crap armor, and they get crushed by energy weapons.
I went through the game with a party of 4.
I found controlling any more became a huge hassle, and while i'm on the subject, if you do use burst weapons, use them on your personal character only, it becomes to hard to move as a group and prevent more than one character from spraying your entire party.
My party was basically this:
1Me, used energy weapons, ended game with special energy rifle
2Energy weapon/Big gun specialist used rockets mid game and laser rifle endgame
3Energy weapon/sniper used small guns mid game and pulse rifle endgame
4Small gun/doctor/repair used small guns whole game, guass rifle endgame.
I tore through the game fairly easily, reloading only a few times. I just moved my group all together on active watch and walked through most of the game.  |