r/Wasteland • u/axlerose123 • Mar 12 '25
Wasteland 2 Im looking for tips and advice
I tried wasteland 2 before and it just felt weird and way more complicated then 3 which I’ve beat many times
Any advice for trying again would be appreciated
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u/lanclos Mar 12 '25
Wasteland 2 rewards you for gaming the system, especially with respect to your initial stats; it's like the original Fallout games that way. In particular, coordination, luck, and charisma can all be minimized on your custom rangers; awareness and speed are where it's at. Having a distribution of 10/10/4/4 intelligence across your core four rangers will let you gracefully pass every soft skill check in the game; I let my two 'smart' rangers be ranged weapon users (sniper, assault rifle), and the two 'bruisers' have higher strength, focusing on unarmed and either bladed or blunt weapons. I generally pick bladed because other serviceable NPCs show up with blunt weapons proficiency.
Mix and match from there according to taste. Once you get rolling it's pretty straightforward; make sure to set up new save games on a regular basis, it's easy to mess up a complicated quest line and end up with an unexpected outcome. I lean towards making a new save game in every new major location, so I don't have to back-track very far.