This is similar to how I kill Legate Lanius in NV.
I spend the entire game, and every DLC, collecting every mine, C4 brick, and grenade I can find, not using a single one, and just leave them in a ******* enormous pile just before I talk to him. Even drop the grenades out of my inventory, knowing full well they won't explode. It often takes full minutes for me to get the job done, and the pile of explosives is often enough that you could build a legendary deathclaw out of them, and still have enough to one shot the actual deathclaw itself. I go chat with Lanius, get him right to the point of surrender, and then encourage him to attack.
I can wait for him to set one of the mines off himself, but I much prefer to use my detonator before he has the chance. Once he's in the middle of the pile, I set it off.
The explosion's radius is so large that it's nearly impossible to escape in time. I've almost never done this without getting at least two limbs snapped like twigs, and on one occasion I died instantly. All of this fire and steel is dedicated solely to the complete annihilation of Lanius, who takes the full fury of the blast every time.
So yeah, after that it usually only takes one or two anti material rifle shots directly to his head to kill him.
Now I'm a scrub among scrubs. I played NV on easy. but I sneak crit'd him in the head with anti mat rifle with exploding rounds and it one shot him. And you're telling me he survived an explosion to rival an actual nuke?
how do you even... I feel like a child when i have the game on normal mode absorbing 1million bullets and 1 hit killing things, mean while having 1000 stimpacks just in case, Anything less then very hard is completely absurd unless you are going for 0 deaths then normal or hard is acceptable. (i will warent that in this experience ive found the game doesnt level scale as well as fall out 3, its rather annoying for the first 20 levels on very hard because certain things can cheaply 1 hit kill you and need 100 rounds to take them down.)
Dude, they have a device in the game that exists solely for the purpose of mine defusing. It's called the Experimental Mine Immediate-Removal Vehicle and can be used to simultaneously defuse eight mines. Why would anyone even bother using a sledgehammer?
Experimental Mine Immediate-Removal Vehicle
Experimental MIRV
In case you, bhuddiver, and dawndusk haven't played the game, the Experimental MIRV is a gun in Fallout 3 that fires eight mini-nukes simultaneously, not a mine removal device as I jokingly implied, meaning that using one to "remove" the mines would result in an explosion several times larger than the one shown in the video. I assumed that was pretty obvious, but if they haven't played Fallout 3 I can see how it might go over peoples' heads.
Firing an Experimental MIRV at your own feet creates such a powerful explosion that your corpse gets launched to the maximum possible height in the game.
Yes, it would blow your arms off and make you do pretty spins
3 has a better atmosphere, but NV has much better content, up to you but considering they're both pretty cheap, why not both?
1,2 and brotherhood are pretty cheap, but will warn you they're isometric turn based, so completely different from 3 and NV