How did the Courier survive two pistol bullets to the head?

The powder gangers can survive months, crucified in an abandoned city, with no one feeding them, with nothing to drink, and then are able to walk if you release them using an unarmed attack that a crippled ranger teached you.
 
Well when you have people like Joshua Graham who survive getting covered in pitch, lit on fire, then being thrown into a canyon, then killing Legion assassins, it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe a badass like the "Courier" can survive two bullets to the head. Plus real people have survived worse wounds, I believe there was a railroad foreman who got a railroad spike lodged in his jaw, it took him 5 minutes to notice it, and he ended up surviving that wound.
 
naossano said:
The powder gangers can survive months, crucified in an abandoned city, with no one feeding them, with nothing to drink, and then are able to walk if you release them using an unarmed attack that a crippled ranger teached you.
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Really? Did you test this out?

I wanna try this now.

Kmag94 said:
Well when you have people like Joshua Graham who survive getting covered in pitch, lit on fire, then being thrown into a canyon, then killing Legion assassins, it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe a badass like the "Courier" can survive two bullets to the head. Plus real people have survived worse wounds, I believe there was a railroad foreman who got a railroad spike lodged in his jaw, it took him 5 minutes to notice it, and he ended up surviving that wound.
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It took him five minutes to notice a railroad spike in his fucking jaw?
 
Well that would probably be from the Adrenaline in his system. Really with injuries like that surviving them comes down to dumb luck.
 
valcik said:
It's simple, really. He survived because Fo1/2 is a fucking arcade game in terms of combat system. Not only Vault Dweller is nearly invulnerable, the same goes for any other critter too. I've pumped several magazines of 10mm bullets in X's chest until he fell down at the floor. That's almost 50 bullets, fifty in words! After quick post-mortem check of his possessions, to my biggest surprise I've realized he's wearing his woolen fancy suit only; no panzer plates at all. That's good old X, the man with a chest of steel!
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A tiny change, yet it's exactly the same.

PS: Dropping a million enemies with 1 bullet each is at least as annoying. And with such a combat system you totally would need a million enemies. Just look at any other shooter of the past few years.
 
@Lexx:
Nah, any average non-armored junkie could be wiped out with ~5-6 10mm bullets in the BIS Fallouts and even Metzger's goons with leather armor couldn't survive more than one magazine. (Much less with Glovz's or Haen's fixes.)

To be honest though, with 100pts in the Gun skill and a proper 12.7mm pistol Courier became a true killing machine.
 
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Same applies to New Vegas. With high enough guns skill + good weapon you can headshot stuff pretty easily.

In the end it's still a game.
 
Yep. Cazadors were a bitch early game, but later on (especially after I got the upgrades for fighting them in Big Mt.) I was swatting them down like flies with small-time weapons. The Assault Carbine, or any other weapon that has a heavy DPS seems to work most efficiently against them. I've tried to use the Gauss Rifle or Anti-Material Rifle against Cazadors and Deathclaws but the amount of damage it does compared to reload time just isn't worth it.
 
Shotguns and nothing else! With Shotgun Surgeon + And Stay Back perks, Courier is roflstomping through any groups of enemies like a hot knife through butter with his riot shotgun.

As for Courier's iron skull, that incompetent guy Benny needs to be blamed. Somebody did sell a cheap fucked up ammunition to the poor bastard. :V
 
Why do you think a bullet to the head would kill you instantly? Are you basing your assumptions off of movies and video games?
 
BigBoss said:
Kmag94 said:
Well when you have people like Joshua Graham who survive getting covered in pitch, lit on fire, then being thrown into a canyon, then killing Legion assassins, it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe a badass like the "Courier" can survive two bullets to the head. Plus real people have survived worse wounds, I believe there was a railroad foreman who got a railroad spike lodged in his jaw, it took him 5 minutes to notice it, and he ended up surviving that wound.
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It took him five minutes to notice a railroad spike in his fucking jaw?
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HOW is it so easy for people to rewrite history when the source is less than minutes away from you? Shit, I understand rewriting history years, decades, and centuries later, but when the story is just a few pages back in this same topic? No, he didn't have a railroad spike lodged in his jaw that he didn't notice to 5 minutes. The spike went THROUGH his jaw and into his brain and out the other side, and he managed to survive. Just watch the video that was already linked on the first page, and it brings up the same story.
 
BonusWaffle said:
Why do you think a bullet to the head would kill you instantly? Are you basing your assumptions off of movies and video games?
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History proved it countless times. :roll:

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Yeah, history also proved that tiny scrapes leading to untreated infections were lethal, as well. We don't see that as a popularized dramatized method of taking out our enemies.
 
That's because we realized that bullets are much faster and more lethal than shaving belly with a rusty razor and waiting for infection, perhaps? Whaddya think? :wiggle:
 
I think it misses the point.
The point is it doesn't matter that "history teaches" something, human beings just went with something else because they saw an opportunity to tell a story, despite the methods being impractical.
 
SnapSlav said:
The point is it doesn't matter that "history teaches" something, human beings just went with something else because they saw an opportunity to tell a story, despite the methods being impractical.
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What are you trying to suggest here? History teached us that infection should kill people and yet we resorted to shooting prisoners of war, despite shooting being impractical? So we could tell a story about shooting now, instead of story about infections? Holy shit man, I'm lost in your semantics. Are you fuckin' kidding me? Elaborate please! :mrgreen:
 
valcik said:
SnapSlav said:
The point is it doesn't matter that "history teaches" something, human beings just went with something else because they saw an opportunity to tell a story, despite the methods being impractical.
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What are you trying to suggest here?
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I'm not suggesting anything. I'm outright stating that it doesn't matter what "history teaches".

-History teaches that cars don't violently explode upon collision, but that's what we see in entertainment.
-History teaches that explosives are fatal because of shrapnel discharge, but we see gigantic fireballs in entertainment.
-History teaches that the wills of a select, powerful, elite few govern changes and that these are rarely for the best of reasons, but we see heroes saving the day in entertainment.

It doesn't matter what history teaches, because that's not where entertainers draw their inspiration from. They draw from the stagnant well of visceral and dramatic expression, impressive yet without substance, copycats and falsehoods. They don't draw from facts or historical lessons. I stated from the very beginning that your comment about "history teaches" was pointless. Nothing more. The fact that I had to repeat this 3 times is just sad.
 
valcik said:
BonusWaffle said:
Why do you think a bullet to the head would kill you instantly? Are you basing your assumptions off of movies and video games?
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History proved it countless times. :roll:

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History proved a bullet to the head kills you EVERYTIME no matter what? Really? Fuck so those people who survived bullets to the head must be like, fuckin' black marks on history's record huh?
 
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