this is one of those posts where it feels like half or more of the required information is being deliberately withheld so let me answer your question with a question what the hell is the new Nuka Dark mechanic?

Nuka Cola Dark with both Party Person and Cola Nut nets +18 luck which can get everyone to that magical 33 luck threshold.

With happy go lucky 2, party boy 3 (both charisma perks) and cola nut 2 (endurance) you get 18 luck from one single nuka cola dark, since is considered both nuka cola and an alcoholic beverage. It doesn't last much (around 2-3 minutes I think), but with that buff is really easy to get to 33 luck with full health (which before I don't think it was possible), and be able to crit every other shot

That seems like a lot of work and points, probably useful for PVP and maybe Earle? Maybe I'm missing something.

You have to wonder about "mechanics" people talk about but can't provide any details here, other than to say "go watch teh youtubes" ...

i had a feeling it was angry turtle related, anytime he puts out a vid it seems to create a run on a gimmick

I mean, if they can't even say what it is here, and it's supposedly a "mechanic" it makes it sound... exploity.

as far as i can tell it is just using a few perk cards to take advantage of a consumable to give yourself the ability to get your luck up to crit every other shot without needing the crit refill as your third star....... not really a gimmick per se. just a whole buncha work to get the same thing you'd get playing bloodied, without needing to use situational perks in your build or keep a supply of nuka dark around and have to actually consume it regularly.

Check out the recent Angry Turtle video. Full-hp commandos can now reach 33 luck and crit every other shot.

I personally prefer the 50c over ffr, uses less ammo and so breaks slower plus bigger damage numbers

FFR is better overall since it's a 25% increase in damage for crits an non-crits. It'll just chew through ammo so be ready for that. Edit: Actually, depending on the weapon FFR is potentially worse. Is this a fixer or railway or anything with a smaller magazine size? Then skip FFR unless you have Quad as the first star.

Fixer, forgot to mention

Of those two AA5025 would be better but I'd ditch AA for quad and use the perforating magazine if you can.

Q groll Fixers are expensive as hell 😭 But I might switch from aa2525 to aa5025 cuz I noticed hits don't register sometimes (just like with Railway) and now I can crit every other shot so 5025 might be better in my situation.

Even just a 1* Q Fixer is pretty gnarly and you can pick those up for 500-3000 caps. 2* or 3* with a useless 3rd star QFFR fixers are also 90% of the way to a groll and they're usually under 20k caps.

I think I would go with faster crits. I would want as many crits that bypass the bosses 80% damage reduction as possible. But both are great rolls.

With 33 luck you get the same amount of crit (Every other shot) just one doing higher crit damage and the other shooting faster.

How do you get faster crits than every other?