I kicked around starting OWB and instead launched Lonesome Road. I'm to do this one last it seems but who cares.
I'm liking it so far, more than Honest Hearts if I'm honest. They say energy weapons are the way to go in OWB, so I thought I'd play this, level up a few times, all the while dropping points in to energy weapons so that those will be viable when and if I get there. Get the duster at the end, with its 4.33:1 DT to weight ratio. Its bonuses are to be determined based on my rep with various factions. Hoping for the "old world" House version with it +1 Agility and rad resistance. But I'd guess my NCR rep is higher. That's +1 Endurance and +25 carry weight. Meh, whatever,
These DLC throw XP at the player, don't they? Completing quests is worth a lot and the levels go by more quickly. So I've gone from 20 energy weapons to 55, just like that, and if I decide to follow through with OWB maybe I'll be better prepared as a result. I've mostly ignored these weapons throughout the run, so might as well mix it up and use them.
To achieve anything in this game you must be prepared to dabble in the boundary of disaster — Stirling Moss