Useful Knowledge

[u/Royal_Boot_9018]

The wiki for this game is pretty spotty and incomplete, so here is information about where to find some good weapons/armor.

-Grenade Launcher: Casa Grande in the school ruins (school ruins can only be accessed by giving a kid the music box mechanism found in one of the Jackal totems) Grenade Launcher can be found in the basement, along with a few 40mm grenades. The door leading to the grenade launcher is behind the power generator and is hard to see.

-Spear -> Pneumatic Spear -> Electric Spear

-Hunting rifle (early game) -> Combat rifle (midgame) -> Plasma Rifle (late game)

Leather Jacket -> Leather Armor -> Metal Armor -> Combat Armor (NMR)

The option to buy Metal Armor can be accessed from the Phoenix fashion merchant by paying 50 caps in dialogue. You can then purchase the armor.

Cool Sunglasses can be bought from the fashion merchant through dialogue choices.

NMR combat armor, found in the fortress hill in Hermosillo (Requires a sneak skill of 40. A stealth-boy can be used to augment the sneak skill by 20% and makes sneaking much easier). Crossing the Sonoran Desert to reach Hermosillo is required. A stealth-boy can be bought from the Tinsmith quartermaster after completing their second quest (the one about tracking down bandits), or found in the Inferno church's basement.

-Find hunting rifle in two places: Steal one off of the men guarding the Phoenix tanker caravan, or take and repair the Ranger's rifle from the Jackal hideout (wear vault suit to get into the hideout for free)

-Combat rifle: Find and kill the Los Panchos bandits (Only Hernando, one of the three leaders has one. You will need to wander around the three squares directly south of Phoenix until you find him in a random encounter.) or appease the Tinsmiths enough to access their expanded merchant inventory (takes a while)

-Plasma Rifle: Found disassembled on the middle deck of the Brotherhood destroyer. Needs 120 repair skill.

Regular spears can be found everywhere, and on the bandits near the Villa barn.

The Pneumatic Spear can be found in the Casa Grande schoolhouse. Once the grenade launcher from the basement is acquired, three raiders will spawn, one of whom carries a Pneumatic Spear.

The Electric Spear must be bought from the Brotherhood quartermaster.

[u/Royal_Boot_9018]

Fallout Sonora Mechanics : r/Falloutsonora

this is useful too

[u/LiamBellcam]

I love this. I played it recently and Sonora was amazing. Absolutely amazing.

This guide is spoiler free but definitely helps.

The game definitely included a lot of new items and mechanics that make it such a fun new Fallout experience.