mrle01 on 4/9/2008 at 14:48
Quote Posted by BR796164
There is this rumor that if you buy water for your vault from the water merchants, the caravans will be
followed by supermutants and they rob Vault 13. But don't know where I have read about it, in the Fallout Bible or in the localized text files I have once studied... Perhaps it was one of the removed endings or something...?
Don't remember the exact numbers but I think that
if you send water caravan to your Valut, the time limit to find the water chip is extened by 100 days, but the time limit to finish the game is shortened by 100 days because the mutants will find the Valut (in unpatched game atleast). Or something like that. Rogue Keeper on 4/9/2008 at 15:30
I see, well I think v1.1 removed it (I didn't play unpatched F1 anyway) because then you would have much less time to explore the world and it would create lots of stress for first time players. So now that you buy water from the merchants, the worst thing is you get is frowning Overseer.
N'Al on 4/9/2008 at 16:39
I believe what the patch did was to increase the time until the mutants discovered your vault to something like 13 years, so even though buying water from the water merchants shortens the time you've got to finish the game it hardly matters.
Phatose on 4/9/2008 at 17:13
Quote Posted by Mingan
No damage increase, just better accuracy, especially when doing aimed shots. But don't go overboard in Fallout you only need about 95% on a given skill to reach 'maximum efficiency'. Sure you cant put more points in it, but you won't see as much difference.
@Scots : try to do some quests in The Hub before venturing further, some of them have useful rewards.
Really? It's been a while for me, but I would expect that the called shot penalties and range penalties would seriously hurt your too hit chance on eye shots if you're only at 95%. If you're not using a minigun, you should practically always be shooting for the eyes, simply because the damage potential increase is huge for a single action point.
Mingan on 4/9/2008 at 17:52
Well it all depend on your percerption stat a lot. You'll need to put more points into your skills if your perception is low. But if you have (eg.) 8-9 perception and 95% in Small Guns, and use the .223 Pistol, you'll have pretty much always 95% to-hit the eyes (at a reasonable distance, it's a pistol, not a rifle).
Let's also not talk about the Alien Blaster, because you don't even have to aim.
june gloom on 4/9/2008 at 20:09
Quote Posted by Phatose
If you're not using a minigun, you should practically always be shooting for the eyes, simply because the damage potential increase is huge for a single action point.
AHHH MY SIDE MY KIDNEY IS FALLING OUT
never stops being funny
mrle01 on 4/9/2008 at 21:36
Quote Posted by BR796164
I see, well I think v1.1 removed it (I didn't play unpatched F1 anyway).
Yes, the patch extended the time limit to finish the game to 13 years, which is a good thing. I was never fond of time limits in a game.
All this talk about Fallout made me wanna play it again. I've never tried it playing with a character with low intelligence, maybe I should try that.
june gloom on 4/9/2008 at 22:09
From what I hear, it's not as fun as in (
http://www.octopusoverlords.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=61346) Fallout 2. (Spoilers abound on that page, obviously)
According to Per Jorner's Ultimate Fallout Guide, "The stupid game in Fallout basically means rushing through every area, shooting some people up for no apparent reason and grabbing whatever loot is to be had, but not much else. Stupid dialogues are very brief and they do not in any way connect your character to the world in any meaningful or role-playing-like fashion."
The mental image of it is funnier than the actual doing it. I get the image of a large, muscular, mentally disabled man running into a room, making a lot of UNNN and GUHH noises and then smashing someone's head open on the side of some machine, causing a door to open up revealing a lot of money and/or expensive tech, and he gives a retard cheer and runs out of the room.
CCCToad on 6/9/2008 at 03:25
So I started playing this on gametap, and obtained an alien blaster thanks to my high luck stat.
Love the weapon, but where can I find some more energy cells to power it?
june gloom on 6/9/2008 at 03:29
Two good places to go- there's a gun dealer in the Hub (east end) who sometimes has energy weapon ammo, and the Gun Runners in Boneyard. You can get a discount from the Gun Runners if you perform a certain task for them- kill the big mama deathclaw in the basement of the biggest building in the deathclaw playground, which lies between the Gun Runner compound and the rest of the Boneyard. Remember to destroy her eggs once she's dead.
Alien blaster, huh? I got that my first playthrough too. It's murder in plastic.
However, for games you don't get it, you can't go wrong with the plasma rifle, especially once you get it turbocharged.
