I think I screwed myself in Fallout 1.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:32 pm

I haven't played Fallout 1 in ages, but I managed to find the water chip and save Vault 13. I was doing some other quests, trading, and working to join the Brotherhood of Steel. I got in, got some upgrades, some new equipment, and then I left to scout out the north.

PROBLEM IS: as soon as I leave the Brotherhood map, a cinema starts showing Vault 13 being slaughtered by those bastardous mutants. I have a save file prior to all of the Brotherhood upgrades (they took some time to do, if I recall correctly). Should that file be enough time for me to stop this shit? Do I have to kill the Mutants ASAP, or can I just do something to get more time. I want to help the Brotherhood out a bit and take care of some things in the Boneyard.

ARGH. Please help. All I've been doing today is playing Fallout, and I feel like I'm near death.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:48 pm

There's a 500 day limit in the unpatched version until mutants find Vault 13 so you better load an old save and leave the upgrades for the next playthrough. I'm not sure what happens if you install the patch; although I doubt the changes will affect your current game.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:35 am

Your save-game doesn't works anymore. (At least in FO2)

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:36 am

Thanks. I like to take my time, build my guy up and do as much as possible. I think I'll call it quits on this file and just go straight to Fallout 2. I finally got it installed on my Mac (using Boot Camp) and desperately want to play it again. Fallout 1 is great, but 2 was always my bread and butter. BREAD AND BUTTER I SAY. Thanks for the info.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:01 pm

how about i shove that bread down your throat dammit

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:55 pm

Don't do it. Replay Fallout. It's a much better game and the end is worth it.

Play again and just don't dilly dally so much. And don't pay those filthy water merchants if you did last time. It gives you more time to find the water chip but less time to counter the mutant threat, as I recall.

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:30 pm

A Macintosh? Are you some kind of homosexual?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:44 pm

Go to the vats, blow place up.

Go visit the master, blow him up.

Do it ASAP, from an oldersavegame.

That, or just start over.

Tho it would be cool if someone would make a mod giving the Vault Dweller the option to simply fail to save the vault, but at the expense of a MUCH harder endgame.............. a last stand in the Hub prehaps ?

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:01 pm

The 4 part Fallout program:

1 Get Water Chip from Vault 8 (Necropolis)

2 Kill the Master

3 Blow up the Vats

4 Kill Overseer

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:25 pm

You can do these in whatever order. I usually blow up the Vats first. I prefer killing the bad guy last. smile

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:48 pm

As I recall it, if you destroy the Vats first, then kill the Master, the Vats will "respawn", and you will have to destroy it again to beat the game.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:58 pm

Nope, the Vats doesn't respawn.

On a sidenote, getting the water chip isn't required to complete the game if you blow up the military base and kill the Master within the time limit.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:02 pm

Nope, the Vats doesn't respawn.

On a sidenote, getting the water chip isn't required to complete the game if you blow up the military base and kill the Master within the time limit.

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:57 am

The first time I played Fallout, I got into the Military Base by talking to the mutant in Necropolis, and then simply killed the lieutenant and every other living being there. After having finished the vats, I later found out about the cathedral and then killed the Master. There was no need for me to destroy the vats a second time, too. There are also different endings for both cases.

If your brother had to destroy the vats to times then this would most probably be a bug :)

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:09 pm

If your ticked off about the mutant thing, just get the 1.10 patch. Your saved files WILL work.

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:54 pm

Never happened to me.. patched version gets rid of that time limit for the mutants to find it.

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:53 pm

Nope, the Vats doesn't respawn.

On a sidenote, getting the water chip isn't required to complete the game if you blow up the military base and kill the Master within the time limit.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:52 pm

i didnt even know there was a second time limit.could someone show me a vidio of the vault 13 slaughter?

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:20 am

No, play the game yourself you blood lusting fanfag.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyqlMBeQFU