Duck and Cover

A bit thank you to all who gave me advice and opinions! I finally went for Gifted and then took the perk 'Quick Learner' (maybe fast learner) to make up for the loss in skill points. I can't remember my stats off of the top of my head (on work PC....) but I ended up starting with both small guns (t...

That's just for the water chip quest. You can complete that in the 150 days, or 250 days if you do the water merchant thing, and then you have a lot of time to do what you want. The game will end after three years though, which is more than enough time to do most everything you want to do, and stop ...

One line of dialogue:

"Can you repeat that louder in to my pocket?"

That Electric Floor Door Maze(tm) area was pretty lame. I think it can be best summed up by the scene in Galaxy Quest where they're talking about the crusher room on the starship.

Oddly enough, the EFDM area is one of the few bad parts of Fallout 2 that didn't make it in to Fallout Tactics.

Headroom wrote:A nuclear grenade with a throw range of 30m but blast radius of 2km

Let me guess, you played Paranoia at some point?

I'm sure I've seen this discussed elsewhere, but what about the Enclave's vertibirds from FO2??? - What tech are they based on?? Vacuum tubes or some Fallout universe development?? Matt brings up that the Enclave didn't scare the BOS much until they developed Vertibirds when you talk to him about t...

*hehe* This morning I was sitting on the crapper and thinking about lowering the pistol ranges almost across the board. The low-AP cost of pistols and the fact that they have longer range than the SMGs in my mod/campaign is actually something of a balance issue. I'm going to look into this. I will ...

There was something I did like but not anymore...it deals with geography. When you look at the map you see two or three craters but than you find some areas that look like cities and you find not much in those small urban areas. It would be nice if you could find at least a large urban area that st...

Odd, I have the Windows version of Fallout, and my system is pretty close to yours, WinME, 256MB RAM, and an Athlon 1GHz. If you bought it recently, you should have the windows version of Fallout and it's already patched. Now, one problem could be that you installed the DOS patch for Fallout over th...

2D, until player models can match the 120,000 polygons that a sprite makes up.

EMP can wipe out a vacuum tube, but not nearly as easy as it can wipe out a transistor. Then again, if you were that close to the blast to burn out a vacuum tube, there's most likely other problems with that electric system than burned out vacuum tubes. ;) Also, there's another huge problem with vac...

I agree with all those who said that Fallout isn't a combat game. SPECIAL wasn't designed for just combat, I think Fallout Tactics demonstrated that well. The problem with Fallout Tactics was that it was one dimensional, and only the combat skills really mattered. There is more to tactics than just ...

What in the bloody, Bloody, BLOODY hell would Fallout be without Post-Apoc setting??? Fallout 2 started down that road when you think about it. NCR was a large, unified government. The Shi were making artificial fuel oil, which leads to mass transit. When you have a large and mobile government, you...

NORAD isn't a very good example of a nuclear shelter. As pointed out, it's a military installation. ARK2 is a much better example, since it's a civilian shelter: http://www.ki4u.com/nuclearsurvival/ That's an interesting site, since they have all kinds of information on nuclear attacks and survival....