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AlmightyBob posted:I bought the mods for the dog gun, installed them, and then later got the upgrade and used that and now the mods are gone and it actually does less damage now ;[ wait, upgrade? I have the mods for it, but what upgrade?
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Bash Ironfist posted:wait, upgrade? I have the mods for it, but what upgrade? The unique variant called FIDO.
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If you have a high enough Guns skill, I think you can get two K9000s. One to modify, one to turn into FIDO. The cyberdog mods are the best weapon mod names in the game.
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AlmightyBob posted:I bought the mods for the dog gun, installed them, and then later got the upgrade and used that and now the mods are gone and it actually does less damage now ;[ Yeah, you can't apply mods to FIDO, so they're removed when you upgrade it. A fully modded K9 does more damage than FIDO. There are only two or three dog guns in the game, I think, making it one of the rarest non-unique weapons. e: just two. One received from the Think Tank, one nabbed off the Master Trauma Harness in X-12.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Melee is much better for lower levels, to be honest. Yeah, I ended up using the knuckles I found on the Duntons for a few levels. Now I've got a handgun and a sidekick and I can finally kill stuff. So far absolutely loving this game.
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Chairman Mao posted:Yeah, I ended up using the knuckles I found on the Duntons for a few levels. Now I've got a handgun and a sidekick and I can finally kill stuff. Make a bee-line south for San Francisco. Make sure you save first.
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My Fallout 2 starting goals were always to run from combats early and rush to get some levels from random conversations and fetch quests; three or four levels worth of points dumped into a tagged guns or energy weapons skill usually means I can finally shoot those rats.
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Nov 13, 2011 07:24
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Nothing official removes the clicking from your Geiger counter. Possibly something you're using (mod-wise) has replaced the sound with a blank audio file. Or it's bad / missing and the next time you run a cached file integrity check, it'll be replaced and "fixed". Unrelated to that, I just discovered the real way to disable v-sync via the INI file tweak, and my framerate went up by 10-20 with no discernible loss in quality. I wish I knew about this sooner! I thought it was HDR sucking it all up, but apparently that has no effect on my framerate at all, so I turned it back on after not having used it in a while, and WOW things can glow!
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JawKnee posted:Make a bee-line south for San Francisco. Make sure you save first. Don't do this.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Don't do this. explain
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Nov 13, 2011 08:26
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Francois Kofko posted:explain it is incredibly dumb to tell a first-time player "hey, do this sequence break that totally fucks with the natural item progression and makes absolutely no sense to do from a role-playing perspective"
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Positronic Spleen posted:None of my mods should affect it, but I disabled some, and it started working again. I don't know if they were actually related to the problem, or maybe just some weird save bug that sorted itself out at the same time, whatever. Are you talking about the ipresentinterval=1 line? Francois Kofko posted:explain I assume he's saying that because it's cool to go to SF and break the game on the second or third playthrough, but it sounds like the guy receiving the advice hasn't played FO2 before. So it really sort of screws things up. Kind of like when I was playing FO3 and ran into the PC's dad beneath that Mechanic's Shop before I had ever set foot in DC. EDIT: Beaten!
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Are you talking about the ipresentinterval=1 line?
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Francois Kofko posted:[i was asking out of personal curiosity because i haven't actually played fallout 2 either] You should. I hold the curmudgeonly opinion that you're perfectly fine going from FO to FO2 to FO: NV without ever touching FO3. New Vegas has so many callbacks to FO and FO2 it's ridiculous (awesome.) Positronic Spleen posted:Yeah, it makes the game much less janky with no apparent downside. ipresentinterval is one of those lines I've always set to "0" since Oblivion. It's one of the quirks of Gamebryo, and a source of a lot of frustration when people disable their vsync but still feel like vsync is on. Because it still is.
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That's sound advice any way you look at it. FO3 absolutely mauled canon if you care about that, and if you don't it was just an objectively inferior game anyway. And I say all this as someone whose first experience with Fallout was that game... I got FO and FO2 not long after out of curiosity and it was a hell of an eye opener. Only FO3 that exists as far as I'm concerned is Van Buren 
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i tried to play the first one and died to some rats outside the vault, said 'gently caress this' and quit
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It's a huge difficulty leap. I actually haven't finished either 1 or 2 (though I do play them both whenever I'm on my laptop, away from home, and I love them) because holy poo poo old games are hard. It's frustrating, but in a refreshing way. I'm getting kind of tired of having my hand held for me. e/ A little creche of golden geckos has taken up residence in the Highway 95 Viper's Encampment. Welp, that's one less thing for me to clear out, thanks lil buddies 
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Francois Kofko posted:i tried to play the first one and died to some rats outside the vault, said 'gently caress this' and quit Jesus, it's no wonder developers have to make games so easy these days.
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rossmum posted:It's a huge difficulty leap. I actually haven't finished either 1 or 2 (though I do play them both whenever I'm on my laptop, away from home, and I love them) because holy poo poo old games are hard. It's frustrating, but in a refreshing way. I'm getting kind of tired of having my hand held for me. Fallout 2 is really no harder than 3. The only thing I really didn't like about the beginning of the game so far has been the loving "Here is the varied and open world of Fallout, where you can explore the vast postapocalyptic wasteland, travel to new towns and unfurl a rich and detailed storYOU WILL NOW FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE COMBAT SYSTEM. YOU MUST DO THIS BEFORE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PLAY THE VIDEO GAME." temple. Basically a cross between 3's "baby" sequence and one of the sewer levels. Edit: That's one of the things they finally got right with New Vegas. "Can you walk? Can you click on things? Awesome, what do you want your stats to be? Welcome to Fallout!" Edit: Haha, Vault City was sent 100 water chips by mistake. The entire first two games would never have happened if it wasn't for a shipping error. Chairman Mao fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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Probably true... I'm super bad at turn-based stuff. I have similar misfortune with JA2.
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antidote posted:Jesus, it's no wonder developers have to make games so easy these days. its true, i'm a major stockholder and my skill at video games is brought up at every meeting
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Chairman Mao posted:Fallout 2 is really no harder than 3. The only thing I really didn't like about the beginning of the game so far has been the loving "Here is the varied and open world of Fallout, where you can explore the vast postapocalyptic wasteland, travel to new towns and unfurl a rich and detailed storYOU WILL NOW FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE COMBAT SYSTEM. YOU MUST DO THIS BEFORE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PLAY THE VIDEO GAME." temple. Ya.. irritated me how difficult it was for my smooth talking gunslinger to be forced into going through a temple with a spear. Pretty much save/load spam till I could get to the end of it, where finally my smooth talking would come into play and I wouldn't have to fight the guy there. Good thing too, or I'd never get through unless I made a character that was good with unarmed or melee.
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Francois Kofko posted:i tried to play the first one and died to some rats outside the vault, said 'gently caress this' and quit Leal posted:Ya.. irritated me how difficult it was for my smooth talking gunslinger to be forced into going through a temple with a spear. Pretty much save/load spam till I could get to the end of it, where finally my smooth talking would come into play and I wouldn't have to fight the guy there. Good thing too, or I'd never get through unless I made a character that was good with unarmed or melee.
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Is there any way to get into the red team side of vault 19?
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AlmightyBob posted:Is there any way to get into the red team side of vault 19? There are two overseer offices in Vault 19 from memory, and both have a different leader inside. Talk to both and agree to do their missions and they'll give you the keycards you need to get inside. I think that I'm thinking of the correct vault.
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I only went into the one office and already blew up the cave, hope I can still do the other one
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AlmightyBob posted:I only went into the one office and already blew up the cave, hope I can still do the other one I think you're probably all out of luck then, I'm fairly certain you can only get the red key card from that overseer. I assume the other inhabitants of the vault have already left?
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Jerusalem posted:I think you're probably all out of luck then, I'm fairly certain you can only get the red key card from that overseer. I assume the other inhabitants of the vault have already left? Don't know, I'll have to go back and check later.
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If there are still inhabitants there, you may be able to follow one through into the red sector, or possibly kill one to get his keycard (I'm not sure if the latter will work).
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jvempire posted:The random events do sometimes seem impossible at a beginning level. Thankfully, you can just run off to the side of the map to flee them. I'm using the patch, and it's not that it's broken, it's poorly designed and irritating. But whatever that's forever ago. I found myself another buddy, he's a ghoul and he doesn't have a portrait picture and he can't fight for poo poo. I'm keeping him forever.  Leal posted:smooth talking gunslinger 
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Speaking of smooth talking and gunslingers, I'm playing through the NV Bounties mod while I try figure out how to unfuck Dead Money, and holy poo poo does this own. I nearly lost my poo poo at the Kelly gang  For anyone who hasn't tried this, it's definitely worth playing. The voice acting ranges from passable at worst to excellent, and the writing isn't too bad. There's lots of little nods and winks to things throughout but they're not overly clumsy or juvenile like most mods that try to do the same, and the missions are challenging and (at times) pant-shittingly tense. I crept into a cavern only to find it was some kind of Ghoul bootcamp and proceeded to make the biggest mess I have ever seen in the game, it was like the O.K. Corral but with ten times the shooters in a small cavern. Oh, and with a loving FN FAL and high explosives. Head to the FO:NV modding thread, there's links to Part I and II and other cool things.
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rossmum posted:Speaking of smooth talking and gunslingers, I'm playing through the NV Bounties mod while I try figure out how to unfuck Dead Money, and holy poo poo does this own. I nearly lost my poo poo at the Kelly gang I played through the first Bounties mod and enjoyed it. I'll get around to the second one eventually. It really didn't interfere with anything else and felt like a very natural add-on to the wild west apocalypse that is New Vegas.
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rossmum posted:e/ A little creche of golden geckos has taken up residence in the Highway 95 Viper's Encampment. Welp, that's one less thing for me to clear out, thanks lil buddies Haha, that happened to me too once. I fast traveled there and bam, all out war going on. I just stood back and let them fight it out cause gently caress yeah Radiant AI (the geckos won).
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Chairman Mao posted:Edit: Haha, Vault City was sent 100 water chips by mistake. The entire first two games would never have happened if it wasn't for a shipping error. It was pretty strongly implied that it wasn't an error, Vault 13 was designed to fail, just like most other vaults, though I can't remember where they said that specifically.
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Sam. posted:It was pretty strongly implied that it wasn't an error, Vault 13 was designed to fail, just like most other vaults, though I can't remember where they said that specifically. Here's a list of the Vaults and what they were designed for. quote:Vault 13 - Intended to stay closed for 200 years as a study of prolonged isolation, the broken water chip forced the Overseer to improvise and use the Vault Dweller as a pawn. Later study of the Vault 13 records by the Enclave led them to their current plan to end the war.
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AlmightyBob posted:I only went into the one office and already blew up the cave, hope I can still do the other one
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Francois Kofko posted:its true, i'm a major stockholder and my skill at video games is brought up at every meeting No, rather I think that your attitude is pretty common these days. That's all.
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Sandstorms and SLRs will improve any screenshot. -The (ED-E was floating a few tens of feet away as well)
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