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Well I do think it's obvious the writing got increasingly lazy towards the end of the game, obviously because the devs ran out of time and had to rush the completion. At the beginning, in Arroyo, Klamath etc, nearly everything has detailed descriptions. They become less as the game...

Eh? It's easy. But it does require that you do some experience farming in the wasteland, in order to bring your hit points to preferably 500 or more, and to collect all the necessary Perks. You need to take two ranks of Lifegiver as soon as the perk is available, to make the hitpoints start...

Anti-materiel rifles are designed to destroy hard targets such as bunkers, vehicles, and even tanks. If the real world had Power Armor, I'm sure it would fall into the category of targets vulnerable to AMRs. AMRs very often use the .50BMG caliber in the real world, so I don't see an...

I would assume that the speed of recovery from a knockout is determined by Endurance alone, but the results from the little experimenting I've been able to do are strange. Does Luck or Strength play a part too? Marcus, who has EN 10 (when fully leveled up), was unconscious for only one turn...

Ah. So, DT is divided by 5, and what remains is rounded down. That is consistent with the aforementioned reductions to the DT's of different power armor. It also explains why Sm Tough Deathclaws, which have a DT of 4, seem to lose all of their DT to armor-piercing criticals. This means that any...

Doesn't this thread belong on the Fallout Gameplay&Tech Forum? As for the Fallout Wikia site, there are many errors there, at least regarding the original 2 games which aren't mainstream anymore. The inaccuracy about the Magneto-Laser's penetration effect (which has since been corrected) was...

Fascinating. That explains a lot. Thank you.

Does this mean that every successful hit whose chance to hit was 95%, always gets a bonus to its critical chance? A bonus that is 0.1 x (95 - (RandomNumberBetween1and95) ?

Thanks. This seems to confirm that indeed the critical chance equals your Luck + (possible critical chance boosting perks) + (the targeted bodypart's chance-to-hit penalty inverted). The limited math unit of by brain cannot make sense of the following though: If it essentially says the same...

I have two very specific questions. First, it is suggested here that the critical chance of an aimed shot is equal to the player's base critical chance plus a bonus that is the inverse of the chance to hit penalty for that body part. Thus, a successful eye shot taken by an average character of 5...

I guess the thread went dead. But since I only stumbled upon the whole project now, and have always been a major Fallout2 weapon nut, I still wanted to pitch in. The original developers really messed up the ammunition system and weapon balance in Fallout2. This is not to bash the game. I...

NovaRain: 2 sounds like the solution, wow. So, uh, what do I download/install to apply the fix?

Hi. Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find relevant threads with the search function. Is it possible to fix the bug affecting burst fire in Fallout2, whereby dead critters to obstruct burst fire as if they were standing up, so that if something is lying dead between...

What kind of Luck roll is it? As I mentioned, I'm nearly sure I've always been able to find robbers sooner or later regardless of my Luck. Does it require good or bad luck to find a robber cave anyway? It's easily the most dangerous thing you can run into inside a cave.

Can anything be done, or indeed, has anything been done about the considerably game-unbalancing combat bug that causes corpses to obstruct burst fire? In my opinion, this is one of the very worst engine bugs in FO2, as it significantly affects combat and majorly impacts the weapon balance. It...

Are you sure there's a luck check for finding a Robber cave? I am nearly positive there isn't, as I very frequently play low-luck characters, and to the best of my memory, always find robbers in caves. You mention a 1/13 chance...let's see, if memory serves, you can either find the cave full of...

Here's a bug: I asked the Bridgekeeper about his spear and he told me about the flint. Then I went to Klamath, bought Sulik to accompany me and returned to Arroyo. In Arroyo, I bought the flint from Morlis and went to the Bridgekeeper. I then got no dialog option to have him sharpen my spear...

I picked Fallout 2. Maybe it's just because it's what I played first. Tempted by all the hype in this very thread, I gave Fallout 1 another playthrough. And I was indeed able to appreciate some things even more than before (especially how well thought out many of the random encounters...

Isn't this the old concept of Ironman Style? I've finished Fallout2 like that a couple of times myself, albeit not on the Hard difficulty level. I think it's a very very tall order that you're supposed to keep your companions alive. I don't think it's realistic. When you run into a big...

My opinion is that the NV soundtrack includes a handful of gems. I love the Doc Mitchell theme, and I think some of the ambient background themes, such as this one, this one, and this one, do a good job of setting the desired mood. I even liked the Hoover Dam theme, which many here have...