Fallout 2 mod Fallout et tu - Release v1.9

I find it funny how obvious it is when a writer got more time to spend on a dialog. The difference is night and day.
My wild guess is that Lenny was one of the first to be written for the demo, and then everything else was cobbled together quickly. Dialog in Fo2 feels so different - it clearly had more planning and a higher focus.

Oh, also interesting - many of the dialog files in Fo1 have between 150 and 250 strings only. That's probably what was their target line count to keep size in check. Really wish I had realized those things about 10 years earlier, then I would probably have been able to finish my other Fo2 mods ...

/edit: Most NPCs in Fo1 have no more than 150 lines maximum. Location important NPCs have up to 200 to 250 lines ("information vendors"). Major characters have about 300 lines. Even the Master only has 300(!) lines.

 

You will have to do it yourself. However, I suggest to not edit the proto files, but do it in script similar to how the tougher super mutants setting works.

Yes but it was completely broken and made you not use power armor in the end. Tesla Armor was the new king of everything.

 

Tycho can now use everything but big and energy weapons. However, his allowed weapons are still limited to sledgehammer, spear, pistol, smg, and rifles (sledge and smg are new).

Technically the critter can also use knife and club weapons, but I kept it disabled to stay a bit more true to the original. Other non-party member critters of the same type will be able to use those weapons now, though. (For example the skullz in Junktown are equipped with knives but were never able to use them due to lack of animations)

/Edit: I'm wondering now if I should allow knife and club weapons. Though I do like that party members have limited arsenals ... makes them feel more unique if they can't just use anything.

 

Tesla Armor was still king if you wanted to fight the Master or Lou, etc. Power Armor didn't felt like it was worth it. Fun fact, Wasteland 2 did exactly the same balance mistake - in late game it was more effective to equip your team with low-tier than high-tier armor, as the later was more vulnerable to energy weapons ... which appeared more often on enemies near the end of the game.

 

In et tu, the zones around the Glow on the worldmap will actually radiate you. This is a feature that can be disabled in the settings, but doing that is lame. :> (Those zones are defined as "Radiated x" if you stop and move the mouse over the green triangle)

Also you get rads in encounters around the Glow. This was an addition by Fixt (vanilla only has 1 glow map with radiation, with Fixt it's in all of them), but I kept it because why not.

 

I mean, it's still not really hard, it just feels more gradually than the instant 0 radiation, 100 radiation. :p

 

Don't remember, but I think it starts at a certain time. Maybe wait till the morning and / or change maps.

 

Don't know. This scene is very complicated and right now I can't see anything wrong with it. But that said, there is leftover code of knife training. Looks like it was more than just unarmed at some point.

/Edit: Nevermind, I fixed it. Another vanilla Fo1 bug off the list.

I think originally it was split into unarmed and armed (knife) lessons. My guess is the scene was shortened and both +skills were merged into one thing.