Fallout 2 mod Fallout et tu - Release v1.9

Uh sorry I mixed up Talus with Talius ( While I mend to say Talus. but Talius is actually a ghoul in boneyard library sublevel..)
Anyways, You already got what's available for common mortals. However if You're on to powergaming and min-maxing your character there is a way to obtain more than two sets.

However it requires Fixt-enabled, shitload of sneak and lockpick skills ( probably around 150 sneak + stealthboy and 200 sneak could get you through after several reloads, Electronic Lockpick won't do the trick, as the door are sepose to automatically open themselves, and with lockpick they don't).

I'm talking ofcourse about hacking BoS armory door. You have to succed on first attempt, or BoS folks go hostile. Save b4 is adivsed. This is FIXT addition, as originally it wasn't possible. There are extra PAs inside ( two exactly) so a total of four PAs in game to be owned. Exactly the number to outfit player's team.

 

Hey @Lexx, got some questions:

1. do you have any plans for a "Purist Mode" that is pretty much indistinguishable from the OG Fallout 1 aside maybe from some quality of life additions from FO2? Because I keep seeing posts about going to play FO1 for the first time and I'm just chomping at the bit to recommend Et Tu as THE Fallout 1 experience in 2022.

2. Any plans for more "higher difficulty" settings? I loved Tougher Mutants, with party members being stronger than ever, I think it would be neat to have some optional boost (extra numbers? Better stats?) to earlier mobs and certain encounters - Khans, Skullz, Decker and co, Regulators, etc.

3. Any chance you will ever add some different 9mm ammo for the Mauser? Even in vanilla it was already mostly useless due to its rare ammo and low damage. With the Magnum being around, now its pretty much obsolete from the onset. Something like a few 9mm JHP bullets purchasable in say, The Hub, could add some new life on it - at least as a party member gun.

4. I wonder if someone ever tried making a proper "Party Tandi" NPC implementation?

 

Since Cree Summer just uses her regular voice most of the time, it wouldn't be too hard to find additional dialog to add voice lines to Tandy.

 

Any news on how ver 1.7 is coming along or/and when it might come out?

 

I was thinking more like installer option easy for the non-techwise folks, you know?

Wait, what? For real?
Khans were never supposed to be early-game enemies?

Oh, that explains it. Pity, Tandi Party member would have been cool.

 

Interesting... I think that makes sense. Especially if one considers the non-combat options.

Khans were also meant to be big on melee but in the end, they ended up with lots of guns because of game balance. If Khans were meant to be a mid-game gang, they could have better melee weapons like Power Fists and Cattle Prods.

I also remember the random encounter raiders in much of the map are stronger than the Khans in HP and gear, which is kinda weird.

I'm pretty sure the Khans were meant to be THE baddest raider gang.
Khans being a mid-game rather than early-game threat would make sense, the early-game gangs would be the Jackals and Vipers, gangs that were said to be the inferiors of the Khans.

That would be really swell!
Khans are really weak, even compared to most mooks in the game.
Its also a bit weird that the Khan named characters have less HP than the generic khan mooks, when the Khans are obviously a "Might is Right" bunch. Only one that would make sense is that girl who just fixes things.

Any chance for it to adjust some other fights? I recently did "Bust the Skullz" and they folded like a lawn chair. Granted I had Ian, Tycho, Dogmeat and Junktown Guards in my side, but DAMN.

(also its just me or is Neil scripted to always miss his first shot? I swear he never hits)

Some other human vs human fights that could be tweaked:
- vs Decker (except Kane, that guy is a beast)
- Farm Raiders
- Regulators (a bunch of push-overs and wimps. I have no idea how the Gun Runners are being financially exploited by those guys when they have like x10 times the firepower)
- Hub Heights guards (ins't Hightower like the richest man in Hub? I'm surprised that guy doesn't have a small army on his compound)
- Hub church guards

 

Does this include fixes from Sduibek's unofficial patch?

 

@SorgFall this is based on the unreleased full FIXT 1.0 that was ment to be run on Fo2 engine.. work on FIXT ceased, and Lexx took it over, so basicaly it has all the FIXT fixes and more.. minus the changes that Lexx thought are too stupid and game/immersion breaking..

@Lexx
while You're at fixing Khans resistnces and thresholds, do remember about the old engine bug more known as weak Cassidy on first level.. when map loads with a critter with armor cladded on, the total resistances of the critter equals 0/0%,and if armor is taken down the critter actually has negative armor stats but still displayer as 0/0% this works for all critters, not only party members.. it's a engine bug/feature. that means all critters in fo2 engine, in all mods are affected by this. the bug is most prominent in EtTu with FIXT enabled, as nearly any critter that has some sort of protection is cladded with armor, giving it a "so called protection" as all armor stats are neglected all damage types thresholds, all damage types resistances, and even the armor class bonus given by the armor is neglected, rendering critter's armor class to what it has when naked + any bonus it might have from "bonus armor class" stat in the proto. this is important, since all the armor clad critters are now basically running around naked with totally zero protection when using FIXT enabled, which yeads them "too easy" to kill. Though I think the fight with khans is hilariusly easy even on full legit playthroughs, I think slightly bumping the Khans hp + fixing the armor resistances issues they have, and suddenly it's a task waay over head of a lvl 5/6 dude (at which level dude usually ends up while having to deal with the Khans).

Though I disagree with someone stating that both Vipers and Jackals were inferior to the Khans.. that's FNV lore.. originally only Jackals were inferior and the Vipers ment to be few in numbers like 8 or so and all wearing combat armors and wiedling high power big guns. they were so powerfull that initial BoS attack on them ended up in a failiure, and few palladins got killed, hence why I was proposing that Lexx could implement a quest from BoS, so that BoS says to dude, that It's his task now, and if dude pulled through he could name his price.. dude would of course have the option to ask armory clearence rights then ( but only after a high speech check) amongst other things.

 

debunked?
as in fixed/solved or a myth/fake news?
I assure you it's not fake news.. You already dealt with this bug in form of party member glitch, when Ian, Katja and Tycho had their threshiolds and resistances fucked-up, when wearing armor on their base proto at first map entrance.. thing is the same thing happens with armor claded enemies, however enemies don't switch protos and stay fucked up until player kills them, the only thing what is noticable is that they are waay easier to kill, than if they had their resistances and thresholds active..

The best way to fix this would be to declad all critters from armor in Slot X, give them proper resistances thresholds and bonus armor class instead ( the ones matching when the armor is worn), and for Loot Armors option in configuration.ini, conjure a script to spawn armor on the dead critter according to the stats critter had (easy way is to adapt Nirran's Lootable Armor mod ). that is the best way around it i think.

 

Wait, what?! That's bananas! Incredible how one unearths so many things from looking at old code!

Wait, Punk Girls can't use spears? I swear I remember getting attacked by spear-using punk girls in FO2 a long long time ago, I think. Weird.

I think it would be very cool and make them look better, more of a rag-tag bunch of post-apoc survivors.

No, that's lore consistent. If I remember right from FO1 and Fallout Bible, it was Khans >>> Vipers >>> Jackals. FNV probably just went with it as well.

 

I vaguely recall that the Vipers were going to mostly have equipment made from human bones, wearing “bone” armor and wielding “bone” knives. As for killing a few BOS paladins, I thought they only killed one, Maxson’s son or whatever, and it was only because he wasn’t wearing a helmet and got a poisoned arrow shot in his neck. Maybe I’m wrong though, haven’t read the fallout bible in a while.