Fallout 1 mod Fallout Fixt - next release will be some time in Jan 2020

You funny guy.

 

It is great news you gave us here, Sduibek!

Good luck with your new job and, of course, with the development of Fixt in the Fallout 2 engine!

 

Hello, Sduibek!
Thank you very much for all the effort put into your mod, it really is a pleasure to be able to play Fallout with all the fixes and added content. Unfortunately, I ran into a bug the other day:
Fallout Fixt alpha 6.7.3 change log states: "Time of day is randomized to between 05:00 and 07:00 at game start instead of being exactly 07:21, which means you will now sometimes see "night sky" message instead of "light of day" message. (In vanilla this message existed but was unused).
I tried starting over a dozen new games, but all the same the time was strictly 07:21. Not that it is a game-breaking thing, but I just wanted to read that "night sky" message so badly))
And another thing - sometimes, when playing on certain maps (military base, Master's base) the innvetory button disappears, as if it were cut from the interface. The inventory itself is still accessible through the "i" key, but is not clickable on the panel.

 

I have an old version of FIXT installed, and I plan to restart the whole game. I lost all documentation that came with the download when I first installed it, so I humbly ask this question: how do I update to the latest version? Or do I need to completely install it again? For the life of me I can't remember what kind of mod installation it was, if drag-n-drop of files or something else.
Also I could have sworn FIXT included a resolution patch but the first page says otherwise, am I missing something?

 

I have Fallout 1 from GoG which I believe is the UK version, do I use the GERMAN UNCUT or is full custom fine?

**UK version..full custom or fixes only =)

 

Bad luck.

 

@Sduibek: Glad to see you're still working on this! Good luck with your new job; hope you don't burn out working so many hours, though!

-m

 

What Memetics said. 48 to 60 hours per week is severe. Please keep as your top four priorities getting enough rest, doing well in your new job, eating good food, and family, of course.

As always, best of luck in all things.

 

Hi!

First of all I wanted to thank you Sduibek for the great work you've done, it's looking great so far.

Second, I wanted to ask a very specific question. I downloaded 6.7.3 patch and I installed it over 6.7.2 fixt fixes-only setup. Everything seems to work well except for the fact that every time I start a game, I have 64000 days left to deliver the water chip instead of the usual 150.

Now, it doesn't seem to be a massive problem, but I rather play the game as close as vanilla as I can, and for that I really want to set the days back to default. Is there any way to do this? I've really looked everywhere for it but I haven't found any solutions.

Suggestions?

 

Just a wild stab in the dark but i'm going to guess you choose the custom option and selected 'no time limit' on the Water Chip quest.
Later edit: Try following this path: Fallout 1/data/FIXT/install.log. You should see 2 lines relating to Vault/water. Mine read:
VAULT_WATER_64000
VAULT_WATER_150_DEFAULT
if your log is different try cut/paste.
PS I'm no tech guy so if this screws everything up it's your own fault. I blame the Water Merchants, Kane, and a Nasty Radscorpion.

 

I am having the same problem. I made sure to install it twice and the first time I let it pick everything and the second I picked everything, but I didn't see an option anywhere for adjusting the time. I'll do what the last post suggested and report back

edit,

Nope. I didn't see that in the install log and I think if I did it wouldn't change anything as that is just a log of what's been done.

 

With the full 200mb patch, we can adjust the time if we select custom. On the smaller one with only the fixes it defaults to 64,000. We can grab the full one and just opt out of the stuff we don't want and that'll fix the timer for us until the smaller one allows us to adjust that.

edit,

A better method. This seems better because I dont' know what is default or not (as I have never played the game) and I was hoping to trust the patch to fix things for me that I wasn't even aware of while keeping the game vanilla as possible for my first time playing.

Anyways, it might be a tad different depending on wheter you used Steam, GOG or an orginal disc or you installed the game on a Wine partition in Linux like I did but the navigation to this folder should be around the same. I found the document you have to edit in,

c:/GOG Games/Fallout/DATA/DATA/ and the file name in that folder is VAULT13.GAM

Open that up and search for VAULT_WATER and edit the 64000 to 150 and we've got our fix. Tested on Wine for Xubuntu and should work for Windows too.

 

EDIT2: Added "installation" instructions to OP above.

where do i download it? (n00b to nma)

 

Hi gents
After failing several times, I got to install the Fallout Fixt 6.7.2 Full Custom and the 6.7.3 Patch.
I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64x, DirectX9c, NVidia video card, and GOG Fallout1.
The game ran, but when I took the holodisk from the dying mutant in the Hub, the game collapsed to a black screen.
So, please, what can/must I do?
Another question: is it possible to keep two versions of the game, one with the Fixt and other without? I ask this because the
only way I know to "fix" things is to delete everything and start from begining.
My thanks in advance.
Cheers.

 

Sduibek:
Thanks for your kind answers.
I'll try first the two versions of the game thing.
Then I'll replay until close to the crash moment and save; no idea how to save the crash itself.
Perhaps after all I made some mistake with the patch installation.
Ah, and about Norton deleting the patch: I desabled it and then created an exception before enabling it again.
Thanks again and best of sucess with your job.
Cheers.

 

Has that Magic hands animation bug been fixed yet?

 

Suidbek:
So, I replayed the game (Fallout Fixt) until the moment of the crash to black screen,i.e, take the holodisk from the dying mutant in the Hub.
And the game did not collapsed. Amazing!
But, later, more precisely, when I gave a holodisk at the entry to Brotherhood, the game collapsed to a black screen.
Then I repeated and the game did not colapsed.
Later, when I gave an holodisk to Zimmerman at Boneyard the game collapsed again.
And this time it colapsed again and again.
I saved the game just before the colapse, I know the save is anywhere because I can load the game, but couldn't find it.
So, I copied the whole program to the desktop but it's huge (2,2 GB). I don´t know how to send it to you.
My thanks again and all the good for you.
Cheers.