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

Awesome. I'm trying to stay the hell away from Per's guide this time, since I remember almost nothing from the game.
One thing I'm curious about is, am I supposed to start with Mentats? I tagged Speech, Lockpick and Small Guns, but still had two packs of it in my inventory. They came in handy when I decided to "talk" Tandi's brains out.

I don't like the ammo meter because again I think it looks too "high-tech" and is just a change for the sake of change, it doesn't really add anything. But I did choose the Full installation, which is stated to be for non-purists and contains everything in the mod, and the fact that I don't like it doesn't mean that others won't. As long as there's a Custom option to disable it (say, which file do I have to delete for it?) I say leave it enabled in the Full version.

 

Well that's simple : European languages usually have more letters than English for the same word/string.

French Main menu in vanilla version :
{9}{}{INTRO}
{10}{}{NOUVEAU JEU}
{11}{}{CHARGER JEU}
{12}{}{CREDITS}
{13}{}{QUITTER}

With the new fonts i had to change it :
{9}{}{INTRO}
{10}{}{NOUVEAU}
{11}{}{CHARGER}
{12}{}{CREDITS}
{13}{}{QUITTER}

That's completely fine but that may explain the choice of the "thin" font in the first place.



Something else totally unrelated :

- Aghata doesn't show up, even if you tick the option during the custom install (If you manually change the GVAR with the f12se, she correctly appears tho).
What is the plan regarding the storyteller ? Do you want/need stories ? Do you want to remove her completely ? (i agree she is quite useless currently)

 

I did a little more testing, so far it looks like 99% of the installation (chose the full option) works correctly under Wine, only the changes to VAULT13.GAM are not applied but written to the log. Looking at the repo on GitHub I assume that the sed command in the bat files isn't working on Wine. Not really a big deal once you know what it is causing the problem, Linux users only have to apply the changes manually.

 

Would killing the slaves make any sense? Aren't they useful alive?

 

So far I can only guess what happens based on the results, so it is really vague.

I don't know which version of sed you are using, I tried this one
h t t p://www.pement.org/sed/gsed407x.zip
and ran the command

Code:

sed -i "s/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=0/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=1/" VAULT13.GAM

in the terminal under wine and it works fairly well, the -i directly applies the change to the file, so there is no need for the second line.

PS: The spam protection on this forum seems a little paranoid, still cant post links and even the tag gets blocked....
PPS: Good luck!

 

Good, trying to answer in a bit more depth, after doing some more testing.

No, Wine itself doesn't know sed, sed is a Linux/Unix command but it's not accessible through the wine console.

See above: no.

Actually, Wine should handle the native commands like Windows.

I will try to help as much as I can, however, last time I played with batch is a little while ago, And I never really cared about batch on Wine. So I am far from being an expert on either of these, but I try my best.

That's about the same idea, I had in mind.

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Anyway, here is what I have got so far:

I will keep Tandi as a test-case, so the script in question is

Code:

sed.exe s/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=0"/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=1"/ VAULT13.GAM > globalvars.tmp
cmd.exe /c copy globalvars.tmp VAULT13.GAM /Y
echo TANDI_SEX_ENABLED = 1 >> ..\DATA\FIXT\install.log

(short: sed, copy, echo) as taken from https://github.com/Sduibek/fixtsrc/blob/master/Batchfiles/Components/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED.bat. As a result of the script I get an unchanged VAULT13.GAM and a changed install.log. So, I would assume that the script is executed, since the log file is changed. It also indicates that - obviously - the echo part is working. The culprit can be either sed or copy.

Here is what I found out so far using this www.pement.org/sed/gsed407x.zip version of sed.exe copied to "c:/GOG Games/Fallout/Fallout Fixt/DATA/DATA" (so everything is in the same directory):
1. I ran sed -i "s/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=0/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=1/" VAULT13.GAM (that's the code I would use with the Linux sed command in a linux command line) on the wine command line => works
2. I created a batch file containing the above code and ran it from the wine command line => works
3. Next I tried a code similar to yours

Code:

sed s/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=0"/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED         :=1"/ VAULT13.GAM > test1.tmp
cmd.exe /c copy test1.tmp test2.tmp /Y

and => works , this is interesting cause we can exclude the copy command as the culprit, it's also no problem to overwrite an existing test2.tmp. The odd thing is, if I remove sed.exe from that directory (which should break the scripts function completely), I get an empty test1.tmp and an empty test2.tmp, so in your code VAULT13.GAM would be empty. The only way to leave VAULT13.GAM unchanged is to cause a missing test1.tmp, only if test1.tmp does not exist, the copy command also breaks.

Now the only thing left is the sed command, problem is that, the way I implemented this version of sed in the test setup, it also works, so it might either be the way you implemented it or the version you used... or something completely different.

 

Well, I meant exactly as a slavist. Why would you break your own commodity?
As an evil character it could make sense, specially for the (admittedly very fun to play) stupid evil or sadist ones.

On another note, I found some things that I think could be improved and/or are bugs. I'll explain more later, and put it on the wiki (I actually didn't check if it's there, yet).

And on yet another note, is there a way to name local variables on the scripts? I thought about it, and typed and named variables would probably help in preventing some of the bugs.

 

You are welcome

EDIT: I also tried the sed.exe included in your installer, that one also works. Now the only options left are the way it is implemented or something completely different. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to repack your installer, I downloaded and installed Inno Setup and it runs but it complains that there are files language missing.

You could sell them in parts to a certain fast food restaurant

 

That's okay for me. I can also write a guide how to install FO1 + Fixt on Linux, it's fairly easy once you found the pitfalls.

I have in the meantime also checked how the bat files behave in the Crahsfix folder and also there they are working, so there is virtually no reason why the change should not be applied. Fun is that you are using more or less the same type of code in install(32|64)bit.bat and there it works.

 

Hello, Sduibek. Let me say first that I'm glad to see there's still a lot of love for this game. As someone who started playing Fallout games with Fo3 and then checked the story of the first two games, I have never thought that I'll get enough interest to play the originals. But now when I'm finally at it, I'm simply having a blast. It's fantastic and this mod/patch certainly helps. Thank you and everyone else for that.

I've just reported one bug on the bug fix page. But just to be sure, I would like to mention it here too. It seems that I don't have the dialogue option to start the ''Rescue initiate from the Hub'' when having conversation with Talus. It does not appear in the options. This happens after I already killed Decker, I don't know if it's different otherwise. This bug is also reported on one of the GoG forums. I use the Steam version though, but I reckon that shouldn't make a difference.

If I'm not mistaken, you're planning to port this game to the Fo2 engine, right? That should solve quite a decent number of existing problems. Wish you good luck.

 

Here is my guide to install Fallout + Fixt on Linux, I hope this is helpful for some Linux gamers.

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Moved to own thread:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?203552-Installing-Fallout-Fallout-Fixt-on-Linux-using-Wine

 

This guide should be in the 1st post, really detailed, kongratz Gramblosh for doing it.

 

http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?203552-Installing-Fallout-Fallout-Fixt-on-Linux-using-Wine
I will add the screenshots later, they are a bit too large, need to find a better way.

 

If you need a small free program for resizing images that's easy to use with a few basic tools i'd recommend FastStone. I won't post a link as I know this forum has rules regarding spamming and advertising.

 

Thanks, no, that is not the problem, resizing them is no problem (I have Gimp and XnViewMP) I just need them to appear in a nice way in the guide. The forum attachments work only partially, they are either really large or very small.