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

Good to know, I'll keep my fingers crossed for FIXT development from now on..

on a side note..just do remember that you can always unmount the hdd from your old broken laptop and purchase 2,5"external usb drive enclosure, fit the drive inside to have an easy acces to your old data. If it's 2,5" and usb 3.0 You won't even require external power adapter, as usb juice is enaugh to power the 2,5" drive by itself. The electronics inside the adapter deals with the voltage conversion if needed. It's only a matter of enaugh amperage as some but not all usb 2.0 ports (especially on older motherboards) might burn out the mobo because of overload, as 2,5" external drives usually require more than the "standard usb 2.0 maximum of 500mA".

Yay It's my 100 post

 

Sorry if this have been answered but i can't find it anywhere.. i have win 10, i installed fallout 1 classic from GOG, and installed the FIXT full edition. And set my res to my laptop native 1366x768. and everything is so small, the text the characters. I cant find a solution anywhere.. and the ones i found do not help at all. Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

Enable scaling x2 in options->screen settings.

 

i tried that in different combinations and it seems that its doing nothing

 

Have you tried changing the configuration in f1_res_Config.exe? Or changing the settings in ddraw.ini and f1_res.ini? Check the Troubleshooting Guide, maybe there is a solution for you. A reinstall may fix it too. If not you'll just have to wait for someone more informed. Or just play it on a lower resolution.

 

Quick question, which is kind of related to Fixt:

I know you can modify the ddraw.ini to change the speed of the game, resulting in more fluid animations. Is there any setting anywhere in the game that changes the time scale? It currently seems 1:1, with 1 minute real world time equaling 1 minute in-game time when not traveling or waiting. Is it possible to quicken this to one second equals one minute, or whatever the user may apply? The dynamic of the days was one of the few things that bothered me about the game - I hate how I can roll into Junktown, take out Morbid, save Killian, take out Gizmo, recruit Tycho, bust the Skulz.... all in the space of half an hour in-game. Video Game exposition is more concise and less nuanced than any real world negotiation/action, and I feel the time should reflect this succinctness. Well, sorry for ranting.

Tl;dr is there any way to modify the time scale?

And one more thing - is there any way to increase NPCs aiming for limbs, potentially breaking them? I feel crippling is underutilized in the base game, having gone through playthroughs without being crippled once, or at maximum maybe twice in 40+ hours. Making crippling more prevalent can give the Doctor skill a much needed boost in popularity. I see this in the ddraw:

;Uncomment these lines to modify the default modifiers for aimed shots at specific bodyparts
;BodyHit_Head=-40
;BodyHit_Left_Arm=-30
;BodyHit_Right_Arm=-30
;BodyHit_Torso=0
;BodyHit_Right_Leg=-20
;BodyHit_Left_Leg=-20
;BodyHit_Eyes=-60
;BodyHit_Groin=-30
;BodyHit_Uncalled=0

but does this effect where critters aim, or is this only defined to the player?

EDIT: Oh, and one last thing:

Will the implementation of the F2 engine also bring its Perk scroll menu? I use an editor to apply more perks when I level (I find the uses of some perks to be marginal by themselves, so I apply "packages" of similar perks that could ostensibly be rolled into one, such as Explorer, Scout, and Ranger for example, so I get a significant boost to World Map exploration... otherwise a single 3 levels combat perk easily trumps RP "flavor" perks that take three times as long to the point I feel the latter would be "worth it" versus the former). Thing is, by level 9 (sometimes) I can no longer see them - I assumed they were not applied. Not to mention a removed level cap would offer more perks than shown. Good to know that they are, but the scroll menu would be useful in reviewing my character to keep my role-playing on point.

Thanks again for everything Sduibek, been a fan of your work for two years now. Your efforts are much appreciated.

EDIT 3: Sigh, I guess this is no longer a quick question, lol. Another thing, the very first question that actually made me find this site and this mod: is vendor refreshment going to be a thing? I know it's possible to continue the game indefinetly ammo-wise (as Gustarballs has demonstrated) but it would be nice to have Barter/Charisma's usefulness go past rading out all the ammo they offer a single time and then they are useless for the rest of the game. A steady supply of ammo and stimpaks would be an excellent addition - is that possible, perhaps with the updated engine where the vendors do that?

Thanks for being patient through my ramblings.

 

The timescale is not a thing and i hope it never will be as there aare few timed quests (like skullz will assasinate Neal/Neil within 2 days and after certain time compression you wouldn't manage to run up to lars to report and attack them in time. time is as good as is to speed up time you've got pipboy clock.


secondly as for called shots and non party NPC skill increase just increase the "Combat Difficulty" in the game's options this also increases a chance for the non party npc's to critically shot.
the thing from ddraw.ini you pointed out about body parts is not how often any npc will make a called shot but rather how high accuary penalty (actually a skill penalty) is applied when aiming at that body part. I assumed it's game wide and not just the player. So for example if setting the "Combat Difficulty" to High/Rough and all =0 in that dddraw.ini section you would ensure not only in more called shots but those called shots would also have better chance to actually hit you (same chance as non targeted shots to the torso) but the other side of the coin would be that Player would also have same chance for targeted shots as for non targeted.


Thirdly Yes after the engine conversion takes place perks will/should have more slots (with ddraw.dll it's increased up to the number of all perks in fallout 2, be it chosen at level up and those extra granted in game).

Lastly I'm not sure wether Sduibek will actually implement shop restocking hovever He himself did propose this point at the bug wiki "new ideas" section.

shops restocking wich seemes stupid concerning it's the wasteland so no sopermarkets and no factories around therfore from where would they restock hmm? well I personally think maybe ammo (because of gunrunners actually making it) and low tier weapons (brotherhood scavenges but it's low tier so it trades it for food and water to traders from Hub) but no restocking on anything higher than metal armor /14mm pistol. but absolutely no meds restocking since nobody makes them (well maybe except stimpacks if broc flower, xander root
and empty hypo get introducet into Fo1)

one thing i would like to see is Economy and Combat (EcCo) rebalance for Fo1 as turboplasma is seriously overpowered in this game i mean clearing a room full of super mutants all by yourself in one round is pretty hilarious. and additionally I would like to see Your party NPCs to be of a serious use At end game, because as of now they can only tickle the supermutants (even when heavily modified to use turboplasma) And my char 1 shots with turboplasma almost evrything in the game ( maybe besides deathclaws and the master. (they require more shots but are still killed within 1 round).

So combat rebalance should take place there's no doubt about it. the YAAM should be a thing to for Fo1.

Regards
Gus.T

 

I suppose,

I always play on rough combat + hard difficulty and I still find crippling happens too rarely, but thanks for the feedback, I'll try it.

Yay.

Scavengers constantly trading and selling wares over time. I find it hard to believe that even in a scarce wasteland that a shot would have the same inventory with no new items after, say, a year in game time.

Good point, but scavengers may still find more out in the wasteland and sell to shops - the 50~100 that exist in shops can't be the only stimpaks that still exist in all of California. Maybe prices could increase as the shops restock to represent them becoming scarcer. That would properly scale to level and income, now that I think of it.

My current playthrough is my first Energy Weapons focused character, I can't wait to give this a shot

 

Have some outstanding time on those vacations. may you regain your strength to work on FIXT in the future.

 

The Let's play leads to nothing on YouTube. It appears the video had been deleted?

 

so one of these "fixes" is the player doesn't start with a knife in inventory? i always used used the extra knife for money or trade. do you get another item instead?is what the starting items in reference to tagged skills means? is this what is meant by balance adjustments? also why no level past 21? i ask because i like some of the imbalances that made things easier but, what the hell do i know maybe this fix/mod makes worth while trade offs?


EDIT: do the new larger death animations stick out like a sore thumb like every other mod with added graphics, ie aliasing or smooth or too high resolution etc etc? also can the ddraw speed settings be changed back to 100%?

Also the rationale behind the 20 fps for animation for power Armour could be considered flawed. IF you ever operated heavy equipment from young age there is a difference between torq and speed. this is why bulldozers are slow but, can plow a whole house down. It's big and heavy and has TORQ or UMPH which does not equate to speed. kind of like torq vs horsepower. A better example would be a sledge hammer, it's slow swinging but,m when it hits it packs some power, aka momentum/kinetic energy. This is probably what the original creators were thinking if they chose to make PA slow but, i might it could have possibly been for performance/hardware reasons of the time.


also so far this fix/mod is looking pretty interesting

 

I have a question about the optional content, for example with "game start" I want to remove the bonus items given to the character, in the readme it says this is optional and can be changed, but when I installed I did not see this option in custom install. Or is there a way to change these settings once the game is installed?

 

As kid I always assumed the super mutants dead animation with energy weapons and flamers was because all of their extra mutant flesh and muscle was being burned off to expose what was left of their original human skeleton.