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AboveTheRim
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Secret of the Robber Caves
Hey falllout fans!
I'm not sure if anyone will be reading this since Fallout 2 is such an old (but classic) game by todays standards (hopefully this message board is still used!) but decided to bring this up anyway, hopefullly someone can help me.
Not sure if many of you have noticed, but occasionally when you fight a random encounter with the message appearing "you hear sounds coming from the cave nearby" - you enter the cave and are confronted by HEAPS of immature deathclaws, scorpions, molerats or whatever, inside.
Every once in a while however, you enter one of these caves.....and find about 20-30 Robbers clad in combat armor - each wielding weapons like YK4B Pulse Rifles, Turbo Plasma Rifles, Mega Power Fists and sometimes(JOY!)Gauss Rifles with ammo you can grab.
Needless to say, it's a really challenging fight(great fun wasting them though) and since you stand to make $200K+ from selling off all their weapons, it's an encounter i'd love to find more often at high level!
Finding this encounter seems to happen at random only (I've entered so many darn caves to prove that) although I've found out a few things so far: If you encounter 'Claim Jumpers' just north/east of Redding it seems to help your chances, or encountering 'Aliens' south/east of Navarro, both times in the most moutainous regions possible.
I've made sure my character has 10 luck, Scout & Explorer perks, and is at a very high level (35+), and even set the Game Difficulty to 'EASY' in an effort to try to find these guys more often, but nothing seems to make much difference - ultimately it looks like just luck weather or not a cave has them, as opposed to Immature Deathclaws or Geckos usually.
If ANYONE knows of a way to boost my chances of finding this encounter (or even getting it everytime, better yet) please reply! It's such a great way of getting Gauss ammo when there's none around if nothing else, any tips are welcome please!
Hey falllout fans!
I'm not sure if anyone will be reading this since Fallout 2 is such an old (but classic) game by todays standards (hopefully this message board is still used!) but decided to bring this up anyway, hopefullly someone can help me.
Not sure if many of you have noticed, but occasionally when you fight a random encounter with the message appearing "you hear sounds coming from the cave nearby" - you enter the cave and are confronted by HEAPS of immature deathclaws, scorpions, molerats or whatever, inside.
Every once in a while however, you enter one of these caves.....and find about 20-30 Robbers clad in combat armor - each wielding weapons like YK4B Pulse Rifles, Turbo Plasma Rifles, Mega Power Fists and sometimes(JOY!)Gauss Rifles with ammo you can grab.
Needless to say, it's a really challenging fight(great fun wasting them though) and since you stand to make $200K+ from selling off all their weapons, it's an encounter i'd love to find more often at high level!
Finding this encounter seems to happen at random only (I've entered so many darn caves to prove that) although I've found out a few things so far: If you encounter 'Claim Jumpers' just north/east of Redding it seems to help your chances, or encountering 'Aliens' south/east of Navarro, both times in the most moutainous regions possible.
I've made sure my character has 10 luck, Scout & Explorer perks, and is at a very high level (35+), and even set the Game Difficulty to 'EASY' in an effort to try to find these guys more often, but nothing seems to make much difference - ultimately it looks like just luck weather or not a cave has them, as opposed to Immature Deathclaws or Geckos usually.
If ANYONE knows of a way to boost my chances of finding this encounter (or even getting it everytime, better yet) please reply! It's such a great way of getting Gauss ammo when there's none around if nothing else, any tips are welcome please!
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