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FALLOUT TACTICS
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- FAQ V2.96 -
by Guiler (J Novakouski - jnovakouski1@hvc.rr.com)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
-Version History
-Character Creation
-Tough Guy Suggestions (NEW! 2.4)
-Weapons Chart (NEW! 2.3)
-Perk Table (NEW! 2.3)
-Enhancer (Drug) Table (NEW! 2.6)
-Recruit List (NEW! 2.7)
-Walkthrough
0.0 SPECIAL ENCOUNTERS
0.1 BROTHERS GRIMM
0.2 COPPERTOPS
0.3 BAZAAR DAY
0.4 EVERREDDY BUNNIES
0.5 TITANIC
0.6 FARMER
0.7 TRADER
0.8 BRAHMIN POKER
0.9 PITCH BLACK
0.10 L33TISTS
0.11 REAVER DANCE
0.12 CANADIAN INVASION
0.13 PHIL THE NUKA COLA GUY
0.14 B-1000
0.15 KOMODO MAN
0.16 SIXTH SENSE
0.17 GAS STATION
0.18 PIPBOY
0.19 UPRISING
0.20 CPF vs. PFC
0.21 BRAHMIN ARMOR
0.22 DEATHCLAW LIBERATION
0.23 4 HORSEMEN OF THE POST-APOCALYPSE
0.24 BRAHMIN TIPPING
0.25 MIR
0.26 AMELIA
0.27 HERMIT
0.28 MERCHANT
0.29 MORTE
0.30 INVASION RECREATIONISTS
1.0 BRAHMIN WOOD
1.1 BUNKER 1
2.0 FREEPORT
2.1 BUNKER 2
3.0 ROCK FALLS
3.1 BUNKER 3
4.0 MACOMB
4.1 BUNKER 4
5.0 PREORIA
5.1 BUNKER 5
6.0 QUINCY
6.1 BUNKER 6
7.0 MARDIN
7.1 BUNKER 7
8.0 ST. LOUIS
8.1 BUNKER 8
9.0 JEFFERSON
9.1 BUNKER 9
10.0 KANSAS CITY
10.1 BUNKER 10
11.0 OSCEOLLA
11.1 BUNKER 11
12.0 JUNCTION CITY
12.1 BUNKER 12
13.0 GREAT BEND
13.1 BUNKER 13
14.0 COLDWATER
14.1 BUNKER 14
15.0 NEWTON
15.1 BUNKER 15
16.0 CANYON CITY
16.1 BUNKER 16
17.0 BUENA VISTA
17.1 BUNKER 17
18.0 SCOTT CITY
18.1 BUNKER 18
19.0 CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN
20.0 VAULT 0
21.0 BONUS MISSION (SPRINGFIELD)
VERSION HISTORY:
1.0- created, missions 1-4 3/25/2001
1.1- added Preoria (mission 5), Macomb mine trick 3/26/2001
1.2- added Quincy (6) and several player suggestions 3/28/2001
1.3- added Mardin (7) 3/30/2001
1.4- added St. Louis 3/31/2001
1.5- added Jefferson 4/1/2001
1.6- added Osceolla and Junction City 4/4/2001
1.7- added Great Bend and Special Encounters 4/8/2001
1.8- added Coldwater and part of Newton 4/8/2001
1.8.5- added a whole bunch of mail and player suggestions 4/11/2001
1.9- added up to the middle of the last mission 4/16/2001
2.0- complete to end of game. Missing bonus mission (soon) 4/17/2001
2.1- added a WHOOOOOOLE lot of suggestions and a littl bit on the
patch 4/23/2001
2.2- added more suggestions (bonus mission coming soon!) Also started
marking updates so you don't have to go looking...4/30/2001
2.3- added bonus mission, weapons table, and perks table 5/12/2001
2.4- updates, added 'bandage' note 5/20/2001
2.5- updates 5/28/2001
2.6- many updates 7/3/2001
2.7- Incremental update 10/14/2001
2.8- Incremental update 12/17/2001
2.9- Incremental update 01/06/2002
2.95-Incremental update 11/25/2002
2.96-Incremental update, removed bonus mission access 04/25/2003
CHARACTER CREATION:
For all you Fallout people:
Much as Icewind Dale was the combat version of Baldur's Gate, so this
is the combat version of Fallout. Your silly skills like science,
repair, and whatnot have little place here. You're much better off
picking skills that allow you to be killin' stuff, so to speak.
For all you Laser Squad/XCOM/Jagged Alliance people:
This is a lot more RPG than you've ever had before. Imagine; you can
actually see the amount of experience you've got, and pick the skills
you want to increase when you level! Because of this customization,
You shouldn't 'throw away' soldiers on suicide missions, as some of
the games listed above need you to do. It's much better to go
cautiously and retreat crippled soldiers from the field of battle.
As this game is made for killing, I naturally have some suggestions on
how to make a killer character. We want you to excel at the death-
dealing on high levels, so I suggest working towards the 'sniper'
and/or 'slayer' perks. On the way you should take Bonus Rate of Fire
(or Bonus HtH if Slayer), Bonus Ranged/HtH Damage (again, depending on
Sniper or Slayer), More Criticals, Better Criticals, and Sharpshooter
(if Sniper). If you can't get these, take Action Boy (essential if
you don't have max agil), Educated, Flexible, Gain (statistic), Swift
Learner, Packrat, Strong Back, Ranger, or Explorer.
UPDATE:
As of 1.0, sniper is worthless, and Better criticals seems worthless too.
I am in the midst of re-evaluating the worth of the perks.
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"Kenny Wong" writes:
Bonus moves perk is useless in CTB mode. Duh! I made a
slayer type char with this thinking he'd close in faster when I
started with TB mode. But in CTB, nothing seems to change.
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However, some of these perks have nasty attribute Requirements, which
is a good reason why you should take Gifted. I also suggest Fast Shot,
as Fast Shot and Bonus Rate of Fire means that it costs 2 points to
fire a weapon; with 10 action points, that's 5 shots a round. Keep in mind
that targetted shots, which is what you lose for taking fast shot, can be
mighty useful because they give you an increased chance of critical hit, so
it's really a trade-off; you get more shots, but you don't have a chance to
take more effective shots.
Patrick writes
the Fast Shot trait is not a good one for snipers to take, since
they can't aim. I've found that, even when using just sniper rifles against
robots, a good eye shot (which comes along about 1 in 3 shots with a few
ranks in More Criticals) will dish out 50-100 damage, and usually blind or
knock out a robot in one shot. Also, using a pulse rifle and aiming for the
eyes, I can dish out 150-300 damage to a behemoth.
----2.95----
I suggest the following attributes (with Gifted on):
ST 6 (8 if a Slayer)
PE 8 (absolute minimum 8 if a sniper)
EN 6
CH 5 (more is helpful)
IN 6 (absolute minimum 6 if a sniper)
AG 10(absolute minimum 8 if a sniper or slayer)
LK 6 (for all those critical-based skills)
"Daniel Caine" adds:
Charisma seems broken, I designed a sniper character (Pe 10) and set
my CH to 2 I still get all three recruits (more since the patch on the
first Bunker) as I did with my previous Character who had CH 5. Those
extra 3 points come in very useful.
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On the other hand, since you won't get sniper until the end, you might
want to be a heavy weapons specialist; Fallout Tactics rewards the
heavy weapons person bigtime in this game with the Browning M2,
easily the best long range weapon in the game. The problem is that
it has a strength requirement of 9 and the ammo is hard to come by
and terribly expensive. So in that case, you still want fast shot
(more rounds out per combat turn) but you want more strength (9) and
a bit less of the other stats (endurance can probably suffer here).
UPDATE:
I finally beat the game, and got sniper for the 2nd half of the last
mission. It was totally not worth it; the difference between this and
Fallout 2 is unbelievable; I highly suspect that there is a bug that
prevents sniper from working. None of my guys exhibited any more
critical hits than usual, and far less than I would get with even
targetted shots. Sniper is a crock, and I'm pretty ticked off about
it. So, instead of sniper, take increased critical hits and bonus
rate of fire (bonus rate of fire just might be the best perk in
the game).
The path of melee can be very rewarding. If you get close enough to
hit the enemy without him tearing you to pieces (sneak and cover),
you can really rip it up with them, so to speak. If you're good, you
will likely knock them down and cost them lots of action points, so
many that they will stay down constantly (CTB) or not have enough
action points left to attack you with (TB). This is hard with mutants,
but it can be done.
For Tag skills, small guns is essential, and then later Energy Weapons
and Big Guns if you intend to use stuff like rockets and chainguns.
Big Guns is crucial if you intend to even flirt with the Browning.
Also useful is Lockpick, Unarmed or Melee if you plan to go the Slayer
route, Bartering, and maybe Outdoorsman. Also take Stealth if you're
the Slayer; you need to get close to kill them, so getting close
without being seen is the best way, especially if you have Silent
Death.
Rafal Kubat wrote in with this sly trick:
If you want a REALLY good final sniper then
Set up your character as follows, it works great for me
ST 5/6
PE 8/9
EN 2 (i'll explain)
CH 8
IN 9
AG 8
LK 6
The 2 Endurance will harm you at the beginning of the game, but by
exploiting a bug in the game you can get it up to 12 without a problem.
When you find the Gas Station Random Encounter (Usually Located 1
square north, 3 squares west of Bunker Beta), go in there THE FIRST
TIME with everything possible. Trade for the Elixir of Life and
anything else you might find useful, then take the elixir, and put it
on the shelf where the Tool Box is (also put anything else that you want
unlimited of in there)
Then exit the encounter, come back in.
Take all that equipment back, and exit the encounter again.
Come back in, and now all those items that you put on the shelf (and
everything that you sold to the woman, i sold her everything so she cant
even move) is gonna be there for the rest of the game. This is great
cause u can put things such as those much needed shotgun shells and other
ammo as well as a whole s***load of doctors bags/first aid kits. I now
never run out of medical supplies, stim packs, drugs, or elixirs thanks to
this.
Do this a bunch of times an you'll have 12 endurance from the elixirs, and
about 200 hps, (you can drink more elixirs just cause they give u 15 hps a
piece), my guys are invulnerable now, and all this with no official
"cheating".
Note: you can do this with any encounter in the game. You can even drop
the items on the ground like this.
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Pawel Adamski writes:
Quick victory.
1. you have to have :-) a good leader created at the beginnieg of the game:
traits - Gifted, Kamikaze
perks - weapons handling
tags - small, big
str. 6
pe. 10
en. 5
ch. 2
in. 10
ag. 10
lk. 2
this guy can use Browning M2 just like a sniper :-)
in this mission he should have big and small at about 120%
you have to put this guy lie in the front of south barricade as a first
line of defense with BrowningM2 in hand. He will shoot every mutie without
hesitation and misses. One guy good in small equipped with Enfield should
go to the north gate and tehe rest of your team should stay at west gate
ducked behind barricades - one of them should be equipped with m249SAW
and others with snipers rifles.
After few minutes mutant attack will be broken. Then you use your leader
to clean southern buildings... just run with Browning and let him fire at
any mutie in sight range. In most of cases one shot will kill one or more
muties.
----2.96----
"Evil Grass" suggests:
I noticed that your starting equipment depends on your character’s
tagged skill.
The item in the beginning are :
1x stimpak, 1x nuka-cola, 1x happy pie, 1x MP5 H&K,
48x 9mm ammo (ball)
If you tagged these skills, you’ll get :
Small Guns 72x 9mm ammo (ball)
Big Guns 2x booze, 2x happy pie
Energy Weapons 3x doughnuts
Unarmed Brass knuckle, buffout, 3x rot gut
Melee Weapons Knife, broken bottle
Throwing 3x spear, 1x grenade(frag), 10x rock
Sneak Axe handle
LockUse 25 RP, 1x stinky meat platter
Steal 100RP, $ 30
Traps 3x T13 Antipersonnel mine,Explosive Trap
First-aid First aid kit, 2x poison, 1x poison antidote
Doctor Doctor’s bag, 3x fruit, 3x booze, scalpel
Science 4x classic nuka-cola, 3x booze,
clipboard(unknown function)
Repair 4x booze, tool kit, crowbar
Pilot 4x booze, 6x beer, 2x XXXXXbeer, 1x cat’s paw magazine
Barter 1x cat’s paw magazine, 50RP, 4x booze
Gambling $ 500
Outdoorsman 1x Rad-X, 1x healing powder
Tips
Try stealing from own team members, double-click the last item on
the person’s inventory fast and you’ll gain unlimited experience
points that way (you’ll need 4 action points for that)...this
might be a bug.
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writes:
I found out something very interesting using a variation of the item
duplication cheat I found on your FAQ. If you go to a special encounter
that allows you to bring your vehicle(s) in, like L33tists, Deathclaw
Liberation, Merchant, etc., you can leave your vehicle at the encounter
and then come back over and over again to get more of the vehicle you left,a
just like items. I tried this with the Tank at CPF Vs PFC and now I have
two tanks. I unloaded the tank before leaving it, as usually leaving a
vehicle behind deletes the stuff inside, but I am not sure if it would do
that in a special encounter or not. Also I tried to go back with my two
tanks to get a third, but I had some weird graphics error where the turrets
for the tanks where floating away from the tanks. It then kicked me out of
the encounter, but it did leave a circle showing where I had left my tank.
That means I now have three (well four, I tried again to go into the
encounter with two tanks to get a third), but I don't know how to get the
third and fourth while driving my two tanks. It should probably be
suggested to only do this cheat once or at least don't drive two tanks in
to get a third, you could always stock pile the vehicles to the various
bases.
Then:
I tried out the code further and you can leave the vehicle loaded and the
stuff inside gets duplicated as well. Also the vehicles function well in
combat, I ran a fight with my two tanks and it went well (other than not
having a second good pilot or gunner).
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UPDATE:
The duplication bug is DEAD in 1.25, according to several sources.
Kenny Wong writes:
The mutate! perk will change traits. However, if you don't have a trait
to start with, then you just get a free trait. Not so useful for your main
char, but could be useful for your squadies. Imagine a whole team
of gifted squadies....
and
The mutate! perk (getting a trait for nothing) still works in 1.25.
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I have done this. It rocks. I totally recommend it. Do it around L12 so
your skills won't suffer too badly.
Chris Calvert suggests:
Here is a tip I came up with that will provide infinite experience
points. This works best if you have at least 30% in lockpicks and a set
of lockpicks as well. Just go to a level with a safe (Rock Falls or
Preoria for example) and move the char equipped with the lockpicks
next to the safe and keep hitting '2' (hotkey for lockpick skill) and
clicking the safe. You will unlock and then lock the safe. Each
successful locking or unlocking will provide a minimum of 15 exp
points. The higher your skill (obviously) the more often you will be
successful. Also you do not always get just 15 points. You can get
more, and it is partly random and partly based on your skill. I had
a char with 30% do this and the max he got was 24 points, but my char
with 80% in the lockpicking skill got a max of 47 points.
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"Mark Walsh" notes:
Firstly I feel Charisma is a lot more important than people realise.
As is pointed out this is a tactical game so your not going to be
charming anyone and therefore Charisma doesn't count. Better to have
that extra Strength or Agility right?
Wrong, what you get from Charisma is a trade off of a less powerful
character for a more powerful group because that's what a high CHARISMA
gets you. Basically a high Charisma gets you access to more and higher
level NPC's earlier. It allows you to gain ranks/promotions quicker which
allows access to better equipment and NPC's. E.G. after completing the
first mission twice with a CHR 7 and a CHR 2 character, the CHR 2
character had access to about 5-6 first level NPC's to join his group.
The CHR 7 one had access to 11 up to lvl 4! Having an NPC with 99% small
guns straight away obviously helps a lot. Also Charisma allows you access
to a couple of very useful perks:
Leader (CHR 6) : Bearing in mind how important you say Agility is, this
one gives a bonus of +1 AGI and +5 AC to all team members within your
sphere of influence (not yourself though!). +1 AGI to everyone - not bad eh?
Divine Favor (CHR 8): I read that this one gives you +1 to your best stat
even allowing a stat of 11! it also increases your perk rate to 1 every 2
levels! Now that sounds good!
Team Player (CHR 4): +10% to ALL rolls within influence of other team members.
Also on a side note this explains the 'usefulness' of the Brown Noser perk
in getting ranks/promotions quicker and therefore access to NPC's and equipment
above what should be available at that time in the game.
Whilst a powerful killer character is fun, a powerful group as given by a
high Charisma makes life easier and fun too.
----2.7----
Booga suggests:
There's this odd bug that my friends and I managed to find out. Exploiting
the bug will make the game unfun though.
Here's how it goes. First, you need a vehicle...then, before you exit the
map into the world map, make all your character crawl INTO the vehicle then
exit the map. Whenever you come across a random encounter or next mission,
your characters will start standing, but the values for crawling will still
be there (doesn't work when going back to base or some special encounter).
Keep crawling into the vehicle everytime and the values for the crawl will
stack up onto each other. Keep doing this and even without increasing your
gun skills!! However, this only works for your NPCs. I think the
programmers remembered to reset the main character but not the NPCs. Most
of my NPCs have all guns skills above 500% using this method, but remember,
melee skills WILL suck...(reaching -1000%)
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blaze@storm.cx.net writes:
As of v1.25, the crawl into vehicle bug doesn't work anymore.
----2.2----
But Haifan Lu says:
I just want to say that the glitch about the crawling into vehicle(you
crawl into the vehicle and go to a new mission or special encounter,
now you will be standing and the gun bonus given when you are crawling
will be permanently added to your states, but you will have a decrease
of melee and unarmed skills) still works. Most of my squad members
except the main character have their melee and unarmed skills at negative
value even if they have nothing equipped on or anything in their inventory.
p.s. My game is at version 1.27.
----2.9----
For money problems, suggests:
To help you out with your money problems, simply enlist in the services of
an amazing gambler. In my game, Stumpy has it tagged and it was already
high. If you use him a few times and add all his skill points to gambling,
he should be able to swindle most of the mechanics in the game, the medical
officer and the quartermaster at the gamma outpost. Its all about trial and
error, save and load. if you stock up on everything anyone who gambles has,
and do a decent amount of looting, money should no longer be any issue.
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"Matt Thobe" suggests:
When ever you gamble just save before you start and gamble like 1 rp for
1 rp until you win, and count how many times till you win, then reload and
gamble 1 rp till you get the the time when you win, then bet everything,
and its all yours.
----2.6----
This little trick works because (like many games), it saves the random
number seed (and the next couple)to assure that you can't just reload a
game and avoid a nasty fate (usually in combat). Works great for
gambling, though.
"Patryk" adds:
Advisable in any mission when you cant carry everything you want to keep from
a mission. All the crates, bookshelves, boxes and lockers are there to yield
to you equipment, right??? WRONG. They are there for you to place equipment
inside of them!!! Each has a limited capacity but certainly you can find many
of them. Inserting equipment into boxes is vital to your cause because the
killed enemies have a tendency to dissapear when you leave the mission area.
Not all but almost 70% (approximetly). All those things left in various
lockers will remain for you to come back and claim your rightful share of
the spoils of war.
----2.6----
Pak Chung adds:
I found some tricks about gambling that really saved me lots of money, in
bunker gamma ( i think ), the quarter master will gamble with you. so you
merely can some of the most expensive stuffs from this bunker through
gambling.
first of all, you dont really need gambling skill, get as much cash as
possible, lets say you want to get the power armor, it cost it 20000 each,
so lets say this is the first time you gamble with this quater master, put
as much money as u can something around 30000, and even without gambling
skill u can still win neartly 100% of the time, but the drawback is,
everytime the quater master lose, he will change the rate, the next time you
bet with him, for a power armor lets say, he will only bet for like 25000 or
so ( the more money u put for betting the higher chance you win, if u put 1
dollars to bet with his power armor u will never win )
I managed to get 4 power armors and 1 advanced power armor before he drop
the rate to a level that i will never win ( like 12000 to bet for stuffs
worth 20000)
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Chaltione Bonkfriks adds:
I have noticed a little bug:
whenever you gamble with ANYONE, you can just put in whatever you want
from them, and put in nothing from your side, and keep clicking on
gamble. Eventually you'll win the gamble. That way i gambled away
everything (4000+ lbs) the quartermaster in bunker gamma had with a
character with only 14% gamble skill and 4 luck. It is still working
with patch 1.25.
----2.3----
Try it out! you'll end up with loads of stuff that way...
Josemaria Hernandez adds:
I tried using mentats to see if it would help some npcs get perks
like sharpshooter. Does not seem to work unfortunately. Still using
buffouts for your heavy guns guys so they can use Browning's in the
missions before power armor is not a bad thing esp since they last
the whole mission.
Leader is a great perk btw. everyone in the squad under the influence
gets +1 agility and added 5 bonus to armor class (I think).
I would highly recommend just loitering around the wastelands. As
far as I know there is no time pressure to finish the game and
its a great way to load up on stuff and XP. For some reason when
I encounter bots in the waste they are always under gunned, they
fire one or two rounds then run out of ammo. They then rush you
and you can pound them into scrap and get huge XP. One time I ran
across 2 behemoths and 5 or 6 humanoids. I was lucky enough to
critical hit both behemoths before they got into range and knocked
them out. At the end of it all I got 5000 xps for that one encounter.
I have leveled up around 4 or 5 times just wandering the wastes and
am still in Newton but fighting with level 21 characters now. Another
cool trick is just leaving ctb mode on during these random encounters.
When encountering mutants and reavers you should be able to get away
without suffering a hit at all. Pancor's armed with the purple shells
are great against smaller bots; with bonus rate of fire i can fire
twice and by the second burst kill 3 or 4 bots.
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David writes:
After playing the super mutant levels for a while I came across a
disturbing bug/game imbalance, namely that crossfire from burst
weapons ALWAYS hits. For instance, if I put a sniper waaaay out
(just within hunting rifle range, 40ft) from a mutant armed with a
SAW and force fire on it, then the mutant will stupidly return fire
and repeatedly miss. Now if I do the exact same thing, except this
time put two snipers side by side, the sniper that the mutant is not
aiming at will get hit EVERY time by the crossfire while the intended
target is always missed as usual.
This seems to be a pretty stupid gameplay issue, I thought. I mean,
shouldn't there be a random chance that you get hit by stray bullets,
instead of 100% accuracy? Basically it means any group of two or more
people will get chewed up, guaranteed, except for the group member
actually being shot at. It's pretty laughable!
To get around it, only post single people that are very (and I mean
*very*) well spaced out when attacking enemies with burst weapons.
I'm playing with the latest version, 1.27.
----2.95----
Louie Imperial and I have been having a
discussion about the value of the Divine Favor Perk; while it has a
high ability requirement (CHR of 8), he says it pays off handsomely,
as it increases your highest stat by +1 and reduces the number of
levels it takes to get perks (so if you'd normally get one every 3
levels, you get one every 2 levels instead). I have yet to
experiment with this, but he thinks highly of it, so give it a shot.
shirwyn@vcn.bc.ca suggests:
On the Awareness Perk I've noticed that you only need to have one
character with it and they all can use it. The trick is to have
any of your characters get a line of sight on the enemy then click,
just once, on the character bar name of the of the one with Awareness
(even if that charcter is on the other side of the map) and the info
shows up. Probably a glitch but enjoy it while it lasts.
----2.2----
"Robert Luong" writes:
Regarding the Bullhorn call/trap (something like that)...
Weird thing w/ this accessory. Just put it on your hands and you gain
+4 strength and your HP's shoot up to around 7 million(My main had 8str
initially). You don't need to use it, just put it in one of the weapon
slots. But you also become addicted to buffouts. I dunno if that had
any effect cuz it didn't lower any of my stats nor affect my fighting
ability.
Try it out=) You can have a guy w/ a Strength of 3(min to use handgun,
4 is min for rifles/smg) then after the 1st mission buy this thing at
the alpha bunker. Then when you get to beta bunker you can do that
elixer thing for your endurance. Gives you more points to put into
other stats...if you're careful enough that is..
and later...
Basically all I needed to do was brave thru' the 1st mission. Str. of 3 gave
me the ability to use handguns. I did CTB cuz there were some benefits I
could gain from a high agility. With handguns costing 4AP per turn, you can
shoot 3 times before they even get one off.(AP bar slowly regains 1AP in b/w
shots) With kamakaze I hoped after 3 shots they'd die=) You just have to be
very careful in CTB or it's suicidal.
Anyways, after the 1st mission, go back to alpha bunker, buy the bullhorn,
equip on free slot. Automatic 12 Str., 70million HP, and your small arms
goes into 70million% too. it was crazy=) No one ever misses. Every shot is a
critical. Now, only thing you gotta be careful of is when u're addicted you
have a random chance of dying. But I went for months with out dying, then
all of a sudden after I complete a mission I die. I just unequip the
bullhorn for a sec everynow and then just to be safe. Sucks, but only if you
didn't save. I guess that's the only drawback.
I haven't patched the game yet either. So what you said with it not working,
could be cuz you patched it already. I'll give you some screenshots I took
whenever I find out how to transfer them to this comp.
----2.3----
I was not able to get this to work, but I've had it independently confirmed
by Paradox , so I'm pretty sure it works. Give this one
a shot, although it's sort of an in-game cheat.
"Marcus Robinson" adds:
Note that if you hold shift when you click the credits button in the main
menu, just like in Fallout 2 you'll see comments from the makers.
----2.3----
Kam Fung suggests:
The Leadership perk works really well if you have people in you party with 7
(I think...) agility, the +1 your party gains from the perk is enough to
push their action points up to 9/round. This is enough to change stance
twice (up and down) and take a targeted shot, the armour class bonus is
gravy. The thing is, the perk doesn't appear to work when you're in a
vehicle (as of 1.25). Perhaps it doesn't realize your team is in close
proximity when they are in a vehicle?
Here's something to try when you have a whole whack of one item (like AK47's
or SAW's) and they just don't bring home the bacon anymore: don't just sell
them to the quartermaster, the mechanic and the healer will both give you
great prices for items they don't have. It also appears that the
quartermasters at all the bases have the same stuff, so selling to different
bases for more money doesn't appear to work. Similarly, traders will give
you better prices than the quartermasters if they don't have a lot of an
item. I find I can usually sell about 10 of an item before the value starts
to drop a lot.
----2.3----
André Devaux writes:
1) I've noticed that the starting equipment of your main character depends
partially on your tag skills. If you tag some skills, you get additional
items to start with. I haven't tried out every skill yet, but here is
what I found out:
-Gambling nets you 500 BOS scripts
-Doctor gives you a doctors bag (yay!)
-Throwing adds a few spears, some rocks and one fragmentation grenade
The following skills give no bonus items: Stealth, Lockpick,
Big Guns, Energy Weapons
2) In answer to Daniel Caine: charisma has no effect on which NPCs
you can hire. It soley depends on your rank (you can hire NPCs of the
same or lower rank than you). BUT: Promotions seem to depend on your
CH score. Higher charisma seems to let you gain ranks quicker. For
example, my CH 2 character got promoted to senior initiate only after
the second mission while another one with a charisma score of 7 got
promoted after the first. I've tried this several times and solved
the first mission always in the same way.
----2.5----
Ariel Falgui writes:
Having a 100 pts. Outdoorsman Skill will enable you to
ignore all enemy encounters.
----2.6----
Andy Chen writes:
THE CHEAT
I discovered a cheat, rather a bug, in the game
(version 1.27). It concerns weapons with multiple
firing settings. This bug allows you to fire a burst
shot for the ammunition/action point expenditure of a
single shot. I play in Squad Turn Based, and I think
it only works with ranged weapons.
What you do is this:
1. Click on the squadmate you want to perform this
trick.
2. Make sure the weapon is selected on burst (or multi
shot mode like "triple" on the pistols)
3. Select a target and click... here is the tricky
part.
4. Before your squadmate actually shoots at the
enemy(as in, before it shows the animation), you have
to rightclick on the weapon to change its mode to
single shot.
5. The weapon will sound like it fired a single shot,
but will have actually fired a burst - the character
animations will show that as well as the enemy's death
animation.
Naturally, it seems like this bug works better outside
of vehicles.
This is really great because it saves a lot of ammo
and gives you that extra action point that everyone
needs. What I think actually happened inside the
program:
Because the "Burst" mode was selected, that
information was sent into the program. The game then
calculates the to-hit rolls and the damage. After
that, it subtracts the necessary ammounts of ammo and
action points. However, due to an oversight by the
programmers, by changing the firing mode right after
it has done its calculations and before it makes the
subtractions from your resources you can cheat the
system.
I may have discovered this little bug, but I send it
in for, heh, novelty purposes. Cheating is dumb
unless you are just screwing around anyway.
----2.7----
"Matias Zucchi" suggests:
Stacking
Use this to open doors when you don't know what may be
lurking behind them. Make sure you pick the lock or use
a key on the door first if you have to. Lay one guy down,
and move him right up to the door. Put another guy in
the kneeling position, and move him behind the guy
laying down. Stand a guy up and move him behind the guy
kneeling down. Now you have three guys ready to fire
through the doorway once you open it. Put everybody on
"agressive" mode, your guns on burst, and use the guy
laying down to open the door. anything in the immediate
line of sight turns into a bloody mess. Raider bosses
die quick this way.
Extra Money
Go to the recruiter in a Brotherhood of Steel base,
recruit team members, exit the recruit screen, take
the armor off the new character(s), and give them to
your squad leader. Return to the recruiter and remove
the new recruit(s). You can then get different new
recruits for more suits of armor. After you leave the
recruiter, the recruits you removed will reset -
allowing you to get their armor again.Repeat this until
you have as many suits as you can carry and still walk.
Go to the quartermaster and sell the armor. Repeat this
until you have as much money as needed.
----2.7----
"dr. grass" adds:
To increase a member's lockpick skill highly, put both
side of the weapon slot with lockpicks, advanced
lockpick or electronic lockpicks.
----2.7----
Jereza Alfred Davy suggests:
When u find yourself in a mission where you cant carry
all the loot you want then just stock them up
sumwhere. If you know where the exit grids will
appear at the end of the mission its best to place the
items there or close to it. You can even leave them
all stacked up on one place on the floor since you
wont be leaving without them thus they wont disappear
while your gone. Continue on with the mission and
drop items off with where u left the first ones. When
you have finished the mission and collected all your
loot place one or more of your squadmates onto the
exit grid but keeping atleast one outside. This will
prevent the game from moving into the world map. If
the loot is on the exit grid simply let the one of
squadies pickup all the items. He can pick them all
even if overweight since it only prevents him from
walking. If the loot is outside the exit grid, use
the squadie outside the grid to pick up the items upto
his max then pass it to a squadie within the grid.
Once u get all the items, move the rest of your
suadies into the grid to go to the world map.
Eventhough some of your men will be overweight your
squad can still travel the world map. Head straight
for a bunker and when your team appears within it the
squadies who are overwight will be there too though
they cant walk. So once there you can sell your loot
little by little or just stock em up in you lockers or
vehicles by having members carry all it little by
little.
----2.7----
UPDATE 2.4: The 'Bandaged' Debacle
Now, I have been getting a lot of questions about the 'bandaged' state. I'd
like to write something definitive about it here so I don't get any more
questions about it. If you are bandaged, you must use the doctor bag to
remove that state. Put the doctor bag in the hand of the character with
the highest 'Doctor' skill. Click on the bag icon (in your hand) and then
click on the poor guy who is 'bandaged'. Note; this can include the doctor
himself!
Now, prior to the 1.25 patch, you had to have been damaged; that is,
missing at least 1 hit point. After the 1.25 patch, this is fixed, and
you may successfully use it on someone who is not damaged.
TOUGH GUY SUGGESTIONS (UPDATE 2.4):
Andy wrote in with some suggestions for Tough Guy mode:
Perks:
Dont pick a perk until lvl 9 because if u cancel the perk dialog u wont
loose the ability to choose later, so wait until lvl 9 and than look what perks u
want, the best perks are avaible in lvl 6 and 9 and 12, u can easy work
without perks up to lvl 9. Pick the mutate perk first and choose gifted if u want
have some extra perks avaible. If u safed all perks to lvl 9 u will be able
to choose mutate first and than get new perks avaible and still have 2 perks
left to spend.
It is also wise to pick the Fast Shot skill from mutate if your char has
already good stats.
Teams and char buliding: i tryed first play with a full sniper team (high PE
and AGI + Ranged DMG Bonus perks and or sniper perk).... worked well up to
mission 8, but than with all the rocket luncher guys and long range hard
hitting weapons i did loose in that mission over and over and over ...... dont ask
how long i tryed this mission....
finaly i figured that i had spend more points into sneak ... so i had could
sneak behind the hard guys and fire them down at 1 burst... even with 6
sneaking snipers u wont be able to kill 2 rocked guys ... so i started over and
well teh new team was a blast :-)
new team: 4x sneaker (tag skill from lvl 1 and pushed sneak fast to 121)
2 of the sneaker are special in small and 2 in big guns (think of sneaking
with 2 rocket luncher and fire them on a hard guys from back ... no chance
hehe)
2x long range heavy weapon/sniper combo .. (heavy weapon/small weapon/ maybe
engery as tag skill and high perception or at least with the perk/gifted
trick able to get sharpshooter in 9 and get so to PE 8 or 9.... start with 6 PE
... mutate .. gifted ... get 7 PE + Sharpshooter than 9 PE ... so look for
nice guys with at least 5 LK and 5 Agi/Int and 6 PE + Tag combo)
normal use your 4 sneakes against hard guys and burst them from the back so
they cant even get 1 round or rocket out on u.... pick hit the deck in lvl 12
as perk, because it lower the chance to get killed from rocket guys or
mines. Pick ranged bonus dmg or sharpshooter also for all and awerness this helps
to keep u informed. i also choosed night vision for all in my team, because u
get a big range advantage at night and sneak also work better. Because u
cant save in hard mode, u want realy fight at night so that the chance is bigger
u dont get killed if u run into traps or hidded guys and get killed in first
encounter.
I did equiped the 4x sneaker team with long range or long range burst
weapons (hunter rifle, ak47, m16, sniper rifle) in primary mode and 2x SAW/rocket
lancher and 2x CAWs for burst mode.
The 2x heavy snipers with 2 SAWs/M2/rocket lancher.
my own char:
STR: 9 (for use M2 at 5 feet in sneak mode ... hehe)
PE: 7 (to upgrade to sharpshooter + bonus dmg)
EN: 6
CH: 2
INT: 10 (more skills)
AGI: 7 (8 Action points are enough ... fast shot rocks)
lK: 6 (sharpshooter/dmg bonus)
Fast Shot + Gifted
heavy weapons + doctor + sneak
perks:
night vision
comprensive (read all books)
bonus ranged dmg/sharpshooter
hit the deck
thats a good start at lvl 12
i choose doctor because there isnt realy 1 nice doc with sneak and usefull
stats, with 10 int u will also be able to get small guns fast up to 114 and
than u can start put more into heavy guns and doc skill... also u need a doc in
first line if sneak fail and u get under heavy fire and your friends get
blinded or crippled.
----2.4----
"Evan LeCarde" suggests:
wouldn't it be a good idea to have the Big Bruiser and Small frame
traits? it seems like to get the benifits of both, and the negitives of
each are canceled out... dont know if the game had something built in which
would stop that
and
I checked out the stats, and the bonuses stayed
the same. Check it out, it may be a helpful bonus ...
----2.8----
Clifton writes:
#1---
The recruit Sharon (starts off at level 3, with the perk Flower Child,
oooooo...) actually can make for one hell of a barterer. She has a 8CH, so
I saved up all of her points from level 3 to level 12, and applied the
following:
Mutate! (Chemical Resistant -> Good Natured)
Tag! (Barter)
All points available to Barter (skill -> 172%)
Master Trader
#2---
I noticed some funny XP numbers that appeared and disappeared in the recruit
pool. Sometimes, recruits I've never used had odd experience values (i.e.
not ending in 00), and sometimes they'd go back down to their original
numbers. I played around with this, and found the following:
Looked at all unused recruits, noted several of their experience values.
Went out and mashed on a few monsters, gaining approximately 20kxp.
Returned to base
Saved game
Looked at all unused recruits - all of their XP went up by the
aforementioned ~20kxp
Closed recruit screen
Looked again at all unused recruits - all of their XP went back to their
starting values
Reloaded game
Looked at all unused recruits - all of their XP was +20kxp
Removed one character from the party
Added each recruit to the party, and removed them again
Closed recruit screen
Looked again at all unused recruits - their XP stayed at the +20kxp level
(!!!)
Of course, this caused them to autochoose their abilities and point
distributions, which is definately not ideal (who the hell would choose
snakeeater?!). I think, if you have used the recruits once before, the game
will not adjust their skill levels or choose perks when it applies the XP to
them. I'll have to check this out later.
#3---
This, I think is by far the most useful thing I'd like to contribute to your
FAQ - How to sell guns at their maximum price.
After a bit of experimentation, I discovered that the quartermaster gives
the same price for the first 15 of any item - and this is not dependent on
barter skill (I compared it with my original Barter 12%, with my new Barter
172%) However, it goes rapidly down from there. I'm at a point where 15
AK-47s will net me a whopping $500.
During the course of the game though, I found items that already had ammo
loaded in them (!). I found that if you use the "drag item between hands to
reload" trick, then the weapon you replace will drop into your inventory
still loaded. And of course, weapons that have even one bullet in them, are
classified as different than empty weapons. I tried selling those weapons
with one bullet to the quartermaster, and lo-and-behold, they're considered
new! He'll take up to 15 of these before the price starts dropping. Now
the best part about this, is if you close the barter window and talk to him
again, he unloads all of the weapons (of course, the ammo disappears to
/dev/null), and you can sell another 15-one-bullet-full weapons to him.
With this, I was able to rack up like $200k, then blow it all on his ammo
stock, armor, traps, thrown, energy weapons, and kits, with some change to
spare. =)
----2.95----
Jeremy writes:
I tried one of the things you suggested in your guide with a mixture of
results. I tried waiting till lvl 9 before getting perks. I would do
this but there is one warning. If you send a person back to the recruiter
for any reason it will choose a perk for you. I had Farsight with Heave
Ho!. A real bummer.
----2.95----
WEAPONS CHART (UPDATE 2.6)
Thanks greatly to André Devaux for providing
this chart; he did all of it, so all of the credit is his! It's missing
some of the guns later on in the game, but those will be added pretty
soon.
writes in with some general observations about weapons:
some infos to weapons and how to compare the dmg/range/ammo
so how u choose the best weapon for your team ?
just by the displayed dmg of the weapon ? NO !
some infos to weapons in BOS in general:
all weapons with a burst mode arnt so precision like the single shot mode
weapons even if they have the same range !
example: the ak47 or m16 have nice range in single shot mode, but with a
huting rifle u will still get a higher percantage for aiming than with a burst
weapon of the same range ! In burst mode a weapon do much more dmg than it is
displayed. Displayed is always the single shot mode, burst mode need to be
calced !
how to compare single shot and energy weapons:
just by range and dmg that is displayed. But think of the armor types,
normal energy dmg will get more absorb than normal dmg, so normal weapons can do
more dmg against a well armored guy !
It is also a good idea to not compare the max dmg a single shot weapon do,
just compare the minimum dmg.
how to compare burst weapons:
compare the range than the normal burst dmg displayed, now u need calc the
ammo and how many rounds per burst are driven out.
Example:
SAW can hold 30 rounds and u can shot 3 times.. ergo 10 rounds per burst of
7.62 mm and 20-30 dmg displayed
Vindicator can hold 100 rounds and u can shot 4 times .. ergo 25 rounds per
burst of 7.62mm and 16-25 dmg displayed
M60 can hold 50 rounds and u can shot 5 times .. ergo 10 rounds per burst of
7.62mm and 18-26 dmg displayed
wich weapon is better now ?
for ammo/dmg the vindicator is best, even if the saw have higer dmg
displayed, but the vindicator get out more than twice of the same ammo than the saw !
Since the M60 and SAW have same ammo/burst rate the saw wins over the M60 in
ammo/dmg
how to compare ammo:
I did not notice a difference between the ammo types in general if no
special dmg or penetration factor is displayed. The only thing i notice is the
shotgun shells do more dmg than other burst weapons compared for his burst/ammo
mode. Also shotgun shells have a nice area effect in hurt groups. So a CAWs or
a Jackhammer are very deadly weapons on short range and with the special dmg
bonus ammo they can kill 3 low armored mutants in short range at 1 burst
even if only 2.5 shells are pumped out at 1 burst !
I did not notice any difference between ammo types like 50mm, 5.56mm or
7.62mm or .303mm. So just compare the dmg displayed. 9mm ammo is the worst
because the normal ball get dmg and penetration penalty. U should choose your ammo
so that the dmg/penetration is average and/or u have some types of special
ammo avaible for your gun, so the shotgun weapons are the best for
dmg/ammo/burst in short range because u have 3 types of ammo to load and the dmg done
with just 2.5 shells in 1 burst is awesome.
best ranged heavy burst weapons in game:
Gaus Minigun: weapon from hell !!!! (could not test it yet but stats sounds
damm nice)
Vindicator: high dmg / high range / ammo sucker (cant shot in prone mode)
M2: high dmg / high range / heavy like hell
SAW: good dmg / high range / good overall power
M60: good dmg / med range / nice magazine of ammo
avenger: fair dmg / med range
best small burst weapons in game:
Jackhammer: high dmg / low range / good overall power
CAWs: high dmg / low range / good overall power
Fn Fal: good dmg / nice range / good overall power
Neostead: good dmg / low range
Ak47: good dmg / med range
M16: fair dmg / good range
happy bursting :-)
----2.5----
Fallout Tactics - Weapon and Armor Chart (v2.0)
===============================================
Small Guns (Note: all revolvers cost 1 AP less to fire)
=======================================================================
Ammo Type: 2mm EC
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PPK12 Gauss Pistol 22-32 50 12 5 Single 1
M-72 Gauss Rifle 60-80 50 20 6 Single 1
Ammo Type: .303mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
M-14 7-16 32 20 5 Burst 8
8-18 40 Single 1
Ammo Type: 44. Mag
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Desert Eagle 15-23 25 8 4 Single 1
Mark XIX
44 M29 Revolver 14-21 18 6 4 Single 1
Ammo Type: .45
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thompson Gun 7-28 25 50 6 Burst ?
8-32 32 Single 1
Colt 45 12-18 17 12 3 Triple 3
22 Single 1
Casull Revolver 13-18 15 6 4 Single 1
Ammo Type: 5.56mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Enfield XL-70E 14-26 28 20 5 Burst ?
16-30 35 Single 1
Ruger AC556F 14-26 18 20 5 Burst ?
16-30 22 Single 1
Steyr AUG 13-26 24 40 5 Burst ?
15-30 28 Single 1
M16A1 8-19 36 24 5 Burst 8
10-22 42 Single 1
Ammo Type: 7.62mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
7.62 FN FAL 21-32 28 20 5 Burst 5
24-36 35 Single 1
Sniper Rifle 14-36 50 6 5 Single 1
AK47 10-22 28 24 5 Burst 5
12-25 35 Single 1
Hunting Rifle 8-20 40 10 5 Single 1
Ammo Type: 9mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FN P90C 13-21 18 50 4 Burst 5
16-25 22 Single 1
MP38 10-21 16 30 4 Burst 6
12-24 20 Single 1
Sten Gun 14-21 16 32 4 Burst 3
16-24 18 Single 1
MP5 H&K 8-17 20 30 4 Burst 6
10-20 25 Single 1
Calico Liberty 100 8-17 17 50 5 Burst ?
10-20 22 Single 1
Walther MPL 10-17 20 32 5 Burst 4
12-20 25 Single 1
Scorpio 8-16 18 32 4 Burst 4
9-18 22 Single 1
Uzi 7-14 16 25 4 Burst 5
8-16 20 Single 1
P220 Sig Sauer 7-15 19 9 3 Triple 3
24 Single 1
9mm M9FS Beretta 8-15 17 15 3 Triple 3
22 Single 1
9mm Calico M-950 7-15 17 50 3 Triple 3
24 Single 1
Browning HP 7-14 16 12 3 Triple 3
20 Single 1
9mm HSI Mauser 6-14 28 7 3 Single 1
Zip Gun 6-12 22 1 3 Single 1
Ammo Type: 12 gauge
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pancor Jackhammer 20-32 30 10 5 Single 1
17-28 24 Burst 3
H&K CAWS 18-28 30 10 6 Single 1
16-25 24 Burst 3
Neostead Combat SG 15-25 22 12 6 Single 1
13-22 17 Burst 3
Pump-action Shotgun 14-24 14 5 5 Single 1
Beretta 470 Silver- 12-22 14 2 4 Single 1
hawk 10-19 Double 2
Ammo Type: 30.06
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Browning Auto Rifle 18-32 28 20 5 Burst ?
18-32 35 Single 1
M1 Garand 12-24 40 8 5 Single 1
Ammo Type: Flamer
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Flamer Pistol 22-45 5 3 4 Burst 1
Ammo Type: HCl Acid
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Water Gun 5-25 24 10 5 Single 1
Ammo Type: Grenade
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
M-79 Grenade 20-45 32 1 5 Single 1
Launcher
Ammo Type: Needler Cartridge
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Needler Pistol 13-27 30 10 3 Single 1
+Poison
Ammo Type: Speargun Bolts
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Spear Gun 3-15 25 1 4 Single 1
=======================================================================
Big Guns
=======================================================================
Ammo Type: 2mm EC
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Gatling Gauss 60-80 35 80 6 Burst ?
Ammo Type: .303
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lewis Gun 22-32 45 47 7 Burst ?
Bren Gun 20-30 40 30 7 Burst ?
Ammo Type: 5.56mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Avenger MiniGun 7-11 35 120 7 Burst 40
Ammo Type: 7.62mm
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
--------------------------------------------------------------------
M-249 SAW 20-30 40 30 6 Burst 10
M60 18-26 35 50 7 Burst 10
Vindicator MiniGun 16-25 45 100 8 Burst 25
Ammo Type: 50 cal.
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Browning M2 40-50 45 90 9 Burst 10
Ammo Type: Flamer Fuel
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Flamer 45-90 5 5 6 Burst 1
Ammo Type: Rockets
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Rocket Launcher 60-120 40 1 6 Single(5) 1
=======================================================================
Energy Weapons
=======================================================================
Ammo Type: Small Energy Cells
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
YK32 Pulse Pistol 32-46 20 5 3 Single(3) 1
Plasma Pistol 15-35 20 16 3 Single(3) 1
Spasm NeuroDisruptor 10-24 30 10 4 Single 1
Laser Pistol 10-22 35 12 3 Single(3) 1
Ammo Type: Microfusion Cells
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes ROF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pulse Rifle 54-78 30 12 6 Single 1
Pulse Rifle Proto. 42-64 30 10 3 Single 1
Plasma Rifle 35-60 35 10 6 Single(6) 1
Sunbeam Laser Rifle 23-50 45 12 6 Single 1
Gatling Laser 20-40 30 30 6 Burst(6) ?
=======================================================================
Ammo
=======================================================================
Type Damage mod Penetration mod
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Speargun Bolts 0 0
9mm Ball -11% -20%
9mm JHP +60% -20%
9mm AP -25% +50%
7.62mm 0 0
.45 0 0
12 gauge 0 0
12 gauge flechette +60% -20%
12 ga. Slug Shells -11% +31%
12 ga. EMP Shells 0 0 (great against robots)
.44 magnum Ball -11% -20%
.44 magnum JHP +60% -20%
Small Energy Cell(SEC) 0 0
Large Energy Cell (LEC) 0 0
5.56 0 0
30.06 0 0
Explosive Rocket +60% +11%
.50 Cal DU 0 +50%
HN Needler Cartridge 0 0
Flamer Fuel 0 0
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Melee Weapons (Add ST bonus to both min and max damage)
=======================================================================
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dynamite Spear 10-30 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Ripper 15-22 1 30 (SEC) 4 Swing (4)
Diamond Spear 15-20 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Cattle Prod 12-20 1 20 (SEC) 5 Swing (4)
3-6 Overload (3)
Micro-Sledge 8-20 1 - 5 Swing (4)
9-21 2 Thrust (4)
Piston Spear 6-20 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Monkey Wrench 8-18 1 - 5 Swing (3)
Combat Knife 7-18 1 - 1 Thrust (3)
6-14 Swing (4)
Claw Hammer 4-16 1 - 5 Claw (4)
3-10 Head (4)
Dak Targ 5-15 1 - 1 Thrust (4)
4-12 Swing (3)
Club 5-15 2 - 4 Swing (3)
5-15 Thrust (4)
Crowbar 3-15 1 - 4 Swing (3)
3-15 Thrust (4)
Machete 3-15 1 - 4 Swing (4)
Cleaver 6-14 1 - 4 Swing (4)
Knife 1-14 1 - 1 Thrust (4)
1-11 Swing (4)
Axe Handle 4-12 2 - 4 Swing (4)
Scalpel 3-12 1 - 1 Thrust (4)
3-10 Swing (4)
Iron Pipe 2-12 1 - 5 Swing (4)
Slugger 3-11 2 - 4 Swing (4)
3-11 Thrust (4)
Serrated Blade 8-10 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Deco-Filament 3-10 1 - 1 Swing (3)
Snake Spear 3-10 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
+Strong Poison
Festering Spear 3-10 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
+Poison
Spear 3-10 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Barbed Spear 7-8 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Throwing Knife 3-6 1 - 1 Thrust (3)
Switchblade 2-5 1 - 1 Swing (3)
2-6 Thrust (4)
Sharpened Pole 2-5 2 - 4 Thrust (4)
Shiv 1-5 1 - 1 Swing (3)
1-6 Thrust (4)
Broken Bottle 1-5 1 - 1 Swing (3)
1-6 Thrust (4)
Plunger 1-4 2 - 1 Swing (4)
1-4 Thrust (4)
=======================================================================
Hand-to-Hand Weapons (Add ST bonus to both min and max damage)
=======================================================================
Name Damage Range Clip Min Str Modes
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Power Fist 12-24 1 25 (SEC) 1 Punch (3)
Razor Claws 6-24 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Punch Gun 10-20 1 3 (12 gauge) 1 Punch (3)
Impact Gloves 8-16 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Punch Dagger 5-14 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Mace Gloves 6-10 1 - 1 Punch (4)
Lacerators 5-10 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Tiger Claws 4-6 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Sappers 4-6 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Shredders 3-6 1 - 1 Punch (3)
Brass Knuckles 2-5 1 - 1 Punch (3)
=======================================================================
Throwing Weapons (Add ST bonus to both min and max damage)
=======================================================================
Name Damage Range Min Str Mode
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Diamond Spear 22-30 8 4 Throw (5)
Dynamite Spear 10-30 8 4 Throw (5)
Piston Spear 9-30 8 4 Throw (5)
Serrated Blade 9-12 8 4 Throw (5)
Snake Spear 3-12 8 4 Throw (5), St. poison
Festering Spear 3-12 8 4 Throw (5), Poison
Spear 3-12 8 4 Throw (5)
Fantasy Ball 8-10 15 1 Throw (2)
Boomerang 7-10 15 1 Throw (1)
Barbed Spear 8-9 8 4 Throw (5)
Powder Bag 4-7 16 1 Throw (2), Stuns
Chakram 4-6 15 1 Throw (2)
Dart 3-6 16 1 Throw (2)
Throwing Knife 3-6 16 1 Throw (5)
Throwing Star 2-6 15 1 Throw (2)
Sharpened Pole 2-6 8 4 Throw (5)
Rock 1-4 15 1 Throw (2)
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Grenades (uses throwing skill)
=======================================================================
Name Damage Range Min Str Notes
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Pulse Grenade 105-155 15 4 Only against Robots
Plasma Grenade 41-91 15 4
Incendiary 41-61 15 4 Fire damage
Acid Grenade 31-61 15 4
Fragmentation 31-51 15 4
Boom Bugs 11-26 15 4
Molotov Cocktail 9-21 18 1 Fire damage, 2AP
Flash Grendades 4-10 15 4 Stuns
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Armor
=======================================================================
Name AC Normal Fire Gas Expl. Energy Elec.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Advanced Power Armor 35 18/60% 15/65% 7/45% 10/50% 17/55% 0/0%
Power Armor 30 13/55% 13/60% 5/30% 10/50% 16/50% 0/0%
Tesla Armor 15 4/35% 7/45% 0/0% 4/20% 15/80% 0/0%
Environmental Armor
MkII 10 6/40% 5/42% 20/90% 9/45% 6/60% 0/0%
Environmental Armor 10 5/40% 4/40% 13/70% 6/40% 5/55% 0/0%
Metal Armor MkII 15 4/35% 4/20% 0/0% 4/30% 4/45% 0/0%
Metal Armor 10 4/30% 4/15% 0/0% 4/25% 3/37% 0/0%
Leather Armor MkII 20 3/25% 1/17% 0/0% 1/25% 1/30% 0/0%
Leather Armor 15 2/25% 0/15% 0/0% 0/20% 0/25% 0/0%
Ghoul Armor 10 0/20% 0/10% 0/0% 0/20% 0/25% 0/0%
Notes: - The first number of each category is the damage absorption, the
second the damage resistance.
- Absorption is first substracted from the damage roll of any
attack.
- Then the remaining damage gets reduced by the amount of damage
resistance you have.
- Metal Armor and Metal Armor MkII: -25% Stealth.
-
- Ghoul Armor can only be worn by ghouls.
=======================================================================
PERKS TABLE (UPDATE 2.3):
André Devaux has come through again and
provided a perk table (something which I admittedly should have done
some time ago)! I have added occasional comments to it, but the main
body of the work is his. Keep in mind that it is very useful sometimes
to save a perk (say, at lvl 3) and spend it later (to get 2 lvl 6
perks).
Perk List
=========
Rating follows this scale: useless, bad, average, good, very good,
must have.
Please note that this rating is solely based on my opinons. If you
like one perk, then by all means take it regardless of my rating!
One last thing: take the "one time bonus to skills" perks only if
there's nothing else around or you really need those skill points.
But there's nearly always something more useful to take...
Level 2: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brown Noser CH 5, IN 6 1? Useless?
Die Hard EN 6, 1 Useless
First Aid 40%
Level 3: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Awareness PE 5 1 Average, only one char. needs it
(GUILER SAYS: I'd say good, but it's
true that only 1 person should have it)
Bonus HtH Damage ST 6, AG 6 3 Very good for Slayers
Comprehension IN 6 1 Average
(GUILER SAYS: I usually give all my books
to the main char. If you save your books
until you get this, or get it early, this
is OK, but you will get enough books in
the game that you will never really need
it)
Drunken Master Unarmed 60% 1 Bad
(GUILER SAYS: Jackie Chan, yes. FT,
maybe not)
Faster Healing EN 6 3 Useless
Flower Child EN 5 1 Must have if you like using drugs
Gunner AG 6, 1 ?
Small Guns 40%
(GUILER SAYS: Not many missions with
vehicles...)
Healer PE 7, AG 6, IN 5, 2? Good, but only for your medic
First Aid 40%
Here and Now None 1 Useless, too weak a bonus
Lead Foot PE 6, AG 6, 1 Not very useful
Piloting 60%
Night Vision PE 6 1 Average (good for snipers)
Quick Pockets AG 5 1 Average
Rad Child EN 6, Ghouls only 1 ?
Road Warrior IN 6, LV 12, 1 Not very useful. Do you fire from vehicles
Piloting 60% that often? Often enough to warrant a perk?
Scout PE 7 1 Bad
Stat! AG 6, 1 Useless, it's better to use stimpack during
First Aid 75%, combat. And outside of combat you have as
Doctor 50% much time as you want.
Stonewall ST 6 1 Bad
Strong Back ST 6, EN 6 3 Average to good (depends on carry cap.)
Survivalist EN 6 1 Bad
Outdoorsman 40%
Swift Learner IN 4 3 Very good, take it early
Linerunner writes:
I noticed in your guide (and other places) for FT:BOS that the Swift Learner perk is
highly rated. I disagree with this. Let's say you take a level of this each chance
you get... after fighting and gaining what would be 100,000 experience points, your
total would be 115,000. A mere 15,000 extra experience! Once you hit level 8 or so
+, it takes 10,000 or more per level so this bonus is unlikely to have much impact
on your level, yet cost you all those perks. Each time you take it, you throw away
another 2-4 levels it took to gain another perk and even at +15% you won't have
made that up! IMHO, Swift Learner belongs in the "useless" category for perks.
----2.7----
Linerunner has a point here; in previous versions, it was a good idea to get it
once because it worked for the whole team (a bug). But now that the bug is fixed,
it isn't necessarily as good. It can be good if you intend to 'build up' in the
wasteland later on, and it may help you get to the next perk levels faster, but
it probably shouldn't be 'very good' at this point.
Team Player CH 4 1 Good
"Kenny Wong" adds:
Team player is bugged. It doesn't work at all! Should work the opposite
of Loner, where all your skills get +10% and go blue when near someone,
but nothing happens.
----2.4----
I've actually seen it work before; but I am inclined to believe it only
works near other team players.
Thief None 1 Average
Toughness EN 6, LK 6 3 Bad
"Kenny Wong" adds:
Toughness is actually pretty good (IMO) 3 Toughness + advanced power
armor = 90% damage resistance. Even with 1 Toughness you still get
70%. Probably most usefull if you're playing Tough Guy.
----2.4----
Level 4: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Bracing EN 5, 1 Good (if you have low ST)
Big Guns 60%
Death Sense IN 5, 1 ?
Deathclaw only
Flexible AG 6 1 Average
"Kenny Wong" adds:
Felixble is good only in turn based, and pre-1.25 at that, when the
computer didn't go into overwatch.
----2.4----
Hit the Deck AG 6 1 Average to good
Leader CH 6 1 Very good
Loner CH < 5, 1 Bad
Outdoorsman 40%
"Kenny Wong" writes:
Loner is currently bugged. The bonus is on all the time even when you're
standing next to someone. This actually makes it pretty good as you get
+10% to all skills at all times! Unfortunately, you need a low CH, which
conflicts with Divine Favour. Bummer.
----2.4----
Steady Arm ST 6, 1 Must Have?
Mutants only
Level 6: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Adrenaline Rush ST < 6 1 Useless
Bone Head ? 1 Useless ?
Bonus Move AG 5 2 Very good, but useless for CTB
Bonus Ranged Damage AG 6, LK 6 2 Very good for gunners
Cancerous Growth ST < 7, 1 ?
Ghouls Only
Educated IN 6 3 Average (good if you're Gifted)
Gambler Gambling 50% 1 Average
Ghost Sneak 60% 1 Bad to Average (bonus only in darkness)
Harmless Steal 50% 1 Average
Not for Deathclaws!
Heave Ho! ST < 9 1 Bad
More Criticals LK 6 3 Very good (especially for snipers)
Not for Mutants!
Negotiator Barter 70% 1 Average
Pack Rat None 1 Average (only if you have low ST)
Pathfinder EN 6, 2 Useless, theres no time limit in this
Outdoorsman 40% game!
Quick Recovery AG 5 1 Average
Rad Resistance EN 6, IN 4 2 Bad, two Rad-X pills will do the trick
Not for Ghouls!
Ranger PE 6 1 Average (only one char. has to take it)
Salesman Barter 50% 1 Average
Not for Animals!
Silent Running AG 6, Sneak 50% 1 Very Good for Slayers
Snakeater EN 3 2 Useless
Stunt Man ST 6, EN 6, AG 6 1 Average?
Not for Animals!
Way of the Fruit CH 6 1 ?
Not for Animals! (GUILER SAYS: gives a bonus to str if
you eat a fruit. Kind of like drugs
but with no drawbacks)
Level 8: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Bluff Master CH 3 1 Bad
Brutish Hulk ST 7, EN 5 1 ?
Deathclaws only
Psychotic EN 5 1 ?
Mutants only
Tunnel Rat AG 6 1 Good (especially for Snipers)
Level 9: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Better Criticals PE 6, AG 4, LK 6 1 Doesn't seem to work?
(GUILER SAYS: compared with F2, this perk
is a crock; no instant death if >100. The
only difference I noted was that I always
did damage with knockdowns, as opposed to
people without it who sometimes did knock
downs w/o damage)
Crazy Bomber In 6, Traps 60% 1 Bad, just blow up those mines
Not for Animals!
Demolition Expert AG 4, Traps 75% 1 Useless, could be useful in MP games?
Dodger AG 6 1 Bad (bonus to AC is quite weak)
Explorer None 1 Useless
(GUILER SAYS: Maybe get 1 if you don't
want to wander the wasteland for all
of the SE's. Certainly gravy, though)
Light Step AG 5, LK 5 1 Useless (don't step on traps)
Mutate! None 1 Must have: give NPCs the Gifted trait!
Pyromaniac Big Guns 75% 1 Average, works only with Flamer
Sharpshooter PE 7, IN 6 2? Very Good for Snipers
Level 10: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Hide of Scars EN 6 1 ?
Deathclaws only
Level 12: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Action Boy AG 5 2 Very good (Must have if AG < 10)
"Kenny Wong" adds:
Action Boy is very good in TB mode, but isn't all that good in CTB mode,
especially in prolonged firefights. Example: assuming you originally had
9aps, armed with a 5ap burst weapon. In CTB, you'd fire, pause, fire,
pause, pause, pause, pause, pause, fire, etc. With Action Boy, you'd
fire, fire, pause, pause, pause, pause, pause, fire, etc. The only difference
is in the opening rounds. Obviously though, in TB, there's a world of
difference between firing once/round and twice/round.
----2.4----
Bonsai Outdoorsman 40%, 1 ?
Science 40% (GUILER SAYS: fruit grows on your head.
Ghouls Only Use with Way of Fruit)
Gain (Stat) Stat < race max. 1 Must Have
HtH Evade Unarmed 75% 1 Good (only for Slayers)
Lifegiver EN 4 2 Very Good
"Kenny Wong"
Lifegiver is a must have if you're playing Tough Guy (obvious really)
----2.4----
Living Anatomy Doctor 60% 1 Very Good (for the bonus damage to living)
"Kenny Wong" adds:
Living anatomy is useless by the endgame.
----2.4----
Master Thief Steal 50%, 1 Average
Lockpick 50%
Master Trader CH 7, Barter 75% 1 Average
Not for Animals!
Medic! First Aid 40% or 1 Average
Doctor 40%
Mr. Fixit Repair 40% or 1 Average
Science 40%
Not for Animals!
Tag! None 1 Must have!
(GUILER SAYS: Tag energy weapons late in
life)
Talon of Fear ST 6, Unarmed 60% 1 ?
Deathclaws only
Tough Hide EN < 8 1 ?
Mutants only
Weapon Handling ST < 10, AG 5 1 Good if you have low ST
Not for Animals!
Level 14 Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Divine Favor CH > 7 1 I have heard MANY good things about
this one. Gives you a perk 1 level
earlier, so every 2 levels for normals,
3 for ghouls, etc.
----2.5----
Level 15: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bonus HtH Attacks AG 6 1 Must have for Slayers
Bonus Rate of Fire AG 7, PE 6, IN 6 1 Must have for ranged fighters
Pickpocket AG 8, Steal 80% 1 Very good if you like stealing
Level 16: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
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Bend the Rules LK 6 1 Could be good
(GUILER SAYS: Doesn't exist in the game?)
----2.4----
Level 18: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Silent Death AG 10, Sneak 80% 1 Very good for Slayers
Unarmed 80%
Level 20: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Break the Rules LK 6 1 Possibly very good
(GUILER SAYS: Doesn't exist in the game?)
----2.4----
Level 24: Prerequisites Ranks Comments / Rating
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Slayer ST 8, AG 8, 1 Must have for Slayers
Unarmed 80%
Sniper PE 8, AG 8, 1 Doesn't seem to work?
Small Guns 80% (GUILER SAYS: Curse them for breaking
Sniper! CUUUURSE THEEEEEM!!!!!)
ENHANCER (DRUG) TABLE:
All of this was provided by Ariel Falgui
UPDATE 2.7
judith york mailed to tell me that the enhancer table might be
a bit more useful if it were readable. I tend to agree. Thus, I have fixed it using
her values. In addition, she writes:
Also, the amount of drugs you can take before being overdosed depends on your
Endurance, which is why Trauma Packs and Buffout increase the amount of drugs
you can take (they increase Endurance). For example, a person with an endurance
of 4 will overdose if he takes 2 pschos, but a person with an En of 8 must take
3 to OD.
----2.7----
Enhances your body but after a period of time will
make you weak. You can be normal and regain your stats
again quickly if you wander around the forest for
days.
Table of Enhancers and their effects:
Voodoo Mentats Trauma Pk Buffout AfterGum Psycho Mutie FusionCola
ST +2 +2 +1 +4
PE +2 +1
EN +2 +3 +4
CH +1 -4
IN +2 -3 -4
AG +2 +2 +3
LU +3
DR 50% 25%
HP +190
Voodoo, Mentats, Buffout:
* Using one of them in 4 consecutives is fine. Use one
more and you’re overdosed. Use another one will make
yourself killed.
Afterburner Gum:
* 3 is fine, 1 more is overdosed, 1 more is killed
Psycho:
* 1 is fine, 1 more is overdosed, 1 more is killed
* Good for killing person without getting friendly
people go hostile and will not degrade your rank and
reputation
Trauma Pack:
* Good for avoiding to get overdosed. Take 3 Trauma
Pack and you can use Psycho more than 1. I’ve used
Enhancers in orders:
2 Voodoo
2 Mentats
3 Trauma Pack
2 Mentats
Total of 9 drugs without getting overdosed.
My Stats after using 9 drugs:
Before After
ST 6 12
PE 9 12
EN 6 12
CH 2 6
IN 9 12
AG 9 12
LU 6 12
----2.6----
Fallen Fallen adds:
There's also a suggestion I would make. I dont know if
you've said it in the guide(if thats the case - sorry)
But if you use the Psycho drug and power armor you get
a whopping 105 damage resistance(thus become
invulnerable to normal damage) Criticals still pack
punch tho so brownings still can shred you to bits :)
But you can use characters drugged like this for
cleaning up trenches full of minigunners and sniper
robots with ease.
Alternatively you can try this even in earlier
mission by combining a voodoo and a psycho and even
with a crappier armor still become invulnerable
this would work great on Mutant missions since the
SAWs cant do sh** :) Just watch out for Brownings
since they tend to critical hit and kill you. I would
advise keeping the psychos for later missions and
using voodoos before that. Just save so you dont get
addicted. Well that seems to be all I can think of :)
----2.7----
RECRUITS LIST (NEW! 2.7)
I feel really guilty holding onto this for so long. ARM Claude
was so diligent in putting it together and I haven't
put it up until now. I hope you all enjoy, and remember; it wasn't my lazy
butt that put this together, it was Claude!
UPDATE 2.9
After some consultation with cj x, it would seem that the quality, quantity,
and overall usefulness of your recruits seems to be a function of your
charisma; thus, depending on your charisma, your recruits may be better or
worse than the ones on this list, so use this as a guide only.
----2.9----
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Single Player Campaign Recruits List:
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
In Fallout Tactics there are a great number of recruits
that can be taken into your squad. I wanted a list of
them to help me compose my squad and choose my own skills as I read a comment
saying there is no good medic available. And as no such list were to be found
I ended doing it and here it is.
The recruit are sorted by race and then by rank. Mind you that
having the recruit's rank does not automatically makes it availlable to you,
sometimes you have to have finished some task first.
Each recuit will be described using the following format:
Name (origin) ST PE EN CH IN AG LK (Total)
Tagged Skills
Traits
Perks (Perk Rate if different than 3)
Comments
Sometimes in the comments, I say a recruits can get a perk and add something
like (Gain AG), it means he can get the perk after improving its agility with
the Gain AG or Mutate(Gifted) perks.
1. Humans:
----------
1.1 Initiate:
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Brian 6 5 9 1 5 9 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Big Guns
Fast Shot
No perks
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire (with Gain PE and Gain IN)
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage (with Gain LK)
This makes a kick ass gunner (in TB, 3 burst attacks each round),
plus he can sneak to get close to enemies and has small guns to
be usefull while waiting to get the first big guns. Either the
Power Armor or Weapon Handling will allow him to use the M2.
Farsight 5 8 5 5 6 7 4 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Outdoorsman
No traits
No perks
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Mutate to gain Fast Shot (or Gifted)
Can get Sharpshooter
She can make a good sniper as she has good AG and PE and she can
get the important sniper perks except for the ones depending on LK
(unless you make her Gifted and gives her Gain LK, but I do not
recommend that because it would reduce her skill rate to 12, I
would give the Gifted trait only to recruits with very high
intelligence). The negative point is the Outdoorsman Tag, there
are enough books in the game to give someone with high intelligence
more than 100 in outdoorsman without needing to Tag it or put a
single skill point in it, so I think it is a waste of a Tag).
Jax 6 6 7 4 5 7 5 (40)
Small Guns, Big Guns, Energy Weapons
Fast Shot, Kamikaze
No Perks
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire (with Gain IN)
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage (with Gain LK)
Another kick ass gunner, he can do even more damage than Brian do to
the Kamikaze trait, also he can get the Sharpshooter perk (with Gain PE)
if you want to make him better at long range fire.
Jo 7 5 8 4 5 6 5 (40)
Small Guns, Pilot, Repair
No traits
No Perks
As for the outdoorsman skill, there are lots of book for the Pilot and
Repair skill, so there is no need to take someone with those skills
tagged. Furthermore, there are only few missions where you can use vehicules.
Mac (Reaver) 5 7 5 5 6 7 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Science
No traits
Action Boy x2, Ghost, Sharpshooter, Silent Running,
Thief
She becomes available after you rescue the Reaver Leaders, she is a good
sniper and can replace a killed squad member. The downside with late
recruits is that most of their perks are already choosen for you. Also
Science is another skill that can be improved with books.
Robin 5 8 5 3 6 9 5 (41)
Sneak, Melee Weapons, Lockpick
Small Frame, Night Person
No Perks
He has excellent stats to make a sniper, except he not learned any ranged
weapons, and he will not make an excellent melee fighter. So if there is
a lock you could not open in the early missions, take him and return to
the map after you finished the mission and when done get another recruit.
Stitch 6 4 5 5 9 6 5 (40)
Small Guns, First Aid, Doctor
Good Natured
No perks
His PE sucks. But you do need Medic and he is the first you get, so if you
are not a Medic yourself, keep him around for a while.
Torn 8 7 7 4 4 6 4 (40)
Unarmed, Melee Weapons, Traps
No Perks
Bonus HtH Attacks
Waow, she starts with the Bonus HtH Attacks, that make her a great unarmed
fighter from the start. Downside is she is missing a Tag on the Sneak skill
to get close to the enemy which getting shot, also she has a low intelligence
(few skill points). Also if you want to make her a Slayer, you need to take
both the Mutate (Gifted) and Gain AG perk and that would reduce her skill
rate to 8!
Trevor 9 6 5 4 4 7 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Throwing
Fast Shot
No Perks
A grenadier with Fast Shot is good (Fast Shot and Bonus Rate of Fire affect
the AP cost of grenades!), Gain LK will give him access to the Bonus Ranged
damage and Critical improving perks, Gain PE will allow him to take
Sharpshooter, but he cannot get the Bonus Rate of Fire (low IN).
1.2 Senior initiate:
--------------------
Ice 6 7 7 2 5 8 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Outdoorsman
Finesse
Loner
Can get bonus Rate of Fire (Gain IN).
Can get Sharpshooter.
Can have Bonus Ranged Damage, More Cirticals (Gain LK).
Good sniper. Farsight has better PE and IN, same AP when around a someone
with the Leader, but Ice gets the damage and critical improving perks.She
can take Mutate for the Fast Shot Trait, but that would remove the Finesse
which is good too for a sniper.
Kevin 8 5 6 6 7 9 6 (47)
Small Guns, Melee Weapons, Repair
Gifted
Thoughness
Can get Leader
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Slayer
Can get Silent Death (gain AG)
He has all the stats to become a good melee fighter but he is missing a tag
on the Sneak skill to reach his enemies alive, and the Repair tagged is a waste.
Mandy 6 8 7 5 9 7 6 (48!)
Small Guns, Sneak, First Aid
Gifted, Skilled
No Perks (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage
Can get More Criticals
Can get Sniper (although I do not know if it is worth it)
She can be a great sniper or gunner with a medic side. I choose to keep her
till the end, I made her a Medic/Gunner by improving her Doctor skill to 100
without tagging it and I tagged the Big Guns skill (with the Tag! perk), her
perks were: level 4 (waited level 6) Bonus Ranged Damage, level 8 (waited level
9) Mutate to replace Skilled by Fast Shot (perk rate back to 3!) level 11
(waited level 12) Tag!, level 14 (waited level 15) Bonus Rate of Fire, level
17 Bonus Rate of Fire, level 20 Sharpshooter, level 23 Tunnel Rat. When beside
a Leader she has 9 AP (3 bursts), can carry a M2 when in Power Armor, she can
sneak to get in the best shooting position and can heal your squad.
Rage 5 8 5 2 8 7 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Steal
No traits
Awarness
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage, More Criticals (Gain LK)
Can get Sniper (Gain AG)
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (or other like Finesse)
He has good PE AG and IN and thus can become an excellent sniper/thief, even
his starting perk is usefull to your squad! A good recruit if you want a sniper
and thief.
Rebecca 5 8 4 4 6 8 5 (40)
Small Guns, First Aid, Lockpick
No traits
Scout
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage, More Criticals (Gain LK)
Can get Sniper
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (or other like Finesse)
Another recruit than can make an excellent sniper, lockpick skill is really
usefull to open doors and containers later in the game, I would take her
instead of Robin and seeing her stats she can be kept and developed as a
sniper/scout.
Stevie 5 7 4 4 8 8 4 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Unarmed
One Hander
Thief
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Bonus HtH Damage (Gain ST)
Can get Sniper (Gain PE)
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (replacing One Hander)
She can become a good sniper and provide HtH support if needed although she
will not become a great unarmed fighter (cannot get Silent Death or Slayer)
Sharon (Tribal) 6 5 7 8 5 6 3 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Big Guns
Chem Resistant
Flower Child
Can get Divine Favor
Can get Leader
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (or other, replacing Chem Resistant)
She has very strange stats, you can give her Bonus Rate of Fire if she Gain
PE, IN and AG (or Mutate for the Gifted trait, but that would lower her skill
rate which is not high), she cannot have the Bonus Ranged Damage, thus I
prefer Brian or Jax as gunner. Although take her if you want to use drugs,
it would improve her stats (but won?t allow her to take new perks).
1.3 Squire:
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Beth 10 5 7 4 4 8 4 (42)
Unarmed, Melee Weapons, Repair
Heavy Handed, Bruiser
Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Slayer
Great recruit to make a slayer! Although for my personal taste I am missing
a tagged Sneak and the Silent Death perk, also she has too few AP.
Stein 7 8 5 4 5 7 4 (40)
Small Guns, Big Guns, First Aid
No Trait
Healer
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire (Gain IN)
Can get Sharpshooter (Gain IN)
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (or other)
He can make a sniper or a gunner, although his low LK prevent him from
increasing his damage or criticals.
Target (Tribal) 7 6 5 4 8 7 3 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Throwing
No traits
Hit the Deck
Can get Sharpshooter (Gain PE)
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot
A good grenadier that can double as a good sniper.
1.4 Senior Squire:
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Creeper (Raider) 6 7 5 2 8 8 4 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Unarmed
No traits
Flexible, Silent Running
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot or Gifted
He can be both a good sniper and a good unarmed fighter, usefull for
stealth recon.
Keith (Tribal) 7 5 6 4 7 6 5 (40)
Sneak, First Aid, Doctor
Good Natured
Stat!, Team Player
Strange recruit, I would not recommend taking someone who is not a
good fighter, even if he can hide, after all this game is about combat.
Stoma 10 6 9 4 4 5 4 (42)
Small Guns, Big Guns, Energy Weapons
Bruiser
Strongback, Stonewall
Maybe he can handle any weapon, but he will be good with none (Low AP,
no Bonus Fire Rate, no Bonus Ranged Damage).
Stumpy 7 7 6 5 7 5 3 (40)
Small Guns, Melee Weapons, Traps
One Hander
Crazy Bomber, Bone Head
His low AG prevent him from taking the great perks.
1.5 Junior Knight:
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Hurt (Raider) 7 5 6 4 7 6 5 (40)
Small Guns, First Aid, Doctor
No traits
Comprehension, Team Player, Stat!
As I do not like the above perk choice, I would prefer keeping Stitch, at least
he can choose all his perks (and I would not recommend keeping stitch).
Malice (Raider) 8 6 6 3 6 9 2 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Melee Weapons
No traits
Bonus Move, Quickpockets, Thief
Can get Sharpshooter (Gain PE)
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Silent Death (Gain AG)
Can get Slayer
Interresting recruit that can be developped as both melee fighter and gunner,
with very good ST and AG (10 AP when around a Leader). Too bad you don't get to
choose her three first perks.
Pain (Raider) 6 5 9 4 5 6 5 (40)
Small Guns, Melee Weapons, First Aid
No traits
Faster Healing, Rad Resistance, Adrenaline Rush
I do not like the stat and the perks!
Riddick 8 7 7 1 5 7 5 (40)
Sneak, Unarmed, Melee Weapons
Heavy Handed, Night Person
Bonus HtH Damage, Night Vision, Silent Running
Survivalist, Silent Death, Adrenaline Rush
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Slayer (Gain AG)
This is the guy that can be found in the Pitch Black special encounter, he is a
great close combat fighter. He has 3 extra perks for his level, including the
Silent Death (which needs 10 AG normally). Remember that the above stats will be
modified by the Night Person trait.
1.6 Knight:
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Alice 9 6 7 2 3 8 5 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Fast Shot
Faster Healing, Snake Eater, Die Hard
can get Bonus Ranged Damage, More Criticals (Gain LK)
Very good weapon selection, ST, EN and AG plus Fast Shot. But her low IN make
for a low skill rate and prevent her from learning Bonus Rate of Fire!
Furthermore her starting perk are not that interesting.
Boomer (Raider) 10 6 6 5 4 8 2 (41)
Small Guns, Throwing, Traps
One Hander
Stonewall, Stuntman, Bone Head
Great ST and AG but too dumb to get Bonus Rate of Fire. Nothing very
interresting here.
Ed 6 3 5 3 10 7 5 (39)
Small Guns, Lockpick, Repair
Tech Wizard
Dodger, Mr Fixit, Pack Rat
Great IN but I cannot recomment taking someone with 3 of PE (unless he is a
sneaking close combat fighter).
Karl 10 7 6 4 4 9 2 (42!)
Sneak, Big Guns, Throwing, Traps
Jinxed
Dodger, Tag!, Gain AG, Gunner, Bone Head
He has great ST and AG, and a nice choice of tagged skills, but his
low LK and IN prevent him from becoming a great gunner. (He has 1 extra stat
point).
Max 10 5 7 5 3 7 5 (42)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Bruiser
Bonus Move, Strong Back, Heave Ho!
For me he is worse than Alice!
1.7 Senior Knight:
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Fran 5 7 5 4 6 9 5 (41)
Sneak, Melee Weapons, Lockpick
Small Frame, Finesse
Silent Death, Action Boy x2, Ghost, Light Step
can get Bonus HtH Attacks
She is a good scout, fast and quiet, she has good perks although she will not do
lots of damage and cannot get the Slayer perk.
1.8 Knight Commander:
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Kaisa 4 6 5 6 8 8 5 (42!)
Traps, Repair, Science
Small Frame
Acion Boy, Mr Fixit, Weapon Handling, Crazy Bomber,
Team Player
She has 1 extra stat point, but I thing she forgot that this is a combat game!
Vector 6 9 6 5 3 6 5 (40)
Small Guns, Sneak, Steal
No traits
Sharpshooter, Action Boy, Thief, Tunnel Rat, Flexible
Nice sniper, but his low IN prevent him from getting the unavoidable Bonus Rate
of Fire.
1.9 Junior Paladin:
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John 7 5 5 2 8 8 5 (40)
Big Guns, First Aid, Doctor
Chem Reliant, Chem Resistant
Bonus Move, Lifegiver, Medic, living Anatomy, Die hard
can get Bonus Rate of Fire (gain PE)
can get Mutate for Fast Shot
Good stats and can become an acceptable gunner near the end. Although I prefer
using Mandy as gunner/medic.
1.10 Paladin Commander:
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Box 10 5 9 2 4 8 4 (42)
Small Guns, Big Guns, Unarmed
Bruiser, Skilled
Bonus Rate of Fire, Bonus Ranged Damage, Rad Resistance,
Heave Ho!, Action Boy x2, Stonewall (Perk Pate 4)
He is a good gunner, the perks mostly good and compensate the Bruiser AP loss.
Dos (Reaver) 6 10 8 2 7 6 9 (48!)
Small Guns, Energy Weapons, Traps, Science
Gifted, Finesse
Bonus Rate of Fire, More Criticals x3, Sharpshooter,
Toughness, Loner
He is an excellent sniper and should do a lot of criticals, especially
with targeted shots. Good choice, although only available late in the game.
Oh, and he has 1 extra stat point.
Peta 7 7 6 6 4 10 2 (42!)
Sneak, Energy Weapons, Melee Weapons
Small Frame
Bonus HtH Damage, Rad Resistance, Lifegiver,
Stunt Man, Road Warrior, Leader
Great AG and thus AP, she has 1 extra stat point, and she has the Leader Perk,
but otherwise there is nothing extraordinary with her.
1.11 Paladin Lord:
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Debbie 7 7 6 4 7 8 3 (42!)
Small Guns, Sneak, First Aid, Traps
Good natured
Action boy x2, Medic, Tag!, Stonewall, Team Player, Die Hard
She has 2 extra stat points, her AG and perks gives her 11 AP, but otherwise
nothing too good.
1.12 General:
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Clarisse 5 11 6 8 9 10 4 (53!!)
Sneak, Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Gifted, Fast Shot, Small Frame
Bonus Move, Dodger, Heave Ho!, Gain PE, Gain EN,
Quick Recovery, Weapon Handling, Tunnel Rat,
Flexible, Leader, Divine Favor, Tag! (Perk Rate 2)
Yeah baby, she is a hell of a girl!
She has 2 extra stat points, 1 extra trait (and all of them are really good)
and 12 perks at level 22!
She can use any ranged weapon in the game and she excels at energy
weapons (skill at 192). She can even take Bonus Rate of Fire.
If you really want her, try having a high charisma to climb the rank of
the brotherhood faster than I did (I had a charima of 2) and maybe
even be a Brown Noser.
Shaky 4 8 7 1 8 8 4 (40)
Small Guns, Traps, Repair, Pilot
Chem Reliant
Action Boy, Dodger, Mr Fixit, Tag!, Demolition Expert,
Light Step, Weapon Handling, Road Warrior, Lead Foot
he may be usefull is you have no pilot and want to force your way through
the robot blockade with the vehicule in Mission 19, but otherwise leave him
be.
Slim 6 6 6 6 10 10 3 (47)
Sneak, Energy Weapons, Science, Repair
Gifted, Small Frame, Tech Wizard
Silent Run, Mr Fixit, Master Thief, Swift Learner,
Tag!, Tunnel Rat, Light Step, Leader
He is a good scientist and thief (his lockpick, steal and traps skill are all
above 100) and he has the Leader Perk, so he is good at supporting your squad
and he can handle himself in a fight with 150 in Energy Weapons, but he is not
a kick ass warrior.
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2 Ghouls:
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2.1 Senior Squire:
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Babs 5 7 5 6 8 8 5 (44!!)
Small Guns, Lockpick, Steal
Small Frame, Tech Wizard
Master Thief, Flexible (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Leader
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage, More Criticals (Gain LK)
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (replace one)
Great sniper/thief! She has 4 extra stat points and she has
an extra bonus perk (she had 2 perk at level 7 instead of 1).
I would strongly recommend to Mutate her for the Fast Shot trait,
removing Tech Wizard as it will increase her PE by one! Thus you
get a sniper with 8 PE, 8 AG, 8 IN, Sharpshooter, Bonus Rate of Fire,
Fast Shot and she can be your Leader (+1 AG for those around), by
tagging Energy Weapons she will remain good till the end of the game.
Billy Bob 6 12 8 2 6 4 5 (43!)
Small Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Fear the Reaper, Glowing One
Pack Rat, Stunt Man (Perk Rate 3)
Great PE, but his low AG prevent him from taking the good sniper perks
2.2 Junior Knight:
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Dillon 6 11 6 2 7 5 9 (46!)
Small Guns, Repair, Science
Gifted, Glowing One
Sharpshooter, Better Criticals (Perk Rate 4)
He has a great perception and luck, but he is missing 1 stat point (Gifted
characters should have 47), Repair and Science are wasted tags, his AG not
great (only 7 AP). I do not like him.
Harrold 6 6 6 1 7 6 12 (44!!)
Small Guns, Throwing, Traps, Repair
Fear the Reaper, Skilled
Die Hard, Rad Child, Bonsai, Way of the Fruit (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Sharpshooter (Gain PE)
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire (Gain AG)
Can get Bonus Ranged Damage, More Criticals
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (replace one)
He is good, he has 4 extra stat points, one extra tagged skill, two extra perks
(he should have 2 at level 11) Mutate him to remove the skilled trait and he'll
have a perk rate of 3. The bad news is that except for LK, his stat are neither
bad nor great, and two of the tagged skills can be improved by books instead.
Martin 8 9 7 2 5 6 5 (42!)
Energy Weapons, Traps, Pilot
Fear the Reaper, Glowing One
Scout, Lead Foot (Perk Rate 3)
Can get Sharpshooter
Can get Bonus Rate of Fire (Gain AG and IN)
Can get Mutate for Fast Shot (replace one)
Great ST and PE, can become a good sniper with a Laser Rifle, but again there is
two tagged skill wasted.
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3 Deathclaws:
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3.1 Senior Squire:
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Shaav 6 8 7 1 2 14 3 (41)
Sneak, Unarmed, First Aid
Small Frame, Night Person
Silent Running, Tunnel Rat (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Silent Death
Bad point is he cannot get Brutish Hulk and Slayer and his low
IN means low skill rate, otherwise he is good and a lot of AP (12)
Shriek 13 5 6 3 3 7 3 (40)
Sneak, Unarmed, Steal
Chem Resistant
Silent Death, Brutish Hulk (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Slayer (Gain AG)
Great unarmed fighter, like all Deathclaws. Gets the Silent Death
real early in the game.
3.2 Junior Knight:
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Krldraav 13 5 4 2 3 10 3 (40)
Sneak, Unarmed, Throwing
Rabid, Finesse
Dodger, Brutish Hulk (Perk Rate 4)
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Slayer
Another great slayer. I did not try but I guess he can throw
grenades to soften a traget before tearing it into pieces.
Mother 12 6 12 2 4 12 3 (51!!)
Sneak, Unarmed, Throwing
Gifted, Domesticated, Bloody Mess
Death Sense, Brutish Hulk, Hide of Scars (Perk Rate 3)
Can get Bonus HtH Damage
Can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Can get Silent Death
Can get Slayer
She has 4 extra stat points, a perk rate of 3 and an extra trait. She
is incredible, high strength, high agility (11 AP), high hit point
and damage resistances. She rules unarmed fighting.
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4 Super Mutants:
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4.1 Knight:
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Chuck 13 4 11 1 3 5 3 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Vat Skin
Action Boy, Psychotic, Tough Hide (Perk Rate 4)
can get Steady Arm
can get Mutate for Fast Shot
Strong and stupid, great choice of weapons, but no Bonus Rate of Fire or Bonus
Ranged Damage.
Toni 9 6 6 3 7 5 4 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Melee Weapons
Kamikaze
Stonewall, Steady Arm, Tough Hide (Perk Rate 4)
can get Mutate for Fast Shot
A little less strength and more intelligence, plus he already got Steady Arm,
yet he also cannot have Bonus Rate of Fire or Bonus Ranged Damage.
4.2 Senior Knight:
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Bob 12 4 5 4 4 6 5 (40)
Big Guns, Unarmed, Melee Weapons
Ham Fisted, Heavy Handed
Bonus HtH Damage, Action Boy, Tough Hide (Perk Rate 4)
can get Bonus HtH Damage
can get Bonus HtH Attacks
According to its description, I thought Ham fisted would give an extra Tag
on Unarmed. Why does he have only 3 tagged skills?
Pump 12 1 12 2 3 6 4 (40)
Sneak, Unarmed, Melee Weapons
Heavy Handed
Bonus HtH Damage x3 (Perk Rate 4)
can get Bonus HtH Attacks
Good melee fighter, he'll do LOTS of damage, although he cannot have
Silent Death and Slayer.
4.3 Junior Paladin:
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Cookie 10 5 8 2 5 8 2 (40)
Big Guns, Throwing, Melee Weapons
Fast Shot, Heavy Handed
Bonus HtH Attacks, Bonus HtH Damage, Action Boy,
Heave Ho! (Perk Rate 4)
can get Steady Arm
can get Bonus Rate of Fire (Gain PE and IN)
can get Slayer
She is good at both close combat and ranged attacks, she has lots of AP and
mostly good perks. The best Super Mutant yet.
4.4 Paladin Commander:
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Jim 10 5 8 2 5 8 2 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Throwing
Fast Shot, Vat Skin
Bonus Rate of Fire, Steady Arm, Hit the Deck,
Tough Hide (Perk Rate 4)
With Fast Shot, Bonus Rate of Fire and Steady Arm, bursts cost only 2 AP, so you
better give him lots of ammo because he will rain steel on your
enemies. Certainly one of the best gunner available. He is only missing the
Bonus Ranged Damage and he becomes available only late in the game.
You must help him and his brother Joe in the Brother Grimm Special Encounter
to get him as a recruit.
Joe 13 5 6 3 3 7 3 (40)
Big Guns, Throwing, Unarmed
Fast Shot, Vat Skin
Bonus HtH Attacks, Bonus HtH Damage, HtH Evate,
Tough Hide (Perk Rate 4)
He is not bad with heavy weapon and good at unarmed figthing, although he
is excellent in neiter of them. His brother is a better gunner and
deathclaws are better unarmed fighters.
You must help him and his brother Jim in the Brother Grimm Special Encounter
to get him as a recruit.
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5 Robots:
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5.1 Initiate:
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HR1205 10 7 7 1 4 6 5 (40)
Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Unarmed
Tight Nuts, EMP Shield
Cannot get any perks!
I did not try it because he cannot take perks, I would welcome
comments from people who tried him out.
The King of Chickens 2001 writes:
I took HR1025 on 1 mission and numerous random encounters. My
rating: 6.5 out of 10.
- chop off 2.5 points for NOT BEING ABLE TO LEVEL UP!!!!! This
is ridiculous. Although I killed many enemies with him, he still
did not gain any XP. He was only 10 XP to the next level.
Therefore you cannot increase his skills, and you cannot gain any
perks.
- chop off 1 points for horrid HP. 57 HP at level 23 when I got him.
My main character has the same EN and he has 70+ I think.
- chop off 1 points for not being able to use any enhancing drugs!
He can eat the drugs, but he won't gain any bonuses. This means that
there's absolutely no way to increase his stats (For a good laugh,
if you don't have the patch installed, he can overdose on them ^_^
although he won't get addicted) .
However:
- He happens to have the best armor in the game, his armor's the
equivalent of A.Powered Armor without the drawbacks and bonuses.
Anything 7.62mm and lower does negligible damage.
- He CAN wear the Brahmin Armor. He (it?) is nigh unstoppable
wearing it, with 57 AC and 90% damage absorb. Can you believe he
only took 5 damage from a _Plasma Grenade_?
- Using a repair kit on him will restore him to full health and
functionality (heals crippled etc etc). Kinda makes up for the
fact that he cannot heal by Stimpak, Doctor or First Aid. You
cannot repair him if he 'dies' tho.....
- Can use books to increase skills. If the books don't work for
your main character as effectively anymore, give them to him.
- Has 110% Heavy Weapons and Energy Weapons, and I think 90%
Hand to Hand and a little less Melee. His Repair and Science is
also above 80% and his Driving is 75% if you're interested. His
Small Guns suck, tho, but does he need it with these stats?
- Don't really have to worry about equipping him with Melee
weapons, he comes equipped with them already! See the 'knife'
like potrusions on his arms? I think he does 35-50 damage
with them, counting strength bonuses.
- He CAN repair himself by the way, just give him a few
toolkits.....
- Due to the fact that he cannot gain any XP, your other party
members actually gain more XP.
Recommendations for use:
1. Tank Driver. Driving 75%, Heavy Weapon (Tank Gun) 110%.
'Nuff said. It's kinda fun using him as that in random
encounters, he usually cleans house all by himself with enough
Tank Round reloads. Of course I'll still have difficulty if I
happen to meet one of those Behemoths....to improve this give
him a few Driver magazines.
2. Sniper. Percept 7 and Energy Weapons 110%, give him a Laser
Rifle and tell him to prone and aim right between the eyes for
the best results. He can also use the Gauss but I think he needs
a few Guns magazines.....
3. Rocket Jock. Strength of 10 enables him to carry a Rocket
Launcher and about 8 reloads together with Repair Kits. Need
more Rockets? Simply have a pack mule follow him around and
pass the Rockets to him when he needs them.
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6 Dogs:
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No dogs available in single player game.
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7 Not Found:
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If you look in the files Fallout Tactis install on you disk, you can
find a list of all recruit's descriptions for the single player campaign.
According to this list I missed the following 6 recruits! If you have info
about them and how to get them, please EMail me (claude.arm@csem.ch)
Fleetfoot (Tribal)
Slicer (Tribal)
Frank (Ghoul)
Hardrive (Reaver)
Seedee (Reaver)
Pipboy
Info about Pipboy can be found in 0.18 of Guiler's, FAQ
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8 My Squads:
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I like to choose the perks of my squad members so I prefer recruits that are
available early, the late one being usefull to replace a dead squad member
(especially if you are playing in though guy mode). Furthermore I am not good at
close combat, I prefer gunning them down, and I like to sneak around a lot, so I
am looking for people with Small Guns, Big Guns, Energy Weapons and Sneak. I
also want one Medic and some Lockpick and Steal skills.
So my first squad was:
Me Sniper (Gifted, Finesse, Sharpshooter, Bonus Rate of Fire, More
Criticals x3)
Farsight Sniper (Sharpshooter, Mutate(Fast Shot), Bonus Rate of Fire, Energy Weapons)
Stevie Sniper (Sharpshooter, Mutate(Fast Shot), Bonus Rate of Fire, Energy Weapons)
Babs Sniper/Thief (Leader, Mutate(Fast Shot), Bonus Rate of Fire, Energy Weapons)
Brian Gunner (Gain IN PE LK, Bonus Rate of Fire, Bonus Ranged Damage x2)
Mandy Gunner (Mutate(Fast Shot), Bonus Rate of Fire, Big Guns, Bonus Ranged Damage x2)
I increased Babs Barter to 100 and made Mandy my Medic by increasing her Doctor
to 100.
I will replay the game with: Brian(gunner), Jax(gunner), Mandy(sniper/medic),
Rage(sniper/scout), Target(grenadier) and me as a charismatic sniper/thief (to
see the effect of charisma on the recruits pool and to get Divine Favor).
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9. Final Remarks:
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There is a lot of choice, with about 60 recruits (66 with the one I missed)
available, some are not really usefull some are good, but I think none of them
is unavoidable. As best of their category I would choose:
Gunner: Brian, Jax, Mandy, Malice, Jim
Sniper: Farsight, Ice, Mandy, Stevie, Creeper, Clarisse, Dos
HtH Fighter: Krldraav, Mother, Riddick
Medic: Mandy, Rebecca, Stein
Thief: Rage, Rebecca, Babs, Fran
Grenadier: Target, Harrold
As for medic I agree that there are none really good, so either Tag the Doctor
skill in you main character or improve it without tagging it (do it with someone
you intend to keep till the end).
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WALKTHROUGH:
Please note that I play Turn-based. Squad Turn-based is good for the XCOM/
Jagged Alliance crowd, and regular Turn-based is good for Fallout fans.
CTB is good for suicidal RTS gamers, who will probably have a lot of
trouble and frustration playing this game that way. There are benefits of
CTB games, but I prefer not to play that way. I do occasionally set it to
CTB when fighting off hordes of melee'ers, though. I just line everyone up
like a firing squad aimed at the charging melee guys and mow them down.
With that in mind, let's begin.
0.0 SPECIAL ENCOUNTERS:
Special encounters can happen at any time in the wasteland, and may appear
based on your luck, your Outdoorsman skills, and the Explorer and Scout
Perks. They are generally benign and/or silly. Once you have discovered
them, a small green circle (much like the normal mission circles) will
appear on the map where you found them and you will be able to return to
them whenever you like.
UPDATE 2.2
It really seems that most of the encounters appear in the same spots;
not to say that the same encounter will appear in a spot, but rather
that certain spots are activated when you start the game, and the
encounters they house are swapped around. With this in mind (and no
need to flood me with email, but...) if you want to help, write down
the locations of the encounters you've found and send them in. I want
to compare them to see if there really is a pattern or what. Please
give the locations in relation to mission locations or bunkers. (I
have a bad feeling about this...)
KJ adds:
The best way to know if you found a special encounter is if your party was
travelling in a vehicle and the vehicle "disappeared" in the map. You will
get back in when you exit the encounter but the next time you go into
another encounter, your party will be out of the vehicle. Take Note!!!
In the merchant and the l33tists encounter, you will still retain your
vehicle.
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"Daniel Caine" has a great tip:
You can get multiple special encounters in the same square. Once you
have found a sector just run back and forth over the very corners of
the square, and as you can see, I have managed to get up to four
encounters per square. Also I have found that it is pointless spending
perks on explorer or ranger. I am managing fine as you can see, with
just Rebecca who starts out with the scout skill. Another thing, once
you get two or three encounters in a square, you cant get another in
it until you visit a different encounter giving square. Therefore on
S.E. runs it is better to have 2 or three known squares on the go.
They do stay the same from game to game, although the actual encounters
differ slightly.
I have also found a solution to the very anoying "Character Swap" bug
found with the Four Horsemen S.E. It is still applicable after the
patch even though the readme says it is fixed. Anyway to avoid having
your lead character swapped, you have to know when it is going to occur.
Basically when I came accross it I re-loaded. That encounter will be
next. Either go onto an empty wilderness map by clicking on your little
triangle, or do a random encounter. In my game the Hummer pilot is my
main character and so has to be selected in order to drive. Position
the vehicle a distance from the exit grid, then click on the exit grid
to leave, however as you start to move, select a different character.
When you then encounter the Four Horsemen, the character you selected
will have swapped places with another member of your party, NOT your
lead character though. Then you can just re-order them via the character
screen. This is an important tip, as if you are doing S.E. runs you
will come accross the Horsemen and it can seriously screw up your game.
Below is a list of a few S.E. squares, I have more than this, but these
are accessible from early in the game. and in conjunction with the tips
above allow you to rack up a fair number of them.
2 Sq North of Bunker Beta
1 Sq North, 3 Sq West of Bunker Beta
1 Sq West, 3 Sq South of Brahmin Wood
2 Sq South of Preoria
2 Sq South, 3 Sq West of Macomb
1 Sq East, 3 Sq South of Macomb
Like I said there are plenty more than this, near Jefferson and Kansas
for example, but these are plenty to be going on with.
----2.3----
Ariel Falgui adds:
Bunker Alpha: 4 south / 8 south, 2 west
Preoria: 2 south
Macomb: 1 south, 3 west / 3 south, 1 east
Bunker Beta: 1 north, 3 west / 2 north / 4 north, 1
west
Quincy: 2 north 1 west / 2 south, 5 west / 8 west
----2.6----
Tom adds:
4 north 4 east of Brahmin wood
5 east of Springfield or 3 south 5 east of Preoria
(if you do not have the bonus mission)
4 north 1 west of bunker beta
6 south 7 west of St. Louis
2 south 8 west of St Louis
5 south 11 west of St Louis
2 south 14 west of St Louis
----2.6----
"Rodriguez" adds:
4N, 1W of Bunker Beta
5S, 6E of St. Louis
4W of Bunker Delta
1N, 2W of Bunker Epsilon
2E of Great Bend
5E of Coldwater
2N of Osceolla
3N of Kansas
2N, 1E of Bunker Delta
5S of Bunker Delta
1N, 1W of Quincy
2S, 1E of Osceolla
2S, 3E of Newton
----2.6----
WD-40 adds:
A tip on finding special encounters EASILY - all that you will
ever need is a character with lots of luck. If your own char
isn't lucky, you should wait until a guy named Dos becomes
available - it'll happen kinda late in the game (because
he's rank 11 - paladin commander), but he's also a tremendously
good small arms sniper with 10 PE, 34% critical chance, and a
LK of 9. Walking through the wasteland with him in my party
netted me about 8 special encounters in about an hour of
real time. It really makes things easier, and you get an
opportunity to take all those rare screenshots (if you're into
it ;-)
----2.6----
"marc" suggests:
I found a list of all the random encounters and trader encounters
Go to this directory
C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East\Fallout Tactics\core\locale\game
or werever it is you installed FOT. There is a file
called generic_mission.
open it up in notepad and it lists all the random encounter
names and the 4 trader names
All in all there are 26 random encounters + 4 trading encounters.
----2.8----
0.1 BROTHERS GRIMM:
There are 2 mutants in a small area. One of them is wounded. Heal up the
wounded one and (I think) they will join your roster back at the
brotherhood.
Charles J DeVito adds:
Yes, if you heal the wounded brother, the two of them will end up as
available recruits. They're both rank 11 (Paladin Commander), so not
available til fairly late in the game. One is a melee specialist, the other
is big guns/energy weapons and has (according to his character description)
a habit of wearing women's clothing.
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Allister writes:
In the Grimm Brother's encounter, you can steal a repair kit, a science
booke, and a repair book off of joe grimm.
----2.95----
0.2 COPPERTOPS:
This is a large building filled with treadmills and people called 'human
batteries'. At the end of the row is a humanoid robot and there are lockers
by the side of every pair of 'human batteries'. The lockers are locked, but
if you open them, they contain 200 sm energy cells each. Destroying the
humanoid robot, who raves about taking over the world, netted me 27 XP and
the 100 rounds of 7.62 that he had on his person, and little else. I'm
curious to know what else can be done with this encounter.
0.3 BAZAAR DAY:
I haven't actually gotten this yet, but I've heard about it from several
different people. The first one I heard from was Danny Hioe
, and he gave a description of the Devilthorn
Coat, which can be gotten here. Jonas Karlsson
gives a more complete description, saying:
In case you haven't encountered the "Bazaar Day", which might be a special
encounter, I'll tell you a little bit about it. On my way to some mission I
stumbled on this Bazar Day, it consists of a bunch of civilians that sell
stuff. One of them has a very rare item, in fact it states that it is a
"unique item". It is an armor of some kind with the name "Devilthorn Coat".
It costed something around 24 000 ringpulls, but I had a lot of weapon that
I could trade with. Once in my possession, I got almost hilarious of joy,
the armour provided with 100 AC, +10 strength, +50 resist fire, -6 damage
from enemies, furtheron it was indestructable. When you have read this far I
guess you see that it is some kind of joke, probably an item from Diablo 2
or something, and it is rather unusable since it requires a strength of 75!
-------------
KJ adds:
mainly just five civilians around selling extremely cheap goods, cheaper
than typical Brotherhood of Steel fashion. There is one guy who sold a
24987rp armor and i stole it. Turned out to be a Diablo 2 fakie. Nice
momento, but no dice. I have not checked out whether the supply would be
replenished or not.
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Chris Lynch writes:
In the bazaar day special encounter the devilthorn coat can actually be
worn if you get your strength over 75. It is with the use of a cheat you
can get from www.avault.com
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(Please note that I neither use nor endorse this editor; please do not
ask me questions about it, as I don't know a thing about it.)
Wansheng Zhu adds:
I just read about the bazaar day encounter in your faq and i noticed
that they mentioned that you can buy something called the "Devilthorn
Coat", and than i read the stats, and i remembered that these stats
are exactly the same as a "unique armor" which can be found in Diablo
1. The stats are exactly the same and even the str. req. are the same,
but the real armor is called "Demonspike Coat". It was actually a
great piece of armor in Diablo 1, too bad you can't use it in Fallout
Tactics. Anyways, just thought i should tell you this since some ppl
thought it was from Diablo 2.
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"Adam Shahid" adds:
The 'Bazaar Day' special encounter itself is actually poking fun at 'Bazaar
Days' (usually on Saturdays) in the online RPG 'EverQuest'. The things the
civilians in the bazaar shout are all typical things you hear people
shouting in EverQuest. The 'Devilthorn' armor is poking fun at Diablo 1,
though.
----2.2----
Jonas Karlsson adds:
The number of civilians who sell items are five, except the Devilthorn Coat
they also offer some stimpacks and other various items. And besides that one
of them has what I think is a Ghoul armor, so if you have Ghouls in your
squad, pick it up. I bought the Devilthorn Coat and brought it to a BOS
bunker, when I returned to Bazaar Day she had another copy of it for sale,
so it seems that some parts of their supply gets replenished. In a nearby
room there are some gamble tables, but noone to play with. I encountered
Bazaar Day just outside Preoria, to the north.
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"sean wilkins" adds:
ok, regarding the devil thorne coat and day of bazaar, or whatever, ok it is
an encounter with people who are talking about EverQuest and there are a few
items you can get and the devil thorne coat IS from diablo and as far as i
know useless, even with a hack of 100 of all stats, so. but i believe you
can also get another armor there you cant use, i think it is for ghoul or
super mutant, it has no description. also the bazaar is located early on and
usual SE of preoria, i have only gotten it there, it is like 3 south and 3
east, or close too it. there are also some medical items for trade and some
ammo, so basically the whole encounter is to listen to the comments of the
people, as they make fun of EQ, talking about groups and corpse runs etc...
----2.5----
0.4 EVERREDDY BUNNIES:
KJ writes:
There's some 30 neutral dots on your maps but the bunnies cannot be seen.
They just say it keeps goin' and goin' and all that. Not much use except if
you have a shotgun or something you could blash them all but just killing
one of them (10 xp) then set everyone at agreesive. The bunnies will be
blasted!!! Great fun since they don't fight back!!!
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"Tomas \"Reveille\" Rodriguez, Jr." adds:
This pertains to the random encounter 0.4 (Everreddy bunnies) with the
neutral, invisible targets. If you attack (throw a grenade or whatnot)
and kill all the targets, be aware that this DESTROYS your reputation and
rank. I went from a Rank 9 Junior Paladin who was a Shield of Hope,
down to a Rank 7 Senior Knight who was a Demon Spawn.. A bit of a
surprise, and not worth the tiny amount of XP you get from killing them.
:) Of course, if you like being evil, this random encounter is for you.
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0.5 TITANIC:
KJ writes:
Jack's dead!!! **Sniff** But it's ok. He left a sketch (pretty comical but
useless) and an expensive jewellery for you!
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0.6 FARMER:
KJ writes:
I never got the farmer to do anything but guys said that he could sell you
stuff. Pretty useless considering the "stuff" is Colt 45 and some bullets
and food. Anyway i stole from him. It seems that he won't attack you if
caught.
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0.7 TRADER:
KJ writes:
A merchant with nice stuff and some raiders. If you don't have some 70 hp
each or a vechicle, don't attack!!! But the rewards are pretty good though,
4 pancor jackhammers, the best shotgun, and lots of money, bullets and
useful stuff. YUMYUM!
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Louie Imperial writes:
There are two raiders and two civilians plus the
trader. The raiders both have AK47 while the the
civilians - one with 9mm M9FS beretta and the other
one has Neostead Combat SG. He sells in exchange for
rp. He's got with him 1 environmental armor, a rocket
launcher, a Flamer pistol, 12 ga EMP and 12 ga Slug
Shells for the shotgun, a P220 SigSauer, a Desert
Eagle Mark XIX 44, a needler pistol, 1 FN P90c, .44
magnum AP ammo, 5.56m ammo, Basic Shogun Shells, small
energy cells, afterburners, mentats, radaway, acid
grenade, flash grenade, inciendary grenade, 1 avenger
minigun, stimpaks, 7.62mm ammo, 1 festering spear and
shiv plus the others i have not mentioned. Again, you
can steal it from him if you have a high percentage in
steal - this will make it a whole lot easier than just
to buy it from him.
----2.2----
lobar adds:
I just recruited Babs when I encountered these guys.
If you have no problems with stealing, she's perfect for
the job. I put her in stealthmode and picked the place clean.
Some gaurds have small enery cells on them and cattle prods
while others have Panzers and 12 ga. ammo. The merchant was a
breeze too and was loaded with tons of stuff. I think
the more you steal the greater your chance at being caught because
the merchant himself did eventually catch me. So take less and be
selective.
Normally I do not steal, but for raiders I make the exception. I used
Babs to replace Rebecca since Babs has more balanced stats, and her
skills as a whole were much better.
----2.2----
0.8 BRAHMIN POKER:
KJ writes:
A couple of those cute two-headed creatures playing Poker! Cool! Cooler once
you check their tables for Ring Pulls. Some 30000 of them! Oh and one of the
gamblers say something from Fallout 2! I won’t spoil it, but if you can’t
remember, it’s in Modoc, and a Brahim too.
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0.9 PITCH BLACK:
Some twenty deathclaws in a radiation and dark place. At first there is a
guy who taunts you. Merely follow him until he attacks the deathclaws (I
feel sorry for him) then run in the direction he WAS heading. Keep on going
until you see an exit grid. The deathclaws are HARD! As you are without a
vehicle, it means lots less protection. However the saving grace is that the
deathclaws are only agreesive when you near them and comes in two packs.
Skip them until some mission 9.
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"Tom Carlsen" adds:
There is an encounter spot Pitch Black at the location 1 grid point NW of
Quincy. This is a stage which is pitch dark except for a few glowing spots
illuminating a path through the place. There are about 18 Deathclaws on
each side of the path. There is also a guy named Riddick here. He will
walk past the squad and head towards the extraction point. Let him go
all the way through as the Deathclaws will not attack him. If you can
make it through to the extraction point alive, you will get to recruit
him. He can see in the dark and is fairly decent.
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lobar adds:
Oh man, I wish I knew about waiting until Ripley walked all the way
through. One less recruit to worry about I guess. Anyway, if people
are going to fight, it's best to head off to one side of the glowing
path. This way you encounter the Deathclaws in smaller numbers.
I tried running straight up the path, but I never made it. The
Deathclaws out run you, and when you go up the middle, they charge in
from all sides including from a head of you. I got circled real fast
and we all died. Could be they modified this encounter with the patch.
The trick that finally made the world of difference was using the
Voodoo drug with all my people. It adds +2 AG, +3 LK, +20% to your
damage resistance, and +25% to your critical chance (which also gets
raised with the luck addition too). End result, you move faster, fight
better, take less damage, and get more criticals that are better. I was
able to take down a Deathclaw with one shot from a revolver. Made this
fight much easier with the high lucks.
----2.2----
Joiro Hatagaya adds:
It is actually a reference to the movie "Pitch Black" which is about a
space ship crew crash landing on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures
living deep underground in darkness and fearing light. Shortly after the
crash landing a total eclipse starts and the crew find themselves
depending on a murderer named Riddick who is able to see in darkness
thanks to a special eye operation. The random encounter references a
part of the movie, where the remaining people are moving to a certain
location, using light to scare away the creatures.
----2.2----
0.10 L33TISTS:
2 guys, named Ph4tman and L33tleboy. The names themselves are references
to the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the
spellings are reference to '1337'-speak; the corruption of spelling often
used by script kiddies and adolescent gamers. It's pretty l4me, if you ask
me, but you're probably familiar with it if you've played Quake, Counter-
strike, Tribes, or even Diablo II in some cases. Much like their real-
world counterparts, these guys are pretty worthless. One of them has some
afterburner gum.
0.11 REAVER DANCE:
A group of Reavers, dancing up on stage. Your guess is as good as mine.
Christoph adds:
concerning encounter 0.11: "Reaver dance" = a reference to "Riverdance",
an Irish stepdance show which has been popular in Europe for a few
years. (Don't know if elsewhere). Basically looks like someone very
drunk is orchestrating some puppets on strings.
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0.12 CANADIAN INVASION:
A group of tribals, reenacting the Canadian Invasion. They will attack
you, and you will most likely destroy them. Here you can get the Super
Soaker which can use acid for ammo (you've found some of it in previous
missions). A pretty good medium-range weapon, but with a high AP cost.
Kerwin Tsang adds:
The "super soaker" gun you find in canadian invasion
is an excellent robot killer. Two squirts will usually
bring down a security, humanoid, hover, or scurry bot.
My character had fast shot trait and bonus ROF perk,
so a squirt cost me four APs. Its best to reserve the
acid cannisters you find for the robots solely, since
they are hard to kill with most small guns and big guns.
----2.7----
I also noticed that 'super soaker' was misspelled in several places
in this FAQ, thanx to Kerwin's note, so I fixed them. I'd like to thank
Kerwin (and everyone else who noticed but didn't mail in to flame me)
for not making fun of my spelling; I feel dumb enough as it is for
letting it go on for about 10 revisions ;)
0.13 PHIL THE NUKA COLA GUY:
writes:
A guy in a red jacket riding on a bike complaining about delivering
cola. I killed him and he had a Hundred plain nuka cola and one Fusion
nuka cola.
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"Tom Carlsen" adds:
Also, forgot to add something else I discovered. The Nuka Cola guy that
cruises around on his bike can be killed and his bike can be stolen.
The mechanic at bunker epsilon has a "jet bike key" that can be stolen,
but not bought. If you kill the nuka cola guy after you obtain this
key you can drive off on his bike. Lots of fun.
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0.14 B-1000:
writes:
Part cow, part machine. Odd little Brahmin with 999 health that gives
up an UZI when it dies.
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0.15 KOMODO MAN:
writes:
Basically the post-apocalyptic version of the crocodile hunter.
Humorous to watch for a little while.
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0.16 SIXTH SENSE:
Charles J DeVito writes:
A herd of ghost brahmin surrounding a brahmin named Cole. Cole says "I see
dead brahmin". No one has anything of any interest if you kill them.
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0.17 GAS STATION:
Charles J DeVito writes:
An old woman in a gas station who sells things, including an "Elixir of
Vitality". It cost about 5000K rp, but raises endurance by one point
permanently.
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0.18 PIPBOY:
Charles J DeVito writes:
A small area with a real live Pip Boy. He carries some 7.62 ammo and a
machine gun.
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I have heard that he will join your party if it only has 5 members in
it. He's supposed to be pretty good, but can't change stance.
Andres J. adds:
The Pipboy random encounter, if you have less than 6 people, gives you the
pipboy character, his statistics are as follows....
Level 10
ST-7
EN-7 (I believe.. I used the vitality drink a few times so it's either 6 or 7)
PE-6
CH-5
IN-6
AG-6
LK-10
His tags are:
Small Guns
Bigs Guns
Energy Weapons
Sneak
All are below 80, but can be developed much higher in time.
Only trait is the lovable Bloody Mess
Perks are:
Flexible (Bulls***!!! He can't even crouch or lay prone!!!)
Stunt man (Pretty useless, but, hey...)
Tag! (That's why he's got 4...)
And 2 others, which I can't remember, but aren't of any real importance.
He cannot lay prone or croutch, and, in spite of his very, very short
appearance, -seems- to have all the characteristics of standing at all times.
Any idiot with basic math skills can tell you he has 6, that's right, 6
goddamned extra character points, so he has a total of 11 extra points
instead of the normal 5 you and everyone else you've ever seen before had.
Hells yes, that little guy rules.
Gains perks at the normal (3 levels to a perk) rate, despite the fact he has
5 when he's at level 10...
Please note: He can run and walk, both are just a -tad- bit slower then a
normal human's.
My personal evaluation------
The Pipboy is, if you can look past his numerous, yet pretty small
problems, a good, all around character, possibly a keeper until the end of
the game, or, at least until a robot manages to jump him with a lead pipe.
His relatively high strength (7), extremely high luck (10!!), and tag skills
in all gun categories make him a very, very good carrier for the lighter
heavy weapons (Bren gun, M-60, Avenger, Laser Gatling, etc.) and as a covert
operative who manages to pack quite the punch with his heavy weapons and
energy skills. Now, I don't know why in the hell they made his perception so
low, but, if you want (Like I did), you can give him a Gain Perception and a
sharpshooter, this will bring him up to a whopping 9 in perception for
shooting purposes (as if there was any other purpose.) If you do this, give
him the Mutate (to add fast shot) and bonus rate of fire, and he is a
EXCELLENT SNIPER. I mean this, I really do. Allow me to explain.
The high ST allows for the heavier, harder-hitting varient of weapons.
The ridiculously high LK affordes him with a extremely high critical chance.
The 9 PE means he can actually aim the damn thing
The weapon skills allow him to blow away anything in his path in the most
ethical way.
And, the sneak tag allows him to get into the best possible position
unspotted.
The perfect sniper. F***ing A. Hand him a laser rifle, or, if you get some
power armor, a Browning, and you'll never have another worry as long as you
live. If not, he makes a exemplory grunt, a fine scout, and, it just
feels so damn good to have the little dude in your group! He's as cute as a
button.
Bugs
-Might just be me... Probably is... But he seems to get crippled a bit easier.
-After you get him out of the random encounter, his name appears as
"CORE-pipboy" instead of the usual, sensical "PipBoy". Wierd, huh?
----2.4----
"Jolt - Ganj" writes:
If you have a full party on this special encounter and let the Pipboy
character wander off the map, he'll become available as a recruit. However,
rather than being named as CORE_pipboy, he's just plain Pipboy, (though he
does have a character description - sorry, I didn't make a note of it) and
rather than a Luck of 10, he has just 4, (those extra 6 stat points gone).
----2.6----
Hobbit290@aol.com adds:
It is in regards to the PIPBOY special encounter. I had just found out
that you can get multiple encounters in the same square, so I was spending
the day roaming around getting more special encounters when I cam across the
PIPBOY _ TWICE IN ONE SQUARE. Yes, that is correct. I came across the
PIPBOY encounter, left it moved out of the square and back in again from a
different coner, and had the Encounter a second time! Now I have two
Pipboy's. However if you return to the base and place the Core-Pipboy's back
into the recruiting pool, then talk to the recruiter again, only one will be
there.
Also my stats are slightly different. They are both a level 8 (not 10)
and small guns skill is at 101 (not around 80). I found this encounter
after I had been assigned Newton, so I do not know if his stats depend on
when you find him in the game.
----2.7----
0.19 UPRISING:
Charles J DeVito writes:
A BOS bunker entrance (that you can't enter) with two BOS soldiers out
front, standing over the butchered corpses of about 12 civilians. The
civilians have only junk. The BOS scum have avenger miniguns, but killing
them will reduce both your reputation and rank within the brotherhood.
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Sean Yeo da Syko adds:
i just encountered uprising and used voodoo to kill
the BoS scum without penalties and they were vindicator
miniguns, not avengers.
----2.4----
0.20 CPF vs. PFC:
brian writes:
Two groups of tribals are yelling at each other, one group is purple, and
the other red. They stand near banners declaring thier affiliation. You
can attack one without rousing the other. I only killed one side (I like
red) so I don't know what everyone has, but the side I killed had nothing of
real value. Just a Monty Python reference, I guess. Neither attacks and
you can't talk to them. i just went agressive to see what would happen.
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Haifan Lu adds:
In the special encounter CPF vs. PFC, if you help any side at all, (that
means if you initiate attack on any side) you will get a decrease of both
rank and reputation.
----2.9----
0.21 BRAHMIN ARMOR:
KJ writes:
Once you get in you are facing a wall. when you get out, you will see an
enclosed compound with four turrets. the 4 are stange though, as i saw they
have some 300 hp but was destroyed with a single hit each from my pancor.
they can do REAL damage, so beware. there is a brahim in the compound but it
always get wasted in the second round. maybe you can save him or something.
however, the skin it drops can turn you into a brahim! cool but you cannot
attack. oh, and the 4 turrets contain micro fusion cells too.
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Uliasea adds:
It's about the special encounter "Brahmin armour". I found that this armour
isn't by far useless - if you've a supermutant in your group. While
everybody else wearing this armour looks like a brahmin and cannot attack,
your mutant can wear it without changing his outlook, he CAN still attack
and has a good armour value (at least better than wearing nothing beside his
skin...)
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"h.kenward" adds:
re:- the Brahmin Armour from the special encounter - while it disguises
humans as cows, has no obvious effect on a ghoul, and is fairly reasonable
armour for a super mutant, IT IS AMAZING ARMOUR FOR A ROBOT !
I put it on the Robot I recruited prior to the Robot Power Plant Level, and
it took his armour class to 57 and his damage resistance to 90%
----2.6----
0.22 DEATHCLAW LIBERATION:
I found this on the way to Preoria from Bunker Delta. A humanitarian goes
into a cage of deathclaws to free them and gets killed. You then get to
kill the deathclaws. The humanitarian is called 'Janet Badall', a reference
to Jane Goodall, who is a wildlife expert, specializing in primates.
0.23 4 HORSEMEN OF THE POST-APOCALYPSE
"Kyriel" writes:
they're pretty lame actualy, all they do is talk, say things like "maybe
we should switch sides.." or.. "6.1 billion people gone, just like that
*snap*" etc etc...they have around 14,100 some odd HP, and only punch
you, however, i didnt have the resources to kill them, so i didnt...
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Mike Fletcher adds:
it is each horseman of the apocaplpse,war,famine,pestilence,death, they
are standing around a campfire whining. one funny crack was made by
WAR, he says "i wish they would stop saying i never change, i can
change. (in reference to the war, war never changes at the beginning
of each fallout episode) each says almost dead, so i attacked them,
1 .50 cal mg 1 vindicator MG, 2 plasma rifles, 1 sniper rifle. i ran
outta ammo before they were dead, i killed 3 before being reduced to
fists. this leads me to believe that each has HP up around 20k - 25k.
tho they are unarmed and have no equipment apart from hands and feet so
they cant hurt me i shudder to think at their health points if they were
at full health.
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Garry Upton adds:
I killed War - horseman of the post-apocalypse...and got a whopping 269
experience. If you want to take them on, bring lots of Dr's bags and give
everyone pistols with lots of ammo. Don't use burst, and have them all
target the same guy. Put it on CTB and walk away. Check to see if you
need to heal any crippled limbs every now and then.
----2.5----
Rob Knebel writes in, saying:
This is in regards to what, precisely, the Four
Horsemen special encounter does, and why it tends to
mess with so many people's games.
It makes the character in the group with the lowest
Charisma the leader. If, for some godawful reason,
your main character has a Charisma of 1, you'll have
no problems at all with these guys. If not, the
character with the lowest charisma will be your new
leader. Easily remedied, though...just pump up your
former leader with some Mutie, then reenter the SE.
----2.5----
Hopefully Rob's tip will help out everyone who got screwed with in
this encounter. Thanks much!
"Jolt - Ganj" adds:
Extra experience points for your medic character if you heal up the 4
horsemen. They clock in at around 100,000, (yes one hundred thousand!) hit
points a piece and Stitch was racking up 75 exp per 75 hp healed... I only
had enough supplies to get two of them to Unhurt status tho, (and that only
because a Doctors' Bag based heal fully healed them in one go).
Be interesting to see what happens, (if anything) if they're all healed to
unhurt status... It's on the slate of things to do second time round.
----2.6----
0.24 BRAHMIN TIPPING:
Ferri writes:
A field filled with many brahmins. Clicking on any 1 of them will tip
them. Imagine a brahmin with a very very heavy head =P
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0.25 MIR
writes:
No, really, Mir. The space station. Apparently in this alternate universe
the space station crashed into middle America. Nothing to do but it is kind
of interesting to see what the artists did with their free time.
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0.26 AMELIA
Andrew Lusk-Hahn writes:
I found a huge crashed air plane in the wasteland.
There isn't anything you can do to it besides get the
cross air looking thing over the front end of the
plane, but you can't repair it or anything. The name
of the encounter is "Amelia".
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I'm guessing that this is a reference to Amelia Earhart(sp?),
a female aviator in the early part of the 20th century who
disappeared in a transatlantic flight.
0.27 HERMIT:
Louie Imperial writes:
There are five wolves around there and one hermit. The
hermit sells 12 ga. flechette shells for the shotgun,
a 9mm Calico M950, a plasma grenade, a scout handbook,
a couple of dynamites and a metal armor plus some
other items not much worth taking. You can steal it
from him if you have a high percentage in steal - this
will make it a whole lot easier than just to buy it
from him.
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Freehammer writes:
Amoung the waste area of crap the hermit carries, he
has 5 syringes of poison. Now why use poison you say
when a single salvo of steel jacketed anything will do
the trick.
Simple this. When you kill some one with poison it
does not trigger the aggro setting on the things
around him. THAT"S RIGHT! No more need to steal
anything from anyone. (until you've used it 5 times)
You can buy one syringe of the stuff from the hermit,
use it on him, pilfer the dead body afterwards and the
wolves will never attack you. You can use it on the
Arms Merchant, the Trader, even old Granma.
NOTE: Do NOT use it in the BOS bunker. I tried it on
Genreal Dekker (Never liked him much) and while the
rest of the bunker doesn't attack you, the avenger
squad (that team of really irritating BOS troopers
that shoot-up your vehicle and such)does show up, and
when you leave the bunker it's game over.
----2.95----
0.28 MERCHANT:
"Vanni Loriggio" writes:
Just thought you might like to know : one of the special
encounters you described in your Walkthrough is named
incorrectly. I got the Merchant encounter and they didn't
have Pancors - that's an encounter called Trader (IIRC).
Merchant, on the other hand, sells nice stuff : an FN FAL,
2 science books, a piloting book, good explosives and fairly
rare ammo, not to mention a GAUSS PISTOL (no 2mm EC ammo
though). He also carries a Browning M2, so if you overdose
him on Voodoo (use it on him till he dies) you get ALL his
stock plus his Browning without losing rep. Cheap yes, but
when you have an FN FAL in Macomb, it makes a difference :)
Oh, and the Farmer now has nice stuff too (as of patch 1.25),
including a Small Guns book and an Outdoorsman one (other
OK stuff as well).
----2.2----
0.29 MORTE:
I must have had about 10 people send this in, but Ariel Falgui
sent it first...
Ariel Falgui writes:
You’ll see a floating skull around. Kill him
and you’ll get nothing but degrades your rank and
reputation.
----2.6----
Morte is a reference to Black Isle's own PLANESCAPE:TORMENT(TM)
game, which I highly recommend if you like plot-based RPGs.
0.30 INVASION RECREATIONISTS:
Ariel Falgui writes:
Talk to Clarisse, leader of Canadian Invasion Recreationists,
and she will says that they will invade America (sometimes it says
Canada ) by stepping over the line.
----2.6----
"Rodriguez" adds:
I stumbled upon another Special Encounter which I don't think is on your
FAQ. I am not sure if the Canadian Invasion is the same SE as Invasion
Recreationists. The civilians are not tribals and they do not seem to attack
me unless I attack them. Plus they don't hold the super soaker.
Anyway, the SE is entitled as "Invasion Recreationists". There is a sign
saying "Canadian Invasion Recreationists". There are 6 civilians, and
another one that has a name, Clarisse. Once I talk to Clarisse, they start
talking about crossing to the Canadian side. All they do is walk across a
dark line in between two sign posts that doesn't say anything. Then the come
back to the picnic tables on the other side.
After crossing, the Clarisse no longer talks to you except for offering you
food that you cant get. The civilians hold several bottles except for one
that has a beretta, bullets and a stimpack.
----2.4----
1.0 BRAHMIN WOOD (MISSION 1):
You're going to start with Stitch the medic and Farsight the sniper.
In combat, Stitch is pretty useless due to his low perception; he will
only do any damage when close, and then he will do a lot of damage
because of his shotgun. Farsight is good enough at range, although
she will miss often. Your character should start with an MP5, a
submachine gun which is middling with range, and can do lots up
close with a burst. Burst isn't all that accurate at range, however,
and burns ammo fast. You'd best get yourself a rifle ASAP if you have
good perception (which you ought to if you're a sniper) and work in
concert with Farsight to pick off people from afar or middling
distances, and have Stitch patch you up when you're hit. One of the
best tactics is to duck behind a wall, and on your turn stand up, fire
a round or two, and then duck down so you can't be seen. Keep this in
mind as I describe the areas below.
UPDATE: with the fix for overwatch in 1.25, the crouch->stand->fire->
crouch doesn't work as well anymore; they will fire on you when you stand.
However, they will only get 1 round off, so it's better than 2 or 3...
"r wong" suggests:
the solution is to post bait out around max range for the target...
they may have to fire to get response fire, but usually just being
visible is enough. once you've drawn the overwatch fire, you can
pop up the crew hiding closer and shred target with much more
accurate and damaging fire. works best (and only tested) in squad TB.
against mutants with heavy burst weapons you'll probably only wanna
post one decoy since misses might miss into anyone standing nearby.
----2.6----
You start in a ruin. Go NE and talk to the village elder. Then crouch
everyone and move to the bridge, N of you. There are a couple guards NW of
you past the rocks, and one NE of you, patrolling, with a dog. Try to engage
them one at a time; get into the rocks if you can, and remain crouched
because you are harder to hit that way. Also, if you hide behind the rock
structure with the firepit in front of it, you can take potshots at the NW
guy without being hit (only Farsight has this capability with her rifle).
When done, DON'T FORGET TO RELOAD YOUR WEAPONS. This is done easily by
selecting everyone and hitting the 'R' key.
"Kenny Wong" adds:
You can reload for 0 ap by dragging the weapon from one hand
to the other. More usefull in TB than CTB as you'll still need to
switch weapons, which takes about 1-2aps worth in real time.
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The guy to the NE has a Mauser (a 9mm pistol) and a baseball bat. You want
your main character to loot him because the ammo he has is useful for the
MP5. The NW one has a zip gun (1-shot, sucks), ammo, and a stimpak, great
for healing.
Advance NW to the bunker. There is a guy patrolling the area. Advance on him
and cut him down. Then position 2 people (including Farsight) to the SW,
against the wall, and put them on agressive attack. Use the 3rd to bait the
guy out of the bunker, and your other 2 will ambush him. In a close-quarters
fight, you should be ok, especially with stitch's shotgun. Loot the 2 bodies
to get a 44 (a good pistol) and an uzi. .44 should go to Farsight, who needs
a close weapon, as the rifle can be innaccurate up close. Put it in her
2nd weapon slot and RELOAD.
Head into the bunker to get the chest, wherein you may find a key and rifle
ammo, as well as a stimpak (rifle ammo goes to Farsight). Then head SW to
the ruin and talk to the shaman. Now go back NE and into the door by the
bunker. Make sure you're on agressive (or not, if you intend to sneak) and
open the door. There is a guard inside, and hopefully you'll hit him once
or twice. Also note the guard outside by the garden, and the dog running
around out there.
Crouch inside and use the walls for cover once the initial guy is down and
try to hide behind the walls. Stand up, take a shot, and then duck. Don't
get too close, though, as he has a shotgun, which sucks for range but does a
prodigious amount of damage should it hit. Loot the raider inside and the
shelf next to the blue shelf. Also take the booze on the ground. Also loot
the shotgun guy for more shells for stitch.
Advance NW to the tent. Loot the shelf inside, then go N to the area with
the sleeping people. Put yourself on passive sentry mode and get as close
as you dare so as to kill them before they can do anything at all. Getting
Stitch near the dogs is a good idea as he can kill them both with one good
shot from the shotgun, if you're lucky.
Go through the gate here into the Brahmin pen. Do not injure them. This next
part is a bit tricky. You want to make sure not to hit any of the civilians
in the tent, and yet there are 2 guards in there who need to be killed. Put
stitch at the N entrance and the other 2 at the south entrance. Advance the
south team in on agressive to shoot the one guy, and move Stitch around to
shoot at the guy who runs in among the kids. Alternately, put your MP5 guy
there to try to hit him hard before he runs in among the kids. If you're
lucky, nobody will be hurt, but this part is hard. Definitely save
beforehand.
Go out the NE door when you're sure the sentry isn't around, and into the
tent N of you. Kill the guy inside and take his speargun. Also loot the
shelf for shotgun shells and drugs (worth money).
Sentry time. Put the MP5 guy in the tent with the kids, then set all
to agressive. You want to ambush the sentry because she has a rifle, which
has some serious accuracy bonuses, so you want to hit her fast and hard, at
short range, so she won't be able to get away and have the advantage. Put
Farsight and Stitch in the N tent, near the door, on agressive, and the MP5
guy in the tent with the hostages (alternately put Stitch there for shotgun
power) and wait for her to come around. When dead, give the rifle
immediately to the main character and put the MP5 in the 2nd slot.
Now move NW to the next bunker, on crouch. The guy will notice you, but you
should be able to kill him quickly with 2 rifles. Unlock the door and go in.
Inexplicably, he has both shotgun shells and rifle bullets, which you can
split between the two riflemen. Also loot the crate in here.
Head out the next door, across the street, and into the little parking lot
that might once have been a basketball field. Beware the guards here and
do not make a frontal assault on the bunker. Instead, move down behind the
tin wall, killing resistance on the way. You will kill one guy there who
wants to ambush you, and also the sentry who moves back and forth. From
there, move to the trees in the middle and advance cautiously. Shoot the
guards when they activate; hopefully you are close enough to do damage. If
not, you'll have to go around the back of the bunker.
Give the 3rd rifle off of the guard here to stitch, for his 2nd slot, and
make sure to loot the crate for grenades and first aid. Then carefully move
through the hole in the SW wall and to the sniper post (with the ladder).
Go up the ladder with your main char on aggressive, ideally with the MP5
selected, on burst. You ought to blow him to smithereens. Once up here you
might be able to see other guys and shoot them, so look around with the
rifle on, set to aggressive. Before you leave, get the stimpak and rifle
bullets in the crate.
Move SE through the next wall, into the next ruined area, this one with wood
floors. If you didn't snipe him, there's a guy here with a pistol who you
can deal with. Then move SE to the buliding with the burning barrel. There
are 2 guys here, waiting in ambush, along with a dog, so be careful.
Move SW into the room with the wood floors and tin walls. There is an uzi-
packing thug here that shouldn't cause too much trouble if you're careful.
Next move W into the courtyard and take out the 2 sentries there, from cover
if you can. Move around the building N (on the east side) and come around to
surprise the sentry on the west side.
Once he's gone, you can either get onto the roof to shoot people from there,
or go in the front door. The best way to finish this mission is to walk out
a single step, fire a shot or two, and then move back behind cover. They
won't be able to take a single shot at you. It's pretty easy if you ask me.
The only risk is when you take the first step out, as there is a guy on the
right side with a machine gun. Either set your MP5 to burst and go on the
right side, or do the left side to activate TB combat and then machinegun
him on your next turn. Whatever you do, do it crouched.
UPDATE: with the fix for overwatch in 1.25, you *will* get shot at when you
go around the corner, so keep this in mind. If you have a lot of trouble,
do it crouched.
Killing Horus ought to send you up a level. Put all your points in small
guns; I'm not kidding. It will be very hard on you if you don't.
Loot the bodies for stuff. There is also a crate and a box and a locked box.
The locked box is tricky to open without extra lockpick points, but contains
2 stimpaks (not earthshattering if you miss them).
Go all the way back and talk to the shaman, who will give you heal powder.
Then go back to the Elder and talk to him; he will give you a detonator if
no natives died. Then, step on to the green patch nearby to leave.
Head back to the bunker for healing, equipment, and new recruits.
Doom Killer notes:
I have found that if you like Foresight and Stitch on the first lvl but one
of them of them keeps dying on you than let both of them die and when you go
back to the BOS base Alfa than both of them will be in the recruit menu. This
only works for lvl 1 and they both have to die. So take their stuff so you
wont lose it and than finish the lvl re recruit them and give them their
stuff back. Now you have both Stitch and Foresight back and u still have the
other recruits to choose. The only problem is they lose all experience and
you will have to bring that back up.
----2.9----
1.1 BUNKER 1:
Hit 'M' to see the map, and head directly to the Recruits pool. Pick up 3
people (you might see more than 3 with high charisma), and then outfit them
with all the loot you have, ideally with a rifle and a neostead apiece. All
of them suck at riflery, with low perceptions and middling 'small guns'
skills, so they will be backup and mules for now. Note that though they are
wearing leather armor, they don't get the bonuses for it; this is a bug.
Unequip the armor, then equip it to fix this. Head to the Equipment store to
sell off your stuff and buy anything neat they might have. I suggest selling
all your drugs as they are addictive and expensive; I don't ever use them
and I find that if I do, i suffer because I get addicted. Buy yourself some
lockpicks and some rifle ammo if you need it. And, if you're a melee person,
get a mace glove or sappers. Make sure to do all buying and selling with the
person with the highest barter skill.
Kenny Wong writes:
(Unconfirmed) Items seem to sell for more if the quartermaster doesn't
have a lot of it in stock. The 1st AK-47 I sold was way more than the
57th one. This means it's much better if you sell all 57 of 'em in one
go rather than selling 2 or 3 at a time. Just have the whole party loaded
up, have your barterer within talking distance of the quartermaster, then
shift everything over. (Gotta confirm this myself, but I'm definately sure
my 57th AK went for a measily 67 scripts, while my 1st one went for a
few hundred.)
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Rick Schneider adds:
Heya! I just thought I'd give some more info on selling stuff to
the quartermaster. The price you get does indeed go down depending
on how many he has in stock. But selling all at once does not gain
you anything, the calculations are figured in to the total sale
based on quantity. If selling 1 gun gets you $100, selling 20 will
give you a lot less $2000.
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I have seen this myself; heavy machineguns that once would sell for over 1K
have been reduced in price to less than 100. Once you start to hit the point
of diminishing returns (especially for larger guns), either come back for
them in a scavenging run (a vehicle helps) or don't bother at all (unless
you have a vehicle, in which case you can put it all in the vehicle; even
the scouter has no inventory limit).
WD-40 adds:
Medical supplies - if you become aware of the fact that each and every
Medical officerkeeps all his/her supplies in his/her pockets, available
to everyone with a reasonable Steal skill, things should get much more
simple. The sad part is that they don't replenish over time, but I had
never, not for a single moment, run out of meds this way. I didn't have
any thief in my party, but after you finish Quincy (mission 6), Babs
the ghoul becomes available for recruiting, and she has the Steal skill
tagged, so I just took her in when I needed something stolen, and put
her back afterwards.
----2.6----
Rob Healy suggests:
Drugs are useful because you can use them on other people. If you use more
than six of a drug (Voodoo works great! -- cheap and plentifull) the person
will overdose and be knocked out. Any more usually kills the person. Try
this at the bunkers for some great guns early in the game (if you don't
mind killing some of your comrades.) Also -- combat is not iniatiated when
you do this, so if you know you wil have to fight someone later you can kill
them first using this method.
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"Matthew wong" tried this and says:
Basically I'm writing to say I tried something in your guide but it didn't
work. It's the suggestion by Rob Healy that killing a brotherhood of steel
by overdosing them on drugs. The problem is after you kill said person you
get a cinematic picture having you character thrown out of the brotherhood.
----2.3----
Anybody know what he could have done wrong? Was this fixed in the 1.25
patch?
Once done with this, head to the briefing room to get your next mission. You
are to go to Freeport. Head out via the green exit area.
"Kevin Weiser" writes:
I think this may be a fluke, but after I completed the first
mission of the game, right after I left I had a random encounter. 4 civilian
girls against radiscorpions. I killed the scorps, but they got 2 of the
girls. on the bodies were NeoStead Shotguns! Yes, I had 2 (two) Neosteads
from the 2nd mission on. It makes the game MUCH easier, let me tell you.
Deathclaws are not much of a problem, as a burst from the Neostead does 80+
damage.
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Phil Chermak adds:
In response to Kevin Weiser's notice about the NeoStead shotguns, it's not a
fluke. In the sector directly west of Brahmin Wood, it's fairly common to
run into encounters involving both citizens and radscorpions. In these
encounters, the citizens randomly carry various items, including 9mm
berettas, stimpaks, NeoSteads, and standard shotgun ammo. By continuously
finding this type of encounter, you can easily stockpile NeoSteads by
allowing the radscorpions to munch the citizens. It's also a good (but
tedious) way to stockpile shotgun ammo, which will otherwise be hard to come
by if you liberally use the NeoSteads.
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SERIOUSLY consider walking around on the square W of Brahmin wood to get
these encounters. Neosteads are worth good money and do great damage, and
they will make the next couple missions much easier. You MAY have to do this
before entering the bunker the first time, so keep that in mind.
2.0 FREEPORT (MISSION 2):
If on aggressive, you'll likely snipe a guy and a dog off to the E as soon
as you enter. Then advance up to the line of cars and duck behind them,
standing to fire at the combatants on the ridge. Don't fire unless you have
at least a 30% chance to hit; you will just waste ammo.
There are 3 ways in to the complex, as advised by the map. I suggest taking
the south route as you can get to your contact there. It is highly advisable
to keep the alarm from sounding if you can help it, so engage the gaurds
quickly and quietly so as not to send them running to the sirens.
Move SE towards the SE stairs. You can kill the bridge guards if you want
since they don't have guns (pretty dumb if ya ask me), but there are
sentries that walk around with guns. The N section with the still is
especially highly guarded, with a guy with an AK47; a great weapon, but you
have to take it from him.
KJ suggests:
shooting the alcohol still nets you a 200 xp.
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The south side is pretty lightly guarded, and in a tent (on the W side of
the gorge) is a shelf with stuff and a sleeping guy, easily ambushed. Move
to the agreed meeting point and find the guy with red armor. He is in the
building, crouched. From there, go NE to the room with the bookshelf. Kill
the guy with the spear and his buddy nearby. Get the scouting manual on the
shelf and read it for outdoorsman skill.
Go NE again and kill the spear guy there by the fire. Head E into the wood-
floored room and loot the cabinet. Once there, move the squad N to NE of
the porthole building with the sleeping guards. Sneak in and then kill them
quickly. Then move SW to the room with the locked door and 'Ripley the
prisoner'. You may have to sneak, and/or shoot the guards in the main
street before they set off the alarm. This will be tricky, and if you find
it difficult, you'll likely have to go all the way around through the still
area, killing those foes, and come from both sides, the north and the south
side of the street, to get enough shots off to kill them before the siren
goes off.
You can try to pick the lock, but it'll be difficult. If you do, she'll open
the door and run off. Go into the tent nearby and rescue the elder. Ware the
guys in the bunker in the street. Shooting nearby will probably set off the
guards to attack you, and they'll start coming out of the tents. If you're
good enough, you can pick them off 1 at a time as they come at you, but
crouch and take cover just in case. When done, loot the bodies and tents for
some good stuff. If you're lucky, you won't have awoken most of the guards,
and they will be sleeping in the tents. Just walk your guys up to the door
on passive sentry, and then activate agressive; 6 free shots at 95%.
Execution style, as it were.
Head N from here to the little compound with the guy locked inside. Getting
through the door is difficult. I have yet to actually get in there,
and would be most interested to find out what was inside...
chad athey writes:
Concerning the locked house that you were interested in getting into on the
Freeport mission, one of the guards that generally hangs around the tent the
elder's in has the key. In fact, If I remember correctly, in addition to the
key he has better loot than any other guard in the Freeport mission. Hope
that helps.
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Gabriel writes:
In Freeport just North of the (northeast) building with the
two sleeping guards which is northwest of the guard by the fire,
there is a locker with an AK-47 (your first one to get - and not
on a person) and some ammo or other stuff. You can return their
to confirm the contents. I only bring this up since this weapon
can help out immensely on this mission and gives you at least two
by the end of this mission.
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Next, head E toward the still. Stop in the room full of boxes to kill a guy
and loot a crate. Then continue toward the still. There will be guys
sleeping here, and a guy with an AK right near the still, so be careful
and crouch on the approach. If you have to, hide behind the crates and move
out, shoot at him, and then move back out of sight.
Once they're all dead, go talk to the Tribal Elder and tell him to go to
the exit area, then proceed there yourself.
2.1 BUNKER 2:
Return to the bunker and talk to the new tribals there; the girl has a gun
magazine you can buy. Check out the new recruits to see if you like anyone
there.
3.0 ROCK FALLS (MISSION 3):
Head E and then NE towards the 2nd entrance, noted on the map. The first
obstacle is the camp to the east. Sneak up and engage them from a distance.
By now you ought to have 2 good snipers (you and Farsight, if you're a
sniper) and a 3rd, Rebecca, might be available at the base. The others ought
to be at least passable at the rifle, as well. If you're not too close, they
likely won't hit you.
Follow the same idea for the next group to the NE. They'll probably run out
into the field, and you can hit them from there. When they're down, you can
head NE, to the E of the garbage wall. Watch for the sniper post across the
street to the NE. There's a guy with an AK up there and he has buddies in
the building below him. Take him out and then approach the building slowly
to get his friends (2). You should get 2 AK's from this; if you're into
automatics, they'll be your friends for a while. I prefer the hunting rifle
with a secondary automatic weapon myself, or a shotgun.
Go N to the car wall, and then around it to get the crate in the SW corner,
made by the L of cars. Be aware that there is a raider there with an auto-
matic weapon, which you might not have seen if she was crouching.
Head N to the gap in the wall crouched. Set to aggressive, and then stand.
You might to see some guards and shoot them. Once done, head around the
perimeter wall around back, and beware of the mines there. The slower you
go, the more mines you'll discover with your eyes, rather than your feet.
You probably don't have anyone who can disarm them, so just leave them be.
shirwyn@vcn.bc.ca adds:
Going down on your belly makes it easier to spot land mines.
----2.2----
Now you can head NW towards the gate control if you like. Pick the door if
you can to get at the gate control. From there, you can get into the area
with the boss raider. Once through with him, we can proceed to clean up the
rest of them.
UPDATE 2.6!
MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY people email me, saying 'I can't pick the door,
what do I do?' This tells me 2 things: first, they probably play the game
right from the FAQ, and second, they don't bother to read ahead. If you
read ahead, it says that you get the key to the gate control from DAISY THE
RAIDER, described below. However, it is also my fault for not mentioning
that here. Once again, if you cannot pick the door lock, get the key from
DAISY THE RAIDER (do a search on 'daisy' and you'll find her). Thank you.
----2.6----
You can either go in the ground floor or the top floor. The ground floor is
locked, and might pose a problem, so you may have to go upstairs; ware the
sniper there. Downstairs, 'Jesse' might be able to shoot at you through
obscure mapping errors. Specifically, there is a spot to the right of the
door that allows you to shoot at the second floor. If you feel lucky, put
your best shot there and take care of the 2 guys upstairs.
Eventually you should get into the door, and make sure everyone is lined up
outside to see in and set to aggressive. If you can't you'll have to to
upstairs and then down the indoor stairs, a dicey proposition at best.
Of course, if you go in the ground floor and then upstairs, you'll have 2
or 3 enemies to contend with, which is also a pain. It might be best to go
up the outside stairs and take care of them through the door. Of course,
then you have to contend with the enemies on the balcony. You can also hit
guys on the walls from the balcony, a good idea in my opinion, allowing you
to get up on the walls and fire at them.
Inside the small room is a safe which eluded me for some time. I tried
clicking on it and it said 'out of reach', but it can be accessed. You must
move the character to the left of the safe; in fact, put them right on the
left side of the safe. Then use picklocks to try to open it. I picked it on
my first try, but this might be an anomaly. Rebecca is good for that, with
high picklocks and possibly a kit you should have bought at the base.
Inside are ring pulls, RadAway, and a Traps book. As with most books, either
give it to the expert or your main character. As you likely don't have a
trap character yet, it should go to the main character or be saved.
notes:
you mentioned the safe in Rock Falls that can only be opened by
standing to the left of it; actually, all safes can be opened without the
"out of reach message" by crouching or lying prone . . .
----2.6----
Next you ought to get up on the wall to fire at your the nearby field. Make
a complete circuit of the 'C' and then go down off the wall and back out
to the mine-laced area. Go into the field next to the brahmin building and
shoot at the guy in the building to the W ('Bo the Raider'). Make sure to
loot him because he has several grenades on him. There is also a locked
chest with a science book in it.
Mikko Airaksinen adds:
Here's a tip for the Rock Falls mission. There are some windows at the
W side of the house Bo the Raider is in. Go there from SW and Bo
will try to throw a grenade through the window, which (in all of my
three saves) will hit the window frame and bounce back to his feet.
He might get one or two grenades through, but eventually he'll hit
himself and you can watch the firework.
----2.8----
Head out into the parking lot area to the SW. Go to the yellow-lit building
to the S and assault the guy there. Open his chest and take the fruit
and equipment. Also loot the bookcase for healing supplies. Then go around
the corner to deal with 'Daisy the Raider'. It's a real pain in the neck
because she has so many guys to help her that you can't go around the corner
without getting shot to hell.
Your best shot is to move in a crawl or prone, and move slowly so as to only
activate the two guards nearest to you, and hope you don't get hit too bad;
it helps to be against the wall farthest from them (the S wall). When done,
loot the bodies BUT DON'T FREE THE GUY YET; he'll head for the gate and get
shot to heck by the guards there. Free him later. From Daisy you get the
gate key, so if you couldn't pick the door up north near the beginning of
this mission, you can use this key to open it.
lobar adds:
In the one mission with Daisy the raider, I've found that if you put
everyone into a crawl position and stealth mode, you can move right up
the first barrier within the room without being detected. Nightime
seems to work best. I group my people together, put them in offensive
mode, and raise them to a kneel at once. Good results this way.
Special Note, before the patch you could switch stances to aviod damage
but now you can't. So the lay/kneel/shoot/lay tatic does not work. The
enemies go into overwatch and shoot as you kneel back up again. Best to
stay kneeling and keep shooting.
----2.2----
Cross the road to the NW and head to the building there, flanked by skull
torches. It is literally full of guards, so be careful. In here is Luke,
the last of the raider bosses. Kill him and you get a pile of XP, enough
to go up a level, usually. There's also a shelf and a bookshelf here.
From here head east to the next yellow-lit building. Loot the table and head
north to the room with the cell door. Don't miss the chest out front. Use
the key from the raider in the last building to unlock the door, and talk to
the guy there. Now you should head out the front gate to make sure the coast
is clear. The best way to do this is actually to go up on the wall again and
clear everyone away.
Once you've done this, head out the gate and shoot the guys in the green
escape area; there are several, unfortunately. Don't miss the chest by the
gate; it's on the right side. When the gate is clear, go get the scientist
and Nanuk. Before you leave, make sure the clear out the NW section (a small
parking lot-type area) for XP and loot.
3.1 BUNKER 3:
After talking with the general, he will tell you that you need to move to a
new bunker in the south. Do so. There will likely be several encounters on
the way, so save it often in case you find something you can't handle.
When you arrive, you will be given 2 missions: go to Macomb to help a guy
with supplies, and go to Preoria to get some batteries. For the sake of
order, I will describe the Macomb mission first.
"Mighty Atom" adds:
I don't see this mentioned in the FAQ that I have read yet. Once you have
talked to the medic at bunker beta there is a medical intern staffing the
infirmary in bunker alpha who has different items and who will gamble with
you.
----2.7----
lobar writes:
With the Beta Bunker, there is a merchant tucked away in behind the
Quater Master. I found him by accident, I took a stroll to see if
anything was there. You could mention this guy, since people just may
miss him. He has lots of useful stuff plus he will gamble as well.
----2.2----
4.0 MACOMB (MISSION 4):
Shirwyn Dalgliesh writes:
Also I think we both missed a golden opportunity at Macomb. I haven't had
the chance to go back and check it but I think that this is where you're supposed
to pick up your dog trainer. I was suspicious at the end mission brief when
the General got so hot and bothered about sending all the civilians off to labour
camps. Any time the General was happy about being a fascist it's safe to bet
you've missed something. Then when I got to Great Bend the guy in the locked
house was seriously pissed off about a sister of his that had got hooked up
with a raider and died in a Brotherhood labour camp. I seem to remember one
of the civilians after the second set of dogs at Macomb calling out "Stop, please
stop." as he ran into my guns but I just wrote him off as being a trick like
the raider that attacks you even if you give him food. Now I'm wondering if
there's some way to recruit him. Like I said I haven't tried it yet but next
time I think I'll head west on that side street before that second set of dogs
and see if there's anybody willing to talk. It might have been that woman in
the park just north and west of that last gate.
----2.2----
UPDATE 2.2
Since I've had many people write stuff in, I want to compile a list of all
the good stuff you can do with vehicles, since this is the first one you
get. FIRST: vehicles have unlimited inventory. Put somebody in there and
hit 'i' and it will bring up a second inventory next to yours. This is
the vehicle's, and you can fill it with whatever you want and it won't go
away, ever (bugs aside). SECOND: many people can't figure out how to get
in or out of the vehicle. Ctrl-left click on it to get in, and Ctrl-left
click on the ground next to it to get out of it. THIRD: running over a
foe will lock it permanently in the prone position as long as you remain
on top of it. It will be unable to make attacks and you can shoot it at
point blank range with the prone bonus. FOURTH: unless you find a vehicle
in a mission, it cannot be used except for transport to and from the site;
that is, if you take the hummer to mission 7, it won't be there in the
mission, but it will be with you when you leave. The only time you can
use a vehicle in a mission is if you found it in *that* mission.
----2.6----
SA Joshua Orange writes:
Someone complained about the general getting all ticked off about "no
captured civilians". To combat that and get higher praise from him, simply
don't allow your team to kill anyone but raiders. Turn off Aggressive
Sentry Mode! But even easier, on the street south past the mine field,
don't bother with the last gate. Instead turn right down the narrow street,
then left, take out the Raider guard there, and turn right near the locked
gate. If you have not alerted the civilians by driving over their dogs and
through their neighborhood first, they will not open the gate and follow
you. This works best if you've deployed a sniper through the aforementioned
"Secret Door" to take out the miscellaneous stray raiders around the park.
The result is that the general will send in teams to kill or capture all
remaining occupants, and you get the credit.
Additionally, to dispatch the rocket man on the balcony easily, pick off
all the Raiders who attack you while staying under the cover of the
balcony. Then, step out onto the exit grid where you've sneaked around
from the secret door. The rocket guy will fire at you, but the rocket will
hit the balcony edge and he'll blow himself up. It took me two darts out to
the green area to splat him all over the edge of the roof.
----2.96----
It might be easiest to leave the Hummer here for now. Head SW down the road
a little and then into the large warehouse full of cardboard boxes. Retrieve
the toolkit, which will be necessary to fix the hummer if it gets messed up.
Move down the street some more and fight off the rooftop guards. Then go
into the building at the end of the street, to the NW, with gray hexagonal
windows (the one next to the gate). Inside is the control for the gate and 2
guards. Try to pick them off separately, not that they're that difficult.
Once done, open the gate with the control and don't forget the chest in the
back room.
Now head W towards the car junkyard. You will see a bunch of dogs eating a
civilian. Advance towards them, and kill them and the snipers on the roofs.
The civilian corpse has a whole pile of medical supplies and (expensive)
drugs, so make sure to get it.
When done, head S to the building with the chest on its roof, and watch for
the raider up there, as well as the one on the adjacent roof. Go up here
and head SE down the line of bridged roofs, so as to take out all resistance
down the street from the elevated position. Don't forget to get that chest,
though, as it has an important key.
"Jason McLean" warns:
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this bug that I encountered.
In Macomb, when you go up to the roof with the chest that has the gate
key in it. You go all the way to the end of the roofs. You are now on
top of the building that the raider who begs for food is under. At the
back of that building there is a ladder that goes down to the ground.
On either side of the ladder, there is a ledge that goes around the
top of the building. If you step on to the ledge by the ladder, there
is no way to get back off and your character becomes stuck permanently.
Once this happens, the only way to end your mission is to kill off
the stuck character or restart the mission. In my case, I only had
one saved game, and it was after my character had become stuck ( i
had put him up there as a sniper not knowing he had become stuck) so
I had to end up killing him to finish the mission.
----2.8----
lobar adds:
In regards to the roof tops across the street (where the chest with
key is) I have noted that after the patch, it is suicide to climb up on
the chest end. The raiders are in overwatch /aggresive sentry mode and
always burst you as you get to the top. They have always managed to
either kill my climber or knock them off the ladder. Even in stealth
mode, they get spotted. When I climb up the end where you talk to the
raider and he tells you about the key, then it's much easier to get the
drop on the raiders up there. I've played this mission before and after
the patch, and the after patch version is much more dangerous. I think
they did this so that people would find a use for this raider who tells
you about the key.
----2.2----
UPDATE 2.3:
I managed to climb up this ladder, but only at night could I get away with
it.
Next, head into the Bowlarama. Kill the 3 guys by slowly advancing on the
entrance and moving out of cover, and then go in and take the dynamite out
of the ice chest (a big white freezer against the NE wall).
lobar adds:
The bowlerama building and going after the guys on its roof. One
tactic that works well is to distract them. From across the street
where you find the chest with the key, I take one person and start
shooting at the guys on the roof. They all come running to attack that
person. They have AK-47's which are out of range from the far side of
the street so your decoy is relatively safe. A hunting rifle will have
range in your hands. This leaves things fairly clear for the rest of
your squad to climb up there and attack them from behind.
SECRET DOOR!
The secret door is in the section just after the second gate. I've
also noted that the grenade chucker is far more dangerous and annoying
now. It almost seems they have beefed him up. Anyway, if you follow
the row of buildings towards the library you'll see a park across from
the library. Look to the ruined buildings to the edge of the map and
you'll see at the end, part of a car sticking out of a collapsed
garage. Well, you can walk people through this garage into the park and
then to the exit grid. Kneeling and stealthed, I've managed to get
people up onto the balcony where the raider with the rocket launcher is
and kill him before he gets any shots off. Then I just snipe everyone
else I can see. From here you can walk up behind everything right up to
the mine field.
Of special note, you'll only be able to get 2 or 3 people through before
the garage closes and they can't go back. So I take my best snipers.
I've done this before and after the patch. Not sure if it's a bug, but
the way the park and buildings are layed out, I think it's legit. I've
been able to clear the whole area with 2 people. Hunting rifles are
good since you out distance most of what you face, and there are lots of
high spots to shoot from.
----2.2----
Robert Potter writes:
Anyway. On the Macomb mission, you mention
that there's a "secret door". The trick to it is that you can't go
through it with armor better than leather. Just remove your armor, go
through, put your armor back on.
----2.96----
Head out the S door and go NE to the ladder and up so you can get at the
next set of guards on the roofs. By now you might have killed them all, so
just get their loot. Head to the SE end of the road, to find the control
for the next gate. Nearby is a raider who wants food in exchange for the
knowledge of where the gate key is. He'll attack you anyway, though. He
says it's in that chest on the roof that you already got! What a
coincidence...
Use the key on the door and open the gate with the controls. Be careful
because there is a guy behind the door, down the street, with a rocket
launcher. He also has a pal with a machinegun and a grenadier to boot. The
grenadier is particularly pesky because he is stealthed. I had a stealth
character sneak around behind his position (the building) and attack him,
and when he stood up to get at her, my other guys took him out.
When he is dealt with, you can open up the next door; the controls are
behind the bunker with the rocket guy. Head down the street past the control
SE (NOT through the gate) and towards the library. Talk to the librarian in
there twice. He wants you to find his glasses.
Now head back to the gate you opened and go through it, down the street. The
building to the north is full of raiders; best clean them out one at a time,
using cover if you can, crouched. Don't miss the desk when you're done. The
building just to the NE of that one has an ice chest and a raider in it.
For some reason, the civilian seems to have incredible marksmanship; I'm not
sure why. This requires either a sacrifice of damage, or really annoying and
tedious sneaking and firing techniques. This appears to be because he has
armor-piercing bullets. Inside the ice chest are some molotov cocktails and
a repair kit.
"Ray Macey" adds:
Just thought I should let you know that the highly accurate civilian in the
Macomb mission is apprently meant to be Austin Powers, seeing as how he
called out 'Groovy Baby' or 'Shagadelic Baby' (the exact words escape me)
before he blew the absolute #$%# out of me. It explains his accuracy and
the armour piercing bullets :)
----2.4----
Next job is the next building up the street, to the NE. The doors in front
are closed and sort of hard to see. Ware the civilians on the roof and in
the street. Open the doors and prepare for an ambush. There are 3 or 4
guys there which you can hide from using the doorway. The hardest one might
be the one right at the door, but a shotgun blast or a full-auto burst
should do the trick on him.
This is the courthouse, and there are raiders in the courtroom too, so
beware. You can go up the stairs if you want to try to get an advantage on
them, which might be wise. You can also see foes in other buildings from up
here, so give it a shot. You must at least go upstairs to use the controls
on the balcony.
Head out the gate you just opened and watch for mines. Head N to clear out
the building there and watch for sentries to the NW. There is a guy on the
roof, up in the alley here, too, on the NE side. Getting the hummer past
the mines is a difficult task. If you can't disarm them (they are very hard
to disarm), you have to do the following (this is by no means easy, and took
me abotu 12 tries). Go south of the first one, onto the sidewalk. Continue
past the next 2, and then turn north a bit and drive in between the last 2.
This is tricky, and you may end up getting mad and hitting one or two and
then repairing later. It CAN be done, but it is not easy, not by a long
shot.
Shane Feather writes:
When referring to the mines in Macomb( or elsewhere), if you are not able to
disarm them just have your best sniper stand several feet away and force
fire at them. One good hit will clear away that pesky mine. Be sure and
be several feet away though as the translational damage is widespread.
Even with a very high attack percentage it takes several shots...just keep
trying. I think the game assigns a high damage stopping ability to the
ground on top of the mine...and it almost takes a critical hit to score
enough damage to set them off. Also the two Brahmin in the pen next to
this area will wander out and take two of them out for you if you open
both gates on their pen, also an exploding cow is a great stress reliever.
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Houston Bruck writes:
If anyone is having a little trouble in the Macomb mission disarming those
mines, I've got a little tip. I was having some trouble force firing on
the mines, and I could not for the life of me drive though the mines. So
I got some dynamite and activated it near the mines. To get close enough
it seems that you have to put the trap skill on, and click on top of the
mines. Once there activate some dynamite and run, that should take care
of the problem. -HB
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Chris369@aol.com suggests:
Another way to disable mines is to lob fragmentation grenades at them.
In the Macomb mission where the road is mined, there is a grenadier who
I got somewhere around 14 frag grendades off him. I have the grenades to
Rebecca, who with a Throwing skill of only 32 was able to lob a grenade
far enough to blow up the mine and avoid damage. One grenade per mine is
all that is needed.
You also only have to clear one side of the road. Just have to be careful
when driving the Hummer.
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KJ suggests:
When shooting mines, shotguns work best with their 12 ga. Rounds. It can
easily set off any mines. And in the beginning of the game, the shotguns
rule! It works just like burst even for single-shots, and uses only one
bullet! However you have to be careful about your party, you may hit
them and considering they are quite near to you, it’s painful. Also,
if you manage to get the merchant encounter early in the game, you can
get the pancor jackhammers and have an easy ride till the mutants mission
where your range and skill is tested.
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lobar adds:
The mines. Another effective way to destroy them is to lay down on the
ground and force fire burst attacks. (Generally, laying on the ground
puts you on the same level with the mines and gives you better results
however you decide to do it.) You can line you squad up one beside each
other and burst down the street. Just move them forward in formation by
using the 'F' key before you mouse click. There is also one mine that
is not active, it's the one without the red ring around it. You can
pick it up and take it along to use or sell. Using dynamite also works
well and I've been able to place the dynamite beside the mines and have
it work that way. I've never had to place dynamite on top of a mine.
----2.2----
Go back to the gate, and around the building with the civilians on it. Watch
for mines, and move slowly. You're moving into an ambush area here, with
people in the building to the south of the intersection and in the alley
to the north. Use the building on the W for cover. Watch out for the
grenadier(s) on the NE side of the intersection.
The chest in the room with the snipers (and a large radiation bath in the
back room) has the librarian's glasses. Return them to him. He give you a
book for free; unless you traded him for it before, in which case you just
get your objective completed.
KJ adds:
The librarian’s glasses. Some people do not know how to return it to him. It
happened for me and I figured out that you must barter and give it to him.
This would help.
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Head back to the intersection and go SW into the alley there and up the
ladder onto the roof to loot the bodies of the civilians there. Once done,
go back to the intersection and SE this time, down the road. You will
find a guy in a building on the NE side of the street and a bunch of dogs
in the street; not too much challenge there.
Continue down the street until you find a civilian or two that need killin',
at the end of the road. As you advance, more will come from the street to
the SW and throw rocks at you. No, you shouldn't be worried.
Head SW and go into the N 2-story building next to the gate. You might be
forced to fight on the way there, just a civilian and a raider or two.
Unfortunately, you might activate the raiders down by the exit grid, which
will be two more things to keep your hands full with.
Once done with them, head into the building and up the stairs, to the roof.
From here you can go across the bridges to get loot from some of the snipers
at the intersection before. You would think that you could get to the top
floor of the library from here, but in fact you can't, from anywhere.
Just head up to the gate and pick a point past it; there appears to be a map
hole that you can get through, but it will only let female figures through.
If they ever fix it, you'll have to come through the ruined building to the
southeast, though, or the road to the north.
shirwyn@vcn.bc.ca adds:
Female characters can go through some tight areas that men can't(i.e. the
alleys in Macomb and the gap on the plateau above Peoria).
----2.2----
And now we come to the end of it, which features several snipers and a man
with a bazooka. There are about a half a dozen all told; you're better off
inching down the street along the south, so as to pick off the snipers in
the south building 1 at a time. What I do is go into the south building and
put my best shots on the roof, picking off the enemies one at a time. Some-
times they will be stupid enough to charge you, 1 or 2 at a time, and you
can pick them off easily enough that way. Just be careful of the bazooka
guy. His aim is usually way off if he's firing from far away, but if you get
up close, kiss your butt goodbye. The barricades here can be easily
destroyed with small arms fire.
Chris369@aol.com suggests:
Also in the Macomb mission, the rocket launcher guy at the end of the
mission can easily be taken out from behind by sneaking a guy up to the
building and climbing the ladder.
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Once done, move the hummer up to the exit area. You should get confirmation
of mission end, and then you can return to base.
"François Grandjean" notes:
I read in the 2.7 (the last one I guess) of your guide that for mission 4,
Macomb, there are some questions about the end, if you can recruit someone.
I did some hack and slash (not great and complicate one, you'll see!) and
opened the file \core\loc-mis_A.bos with winace (I guess you already know
the bos files are only zipped). There are the sricpts for some mission,
including Macomb, and the speech files. Well, if you look at the script, you
can see there is an option to give food to some civilian there (presumably
not hostile) but there are notes saying that this may not be implemented in
the game. As for everyone, I think I only encountered hostile civilians.
More: there is only ONE debriefing speech for General Barnaky, the one where
he sent civilians in a camp and clean the city with extermination squads.
----2.8----
4.1 BUNKER 4:
Get out of the hummer (everyone will run if you drive around in it). You
won't be given any more missions. Next is Preoria. Buy some rad-X while
you are at the base; you'll need it.
PREORIA (MISSION 5): 5.0
The people here are friendly. One of the tents has a chest with ammo and
rad-away in it, so go get that. Talk to some of them if you like, and then
head up one of the ladders onto the cliff. In the northern-most corner are
2 dead raiders with a bunch of stuff on them. There is also another dead
raider about halfway down the NE map edge. He's got some prodigious loot
too, but the dead tribal nearby only has some voodoo.
Before you head down the stairs, talk to the shaman, by the garden at the
N end of the village. He will give you Rad-X. Note that you can steal from
the turrets here; each has about 40 large energy cells.
Booze Miller adds:
I Found out something about the Surface Turrets in the Preoria Mission...
They have unlimited Ammo. I had Rage Take out the batteries in these toys
before hand thinking they would run out of ammo... They didn't. Oh well, at
least I didnt lose a single tribal to their bad aim. I had 3 guys with
Neosteds standing right in front of them and Beth and Kevin with A
Powerglove and that crazy Ripper Sword... Melee attacks rock against these
things.
----2.4----
"Arthur B. Byrne" suggests:
I've come up with a somewhat expensive trick for
making this mission substantially easier, although I
think this is exploiting a mis-feature.
The turrets are vulnerable to chemical overdose, if
you use drugs on them. So, if you don't use drugs for
anything else, you can simplify your life a lot, and get
a slew of energy cells.
Three psycho or four afterburner will give the
turrets a lethal overdose. I recommend using this to
take out the three turrets up in the village, so you
don't need to worry about civilian casualties when you
flip the "off" switch for the downstairs ones. There
are other drugs that will kill, but they all take more
doses.
Once you can turn the turrets on and off safely,
it's a lot easier to kill them. (I like a couple
of powerfists myself.) Of course, you don't get any
XP for drugging a turret to death, but they're only
about 14 XP w/ a group of 6 characters, and you still
get the microfusion cells.
They may eventually patch it so chemicals don't
do anything to mechanicals, but in the meantime, it's
vastly simplifies a happy ending.
----2.5----
Head down the stairs and look out for the radscorpion behind the stairs.
Loot the dead tribals for items when the scorpion is dead. Head S to the
room with the shelves and through the door there. In the next room are
some roaches behindsome machines, and you'll fight a number of smaller
roaches on the way. They go down in 1 or 2 hits, so it ought not to be a
problem. In the ice chest is fruit and a super stimpak. Move out into the
hallway carefully to pick off the smaller roaches. Beware the larger one
further down (I swear, those things creep me out).
Move down the hall, to the room at the end. There are some small roaches
inside, with shelves and a fridge. On the shelves here is the Yellow Pass
Key, important for later. In the fridge is Rad-away, which you will need.
Return to the stairs area and head NE this time. Stop in the first room on
the right. Inside are roaches, worth XP, but nothing else. The first room
on the leftalso features some small roaches and little else. Head up to the
2nd room on the left and find the single crate in the middle of the room
for a little loot.
Go around the corner (SE) and take out the roaches in the room to the SW.
You can then get at the desk with the science book inside. Now you must get
into the room to the NE, which has 2 large roaches in it. Position most of
your guys right outside the door, in line of sight with them if you can
'perceive' where they are from outside, and when you open the door you ought
to be able to at least severely wound them on the first volley. Your reward
is the ice chest, crate, fridge, and shelf. While most of it is food, you
also get some small energy cells.
Your next task is to clear the exercise room, the next room to the NE.
There are 2 doors, one at the NW end and one at the SE end. There are many
roaches in here, and 2 big ones. There is a locker against the NE wall with
rad-away in it. Now head into the room across the way, to the SE, which
will be a complex of rooms, including an office.
Try to head to the entrance and fire on the several large roaches from
afar, drawing them to you where you can hit them in the room with the
shelves. There are 4 or 5 of them, and be careful because they can spit.
Once they are subdies, check the desk in the bunk room for a gun magazine,
and the big white desk under the monitor, in the room with the hole in the
floor (the biggest one).
Then, head into the office. If you have the yellow pass key, you can open
the large yellow vault door here. You get Rad-X, flechette shells, and a
fusion battery from the lockers, and a science book and a 44 from the
locked safe (my lockpick was 100, plus the kit).
The 44 is a nice weapon because it takes 1 less AP to use; this means that
if you have 10 Agility and Fast shot, you can get off 5 shots a round. My
weapon of choice at close range, although it has to reload pretty often.
Head back into the hallway and, up to the double doors, which should open
automatically for you. It might be a good idea to power up the facility
using the control here, but it will put the turrets on line. As any Fallout
gamer knows, the defense systems (the turrets) are the first things to
break in the event of an attack (I'm gonna shoot the contractors that did
this job, you can be sure). But they don't really break. Nooooooo... they
go HOSTILE on anyone that moves . In any case, be
careful of them. They are guns, not roaches, and will do much more damage as
a result.
Once the backup power is on, you can go through the next set of doors. Doing
so will activate the alarm though (but it does say 'have a nice day'). Go
and loot the splattered Vault 0 citizen for some stimpaks. The turrets are
very hard to take out with small arms fire. Wait for the turrets to kill
off the cockroaches they can see. You won't be able to see anything, but
you should hear firing.
Each of the turrets has about 350 HP, and you'll be lucky to do more than 1
point of damage to them each time. The turrets go up and down, so if you
don't have explosives, the best trick might be to wait for them to go down
and then run past them. You don't have much time, though, so you'll have to
use cover to do it. Bonus move is a real boon here if you use TB. The
turrets have pretty bad accuracy, but save it before you try this (best
to do it 1 guy at a time) so you don't get chewed up too bad.
You could try putting your best grenadier at the pile of boxes in the middle
of the floor, there to chuck grenades at them, but it's hard to do and
doesn't do as much damage as you might expect. You could also try targeted
attacks on its various parts to try and cripple it. I couldn't find it in
the manual, but a targeted attack is done by activating the small dot with
a circle around it in the lower right-hand corner of your weapon button.
Destroying the turrets will not get you any XP. They do, however, have a
large amount of power cells on them (for your weapons, not for the quest).
In fact, if you can steal all their power cells with a thief character and
then let them fire at you from long range, using up their ammo, they will
pose no more threat to you.
george indigo suggests:
easy way to take out turrets is to out range them with
your snipers they will still shoot but only about 1 in
20 will actually hit you will on the other hand you
get about 85% on the targetted attack target their
sensor hitting this knocks them out then blast them
with any ap rounds you have with your attackers. This
also works great when shooting through windows. It
does require alot of ammo though.
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Justin Cramer writes:
I found this interesting tidbit about the turrets in
preoria. They can't stand up to melee attacks.
Sounds wierd, but if you get right up next to them,
they can't hit you at all, and you can tear em apart
with a crowbar. takes a long time, but its very
satisfying to know that you took out a heavily armed
and armored enemy with a piece of metal, swung like
mad.
Of course, it's a little tougher if there's a pair of
turrets, so you might want to snipe or grenade one and
then beat the crud out of the second.
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Gilkey, Gregory 
