About to play Fallout.

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NicolasExposition

First time out of the vault
I'm about to REALLY play Fallout for the first time. I bought the Trilogy pack some time ago. Anything I should know before I play. Any patches or anything?
 
killaps is a must for fallout 2
fallout 1 is really easy to blow threw if you know what your doing
and don't expect to win with your first character i tried at LEAST 8 time before i got anywhere story-wise
and DONT tag gambling whatever you do DON'T DO IT!


and if you wanna laugh set your characters intelegence to 3 it makes him retarded and makes dialog considerably more fun :mrgreen:
 
If I were you, I'd stick with vanilla FO1 and 2-- don't use the RP on your first playthrough. You may want to use killap's unofficial patch, though.

It can be really fun to play a diplomatic character. One of my favorite playthroughs of FO2 was having speech, science, and repair tagged. Of course, you'd have to let your companions deal with every battle.

Honestly, for the first serious playthrough, a combat-based character with small guns and energy weapons is probably easiest. Turbo Plasma Rifle (in FO1) is pretty overpowered so be sure to pick it up. :wink:

EDIT: If I were you, I definitely wouldn't do the "stupid" run (INT<4) first time. It cuts off almost half of the game, so it's a lot more difficult to succeed (and this in a game that doesn't exactly baby you along in the first place).
 
Really? As far as I know the unofficial patch fixes several bugs in FO2 without modding the game in any other way, but I could be wrong.
 
probably_not_a_mutie said:
and DONT tag gambling whatever you do DON'T DO IT!
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Now that's not fair...gambling can make the game very easy, if you want to buy all of the good shit, but it will kill some of the thrill of looting people. Gambling at 120%+...with luck 8+, gives a very high success rate at the tables in New Reno. Hitting the slot machines is also fun. It's a different type of game...

Now if your a Fallout virgin, just sit back and enjoy the games as they were designed, just make sure you patch them with the latest official, then unofficial patches (search the modding threads - there in there somewhere) - basically they fix thousands of bugs. Don't use the Restoration Patch for your first play-through of Fallout 2, too much has been changed, but after your finished the game go for it. I personally wouldn't even use the resolution patch for the first play-through, but if you do try to get the image ratio close to 800x600, otherwise you see too much of the surrounding environment, and that spoils the immersion IMO.

Remember turn those lights out, and lock the door...your gaming life will never be the same. :wink:
 
I'm playing the Hi-Res. I started playing it before, and I got up to getting the waterchip back and then being tasked with killing the master and Lou. Then I kinda got... Lost.
 
sea said:
I definitely know that the Fallout Trilogy and GOG.com versions of the game are missing children. I don't remember for sure, but I also think that the last retail patch removed children from the game as well, regardless of region.
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I have Fallout Trilogy (not the "latest" one, the one with the packaging that Interplay got sued over) and it came with children already in-game.
 
Remember to save alot and never use only one save slot, because it's too easy to corrupt your only save by saving in a situation that would screw up the whole game so far.
 
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