Assault Shotgun: First Mission

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Guest
Immediately after the first mission, walk around Brahmin Wood on the map, before entering bunker alpha. Your only encounter should be a group of civilians (or tribals). Hopefully, you got the civilians. Now, make sure one of your characters has at least a 45% or higher stealing skill. Run as fast as you can to a female civilian and steal from them. The first few times, they won't have anything in their inventory (keep trying different girls). After a few attempts, the assault shotgun should appear. Chances are, you'll get caught stealing, but they don't get hostile, and your rep isn't affected! So keep trying! I was able to grab two of these and around 100 rounds of shells.

With this, I was able to get to quincy with no problems (The first assault shotgun appears in quincy i believe). Also, I had the nifty avenger minigun by now.

Anyways, now that I've got you guys reading this, could you help me out a bit? Does charisma do anything?! What are the benefits of maxing out charisma? (I heard you gain rank faster)
 
Already mentioned:

Don't you just like it when it's so easy to get the obscenely-powerful stuff early on?

For me, it was 'civilians and radscorpions'. The radscorpions had killed one of the civilians, and I searched the body. 'Lo and behold, there's one hell of a nice gun.

Now repeat that about five times for each encounter in the same square. If I wanted to, I could cheese that way through the game (gotta love my experience as a playtester). Kind of funny, really, because otherwise the game really refuses to work.

[font color=orange]
--------------------------------------------
Dennis Leary stole my song! That...asshole!
--------------------------------------------
"Robert, your time has come!"

"OOOH! Thank you, Master!"

"Don't mention it."

*Robert explodes in a shower of sparks*
--------------------------------------------
It's me, Jack Brown! The wind-up ass-hole!
--------------------------------------------

[font color=white]INTERPLAY: REDEFINING BAD BUSINESS

=========================
Try Arcanum, by those who brought you the first Fallout:
http://fp.geocities.com/jonaac/2.jpg
​
 
RE: Already mentioned:

that might work if shotgun shells was more abundant, but they aren't....look the game creators probably left these items (combat shotgun on random enc, minigun on generals) to leave it up to the player to find out if he/she really wants to cheese their way through the game...
for some of us this is an excellent game...it hasn't crashed on me once...and I am really having a ball...what probably happened was that the QA was rushed so that interplay could get to their planned budget cuts and minimize the initial sales impact of having a design team sliced in half
 
Couple of flaws, there:

>that might work if shotgun shells
>was more abundant, but they
>aren't....look the game creators probably
>left these items (combat shotgun
>on random enc, minigun on
>generals) to leave it up
>to the player to find
>out if he/she really wants
>to cheese their way through
>the game...

But on a mere dreg..wait, not just one, but quite a few people carrying around assault shotguns? That in itself doesn't make sense when the general populace has a good bit of weapons and just are carrying them around. Also, each pickup of those comes with about 107 shells, quite a bit of use, really. What to do with the others? Trade them, of course. And they trade rather nicely at an early stage.

Kind of odd to get an expensive and uber-weapon early on in the game (like one square from the base).


[font color=orange]
--------------------------------------------
Dennis Leary stole my song! That...asshole!
--------------------------------------------
"Robert, your time has come!"

"OOOH! Thank you, Master!"

"Don't mention it."

*Robert explodes in a shower of sparks*
--------------------------------------------
It's me, Jack Brown! The wind-up ass-hole!
--------------------------------------------

[font color=white]INTERPLAY: REDEFINING BAD BUSINESS

=========================
Try Arcanum, by those who brought you the first Fallout:
http://fp.geocities.com/jonaac/2.jpg
​
 
RE: Couple of flaws, there:

Not the first time its been possible in a Fallout game to get an "expensive and uber-weapon" early on in the game, if you're tipped off as to how. it was no big trick in Fallout 2 to head south out of Arroyo (instead of east to Klamath) and end up in San Francisco, and from there going to Navarro. All told, this route get you Advanced Power Armor, the plasma and pulse rifles, the pulse pistol, and 30,000+ exp. points without doing anything but running and talking. Or if that scares you, you can grab an SMG in the Den and run to New Reno and take over the weapons shop... good/expensive/plentiful weapons early in the game seem to be a trend with the Fallout series, if you know where to look.
 
RE: Couple of flaws, there:

There's a huge difference between that and comparatively finding a bozar on a dead body, and regularly, right outside of Arroyo.


[font color=orange]
--------------------------------------------
Dennis Leary stole my song! That...asshole!
--------------------------------------------
"Robert, your time has come!"

"OOOH! Thank you, Master!"

"Don't mention it."

*Robert explodes in a shower of sparks*
--------------------------------------------
It's me, Jack Brown! The wind-up ass-hole!
--------------------------------------------

[font color=white]INTERPLAY: REDEFINING BAD BUSINESS

=========================
Try Arcanum, by those who brought you the first Fallout:
http://fp.geocities.com/jonaac/2.jpg
​
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top