[FO2] NPC skill question

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NPC skill question

Beleive it or not I just started playing this game after just finishing the first fallout. A little behind the times I know, but i was into some other stuff heh.

Anyhow, I don't understand how you use the skills of your NPC party members. Like Lennies doctor skill, how do I use that to heal up after a fight? If he is hurt I can tell him to heal himself, but thats about all. I can't figure out how to make him heal myself or others.

 

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RE: NPC skill question

Usually when you attempt to use your own doctor skill the NPC will say something along the lines of 'I'll try my best' and attempt the skill instead of you.
However, I've never used Lenny as an NPC so I've only seen Myron and Vic use their science and repair skills. Actually by the time I'd got them my own skills were superior to theirs so it was actually quite annoying how they'd insist on doing a skill instead of me.

 

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RE: NPC skill question

You can't get him to heal yourself, unless he does automatically (i think he tried to use doctor on me after i died once, but that was ages ago, so maybe not). You have to be a few hexes away from the target of the doctor skill, for lenny to offer to help.

 

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RE: NPC skill question

As the others have said, NPC's will use their skill whenever you try something that requires their particular field of expertise. Ie.. click doctor skill on yourself or someone else and Lenny will do his stuff. Sometimes the path to the problem is blocked so they give up. However, in the case of Lenny, then you might as well not bother with the old ghoul. I've never ran out of stimpacks to heal me, and as far as crippled limbs go, then if you save your game first, it's possible to repair the limbs with just 20 doctor skill. Plus Lenny isn't welcome in some places and has limited level up capabilities. So that's reason enough to leave the guy in Gecko.