Game ends; I want to stab my eyes out.

[ChainsawJack]

I've been playing FO2 off and on for like 4 years and I've never had this problem. I'll be like resting or traveling from town to town on the world map and when the game reaches a certain date, the game just ends. I get a screen with some destroyed buildings and in big words, like the game is mocking me, "THE END." There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, the game just ends. I'm really getting frustrated with this since I deleted my previous game when this happened the first time, started another one, and now it's doing it again. There's still alot of stuff I'd like to do in the game. I even went back a few saves before this started happening and destroyed the enclave to see if that would help, but no dice.I'm about to start smashing things. This is exactly why I quit playing Evercrack. If anyone could tell me a way to get around this or at least tell me why it's happening I'd really apreciate this. Please help me before I hurt myself or someone else.

 

[sephiroth_duck]

fallout 2 is hard coded to end the game after 13 years have elapsed... since the game begins on July 25, 2241 (i think) this means you have until the same date in 2254 to beat the game. sorry, there's no way out of this one...

 

[PsychoSniper]

At that point the Encave releases their virus. They win, Goodnight gracey.


(btw, if you are ALLREADY in the oil rig, the game doesnt end.)
(I once went on to 2354 by purposly getting near ded in the maze room, then resting til healed.)

 

[ChainsawJack]

I have beaten the enclave and like a week or two after I get back on the tanker, the game shits out on me. I'm all violently frustrated. If I had kids, they'd be dead face down in the gutter with their pants down around their ankles right now. Anyway, thanks for your help.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

Off-topic: have you ever killed all NPCs in the game?

 

[ChainsawJack]

The NPCs that usualy follow me around, no. I've never killed them. They're all alive, just not with me. They did do somthing weird halfway through the game, however. They stopped following me. They'd go with me from map to map but wouldn't actualy walk with me. I don't know if that's related, though. I just got done beating the enclave by means of releasing the virus through the ventilation system and bombing the reactor rather than having that dude shut off the reactor like I had been doing before and it's still ending the game when I get back from the oil rig. I know it shouldn't piss me off so much but I'm about to raid the janitor's closet in my dorm building and start drinking the cleaning supplies. Lord help me... Lord help us all.

 

[Bradylama]

If I had kids, they'd be dead face down in the gutter with their pants down around their ankles right now. Anyway, thanks for your help.

There are so many things wrong with that statement its not even funny.

 

[baby ghoul]

have you ever killed all NPCs in the game?

This is not funny also, but I did it in FO1, but there was reason for
it. The unique ending of FO1 is so deep that Role playing continues further from finishing playing fallout.
It's OK that the vault dweller was so upset, that he didn't know what he was doing till he found peace in Arroyo with some tribal big fat mama, at least he was able to make kids
But to wipe out everyone in fallout2? hmmmm....

 

[PsychoSniper]

I have once. Its funny werever you go, noones there.

It's OK that the vault dweller was so upset, that he didn't know what he was doing till he found peace in Arroyo with some tribal big fat mama, at least he was able to make kids

Actualy, if I remember right I read someware that Arroyo was founded by the VD, a group that had left the vault and stumbled upon the VD, and maybe a group of tribals I'm not so sure bout the tribal part.