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where is the damn tank what town is it in what is the general area is it in the uper right corner or in the middle.
 
I don't know where it is, since I haven't encountered it yet. What I can tell you is that it's definitely not before mission 13, and there seems to be a hint that I will get it in mission 14 (Coldwater). Not sure if it's there, but the mission briefing says something about people running off with a vehicle. (It also says they had Power Armor, so maybe the vehicle comment was misleading.) Anyway, if you're only on mission 5 or something, don't worry about the tank for a LONG time!
 
Yeah, I'm guessing cold water too. I am in the bunker and really frustrated because the stupid APC isstuck (hurry up patch) and my guys keep dieing en route to cold water via random encouters every 20 feet. But the quartermaster has tank rounds for say right before the cold water mission, so it's probably there.
 
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The tank is further on than that, it is the mission after coldwater, I forget the name, but you have to rescue 4 reaver scientists who are being besiged by robots.
 
"my guys keep dieing en route to cold water via random encouters"

The trick is to get a deathclaw that has really high outdoorsman, so you can avoid all the encounters. During the first Reaver mission, you can use a DC, and he will level up a few times giving him about +100% outdoorsman. Yeah DC's are kinda lame (only do unarmed), but having one as a guide really helps!

I personally believe the system for encounters sucks! I mean, who really wants to stop every 5 seconds to get past an encounter? The game should have avoided this, IMO. It sucked in the other fallouts and sucks in this one too. =)

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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Apr-14-01 AT 07:52PM (GMT)[p]It doesn't suck if they make encounters more interesting and less often (like F1 & F2). Perhaps making maps & starting location more random would help. You always start in middle of the damn map & try to avoid enemy as you run to the exit. It gets old after a while.

Maybe meeting merchants & villagers (non-hostile) will make encounters bearable.

Even with 100%+ outdoorsman it's annoying to click "No" 20-30 times! I once had 5 encounters in 1 square of the map!

The tank is in Newton. Bring some repair kits with you
 
Yup, the tank was in Newton. And it wasn't good for shit during that mission. It was more of a pain in the ass to manuever the damn thing around obstacles than to just leave it at the start, IMO. And it could only carry 5 people, so you had to leave 1 person out of it. Actually, 2 people when you have one of the 4 Reavers with you. So far, the only vehicle based mission that was really fun was the APC mission. Partially because all of the people could fit in it, and partially because it was highly effective during that super mutant encounter.

As for the encounters that happen ALL the time outdoors, there is a bug saying that the encounters are somehow related to frame rates. I would guess that this means on faster systems, you have even more encounters. (I have a P3 800 and get them about twice per square on average.) So hopefully that patch comes out soon.... Like once Easter is over, maybe they'll get their asses in gear?
 
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Actually I think there are two tanks to be found. where the second one is I haven't the slightest idea. The little one is at the rescue the reaver message. I couldn't get it to do anything, my pilot skill probably wasnt' enough. I found the pictures at the china fallout union. www.fushe.com Choose traditial chinease scroll down to vehicals (you should be able read what it says in your browser)
I tried to upload the pictures but I don't know what the hell i'm doing so it didn't work.
 
You do realize that you need to repair that tank, right? I think it starts at 70 health (with a maximum of 500). When you repair it up to 100+, then it starts up. I really didn't find it to be very useful in the mission or later, but at least it's not so tall that it gets stuck in the last bunker.
 
Weird! mine said the tank had 30 hp's and when I tried to fix it, it said "tank at maximum hit points." I thought to myself "what's the point of that!" and haven't messed with it since.
 
Posibly just another bug. All I know is that when any vehicle is damaged to a certain point, it breaks down and needs to be repaired before it can be used again. And if the vehicle ever reaches 0 HP, it explodes and you can kiss the vehicle and any inventory in the vehicle goodbye. (I encountered a nasty group of robots in the wilderness one time. The destroyed my poor hummer. I had to go back to a previous save, since I lost about $200,000 worth of equipment!) At any rate, the tank should be able to be repaired. It looks different when it's fixed compared to when you first find it. You could try reloading at an earlier save and replaying that mission to see if the tank starts working, but it's not that great anyway.
 
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