Q: clarifying how things were, before being changed after Fo2

Play the games buddy.

The wannamingos are canonically exctinct iirc. So deathclaw assuming we dont count later creatures such as tunnlers, ghost people, and cazadors. Floaters were pretty hardy as well.

Likely this one. As the robobrain I originally used rifles and the eyebots used melee after awhile and securitron mk II usually killed you before they could believable run out of ammo.

Also stealth works about as well as its ever going to at about 65% iirc.

Buddy, as much as worldbuilding matters.. I think your thinking about it too much. Its best not to think about things from a real world perspective to that strict of detail.

They were weak as fuck in every way except intellect. Bethesda completely reversed that with ferals because they get everything wrong wherever possible. Also that radiation heals them bulshit was added by bethesda because iirc fallout 2 merely said radiation made them feel more comfortable.

 

Gameplay wise, the EMP are a type of damage from which the robots have no resistance while everything else has like 500 resistance.

So, you are most likely to one-shot robots with it, but sometimes, they survive it. On the other hand, you are unlikely to hurt anything else, unless there is a great critical.

 

The feral ghouls were an odd design choice, but I felt New Vegas utilised them well.

 

So did fallout 3. Better even than NV. Doesn't make them any less blasphemous.

 

In F3, they were overused.
They should have been kept to one certain location.

 

Depends, average Deathclaws hit harder, heal faster, have more AP and have almost twice the HP than average Wanamingos. Wananmingos are tougher, score criticals easier and are harder to hit.
Now we have to remember that there are only three types of wanamingos in Fallout 2, the normal one, the tough one and the queen (which is a unique one). There are six types of Deathclaws though, there are two "Deathclaws" (one being really weak compared to the other), there are Deathclaw Spawns, there are two different tough Deathclaws (small and normal) and there is a Deathclaw Mother (a unique one).
In my book both deathclaws and wanamingos are deadly to most adventurers unless they are well leveled. Wananmingos will avoid hits and get less damage, sometimes hitting a critical that will be fatal, but Deathclaws will hit hard, faster and be able to get hit twice as much. Once an adventurer has enough weapon skill to hit Wanamingos easier, I would say Deathclaws are harder.

I don't know what you mean by partial damage, sorry.
EMP damage in Fallout and Fallout 2 means just that, it is a type of damage. It is pretty much useless against living creatures because they have a huge resistance to it (In Fallout 1 and 2 armors protect better or worst against different types of damage and there are DT and DR, this is for another day or I will stay here for hours). Power Armor is actually very resistant to EMP damage (I think it has something like 500 DR), robots usually (IIRC) have no protection against it, so they get the full damage from that source (EMP grenades deal 100 to 150 damage, that is usually enough to destroy any normal robot in Fallout 1 and 2 in one hit).

You can fire a Gauss pistol 12 times and a Gauss Rifle 20 times before reloading. I am having a blank at the moment but I think reloading weapons in Fallout and Fallout 2 costs 2 AP (Action Points) so I don't know what you mean by a lengthy reload.

Ghouls are weak, they are radiation burnt humans, they are slow and fragile (they can still shoot weapons like any human so they cna hit hard depending on which weapon they are using). Ghouls do not regenerate from radiation in older Fallout games, that is a Bethesda canon introduced in Fallout 3. Ghouls skin and ligaments are slowly decaying. They do live a long time, longer than normal humans.
The green skin is because their skin became leathery from radiation so for some reason it became green/grey (rememebr that the first Fallout games were in a time where computers couldn't show many colors, I guess green was a good one to show or something).

It's easy to have irrigation if you possess a water pump and a well, most communities in rural Fallout and Fallout 2 use wells and use that water for their crops. I think big cities like San Francisco, New Reno, Vault City, etc have sewers of some kind.
Small communities usually use outhouses to relieve themselves, so no need for sewers.

Spoiler: Outhouse

How a outhouse looks like underneath it:

I always play unarmed since years ago and I don't think it is boring at all (or I wouldn't play it like that). Power Fists are mechanical, so they do have movable parts, what they do is using energy to somehow release/activate powered servos through the studs in the knuckles (I guess it makes those studs punch out using servos on impact). It does not increase the user strength, it increases the user fist impact force.

I don't think robots in Fallout and Fallout 2 use nuclear power at all, I don't even think any of them has lasers (please correct me if I am wrong, my memory is all messy today). They do run out of ammo and then use melee attacks. IIRC they even have powering docks, where they go to recharge (I remember several robobrains in their docks).

Stealth Boys run for a long time IIRC, they can be turned on and off at will too.

There are trees:

Spoiler: Trees, everywhere

Also timber is used around, there are wooden crates for example:

Spoiler: Crates, chests and boxes

Why would people want to melt cars when they can use them as well or even better as they are? They serve a perfect function of carrying heavy merchandise through the wastes and being sturdy enough for that too.
Remember that brahmin are strong but slow creatures and the wastes are hard, these "car carts" are sturdy and work well in these conditions so I don't see how spending a lot of time and money to melt cars to make carts that would have the same function and work as well would be efficient.

Weapon Skills will increase the chance to hit (hard capped at 95%) and damage with weapons of that skill. Weapon Skills are pretty much the only skills worth leveling past 100-125% because of damage increase. I don't know the formula and I already took too long typing this anyway so I will not go into searching it.

Anyway, I have to go and buy some lunch it's already past 3pm.

 

Wannamingos are weaker, but are found in larger numbers.

Additionally IIRC the queen is strong enough to solo your usual deathclaw.

I'm not sure if its the restoration project, but I mostly see tough deathclaws, which are the hardest fuckers to kill barring enclave.

Gauss rifles in FO2 was just that, a RIFLE, it had a lovely 20 round clip.

 

I found the Fo2 deathclaws to be very underwhelming on my last playthrough. Fo1 on the other hand... Absolutly fit the nightmarish description of the few survivors...

 

Fit the description?
They were said to be 20ft tall with claws as long as a man. Could hypnotize and were bloodsucking. ghost demons. They could also turn invisible.

 

Generally, wannamigos are not to be found in the wildlife. The only place where they exist is below redding, and i remember reading a theory that they were actually a result of the enclave\american government messing around with xenomorph-like alien life forms ( probably because the enclave was generally using redding, for example the people that became second generation supermutants were actually redding miners that they captured). Chris avelone didn't think they were actually aliens though. The following is from the fallout bible

by the way the story about them being FEV weapons that got loose is very close to the new xenomorph origin established in prometheus, funnily enough

no, that was probably just harold's crazy talk. Deathclaws had become a local myth.


Edit: sorry, i didn't read your post in context. yeah, they definitely didn't fit the description.
But i agree that they were much better in fallout than fallout 2, much scarier anyway.

 

I am more than happy to clarify a few things about Fallout 1&2. But before I do that, I’m hoping you can shed some light on the following:

Let me get this straight. You read about the classic fallout games, you watch let’s plays and you make a lengthy forum post with questions regarding lore, game mechanics etc. What is stopping you from just playing the games?

They’re perfectly playable on today’s hardware with the community patches. Although wandering around the wastes can make for a huge time sink, the main story lines aren’t that time consuming. Especially Fallout 1 is a rather short game. They’re still pretty damn good games albeit with some quirks and flaws. Best of all: you get to partake in discussions on these forums with first-hand experience.

 

There is more than one skin for ghouls in the first two Falllout.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ghoul

Seek for the gallery section.

About lore, they are no feral ghouls in the classics. Some are more hostiles than other, but they aren't like wild animal. They talk and use weapons.

Also, there are very very few running ghouls. Ghouls are supposed to be very very old people with the common afflictions of old people. There are as few running ghouls as there are few running centenial.

 

Not telling you that you should do it. There is no reason to force yourself into playing a game that don't fit your gamestyle (as long as you don't say that this gameplay should be removed forever and other mean stuff agains't TB players)

But if you really want to get into the lore of the game, without being bothered by the fight, you could still use cheats like character editor, that give you tons of HP and AP, and make you able to kill almost everything with one click.

I did use it several times for games that grabbed my interest lore-wise, while i didn't enjoy the combat. (or if it was too hard, when i was very young)

 

Ferals are a blasphemous invention by bethesda. There were hostile ghouls but they didn't behave anywhere.near like ferals. More like dawn of the dead zombies that could speak.

 

A lone Wannamingo is fairly challenging, but is very possible to deal with. The reason they are such buggers is because there are hundreds of them crowding the Redding Mine, and it's very easy to get overwhelmed.

If you see a single Deathclaw even at high levels, you start shitting yourself.

I'd say Deathclaws i are still definitely the top predators, but it's because Wannamingos are able to swarm entire areas that make them deadly.

Eh, IRL a bullet to the head would be fatal.

If EMPs instakilled, it would no longer be entertaining. They kinda needed a way to make it so they would still be a must-have in fights against robots and power-armour, but at the same time weren't enough to take away all danger involved.

Set isn't green, but he still has a talking head.

My theory is that it's not clean cut. Some Ghouls have green skin, some don't, some look like there faces are melting off, whereas some look far more pleasant. There isn't IMO one universal way that all Ghouls look. It's a mutation, it's messy.

As for less agile, ghouls supposedly can't run according to Lenny. Interestingly enough, Raul in New Vegas always complains about pains from running, though he claims its just arthiritis.

The Regenerative part, I always figured that's just how the dev's justified there long-lifespans. They regenerate faster, so they can live for a couple hundred years.

Robots canonically need power in the first 2 games. They don't just continue running like in 3 and NV.

IIRC, Mr Handies have self-maintenence programs, so can refuel and repair themselves.

Robobrains and stuff like that need a power source. In fact in Fallout 1, if you don't repair the generator in The Glow, all the robots just lie there, and don't respond.

They probably need some kind of power source, but much like Pip-Boys, it's kinda inconvinient to show constantly refueling.

In the first 2 games, Stealth Boys weren't one-use things. If you had one in your inventory, it gave a static bonus every time you went in to stealth.

I always figured that the trees you see are perfectly living, but since it's a desert, they don't have as many leaves.