WraithUV said:
killap's corrections.txt said:
• Fallout 2 hintbook now correctly updates all your stats to 10s, your skills to 300, and your hit points to 999. Thanks to Timeslip's tweaks this finally became fixable.
This makes an infinite XP award from the vault city computer entirely moot, so it really wouldn't matter one way or the other.
As Killap noted, timeslips fixes don't impact the mac version, so that doesn't help us out at all. The main reason to gain the unlimited XP, in my book, is to mess around with different perks that you might not have had a chance to access during the initial playthrough.
Per said:
The Masticator said:
The issue I have with this "fix" is that it isn't a bug fix. It is an editorial change.
If I recall correctly killap noticed that there was a check to see if you had already used the computer and/or the book, but it was broken. That's what makes it a fix.
Desert sun can make a man say some downright terrible things, an you done have my apology right here and now. (Tips an imaginary hat respectfully.)
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The Masticator said:
There are no balance issues or exploits when the game is over.
I don't agree about this either. If I can get one big chunk of xp after I beat the game, it will feel like a reward and I'll get it. If I could get that reward an arbitrary number of times it'd feel pointless and perhaps I wouldn't get it even once. For anyone who actually wants millions of xp, it's much, much quicker and easier to use an editor than to sit and move your mouse repetitively and watch hundred of fade-ins and fade-outs. Disabling an eternal source of 10,000 xp chunks doesn't really play a role there, if anything it points you in the right direction.
The book fades you out to black, but the computer can just be rapidly clicked for easily adjusted levels. The fun here, as I said before is creating a save point here and then trying out different perk builds to roam the end-game wastes with.
It may be a bug, but I'm fairly certain it was meant to be as it was at release: an infinite fountain of XP. I'd call that a feature, not an exploit. This is an endgame reward after all and a mere 20,000XP quest reward seems rather pointless. For me the computer XP is the equivalent of going down onto the field after a football game and throwing the ball around. To say that it is cheap, or an exploit misses the point. The game is OVER, the players, coaches and refs have left the field, time to relax and horse around. Anyway, I don't have any experience with the PC fallout editors, but the mac one is fairly unstable and you can quite easily wreck your save game files and most perks don't get implemented properly. So the endgame computer was really a great option for making a 35+ level char.
Anyway, that's [ /RANT ] for me. This is a non-issue and I've got nothing but oodles of respect and admiration for the work y'all have done and continue to do
! I'll get back to poking around for bugs and won't bring this up again (unless I can get a sworn affadavit from one of the original VC devs that backs me up).
And I suppose some of you might say 'well he was locked away in the room without food, so he starved to death', but then there should be a corpse, or a pool of blood. Furthermore, it makes no sense, for after the demise of the slavers, he could surely have yelled through the window for people to come help him out of there one way or another. This sucks. I might end up restarting the game because Vic is a nice NPC and I wanted to enlist him.
