The Nearly Ultimate Wasteland Guide has been updated to version 1.2. What? you say. Didn't that use to be merely Pretty Good? It did, but due to explosive developments on the Wasteland hacking front in the last year, no more. This is also the primary reason for the delay in getting it finished: more than a year ago I was actually wrapping up an update which already had several of the most significant discoveries in it (but considerably less detail), when new information about the game's inner workings started to appear in the Snake Squeezins community, culminating this summer with the (almost) complete revelation of the map data. Work is still being done to uncover game mechanics and technical aspects, and there are intriguing moddability prospects.
If you've ever played and enjoyed Wasteland I'm sure you'll be thrilled to learn where the fourth Broken toaster was meant to be found, that Dan Citrine is strangely proof against electrocution and such, how to finally shut up the Junk Master and his wife, that you don't need four characters to win the game, or that it's possible to fight up to three Fusion Octotrons at once. If you haven't played this post-apocalyptic RPG you're in for a vintage treat; not to advocate piracy, but there's this site called The Belowhounds or something.
Finally some words on that which I suppose most people are ultimately more interested in, namely the coming Fallout 2 guide update. For the past year I've been telling people (most notably prospective translators) it'd probably be ready this summer, which obviously didn't happen. I'm not going to dive into it right away, and I'm not setting a date, but there's the possibility of a winter update unless my humongous backlog of notes and mails turns out to necessitate such a trunkload of testing that I feel I can't set aside the time (there are other things I ought to be doing).
Links:
The Nearly Ultimate Guide collection
Snake Squeezins group at Yahoo! Groups (must apply for membership)
Wasteland entry at Abode of the Belowhounds (no responsibility claimed for legality of further linkage)
Takmer Dokonalý Sprievodca Falloutom 2
Wasteland wiki at Wikispaces
If you've ever played and enjoyed Wasteland I'm sure you'll be thrilled to learn where the fourth Broken toaster was meant to be found, that Dan Citrine is strangely proof against electrocution and such, how to finally shut up the Junk Master and his wife, that you don't need four characters to win the game, or that it's possible to fight up to three Fusion Octotrons at once. If you haven't played this post-apocalyptic RPG you're in for a vintage treat; not to advocate piracy, but there's this site called The Belowhounds or something.
Finally some words on that which I suppose most people are ultimately more interested in, namely the coming Fallout 2 guide update. For the past year I've been telling people (most notably prospective translators) it'd probably be ready this summer, which obviously didn't happen. I'm not going to dive into it right away, and I'm not setting a date, but there's the possibility of a winter update unless my humongous backlog of notes and mails turns out to necessitate such a trunkload of testing that I feel I can't set aside the time (there are other things I ought to be doing).
Links:
The Nearly Ultimate Guide collection
Snake Squeezins group at Yahoo! Groups (must apply for membership)
Wasteland entry at Abode of the Belowhounds (no responsibility claimed for legality of further linkage)
Takmer Dokonalý Sprievodca Falloutom 2
Wasteland wiki at Wikispaces
