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[Vester]

Also, I just ran into a Hitchhiker's Guide reference. I laughed so hard.

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The one from the first book, where the Infinite Improbability Drive accidentally summons a whale and a pot of daisies.

[kcwong]

Also, I just ran into a Hitchhiker's Guide reference. I laughed so hard.

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The one from the first book, where the Infinite Improbability Drive accidentally summons a whale and a pot of daisies.

Always save before traveling. There's a deadly random encounter that inflicts upon you a deadly effect.

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The pariah dog. It gives you the "Jinxed" trait and set your luck to 1 (which means when you fire a gun it's more likely to explode in your face than functioning normally).

It sticks around and occupies one party member slot, doesn't fight, runs away a lot, and has a lot of HP so it's hard to kill.

Once it's dead the bad effects should be removed.

[DJ]

Are you kidding me? That encounter gives you the best meat-shield ever.

[kcwong]

Are you kidding me? That encounter gives you the best meat-shield ever.

How do you suppose one can deal with the bad effects? I can't imagine it unless playing a pacifist. If you fire a strong weapon with those effects you are very likely to kill yourself (or, lose half your hit points and the enemies finish you on their turns).

Plus the thing's coded with a cowardly AI - it runs away in battles. How can it shield you?

[DJ]

Eh, I always used luck as my dump stat, and I got along just fine.

[kcwong]

Eh, I always used luck as my dump stat, and I got along just fine.

No way... I dare not to try luck under 5. I tried Jinxed and low luck before, and the amount of critical failures is very difficult to cope with. Like ammo exploding dealing heavy damage plus losing all ammo I have left in the chamber.

[zchris13]

Also, I just ran into a Hitchhiker's Guide reference. I laughed so hard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The one from the first book, where the Infinite Improbability Drive accidentally summons a whale and a pot of daisies.

Actually, it didn't summon them. They used to be a pair of missiles.

[Glacies]

So I'm walking around New Reno. I walk into this big, one story house. Talk to some folks. I find out that the place is the home of some mob family. Now, I'm nearly broke. I don't have much in the way of ammo or money or stimpacks or pretty much anything. So I think to myself: "Let's ask the boss for a job."

So I talk to his guard, because I'm not allowed to go in and talk to the guy. After passing a speech check, he says "Okay, you can go in. But watch it. The boss is in a pissy mood." So I go in. The mob boss pulls a gun out and shoots me in the face.

Two hours of real life time later, I leave new reno a smoking crater, loaded to the gills with ammunition and caps. Also, I am covered in surtures and stimpack puncture marks. Today was a good day, on reflection.

[kcwong]

So I'm walking around New Reno. I walk into this big, one story house. Talk to some folks. I find out that the place is the home of some mob family. Now, I'm nearly broke. I don't have much in the way of ammo or money or stimpacks or pretty much anything. So I think to myself: "Let's ask the boss for a job."

So I talk to his guard, because I'm not allowed to go in and talk to the guy. After passing a speech check, he says "Okay, you can go in. But watch it. The boss is in a pissy mood." So I go in. The mob boss pulls a gun out and shoots me in the face.

Two hours of real life time later, I leave new reno a smoking crater, loaded to the gills with ammunition and caps. Also, I am covered in surtures and stimpack puncture marks. Today was a good day, on reflection.

The New Reno mobsters are a good source of money and experience. You can do all quests except the last one for all of them, then wipe two of them off the face of the planet. Then you do the last quest for the remaining one.

If you are the boxing champ, you will get much better reactions from them. You are famous, tough and mean, and they like that.

[Vester]

I downloaded the unofficial patch. Everything is much harder now. Hee!

Although I'm murdering everything in a single shot thanks to my ludicrous crit rate.

EDIT:

Spoiler: About the final boss (click to show/hide)

HORRIGAN IS A CHEATING BASTARD. How many times can you shoot a guy in the head without an insta-kill?

Wait, is he immune to insta-kill? He certainly seems immune to groin attack knockdowns... The only time I've ever knocked him down is with successive eye shots.

[tehstefan]

I've been thinking about getting a fallout game, but I have to ask, where could you buy them? I haven't seen anything but Fallout 3 anywhere, and I figure I should try playing the other fallouts first. So, where could I get a copy, by chance?

[Vester]

Try bargain bins at vg shops in your local mall. That's where I got my copies of Fallout Tactics and Fallout 2.

[Davion]

I've been thinking about getting a fallout game, but I have to ask, where could you buy them? I haven't seen anything but Fallout 3 anywhere, and I figure I should try playing the other fallouts first. So, where could I get a copy, by chance?

GoG

Digital downloads.