[Attention] Bradylama's Fallout Iron Man Challenge!

I know some of you have played Fallout, I know more of you have played Fallout 2, so it's time for me to stop bitching about Fallout 3 and make Fallout a community event. I was inspired by a similar thread on the something awful forums and damnit it's such an awesome idea, and playing Iron Man is so much more fun I had to do it here.

Iron Man, for those of you who don't know, is a term which refers to a game mode in RPGs that only allows you to save when exiting the game, and doesn't allow reloading in-game. Now, Fallout doesn't have an Iron Man mode, so all participants are going to have to act on the honor system.

Iron Man Thread Challenge: Fallout 1&2

-Where can I get Fallout 1&2?-

You mean you don't have it already!? You missed out on fine gaming, my friend. For those of you who cannot find your old copies or have never played the game, Interplay released a game pack shortly before they tanked with both Fallout RPGs and Fallout Tactics on one DVD, all optimized for Windows XP which you can find on any game distribution webstore. Chances are you'll get the International version which had children removed but don't sweat it, there's patches for that.

If you haven't played before I wouldn't recommend playing Iron Man until at least one playthrough, and I suggest starting with Fallout 1 first. If you can't wait for package delivery and want to get them some other way... I don't give a shit.

For those of you installing from the original CD copies use this handy dandy guide for installing 1&2 in Windows2000, NT, and XP. Mac gamers *snort* need not apply.

If you're worried about being able to run it, the games were made in 1997 and 1998. They're 2D, and anybody can run them. You'll have to live with a fixed 640x480 resolution, but the art is so good you shouldn't care.

-Da Rules-

1. Save often and alternate between saves. If one file becomes corrupted you'll need that other one to fall back on.

2. Fallout 2 players should use this patch, which solves the high processing issue with map travel and increases encounters to the normal rate.

3. DON'T RELOAD FAGGOT! Ctrl+L sissy boys aren't welcome. If Dogmeat or any other follower bites the dust, tough shit. Post about it and get mondo cool points. If you die, then that's just a faster trip to the board.

4. Don't use your screename as your character name. You're probably gonna die. It wouldn't do to have your name going up on the board multiple times, so be creative.

5. No Speedrunning. Under absolutely no conditions are you to speedrun through your Iron Man. That's just gay. Don't go to Navarro to get the Power Armor early, don't do anything that would throw off the natural progression of the game. If you want to avoid combat and come back when you're ready, that's fine. To prove that you didn't speedrun, do the following:

6. Update your character's progress using screenshots either via the Print Screen button (not recommended) or by using F12. When saving a screenshot with F12, a .bmp version of your screen will be saved to the game directory. Convert it to JPEG, host it, and post it. Give a description of what's going on and how you're progressing, and don't bore use with how many times you fucked Mrs. Bishop, just tell us about the cool stuff or present it in a humorous or interesting way. If you avoided a major combat then get a screencap of proof, preferably a dialog screen. If you don't have image hosting then use Photobucket.com or any other crappy and free hosting service. If you can't keep up with all the necessary screens, don't sweat it, it's just more interesting this way.

7. Be sure to preface your description of every NPC death with the smiley so that I can spot them and add to the tally Board of Fallen Heroes. Make sure to take a screenshot of their beautiful corpse.

8. "I died, what now?" Post about it, Meathead! When your character dies use this picture:

or:

for the appropriate games. Describe how you died, and your name goes on the Board of Losers (but you're a winner for being honest), and if you died in a particularly stupid way, it'll go in the Holodisk of Shame. Once you're done with all the info, it's time to make another character in either game, and start anew!

9. "What if I don't die? What if I win?" THEN YOU A WINNER! CONGRATURATION! You get on the Wieners Board. Just be sure to mention whether your character was primarily good or evil, which NPC followers survived, and which one of the multiple endings you're most proud of.

Now GET CRACKING CRACKAS!

The Wieners
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   Name          Game             Alignment             Favorite Ending

1.

The Losers
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   Name          Game          Cause of Death

1. Chuck Rock     F1        Radscorpion venom, injected liberally into the knuckles.
2. Chosen Dumb    F2        Flesh Feast for Keeng Ra'at.
3. Red Menace     F2        Devoured by a pack of wild dogs in Modoc.
4. Lucky          F2        Received a hot buckshot injection from the casino guards in Redding.
5. Wyatt          F2        Didn't run out of the radscorpion cave when he should've.
6. Homer          F1        The Den guards got bored standing around all day.
7. Marge          F1        Tried clearing the radscorpion cave with a pig sticker.
8. Wayne          F1        Kane rearranged his face.
9. Blurgh          F2        Perforated on the way to The Den.

The Holodisk of Shame
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   Name          Game          Cause of Death

1.

The Board of Fallen Heroes
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Fallout 1
   NPC          # of Deaths    # of Survivals
Dogmeat              2              N/A
Ian                  3               N/A
Tandi               N/A              N/A
Tycho                1              N/A
Katja               N/A              N/A

Fallout 2
   NPC          # of Deaths    # of Survivals
Sulik               N/A              N/A
Vic                  1               N/A
Miria               N/A              N/A
Davin               N/A              N/A
Cassidy              1               N/A
Lenny               N/A              N/A
Marcus              N/A              N/A
Myron               N/A              N/A
Skynet              N/A              N/A
K-9                 N/A              N/A
Goris               N/A              N/A
Cyber Dog           N/A              N/A
Dogmeat             N/A              N/A

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Alright, this time I'm playing Fallout 2 as Chosen Dumb:

An unarmed build as you can plainly see. FUCK YEAH I'M GONNA PUNCH THE SHIT OUT OF THOSE ANTS

I convince the guardian that fighting isn't the answer and go to tag my swag...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I haven't played this since around 2002. Anyone know where I may find a reputable ISO or equivalent? I had to give my friend the discs back before he moved. Insistent wanker.

Try the usual places. You know the ones.

Also, for anybody who intends to play Fallout 2 it is highly suggested that you use this patch. Normally on modern computers map travel doesn't work like it should in Fallout 2, so you'll need this patch to be able to have encounters at the normal rate.

This will also be a new ground rule. I forgot about this starting my character, so I'm gonna have to work with a new one. Update in a second.

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This time around I made a character worthy of the name Chosen Dumb:



Me Chosen Dumb! Me am what auntie call, uh... big sack of dumb brahmin shit. I not know what it mean but makes me feel strong like Brahmin. Me love Auntie. Me am lucky. Me think that why me Chosen.



Me want get Teddy. Spear Man say no. Me not try fight though.



Ants not tough, me puch 'em good. Man not tough. Me punch him good.



Old Lady give me pretty suit, but not give money. Me take Auntie money. Me love Auntie.


Also Pang, you gotta use the picture.

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Lotsa bad plants and lizardies. I stick them. Then go Klamath find Vic...



Torr seem like nice guy...



Torr am nice guy. Me hep Torr fight bugmen. Make Torr happy. No town people nice like Torr. Smelly Man ask me to kill miceys, me like miceys.





Chosen Dumb became a flesh feast for Keeng Ra'at.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Figured I'd do something a bit more interesting this time around as Red Menace:



This time I went with a Melee/Big Guns combination choosing Fast Shot in anticipation of spraying an assload of lead all over the place. It'll be risky for most of the game not being able to make called shots in melee, but it'll be worth it if I can get my hands on the Vindicator.



I do most of the assorted crap for my inbred fuckwit people and go off to Klamath to dig through Vic's crap...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Helped the Duntons russle Torr's cattle and now I gotta go save his dumbass. :bang:



After saving Smiley and all that bi'ness, I get Vic from Metzger and tell Flick I can't stand his fuckin' face for the gun I'll get from his dead body.



After re-burying Anna's bones, I hit lvl. 6. 2 followers won't be enough, so I opt for a magnetic personality instead of more toughness.



On the way between The Den and Modoc, I found some slavers being attacked by Golden Geckos. One of the slavers burst and critted Vic in the first turn, so I killed the bitch and let the Geckos go to town on the others. After fond goodbyes I went to Modoc and took the job protecting brahmin.



Just to have Red Menace be mobbed by a pack of dogs and critted for 14 hitpoints.

How ya doing, buddy?

Dying is a good thing! It just wouldn't be as fun. I also wish some of you guys would start participating so I don't just look like some asshole.

i wil wayt 4 u!

Most amazing jew boots

Meet Blanche. An attractive and learned young lady of weak constitution, who will find herself depending upon the kindness of strangers.



After uncharacteristically getting her hands dirty for young Feargus, Blanche levels up and dumps all points into small arms. A girl's gotta protect herself, you know?



In Klamath, Blanche encounters a well-meaning mongoloid with cattle trouble. After being spooked by a radscorpion she agrees to help the Duntons, and then later saves the mongoloid in exchange for the freedom of that strapping buck negroe.



She uses the digs from all over town to trade in a gun more fitting her frame, and a leather jacket. Not the latest in fashions but it'll do in a pinch. In Trapper Town, Blanche grabs the attention of Slim. Will he be able to provide her the attention and security that she craves?



No, he was only interested in the key to the rats. Oh Slim, you could've had the key to Blanche's heart.



Hello, The Den!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Metzger certainly is a horrible brute of a man.



Nobody will ever be good to you, Blanche. Blanche accomplished all of the Modoc quests but had the good sense not to take the Brahmin guarding. On the way to Vault City she encountered some golden geckos and...



A cave full of deathclaws!



"My land, fuck that."



Surely some silly old test won't be too much for young Blanche...



Oh well. Off to Gecko.

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Browsing through the Poseidon mainframe, Blanche finds some interesting material.



Didn't turn out to be much of a conversationalist.



After fixing the reactor and achieving citizenship, Blanche uses her feminine wiles to receive a tour of the Vault's medical facilities and some lil' 'ol innoculations.



By level 9 she's developed quite the magnetic personality.



After rescuing Woody from The Den, Vic went down in a shotgun burst from Cassidy. He will be missed (but not so much after already talking to Valerie).



Blanche dropped into Redding to learn about the Jet problem before meeting this interesting character.



No freak mutant scorpion is going to get away with thinking it's better than Blanche! She chomps down on some mentats stolen from the professor to increase her chances.



Didn't like that much. After exposing the racist conspiracy, Blanche must go to New Reno to get parts for the purifier.



New Reno is as vulgar as any other hole in the dessert, but she gets the part... only to find the car missing!



T-Ray wasn't buying what Blanche was selling (this turned out to be because of the mentat withdrawal), so Blanche gave him a piece of her mind.



After doing his job for him, Blanche recruits Marcus, an even bigger hunk of a man to protect her from what would do her harm. Sorry, Sulik you're no longer highest on the totem pole.



The Sherrif now feels confident enough to deputize Blanche, but there's some strange noises coming from Marge's well...



Those aren't dogs! The Wannamingos were tough, but the 10mm SMG was tougher.

FELIPE NO

After taking care of business, the Sherrif wants Blanche to off some little trouble maker named Frog.



He was more dangerous than he looked. Just a shame his G38 is too much for lil' old Blanche to handle. The Wannamingoes were still way too tough, so Blanche heads to New Reno to look for work.



The Mordinos sure sound like they could use a woman's touch...



Blanche impresses Big Jesus to give her some fetch quests. Typical male. =/



Out at the ranch, though, Blanche levels up talking about Jet. Not the most civilized of topics but it'll do. Between New Reno and Gecko, Blanche finds a cave full of baby deathclaws!



Aww, ain't they cute? There must've been 4500 xp worth of them.



The Sierra Army Depot is a little much for Blanche's metal armor, so instead she heads back to the Toxic caves.



Algernon's electronic lockpick comes in handy...



But the robot was tough. Blanche had enough sense to lure the robot right to her so that she could toss an emp grenade in its face.



With all the energy from the Toxic Caves it was off to find the Raiders with Bishop's map, but they're a little too tough now. Vault City wasn't much help with the info, so it's off to NCR to see if Blanche can't get some better "protection."



On the way to NCR the party was attacked by 12 marauders. It wasn't easy, but a couple of them had P90's, so all around worth the trip for Blanche.


Edit: Blanche died from Super Mutants doing a convoy run from NCR, which is great because I'm fucking sick of trying to make posts in-character. Streetcar just isn't that great. Time to make a character that I've wanted to play with for a looooong time.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hate You hates lots of things.



Hate You hates ants!



Hate You hates scorpions!



And Hate You hates his kin!



Hate You hates drunks!



Hate You hates retards!



Hate You hates brahmin!



Hate You hates the way Sulik looks at him!



Hate You hates addicts that randomly attack him!



Hate You loves slavery!



Hate You loves betrayal!



Hate You loves more criticals!



And Hate You loves killing homeless people!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Time for the Ghost Farm to say goodnight!



I always think this is pretty funny. =/



Vegeir cried like a little baby.



On the way back to Modoc I let some robbers and moonshiners duke it out. The remaining 3 robbers were easy pickins.



Brings a tear to my eye.



Hate You shows his love for the children.



Hate You gets the briefcase by saying he hates slavery 'n stuff. What a maroon.



Hate You hates tests! But with mentats stolen from Lynette he might as well...



God, right? What an asshole.



It's a good thing I had buffout here. Even without the quest, Hate You goes to Gecko just for fun...



A Coolant Chart eh? I wonder what this'll do?



Hate You kills for the Fuel Cell Controller. Not that anybody cares.



Time to pull the old switcheroo and hightail it outta there!



Gecko didn't care much for my expertise. But with the Fuel Cell Controller, it's time to head back to The Den.



Woops! Forgot the car!



Hate You adds vehicular manslaughter to the list of crimes that Marcus won't be enforcing.



Trying to break these assholes out of jail is going to be hard and I don't want to risk stealing anything off that supermutant. Fortunately I have an easy solution to this problem in NCR...



But my Science was too low! Oh well. So long as Hate You was there, he decided to engage in some evil-type activities. Getting the map was easy, the rangers didn't even do nothin! (a bug?)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You should've just taken 2 points from Charisma to put in Endurance or Luck, because there's no way in Hell you're getting more than 2 NPCs. You'd be lucky to get a dog.

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There was trouble at the Power Plant. So I handled the situation the Hate You way. (note: I actually hit yes)



It's a shame I had to desecrate it with her corpse, too.



I ended up stealing the key from the guard anyways and was given an explodey stick to do good work.



Another job well done.



With 10 Luck this is the first Special Encounter I've run across, even up to now. The Bridgekeeper's robes are great because they're better than Metal Armor but I'm gonna miss that extra 20% laser resistance in a little bit.



The pornographers were too good to deal with a Slaver, so I solved the problem by injecting Big Jesus with Jet! AAHAHAHAHAHA!



Now Hate You can recruit Myron and suggest a cure for Jet. Hate You starts seeing dollar signs...



I fucking hate the Yakuza. Hate You probably would've died here if half of them didn't inexplicably run away. I only ended up killing 4 but they were enough to drain me of a couple of stimpacks and cripple Hate You's right fucking leg!



Fucking assholes. I went to Doc Johnson only to have him not fix up the leg, so I had to resort to using a Doctor's Bag to patch it up.



Hate You loves drinking!



Ahhh, sweet extortion.



Hate You hates Wannamingoes! After clearing out the mine, Hate You joins up with the law to enforce lawful behavior...



Like evicting old ladies! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!



No lie, I burst this guy 4 times, and with each burst only one bullet hit him. I finally had to get a .223 pistol crit and double back to pay Doc Johnson. With Frog Morton out of the way, it was time to go do some errands for Salvatore.



Is that a fact, asshole? Looks like Bishop is going to end up being my meal ticket. I ended up killing Salvatore and all his jerk bodyguards, but the first floor was a bitch. The lower laser resistance didn't make up for higher damage absorbtion, and I still had to use a ton of stimpacks. On the bright side, I got enough Magneto Pistols from Algernon to trade in a Jackhammer!



Only to remember that Westin had a Jackhammer on him! Oh so much trade wasted...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Haha, yes. That's the Exploding Brahmin encounter. If you don't have good placement when you go into the encounter, it's pretty much instant death.

If you try fighting the Bridgekeeper, he also summons some exploding brahmin.

As for the brain machine, it's in one of the lower levels of Sierra Army Depot, so if you can't get the quest from the Dwights, then you're fucked. To be honest, Pariah dog's probably the funniest NPC in the game.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well, if you run out the timer before getting the Water Chip, you lose, obviously. However, you don't even have to get the Water Chip to beat the game.

Killing the guards and Decker isn't such a problem, just go talk to Gizmo and see what happens. Your actions won't carry over into other towns because you haven't wronged them personally.

Edit: Wait a second, Decker is supposed to die. Do you mean Killian? Are you in The Hub?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yes, the maximum number is 5. You could take 8 Charisma (or 7 w/ the mirrored shades in FO2) and then get Magnetic Personality to reach the limit.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?