[Attention] Bradylama's Fallout Iron Man Challenge!

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!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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?)

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

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.

Additional Spam:


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...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Hey, cool, an excuse to play Fallout 2 all evil like.



Not a very original build, with the fast talker + small guns (as required by Fallout law) stats. Ah well.

(more to follow when I actually make some progress)

I was speaking idiomatically.

Stupid question - is there a way to just sit around and rest in Fallout? I've tried just about every key on the keyboard and I can't figure anything out.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Take 3: Here's Bart Simpson!


(Player's Note: Yep, the trouble-making kid. Not exactly very strong or perceptive, or intelligent...or lucky....but he is quite charismatic and quick on his feet. He can also take some punishment, but don't expect to take on an army. He's young, so he's got fast metabolism and often rushes into battle without thinking. He can't use much bigger guns than small arms, but he's a master of stealing and lockpicking.)


What's this about Tandi? I could have sworn she was back at Aredesh's place....whatever. (Seriously, I've never seen this choice before, then again, I don't talk to her a second time usually) Whatever, got a tip to Vault 15. Let's haul ass to Vault 15 then.


Damn, no such luck. Didn't think it would be this easy to find a water chip.


Alright, time to kick some Radscorpion ass, even though it has nothing to do with the water chip, just feel like kicking some ass.


Apparently, I didn't realize it at the point, I dropped it, but I didn't set the timer on the dynamite when I left, so I went back, and my dynamite disappeared. Son of a bitch, lost my dynamite sticks.


Alright, Shady Sands Cleared, moving on to Junktown. Make a visit to Killian's store, just finished buying a Desert Eagle when some "assassin" walks in. Promptly off him with a well placed SMG burst. Agreed to help Killian bug Gizmo's confession.

Check in next time when Bart supposedly helps out Killian.....

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Solis

Well, I have bad luck. No, literally, I have REALLY bad luck:

I've just found something I've never seen before: his name is the "Pariah Dog"

You are DOOMED. You ain't never getting rid of him. At some point in the game, you find a device that removes the brain of any ally you put into it. You have to remove Paraih Dog's brain...TWICE, to kill it. It has two fucking brains.

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

Originally Posted by How Unfortunate

You are DOOMED. You ain't never getting rid of him. At some point in the game, you find a device that removes the brain of any ally you put into it. You have to remove Paraih Dog's brain...TWICE, to kill it. It has two fucking brains.

If I remember correctly, your luck suffers when he's around too. I think I tried killing him once, but it didn't work very well. He took quite a few rockets.

On a completely different note...I'm playing Fallout 2 randomly, but not doing the Iron man Challenge on it yet, but is there a special encounter, in which shit blows up everywhere and it's like instant death if you don't have excessive armor? Because I swear I ran into it and instantaneously combusted.

How ya doing, buddy?

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?

So i started playing fallout 1, but i managed to kill some junktown guards and now no one there will talk to me. Then I killed decker. Am i totally screwed over at this point?

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

Originally Posted by Tortalius

So i started playing fallout 1, but i managed to kill some junktown guards and now no one there will talk to me. Then I killed decker. Am i totally screwed over at this point?

Fallout is a game that you can never screw over. I guarantee you. Your reputation won't be so high, but you're never "screwed over". Just keep playing 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.

yea in the hub. I went to the falcon and then just offed decker in the eyes, and stole his phat l00tz.

I mean from a logical standpoint, i have nothing else to currently do but explore randomly and try to find somewhere to go, which seems a bit odd. Usually someone gives you some info about somewhere you might look. Since I managed to make killian unable to talk to me, I'm kinda stuck that way.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hey Brady, got another question for you. What's the maximum number of NPCs you can have on you? I know it's dependent on your Charisma Stat, but can you have more than 5? Magnetic Personality makes it sound like 5 is the maximum number of NPCs you can possibly have. From what I've read, NPC slots are determined by CH / 2, but I haven't seen a maximum, unless 5 slots max is implied.

FELIPE NO

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

I've been playing fallout every now and then but don't know it well enough to do Iron Man and by now and then I mean about an hour every week or so. But anyway, the reason I'm posting is that I run fallout in a window because I simply can't stand running it fullscreen (unless I'm on my laptop and want to see things).

I was asked about it in a PM so here it is:

Quote:

It's a program called D3DWindower. I'm not sure where I got it from, but googling gives this link which I'm 99% sure is the same program: http://files.filefront.com/D3DWindow.../fileinfo.html

The readme is in japanese, so it takes a little trial and error to get it working, but it's not terribly involved. After running the D3Dwindower executable, a window comes up with a few buttons. Hit the + button and search for the fallout1/2 executable (probably works with other programs too) and add it. Click on the second button from the right, check windowed mode and then exit D3Dwindower. Then open it again (for some reason it doesn't work unless I exit it, again it's in japanese so maybe it tells you to do this) and either click on the computer icon or double click the name and it should work. If not fiddle around with it and I'm sure you'll get it working without too much trouble. I'll probably post this in Brady's Fallout thread .

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm probably going to jump into this and perhaps revive it, as I haven't surfed the boards in a long while, and I have ALWAYS loved all of the Fallout series. I'll begin a character when I get home.

Edits will add details to character journey!

Anyways, this is one of my more interesting forays into melee, abandoning perception completely for sheer intelligence and high agility.
Quiana doesn't need eyes to bash the crap out of things that are in front of him! While he won't be able to critical worth anything, or even perform targeted strikes, his ability to use a melee weapon for only 2 AP, and later only 1 with a perk, makes him an unstoppable juggernaught capable of ripping two or even three mutants in half in a single turn.


Looting someone I might have known, feels morbid doesn't it?


Rats, bah! Knuckle to the face for them.


The sun, she is so bright! *eyes burn*


Thank you pretty lady, you made me smarter. Me was dumb before.


Hey, there's this nifty thing called crop rotation. USE IT!


Man, there's so many of them, and all that posion, hope they've got me some antidotes.


Hey, antidotes for me AND you.


Now we're stylish and able to hit hard, REALLY hard.


Dang, rocks suck don't they?


I managed to pay for Tandi, man is she a cheap whore :P


Heeey, I get skills for just bringing her ass back to daddy, imagine that.


No weapons drawn? You guys have guns, big meanies!


Ze doctor, he is missing!


I walk in, crazy looking guy says I don't leave. NO-ONE tells me what to do!


Heeey, it's a puppy! *pats Dogmeat*


Gizmo got what the fat ass was asking for!


Well, someone has a high opinion of themselves.


Tycho bites the dust after the loan guy gives me lip, may his corpse be desecrated in peace.


This doesn't bode well at all, not in the slightest.
Ian bites the dust after he runs away like a pansy, sadly he can't outrun bullets.


Here lies Quiana, his corpse bullet-ridden and pissed upon.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Time for a new character, Critin, he's based on a critical sharpshooter that I've wanted to make for a while, let's hope he does better than poor Quiana.




And so it begins, rats versus gun isn't very fair, for them.


Criticals, I likey! Hopefully these crits will hit much harder.


That has got to smart, critical to the eyes.


Free stuff is awesome, I found 122 caps in that bag and an extra gun with ammo.


I love verbose text mode, sure it spams your chat, but it is so satisfying when you do a great critical.


The strain could kill me! Healing hurts you as you heal.


Hi Ian, nice to see you, again X.X


I got lucky and encounted this overturned Nuka-Cola truck, complete with a whopping 10765 bottle cap crate. Yay for special encounters!


Bob's Used Cars, great for insanity, awesome for weapons. This I encountered on the same leg of my trip to Junktown, which got me the Red Rider BB Gun, one of the highest critical guns in the game.


I save Killian, and get my hunting rifle, go me.


Here's where it goes bad, Ian's shot wings the bar wench and kills her in a shot, and the whole town gangs down and starts beating me and my team up. Both Ian and Dogmeat bite it, and then


Here lies Critin, killed by angry villagers after a bar wench gets her due payment.

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

Here comes my next attempt, another melee build with a unique HTH perspective, using only fist-weapons like the knuckles and later, spiked knuckles and aiming for high random criticals involving no targeting, just speed punching.


These are her interesting stats, having been a pain to balance properly.
Shortly after leaving the vault I ran across the Nuka-Cola truck, again, seems like that thing is blessed to my 10 luck chars.


Her doctoring skill is off to a slow, but good start. Those scorpians didn't stand a chance though, and I completely thrashed them.


After going through vault 15, and returning back to Shady, I went to Junktown and attempted to talk with Sharkie at the bar, which led to the entire gang going hostile on me and then getting their faces beat in. Dogmeat and Ian are with me at this time.


I get the doctor mad at me and then procede to beat their faces in much like the Skulz. I also didn't show, but Gizmo has been killed and amusingly, Dogmeat hit the last blow on him.


Dogmeat bit the dust with a 51 damage burst to the face, and then Tycho takes one too many AP rounds to the chest. I defeated the loan punks, but sadly loosing Tycho was a major blow to my morale, as I had just bought him 200 shotgun shells.


I meet the leader of the underground mutants and retrieve the lost pump parts after running around quite a bit and blowing apart some rats.


Well, there's a lot that happened before this. The mutant guards at the watershed entrance spotted my lame attempt to sneak in, then the leader blew Ian apart with a critical laser hit to his torso. I ran off and used a manhole cover in the lower-left to dodge underground, then came up with sneak on and ran around the guards, who were now standing in the street instead of blocking my path to the waterpump. I then unlocked and freed the prisoner ghoul, repaired the waterpump, and went down this cover. (Note I also talked to Set, who is the leader of the ghouls up on the surface to get the kill the mutants and we ignore you deal)


Hey, what do you know, the tunnel leads to a vault, where all these lovely ghouls came from. Downstairs, how much you want to bet they have a water chip?


This perk, is probably one of the greatest in melee combat! (Still down in the level 3 of Necropolis vault at this point)


We've got the water chip, and I'm about to punish those ghouls for 1 AP per punch. Funtime!


With 1 AP a punch, I walk upstairs and procede to punish these mutants for killing Ian. Beating supermutants with your knuckles never felt so great. The leader is the one with the black armor on to my right, he dropped me a laser rifle.


I return to my vault, where I'm lauded as a hero, and gain a chunk of experience. However, the overseer decides that, guess what, something's gotta be done about these mutants that scared him shitless.


Coming across a man in the hub that sends me to his farm to clear it of raiders, I come across the one thing I had really been searching for, THE SPIKED KNUCKLES *heavenly music plays*. Time to punish these fools with spiked fury!


Decker sends me to silence this poor merchant, who never saw the spikes coming to meet his head, nor his wife's. His guards posed a challenge getting out, but with some stimpacks I managed to beat them down.


Now this encounter I've heard about, but never had before in Fallout. They have on the alien corpses, a laser pistol (the most powerful laser gun in the game) and a felt painting. I sold the pistol btw, for a cool 10k caps, since I have no use for it.


I finally decide to pay the Brotherhood a visit, and get assigned to retreive some high-tech item from "The Glow", a radioactive hole in the dirt. Said comment drives home the guard's disbelief in the elder's "quest" for me.


There's that mean deathclaw I heard about, doesn't look mean anymore does it? (It took me a good 8 turns to beat it down, averaging 6 hits and then my last four AP to use stimpacks directly from inventory per turn) *Extra note, the addiction is from using a rad-away to rid myself of the radiation I had leftover for the glowing ghouls, as that's WHY they glow*


I discovered a dying supermutant, who mumbled something about the father, and his datadisc, which contained where the caravans from the hub were vanishing to. (They were being taken north, to the outpost where mutants were being manufactured)


Well, off to the glow I go! So far south, and sooo evil looking a crater, isn't it?


Down I go, I also encountered the squished peasant in the giant footprint (who has a cloaking bay) before I arrived, and chugged two rad-x pills to bring me to 100% radiation resistance, as the geiger counter was screaming.


I go down through the first few floors, and find the generator downstairs, along with a great deal of weapons and ammo, half of which is too heavy to carry out. Starting the generator up allows me to use this elevator now.


Man, punching solid steel really seems to be quite painful, for them. That was probably one of the most powerful criticals I've done in melee ever without a powerfist or ripper. This is the only floor I did not kill the robots before turning on the power, as you can only get to this floor when there is power.


I find the combat armor on the experimentation floor inside this locker, giving me some nice resistances and armor bonuses, as well as making me look cool. Shortly afterwards I head upstairs and work back towards the Hub to sell off some of the really high value weapons that I won't use. After buying some books, I headed into the slums and attempted to kill the guards off that were guarding the brotherhood captive. Sadly, the combat shotgun dealt a horrific burst to my face with ended in instant death, thus I have no pictures other than this,


Here lies Katari, who took several slugs to the face through her visor.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?