>tag energy weapons, repair and sneak >no energy weapons

>>388771560
>can't finish the game
maybe
MAYBE
you should
possibly
git gud

>>388771560
Ok so you're a retard who didn't tag the correct skills (small weps, science and repair) and you're now complaining that the game is shit because of your retardation. Repair isn't about weapons by the way retard, you repair terminals and other devices. How retarded do you have to be to not know small weps are the most common in fallout games and energy weapons are late game weapons?

>>388771850
>small weps, science and repair
nope
small guns, speech, and energy weapons/lockpick
repair is just for the forcefields and i don't really know what science is for

>>388771850
>Role playing game
>"You can be what you want!!"
>"As long as you take small guns/lockpick/speech in your first playthrough"
>"Oh, and as long as you end up with a power armor, otherwise you'll have to spoil yourself with a guide to figure out how to go around end-game fights"
I loved this game but let's not pretend it's perfect, in terms of freedom it's a step below Fallout 2. What 1 does better is athmosphere and some memorable moments

>>388771850
>it's my fault as a player for the developers to include not one but (at least, I expect more based on this experience) three useless skills for the player to get baited into tagging.
It's supposed to be a cult roleplaying game and has the same build variety and roleplaying depth as fallout 4 if I can only finish the game with small guns, science and repair

>>388772283
>>388772325
you can roleplay once you get good. since you are obviously a babby who sucks at video games, you should use the optimal™ build

>>388772506
Okay that's pathetic. Any input from someone who is older than 12?

>>388772325
>same build variety and roleplaying depth as fallout 4
And it came out 20 years earlier with 1/100th of the budget, imagine that.

>I want this game to be a proper RPG
>But I don't want my actions to have consequences

By the way, it is easy to find an energy weapon, you are just being an idiot, and moreover, you could still use other weapons to get things done. It's not a big deal that your skill in them is lower yet.

>>388772506
>get good
fallout 2 doesn't require any skill it requires a guide or a previous playthrough so you know where all the good loot and quests are

>>388772027
How can you finish Fallout 1 without knowing what science does? Did you never access any terminals?
>>388772283
>>388772325
I never said you can't finish it without those certain skills. I just listed the optimal skills for a player who just wants to enjoy the game. You can hinder yourself if you want and pick like 0 Endurance, 10 Luck or some stupid shit like that but don't complain when the game gets "too hard" for you afterwards. If you could pick any random shit and beat the game just as easily what the fuck is the point of choosing skills? You're quite stupid aren't you?

>>388771560
>no energy weapons to be found anywhere
lol
this is your fault

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>combat is just hitting the enemy and running away
how is this supposed to be fun?

>>388771560
>>no energy weapons to be found anywhere
Energy weapons is solely an endgame skill. Did you seriously expect the game to just hand you a plasma rifle on a silver platter?
>>can't kill anyone
Not true. You absolutely can kill anyone in the game, with the exception of the Overseer.
>>repair is useless because equipment doesn't deteriorate
Repair is for repairing map objectives and props like consoles, water pumps, shield generators, etc.
Repair as an essential skill for maintaining weapons and armor is something that was added in FO3.

>>388772956
This.
That's what the TAG perk is for. Later on in the game you can use it to tag energy weapons. But
.223 pistol is the only gun you need.

>>388772739
When you pick the game for the first time and see "energy weapons" and "small guns", is it being an idiot to assume they are equal? There is no way of knowing it's a bad early game choice without a guide.

>>388772956
>sneaking and running might aswell be the same to every npc in the game
Don't bother with sneaking in classic Fallout. It is objectively one of those useless skills, like Gambling.
>>can't finish the game
No shame in looking at Lets Plays or walkthroughs on youtube.

>>388771560
>tag throwing, gambling and outdoorsman
>no throwing weapons apart from rocks
>can't kill anyone with them
>gambling is useless because you can't buy rocks from traders even if you had a million caps
>despite outdoorsman being at over 100% animals still attack me and I can't mine throwing rocks or craft them
nice game, intershit

>>388771560

>>tag energy weapons, repair and sneak
>>no energy weapons to be found anywhere

>thinking that in a post apocalyptic world you'll find an energy on the fly like in F3 or F:NV

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>>388771560
>drain all points from Int in order to increase strength.
>strength is useless because I'm shooting everything and you get a strength bonus from power armor later on.
>all the NPCs are mean to me because I can't talk in complete sentences.
Why live?

>>388773047
>is it being an idiot to assume they are equal?
Why create two equal skills that both encompass a similar weapon? Clearly one has to be the superior option, and if that's the case they need to offshoot it by making it rarer or harder to obtain. Use your thinking skills anon, these were different times.

>>388772901
I want to slap that stupid whore
What a dumb face

>>388771560
>constantly hear about how good for role playing these games are in New Vegas threads
>decide to try them out
>literally get forced to be a vault dweller like the shitty Bethesda games
Wow, how fucking difficult is it to just be given a blank slate character like New Vegas? Any mods that fix this issue?

>>388773406
There's Fallout 1 mods that let you disable the time limit so you can indefinitely wander around the wasteland doing whatever you want.

>>388773047
1) Just by using common sense you can pretty much guess they're gonna be late weapons since the skill list goes
Small Weps
Heavy Weps
Energy Weps
2) If you play like 20 mins tops you will realize energy weps are not early game weps, and you can just restart with minimal loss

>>388773338
I want to slap her too

with my penis

Do merchans retain the stuff you sold them after you change areas via the world map? I fucked up by selling the .223 gun but I do remember where I can buy it back

>>388773560
Why shouldn't I assume that a game will give me a gattling mega laser canon grenade gun right at the start?

>>388773697
If it was a merchant at a fixed location you might be fine. If you sold it to a wandering merchant though you're probably screwed.

>WAAAH why isn't my gambling outdoorsman medicine character viable

>>388771560
Repair is actually a pretty good skill because it lets you loot the Glow with impunity, energy weapons aren't *that* rare, and Sneak actually sucks due to shitty implementation.

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>>388773710

>>388771560
I think you actually like the game and know exactly what you did wrong but you're shitposting for fun

>>388772283
>If you role play as someone who doesn't have any useful or practical skills, you aren't very effective at being useful or practical!
Shocking.

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I played Fallout for the first time this week. I loved it but man was it easy and the way I stumbled into the ending was really anticlimactic.

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>>388773987

>>388772283
>2 is better for roleplaying
>It's literally impossible to beat 2 as a pacifist
>perfectly possible to beat 1 as pacifist
Really made me think.

My most glorious fallout 1 play through
>Get Godzilla Footprint as first random encounter
>Loot stealthboy... Hmm...
>Spend my first bits of skill points from questing on science and repair skills
>Use it to sneak into military base and blow it up.
>Sneak into cathedral and blow it up
>Ultimate speedrun.webm

>>388771560
The game comes with a "survival guide" manual that you're supposed to read or else you're fucked. It's actually very fun to read.

>>388773057
Gambling is literally the infinite money and thus ammo and good equipment skill

>>388774714
That's actually a dinosaur footprint based on early concept theme ideas iirc

>>388774951
fallout was going to be dinosaurs and space travel, or time travel i couldnt remember

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>playing Fallout for the first time
>tag energy weapons
>struggle through first town, consider restarting
>random encounter: crashed UFO

>>388774918
You don't need the skill to get infinite money though. I never picked gambling and just went to the casino held down 4 and 1 and got infinite cash

>>388773338
Who hurt you anon

>>388774951
>>388775023
The more you know. Still... getting a stealthboy that early on by chance breaks the game pretty hard.

>>388775046
That gun makes looting a pain in the ass though. But it's so ridiculously overpowered.

Can an old Fallout pro spoonfeed me the best starting builds for 1 and 2? I'm a complete scrub who wants to play through the first two games.

>>388775170
Rule #1. Always have 10 agility.
There is no Rule #2.
Well also have at least 5 intelligence otherwise your dialogue choices are gimped to death.

>>388775157
>it's so ridiculously overpowered
Eh, for the early game a bit

But it's markedly inferior to the turbo plasma rifle

>>388775465
>Not getting the .223 pistol and eye-shotting your way through the game.
Plebs.

>>388775170
Agility is the most important stat, get like 8 agility 7 strength some endurance and you're good. Traits: gifted and good natured in my opinion. Skills: small weps, speech, repair.

>>388775571
>8 agility
insufficient to hit and run your way through melee encounters. You haven't lived until you've cheesed fallout.

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>>388775465
>mfw only two AP to fire it and wiping out a squads of muties

>fallout 2
>use restoration patch
>Vic's shack is now locked
>no points in lockpick
>no combat skills
Do i have time to wander about and level or should I really focus on finding the geck asap?

>>388775784
I don't believe there's a time limit in fallout 2.

>>388775170

10 Agility. Either high Strength and Endurance for Unarmed/Melee (don't bother with melee in 2, it sucks compared to Unarmed), or get at least 8 Perception for the Sniper perk. Try to use aimed shots as much as possible, since it increases the chance of a critical and can cripple enemies, making fights a lot easier.

>http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Aimed_Shot

Slayer is the Unarmed/Melee equivalent of Sniper, and either way, everything is probably going to die. Better Criticals and More Criticals are also good.

Critical hits in general are amazing in Fallout.

>>388775784
There's no time limit, like 1 had, so I'd say wander.

>>388775170
4-5 strength
5-8 perception (8 gets you sniper)
3-5 endurance
1-8 charisma (literally whatever you want, if you go low tag speech and know you won't get many companions)
8-10 intelligence
10 agility
1-10 luck (again go with whatever, luck isn't a dump stat and having high luck is very beneficial but low luck isn't killer either)

tags:
small guns
energy weapons
lockpick
speech

traits:
gifted
finesse
jinxed
small frame
bloody mess

>>388775637
>hit and run
Man the only time I needed to do that was in the annoying sewer rat parts, most of the time I just whip out the minigun or the flamethrower and I'm golden (fuck deathclaws though)
>>388775784
It needs like 50+% lockpick skill to unlock that door, fuck that part, just come back when you've leveled up there's no limit (you could blow up the door too I guess)

>>388775868
correct

>>388775926
Gifted + small frame is my favorite because it maximizes your SPECIAL points. The carrying weight penalty hurts like hell in Fallout 1 but in Fallout 2 Le Car Trunk

>>388775417
>>388775571
>>388775894
>>388775926
Thanks, lads. I might actually be able to get somewhere now.

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>mfw trying to figure out those forcefields in the military base

>>388776810
Repair or Explosives

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>>388776810
I still don't know how the fuck they work. I just mash repair and sometimes I manage to disable them, sometimes not

>>388771560
>clunky controls alone
You can operate the whole game by the mouse (unless you want to wait in which you need to press one button on the keyboard).
Yeah the game has plenty of useless skills but if you have half a braincell you can, you know, just avoid wasting points on them?

>>388771741
This

>>388778287
you can wait with the mouse too
pip-boy -> click on bell icon

>no energy weapons

There's an energy weapon down the sewers in Necropolis.

>>388779338
That's a few hours in, unless you sequence break.

>>388779176
Shit thanks buddy. I become slightly autistic every time I had to use my keyboard just for that one action.

>>388779564
You can literally get it within 5 minutes.

>>388779818
If you sequence break.
>within 5 minutes
OH YES YOU'RE RIGHT, I forgot, the entrance to Necropolis is in the opening cave. My mistake, anon.

>>388779564
Technically this isn't sequence breaking as the areas before it are optional for the main quest. The chances for first time players doing it however are basically zero.

>>388771560
it says it right there OP, the game's intended for a mature audience

>>388780191
Lol'd

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>>388779564
>sequence break
>in a game that literally lets you go anywhere without any tricks or glitches