wild wasteland

[wicked lester]

The NV wiki describes the downside to this trait as eliminating some 'sane' content. Anyone know what this would be?

[Incunabulum]

Yes.

[Vex Hilarius]

You'll get the alien blaster instead of the ycs 186. Also 3 holy frag grenades instead of 2 mini nukes.

[T-Minus]

The only thing that really matter is that you get an Alien blaster instead of the YCS 186 (a unique better version of the gauss rifle).

The Alien blaster is pretty powerful but has limited ammo and when you run out you can't get any more, at least without cheating or using glitches.

[psychotron666]

There's a bunch of encounters everywhere that are changed with the trait. You just get goofy stuff like find a dead Indiana Jones in a refrigerator or attacked by aliens.

[Grendalcat]

Or attacked by old ladies with rolling pins.

[Twinkletoes]

As was said. This is MAINLY reffering to the alien blaster/YCS gauss rifle.

Blaster is a super powerful(always crit?) pistol that has no other varient with unique and limited ammo.

YCS is a gauss rifle that uses more common ammo but is just that, a unique gauss rifle.

Other than that wild wasteland changes or adds encounters to be a bit more wacky and nothing else.

[Von Shadowsong]

Originally posted by Grendalcat:

Or attacked by old ladies with rolling pins.

Can confirm. My Legion gal was recently attacked by old ladies with rolling pins. There are also a few fun ones in the DLC packs (that I won't ruin here- 2 in OWB so far).

From an RP perspective, I imagine that this particular character has Wild Wasteland due to serious mental problems resulting from 1) chem abuse, 2) blunt force trauma to the head, from constantly punching outside of her weight class, or 3) both, because no sane person would join the Legion or worship Lord Kaiser Roll unless s/he had some real issues.

[Messsucher]

Play Fallout 2 and figure from where all that came from.

[Eternie]

With the wild wasteland trait and Project Nevada you can get the best sword in the game!
The rising sun sword to vaporize enemies ... if you have enough strength and melee skills.
Makes a nice change from guns!

[Twinkletoes]

Originally posted by Eternie:

With the wild wasteland trait and Project Nevada you can get the best sword in the game!
The rising sun sword to vaporize enemies ... if you have enough strength and melee skills.
Makes a nice change from guns!

Yeah, solid weapon. Won't spoil what it is, but here is a tip.

Energy melee weapon.

[8ullfrog]

copyright friendly laser sword?

I knew about the saucer replacement, I figured the "warning" for wild wasteland was for those weirdos who play games super serial.

Like ARMA people.