Terminal Password Bug

[Irvine]

I've had a few terminals that seemed like the password couldn't be among the tries available. I just had a terminal where most of the words ended with an 's', but one of the tries I entered ended with an 's' and said "Likeness=0", meaning none of the letters in the word matched. However, when I tried the only words that didn't end with an 's', none of them worked. This meant either the Likeness number lied to me, or the password simply wasn't in the selection.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[Relic62]

Never had an issue, best way to tackle terminals is select the first 3 words, if no luck start scrolling for the duds and the reset, once you have gotten rid of all the duds 99% of the time your left with 3 sometimes 2 words, takes the guesswork out of it.

[Augury]

It's quite irrelevant of a bug, actually. I've never reallys had it...

But, if yah use up all but one of your guesses, there's a way that never fails..... back out and go back in.

[cassiels]

It happens very rarely. I have had this happen once in 1300 hours.

[Farshad]

I have this problem all the time. I started with my INT maxed out, so it should be simplest, but the game must take out so many passwords to make it easy that it actually takes out the real password too.

As the original poster said, when this happens, I often pick a word on my first or second try where it makes all other visible words impossible. It's rather annoying.

Edit: Hmmm, unless there are multiple pages and there is a way to page/scroll? If it's just one page, there is definitely a bug.

[Cingitorix]

Yeah this is happening to nearly every terminal im on, I guess twice and then just by logic I can see that none of the passwords match, sad to see this hasn't been fixed, its definitely not as rare as these comments are making it seem.

[Iceira]

Common mistake then user hit 1 or 2 letter and next is 2 diffrent and then he think hes on to something, and you forget how luck effect all in the game, anything lesser then 3 or 4 can give falsh reading so no matter how good hacker skill you have you wont beat lady luck as we say even the best in something get it wrong, there is no 100% and there never will be.

im sure 1300hour means alot , but not in our book that has happend sense fallout3 and FNV so its actual nothing new, or rare, that code dont add up. try with lesser skill and it happend even more. its like 2 trys match and then nothing match and PW change will you doing it. ( lady luck made her turn here. ) if you played skyim you will understand her better, and why things is not skill alone. the skyrim ref has nothing to do with this game, its more things go your way,

[Zekiran]

In case you run into things like running out of attempts,

You can search the wall of code for MATCHING SYMBOLS such as {} or () and <> that will allow you to weed out duds, as well as occasionally completely refresh your attempts. I've perhaps encountered this issue the OP describes maybe... twice ever in over 2300 hours of play time and a LOT of lock picking, suffice to say their word lists aren't terrific but they aren't prone to this, human error is usually the problem.

[Death Approaches]

You rezzed a 2016 post for this? Uhh. Sir? If you think think this is happening a lot, like more than once every 100 tries or something, you maybe want to get tested for dyslexia.

I think you're seeing them differently than they actually are showing. The code hasn't changed since release, and probably not since Fallout 3 actually. It's not the game.

[Iron Knights]

I got the idea that "Likeness" has 0 to do with how many letters are correct but with some conceptual idea of what the word wants to mean. Which is extremely vague.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

I got the idea that "Likeness" has 0 to do with how many letters are correct but with some conceptual idea of what the word wants to mean. Which is extremely vague.

No it's a straight up "this letter may appear in the password". I think in the very few cases I've ever experienced it being 'wrong' it was with *shorter* words - probably because it has a much bigger pool of words to draw from, than, say, a 8 or 9 letter word for the higher difficulties.