VATS system

[Valtier_]

I used to play Fallout 1 when it came out and for reliving some old memories I bought it on steam :) Now I just have one problem, I don't get the VATS system to work. :(
Anyone else having this problem or can help me out how to get this working? I do know it was in Fallout 1 but my memory seems to be failing me on how to turn it on :P

[Inu]

Vats didn't exist till Fallout 3

[Valtier_]

I played the time the game came out and it did had "Vats", just wasn't called "Vats" back then, but you had the ability to target bodyparts just as the vats system.

Looked like this
http://img.bhs4.com/cd/f/cdfa015443e06eae1a67e7031137082a18cdf5b5_large.jpg

[Crackawacka]

yeah thats called an aimed shot. hit the little cirlce in the top right corner of the wep button. come on now not that hard

[کilversurfer♒]

ProTip: Right-click the weapon icon until you see that circle on the bottom right corner and click on the desired target... Simple

[Valtier_]

cheers for the information! thanks :)

[MMRBurglar]

It actually was called Vats...

[Beat]

If you have fast shot you can't take aimed shots

[Gargor]

You can also use the N key to change the mode of the equipped item, which I find useful if playing on a laptop because it's quicker than moving the cursor down to the item list. For other weapons it can change from single shot to burst mode (and reload, if your weapon isn't full of ammunition), or swing/thrust for melee weapons as well as changing from "Aim for this critter in general" to called shots.

Originally posted by Dyeingbrad /\\//\ L)VE:

It actually was called Vats...

It wasn't. There were vats in the original game (and the track that plays in Mariposa is called Vats of Goo), and Bethesda named the called-shot system V.A.T.S. as a reference to the original game. The vats were filled with FEV, for the purpose of dipping non-mutated humans into.

[MMRBurglar]

I remember in the original manual it says V.A.T.S for the targeting system. I am sure it is Fallout 1 the big box ver. for PC.

Originally posted by Captain God:

You can also use the N key to change the mode of the equipped item, which I find useful if playing on a laptop because it's quicker than moving the cursor down to the item list. For other weapons it can change from single shot to burst mode (and reload, if your weapon isn't full of ammunition), or swing/thrust for melee weapons as well as changing from "Aim for this critter in general" to called shots.

Originally posted by Dyeingbrad /\\//\ L)VE:

It actually was called Vats...

It wasn't. There were vats in the original game (and the track that plays in Mariposa is called Vats of Goo), and Bethesda named the called-shot system V.A.T.S. as a reference to the original game. The vats were filled with FEV, for the purpose of dipping non-mutated humans into.

[Love]

Originally posted by کilversurfer♒:

ProTip:

Pro-tip: Only thing worse than a noob is a self-prclaimed "pro-tipper"