Anyone else cheat?

[McGarnagle]

I've been playing this game since it was originally released in 1998, so I'm very familiar with the game, and how it works. I also play with the Restoration Project installed, which is simply amazing.

What I've been doing in the last few runs is creating a character with a high outdoorsman skill and as soon as I get Sulik I make a run to San Francisco. With the high outdoorsman skill you can pretty much avoid all random encounters, so getting there is pretty easy. All major Towns/Cities are available to you at the start of the game, you don't need to ask anyone their location before they show up on the map, they just show up as Unknown untill you enter the city for the first time.

Anyway, once I'm at SanFran, I just stay on the map and walk around the outskirts of San Fran untill I hit a random encounter were their are a group Yakuza, and hubologists fighting. I enter the encounter and don't do anything, I just wait for the fight to finish. Neither faction will attack you, so once the fight is over I loot all the bodies. The bodies usually drop all kinds of high end weapons, that I then turn around and sell in San Fran for stacks of cash, or sometimes Power Armor, and Mega Power Fists MK 2. I also pickup the Extended Lock Pick set, and Electronic Lock Pick MK2. You can also get lots of Science Books/First Aid Manuals from the shop across from the doctors office.

While I'm in San Fran, I pick up the quests for the Vertibird plans from the Brotherhood, and Shi. Once in Nevarro as long as you have a high enough intelligence, and speech skill you and convince the guard at the gas station that you're a recruit and he'll give you the password to enter the base. Once inside you can get the vertibird plans, and again find all kinds of high end weapons, and Advanced Power Armor.

Return to San Fran, turn in the vertibird plans to the Brotherhood and the Shi, that'll give you 25000 expereince combined, and since you're at such a low lever already you'll end up jumping 4 or 5 lvls. You'll probably have close to 100 skill points to use, and a couple of perks to pick.

From that point on the game is a cake walk. Until you get close to the end not many people can hurt you while wearing Advanced Power Armor, and Mega Power Fists MK2 will drop most enemies in with 1 punch.

I'm not really sure of this is a cheat or just exploiting the game mechanics.

[BreakinBenny]

Technically, the trip to San Fran that way is the result of Fallout 2's world map travel being based on your CPU. If you'd played on a computer around the beginning of the 2000's, you wouldn't experience anything... Today however, CPUs can go much higher and as a result, your world map travel speed is way higher making random encounters unable to trigger in time.

The Sfall mod was made to fix the problem, I tell ya. Also, every skill check in Fallout is capped at 95%, so technically there's no guarantee you will succeed in everything.

[yjzep]

This is called a "Navarro Run" Very well documented way to break the game. PArt of the charm to some is this, but with how awesome the game is, I don't ever want to skip the "scenic route". Speed Running is for platformers, not RPGs..

Originally posted by McGarnagle:

I've been playing this game since it was originally released in 1998, so I'm very familiar with the game, and how it works. I also play with the Restoration Project installed, which is simply amazing.

What I've been doing in the last few runs is creating a character with a high outdoorsman skill and as soon as I get Sulik I make a run to San Francisco. With the high outdoorsman skill you can pretty much avoid all random encounters, so getting there is pretty easy. All major Towns/Cities are available to you at the start of the game, you don't need to ask anyone their location before they show up on the map, they just show up as Unknown untill you enter the city for the first time.

Anyway, once I'm at SanFran, I just stay on the map and walk around the outskirts of San Fran untill I hit a random encounter were their are a group Yakuza, and hubologists fighting. I enter the encounter and don't do anything, I just wait for the fight to finish. Neither faction will attack you, so once the fight is over I loot all the bodies. The bodies usually drop all kinds of high end weapons, that I then turn around and sell in San Fran for stacks of cash, or sometimes Power Armor, and Mega Power Fists MK 2. I also pickup the Extended Lock Pick set, and Electronic Lock Pick MK2. You can also get lots of Science Books/First Aid Manuals from the shop across from the doctors office.

While I'm in San Fran, I pick up the quests for the Vertibird plans from the Brotherhood, and Shi. Once in Nevarro as long as you have a high enough intelligence, and speech skill you and convince the guard at the gas station that you're a recruit and he'll give you the password to enter the base. Once inside you can get the vertibird plans, and again find all kinds of high end weapons, and Advanced Power Armor.

Return to San Fran, turn in the vertibird plans to the Brotherhood and the Shi, that'll give you 25000 expereince combined, and since you're at such a low lever already you'll end up jumping 4 or 5 lvls. You'll probably have close to 100 skill points to use, and a couple of perks to pick.

From that point on the game is a cake walk. Until you get close to the end not many people can hurt you while wearing Advanced Power Armor, and Mega Power Fists MK2 will drop most enemies in with 1 punch.

I'm not really sure of this is a cheat or just exploiting the game mechanics.

[MetalFiend999]

I've done that myself, but I didn't do the outdoorsman perk. I just made a character with enough AP to run away from pretty much anything.

The restoration project was the best thing that every came out for either of the original two fallout games i think.

[BreakinBenny]

Originally posted by MetalFiend999:

I've done that myself, but I didn't do the outdoorsman perk. I just made a character with enough AP to run away from pretty much anything.

The restoration project was the best thing that every came out for either of the original two fallout games i think.

Outdoorsman skill, Torr. Did you mean to also take Outdoorsman-related perks? Generally, it's stupid to pick perks that give you skill points only.