Hi guys i was sick for a few days but im OK now so i can play Fallout 2 again.:D
In the meantime i made a list of some of my exploits(some of them are real exploits) in the wasteland. Sorry if its abit long.
First something about
Knives: what are they good for
Absolutely noth- now hold on. Its true that knives dont deal much damage. But the point is not how much, its WHERE! All you have to do is score a critical to the groin or head and knock the guy down. Then hes all yours.
(Im not sure how knockdowns work though. Do they stack up? If for example you keep hitting a guy in the balls while hes down does it stack up so that he stays down longer? Hmm)
In any case this is what i usually do: i knock them down with a knife and then i chop their balls witha katana. I call this method the
drop'n'chop method.
Its also a good move to take all their weapons while theyr down, in case they get up. In early game i even used to give them some of my own knives(because lets face it knives suck) so theyd throw them at me instead of punching and kicking. Later i found a very bitchin plate armor so punchkicking cant hurt me anymore.
But all in all it makes sense that knives are weak because knife throwin is not a matter of brute force, but of finesse and luck(literally). Looking back i shouldve pumped luck some more but still its manageable.
The only problem is, i keep loosing them: they get stuck behind rocks/barrels/dead bodies, or if i have to bail out of a fight and leave them behind or soemtimes i just plain forget to pick them up afterwards. And i still havent found any real knife seller.
Luckily theres an easy way to get shitload of knives!
Basicaly Yakuzas are your friends. They are your knife throwing buddies. All you have to do is travel around New Reno on the world map looking for Yakuza encounters. And they will be so happy to see another knife throwing person that they will literally throw their knives at you, so you could pick em up. You can get some 5-6 knives in a single encounter by running around and picking them off the ground
Some yakuza giving me free knives. Thanks guys!
Though sometimes you can find them in a fight with mobsters and they always loose...
These were sad moments and at this point i started questioning the throwing build.
But no! I maintained my resolve and worked up a PLAN to dethrone those mobster assholes in New Reno.
Let me tell you about
The Shark Club incident
First on my hit list was John Bishop. I was only level 4 but i did not care. This is how it went.
FLOOR 3.
I got to the third floor through Bishops daughter Angela (finally sex appeal paid off!). Once there i shoot myself up with some drugs and i open the door to his office.
Now theres NO WAY i could take 5 guys in this room. I have just two aimed shots which means that even if i get lucky and knock 2 of them down, theres still 3 other guys ready to blast me away.
So clearly i have to take them one by one. But how?
Basically the trick is in the
doorway. If you manage to knock someone down while hes standing in the doorway he will block the path for the rest, leaving you safe on the other side. Then hes all yours
Now its time for some ball chopping but be sure to leave at least one AP to move away at the end of the turn or the guards will shoot you over his body. Continue the ball chopping until hes dead.
Then the next guy will simply take his place at the Doorway of Doom. Repeat until theres no more guards left. Aaand thats it!
Of course things can go wrong, especially if you miss.
So alternatively
-While Bishop is down you can move to the window on the right and shoot his guards. For this its handy to have a firearm, like a shotgun(i was drugged up so i could operate it).
-As a last resort you can fall back to the far side of the pool, exit combat, heal up if need be and when the guy wakes up you basically kite them in one of the rooms to the left, one by one. Theyl be far apart from eachother so its doable.
Well thats it for Bishop. Now we have to get out.
FLOOR 2.
These two guys
are a pain in the ass.
If you engage them for more than two turns their buddies come rushing in to help. Not good.
So the trick is to knock one down and go back up the stairs, heal up, go back down and knock the other one out. Then go up and down the stairs one more time and both will be downed without alerting the rest of the guards.
pretty neat huh?
Now you just sneak up to the guard at the exit and knock him down too. if you miss, theres a doorway on his left where you can use the "doorway of doom" method again. This will alert his buddies though.
But whatever you do it cant really prepare you for the hell that is
FLOOR 1
Shit!! 6 regular guards, 2 of those big dudes, a patron, the bartender and not a doorway in sight.
You can run to the basement though, theres some stimpaks there and also some buffot which will come in handy since by this time the drugs will wear off and your throwing skills too.
My main problem here was that i didnt have high Sequence so i basically had to reload some 15 times until that big asshole missed me.
Kinda lame but still
Finally when he finished shooting it was
MY TURN!
......................................................................
Yeah... i didnt actually do that. I hope by the end of the game i will though.
This is what really happened
OK the idea here is to move close to the guard so that instead of shooting he just hits me(its kinda lame that they do this. But theyr guards and if they werent stupid they wouldnt be guards, right?).
Then i use these two hunks as a bullet shield. I dont know if its becasue they are so big and if the game takes that into account, but NONE of the guards manages to hit me, they hit them instead. Thanks fellas!
THEN with 12 AP i get a hold of the bathroom above, slaughter EVERYONE with the tried and true doorway of doom method and even LEVEL UP at the end!
Its not a pretty sight
I take the chance to look at the bathroom mirror for awhile, unmoved by my victory and the seeds of death ive sawn.
:sheats knife:
For actually getting out of the casino i just walked out in combat mode. I was kinda sick of killing people at that point(weird).
Phew!
Well thats it for now.
, and a long hair guy which is probably the source of headband).
