laclongquan
Arcane
The Brazilian Slaughter said:
Yeah? Two melee, both of them idiots, you want them chasing after big men with guns taking pot shot from afar? Who is idiot now?
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Let's Iron Man Fallout 2 - Restoration Project
- Thread starter oldmanpaco
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Yeah? Two melee, both of them idiots, you want them chasing after big men with guns taking pot shot from afar? Who is idiot now?
poocolator
Erudite
Too bad he doesn't have titanium bones like Cleve.
Carceri
Arcane
Ehehe, good luck bro! Anyway, I hope you make it at least to the first random encounters.
oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
Chapter 3: The Toxic Caves of Doom!!!!!
Paco and Sulik get ready hto head out into the wastes to look for Smiley.
Just a short hop away.
In the cave we find Geckos.
Boots on to protect from the slime.
As always the key to surviving is to fight one Gecko at a time.
I case you are wondering - Fighting one Gecko at a time is tedious as hell.
Some phat loot.
Last Gecko dead - time to go down.
Same strategy - One Gecko at a time.
We level up. Dumped all points in melee. Oh yeah - We're radiated.
Last healing powder. I really don't want to have to start using stimpacks.
Did I mention how tedious it is fighting one gecko at a time?
And away we go.
Back to Klamath.
Well aren't I a high achiever.
We head south to hunt some Gecko.
We then trade the skins for some healing powder and cash.
Time to head into the wild.
Next - An update that cannot possible be more boring than this one was.
Paco and Sulik get ready hto head out into the wastes to look for Smiley.
Just a short hop away.
In the cave we find Geckos.
Boots on to protect from the slime.
As always the key to surviving is to fight one Gecko at a time.
I case you are wondering - Fighting one Gecko at a time is tedious as hell.
Some phat loot.
Last Gecko dead - time to go down.
Same strategy - One Gecko at a time.
We level up. Dumped all points in melee. Oh yeah - We're radiated.
Last healing powder. I really don't want to have to start using stimpacks.
Did I mention how tedious it is fighting one gecko at a time?
And away we go.
Back to Klamath.
Well aren't I a high achiever.
We head south to hunt some Gecko.
We then trade the skins for some healing powder and cash.
Time to head into the wild.
Next - An update that cannot possible be more boring than this one was.
oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
Chapter 4: All good things...
We have no locations on our map and I cannot remember where anything is so we head East.
Why not.
Hmmm.
Ok. 25 points of damage on the first shot. We still got this though. When my turn comes around I will take a few stimpacks and run.
I think there were some lessons learned here.
WTF - I didn't even get a cool death pic! Just a black screen and someone telling me my village starved to death.
Well that's it for Paco: Idiot of the Wasteland.
Next - Paco: Evil Genius of the Wasteland!
We have no locations on our map and I cannot remember where anything is so we head East.
Why not.
Hmmm.
Ok. 25 points of damage on the first shot. We still got this though. When my turn comes around I will take a few stimpacks and run.
I think there were some lessons learned here.
WTF - I didn't even get a cool death pic! Just a black screen and someone telling me my village starved to death.
Well that's it for Paco: Idiot of the Wasteland.
Next - Paco: Evil Genius of the Wasteland!
Pope Amole
Educated
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Wow, dude, no offense meant, but your build sucks. Well, ok, I guess it's predictable if you play this stuff for the second time in your life, but all in all, it's an awful choice for a hard ironman. And it's not because you're a melee fighter - that's fine, my own to ironman runs were as a hand-to-hand specialist and cold weapons specialist(nothing feels better than taking out a cave full of SMG wielding bandits with just a spear), when you do it right, you become a real popamoling machine, it's especially good for unarmed in RP since they fixed that bloody armor counter. But it's all about your other stats - 8 strength is way too much (4 is enough, however strange does it sound), 4 pe is too little (you need at least 8 or 6+kamikaze; yeah, you'll never be shooting but it's insanely important for your continuous survival to have your turn before your enemies so you need to have a high combat order), 8 en is fine, 8 ch... Well, if you have that RP option of taking direct control of your party members, then it may have some merit. It's a bad combo with low int, though, social matter speaking. 3 in - well, if you want to be an idiot which is fun in it's own kind of way... But it is an awful combo with gifted, really, you either go for low int or gifted. 8 ag - doable, but you really want 10. 8 luck - overexcessive, all you'll ever need is 6 for the better critical perk. Oh, and I always tag the doctor at ironman because 150 free experience after each combat makes your leveling really, really easier (though with 3 int and gifted any tags besides melee is of zero importance).
Also, as my first perk I would've taken stonewall here - yeah, that shittiest shit that no one even considers. Practice shows that when you get far in the game, the only thing that can kill you is an armor ignoring, knocking out critical for like 150 damage. And while the damage is quite survivable with high EN and lifegiver perks, you can't do much against knock outs - once my power armored chosen were gnawed to his death by fire geckos (a cavern variety, to further the humiliation). Yeah, they just have knocked out him and then slowly, but steadily beat all of his 200 hit points out of him. And similar things have happened with couple of my other chars, though in more fashionable ways like a mutant rocket. etc. Knock-out usually equals death in ironman.
Well. it's not like anything of this will be helpful to you at this point, but maybe if you'll die and will have enough endurance to start again...
Also, as my first perk I would've taken stonewall here - yeah, that shittiest shit that no one even considers. Practice shows that when you get far in the game, the only thing that can kill you is an armor ignoring, knocking out critical for like 150 damage. And while the damage is quite survivable with high EN and lifegiver perks, you can't do much against knock outs - once my power armored chosen were gnawed to his death by fire geckos (a cavern variety, to further the humiliation). Yeah, they just have knocked out him and then slowly, but steadily beat all of his 200 hit points out of him. And similar things have happened with couple of my other chars, though in more fashionable ways like a mutant rocket. etc. Knock-out usually equals death in ironman.
Well. it's not like anything of this will be helpful to you at this point, but maybe if you'll die and will have enough endurance to start again...
Vaarna_Aarne
Notorious Internet Vandal
I do raise my hat for trying to Iron Man without a Genius Lightning Bruiser build though.
GarfunkeL
Racism Expert
Too many and too big screenshots. Don't bother taking shots of meaningless stuff - like battle-pictures. Maybe have one when battle begins and then second after. The pics from between don't really convey anything.
Carceri
Arcane
Hey, you did make it to the first random encounters!
ZbojLamignat
Educated
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That build was fine for ants, rats and geckos, but it was always going to bite you in the ass as soon as more than one man with a gun showed up. Should've run from that random encounter, even your initial placement was very good.
Also I admire the idea for a build, but 10 AG is really necessary if you want to do a lot of fighting.
Al in all -
Also I admire the idea for a build, but 10 AG is really necessary if you want to do a lot of fighting.
Al in all -
Hellraiser
Arcane
Although I wanted near death experiences and not a death experience.
Told You.MicoSelva said:
Paco prefers larger ones. It's the same with his BGT LP. We can only guess the reasons.
oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
Pope Amole said:
Yes, yes it did. See my earlier comment on being slightly drunk when creating this char. It's been many years since I played FO2 and I never played an idiot or melee char before. So of course it was quit tragic when Paco ran into that band of highwaymen.
Vaarna_Aarne said:
Next time.
The Brazilian Slaughter said:
Yes, Idiot Paco's death was a real tragedy. I saw pretty early that Paco #1 was boned.
I'll Ironman a thief. Yes I will. Not yet though.
GarfunkeL said:
Totally agree with you. Less shots coming up. Maybe even none.
Carceri said:
That's because I’m a hardcore Mother F#$%@r.
RK47 said:
Already have another char going who has gotten farther than Idiot Paco. Not that particular build though.
ZbojLamignat said:That build was fine for ants, rats and geckos, but it was always going to bite you in the ass as soon as more than one man with a gun showed up. Should've run from that random encounter, even your initial placement was very good.
Also I admire the idea for a build, but 10 AG is really necessary if you want to do a lot of fighting.
Al in all -
The limitations of my build became very apparent early on. When you have a melee char and it's hard to melee ants and gecko's you know you’re in trouble.
z o o l said:
Lies! Lies and slander!
Hellraiser said:
Death, near death - it’s all good.
MicoSelva said:
Quoting yourself? Not cool dude.
lightbane said:It seems I missed this one. Although short, I congratulate you for the effort.
I'm not done yet.
ghostdog said:
MicoSelva said:
It's almost as if I'm compensating for something...
I play in 1280x800 (native resolution for my display is 1680x1050) because I hate plying in windowed mode. I suppose I could resize the pics but I tend to be a lazy bastard about that sort of thing. What you need to do gostdog is take all the royalties you have made from your PS:T UI and invest in a larger display.
I kid I kid - What would you suggest for screen sizes?
spekkio said:The Gods of the Wasteland are pleased.
I hope so.
marooned said:
Don't worry - more death incoming.
Anyway I have an Evil Genius build going now. The problem is I’ve never played the RP before and an idiot doesn’t actually get to see much of it. And on the plus side I get to randomly shoot people and screw over townsfolk while being evil. Not decided on the slaver deal yet though.
After EG Paco bites it I am going for an unarmed combat Paco. Update later to day if I can get out of work at a reasonable time. Right now doesn’t look like that is going to happen.
And far, far less screens. Just quest completions, near death misses, and interesting conversation options.
laclongquan
Arcane
I still think you should redo this dumb run. it make for a short and hilarious experience. We ourselves do smart run any number of times before.
dextermorgan
Arcane
oldmanpaco said:
Do you have a spare CRT you can use? Because lowering the resolution further while playing on a large LCD will be pretty nasty. I would think that 800*600 would be neat for the purpose of an LP.
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dextermorgan said:
My home screen is much bigger than your puny pics thank you very much
...but my screen at work, isn't 
Nevertheless I think that the flow of the chapter goes much better if the pics aren't too big. ABout 800x600 would be good.
When I last replayed the Fallouts I also had a 1680x1050 screen but I found that playing it in a big resolution made the game look weird sometimes, especially if you were at a small area. So I re-installed the resolution patch at 848x480 and had a blast.
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