Let's Iron Man Fallout 2 - Restoration Project

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oldmanpaco said:

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?

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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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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.

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I totally agree. The fact that I browse the forums mostly using my 1024x600 netbook, has absolutely nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
Well, ok, maybe a little.

Alright you pansies I will see what I can do. I'll also try to resize the pics I have yet to upload.

Goddamn photobucket is down.

Anyway no updating tonight I guess.

Photobucket's bandwidth limit can fuck up your LPs easily.

If you have a blogger account you can use it as an image hosting site. Just upload them on a post and save that post without publishing it. If you have firefox, with the "dragdropupload" addon you can batch upload pics very fast.

Dropbox could help. You don't even need to use uploader UI. Just drag and drop into the folder to sync. Absolutely painless, IMO.

ghostdog said:

Photobucket's bandwidth limit can fuck up your LPs easily.

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I blew past the Photobucket free limits for storage and bandwidth after about 3 updates of my BGT LP. Yes I'm a big attention loving whore who actually pays for Photobucket space. At least for one year. Anyway they were having technical problems not bandwidth problems.

Images resized on upload for the less fortunate.

Chapter 5: In the beginning (Evil Genius Paco)

EG Paco is not going to be psychotic Paco. While I plan on screwing over as many people as possible I will not compromising my ability to get XP, items, or followers (if appropriate).


And here we are.


My god what a generic build that everyone uses. I thought about putting Luck up to 6 and reducing END down to 5 for the Better/More Criticals perks but I will take my chances with the brain alignment deal (like I will get there). With the small frame trait I kept 5 STR. I took the gifted trait because I suck. Could have dropped CHA but I like followers.


And we are off.


That was quick. Being the evil genius that I am I dropped a spear and healing powder on the floor for use in the battle.




No fighting anyway.


The Blue PJs.


Leveling up.


Fix well: Check



Train in melee and unarmed: Check


Kill Plants: Check


Get Sharpened Spear: Check


Save Dog: Check


Time to roll over to Klamath


Talked to Sulik.


Found Vic's hut. Dude is never there.


Get the key from the dog.


Learn some more unarmed.


I can never get this door open.


Take the crappy whiskey still quest.


My first chance to be evil.



Lost some Karma! More importantly - Virgin of the Wastes? This will not stand.



That's better.


After scaring Torr off we agree to rescue him because that's how we roll.



Get our first minion.


Leveling time again. Took Awareness.


Hey it's the Rat God!


And he is dead. Can someone tell me where the pistol is down here? I can never find it.


Fuel injector collected.


Leveled again.


First Robot fight.


Robots stand no chance against my Sharpened Spear.


And Torr is rescued.


Yellow card acquired.


Time for some murder.


Still can't pick that lock.


And let's screw over Whiskey Bob.


He is very butthurt about something.


Time to get Smiley.


I fought one gecko and decided I needed to buy a gun. So back to Klamath for that purchase.


And here it is. Cost me about 500 caps. Wish I could find the one in the caves. Also purchased Leather Armor.


Killed a bunch of Geckos and rescued Smiley. For some reason no shots from inside the caves were saved so you miss the exciting moment I got critical hit down to 4 hp.


Hunting Geckos for pelts after Smiley taught us how to skin them.


We head to The Den and are stopped. Live dangerously people.


Jackass.


333 HP. That's a lot of HP.


And a first shot knockout. That was convenient.



Here is where I screwed up. We should have whaled on unconscious Kaga instead of killing his people. Anyway the pansy ran away.


Next random encounter. We ran like that pansy Kaga.



And we are at the Den.

Next - Killing shopkeepers for fun and profit!

Looks smooth so far. Maybe one day I'll do Ironman LP as well. Carry on!

I can only see in this topic.

And he is dead. Can someone tell me where the pistol is down here? I can never find it.

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oldmanpaco said:

And he is dead. Can someone tell me where the pistol is down here? I can never find it.

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See the outlined rat directly "above" your character on the picture? Directly above that rat is a small dead end, in there is a corpse, and that corpse has the pistol.

EDIT: Beaten to it.

Apparently there's a bug that causes the corpse to "decompose" (disappear) if you leave the caves and come back after a period of time, with the pistol staying hidden under the puddle of blood and thus non retrievable. I never encountered it myself as I always OCD explore and loot everything get it on my first run and I don't know if it's been fixed in RP...

I don't think it's a bug, it's a "feature". Corpses rot away after a certain amount of time, leaving the loot behind.

Unfortunately, it's gipped as a giant puddle of blood is left in its stead, making it almost impossible to retrieve the items until the puddle evaporates... which for some strange reason takes years.

Yeah, it was the puddle placed over the gun that I thought I was referring to as the bug - English failed me

ghostdog said:

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Still won't take long, though.

Chapter 6: The Den of Destruction and other Stories

So Paco and is walking around the Den and this happens:


Hey it's our car! Someday.


No handouts!


One of the best features of the FO games is the ability to piss people off then up and murder them with no consequences.


Flick had some useful stuff for us.


We are Level 5 now BTW.


Rocking Flick's Hunting Rifle.


Surprisingly unhelpful.


Need 2000 for the car.


Agreed to spy on the Church.


Vic is a pain in the ass to get.


Back to Klamath. Don't know why I didn't get his radio when I was there.


Stopped by trappers.


Vic's Horde.


On the way back to the Den we get to kill some rats.




And Vic joins team Paco.


Raid on the church. Part of the RP content is sending some of the guards to the new residential district.




And that is done with a minimum of fuss.


Another new quest. Finding a place for the orphans.


Mom sends you to evict the squatters.


There are multiple ways to get them to leave or stay and help the kids.


I choose to kill them all. Seems best.


It's hard to be evil when all the rewards are better for being good.


Up to level 6. Bonus move perk selected. Got to be able to run away.


Packing the Desert Eagle now. Vic has the hunting rifle.


Heading to Vault City because no one put Modoc on the map and I forgot where it was.



A couple of encounters without much danger.


Now this has possibilities.


Robbers take care of business.


Then we kill the survivors who happen to all be out of ammo. Good times.


Real hard to be evil without indiscriminately killing people.


We can probably take these guys.


No problem.


Nope.


Can't remember what this encounter was but we hit the cave.


Things get out of hand.


And Paco runs like a little girl.



Wonder if they are the bad guys?


Another annoying merchant.


Found the Toxic Dump Site. Yah!



We stumble across Modoc.


I promise to help with the Ghost Farm for the price of a finger.


Sure sure I'll find Jonny. I'll find him good.


Filling up on Brahmin Testicles.


Down the shitter for the Gold Watch.


And we head to the Ghost Farm.



Not sure if it's the RP or the unofficial patch (made by the same guy of course) but companions can break limbs. Which is what happened to both Vic and Sulik just now.


Agree to help the Slags.


While funny offering candy to Jonny prevents you from returning him to his parents. Live and learn.

Anyway we need to get Sulik and Vic fixed so we head to Vault City.


Stopped by farmers.


St oped by wild dogs. This map is so big it's impossible to run from.


Sulik and Vic pansy ass it to the edges while Paco kills them all. Really need to get those limbs fixed before a real battle happens.



That bonus move pays dividends.


We bail on this one too.


And we are at Vault City.

Chapter 7: Busy work at the Vault

So we wander around the Vault City Courtyard.


Sure I'll find your doll kid.


And we are screwed. Much like Jonny before, being evil here prevents you from getting the tool that's in the rocks even though I know exactly where it is. This burns us later of course.


I agree to get you lazy husband out.


It's new Cassidy! I don't have enough CH to get a third party member and just realized I have no Mentats.


We head to Redding to find some Mentats.


Nope.

We let the trappers kill the Geckos.


Then we murder the trappers.


We make it to Redding.


LVL 7 now.


Mentats acquired. Back to VC.


Killed these guys.


Killed them.


Killed them.


Didn't fight.


It's Kaga everyone!




And he runs away again.


More wild life to slaughter.


Popped the Mentats.




And Cassidy joins team Paco.


Back to Modoc to finish that off.


Already getting hurry up messages.


A patrol wiped out some highway men. I got this shotgun out of it.



Finish up the Ghost Farm deal and level up to 8.


This is when I discovered that I could not save Jonny.





I buy the fake papers then blackmail the guy. Then I turn him in anyway for a day pass.


It's a family reunion.


And here is when we are screwed from that doll incident. If I had the wrench I could give iot to her aand get a tool kit.


Getting the guy out of detention.



Personally I think the test was racially biased.




So we need to 'Fix' the Gecko reactor.



I loved Douglas Adams when I was a kid.


Gecko.


Need a part from Vault City.


Acquired the financial data.



So if we had just returned doll I could have gotten the wrench from the rocks which I could have given it to Val and gotten a toolkit to trade for the car part. Now we need to find one somewhere.


We will deal with this later.

Onto the Den!

Not going to show each encounter but here are the stats:

Times Avoiding Encounters: 3
Times Running from Encounters: 6
Times Finishing Encounters: 1 - Killed me some mole rats.

Need to get that outdoors man skill up apparently.

Anyway at the den:


We buy the toolkit. Back to the Vault.


This map is hard to run from so we fight.

And win.



Awesome we got the car part. Back to the Den. Awesome.




And there is our car!


Wow is he going to be disappointed in the time it takes me to get back with the GECK.

Time to head to the NCR for that Vault Quest and some brain alignments.


And we are at the lovely NCR.


Well at least he put V15 vault the map.


Level 99 here I come!


Brain-scan was successful! Back to VC.


This is a new RP quest line. VC want me to kill the mole rats ion this village.


Villagers don't want me too. They want me to buy guns for them.


Nice village.



Rats are being controlled somehow. And they wear jewelery.




Anyway I tell McLure about the Village and the part for the power plant. He agrees to help.


And we are Level 9. Better Criticals is taken.


Back at the plant.


After hacking in to the computer we find this option. I don't take contact the Enclave because I don't want to fight them anytime soon. Wussie I know.



And the plant is fixed.


Poor dead Rat God.


Anyway the Brain agrees to stop the attacks against VC by his Mole Rats.




Hey I'm a VC citizen now.



Messing with Lynette a bit. This is what affirmative action gives you.



We head into the Vault.





That's right. My contribution is impressive.


Hey water chips!


This will come in handy later.


Got the optimization data for the plant.


And we are done.


Next stop - Broken Hills



Next - Miners, Gangsters, and the SAD of Doom!!!!!

Wow, nice pace.

I remember one time when I played Fallout 2, that I took ALL the water chips from Vault 8, found the special encounter with the Guardian of Time (or whatever his name was), and left all the water chips in the past Vault 13.

Sadly, fucking up the timeline like that did nothing. I think it should be implemented that if any number of Water Chips get left behind in that map, then the player is auto-killed for deleting his own existance.

Chapter 8: Miners, Gangsters, Vaults, and Doom


So we are at Broken Hills.


Level 10 now. Don't remember if I showed this.


Marcus - Sheriff and joinable NPC. He uses big guns so and there is no way I will let anyone use big guns.



Goddamn scorpion.


I agree to find his wife.


Moved the plant to get some chess advice.



Found the missing people.




Victory is mine!



The truth hurts.



Run Francis out of town.

Did some other stuff in BH but I'm pretty sure no one cares.

Anyway off to Redding.




Take a few jobs helping out the sheriff.


Evicting old women for fun and profit!



Stop the bar fight. I should have just killed everyone.


Don't bite on the whores sob story.


This guy cut up a whore.

So I gunned him down.


Gotta kill off Frog Morton.



Piece of cake.


And we level.



Frog's brothers become a problem later.


We decide to check out the mine to see if we can clear it out.


Time to run.

Yeah we will come back later.



New Reno!


Going to Bishop to drop off the suitcase I got in VC. Didn't show that before I guess.



Took a job to kill someone in the NCR.




And for good measure I nailed Bishop's wife.


Took a job for the Salvatore family to find a thief.


Took a job for the Wright family to find who killed their son.


Took a job for the Mordino family to deliver a package.


Package delivered.


Found the thief.




Made him did up the stash then killed him.


Took a job from the Mordino's to collect from the porn studio.


Well I guess I cannot be a actor and I sure ain't going to be a fluffer.



Took a job to collect from Rensco.


Collecting.



Also found out about the Wright kid.



Took a job to investigate the SAD.

By this time I'm tired of New Reno. Time to go check out V15.

Along the way we are ambushed by a Morton brother.


So far so good.

Down goes Vic! Down goes Vic!


Well the only thing to do is leave his bloated body in the wasteland.

On to V15!


We do some crap then get the door key.






We blast our way though the vault.



Found V13. Game is almost over!


Found some bitchin Combat Armor.


Here is the boss guy. Don't really need to fight him but why not.





Close one but we win.


Time to head for V13.


First time I played this game I got all tingly inside right about here.


Talking deathclaws.



And Vic is replaced with a giant talking lizard.


The GECK is Mine!!!!


Level 15. Oh yeah that's the good stuff.


We take care of some unfinished business on the way back to Arroyo.


The Enclave have our people!

What a Twist!!


On the way back south we stop at the SAD.



See that body lying at the foot of the turret.

Yeah that's Paco.



Dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Brazilian Slaughter said:

LOL at the ending.

What in the devil's name possessed you to go on a mad dash at one of those killer turrets? And what made you think you had any chance against them using Combat Shotguns? I barely scrape by with Sniper Rifles.

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Yeah that was pretty stupid.

This is what happens when you play at 2 AM after a night of drinking alone when your GF is off working third shift.

Vic and Cassidy were using my two sniper rifles but when Vic died I didn't equip it on Paco. When I started the Turret Combat I realized I didn't have any long range weapons equipped for some reason (had been using a scoped FN FAL). I should have run away then but instead I charged to get into range. First couple of rounds did very little damage or missed. The 100+ damage the last critical did was not captured in a screen shot. Little drunk and very tired

But tomorrow is another day.

Haha, how anti climatic. But fitting, truly fitting. Which build now?

Back to Dumbo, perhaps?

The Brazilian Slaughter said:

A good LP, but a bit on the faggotry side due to your character build.
Your first build was pretty non-generic, but your current build is generic generic.

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Yeah, well I wanted to make some progress. I openly admitted it at char generation.

The Brazilian Slaughter said:

Also, if you're going evil, prepare to lose two of your NPCs. Sulik and Cassidy, if I remember right, will abandon you at a certain karma point. If I remember right, Vic doesn't give a shit about your karma. As long as you leave Val alone, you can murder whole towns of children, rape and he won't blink a eyelid. I think most NPCs are good-natured crybabies who can't take a bit of mass-murdering for fun and profit. If my memory serves me right, Vic, Skynet, Myron and all Dogs (minus K-9) will folllow you no matter how evil and vile you are. I remember playing with Vic, Skynet and Myron once, it was pretty ragtag because Myron was a wuss, but considering Skynet is essentially Cassidy without armor, it was a pretty good team.

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The rewards for being good in this game are so far above being evil it's not even funny. Also it's hard to have bad karma when every robber/raider/highwayman you kill gives you good Karma.

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P.S: No real Ironmanner should ever use inventory to use multiple items in a fight. No gay STIMPAK SUPER-SPEED FIX. No Quick Pockets, you want to use items, use the backpack icon like a MAN. (exception is reloading different ammo, that's okay if you consider its a 4 AP action and use only the other 2 AP accordingly)

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Duly noted. I generally don't use more than one stimpak at a time but I will make sure I don't cheat.

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Suggestion: Install Magnus' Weapons Redone Mod, use the All Folder + the Unfair Ammo Folder. IMHO, makes game less popamole and more mainly.
Pluses: Melee weapons are generally stronger. Dudes with spears and combat knifes are dangerous as fuck.
Ammo folders can be used to diminish the ammount of ammo.
AP and JHP mean something now.
Certain weapons are just meaner.

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I'll give this a try for the run after the one I'm currently doing. Looks like I need to reinstall some things to make it compatible with RP.

Malakal said:

Haha, how anti climatic. But fitting, truly fitting. Which build now?

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laclongquan said:

Back to Dumbo, perhaps?

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Dumbo is not the current run. Doing an unarmed guy now.

No modern weaponry perhaps?

Spears, throwing knives, unarmed, what have you? Grenades are allowed though.