Recent content by Zig

Just like reading any other book. I would think so, but never really noticed. It will at least reset your First Aid & Doctor skills for another go, so I suppose the answer is yes? -Zig

I'd rather have the hunting rifle too. As I recall, the rifle isn't always there...at least in the US version. -Zig

Not needed, Becky's Book let's you rest at any location. Saved me from losing Lenny in the middle of nowhere once, not that that would be a great loss :) -Zig

Get the 1.02 patch, the dog will follow you even after he's dead without it. -Zig

Well, he's technically not really a dog, but a luck vampire. You can't really kill him permanently anyhow. -Zig

Even then, you can't be standing too close to the object you want them to work on. -Zig

With an LK of 1 it's difficult to find any special encounters at all without the outdoorsman skill to counter it. Wander aimlessly on foot in the plains south of Redding & West of New Reno. With high outdoorsman skill of 150+...You'll run into Pariahs, the Toxic Waste Dump, Mad Brahmin, &...

Scratched or dirty cd? -Zig

Crashing stats, drop EN & IN to minimum using chems (pretty safe), & radiation (can kill your char if you aren't careful) but needed if you have really high stats that won't drop to 1 with just chem use. Basically reduces the cost of sp per point. Use chems to max these stats before...

One more thing to try is go into your fallout2 directory & rename the fallout2.cfg file to something else (like fallout2_bak.cfg). FO2 will create a new one when you run it...could be a corrupted file...If the game stutters afterward, up the art_cache_size to something useful like 150, instead...

Maybe it needs an even number to scale up, fo2 runs in 640x480...try 1280xwhatever...can't hurt. -Zig

spoiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . Survivalist exploit: horde skillpoints, read all the scout handbooks you can, then put all skillpoints into outdoorsman. Get 'survivalist perk'. Lower outdoorsman back to what it was before the perk. Use the new skillpoints wherever you want...

You can go fro lvl 3 to lvl 5 without choosing a perk, but any new perks obliterate the old ones. When I start a skilled character I hold off unti lvl 7 before using the 'suvivalist' exploit , even though it was available at lvl 4. Amplifies the exploit 3 fold... -Zig

If you don't mind messing up your desktop icons, try changing the res yourself before running the game. Then exit the game & switch back. Maybe it will notice & wake up res-switching again. -Zig

Actually I always wondered this too, so I used the mapper to see what it was...The Bookcase is actually 2 objects, the container (that you can't pick up since the pickup flag isn't set), & the Bookcase corner (there are 4 of them, 3 weigh 1099 Lbs, 1 weighs 1010). Better get started on your...