you had this extra attack this whole time?

[jschmo6766]

so I was watching the download bar between the military base and san francisco in fallout 2 when suddenly aliens randomly attacked us. at one point, cassidy attacked twice in succession.... I thought maybe it was a glitch. a few battles later I see it again. half an hour later I see him do it 3 times in one battle.... at this point I thought that maybe a recent level up changed the sequencing or something so that he just happens to have the last action in one round of turns, and then first action next round of turns, giving the illusion that he's shooting twice in one turn. that had to be it, right? b/c I've been playing up until lvl 20 and never saw him do this b4.... I continued grinding for xp just to see if maybe the sequencing would change again as I leveled up a bunch, but it became pretty apparent that he either had recently acquired twice as many turns as everyone else, or he's attacking twice in each turn. in other words, he most likely could always do it but he just never did.

he's been using the same gauss rifle that I am, it really doesn't make any sense. he still more commonly only attacks once, even when he's not using his AP to reload or move. wtf, cassidy? he doesn't even say anything cocky about it like I'd expect him to, it's just nothing to him, it's like, "oh yeah, I could always attack twice, but what's the point of that, huh?" why does he usually only attack once, and pretty much always just once after he gets the last shot on a mob as it dies? I wonder how many times I've loaded b/c of this....

we're not even in the rockies, there's no excuse. should I kill him?

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[Lexx]

Use sfall and activate the line that forces critters to use up all their APs. Never used this and might lead to other problems, but you seem to need it.

 

[jschmo6766]

I'm certain he'll use his AP to run to his inevitable death.

besides, that's not even in the "preferences" menu, I'm the sort of puritan that plays on default settings for fear I won't get the intended experience. and then if I don't like the game it might be on me, buggering with the files....

 

[J_Fred]

I would say the sfall configurations are just fine. they give you a better experience, imo.

Is he overloaded? If so, he'll only have 9 AP fully leveled, meaning he can't shoot twice. If he goes under that weight on occasion he'll be back to 10 AP, or two shots.

Other than that it seems to be an odd bug, one that, in many years of playing F2, I have never experienced.