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Wasteland 2 |OT| Explode 'em like a Blood Sausage
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Well that was a sub optimal outcome to the rail nomads.
I wasn't going to stand by and let One arm walk away with murder so I did what I thought was right. Vargas and Angela don't agree. I am going to have to save scum out of this one and just watch the atrocity. I do want to play an asshole game later where the rangers are going to try and haul me in. John Freedom, Chuck L, Molly, and Nikola Tesla are not those assholes though.
I'm losing my carefully coordinated set of outfits designed to match with the portraits chosen! Now they'll look even more homeless than usual.
Sanctuary
Member
Haha. Yeah, I didn't notice it right away the first time it happened, but a few seconds later I said "uh, fuck this" and releoaded.
Also, I'm not sure if by now we still need spoiler tags for certain things, but anyway, for those wondering how to allocate skill points for
Rose
1. Get handgun up to ~5-6 to start with.
2. Prioritize Computer Science with Medic.
3. You only need Surgeon to hit level 4-5 before
California
4. Cap both Computer Science with Medic (aside from being able to use higher tiered items, you gain a small bonus to heal for every kind of healing item per skill up).
5. Raise handgun to where you have at least a 80-85% chance to hit with mods, before crouching and any Leadership bonuses you may or may not have in the party (which I HIGHLY suggest if you are picking up NPCS).
6. Go nuts capping Surgeon or picking up a secondary weapon.
Due to both "bleh" initiative and movement, I'm not sure this character would ever really benefit from picking another weapon type over a non combat skill, but I haven't finished the game, so who knows. Especially since you'll usually want this character somewhat close to the party anyway. Handguns have a weak range, but they don't suck. They just are not ARs or Snipers. But due to low initiative, by the time their turn comes up, quite often enemies are within both handgun range as well as low enough to be finished off by them.
It's also a really good idea to have another character with Surgeon at 1-2 as a backup as well as Medic (or two) to 3 for emergencies during battles. For post battle healing you would never use them over the above NPC.
Looks like it was reported on their forums and their temp fix of forcing directx 9 mode worked so that good. I was able to get though that area without a single crash once I forced dx9. Hopefully that will be the last major problem I encounter. *knocks on wood*
AHA-Lambda
Member
Funny thing is actually my
has now specialised in shotguns
I don't find the shotgun to be that bad :/
Rose
I don't find the shotgun to be that bad :/
I really like this game so far. The mechanics are great and the game isn't that difficult once I've gotten a hang of the stats and everything.
I just wish the game wasn't as butt ugly as it is. The Unity lighting engine is pretty subpar and the quality of the 3D modelling and texture work is unfortunately something I see from students. It's too bad, because the concept art is really good.
I just wish the game wasn't as butt ugly as it is. The Unity lighting engine is pretty subpar and the quality of the 3D modelling and texture work is unfortunately something I see from students. It's too bad, because the concept art is really good.
NotoriousPUG
Member
So has anyone figured out anything with Provost yet? That guy has to be around for a reason.
Fallout-NL
Member
Thought I finished up Highpool last night. Can't seem to trigger the next
voting cutscene though. I thought I did everything there was to do, returned the dog, put out the fire, deliverd the message to the other dog, went into the cave and found some skorpion key. Is there something else I need to do before I can get the townies to vote again? Do I need to clear out the rest of the wreckers?
A lot of people miss this, you have to
use your medical skills on the people in the infirmary/store. It's the building at the top of the map.
Fallout-NL
Member
Ah right, thanks Dr.Acula!
ferrasvansen
Member
I must admit I had a blast with this on Tuesday night, spent 10 hrs on it without a break. That's my longest gaming session since Wotlk launched. Made up my own team using friends and family as inspiration, doing pretty well. Had a bit of trouble after highpool but bought some nice weapons, that helped immensely. I hope to see more games like this, I adore turn based games, xcom original is on my list of all time games.
So now I can give shotgun to my party leader to mach his portrait?
UncleSporky
Member
It seems that Brian Fargo put him in as an easter egg/mystery that may have no solution.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/08/05/wasteland-2-release/
"Another one is I put this other character in, its just this odd moment and I love reading people trying to figure it out, hes named Probost. Youre playing the game, and all of a sudden somebody starts following you. He says nothing. He wont speak to you, hes just following you. You go into combat and hell actually get into combat with you and help you. Then he just goes away. Never a word. The conjecture about what it means is fantastic. And if you kill him for no reason, he drops an Owl of Minerva, which is an Illuminati thing. There are some other Illuminati references in LA, so was he related? I love those moments where its what did it mean? I love the non-sequitur stuff."
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/08/05/wasteland-2-release/
"Another one is I put this other character in, its just this odd moment and I love reading people trying to figure it out, hes named Probost. Youre playing the game, and all of a sudden somebody starts following you. He says nothing. He wont speak to you, hes just following you. You go into combat and hell actually get into combat with you and help you. Then he just goes away. Never a word. The conjecture about what it means is fantastic. And if you kill him for no reason, he drops an Owl of Minerva, which is an Illuminati thing. There are some other Illuminati references in LA, so was he related? I love those moments where its what did it mean? I love the non-sequitur stuff."
Shake Appeal
Member
Oh my God, the
. First fight I've outright failed in a while.
slicer dicers
I missed this and the
cave
fixing the water pressure in the dam's office and killing off all the wreckers
TheForceWithin
Banned
To move the hud around there is a tiny button at the top-right that looks like a lock. I don't know if you can change the sizes of hud elements individually but you can make global size changes in the options menu.
Shake Appeal
Member
I get those messages and I did absolutely everything and got the "best" outcome. I think the responses in the Citadel are just bugged.
I think some of the flags for quest completion are buggy. I've seen the "you failed the
Leve L'upe mines
What's weird is I also see the "good job saving people at
Leve L'upe mines
I don't know about Highpool, though, since I
did Ag Center instead
Begaria
Member
Oh, good to know. I didn't even think to try to use Computer Science on damaged Slicers. I tended towards taming all of the smaller robots while focus firing on any Slicers to bring them down quickly. I'll have to keep this in mind.
Begaria
Member
Computer Skill is your friend! We were just doing a little discussion on this. At max Computer Science, you can 100% turn a robot to become an ally during battle, and then they will dismantle themselves at the end of combat. I erroneously posted that Slicers couldn't be turned, and they can't at full health, but it was revealed that as you damage them, you can turn them.
It's very useful.
That's quite a bold statement. There are things I like better, but a lot of other aspects to the game that just don't come close to the FO series. Especially in terms of style and identity and a number of core features and content. I think it's a worthy successor to the TB style gameplay and story telling and a great foundation for future expansion and improvement, but I don't think it reaches those heights of FO1/2 yet.
Fuck Canyon Monks. My escort
.
At least I got some fancy suits to replace the clothes I lost when
suicided himself rushing to a group of giant lizards, forcing me not only to fight every stupid group in the canyons but go back to get more sludge because "I've been a bad boy"
At least I got some fancy suits to replace the clothes I lost when
a monk nuked himself out next to me.
UncleSporky
Member
I picture the mariachi band just playing happy music while the naked guy in a trapper hat just mutilates everyone.
O.DOGG
Member
Fuck Canyon Monks. My escort.suicided himself rushing to a group of giant lizards, forcing me not only to fight every stupid group in the canyons but go back to get more sludge because "I've been a bad boy"
At least I got some fancy suits to replace the clothes I lost whena monk nuked himself out next to me.
It's the three amigos!
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
I didn't know the turtle lead you somewhere. Damn it.
UncleSporky
Member
I'm not sure if you have to be there when he reaches the end of his path.
It's by the river in no man's land, just a dig spot with good random loot.
Shake Appeal
Member
It's just a
pretty good stash
Sanctuary
Member
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
UncleSporky
Member
Oh yeah, I meant to post this.
The other day I made a couple more programs, really just quick bitmap renderers, for the 6502 computer in the Ranger Citadel. All they do is draw one image to the screen.
Actually I helped the developer discover a bug with his emulator, my program was running too slowly due to an issue with memory location $0000. I moved my RAM usage forward a notch and now the bitmaps draw a lot faster.
https://app.box.com/s/kxx6hifz3qrh74gy243b
https://app.box.com/s/fk2gehmwx7v5qqs676nz
I don't think it would be fast enough to actually make Wasteland on it or anything, it doesn't really have a tile graphics drawing method outside of monochrome text mode. I think I might make a choose-your-own-adventure engine though.
As a reminder, if you want to try these out in your own game, navigate to Documents\My Games\Wasteland2\Drive1, and replace the Diskette file in there with mine. You'll have to rename my file to simply Diskette and I recommend renaming the existing Diskette to DisketteORIGINAL or something.
The other day I made a couple more programs, really just quick bitmap renderers, for the 6502 computer in the Ranger Citadel. All they do is draw one image to the screen.
Actually I helped the developer discover a bug with his emulator, my program was running too slowly due to an issue with memory location $0000. I moved my RAM usage forward a notch and now the bitmaps draw a lot faster.
https://app.box.com/s/kxx6hifz3qrh74gy243b
https://app.box.com/s/fk2gehmwx7v5qqs676nz
I don't think it would be fast enough to actually make Wasteland on it or anything, it doesn't really have a tile graphics drawing method outside of monochrome text mode. I think I might make a choose-your-own-adventure engine though.
As a reminder, if you want to try these out in your own game, navigate to Documents\My Games\Wasteland2\Drive1, and replace the Diskette file in there with mine. You'll have to rename my file to simply Diskette and I recommend renaming the existing Diskette to DisketteORIGINAL or something.
Shake Appeal
Member
I think I have my second party drafted pretty thoroughly, including my ST10 drooling brawler. Now all I have to do is finish the game the first time (I'm not sure I'm even halfway yet)...
I'm a good 5 hours in after my restart. I'm liking my characters much more than the first time around - both from the gameplay and stroy perspective, as I think I created more interesting and fun to RP Rangers. It's probably still gradeschool quality character creation, but hey, I got attached to them 
This time I did Ag Center instead of Highpool and it definitely was a much more interesting quest. Bigger, deeper and way funnier. Some of the descriptions of enormous plants were hilarious. It was also quite irritating at times. The exploding plants were a pain in the ass to methodically clear out and at one point I ran out of ammo,
.
After that I went to Ranger Citadel and checked out the store. Now I have some sweet guns, like an M16 on Angela and two FAMAS(-es?) on my other assault rifle users.
If The Vanishing of Ethan Carter doesn't release today I'll probably play for another hour or two and check out the infected pump station. After that; Rail Nomads Camp. When I reach it I will have caught up to where I was before restarting.
This time I did Ag Center instead of Highpool and it definitely was a much more interesting quest. Bigger, deeper and way funnier. Some of the descriptions of enormous plants were hilarious. It was also quite irritating at times. The exploding plants were a pain in the ass to methodically clear out and at one point I ran out of ammo,
had to kill the crazy scientist with a rocket launcher
After that I went to Ranger Citadel and checked out the store. Now I have some sweet guns, like an M16 on Angela and two FAMAS(-es?) on my other assault rifle users.
If The Vanishing of Ethan Carter doesn't release today I'll probably play for another hour or two and check out the infected pump station. After that; Rail Nomads Camp. When I reach it I will have caught up to where I was before restarting.
Yea but I probably enjoy this game more. Probably because of the party based combat and various NPC's. I also really like the writing. I can't speak for content yet because I am only at Rail Nomads Camp. But Ag Center was pretty much on par with Fallout areas.
UncleSporky
Member
Someone in the Steam community is saying it's possible to save both Ag Center and Highpool.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/240760/discussions/0/613937306627931286/#p1
As to how this is possible, given that
If it's not disproven, I'm definitely going to try that next playthrough. Get both
http://steamcommunity.com/app/240760/discussions/0/613937306627931286/#p1
As to how this is possible, given that
one of them is supposed to be destroyed in order to progress the plot...he says that something happens at the radio tower instead.
If it's not disproven, I'm definitely going to try that next playthrough. Get both
NPCs?!
I love how despite my best inentions, so far I'm just pissing off everybody and lay even more waste to the wasteland. Sleep well Mad Monks, you were (partially) avenged!
Now off to
, I've heard they haven't yet seen the Ranger Team Echo's "benevolence" in action over there!
Now off to
Cali
I'm trying this tonight when I get. Unless someone can confirm BS before 7.
Well, someone in that thread tried it and it didn't work. Pretty sure it's fake.
Sadness.
Yeah, it's a shame. I remember when I was playing through that part I was thinking "If I go back and forth a whole bunch, could I save both?" but I guess not.
I remember I tried it in Beta, but when I went to the AG center after killing all the dudes in HP but not actually going into the town proper, it was still all turned to shit. But this at least made some sense that if you skip the Radio Tower you could do both. Ohh well, that would have been really cool.
LurkerPrime
Member
It'd be funny if, when going between them, you'd hear the situation worsen in the other... and then lose them both.
Welcome to the Wasteland.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Damn, dude. Nice job! Sounds powerful enough to handle Apple ][ low-res GR mode for some OG Lemonade Stand.Oh yeah, I meant to post this.
The other day I made a couple more programs, really just quick bitmap renderers, for the 6502 computer in the Ranger Citadel. All they do is draw one image to the screen.
Actually I helped the developer discover a bug with his emulator, my program was running too slowly due to an issue with memory location $0000. I moved my RAM usage forward a notch and now the bitmaps draw a lot faster.
https://app.box.com/s/kxx6hifz3qrh74gy243b
https://app.box.com/s/fk2gehmwx7v5qqs676nz
I don't think it would be fast enough to actually make Wasteland on it or anything, it doesn't really have a tile graphics drawing method outside of monochrome text mode. I think I might make a choose-your-own-adventure engine though.
As a reminder, if you want to try these out in your own game, navigate to Documents\My Games\Wasteland2\Drive1, and replace the Diskette file in there with mine. You'll have to rename my file to simply Diskette and I recommend renaming the existing Diskette to DisketteORIGINAL or something.
He just put up his save files so we'll see, I guess.
Either he's real or a few steam users just got hit with cryptolocker.
NotoriousPUG
Member
You can actually lose both of them, at least in the Beta.