Hehe the toxic caves are brutal at low level, I usually leave them till later (the door at the end can't be opened until you have an electronic lockpick anyway and there's some sweet loot down there!)
If you're restarting, I'd recommend tagging small guns, lockpick and doctor. The doctor skill is brilliant in this game, as you can get some EXCELLENT perks later in the game with a high doctor skill, on top of free healing without using stimpacks! Oh, and take the Gifted trait too, as the extra character points WAY outweigh the loss in skill points.
Don't put any points in melee weapons, it's a waste long term. If you like close and personal combat, unarmed is a lot better (and much improved from Fallout 1 as you get special attacks!). Becomes a useful skill at a couple of points later in the game too!
Oh, and if you can, walk through the radioactive goo without any wellies a bit once you're done; you'll develop a mutation in your foot later on ;)
Did you pay for Sulik? You can get him for free if you're sneaky!
Talk to Torr and say you'll help him guard the Brahmin. Once there, go to the Duntons on the left and help them steal the cattle (not hard). Once Torr has left, kill the radscorpions anyway for XP then get your reward from the Duntons. This will likely drop your karma into the negative, which will make the bad guys in the top bar like you. (don't worry, you can get your karma back in a minute!)
Seeing that you're now a scumbag, might as well pickpocket everybody in sight (save your game before trying!) then sell all their stuff to the guys in the top bar. After a while you should be able to afford some decent armour and a sharpened spear for Sulik (for some reason sharpened spears do more damage than the 10mm pistol!)
Once done, go and see that chick in the other bar who'll be all like "Torr ran away, help!" (if you were nice and helped Torr instead of stealing his cattle you'd never get this quest)
Go and save him, then return to the chick who'll be all like "Thank you! Have Sulik for free!" Little does she know that it was your fault he ran away in the first place. This will boost your karma back into the positive again and everyone will love you! Apart from those blokes in the other bar, but you've already cleaned out their stocks so who cares! Yay!
Er, can you tell I've wasted a lot of my life playing this game? lol
Save your game in a new slot when you get to the Den too, as the kids there nick your stuff when you walk past them, and it's really annoying as you get no indication it's been done until you find something missing. You can avoid it by entering combat mode first, walking past them, then exiting combat mode :)
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Date: 2009-01-28 03:13 pm (UTC)If you're restarting, I'd recommend tagging small guns, lockpick and doctor. The doctor skill is brilliant in this game, as you can get some EXCELLENT perks later in the game with a high doctor skill, on top of free healing without using stimpacks! Oh, and take the Gifted trait too, as the extra character points WAY outweigh the loss in skill points.
Don't put any points in melee weapons, it's a waste long term. If you like close and personal combat, unarmed is a lot better (and much improved from Fallout 1 as you get special attacks!). Becomes a useful skill at a couple of points later in the game too!
Oh, and if you can, walk through the radioactive goo without any wellies a bit once you're done; you'll develop a mutation in your foot later on ;)
Did you pay for Sulik? You can get him for free if you're sneaky!
Talk to Torr and say you'll help him guard the Brahmin. Once there, go to the Duntons on the left and help them steal the cattle (not hard). Once Torr has left, kill the radscorpions anyway for XP then get your reward from the Duntons. This will likely drop your karma into the negative, which will make the bad guys in the top bar like you. (don't worry, you can get your karma back in a minute!)
Seeing that you're now a scumbag, might as well pickpocket everybody in sight (save your game before trying!) then sell all their stuff to the guys in the top bar. After a while you should be able to afford some decent armour and a sharpened spear for Sulik (for some reason sharpened spears do more damage than the 10mm pistol!)
Once done, go and see that chick in the other bar who'll be all like "Torr ran away, help!" (if you were nice and helped Torr instead of stealing his cattle you'd never get this quest)
Go and save him, then return to the chick who'll be all like "Thank you! Have Sulik for free!" Little does she know that it was your fault he ran away in the first place. This will boost your karma back into the positive again and everyone will love you! Apart from those blokes in the other bar, but you've already cleaned out their stocks so who cares! Yay!
Er, can you tell I've wasted a lot of my life playing this game? lol
Save your game in a new slot when you get to the Den too, as the kids there nick your stuff when you walk past them, and it's really annoying as you get no indication it's been done until you find something missing. You can avoid it by entering combat mode first, walking past them, then exiting combat mode :)