Fallout 2/Character creation: Difference between revisions

The pre-selected characters can finish the game. Chitsa is the best, as her intelligence will enable her to finish most of the quests in the game. Narg is a melee fighter, which is pretty ineffective since virtually all of the good weapons are ranged attacks. And Mingan, well...a thief-type is horrible at combat and really isn't great. The character included below can be considered a heavily modified Chitsa (I used that character as a base for this one).

Now, here are two very conspicious traits that need to be acknowledged, though they don't have a big impact on the game:

#Yes, in Fallout, you can choose whether to be female or male. For the most part, it really doesn't matter what your gender is, but there are subtle differences that will be taken in account:

#**In the Den, females can screw a bartender in The Hole for $200. They can also screw Joey, the gangster, (though apparently for nothing). One major advantage is that females can screw Metzger to buy Vic for half the price.

#**In New Reno, females will have difficulty convincing Stuart to sign you up for the boxing championships. Also, females can screw T-Ray (the chop-shop mechanic) to get the car back (he'll steal it) and screw him again to get upgrades.

#**In the Den, males can screw a prostitute, although they have to pay to get that service done.

#**In Modoc, males can only marry Miria.

#**In New Reno, males have to pay the car mechanics to get the car back without violence. In addition, males are able to screw Angela, bishop's daughter.

They're pretty self explanatory, but on the descriptions it tells what each skill modifies. All skills are important, but try to keep Luck, Strength, and Perception at least at 4. Characters with Intelligence values of three or less face a totally different game...the only options that you'll receive in dialogue are "Ruk" and "Eeg," as well as the occasional "Yah," "Uh-Huh," and "want morE." The average level for all skills is 5.

:The use of fists in combat. This category does not exclude the use of brass knuckles, powered mechanical gauntlets and so on. This skill may help early on but becomes relatively useless approaching midgame until you obtain powered fist or mega powered fists. Mega powered fists is among the most powerful weapons in the game for those who want to consider making hand to hand their primary combat.

:Use of throwing knives and grenades. Pretty useless, if you ask me. In the fist place, grenades are hard to find and second, even with something like 70% skill, grenades suffer from having a relatively low accuracy to hit your desired target. And grenades are quite expensive.

Derived statistics are statistics that are a direct result of the main statistics, in other words, increase and decrease a skill and see what happens. NOTE: These are straight out from the Fallout manual.

* Being 'raidiated' qualifies having a rem count of 75, with 300 or above being quite serious. A rem count of 5 or higher will bring symptoms of nausea; a rem count of 75 is quite serious, while a rem count of 300 or higher is fatal. If you have enough radiation in your body to necessiate attention, the message 'Radiation' will appear on the screen.