🚀 go-pugleaf

Just a bit of a ramble.  I was playing Fallout Shelter on my computer, 
it works much better there than on the phone, but really it just made me 
want to play the old turn based Fallout 2 again for the 4th or so stint, 
instead of fallout 3 or 4.

So far I'm running only the Restoration Project & official patch.  I 
really like the restoration project so far, I haven't noticed any 
annoying changes, but there's definitely restored content I've run 
across that I really like, and it includes a lot of the other fixes that 
you used to have to get separately like the encounter/speed fix, and 
high-rez fix, as well as a ton of bug fixes.  It's on par with Werner's 
work on VTMB patching.  As far as bugs fixes, I've only had one crash 
bug in the last 2 weeks.  I'm also using cheat engine for the speed hack 
only, the game's just too slow without it.  Around 2x speed seems about 
right, much more and it's hard to get to where you are on the maps.  You 
have to remember to disable it when traveling though or it cuts down on 
encounters by the amount sped up, which I'm about 50-50 on remembering 
to do.

About the only thing else I'd really like is something to highlight 
items, I don't appreciate pixel hunting anymore.  I haven't found such a 
mod yet though I looked briefly.  Oh, and probably an inventory mod, I'm 
tired of inventory juggling.

It's taken me a bit to get back into it, I quit for a day and played 
some Brutal Legend, not bad, but then the fallout bug called me back.  I 
must have made 20 characters getting somewhere between the temple to the 
den with them before restarting.  Level 6 the highest before getting 
ones that were just right.

On my first character I had to look up how to get through the door in 
the Temple again as I'd forgotten how to lockpick, and of course once I 
start on the spoilers, I can't stop :(

I had decided to try playing through with an unarmed master & a stupid 
character, which I'd never finished the game with.  I tried once with 
the usual perfect firearm character, but found it a bit boring as I'd 
done that so many times previously.

My current 'final' pugilist is

S 6
P 7
E 6
C 6
I 7
A 9
L 8

Gifted & One Hander. Tagged Stealth, Lockpick & Speech.

I'm speculating if One Hander was a mistake.  It works with unarmed for 
a +20% to hit, but I'm finding dealing with runners really hard and 
annoying. Having some chance to hit with a hunting rifle would be 
useful.  I tried Small Frame, but I just can't stand the lack of space 
and required inventory juggling.  Even without it, I'm annoyed by the 
inventory juggling.

So I ended up going for the no-tag cheater method of unarmed.  Go to SF 
get trained up there, then start putting points into it, then later I'll 
go get trained some more elsewhere.  Even playing on easiest settings 
and having bought a mega-power fist in SF and farmed up some cells for 
it, playing unarmed is really hard.  Even with bonus move, I find 
chasing down runners is nearly impossible, and my guns with the one hand 
isn't good enough to shoot them in the back.  I can't stand giving Sulik 
a gun to do so as he likes to burst me in the back, and Vic is a coward 
who likes to stand around with his thumb up his ass 90% of the time 
instead of helping me.

I got lucky and found the crashed shuttle, so I'm thinking of tagging 
energy weapons instead so I can use a phazer throughout the game, but 
the character's not really built for that.

I've got to start over my stupid playthrough, as I was following a 
stupid guide, and it said to take awareness, but that doesn't seem 
appropriate for a stupid character.  Also went Fast Shot as aiming for 
the eyes doesn't seem right either, and I love me some SMG crits.  I'm 
surprised I found some quests to do that aren't in the stupid guide too. 
After several stupid characters I finally settled on one after thinking 
about who I thought was the worst actor/actress ever, and came up with 
Tara Reid, so I named my stupid character Tara and gave her blond hair, 
and I imagine that's my character.  It makes me happy :)

I've been trying to go along beside the unarmed playthough so I can see 
the differences and try things with her.  It's much more fun, and even 
more effective just due to the difference between using a gun and your 
fists.

I keep wanting to try a Paladin type, killing all the evil, not 
stealing, gambling, etc. but the problem is I'd probably just end up 
killing everyone, as almost everywhere someone is doing something bad 
(maybe your village isn't and that's it), and if you take them out 
everyone there wants to kill you.  I've already tried a 'kill everyone' 
run long ago which I didn't care for.  I'd like to use melee weapons, 
but doing the unarmed is so hard I don't think I'd want to try melee 
which seems inferior to me.

- Justisaur