Recent content by Nimrod

I tested the flamer vs. the improved flamer pretty extensively, and can confirm they perform exactly the same. In around half the runs through Vault City the normal flamer came out slightly on top, so I feel safe saying this. I think there was supposed to be a bonus for using the improved...

There's a sneaky way to get one more armor, but it has a major drawback. If you use a hex editor on the .exe there is an ANSI string for the brahmin sprite. If you change this, to say the large raider animation, then "Brahmin" type armors will now be (what I consider anyway) a passable combat...

My experience on recruits: When you view any recruit for the very first time, and if they have gained enough experience to level up since they became available, the computer will level them up, pick perks, etc. This is generally a bad idea. I've seen a level 14 Farsight with only two perks...

I believe it is the first frame of the "Idle" animation.

Is it possible to make a character look like scenery? If so, you could potentially make an actor that blocks the doorway until it's killed. Not that I have any real idea what I'm talking about, mind.

I was randomly checking out maps and the "industrial disease" factory map gave me an idea. Suppose a group like the Gun Runners from F1 put in an appearance. Say you need to find a special encounter that has an old newspaper article about a large factory (which reveals it on the world map)...

Well, it's my opinion that with the myriad weapons already available, there wouldn't be much point to have a pile of new ones that are the same as old ones with different graphics. Unless you were going for a theme. So a few with a bit more edge would be warranted. Not sure exactly how to...

One idea for this endeavor might be to either redo or replace some of the special encounters. You could exchange one of the essentially useless or silly encounters (MIR, L33tists) with an entire mission-sized area. New permanent areas would be very cool, except it would involve a large...

I'm a total novice in mod building, so I wouldn't be much use in that area. I'd play it though.

Yeah, that sucks. I've seen 4+ encounters in a single map square. Here's an old discussion about it, but doesn't sound too hopeful. http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19367&highlight=encounters The only way I've ever found to get around it is to cheat up Outdoorsman. For a...

I usually encounter him between Shady Sands and Vault 15. I don't know if he dies unless you kill him.

Definitely mantis up north, I've run into them as my first encounter after leaving V-13. Very rare though. Coyotes suffer the same issue, but I don't believe that to be a patch thing. I think I've run into maybe three coyote encounters total since I picked up the game. Why would we need...

Surely.

I'm pretty sure you're right anyway. The readme file direct from the CD reads: Checking the disk properties shows 09/30/97.

This may have been suggested before, but it might be a useful thing to have a rough estimation of ddraw.ini settings for various hardware. This could be done just by inviting people to post their computer specs and the setting they found worked best. Would remove some confusion.