Checking in with the Vault & Tension in Junktown - Fallout | Blind Playthrough [Part 2]

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[@lordkilljoy9652]

Hey just a quick tip, try right clicking your weapons and you'll find you can change attack modes- typically between a basic attack, aimed attack, and reload for most guns

[@ghalanox]

Yes!! and reloading u will only spend 2 AP instead of 4 that costs opening inventory.

[@olimar243]

"Health" Ian: i dont know anything about that." I felt that 🤣

[@dsilvermane_]

Holy shit I knew it! Had to look it up but Killian is voiced by Richard Dean Anderson aka Macgyver aka Jack O'Neil from Stargate. One of my favourite actors of all time.

[@LuckbeaSladey]

Looks just like him! The leader of Shady Sands was Tony Shaloub (Wings, Monk). recognized it but had to look it up

[@ur.new.valentine]

@@LuckbeaSladey im such a huge fan of Monk and i was sitting here like 'aradesh sounds so familiar...' now i know why!!

[@petere8612]

Wow, didn't know that!

[@raifthemad]

O'Neill, with two l's.

[@__TK___]

Mapo always unload the guns that you want to sell. You give the merchant free ammo if you don’t unload them

[@Runegrem]

It's not free ammo. Its value is still counted. But it's generally better to use the ammo than selling it.

[@callsignfatbeard2637]

I’ve completed this game 3 times, and just finished a run before watching mapo. I somehow never noticed this, not once. I’m kind of ashamed of myself

[@SkeleTonHammer]

I'm 37 and grew up playing a lot of these kinds of old janky games, I know old games like this can be a bit hard to play (not a lot of slick quality of life stuff) but hopefully you're enjoying this. Once you get to grips with the sheer detail of everything (text log running at the bottom, inventory and stat system, turn-based combat, etc.) I think you start to really appreciate it. Who knows, maybe you'll like it better than the Bethesda games in many ways. It's always a whole vibe playing these old games that you can't get from the new stuff.

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

Hahahahahaha, “did I just give him my spears?” Yes, yes you did, and he thought it was a GREAT trade! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@doctorfrohman5516]

Maco, you can right click on your weapon to switch between the types of attacks it does. This is how you kick people, reload your weapon, and do aimed attacks.

[@Razardos]

"I'm having such a ridiculous amount of fun" - yeah, that's basically Fallout 1 (and 2) for you. Some wonkiness, loads and loads of fun and ridiculousness in, sometimes, equal measures. May the Wasteland give you no trouble.

[@Bulbman123]

Many of Obsidians New Vegas devs worked on Fallout 1 and 2. I'd recommend reading at least the controls and basics in the manual. Now some basic tips, you can lockpick with no picks, picks increase the success chance, using the backpack in the right click menu brings up your quick use inventory, bring this menu up and select the lockpicks and use them on the locked thing, you can also equip it in your hand and use it that way. This is how you use most items on the environment or NPCs. In shops many tables and shelves are part of the shop inventory, so at 1:10:20 if you would have picked the buy option it would have been different items for trade. Red area transition zones leave the town/ area, green for moving to the next part inside the larger area. You access follower inventory by using the "Steal" skill on them, don't worry, you will never be caught/ have consequences for this, they can use weapons and stimpacks you give them, they can not equip armor you give, you have to tell them to equip their best weapon after you give it to them for them to switch to it, also followers do not have infinite ammo, you have to give them more. Technically you can use the barter function to trade with followers, and many other non trader NPCs, so you can give him stuff freely this way, but can't take stuff back for free, kinda more realistic in a way.

[@LuckbeaSladey]

You might have found out, but shady sands spans two screens. Unrelated: I’m on an obsidian kick right now. Played New Vegas and almost done with Pillars of Eternity. It is really good. Looking forward to Tyranny!

[@eXtotheZee]

Tyranny is such a sleeper hit! It's a more fucused, less bloated experience than the Pillars games with a way more original and interesting world (imo, ofc). And lots of meaty roleplaying. Despite still having a preordained role in the beginning of the story, you can play wildly different characters.

[@LuckbeaSladey]

@@eXtotheZee i recently started watching Mortismal Gaming’s channel. I barely knew CRPGs were a thing. Now that I have a couple under my belt and have heard great things from Mortym, I’m really stoked for Tyranny! I’ve heard it is shorter but incredibly replayable because what you see of the game really depends on your choices. I’m guessing this would be a great one for Mapo when he’s looking for an RPG that isn’t 100+ hours.

[@eXtotheZee]

@@LuckbeaSladey Yeah, I've been actually hoping for it to pop up on Mapo's channel for a while now. :D

[@jackl7778]

did you have a hard time with bugs in new vegas? i wanted to try playing it again but the performance issues from the past scare me

[@LuckbeaSladey]

@@jackl7778 I did not have major issues, but definitely a few bugs. For example an NPC clipped into a wall for a bit, but eventually he got out. I played on console, not sure if that makes a difference.

[@JeanLucPicard85]

Items like lockpicks or first aid kits need to be equipped or used via the "backpack action" to have an effect. Scorpion tails weight 20 pounds each. Water flasks do nothing, they're just a flavor item. You can throw a flare by just clicking on the ground. And just to vent my frustration by yelling at the TV, right click on your weapon slots for the love of god!

[@Runegrem]

You have the manual for the game. So read it. At the very least, read how the controls work. There's a bunch of shortcuts you can use. Also, on a backseating note, the Swift Learner perk makes it so you'll get the next perk 5% faster, but if you'd taken another perk you'd have two actually useful perks instead, only 5% slower. So it's really just a trap perk.

[@volourn9764]

Experience oerks need to be higher to be worthy. 5% is crap. That's 1050 per per 1000xp. Basically no difference.

[@jimbeer7390]

The way you interact with this game is much like my first time, and I am really enjoying it. It keeps it up, vault dweller

[@stimprim3945]

As a big Fallout fan and a big Mapocolops fan, I'm really looking foward to this playthrough.

[@drippinwitease]

the way it says which limbs are hit and stuff is really cool. it reminds me of rimworld.

[@bradleypeate3266]

Rimworld best shooting simulator 🤭 Such a fun game can make sure a amazing story of failure and success life and death moments

[@drippinwitease]

@@bradleypeate3266 Very well said

[@outdun]

Woah, I've never seen that before in the vault where they gather to get water rations. That's such a cool detail.

[@Marcieur]

Since you like Obsidian, I'd really recommend you play Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2. I bet you'd get a kick out of the lore of that whole setting

[@seanmikael]

Especially if you plan on playing Avowed in the future. Imagine there’ll be a lot of homages to PoE.

[@bradleypeate3266]

Divinity original sin and pilars of eternity games are so fun 😁

[@bollywongaloid]

Somebody’s already modding Skyrim with AI so you can talk to the NPC’s. The results are already crazy and it’s in its infancy.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

Yeah, there's a lot of connections between the first two Fallout games and New Vegas. Not too many direct ones such as characters, because there's over a century between the events of this game and New Vegas, but there are a few. For instance, Shady Sands is mentioned in New Vegas as the birthplace of the NCR, so you've now seen the NCR before it's proper founding. There's also some more subtle nods, like the skill book in New Vegas titled "Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor".

[@jpc6485]

That book was actually in Fallout 3 first! I do like how Bethesda tried to reference a lot of Fallout 1 and 2.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

@@jpc6485 I'm aware of that, it's just that I was talking about New Vegas specifically before I mentioned the skill book and didn't feel like it was worth mentioning FO3 just for that. Especially since a far more interesting reference to this game from FO3 is a specific character you encounter in 3.

[@14112ido]

I found that connetion with Shady Sands out when I first talked to an NCR soldier near Primm. That gave me a big grin on my face at the time. Maybe I would play a marathon of 1-2-NV later on.

[@KeroŞero]

The idea you talked about at min 16 actually exists! In the form of a mod for Skyrim.. It’s crazy 🙊

[@MetalMilitia83]

Wonder if he’ll learn about aimed shot 😂

[@volourn9764]

Shhh... lol...

[@hlaalu550]

16:03 - about AI in gaming, there already are mods for skyrim that allow you to type (or say something using a mic) to npcs and they will generate a logical voiced response. Future is here...

[@wakkadakka9192]

16:00 A lot of old games had option to "write the question" 😀 that's how rpg begans, you just missed that era

[@Kata_Mae]

that water distribution event... played the game multiple times, I didn't know about it :o

[@ShmuPixel]

About that feature in Fallout to type your own questions, it's very rare in games today but it was a thing in games such as Black Sect on Amstrad (or any sort of RPG games) at the time. You literally had to type every action, including moving from scene to scene. I remember a screen in one of those games, where you had to answer "it sleeps" to a guard asking you "what does the cat do?" as a code phrase to be allowed entrance. There were many occasions for instant death in these games, including being rude to some people or forgetting to equip something first. I believe the feature is still in the first Fallout as a tribute to that era of text-based RPGs, which wasn't that long ago at the time (Black Sect was 4 years before Fallout).

[@Yggdrasil42]

Let's not forget the classic Infocom adventure games from the 80's like Zoek, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hard as hell, fully text based and you had to type every command. Figuring out the correct phrasing was often half the challenge.

[@nado1908]

New Vegas takes place in Nevada while Fallout 1 and 2 both take place in California. That's why there's so much Fallout 1 and 2 stuff in NV.

[@whade62000]

Very early text adventure games also had you "talk" to the game and manually type in commands like "go south" "look door" "ask about ..." etc. One notable try to revive and push in-game chatbots was Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic that tried to build entirely around this feature. ST was panned, with consensus being that technology (as well as rewarding design for trying hundreds of speech options that don't actually progress the story) wasn't quite there yet. Even in FO1 there are only like a dozen keywords per NPC that it recognizes, it's a guessing game. I too am curious if modern chatbots could push this concept. But chat AI trains itself on the internet right? So if it was a game element, they'd still have to write every line manually.

[@AR-yd2nd]

There are skyrim mods that integrate chatGPT with AIs that are trained on the actual voiced lines of the game so they can syntethize new "voice acted" custom lines. It's pretty cool but the tech is still in its infancy, I guess

[@Wynth]

I don't know if you're a Big Bang Theory fan but your sincere excitement when you're in combat reminds me of an episode when Sheldon rediscovers the old-school text games (MUD?). It is so freaking adorable. I was grinning from ear to ear. Thank you for being patient with the old mechanics. It took me a number of tries before I just stopped and read things, and then it just clicked. Love that you're commenting on things that you had no idea started from F01. I had some knowledge and experience before F3 onwards, as I grew up playing FTactics, but it's like learning it all again.

[@morganrusnai4579]

shocked no one in the comments mentioned him just walking by and missing dog meat lol. Just a few steps closer and woulda had a free pupper.

[@fenriswolflp-verlierenmits5952]

Oh man, time goes. Fallout, as the entire franchise, beginning with this game, is actually 25 years old? Wow.

[@fenriswolflp-verlierenmits5952]

I mean I played Fallout way back then, when I just was a kid or teenager. Now I´m feeling old.

[@doctorfrohman5516]

Oh boy 3 am fallout! Awesome

[@Jicklenop]

1:11:35 had me laughing so hard, I don't know what it was but I found that hilarious

[@LuckbeaSladey]

You can make a quick save slot. Then you just have to hit F6 (I think. New to PC gaming but worked for me)

[@ghostdude9415]

I've been playing this alongside you and while there is some jank, and frustration (especially with Ian) here and there, I agree wholeheartedly that this game is a lot of fun. Has a lot of pleasant surprises for an old game. More and more these days I've been delving into old classics that I never got to play and come through so thoroughly surprised. Been playing Thief Gold and the OG Doom and those are straight bangers as well. Can't wait to get to Fallout 2

[@fenriswolflp-verlierenmits5952]

Molerats are much bigger and much more hairy in Fallout 1 and 2 than in the other games. That what is called Molerat in Fallout 3 and 4 is called Pig.Rat or Swine.Rat in the first two. Also, lit flares are deadly if you aim at the eyes, for bigger enemies like Mutants or Deathclaws. That things really hurt.

[@Ottonymos]

You may have found it by now, but right clicking (I think that's the default) on your weapon will let you do targeted shots at a cost of more AP - the origin of the VATS system

[@P4st0ri]

And reload the gun without going to the inventory

[@volourn9764]

And, without spoilers. Guys, he has the manual. Let him learn the game.

[@dmitriyluchikov3129]

old text adventure games used to do this a lot. you type your sentence, game then looks for keywords in it and tries to make sense of it. regarding that AI application in gaming you were talking about. Nvidia recently released a demo where they showed exactly what you was talking about. it did sound bland and soulless but I'm sure they'll work it out. look it up, it's really cool

[@drgrounder]

Mapo showing his young age in this one. :) it's neat to see someone getting excited over the Ask About feature, even though most of us that grew up with Sierra adventure games were happy when they moved away from it.

[@ezenatiello2017]

Why? It seems like a good feature, and now with AI it could be even better

[@drgrounder]

The reason people were happy to move away from it in the early 90s was because it was more or less just a hidden menu of certain things you could ask about. Because of limited memory you had to pick just the right words, and would often end up frustrated trying to pick the right one and getting messages like "you don't need to use ___ in this game" or some other message that indicated you hadn't chosen the correct word. Most adventure games moved to point and click menus, which had the same amount of dialogue and options, without the frustration. It would be neat to see this mechanic brought back since computers and gaming systems have much more memory than they used to, and implementing AI could also be intriguing.

[@PackZTerrible]

I only played fallout new vegas 3 and 4 But this dialogue stuff is really crazy. Love the way it works here.

[@DylanZZ3]

Gizmo is voiced by Jim Cummings

[@l.d-b3465]

35:10 - I believe right clicking on your equipped item changes it's firing mode, allowing you to reload outside of the inventory (which costs more and should be done if you're doing multiple actions in there like stimpacks... you can use more than one stimpack) or make called shots. You can see ammo count in the thin green line to the right of the equipped weapon. 41:15 - If I'm remembering right, you should manually unload that gun before selling it. 50:05 - Shaded ground marks a transition zone, green for a different location in the same area while blackish red is out to the world map. 1:07:32 - In the future the Perk list will be longer than what is displayed, don't forget to use the arrow key the make sure you're actually at the end of the list before picking one. 1:09:35 - Skills can go up to 200%.

[@almostalways]

I remember stumbling on an unfortunate bug that prevented me from completing a quest. That sucked. Also the fact that NPCs can get in the way and physically block doorways was particularly infuriating, but they fixed it in Fallout 2. Very rough around the edges, but I still prefer Fallout 1 to its sequel though. Feels very cozy.

[@colinchildress1251]

I wonder if he'd like XCOM since he's been liking the old school type of games.

[@crimsonharvest]

RPG and text parser enjoyers should definitely look at Wizardry 8. All its conversations are via parser (it does remember valid keywords you hear/use), and there's a lot of fun lines and responses to find among the voiced characters.

[@202-Uptown-Legend]

This is back when you needed a 3dfx Voodoo video card to run this.

[@muldoone6920]

Mapo, this game takes place a solid 100 years before new vegas. Just so you know, Caesar isn't a thing yet, Shady sands is just Shady sands, no NCR either.

[@volourn9764]

Why spoil things he'll learn as he plays?

[@jordanmalone2547]

If you like this definitely check out divinity!!

[@radoszny]

hey Mapo, someone probably said this already, maybe your mods did, but you should try to talk to everybody. life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get

[@SkeleTonHammer]

I think the only big stat mistake you made was going so hard into speech but with such low charisma. As you can see from the skill calculations, your skills (like speech, barter) gain an amount multiplied with your special stat. So at 3 charisma, you're getting a really low multiplier. Instead of 2 x 3 (6) you could be getting more speech skill with, for example, a charisma of 8 (2 x 8 = 16) that would be 10 more "free" points into speech. Obviously you've been brute forcing the speech skill with raw stat points to get it up to like 70%, but the benefit of synchronizing your special with your skill set you want to use is you don't have to pump as many points into those skills.

[@volourn9764]

Aww.. You reloaded. You should have dealt with the consequences of giving your spears away. Live and learn is the name of the game. Lol

[@lakosta7202]

You can see your quest logs,click on status and choose location. It will show you all quests from this location

[@TheRevan1337]

Do a New Vegas playthrough on the channel sometime after the OG games you intend to play are finished :D

[@maddflavour6744]

Would love to see if these games change your modern fallout experience, more of a blind play through guy myself but I think it’d be a great watch either way, especially since it’s been a while for ya.

[@AnotherDuck]

I don't really want to backseat or tell you you're playing the game wrong, but my advice for choosing perks is to choose perks that have a distinct or unique effect rather than those that just boost some numbers, unless maybe if those numbers involve stat points or action points, or are otherwise relatively high. These can change the way the game feels in a much more tangible way, which most of the time affects your enjoyment of the game more. Also, perks are generally more important than levels, but are rarer, so anything that affects experience or levels just feed into themselves less effectively than just picking something else. Perks like Faster Healing, Healer, Night Vision, and Swift Learner won't make much of a difference in how you play the game. Bonus HtH damage, Earlier Sequence, Smooth Talker, and Strong Back can be useful if they hit some good threshold, or make the game a little bit more comfortable. Awareness gives you unique information you won't know otherwise (especially enemy HP, but also what weapon they're using), which may be redundant if you're experienced with the game, but it's great for a new player. Quick Pockets can be useful, and its effect will likely be felt whenever you access your inventory, especially if you haven't learned how to reload without going into your inventory yet.

[@miljann98]

Mapo, did you play the original trilogy Prince of Persia games? I think you mentioned in your latest live stream that you never played any. If not, I really suggest you try them out, maybe on stream like GOW. They are super fun games, with a great story, and they hold up today very well.

[@JoyaLewisTheMusician]

Speaking of typing into games - you should play Buddy Simulator 1984 and Stories Untold

[@KripticKill]

So a portion of the team in Obsidian that worked on New Vegas were a part of the teams that made Fallout 1 and 2.

[@volourn9764]

The main members who created FO1 formed Troika. It was the FO2 guys who helped form Obsudoan... until Obsidian backstabbed him because they are evil.

[@CrashCraftLabs]

haha robbed by a vender my word lol

[@krakenkill]

You barter with ian to access his inventory. If i remember you need to make sure he has enough ammo and stims, otherwise he can run out and have to go melee? I think so from what i remember

[@krakenkill]

I'm a bit wrong, you can use barter to give him items, to take you use the steal skill on him

[@TasteTheWine.]

56:25 You just offered him free spears! He accepted your offer of free spears, so you didn't get anything. haha I'm glad you reloaded. The game is a bit of a learning curve regarding the UI, but when playing this 25 years ago when it came out.. it was state of the art!

[@TheRevan1337]

The industry will adjust to the use of AI voices and voice actors will be able to make their own choices as to what jobs to accept and whether or not to lend their voice to an AI program to generate extra dialogue, i think that's inevitable and we'll likely see that in games before long.

[@Aeroldoth3]

Sounds ike voice actors being put out of work, which sounds like the quality of voice acting going down.

[@marekmum9040]

Mapo please for the love of god right click the weapon icon !!!!:D:D

[@urdr_urdr]

Bethesda's potato faces and bad lighting dont have the same character that these games convey.

[@sassymenses]

Pipboy's STATUS is your quests log, what's wrong with you? And someone pls tell him how to reload properly (without opening the inventory) and aimed shooting...

[@jordanjoubert2897]

Please get the dog.🥲