

Further, metagaming totally takes the fun out of the game and utterly removes the challenge of the run. They also cannot convienently ignore rules that you have to follow. Why is metagaming considered cheating? Because FO2 is surprisingly fair in its dealings with you and refrains from giving individual NPCs ridiculous bonuses (for the most part).

It'd be ideal if you had a quest that brought you to a certain place (such as scouting NCR for Vault City), but after you know the coordinates of a city, that's not really that necessary. Blitzing to something is fine just so long as your character knows precisely where they're going at all times. If you are doing a blitz run to something, you will likely leave a lot of the early game for 'later'. This means getting to roughly level 10, banking about $5000, getting good weapons and armor, and getting the car. Bandits or slavers could kill you easily if you tried to wander too far, so you need to bulk up, arm up, and make some money. Beyond all that, you have next to no money, no armor, shitty weapons, and no friends. Fallout 2 does allow you to basically cut loose from the second you leave Arroyo, but unless you are metagaming (considered cheating for this particular game), your character will have no idea where anything is, so your path is a bit linear for a while. The early game is what's considered to be what pretty much every character has to do before getting the experience, money, and freedom to move around without a lot of restrictions. The latest version is here.Įarly Game Walkthrough It's included in EcCo and RP, but also can be installed standalone. It allows to issue orders like Regroup, Scatter, Pickup Items, etc. Party Orders is an awesome addon - if you use companions, that is. It's definitely worth checking out if you use RP.įO2tweaks is a collection of convenience tweaks, common sense changes and ease-of-use cheats, designed to smooth many annoying aspects of the original game. It overhauls trading, combat, adds crafting and some other features, all of that optional. The Restoration Project includes the patch mentioned above, so you only need one of them.Įconomy and Combat rebalance mod is only available to Restoration Project users. Nevertheless, it's worth trying at least once, to make your own opinion. The quality of the said content varies - some of it has been cut for a reason. In addition to the patch, Killap and other contributors have gathered and reintroduced much of the unfinished and/or cut content into the game.

This guide assumes that you have it installed. It is a must have, if you want to play vanilla game. Killap's patch is a work of many years, an attempt to squish all remaining bugs in Fallout 2. Questionable Tactics Suggested modifications Killap's Unofficial Patch See Hardcore Builds General Reference Material
