�-----------------------------------------� | The Ultimate Melee Fighter Guide v1.0 | | Made by: Behnam Saberi aka Chutchik | | Email: [email protected] | �-----------------------------------------� �-------------------------------� | Section I - Table Of Contents | �-------------------------------� Section I - Table Of Contents Section II - Rules Of Conduct Section III - Version History & Thanks Section IV - Introduction & Basics Section V - Character Creation Section VI - Character Development Section VII - Character Equipment Section VIII - Quest Issues Section IX - Conclusion �-------------------------------� | Section II - Rules Of Conduct | �-------------------------------� This guides most recent version can always be found at www.gamefaqs.com. The use of this guide is open to all and is absolutely free. It may not be sold to or by anyone. If you wish to publish this guide on any other website you may do so provided you do not change the contents of this guide in any way at all. I dont require any information about this, as long as I receive the recognition for it. �----------------------------------------� | Section III - Version History & Thanks | �----------------------------------------� Version 1.0 Added some notes on how to deal with some quest issues. This guide is now fully completed, unless it turns out Ive made some HUGE mistake. Version 0.4 Changed a HUGE error in the character creation process. I think everything should be according to plan now. Version 0.3 Changed the guide on how to deal with Francis (thx to Poseidon for this one). Also added a section on some quests you might miss out because of your stats (thx to Gordon Wong for making sure I took care of this issue). Version 0.2 Added a summary to the character creation section. Also I corrected some minor spelling errors and some grammar fixes. Please dont bother e-mailing me simply to point out Im not writing don't in the proper manner etc. Those things are so trivial and pointless Im not going to care for one second about them. Version 0.1 This is the fist version of this guide. I would appreciate as much feedback and suggestions as possible concerning this guide since this is sort of a beta release for me, considering its the first FAQ / Guide I have ever made. All propositions may be sent to: [email protected] and please set the subject as "Fallout 2 Melee Fighter Guide". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all I want to thank Black Isle for a totally outstanding game. The people who made this game are truly gifted indeed and your hard work will always be remembered and appreciated by those of us who hold Fallout close to our hearts. Thank you very much! Also lots of thanks go out to GroZZleR who made the Fallout 2 "Melee Master Character Guide". Although his guide truly is an excellent guide, I dont exactly agree with all of his recommendations and choices, so I simply decided to make my own guide. Since I have been playing Fallout for a very long time and practically never used a ranged fighter Id say Im pretty well suited to make this guide but of course that does not mean Im 100% right and that if you follow my steps you will have the perfect melee fighter. Special thx to Poseidon for the grand idea on how to deal with Francis in Broken Hills. This Guide is based on my personal playing style and preferences and although it suits my playing style perfectly it may not suite yours as well, so please feel free to make whatever changes you desire when creating your own personal character because in the end it all comes down to making whatever choices suit your playing style and makes the game specifically fun for YOU!!! �------------------------------------� | Section IV - Introduction & Basics | �------------------------------------� First of all lets ask ourselves the main question that pops up when reading this guide, why oh why would I make a melee character when I can blast people sky high with my minigun, plasma rifle, rocket launcher etc.? By people I mean deformed ghouls and mutants ;) And the answer... Because a melee character can be as deadly if not perhaps more so than a ranged fighter. And also because there is nothing more satisfying than running up to your opponents through a rain of fire and bullets to smack them around with your bare fists =D Notice I wrote bare fists... this is mainly because the Mega Power First is more powerful and can be sooner acquired than the Super Sledgehammer. Also unarmed fighting is required in some sub quests in the game unlike melee fighting. And besides, you can take advantage of the HtH Evade perk when using Knuckles and Power Fists but not when you use melee weapons. So considering all of these important factors I think you will soon understand why I choose an unarmed fighter rather than a melee fighter and why this guide is also for an unarmed fighter, ONLY!!! �--------------------------------� | Section V - Character Creation | �--------------------------------� Lets start with the unimportant choices. Name, Gender and Age. You may fill in these in any way you like, although *SPOILER* if you choose your gender as female and your name is Buffy you will get some equipment in The Den if you talk to Rebecca. Personally Id say our unarmed fighter will be quite strong enough even without some extra equipment but the choice is yours to make. Its all about playing whatever character you find interesting or amusing. Although a female unarmed fighter known as Buffy gives an interesting twist to the game if you imagine all of your enemies to be vampires ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for something that really matters. Traits! Im going to agree with GroZZleR about the trait Gifted. Its probably one of the best traits available. Unless you plan to increase all of your skills to max Id say its one hell of a trade to gain 7 extra attribute points for a measly 5 skill point loss for every level. Now for your second trait, since you will be using unarmed and not melee weapons that means all of your possible weaponry will be one handed. As you might have figured out already that means your going to pick the One Hander trait. If you are playing a female you might consider choosing Sex Appeal since you will have an extremely low charisma (as if that truly matters in a game like Fallout). Id go with One Hander either way, but as usual the choice is yours to make. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for the attributes. This assumes you have chosen the Gifted trait. If you havent done that Id recommend you get your brain examined ;) Id start by lowering my strength by one so it ends up at 5. Yes, you read it correct, I said LOWER your strength. This is simply because you will get an enhancer that will increase your strength by 1, and the Advanced Power Armour will give you an additional increase of 4, finishing if off with a maximum strength of 10 so any other points will simply go to waste. You will decrease your perception by 2 point, It will end up at 4 and eventually at 5 after using an enhancer. Seriously now, you wont be needing very high perception considering you will be an arms length at furthest from your enemies, but lower than that could have some serious sequence issues, at some times even so bad that your enemies receive two full rounds of attack before you get your chance to counter. So that concludes our perception to 4 in the creation stage. Note however that you will need a higher perception for some perks. In those cases you will use either Jet or Mentats to raise is to the required level. Moving on to endurance. Obviously you will be taking a lot of hits since you will often spend some rounds of running while your enemies get some free shots at you, so this is one of your most important attributes. Raise this one to 10 to ensure you gain a good amount of hitpoints every time you level up. Also I recommend at least one level of the Lifegiver perk and you will soon have more hit points than your enemies have bullets. Ahh, charisma. Probably the most worthless attribute in Fallout 2, unless you enjoy stupid companions who tend to burst their weapons at you while you are running up to your enemies. Lower it as much as you possibly can. I do this game solo, so I dont want, nor do I like charisma. Besides, you are supposed to be an ugly brute, now am I right, or am I right? ;) Who said you cant have brains AND brawns? You character will be bathing in brain cells. Increase this attribute to 9. Yeah you guessed it, an enhancer will raise it to 10. You need a high value in intelligence to be able to talk your way in or out of whatever and to compensate for your loss in skill points due to the Gifted trait, so setting this to 9 will be pretty much perfect. At last, probably the most important attribute in this game, Agility. This basically determines how fast you are in combat. You want to be able to throw 2 punches every turn or 5 for example? We will raise this attribute to 9. Since there is an enhancer for this attribute any more points would be a waste. And last but certainly not least, the most interesting attribute, Luck. This one affects a lot of things in and out of combat. For example your chances of critical hits or failure in combat amongst other things. Also a high luck lets you experience special encounters. And most importantly, luck determines how effective the Slayer perk becomes. With a luck of 10 you will get a critical hit 95% of the time you make a successful melee attack. I say 10 because you will be able to raise your luck by 2 further in to the game. To sum it all up I will write down the completed attributes after the creation and also after your character is fully developed. S - 5 --> 10 P - 4 --> 5 E - 10 --> 10 C - 2 --> 3 I - 9 --> 10 A - 9 --> 10 L - 8 --> 10 So basically if you follow my instructions, every attribute with any real value to you will end up at 10. Now THATS some good stuff baby ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now finally for your skills. The first choice I think is pretty obvious by now, but for the mentally challenged Ill write it down anyway. UNARMED FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! You will want to raise this skill to somewhere around 150. This includes the bonuses from Mr. Sullivan and the boxing bags in the Sierra Army Depot. Now for the second skill. Thats right you guessed it, Sneak. This skill is very important to any melee fighter since you will have the ability to sneak up to your enemies and shred them to a million pieces before they get a chance to even react to your presence. And if your skill level is high enough you will be able to deal damage without alerting your surroundings. This could be important in some quests. Id raise this skill to the 130's. Now for your third and final choice. Personally I went for Doctor, since this will let you heal some damage without overusing your precious stimpacks, and also you must have a high skill level in this skill to be able to obtain the combat implants. But this skill isnt a must at all, this is simply the skill I preferred, but I suppose you could take Lockpicking, Speech, Stealing or whatever other skill suits your playing style. If you choose Doctor raise it to the somewhere between 100 - 120, if you go for stealing, lockpicking or speech, 100 will suffice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that concludes our character creation process. Although a good foundation is the basics of succeeding with a new character he / she wont make it far unless you develop him / her properly. So on to the next section. �------------------------------------� | Section VI - Character Development | �------------------------------------� Since I included the development process in the skills, all thats left is really the perks. Perks are the most important part of developing your character properly, so I will go through levels 3 to 24 describing the best choice of perks, and add some recommended perks in addition if you manage to gain enough levels beyond 24. So here goes nothing! Level 3: Awareness - Gives HP details and what weapon your opponent is using Not much to say here, Awareness is one of the best perks available and lets you really plan out and be tactical in combat. For example take out the enemies with the best weapons first etc. This is the absolute best choice at this level. However you will need perception 5 for this perk, that means you have to take some mentats or Jet to be able to choose this perk. Make sure you save your game before taking the drug so you dont become addicted. Level 6: Silent Running - Lets you run and stay in sneak mode simultaneously This is really more of a comfort perk. There are definitely better choices, but since Im practically always in sneak mode this perk really comes in handy for me. For better developing purposes you may want to choose, Quick Pockets or Bonus Move. Level 9: Better Criticals - Lets you deliver more devastating critical hits This is an incredibly good perk. Whenever you make a critical hit, this perk makes sure you get a 20% bonus on the critical hit table which determines the effect of your critical hit. I actually killed all the boxers in New Reno with instant kills thanks to this perk. This perk is a must, however it requires a perception of 6 so bring out the drugs again for this one. Level 12: HtH Evade - Gives you extra AC if you dont have weapons equipped Lifegiver - Gives you an additional 4 hit points every level HtH Evade: This of course does not include unarmed weaponry, such as knuckles or power fists. Each unused action points gives 2 points to AC instead of 1. You wont be wasting your action points like that, but its also gives an additional bonus to your AC. That bonus consists of 1 / 12 of your unarmed skill, so if you have an unarmed skill of 120 you will gain 10 extra AC every turn. Lifegiver: Not much more to say here. You get 11 hit points every level instead of 7. Add another Lifegiver and you will get 15 hit points every level. Now thats just plain scary! Level 15: Bonus HtH Attacks - Hallelujah! Instead of 3 normal attacks you get 5 Hurray! Its finally here. You get 3 aimed attacks instead of 2, or 5 normal attacks instead of 3. Now thats some good shit ;) Level 18: Silent Death - Lets you hit for double damage when sneaking behind Lifegiver - Gives you an additional 4 hit points every level Silent Death: This is a great perk if you use sneaking properly. If you hit someone from behind while sneaking the victim takes double damage. Whats funny is that you can actually do this several times in one round if you keep moving behind your opponent. Lifegiver: Not much more to say here. You get 11 hit points every level instead of 7. Add another Lifegiver and you will get 15 hit points every level. Now thats just plain scary! Level 21: Bonus Move - 2 additional action points to use for movement only Lifegiver - Gives you an additional 4 hit points every level Bonus Move: Lets you use 2 action points each turn for movement only. This can come in quite handy considering you have to waste a few action points moving between your opponents to kill them all. Lifegiver: Not much more to say here. You get 11 hit points every level instead of 7. Add another Lifegiver and you will get 15 hit points every level. Now thats just plain scary! Level 24: Slayer - Practically every successful hit becomes a critical hit It doesnt get any better than this. Finally the perk we have all been waiting for. With a luck of 10, 95% of all your hits become critical, and with the Better Critical perk you will be creating some serious havoc. Level 27 and beyond I recommend you add either Lifegiver, or Bonus Move. If you still have more perks to distribute theres always room for TAG! or maybe a few Action Boy perks. Well, thats all folks on this section. Now you know how to create and develop one hell of an unarmed fighter. �-----------------------------------� | Section VII - Character Equipment | �-----------------------------------� This is all the equipment that will be available to you. And how to acquire it. All of the following weapons require 3 action points to use by default. Brass Knuckles - 2-5 damage You can buy these pretty early in the game, but you wont have to!! Spiked Knuckles - 4-10 damage You can steal these from the Dunton brothers in Klamath, and you will be using them for quite a while. Or you can just kill them like I did ;) Power Fist - 12-24 damage Now we are talking some serious weaponry. The best way of getting these is to arm wrestle Francis in Broken Hills. To succeed with this task you need at least 9 strength and 8 luck so ull need to use some buffout. The drawback is that you might get addicted when using drugs, but there is a way around this problem. You dont care if Fransic gets addicted do you? Well, unless you are a members of MRIS (Mutants Rights In Society), simply use a couple of Jet on him, rest for an hour, and then arm wrestle him while his strength has dropped substantially (thx to Poseidon for this one). Mega Power Fist - 20-41 damage This weapon can be acquired quite easily after beating Francis for his power fist. Simply take your new weapon to New Reno Arms, but dont enter from the main entrance. Instead make sure the salesman is in main entrance room, and sneak in the back, past the guard dogs and climb the stairs hidden behind a shelf. Down there you will encounter a man who will upgrade all of your weapons completely free. �-----------------------------� | Section VIII - Quest Issues | �-----------------------------� Although this is not a walkthrough, but a character creation guide I have on request added this section to solve the issues with not being able to get some quests because of low charisma. The first quest affected by the characters low charisma is the "Find Johnny" quest. The only way to raise you charisma in Fallout 2 is by using mentats. As always when using drugs save you game before actually taking the mentats incase you become addicted and then speak to Balthaz for the quest. Im not 100% sure that this works since I never tried it myself, but with the mentats you will probably be able to raise your charisma to average, so I assume that will be enough to get this quest. The second, and to my knowledge, final quest affected by low charisma is the killing Bishop quest you get from his wife after sleeping with her. Aside from using mentats to aid you in this quest I suggest you become a prize-fighter AND a pornstar before speaking to Mrs Bishop at all. As with the previous quest Im not completely sure if this actually works, but this is the best you can do with this character anyway. If you wanna gimp a well made character for the sake of 2 quests, by choosing different stats, that is up to you. I think the best sollution would be to simply use the drugs, and the charisma enhancer. Also you can get a pair of sunglasses from Mason, but dont let the description fool you. Its not enough to have them in your inventory, however if you equip them they will raise your charisma by yet an additional point, thus raising your chanses of getting both of these quests. Another sollution is to choose the Sex Appeal trait instead of One Hander during the character creation proccess, however that would mean having to spend at least 50 additional skillpoints in you unarmed fighting skill to reach the same level of skill you would have with the One Hander trait. Also this would only make ONE of theese quest available while probably making it impossible to do the second one due to the drawbacks of that trait. Thx go out to Gordon Wong for getting my attention on this matter. �-------------------------� | Section IX - Conclusion | �-------------------------� That brings this guide to an end. I hope this guide will convince many that an Unarmed character in Fallout 2 can be quite powerful indeed, and that the use of heavy weaponry isnt the only way to beat this game. Please, if you notice anything wrong in this guide, or if you have suggestions on how to improve it, do not hesitate even for one second to send me a mail with your much appreciated help. Also any feedback at all would be appreciated concerning whether you liked or disliked this guide and any reason behind it. As I mentioned before simply send a mail to: [email protected] with the subject: "Fallout 2 Melee Fighter Guide" Thank you for reading this guide, Behnam Saberi aka Chutchik
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