Alternate
desktop icon: Create a shortcut to the game on the Windows 95/98 desktop. Then,
use the Settings/Control Panel/Display/Effects options to turn on
"Large icons". The desktop icon for the game will turn into a new
graphic.
Original
Fallout screensaver: Access the PipBoy and stay at that screen to eventually see the
old Fallout screensaver on the PipBoy screen.
Programmers'
comments: Hold [Shift] and click on the "Credits" button
to hear various comments from the development team.
Hint
book: After completing the game, go to New Reno. Find the man in the
church and talk to him. He will say thanks for killing the Enclave and will
give you a book called the "Fallout 2 Hint Book". Every time you
read it, you will gain 10000 experience points. After the first time you
read it, all of your skill will go up to 300%. You can read this book as
many times as needed and it will never go away.
Hint:
Unlimited money: Go to the "Broken Hills". Walk to the right until you
reach the screen where the miners are waiting for you to clear the mine.
Walk into the mine and then run straight to the right. Do not t worry about
the rocks that seem to block your path, they are there just to make you
think it is the end of the road. If you walk close to them, you can see that
you can walk past the rocks. There is a man in there who is not aware of the
year. Wake him up, and when he has ran out of the mine, walk up to the
footlocker and get the ore out of it. Walk out of the mine and back to the
first screen. At the bottom of the screen just below the traders lies the
"Broken Hills Ore Refinery". Walk into the refinery and talk to
the head ghoul (he is in the office). Sell the ore to him, and then sleep
for 25 hours. After waking up, talk to the ghoul again to get your ore back.
He will ask if he can buy the ore because the city needs it and will offer
you your $1000 plus an extra 500. Take the $500 extra and then talk to the
ghoul again. If done correctly, he will make the offer again. Take the money
and then talk to him again for another offer. Repeat this to get as much
money as needed. Make sure never to give it to him for free or settle for
the $1000. If you do, the offer will not appear again. Note: This trick may
not work if the game has been patched.
In San Francisco, go to the Red
88 gun store and steal all of the owners money (usually a couple thousand).
Go to the item store across the street and steal all of his money. Then
leave the city for a couple days (or a week in pipboy time). Then, return
and once again steal the money that they have. This trick can be done as
many times as needed.
In San Francisco, the
shopkeepers have money in their inventory that you cannot normally steal. To
steal it, trade your money for an equal amount of theirs. Then, use the
Steal skill on them. You now have more money.
Visit Joey, the thug who sells
Jet in Den. Drop all your money on the ground beside him and try to buy Jet.
He will tell you that if you do not have the money to come back when you do.
Answer "Wait, I'll buy it" and then close out of the dialogue.
Repeat this until you have all the Jet you want. Then, steal the money that
you should have given him -- he will have $500 for every jet purchase. Then,
pick up the money again that you dropped on the ground.
Note: This procedure involves
changing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding.
This trick is best done when you have a lot money. Go to your hometown, and
find a box, vase, or other container. Put all your money in it. Save your
game and remember the number of slot number you saved it in. Resume the
game, take the money out, and save again, this time in a different slot.
Remember the number of this slot as well. Exit the game, and enter the game
folder. Enter the "data\savegame" folder. Open the folder whose
name corresponds to the first save slot, and find the file
"arvillage.dat". Copy this file, and then go back to the
"data\savegame" folder. Go to the folder whose name corresponds to
the second save. Select "Edit" then "Paste", and then
select "Yes" to copy over the original. Resume the game and load
the first game save. Open the chest and you now have double the money. Take
the money, save over your first slot, and try again. Go to the second save
slot, open it, and copy out the "arvillage.dat" file. Paste it
into the first save slot, and select "Yes". You can do this as
many times as desired.
In the casinos in New Reno, if
your Gambling skill is at about 100, go to any gambling table and bid $15.
Keep clicking until you have the desired amount. You will double or triple
your money most times, only losing the $15 once in a great while. You can do
this indefinitely, though after awhile some of the patrons will start to
make comments about being careful how much you gamble. There does not appear
to be any ill effect from doing this.
Successfully complete the game
and read the Fallout 2 book so that your Gambling is 300%. Go to the New
Reno casinos and to the roulette table. Bet $100 and you will always triple
your money to $300. Keep doing that until you have enough money. It will
always work. You can always go to the slots and bet $5 to get $90 dollars
back, but you can only do the slots three times on each slot machine.
Hint:
Unlimited experience: Note: This trick can only be done on games that have not been
patched to v1.02 or higher. Go to NCR and go right to the power plant and
talk to the girl. She will ask you to talk a man out of blowing up the power
plant. However, when you talk to him allow him blow it up. The girl will
want you to fix the reactor. Do it and she will give you some manuals. You
can keep repairing the reactor and keep getting science and first aid books
from her. Every time you fix the reactor, you will get 3000 experience
points.
The following trick works well
if you have a high Steal skill. When you steal something, you get 10
experience points. When you steal two things, you get 30, and 60 for 3
things, etc. Basically, steal experience increases exponentially per item.
Plant some money on someone, and then steal it all back, one coin at a time.
Assuming you do not get caught, you can easily rake in experience points.
After the game is completed and
you have at least 130% in Science, go to the vault in Vault City. Go to the
computer on the first level in front of the doctors' "office". Use
the Science skill on it and the game should give you the option of scanning
the medical files or something similar. Scan the files, then do it again. It
should give you some information on the medical research done in Vault City.
Scan the files a few more times and it will give you information on armor
implants. Keep scanning the files and the computer will get
"upset" and say things such as "There is nothing left"
and "Why are you doing this?." After a few more times it should
say "Fine! The big secret is on the main computer on the third
level!". Go to it and reformat you Pip Boy (follow the directions the
computer gives you). Then, go to your Pip Boy and read the message that the
design crew leaves you. It should instruct you to go to the computer on the
upper left of level three. Access the computer to get 20,000 experience
points. Keep accessing the computer to get that amount each time.
Hint:
Unlimited money and experience: Note: This trick can only be done on games that have not been
patched to v1.02 or higher. A high Steal attribute and being dark helps with
this trick. After you have found Vault 15 and have gotten rid of Dorian and
his people in the vault, check his computer and make a holodisk of a spy at
the NCR. So, go to the NCR and go to the presidents office. Once there, talk
to the ordinary looking man in the outside office and tell him the spy
information. He will say something and walk off. Proceed to the main room
and talk to the man in the tuxedo. Tell him about the spy named F, then show
him the holodisk. He will then give you $4000 and you will get 4000
experience points. Now here is the trick and it helps to have a high steal.
Get to the side of him and steal the holodisk back. Then, tell him about the
spy and show him the disk again. You will receive the money and experience
again. Repeat this process until reaching the desired level. Note: Save
often between attempts.
Hint:
Defeating Frank Horrigan: Use a gauss pistol or rifle and target his weapon arm. After you
cripple it, he will not be able to shoot you with his dual plasma gun. He
will then melee you, can only do about 10 damage per hit. Hit him in the
groin to bring him down so you can do more damage by hitting him in the
eyes.
Kill the president and take the
presidential pass. Once you have done everything else and you are at the end
Boss, talk the squad into joining your team. This may or may not work
depending on how many people you already have and your charisma. Use the
Sneak skill and hug the wall along the bottom of the screen and make your
way left until you get to the computer. One of the options is to make the
guns shoot at your enemies. Walk up to him and start to fight. Each drone
gun will shoot at him, plus the squad you convinced.
Hint:
Easy skill points and levels: Note: This trick can only be done on games that have not been
patched to v1.02 or higher. Gain a level and wait for the screen with the
perks to appear. Highlight the perk and click "Done" on the perk
screen. However, click "Cancel" on the main screen. Click back to
the character screen and the perk screen will appear again. Repeat these
step to gain unlimited levels and 99 skill points.
Note: This trick can only be
done on games that have not been patched to v1.02 or higher. Get a untagged
skill up to around 125%- to 50%. Then, level up and get the Perk tag. Tag
the skill that you increased and it should go up to 250%- to 00%. This is
useful when using the pulse rifle and aiming at Horrigan's eyes.
Hint:
Stimpacks and antidote: Give Mayron as many ingredients for the stimpacks and antidote as
needed, and he will create them.
Hint:
More starting items: Go to the starting temple with an established character. Place
any item you want to start with in the pots and chests. Start a new game, go
inside the temple, and save the game in any slot except for the one you
moved the items from. Exit the game. Go to the directory in which you saved
the game (slot01, 02, and so on). Move the Artemple.sav to the slot you
saved the new game to and move the pre-existing game somewhere else. Reload
the game and start the new game. Go to the pots where you placed the items
and they should be there again.
You can also get the power
armor very early in the game by going directly south along the coast to San
Francisco. You may have to save often, as enemies are too advanced to take
on at this time.
Hint:
Extra items: Go to either shop in San Francisco. Buy whatever you want, but
pay for it in cash. Then, walk up behind the shop owner. You can steal your
money back, plus his own.
When you get to the Den, kill
Tubby and Flick and take all their items. You should get a lot of Jet,
Mentats, and other drugs as well as a lot of guns.
When you get to the Den or
anywhere else that has a graveyard, get a shovel and dig up the graves for
rocks, beer, and ammunition. The only downside is that your karma will say
"Grave Digger" and it may go down.
Hint:
Getting more items in the Den: Start a new game with a female character named Buffy. Get past
the Temple Of Trials and go to the Den. Talk to Rebecca. She will say that
she recognizes you and give some items.
Hint:
Getting rid of child thieves in the Den: Wait until the children in the Den steal from you, then attack
them without any weapons. One hit should send them running, and you will not
have to kill them. After that, return to the areas where the children
normally wait. They will run away from you.
Hint:
Get in the Vault in Vault City: The guards will not let you into the Vault unless you are a
citizen. If you do not want to take the time to get the citizenship papers,
go into combat mode then just walk in. This will not cause your karma to
lower.
Hint:
Robe: When you are traveling across the world map you sometimes come
across a small green circle that has only a bridge and a person blocking
your path. If you kill him instead of answering his questions, you can get
7500 experience points and his robes which is good armor until you get the
powered. If you answer his questions wrong, he hits you for over 2000
damage.
Hint:
Skinning geckos: To learn how to skin geckos, save Smilely the trapper in the
toxic caves. Then, go to Klamoth and talk to Smilely at Buckners.
Hint:
Getting rid of child thieves: While in the Den, there are various children that will steal from
your character. In order to stop this without losing any karma, you must
have dynamite or plastic. Set a time on the explosive for ten seconds. Then,
use your steal skill to plant the explosive on the child. Walk away and the
explosive will detonate, killing the child without costing any karma or
getting the perk child killer. Make sure not to set the timer too long or
the child will run to Tubby and give it to him. You will then have to stand
in Tubb's doorway in order to prevent the child from entering.
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