Previously Unlisted Special Encounter?

[Bottled Brain]

Having purchased the Chinese version Fallout Tactics (published by Ubisoft here) and completed the single-player campaign, I decided to study some FAQs about the game to see what I had missed. In particular, I looked at the random special encounters. Having read Guiler's FAQ and a few websites on the topic, all of which described everything from the Mutant Brothers to the Nuka Cola Cyclist to the Pip Boy, I was surprised not to find a special encounter that I had come across.

The encounter goes as follows. My party appears in the middle of a small map. All around me are voices (appearing as overhead text) that repeatedly chant in Chinese, "Zou ba, zou ba." The meaning is a bit ambiguous to me as it can be either a polite "let's go" or a blunt "get out" message; the Chinese language is one of those that rely a lot on context. The speakers are invisible although their voices are all around my group, but they do show up as grey blips on my map radar.

The experience was surprisingly freaky as the voices appear everywhere around you, almost drowning the screen in text. The closest equivalent to this encounter I had read about is the Sixth Sense "I see dead brahmin" one. I am posting this to try to make some sense out of this experience. I think it may be possible that in this translation, certain special encounters from the normal version were overwritten because some of the in-jokes would be hard to understand in Chinese (such as, say, the Energiser Battery Bunny, which I've never seen on Chinese TV), so what I encountered was one of these replacements.

[Jimmyjay86]

Wow, a chinese pirated copy. That is bizarre that they even took the time to translate the thing. Yeah, it's the energizer bunny special encounter. Even in the english version there are no visible bunnies because of copyright issues.

[Soldier87]

Speaking of Special encounters, what is the point of the deathclaw liberation special encounter?

[Strap]

I got that one in my american version. Exept that they are saying something else... I'm pretty sure it is very similar though.

(they probably were saying "it keeps going... and going..." if the ghouls in the "matrix" power plant don't say it. I think I got them mixed up.)

If you forcefire at them, they die, but you can't leave the map!

[OnTheBounce]

Speaking of Special encounters, what is the point of the deathclaw liberation special encounter?

Two things:

1. Poking fun at radical environmentalists. Notice the woman in the encounter wants to let the DCs frollic was they would in nature, only to be killed by them when she releases them.
2. It's a reference to Jane Goodall, an anthropologist and primatologist who is best known for her advocacy of protection for chimpanzees and her discovery that certain primates are in fact tool-users.

OTB

[Soldier87]

o i mean it was pretty funny though! All those ppl care bout animals more than humans, she got hers.

[Strap]

She was a researcher, that doesn't mean that just because she happened to be researching a potentially deadly animal that she deserves to die.

[OnTheBounce]

...she happened to be researching a potentially deadly animal...

Hey, Goodall did a lot of work w/bonobos, which -- to borrow a philistine expression -- rock! Hands down the "coolest" primate/hominid in existance.

And anyone who thinks that Jane Goodall was some sort of "environmental wacko" should stay away from anything writen by Peter Singer.

OTB

[Nightkin244]

That would be the energizer bunny Special encounter refrence

[DJ Slamák]

Wow, a chinese pirated copy.

Ubisoft makes pirate copies now?