how many upgrades can you get for the car?

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 10:16 am

i know you can get the fuel cell regulator, to get it to run
and that other one from klammy, to make it more economical
and something in NCR, a blower named "claudia?"
and wasnt there some thing you could get from TJ's chop shop? if you BS him enough

are there anymore? or at least clarify the ones ive slightly got
thnx

Red · Post by **Red** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 10:21 am

There's 2, but one you only get once the game is finished. The first is T-Ray;s upgrade. It seems to make the turnk slightly larger and that's about all.

The second is also T-Rays! However T-Ray is highly defective and will never remember you, so when you return, the script will have reset (and you can't ask him to buy fuel cells, and thus not for the second upgrade).

The second upgrade is the hover-plates or grav-plates or something. ALlows you to go REAL fast and waste almost no cells.

To get it you need NOT to get your car stolen until you've finished the game... Or alternativly, let it get stolen, but only get it once you've finished the game, but um... that's a bit counter-intuitive

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 10:27 am

wait, thats gonna be kinda tough...

but.. does it make the car look different? like, no wheels?
that would be really cool

DansingMungki · Post by **DansingMungki** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 10:39 am

I got the upgrade first time I played but the second time I never bothered with the upgrade from TJ as I didnt like his attitude so I killed everyone in the garage, Im not an evil character he just pissed me off. Its a shame when someone bitches at you and throws the first punch that you then have to take on everyone in that area even though it had nothing to do with them

I never have anything worth keeping anyway, theres only medical supplies in my car.

Slider · Post by **Slider** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 1:30 pm

The grav-plates don't make the car look any different but I could be wrong because I only got it once.

justhere82 · Post by **justhere82** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:31 pm

hmm grav plates huh and makes using cells virtually nill

well cool, but it should be actually in the game not at the end, would be usefull when it helps, like the fallout2 hint book should be in the elevator in the Toxic Caves since u have to have an electronic lockpick to get down there, so you get the e lockpick around level 13 for me in ncr, but ya know just another cool thing for the ppl that spend the hours to be it and spend more doing nothing afterwards ...

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 11:32 pm

justhere82 wrote:the fallout2 hint book should be in the elevator in the Toxic Caves

I sure hope you're kidding.

The car should have been left out of the game anyway, but that would probably have cut the sales in half

DansingMungki · Post by **DansingMungki** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:54 am

I like th car, it would make going to and from cities an absolute nightmare without it.

Red · Post by **Red** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 8:50 am

Actually, to me anyhow it wouldn't. You practivly no logner encounter anything once you get the car... And once you get Claudia it's even worst (as the car goes faster)... Basically after the getting it I get at most 2-3 random encounters when playing a normal game...

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 9:20 am

What's ridicoulous about it is you already travel at extreme speed by foot, then you get the car and you travel even faster. Of course there's the trunk for all who've played Diablo and enjoy pointlessly hoarding items like crazy, which makes it even worse.

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 9:35 am

Rat Keeng wrote:What's ridicoulous about it is you already travel at extreme speed by foot, then you get the car and you travel even faster. Of course there's the trunk for all who've played Diablo and enjoy pointlessly hoarding items like crazy, which makes it even worse.

I know that this is stupid as hell, but I hoard weapons and ammo and armor for the new Arroyo. :drinking:

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 4:11 pm

Yup, me too. I already got 6 Power Armors, 8 Bozars, 10 Plasma Rifles, 20 Tommy Guns and ~5000 rounds of ammo for all those guns :roll:

Oh, and of course 150 Super Stimpacks and 900 regular ones! :twisted:

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 6:55 pm

Kashluk wrote:Yup, me too. I already got 6 Power Armors, 8 Bozars, 10 Plasma Rifles, 20 Tommy Guns and ~5000 rounds of ammo for all those guns :roll:

Oh, and of course 150 Super Stimpacks and 900 regular ones! :twisted:

...in a post-nuclear world. Then again it's not, if we're talking about Fallout 2, that was more sci-fi than post-apocalyptic.

BTW, didn't you ever stop while playing, look at all the crap in your trunk, and say "What's the point?"? I sure as hell would have.

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 11:35 pm

Yeah, but this time I am going to resist the temptation to hoard (at least only long enough to sell the crap).

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:05 am

It's actually pretty easy, and once you get used to not hoarding it makes the game even more enjoyable, as personally I found it a pain to keep having to organize all my stuff around...

1) Don't steal anything you don't really need (unless you really want it)

2) Ditch the items which are now useless (cheezy poofs is a good example)

3) Don't go overboard killing. It's fun killing, but less items when trying to not kill everything in your path

Ghetto Goose · Post by **Ghetto Goose** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:37 am

you're wrong.

steal everything, and sell it. also, when bartering, get the prices as close as possible even if you take little things just to balance it out. dont just drop stuff, unless you need the room/cant afford the weight, and even then, find somewhere to store it. sell it, use it to get a few more caps, cuz a "few" more caps from every store in fallout equals muchos pesos.

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 3:04 am

I only play scavengers at the moment. Like the scavs in the Boneyard, i don't steal anything, i don't kill people just for items, and i don't rob houses that are obviously inhabited. I only pick up items left behind by people on the ground or in abandoned buildings.

Apart from that, i have 0 barter skill, and as such it would be a waste to barter with what little items i have.

BigJack · Post by **BigJack** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 5:33 am

Rat Keeng wrote:What's ridicoulous about it is you already travel at extreme speed by foot, then you get the car and you travel even faster. Of course there's the trunk for all who've played Diablo and enjoy pointlessly hoarding items like crazy, which makes it even worse.

When i played FO2 in my old (very old) 486 16 MBs RAM 100MHz the car was quite some help for the travelling so dont say that...

Crud · Post by **Crud** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 6:22 am

I like the car when i am trying to go from here to there to wherever... but when i want to rack up some exp, I'll leave the car somewhere and just start wandering around...
As for storing stuff, I am bad about that, too... but then, i do try to sell pretty much everything... but it works out really well for me since most of my characters use small frame... which is also the same reason I bring along Sulik or whoever else... i just use them as mules.

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 3:20 pm

Well, I didn't hoard as much as I usually do. The stuff I had in the trunk was for selling. Tried to get the Gauss weapons for all that could use it. So the stuff I had were pricey items for trading,