Toggling toughguy mode?

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 4:13 am

it was far from brilliant to select tough guy mode for my first run through.

It was stupid.

And now I am in quincy where my obessive desire to complete all the bonus objectives is getting destroyed by my errors and the inability to save.

Is there a way to turn tough guy mode off?

If not, laugh, and I'll start over again.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 4:57 am

Tough Guy cant be changed in the middle of teh game, as far as i know....
but maybe one of teh other DAC'ers will have more info than me!

best bet is to try going slowly ...use the first aid and Doc skills
you'd better get your HP up though, the latter levels are gonna seriously tax you without saves!

personally, i'd reload and start without tough-guy

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 7:54 pm

*Laughs really hard*

I love using tough guy. But, sorry, no you cant toggle between them (as far as i know anyway). If you would, people will be tempted to save every time they get into the heat of battle. There may be some sort of a way to probably edit the .DLL files. I dunno, i aint much of an expert on DLL files... I suggest not editing them without professional help.

Anyway, you get more Adrenaline pumping when your Doctor has 3hp left, and you are surrounded by Muties with Rocked Launches, and... and!...

*Continues blabbing on about how he lost 3 of his mates in the Fallout war of 2015*

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 12:04 am

saving is very important... especially the first time through!
and also especially in quincy (i think) is quincy the one taken over by beastlords and there a tons of little quests?

you best reload, or it will become so frustrating that you will smash something, heheh. thats a really hard level to do without saving

Meths · Post by **Meths** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:16 am

vVolf wrote:*Laughs really hard*

I love using tough guy
Anyway, you get more Adrenaline pumping when your Doctor has 3hp left, and you are surrounded by Muties with Rocked Launches, and... and!...

*Continues blabbing on about how he lost 3 of his mates in the Fallout war of 2015*

hehe... i never play withought toughguy mode - it's just not funny, when you can use reload spell every time you lose smbd, fail to do smth, or you could have done smth better. It's just lame.

Lemon, don't turn that mode off, but just learn how to play - Turn based combat is useful espetially in Quincy mission, when you have to rescue hostages, use sneak all the time, think ten times before you do smth, scout the area as carefuly as it's possible before you attack, perform your assaults wisely AND... my favourite part: use psycho on every team member :mrgreen:.

When i play the Quincy mission i usually spend up to 30 min to perform the assault on some building and rescue hostages - ya know, you have to scout the building, place the snipers, set traps if it could help, eliminate some wandering guards without alerting the ones from inside (the best is to use mines), prepare the assault team... the assault takes usually a few seconds. Believe me or not, but it's much more funny, and gives much more satisfaction than just "try and reload" method.

If you don't succeed anyway, you can always turn the difficulty level on minimal

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And i strongly reccomend the training missions

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Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 4:04 am

off I go to empty the store of claymores

what would you consider i decent outcome for the mission, how many and which of the bonus objectives completed?

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 6:30 am

and so then it crashes, once felix, the mayor, the ghouls, the daughter, the power plant, are finished.

arg :mad:

ArchVile · Post by **ArchVile** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 10:15 am

Don't forget the whore house

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 10:42 am

yes at least there was that, I was only a whore house away from completing the mission.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 12:53 pm

Hey, Lemon... There are buttone above where you post. 'Edit', and the little 'X' (Delete button) If you want to add more to what you were saying in a previous post, you can 'edit' it. Or, if you double posted, press the little 'x' do delete them.

Just letting you know for the future.

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:46 pm

including it in the same post would fail to impact my true frustration with tactics

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:58 pm

lol, its just so people dont hate you for double posting.

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 10:49 pm

more ram and the bleeding thing won't crash midmission.

I may just finish this stodgy corpse.

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 1:38 am

Can you post your pc specs(ram, Mhz, HD, etc)?

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 8:39 pm

oh, I added a 256 pc133 module (found it under the desk lamp) which brings it to 512.

PII450
512 pc133
Win2k with whatever the current service pack is (3?)
Geforce3ti200 (ripped from my primary setup (which, sadly, has fused again))

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 10:37 pm

If I'm not mistaken(and I could be) my machine back when I first played tactics was:

PII-333
192Mb ram?
Win 98
On board gf card(equal to a Riva 32?)
10 gb HD

It crashed on me occasionally, but you shouldn't have problems playing with that.
I think your main problem is the windows version, as your machine especially ram-wise is rather good for tactics. In my case Swap file helped regarding working with the editors.

In the past people had problems even starting the game under win2k, so you can consider yourself lucky.

If you got the latest patch it would probably help, I can't remember which one is it though

Searching on DAC files section should probably help...

Cheers,

Flamescreen

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:59 am

The ram gives me about two three more hours before a crash to desktop.

suppose if it gets worse I will go back and install 98

I would assume tactics is problematic under winxp?

Oh vehicle animations aren't the smoothest, is that an engine/game limitation or a cpu factor?

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 1:18 am

Lemon wrote:
I would assume tactics is problematic under winxp?

You bet!

wrote: Oh vehicle animations aren't the smoothest, is that an engine/game limitation or a cpu factor?

Prob cpu or ram. Let me tell you though, I always have problem with the cinematics so don't be worried if you have one too.

Cheers,

Flamescreen

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 1:23 am

at least my cinematics are in working shape, suppose I'll install tactics on my primary machine when the motherboard arrives.