Posted April 17, 2017
It was rough, but survivable until I got to Den. And ... Now I rescued Vic, and I'm just getting creamed by random encounters. E.G. leave Den and two squares out Vic and I get hit by 6-12 Raiders/Bandits/Highwaymen, mostly with guns, and soon I'm hearing about how with my death Arroyo is doomed yadda yadda.
Googling info on this led to a default 'WorldMapEncounterRate=30' config to change in ddraw.ini to something like 75 or 100. However the supposedly 'default' setting doesn't seem to actually exist (either eyeballing it of Ctrl-F in Notepad++) and manually adding the setting with figures of 30, 60, 90, and 300 shows no signs of having a consistent effect (with 300 I once managed to go ~13 squares (counting corners I cut across - ~5 diagonally by length), then it went "Ha Ha" and reverted to form of an encounter every 2/3 squares)
It *does* seem to be scanning this file as SkipOpeningMovies=1 did toggle off opening movies.
Everything referring to this setting is rather old, but the FAQ/Readme/Setting/Update texts don't seem to indicate this has been updated. I've got no armor because I haven't found a merchant with more than 150 caps so far (and don't seem to be getting more on any quick/obvious pace) and at this point the only one with armor I might barter for is back in Klamath and frankly given fallouts armor system I'm not sanguine that little bit would help.
For reference I'm just over 5th level.
Am I under/overleveled? Have I missed some seemingly obvious quest? I did skip on saving 'Smitty' because I frankly didn't feel like fighting my way through that many damn geckos and when I snuck in I found no way to sneak back out without him getting into combat and I figured the heck with it I'd just come back when I had electronic lockpicks later and nothing about it seemed strictly necessary.
Or is this just weird, and I shouldn't be getting hit with this many.
This is not feeling like the 'Fun' I was anticipating after defeating Fallout in three days.
Googling info on this led to a default 'WorldMapEncounterRate=30' config to change in ddraw.ini to something like 75 or 100. However the supposedly 'default' setting doesn't seem to actually exist (either eyeballing it of Ctrl-F in Notepad++) and manually adding the setting with figures of 30, 60, 90, and 300 shows no signs of having a consistent effect (with 300 I once managed to go ~13 squares (counting corners I cut across - ~5 diagonally by length), then it went "Ha Ha" and reverted to form of an encounter every 2/3 squares)
It *does* seem to be scanning this file as SkipOpeningMovies=1 did toggle off opening movies.
Everything referring to this setting is rather old, but the FAQ/Readme/Setting/Update texts don't seem to indicate this has been updated. I've got no armor because I haven't found a merchant with more than 150 caps so far (and don't seem to be getting more on any quick/obvious pace) and at this point the only one with armor I might barter for is back in Klamath and frankly given fallouts armor system I'm not sanguine that little bit would help.
For reference I'm just over 5th level.
Am I under/overleveled? Have I missed some seemingly obvious quest? I did skip on saving 'Smitty' because I frankly didn't feel like fighting my way through that many damn geckos and when I snuck in I found no way to sneak back out without him getting into combat and I figured the heck with it I'd just come back when I had electronic lockpicks later and nothing about it seemed strictly necessary.
Or is this just weird, and I shouldn't be getting hit with this many.
This is not feeling like the 'Fun' I was anticipating after defeating Fallout in three days.
Post edited April 17, 2017 by jonnan001