OologahQ's Fallout Page

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Welcome to my Fallout page. I hope you find it enjoyable and entertaining. If you don't know about Fallout it is an awesome computer RPG created by Interplay set in a post-nuclear war enviorment. If you have comments or suggestions about my page please e-mail me oologahq@aol.com . Also please e-mail me if any of my information is incorrect or if I am missing an item on on one of my sections.

Sections Character Creation Section NPC Info Section Quest Help Section Weapons Section Armor Section Fallout Links

Character Creation Section

    The default characters in Fallout leave a bit to be desired. It is possible to win with them but you are better off creating your own character. When creating a character you need to always keep in mind what kind of weapons your character will be using. Probably 2 of your 3 tag skills should be spent on weapon skills. Small guns is always a good choice because of the variety of weapons it allows you to use. Big guns allows you to use some powerful area of effect weapons later in the game such as the flamethrower and rocket launcher. Energy weapons is very useful later in the game when you get your hands on the turbo plasma rifle. It is much easier to play the game with guns than with melee weapons. Ammo is plentiful so there is really no reason to use melee weapons except for the pure enjoyment of bashing a hole through a mole rat's head or knocking a mutant's torso in two. I suggest taking either small guns and energy weapons or melee weapons and energy weapons as your two choices. Only try melee weapons if you have already beaten the game though. The third skill to tag is your choice. Although lockpick and steal will help you get better items early on in the game in the late game science and repair are incredibly useful.
    Another aspect of character generation is traits. Even though it lowers your skill points I almost always choose gifted. The extra point on every attribute is incredibly helpful and you can always increase the skills you absolutely need with books. Bloody mess is a fun trait to choose because you get to see the bloodiest way every creature can die. However it is not particularly useful. Most of the traits will help you in certain situations but will hinder you in others so it is really your choice whether or not to use them and which ones to use.
    Finally, before you set foot outside of the vault to explore the desolate wasteland you must assign your points to attributes. I always find it useful to add 2 points to dexterity, 1 to strength, and 2 to perception. You also can pretty safely take 1 point off your charisma if you chose gifted and put it on something else. Keep in mind this assignment of points is best for a character who will use guns, if you plan on using melee weapons you should adjust your point distribution accordingly. Back to top

NPC Info Section

This section is devoted to how to get the various NPCs in the game to join your quest and how best to use them. There are 5 NPCs in the game that I know of: Ian, Tandi, Tycho, Dogmeat, and Katja. At certain points in the game certain people will join you in combat but they do not stick with you for the long haul so they are not listed here.

Ian- Ian can be found at the guard building in Shady Sands. If you ask him to help you out a bit he will offer to join you for 100 caps. If you have the option say "How about a piece of the action instead." He will usually join you if you say that. If you don't have that option or he refuses pay him the 100 caps. Ian wears a leather jacket throughout the game and can use knives, pistols, and the SMG. He is probably the best of the NPCs because he can shoot twice in a turn. The best weapon to give him is the .223 FMJ Pistol if you get it and are not using it yourself or the 14mm Pistol.

Tandi- Tandi is probably the least helpful NPC and i would recommend not taking her along. She will just get in the way and get killed. You can get her to join you if you rescue her from the Kahns and then wait about a week before returning to Shady Sands. She is only able to use the knife and doesn't wear any armor. About all she is good for is absorbing shotgun shells.

Tycho- Tycho can be found in the bar at Junktown. He is a very good guy to have around. You can get him to join you after a skul in the bar hits the waitress and Neal blows his head off. You ask him if he wants to help you clean up this town and he will join your party. He wears leather armor and can use a spear, shotguns, the hunting rifle, the sniper rifle, and some of the smaller pistols. He has quite a few hit points which makes him great for absorbing damage. The best weapon for him is the Combat Shotgun. However, he sometimes gets a bit trigger-happy with it and will use the burst mode at a very bad moment so you should try to stay out of his way or you might find yourself with a hole in your back.

Dogmeat- Dogmeat is one of the coolest NPCs in the game. He is quite a brutal brawler for being a dog. You can find him growling at some guy on the screen with Gizmo's Casino. To get him to join you you will need to feed the hungry pooch. The most availiable item to feed him is an iguana on a stick which you can get off Gizmo after you kill him with Killian. Dogmeat can move an amazingly long distance and attack many times in one turn. Against armored foes he is not much good but against raiders and the like he can really pile on the damage.

Katja- Katja is the weirdest looking of the NPCs with her green hair. She can be found at the Followers of the Apocalypse Library in The Boneyard. When talking to her say something like, "I'm not going to stay around this place much longer myself," and she will offer to tag along. She does not have very many hit points but she makes up for it with her speed. She wears a leather jacket and can use throwing knives or the SMG. Although she is better with the knives I suggest giving her the SMG just because the knives do so little damage.

Quest Help Section

This section is devoted to how to solve the various mini-quests in Fallout. Note that some quests cannot be accomplished if you complete others. Also their are a few quests that I am not sure how to complete. One is how to find the Children spy at the Followers of the Apocalypse and the other is to do some sort of quest for a circle of thieves in the Hub, which i can't find. However below are the solutions to all of the quests that I know about. If you know of one that I do not have listed or have a different solution please e-mail me.

Vault 13 Quests

Calm the vault's renegade faction. Do this by talking to Theresa in the living quarter's and reassuring her that the Overseer has the Vault's best interests in mind.
Apprehend the water thief. Hang around the storage room at midnight until you see a shady character walk in and rummage through the supplies. Confront him and ask to search him for water. Sometimes he will go peacefully and sometimes he will attack.
Find the water chip. The water chip is in the vault under Necropolis.
Destroy the mutant vats. To do this you need to go into the mutant military base west of Vault 13. Once inside kill the Lieutenant, download the database, set the computer to auto-destruct, and get out. You can get help with invading the base at the Brotherhood of Steel if you are a member.
Destroy the mutant master. The master is on level 4 of the vault underneath the Cathedral. You can get to him by fighting your way through or by persuading Morpheus at the top of the Cathedral to take you to him. He is a tough fight so it is lucky that there is a way to kill him without fighting. Go to level 5 of the vault under the Cathedral and you will find a nuclear warhead. If you have a high enough science skill you can arm it and get out and blow the whole cathedral sky high.

Shady Sands Quests

Solve the radscorpion problem. First talk to Razlo and find out that he needs some venom to make an antidote then get Seth to take you to the scorpion caves. Kill all the scorpions and take the tail off of one of them. Give the tail to Razlo and he will give you a poison antidote. Use the antidote on Seth's brother in the back of Razlo's house.
Rescue Tandi from the Raiders. Talk to Aradesh and he will give you a spear found where Tandi was abducted. There are several ways to get Tandi back. If you can handle it you can just walk in and blow away all raiders then pick the lock on her cell. However, if you are not up to that kind of fighting you can try to threaten Garl into releasing her, trade items to Garl for her, or duke it out one on one with Garl for her. Also if you have a really high luck the raiders will think you are the ghost of Garl's father and will let you take Tandi without fighting.

Junktown Quests

Take down Gizmo. After Kenji trys to kill Killian, Killian will ask you to help get evidence to take down Gizmo. You can do this in 2 ways. Either take the bug and plant it on Gizmo's desk by using your steal skill or wear a recorder and get Gizmo to confess that he tried to kill Killian. Either way Killian will then ask you if you want to help take out Gizmo. If you do you can take Gizmo's unique pistol off of his corpse.
Take down Killian. If you decide to be evil you can offer to assasinate Killian for Gizmo. If you do you will also have to take out all of the guards so it is not suggested unless you are an expert.
Take out the Skullz Gang. After Neal shoots the guy in the bar go to the back of the motel and ask to join the Skullz. They ask you to go steal the urn off of the counter at the bar. Go do it and take it back to the gang. They will then say they are going to kill Neal tonight and ask you to come along. Say you have things to do and will meet them there. Then go tell Lars and you can go with a group of guards to blow away all of the Skullz. After the battle talk to Neal and give the urn back. He will then give you free drinks for life at the bar!! Free Nuka-Cola, gotta love it!!!!!

The Hub Quests

Find out what is happening to the missing caravans. Butch tells you some rumors and then says to ask Beth about the Death Claw. Beth says to go ask Harold and Uncle Slappy in old town. Give Harold some money and he will spill his guts. Then talk to Uncle Slappy and he will take you to the cave of the Death Claw. Destroy it then talk to the dying mutant and get it's holodisk. Take the holodisk to Butch and collect your payment.
Save Irwin's Farm. In the south corner of downtown you will find Irwin hanging around because raiders took over his farm and killed his donkey, Pugsley. Go and avenge Pugsley by killing the raiders and Irwin will give you the .223 FMJ Pistol, one of the coolest weapons in the game.
Kill Hightower for Decker. In the Maltese Falcon go and talk to the guy standing by the bar and he will say that Decker may have some work for you. If you say you are interested he will take you downstairs and Decker will ask you to kill Hightower. Hightower is located in the Heights and has several guards which you will probably also have to kill to get to him.
Kill Jain for Decker. If you complete the first quest for Decker and ask the guy by the bar for more work Decker will ask you to kill Jain, the head of the Cathedral in the Hub. She is in the hospital next to the water merchants. In order to collect your payment you must kill Jain and not leave any witnesses. So you pretty much have to shoot everybody in the hospital.
Take down Decker. At any time after Decker asks you to kill someone you may go to the Sheriff and report Decker in. You can do this even if you already killed the person, although then he will sometimes not believe you. He will say that this is the evidence he needs to take down Decker once and for all and asks if you want to tag along. If you do you get to go into the basement of the Maltese Falcon and have a serious firefight.
Rescue the Brotherhood Initiate. In the same screen as Jake's Guns there is a building full of nasty looking punks in leather jackets. If you can defeat them you find that they were holding an initiate of the Brotherhood of Steel captive. He will thank you and whenever you talk to the equipment master at the Brotherhood of Steel he will give you a nice suit of Power Armor.

Necropolis Quests

Take out the mutants. Set, the ghoul leader, will ask you to kill all of the mutants guarding the watershed. If you do Set will give you a reward of 50 caps, some flares, and some nuka-cola. This always makes me mad so afterwards I usually destroy all of the ghouls in the building which does not negatively affect your karma.
Fix the water pump. The leader of the underground ghouls asks you to find the parts and fix their water pump if you are planning on taking the water chip. The parts are deep in the sewers guarded by some vicious rats. After you get them return to the underground ghouls and they will give you some repair books to help. Read them and then go use the parts on the water pump.

Brotherhood of Steel Quests

Join the Brotherhood of Steel. To join the Brotherhood you have to go to the Glow and bring back something which proves that you were there. Take plenty of Rad-X when you go and stop to take some when you get close to the Glow. The item you are looking for is on the first floor and is a holodisk. However, if you continue down to the last floor you can find some cool stuff so I suggest doing so if you have a good supply of Rad-X. To get to the very bottom floor you need to repair the power generators and use the computer to reinitialize main power. You can download a whole bunch of info from the mainframe computer but don't play it chess. I have never beaten it and your Rad-X wears off during the match so you get radiated. Kill all the robots you come across before turning the power back on so you don't have to fight them later.
Scout out the area for the mutant base. Maxson will ask you to find out where the mutants are coming from if you talk to him. Explore to the northwest until you find their base then return. Maxson will then ask you to destroy it and sometimes will send 3 guys in power armor with you. To destroy it you need to get to the top floor, destroy the Lieutenant, and then set the computer to detonate the whole building.

Weapons Section

This section is devoted to the various weapons you can find in Fallout. It is divided into categories by which weapon skill each weapon uses. Small Guns

Weapon Name	Ammo Capacity	Weapon Damage	Weapon Range
10mm Pistol	12	5-12	25
Desert Eagle .44	8	10-16	25
9mm Mauser	7	5-10	22
14mm Pistol	6	12-22	24
.223 Pistol	5	20-30	30
Red Ryder BB Gun	100	1-3	22
Hunting Rifle	10	8-20	40
Assault Rifle(Burst)	24	8-16	45
10mm SMG(Burst)	30	5-12	25
Shotgun	2	12-22	14
Combat Shotgun(Burst)	12	15-25	22
Sniper Rifle	6	14-34	50

Big Guns

Weapon Name	Ammo Capacity	Weapon Damage	Weapon Range
Minigun(Burst)	120	7-11	35
Rocket Launcher	1	35-100	40
Flamer(Burst)	5	45-90	5

Energy Weapons

Weapon Name	Ammo Capacity	Weapon Damage	Weapon Range
Laser Pistol	?	?	?
Plasma Pistol	16	15-35	20
Laser Rifle	12	25-50	45
Plasma Rifle	10	30-65	25
Turbo Plasma Rifle	10	35-70	35
Laser Gatling(Burst)	30	20-40	40

Melee Weapons

Weapon Name	Weapon Damage	Weapon Range
Knife	1-6	1
Combat Knife	3-10	1
Throwing Knife	3-4	1
Spear	3-10	2
Cattleprod	12-20	1
Sledgehammer	4-9	2
Super Sledge	18-36	2
Ripper	15-32	1
Club	1-6	1
Crowbar	3-10	1

Fist Weapons

Weapon Name	Weapon Damage
Brass Knuckle	2-5
Spiked Knuckles	4-10
Power Fist	12-24

Throwing Weapons

Weapon Name	Weapon Damage
Throwing Knife	3-4
Spear	3-10
Grenade	20-35
Pulse Grenade	100-150
Plasma Grenade	40-90

Armor Section

This section is devoted to the capabilities of the various suits of armor you can find in your Fallout adventures.

Armor Name	Armor Class	Normal	Laser	Fire	Plasma	Explode
Cathedral Robes	5	0/20%	0/25%	0/10%	0/10%	0/20%
Leather Jacket	8	0/20%	0/20%	0/10%	0/10%	0/20%
Leather Armor	15	2/25%	0/20%	0/20%	0/10%	0/20%
Metal Armor	10	4/30%	6/75%	4/10%	4/10%	4/20%
Combat Armor	20	5/40%	8/60%	4/30%	4/50%	6/40%
Brotherhood Arm.	20	8/40%	8/70%	7/50%	7/60%	8/40%
Power Armor	25	12/40%	18/80%	12/60%	10/40%	20/60%
Hardened P. Armor	25	13/50%	19/90%	14/70%	13/50%	20/60%

Links Section

This section contains links to some of my favorite Fallout related pages on the internet.