Fallout 2 Walkthrough

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EVIL WALK-THROUGH
Version 1.6
Author: whitechocobo666
whitechocobo666@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/whitechocobo666/
ASCII by Angelwingnl!
Well there are some walk-throughs for this game, but they are all for
good characters, who do all the quests for good guys and get really high
karma.  This walk-through is for mainly evil characters, who will only do
evil things, unless there is a huge advantage to be made.  Pure Evil
characters can use it too, they are just like mainly evil characters but
they don't do the 3 or so good quests in the game that I put in the Walk-
through (vertibird plans, Smiley, talking in NCR).  If there is a good
way and an evil way to complete something, this walk-through will do it
the evil way.  So if you are scared of being evil or something, you
probably won't want to actually use this.  But everyone should complete
the game at least once to see what being evil in Fallout 2 is like.  This
faq assumes that you know how everything works and how to play the game
properly.  It is recommended that you have finished the game at least 1
or 2 times.
This is based on the Australian version of the game, and it isn't
patched.  The game being patched wouldn't make much difference with
relation to these evil quests.
This is my first walk-through, but because I like Fallout 2 so much, and
no one had made an evil walk-through, I decided to make one.
Note:  This is for the truly evil characters.  You are not a truly evil
character if all you do is go and do all the good quests, and come back
and then slaughter the towns afterwards.  Slaughtering the towns is
stupid, and is for dumb evil characters.  If you do all the good quests,
you are a good character.  If you do any good quests that make a good
ending, you are banished from evil land to a good person.  This walk
through is for the truly evil character of course.  None of that
slaughtering in here, unless they attack you first, for a good reason.
Getting caught stealing and then slaughtering them, or making a
conversation and then getting into a fight are NOT good reasons.
IF YOU SEE ANYTHING I'VE MISSED SO FAR, PLEASE EMAIL ME SO I CAN PUT IT
ON HERE!  I'll put your name in the credits of course.
CONTENTS
REVISION
CHARACTER
Stats
Traits
Skills
Overall
Perks
Karmic Traits
Tips
WALKTHROUGH
ENDINGS
CONCLUSION
REVISION
Version 1.0
The first version of the walk-through.  Got up to Vault City
Version 1.1
Finished the game and the walk-through and everything.  I will still
update if people email me extra stuff.
Version 1.2
Done conclusion, perks, bounty hunters, fixed up some stuff and maybe
added some other stuff.
Version 1.3
Added special encounters.
Added some stuff about special perks, thanks to Jason Ballin
(cheebo@zonked.com)
Version 1.4
Rick Lucas told me lots of new evil stuff and Jason Ballin told me
another thing.
Version 1.5
Terry told me lots of the alternate pathways stuff, of how to get the
good people's stuff at the start, and a slave trick and Pariah Dog trick.
I added the power armour from the start trick (which I don't really
like).
Got an ascii art from angelwingnl!
Some other stuff too.
Version 1.6
Updated some stuff. Yay.
CREDITS
People on message boards who have said stuff about how to complete
quests.
Gamefaqs because it's good and I gave this faq to them.
Any other site that puts my walkthrough on their site.
Interplay and Black Isle for making it and developing it and producing it
or whatever it is that they did to the game.
Chris (gfen02) for telling me to do the special encounters.
Jason Ballin (cheebo@zonked.com) for telling me the real stuff about
Flower Child, Vault City Training and Animal Friend perks, and about
turning on Lara's Gang.
Rick Lucas told me lots of stuff that I missed to put in this for version
1.4.
Terry told me stuff about getting Cassidy and the Sierra Army Depot, and
about the special slave runs and the Pariah Dog brain extraction for
version 1.5.
Angelwingnl gave me an ascii art for the title!  It's good!
DamnationLtd  gave me his way of killing Miria.  It's
funny.
Janne Hanhela told me something about the trap in the Temple of Trials.
Awesome on the Fallout 2 No Mutants Allowed board said my character was
no good.  Yippee.
Trent, for reminding me about the crashed whale, and the repairing in NCR
bug.  He told me that last year, oh well.
CHARACTER
A truly evil character will do as many evil things as possible.
Therefore you have to min-max the stats so that you can receive the most
quests and still be able to kill properly.
STATISTICS:
Strength: 5.  This is enough, because the advanced power armour gives +4
to strength, which gives 9.  Then you can get the +1 module to take it up
to 10.  Strength isn't really that important, unless you are going to be
a melee or HtH.  But it's good to have 10 anyway, so all the weapons can
be used without skill drop.
Perception: 6.  The best thing about perception is the sniper perk, which
you get at level 24, and you need 8 perception for.  You can get the gain
perception perk to add +1, and the perception module found in the
military base adds +1 also, so you get the 8 needed for the sniper perk.
Perception also helps with distance shooting, but you can just get a
sniper rifle or a high weapon skill instead.
Endurance: 4.  This controls how much hp you start with and get per
level.  The two important perks from endurance are lifegiver and
toughness.  Lifegiver only needs 4 endurance, but if you want toughness,
you'll have to swallow some buffout.
Charisma: 7.  Charisma is mainly important for the number of NPCs you can
get, and also the speech skill, so you want it earlier on.  The
sunglasses, the memory module and the gain charisma will get it up to 10.
If you don't want the power armor at the start, you can have whatever you
want.
Intelligence: 8.  Intelligence is probably the most important, because of
the dialogue options, the skill points and all the skills that use it.
The gain intelligence perk raises it by 1, but because you are a slaver
you will miss out on the memory module for it.  If you are a bit unlucky
or lucky, you will get an extra point from the hubologists.
Agility: 8.  This gives you 9 AP, and for 10 AP, you need 10 AP, so you
probably shouldn't do that.  Agility is also important for combat skills,
and you need 8 agility for the slayer and sniper perks.  9 AP is pretty
good and can be upgraded to 11 AP if you get two levels of action boy,
but you don't really need it.
Luck: 9.  The main reason this is so high is because Vault City citizens
need to be lucky to pass the test.  High luck is also very useful for the
sniper perk, and perhaps slayer, and it will help you find random
encounters.  But if you don't care about being a citizen, take this down
to 6 and put the points elsewhere.  You can gain luck if you want to take
it to 10, which will get you a critical hit every shot with sniper.  Or
you can lower it to 8, and get gain luck, or lower it to 7 and hope the
hubologists give you +2 to luck, but that's pretty risky.
So summed up:
Str: 5
Per: 6
End: 4
Cha: 7
Int: 8
Agi: 8
Luck: 9
TRAITS:
Gifted:  The true evil character should have this.  It gives +1 to all
stats.  You would already know that though.
Fast Shot:  It depends what weapons you want to specialise in.  If you
want big guns, take it.  Anything else don't take it, because it stuffs
up unarmed and HtH aimed shots.
Finesse:  Not really useful to me, but other people like it, so if you
want it, take it.
Sex Appeal:  +10% speech when talking to the opposite sex, and -10%
speech when talking to the same sex.  Not too bad for females.
Bruiser:  Gives you an extra 2 points, but lowers AP by 2.  If you take
it, put it back onto agility to get back to 8 AP, and then you have
higher skills in combat, and can get some more perks.  I wouldn't do it
though.  1 extra AP is better.
Fast Metabolism:  You can heal quicker.  There isn't really any time
limit (except the 13 years), so you have unlimited time to heal almost.
But you don't really need poison or radiation resistance.  So get it if
you want.
One Hander:  The main one handed weapon that you'll use is the gauss
pistol.  There isn't that much use for this.
Kamikaze:  +5 sequence, -8 AC.  The AC bonus won't make much a
difference, the perception will more, so it's ok.
The other traits aren't useful to me.
Summed up:
Gifted
Sex Appeal
Awesome (from NMA) doesn't like me using sex appeal, so take Kamikaze or
Fast Metabolism instead, if you don't like it, either.
SKILLS:
Small guns:  This or big guns should be tagged, as your main combat
skill.  The best small guns are the gauss pistol and gauss rifle.  You
have small guns for most of the game, so this is pretty useful.  But
since you might be doing it the evil way, you can pick up big guns at the
start, but you'll run out of ammo.  The "Guns and Bullets" magazines
increase small guns skill, but are pretty rare.
Big guns:  This or small guns will be tagged.  The best guns here are the
bozar and the vindicator minigun.  The bozar ammo is easy to find, so
you'll be able to use it straight away when you get it (but that probably
won't be until ncr).
Energy weapons:  This would have been good if you got energy weapons at
the start, when the enemy isn't wearing power armour.  This would still
be alright though, but only after you have the sniper perk, as the
critical hits will probably go through the power armour.  I don't like it
that much though.
Unarmed:  This is for fighting with no weapons or glove weapons, the most
powerful being the mega power fist.  This is also used in a couple of
quests, the New Reno boxing and San Fran fighting.  Don't put any points
in this until you get trained by Lo Pan.  He can put you up to nearly
100% with it.
Melee:  Melee fighting uses Hand to Hand weapons, like spears,
sledgehammers, cattle prods and so on.  The weapons are usually a bit
better than unarmed weapons, but you don't need them for any quests, so
they aren't as useful.
Throwing:  Throwing weapons are not that useful unless you are facing a
group of unarmored people.  The best use for the throwing skill in my
opinion are the electromagnetic pulse grenades, when you use them in the
Sierra Army Depot against the robots.  But since you won't be going
there, you don't need this skill.
First Aid:  It lets you heal people.  Don't spend any skill points on it,
because doctor is used for some quests, and it does pretty much the same
thing, but better.  You can also find many books that will increase first
aid.  But you can use the first aid field medic kit to increase the
chance of healing the most.
Doctor:  Doctor is first aid with the ability to heal crippled limbs.
Doctor is also used in some quests, mainly ones in Vault City.  I think
you need over 80% doctor to find out about combat implants, which give
you damage resistance.
Sneak:  Sneak lets you walk around without being detected, and lets you
kill people without others hearing, and might help with the steal skill,
but I'm unsure of that. Sneaking is pretty useful because your going to
assassinate people with your gun, so I got it up to 80% or so.
Steal:  Perhaps the most useful non combat skill.  Stealing gives you
lots of good items, and a little bit of experience.  Use this skill all
the time, but remember to save first.  You can just reload if you stuff
up, no matter what your skill, and you'll get it after a while.  But if
you're like me, and the game takes ages to load (I usually go and get
something to eat while waiting for games to load), it's good to have
high.
Lockpick:  This is another very useful skill.  It lets you open locks
with either lock picks or your hands.  The higher your skill in it, the
more chance you have of picking the lock.  You can pick most locks with
around 50% pick locks skill and with Mk II lock picks.  You don't get the
Mk II lock picks for ages though.  So get it up to 70% or something.
Traps:  Traps help you disarm the traps mainly.  It isn't really used for
quests.  With power armor you don't really need to disarm traps, because
they will do hardly any damage.  It lets you set traps also.  You need to
have say around 80% to assassinate Bishop properly.  But since traps
aren't really that useful, you probably won't get it up that high.  If
you are planning on assassinating Bishop, you need high repair skills
too.
Science:  Science is a pretty good skill, that is pretty useful, as it
lets you hack into computers with success, and talk about scientific
stuff with other scientists, and to examine things before you repair
them.  It's not very useful at the start of the game, but as you
progress, it is used more.  Myron the NPC has science for a skill, so he
can do scientific such like examining things scientifically, but not
hacking into computers.  You should probably get it to about 80 or 90 for
New Reno.  You need 75% science skill to get Myron to make super
stimpacks.  The "Big Book of Science" increases this skill, but they are
pretty rare.
Repair:  This lets you "repair".  You can repair power generators, and
also laser barrier generators, which turns them off.  It also helps you
rig a certain safe.  You can upgrade it with "Dean's Electronics" books.
Those books are pretty common.  You don't need to put any points into it,
because Vic can repair stuff for you.  But if you want to assassinate
Bishop you need 80%.
Speech:  This is the talking skill.  The more you have, the better chance
you have of lying, and being believed.  Or people take you seriously at
least when you are telling the truth.  You'll want to tag it because it's
used for heaps of quests, and it gets you better stuff when you're
talking.  Once it's up to 100 or so you don't really need to increase it
any more.
Barter:  Barter lowers the price of the merchants goods.  The price of
yours stay the same.  Barter isn't that effective, so you don't really
need to put it up high.  I think the barter skill is used when you buy
special stuff when you are talking, like the vault recognition module and
the car from the Chop Shop.  But that doesn't happen very often.  Your
barter skill won't get the merchants prices any where near yours, and
most of the time you can just steal instead of barter.  You probably
shouldn't waste points on this skill.
Gambling:  This determines how good you are at gambling on the slot
machines and on the roulette table.  With 100 skill you win on the $5
slots, but not the $25.  You should either invest in this skill a lot, or
not at all.  If you know craps, you can play that with around 30 skill.
Since you are lucky, your gambling level will already be pretty high.
It's up to you what you want to do with this skill.
Outdoorsman:  It lets you avoid random encounters.  Don't tag it or put
points on it because in Klamath smiley will upgrade it for free, to at
least 103% (I stopped there).  'Tis cheating though, oh well.  There is
lots of books for it, but they won't do any good because your skill will
be too high for them.
Tag Skills:
Small guns
Speech
Steal
Awesome (from NMA) doesn't like me tagging steal.  So if you don't like
me taking steal as a tag skill, take lockpick instead.
So our character is so far:
FALLOUT
VAULT-13 PERSONNEL RECORD
25 July 2241  0824 hours
Name: Koko               Age: 16               Gender: Female
Level: 01                 Exp: 0            Next Level: 1,000
::: Statistics :::
Strength: 05         Hit Points: 028/028         Sequence: 05
Perception: 06        Armor Class: 008         Healing Rate: 01
Endurance: 04      Action Points: 09       Critical Chance: 9%
Charisma: 07       Melee Damage: 01          Carry Weight: 150
Intelligence: 08        Damage Res.: 000%
Agility: 08     Radiation Res.: 008%
Luck: 09        Poison Res.: 020%
::: Traits :::
Sex Appeal
Gifted
::: Skills :::
Small Guns ..... 047%
Big Guns ....... 006%
Energy Weapons . 006%
Unarmed ........ 046%
Melee Weapons .. 036%
Throwing ....... 022%
First aid ...... 018%
Doctor ......... 009%
Sneak .......... 019%
Lockpick ....... 014%
Steal .......... 034%
Traps .......... 014%
Science ........ 022%
Repair ......... 014%
Speech ......... 045%
Barter ......... 018%
Gambling ....... 035%
Outdoorsman .... 014%
PERKS:
When I had finished the game, these are what I had:
::: Perks :::
Awareness
Bonus Rate of Fire
Better Criticals
Sniper
Lifegiver
Pickpocket
Swift Learner
Tag!
Gecko Skinning
Dermal Impact Armor
Phoenix Armor Implants
Expert Excrement Expeditor
The order I got them was:
3) Swift Learner
6) Awareness
9) Better Criticals
12) Tag!
15) Bonus Rate of Fire
18) Lifegiver
21) Pickpocket
24) Sniper
Swift Learner was chosen first, but that was a bad decision.  5%
experience is only 5000 experience for every 100,000 you get.  And you
only get up to 300,000 experience.  So choose a better perk than that.
Awareness was chosen because it's good to know what weapons and health
the enemy has.  It's a good choice.
Better Criticals is one of the best perks, it means that the table that
it is rolled on will be 20% better.  I think the table would be something
like this:
>30% = 2x damage
30%-45% = 3x damage
45%-60% = no armour
60%-70% = 2x damage without armour
70%-80% = 3x damage without armour
80%-90% = 2x damage without armour + cripple
90%< = 3x damage without armour + cripple
I just made that up, but I think it would be something like that.  This
is rolled after you hit.  With Better Criticals it would add 20%, so you
would get good stuff a lot more.
Tag! Puts equal skill points onto a skill you choose.  So if 100 points
have been put onto a skill, another 100 will be added.  Then the skill
increases twice as fast.  But once you've tagged a skill, straight away
you can take all the points that were just on it off, and then put them
elsewhere.  This is what I did with outdoorsman, because it was at 103%
from training with Smiley.  I put it onto traps, science and repair.
Bonus Rate of Fire lets you fire quicker by 1 AP.  It's one of the best
perks.
Lifegiver gives you an extra 4HP, and an extra 4HP every level after.  So
that means you get 8HP per level, which means you'll have heaps of HP by
the end.  If you take this at level 12 instead, you'll have an extra 24
HP by level 18.  If you plan to spend lots of time levelling up in the
wastes, take this earlier, and take the second level of this the next
perk level.  Then you'll get 12HP per level.
Pickpocket lets you steal items more easily.  So you can steal stuff from
those San Fran guards even when they look straight at you.  It also
counts really heavy stuff as really light when stealing.  I just took
this because I wanted to steal some stuff.  Taking something else is
recommended.
Sniper is one of the best perks, especially when you have luck 10.  I am
not sure if it rolls a 100-sided dice, and then puts your luck as a
percentage (10 luck is 95%), or it rolls 2 6-sided dice.  I think it
would be the former though, as the latter would get no criticals if the
character had luck 1.  I think it might add your critical chance to the
percentage as well, but it can't go over 95%.
Other perks are good too.  People like Sharpshooter for some reason, but
I never pick it.  Toughness is really good, if you take all three levels
of it you will have an extra 30% damage resistance, so you'll have about
80% at the end of the game without drugs.  Slayer is good too, but you
can only get that at level 24 and above.  It's supposed to give you a
critical hit every time.  I never take it so I'm not sure.  The Gain
ability skills are ok, but you don't really need stats that are that
high.  If you had low agility though, Gain Agility is good.  Like Bonus
Rate of Fire, Bonus HtH attacks is really good.  Pick it if you like to
fight HtH.  Action boy and many others are good, so pick whatever you
want.
SPECIAL PERKS
Expert Excrement Expeditor:  Shovel crap at Broken Hills 5 times, and you
get this perk that gives you +5 to speech.
Dermal Impact Armour/Enhancements:  These give you +5% damage resistance
for normal and explosion.  The enhancements give you +10%.  Get them
after reading about them in Vault City in their medical computer with 80%
doctor skill.  You can buy them from Vault City and other places for
heaps of money.  The enhancements give you -1 charisma.
Pheonix Armour Implants/Enhancements:  These give you +5% damage
resistance for fire, plasma and laser attacks.  The enhancements give you
+10%. Get them after reading about them in Vault City in their medical
computer with 80% doctor skill.  You can buy them from Vault City and
other places for heaps of money.  The enhancements give you -1 charisma.
Vault City Inoculations:  If you are radiated and poisoned and talk to Dr
Troy he does something for you and you get this perk which gives you
resistance.  I've never got it, and evil people won't get it.
Vault City Training:  Jason Ballin says that if you have a high doctor
skill you can talk to Dr Troy and then he will take you on a tour which
gives you extra doctor, first aid and possibly science skill.
Flower Child:  Jason Ballin told me stuff about this one.  It gives you
50% more resistance to being addicted to drugs, and he says it can be
gotten in Fallout 2, but he got it after finishing the game, after he
used Father Tully's cheat book.
Animal Friend:  Jason Ballin says this is in Fallout 2 as well, but he
got it after finishing the game.  It lets you automatically be friendly
with any animals in random encounters.  Animals are probably geckos,
dogs, manti, not deathclaws, aliens, floaters, centaurs, and some other
ones.
Gecko Skinning:  Talk to Smiley after rescuing him and he teaches it to
you.  It lets you skin silver and golden geckos.
KARMIC TRAITS
Childkiller:  You get this when you kill one child.  Don't get this the
stupid way, by killing kids in cities, just kill the kids in random
encounters.  It's much more evil.  And isn't stupid.
Berserker:  Just slaughter lots of defensive people in a town.  You're
sure to get it in San Fran if you don't get it anywhere else.
Slaughtering towns just because you like to slaughter is stupid, so don't
do it.  You need a REALLY good reason to do that, such as they are
attacking you and you can't do anything about it.
Married/Divorced:  You can get married in Modoc, to either Miria or
Davin.  You can get divorced in New Reno, by giving Father Tully some
booze.
Slaver:  Become a slaver in the Den, and then you lose lots of quests in
the game.  But if you aren't a slaver you aren't truly evil, so get it
straight away after you sell Sulik into slavery.
Prizefighter:  Just beat up people at the boxing ring for this one.
You're supposed to get better unarmed skill, 12 to normal damage
resistance and some other stuff, but it never works for me.
Porn Star:  Become a porn star in Golden Globes Porn, New Reno.  You need
8 endurance, 8 charisma and 8 agility.  You get money and become a
celebrity in New Reno for it.  Party members supposedly leave you but it
never happened to me.
Grave Digger:  All evil people are grave diggers.  Most of the good ones
are too.  DIG ALL GRAVES!  Sometimes they give you good stuff, and they
give you -5 karma each grave dug.  Yay for negative karma.
Sexpert:  Just have sex enough and I think you get this trait.  You can
get this one pretty quickly if you screw everyone you possibly can.
Gigolo:  You get this for having sex and abnormal things happen.  Like
with T-Ray when he blows up, when you get caught in Modoc and in Broken
Hills with Francis.  I'm not sure though.
Made Man: Bishop/Salvatore/Wright/Mordino:  Made Man of a family gives
you free time at the Cat's Paw, and discounts off items at certain shops.
Only good people are made men of the Wrights, and evil people are with
other families.
Champion:  Boo the champions.  They are the positive karma people who do
all the good stuff.  You definitely won't get this karmic trait.
TIPS:
These are the main things to collect, other than the obvious stuff that
you would usually collect:
Broc Flowers and Xander Roots and empty hypos, for stimpacks.
Fruit and Nuka Cola, for super stimpacks.
All alcohol, for lowering enemy perception.
All drugs, most are useful.
Best places to aim when shooting:
I like to aim for the eyes to do damage, and if enemies are running away,
aim for the legs.  If the enemy is using a really big gun, aim for the
arms, and if it is aiming for the groin can knock people out, but there
isn't as much chance of knocking them out as hitting someone in the head.
The way the critical hit chance works is this (I think):
(critical chance + percentage lost for aiming) / chance to hit
So if your aiming for the eyes and have a 95% chance to hit with a 9 %
critical hit chance, you have a 9 + 60 / 95 = 72% chance.  That's why in
the beginning of the game if you have a 50 % chance to hit and a 10%
chance critical hit, instead of getting a critical every 10th hit, you
get one every 20th.
Shopkeepers:
With some shopkeepers, you can purchase items for cash, and then steal
the cash back from their person.  This works with the dwarf gambler in
NCR, and both shopkeepers in San Fran.  This is how you purchase the
power armours and good stuff and still have money left over.  Pretty
spiffy eh?
Bounty Hunters are the hardest battles you will face.  When you meet them
early, they usually have: 2 or 3 power fists and combat armour, 1 laser
pistol with combat armour, 1 laser rifle and combat armour, and 1 sniper
rifle with metal armour.  They are hard, but if you psycho up or are well
equipped you will live.  Later on, when you get to level 19, they are WAY
harder.  They all have power armour and gauss pistols and gauss rifles
and avenger miniguns and stuff.  You'll probably have to run away.  They
are really hard.  But I pretty much didn't have to go on the map much
after level 19 so it was ok.  You do get -10 karma for each bounty hunter
though, and their weapons, which are really good.
WALKTHROUGH
VERY IMPORTANT (sort of):  When I talk about going north, it to the top
left corner of your screen.  So south is the bottom right corner.  Just
thought I'd say that because other people might think of north as top
right.  North might also be directly up on your screen.  Sometimes that's
how I did it.  Oh well.  For the first half I usually talk about north as
straight up the screen, and after Vault 13 I think that north is to the
top left corner.
ALTERNATE PATHWAYS
My walk-through describes the basic pathway to finish the game.  You can
do these things before you start using my walk-through properly, so that
it gives you more opportunities later on.  I don't really like doing
this, but anyway:
1.  Advanced Power Armour from the start
When creating a character, tag the speech skill and give yourself a
charisma of 7 or higher.  You may want to tag energy weapons too.  Do
Arroyo as normal, and Klamath if you want, and get the really high
outdoorsman skill from Smiley if you want.  You should put all your
points into the speech skill.  Now head south on the map as far as you
can, saving every few squares to avoid dying in the random battles.  When
you're a few squares from the bottom of the map, head west and then enter
San Francisco.  Go to the Brotherhood of Steel hideout to the south west
in Chinatown, and agree to do their quest, making sure you ask if their
is a special way to get in, and that he tells you to say you are a new
recruit.  Navarro is now on your world map.  Leave San Fran and go to it.
Save every couple of squares to avoid dying and having to do it all
again.  Once you get to Navarro, ask if this is the enclave, and say
you're a new soldier and all that, and then get the password.  Enter the
base to the north and say the password.  When in the base, go down the
lifts and then raid the lockers in the north west.  There is Advanced
Power Armour in there, as well as a plasma rifle, ammo and the charisma
module.  Go back up stairs and go to the north east of the base.  Sneak
behind the man guarding the lockers and loot the vertibird plans.  Go
back to San Fran and give the Vertibird Plans to the Brotherhood for
20,000 exp.  You'll go up to level 7 or so.  Enter the base, go
downstairs and raid the lockers for the pulse rifle and some brotherhood
combat armour and power armour.  You can also use that charisma module on
yourself with the computer.  Now go back to Klamath and continue.
BEWARE:  This ruins the enjoyment of the game, so you probably shouldn't
do it.
2.  Getting Cassidy (by Terry and Rick Lucas)
Before becoming a negative karma person or a slaver/beserker/childkiller,
go to the Vault City courtyard and get Cassidy to join your team.  You
can't tell him to leave your group though if you want him to join back
up, so once you get to Navarro you'll lose him.  You can get Marcus too,
but then you have to do the good quests for Broken Hills.  Terry says
that if Cassidy has power armour as well as you, you can get into
Navarro, although it's harder to get the password.
3.  Opening the Sierra Army Depot (all of it by Terry)
Before your karma goes under -99 or becoming a
slaver/beserker/childkiller/porn star, go to the Wrights, and talk to one
of Wright's Sons in the train station to get the introduction you need.
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