October 2002

In the post-apocalyptic world, full of blood-thirsty mutants, survival is the superior goal.

But shooting fast and accurately is not enough to stay alive. Every day is an endless search for food, fuel, weapons and ammunition. Every new day brings new dangers. The adequate survival strategy becomes more and more important.
You're not a hero. You're not a hunter. You're the prey. Survive, if you can and don't let them eat you alive.

Innovative gameplay and unique atmosphere

Over 20 different locations spread over 50 sq. miles of destroyed land giving a silent testimony of the terrible annihilation

35 kind of weapons and over 40 elements of equipment

Radioactive deserts, decay and countless creepy mutants

The Last V8 and over 60 miles of sun burnt highways.

BANDITS is the game where your cannon mounted combat car takes you on an adventure across green fields, desert canyons and deep snow, bombing and blasting all sorts of enemies and cargo trucks, defending your gang and your glory!

Fallout

Diablo [sic]

Metroid [sic]

Icewind Dale

Work with inventory.

Fallout 1 Character mod by Necaradan

Fallout 2 Character mod by Necaradan

The Den mod by James Zergeater

Fallout Bootup Screens by mrmodem

Story: After a few strange incidents in the whole world, that has taken thousand lives the international relationship has come to a critical spot. Countries needed only a push. And such push was a new decease epidemic that spread in the world in a flash. Nobody ever knew who was behind the scene. And soon nobody cared.
26 of July 201x the CHIEF of the US ARMED FORCES has said his final speech: "There will be no more negotiation. It's enough that USA, as the only super state, position would be defended by politics. Now its time for weapons to speak". It was the time that the first wave of destruction reached Russia, China and the Arabian countries. The war was waged for 4 days. At the morning of 30- of July, nobody could launch another missile. Skies of dust lifted high above the ground and the world disappeared into darkness. The nuclear winter was deadly. In Canada and Sibear where the bombing was rather weak, people died from cold. This was the age of cold and death.
An age has passed. The survivors tried to gather and create their world from aches. Most of the knowledge destroyed. People rooming across the steppes, hunting animals with spears. Those who rebuilded cities had walls to protect from severe and unfriendly environment which surrounded them....

 

3d graphics 32 bit color, resolution up to 1600*1200

Positional 3d sound

Lots of real guns and items

Lots of blood and gore (N14 at least)

Cars, boat, helicopter - fully functional

Character with a lot of abilities - can swim, climb, duck, lie down.

The Baldur's Gate Series

The Icewind Dale Series

The Fallout Series

The Bard's Tale Series

Time & Date: 9:00 PM PST, Friday 18 October
Bis/IP rooster:

Doug Avery - [BIS]Wolf

Chris Heidari - [BIS]Equinox

Ed Hyland - [IP]Agent Johnson

Feargus Urquhart [BIS]SPORK MAGNET

Darren Monahan - [BIS]Major Dillz

Chad Nicholas - [BIS]Briareus

Scott Everts - [BIS]Private Zac

Bernie Weir - [BIS]Maximoose

Carlos Cheek - [BIS]Ribking

Matt Phillips - [IP]Private Joker

Dennis Presnell - [BIS]Dloc

Jake Devore - [BIS]willow

New one

Old one (winner Wifi)

DJS: Since the hope always dies last, what would be the perfect Fallout 3 to you? Should it be a probe into the ethics of a post-nuclear world (as you suggested earlier), a study of the development of culture in the unique situation Fallout presents (technically advanced 1940s/50s society after a nuclear holocaust), a bit more action-and-joke oriented like Fallout 2, or a fine blend of all? Or? Should it be made in the first place?

TC: I would use FO3 to explore more of the world we created. Both the ethics of such a place, with the all of the reactions to the choices you make, plus an examination of how different cultures would arise. And I think humor has its place, but it should be dark and subtle most of the time. I think some of the jokes and references in FO2 were over the top. I like Monthy Python, but I didn't expect to see the famous three-question bridge in FO2.

Ahh, I see I almost surpassed the 2 month timespan between news posts. Alot of work has been going on. VGUI is nearing completion, and alot of the spectator code is being worked on and tweaked out. I will try to put in the 2.3 SDK code for spectators (I'm fairly sure its the same coolass spectator code that CS and DoD use for spectating matches) sometime soon.

This news posts has some good news, and some bad news. For starters, I'm going to college this Thursday! So this weekend has been occupying myself packing up boxes and getting ready to move out on Tuesday. I'm sure I'll have fun out of the house and get a little piece of paper in 2 years saying I am now a junior programmer. The bad news is, until I get my first paycheck (and probably a week or two after that), I will be without internet for the most part. I can browse the forums during my hour break at school, but otherwise I cant really have a presence online. I will STILL code my butt off while I'm gone, so do not worry please. I made a thread on the forums about this if you wanna talk to me shortly before I leave or anything of that nature.

What news post would be complete without pics! Maso has been working on another map, this time called tw_ramshackle, and while it is still a bit away from the testing stage, he did show me some current pics of the map in progress, and I am already anticipating this map. Sadly I won't be able to play it for the next long while. :(

Poll's over - F2, then F1. Give us some time.

Fallout Tactics Expansion Pack

This is a Multiplayer "mod" that has been sitting on the back burner for some time now.

It adds some old-school Fallout 1-2 weapons to multiplayer as well as 4 Fallout armors. (sorry no leather jacket, there's no FOT armor sprite that it would work for!) It also adds new ammo types for a variety of weapons, and adds some of the Fallout Tactics single player items that were left out: The Super Soaker, Brahmin Armor, etc...

Some teasers are:

Red Ryder LE BB gun

Pipe Rifle

Solar Scorcher

CZ53 Minigun

Bozar

Combat Armor

12 Guage Incindiary Shells :)

It is taking the FOT community on GSA by storm! get it now!

Brand new poll based on the following information:

1. Files and material created with the Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 editor are not compatible with each other.

2. There is different critters and stats in both (i.e., there is no "Master" in the F1 editors, for example).

The thought was we would release the F2 editors since they have more "stuff," but I thought I would ask you guys and see what you thought. We could eventually release the F1 editors, too, but who knows - you may just want the F1 stuff.

I'll let this run for a few days or until the total number of votes is 50.

"A technological shrine lies waiting beneath a mountain.....

The combat in this map is a very experimentel modification for FOT. If you download please take time to read the readme about Stimpacks and weapons."

I'm searching for a new logo for my page www.fallout2.de.vu ! If you can paint really good, you can send me a logo for my page! You can win a german Fallout 1 cd! I know it's not the best, but i don't have another price to give!

We already mentioned that there is plenty of room for a new D&D game, and that we'll be making quite a bit more between now and when our contract is up in 2005 (we can even start new D&D projects in 2005). We also already mentioned that we are working on a new 3D engine. In fact, the engine looks so good, it exceeds the crispness found in most 2D, anti-aliased engines. We're not throwing out what worked in the IE, we are using what worked, and adding even better things. Can't give specifics right now, but it's coming together great.

I'd dance in the streets wearing nothing but a speedo if that's what it took to get FO3 up and running now.

DJS: Are all those Fallout Dev Quotes (you know, the Shift+Credits thing) for real?

CT: Oh, most certainly. Especially the ones by ScottE. Most of them are taking out of context, which is the whole point of them I suppose.

DJS: Did you somehow celebrate the 15th anniversary of Wasteland in January? Are you going to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Fallout in October?

CT: Wasteland: No.
Fallout: I'll drink a beer in honor of my fallen Dogmeat.

Fixed some tooltips, added error messages

ZAR Fixed bug which might crash version 3 display because they have no shadow index and the program would try and display it's value anyway

Fixed bug which added a null pointer to ZAR clipboard if no layer was selected while adding from a sprite to it

ZAR Fixed bug which didn't update the caption when you saved it

ZAR TIL Fixed bug which wouldn't take the name provided by the caption in when saving and displaying an empty field instead

GIF Removed support of it in Quick Open... and internal code, oops

SPR Fixed bug which actually only exported the first layer of a sprite

SPR Fixed bug which would crash if no valid layers were selected when exporting it to TGA

ZAR Changed saving procedure so you can't save empty ones

ZAR TIL Save option on new files now use the name supplied by the application as the default

ZAR When exporting from another ZAR, TIL or SPR, the name of the new file is changed in relation to the original name of the image

Icon lost again; I really don't know why it keeps getting dissociated

Shortened the file description of the associations since it was too long

Fixed missing credits in version history and fixed typos and some text, added link to download DirectX 8.1, also reordered FAQ and added cookie

SPR Fixed the sequence animation so that the invalid frames are really skipped

SPR Changed "Throw" to "Fire" in sequences

Added New -> ZAR option in File menu (Jimmyjay86)

Fixed bug which checked for the file name in Save option on new Tiles

Fixed bug which generated the wrong name when using new Tiles/ZARs and exporting the image into TGAs

Fixed crash when trying to export empty Tile frame

Configuration: Fixed bug which caused the ZAR clipboard option not to be saved properly when disabled (and when enabled sometimes making it too small)

Configuration: Added option so that the QuickOpen gets updated to the current file's path when you use "Open" or you open the file through file association

Up DirectX interface to 7.0 (test)

Here's Fallout Bible #8. This exciting update contains an interview with Fallout designer Scott Bennie, a crapload of questions, the original draft of the EPA, the fury and flurry of nuclear winters, a little bit about the old Wasteland "sequel" Meantime, why the Corvega Highwayman has a fat ass, a bit on tribal societies, a new mind-bending contest, the winners of two others, and more random irradiated crap from the Fallout universe.

Fallout Bible #8 should be ready to go sometime in the next few days. It'll contain an interview with Fallout designer Scott Bennie, a crapload of questions, the original draft of the EPA, the fury and flurry of nuclear winters, a little bit about the old Wasteland "sequel" Meantime, why the Corvega Highwayman has a fat ass, a bit on tribal societies, a new mind-bending contest, the winners of two others, and more random irradiated crap from the Fallout universe.

Shouldn't be too much longer

Advanced Log. (If you have problem with DirectX.)

Put item from inventory tab into map.

Show object description from MSG file.