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Game Help / Re: Some help for a new one?

« on: January 16, 2020, 06:17:14 am »

Yes, your fighting capabilities should be pretty okay so far, although they depend on amount of health, perks and damage resistance also.
If you are going to be a strong fighter, consider these factors:
-Health pool should be around 180-250. Just so you won't get one-shotted and have time to use stimpacks (get money for superstims as fast as possible).
-Gun skill is not the only thing required to be a fighter (btw ~200-250 is enough). Pay attention to perks and find a balance between health and damage output (with just 8 perks, cause thats maximum). Pay attention to doctor and first aid skills as well. Outdoorsman can help you avoid unwanted encounters.
-Dont hesitate to use stims. If enemy is dealing damage fast enough to keep you busy with healing, better go away.

Talking about enemies, quests and dungeons. Yes, that is a fact, there are plenty of unbalanced quests and enemies in this game in terms of effort/profit correlation. NCR raider quest is one of the shitiest one (some people say that other difficulties are more fitting although). You have to figure out which one of them you can handle, because there are good ones as well. And if you see that it doesn't worth it - go find another one.

Gun runner's mutant quest mentioned above is better for a group or high level skilled fighter.
Some quests also offer managable fights. Some quests don't even require fighting at all, for instance water merchants offer caps for delivering crates all over the world map, or you can find lone wanderers in bars or town squares, who offer caps for escorting them to certain location (some party points to get them into group are needed though).
Caravans are (in my opinion) the most solid way to make caps through fighting. Just wait for caravan to stop in a town, join it and you will encounter a series of pretty balanced fight encounters and have some NPC caravan guards on your side to help, even other players can join it as well. Although don't hesitate to leave caravan fight if it gets too hot and I'd advise to avoid LA - San Francisco and Broken Hills - New Reno routes. First one is just too long and it is hard to keep caravan leader alive all this time. Second one includes high level NPCs with combat armor, but it is very profitable if you manage to kill them, because they drop Combat Armor Mk2 and some decent weapons and ammo.

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Suggestions / Re: Armor rework suggestions with a bit of sneak

« on: January 04, 2020, 09:25:07 pm »

Hmm, I compared most armor stats from Reloaded and original Fallout 2.
Practically all of them got nefred a bit (by ~5 points of normal, explosive or electrical DR) and few small (1-2 points) uncertain DT changes. Except for PA and APA, stats for those are totally same.
Also some AC changes are noticable, mostly nerfs (by ~5 points in most cases) but funny enough, when Leather got nerfed from 15-20 to 10, Metal got buffed from 10 to 15. Considering my request about AC rework, even Fallout 2 game developers were more logical at this point.

So, I can tell there was some balancing job done by Reloaded developers but I'd really like to know more about that "exact process" and reasoning. I assume that most armors got nerfed a bit for multiplayer purposes, but that didnt help Metal armor really and I'd still like to see the AC rework. This should mix up some meta builds thats for sure.

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Suggestions / Re: Armor rework suggestions with a bit of sneak

« on: January 04, 2020, 01:17:43 am »

I posted armor types in order of having lowest protection with lowest encumbrance on top.

At this moment practically all armors already have their downsides.
Leather is weak, Metal is heavy and weird (low normal DR and high Laser DR), Tesla and Thermal are damage specific, Combat armor is complex to acquire and has no specific resistances, PA is just hard to acquire and maintain (not a problem for farmers tho, thats why I suggest to bring a weak spot). Adding "penalties" to high armor tiers is a very straight effort to push people back to using low tier armor, when I'd rather advise to make armors situation specific so people would choose armor not by amount of encumbrances but their needs (and game is already doing that).

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For instance
Jacket is trash training dummy for crafting
Leather for sneakers (in case of Thermal stats rework)
Thermal for gecko hunters/pvp
Metal as cheap caravan guard protection (again in case of rework)
Tesla for specific dungeons/pvp
Combat as good average multipurpose protection
PA for special dungeon/pvp occasions

Although my suggestion of Armor Class scale reverse should do kinda the same thing as "penalties mechanic", since high armor tiers would become easier to be hit than low armor tiers. Not AP penalty but pretty straight encumbrance.

I do not see the reason to hold onto historic values and designs. Instead of +- value here or there, just redesign a proper way.

"Redesign" includes changing the stats values, and I wasn't talking about historical accuracy. You don't always need to fully rework a thing that doesnt work, just give it fitting stats and you're good to go.
Also considering low development activities, DR/DT changes are closer to become real than penalties mechanic (or gun skills rework or any new game mechanic at this point).

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Game Help / Re: General Questions / Answers

« on: January 02, 2020, 02:17:26 pm »

I'm new and I would like to know, is there any way to team with players, and if there is, how?

If you mean team-based mechanics, read about Factions here
https://www.fonline-reloaded.net/wiki/index.php?title=Player-Driven_Factions

If you just want to play along with smb, you can join a faction or just ask other people to team up through discord or in-game chat.
It is also possible to make a temporary party with a leader everyone follows on worldmap, instuctions can be found in this guide
https://forum.fonline-reloaded.net/index.php?topic=2348.0

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Suggestions / Re: Armor rework suggestions with a bit of sneak

« on: January 02, 2020, 12:35:29 am »

Leather Jacket -> Leather armor - No penalties, weak protections.
Combat Armor -> Desert CA - Good average protection, minor penalties.
Metal armor -> Tesla armor - Both bulky, so high protection but high penalty.

PA -> APA strong and rare ofc.

Well, you certainly have to define what penalty is. Taking away AP can be tricky since Metal armor is already underperforming by all means and making it's stats better than Combat armor would be weird even with AP penalty. Thats why I suggest certain DR/DT penalties (and benefits) rather than simple debuffs.
PA is exceptional, but having a weak spot like rare EMP damage should be in order.

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Suggestions / Armor rework suggestions with a bit of sneak

« on: December 31, 2019, 10:58:45 am »

The following notes are meant to provide more tactical based choice for players, decrease the linearity of armor tiers and further develop the variety of character builds. At this moment server is basically on hiatus and few balancing tests might bring some action without major problems.


Armor Class – invert the whole armor class scale and make it better for worse armor.
Now I understand there already were some major changes involving armor class and I know that it was taken from the original game practically untouched, but it still kinda loses it’s purpose (as it did in original game). As far as I know, armor class directly influences the chance to be hit by opponent and is increased with the armor tier and quality. And here comes the illogical part – the better (heavier and larger) armor you have, the less chance to be hit you get. Basically, having a vault suit with the smallest silhouette possible you have the highest chance to be hit but the huge mountain-like APA gives you the lowest chance to be hit when reality is a total contrast.
In my suggestion the smallest target with light armor is supposed to be the hardest to aim at, but when you hit it, you hit hard. Yet the biggest one will be way easier to hit, but unlike light armor it can really take that hit. That said inverting the Armor Class tier scale would be sort of logical and might bring us some funny builds (like naked evasive melee monks). Light armor will have the purpose of avoidance and heavy armor will get the direct combat role. Personally I would be happy with just this change, but I can also expect some adjustments for high tier armor DR and DT to compensate that.
I understand that the base idea of Armor Class was to get yet another parameter that protects you (by cutting the chances to be hit), but we already have straight and simple DT and DR for that, yet the logic behind AC is quite unexplained.

PA and APA – make vulnerable to EMP damage type at some point.
That would make a fair counter to PA players in pvp (like Town Control) and since there is only two sources of EMP damage (12 gauge EMP shells and Pulse grenades) PA will still remain powerful enough to make presence. The main point is to make PA players stay more awared in pvp and other non-PA players (mostly faction squads) to sacrifice shotgun or grenade damage to create more threat to PA. That would not make a lot of imbalance since shotguns with EMP shells will deal exceptionally low damage against everything else as well as Pulse grenades which also require decent throwing skill being a pretty rare item.

Metal armor (+Mk2) – reduce Laser DR and increase Normal DR.
It is quite unexplained why this armor has ridiculous 75-80% Laser DR (making it comparable to Tesla’s and PA’s ~85%) yet awful 25-30% of Normal DR (comparable to Leather armor). Considering it has a low Plasma and Electricity DR, how different can those damage types be for Laser? I assume that stats were just copied from the original game, but in FOnline more than a half armor sets have 60%+ DR to Laser, which makes laser kinda underperforming damage type in both pvp and pve. I can also assume that Metal Armor is considered as a Tier 2 “multipurpose” protection or “Leather with Laser DR”, but it really looks more like cheap Tesla (which is quite strange since Tesla is a nishe choice). As for laser snipers, people use tesla helmet to counter them anyway, not the body armor.

Thermal Armor – make stats comparable to Leather Armor Mk1 (except Fire DR ofc). A little laser/plasma/electricity DR boost to compensate might be in order, but not necessary. I also suggest to make blueprint acquirable through specific quest only.
For now Thermal Leather Armor is basically a better version of Leather Mk2, copying it’s stats and adding 75% Fire DR, when it would be more logical to make people choose between Mk2 and Thermal (Like with Tesla and Metal Mk2). If you want overall better protection – you take Leather Mk2. If you want exceptional fire resistance – you take Thermal (with other stats copied from Leather Mk1).
In addition Leather Armor is commonly used by sneaker builds and it would be a nice touch to give them a sneak-based quest for Thermal Armor blueprint. The quest can involve some powerful npc’s and be completed either by high-level character (who just wants loot, exp and a blueprint for another character) or sneaker who can (depending on sneak/lockpick/steal level) pass the quest peacefully without taking down all the NPCs and gathering loot. I assume even some of existing quests can be changed that way.

Sneak – add an increased chance to dodge projectiles while sneaked (Through a new perk probably).
Basically it explains itself – if person is sneaked it blends in the environment better and has lesser chance to be hit. That will give melee sneakers more chances to get close to the target and ranged sneakers to avoid the unlikely encounter. The first hit from both sides will take off the sneak anyway, but at least the change will negate a bit the effect of motion sensor. Burst weapons should still be pretty good with revealing sneakers.


That said any reasonable respond to this wall of text would be appreciated.

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Closed bugs / [Items] Missing icon for water barrels

« on: January 09, 2019, 06:50:01 pm »

Water barrels now have no icons in inventory. Works both for barrels taken before and after the recent patch.
They can still be seen when dropped on the map however.

No interface or texture modifications used.

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News and Announcements / Re: Changelog 09/09/2018

« on: September 10, 2018, 02:22:39 am »

- Fixed a bug where a player who died on worldmap couldn't respawn properly when he was travelling in a vehicle

Why, thank you. Mom, I’m on TV

Also tobacco farm v2.0 should make some good push for both trading and pvp.

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Closed bugs / Re: Stuck being dead in the car

« on: February 28, 2018, 01:13:41 pm »

I dont mind losing a car actually, since i took an old cockroach with empty trunk for that.
However, it looks like seeking GMs is still the only option to get my char back.

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Closed bugs / Stuck being dead in the car

« on: February 27, 2018, 09:38:09 pm »

I armed C4, sit in the cockroach and used it (C4 itself not a detonator). In the name of science ofc.

I got exploding character animation in inventory and my hp was set to 10. Yet, game counts me as dead, because i can't use chat, radio interact with inventory and skills, and i can't move on the worldmap or get to random location. Hp doesn't regenerate and ~suicide command says i am already dead.

In chat periodically appears message "You haven't found a suitable place to park your vehicle".

The question is - is there any chance of getting char out of this situation or should i consider making another one?

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Toxic Caves / Caravan bugged and missing

« on: November 04, 2017, 10:35:56 am »

Hang Transportation caravan is missing for 3 days (real days, not in-game)
Caravan Master in Hub says it is at 1510, 2296
It is impossible to encounter it though