Talk:Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

From The Vault

Release date of the game? THat's something we should put in the articles for all the FO games...

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Are all the "PLZ CORRECT" and "NOT INCONSISTENCIES" splatted across the Inconsistencies section appropriate? As for the actual content of them:

Aren't Deathclaws stated to be mutated from Jackson's Chameleons (a lizard) in FO2? Somewhere in Vault 13 if I'm not mistaken.

Exactly what IS the stance of the in-game revealed story and the FO Bible concerning fossil fuels? A point made in an earlier edit about drums representing generic explosive fluids seemed valid.

WWII era and modern weapons doesn't strike me as much of a problem - For example: FO2 had the drum-fed (the original Prohibition era style) Thompson SMG and the Grease Gun, the m60 has been around a while, the G11's development was already being abandoned at the end of the Cold War, the p90 is in use today, the Light Support Weapon is an actual (and much-hated, it seems) British gun, and the Bozar looks to be inspired by the Barrett anti material rifle. Personally, I think that a more significant issue with FOT weapons is that there are so MANY of them - it tries too hard to have a whole lot of unique (or at least almost unique) crap all over the place in what appears to be a strange attempt at giving the game more flavor. It's not entirely all bad - Some weapons will inevitably wind up useless and ignored, and a progression of weapons makes sense, picking up increasingly better basic rifles, shotguns, machine guns, etc. But there really is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and FOT is literally drowning in assorted weaponry, including a lot of things that you'll only ever see twice, once when you pick it up, look at the stats, and proceed to not use it, and the second time when you sell it to feed your ammunition/stim addiction.

Airships are something of a gigantic WHY. First of all, Not An Inconsistency claims "people use whatever they could get their hands on". Preexisting technology does not necessarily equal immediately available technology, and if the idea of there being an entire flotilla of large cargo-capable airships sitting around waiting for the BoS to use does not seem sufficiently dubious in and of itself to convince you, then perhaps the intro monologue will, specifically stating that these airships were purpose-built. While the images during the intro monologue may not be perfectly accurate, being depicted as drawings in a historical document, the BoS' tendencies for preservation of history and technology would imply that they are made to be as correct as possible. Where the hell did they get enough helium to pull this off? Naturally occurring helium is mostly found with natural gas, and while fossil fuels may or may not be COMPLETELY gone, the BoS likely would not be extracting and processing the stuff themselves, and producing helium by bombarding certain elements with radiation is inefficient. They either had, or found, a truly enormous stockpile of the stuff, which is frankly a bit too useful to be used on a fleet of airships for a group of dissenters. Unless someone wants to claim the airships used hydrogen, to which I will respond that that implies the mission was probably intended to fail and that everyone on board was meant to fall to their deaths or die in a fire, and I will point at what appears to be rocket or jet engines cabled to the airships as propulsion in the intro monologue. Those aren't too good at running cold, hydrogen's not exactly stable, and solid support struts to keep them at a safe distance AWAY from the main superstructure means more resources, more weight, more fuel. While an air route is obviously faster and effectively untouchable to enemies compared to a ground convoy, airships are either an uncharacteristically expensive mode of transportation for the BoS to be expending on a dissident faction, or were intended to be doomed to failure from the very beginning.

WAS the BOS always presented as having the manufacturing capabilities to churn out power armor? Repair, yes, but build from scratch? The Enclave and T-51b Power Armor articles seem to say no. Which one is correct?