Thanks babe

*sits up and instantly watch with a bag of chips*

OMG Babe! Who's this hot guy in a salt canister? 🥰🥰😍

Legit 😂

I appreciate that you're excited for a new video, but this "babe wake up" trend is getting absolutely run into the ground

Yup, quite a few things that feel like loose ends in the original game are due to cut content. Sulik is another one - where his tribe and his sister's quest have been just cut out.

If they could have just gotten in all those little gems. 😭😣

@@AR-GuidesAndMore Restoration Project does restore quite a lot of them and actually fixes some bugs too. Sulik's Tribe, Den Orphanage, Monastery, the weird Science Institute place - all added and playable.

@@lysytoszef The institute is called the EPA

My Chosen One solved the theft problem with a pummeling for each street urchin. Now they all run in fear at the sight of him. Thankfully, this isn't evil as he neither gained nor lost karma.

It is still effectively a magic box. It has technology in it other than just seeds, which make self-sustainability not only possible but trivial. If this weren't the case there wouldn't be a difference between it and just giving someone a bag of seeds and farming equipment.

​@weggygaygay9940 Actually, it was more of a set of instructions how to disassemble various Vault systems to build the new tech. And the seeds

@@Ariescz I distinctly remember that there was a microfusion reactor in it, as well. It was supposed to help with the land reclamation processing.

Fallout 1 Manual, page 111: Geck includes: Base Replicator unit - replicates food and basic items needed for building your new world. Just add water! (powered by cold fusion) Holodisk Reader with Library - includes selections from the Library of Congress, complete set of encyclopedias, and other life saving information, all contained on four-hundred and sixty handy holodisks! and... A Miniature Pen Flashlight.

@@veryinky8874I love to imagine you either typed out the actual text from the handbook or just paraphrased it like a teacher would

Wack writing. Typical and cliche. Thats why 1 and 2 are the best

@@charlespancamo9771 give me ten examples of this same exact scenario happening if it’s so cliche

@@TitankroW where a main character has a kid that's badass? You srs? Like you never saw that before?

@@charlespancamo9771 it’s an Easter egg for people who played the older games, it’s not supposed to be some amazing thing that makes it breaks the game. You literally only learn it from one guy who’s running for his life from the Bishops, like that doesn’t even apply here. I could say the same thing about your main character in 2 being a descendant of the Vault Dweller. Or how Tandi is somehow alive 80 years later despite this being a post apocalypse with hardly any life sustaining medicine. It’s just for the fun of easter eggs lol

@@charlespancamo9771 you can't even prove it's the characters kid and not just a descendant of the boss. It's up to interpretation (you know, roleplaying in your roleplaying game?)

That is so cool! I've lived my whole life here in Costa Mesa and after seeing your comment I did a little bit of research and found that this launch party was at Triangle Square. I've been a Fallout fan as long as I can remember and have been to Triangle Square so many times without knowing this cool piece of history, wish I could've been there, sadly I wasn't born for another year lol.

That's sick

Awesome experience dude. I miss going to big gaming launch parties. I remember halo 2s launch in Toronto.. so much fun.. gaming isn't about fun anymore sadly, it's all about greedy microtransactions and taking advantage of gambling addicts

@@wadedewell ✨ Capitalismmmm ✨✨✨🥰🥰🥰

That's really cool.

I like to think of that type of run as the Chosen One having had a vision in a dream telling him what to do, the night before he leaves Arroyo :D

It's also the only way I know of to save the Intelligent Deathclaws in Vault 13 :D

You skipped a step. You have to got to San Fransisco and talk to Matt to get the quest first. Navarro won't even appear on the map until after that.

@@Mirthful_Midori that makes sense, actually.

Definitely done that run and it slaps.

nice.

ugh.

2 and NV get a pass on bugs and missing content for the exact same reason: Their impossibly short development times and laughably low budgets. Bethesda gets no such pass.

You may also just go and farm xp and loot from the start - there are lot of combat encouters between factions, so you may easily get plasma weapons. And then you may go farm Navarro for armor and great weapons. You may also be a caravaneer, traveling gambler, etc. Generally speaking "out of plot rails" experience is totaly valid way of dealing with the game.

the low-content SF section was unintentionally good conditioning for years later when I was playing witcher 2 and their barebones third chapter (at least before the enhanced edition)

4 strength gang rise up

@@Sentralkontrol 5 Strength is better, you end up with 10 at the end (+4 from APA, +1 from the implant), you don't need the perk and you shoot a _lot_ better (half the weapons in the game have either 5 or 6 STR requirement so you'll lose at the most only 20% hit chance instead of the whopping 40%)

And he talks about Mr Bishop aka the son of the chosen one. Hes on the run from the son of your previous character

"I might have... umm... sort of... plowed his daughter. A little."

@@ConnorNotyerbidness I'll admit I've only played the Bethesda titles but that's amazing! Just to think if they gave the original creators enough time to fully make New Vegas.

@@ConnorNotyerbidness The Chosen One? You mean old No-bark?

@@insensitive919 ya mean Elder Lyons? upd: uoooh *SHET* forgot that it's good ol' Easy Pete and not ol' No-Bark

Which in a way is commentary on the legion. Sure under caesar the legion is doing well and they're not "degenerate." But once he dies? Well...

Not only that, but I'd say as well it's just also the fact that it's a fresh (relatively new) organization in FO2, with a lot less territory to manage, bureaucracy, and making a name for themselves (bolstered by Tandi being a founding member; wanting to see her fathers' creation thrive). By FONV though, they're riding the coattails of their success, and after decades of bureaucracy and strong-arming locales to join them (or else), their arrogance leads them into blitzing their military forces outward to seize territory, yet they're too spread thin to make and hold significant gains like Vegas. Basically, the romance phase of the NCRs lifespan has already well worn off by the events of FONV, both in terms of public perception and actual competency.

@@HPG45 You know a game is good when people discuss the lore and politics over a decade later. If Obsidian could make that in only a year and a half, imagine what they could've done with a full dev cycle and budget to match.

And also in New Vegas, you see the NCR at the edge of their territory where they have problems supplying their forces In Fallout 2 you see the NCR in their home territory so of course they'd be far more formidable

Ya mean _farmer founders,_ eh?))

I know my case is really lucky, but the first time I played fallout 2 to completion my sniper focused character 1 shot killed him. Guess I rolled instant death in the crit table.

@@notaninquisitor7274 Were you using _The_ Bozar? No wonder - that thing can dish out high triple digits like it's tuesday. *Without a crit.*

@@The-jy3yq Doesn’t matter what weapon you use on Frank. You cannot one shot kill him with any weapon UNLESS you have the perk that allows instant kills on the crit table. Which, funnily enough also allows you to kill enemies even if you critically hit them for no damage

@@TheMasterUnity You know what's funnier? All creatures have 6 levels of Critical Hits on each of their limbs. Torso, Head, Eyes, Crotch, Right and Left Hands, Right and Left Legs. The first level usually just does increased damage, the second penetrates armor, the third level makes you fall, the fourth either cripples a limb or sends you into knock out, the fifth penetrates armor and either cripples a limb or sends you into knockout. This perk that you've mentioned, Better Criticals? It only enables the 6th level - the one shot thingie. Usually only works on Torso, Head and Eyes(though you can one shot into eyes even without Better Criticals, you just have to get lucky). Quick PSA: Frankie only has the "big dmg", "penetration"(which is debuffed _only_ for him) and "fall on one leg" effects on his Critical Hit tables. No, even if you shoot him into the Eyes with the Better Criticals and score a 6 out of 6, he will still just get his Armor Penetrated and will just fall on his leg. So, no, you cannot One-Shot Frankie. Unless you're using the Holy Hand Grenade. Upd: Although Bozar might work, don't remember the exact math on it's damage and Frankie's Armor.

@@The-jy3yq Welp, shit

I hated that, I killed all the kids

Amen!

i was born in the right moment in human history😊

KEEP THE MEDIA IN AS MUCC OF YOUR EYE frame AS POSSIBLE THATS HOW YOU KEEP THE VOICES AWAY

You must CONSUME

@Spaceboy salty about your Disney plus and loot crate subscriptions?

Haven't gotten to that part yet but imma guess it's Gianni. He's got some serious talent.

@@samreddig8819 it's always Gianni

@@samreddig8819 Who is Gianni?

@@MultiKamil97 a voice actor/shit poster. Look up Gianni marteno here on KZfaq. It's some good stuff.

@@samreddig8819 I certainly have to because he was so good that I really thought it's some hidden dialogue in the game even though Dark Souls wasn't even released back then. I was so confused lol

Unofficial patches? Ya mean the version distributed through _Steam?_

​@@The-jy3yq The Steam version is patched up to the last official patch. You can use the Steam version but will need to install the patches yourself from fansites. There's a few guides on Steam that explain how to do it.

Holding shift to highlight is a built-in feature of Fallout 2.

@@KrazyKupo this is built in FO2, its not a Unnoficial patch thing. the steam version doesnt even come with Killap's

Funny enough they specifically use that logic in Fallout: Tactics. Mentioning the reason that Nuka Cola Cherry can be found everywhere in there is that no one likes Cherry flavored things in America.

The face & Voice is actually from another mod, taking place after Fallout 2 iirc

No voice, just face

@@comeslammer9455 Voice and face.

@@-Zakhiel- not Cassidy, it's just his face

@@comeslammer9455Wrong. He also gets a voiceover. I literally am playing FO2 with the Restoration Project right now.

The good old days when producers and creators didn't tuck their tails between their legs and wine like little female dogs every time a group of people who never even played the game made a complaint.

@@apathyguy8338 Bruh they censored the kids for EU version. Don't act like they ignored criticism

@@trustytrest To be fair, that is probably related to law more than anything about opinion/criticism

@@trustytrest That wasn't due to criticism, they only did that because they literally couldn't release the game in Europe if they didn't do that

​@@apathyguy8338well if a game gets an AO rating it's essentially not marketable

Yea its funny really, with bethesda society is vonstantly regressing in fallout, with black isle it progressed

@@themanwithnoname1839 to be fair their games take place on the opposite coast. It’s not like they wrote that the NCR collapsed, the Capital Wasteland and the Commonwealth are just underdeveloped.

@@SorowFame to be fair their games have some of the cringiest dialogue and childish themes I’ve ever played

@@GoatBoat22 the games being bad doesn’t go against my point. Fallout New Vegas worked fine as a truer sequel to Fallout 2 and didn’t have to contradict anything from Bethesda, at least as far as I’m aware. Things like the Enclave somehow coming back and the changes 4 made to power armour could cause issues but the underdeveloped societies won’t, that’s just bad worldbuilding.

@@SorowFame Bethesda's societies aren't bad cause they're under developed, they're bad cause they suck ass at writing, Bodton seems 10 more inhabitable than California yet somehow they have one major city, Bethesda games take place decades after the originals yet their societies are basic to a staggering degree.

also new vegas is a border zone whose sent a ton of it's troops to other areas that said after hoover dam they probably just wanted to breathe

Yeah, there's a lot of impracticalities and unfeasible ventures seemingly spurred on by overly ambitious bureaucrats making decisions for reasons of garnering political clout, rather than what's really best for the people at that moment. If Tandi were alive, she would likely have been a bit more careful about the way the NCR used its military and allocated its resources, at least until they were properly ready. Hence the overextended expansion into Las Vegas.

yeah thats why its so fucking well written! and caesar also criticises the democracy after tandi aswell, pointing out the corruption for example

I'm sorry, I think you folks mean "President Tandi".

​@@gabby3036 That is what I meant, sorry! :D

It's the easiest 2 hours I ever watch

You know you're dealing with an enjoyer when instead of Klamath he says 'le claMOTH'

You know someone REALLY needs it, when they drop anything else they watch.

“you know something is good when… MY OPINION. now pls updoot” -OP

yup

Idiot

Consoomer

Great videos to fall asleep to.

agreed

@@kanaka118446 considering the content is free i dont think you're using that term correctly

I struggle immensely to walk off the good boi trail, even sort of.

Basic human needs: water, food, sleep, social interactions, killing the absolute fuck out of lynette

She's the second most detestable character in the game, after Myron. Myron was so bad that there are zero endings where he doesn't get killed.

@@Mirthful_Midori Myron makes Caesar/Edward almost seem a saint in comparison. lol. If you talk to him with a low intelligence female chosen one, he tries to convince you to let your guard down around him so he can drug you.

100

It's Morbin Time!

Do you think there is any chance the Salt Factory would do a review/retrospective on Mass Effect Andromeda? Its crazy on how Bioware originally planned on giving Andromeda DLC's and even a full trilogy, but the game's response was so bad, they cancelled it all...

Salt mine*

maybe as a slang for coins or such ye, wouldnt make sense as anything but slang as the ncr would want people to know it's ncr money and would not atleast in official terms refer to it as caps. however as a slang used by the actual people? ye i could see that

I kinda wish they took this approach, like, I get that the people of Vegas use caps because the people value (please read: have more faith in) them more than either factions money, but it reeks of Bethesda imo. Like they just once again wanted caps as the main currency, any other ideas be damned. The fact they're used on the east coast, when caps from fo1 were backed by Hub water merchants, makes no sense alone.

From a design philosophy perspective, doing it that way isn't a terrible idea. You don't want all the locations to feel too similar, or else it doesn't really feel like the player has discovered anything new. *cough* Skyrim *cough*

@@nutbastard i love going to generic town #25

So it is so boring that you fall asleep?

I've been doing the same the past few months as well, I've seen most of his videos several times over cause of this.

@@denis2381 it's not boring but it's very relaxing because salt has a smooth and calm voice.

I do it too, the fable trilogy is my personal favorite

@@denis2381 easy to fall asleep to comforting familiarity

I always figured it was because their mission is to eradicate any mutants, which the dwellers would become (in their eyes) after setting foot in the wasteland. Though they were working on the modified FEV, I figured that they were doing dumb shit like this before they had it primed to annihilate people. But maybe I'm missing something there

@@TheSaltFactory I read it from an interview with the main developer guy. Cuz someone asked hin about it and he was like "Oh yeah idk lmao" basically

Nah they kill the people who open the door so everyone else will be afraid of them, easier to kidnap them all for experimenting.

I feel it was for shock value, like: "OH SHIT! They aren't pulling punches!"

@@TheSaltFactory well certainly backs up your incompetent theory cause that vault and family could have been a wonderful source of recruits but captain fuckwit screwed that up and they don't seem to care

Had to rewind it at first, I thought my ears were playing tricks on me.

I was so confused lol. Got a good laugh once I realized.

Wtf? Is it a mod? I didn't hear this line in my playthru

Same. Took some time to find this comment 😂

Quick PSA: curing the Jet addiction leads to the annexion of Redding by Vault -Shitty- City followed by miners voting to join the aforementioned Vault -Shitty- City (Glory to the Vault City!)

The Earth rapidly devolved in the FO3 future timeline. I think they're actually parallel worlds.

Quick PSA: Cassidy's Talking Head is _a mod, not cut content_

Tactics was fairly solid, it's far more in the vein of the new wasteland games than fallout though.

Shame Tactics is non-canon.

@@otakon17 it’s semi canon. The events happened but the people who did the things aren’t.

@@relishcakes4525 only the rough outline of how the BoS ended up there is canon, things after that get non-canon real quick

@@aardappelmethoed1151 Nothing about _Fallout Tactics_ is 'non-canon' except for a single line from the opening dialogue about the Brotherhood being from a vault. Other than that, nothing in it is questionable in any way. _Fallout_ 3 is infinitely more inconsistent than _Tactics_ in literally every way, from visuals to characters to the entire plot.

When I heard that part, I felt commenting but you basically stated everything what I wanted to say. I guess Salt didn't pick up how the NCR portrayed in New Vegas was supposed to be a fall from grace from how they were back in 2 (shady dealings aside). I will add that the NCR at this point of time was in its golden age and capable of being said bastion of democracy thanks to Tandi being the best leader the NCR ever had. The "drooling idiots" part of the NCR only came about after Tandi died and more inept leaders that benefited from Tandi's golden age came into power. It took quite some time for the NCR to change from how it was portrayed in 2 to how it became in New Vegas which I quite liked to see (i.e. seeing how a nation built from survivors of the Great War gradually making the same mistakes of the pre-War governments). Also, Salt bringing up how Tandi was essentially the NCR's queen was ironically how Edward Sallow (Caesar) wound up seeing Tandi's reign as the NCR was at its peak when she was its uncontested President for years due to her being the best dang President they ever had and partially inspired him too. Edit: Editted the sentence for grammar.

3 presidents in 40 years is pretty good for a Democracy.

@@garnetbezanson1404 well kind of out of context. But if you look at the presidents and how they ran. Tibbett was voted out for her mishandling the Baja massacre, for being too timid. Peterson was a corrupt imperialist who militarised the NCR, and turned it into a jingoistic nation, and expanded the NCR tenfold via subjugation and annexation (and sometimes democratically). And Kimball? Well the NCR have shown how much they disdain him and his attempted annexation of the Mojave. And also the fact that it possibly ends with his head getting blown off. So basically, 3 presidents. 40 years. 1 eh, 2 bad. That's pretty bad imo

Kimball is an interesting case since while his current approval may be low at this point that is largely due to the current state of the war. He enjoyed a large amount of support early on and we can assume that he enjoyed that same level at least up until some time after the first battle of Hoover Dam. I believe that the NCR would eventually win the Mojave which might allow him to maintain the presidency for a time. However the cost will almost definatly tarnish his legacy, the extent to witch is dependant on several factors.

If i recall correctly, dialogue with Caesar in New Vegas reveals that the entire reason why the old NCR didn't devolve into an incompetent expansionist mess of greedy idiots is because Tandi was a competent and just leader, but the weakness of the system of democracy meant that everyone voted to rule the NCR after Tandi had no obligation to have any morals whatsoever as long as they got the votes, eventually devolving into the NCR of New Vegas by becoming modern day corrupt politicians. Funnily enough, that point is a driving force behind the Legion's creation with Tandi being one of Caesar's rolemodels.

Honestly the isometric layout is dated and crappy if they ported this into a first-person fallout game Id play it but as is nah

@@spartanx9293 no, we dont need first person immersion to enjoy classic games.

@@paddington1670 it certainly helps the isometric layout is shity and you know it it's aged like milk

@@paddington1670 from a game-play standpoint fallout 3 New Vegas and 4 are better than fallout 1 and two the isometric turn-based combat sucks and let's all be completely honest staring at a giant clay face isn't exactly that immersive it could use a remake hell fallout 3 and New Vegas could use a remastering

@@paddington1670 As much as I love fallout 2, and it doesn't NEED to be an fps, you can't deny that the isometric design is outdated and could not be released in the modern day without some overhaul. There's no way fallout as a whole would've survived if it wasn't for the switch to first person.

Or stash your inventory elsewhere first, and walk into town carrying only a bundle of dynamite with the timer armed. Okay, technically, yes, you will still get your inventory cleaned out....

@@cykeok3525 "steal this you little shits >>>>:)))))))" -the chadsen one

It needs mods and unofficial patches to even be playable. As in, it was unplayable when it came out.

@@anonymousanon8412 It needs only one unnoficial patch atm. There is no need for mods

@@anonymousanon8412 it's the same company that made Bloodlines, and both these games are cult classic. Both were unplayable out of the box though which is a crying shame...

@@alexeydanilkin3546 also, in case you forgot or didn't know yet, the devs was also the creator of Fallout 1. He was such a great game developer of that era, along with the other two guy with whom he left Interplay to establish Troika.

god, i love arcanum. such a great game. way better with patches though. can’t tell you how great i felt when that water splashing noise that plays on loop all throughout the end credits was finally gone on a replay of the game XD.

I was born in '95 and had a blast playing Fallout 1 last year. These classics are just timeless!

@@nomad9584 Only the first game is a classic

@@iranoutofusernameideas7438 this is a certified gatekeeping classic

@@prettyradhandle Okay, and what's the problem with that?

@@iranoutofusernameideas7438 fym "Okay, and what's the problem with that?"

Fallout Sonora did BoS best

I still liked the Brotherhood because joining them kind of felt like joining a military, your power armor would be painted to reflect your rank and because power armor had so much more focus in FO4, a considerable amount of time was spent modding and upgrading my power armor. Before in New Vegas, it felt like I was joining a secret society for the perks, which I didn't like so much. I liked seeing the Brotherhood active and on the frontlines.

The brotherhood are the villains because they want to destroy the institute who are making machines that they use to wipe out or take control of communities because it’s dangerous to let people have that kind of technology... yes definitely villains

and you get to find Sulik's sister, too. With that patch, it feels like a complete game, the way it should always have been.

@@TheFuzzician Hear hear.

They did make shadowrun crpg's, 3 of em that I know of. They're on Gamepass

I loved when Marcus said “It’s Marcuing time!” and Marcurred all over the place.

@@randomnpc5777 got us all laughing 😐

@@dathunderman4 Me when I'm offended that no one asked me how I feel

*Vault 8, the Vault -Shitty- City(Glory to the Vault City!) one Vault 15 is the Khans Vault (Would be _really_ dumb if Vault 15 had tons of Water Chips all along back then during Fallout 1's time period)

I believe you're thinking about a scene from "Funny Farm"

@@daltondurham5942 And I am briefly incapacitated by the memory of the VHS cover, behind protective plastic, at the video rental place, and the flood of memory that brings. If you'll excuse me, I need to go shake my cane at some ungrateful youths.

@Spaceboy As somebody who lives in the real-life Klamath County, you are factually incorrect.

I recently played FO1 and FO2 for the first time ever while being born the year FO1 came out and despite a bit rough start when I didn't know how to play, what to do and such, I really enjoyed those games. FO2 was quite unforgiving for a couple of hours compared to FO1 where I could finish a game in 10h at level 10 but as soon as I started pickpocketing every person I came across, I quickly gained a lot of new weapons and armours that made my playthrough much easier, thus more enjoyable. At the end it was hard for me to finish the game because it was so satisfying to be a walking tank.

Are they though? I mean legitimately. I recall talking to someone in game there mentioning how in Shady Sands they still haven't eliminated the local raider problems and that the Brahmin Barons are doing heinous 19th century cattle rancher wars stuff. But I think Salt says "inept" really "because video game". What I mean is that it's a quirk of writing few games use. The NCR in lousy with problems in New Vegas. There isn't a single NCR location where either tragedy has struck, or tragedy is about to strike, and abject failure is all around them and everything they do. But the difference is, and this is a strange one? They really don't have any idea what to do about it until the Courier shows up and says "I can do this thing for you". It's something that's in Fallout 2 that he failed to mention a lot of. While because it's a video game, the world is static until the player interacts with it in some fashion.... they don't TALK like it is. Vault City has a problem with Gecko. They mention what their plans for it are, the options, the debates that are going on about if the genocide is the way to go or not, etc. Most quest givers and NPCs kind of talk like they had plans and things they were going to do before The Chosen One arrived, and they alter plans around the Chosen One's appearances. Rather than having waited around all their lives for the Chosen One to show up and solve their problems for them. But you take something like Camp Forlorn Hope in New Vegas. It has a lot of issues. Say, medicines being stolen from the medic tent every night. And what is their plan to resolve it? Nothing. Post guards? Start doing physicals to see if anyone is doped up? Send the MPs out to look at Novac or the 188 to see if the drugs are being hocked there? Nope. I mean they don't HAVE to do it (it's nice when they do, it's something I like about Fallout 4. The factions say "This is what we do" and you actually see them doing it outside of scripted plot events)... but they have to act like they have a plan beyond "We're NPCs in an RPG, a hero will be by soon to solve all our problems". NCR really did a lot of that in New Vegas.

@@hitomisalazar4073tbf for the Forlorn Hope drug quest, the doctor there is overworked from all the dying people from the Legion. That entire place is a shithole and everyone there can’t get food, ammo or extra men, much less a bunch of work to catch one dude stealing chems. NCR was also planning on taking out the Powder Gangers at the prison, planned on taking over Primm, plans to fight the Legion etc. But a lot of places had a lot of problems, McCarren *planned* to crack a Legion prisoner, find a spy, save a ranger and wipe out Fiends, but all of that combined made it impossible to progress any of these goals. Because by NV the NCR is spread too thin. That’s kinda the whole point why you showing up to help is a godsend lol.

@@cbou713 Yep. Just saying it's a trick of writing. Realistically things like that are going to be static until the player interacts with it. But with a bit of clever writing you get around that by at least making people look like they're trying to handle it on their own. Or proposing ideas they can't agree on/implement on their own. It's something I always felt that New Vegas didn't do as well as other games in the series. Though better than say, Fallout 1. Where things like Tandi is kidnapped and... the Kidnappers have no plans for her. Shady Sands don't even have a plan on the level of "Wait until the Water Caravan comes by and bribe one of their guards to go shoot Khans in the face", etc. Literally their only plan is: "Oh thank the gods a vault dweller wandered by who wants to help".

Well now we know shady sands was destroyed