

This also made the Childkiller reputation and encounter with the bounty hunter Avellone inaccessible.

Description:Ī holotape, with a rough symbol of the Brotherhood of Steel inscribed on it. I am even less clear on the field switch, but I remember we had lots of discussion on how to handle the player bringing down the force fields in the Military Base, so it was probably going to be used for that, but then got tossed aside when another solution was used. Tangler's Hand was used to prove that you killed someone (duh, Tangler probably), and I think it was in Adytum, which was heavily modified near the end of FO's development. "I am pretty sure that both of these items were part of deleted quests. Semi-official commentary from Fallout Bible 8 by developer Tim Cain, regarding this item as well as Tangler's Hand: It looks like it was recently made and designed for very large hands. Description:Īn electronic transmission device, with a very simple, and large, toggle button. The information on this page can be accessed first-hand using dedicated mod tools.Ī non-functional unused item, featuring a graphic that was later recycled in the sequel for use by an unrelated quest item (Explosive Switch). It spawned four sequels and two spin-offs of varying quality, all of which were developed by different teams from one another. Fallout is remembered as one of the greatest CRPGs of all time and its genre influence is arguably unrivaled by any game without 'Ultima' in its title.

Instead, it uses the series' signature SPECIAL system. It was initially conceived as an electronic adaptation of the GURPS role-playing system in an original setting (and there are indeed a few traces of GURPS to be found in the demo), but the GURPS license was pulled in a legal dispute initially started over extreme 256-color violence. Fallout is a landmark post-apocalyptic RPG from Interplay, developed by a team that included the founding members of Troika Games and the group that would later be known as Black Isle Studios.
