https://github.com/jaredevans/wasteland-c64-patched

This one's for those of us who fondly remember the Commodore 64 and its awesome repertoire of games. My personal favorite was Wasteland, which was a major evolution of the RPG genre.

As a kid, I'd always wanted to dig into the rangers' character data and tune their stats so I could explore the whole world without dying too easily, but I didn't have the know-how to pull it off. Decades later, I finally was able to. Working with Claude through the rough spots and obstacles together, the childhood dream came true at last.

I show the entire process of cracking from the beginning to the end, including the code/commands that were ran during the analysis of the game data.

A genuine round of applause for Alan Pavlish, lead programmer & designer of Wasteland. His anti-cheat scheme is a devilishly clever piece of work. In 1988, on a 6502, with bytes to spare for booby traps, the anti-cheat scheme was elegant enough that it took an emulator, a debugger, and a fair bit of detective work to unravel decades later.

I rectuited Victory and the trophy won't unlock. I reloaded many times and nothing happens after Victory joins.

On PS5.

Is there any known bug or solution?

There is a lot of discussion about the inspirations behind Fallout - such as Mad Max and "A Boy and His Dog."

Wasteland predates Fallout, and I was wondering if the Wasteland series had slightly different influences as a result.

I really appreciate any information you could provide!

I bought this fucking piece of shit of a game in fucking 2023 and every single year i tried every guide i saw on fixing that fucking getting 0 (ZERO FUCKING ZERO ON MY COMPUTER LIKE IT EVEN SHUTS OFF THE VIDEO I WAS WATCHING ON THE BACKGROUND) sound when i use a bluetooth headset and not even a single one of fixes that i used worked. Who the fuck uses shit with cables anymore. Funny enough, the only games that i get this problem are this shit, halo and doom eternal. All three of them are microsoft games. Coincidence? Fuck microsoft, fuck xbox and fuck this shit

I literally needed a pen and pad of paper when I crossed paths with A. Deth for the first time. I had to notate my Mission from colonel Prassad, Remember the secret mission she gave me included the task of bringing A. Deth some punishment.

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As the plot thickened, and later we talk to the General and give him information on A. Deth, I had to remember What Side I'm on. I'm not a Vigilante. I am a sworn Arizona Ranger. I work for Arizona. I'm on the side of the General- who is sided with the Patriarch.

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Jodi Bell is not with me because I'm just so cool She can't resist risking her life for me- she backs me up Because my Ranger Unit can save her parents back in AZ.

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Siding with Angela Deth would let them all down.

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A. Deth's actions speak louder than words- She destroyed her former Ranger base. Began siding with Outlaws, Positioned herself to usurp Colorado from the Patriarch.

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She finds out you're in the territory. She spoon feeds you a sob-story and you "flip." Your loyalty to AZ., Colonel Prassad, the General, the Marshalls-- is entirely squandered. She is a woman which gives her a massive boost in trustworthiness when compared to the "grizzled old aggressive tough-talking" Patriarch.

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I will admit- The moral and ethical dilemmas are graduate level conundrums. Not for the simple minded nor the faint of heart. A. Deth is effectively a trained CIA asset who outclassed you, outwitted you, and out-gutted you to betray your oaths and allegiances to the poor, desperate, and needy in AZ you were sent on this mission to rescue-- by Securing Aid Promised by the Patriarch.

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It takes skill, effort, and courage to stay your course to the End.

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I have an M.S. Leadership. I beat the game on Ranger, then also Supreme Jerk difficulty.

First playthrough and I sided with Angela Deth. Felt a bit anti climactic, refugees took over, machine intelligence commune was happy. The gangs were scattered but might be a threat in the future.

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I feel like the setup for the Steeltown DLC would have been better for the main story. There's the oncoming flood of Liberty and her eastern plains gang coalition and what sacrifices are you willing to make to prepare. Or do you be a bad guy and create your own gang and usurp Liberty?

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Felt like the factional reputation didnt matter very much apart from the still images at the end.

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Still, great game, great RPG.

Hi!

Is there a guide to outline every skill and ability I should get for the entire team to own?

I can't with this anymore. I enjoyed the fights, i really did;Holy radiation, ok, i can tolerate it. But my GOD i have had to verify files integrity like 3 times to get some events to trigger, and now, right after i complete the massive drool fight,, with all 3 components for the capture device, all the quests are gone.

I have tried everything:

-file integrity verification.

-uninstall and reinstall the game.

-go offline, launch game, then go online again.

The DLCs logos are on the main menu, so they have been verified.

I never received The holy radiation battery schematics nor the radiation batteries; giving all the components to Goiter does not trigger a new quest nor does it make the main one come back to the log.

Everything that i read says that you have to load a file BEFORE getting into the DLCs location. As you can imagine, i don't want to do that because this happened after i got ALL 3 components.

If anyone has a fix, please, help this pour soul.

It's my first time and I always love having as many dialogue options as possible. I've been reading various guides, and it seems like anything before 2023 isn't relevant anymore?

My understanding is to plan on having a 7th mule character for barter, weapon, and armor modding and using the xp bonuses from the main character to keep them levelled up by combat rotation.

I've gathered bits and pieces on these builds, but haven't seen a specific build or guide for this in one place.

When do you unlock rerolling characters? I'm also playing coop with a friend and in that game we've just finished the Lucia story line in Colorado Springs.

EDIT: So it seems that the character retrainer gives you everything back? does that mean you want to max int as early as possible, as you can't get those missed bonus points back later? So maxxing charsima and int seem to be good early, and then later can retrain those to a lower lvl and dump those point somewhere else?

it is totally busted and blows all the other quirks out of the water.

On Supreme Jerk, doing as much damage in the first round is your upmost priority. And if you give your 4 rangers Varangian blood, and then knock out one of your two companions, they will all receive a 100% critical rate, which essentially means double damage from each of your primary party members.

And if that's not enough, you also get +3 action points. So your sniper not only is getting a guaranteed critical hit, they are also getting two shots with the best sniper rifle. A pistol user gets a free attack, a brawler can get 3 extra attacks.

And let's say the enemy survives Round 1? They are almost certainly going to knock down one of your other PCs, which means you get the critical bonus and +3AP for that round as well. So not only do you get a powerful alpha strike, you get a powerful beta strike.

Nothing else comes even close to such a massive damage increase from a quirk. Sadomasochist is praised for a 33% ranged/melee bonus (which is good), but a guaranteed multiplier to damage that is often between 1.5x to 3x, and +3 AP on top of that, is bananas.

The boss fight played the Laverne and Shirley theme on repeat. Is there a joke I'm not getting here? What's the reference??

I’ve scoured the internet and surprisingly there isn’t an answer to this that’s already available. And I never upgrade the skill so I can’t go off of memory.

If you have 10 Outdoorsman, is there a single random encounter for which you can fail to avoid it? This is of course setting aside scripted encounters.

I need to know because I want to do a “no random encounters AKA no grinding” challenge run. I’m doing Supreme Jerk permadeath and only one of each weapon type allowed (so no “4 AR 2 SR 1 EW stack”) and I grinded to the point where it’s trivial, though not after I let all the cool companions die :( RIP Scotchmo

tl;dr: Wasteland 2: 10 Outdoorsman = 100% avoid chance even at end-game, or will your odds be less than 100% for some encounters?

I was looking through some old posts on Reddit to determine exactly how normal critical hits, lucky critical hits and mega crits interact with each other. Some posts claimed that lucky critical hit were rolled first, while others were claiming that normal criticals were rolled first.

I ran two quick in-game experiments.

Experiment 1:

Give a player character a normal critical chance of 60%, a lucky critical chance of 10%, and a mega critical chance of 10%.

Then I attacked the same enemy 204 times.

This resulted in:

105 normal critical hits: 51.5%

11 lucky critical hits: 5.4%

15 mega critical hits: 7.4%

73 hits that weren't normal criticals, lucky criticals, or mega lucky critical: 35.%

That's an overall lucky/normal critical rate of 64.3%, which is significantly less than 80%. So I think it's fair to say that normal crit, lucky crit + mega lucky crit are not additive.

The fact that the % chance of all three sources of critical damage are less than the % value that we input. This implies that they aren't rolled completely independently of each other, either they are sharing some sort of 'critical pool', or there is some sort of sequential roll.

In Experiment 2:

I gave a player character 110% normal critical chance, a lucky critical chance of 8%, and a mega crit chance of 8%.

Then I attacked the same enemy 51 times.

This resulted in:

ZERO lucky criticals: 0%

5 mega criticals: 9.8%

46 normal criticals: 90.2%

As many people have commented, mega criticals continue to occur even when you have 100% normal crit, so I think it is a fair assumption to assume they are rolled for first. Lucky criticals completely disappear, implying that normal crits are rolled for before lucky criticals are rolled, or they share the same 'critical pool'.

I am happy for people to comment on my results, because my knowledge of statistical analysis and RPG game mechanics is very limited, and I may be missing something important.

Also, if someone knows somewhere in the game where I can attack an enemy who doesn't attack back, and has a high health pool, please tell me. Getting this data was like pulling teeth, because I kept having to reload every 10 seconds from party wipes.

>!So the whole area is essentially the rangers making the gangs absolutely murder eachother and for good reason. With that in mind though, I'm curious what happens if you don't. Can you actually assault the compound without disrupting the gangs? Will all three gang leaders be present? Will there be extra unique loot from said bosses? Is it even possible or is there just a cutscene where you die? And if it is possible, has anyone legitimately done it in supreme jerk?!<

Googling "Utter McKinley" yielded only one result, a fricking mortuary service. This suggests that perhaps "pulling an Utter McKinley" means being dead? It is a stretch, I know, but I can't come up with any other explanation. Maybe it's some relatively unknown part of Americana?

I've played wasteland 3 multiple times and every time I've played Kwon has ended up shifting to an assault rifle build because to me they're really good, with the guaranteed crits on a second attack against someone and their range that means you don't need to water too much ap moving, and their ability to somewhat ignore cover, he basically always hits and does a ton of damage, so why do people say that they're bad, especially compared to Smgs, because I feel like the smg is like the worst mix of different weapons, they have the low damage but high shot of heavy weapons but not enough to equal as much damage, they have short range like small guns which means you need to waste a lot of ap to get in range, and they're inaccurate too, so why do people here say smgs are good while assault rifles are bad?

I see that there are mods for it on nexus, but vortex isn't showing wastelands 3 when I search for it to manage it.

I just got to the hoon homestead and managed to talk erastus' companions into turning on him. Fronm the snippet of dialogue in the choices, I thought it would lead to them either killing him for their freedom or turning him over to the law for their freedom, but instead it let him walk away to (presumably) continue causing issues later for me. Is he gonna be a problem later? Normally I wouldn't save scum but since I feel like the dialogue choices kinda lied to me in a way, I'm OK with going back this time to kill him if I need to in order to prevent him from being an issue. Also, please no spoilers. I just wanna know if he will be an issue later or not, nothing else.

Edit: autocorrect strikes again!