Completed Wandering through the vast deserts of Bavaria in The Fall - Last Days of Gaia

[Baron Dupek]

Where do I even begin… had my eye on this game for years, got legit version from gaming magazine (they used to put full games on discs so young folks would buy them, you won’t believe what hidden gems you could find there, and a lot of trash too obviously) but found out that there is better version but German only.

Then found both translation (done by NMA’s folks) and game on archive.org and gave it a shot.



Intro is German only but here is caption:

Spoiler

* Thunder *

Young Girl: Mom, it's thundering outside.
Mom: The storm can't reach us in here, don't be afraid.

Young Girl: I'm not afraid.
Mom: I know, you're brave my dear.

Young Girl: What exactly is bravery?
Mom: That's a good question. Men that risk themselves for others are brave,
but it can also be brave to tell the truth.

Young Girl: Is everyone brave like me?
Mom: * chuckles * Not everyone, but some are. Our leader, for example.

Young Girl: Why is he so brave?
Mom: I don't know.
Sometimes you must do things that you don't want to do at
all, or that you are afraid to, do you understand? We owe our leader a debt
of gratitude, you must never forget that. He was prepared to sacrifice his
life for us.

Young Girl: Mom. . .
Mom: Yes?
Young Girl: Tell me about our leader.

(Fade to white while zooming in on girl's eye)

Mom: The story begins long ago. Our leader was, at that time, a simple
wanderer. One of the gangs from the waste lands fell upon his village and
killed everyone who lived there, including his mother.

Young Girl: Our leader didn't have a mother any more?

Mom: No, he didn't, and at that time he didn't know where his father and
sister were either.

(scene change to desert)

Mom: He thought that they might have fled from the band.

Young Girl: He was all alone?

Mom: Yes, he was all alone, and because of this he looked for people who
would help him to find his mother and sister. One day he heard of people who
were calling themselves "The Government of the New Order."
They were looking for fighters in order to fight against the gangs.

Young Girl: I know the people from the Government! They run along the paths
all the time and stand guard.

Mom: That was a different Government at that time, my dear. Earlier
everything was much more dangerous.
Because of this the Government wanted to protect the living and fight against the gangs, and our leader wanted to join up with them. He wanted to find the gang that had destroyed his village and revenge himself upon them.

Young Girl: And he wanted to look for his father and sister!

(fade to next scene, the Leader running)

Mom: Exactly. He knew that he had a long and dangerous path ahead of him.
But our leader was not afraid, and he was very strong and brave. He traveled
for a long time and he was hungry and thirsty and the sun burned his face,
but eventually even such a difficult journey comes to an end...and so he
stood one day before the gates of the Government of the New Order...

There were some info about English release of Reloaded version on asian market, some chinese that Google Translate might put some light on it but I can’t arse myself to do that, and most likely they're not online anymore.

I though the gray skin on the characters in the intro was badly rendered model but you find later in the game why it’s not the case.

Game received ~1 GB of new voice lines in better quality, when games were like 2-4 GB big – that’s surely a lot.

My character comments on everything – describes every piece of junk laying in the wasteland, mumbling to himself about loons around her...

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 1 - Begining

Spoiler

looks like cellphones are still working there, I rather get food, water and no gangs over this crap...

first loading screen takes sweet time but you won't see it much

out little adventure starts here, at the gates of newly formed faction that's supposed to bring peace in these hard times

looks like we came to the party time

and they don't mind me coming inside? How generous for them...
Little foreshadowing - it's more common than you think

Almost everyone have have name but in some places (like enemy bases) it's absent feat. No idea why.

Nice folks - public executions and afterward party? Couldn't join better faction.

Even though you can get various options we can rarely change attidue of some NPCs because devs had no time for alternative outcome for quests.
Or they just shoot you and it's game over.

Picked 2nd answer

Passport office shows up on minimap.

Character creation is limited

Physical Features section is pointless, it just shuffle around stats without removing or adding points from the current pool.
Life Experience, on the other hand, let you set different range of withdrawned points from skills.
Best one is Mechanical, no withdraws and additional points into Repair, no other choice give you better option.

Even though it's post apocalyptic world starting with melee is not good idea - too much shooters and turning into.
We start with 5-6 people, even that number with peashooters is considerable, just focus fire on any danger and beat them by number.
Speaking about combat - it's sort of like JA Back in Action RT garbo but you have both terrain and group advantage, even with garbage peashooters.
Plus - you can pump stats'n'skills to shoot faster so stunlock state is not a big deal.

characters are crude and textures muddy but they still managed to make this guy a shady fella

Oh and for some reason fog is more noticeable on my Win 7 machine compared to my Win XP virtual PC, which bites me in the ass later when your sniper gain Camouflage talent and can't use this outright broken OP feature making you invisible.

I don't like him in any way and pity me controlling naive idiot who bought all this crap without blinking.

This 4-lights system is weird but this is what you got in old games before some standards were set
from the left:
1) green mean character is selected
2) yellow mean you gain new level
3) red mean your character is unarmed (is that necessary? you have two slots right below so what's the point?)
4) blue mean your character is tired, can fall to the ground randomly

uh, do I know you?

some old... friend from my village?

show me what you got on the roster

out medic, can shoot some, comes with Light Wound talent which let you heal characters with some scratches without meds for free.

seen worse cases

no idea who Desert Monks or Seekers are, guess we have to find out soon...
Familarity is just some small bonus to accuracy and performance, more like cherry on the top for your soldier than anything

our explo specialist, on next level we can pick Blow Locks talent so we can open stuff without picklocks
and he's decent shooter

great teammate, technican and shooter, soon to be driver too
technicans can repair weapons, which is obvious, but thing is - only enemies and traders have broken guns.
One of the possible money making method is to buy broken guns for cheap and sell them for profit or whatever you need atm

sniper and shooter, but they share same problem with Butch - low INT. First few level-up start points go to rais INT, ont the contrary - it's not worth wasting stats to raise INT for bonus skillpoints (one measle at 15 INT).

We get Colt Anaconda.
For some reasons .44 ammo is way stronger than .357, I'm not a weapon expert but iirc hits from both .44 and .357 deal a lot of damage for a pistols then why they're so different in this game?

We might never know...

oh btw - Heavy Weapons is broad term, even M16 is considered Heavy so keep that in mind, it's not like Fallout in that regard

While we're here - Talents and what they do

Close Combat
Knockout - +10% chance of knockout out opponent
Avoid - -10% chance of being hit in close combat
Confusion - +10 of confusing enemy for 3 seconds
Stamina - -30% damage per close combat hit
Combo - 3 attacks before opponent can react

Light Weapons
Head shot - 2% chance of headshot with every hit
Steady shot - shooting when standing or kneeling is treated as prone.
Accuracy - 10% range increase and 5% accuracy increase
Fast Reload - reload light weapons in 1/10th the time

Heavy Weapons
Accuracy - 10% range and 5% accuracy increase
Steady Shot - standing or kneeling is treated as prone.
Shoulders - Heavy weapons count as 50% of weight
Fast Reload - reload heavy weapons on 1/10 weapon
Critical hit - +10% to chance of critical hit

Sniper Weapons
Accuracy - 10% range and 5% accuracy increase
Night sight - increases night time accuracy by 20%
Head shot - +20% chance to deal headshot
Camouflage - invisible to enemy when prone at more than 30ft
Steady shot - shooting when standing or kneeling is treated as a prone.

Throwing Weapons
Accuracy - 10% range increase and 5% accuracy increase

Explosives
Defuse - chance to defuse explosives of any kind increased by 30%
Blast Locks - Locks on doors and boxes can be opened with gunpowder.
Detect Booby Trap - Doors, locks, safe booby traps are detected and defused
Maximum Explosive Effect - explosives cause 30% more damage
Build explosives - make exposives with charges and remote fuses himself

Survival
Feigning death - character pretends to be dead and remains unnoticed during encounters
Cooking - Can cook meat.
Influence Animals - alter animal behavior whether to stop attacks or stop fleeing

Stealth
Sneaking fast - Sneak at running speeds
Camouflage - get 20% closer without detection
Crawling Fast - crawl at sneaking speeds
Night Camouflage - get 30% closer before being detected

Pick Pocket
Inside pockets - permits players to remove items from inside pockets, increasing spoils from pick pocket

Lock Picking
Booby trapped Locks - automatically detect booby traps on locks
Boxes - 20% bonus when opening boxes
Doors - 20% bonus when opening doors

Technical
Repair Weapons - repair weapons
Strengthen Armor - +1 to leather, chain, or plate armor
Manipulate ammunition - You can produce Dum-Dum bullets for regular ammunition
Strengthen Armor parts - +1 to all helmets, shoes, and gloves
Tuning - make vehicle +20% faster

Speech
Teach - able to give a 5% boost to another character on strongest
attribute.
Entertainment - entertain others and receive a reward for doing so.
Offending - draw all hostile action to you within 30m
Trade - Get a 20% trade boost.
Increase Morale - +20 on skills for 5 minutes, Use ability once
every 24 hours
Offending - draw agro from all attackers within 30 meters

Drive
Drive Carefully - prevent LE during trip
Repair Vehicles - nuff said
Driving Tricks - optimize driving skills
Road Trip - Groups life energy restore during trips

Medical
Light Wounds - Fully heal characters that are 85% health or more.
Regeneration - Speed up healing of whole group during rest periods
Psychology - target character gets +2 to all attributes for 5 minutes, Use once every 24 hours.
Alternative Medicine - heal and detoxify using various herbs
Resuscitate - Raise dead characters within 5 min of death

Some of them useless, some pretty great or outright broken.
Like Entertainer - it let you aquire items that you might not see until later.
Camouflage (Snipers) would be great but for some dumb reasons I got this stupid fog obscuring my vision, it wasn't there on virtual machine with Wndows XP.
Repair Weapons is mandatory, getting guns cheaper and reselling them when fixed is decent way to get cash.
Speech talents are for your created character only, no NPC can use them, period.
Also - Steady Shot is great too.

Whenever you will blow the locks or lockpick - it's up to you.

 

[abnaxus]

That takes me back.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 2 - first village

Spoiler

Nothing stops me from taking stuff from other people in the rooster. They all have shit pistols but some of them are not broken and Butch have yet to gain talent that let him repair stuff (high skill does not count).
Why one slot is free? You see it soon...

sometimes people barter with random team members, this is where their background shows up. Which reminds me... should update first post with background of my team members. And some story summary or something.

some shady folks show up, no idea who they were
there is a lot of stuff not explained in the game, guess that unfinished state, cut content and what not, of the game give some mysterious aura to the game...

oh yes, you will

it's weird that Agnes know Survival well despite the fact that she's a vegan and sometimes throw tantrum ("Ugh!") when you put the meat in her inventory or ask her to chew it. And yes you can and should cook the meat for more HP gain. Reminds me Gothic...
Speaking of meat - it's good to restore HP (medkits are too expensive and we don't know herbal medicine yet) but they have stacks of 2 max, which results in cluttering the inventory with beef jerky.
You can see that Agnes got some XP for applying her Talent for the first time.

out first destination

but before we go-

shut up Carmen!

what was I... ah yes

training, for some XP mostly
they turned some rapper or notJohnCena into drill instruction, how nice

it's just shooting galore, nothins special

throwing weapons are powerful tools but only Victor can throw them reliably but still too slow, most trash die from 6 peashooters before nade reach its destination

since we're bad at throwing anything but tantrum Ashka climb through the wall and shoot final enemy with bittersweet taste in her mouth

this sounds important - you can use items from your inventory and give items to anyone nearby, which sounds tempting - why not just rush shit, eat bullets and heal anytime? If you want to grind and sell all crap in the game to fund that tactics - go on, I'm not gonna do that.

this is barter screen
there is no currency and despite decent Speech and some trade bonus - we can't have a deal with these items that
and as usual - trash is worthless

this is my team and we're ready to roll!
All I can afford for now is this fancy cap.

we have to interrogate some gang renegade for some intel about this whole Ratskull shenaningans, guess what stops me from that?

like a Bay - it starts with explosions

you tell 'em boy

ohsnap

with smart tactical placement and diversity we dispath them easily

btw. each guns deal 1-2 damage, seems like that vest on the blonde guy was just a random texture

got some scratches but nothing that Agnes can't patch up with free healing, which gave Agnes 150xp bonus for first timers
Aaand two level-ups

we need to save Sara to get location of both lab and depot

we got another level-up
Out talky gal can get this talent. It play a little animation, can be used only once per NPC and give random item in return. And it's wide variety - you can either have junk of value (1) or sniper rifle that goes for (100).
Broken as fuck.

Victor gets talent that let him open most locks (except those blocked by the Power of the Plot)
I can tell you that there is enough powder to open all chests with any valuable loot.
Also gave him some Light Guns increase.

you don't say

ah right, the first rough fight in the game, if you don't know the magic trick

BRUH

why you need skillcheck to strike a deal with an obvious retard?

seriously
you think this is gonna be bbq party or something?

ffs careful with this shit

at least one reliable and responsible person in this team
ffs

with the power of foreshadowing I placed package in the right place

I've put some people behind the tall building in the middle of the settlement and two little pidgeons behind that house by the east gate

some of them group together by their lost-and-found bro, some patrol outside perimeter

time for some fireworks

Victor raised his reputations and doubled his killcount
Don't see any effects of Reputation, must be another of dozes removed features and abandoned concepts, whatever...
there were 3 guys by the wall, no match for 6 people with 2 UZIs

our first decent gun - better range and rate of fire
ammo is cheapest available and makes the first quarter of the game a cakewalk

our first armor but it's too expensive, if only Butch got level-up to snatch the right talent right now so we can sell broken guns for profit...
Which reminds me - you have option to share XP with a team or give most XP to character dealing killing blow.
And he totally not look like Danny deVitto, u-huh

nice

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 3 - Back to the Future but the Future is now, old man

Spoiler

last time we lay waste on a bunch of wanna be gangsters
should rip off one sleeve for more rip offs and better luck

bet that's some reference

yeah

there is a fukton of walking in the game but on the bright side - you can climb steep hills like these which helps a lot in the journey

if you wonder why 6th slot was free

This is why.
Decent gunner but most importantly - survivalist with no meat affection, bout time
We pass the knife to him, for now he can strip some fur from wild animals but later he can get his hands on claws and teeth
Here comes nasty surprise - furs are HEAVY, about 10kg each, in a game with average 40kg carry weight limits it
We can run to trader or ditch the items on main road or entrance to the map and pick them later.

Most potential party members are easy to pick but we don't need any, we can easily beat the game with starting team.

Good starting skills.

Nice but this place is exception and all other items can be found in containers and chests only (and dead bodies, duh).

Which container have anything? You can't tell because mouse cursor does not change. You have to press RMB, wait a moment to show context menu, press the eye icon to examine, then watch dancing animation (character can examine items under certain angle), repeat x1000 time through the game.
Enjoy.
fukc

some angry old man yell at cloud

We get some info about gangs, other than Ratskulls.
And new location.

I found some camp in the southeast corner of the map when this happened.
Milton can find water sources, with high Survival skill he can find them in larger radius.
They hold few (2-4) portions of waters, each restore 10hp, there is at least one water source on each map.

Camp is empty, David still asks for Sara, I'm stuck.

back to the village

Though they were all dead.
They are now.

Nobody knows where Sara is. No quest marker, no leads.
Hey, remember that camp where we found some water source?
What ya know, it's not abandoned now.

It's abandoned again, hehe.

Our next destination is Weapon Depot, we can get better stuff to breach lab later.

but first

nice

Back to the David

good plan

We find this weird thing the car owner was looking for.

Even without time traveling garbage story still have some holes so...

This guy need some headlines for his newpaper. Sounds like hard job considering the fact we're in the middle of nowhere.

Ashka got some flashbacks from recent activities here but that's not enough.

he's gonna do eet

aaand he's gone
like a dry fart in the desert

we still need more
Franky, I don't have time for this crap.

This is the camping screen, we can pull out matress out of thin air and rest a little, at least 8h to remove penalities from exhaustion.
You can see people playing cards, guitar, flute and else.
This is the only way to trigger random encounters with either Seeker gang or wild animals. Gangs at least drop the loot...

Fur takes too much space, good thing items does not vanish on the maps.

Found nice gun, remember JA2?

Nice range, fire rate but no burts.
That's the pain - you can't spam single fire at range and then switch to burst/full auto in close encouters, each gun have certain fire mode.
You can duct tape laser pointer or silencer to the gun but you need duct tape.
Guess how many duct tapes I've got in my first playthrough?

Spoiler

One.

And we test Play Dead talent for the first time.
Maybe for some advanced tactics but with 6 people there is no need for fooling around.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 4 - Depot departure

Spoiler

With high Survival skill Milton gain elite skill that let him roast some beef.

There are containers and safes on each maps, most containg crap but some have great stuff.

This is not the latter.
What's the dum-dum? It's converted ammo that deal more damage for less penetrating power.

This one is bit better, some med, steroids and gloves, we need any armor for now.

next safe is better

new armor - nice

Another one have dimishing return - explosive lockpick is back and we get some crafting component. Sadly we ain't gonna do much about it because you gonna miss one or two components, always. Like duct tape - found only one through the whole game, with all containers looted and visiting traders once in a while.
From what I experienced traders gets different gun/armor every day, those good enough to be Deal of the Day at least.

Next destination - Bowie Village.

Even after patches you get some nice bugs like those - Victor put blackpowder on the chest inside, glitched out of the shack when getting up from the squat stance.

Got another armor and baseball bat.
Going melee is bad idea, unless you want to grind random encounters when camping, and you got animals to bash on.
It sells for (10), that's some 9mm ammo and broken Uzi that we still can't fix.

what's that?

hmm
Wonder if we find some living one later?
we do

People are out of booze.
Feels like these moonshine quests in post apo RPGs are like rats in the cellar newbie quests.

we also found deserter from GNO

shit stats for a character on 4th level and useless skill, only character created by the player can utilize Speech and Charisma properly.

at least he got nice gun with laser pointer that compensate for my shit gun skill

another decent armor but jump in price is painful

first decent rifle, can't afford that and Butch still can't fix shit

I found Tupolev
Some wild animals nearby, don't have Survival for skinning and Calming Animals talent, otherwise you need long range strong gun but that's just waste of bullets.

Some shepard named Pete is marked as important NPC, wonder why.

what

the fuck

that some russian RPG-tier shit right here
or Fallout2

at least path is clear

and Butch can fix broken guns now

other talents are nice too but fixing is more important than improving things

here goes my infiltration plan

hey
free burgers

ah crap, of course something must go wrong and send us to the other side of the map

not bad for mere shepard

base have no loot for now, luckly some hut got M4, I'll take care of it

silly woman, you might shoot your husband
accidents happens
"accidents" too

dunno, Kid gang?

sadly we can't ride this one

she's a hoe
my condolences

that's some badly cropped face there

some quests let you skip fedex part, this is not one of them and there is not that many, wish more RPGs and quests utilized that, so much time saved...

this is the best joke in the game, believe or not

Asked village elder what's the commotion with booze recently.

of course it's Ratskulls
bet they are no challenge drunk ass shitfaced now

safari time

phase 1 - preparation
...
wait, tigers? here?

good thing we can save some water with little speech magic

Found the hill, can camp now or do some side jobs.

some angry potato farmer
move along

wait what
potatoes is used as ammunition?

who the hell makes food fight in the apocalypse?

nevermind, we're done today

rip hobbes

more meds is always nice, with water and meat we can handle harder fights

6?

aaand she drops explosives AGAIN
ffs who put such careless creature in the leading role??

 

[luj1]

That's an interesting, obscure RPG. Impossible to find now?

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 5 - wannabe lab rats from old bunker

Spoiler

doors gone, rats out

nah

BLAM! BLAM!

all I'm worried about is series of fetch quests that stops me from getting there

noice

see, if you choose thief way and not blow locks like me - you gonna find locksmith somewhere



what happen if you do have to ask him, though?

found him on some random farm

with some eloquence Ashka saved some water

great, have to run back

ffs

Gonzo? That angry potato farmer?

video game logic- can't start the quest to find missing kids, have to ask random NPC out of dozens in this village to initiante the dialog

yeah, whatever

whatever

some upset patient

sure you are

don't think so

weird, heard some explosion, must be audiobook with records of the ambush or something?

that moron Luke fall into minefield, what a moro-

oh ffs I forgot about that quest!

maybe they solve the issue without me?

guess not

time for backup load

Does that mean you're bullet farmer?
That would be some Mad Max FR shit.

look at this punchable face
look at it

uhhhh

time to deliver bad news?

holy shit

I know old 3d games are ugly but come on

just hoes being hoes

time to pay a visit to the booze hut

two rats and one drunk ugly hag
just German as usual

sure *click!"

still have to initiate dialog, otherwise it's hard to turn them hostile and shooting manualy is X-Com operative-tier garbage
and sometimes you loose karma for attacking gangsters who did not turn hostile
that's some bad game design here

that was fast, no challenge with shit pistols and drunk effect

what were these kids doing nearby distilery?

KonichiwaaaWurst!

got some absolute junk of (1) value, should give me XP instead, or one pack of 9mm bullets

back to the Luke - he's no more
can't find out if I can use that, maybe later in the game

now this is great and unique - you get the same hit chance no matter if standing, crouching or crawling
Can be choosen if you have high enough Heavy or Light weapons, tgrowing or Sniping
Not sure if crawling makes you harder to hit tbh?

two Colt Anacondas (one broken) and Walther PPK, both deal shit damage
and some ammo
thanks for nothing, asshole

this is nice perk if you want some trophies and meat (remember, they have tiny stacks of 2) with machete to save ammo
not much use in ambush in camping spot, they get aggresive again if there is some teammate.

no thanks

??? oh yea, I forgot you can give the names to any weapons you got
Weird feature tbh.
Oh btw - this rifle belongs to the McKenzee. Guess what - you gonna run back and forth between both of them for no bonus XP or anything.

dayum! this is finally some good stuff

Ammo is plentiful and rather cheap.
It let you soft down some enemies before they get closer, even with perks it's not that deadly and headshots are random.
Ivana get her hands on that baby.

:hmm:

sorry babe but

you see....
nevermind

Jim Bob seen better days
RIP :<

somehow this is important
why?

ehhhhhh

k

Gene Hackman have some good old fashioned chainmal
I rather find something else

oh btw - this is the best armor you can craft yourself
if you find the parts, that's it
which you propably won't

good job, tap yourself on the shoulder
not there idiot

 

[abnaxus]

These devs also made Gorasul.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 6 - Lab Rats with Skulls but little Brains

Back to the business.
Had some pause cause I had to clean some crap in Path of Exile and beat the KotOR2 SL for the first time.

Spoiler

Next destination - lab

Weird, they're neutral?

oh great
tried some force but didn't work out

you mean - those we've send to hell since we left GNO HQ?

There is trading post nearby, rat burger with some problems (better not some basement clearing this time)

you got my attention

consider it done

there is another vendor-

oh wait, she does not sell any map
and have the same killer eyes like Ashka

A new location shows up on my map

this is misleading, there are 3 hills around the locations

the place itself?

totally-not-Wasteland-inspired

found Teddy Bear nearby the village, need that soon

it's a good idea to spam item highlight key to find items, this one looks important somehow

Sadly he does not sell that fine leather fur jacket

no dice, we need some cunning plan


He leaves his machine at night, this is the best moment to start our operation

waiting til the morning, got caught in the fight with seekers, fighting with them sucks because there is dozen of them and some of them have shotguns or SMGs that bring some pain

that's the loot, only one shotty this time, phew

he's back and not happy about the situation

If we had better repair skill we could fix the machine and take the jacket, Butch is ignored in this moment, bummer.

so what you need to do? After short walk around the map

some time have passed

we still miss some stuff

You've got to be some serious talker to convince NPCs that your new goverment need soap without painting them in bad light

and yes, he have voice, obviously

I can't progress here, there is no armor or clothes that he can accept, not even the new rat fur one. Had to use all dialog options to unlock skill check.

This better be done soon

German humor at its finest

after short camping with few bullet-riddled seekers laying on the ground Jim Bob is back with two good news

wasteland degeneracy at its finest

didn't even need Speech for that part

that some good piece of ass, I would go for harsher tortures than soap for that beauty

you can find various items that can be highlighed from the outside but no inside, now way to pick them either, clicking does nothing

seems like this is our mysterious trader, better hurry up and find that spoiler brat of a performer

Now where do I put that bug?

Wait for the couriers, let them in, plant the bug and get inside. Got it.

found that spoiled bastard

A distand sound of "Crawling in my skin" can be heard.

Would you look at that, a Linking Pork fan survived apocalypse

back to the trading post

great jokes

I knew it was him

plenty of broken guns means easy money

But the best part of his wares is ammo, a lot of it. And some nice one, like .50 for Barret.

those couriers are here, about time, I'm sick of this shithole already

oh yeah this is my favourite part

and just like that - they let me in, nobody bated an eye on that

It's flammen werfer, it werfer flammen.
there is a lot of weird stuff in game with zero purpose, must be remains of concepts from early developement that did not found their use. Even after so many patches.

Found no one with anything lethal so why bother with tactics?

just lay down and send them back to dust

new car, that means some inventory for spare equipement

found some key, guess it's for the cell with prisoner

but can't get them out yet

now this is rare find, along with Crank, both for crafting some neat items

gun is meh, nice rate of fire but too long pause between shots and too many bullet per burst, I stick with M4

that's the last one

Unfortunately nobody can drive, not even Butch, you need certain level of Drivinig to unlock that feat.

but that does not stop people from receiving free XP
what a mess

Butch have better thing to pick for now, +1 for armor is nice but not groundbreaking.

aigh, I'm gonna find them

In most cases fighting uphill battle is bad idea, not in this game though

back to the base

guess what - you control vehicles manually with WSAD, the problem is - there is way too many obstacles to crash on, making the whole journey on the map painful experience

huh? Laser?

there is one thing we forget at the trading post

and it's that guy

nice gun, mind if I borrow it?

decent stuff but bad Talents, I'll stick with my team

Remember that settlement some old geezer mentioned in previous village?

Seekers, huh?

Easier than random encounters with them
These thing ahead of us? Beehives, we need them for beewax, main part of herbal medicine crafting recipe.

Silenced garbage is still garbage, sadly we can't remove attachments from guns and this piece of shit have no better value than ordinary one.

Someone still lives here

new location, how about we pay them a visit?

uphill battle again

only two camps, rather underwhelming but that's the whole game for you

they were right - Desert Monksa are nuts, going head on agains drug fueled raiders? Who made that plan? Some mole in high ranks?

We will never know because there is a lot of content that serves no purpose, these days we could at least get DLC from it.

groovy
even though attack speed is abysmal
might come handy in my little safari

this is nice - two things for armor craft

Remember that convoy thing?

nothing comes up and task is cancelled no matter what you do
FFS they drop me clues telling me something stinks here (and it's not the meat in my inventory) and then just drop that. Fuck that.

still in topic with vehicles - we find working humvee

neato

time to craft some stuff

some decent armor (if you don't fight bigger animals and enemies armed with rifles, thats it), also made healing oils from two plants, one being wood garlic (22hp) and

agnes did some oils.

Most maps have these beehives, and some plants. Usually.

Think I'm gonna do that cartography job.

Too quiet, maybe locals have something for me.

nah, I'm good

Found some named NPC here and

I have baaaad feelings about that

uhhhhh

this is going nowhere

but we're not done yet

Read some old forum posts about this really easy to miss quest, had to wait to 23:00 for it to start.

some guy shows up at diesel tank stealing fuel

u-huh, our old friends

Better report it to this, uhm...

bit more cooperative but still pain in the butt

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 7 - Son of a False Preacher Man

Spoiler

There was no way to solve this peacefully

They pose no challenge, my tank ate all buckshots without shrud and two bursts for each rat.

wonder what's the reward to this easy to miss quest

what

the fuck
Now the whole village is hostile.

If he was involved then what was the point for all that job?

and why he carry a pair of baseball bats with him?
we will never know

we'll be right back

I don't think he's capable of anything, even believing.

There are at least 2 water sources on each map but they let you fill the flasks and leather bags 3-5 times before
drying up (each portion restore 10hp) so better not rely on them, as a backup option on higher difficulty (why would you do that?) - maybe.

Bears are still a thing there

Neat, our first sniper rifle!

Got some kind of meat. Nothing special, just different name and sprite.

This is better than some of our body armors, but it's expensive.

Remember that convoy quest?
I'm back and...

...that's it. No more traces, nobody in the game knows anything.

I'm disappoint

told Fredo that his village is free from Seekers but he's don't respond
whatever

two Callico rifles are here, this one have better range

usually I skip most trash quests but they're the main source of experience here and ofter block the progress with other quests

I was there few times, at nights and days with diferrent party members but somehow the cutscene didn't kickstarters at all, no idea why

uh

CALM DOWN ASHKA

hope he's not inspired by Iguana Bob

I slayed some wolves somewhere on this map

got 'em - wolf, wolves and headlines

but I was there already?

Part 8 - Time to take out the trash

Spoiler

went to the Rat HQ and guess who's there

somethings wrong and it's not translation

something fishy is going on

I skip that not-a-trap and walk into nearby settlement

Interesting

nothing much, though some scavengers have better intel

nice gloves but maybe later, when we clean out the Ratskull HQ

Some nice guns but their burst fire eat to many bullets, 10+ per shot is overkill, I miss controled series from 7,62 High Calibre...

Meet with ex-general looking for some help with preparing new milita

Looks like we have something to spend loot on

that's some big ass wolf

rip and tear then

and just like that he put Humvee here?
WHEN SUDDENLY

Ratskulls!
THEN SUDDENLY

I knew it

looks like GNO have some rat (spoiler - at least one)

Crap, emo survived the apocalypse

Sierra Army Depot flashbacks...

what you want?

wat

found spare part in the nearby trash can

IIRC this raided village is a part of new content from Reloaded edition, not much just some ruins and few raiders to whack

this one hovewer...

Off camera - spend a while going back to previous settlement, collecting old loot and buying tent and water detectors, usually you
get 1-2 tent and 1 detector on each map.

I did save-check and he only gave me some 9mm so not worth it.

You're one ugly mother choker

Remember that village with barber stylist? They have doctor too.

Just like that? No fetch quest or water? I'm shocked, for once game is not wasting my time.

So I have to clear their HQ first?
Thanks for nothing.

That wil be a little compensation for average damage and low rate of fire, if only Camouflage was working...

Time to end this

That was easy part, every time someone go in - or out - of the building it plays long animation that give us enough time to fill them with lead.

Scripts, of course.

neat

so much free cars in that game

are you still surprised?

Now you get it. sheez

there is no choice

Too much cheap edginess in the wastelands.

 

[baud]

Auvergne bottled water might be a reference for the many brands of mineral water from the Auvergne region of France

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 9 - no more Rats, it's Shadows time

Spoiler

Wonder if we find more about them

every map have some unique place or object, guess that devs doing models were bored. Should train into programmer and remove bugs, heh.

Noice

even though it looks like ass

spooky

hmmm, maybe later he'll be part of something else

aleady got all head

took 2 cans of diesel, seeds are useless junk

Looks like that hermit was part of the quest after all

uhhh

great, more loons
someone is wise enough to give up

or not

you don't say

I don't she was virgin enough for the sarcifice with that outfit

damn right

gee calm your tits

what you gonna do, stab me?

He got journal with him

Next stop - abandoned base and family matter

who is that?

geezus!

no matter what you do - they all die so I went right

other group become hostile instantly, it was good idea to stick with them because this one have rock that make neat obstacle that make this fight easier

nice gun loaded with rare ammo and nice boots

LMGs are not worth it tbh, im more into slow firing with decent damage

this one is nice but with terrible fog it's no use for us

Back to the camp

this one is important, otherwise there is no other way to enter the base

of course

mhm

only some of them had anything that could potentially kill us, nothing that can't be fixed with few chews of rosted meat

a bunch of healing oild, just like meat their max stack is 2. Why? No idea.

nice gun

Lone woman wandering nearby two bandit camps, just like that?

maybe later

way later
like

now

After all it's you who walk throgh, not me

tough luck

even though it's guarded there is nothing on the surface

soap, knife and toothbrush, typical military equipement

what's that?

that's obvious tip

hmmm

last part

merging 3 pieces together in crafting screen turns it into magnetic key

loot was so bad I did not bother with screencaps

used magnetic key on ashtrashes and

inside there is computer and safe

now that's what I'm talking about!

maybe I can loot and/or destroy remaining guns now

That never happen though

Someone mentioned that one turret was destroyed and can be looted

Noice!

That make harder battles easier

Next stop - burned village, a new content from Reloaded edition, or so, can't find patchnotes for other patches.

You don't say?

oh no, what we gonna do?

they don't look scary, shit guns too, no armor... guess we shoot 'em up but wait

it worked :laugh:

n00bs

lamers

but I really have some spare 9mm and 762mm ammo to spare

got 9mm back and this, as I said it would be great if not for that fog

gave bad news to youngest brother

still have some stuff to do

he bought that story, no more fuel though

but I can't complain

how do you know that? You are not tech savvy egghead so what gives?

Clearing map and putting to test DEagle since we went into rifles anyway.

some nu-age crap there

some shotgun using weird exotic ammo, might be useful in HK country

Wesley, we have to talk

I had to do it to 'em

Hey boss, now you show up?

Maybe now we find out more about those Shadows.
Wonder if they are related to "Shadow" Simmons from JA2...

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 10 - PreShady Shenaningans

Spoiler

I need to get through the Labirynt to unlock new set of maps.

Eh, what now?

some not-cannibals craving some meat asking for a favor?
eh

Labirynth is chokeful of Seekers, there are 3 camps, good thing it's open map and I got sniper rifle with spare ammo

the problem is - can't see shit

another teddy bear? Might keep it for a while.

got powder back and MP7 with laser sight

Trash, it's useless in open field.

this camp have useful fence that provide us valuable tactical advantage

in this climate? You bet

Now that's something nice!

Next camp get some swift message across the valley

nice

hoo boy

some steel helmet and working transformator? Was that a part of some experiment of sort?

Here is our target, too smug to leave.

son of a-!

Unlocked the path, phew.

Back to the smug guy.

but you ARE bandit, moron

catch!

This is the only time you can use this option.

Now that passage is open-

OH FFS
I have to go all the way back.

and they don't see him.
Quest borked.
Wonderful.

One camp was cleaned before I get there.

some cliche native american crap

I had to do it, for XP mostly.

decent fella but I stick with my team

next map is new and unlocks without any dialog

huh?

ah right, almost forgot that we have situation here

not much to get there, can't wait to lay waste upon these mutants and seize the meaning of propriety

knows nothing despite being the boss but send me to no-trap without delay

and sure there is

some party but it get down quickly
had to redo this thing, there is some base above, locked, and when I made trip back the convoy spawned right on top of our heads.
Not pleasant.

Backstab, again. Modus operandi in this game.

oh well, at least we get loot-

or not

nice but with terrible fog I have little advantage with this OP perk

sure

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 11 - Mountains and paradise?

Spoiler

Found the wife of the culpirt

woah there, chill with the edges!

housewives are tough deal

There are a bunch of weird people

pilgrims, sort of?

sure why not

ANOTHER betrayal
I'm sick of this crap already

it was fast

who cares, keep going

why he's white tho? His portrait is different.

nice stuff, he won't mind if I borrow it

OH SNAP

WHERE DID YOU COME FROM??

R U NUTS?!

what a twist, huh

surprise Butch in the corner

Sadly can't drive bikes, guess we'll never become new bike gang in the wasteland

There is some settlement nearby

and they don't look friendly

dat look

cheuvinistic society don't mind women doing all the job

I'll be right back.

no lies here, this looks like a mess, even though it just some trees

another fistful of rivets, already have better armors so don't need that

but there are no clues to find there, you have to go to the other side of the camp, climb the mountain and find someone

this guy

OOF

just wait, I'll tell 'em and you gonna have bad time!
Don't think it would be a good idea to contaminate it any further with my activity here, with firing squad and whatnot.

Back to the Village

There is a Shaman here and to my surprise - he's neither insane nor stupid. Guess he's a doctor who went back to the roots with others?

Back to the task

what a weird angle

That's all for now.

Back to the Shadow HQ and surroundings

you talkin' to me?

don't know what for but whatever

sup

k

there is some village with kids
Lords of the Flies?

whatever, I'll check that later, for now

bingo

Time to check that village nearby

huh?

playin' tough, huh?

calm down, sheez, there is plenty of rats in the wastelands to waste

sure

SOON
but there are some matter to solve first

When every KG counts - it would helps but there are more useful ones to pick

coffee, water and a shotgun
neato

shit happens, doesn't mean that we have to make things worse

no direction? I'll pass, gonna beat that crap fast and be done with this shit

 

[CappenVarra]

now that's a pretty funky gun selection, you don't see many games with calico helical firearms around

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 12 - Dumbfuck in the Rye

Spoiler

New place on the map, pointed by Horatio

some troubles?

funny village
not

have enough common ammo to spare to not bother with fancy toys powered with exotic ammo

you don't say

first step to local baker

that fortuneteller tho

she's a maniac

no shit

next is butcher and hunter in one person

Back to Horatio

and back to the doc

Trail time

glad this shitshow it's over

Back to the Base

juuuust wait

wonder what it contain

generic villian speech, episode 524

as usual

blablah gonna kick their ass soon

I remember some bottles when I dealt with one of the many remains of Ratskull gang

but that's not the case

here's the twist - it's timed quest, if you don't get there ASAP and get what you need - it autofails

some molotovs, neat

soon

there is some village/base sort of where we went and got surprise convoy respawn on our heads

nothing to see here

Next stop - Vesseltown.

Spoiler

p. big town but here's catch

it's parted in half and getting below is part of long quest
and no, we can't just jump down

sometimes you can find amazing stuff in the junkpile and trashbins, must be part of late game thing

you can entertain sleeeping people

this one gave me Glock in return

is there a hidden meaning behind this?

To get down and reach other half of the town we need this man.
And sure he won't go easily.

A new house?
Sure why not.

Our first laser pointer, found in the last quarter of the game.
And we need duct tape to use it.
Great.

That's some big ass building.

Great, some quiz. I tried everything and here is the right path.

found some stuff and info in the museum

Back to the crane.

hope it's not active

neat
sadly we can't leave with it

what a bummer

some nice stuff around if you look carefully, it's obnoxious to search anything in the game

We found Ann, finally!

wonder what's that for

laying waste to te remaining forces around we made the coast clear

sure they love these scenes

once again we know nothing more but at least we got the key so you can save some time and not loot everything, since we won't come back there
we just grab the most juice stuff and forger about the rest

awww...

they did WHAT?

this is bad

and fast travel is off

take care

so that's what we need for that copter-thing

there are remains of old helicopter

and cars

whatever

Out of this Hole

Spoiler

hoo boy, here we go

weeeee

OHFU-

I'm fine

I'm out of there

We can send her alone or with someone from our team, she will get there anyway.

Before we even get inside we need to do some stuff, again.

well, nice to meet you, I guess?

some nice stuff for such tiny village

That's weird way to sabotage power supply

sand?
jfc

way to go, game

oh great, another guessing game

and we're done

wat
I have Planet Alcatraz flashbacks, same animations
thanks game

I don't he accept that letter
or my person in general

There is this random shack

seems important
and inside there is a chest

with great armor

<MI theme starts playing>

There is little to no resistance despite being so called main base

It looks like energy pistol but it's chambered with .45

fun party town, I bet

see, she's fine
mostly

here comes the boss
a lot of talking and revelations incoming in 3...2...1...

when suddenly

dun dun DUUUN!

he shot me good

but I'm okay

before we go
what happen if you choose other option?

wow
guess we have no choice
duh

we have to get through a few maps before we reach our destination, each with all sort of problems
Devs doing everything to slow down the players it seems.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 13 - We're going to be Cave Explorers

Spoiler

our task is to find scientitsts responsible for some Biosphere project or whatever

Chains? Sure why not.

what a coincidence

he's right next to us

some armor, batteries, meat and blue pills
hmmm

still wanna see what happen

ouch

guess we have to repair that ballista and get to the other side
despite the fact that game engine let use climb narrow terrain with ease

still missing something

about time

of course
after all I'm da best

next stop - caves

Caves 1

Spoiler

why tho

duh

then why not bring Abel and go inside without violence?
srsly

neat
but I'm inside the caves so sniper rifle wouldn't be much of use there

there is no RPG-7 in the game, sadly

not bad, not terrible

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 14 - Cave Bonanza

Spoiler

looks like we arrived too late,party is over

Guess I have to do another portion of quests to get somewhere

saving up big meds paid off

WHY THE FUCK THERE ARE BEARS UNDERGROUND

we dispatched then and move out

fix the machine, clear the path, piece of cake

a wild cutscene appear
What's that flashy red light? Is tha-OH MY GOD JC A BOMG

a bunch of clueless NPCs around the explosives is never a good sign

Good thing there was no real skillcheck in the dialog, otherwise it would be a hard stop for my adventure, near the end game - it would hurt for sure
There is another, not mentione again, time limit - we have to run to each corners of the map and disarm red lights on the stone columns.
Since we have only one expert (Victor) and there might be enemies around (fucking bears1 can you believe that?) thing might get messy.

where did you come from?

another package dealt with

what about the machine?

fixed

but it need fuel

wonder what's behing there

oh well, at least it's not timed

no fetch quests this time, whew

lmao he doesn't even fit there :laugh:

and he slide off :laugh:
what a mess

damn

hmm

Can't use that stick despite "Can be equipped" tag, guess I need something.

I have baaaad feelings about this...

Got more flavor text from Jacob

caaaaan't wait to get my head penetrated by drill
oh my

that was fast
and I've survived
phew!

Secret underground base my ass.
Bears and Seekers roaming around like nothing happens.

Can't leave undergrounds base for some reasons.

what now?

Now we can leave.

met some resistance but nothing major

until now

I lied

whatever

That's a lot of text
Hayes want to be next warlord living in fancy place, who could have though...

uhhh, what
You get better throwing accuracy when you crawl?
I don't even

got another set of armor, laser gun and ammo for HK G11

It's not Malsoeum per se, just remains of somethin else with some skeletons here and here

No idea why this particular couple needed such items.

Can't do anything with it, no stash under that either.

Could be handy, even at this point?

Next stop - final encounter

 

[Baron Dupek]

Part 15 - Finale

Spoiler

I can't see shit

you don't say

No matter where we go - there will be resistance. And there is nasty surprise, you see...

Oh god game is breaking apart
Just don't die before I finish

Bang Blam BRAPP
nothing to see here

Despite it's look it's simple and small, the whole trip around can take like a minute

This is the surprise - that shit can easily take down your teammates in 1-2 hits.
Sadly I can't use Camouflage as a sniper to deal with this shit properly.

If we pick right path this scene happen.

I said show me your hands!

They are terrible fighters but they can take some punishments and they don't run around like headless chickens, doing their part as a decoy.
That mean they will be free, if you know what I mean

That's nasty - one assault rifle, dozen of 25mm long range guns and railgun. This is nasty place and you can't rest to replenish life.
Bollocks.

This reminds me that place from the intro, with scientists and her daughter.

There was cutscene where Haynes fleed to the shack but there is no screenshot.

oh yes I can
and will, to finish this piece of disappointment of a game

DIE

and that's it, it's over
and it's the end for the devs who went through the path of suffering while doing this game
Back then they made some Fallout clones and JA2 successors, all leads to disappointment, every single one of them.
Well, maybe with exception of Apeiron's 762mm? But that's gun porno than anything.

now it's time for-

what

the

hell?

wait a minute, I know that guy!

So this is your idea for happy end? Guy back from the future talking how nice it's life later in the future?

I'll pass

There is Arena but since my character was not Melee (why would you if there is plenty of ammo?) I had to pass.
Heard that there is nice reward (armor, for example) but I have to play this shit again and NOPE not gonna happen again.

If you want to play the game - go to Archive.org and DL both game and translation made by NMA folks.

 

[CappenVarra]

well, what to say

thanks for showing the game :cheers:

 

[abnaxus]

Well, that was short.

 

[Invictus]

I always wanted to play this, managed to find the game but the translation was terrible and nobody thought worth the trouble of doing a proper job of it I guess
After seeing this I think I would have liked it... seemed a very European Fallout
Thanks MM

 

[lightbane]

Finally finished reading this LP, I have a few pending ones from the Codex and this was one of them. Man, this looks boring.
What exactly did cause the Apocalypse? It probably wasn't that bad if all of the scientists of before are still alive and not aged that much. There are roaming bands of psychos, but of course, but they felt boring in comparison with other games.
After watching Mandalore's review/lp about The Mystery of the Druids, I began paying attention to German protagonists. Indeed, this one features a psycho as well, so the clichés are true (although in this case it's somewhat justified). What's not though is why so many people so crazy and traitorous, even for a post-apocalypse scenario. Must be part of the so-called German humor. Their obsession about shit and (ugly) asses is also a real thing as well, it seems.
Do vehicles change much the gameplay? It seems standard Realtime-with-pause stuff ala 7.62.
Also, that joke with the return from the future is pure cringe.
The highscores mentioned have to be false or the result of bribes.

Anyways, thank you for sacrificing your time playing shit/German games.

Why play as a woman though? Just to know. The intro tried to play it as "gender-neutral", but I'm certain it makes more sense if the leader is a dude. Not that it changes much, if at all.