Nightsolo's Hints

Hints

• Saving:
  • Save often.
  • Save in rotating slots. This makes it easier to undo something you screwed up.
  • Save more often than you think you should have to, including making a Quicksave before every conversation.
  • Did I mention you should save often?
• Items:
  • Loot everything that's lootable.
  • When you loot a gun, in the container side, right-click and hold a weapon to unload its ammo. That way, when you click the Loot All button or move the weapon over to your inventory, it will stack with other weaopns of the same type.
  • When you have a choice in ammunition, choose JHP. AP is just weak. FMJ is middle-of-the-road.
  • Plasma is better than Laser. The Alien Blaster uses a different technology and is better than anything.
  • Save your Stimpacks for later in the game. Rest and use First Aid and Doctor as much as possible.
  • You might as well just sell Antidotes. Just rest until the poison wears off.
• Character:
  • Use drugs to get Perks you wouldn't normally qualify for. When you level and you get the "Choose Perk screen," don't. Instead exit back to the main screen, use the drug that raises the Stat you want, then go back to the character screen and choose your Perk.
  • If your Gambling Skill is high, spend a lot of time in casinos. It's the easiest way to get money. Also with high Gambling, be selective on what you loot: only take Stimpacks and money. The same goes for a high Barter Skill.
  • If your Barter Skill is high enough, sell a Stimpack to a shopkeeper for 100 caps, then buy it back for 80 caps. Repeat until you're rich.
  • Skills max out at 200%.
• Party Members:
  • Use your party members to carry stuff, but they do have a weight limit. You can always take it back later, and they don't seem to mind.
  • Keep your party members well supplied with Stimpacks. The more they have, the more often they'll use them, and the longer they'll live.
  • Don't give your party members burst-capable weapons, as they tend to shoot innocent bystanders or each other. Or you. They'll shoot you.
• Questing:
  • Take your time on the Water Chip quest. 150 days is plenty of time to do all the side quests in between.
  • You can actually beat the game without turning in the Water Chip. Just take out the Cathedral and the Military Base before the 150 days is up.
  • The only way to save Necropolis is to beat the game before 88 days have passed, which would mean skipping most of the game. Besides, getting wiped out may be canon. It's still worth questing there for the XP and the lulz, though.
  • Don't worry about making the "wrong" choices or missing out on a quest or two here and there. You can always play the game again later and make different choices.
• Combat:
  • Be careful with who you hit in combat. Shooting the wrong character could lead to the good guys fighting you, and you killing someone essential to a quest. This goes along with not giving your Party Members burst-capable weapons.
  • Aimed shots do more criticals. The eyes are the best spot to hit, though hitting a male in the groin will knock him down. The trade-off is that they use more AP, so you can't take as many shots per combat round.
  • Don't waste precious ammo on small critters like Rats. Use a melee or unarmed weapon.
  • Specialize in two types of combat Skills and carry two types of weapon, and switch between them when the situation warrants. For example, lasers are great against leather, but not against metal.
  • If you access your inventory in combat, reload your weapon while you're there. It'll save Action Points for killing stuff.
  • Reload your weapon after every fight. It's so embarrasing to start a fight with an empty weapon.
  • If you're not already playing on Hard difficulty, raise it there before you read a book.Your skills are lower on Hard, so if you raise the difficulty, read, then lower the difficulty, you can get your skills over 91% just by reading.
• I should probably mention something about saving.

last modified 26 February 2026