How do you put on clothes if you can't take your Pip-boy off : Fallout Series Discussion

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:52 am

O.o

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:06 am

What? Take your Pip-Boy on?

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:05 pm

What? Take your Pip-Boy on?

:slap: You know what he meant

In most cases it looks like you cut through the clothing to accommodate for your pip-boy (leather armor for example)

For things like Power Armor....Well you'll just have to use your imagination

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:58 am

:slap: You know what he meant

I don't. :sadvaultboy:

I feel dum(Spelled wrong on purpose to make me seem dumb).

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:55 am

Magic?

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:54 am

Well how come when I get done swimming my character comes out dry? How can my character carry loads of weapons, ammo, drugs and armor with ease? How come every set of armor seems to fit so perfectly? The answer to all these questions is that you're playing a game and in order to enjoy it fully you may have to temporarily suspend your disbelief.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:07 am

What? Take your Pip-Boy on?

"How do you change your clothes if you can't take your Pip-boy off."

:)

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:18 am

:slap: You know what he meant

In most cases it looks like you cut through the clothing to accommodate for your pip-boy (leather armor for example)

For things like Power Armor....Well you'll just have to use your imagination

Or an autoaxe or ripper.

Fixed.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:50 am

It's never been said that you can't take the Pip boy off. it's not attached to your arm. It is has been indicated that it is difficult to take off though, so it's probably not something you do often. But imagine wearing a peice of heavy equipment on your armor from the time you are 10 years old... first of all, it would never fit at 10 years and 20 years without taking it off to adjust it. And then there's the nastiness of what wearing a hunk of metal all the time would do to the skin on your arm.

Now you do have to modify clothes that you get so you can access the pip boy, but considering the advantages it gives you over the Wastelanders, it's a small sacrifice.

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:21 pm

Because Bethesda said you can and it was so.

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:36 pm

It's never been said that you can't take the Pip boy off. it's not attached to your arm. It

Actually, it has:

Lone Wanderer: I hate it. How do I get it off?

Stanley Armstrong: Get it off? Why in the world would you want to do that? Your Pip-Boy's the best friend you'll ever have! Besides, you can't get it off. Biometric seals et cetera. I could tell you some stories about trying to take 'em off the old folks... ah, well, that's hardly a fit subject for a kid's birthday party. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. Pretty soon you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Lone Wanderer: Wally said my Pip-Boy was a piece of junk!

Stanley Armstrong: Don't you listen to him. The A series may be a bit heavier than the luxury models, but they were built to last. Solid as a vault, they are. And I fixed her up myself. Shouldn't need to open her up again for a decade or two.

Looks like only authorized Vault-Tec technicians can take them off, and even then it's not easy.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:06 am

Pip Boys run on Mac not vista, so they are compatible with lots of things, and won't destroy older things they interact with.

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:46 pm

Well, my character can disable slave collars on the runaways. I think he can manage his pipboy okay.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:12 am

Pip Boys run on Mac not vista, so they are compatible with lots of things, and won't destroy older things they interact with.

zzzzzing

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:04 pm

Looks like only authorized Vault-Tec technicians can take them off, and even then it's not easy.

I remember along the line that the Chosen One was given an opportunity to "reformat" the corrupt file in Vault City's Main Computer by placing the Pipboy into the slot. Then again, that thing is like over 70ish years old. :shrug:

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:31 am

I wouldn't think too hard about it. I mean the little box can stop time and teleport you around. Getting over the sleeves of shirts should be a span for such an amazing device.

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:58 pm

It's never been said that you can't take the Pip boy off. it's not attached to your arm

It is, ever play Operation Anchorage? Inside the simulation place there is a dead Gary, and a holotape of how they tried to get the pip-boy off of him.

They cut off his freaking arm.

» Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:09 pm

It is, ever play Operation Anchorage? Inside the simulation place there is a dead Gary, and a holotape of how they tried to get the pip-boy off of him.

They cut off his freaking arm.

I thought of that. I figured that there is probably a passcode to take them off. That would explain why it's hard to take it off a dead person since they can't give the password as well (Stanley has a story....).

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:39 am

Disregard that. It seems that I mixed something up...

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:32 am

Yeah, you're probably not supposed to think about it too much. I always kind of envisioned you needed some sort of specialized tool or something. Because yeah, it seems like you'd get one heck of a rash otherwise. (Though the PIPBoy is a pretty amazing device, maybe it has some sort of built-in lotion injector or something.

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» Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:37 am

Just imagine how filthy your arm must be if you can't take it off when you shower.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:27 am

The pip-boy from the originals was not arm-mounted. It was hand-held, so you could easily do what you need (such as give it to Stark, or put it in the Vault City computer).

It was arm-mounted, but it was removable.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:19 am

Imagine the really pale spot you'll get once it is off!

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:30 am

It was arm-mounted, but it was removable.

It was too... Now where did I pull the hand-held thing from? I could have sworn I read that somewhere... Certainly wasn't the manual; that says it was wrist-mounted. Odd.

» Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:15 am

It was too... Now where did I pull the hand-held thing from? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...

The wiki includes some background from Van Buren and from JE Sawyer (who is now in charge of New Vegas, so I'd say his word is semi-official again), which mentiones some earlier models that were hand-held.