Hey so i'm sure this is going to be pretty controversial in the sense that well yah so anyways don't you think fallout would be awesome if its combat had more freedom? sort of like Far Cry? Thoughts?

Don't know what you mean by, "has more freedom".
You get to shoot people wherever you want, right? You get VATS to specifically attack limbs, right? You can aim wherever you want, right?

I tried playing Farcry 2 and absolutely hated it, so...ummm...no thanks.

No... If anything I'd want it adapted to better reflect the original series.

Never played far cry so I won't comment on that.
Higher ground, ladders etc would have been nice, but honestly happy with what we got.

Far Cry 2 was an awesome game. I think what the OP means about Far Cry combat is the choice to approach the mission however you want. In Far Cry you could be told to attack a convoy, and you could do this in a number of ways. You could charge in Rambo style and shoot it out. You could snipe the convoy driver, and the other men guarding it then move in and blow up the vehicle. You could get ahead of the convoy's route and place an IED or C4 on the road, and wait until they pass over it. There were many ways to make your attack, and none of them were the wrong way. In Fallout you can shoot them with guns, throw grenades and other explosives, you can hit people with melee weapons, and you can punch them. But you can't approach a mission in a completely different and improvisational way.

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I would like Future Fallouts to have the combat of Fallout Tactics. To be able to prone. To control how your companions attack and when.

Ye- NO.

I think it would be cool if there was a hardcoe-hardcoe mode.

Realistic damage on your enemies and realistic damage on you. You shoot your enemy in the head once, there dead. They shoot you in the head once, your dead.

If they shoot or hit you once on your limb, your limb is automatically crippled and your aim is horrible and you can't magically mend your limb in 2 seconds with a doctor's bag, you gotta run away and see a doctor.

If you get hit in the leg, your crippled until you see a doctor.

Not sure how this would work with power armor, but you get the idea.

I haven't actually tried it myself yet, but there exists an option in the Ddraw.ini file with Killap's Restoration Patch to enable the control of your NPCs; (its in the txt file, and it looks like you just change the default zero to a 1 and save it). *Has anyone tried this out or know more about it?

I would want the FO:Tactics combat system implemented as well ~but I might like it better if only military trained NPC's would follow strategic orders in a fight (Like the BOS escort; and perhaps the better brains of Skynet); and civilians (like Vic, Myron, and Mira) just do their own thing as usual.

**This is actually a bit like combat in 'Pool of Radiance', where your PCs were under your command, but hired mercs handled themselves ~as they weren't really team players.

I have not tired the restoration patch thing.

It would be good if they made it so we can control those with military backgrounds like we can do in Tactics. At the very least tell them where to go, what stance to make and when they should shoot.

Added layer to this would, be how good your charisma, speech and weapons skills. They might not want to take orders from you if they feel you aren't skilled enough.

No, FC combat is very boring.

i wish the combat was more like mike tyson's punch out

Far Cry combat is pretty generic.

That's a bit transparent don't you think?

Combat in Far Cry didn't have anything special to it. Don't know what you mean.

Okay someone else here earlier on explained it better than me. Basically in Far cry combat you could do a multitude of things like mine roads/snipe driver etc...whereas in fallout you really only have 5 options (melee, unarmed, guns, EW and attack from sneak)

Nope farcry 2 was poo.

I hardly see how simple point and shoot mechanics have more freedom than being able to use 4 vastly different combat skills. Sure, the gameplay may be more polished, but Fallout doesn't need to be more of a shooter.

Never played Far Cry but for me it's an automatic no-no if you try to incorporate elements from one game to another, that are not in the same series.

Absoloutely OP, Far Cry 2 as a game may have been quite under-developed. However it's combat is far, far better than Fallout's