
(If someone has recipes somewhere online, I guess that's a choice too) This makes crafting much more viable as a major choice in future playthroughs. When you learn new crafting recipes, you may want to keep a note about the ingredients, so you can actually craft them before you gain the specific knowledge to do so in future playthroughs. This is compounded when you're outnumbered, and getting shot at by 2-3 times your number really, really hurts. Melee is much harder because you have to close the distance while taking fire from enemies, and ranged weapons can let you attack enemies while they have to close the distance. I also recommend that you save often, and have backup saves (in case things go wrong and your more recent saves don't fix it).Īs Ataniz stated above, I also highly recommend using ranged weapons. Remember if they die you won’t be able to resurrect them. The same situation when you companion is running out of HP. If You have a little HP direct you follower to stay between you and enemy as all NPC always try to hit the nearest. So it’s better to give an order when you almost finish you turn so you can ask them to shot a wounded enemy. Orders should be given for every new turn and they remember only first given order. Followers can be guided by clicking right mouse button and choosing the option for the follower. Check followers weapon skill and strength to make sure they will use the weapons you are giving them. But anyway give a good weapons and armor your party members so they can fight for you.īe careful with giving your companions automatic weapons or grenades as they can do friendly fire.

But still there is going to be some fight you can’t to settle with high speech level and those fights are mostly kill-the-guy-like side quests and not story related. Invest in Speechkraft and Survival skills and you’ll be able to avoid all encounters with human enemies and mutants. And always try to get best weapons and armor for you character and all party members. But do not invest skill points to those skill at the beginning of the game as most of the enemies will be armed with weak craft weapons or pistols and your start Pistol and Melee Weapons skills could be enough until you get an automatic firearm or a good rifle. Instead chose between Automatic Weapons or Rifles skill only. If you want to fight do not try to start with melee build as some fight near the end will be extremely hard. And do not keep you stuff in trash containers, as they will disapear. You can but it’s better do not try to get to Bunker 317 too early in the game. It is possible but I wouldn’t recommend to start massive world map exploration at the beginning of the game as you can run onto too powerful for you level enemies. Save the game before you start talking with any NPC as some special parts of conversation appears only ones! If you have failed a skill or characteristic check load he game and add some points to the skill on buff the characteristic with an item (perfume, vodka, hat, etc).Īnd make sure to save in different slots as sometimes you need to roll back.įor not getting to the situation when you do not have enough skill points to pass a dialog option do not assign skill points when you level up and keep them until you get the situation when you need to increase any skill. But you still be able to finish the game.Īnd make sure that if you start fight in civil areas all location will probably get hostile. Know that the game let you do whatever you want and even very important NPC can be killed in world of ATOM and as a result you can miss some quest lines. So it’s good to decide at the beginning if you going to talk or fight you way.ĭo not start killing NPC just because, even if you don’t like them. Intelligence about 8 is an asset for all type of character as it is the only characteristic you won’t be able to increase by items.

Make sure to have Dexterity about 8-10 if you are planing to fight and Personality about 6-8 if you are going to talk you way through. There will be a chance to increase them permanently only 4 times and in special situations. It’s great game so be patient and learn game world rules and you’ll love this game.Ĭhose characteristics carefully as you won’t get new characteristic points with level up. It is not a walk through guide but rather some tips for new players how avoid the situations when you have nothing to do but refund the game. The game entry level for ATOM RPG is a little bit higher then in most modern RPG games because of its old school rules, so here some advises.
