Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel Cheats & Tips

Development Team Messages Easter Egg
In the third BoS Bunker {Gamma) the locker right next to the mechanic is locked. If you can unlock it, you will find strange papers. These are what appears to be logs of instant meassages from the development team to each other!
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Tip: Easy supermutants kill
For those hard to kill supermutants, try sneaking a guy in close to lay some heavy mines. Then retreat, and shoot or throw a grenade to set off the mine(s). Tada instant purree ala super mutants. This can work on multiple supermutants at a time.
submitted by Hammer of Thor (thor-1234@msn.com)

More money from quarter master in bunkers
This works especially with the third bunker.

First, after you get back to the bunker after the first mission, you will be able to recruit new squad members. If your character had low charisma you can either rely on Farsight to sell your items for more money, or better yet, go check the new squad members. Usually you will find one with high charisma/gambling. In this case you gamble using this character again everyone in the bunker and then return the characters to the recruits master for a better fighting character. So then you come out with more weapons for yourself and money to spend on your new characters.
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SUPER Armor Cheat/Hack
Many of you already know that you can pick up recruits, take their leather armor and sell it, return the recruit to the pool and then leave and return to the BOS Bunker, and the armor has been magically replenished.

This cheat allows you to make a potentially infinite money by repeatedly selling off your armor, but the problem is at $300 bucks a pop or so, this can take forever.

To do the SUPER armor cheat:

1. Using a zip tool, extract the contents of your "entities_0.bos" (located in the "core" directory of the game) file to a new empty directory (as you would any other .zip file).
2. Of the two folders created from extracting this file, enter the folder called "entities".
3. Now enter the folder called "items".
4. Now enter the folder called "armor".
5. Inside this folder are two files "bosPower.ent" and "bosLeather.ent".
6. Swap the file names of these two files using your windows renaming key (F2, or right click and select rename).
7. Recompile the entities_0.bos file making sure to include both folders "tables" and entities" and the "key.cfg" file that sits at the root, and make sure your zip is set to create relative paths (IMPORTANT!).
8. Replace the old "entities_0.bos" file with your newly created "entities_0.bos" (I recommend backing up your original first)
9. Restart the game.
10. Start a new game. You should notice all your squad starts now with Power armor. In addition, anywhere in the game where you would either barter/loot/ or steal leather armor, you will find Power armor instead.
11. This means that every new recruit you hire will have Power Armor.
12. You can now sell their Power armor for substantially MORE money than the leather armor.

1. This trick works with most weapons/drugs/ammo/armor in the game. It does not seem to work with recruit swapping though.
2. There are easter eggs (hidden items) that you will see in these folders, including "diabloPlate.ent" in the armor folder. Although this armor cannot be worn, and does not occur naturally (to my knowledge) in the game, it can be sold for upward of $20,000 making it a very useful hacking swap.
3. This trick should work with Advanved Power Armor as well, but I haven't tested it. Advanced Power Armor is listed in the armor folder as "bosPower2.ent"
4. If you switch weapons, be sure to switch ammos also, otherwise the AI is SEVERELY impacted. (For example: I replace the "huntingRifle.ent" with gaussRifle.ent", but I don't switch the ammo. Now all the raiders who used to carry Hunting Rifles can no longer fire.
5. Keep in mind switching weapons across classes hurts the AI. (i.e. most of the raiders have a small gun skill, so switching the items from Hunting Rifle to Plasma Rifle or Rocket Launcher, forces the AI to use the energy weapons or big guns skill which are much lower than small guns).
6. Switiching items effects SAVE GAMES normally, but WILL not effect your characters inventory, as this is stored within the save file. It will effect barter/loot/steal opportunities from then on.
7. YOU CAN SWITCH BACK. Given that the save game stores the items with your character, you can use your own "entities_0.bos" file to get all the items you want, and then save and exit the game, and then restore the original "entities_0.bos" file and restart the game. You character will retain any inventory you hacked in, but the game will be restored to normal parameters.

Stacking
Use this to open doors when you don't know what may be lurking behind them. Make sure you pick the lock or use a key on the door first if you have to. Lay one guy down, and move him right up to the door. Put another guy in the kneeling position, and move him behind the guy laying down. Stand a guy up and move him behind the guy kneeling down. Now you have three guys ready to fire through the doorway once you open it. Put everybody on "agressive" mode, your guns on burst, and use the guy laying down to open the door. anything in the immediate line of sight turns into a bloody mess. Raider bosses die quick this way.
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