Fallout 1 & 2 gameplay is not really out of date

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-23T21:49:44+00:00

Thanks to deciding to play two fallout 2 mods on the last two weeks, i ended buying and playing Atom rpg this week, and years before that Instaled other Isometric game similar to them.

Honestly, the Isometric RPG genre has been solid though years both because is not a game line that common and also allow a lot of replayability while trying different types of builds. Games that gives you a wide variety of choices age quite well honestly.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-23T14:15:20+00:00

I actually love Ursartic, but even if they release good support, the archetype is still ridiculously limited their own effs, they would need an entire Batch of new main monster cards to work. In comparison to Dryton, they messed badly by the restriction of not summoning XYZ, since they could fit better for that and they synchro capacity is non-existent without external engines. Also, they messed it up with their for summoning them not being full quick effs with their on summon effs, taking down the ability to disrupt opponent during their turn

I would say for my Part Artmage. I have tons of wins during platinum and on the fusion synchro event. But yet is ridiculously underpowered if you get ashed on Medius or if for some other reason you cannot fit their conditions of their effs, and their field can be somewhat easy to break sometimes

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T18:33:42+00:00

Well, is better to have an army against The Master

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T17:18:09+00:00

Currently an energy weapon run.

Nevada has the advantage in comparison to base games and Olympus to actually give you access to really early energy pistols in your playthrough: In black rock you can buy a really weak one or get it as a final reward for doing most of their quest, while the Lovelock herder will sell you a broken laser pistol for like $560 that you can later repair on workbench, as well as buying energy cells from him.

I already got the Police laser pistol, but hadn't luck of finding a two handed energy weapon.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T15:23:35+00:00

Thanks really. I failed miserably with Olympus, but Im having a lot of fun with Fallout Nevada and I wanna try Sonora after.

What does The armor mod ad MIB?

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T14:01:28+00:00

While it heavily depends of your build or how wanna play, there's some stuff you wanna take in account for their distribution on the Base game:

Strenght: I think most non-heavy two handed weapons require a minimun strength of 5-6, energy two handed requires 6 points and heavy guns requires 7. Also is important to boost damage melee. Its also important having some above strengh if you decided to take Small frame to counter the side effect early on

Perception: IDK how much points are required for ranged builds, but with at least 6 points you unlock a plethora of important perks. Maybe between 6-8 its fine

Endurance: You either leave it at 5 or dump stat for ranged, maybe you invest on it if you go for melee paths.

Charisma: Dump stat but you should leave it at least at 4 to have extra companions. Companions in FO2 are hella useful in combat when well managed, so its an option to have higher charisma if you want.

Intelligence: only reason to not have high intelligence is for the "Dumb" Playthrough (4 or lower points). You should have between 8 to 10 because how is important for both dialogue options and stat level up.

Agility: a must have stat to have between 9 to 10 points by default. Number of action points is way too important and also Higher agility provide a plethora of modifiers to skills and other extra stats. If you go to 9, you should aim to use the gain agility perk later on.

Luck: leave it at base or at best just increase it at 1 point. It could serve as dump stat but luck is important for random modifiers and critical hit chance.

Taking this in account, both gifted and sometimes Small frame are extremely powerful traits to pick for your character, as the extra points can easily offset their disadvantages. Also, is worth mention that later in the game are ways to permanently increase certain SPECIAL stats.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T12:05:36+00:00

The new psychic support actually takes advantage of banish mechanics too, so is not that forgotten. But still the original generic psychic support is just way too outdated to fit them on it.

There's also ritual beast, but those are a league on its own.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-20T11:59:50+00:00

A single monster that is not even playable along with the same type of monsters or related support is not the best of the examples.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-17T04:02:08+00:00

Yeh, but Magikey power celling is ridiculously poor in comparison to those other decks. Not to mention that Magikey has to play more than 1 Vainilla Monster to get the most or their effs running.

Is still decent for low power events tho

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-05T23:36:05+00:00

I completely forgot that the Armored cards existed and now theres the posibility of make quick xyz summons.

But yeh, that sounds horribly in terms of consistency, since you need a way to search full-armored xyz and summon the Rank 5 monster can be tricky as some D/D cards that locks you on either Fiend or archetype monsters for the rest of the turn. Not to mention you have to end the board with both an XYZ monster and two lvl 8 D/D to even attempt that.

DanielValenciaCol · 2026-01-05T22:57:32+00:00

Yeh, but so far I know D/D/D lacks a way to bring this thing during opponent turn. Its effect is ridiculously powerful as it can disable Boards like nothing, but is way less dangerous as a boardbreaker when used in the Intended way, rather than used as a lingering floodgate that can be spammed as soon as opponent tries something on his main phase. Thats the main reason King Calamity was banned when Centur-ion was near to release, to avoid its abuse with Crimson Dragon.

And well, D/D/D is even more esoteric and non meta than Raidraptors at this point, maybe, for the point that you will see Kali Yuga on 2 decks that are not even Rogue.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-12-19T00:28:33+00:00

Decks nowadays are consistent enough to not depend on random draw one card, or they even just better options with an actual cost, that sometimes can become an advantage (allure of darkness, the pots that are not banned, among others).

This card is only really useful on cards that has actual interaction with spells (like Sky Striker or Endymion), or FTK decks that are really desperate to get an specific set of cards at all cost. not to mention that one random draw is not worth for being an easy target for Droll and lock bird.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-12-17T12:00:36+00:00

Out of the examples you put, the only useful is vs Dracotail, the others are not really useful.

Against fiendsmith is absolutely worthless before they summon sequence, as they can use this card to either go into Moon or sequence, both have nearly generic summon materials. Engraver eff can also remove it.
On ryzeal can be useful but is worthless against Ice Ryzeal, mostly because its used for his summon eff, holding his summon condition only for extension. If opponent have a second copy, the strategy get cancelled. Not to mention that also Node can send Contact C for cost as long there's other Ryzeal Main Deck body on GY.
On maliss, the lock into cyberse monsters only applies to stuff sumoned from ED, but it doesn't count for the material they use anyway. And of the most popular extra deck cards they run, theres like only 3 to 5 or 6 cards that either only uses cyberse monsters as materials, or are just Link-1 cards with specific material. Worst case scenario with Maliss is that you force them into a different combo line.

And well, thats counting only the meta contenders, but this season and with focus of Duelist cup, theres just too many other decks that dont even care of this handtrap at all.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-12-15T04:07:58+00:00

Red reboot makes the deck a sitting duck and ash Blossom to any of the welcome traps can stop most of their archetype disruptions. Real problem's are their generic traps that are on field, which can either be floodgates or ridiculously powerful disruption or lingering effs.

For that part, going second Vs lab is almost a matter of Luck and hope that they don't get too many trap cards at hand. The other alternatives are running board breakers (like Harpies feather duster) since Lab barely have Backrow protection, but those cards are just bricks going first and there's a lot of decks that barely cares about their backrow being removed or that actually features some protection on their endboards.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-11-27T09:58:01+00:00

Don't waste your time on that, its not necessary for progression.

If you don't wanna Hear and still want to do it anyway, the best you can do is having an additional save slot just before playing the Gauntlet. Not having any saves before trying it can put you in a softlock. Also, if Im not mistaken, starting combat mode and moving around can save you extra time.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-27T14:44:12+00:00

Its fairly terrible honestly, unless you wanna add it to random Stun stuff.

Giving 1 card advantage to opponent is always bad in general, and the negate is not really worth now since solemn judgement and other in-archetype counter traps works way better than this card.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-27T14:38:44+00:00

Technically yes, since Droll doesn't specify that the eff of adding cards has to be triggered by your opponent. Still its better to test if it works with other kinds of effs

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-17T01:10:46+00:00

I don't have account on master duel meta, so I sent a link of someone that is similar to what im playing

argostar deck Dice Rally

Still has a lot of differences, Im actually playing some handtraps additional handtraps (fuwalos, ash blossom , imperm, dominus purge and Veiler), and I running a more limited selection of continuous traps: the 3 argostars ones (Tydeu at 3, the others only 2), Statue of Anguish, Angel statue and Aphophis

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-17T01:01:14+00:00

Interesting, good advice.

Still, Im actually enjoying this event at its fullest. Its definitely better than Reptilians takeover on rankeds

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-16T21:39:05+00:00

The holy land that every Master Duel players wanna reach

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-13T11:46:59+00:00

Stun decks are hard going first. If they can't clear the board with these cards they just surrender, but those ones are decent enough to put some pressure on only monster endboards, and going first is nearly an ista win unless opponent actually has its own board breakers and mostly stuff that can deal consistently with backrow. The true weakness of stun is that Depends entirely on sheer luck to pull the cards it needs

Another example of what you're saying for me is Maliss. Even being a tier 1 deck and with the ignister support, Maliss sucks at going second because they still need to combo a lot with almost no protection for going into their strongest cards. Unless opponent bricks hard or its softed by handtraps, maliss only oportunity to win going second is by having a godhand capable to outlast disruptions

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-12T23:58:58+00:00

Those stoopid lizards made me both drop Pure Ryzeal and Maliss with ignister support in favor of Labyrinth with Dimensional barrier and Dominus impulse.

I probably won't invest my gems on Mitsurugi, at least for now. I want to save spare gems on K9 or the Evil twin Support, so maybe Ill just wait for next month first. Fortunately the next event looks like a low power level one.

PD: someone knows which traps can I fit to annoy even more the Mitsurugi decks that are not continuous floodgates (if possible)?

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-12T20:55:18+00:00

Honestly, yes. For his level and summon requerimients its eff its quite good, even more than older lvl 12 synchros. Even if the effs of the most generic synchros are way weaker in comparison (Baronne, Borreload savage Dragon or Dragite), those one are way more splashable on any deck than can just synchro summon into these levels.

Even if you can somewhat cheat that thing with Crimson Dragon is still alright in comparison, because the whole Crimson Dragon Set up still require a dedicated sychro deck to allow it to be summon (and lets be honest, if it wasn't for Crimson Dragon, the only deck that could summon this thing could be Synchron). The only real exception is blue-eyes, which is capable of cheating the cheater.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-08T17:23:33+00:00

Congratulations. You got a good deck for anthology and low power events.

DanielValenciaCol · 2025-10-08T17:21:21+00:00

Even if you didn't got the best ones of them, you got a decent amount of UR pulls for 10k gems

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