These changes were also made so your tagged skills matter now since level 1. Now, you'll have to work a bit to open the gate. It was too easy to escape the Vault before. The difficulty setting of some locks were changed too. I've also added a Stealthboy somewhere in the facilities, in a place where a piece of technology like that would make sense to be. Do you avoid these guards? Or do you try to help these other dwellers but then you're forced to kill these guards?

Those who can be avoided easily by the player were left as foolhardy to set a dilemma. However, not all the guards' confidence have been changed. This way, you can still confront them, hurting them in one arm or leg so they are aware you are gonna fight back! Now, if they are hurt and feel themselves at a disadvantage, they will run away from the player and ask for help. So I went into the CK and changed their confidence to be average instead of foolhardy. Would they run or would they fight to the death? Then I wondered, how would most of them respond when an 18 year old who is fighting for his/ her life, shoots at them and hurts them. So even if some of them are bullies and sociopaths and a couple might be psychopaths, they have never killed anyone before the moment James leaves the Vault. I started thinking about what was these officers' job until now and realized that, for most of their lives, the only thing these guys needed to do to keep order inside the Vault was to raise and eyebrow or their voices a bit. Sure, you can try to sneak your way out of the Vault and get out without killing anybody (so, credit where is due to Bethesda for that) but if you are caught by any of the Vault 101 officers, it's either you or them, with no third option. One of the main issues I have with the beginning of Fallout 3 is that to leave Vault 101 you're pretty much forced into killing some human beings without any alternatives whatsoever. Tale of Two Wastelands Version now available!

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