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Nooo, the chance of success difference between no and full fatigue is pretty huge, from what I recall, especially with spellcasting. Very noticeable effect. Keeping your fatigue topped off makes a lot of things a lot easier compared to, well. Not keeping your fatigue topped off.

Unless I'm seriously forgetting things, Morrowind doesn't care what sort of armor you're wearing in regards to casting. S'strictly a skill test, and insofar as I remember you can learn any spell at any time, s'just if you don't have the skill to cast it you'll fail and waste the magika.

One of my fairly normal builds was a ranged focused (bow+magic) heavy armor user, iirc. Probably with some stealth, too, because to hell with the sneaking malus, full plate bruiser tip-toeing past your guards~

It's almost certainly this.

Ah, again, though, it also governs ECM, which allows for what amounts to another dodge chance vs... some stuff. I think ranged attacks in general, but not melee. As you note, it's kinda' useless for the status aspect, but another layer of defense makes it nearly as golden as piloting or <whatever the blazes governs shields>.

Wish I hadn't forgotten the formula involved. I knew it, once

Eesh, actually kicked up a game again for the first time in a while. Minor early tip that's quite useful... dunno if the guides cover it or not, but whatever. If you run through the starting tutorial (and you probably should, the corsair's a decent enough starting mech... overall better than the other options, iirc), when you reach the shopping tutorial part, if you keep telling Q-boy "No, I'm not done" (or something to that effect) he'll continually restock his inventory. If you feel like being game-y, it's a good way to make sure you start out with certain desired equipment (like, say, a stack of deathwings).

Also, while putting a point into certain skills -- conversation, shopping, and likely flirtation -- on creation is a good idea, it's important to remember there is skill XP in Gearhead... which is to say, you can train skills up strictly by use. Certain very regularly used skills (like the ones mentioned) are very, very easy to get to five or six just through use. So stick a point in 'em, but don't waste actual XP until they're up a bit (E: If at all. You may be able to coast on manual training until you can kick up a money->skills loop of some sort and save XP strictly for stat boosts.). S'not terribly troublesome to do the same with primary combat skills if you've got alright governing stats, too.

@ Electronic Warfare, iirc, it also governs ECM -- which is another layer of defense, and worth it in and of itself just because of that. Forget how valuable it is in GH1, but in GH2 it's pretty darn useful. Reason enough to at the very least not outright tank craft.

... also, am I forgetting things, or did spot weakness get a serious nerf between the two games? Forget if SW worked with burst weapons in GH1 or not... know it just works with single shot stuff in GH2, which makes it useful only if you're avoiding multi-hit stuff.

But assisted suicide will always meet this sort of resistance no matter where it's proposed. Out of interest, can it be legalised on a state-level?

Physician assisted suicide is apparently legal in four states at the moment. So apparently yes.

Hoohoo, yeah, pet bots as opposed to people bots. Iirc, you could shove boomerangs onto those, too, which was great (definitely could if you swapped into tactics mode or whatever that was). Just kinda' meander around while your rolling horde-ball of robotic 'rang flapped all over the place. Sentient bots, though... reason I held (hold, really) 'em in really high regard is that with a decent skill and a decent roll, you could create critters with absolutely ridiculous base stats. Reflexes in the 30-40+ range, crazy crap like that. And then train skills on top of it, when out of the box half the time they'd breeze through end-game fights on raw statage alone. Pretty crazy.

And yeah, those... man, Haihos? I think that's it. Their flying doom hammer thing. Easy early game pickup, if a bit heavy. Shorter range, yeah, but especially with a bit of skill backup they hit like an oncoming freight train loaded down with impact-triggered explosives. One-shots or near to it were pretty common, both early and later on. Serious, serious amount of pain. Do need the skills to be able to hit, but... yeah. Excellent backup weapon.

What was really best, though, was to just mod in a mecha scale THROW/RETURN token. Probably during the process of converting the SF:0 add-on junk to SF:2. Things get a lot more flexible after that, ha.