Fallout 1 force move blocking NPC?

[cutterjohn]

Hello people,

I installed FO1 again last summer and started playing(never had blackout problems like another poster mentioned w/win2k sp4 dx9.0c w/an nVidia 7 series card), but I DO have a problem where a little shit child NPC is blocking my characters exit from a house in Shady Sands.

I've tried shifting my PC all over the place in the house trying to get the little shit to move, and even left the damned gaming running for a while hoping that it'd kick the NPC somewhere, but to no avail. I know that I could kill the little bastard, but I REALLY don't want to do that...

So, my question is, does anyone know of a way to force move NPCs in the Fallouts? Right now, my current game isn't far enough in that I'm worried about restarting, but I'd like to know if there is a fix in case it happens again at some later point in the game where I REALLY wouldn't enjoy having to restart. (I did a quick google, which turned up nothing at least on my search query...)

(I never noticed this the first time that I played through FO1 & 2 years ago... NPCs always seemed to move.)

 

[Jasede]

The best and only force moving way I know off in FO 1 is the good old SMG burst into the head.

 

[Dementia Praecox]

The best and only force moving way I know off in FO 1 is the good old SMG burst into the head.

Or by planting dynamite, if you're a decent pickpocket. That way you manage to LARP some fun into it as well.

 

[The Rambling Sage]

And the method Jasede pointed at turns you into a celebrity, too. Instant stardom, i say.

 

[Dementia Praecox]

And the method Jasede pointed at turns you into a celebrity, too. Instant stardom, i say.

You spoilsport, you.

 

[Section8]

The second one has a "swap places" icon on the context menu, but the first has nothing. Kinda frustrating, huh?

 

[Fez]

Now you know why they thought of putting that in the second one.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Swap places? Wish I'd known about that before I spammed push on everyone then went berserk with a shotgun on the oil tanker thing.

 

[mirrorshades]

I DO have a problem where a little shit child NPC is blocking my characters exit from a house in Shady Sands.

Try opening your PipBoy and resting for a while, until a different time of day. Some of the NPCs have different schedules in daytime and nighttime.

 

[Sentenza]

How the fuck a single NPC could block you from both sides?

Just step back and wait he moves

 

[Koby]

If you can fire one of you firearm without hitting anyone, NPC will enter battle mode and start running away.

There is a very good chance this will work on fallout2 only though.

 

[mirrorshades]

How the fuck a single NPC could block you from both sides?

Just step back and wait he moves

He did:

I've tried shifting my PC all over the place in the house trying to get the little shit to move, and even left the damned gaming running for a while hoping that it'd kick the NPC somewhere, but to no avail.

I always hated the way child NPCs moved in Fallout. It's so freaking random. Plus, I never met a kid who would stand in the same place for hours at a time.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Plus, I never met a kid who would stand in the same place for hours at a time.

Prozac?

 

[Koby]

Plus, I never met a kid who would stand in the same place for hours at a time.

Ritalin?

Fixed.

 

[Selenti]

Lrn2RPwithguns.

 

[cutterjohn]

How the fuck a single NPC could block you from both sides?

Just step back and wait he moves

It's a little fucking hut with ONE exit which the little dipshit is standing in.

As to blowing the little shit away, I tried that, but then the whole village sort of got a little pissed which wouldn't be good at that point in the game...

Like I said though it's still early enough in the game to either just go back to a different save or re-start so no big deal. I was more interested in a solution if it happened later in the game, but I see that there is none other than blowing them away... Thanks for the replies...

 

[Balor]

Pfft.
Even dumbfucks know that there are no Force moves in Fallout.
...
Well, unless you count Master's mind tricks.

 

[cutterjohn]

I sort of figured that there was likely no way to move NPCs as I briefly googled about it when the NPC got in my way.

Weird thing is it NEVER happened to me way back when the game first came out and I played through it, but I also seem to vaguely recall other people bitching about it back and had wondered if someone had some secret hidden way to move the NPCs, i.e. debug commands or something.

(I also now vaguely recall than FO2 had a character swap command now that someone else has mentioned it, which further re-inforces the likelihood that one is stuck in FO1 once an NPC blocks and won't move...)

Oh, BTW we're eternally fucked now, as according to a /. article they not only licensed FO3, but now own all Fallout IP lock, stock, and barrel. Time to find/make a new franchise...