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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

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For the 2004 action RPG, see Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel cover
Developers
Micro Forté
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
Phoenix[1]
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2001
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013[2]
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Genres Tactical RPG
Art styles Stylized
Themes North America, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi
Series Fallout
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Fallout
Fallout 1997
Fallout 2 1998
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel 2001
Fallout 3 2008
Fallout: New Vegas 2010
Fallout 4 2015
Fallout Shelter 2016
Fallout 4 VR 2017
Fallout 76 2018

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric Tactical RPG game in the Fallout series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
No Mutants Allowed Forum - General Fallout Discussion

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Comes configured with the High Resolution Patch.
DRM-free when launched from the executable.
Windows
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Part of the Classic Collection
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Previous Interplay-published version supported OS X as well.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Microsoft Store
DRM-free after installation through Microsoft Store client (notes may include more details)
DRM-free after being copied to any other folder.
Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Comes configured with the High Resolution Patch.
DRM-free when launched from the executable.
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
Bethesda.net (unavailable)
Bethesda.net Launcher
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
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Windows
Fallout Classic Collection includes Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel.
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official 1.27 Patch

Upgrades version 1.13 or 1.25 to version 1.27. 1.26 Tactics Editor tools are included too.[citation needed]
The Steam, GOG.com, and Epic Games versions are pre-patched to version 1.27.
InstallShield installer does not recognize the Steam version.[3] Use the repacked patch and then fot127cdremover instead.

Other Patches

Fallout Tactics Hi-Res Patch v1.0

Error when applying Hi-Res Patch to Steam version
Error when applying Hi-Res Patch to Steam version

A utility/patch that modifies the game in memory to add support for windowed mode, higher resolutions, and various other enhancements.

Supports the US 1.27 and the German 1.25 versions.
Included with the GOG.com and Epic Games releases.
Error when using with unpatched Steam version.

Bonus Mission Patch

From the Fallout Tactics Bonus CD and adds the Springfield bonus patch.
To be able to play it you'll need to be in the first Fallout bunker before applying this patch.
It also can be made available manually by editing the bos.cfg file in the "/core" directory. Find {misc.bonusMission} = {false} Change the "false" to "true" and save the file.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\core\movie.
  2. Delete or rename intro.BIK.
Can cause the cursor to be invisible in Windows 10.[citation needed]

Game data

Game options
Game options

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\core\bos.cfg[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38420/pfx/[Note 2]
Key bindings are stored in <path-to-game>\core\keys.cfg}}

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\core\user[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38420/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Syncs up to 953.67 MB of game data (maximum 1000 files).
Xbox Cloud

Video

Display options
Display options

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Manually edit keys.cfg
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound options
Sound options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, sound effects, music, speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 2.0, EAX 2 and RSX 3D[4]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Official localization by Suntendy for local retail version.
Simplified Chinese
Unofficial localization by Wildbird(野鸟), conversion from Traditional Chinese version. GOG.com and Steam users can download it here, but it cannot be directly used in modern GOG.com and Steam releases, as all text will be glitched. Instead, it has to be used with the "Classic" versions; see here.
Traditional Chinese
Official localization by TWP CORP. for local retail version.
French
German
Italian
Fan translation, download.
Polish
Local retail version only. For digital versions download this.
Russian
Official localization by 1C-Softclub for local retail version. Localization can also be installed on the Steam version, following these instructions.
Russian
Unofficial localization by 7th Wolf
Spanish
Fan translation by Clan Dlan, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types


Issues fixed

Game hangs/crash at startup

Restore DirectSound3D[citation needed]
Delete Miles Sound System files[6]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\miles
  2. Delete or rename Mssa3d.m3d and/or Mssa3d2.m3d

Fatal error - Could not create primary and black surfaces

Run the game in windowed mode[7]
  1. Launch the game in windowed mode.
  2. Go to options from the title menu.
  3. Select the display tab.
  4. Select default and exit the game.

Missing inventory

Only use if experiencing missing items in inventory.
Missing inventory patch[citation needed]

Download and apply the missing inventory patch.

Black rectangle over top-left part of the screen

Disable Nvidia In-Game Overlay

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Steam

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.65 GB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectSound compatible

Disc Version

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 750 MB (minimum installation)
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/38420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (38420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References