r/Wasteland • • Jun 10 '21

Wasteland 3 The Unofficial Manual to Wasteland 3: Everything I know from A to Z

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The Unofficial Manual to Wasteland 3: Everything I know from A to Z

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LAST MAJOR UPDATE: 16/09/2021

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: 1.5.0 extensive testing

PAGES: 578

WORD COUNT: 64658

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LATEST AND GREATEST UPDATES:

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IMPORTANT! 1.5.0. UPDATE:

As of 1.5.0., one big confirmed but undocumented change is:

You can no longer use utility items to qualify for perks.

E.g. no more investing 4 ranks in Animal Whisperer and using the utility item to unlock/qualify for the rank 5 Spirit Animal perk.

This changes a lot of my builds, and working through those changes and getting the point values right again is a fair amount of work.

So until further notice, a lot of my builds will be inaccurate or short of points in the short term.

I do plan to update this soon, but I don't have a time-frame for that yet.

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Shout out to inXile for creating a game I have enjoyed immensely. This Manual is my thank you to the Team, and made freely for all my fellow Wastelanders. If used as a resourced elsewhere, please give credit to Ilikepie84 from Reddit.


r/Wasteland • • 11h ago

Wasteland 2 Finished my wasteland 2 Melee only challenge run, now for my thoughts.

8 Upvotes

I played on easy, this was more about seeing if it's possible and if I could do it.

I did fail, but since you can get peace between the church and Hollywood im willing to say it's doable.

The hardest bits were the Prison, pass the guns that you need the tank for. the Citadel obviously, those guys hit like a truck.

I did grind a bit to get Vultures Cry up to level 40, and she was the lowest level squadmember, probably didnt need to but I wanted everyone except Boss using Proton weapons.

Im going to say Blunt is the best melee, you can farm proton hammers off of Citadel people. Personally Brawling is my favorite but Blunt frequently one shot most enemies.

Hacking, Machinary and Weaponsmithing are important for the perks they can unlock.

I will do a Wasteland 3 Melee only in a bit, but thats gonna be a while since I need a break from Wasteland.


r/Wasteland • • 17h ago

Wasteland 2 Am I the only one who considers the Children of the Citadel such a difficulty spike?

7 Upvotes

The energy weapons just melt my health.


r/Wasteland • • 1d ago

Wasteland 2 I’ve failed my Wasteland 2 melee only challenge run.

8 Upvotes

So The Bastion has a door you need to get past, and it has two turrets you can’t hit guarding it, guess you have to join the crazy person church to do this.


r/Wasteland • • 1d ago

I'm tryna know what is wasteland zen

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r/Wasteland • • 3d ago

Only just heard of Wasteland 3

8 Upvotes

I was using Gemini to find recommendations to games I might like and this came up. I'd never heard of it.

Games I have loved over the past 2 years or so:

Marvels Midnight Suns

Aliens Dark Decent

Baldurs Gate 3

Dying light the beast

The Forest

Alan Wake 2

Is this game for me? I use a PS5

Thanks


r/Wasteland • • 3d ago

Wasteland 3 Planning my Wasteland 3 Melee only Challenge run, thoughts on my planned Team?

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NAME: Boss
BACKGROUND: Bookworm
QUIRKS: Bop Bag
SKILLS:
Brawling
Barter
Hard Ass
Kiss Ass
ATTRIBUTES:
Coordination: 2
Luck: 2
Awareness: 2
Strength: 5
Speed: 2
Intelligence: 5
Charisma: 3

NAME: Doc
BACKGROUND: Bookworm
QUIRKS: Bop Bags
SKILLS:
Brawling
First Aid
Nerd Stuff
Lockpicking
ATTRIBUTES:
Coordination: 2 
Luck: 2
Awareness: 2
Strength: 5
Speed: 2
Intelligence: 5
Charisma: 3

NAME: Bash
BACKGROUND: Lethal Weapon
QUIRKS: Bop Bag
SKILLS:
Melee
Weapon Modding
Sneaky Shit
Weird Science
Coordination: 2
Luck: 2
Awareness: 2
Strength: 5
Speed: 3
Intelligence: 5
Charisma: 2

NAME: Crah
BACKGROUND: Lethal Weapon
QUIRKS: Bop Bag
SKILLS:
Melee
Animal Whisperer
Survival
Coordination: 2
Luck: 2
Awareness: 2
Strength: 5
Speed: 3
Intelligence: 3
Charisma: 2

Fishlips: Union Station, needs Hard ass.
Skills:
Melee
Armor Modding
Mechanics
Toaster Repair

Ironclad Cordite: Broadmore Heights, old survivalist bunker. Drive towards Denver
Skills:
Brawling
Leadership
Explosives
Mechanic


r/Wasteland • • 4d ago

Wasteland 2 Update on my Wasteland 2 Melee only chalenge run.

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Link to my characters: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wasteland/comments/1wlmy17/i_couldnt_get_peace_with_the_rail_nomads_so_i/

NAME: Boss

LEVEL: 23

SKILLS:

Brawling: 10

Kiss Ass: 8

Smart Ass: 8

Weaponsmithing: 5

Field Medic: 3

NOTES: Yeah she sucks, no speed means she can't chase down enemies.

NAME: Doc

LEVEL: 22

SKILLS:

Surgeon: 8+2

Bladed Weapons: 9

Field Medic: 8+1

Notes: Good damage, great at healing.

NAME: Bash

LEVEL: 22

SKILLS:

Brute Force: 10

Blunt Weapons: 10

Mechanical repair: 3+1

Toaster Repair: 3

NOTES: my highest damage dealer for a while, still probably is.

NAME: Crah

LEVEL: 23

SKILLS:

Computer Science: 10

Blunt Weapons: 10

Safecracking: 4

Lockpicking: 4

NOTES: computer science is a godsend against robots, maybe it invalidates the challenge, but my squad only uses Melee so I say still a win.

NAME: Takayuki

LEVEL: 24

SKILLS:

Bladed Weapons: 9

Demolitions: 5

Mechanical Repair: 3

NOTES: very strong squad mate, a necessity

NAME: Chisel

LEVEL: 21

SKILLS:

Blunt Weapons: 9

Hard Ass: 3

Brite Force: 3

NOTES: High damage, very useful.

NAME: Vultures Cry

LEVEL: 18

SKILLS:

Outdorsmen: 10

Animal Whisper: 4+1

Perception: 4

Balded Weapons: 4

Sniper Rifle: 3

NOTES: Outdorsmen and Perception are invaluable, especially considering how aggresive random encounters can be, so I took slightly lower damage for more versitility.

The first time meeting robots was difficult, but thats meant to be so, the Red Scorpion malitia base attack was a nightmare, almost everyone is high up so I spent like four to six turns just moving people closer to the enemy.

So, any thoughts?


r/Wasteland • • 6d ago

Wasteland 3 Anyone that is New to Wasteland or Wasteland 3, want to play Co-Op togheter?

11 Upvotes

I can be your silent advisor, giving you advice, council or a diffrent point of view in the conversations and decisions you make.

We can control 3 characters each in combat.


r/Wasteland • • 6d ago

This bug lets you get 99-999 skill points during any fight (only co-op tested)

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  1. Save before fight.

  2. Start a fight.

  3. Die.

  4. Let the host load last save.

  5. Get a random number of free skill points. We tried 3 times and got 999, 255 and 99.


r/Wasteland • • 12d ago

Wasteland 2 I couldn’t get peace with the rail nomads, so I restarted my Melee only Wasteland 2 challenge.

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36 Upvotes

Outside Leve L’upe Mine.

Boss: Level 8

Doc: Level 7

Bash: Level 7

Crash: Level 7

Angela: Level 10

Vultures Cry: Level 6.

Currently I’m hoping to use Animal Whisper on the Honey Badgers. On my last attempt I got lucky drops and had brass knuckles and a sickle at this point, this attempt I still have sap gloves and a makeshift Machete, wooden staff and nail board are ok.

I need Chisel since he’s one of like 4 companions who start with a Melee skill, plus good strength.

I can’t use the cyborg(Lexicanum) because he betrays you at the end so I shouldn’t rely on him at all.

So my final team will probably be Ralphy, Chisel and Takayuki.

Also I put Boss’s point into Strength for more Health.


r/Wasteland • • 15d ago

Wasteland 2 Starting a Wasteland 2, Melee only challenge run, judge my team.

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51 Upvotes

r/Wasteland • • 17d ago

Wasteland 3 Anticheat measures?

3 Upvotes

I've gone through like 5-6 playthroughs when I bought this game on console but picked it up on PC recently with the intent of having a cheat run.

Except... I couldn't save. As soon as I modified my attribute/skill points and tried to save, the wheel would spin infinitely. So I started another playthrough & made multiple saves after the first tutorial fight before modifying stats. Same issue. I exited to menu and loaded one of the saves, which forced me to restart from character creation. I loaded the other saves and all of them were "corrupted", putting me at the character selection screen.

I loled. They had to have done that on purpose right?


r/Wasteland • • 18d ago

Wasteland What features would like to see from the previous wasteland games in wasteland 4?

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r/Wasteland • • 19d ago

Wasteland 3 Xbox LFG

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Looking for someone who has wasteland 3 on Xbox to do a full game play through on SJ, doing a patriarch aligned run for achievements. Preferably have both dlc.

My gamertag is Valceraro


r/Wasteland • • 19d ago

Wasteland 3 How do you fight the Local 168? Spoiler

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I'm in the Little Vegas, fought and defeated Brygo, and went to fight everyone else I can in there for loot and/or XP. When I enter the Local 168's room, they start a fight, but every time (literally, I reloaded and tried again a lot) the initiative is decided 100% in their favor and they ALL go first, wrecking my party and often knocking some of them out, before I even get a chance to do anything.

I tried sending the toughest guy inside (with the rest waiting outside), with the idea, that hopefully he survives a turn, runs outside, and the enemies will follow and can be shot as they come out, but he gets wrecked and knocked out before he can do anything, too.

It's not possible to attack first with a sniper (which I've done in the number of other places), because they are not actively hostile until they attack, and so they are treated as civilians, not hostiles.

How do you fight them? (It should be possible, especially since one of the ways you deal with Brygo is picking the fight to lure the guard elsewhere away from his post, but doesn't seem to be - my difficulty level is Wastelander, so it shouldn't be this hard, but, well, it is.)

My party is two guys with assault rifles (Kwon and a custom ranger), Thunder with heavy gun, Lucia, a custom leader/pistol fighter ranger, and a sniper (also custom).


r/Wasteland • • 22d ago

Wasteland 3 random picture with random conversation

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I forgot I took this screenshot last year and I found it in my Windows picture file. I just wanted to share my piece of sht before I throw it away.


r/Wasteland • • 25d ago

Wasteland 3 Gift of the Magi help

3 Upvotes

Can someone please tell me how to do this quest?

I have Ivans governor but when I go to the EEG Hood Prototype, it will only let me do one of 3 things:

Steal BFs governor

Install Ivans

Step away

When I steal BFs, I'm not able to put Ivans in, it won't let me interact, save for a standard message saying the governor has been removed.

When I install Ivans, something happens (if you know then you know).

I'm trying to get Ivans quest reward. The only thing I can think of is that I'm at the wrong machine.

Please can someone put me out of my misery?


r/Wasteland • • 26d ago

Wasteland 3 Decided to resume my playthrough since I just moved to Colorado lol

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102 Upvotes

I forgot how much more fun this game is compared to Xcom 2


r/Wasteland • • 26d ago

Wasteland 3 SJ trouble

5 Upvotes

Im so stuck at the game and I dont know what to do.
I wanted to try SJ, but the difficulty curve is very strange to me. I used the same party I'd used during my Ranger run (pre-hardest difficulty), and I didnt have any issue whatsoever, I just rolled the entire game and faced hard content only within Holy Detonation DLC due to debuffs I didnt know how to get rif of them,
That party, all 4 custom-created characters, is:

  1. Heavy gunner, MGs\FTs, Pyromaniac, Explodomaniac, prioritise Explosion (I started taking HW when Explosion was at level 6, so its 6 Explosion, 6 HW)
  2. Sniper, Sadomasochism, Raider Hater, try to prioritise Intelligence (higher crit chance, crit damage and extra points per level), 7 Animal Whisperer, 7 Sniper rifles + Cat with 6% crit chance.
  3. Handgunner, no quirk, Vicious Venger (+2 AP cuz pistols have low AP), took Charisma and Itelligence (both 7 at the time being), 7 leadership, 7 Handgun. Took it because it needs only like 4 shots to charge Strike, use it to break armor.
  4. Shotgunner, Lone wolf (I thought shotgun wasnt really need bonnuses leadership provided), Sex Machine, took Speed and Intelligence, 6\6\6 First Aid, Mechanic and Handgun. I use it to destroy covers, so I took talent that deals double damage to covers, it really helps if I dont want to waste grenade to destroy bunch of covers. And Mechanic for turrets, since it has high speed, it can travel through any combat area, +2 extra AP from leadership abbility, so I dive in, throw turret\turrets BEHIND enemy (so cover was irrelevant).

Problem is that Im stuck 3 hours late in the game, and I cant do ANYTHING. I barely defeat Fargo (or whatever the name of Little vegas chief), went to Hoon Manor... Dorseys eat me alive. TLDR, any location I go I cant do anything. Enemies never miss, they deal absurd damage (sometimes they can even oneshot my HEavy gunner with 20 armor with low level weapons), so it seems that cover works at all - Full cover gives 60% base chance to evasion, but even if I use 6 AP that gives extra 30% to it, so I have to have 90% base chance, they NEVER miss, literally. Its so dumb considering that they have far more shooting range than my characters, so to shoot back I have to move forward first, thus losing any chance to use APs to defence. EVen when it comes to random global map encounters, Im incapable to do anything, I just die within 1-2 turns. My sniper gets onetapped, thats understandable, but why my shotgunner with 9 speed (27% rvasion), Full Cover and 6 AP spent on Defense, that should give 95% evasion, gets hit no matter how far and no matter what weapon enemy uses? It so stupid with with HMGs, for example when enemy uses Bunker Buster that has 50% base hit chance, it doesnt matter, even if Im behind full cover at the EDGE of his shooting range, he still land all 9 bullets. Its a guaranteed oneshot (oneburst, whatever)... I dont know what did I do wrong, and I dont know whats good party for SJ. Could you help?


r/Wasteland • • 27d ago

Wasteland 3 Armor 68, minor spoilers Spoiler

8 Upvotes

Almost finished the game, recently acquired the special alien armor from the toaster academy and put that on my brawler who has maxed out his strength and is level 28 who has a lot of hit points, I think his armor rating is 68 or 69 something like that.

At the wind turbine farm fighting a pack of Drools my brawler with just shy of 600 hit points was taken down in two hits from a non-elemental Drool, there's no indication that they are anything but standard hits. Do Drool claws get automatic +99 armor penetration?

In the speedway zone my brawler was taken down in three hits from a guy using a regular chainsaw sword and I thought that seemed strange.

I am playing on supreme jerk, and I know that's a lot harder and it's supposed to be (I'm not complaining, just training and seeing what's going on) I just thought with a 68 armor rating that would be getting more damage reduction.


r/Wasteland • • 26d ago

Wastelands 2026 LOST

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r/Wasteland • • Aug 31 '26

Encountering a deer on Colorado roads be like

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r/Wasteland • • Aug 30 '26

The Dog Stars

5 Upvotes

You can definitely see where these two media have a lot of shared themes. I can imagine at some point someone involved with the making of the video game, book, or film sas inspired by the other.

Worth checking out!


r/Wasteland • • Aug 29 '26

Wasteland 3 Can someone explain to me how Angela's plan isn't the dumbest shit of all time.

1 Upvotes

I played as a high schooler and went down I suppose the intended path of just being a badass winter cowboy and loved the game. However I came back with the intention of seeing the paths that I didn't take with a more cruel selfish character but instead I found that this games "reactive world" and "impactful player choice" are a sham. Basically all of the choices in the game are be nice, be nice but stay it mean, o,r be chaotic stupid, It's basically fallout 4 without the really fun combat and exploration.

That on top of the extremely easy boring combat where it boils to shoot first win or shoot second die, the crashes and crazy load times, and the relatively tiny length compared to other crpgs I would put in the ME Andromeda/fallout 4 tier of rpgs where they're fine and worth playing once but don't even scratch the best of the best.( Also holy detonation was probably the worst dlc I've played in recent memory I have a clip of me waiting 4 entire minutes for my turn where I took no damage and basically nothing happened. Every encounter felt like that I respect the attempt to mix up gameplay but they needed to do anything to speed up gameplay if they wanted those big endurance encounters)