15 Lies The Fallout Games Taught Us About The Real World
5. Being Good At English Makes You A Good Hacker
With all those science skills you picked up from shooting scorpions, you'll be ready to hack a few computers and access valuable information and loot across the wastes. Within the recent Fallout titles the "Science" skill is really the "English language" skill for the most part. Hacking isn't really about scientific prowess, it's about being able to solve word puzzles. When you try to hack a terminal in Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas, you'll be shown a hacking screen in which the computer asks you to guess the password and tells you how close you are when you guess incorrectly. This is truly an effective security system. Very little technical knowledge is involved in the process of hacking. There's no need to worry about things like firewalls and back doors, all you really need to make it as a hacker is a strong grasp on the English language and high tolerance for terrible minigames.
Ken was born in 1994, and before the turn of the century, he was already a gamer for life, starting with Pokémon Blue Version. He has a passion for storytelling, especially in the gaming medium. Growing up on a healthy diet of JRPGs and point and click adventure games, young Kenny grew up playing Nintendo and Sony consoles, before becoming a snobby member of the PC Master Race. Nowadays, he resides in a time warp, refusing to believe the nineties ended as he fills up his Steam library with old point and clicks and cRPGs.
