User Guide

VDSG – RESTRICTED – VTB-OO1-13
RESTRICTED 4—11
ACTION ICONS
ICON DESCRIPTION
UNLOAD AMMO
If you want to remove ammo from a gun, then use this action. It will
work in the inventory or loot screens. Often, you will want to just take
the ammo from a dead opponent, and leave the heavy gun behind.
Or, you might want to change the type of ammo you have in your
favorite firearm. This is the perfect way to handle these situations.
Only works on weapons that contain ammo, and only in the
inventory and loot screens.
CANCEL
If you don’t want to perform any of the above actions on the target,
select the cancel action, and it will be as if nothing happened.
Always available, from everywhere on everything.
TALK
If you want to communicate (and, hey, who wouldn’t?), then this
action is for you. Talking will attempt to start a dialogue with a
living, breathing person. You cannot talk to the dead, or the
unconscious. Some people will not want to talk to you, anyways.
Others will only have a little to say, and their comments will appear
over their head in the game view. If someone has a lot to say, then
you will go to the Dialogue screen (see page 4—28).
Also, modern computers have voice inputs, so you can actually talk
to a think machine or a computer workstation, in some cases.
This action only works on people, and some computers.
USE INVENTORY ITEM ON
If you want to heal a person with a stimpak, or use a set of lockpicks
on a “stuck” door, then use this action. Once you select your target,
and use this action icon, a small version of your inventory will
appear. Scroll down, if necessary, and select the item you wish to
use, and your character will attempt to use it on the target.
Obviously, using a piece of fruit on a door isn’t going to do much,
but that same piece of fruit can be given to another person to eat.
See Inventory (page 4—12) and Equipment (page5—14) for more
information.
This action will work on people and on scenery objects.
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