Trivia
Fallout Tactics received an 85% rating from PC Gamer magazine (June 2001; reviewed by Steve Klett).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on Mar 06, 2005.
If you try playing Fallout Tactics with Photoshop running, you'll be told Fallout Tactics cannot run "due to Photoshop's evil presence."
Contributed by
kbmb (399) on Jan 21, 2004.
Morte from Planescape: Torment, does a little cameo in a special encounter. As you can see in the screenshots section.
Contributed by
Zovni (9139) on Mar 06, 2002.
The game has many pop-culture references that mentions everything from Diablo (the game) and Everquest (the game) to Terminator and Die Hard (the movies), Sixth Sense, the space race, and plenty of things in between.
There are FOUR different endings, depending on your final choices... Destroy, send someone else, or submit? Yes, I've listed only three... The last depends on how much karma you got... Sorry, can't say any more without spoiling the ending. :-)
Tactics had a special bonus mission CD that was available only by pre-ordering the game from Interplay or certain outlets (Amazon, etc).
Following the tradition of "fatal bugs" that have plagued the Fallout series and which prompt you to get a patch right from the start, Fallout Tactics was initially released with some corrupt files in a batch of "bad" cds that make it literally impossible to play. The only fix for this is to download a 85MB file from the Interplay's FT:BOS site and replace it following a series of precise instructions. That is in addition to the regular bug patches.
Contributed by
Zovni (9139) on Oct 11, 2001.
Fallout Tactics did NOT use any of the arts used in previous Fallout games. Interplay was unable to retrieve the archive of previous art on the backup tape. This caused quite a bit of problems for the developer as extra artists had to be hired to redo all the art from scratch.
MicroForte was contracted by 14 Degrees East to do Fallout Tactics. They caught Interplay's attention when they demoed a game featuring their isometric game engine. Interplay didn't like the game, but liked the engine well enough they suggested MicroForte to do Fallout Tactics instead.
If you hold down the "shift" key and click on the credits button on the main screen, you get quotes from the developers.
Contributed by
KSlayer (20) on Sep 14, 2001.
I can't prove this, but I'm absolutely certain that the "stinky meat platter" you find in various places throughout the game is a nod to Mahlon Smith's "StinkyMeat Project". If you haven't checked it out yet, it's available here:
http://www.thespark.com/science/stinkymeat/
