Talk:Mysterious Stranger

I was fooling around with an editor for Fallout: Tactics and found a perk called MysteriousStranger in the games memory but i don't think it is anywhere in the acctual game. 95.109.102.252 16:45, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

Bug?
I ran into a glitch today trying to get the Giant Teddy Bear. Hadn't set up the mines for the attempt or anything though, so that's unrelated. I went into VATS to kill two of the raiders (who apparently respawn in these sattelite towers, unlike the rest of indoor places) with headshots using the blackhawk. In the process I heard the Mysterious Stranger tune, but he didn't show up and one of the raiders shrunk to a small size (the height of a lawnmower; http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i198/TLS4_GatorBait/Raider.jpg). I don't know if it was a bug with VATS, the raider, or the Mysterious Stranger.

Soon after, I went into VATS to kill another raider, but this time the headshot connected and did no damage to the raider. Instead, I got a message saying the Mysterious Stranger's head was crippled, or he was just unconscious (I don't remember). Didn't want to add this to the bugs list, as I don't know what caused this.

Mysterious Stranger chance?
Does anyone know what the formula for the chance of the mysterious stranger appearing is? It seems to me, the more dire your situation, the higher chance he'll appear. At the shooting range aboard Mothership Zeta, I had been there for maybe an hour, and he did not appear even once. However, later, I was fighting a rather large mob of raiders (maybe 10 or so) and they were dealing a decent amount of damage to me. At a low health, he appeared twice. So, it seems, the lower your health, the higher the chance of his appearance. It may also have something to do with how many of, and what kind of enemies you're fighting.

Mysterious Magnum
I was playing Fallout New Vegas and durring a Mysterious Stranger visit, I saw that he was using the Mysterious Magnum from the game, nickel finish and pearl grips in all.

Family
The Mysterious Stranger looks so much like The Lonesome Drifter. And I have the craziest idea ever. What if Miss Fortune is The Lonesome Drifter's Mother???? This would be like...a whole new story. Now I'm curious. Thanks a lot, Obsidian. The Unknown User 05:14, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

Mysterious Stranger/Monte Carlo Bug?
Has anyone else encountered the Mysterious Stranger just standing in one of the Monte Carlo Suites rooms? Oddly enough I was walking through when I somehow targeted him in V.A.T.S. and he's just been standing there for a while. I tried killing him a few times to take his gun but no luck. He kills me in 1 shot. He even chased me out of the room so he wasn't stuck inside a wall. He also never appeared when I was using V.A.T.S. inside the suites. Weird eh?

I cannot recommend this perk
I wouldn't recommend this perk for anyone. If it worked exactly as it was supposed to then it might be cool, but in practice I've noticed the Mysterious Stranger seldom shows up, and even if he does its usually after the enemy is already dead anyway. There are also a lot of problems that can occur if he shows up where you get stuck in VATS with not way to get out and you forced to load from your last save. For that reason alone I will never use this perk ever again. The game is buggy enough as it is, but this is something you at least have the option of avoiding. A better idea would be to choose perks that make YOU more powerful so that you can more easily deal with enemies YOURSELF so you don't need a helping hand from Mysterious Stranger. That's my 2 cents. --108.70.58.56 13:26, April 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * Have to agree with you there, I've only had the Mysterious Stranger appear once in New Vegas and by then I was at a high enough level where I didn't need his help. --Fezgod 19:35, August 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't completely agree with you. The Mysterious Stranger appeared over 30 times in my game (±70 hours of playing). If he doesn't appear, it is probably because your Luck level is too low. If you don't/didn't spend/t points into Luck, then you shouldn't take this Perk indeed. But yes if you do.
 * ~ Scribe Aurora


 * 130h into the game(New Vegas) 8 points in luck, 8 combined visits of Mysterious Stranger and Miss Fortune (Very Hard + Harcore) => next to useless in NV

Mysterious stranger and the puppet man. one and the same?
my friend was playing fallout 3 an recovered the vault 77 jumpsuit. shortly afterwards, while fighting Eulogy Jones, the mysterious stranger appeared, dressed in a vault jumpsuit and had a small object at his feet that appeared to be a vault boy figure minus the legs. I also had a encounter like this. has anyone else seen something like this?

Follower
I have mentioned that whenever I try killing my follower in V.A.T.S. (I do this when I'm bored) and the Mysterious Stranger appears he just stands there with his gun. The bug section already mentions this, but when I try to kill my follower this always happens. I have added this bug and it needs verification. I think this could be because the game takes into account that you may have accidentally attacked your follower, and it would be quite annoying if the Mysterious Stranger kills him.

~ Scribe Aurora

Fallout chance
The math in the Fallout section fails to parse because the texvc executable is missing. Apparently the only number that is accepted is 2 (I tried numbers 0-9, and 2 was the only one that didn't give me the error message). Wikimedia gives some troubleshooting but I lack the technical skills to configure or even find the texvc. --Kastera (talk) 18:07, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Paradise Falls speculation
Okay so I was playing Fallout 3 on the mission to rescue the kids from paradise falls. While your there you can go into what, if I remember correctly, is the barracks. You then find a recording next to a vault jumpsuit. It says something on the lines of, “I just want to get rid of this thing. I don’t want ‘Him’ coming for it. *Background chatter* I don’t know who he is!?” Is it just me or does this sound ALOT like the mysterious stranger. It freaked me out when I first heard it. I then took it and on my third or fourth VAT, he appeared. I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but I’ve wanted to share it for a while and found this. —Preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.111.222.100 (talk • contribs) November 11, 2018, 05:48 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~ !
 * The recording actually refers to the Puppet Man, who was from Vault 77. The jumpsuit that you found next to the holodisk was his. Vader0629 (talk) 18:25, 11 November 2018 (UTC)