History YMMV / FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel

* PeripheryDemographic: While the game is ''still'' very divisive within ''Fallout'' fandom, it gained popularity among people who play {{Tactical Shooter}}s, as they couldn't care any less about lore and continuity, but enjoyed a mix of tactical shooter gameplay and RPG mechanics.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Due to the differences between this game and the main series along with some continuity errors, a lot of fans refuse to aknowledge this game as part of the franchise. When Bethesda took the rights to the franchise, they declared this game BroadStrokes.

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler:General Barnaky is tougher than a normal enemy, but not to an extreme degree, and is no match for your combined squad. He's also noticeably weaker than Frank Horrigan or The Master.]]

* LuckBasedMission: The Peoria mission is one of the most difficult to complete with the best ending. You are tasked with guarding 4 entrances to the ghoul Temple (where a live nuclear bomb is worshiped), which are guarded by ghouls that wear almost no armor and use weapons several tiers below the parties (and attacking mutants). Add in the fact that the mutants attack '''immediately''' upon the players entering the field (where most missions give you some time to at least set up) and the heavy gun glitch where a secondary target takes the full burst damage, can lead to heavy SaveScumming, as every group of mutants has at least one. Did you want ghoul recruits? '''Every defender must live'''. A lot of players simply fall back and let the ghouls take the brunt of the damage, as the recruits aren't terrific anyway, due to a glitch in the way radioactivity works with ghouls, as well as their inability to equip standard armor or heavy guns. Really, the only reason to have ghouls is for bragging rights.

* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Withers]] is the young leader of a far-right militia [[TheCoup staging a coup]] in the town of Springfield. Declaring Ghouls to be [[FantasticRacism sub-human creatures who deserve to be exterminated]], Withers organized an assassination plot to overthrow Mayor Chris Avellone when he began showing a pro-Ghoul political stance, Withers and the ultraconservative activists dressed themselves as Raiders to frame local bandits and killed most of the guards in town before turning Springfield into a slaughterhouse to perform a "[[FinalSolution genetic weeding]]", executing all Ghouls that they come across until only pure-blood humans remained while ranting about how they are in the right for believing that "Ghouls are dirty and that's God's honest truth", forcing civilians to isolate themselves to escape from the warzone. When cornered, Withers [[EvilCannotComprehendGood expresses his hatred and confusion]] as to why anyone would want to give human rights to Ghouls.

* CompleteMonster: [[DarkActionGirl Daisy-May Gomer]] is a deeply antisocial, sex-crazed psychopath partaking in a wave of RapePillageAndBurn in the Midwest. Forming an alliance with other Raiders and weakening the Brotherhood of Steel's forces, Daisy-May keeps at least one man alive during her raids, so she can repeatedly [[SerialRapist rape]] and torture them, with a focus on sexual violence. When confronted by [[PlayerCharacter the Warrior]] and the initiates, Daisy-May sarcastically tells the squad that she might have to "keep one or two of you as personal slaves". A woman who [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming enjoys hearing the sounds of people screaming]], Daisy-May's latest victim is Nanuk, a tribal who was continuously sexually tortured by Daisy-May to the point his genitalia got infected, [[TooDumbToLive something he decided he would rather fix with fire than with medicine.]]

* GoodBadBug: The Brahmin Armor is supposed to turn the wearer into a Brahmin; however, this only works for human characters. To non-human characters, this is treated like any other armor; in particular, this can turn the Robot recruit into an unkillable juggernaut.

* VindicatedByHistory: With ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', the game was no longer considered the weakest entry in the series. While opinions nowadays are mixed, the game is held to a higher regard for its solid tactical combat.

* CompleteMonster: [[DarkActionGirl Daisy-May Gomer]] is a deeply antisocial, sex-crazed psychopath partaking in a wave of RapePillageAndBurn in the Midwest. Forming an alliance with other Raiders and weakening the Brotherhood of Steel's forces, Daisy-May keeps at least one man alive during her raids, so she can repeatedly [[SerialRapist rape]] and torture them, with a focus on sexual violence. When confronted by [[PlayerCharacter the Warrior]] and the initiates, Daisy-May sarcastically tells the squad that she might have to "keep one or two of you as personal slaves". A woman who [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming enjoys hearing the sounds of people screaming]], Daisy-May's latest victim is Nanuk, a tribal who was continuously sexually tortured by Daisy-May to the point his genitalia got infected, and his only solution was to burn it.

* VindicatedByHistory: With ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', the game was no longer considered the weakest entry in the series. The game would later be held to a higher regard for its solid tactical combat.

* VindicatedByHistory: With the''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', the game was no longer considered the weakest entry in the series. The game would later be held to a higher regard for its solid tactical combat.

* FanonDiscontinuity[=/=]CanonDiscontinuity: Due to the differences between ''Tactics'' and ''Fallout 1'' and ''2'', a lot of fans refuse to aknowledge this game as part of the franchise. When Bethesda took the rights to the franchise, they declared this game BroadStrokes.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Many people admit that, while it may not be a good ''Fallout'' game (if they admit it's part of the ''Fallout', universe, that is), it's quite enjoyable.

* VindicatedByHistory: To an extent – although it's still considered one of the weaker games, thanks to ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', it's no longer considered the worst game in the franchise anymore.

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: General Barnaky is tougher than a normal enemy, but not to an extreme degree, and is no match for your combined squad. He's also noticeably weaker than Frank Horrigan or The Master.]]
* FanonDiscontinuity/ CanonDiscontinuity: Due to the differences between Tactics and Fallout 1 and 2, a lot of fans refuses to aknowledge this game as part of the franchise. When Bethesda took the rights to the franchise, they declared this game BroadStrokes.
* GoodBadBug: The Brahmin Armor is supposed to turn the wearer into a Brahmin; However, this only works for human characters. To non-human characters, this is treated like any other armor; in particular, this can turn the Robot recruit into an unkillable juggernaut.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Many people admit that, while it may not be a good Fallout game (if they admit it's part of the Fallout universe that is), it's quite enjoyable.

* VindicatedByHistory: To an extent - although it's still considered one of the weaker games, thanks to ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', it's no longer considered the worst game in the franchise anymore.

* MisBlamed: The game gets a ''lot'' of flack for the hairy Deathclaws which are seen as silly and canon-violating. Originally, Deathclaws were ''supposed'' to be furry, as seen in the original concept art, and the only reason they weren't was because the original game's engine wasn't capable of rendering convincing fur. The ''Tactics'' developers used the original concept both as an homage to the concept art and to show that different mutations of the same animal occurred. There are also a lot of complaints about there being real-world guns in the game even though the first two games had plenty of them (Desert Eagle, FN FAL, Pancor Jackhammer, P-90 etc.)

* HilariousInHindsight: Everyone's antipathy towards Cherry Nuka-Cola in the Midwest is quite funny after ''VideoGame/Fallot4'' has them turn out to be [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff actually pretty popular in the Commonwealth]].

* GoodBadBug: The Brahmin Armor supposed to turn the wearer into a brahmin, however this only works for human characters. To non-human characters this is treated like any other armor; in particular, this can turn the Robot recruit into an unkillable juggernaut.

* FanonDiscontinuity/ CanonDiscontinuity: Due to the differences between Tactics and Fallout 1 and 2, a lot of fans refuses to aknowledge this game as part of the franchise. When Bethesda took the rights to the franchise, they eclared this game BroadStrokes.

* MisBlamed: The game gets a ''lot'' of flack for the hairy Deathclaws which are seen as silly and canon-violating. Originally, Deathclaws were ''supposed'' to be furry, as seen in the original concept art, and the only reason they weren't was because the original game's engine wasn't capable of rendering convincing fur. The ''Tactics'' developers used the original concept both as an homage to the concept art and to show that different mutations of the same animal occured. There are also a lot of complaints about there being real-world guns in the game even though the first two games had plenty of them (Desert Eagle, FN FAL, Pancor Jackhammer, P-90 etc.)