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A Tape (Holotape or Holodisk) | ||
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A Holotape. A tape on which you can write your own message or upload existing ones to your Pip-Boy. | ||
Primary Use | Upload text to Pip-Boy Archives | |
Alternate Use | (not documented) | |
Weight | 1814 grams | |
Base Price | ?? caps |
Obtaining Tapes
You can buy them at Followers of the Apocalypse's Library in Boneyard area, and sometimes find them for sale by regular NPC merchants. You can acquire 2 holotapes by doing the Deliver Message for Elmer quest in Necropolis, and 1 tape from a message-delivery quest in Shady Sands.
Uses
To upload a Holodisk message to your Pip-Boy, select "Hand" icon on tape in inventory. To read messages in your Pip-Boy, look in your Pip-Boy Archives. To write your own message into a holotape, select "Skilldex" icon on holodisk in inventory and then choose "Science" from list. You can delete an existing message from a tape by using your Delete key although text characters can only be deleted one at a time.
Functional Limitations
- Each Holotape has a 2000-character limit, but you can rarely get the full 2000 into a tape
- The editing interface does not scroll down so it is difficult to write long messages
- Size of editing window is not scaled to the width of a record so formatting is tough to get right
- No mouse control, so cursor placement is via keyboard only
- No way to delete or overwrite records once uploaded (no overwrite prompt)
- No way to re-order or sort or filter records once uploaded
For longer messages, players should write their text in an external text file, copy it and then paste into the tape.
NOTE: In order to paste text into a tape, the character's chat bar must be open
Using holotapes can be fun though and effective, but getting tapes to look good in a Pip-Boy requires some practice.
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This feature is hard-coded into the game's engine so players should not expect these limitations to be fixed anytime soon. |