History YMMV / Wasteland

*** Do note that once you reset the game with your save file intact, the loot bag remains there indefinitely but the game will remove all the items in the bag as a precautionary measure. The only way to have them appear again is to win another game, take the loot from the chair you just played on, and then drop an item on that chair. The items in the bag on the second chair will then appear again to you once you press the down button. This is a repeatable process for however many times you want once you replay the game.

* FridgeBrilliance: The radiation symbols appear and disappear off the map seemingly at random; however if you pay attention you can figure out the pattern: the symbols appear only at night. That's because the radioactive areas glow in the dark.

*** Do note that once you reset the game with your save file intact, the loot bag remains there indefinitely but the game will remove all the items in the bag as a precautionary measure. The only way to have them appear again is to win another game, take the loot from the chair you just played on, and then drop an item on that chair. The items in the bag on the second chair will then appear again to you once you press the down button. This is a repeatable process for however many times you want once you replay the game.

** The Super Loot Bag Exploit. First, put at least one skill point in the Gambling skill for your character and play a casino game at either Spade's Casino in Las Vegas or the Acapulco Private Gambling House in the eastern part of Downtown Needles (which requires a password to enter and it is the same name as the casino's only without the latter three words in the sentence) and keep playing until you win. Both have two chairs to play on and when you win, leave the cash on the first chair that you gambled on. Go to the second chair and repeat the process. Once that is done, go back to the first chair, take the cash, and then drop an item from your inventory. Go back to the second chair, open the loot inventory and press the down button more than once to find every available item you can get in the game in usually huge quantities. Among the loot are the Proton Ax (the best melee weapon in the game), the Red Ryder Rifle (the most powerful ranged weapon in the game) and the NAME AC armor (the best armor in the game with an AC rating of 27, better than the Power Armor's AC 14 rating. It at first is treated as a weapon and when you equip it, the game will ask you to unjam it. Select the option 'No' and then equip it as a proper armor item). The latter two are normally unobtainable in the game outside of this one exploit and with these two, you can quite literally breeze through the game without any enemy touching you for any damage at all.

** The Super Loot Bag Exploit. First, put at least one skill point in the Gambling skill for your character and play a casino game at either Fat Freddy's Casino in Las Vegas or the Acapulco Private Gambling House in the eastern part of Downtown Needles (which requires a password to enter and it is the same name as the casino's only without the latter three words in the sentence) and keep playing until you win. Both have two chairs to play on and when you win, leave the cash on the first chair that you gambled on. Go to the second chair and repeat the process. Once that is done, go back to the first chair, take the cash, and then drop an item from your inventory. Go back to the second chair, open the loot inventory and press the down button more than once to find every available item you can get in the game in usually huge quantities. Among the loot are the Proton Ax (the best melee weapon in the game), the Red Ryder Rifle (the most powerful ranged weapon in the game) and the NAME AC armor (the best armor in the game with an AC rating of 27, better than the Power Armor's AC 14 rating. It at first is treated as a weapon and when you equip it, the game will ask you to unjam it. Select the option 'No' and then equip it as a proper armor item). The latter two are normally unobtainable in the game outside of this one exploit and with these two, you can quite literally breeze through the game without any enemy touching you for any damage at all.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: At the Island area after winning the Holy Chess game in the Temple of Blood at the northwest section of the Needles settlement, if you do not have any skill points in Picklocking or Demolitions/AT weapons as well as not having any explosives in your inventory, you will be unable to get past the sealed wooden doors leading to the head priest of the temple and you will be trapped inside the map forever. Unless you have a backup save that kept your current progress just before the chess game, you're screwed.

* DemonicSpiders: The defenses and robots in Base Cochise have ''much'' more powerful attacks than the average mooks you face in the wastes and are able to bypass your Power Armor-wearing party with little to no effort. You should at least put in some points in the Doctor skill for either one of your PCs to prevent your party from being unconscious or mortally wounded after an encounter with these foes.

** No explanation is offered for why certain characters using certain weapons have a certain number of attacks during a round. If you'd play Fallout, you'd know it was due to Ability Points, which are [[GuideDangIt never exposed to the player]] in Wasteland.

* MemeticMutation: Turning enemies into "a fine red mist" and "exploding them like a blood sausage" is something that is brought up by fans whenever ''Wasteland'' is mentioned. The game's SpiritualSuccessor series VideoGame/{{Fallout}} references ''nearly every memorable joke or gag from Wasteland at least once per game,'' to the point that many people mis-attribute them to the Fallout series.

* MemeticMutation: Turning enemies into "a fine red mist" and "exploding them like a blood sausage."
** Notably, the game's SpiritualSuccessor series VideoGame/{{Fallout}} references ''nearly every memorable joke or gag from Wasteland at least once per game,'' to the point that many people mis-attribute them to the Fallout series.

** Notably, the game's SpiritualSuccessor series {{Fallout}} references ''nearly every memorable joke or gag from Wasteland at least once per game,'' to the point that many people mis-attribute them to the Fallout series.

** Notably, the game's SpiritualSuccesor series {{Fallout}} references ''nearly every memorable joke or gag from Wasteland at least once per game,'' to the point that many people mis-attribute them to the Fallout series.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: ''Wasteland 2'' on Kickstarter. It's already made its goal and is well into seven figures in donations.
** And now Obsidian has offered to co-develop ''Wasteland 2'' on the condition that the funding reaches 2.1 million, which it hit with 10 days of donations left. Cue minds exploding like blood sausages.
* MemeticMutation: Turning enemies into "a fine red mist" and "exploding them like a blood sausage."

** And now Obsidian has offered to co-develop ''Wasteland 2'' on the condition that the funding reaches 2.1 million. Cue minds exploding like blood sausages.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: ''Wasteland 2'' on Kickstarter. It's already made its goal and is well into seven figures in donations.