Fallout 3 Thread

[T234]

Arefu Spoiler:

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DO NOT KILL THE VAMPIRES. SOLVE THIS DIPLOMATICALLY.

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[Robo]

That's one of the ones I "accidentally" solved with positive results.  I saw all kinds of goodies scattered around in there -- I was gonna go back tonight and slaughter the whole bunch.  Why shouldn't I?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Living in constant denial must be tragic.

How is it constant denial if it's fucking true you half a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow?

It's not my fault this game has a terrible navagation system.

[T234]

That's one of the ones I "accidentally" solved with positive results.  I saw all kinds of goodies scattered around in there -- I was gonna go back tonight and slaughter the whole bunch.  Why shouldn't I?

More of the same spoilers:

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Perk that makes blood packs give decent amounts of health, If you got that, kill them all.

They got lippy with me and I killed all of them. The town of Arefu becomes hostile if you do that. I have neutral karma as well due to the fact that I fucking steal EVERYTHING of worth from everywhere, but am a goody-two shoes in every other way.

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[GilloD]

Yeah but where the fuck is it? It's not in my History of Museum, so i'm chalking it up to it being this POS buggy game.

oH GEE, MAYBE WHERE THE OTHER 400 Lincoln items are? Try talking to some characters. You're useless.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

STFU you idiot, I already said, because of a game breaking bug in the game, I can't get into that part of the museum so why don't you shut the fuck up you stupid fucking cigarillo.

[Robo]

smh

[GilloD]

STFU you idiot, I already said, because of a game breaking bug in the game, I can't get into that part of the museum so why don't you shut the fuck up you stupid fucking cigarillo.

Game breaking bug? Why'd you break the lock fuck-face? You have like 15 fights going on in 8 threads. What does that tell you?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Why'd I break the lock? Because it's a fucking feature of the game. It's not my fault Bethesda is so distinguished mentally-challenged that they forgot to put the key to get into the game someweres thereby fucking over this quest. That's another thing out of bad game design.

[Brehvolution]

Just think of it as something to look forward to seeing when you create a new toon.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the game. It's well done, just it's not a 10/10 as everyones been screaming. It's got some legitimate problems that a few extra months in QA would've ironed out.

[MrAngryFace]

If EA published the game they could release a Methodis edition that has arrows and big balloons above items saying HERE I AM.

I mean honestly, you'd get less people laughing at you if you bitched about a legitimate bug, like the Regulator Captain running off into the wilderness to die to Radscorps. This crusade you've taken against the mechanics that actually work for everyone but you just makes us all laugh.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

How many times is it going to take to get thorugh your dumb fucking head that I AM NOT LOST.

[TakingBackSunday]

God leper Methodis

[Eel O'Brian]

i sure am enjoying all the bottlecaps i got from selling all those lincoln artifacts

and shooting things with his hunting rifle

and bringing honest abe style to the wasteland by sporting his hat

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, lincoln

[Tieno]

Where is the Lincoln Memorial? I asked at Underworld and they said go east, but when I go east I end up at Capitol Hill and got sandwiched by talon company and then by enclave distinguished effete fellows

Oh yeah, what's better Eugene or the custom armor with the bonuses? What's AP again?

[Eel O'Brian]

i just wear enclave armor, because it's easy to repair with the spare armor i pick up off the many enclave corpses i leave decorating the landscape

[TakingBackSunday]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

[Robo]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Talk to Moira.

Er, nevermind.  You didn't get the armored 101 armor from her?

[Eel O'Brian]

play the main quest up until the point where you get to the citadel, and "gunny" will train you to wear power armor

it won't take long, the main quest is actually pretty short as far as rpgs go

[GilloD]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Reilly's Rangers yeilds a nice piece. DR 25

[TakingBackSunday]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Talk to Moira.

Er, nevermind.  You didn't get the armored 101 armor from her?

Well, nevermind, I lied.  I finished most of Chapter 1 except for Minefield's portion.  Is that when you get armored 101 armor, after you complete that?

[Joe Molotov]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Screw good armor, I wore the Sheriff's Duster up until I joined the Regulators and got the Regulator's Duster. Bullets can't hurt me (with enough Stimpacks).

[TakingBackSunday]

I wanna look like maf though  :'(

[Tieno]

I'm wearing my ghoul mask, with a shady hat (has +5 sneak) and a T51b armor.

[Brehvolution]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Moriarity wants a lot of caps for him to tell you. One of the hookers in the bar can be coerced into giving you his terminal code. That is all the info you need.

[TakingBackSunday]

Yeah, I fucked up early and want and saw Silver before I talked to Moriarty and told her I'd take care of everything...so I can't get caps from her now to talk to him.  I have well over 500 caps now from the quests and selling shit, but I'm not gonna give them to him.  Thanks for the tip.

[Brehvolution]

I can check my notes to see what the password is and let you know. Then you could just hack it.

[TakingBackSunday]

Don't they change at random when you try to hack it though?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Honestly I wish this game had more robots than zombies. I think I was unprepared and had un expected expectationts.


Although it really makes me want a cyberpunk game.

[demi]

I used the presidential wig when I needed to help my chances with speech challenges

[Robo]

Meh, when do you start picking up good armor?  I'm still early in the game, haven't even talked to Moriarty yet about my dad, but I've done a few sidequests already (Those!, first chapter of Survival Guide, and Blood Ties).  I still only use my 101 Officer armor 

Talk to Moira.

Er, nevermind.  You didn't get the armored 101 armor from her?

Well, nevermind, I lied.  I finished most of Chapter 1 except for Minefield's portion.  Is that when you get armored 101 armor, after you complete that?

I thought you got it just for agreeing to do the Guide quest, but maybe it depends on your choices when you chat with her the first time.  It's not bad considering how extremely early you can get it.

[MrAngryFace]

I wanna look like maf though  :'(

That's not even the best armor. I think the Tesla Armor still edges out the Brotherhood Medical Armor, but its trumped by the Brotherhood armor in Fort Constantine or whatever which I couldnt get to. I guess the medical armor automatically injects you with Med-X and has a little computer voice inside.

Still once you get to citadel you can train power armor for free and just go wild. You will in most cases run into troops wearing standard Enclave Armor which is still awesome looking, but most of the troops from helicopter drops have the Tesla variety. If you bum around the Citadel you'll eventually see an Enclave Heli touch down with some troops to cause trouble, you can kill them all and take their armor and yum, plasma rifles. You'll wanna go all out energy weapons late game to become ultimate death with plasma rifle.

[demi]

talking armor >

[hyp]

i got stuck in a wall last night after about an hour session.  my autosave was about 1/2 an hour before i got stuck..  

[MrAngryFace]

talking armor >

Yeah but i guess the armor is in the den of deathclaw monsters, which kinda freak me out in large groups. Wtf hurts

[demi]

Actually there's two entrances to the sewer (it's in Old Olney sewer, not Deathclaw Sanctuary). There's one that you fall down to get to, but just nearby theres a sewer lid you can get to that basically warps you straight to the armor. I figured that one out when I had found the second entrance, then I kicked myself. And died.

[MrAngryFace]

I'm wearing my ghoul mask, with a shady hat (has +5 sneak) and a T51b armor.

ghoul mask is win

[MyNameIsMethodis]

i got stuck in a wall last night after about an hour session.  my autosave was about 1/2 an hour before i got stuck..  

Yeah I hate when that happens. Stupid bugs.

Luckily the last time it happened I was outside so I was able to Fast Travel out of it.

[MrAngryFace]

See, he bitched about getting stuck in a wall, no one jumped on him. Bitching about finding a big glowing picture, or having to use tunnels no one else bitches about having to use and calling it buggy.... I mean bitch about BUGS if youre gonna call it buggy. Half o this thread is just a big tantrum. Im gonna hall of fame it when its dead.

[cool breeze]

I don't have my ghoul mask because I don't have a diplomatic way to end the mission since I killed Tenpenny.  I'm gonna try killing the new guy in charge and see if that helps.

The only person in that building is Daring dashwood.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

See, he bitched about getting stuck in a wall, no one jumped on him. Bitching about finding a big glowing picture, or having to use tunnels no one else bitches about having to use and calling it buggy.... I mean bitch about BUGS if youre gonna call it buggy. Half o this thread is just a big tantrum. Im gonna hall of fame it when its dead.

Oh, so the only way I can complaign about the game is the bugs?

 

[hyp]

i wasn't really bitching though.  i love the game

[Sho Nuff]

I executed Tenpenny and blew his head off on the balcony, and the camera did that thing where it follows the decapitated head, and it was soooooooo awesome as it plunged half a mile to the wasteland below

BTW I am still early in the game and getting my ass handed to me. Doing the Wasteland Survival Guide missions but they are kind of kicking my ass. Having problems dealing with far-off turrets especially. Any ProTips or things that I should be concentrating on?

[demi]

Beef up your lockpicking and Hacking to at least 50, which lets you hack "Average" things, which is majority of the game - this includes terminals for disabling turrets

Also for hacking, if you're about to lose, back out and try again, you get 4 tries again

Use the "Here and Now" perk right away when you can

Use the "Well Educated" perk as well, it gives you more points when reading skill books. Learn the names of the skill books too - they're basically anything that isnt "burnt book" or "pre-war book"

also keep a stock of

* Pre-War Books (later in the game, in the national archives)
* Sugar Bombs (for the guy in the tunnels near the Family) - 15 Caps a pop, you can even buy them from peddlers for less and still make profit
* Exploration (for Reilly) - dont explore much, if you do the Reilly's Rangers quest early, you can then start discovering places at your leisure, then stop at Reilly's to get some quick cash

abuse VATS

beef up on small guns, you'll be using mostly shotgun/assault rifle/rifle

[Sho Nuff]

Awesome! I am on the right path (been beefing up small arms)

[demi]

If you cant think of any good perks to use, just use it on the one that lets you add 1 to your main stats, and put it on Endurance for more Health

[lordmaji]

I've noticed, Fallout 3 looks WAAAAAYYYYY better on the PC version.

PC ftw!

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Make sure you grab Mysterious Stranger and Mister Sandman Perks. The former is a godsend at times, the latter is a good way to exploit the game and fast level.

[Joe Molotov]

Haha, I convinced the punk kid at Rivet Town to run away from home to get his mom to love him more.  I'm still a paragon of virtue though.

[TakingBackSunday]

* Sugar Bombs (for the guy in the tunnels near the Family) - 15 Caps a pop, you can even buy them from peddlers for less and still make profit

You can hustle the guy there to make it 30 caps a pop.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Don't bash the only decent mission in the game.

[chronovore]

Make sure you grab Mysterious Stranger and Mister Sandman Perks. The former is a godsend at times, the latter is a good way to exploit the game and fast level.

Wait, are you back to being rational now? I was beginning to think I'd need a firefox plugin for this: http://stupidfilter.org/demo.php

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Just because I don't like the game doesn't mean I can't say it has some good things. I love the perks, and I loved that robot mission, just the game is way too scary for me, and I don't really like that. Kinda feels like it's a job to get through the game, similiar to Bioshock.

[TakingBackSunday]

You thought getting through Bioshock was a job?

 

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I really, really, really, dislike scary games.

[cool breeze]

Bioshock isn't scary except for that one part near the beginning where you turn around and someone is standing there.  I jumped.

Fallout 3 is actually one of the only scary games I've ever played if only for the sense of isolation and how the world is laid out. 

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I just find the atmospheres scary, which is what did me in with Bioshock and whats doing me in with FO3. Like I don't ever want to return to these worlds, ever. I guess I actually feel the part of the characters, except i'm not having any fun. Just surviving.

[MrAngryFace]

dude, I had nightmares of nuclear apocalypse cause of fallout 3, but that just means its THAT good

[MyNameIsMethodis]

It's the indoor areas that get to me. Dark creepy buildings I can't handle. Even being in the underworld unnervs me because it's connected to a scary place.