Fallout 3 Thread

[Kestastrophe]

'nother quick question - the Super Mutant Behemoths.. I think it was the Brotherhood who took out the big one in front of Galaxy News Radio HQ, not myself... will I get the achievement still if I kill all the others?

the only one you might have trouble with is the one where you have to collect the audiologs and then steal a teddy bear. The audiologs are easy to miss, and not all the walkthroughs out there are correct

[Brehvolution]

I found Pinkerton and turned the android into Zimmer this time around. Last time I lied to Zimmer. He gave me the VATS helper.
I went into the National Archives and teamed up with that girl again. I was walking into an area and tripped a mine so I jumped away but it blew her in half. Should I take her shit and finish it alone? Last time we made it back and split the caps and all was good. Anyone do Stealing Independence without her?

[tiesto]

I found Pinkerton and turned the android into Zimmer this time around. Last time I lied to Zimmer. He gave me the VATS helper.
I went into the National Archives and teamed up with that girl again. I was walking into an area and tripped a mine so I jumped away but it blew her in half. Should I take her shit and finish it alone? Last time we made it back and split the caps and all was good. Anyone do Stealing Independence without her?

I met with Harkness first, got the plasma pistol, then told him I'd kill Zimmer for him. Went over to Zimmer, reported Harkness, got the VATS helper, and killed Zimmer and Armitage (nice Neuromancer reference there).

[Brehvolution]

Didn't the rest of rivet city attack you for attacking Zimmer?

[GilloD]

I found Pinkerton and turned the android into Zimmer this time around. Last time I lied to Zimmer. He gave me the VATS helper.
I went into the National Archives and teamed up with that girl again. I was walking into an area and tripped a mine so I jumped away but it blew her in half. Should I take her shit and finish it alone? Last time we made it back and split the caps and all was good. Anyone do Stealing Independence without her?

Tale her shit. That SMG is fuckin' awesome. She'll almost inevitably get killed in the quest, anyway. If she somehow manages to survive there's a small follow-up quest, but f it.

[tiesto]

Didn't the rest of rivet city attack you for attacking Zimmer?

Nope, because I had Harkness's permission. Didn't lose karma either.

Now I gotta decide what I want to do with Tenpenny Tower... I kinda feel sorry for those ghouls in the subway.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I let them sneak in and tear everyone to shreds, but not until after I shot Tenpenny's head off and threw his corpse over the balcony.

[Brehvolution]

I let them sneak in and tear everyone to shreds, but not until after I shot Tenpenny's head off and threw his corpse over the balcony.

 
I'm going to Tenpenny tower next I think. I didn't murder Burke yet and I didn't shoot Tenpenny before I let the ghouls in. I think I'll kill the ghouls this time unless the ghoul mask is a must have down the road.

[GilloD]

Didn't the rest of rivet city attack you for attacking Zimmer?

Nope, because I had Harkness's permission. Didn't lose karma either.

Now I gotta decide what I want to do with Tenpenny Tower... I kinda feel sorry for those ghouls in the subway.

FYI, there is no "happy ending" available here. Although, one of the endings is totally hilarious.

[Cheebs]

I just got this game, how do you blow up megaton? I got that fuse thing but I can't figure the out how to place it.

[BlueTsunami]

Nuka Cola Challenge wasn't that bad. I had saved all my Nuka Cola Quantoms from the start of the game. By the time I took up that quest, I had like 24 Nuka Cola Quantoms. Sucks for those that actively used them though

The Dunwich building did annoy me though. I fucking hit the end and all that's there a named ghoul, a group of them and a small cache of ammo (also the Bobblehead). Weak.

[demi]

I just got this game, how do you blow up megaton? I got that fuse thing but I can't figure the out how to place it.

Go to the bomb in the center

[drew]

and pop some mentats

[tiesto]

I still wish the dungeons were actually somewhat interesting...

[Human Snorenado]

Yesterday i was all "i need to sell some stuff i got last night, shouldn't take me more than 10 minutes"

and then i played for 10 hours straight.

 

game of the year, probably generation, best thing to happen to rpgs since FFXII made FF totally irrelevant.

Must... resist... urge... to open up my 360.  I got an Arcade and the 60 gig hd accessory pack yesterday and opened it up just to verify that indeed, I got a Jasper.  150w power brick was there, last 5 digis on the serial are 84505.  I'm golden. 

The problem is that my dad is bringing me an hdtv for Crimmus, so until he shows up this Wednesday I'd have to play the game on a shitty ol' tv.  I don't want to rape my eyes, so I'm holding off.

[muckhole]

Must... resist... urge... to open up my 360.  I got an Arcade and the 60 gig hd accessory pack yesterday and opened it up just to verify that indeed, I got a Jasper.  150w power brick was there, last 5 digis on the serial are 84505.  I'm golden. 

The problem is that my dad is bringing me an hdtv for Crimmus, so until he shows up this Wednesday I'd have to play the game on a shitty ol' tv.  I don't want to rape my eyes, so I'm holding off.

All the more reason to play it now. Just think of how much more you'll appreciate the new TV when you finally see what you've been playing in hi-def.

[cool breeze]

i'm wandering around after finishing the game doing all the quests and generally just loving the world.

GOTY total for me.

Some of the bits were fugging hard too - the

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Kid rescue at Paradise Falls

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was insanity. My own fault i guess as i decided to go in all guns blazing.
 

That part was easy for me since I just

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shot a few people, got everyone after me, then ran into the medical area waiting for people to enter to shoot with my combat shotgun.  Walked out a few minutes later and freed the kids.

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[BlueTsunami]

i'm wandering around after finishing the game doing all the quests and generally just loving the world.

GOTY total for me.

Some of the bits were fugging hard too - the

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Kid rescue at Paradise Falls

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was insanity. My own fault i guess as i decided to go in all guns blazing.
 

That part fucking annoyed me.

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The guy I was supposed to save for the lil' girl kept running out of the pod even though I would tell him to stay. If I tried to take out the slavers before opening the pod, he would be dead INSIDE the pod after I took out the slavers (Bethesda's way of saying, do it our way motha'fucka"). Also, someone had a fatman, I don't know who but it was fucking creepy. Everytime I neared the exit, a giant explosion would go off. I'm all like wtf.

I ended up hunkering behind the back area (with the slavers), throwing down mines and doing what I always do to people who get through. Shotgun to the fucken face! I'm sure the Dart Gun would have helped immensely

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[Brehvolution]

Mini nuke explosions are an awesome sight.

10 hours? Wow Genghis. It is definitely easy to lose track of time in this game.

[tiesto]

I still wish the dungeons were actually somewhat interesting...

The dungeons are awesome.  It's all about survival and planning and a bit of luck.  I don't need the standard dungeon>multiple levels>boss that has been done to death for ever.  I would rather scrounge for stimpacks and end up beating mutants to deth with their own hammer because all i have left is dog meat and no ammo.

No, it's not really the survival/planning aspect... it's just the actual design, inside of them. They present areas that may seem like they're interesting, only to have you spend most of the time in sewage systems or rooms, with hardly anything to set them apart from one another. And usually they are of square room/interconnected hallway, with the most random junk strewn about (wtf is a tricycle doing in a water pump facility?). It's my main gripe about the game.

At the point I'm at in the game, very few areas require even a stimpack use, I have a whole ton in my inventory as well. When you first start out it's still very hard but things get very easy once you do a few quests and level up.

[Robo]

I have this weird bug in Paradise Falls where, after completing Strictly Business, if I walk into the slave quarters, exit, and go visit Grouse, he will pay me again for capturing Flak and Susan (exact same dialogue as in the quest) and give me another slave collar.  I can do this again and again. 

[drew]

I have this fucking awesome bug in Paradise Falls where

fixed

[Brehvolution]

EB GOTY?

[pilonv1]

planet earths GOTY i think

[Cheebs]

I am about 10 hours in and still doing side missions in Megaton. I can't bring myself to blow it up yet. I put more time into the fucking first town than I did in most games I played the last 2-3 years. After Oblivion bored me very quickly I was going to avoid this...so glad I didn't.

[BlueTsunami]

Doing that (Moria?) Survival Book Quest to completion is good. Mainly because you get a good final reward from her. Other than that, her and the Atomic bomb defusion were the only quests I partook in Megtaon . I mostly wandered and explored.

[Cheebs]

Doing that (Moria?) Survival Book Quest to completion is good. Mainly because you get a good final reward from her. Other than that, her and the Atomic bomb defusion were the only quests I partook in Megtaon . I mostly wandered and explored.

Well it's not just megaton quests really, I keep bumping into other quests while doing the handful of megaton ones which takes up time. In the middle of the one for this lady in megaton about delivering a letter to her cannibal brother I wandered into some kid being attacked by ants and it led to a quest that took me forever to do.

[tiesto]

Finished "Reilly's Rangers", just found the Republic of Dave... Now I'm going to do "Strictly Business"... which reminds me of this awesome song from back in the day:

[Joe Molotov]

Wow Tennepenny tower is full of assholes, I excepted the offer to shoot the ghouls and even made Gustav pay more, but once I get to the ghouls Ill def help them or something, cause those loonies in T tower must get a reality check.

Get ready, the ghouls are douchebags too. There's no way to win, other than complete annihilation. 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Shit. Fuck this Nuka-Cola Challenge shit.

[pilonv1]

Doing that (Moria?) Survival Book Quest to completion is good. Mainly because you get a good final reward from her. Other than that, her and the Atomic bomb defusion were the only quests I partook in Megtaon . I mostly wandered and explored.

What do you get? I know you get some sort of perk for talking her out of it.

I did the leaky pipe quest in Megaton which is awesome because now I can trade my scrap metal to the water plant guy for 10 caps a piece.

[demi]

Citadel is way later in the game, you'll know when you get there

[Darunia]

yes. one of the paladins in the courtyard teaches you how to use power armor

[demi]

Yes it's story related. It's after you activate Project Purity

[tiesto]

Doing that (Moria?) Survival Book Quest to completion is good. Mainly because you get a good final reward from her. Other than that, her and the Atomic bomb defusion were the only quests I partook in Megtaon . I mostly wandered and explored.

What do you get? I know you get some sort of perk for talking her out of it.

I did the leaky pipe quest in Megaton which is awesome because now I can trade my scrap metal to the water plant guy for 10 caps a piece.

Yeah, you also get some nice EXP from giving him scrap metal.

Level 18, in the midst of the main quest once again. Then it's time to complete my schematic collection and the last few remaining subquests. I'm just worried I won't have enough speech challenges (I have like 32 or something) and computers hacked.

[tiesto]

Well, I have 41 speech challenges and haven't done:
Nuka Cola Challenge
Oasis
Superhuman Gambit

and a few whose names I forget, so hopefully I can get the remaining 9 here. I saved Big Town, I should check out those people and use the exploit if I cant find 9 more. I have 40 terminals, should be easy to find the last 10. Doing a 1000 point run looks to be extremely doable at this point, provided I put in 30 more hours or so.

[Kestastrophe]

There are lists out there for terminals. I was in the same situation as you with the terminal achievement and I ended up using a list to find the rest that I needed.

[Sho Nuff]

OMG @ the Trouble on the Home Front quest

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You have to use the radio to hear the emergency broadcast from inside Vault 101... OMG OMG

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[demi]

Well, I have 41 speech challenges and haven't done:
Nuka Cola Challenge
Oasis
Superhuman Gambit

and a few whose names I forget, so hopefully I can get the remaining 9 here. I saved Big Town, I should check out those people and use the exploit if I cant find 9 more. I have 40 terminals, should be easy to find the last 10. Doing a 1000 point run looks to be extremely doable at this point, provided I put in 30 more hours or so.

I got all 1000 within 60 hours

[tiesto]

Well, I have 41 speech challenges and haven't done:
Nuka Cola Challenge
Oasis
Superhuman Gambit

and a few whose names I forget, so hopefully I can get the remaining 9 here. I saved Big Town, I should check out those people and use the exploit if I cant find 9 more. I have 40 terminals, should be easy to find the last 10. Doing a 1000 point run looks to be extremely doable at this point, provided I put in 30 more hours or so.

I got all 1000 within 60 hours

Yeah I'm like about 40 hours in... the thing that will probably take me a while is getting the 12 bobbleheads I'm missing. Got the Weaponsmith achievement today. This may very well be my first 1000 point game.

[pilonv1]

Should I have killed the Slavers at lincons memorial? they were being cunts not letting me in

also what about greta in the underworld?

[demi]

Well, I have 41 speech challenges and haven't done:
Nuka Cola Challenge
Oasis
Superhuman Gambit

and a few whose names I forget, so hopefully I can get the remaining 9 here. I saved Big Town, I should check out those people and use the exploit if I cant find 9 more. I have 40 terminals, should be easy to find the last 10. Doing a 1000 point run looks to be extremely doable at this point, provided I put in 30 more hours or so.

I got all 1000 within 60 hours

Yeah I'm like about 40 hours in... the thing that will probably take me a while is getting the 12 bobbleheads I'm missing. Got the Weaponsmith achievement today. This may very well be my first 1000 point game.

Dont enjoy it too much, the DLC will bump it to 250 (or 1100, depending on if they add more with the future-future DLC)

[pilonv1]

id think the DLC in march with the level cap increase should have the most points with it

[pilonv1]

apparently its part of a quest but i dont have the right karma? or the artifacts

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Holy shit Fawkes is sweet. He's practically invincible and rocks a Gattling Laser. 

[cool breeze]

apparently its part of a quest but i dont have the right karma? or the artifacts

the quest starts at an area close to megaton, it's like north-ish at an abandoned buliding.

[Bacon]

This game isn't as good as Oblivion. I sort of feel like I'm forcing myself to play it. I might just stick to the main quest to finish...

[Human Snorenado]

This game isn't as good as Oblivion. I sort of feel like I'm forcing myself to play it. I might just stick to the main quest to finish...

  I haven't played this yet, but if it's not as good as OBLIVION well then... it must not be as good as a warm platter of poop.

[cool breeze]

Well, Oblivion wasn't good and Fallout 3 is. So Oblivion being better than Fallout 3 doesn't make any sense.

[Eel O'Brian]

I like them both, but I like Fallout better (although Shivering Isles kicked ass).

[pilonv1]

yeah i like them both, but fallout just seems more varied and deeper. oblivion is more random but there's like 1/10th of the options

[cool breeze]

I didn't like Oblivion, and I'll admit that it's because I was a Morrowind fan and Oblivion was a huge letdown.  Part of the reason I kept playing Oblivion was because I got the PC version and was able to download many fixes for it.  If I got it on the 360 I doubt I would have bothered.

After Fallout 3, I'm curious to see how ESV will turn out.  All my big problems with Oblivion were solved in Fallout 3, but a bunch of them were partly due to the change in setting.  If they can bring it back to the fantasy setting and have all the improvements (plus more), then ESV will be great.

[Bacon]

Fallout's world is just so boring. You'll see somewhere you want to go but there's always irradiated water or boring subways you have to go through to get to your destination. And ammo is scarce. I also wish you could just carry some hammers to repair your stuff instead of having to find the same weapon.

[Brehvolution]

Ya! Having to scrape by in the wastes is just to high maintenance.

I felt the same in the beginning. But there is so much to do that, as you develop your character, makes it so much more an enjoyable experience.
I love the feeling of, "Fuck! I don't want to go in there..."
Now I'm at the point, even at level 10 on my 2nd time though, where I feel that these bitches shouldn't fuck with me.

[tiesto]

I just hit the level cap, and from that I've lost quite a bit of motivation to play further... I have about 5 quests left to do (and the final main story quest), and 12 bobbleheads to hunt... there are quite a few areas I have yet to explore (the campsite north of the Evergreen Mills for instance, the Dunwich bldg, etc) but I don't really have too much motivation to do that, I don't feel like fighting since I have nothing to gain from it (apart from an achievement when I kill a few more humans). I still am gonna press forward though I think.

[The Sceneman]

okay finally picked this up, cant wait to get stuck in. One thing before I start, can you get all the achievements from one savegame? I mean if you go good/evil does that forfiet certain achieves or are they all doable?

[Himu]

Jesus Christ in pink socks

vault' spoilers

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Every vault i've been too has been fucked up

I went to Vault-Tec HQ tonight, got all the passcodes. Went to two vaults so far and they're either 1. fucked up and the survivors gone insane or 2. invaded by a bunch of rad monsters.

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[The Sceneman]

answer my question Himuro

[Himu]

okay finally picked this up, cant wait to get stuck in. One thing before I start, can you get all the achievements from one savegame? I mean if you go good/evil does that forfiet certain achieves or are they all doable?

You can do them all in one playthrough. Keep a specific save file handy for certain alignments. Demi is more knowledgeable about the achievements since he got 1000. Me, I haven't even looked at the achievements list once.

[The Sceneman]

okay game seems pretty tight, just got out of the Vault. read thru the achievements... Im guessing you make new saves before you hit level 8, level 14 and level 20... then boot up those saves and adjust your karma and level up to unlock those achievements? Im sticking with the good side as I figure its easier to lose karma quickly than build it up quickly?