Fallout 3 Thread

[pilonv1]

i only have issues running out of stimpacks, not ammo. i have like 500 10mm rounds, 300 shotgun shells  and 1000 .32mm rounds. only my magnum and sniper rifle are ever low on ammo, so i use the awesome hunting rifle most of the time

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Enclave

[The Sceneman]

awesome thanks for the tips 

[tiesto]

2 bobbleheads that may be missable... I found out the hard way that one of them is missable and have to redo 4 hours worth of gameplay today

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In Vault 101, on your father's desk in the medical lab. There's a mission later in the game, where any successful outcome locks you out of Vault 101 forever.

In Raven Rock, the Enclave fortress, there is a bobblehead in one of the rooms. This is the one I missed and now I have to reload my save 

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There are also lots of karma manipulators, like giving donations to the priest in Rivet City, giving water to the guy outside of Rivet City, etc. To get the 8/14/20 level achievements, I just created a save when I was about to level up, then go around killing (I played as good).

[Brehvolution]

Anyone do the Reilly's Rangers quest? I totally missed this the first time around. Anything I should do/not do?

[Sysgen]

Anyone do the Reilly's Rangers quest? I totally missed this the first time around. Anything I should do/not do?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Reilly's_Rangers_(quest)

[Himu]

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In Vault 101, on your father's desk in the medical lab. There's a mission later in the game, where any successful outcome locks you out of Vault 101 forever.

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What does this even mean? Any successful outcome? What? I mean, I got the passcodes and I still can't get in.

[demi]

Any outcome results in you being kicked out permanently

[Himu]

Oh fuck. When can I head back there anyway?

[demi]

When you get the distress call on your radio

[Himu]

awesome.

[pilonv1]

i think i fucked up the angela and diego quest. i told the priest about them, but then said i hadn't seen them. then i went back and told diego not to fuck around with her and he did, so now she hates him

also I told the little kid to fuck off, then his mom got upset at me so i replied "there are no bad children, just bad parents"

this game is so fucking great

[Brehvolution]

Pfft. I gave her ant ferimone to seduce him and even witnessed their marriage. I don't know about a quest, but I think I got good karma from it.

[drew]

does anyone else constantly click VATS when walking through the wasteland?

[The Sceneman]

Okay Im ready to get stuck in good and proper. I know the save/karma/level up trick, and that there is two missable Bobble Heads (one in Vault 101 and one in raven rock). Any other missable items required for achievements or is that it? I dont wanna get boned you see

[Eel O'Brian]

does anyone else constantly click VATS when walking through the wasteland?

 

yes

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

does anyone else constantly click VATS when walking through the wasteland?

Guilty. It's an easy way to get a leg up on sneaky critters.

[Brehvolution]

does anyone else constantly click VATS when walking through the wasteland?

No. If I run for a good length in the wastes, I'll occasional stop and look behind to see if there is anything that just hasn't caught up yet.

[tiesto]

I found an old save game on level 5 that I'm replaying now, since I missed the level 8 neutral/evil achievements. Got the "One Man Scouting Party" and "Data Miner" achievements today, 2 more speech challenges away from "Silver Tongued Devil", ~40 more people to kill for "Doesn't Play Well With Others". 3 more subquests to do, 10 more bobbleheads to collect, and then I go for it.

Scenester: There's a SPEECH exploit that you can use to get the "Silver Tongued Devil" achievement, but be a bit careful when speech challenges come up, try to get as many as possible in the main game.

[Bacon]

Just finished the main quest. MEH. That last mission was boring as FUCK.

I had no emotional investment in ANY character in this game. The father, the main player, no one. The endings are shit.

I guess after the greatness of MGS4, the characters and production values in other games seem really shitty...

[Human Snorenado]

Just finished the main quest. MEH. That last mission was boring as FUCK.

I had no emotional investment in ANY character in this game. The father, the main player, no one. The endings are shit.

I guess after the greatness of MGS4, the characters and production values in other games seem really shitty...

Rape this filth with a chainsaw.

[Himu]

lmao

does anyone else constantly click VATS when walking through the wasteland?

yes

[Bacon]

BTW, I don't even understand the ending and some of the conflicts.

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Why did I want to stop that Admiral dude from starting the Purifier? Sure he killed Dad, but what's the difference if he starts it or the Brotherhood does? He didn't even want to add the virus...

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[cool breeze]

it's because of

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nano machines

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[Bacon]

I don't understand how the purifier or GECK works either.

Nanomachines make perfect sense though.

[chronovore]

I don't understand how the purifier or GECK works either.

Nanomachines make perfect sense though.

1950s-era nanomachines -- the SIZE OF NANO-BUICKS.

With fins.

And chrome.

[pilonv1]

up to the final chapter of the research, it's probably my favourite quest so far

[The Sceneman]

really really really enjoying this so far, seem like it lives up to all the GOTY touting from EB.

[pilonv1]

@ getting both bonuses for the replicated man quest.

[Robo]

Unless you're trying to fast travel from a place that doesn't allow it, or there are enemies in the vicinity, it's just a hateful bug.  Have fun in the metro tunnels.

[drew]

yes

lmao

yes

Guilty. It's an easy way to get a leg up on sneaky critters.

good to see im not alone here

[Positive Touch]

Argh feel so dumb right now

I was so happy yesterday because I tore up the White House and the Stealing Independence quest without using a single stimpak.  I'm at level 16 right now, and the last time I tried those I was at level eight or something and I got my ass handed to me brutally.  Well this morning I loaded up my game and felt like I should check the options and realized I'm a total dumbfuck when I did.  The other day I started a new game on very easy difficulty to get some trophies for the early quests.  When I went back to my regular game I forgot to change it back.  Now not only am I sad that I'm doing jack shit for damage again, but I feel like I was gypped out of the challenge of beating those two levels on a real difficulty

[tiesto]

I'm in the middle of "Those!" right now but now it's off to my uncle's... I haven't even been to the White House yet, I love reading about this game because even though it feels like I've already seen so much, there's stuff I still need to discover.

Tenpenny Tower:

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OMG, letting the Feral Ghouls rampage the place is fucking awesome 

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[Positive Touch]

Unless you're trying to fast travel from a place that doesn't allow it, or there are enemies in the vicinity, it's just a hateful bug.  Have fun in the metro tunnels.

oh i spent like 3 hours clearing out the dupont tunnels, got out, found the mall and returned to megaton, but when i reloaded the mall isn't on the map anymore.

luckily it looks like the tunnels are still cleared.

When you say the Mall, you mean the mall in downtown D.C., right?  I don't think it had an icon.  IIRC there were just icon for all the other landmarks around there.

[drew]

is there a mod on the pc version that deactivates the limit on how much you can carry?

if so, superior version totes

[pilonv1]

fuck

i made it halfway across the map to get one shotted by some fucking missle launcher i didnt see and hadn't saved

fuck this game sometimes

[drew]

save save save save save save and then autosave

you are playing a Bethesda game niqa

[pilonv1]

yeah i know im just so used to the autosaves :-'(

will save more often from now on

[drew]

nah autosave is good

just be aware of when it happens and ull be good

[muckhole]

I use both. I save manually whenever anything significant happens, or I reach a pont after wandering the overworld for a while and don't want to lose a bunch of progress, but I like having the autosave on for the indoor parts, just in case.

[drew]

Full control >>>> partial control.

borderline insane Obsessive Compulsive Disorder>>>>>Full control>>>>partial control

i seriously save every like every 5 mins.  i max out the save slots in every game i play

[trh]

<- 300+ saves in 40 hours played.

[pilonv1]

I use both. I save manually whenever anything significant happens, or I reach a pont after wandering the overworld for a while and don't want to lose a bunch of progress, but I like having the autosave on for the indoor parts, just in case.

This is what I do.

Also I'm at 50+ saves in about 15 hours

[Human Snorenado]

Oh.  Mah.  GAWD.

This game raped my face so hard today.  I think I'm gonna roll up another character, tho, because I accidentally took the perk at lv. 4 that gives you an extra 10% exp instead of the one that gives you an extra couple of skill points per level.  OOPS.

Also, I'm afraid I might have fucked up something- at the Seneca station around Arefu I killed a ghoul named Barrett who looks like he was probably there to give quests or something later.  But I WANTED the shotgun on his desk.  WANTED IT, I say.  And I'm trying to play a good character.   

Anyway, GOTY and all that shit.

[demi]

Barrett and the other guy doesnt involve any quest - they just give you 15 caps for each Sugar Bomb box you give

[Human Snorenado]

Barrett doesnt involve any quest

Good lol, I wanted his shotgun.  NOW IT'S MINE.  And I'll make up for that bad karma I got when I killed him in cold, covetous blood by using said shotgun to regulate on Burke back in Megaton.

[muckhole]

Good lol, I wanted his shotgun.  NOW IT'S MINE.  And I'll make up for that bad karma I got when I killed him in cold, covetous blood by using said shotgun to regulate on Burke back in Megaton.

Or you can give the dude outside Megaton some purified water. Nothing says "I'm sorry I murdered all those innocent people with the Ripper" like the gift of water.

[tiesto]

Oh.  Mah.  GAWD.

This game raped my face so hard today.  I think I'm gonna roll up another character, tho, because I accidentally took the perk at lv. 4 that gives you an extra 10% exp instead of the one that gives you an extra couple of skill points per level.  OOPS.

Also, I'm afraid I might have fucked up something- at the Seneca station around Arefu I killed a ghoul named Barrett who looks like he was probably there to give quests or something later.  But I WANTED the shotgun on his desk.  WANTED IT, I say.  And I'm trying to play a good character.   

Anyway, GOTY and all that shit.

Don't bother with the 10% exp perk, or the one that grants another experience level, it's so easy to max out your level in this game...

6 bobbleheads to go...

[Positive Touch]

Head of State quest broke :'(

SHIT QUEST


actually I eventually found out that after going to the memorial and waiting around for a few days, I had to go to the northern metro station that was nearby.  for some reason the group was just hanging around there.  this was after i spent HOURS trailing these dumbfucks because I thought they would get killed without me.


SHIT QUEST

[tiesto]

Finally got all the bobbleheads, and Head of State is coincidentally the only subquest I have left to do. That sucks that it's a real borked and buggy quest.

52 hours in so far.

[cool breeze]

They aren't even there, but it tells me they are, even after 10 days.  I have to go back to an old save.  Shit quest total.

I had this same problem.  Did you kill all the slavers around the memorial? It used to tell me they were outside the metro station, but they didn't appear until I murdered all the slavers (including the chief guy who is inside the room near the bottom of the stairs)

[The Sceneman]

Oh.  Mah.  GAWD.

This game raped my face so hard today.  I think I'm gonna roll up another character, tho, because I accidentally took the perk at lv. 4 that gives you an extra 10% exp instead of the one that gives you an extra couple of skill points per level.  OOPS.

Also, I'm afraid I might have fucked up something- at the Seneca station around Arefu I killed a ghoul named Barrett who looks like he was probably there to give quests or something later.  But I WANTED the shotgun on his desk.  WANTED IT, I say.  And I'm trying to play a good character.   

Anyway, GOTY and all that shit.

yeah I took the same perk I was stuck in the jrpg mindset that more exp=win

Im actaully kinda worried about perks, people seem convinced that you can fuck up your build, havent been having any trouble so far and Im about 10 hours in

And yeah GOTmuthafuckinY

[tiesto]

http://fallout.wikia.org is such an awesome site about the game, allows you to look stuff up quickly and has everything you may need to know, it's been a lifesaver.

[The Sceneman]

eek games getting a little harder now. Got these mercenaries chasing me and the super mutants and raiders seem to be tougher.

Whats the weapon to get? The chinese assault rifle and combat shotgun are doing me proud right now. The rock-it launcher is good for close range head smashin'

Is the hack 50 terminals achievement easy to fuck up? Ive only managed to hack 3 so far lol

[demi]

theres lots of terminals in the game.

[BlueTsunami]

Automatic Rifles are horrible in this game and I was proficient at Small Guns. Long Range single shot Rifles rock and Shotguns for intimate encounters. I wasn't good with Big Guns so I'm not sure whats good in that area (the Flamer seemed pretty cool). With that said, my most used weapon was the Shotgun. VATS to the Face nicca!

[tiesto]

The weapon you get from

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completion of "The Replicated Man" quest from Harkness

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, the AR-321 Plasma Rifle is pretty awesome, I have used that (and a maxed out Energy Weapons skill) most of the game.

[pilonv1]

Automatic Rifles are horrible in this game and I was proficient at Small Guns. Long Range single shot Rifles rock and Shotguns for intimate encounters. I wasn't good with Big Guns so I'm not sure whats good in that area (the Flamer seemed pretty cool). With that said, my most used weapon was the Shotgun. VATS to the Face distinguished black fellow!

Assault Rifles are pretty cool if you get the extra % hit perk and one of the + VATS perks from a quest. From mid-range they're nasty especially on super mutants. But my trusty Hunting Rifle + Sniper Rifle do most of my damage before they get close enough to me.

[Human Snorenado]

Holy Christ, how the hell do you guys deal with the fire ants in Grayditch?  I'm trying to do the "Those!" quest and my usual method of running right up to something and feeding it a shotgun blast to the face is turning out to be a woefully BAD idea with fire breathing ants.

[Darunia]

what level are you? if you're doing this quest at the beginning of the game, not a good idea. You should be lvl 7/8 before doing it. Bring a bunch of rifles, mines and ammo and those ants shouldn't be too much of a problem. And yeah, keep your distance