Fallout 3 Thread

[TakingBackSunday]

I did it at the beginning of the game.

I just had a Hunting Rifle and lots of ammo, and some very delicate VATS headshots.

[BamYouHaveAids]

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

I did it at level 3. Just use the ant nectar and shoot the antennas. The only problem I ran into was running out of ammo, but I hand two plasma pistols and those have seemingly an infinite amount of ammo, so if you have a couple of those you should be good.

I really need to start playing this again, I was loving it and then I just dropped it for no reason.

[The Sceneman]

yeah I just smoked them with the hunting rifle

[demi]

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.

There's a perk that increases damage against insects, could help you out. I didnt use it of course. Early on, stock up on some mines, they are nice to use. Drop them like bread crumbs and the enemy just waltzes over them.

[Madrun Badrun]

I keep fucking dying.   :'( 

[drew]

i keep fucking over encumbering :'(

[muckhole]

I keep fucking dying.   :'( 

Don't stray too far from Megaton until you level up a bit. And get a gun with a scope as soon as you can.

i keep fucking over encumbering :'(

I grab a bunch of shit, take some Buffout so I can carry more and warp to a place where I can sell it all. Or at least I used to. Now I have more caps than I know what to do with.

[Madrun Badrun]

I keep fucking dying.   :'( 

Don't stray too far from Megaton until you level up a bit. And get a gun with a scope as soon as you can.

i keep fucking over encumbering :'(

I grab a bunch of shit, take some Buffout so I can carry more and warp to a place where I can sell it all. Or at least I used to. Now I have more caps than I know what to do with.

I haven't even found megaton.  I'm in greditch fighting fire ants with a pistol    I cleared out a school though, where is megaton from there?

[muckhole]

I haven't even found megaton.  I'm in greditch fighting fire ants with a pistol    I cleared out a school though, where is megaton from there?

West and a little bit north, not too far from where you are.

[Madrun Badrun]

found it.

[muckhole]

That should make life a bit easier. If you get the bomb disarmed, you'll get a key to a house where you can sleep/heal. And if your levels aren't high enough to disarm it, don't forget the various drugs/chems you can take to temporarily boost your stats.

[drew]

YES I KNOW WHAT TO DO

right now i have about 5 different lockers going on all scattered about

if i wanted to play right now id have to wade through at least an hour of micromanaging bullshit

sometimes i hate Bethesda

edit:  do not do Grayditch now you ideeuht you havent even found Megaton yet i havent done this one yet and i have like 30 hours play time

[muckhole]

I'm just trying to get the "Build all weapons" acheivement. I could have sworn I'd already made one of each, but no go, so now I have to go hunting all the junk down again. :'(

[Human Snorenado]

Turd Ferguson had a pretty exciting day in the Wastelands.  Found some dumb chick's younger brother holed up with a bunch of wannabe vampire freaks and in a rare instance of extending an olive branch to obviously sick and twisted people, I convinced them to not only make peace with the pussies they'd been terrorizing but to arrange a peace treaty.  And I convinced the dumb kid to go back to the town. 

Then I killed some ants.  A shit load of ants.  As I was wandering around the tunnels some freak showed up after I opened a safe and demanded my recently acquired naughty nightwear.  I convinced him to go away, and then decided to kill him because hey, he's a pervert.  No karma loss!  Sweet. 

Then I had to do some more crap for that crazy broad in Megaton.  I'm running low on ammo, so it's time to hang around outside of Megaton all day for the weapon caravan dude to show up so I can continue to dispense more frontier justice.

[Himu]

The fire ants dude. The fucking fire ants.

[drew]

how is Megaton not the first place you walk to

i remember being scurred of everything

&  fucking horrified when i shot a mole rat in the head and it was still alive D:

[Human Snorenado]

how is Megaton not the first place you walk to

i remember being scurred of everything

&  fucking horrified when i shot a mole rat in the head and it was still alive D:

I wandered around a bit in Springdale or whatever it's called.  I found that Silver chick and talked to her, thereby screwing up a potential future quest with Moriarity.  Oh well.

[demi]

That's also not a quest

[Himu]

how is Megaton not the first place you walk to

i remember being scurred of everything

&  fucking horrified when i shot a mole rat in the head and it was still alive D:

I wandered around a bit in Springdale or whatever it's called.  I found that Silver chick and talked to her, thereby screwing up a potential future quest with Moriarity.  Oh well.

There's a hooker in some place with a giant sex lamp. I talked to her and she said she wanted out. I said I could take her somewhere. She emphasized interest in Rivet City only but at that point I hadn't been to Rivet City so I told her I couldn't take her there. I thought I'd have the option to take her after I got to Rivet City, but I went back and now I can't take her. It sucks.

[Human Snorenado]

That's also not a quest

Meh, whatever. 

[Madrun Badrun]

where can I sell all the extra items I'm carting around? 

[muckhole]

Craterside supply in Megaton, plus caravans out in front of towns, and later on Rivet City.

[Human Snorenado]

where can I sell all the extra items I'm carting around? 

In Megaton there's lots of places to sell shit.  Moira will buy stuff at the supply store, but so will Gob at Moriarity's (and if you're nice to him he'll give you better prices, but the shit you sell him WON'T be there to buy back later if you need it), and Leo and Jenny Stahl at the other bar (forget the name). 

Also, roving trader caravans will come by the front gate of Megaton periodically.  Go outside (by the deputy droid and the guy who wants purified water) and just wait around an hour or two if no one is there. 

[Madrun Badrun]

when it says +1 for chr and -1 int for beer, those aren't perminant changes right?

[demi]

No...

[Madrun Badrun]

didn't think so but it didn't say any amount of time that they last and it didn't tell me that they wore off like the buffout did.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think I've been playing since 2.  Thats 8 hours ago.  none stop. 


I don't feel like I've accomplished anything at all.   :'(

[muckhole]

I've been cat-sitting all day, playing since about 4pm. No distrations (except the cat, of course) for a change. All I've really got left to do is complete the final quest, but I've been dragging it out exploring. Every time I think there's no new places to find, another pops up. I remember when I first fired up the game I was disappointed the map wasn't larger. 

[drew]

when it says +1 for chr and -1 int for beer, those aren't perminant changes right?

 

yes

[BlueTsunami]

when it says +1 for chr and -1 int for beer, those aren't perminant changes right?

Only if you end up sexing one of the Little Lamplight inhabitants

[Madrun Badrun]

killing roaches with a sledge hammer is just to fucking sweet.  GOTY.

[Madrun Badrun]

shit my 360's been on for 12 hours now I'm getting funny graphics glitchs.  when I move it's like colidoscope vision  :'(

[The Sceneman]

eeek might wanna give your box a rest Mike 

Im caning ass in my game currently. Commando (greater VATS accuracy with rifles) + finesse (greater critical hit rate) + chinese assualt rifle = lots of exploded raider and super mutant heads

[Human Snorenado]

eeek might wanna give your box a rest Mike 

Im caning ass in my game currently. Commando (greater VATS accuracy with rifles) + finesse (greater critical hit rate) + chinese assualt rifle = lots of exploded raider and super mutant heads

Chinese Assault Rifle

I found an old food processing plant in Arlington that was full of Chinese ghouls that thought they were still fighting the war or something.  Killing the shit out of them gave me a large stockpile of ammo for assault rifles and a nearly endless supply of those kick ass Chinese Assault Rifles.  CAR in a mid-30 condition takes down a super mutie like it's nothing.

[muckhole]

shit my 360's been on for 12 hours now I'm getting funny graphics glitchs.  when I move it's like colidoscope vision  :'(

This happened to me once I built the railway rifle. The ground looked fine, but the sky was all messed up, just solid bands of color stretching to the horizon. Only happened in certain parts of the map, but once I sold the railway rifle, the problem stopped and hasn't shown up again. Weird.

[drew]

i just walked through a door like it wasnt even there

wow this game is buuuuuuuuuuuuuuggy

it makes Oblivion look well polished

[Crushed]

XUANLONG ASSAULT RIFLE

it's like a chinese assault rifle but it does about 2x more damage, and holds 10 more bullets per magazine. It's basically a custom CAR as far as I can tell, so you can repair it with normal CARs.

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at the suggestion of my brother-in-law, i recieved fallout 3 from about 1700 different people for christmas

[close]

[cool breeze]

the Xuanlong AR is also the easiest custom weapon to find.

[drew]

why is the chinese pistol so crappy?

when the chinese assault rifle is so awesome?

[Joe Molotov]

Pistols suck.

[Madrun Badrun]

just did the police station mission.   I've been avoiding the tunnel parts and now I'm thinking i should start doing them.  Also free meds at big town 

[drew]

Pistols suck.

yeah, im just starting to use the rifles and grenades more now cause 10mm doesnt take down anything but Raiders anymore

[Madrun Badrun]

is the rock-it launcher worth the price of the schematics? 

[Madrun Badrun]

and what's taking my robot so long to make more pure water?

[The Sceneman]

is the rock-it launcher worth the price of the schematics? 

its pretty good in the sense of you can just shoot all the crap you find out of it so you never run out of ammo, and it deals decent damage. Close range face smashing with coffee mugs is pretty funny. Im about 13 hours in and have more caps than I can spend so just buy the damn schematics

[The Sceneman]

and what's taking my robot so long to make more pure water?

I havent fucked around with the robot yet 

[The Sceneman]

the Xuanlong AR is also the easiest custom weapon to find.

where do I find this gun

[Madrun Badrun]

how do I get to the radio station?  I'm already at rivet city and it says I've finished the fallowing his foots steps quest even though i haven't gotten there yet  :'(

[drew]

yeah the same thing happened to me

i just ignored it, stop worrying about stuff so much man

[demi]

how do I get to the radio station?  I'm already at rivet city and it says I've finished the fallowing his foots steps quest even though i haven't gotten there yet  :'(

Use the automap...

Wait you went to Rivet City before the Radio Station? Haha, you fucked up. That's a sequence breaker... you cant do the Following In His Footsteps quest anymore.

[TVC15]

Ahhhhhh haaaaaa, Arvie broke Fallout 3!

[Madrun Badrun]

lame

[demi]

You can break it even further by finding your dad right from the start

[pilonv1]

the Xuanlong AR is also the easiest custom weapon to find.

where do I find this gun

its a sub-quest from the museum of history. check the terminals

[Robo]

how do I get to the radio station?  I'm already at rivet city and it says I've finished the fallowing his foots steps quest even though i haven't gotten there yet  :'(

Use the automap...

Wait you went to Rivet City before the Radio Station? Haha, you fucked up. That's a sequence breaker... you cant do the Following In His Footsteps quest anymore.

iirc, after breaking the sequence, you can go to GNR and talk to Three Dog and still get the achievement for Following In His Footsteps even though the quest is no longer in the list, and do the Galaxy News Radio quest out of sequence.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

So I've got a question.  If I buy Fallout 3 on Steam will I be able to mod it?  I've run into some mod problems on some other games off Steam (like not being to access the .INI files) and I'd rather just avoid all that bullshit if possible but I'm kind of tempted here to buy the thing.

[drew]

Wait you went to Rivet City before the Radio Station? Haha, you fucked up. That's a sequence breaker... you cant do the Following In His Footsteps quest anymore.

wait...so now i can never find my dad?

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm almost level 8, where is everyone else at?  is there a level cap?

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I'm almost level 8, where is everyone else at?  is there a level cap?

Yep.  20.

[Madrun Badrun]

   hate when they do that.