Fallout 3 Thread

[demi]

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?

No you can. I'm saying you wont get credit for doing "Following In His Footsteps" and "Galaxy News Radio" - the quests between arriving at the radio station -> Rivet City

[tiesto]

Woot, 1000/1000 finally... now on to Vesperia

[Madrun Badrun]

naughty nighty!

[Human Snorenado]

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?

No you can. I'm saying you wont get credit for doing "Following In His Footsteps" and "Galaxy News Radio" - the quests between arriving at the radio station -> Rivet City

I'm in the same boat, but I have an old save somewhere in the 60 or so saves that I can just go back to and get the achievements.

Game is totally consuming my post holiday gaming, I've got like 10 other games for my 360 and other than some light Pinata gardening and zombie killing in Dead Rising for a change of pace, it's been all Fallout 3, all the time.  Game rules.

[The Sceneman]

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.

yeah that worked for mw, I visited Rivet City then the Radio Station, got the following in his footsteps achievement

[GilloD]

You guys are n00bs.

[pilonv1]

naughty nighty!

sexy sleepwear

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Just finished the "Those!" sidequest (and the Grady's storage side-sidequest) so I think I'm moving on to Rivet City finally. At level 8 right now.

I am pretty much out of ammo however and the store at Megaton doesn't really have any shells. Fucking ants

[Madrun Badrun]

old books $$$ 

[Madrun Badrun]

holy shit it's two am 

[Madrun Badrun]

I still haven't gone to the radio station and I'm at level 11. HOW DO YOU GET THERE?

[Madrun Badrun]

I've put 23 hours into it in two days!

[drew]

 

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[demi]

I still haven't gone to the radio station and I'm at level 11. HOW DO YOU GET THERE?

Maybe you should stick to Wii... this might be too difficult for you

[pilonv1]

forgot to save half way through during the declaration of independance quest might call it a night

[The Sceneman]

yeah just did that quest, told the robot I was Thomas Jefferson and he believed me lol

this game is totally sweet, definitely going to go for all 1000 points

Havent been having much trouble so far, Im always packing 50+ stimpacks and I never have to use that many

[pilonv1]

Once I got my medicine over 60 it's been clear sailing for me with stimpacks. I get at least 80+hp for each one now.

[The Sceneman]

yeah Im working towards that too. Just picked up the extra 20% from stimpacks perk and it's totally sweet. The repair skill is awesome, you can pick up several damaged weapons and slap them into one decent one and sell the bad boy for heaps of caps without taking up heaps of inventory space

[pilonv1]

yeah repair is brilliant.

that perk is ok, but if you're going to level up your medicine it's pretty pointless later on imo.

[Human Snorenado]

yeah Im working towards that too. Just picked up the extra 20% from stimpacks perk and it's totally sweet. The repair skill is awesome, you can pick up several damaged weapons and slap them into one decent one and sell the bad boy for heaps of caps without taking up heaps of inventory space

Whatever, I keep every single one of my favorite weapons (hunting rifle, Chinese assault rifle, combat shotgun) that I find so I can use them for repair.  Not on me obviously, but I stow 'em in the lockers at my house in Megaton.

[Madrun Badrun]

I still haven't gone to the radio station and I'm at level 11. HOW DO YOU GET THERE?

Maybe you should stick to Wii... this might be too difficult for you

zak and wiki was a lot harder and more frustrating than this.  Now how do I get there!

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[Robo]

There are parts of DC that are only accessable via the metro tunnels.  To get to GNR, you're gonna want to start in Friendship Heights.

[Madrun Badrun]

There are parts of DC that are only accessable via the metro tunnels.  To get to GNR, you're gonna want to start in Friendship Heights.

O I've been there but then there was a super mutant master or something like that and I ran and got busy with other quests lol

edit:  I was thinking about church falls. 

[Robo]

Friendship Heights is around the northern most part of the city limits; there, you want to take the metro south to Chevy Chase.

[Madrun Badrun]

holy shit behemoth!

[patrickula]

One time I saw a giant super mutant (I guess it was a behemoth?) out in the western part of the map.  It killed me so I reloaded my quicksave... and it didn't spawn again.  I wanted to try to kill it

I guess the enemy spawning is very random in the wastes?

[Madrun Badrun]

I just saw a raider woman with like a hells angles beard going on lol

[Madrun Badrun]

A3-21's plasma rifle is so fucking killer. 


finally got to all the museums and shit.  woot.

lol Cerberus

[Human Snorenado]

I think I fucked up the Replicated Man quest.   

I got to Rivet City and picked up the quest, but I was there to investigate the history for Moira.  I wasn't really paying attention to the new quest I picked up, but I found a couple of clues in Rivet City and then this woman gives me an android component to give to Zimmer.  I keep doing the Moira quest and it brings me to Pinkerton.  Not really paying attention, I asked if he did the surgery and memory wipe and despite the fact that I had like a 70% speech chance he said no, he didn't but if such a thing was done he would be the only one who could have done it. 

Then it prompted me to keep looking for clues or give Zimmer the component to end the quest, so I think I screwed up.  I checked the Fallout 3 wikia page and it said there should be clues with Moira, the Megaton Doc etc but I can't seem to find them.  I think the only way I can finish the quest now is to give Zimmer the component and tell him the android is dead, but that would man that I don't get the plasma rifle.   

[demi]

There are plenty of other plasma rifles in the game. Look for Enclave soldiers in the northwest

[Joe Molotov]

Keep asking around, someone should tell you about Pinkerton. If they don't, just go find him on your own, that'll probably still move the quest along. He's in the front of the ship that's broken off from Rivet City. You either have to have 100 Lockpick to pick the door, or swim down underneath and enter from the bottom. He'll tell you about the Android.

[Madrun Badrun]

he's found pinkerton already.

Try hacking pinkertons pc, he keeps the android files one there that you need for the quest anyways. 

[Madrun Badrun]

fuck I keep fucking dying now  :'(

[muckhole]

What did you pour your stat points into?

[Madrun Badrun]

health, locks, and talking. 

[muckhole]

Huh. Must be new armor time, then. I've only died a handful of times playing, and I'm by no means a steady hand when it comes to shooting. Either that or you're hitting some high level baddies, but I thought I heard they were scaled.

[Madrun Badrun]

I don't know suddenly raiders are coming in packs of like 7 and with missile launchers.  I use to take care of raiders like they were nothing!  now they're kicking my ass.  I also wondered into a place i'm  not sure I should be fort bannister?

[muckhole]

As I recall, Fort Bannister did have a fair number of raiders floating around, yes. I made the mistake of fast-travelling there recently and got pummeled by the respawned raiders I was surrounded by, and as you said, with missile launchers.

[Madrun Badrun]

I gained a whole level just at the fort.  hope that wasn't part of any quests...xbox just froze.  I didn't save  :'(

edit:  thank god for auto save.

[Human Snorenado]

I was confused- I just chose the wrong option the first time I talked to Pinkerton, because the right option sounded like I was threatening him and I didn't want to provoke him into a fight.     Anyway, done with that quest and on to finishing up Reilly's Rangers now.  Almost level 13!  I've discovered that I have a bad habit of switching to an armor that gives an extra 5% to repair or lockpick or whatever to perform a task and leave it on, then wonder why I'm losing health so quickly once a fight starts back up.  

[Positive Touch]

I've discovered that I have a bad habit of switching to an armor that gives an extra 5% to repair or lockpick or whatever to perform a task and leave it on, then wonder why I'm losing health so quickly once a fight starts back up.  

I've done the same thing countless times

[Crushed]

oh god i can't stop playing this game, and i couldn't stand the old fallouts

sooooo gooooood

[Ninja]

I need to play this more. I played it quite a lot for about two weeks after lanch then just stopped. I prefer Oblivion though.

[Human Snorenado]

I need to play this more. I played it quite a lot for about two weeks after lanch then just stopped. I prefer Oblivion though.

JUMP AROUND THE WORLD TO GAIN XP!

[Madrun Badrun]

how do I repair my own equipment? 

[Human Snorenado]

how do I repair my own equipment? 

  You CAN'T be serious.

[Madrun Badrun]

how do I repair my own equipment? 

  You CAN'T be serious.

I am.  Some times it lets me and others not.  Is it amount of skill thing or do i need certain junk on me to do it?

[Robo]

You need multiples of the same item or very similar items (Talon Combat Armor repairs Combat Armor, for instance).  Skill determines how much of the item you can repair i.e. if your skill is very low, you won't be able to repair a lightly damaged weapon.  Whichever item you use to repair is destroyed forever, so make sure you're not repairing your shitty normal items with unique items.

[Madrun Badrun]

thanks.

[Human Snorenado]

how do I repair my own equipment? 

  You CAN'T be serious.

I am.  Some times it lets me and others not.  Is it amount of skill thing or do i need certain junk on me to do it?

Jesus Arvie, my copy didn't come with an instruction book and I f'n figured it out.

You have to have TWO of a particular item to repair ONE.  You cannibalize parts from one to put on the other.  In your item screen, if you can repair an item it will have the "Y" button highlighted and you press that.  Once you get to the repair screen it will let you know if your skill is high enough.  Note:  the button presses are contingent on using the 360 version.

edit:  meh, beat by RoboJ

[Eel O'Brian]

to repeat, most "special" weapons you earn/steal/pick off corpses can be repaired by their normal counterparts - the special pulse rifle you'll get from a certain character can be repaired by regular pulse rifles, special sniper rifles can be repaired with normal ones, etc.

[Brehvolution]

Repairing stuff is the best way to make caps.
If possible, I always tried to have 2 of each weapon. 1 to use and keep in top form and use, and 1 to fix up to sell. Same with badlands armor. You can repair all badlands armor with any other as long as it has badlands in the name and sell it for a decent dime.
When selling your stuff, note how many caps the person has. Usually you can sell some stuff to take most of their caps, then buy stimpacks or whatever to give them caps back so you can sell them more stuff.

[drew]

arvie, go here and read up man

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki

[Madrun Badrun]

lol just did the Reilly's rangers mission and at the end I choose the armor then pick pocketed brick for the minigun. 

[Human Snorenado]

minigun

Xuanlong Assault Rifle

Lincoln's Repeater