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Huh. Just got the message from Vault 101 and wandered back in.

What a fucking canned sidequest. Go in, talk to overseer, he tries to kill you, BOOM he's dead, banned forever. It's like they were trying to give it a Fallout 1 feel with the banishing forever thing. Didn't help any that every single person you talk to says "Yes you do." when you say you have to go, and then talking to people on your way out elicits a similar across the board response, "It's sad you have to go, but you'll do okay out there, I'm sure." >_<
 
Oh man, I snuk into the Brotherhood Outcasts base (unnoticed), hidden, quicksaved and it turned out that everyone inside was automaticaly set to hostile, meaning that the Outcasts outside was also hostile afterwards. Luckily I got some pretty sweet gear out of it. :lol
 
So how bad is the PS3 version? My 360 is dying, and I've not got far into Fallout 3 yet, so tempted to get the PS3 version while my 360 gets repaired/replaced.
 
Kweh said:
So how bad is the PS3 version? My 360 is dying, and I've not got far into Fallout 3 yet, so tempted to get the PS3 version while my 360 gets repaired/replaced.

Other than the halt bug (that will be patched soon) that occurs when a PSN message is received, it's not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.

The wizards over at B3d recently proved the PS3 version has higher res normal maps, character textures and a few more misc enhancements.

I've been playing the PC version but my buddy owns it on PS3 and hasn't mentioned one problem, for what it's worth.
 
nelsonroyale said:
I am in the giant ant dungeon below the school...I get to the end of the tunnel, and there are two paths...but one is too high and the other is too low...

How the hell am I supposed to progress in there?
At Springvale Elementary? Yeah that mining tunnel is a big tease. Don't worry, the grotto with the two paths is as far as you can progress, according to the maps in the strategy guide.

The treasure in that room is the
Chinese:Spec Ops skill book
, so you might have to poke around the refuse piles a bit before you find it.
 
Kweh said:
So how bad is the PS3 version? My 360 is dying, and I've not got far into Fallout 3 yet, so tempted to get the PS3 version while my 360 gets repaired/replaced.
The PS3 version is fine. It needs more AA and it occasionally stutters outdoors but besides that it is solid. I've never regretted buying the game at all, it's so good that the very minor technical issues won't bother you.
 
belvedere said:
Other than the halt bug (that will be patched soon) that occurs when a PSN message is received, it's not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.

The wizards over at B3d recently proved the PS3 version has higher res normal maps, character textures and a few more misc enhancements.

I've been playing the PC version but my buddy owns it on PS3 and hasn't mentioned one problem, for what it's worth.
No, they didn't.... please stop spreading okrim's FUD. The consensus is that normal mapping has been downscaled on the PS3 version, and that the shading detail isn't quite as good.
Its advantage lies in a better specularity resolve, which produces a glossy effect on certain textures, though the textures themselves are exactly the same on both consoles. We already know about the AA issues.

Bottom line is that the game is fantastic and that the aesthetic differences between console versions shouldn't deter anyone from picking it up.
 
Peronthious said:
Huh. Just got the message from Vault 101 and wandered back in.

What a fucking canned sidequest. Go in, talk to overseer, he tries to kill you, BOOM he's dead, banned forever. It's like they were trying to give it a Fallout 1 feel with the banishing forever thing. Didn't help any that every single person you talk to says "Yes you do." when you say you have to go, and then talking to people on your way out elicits a similar across the board response, "It's sad you have to go, but you'll do okay out there, I'm sure." >_<
You can do it without
killing the Overseer. Tell the security guard to take you to him. He won't fire at you and you can convince him to stop what he's doing and let people out of the Vault.
 
I just went on a little exploring trip and stumbled into the Dunwich building. Holy shit the game turned into a genuine horror game in there. Freaked me out on numerous occasions.
 
Danielsan said:
I just went on a little exploring trip and stumbled into the Dunwich building. Holy shit the game turned into a genuine horror game in there. Freaked me out on numerous occasions.

Dunwich? Have you ever read...the Dunwich Horror by any chance? :D Probably not related, sadly...
 
Danielsan said:
I just went on a little exploring trip and stumbled into the Dunwich building. Holy shit the game turned into a genuine horror game in there. Freaked me out on numerous occasions.

Hell yeah that building rocks :D
 
Quick question.

The T51b Power Armor

Anyone know definitively if I can repair this as it's unique? Lots of different answers on the internet
some say use Brotherhood power armor, some say any power armor, some say only the power armor Lyons' Pride from the Citadel wear will work.

Anyone successfully repaired it back up to 100 with anything?

Edit: Post at the top of the page has some info too, I see. I guess I didn't need the spoilers.

Regarding that, I picked up some Brotherhood Armor from the GNR quest, two sets actually from fallen people, but when I repaired the pieces it seems to have lost the 'Brotherhood' designation in my inventory. Hope it still works.
 
PC version for the ridiculous win. :D

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Arlington Library question:

Which old world books is that Brotherhood scholar looking for? I searched the whole damn building, found a few of the books that give you stat upgrades, but she doesn't accept them. Does anyone who exactly what she's looking for?
 
Blizzard said:
Dunwich? Have you ever read...the Dunwich Horror by any chance? :D Probably not related, sadly...
Never read the book but I just checked out the wiki. I think it does reference it. There are audio logs that reference the necronomicon.
 
gregor7777 said:
Arlington Library question:

Which old world books is that Brotherhood scholar looking for? I searched the whole damn building, found a few of the books that give you stat upgrades, but she doesn't accept them. Does anyone who exactly what she's looking for?
There are books labeled "pre-war book", they are grey/greenish. You can find them all over the wasteland (there are a bunch in Minefield) and she'll give you 100 caps for each book. :D
 
gregor7777 said:
Arlington Library question:

Which old world books is that Brotherhood scholar looking for? I searched the whole damn building, found a few of the books that give you stat upgrades, but she doesn't accept them. Does anyone who exactly what she's looking for?

She wants the specifically labelled "Pre-War books".

You can find them all over the waste land too, and She gives you
100 caps
per book. you should be able to find 7 or 8 in the library. They are easy to spot as they arent destroyed or burned and are easily discerned from a distance (put your light on).
 
sennin said:
The level cap of 20 is an old AD&D tradition, which they raised to 40 in later iterations of the rulebooks. Considering how influential AD&D is on crpgs, it isn't surprising to witness a cap of 20 for Fallout 3. And frankly, by lv 15 I was destroying everything with Fawkes, had 1300 5.56 ammo, 800+ Laser Cells, Micro Fusions, 5mm and 300~400+ ammo of other types. The only ammo that's rare for me are explosives and .44. With Mysterious Stranger and a decent Luck, I felt way overpowered. This is on Hard. I can't imagine what's 20 going to be like with Action Girl and Grim Reaper's Sprint.

As for uniques, most (all?) of them can be repaired using standard gear. I'll list some -

Terrible Shotgun - Combat Shotgun
Lincoln's Repeater - Hunting Rifles (yes, it uses .44 ammo, but according to fallout.wikia it also accepts parts from Hunting Rifles)
Fisto! - Power Fist
Ranger Battle Armor - Talon Merc Armor or Combat Armor
XuanLong Assault Rifle - Chinese AR
A3-21- Plasma Rifle

I've even read that T-51b Power Armor can be repaired, but not with Enclave's Power Armors. You need to get hold of Brotherhood of Steel Power Armors, although I'm not sure if Outcast's armors will work as well. I would also expect Eugene and Vengeance to be repairable with mini-guns.

Yeah I agree that there is no concerns as far as power or resources goes... I just like the process of getting XP and levelling up.
 
Loudninja said:
Hey if I leave stuff around my house it wont disappear right?
nope it stays there forever. i have my house decorated with abraham lincoln memorabilia and valuable weapons, it's pretty awesome :)
 
Spent 6 hours with a friend's copy of Gears2 last night....

FO3 reins supreme :D Gears2 has substantially less of a chance at GOTY IMO.
 
-viper- said:
PS3 version has superior textures. There are pictures at Beyond3D.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1235933&postcount=1287
You didn't bother reading the rest of that thread, did you?

MindWash said:
Spent 6 hours with a friend's copy of Gears2 last night....

FO3 reins supreme :D Gears2 has substantially less of a chance at GOTY IMO.
Yeah, since Amazon screwed up again, I won't have my copy of Gears until Monday, but it's going to take a hell of a lot of awesome sauce to keep FO3 from being my GOTY.
 
It is annoying that being evil means giving up 2000 caps for both followers. Not to mention the traders have a limited amount of caps with them, making trading a hassle. Not a problem for good characters! They follow you on the sheer basis of your altruistic acts. ^_^

Nice work of balance there Beth, evil characters get to steal lots more loot, make them use that overloaded stash they acquired.
 
voltron said:
She wants the specifically labelled "Pre-War books".

You can find them all over the waste land too, and She gives you
100 caps
per book. you should be able to find 7 or 8 in the library. They are easy to spot as they arent destroyed or burned and are easily discerned from a distance (put your light on).

Balls. Yeah, I was looking for the colorful +1 skill books.
 
Played the game for two hours straights, and daaaammmmn it's awesome.
Been doing a LOT of exploring, but one problem. I need to get some mentats from Leo Stahl, and he tells me to wait for his shift to end next to the bomb.
WHEN? as soon as he gets out of the bar thingy, he goes.. somewhere. I NEED MY MENTATS.

Loving it, and I never loved an RPG before. I think.
 
The karma system is a bit strange...I kill without hesitation and steal like it's going out of style, yet I give a bum some water and save Megaton and I'm Jesus 2.0.

Meanwhile I'm mezzing and slaving whenever I get the chance
 
Head of State quest question. (Is it broken?)

I got up to the part where I need to meet hannibal at the memorial. I cant find him anywhere. So after trying to figure out the dumb waypoints I went an killed all the slavers at the memorial hoping it would trigger him to come out. He is still no where to be found.
 
Rez>You said:
I've played for about the same time (about 28 hours) and I am level 18. Strange.

I can see why they capped the levelling, to stop people from becoming gods (at the moment I've already earned 100 skill points in Small Guns, Medicine, Science, Lockpick and Repair), but it is a bit of a downer. Also being able to eventually get all the perks would defeat the purpose of the whole perk system.

Exactly. The entire system is rendered meaningless if you could just master all of the skills like you can in JRPGs. Here you ave to pick and choose what interests you.

Spayro said:
Played the game for two hours straights, and daaaammmmn it's awesome.
Been doing a LOT of exploring, but one problem. I need to get some mentats from Leo Stahl, and he tells me to wait for his shift to end next to the bomb.
WHEN? as soon as he gets out of the bar thingy, he goes.. somewhere. I NEED MY MENTATS.

Loving it, and I never loved an RPG before. I think.

Just wait until nighttime.
 
What he hell I just encounter a Raider with a very powerful weapon, its called the
Firelance

I am on level 3,and that weapon killed me in like 1 or 2 hits.
 
I need help picking my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points. I want to be fast, jump high, and use laser guns and guns in general and no melee really. What traits should I focus on?
 
Danielsan said:
Definitely, I'm always looking in every nook and cranny to make sure I don't miss any.

Yeah, its like "OMG Tales of a Junkyard Vendor? Ive been meaning to read that for a while now. Fuck yeah!!"

/barter +1
 
GreekWolf said:
No, they didn't.... please stop spreading okrim's FUD. The consensus is that normal mapping has been downscaled on the PS3 version, and that the shading detail isn't quite as good.
Its advantage lies in a better specularity resolve, which produces a glossy effect on certain textures, though the textures themselves are exactly the same on both consoles. We already know about the AA issues.

Bottom line is that the game is fantastic and that the aesthetic differences between console versions shouldn't deter anyone from picking it up.

No, no, no! Please, everybody! Listen to my FUD instead! It's so much more palatable! :lol

edit: to be fair, I'm just kidding, and I do think the 360 version looks a little nicer.
 
Shatai said:
No, no, no! Please, everybody! Listen to my FUD instead! It's so much more palatable! :lol
:lol

Don't sweat it mang, I figured you were yanking my chain. I HATE cluttering the thread with console warz but, for some reason, anytime okrim is involved I always feel like I have to interject.
 
GreekWolf said:
At Springvale Elementary? Yeah that mining tunnel is a big tease. Don't worry, the grotto with the two paths is as far as you can progress, according to the maps in the strategy guide.

The treasure in that room is the
Chinese:Spec Ops skill book
, so you might have to poke around the refuse piles a bit before you find it.

Thanks.

Damnit, that was a pretty damn poor dungeon. I must admit, that dungeon visually looked straight out of oblivion, whereas the outdoor areas look much much nicer.

Heh, looking at pics...I can never pick a female in these kind of games...guess its because I am a dude
 
voltron said:
Yeah, its like "OMG Tales of a Junkyard Vendor? Ive been meaning to read that for a while now. Fuck yeah!!"

/barter +1
It's actually Junktown, as in the place you can go in Fallout 1. Nice little throwback to the old games.
 
Hey, I don't know if anyone is interested, but I made a Fallout 3 Character Creator spreadsheet. Should help you if you want to plan your character out.

Download Here

Yes, I was bored at work the other day.:D
 
Hazaro said:

boy was I tempted. Many times... but its too late now considering Ive found over 60 books. Wish I did it way early obviously.

I just realised why maybe I levelled up so quick too.... I did 2 hits of the +10% experience perk early on. Im sure that played a huge part (I was complaining about the level cap)
 
voltron said:
Yeah, its like "OMG Tales of a Junkyard Vendor? Ive been meaning to read that for a while now. Fuck yeah!!"

/barter +1

You didn't get the Comprehension perk? It's great since it doubles the skill increase. It really does pay off.
 
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