The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!

There's another way into the tunnel for that quest. The radiation scared the crap out of me so I never even thought to go into the tunnel....I found another entrance and managed to crawl my way down there while avoiding all the traps.
 
EviLore said:
Note that the normal generic adventuring player will probably just enter town and ask everyone the generic repeating questions and get some quests from the couple quest NPCs for meager rewards and presumable giant ant killing and not even notice anything that I described. If you're that sort of player, don't fret. If you appreciate the options a non-linear open-world game gives you, though, you'll probably come across the sorts of scenarios I described.
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It reads like you're playtesting the game for bugs. Not sure how fun that is, but I appreciate the effort. Knowing I can do what you did is helpful, so that I make sure to play and enjoy the game as a meager generic player.
 
I had to start my game over because
I blew up Megaton before finding out where my father was from Moriarty
.

I'm surprised they didn't plan for people doing that.
 
Hey, this may not be obvious to other people who just arrived in the Wastelands, but if you're looking for a free place to sleep (i.e. recover all health, radition poisioning instantly), you can
just go to the West's house in Arefu at the behest of Lisa West at Moriety's in Megaton
. It's great, I just fast travel there and rest up in between excursions, so I don't have to use any money or items on recovery.
 
Holy crap. 10-hours and I'm still in Megaton. :lol

I like the VATS system a lot. It's totally like Vagrant Story.

Personally, between Fable II and this - I'm preferring Fable II. Hopefully this will pick up when I get out of Megaton.
 
I have a question. Does this game capture the fallout feel? I have the pc special addition sitting here and don't want to open it expecting it to feel like fallout.
 
I have a question about the main quests:

I just killed that super behemoth mutant at the Galaxy news radio station and now I'm headed to the history museum,

If I keep at the main quests will I just stay in the DC metro area? There is so much wasteland I havent even explored yet. Any suggestions? Should I go back to do other quests or will the main quest lead me back outside?
 
fizzelopeguss said:
The animation and writing in this game in embarassing. And just outside the vault i already have a hundred rounds of ammunition for my pistol?
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You will lose that ammo pretty quickly and will probably be switching between weapons a lot.

I personally don't find the writing all that bad. It is nothing special, but it works for Fallout. The animation is quite bad, though, I agree. Another reason to play the game in first-person mode.
 
Hunter D said:
I have a question. Does this game capture the fallout feel? I have the pc special addition sitting here and don't want to open it expecting it to feel like fallout.
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I am a huge fan of Fallout and Fallout 2 and I think it definitely captures the Fallout feel. However, it is a very different game. It also takes place in Washington DC and is a lot more urban than the first two games which had a lot of tribal elements. It definitely feels like the Fallout world to me, though.
 
Juice said:
Hey, this may not be obvious to other people who just arrived in the Wastelands, but if you're looking for a free place to sleep (i.e. recover all health, radition poisioning instantly), you can
just go to the West's house in Arefu at the behest of Lisa West at Moriety's in Megaton
. It's great, I just fast travel there and rest up in between excursions, so I don't have to use any money or items on recovery.
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There's plenty of places like that throughout the game,
I have found a Wasteland Recluse's cabin to the north and several Raider camps with bedding.
 
bishopcruz said:
Gah, I'm tyring to do the
Fire Ants quest,
but the kid won't show up. He did once, but then I died, and when I came back after reloading, the kid is nowhere to be found. Is there a trigger?
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Anyone? I reloaded to a save couple hours back, and came in fresh and STILL nothing. He's just not showing up.
 
when I played, I was out in the wasteland by the Super-Duper-Mart, I did a few hours rest until it was light out and the second the game came back from the rest screen the kid spoke to me and I almost shat my pants in pure shock.
 
Zyzyxxz said:
I have a question about the main quests:

I just killed that super behemoth mutant at the Galaxy news radio station and now I'm headed to the history museum,

If I keep at the main quests will I just stay in the DC metro area? There is so much wasteland I havent even explored yet. Any suggestions? Should I go back to do other quests or will the main quest lead me back outside?
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nobody can answer me?
 
painey said:
when I played, I was out in the wasteland by the Super-Duper-Mart, I did a few hours rest until it was light out and the second the game came back from the rest screen the kid spoke to me and I almost shat my pants in pure shock.
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It's wierd the first time I came there the kid showed up no problem. Now he is simply refusing to appear. GOD I wish I hadn't died on that quest. I cannot get him to appear for the life of me.

Question when you were at the Super Duper Mart had you been to Grayditch yet?
 
Tranquility Lane
is hilarious. :lol

If I already
killed the super mutants in the basement of the Jefferson Memorial during the "pursuit of science" chapter are they still there in the "Waters of Life" Chapter?

The amount of subway traversing in the first few chapters was turning me off but the game is great once you get sent to more open areas. I'll be able to get to a lot of locations quickly later on since I "discovered" so many places looking for the correct routes to the early destinations.
 
painey said:
when I played, I was out in the wasteland by the Super-Duper-Mart, I did a few hours rest until it was light out and the second the game came back from the rest screen the kid spoke to me and I almost shat my pants in pure shock.
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Same exact thing happen to me. Why does this happen? It happened in Oblivion too, where quest triggers would just be all in your face after you rest.
 
Mooreberg said:
If I already
killed the super mutants in the basement of the Jefferson Memorial during the "pursuit of science" chapter are they still there in the "Waters of Life" Chapter?
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Still dead. I did the same thing.
 
Opening game spoilers
I ended up killing my best friends dad and she wasn't happy with me..what would've happened if I walked in the room without shooting?
 
Rodeo Clown said:
Still dead. I did the same thing.
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That's good. Means some of the wandering around I did before wasn't a waste of time after all. Also explains why I couldn't get anything to work at the time. :lol
 
Captain N said:
Opening game spoilers
I ended up killing my best friends dad and she wasn't happy with me..what would've happened if I walked in the room without shooting?
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I went in there and
told him to give me the key to his office and the password to his computer. He doesn't attack you. When he refused I said that his daughter really trusts me and I would do really bad things to her if he refused again. He gave in after that and said he would shoot me on site if I ever returned.
Can't wait to go back.
 
Adent said:
I went in there and
told him to give me the key to his office and the password to his computer. He doesn't attack you. When he refused I said that his daughter really trusts me and I would do really bad things to her if he refused again. He gave in after that and said he would shoot me on site if I ever returned.
Can't wait to go back.
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Thats awesome! I love some of the stories posted on here about how different things are in certain areas.
 
RPG n00b question:

If you kept playing forever could you level up every ability to max, or is there a ceiling on how many upgrade points you can earn?

Also, this opportunity to blow up some city, will it be obvious when I come to this quest so I can put it off? I would *hate* to do that by accident!!!
 
stewacide said:
RPG n00b question:

If you kept playing forever could you level up every ability to max, or is there a ceiling on how many upgrade points you can earn?
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20 is the max level, so there is definitely a ceiling.
 
I love how games for windows turns it into a 360-esque experience. I played alot of oblivion with a pad on 360 so this is a great option to be able to play with a controller (with rumble mind you) from my futon lol. Oh and it runs great to, very, very impressed.
 
Tom Penny said:
I can't get over how bad the character models are but I love how when you start the game there is no time to load which is impressive.
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They definitely aren't that great, but they are pretty amazing coming from Bethesda. Morrowind and Oblivion feature some of the most horrific character models in video gaming.
 
I'm really enjoying the game so far. Thought it was one of the coolest "prologues" in a video game, and then I got to the wasteland!!! I bought it for my computer and it looks very good and I'm only running it on my laptop at about HIGH. I was someone that wasn't completely sold on Oblivion but I really like the setting and atmosphere of this one.
 
Proc said:
I love how games for windows turns it into a 360-esque experience. I played alot of oblivion with a pad on 360 so this is a great option to be able to play with a controller (with rumble mind you) from my futon lol. Oh and it runs great to, very, very impressed.
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Yeah i love having all the xbox live functionality for a pc game. Totally makes it a no-brainer for anyone with a good computer. If they did this for more games i would basically be pretty exclusive to the PC then.
 
Awesome!!

Just turned level 4 and got to 25 explosives skill so I could
activate on the Megaton bomb
, and on my very first try
defused it
! And now, with minimal effort
because I didn't ask for money
, I'm the proud owner of my
very own new house, robot, and bobblehead stand
!

Surely this is the happy path a gamer should take. Very satisfied with my choices. Game punishes you for making stupid choices, but this is evidence it rewards you for making good ones, even early.

Oh, Question:
Is stuff stored in containers in my house saved forever like in Oblivion??? I hope so, I dumped all my armor and food there
 
Is there anywhere safe you can store items where they won't disappear?

I recently completed the Arefu
quest about getting the kid to come home, now I can sleep in the beds in the vampire kid's house. Can I leave stuff on the floor or in containers in his house without fear of it being taken or disappearing?
 
snack said:
I had to start my game over because
I blew up Megaton before finding out where my father was from Moriarty
.

I'm surprised they didn't plan for people doing that.
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Your game isn't broken. It's just a lot harder :) You would basically just have to stumble onto the next story piece by chance instead of being provided with it. You can actually go to this place I'm referring to right after leaving the Vault.
 
I've been playing the pc version for 4 hours now, and I've only had a crash when I was exiting the game (crash on exit were pretty common in oblivion for me). Whereas another recent game (Far Cry 2), crash all the freakin time. And people are saying Fallout 3 crashes alot, and I've read some say they have had no crashing problems with Far Cry 2. I hate pc gaming sometimes :/
 
kathode said:
Your game isn't broken. It's just a lot harder :) You would basically just have to stumble onto the next story piece by chance instead of being provided with it. You can actually go to this place I'm referring to right after leaving the Vault.
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You can skip the first 2 main quests entirely and just go out and find the guy if you know where to look :p
 
Fired this up for a couple hours today. Like the overall vibe of the game, bleak wasteland though it is. You kind of have to shut your brain off on the timeline stuff though, or it'll drive you crazy. The same is true of most sci-fi, so that's not really a negative.

I'm finding it really hard to make any money early in the game. I got 300 caps for a quest, and found it had evaporated buying stimpacks to get myself back up to health and them paying off an NPC for info before I had time to actually get anything else. Ammunition has also proven difficult to come by. I think I'm going to have to resort to picking up and selling every item off every person I come across, which I'd prefer not to do. I hate sifting through inventory clutter - especially when I find myself needing to regularly switch weapons.

I'm guessing that stuff will get better the further I get into the game. Lately I've been resorting to taking a baseball bat into a gun fight, which just seems silly.

Is there any method of regaining health other than spending an inordinate amount of cash on stimpacks? Food doesn't do shit, and further, fills you with radiation (why is every single food item in the game radioactive?) and the game won't even let me use the doctor in Megaton. Using the wait function doesn't seem to do anything either.
 
Ah, CE finally arrived and the opening was great, loved the way assigning everything worked. Ended my session with the world reveal--tommorow will be bliss and tonight shall be filled with sweet dreams indeed.
Y2Kev said:
I. love. this. game. And Oblivion sucks a big ole titty.
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I'm guessing your stats exam didn't end to well heh? :lol
 
Brashnir said:
Is there any method of regaining health other than spending an inordinate amount of cash on stimpacks? Food doesn't do shit, and further, fills you with radiation (why is every single food item in the game radioactive?) and the game won't even let me use the doctor in Megaton. Using the wait function doesn't seem to do anything either.
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Sleeping. Everything is radioactive because it was either produced before the war (in the case of foodstuffs) or is derived from creatures that wander the waste, soaking up radiation out there. You need to scavenge, especially early on, that's just the type of game Fallout is, and it always has been.
 
Brashnir said:
Fired this up for a couple hours today. Like the overall vibe of the game, bleak wasteland though it is. You kind of have to shut your brain off on the timeline stuff though, or it'll drive you crazy. The same is true of most sci-fi, so that's not really a negative.

I'm finding it really hard to make any money early in the game. I got 300 caps for a quest, and found it had evaporated buying stimpacks to get myself back up to health and them paying off an NPC for info before I had time to actually get anything else. Ammunition has also proven difficult to come by. I think I'm going to have to resort to picking up and selling every item off every person I come across, which I'd prefer not to do. I hate sifting through inventory clutter - especially when I find myself needing to regularly switch weapons.

I'm guessing that stuff will get better the further I get into the game. Lately I've been resorting to taking a baseball bat into a gun fight, which just seems silly.

Is there any method of regaining health other than spending an inordinate amount of cash on stimpacks? Food doesn't do shit, and further, fills you with radiation (why is every single food item in the game radioactive?) and the game won't even let me use the doctor in Megaton. Using the wait function doesn't seem to do anything either.
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Sleep in a bed. You can get a safehouse with a bed in it
by defusing the Megaton bomb and maybe even setting it off-- not sure
or find an unowned bed in some particular cities/holes in the ground.
 
painey said:
when I played, I was out in the wasteland by the Super-Duper-Mart, I did a few hours rest until it was light out and the second the game came back from the rest screen the kid spoke to me and I almost shat my pants in pure shock.
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I went to sleep on a bed in one of the underground tunnels, and I woke up to 3 raiders and a dog surrounding me. Shat my pants. The best part was using VATS and head shot the 3 raiders in 1 go since I was in point blank range on all of them
 
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