The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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"God's Beard!"
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the tree?Danne-Danger said:
beau said:
If they scale, I haven't noticed it. The enemies are way easier now then when I started out. Even super mutants aren't much trouble.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Seriously love the game, have been playing it WHENEVER I have the free-time. 20 Hours atleast into it and not even mid-way into the Main quest.
Let me ask those that have come across Andale, what they think of it? Fucking creepy man, love it!!!!! So many little gems in the game that could go unnoticed!
Woo-Fu
Banned
Ghost said:
There is a trick to stealth, sort of what I'd call a bug or design oversight.
When you are crouched if you have always run toggled you're still being hit by stealth checks as if you are running.
Turn off always run when crouching, stick to dark areas/hours of the days, get your stealth >50 and you will find it very effective.
Once I figured out the tricks I was stealthing right up to Deathclaws and 1-hitting them with the custom combat shottie.
Easy sniper rifles:
Arkansas in Minefield has a sniper rifle. Unless you get a miraculous stealth kill on him it will be zero condition by the time you get your hands on it, though.
There is a chapel in the nw corner of the map, you can get it added to your map by talking to one of the people in arefu after completing the blood quest. Perched in that chapel is a gentleman with one of the two custom sniper rifles in the game. Quicksave before the encounter, I've heard of one instance where the body went haywire and they couldn't get the rifle.
There is a chapel in the nw corner of the map, you can get it added to your map by talking to one of the people in arefu after completing the blood quest. Perched in that chapel is a gentleman with one of the two custom sniper rifles in the game. Quicksave before the encounter, I've heard of one instance where the body went haywire and they couldn't get the rifle.
MrTroubleMaker said:
Does anyone know how to turn off messaging on the PSN for the PS3 version of the game? That little second-long freeze up has killed me one too many times at this point...
Oh, and also...does anyone know why
my butler in Megaton
EdwardTivrusky
Member
Press "Print Scrn", the images are saved to the Fallout3 game folder.Hunter D said:
There's console commands to remove the HUD for a cleaner image too.
~ for console then tm to remove the hud and tm to add it back again.
msmma, yup. Go into VATS and choose what parts you want to hit. Click on any as many times as you have AP to use if you want. You can also click the big green arrows to each side of the screen to target another enemy if you have the points to spare too.
dollartaco
Member
Long time Fallout player...
I understand this isn't the old Fallout. There are differences, plenty of them. Leading up to its release, I was incredibly worried about this game and I even considered not buying it because it wasn't going to live up to the old Fallout experience.
Fallout, for me, has always been about human behavior. Greed, compassion--that sort of thing. The feeling of playing Fallout is finding the first shotgun after having dealt with a 10mm for hours. Or looting a stash of caps on a corpse post firefight (one in which you weren't even involved) when you're dead broke. It's seeing characters at the lowest point in their lives, strung out or in prostitution, or both, and making the decision to lift them up or put them out of their misery. In all these ways and more, I finally feel like I'm playing Fallout for the first time again.
I understand this isn't the old Fallout. There are differences, plenty of them. Leading up to its release, I was incredibly worried about this game and I even considered not buying it because it wasn't going to live up to the old Fallout experience.
Fallout, for me, has always been about human behavior. Greed, compassion--that sort of thing. The feeling of playing Fallout is finding the first shotgun after having dealt with a 10mm for hours. Or looting a stash of caps on a corpse post firefight (one in which you weren't even involved) when you're dead broke. It's seeing characters at the lowest point in their lives, strung out or in prostitution, or both, and making the decision to lift them up or put them out of their misery. In all these ways and more, I finally feel like I'm playing Fallout for the first time again.
Thank god for the glitches! If the game hadn't crashed on me twice this weekend, it's entirely possible that I might have been divorced and/or starved to death while continuing to play non-stop.BeeDog said:
The police station mission was so fun! I had limited weapons and knew I could be over-run with mutants at any moment. So I sneaked around laying mines in doorways then let myself be seen. It was really intense!
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
think i better force myself to take a break. i get sucked in and lose track of time; where did those four hours go?
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Going through my second play-through right now as an evil character and I already feel bad about killing off all the familiar faces I've bonded with in Megaton last game.
msmma said:
You really thought you were limited to just one body part during your entire VATS turn?
I love having my character quickly target and shoot at different body parts, and also different enemies, with the laser gun. It feels very Han Solo and it's just cool watching that animation unfold, particularly if you do something like shoot both of his arms, his chest, and cap it off with a headshot that decapitates him.
Peronthious
Member
msmma said:
Imagine that. You know, you can also attack multiple enemies at once.
Doesn't the game explicitly tell you this at some point? I may have just taken it for granted that it'd be possible.
I can't believe how many people are so far into the game and are still dead broke.
LEVEL REPAIR.
1)Level repair
2) Loot ever single piece of armor.
3) Combine all that busted-ass armor into one high-quality, valuable piece.
4) PROFIT.
Do the same for weapons. This allows you to fight longer without having to fast-travel back and sell loot, AND when you do head back to town and sell, you'll be selling a few pieces of high-value armor, instead of a few pieces of shit armor.
LEVEL REPAIR.
1)Level repair
2) Loot ever single piece of armor.
3) Combine all that busted-ass armor into one high-quality, valuable piece.
4) PROFIT.
Do the same for weapons. This allows you to fight longer without having to fast-travel back and sell loot, AND when you do head back to town and sell, you'll be selling a few pieces of high-value armor, instead of a few pieces of shit armor.
"Wow, I was thinking there should be a way to queue attacks. Now I know and won't have to spam the R2 button to enter vats after every attack."
That's exactly what I have been doing!!! :lol
Wow, what a n00b I am....seriously....knowing I can now do multiple targets per attack turn has increased my love of the battle system tenfold!!!!
A game question...some old dude outside of Megaton is asking for normal water (without rad in it).....anyone know where I can find some?
That's exactly what I have been doing!!! :lol
Wow, what a n00b I am....seriously....knowing I can now do multiple targets per attack turn has increased my love of the battle system tenfold!!!!
A game question...some old dude outside of Megaton is asking for normal water (without rad in it).....anyone know where I can find some?
The Lamonster
Member
There's a laser gun??? Okay I'm definitely picking this game up.Zeliard said:You really thought you were limited to just one body part during your entire VATS turn?
I love having my character quickly target and shoot at different body parts, and also different enemies, with the laser gun. It feels very Han Solo and it's just cool watching that animation unfold, particularly if you do something like shoot both of his arms, his chest, and cap it off with a headshot that decapitates him.
crowphoenix
Banned
msmma said:
There's some randomly in first aid chests, sometimes enemies will have it, and you can get some in your house.
besada said:
I tend to go weapon arm, head, chest.
gregor7777
Banned
SanjuroTsubaki said:
If I go out of my way to help someone out, and all I get in return is a hearty "thanks", usually that means it's murder time. I'll take my payment out of your hide, if necessary.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
The Lamonster said:
run, don't walk
The Lamonster
Member
from you, that means something. will dobeelzebozo said:
i just traveld realy far north of the map and there whas a hill i climbed up on it an i could recieve a "chinese" radio which whas always repeading the same words over and over (no music xD) and a soon as i left the hill the signal got lost. So iam wondering is there any quest related to this?
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
The Lamonster said:from you, that means something. will do
thanks!
i almost guarantee that you'll love it. if you don't, and want to get rid of it, i'll buy it from you at full price and give it to a friend as a gift.
but seriously, my money's safe--i've never really been into this sort of game, but it's consumed me.
Danne-Danger
Member
Yep, he's an old friend in the Fallout universe.God's Beard said:
itxaka said:
The single most effective way to take down enemies who wield long-range weapons, especially guys like the super mutant brutes with lots of DR, is to aim all of your shots at their weapon. Even if your percentage is something like 30%, chances are you'll knock the gun free with enough shot attempts, and then they either have to pull out another weapon they already have (which is often a weak melee weapon) or run around searching for another one. And then they're easy pickings.
Sometimes they'll even simply charge at you with their fists, which was the cause of one of the most hilarious and awesome moments I've had in the game. It involved me critically injuring and disarming a super mutant in one VATS turn, and then he ran at me with his fists raised, and as he was running forward in my direction he promptly had his head blown clean off by Jericho who was somewhere behind me offering support. Totally unexpected and an incredibly awesome visual.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
In Tenpenny's Tower,
thanks!
right after I got the room key from Mr Burke, on the balcony after I set off the atom bomb, I killed him and Tenpenny. Will I miss anything or quests from either of them?
MrPing1000
Member
Danne-Danger said:Yep, he's an old friend in the Fallout universe.
And his appearance pissed off nwa.
After finishing the main quest, I'm going back to do more stuff, because I missed SO SO much.
Never found the slavers city, the other vault, oasis, loads of other places, never got back into 101 either.
And is there any explanation of how you and your dad got into vault 101 if u get back there?
Giganticus
Member
You shouldn't have done that.itxaka said:IIRC (QUEST SPOILERS)when you retrieve the GECK you can free a mutant guy, that talks so maybe is possible. I leaved him there to rot
He later comes back to rescue you at Raven Rock armed with a Gatling Laser with infinite ammo, and if you've got good karma you can recruit him as a follower. And he's incredible - the only follower you don't need to babysit as his HP pool is HUGE.
MrPing1000
Member
Giganticus said:
Yeah but (ending spoiler)
the fucker won't go into the purifier for you. Ugh the ending has pissed me off big time
crowphoenix
Banned
why?MrPing1000 said:
AndresON777
shooting blanks
Zeliard said:
So I guess Jericho is gone since I blew up Megaton?