The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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Giganticus
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Pro-tip for all players: just like in Oblivion, there's a magic cut-off point for the open world to be shut down. After the quest "American Dream" you're still free to do what you want until you accept the final quest. It may seem like everyone is being urgent but fuck em. Go off and kill some ants or some shit.
Thanks for the tip Giganticus however there was no cut-off point in Oblivion. I completed every major quest in the game and I could still explore the world whenever I wanted. On the other hand, you're saying that beating the main quest in Falout 3 ends your game and you have to start over. Is that correct?
MrPing1000
Member
Beaulieu said:
nope, just using a save from earlier.
Although I'm very very tempted to start over with a stealthy unarmed expert. Power fist my way through the wastelands (or of course "The Shocker" which made me laugh out loud when i found it.)
ChrisGoldstein said:
I'd say that's likely. When first talking to him I recall him making statements to the effect of "Megaton is fuckawesome, and the outside is complete shit." So I don't think he would have left beforehand or something.
You have to be evil to get him, though. That robot companion Hootie was talking about earlier, I also came across him but he refused to join me, so he might be a good guy follower. I'm not sure if he refused to join because my character is evil, or because I already had both Jericho and Dogmeat in my party.
Tom Penny said:
Jericho is very powerful. He's never even come close to dying for me, and I'm pretty sure he just recharges health automatically at some point. He's also very strong offensively, wielding what looks like a Chinese Assault Rifle. And you don't have to micro-anything him. The guy takes complete care of himself. I kept him as long-range, though, which is his default. You can change his tactics to melee, and I'd imagine then you have to naturally keep a closer eye on him.
SonOfABeep
Banned
Does it make me weird if I spent a half hour last night shooting the limbs and heads off corpses, stripping them, and then piling them on a bar with mines underneath, and throwing a grenade at the whole mess?
A quadrapalegic/decpaitated torso is a funny thing to "pick up" with the right stick button in third person. It just kind of.. Floats there in front of you.
A quadrapalegic/decpaitated torso is a funny thing to "pick up" with the right stick button in third person. It just kind of.. Floats there in front of you.
Giganticus said:
Oblivion has no cut-off point. In fact, it has the exact opposite. In Oblivion you complete the game's final climactic battle, in all it's epic-ness, and then... that's it. You get some dialogue and are then movement un-freezes and you are free to wander around the world again. NPC dialogue is just like "thanks for saving us!" :lol
SlasherJPC
Banned
Quick question for thos who might know. Involving a location.
I don't remember exactly... but I definetly want to do this and see what everyone was raving about. Don't want to miss out.
Whats the vault that I keep hearing people say you have to check out? Something to do wth a virtual reality thing or something???? Everyone says its awesome.
Jazzy Network
Member
slasher_thrasher21 said:
It's part of the main quest so you can't miss it.
fatigues_gasolini
Member
slasher_thrasher21 said:
Its a story location, you wont miss it.
AndresON777
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SonOfABeep said:
Haha yeah I was picking up heads and they looked awesome floating in the air.
Thanks for the info Zeliard, and yeah I think that robot companion doesnt like evil folks either his owner said 'i can tell he doesnt like the look of you' or something of that nature.
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So I was looking around for ages for Walter to give him some scrap.. couldn't find him anywhere. Never at the processing plant, just that junkie from the restaurant.
And then finally I run into him - dead! - in a heap on the ground beside a fence.
WTF happened?
Can NPCs just randomnly die, or die without your direct or indirect involvement?
Poor Walter :| Guess I'll have to sell my scrap now to Gob.
So I was looking around for ages for Walter to give him some scrap.. couldn't find him anywhere. Never at the processing plant, just that junkie from the restaurant.
And then finally I run into him - dead! - in a heap on the ground beside a fence.
WTF happened?
Can NPCs just randomnly die, or die without your direct or indirect involvement?
Poor Walter :| Guess I'll have to sell my scrap now to Gob.
Players have been reporting that some Megaton residents (Walter in particular) have a tendancy to accidently fall from the skywalks to their deaths.gofreak said:
Walter's gone missing in my game too and I was going to sell him scrap. I'm assuming his body is somewhere in Megaton although I haven't seen it.SlasherJPC
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gamerecks said:
Thanks guys! i'm still in Megaton after like 3 hours. I'm never going to get far in this game! :lol BTW is there any other towns in the game and if so how many?
ckohler said:Players have been reporting that some Megaton residents (Walter in particular) have a tendancy to accidently fall from the skywalks to their deaths.
He was there for DAYS before I found him *sob*
I've laid him out at the entrance of the water processing plant. Bitches in this town didn't even mention his passing to me, but now they won't be able to avoid his happy face.
I hope Gob gives me a good price on his jumpsuit.
anddo0 said:
Jesus H. Christ, how THE FACK this town has made it through post-apocalptic armageddon is beyond me! The raiders outside must have an inflated perception of the strength of megaton, cos they should have overrun it long ago. There's only about a dozen of them to start with, and half of them seem completely incompetent!
Simms turning his back on the dude who wanted to nuke the town..yeah..real western justice there man...
Dechaios said:
You can steal a schematic from the armory in Rivet City if you have a Stealth Boy. This was someone else's tip on GAF. You have to pickpocket the guy at the main gate for the armory key. I was looking around Rivet City last night and couldn't find the armory, though, but I didn't have that much time to look too carefully. Rivet City is pretty damn big.
slasher_thrasher21 said:
That's nothing. I'd been playing for a while and was still in Megaton doing quests and exploring with it as the anchor point, and decided to look at my save file out of curiosity. I was shocked, shocked, to see that it was at 20 hours. And that's before even finishing Megaton and going down to Galaxy News Radio.
Like the hat?
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gofreak said:
I had Nathan just die on me. I've been looking for Walter for a while, he's probably just dead somewhere, too.
Take your scrap metal to Underworld, trade 5 scrap metal for a stimpak.
is there any way to get into the armory in megaton other than picking the lock or killing simms? ive tried pickpocketing just about everyone in town for the key but nothing yet.
gregor7777
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Flek said:
the world's a dangerous (and unpredictable) place :lol
Flek said:
I've been looking for a trader with that schematic, since the first one I saw in front of Megaton when I first got there had one, but I was way too poor then. I haven't come across him again, though. It's always some other traveling salesman now either at Megaton or Arefu. And I definitely didn't kill that first guy.
crowphoenix
Banned
I think my Moriarty is dead. I haven't seen him since the first quest. I wonder who offed him?gregor7777 said:
crowphoenix
Banned
Awesome. :lol I hate the guy. I would have probably done it myself if I knew he was going to vanish.Zeliard said:
Like the hat?
Banned
I think i'm gonna kill my moriarty today. i hate that guy. i already hacked his computer so i didnt need him to give me the info on my father. besides, gob is my buddy and moriarty has to pay for fucking with him.
EDIT: now that i think about it,i havent seen moriarty around.. i wonder if there is certain times that characters just die, like on x date.
EDIT: now that i think about it,i havent seen moriarty around.. i wonder if there is certain times that characters just die, like on x date.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
JodyAnthony said:
:lol First thing I did right after I spoke to him was gun him down. I also capped the Overseer in front of his daughter for no reason other than hating everything he represented.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
gofreak said:
:lol
Damn. Poor guy.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Just got the game today, installed it onto my PC, started playing, and now when I try to go into DC to find Galaxy Radio my game just freezes.
Ugh.
While I will say I very much enjoy Bethesda games and such, I can't help but think they sometimes over-stretch with their ambitions and end up not polishing their games to their best ability. (Not saying my issue has anything to do with that, but I highly doubt I did sometime wrong as my rig is more than adequate to run it and I know what I'm doing when it comes to PC's.)
Ugh.
While I will say I very much enjoy Bethesda games and such, I can't help but think they sometimes over-stretch with their ambitions and end up not polishing their games to their best ability. (Not saying my issue has anything to do with that, but I highly doubt I did sometime wrong as my rig is more than adequate to run it and I know what I'm doing when it comes to PC's.)
Jugendstil
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Zeliard said:
They had to have. I was trying to be relatively neutral, but once I got to Tenpenny Tower that went out the window. My advice for the quest:
Team up with the ghouls in the subway tunnel nearby. They are way nicer and they make short work of those stuck up assholes once you let them into the tower. It also allows you to loot the entire place while the ghouls are busy murdering everyone!
MickeyKnox
Member
You know what's hilarious, I went into the back of his saloon with the Mesmatron decided I disliked the asshole enough to sell him as a slave, I aimed at his head and fired but it failed to stun him so he starts yelling at me and shooting me with his weak ass pistol. Then this combat shotgun wielding settler rushes back here and unloads on him all the while I don't do anything violent and the opportunistic settler makes quick work of him yells that he got what he deserved and is all like "see ya later." I read his console afterward and felt kinda bad, dude wasn't so bad everyone in megaton that hates on him is actually a pretty fucked up asshole themselves.crowphoenix said:
Nose Master
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SketchTheArtist said:
Might be too late but... (spoilers regarding whether you let him in nicely or not)
Don't fucking let those assholes in there. Even if you convince them to stay and pull it off (why aren't you saving before speech chances?) it sucks. You're much better off killing the ghouls. I let them in nicely and now I have Tenpenny Tower all to myself and a robot bartender -_-. Hostile takeover also destroys your room, by the way. Docile merge doesn't but... it sucks. Roy is a prick, and "takes out the trash." Which is EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING TOWER BUT THREE PEOPLE INCLUDING HIMSELF. So, unless you don't want a doctor or more than two shops in your city... kill him. Or just let them hostile take over for the achievement then reload and let him sit at the door for eternity.
EDIT: Question about the Ghouls in Tenpenny:
WHERE DID HE PUT THE BODIES?! The biker ghoul said he put them in the basement, but they weren't on either side in the generator room, and I checked the entire god damn Metro station. I can't imagine anyone left a save of them going down this path and found out, but... I'd like to loot their stores at least, and the god damn keys are on the corpses .
.gregor7777
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MickeyKnox said:
:lol wtf