The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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MomoPufflet
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Zzoram said:
Thanks for the info. Looks like I'll be making a new character tonight. I spent way too many perks on XP bonuses and stuff-- I leveled fast, but at level 17 I'm too torn between the remaining perks. Might as well start over sooner rather than later.
afternoon delight
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Whaaaaaaa- ?
Thank you.
crowphoenix
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Anyone made it to the Post Office in L' Enfats? The story about
the psycho killer and the ambiance was especially creepy. Down right terrifying when you find gibson and his key and note. Now I need to fins the house.
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Anyone know where I can find a crutch?
EdwardTivrusky
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Lots of places, i know there's quite a few inRevelations said:
Springvale Elementary
I find the Railway Gun great on account of ammo being plentiful, a large clip and decent firing rate. It's my "wasteland scavenging" gun now, I only need to pull out the Combat Shotgun or Chinese AR when I encounter the larger enemies (Deathclaws, Super Mutants).sennin said:
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Do you know where they are in Robco. Im there now and havnt found any yet.sennin said:
xxjuicesxx
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I just found two lieing against a wall near a pool table in a Fort Constantine building (Not bomb storage or CO quarters). If you got it on yo map.
Question!!
I have a 1680x1050 Monitor, I can run the game on ultra high but at lower letter box resolutions on an HD4850, I'd like to run the game in 1440x900 but everytime I load it up I get the screen shifted to the righthand side and a huge black bar on the lefthand side. Is there any way to get the game to scale properly?
I have a 1680x1050 Monitor, I can run the game on ultra high but at lower letter box resolutions on an HD4850, I'd like to run the game in 1440x900 but everytime I load it up I get the screen shifted to the righthand side and a huge black bar on the lefthand side. Is there any way to get the game to scale properly?
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Got it.xxjuicesxx said:
MomoPufflet
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There is a pair of crutches in the upstairs bedroom of one of the houses in
Minefield
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Hmmm, that might be ben wilks the little boy you get the Those! side quest from...BeeDog said:
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sennin said:
Just Remember, the Railway Gun's power increases as you level your small arms and find other schmatics of it.
uh.. we are talking about the same skill. Small Arms governs pistols, Railway Gun, Chinese AR and Combat Shotgun, so if my damage is increased due to Small Arms, it applies broadly across all of them. There is no conflict of variable in this comparison.Revelations said:
Do the other schematics increase damage to 40+? That's the damage rating of a near perfect conditioned Chinese AR and Combat Shotgun. Even at 30+ you have my attention, since I've been using a 35 damage Chinese AR for quite a while.
TheJollyCorner
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for some reason the Minefield is not located on my map, even after talking to Moira. 
I'm trying to find Dogmeat and I'm lost.
I'm trying to find Dogmeat and I'm lost.
xxjuicesxx
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Regarding Oasis quest
When you get the Barkskin perk are you supposed to lose some visibility of text in the Pip-boy or is this just a glitch in my game? I've reloaded twice now but if I choose to get barkskin my pipboy blacks out.
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sennin said:
If you build them with all three schematics, they are at 150% strength. They are gimped with just one schematic.
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sennin said:
What? Uhhh, Like I said before upping your small arms skill increases the damage output of the Railway Gun (and of course any other weapon in that category.) But obtaining additional Railwat schematics (as was mentioned by someone earlier) increases dmg output and raise it to lvl 2.
How would people feel about a custom soundtrack for 360/PC versions of the game? (and PS3 if it supports custom soundtracks). I'm undertaking to create one for myself using 50s music and if there is enough interest I'll probably torrent it for interested parties. I'd like some suggestions of the kinds of artists (and even particular songs) you would want in this tracklist as well.
I'm a bit confused by the claims over the internet on how exactly schematics augment custom weapons. I've heard 2 reports:
i.) that leveled schematics strengthen the weapon's maximum strength
ii.) that leveled schematics work like a high repair skill, i.e. with the same no. of components, there could be more mines, or the condition could be better upon assembly.
What I've tested thus far is to make 2 Railway Rifles and repair them. At 80% condition the Railway Rifle was spotting 24 damage; at about 50% it was showing 21.There's also reports that the number of schematics per custom weapon is 3. I'm hoping i.) turns out to be true, as that will indeed make the effort to hunt down 3 schematics/custom weapon worthwhile.
edit: I should add that my base Small Arms skill is around 73 for this post. Currently, I think the Railway Rifle definitely packs more punch than a pistol and is slightly better than the Hunting Rifle (21 damage at 90%).
i.) that leveled schematics strengthen the weapon's maximum strength
ii.) that leveled schematics work like a high repair skill, i.e. with the same no. of components, there could be more mines, or the condition could be better upon assembly.
What I've tested thus far is to make 2 Railway Rifles and repair them. At 80% condition the Railway Rifle was spotting 24 damage; at about 50% it was showing 21.There's also reports that the number of schematics per custom weapon is 3. I'm hoping i.) turns out to be true, as that will indeed make the effort to hunt down 3 schematics/custom weapon worthwhile.
As it should be, because at around 80% condition it is giving out 45 damage for my file.Mashing said:
edit: I should add that my base Small Arms skill is around 73 for this post. Currently, I think the Railway Rifle definitely packs more punch than a pistol and is slightly better than the Hunting Rifle (21 damage at 90%).
Just completed the main story, 20 hours logged. AMAZING game, holy shit. Definitely my GOTY so far, I don't see it getting dethroned either.
I'm going to hop back in and finish up all the side quests.
Favorite story quest:
I'm going to hop back in and finish up all the side quests.
Favorite story quest:
Tranquility Lane and calling in the Chinese Invasion. So awesome.
ZombieSupaStar
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Just beat it, the last awesome, awesome game some spoilers near the end
Some huge ending spoilers and comments
I liked it up there with the past 2, I look forward to some DLC, Expansion, or sequel from Bethesda
I had a big ol grin escaping from the enclave after I convinced Eden to end itself, and watching the soldiers getting owned by robots was sweet, then exciting seeing Fawkes with a Gatling laser and us running away as flaming vertibird and the mountain exploded was definite coolness!, I also love the robot charge at the end also, very cool.
Some huge ending spoilers and comments
Only 6 endings???
Guy Leaves Vault and is either:
A: Bad Karma
B: Good Karma
Then
Guy either
A: Kills self to save others
B: Lets the Lyon girl do it?
Then
A: Guy either poisons water
B: Doesn’t poison water
Then
War, war never changes etc...
WTF guys, what about all the side quests I did, what became of the kid you helped get to rivet city, or if I blew megaton, or not, what about Amata at vault 101, Paradise Falls, The ghouls, Oasis, etc, it’s like none of those quests even mattered.... All it woulda taken was a guy making screen grabs and power points with Ron Perlman for a day doing VA for em... did you run out of time, or Disc Space, that to me was the only letdown I’ve had all game, the ending was blueballed imo....but aside from that,
Guy Leaves Vault and is either:
A: Bad Karma
B: Good Karma
Then
Guy either
A: Kills self to save others
B: Lets the Lyon girl do it?
Then
A: Guy either poisons water
B: Doesn’t poison water
Then
War, war never changes etc...
WTF guys, what about all the side quests I did, what became of the kid you helped get to rivet city, or if I blew megaton, or not, what about Amata at vault 101, Paradise Falls, The ghouls, Oasis, etc, it’s like none of those quests even mattered.... All it woulda taken was a guy making screen grabs and power points with Ron Perlman for a day doing VA for em... did you run out of time, or Disc Space, that to me was the only letdown I’ve had all game, the ending was blueballed imo....but aside from that,
AgentOtaku
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Posted by Lince in the "Cap yo Framerate!" thread
This basically eliminated the issue I had with the framerate stuttering!
Lince said:well it takes some times but after some research I found a tool to cap every DX9 / OpenGL game at the desired framerate (no DX10 yet sorry)
first you have to download this tool (I'm not sure if this is legal or what, seems freeware to me so mods do what you want)
http://rapidshare.com/files/160642187/FPS_Limiter_0.2.rar
extract the content to a folder and run FPS_Limiter_GUI (you must have Java enabled)
it looks like this
you just need to point to the path where the game executable is located and select the desired framerate, note it defaults to DX9 applications. Click on "create bat" and there you go, you should have now in the folder a direct access to the game limited to the desired framerate.
result: http://rapidshare.com/files/160661014/LP30FPS.mp4
that was a small video of Lost Planet with maximum settings and 8xAA/16xAF capped at 30fps running on my modest PC, it runs silky smooth at a never faltering 30 fps. The best part is both the CPU and the GPU workload is reduced and so is the power consumption, triple win.
and now Fallout 3: http://rapidshare.com/files/160661015/FO330FPS.mp4
with Fallout 3 you just repeat the process and then change the variable iFPSClamp=0 in Fallout.ini to iFPSClamp=30
this is how I got the game to run in ultra settings with 4xAA/8xAF at rock solid 30fps and said goodbye to the hiccups. Hope this helps.
This basically eliminated the issue I had with the framerate stuttering!
Houston3000
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Did anyone else completely lose the Water Treatment guy in Megaton? I know someone asked this question before but it's really bugging me in my game. I did his quest early early on so I could sell Scrap Metal to him for 10 caps a pop (instead of something like 2 to other vendors). I have 23 metal stashed in my house and am carrying a small pile on my person but I haven't seen in forever.
Someone mentioned that NPCs have a chance to die by falling off the catwalks in Megaton thanks to a bug but I searched all over the floor and couldn't find him. Anyone know if there is truth to that claim or know some places he hangs out? Maybe I just keep missing him.
Someone mentioned that NPCs have a chance to die by falling off the catwalks in Megaton thanks to a bug but I searched all over the floor and couldn't find him. Anyone know if there is truth to that claim or know some places he hangs out? Maybe I just keep missing him.
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burgerdog said:
Yes, the next mission after that one called Picking Up the Trail is when you finally get trained. Speak to Elder Lyons first then go to Gunny in the courtyard.
bloodforge
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Houston3000 said:
I always find him either in the treatment plant or standing outside around 10am, try to see if he is around at that time. If not then he probably died or is bugged.
Yeah I had the same issue and I was like "NOOOOOO" but it gave me the opportunity to replicate Oblivion's silly pick-up-shit-but-it's-really-floating-in-midair thing.Houston3000 said:
The guy in the background was just staring at me for awhile while Walter was doing a fun dead dance.
Houston3000
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duffey said:Yeah I had the same issue and I was like "NOOOOOO" but it gave me the opportunity to replicate Oblivion's silly pick-up-shit-but-it's-really-floating-in-midair thing.
The guy in the background was just staring at me for awhile while Walter was doing a fun dead dance.
:lol I take it he no longer bought scrap metal from you?
Anyone else attempt a melee/explosives character? I use no guns at all, and I'm still kicking ass. If I'm swarmed by enemies, I lay a mine and huddle up in a good spot, then come running to bash what's left of them when it explodes. Melee + VATS is super fun, especially, setting two leaping enemies on fire at once, then hunting down the wimps that run away from Bad Jacob. Grenades are also super handy since they don't need a clear line of fire. Even super mutants aren't giving me much trouble so far.
The Replicated Man spoilers:
Fuck. I wanted to kill Zimmer and that bastard deserves every bit of help to send him packing to hell but he has complete immunity as a quest npc, and every time Cross and I knock him down he just stays unconscious. Argghh! Why didn't THIS legacy from Oblivion disappear as well??!
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Aaron said:
That sounds incredibly boring, sorry to say... the skirmishes you will encounter with 3 to 5 enemies will overwhelm that fighting strategy. Having 3 to 4 enemies all hitting you with gunfire as you meeleing one will drain your of stimpaks...
The game needs to stop distracting me with awesome sidequests and distracting interesting buildings and let me get down to business; I'm sick of hearing Three Dog tell the same three stories about my awesomeness over and over!
Also, holy shit, I had no idea the range that those ants have. I think I've got like ten more seconds to start backing up while my AP recharges, then suddenly I'm
Also, holy shit, I had no idea the range that those ants have. I think I've got like ten more seconds to start backing up while my AP recharges, then suddenly I'm
engulfed in an obscenely long jet of flame.
Between that and having my Shishkabob out when I stumbled into a gas pocket on the Broken Bow, my character spent a lot of my playtime today on fire.
Between that and having my Shishkabob out when I stumbled into a gas pocket on the Broken Bow, my character spent a lot of my playtime today on fire.
xxjuicesxx
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So should there be no winter in post-apocalyptic worlds or should we see a snow-blanketed barren wasteland in maybe the next fallout?
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well, I've turned to the dark side.
