The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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Diablohead
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I never used the fatman on my first play, because I never found any ammo for ages and ages. I would say they are handy to end a fight quick though or piss about with 
Does the concept of grinding or leveling up exist in FO3? I find myself getting owned and running low on ammo in some places, should I do other quest first or explore more to get more cash/ammo/guns?
It seems like I do part of a quest, blow my ammo, run back and spend all my cash on repairs and ammo.
BTW WTF is the point of a repair skill if I need multiple guns to use it? Lame.
It seems like I do part of a quest, blow my ammo, run back and spend all my cash on repairs and ammo.
BTW WTF is the point of a repair skill if I need multiple guns to use it? Lame.
Diablohead
Member
The first time I played I found ammo lacking a lot, but suddenly I hit upon lots of ammo (not in one go mind you) from boxes and bodies, check everything. But I can't remember exactly where, you need to explore a bit because some places will net you for example tons of 10mm ammo, chain gun dropped by a mutant, group of rebels who all carry AR's.DeadGzuz said:
I think I only brought ammo once or twice at the beginning then just used what I found, also try not to spray unless vital, pot shot with rifles to keep spread down and use V.A.T.S often since it's there to be used, after a while though I slowed down using vats because I was good at headshots with my AR.
Also I never repaired anything other then my power armour and 1 gun, you find enough of each weapon to just swap and use a fresh one. some things are more rare though so depends.
Peronthious
Member
DeadGzuz said:
I found the repair skill to be one of the most useful ones in the game. I'd pick up a bunch of weapons, and whenever I needed to lose some weight repairing would get rid of most of it, and leave me with fully repaired and usable weaponry, and valuable if I wasn't using it. That's how I made most of my money, getting a lot of weapons, repairing the lost, and selling. I never really ran into a level problem, though I didn't fully dive into the main quest until level 10 or so. Before then I mostly concentrated on side quests, but even then the difficulty wasn't an issue. I was playing on Normal, so YMMV.
Jamesfrom818
Banned
If you don't mind exploiting glitches, search "fallout 3 shop glitch" in Youtube. It will solve all of your troubles.
I don't suggest using it on your first character though.
I don't suggest using it on your first character though.
I've never had a money problem but I'm having ammo problems at the moment. I'm searching the northwest corner of the map and there are TONS of mirelurks, giant radscorpions, yu gais, and a few deathclaws. It takes a lot of ammo to put these puppies down and they don't give you anything in return. At least super mutants usually carry assault rifles and have lots of ammo on them.
Gully State
Member
RSTEIN said:
I'd probably be broke and out of money if I didn't put points into repairs. It's the only essential skill in the game.
I can't believe I just wasted 29 hours of my life on this worthless game. What a horrific ending I think I'm just going to kill myself. The last time I do a media blackout for a game. WTF I should have just read some threads, comments, reviews, etc.. so I would not have to wasted 29 hours of my life. This game made me lose faith in all of humanity.There is no God.
The journey there was great, though.Zyzyxxz said:
That's the problem. All the hours I spent feels like a waste. The ending ruined my entire experience of the game. I wasn't expecting the greatest story of all time, but having the end just fall apart like that really ruined it for me. Normally I can go back after beating a game and explore the rest of the world. I tried going back and doing other quests after I beat it, but I just can't force myself to do it. After the end Fallout ceased being fun and just became a monumental waste of time.
MWS Natural
Member
TheFatOne said:
Only 29 hours? :lol
Damn I can't imagine how you would have felt if you really invested time into it.
Psychotext
Member
My PC version just updated to 1.1... wasn't that already out some time ago?
The Blue Jihad
Member
Oh man I had a fun experience last night. Told the Sheriff about Burke's(?) desire to destroy the town. After he shot the sheriff, I blew him away. Looted both their bodies. Then figured this was a good time to re-attempt my "loot the sheriff's house then the town armory" plan. The plan had failed miserably before. That attack droid was a total dick.
So...I lawfully entered the sheriff's house. Started taking all the stuff I wanted to take before. Then his kid sees me. Crap. He runs through town screaming as a handful of residents start taking shots at me. I escape into the wilderness, sell some junk to the traveling merchant, then head back into town.
It's all okay until I decide that it's quiet enough to enter the armory. The droid starts shooting and immediately drops me down to half health. I get my ass out of there, only to come face to face with the droid and four villagers outside the armory as they all simultaneously turn around and aim at me. Gulp.
I race back inside, grab as many of the weapons as I can, and hole up near the locker against the back wall. I turn around just as the onslaught begins.
Thankfully they're not able to hit me too much, so I've got some breathing room, which allows me to equip my frag grenades. Hop into VATS, target the droid, and queue a shitload of frags. When the smoke clears, the droid's at half health (sweet retribution) and the villagers have been replaced by smears of red on the walls, ceiling and floors (<3 splash damage). A few detached arms and legs were scattered about.
Went back into VATS and queued my remaining two grenades. Brought the droid down to about a quarter health.
I mash B and frantically scan through my weapons. Missile Launcher. Thank you, raiders out near Super Duper Market! I equip the missile launcher and enter VATS one more time. My AP is too low. Craaaaap.
So I start dodging the droid's shots as much as I can, pop two stimpacks, then finally my AP recharges enough.
Targeted the droid with VATS, finally put him down!
I grabbed all the loot, repaired my stuff, healed up, then got the fuck out of dodge...after I sold a single piece of scrap metal to Walter. :lol
So...I lawfully entered the sheriff's house. Started taking all the stuff I wanted to take before. Then his kid sees me. Crap. He runs through town screaming as a handful of residents start taking shots at me. I escape into the wilderness, sell some junk to the traveling merchant, then head back into town.
It's all okay until I decide that it's quiet enough to enter the armory. The droid starts shooting and immediately drops me down to half health. I get my ass out of there, only to come face to face with the droid and four villagers outside the armory as they all simultaneously turn around and aim at me. Gulp.
I race back inside, grab as many of the weapons as I can, and hole up near the locker against the back wall. I turn around just as the onslaught begins.
Thankfully they're not able to hit me too much, so I've got some breathing room, which allows me to equip my frag grenades. Hop into VATS, target the droid, and queue a shitload of frags. When the smoke clears, the droid's at half health (sweet retribution) and the villagers have been replaced by smears of red on the walls, ceiling and floors (<3 splash damage). A few detached arms and legs were scattered about.
Went back into VATS and queued my remaining two grenades. Brought the droid down to about a quarter health.
I mash B and frantically scan through my weapons. Missile Launcher. Thank you, raiders out near Super Duper Market! I equip the missile launcher and enter VATS one more time. My AP is too low. Craaaaap.
So I start dodging the droid's shots as much as I can, pop two stimpacks, then finally my AP recharges enough.
Targeted the droid with VATS, finally put him down!
I grabbed all the loot, repaired my stuff, healed up, then got the fuck out of dodge...after I sold a single piece of scrap metal to Walter. :lol
Angela Lansbury
Neo Member
I recently visited
in the main quest, and
vault 87?
I had a follower, some woman from the brotherhood in the citidel, anyway, when you leave the vault you get kidnapped by the president, and well, shes kinda gone now, is she dead, or is she waiting for me somewhere? I gave her a few stuff to carry to sell later...
Angela Lansbury
Neo Member
RSTEIN said:
Burke is the guy in the hat thats in the pub area, who wants you to
blow up megaton
I wish I shot him, because he sent assassins after me, gave me a right fright!
ChoklitReign
Member
So are there any skills that are worth maxing out or getting up to 75-80 besides Lockpicking? You say a Speech skill of 50 is enough for most speech challenges and any gun skill with at least 30 is effective. If I had at least a 50 for every skill would that make me unstoppable?
Angela Lansbury said:
Ah... that guy. Yeah, they have a contract to kill you. I'm a good character so I told him to go fuck himself. I actually like when they appear because they carry good loot and the combat armor they wear is decent, especially when you repair about 3 of them together.
Jamesfrom818
Banned
RSTEIN said:
Too bad GTA doesn't have nuclear powered cars.
Valve is working to get the patch on Steam if you just want to get it through there (of course, if you got the game off Steam)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8883911&postcount=18
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8883911&postcount=18
Jamesfrom818
Banned
ChoklitReign said:
If you really want to stat max, you can probably put everything at 60 and then find all the skill books and bobbleheads to max everything out.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Angela Lansbury said:
That would've happened either way..
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Darklord said:
Did you side with Burke?
It's likely that there will be a "Game of the Year" edition with the DLC. They did it with Morrowind and Oblivion. Oblivion's GotY edition (and the Shivering Isles retail disc) was not even announced until over a year after its release so you'll probably be waiting awhile.Overture said:
The Blue Jihad said:
That's a nice little adventure. Although, I feel like people don't appreciate the simpler resolution to life's problems nowadays; I just ran up to the droid and beat his ass into pulp with my baseball bat. :lol
Felt kind of good about it afterwards too. :lol
They've fixed the specular effects in the 360 version (Eurogamer pointed out the 360 version was missing some of the specular effects in the PS3 and PC versions of Fallout 3). It's a subtle change for most things in the game, but scorpions, ants, and some of the weapons and robots look a lot nicer now. No framerate difference, probably was just a bug.
Psychotext
Member
Still not fixed for me. I even went so far as to uninstall all my codecs and re-install my audio drivers.Teknoman said:
