The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!

I'm guessing you have to get all the bobbleheads on one playthrough for the achievement, right?
Because I just found out there was one I should have gotten before
blowing up Megaton
:/
 
pringles said:
I'm guessing you have to get all the bobbleheads on one playthrough for the achievement, right?
Because I just found out there was one I should have gotten before
blowing up Megaton
:/
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If you are going for full achievements/trophies then you have to play the game 3 times anyway, so no biggie if you forget first time around.

The game is too fun to care anyway, replaying is more fun :lol
 
Just finished the game. Did all the main quests (obviously) and all the miscellaneous quests. I'm 10 speech challenges shy of the achievement can someone give me a few tips as to where I could go to knock out these last few remaining ones?
 
pringles said:
I'm guessing you have to get all the bobbleheads on one playthrough for the achievement, right?
Because I just found out there was one I should have gotten before
blowing up Megaton
:/
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Yeah, you're screwed for getting all the bobbleheads on that play. There are three that can be missed, the one you mentioned, the one in vault 101, and the one in raven rock.

Sallokin said:
Just finished the game. Did all the main quests (obviously) and all the miscellaneous quests. I'm 10 speech challenges shy of the achievement can someone give me a few tips as to where I could go to knock out these last few remaining ones?
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Have you talked to the hotel owner in Rivet City? She has like four easy challenges in a row.
 
Anyone notice a performance increase after patch 1.1 for the PC version? My framerates seem to be more stable after the patch. Am I seeing things or is everyone else experiencing this?
 
Gully State said:
Anyone notice a performance increase after patch 1.1 for the PC version? My framerates seem to be more stable after the patch. Am I seeing things or is everyone else experiencing this?
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I haven't noticed anything... but then I was getting 60fps before the patch mostly so I'm not sure I would.

I have noticed that there's a strange pause before the VATS mode target sections show up now though.
 
A little help...?

I'm very early in the game so I don't think this constitutes spoilers. I've made it to Megaton but I accidentally opened the door to the armory (which was locked) and now I've gone and pissed off the robot dude inside, who chases me around Megaton and kills me pretty quickly. Being a douchebag I didn't make any manual saves since I've been so used to quicksaves/checkpoints, but now every time I continue my game the robot dude just hunts me down and kills me, making things pretty.... impossible really.

Am I going to have to start again?
 
Are all PC players aware of the new (like a week old) 185.20 beta nvidia driver? In the control panel, there is a new option to turn on something called ambient occlusion. I set it to Low, as there is a framerate hit, but the visual difference between Off and Low is greater than the difference between Low and High. And man, it REALLY improves the perception of depth on the z-axis (in english: it makes it much clearer how close or far things are).

I already thought Fallout 3 looked gorgeous, and here comes nvidia with a driver that allows you to pump up the visuals even more...

check out this forum post with comparison pics. unfortunately i could only find comparison pics for Left 4 Dead, but Fallout 3 supports ambient occlusion as well.
 
sionyboy said:
A little help...?

I'm very early in the game so I don't think this constitutes spoilers. I've made it to Megaton but I accidentally opened the door to the armory (which was locked) and now I've gone and pissed off the robot dude inside, who chases me around Megaton and kills me pretty quickly. Being a douchebag I didn't make any manual saves since I've been so used to quicksaves/checkpoints, but now every time I continue my game the robot dude just hunts me down and kills me, making things pretty.... impossible really.

Am I going to have to start again?
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Just leave the town for a while and come back later. They/it should stop attacking you. I killed a bunch of folks in megaton and everyone started to attack me. I left the town for a couple of days (game time) and came back, it was like nothing. They might make a comment about your previous behavior but they will not shoot any more.
 
Broseybrose said:
Are all PC players aware of the new (like a week old) 185.20 beta nvidia driver? In the control panel, there is a new option to turn on something called ambient occlusion. I set it to Low, as there is a framerate hit, but the visual difference between Off and Low is greater than the difference between Low and High. And man, it REALLY improves the perception of depth on the z-axis (in english: it makes it much clearer how close or far things are).

I already thought Fallout 3 looked gorgeous, and here comes nvidia with a driver that allows you to pump up the visuals even more...

check out this forum post with comparison pics. unfortunately i could only find comparison pics for Left 4 Dead, but Fallout 3 supports ambient occlusion as well.
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:O nice! thanks I'll try this out
 
My wife just wrapped up her Fallout 3 game.. or at least that is what she told me. She logged over 100 hours into it. I am well behind her but I must say.. it is awesome having a wife that is into games like Fallout 3.. coming home on her day off to hear about everything she did was very cool.

Can not wait for the DLC to hit.
 
@MrTroubleMaker- just make sure you have a restore point to roll back on if the driver turns out to be a disaster on your rig :lol

you know how every driver gets different results on every machine...
 
Broseybrose said:
@MrTroubleMaker- just make sure you have a restore point to roll back on if the driver turns out to be a disaster on your rig :lol

you know how every driver gets different results on every machine...
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so true
 
Question about the president:

So he wants me to take that FEV to the purifier and tells me his grand idea of getting the united states back on his feet. All sounds great to me. But then it gives me the dialogue option to convince him to destroy himself?
I read that totally puzzled and thought ....why would I want him to destroy himself? Did i miss something?

I had to read up on the wiki article about him to discover that "His charisma and optimism mask his ruthless nature; he is even willing to order the robots in the facility to gun down his own troops to aid the Vault-Dweller's escape (should the player choose to help him) and murder nearly every living being in the Wasteland to achieve his goals."

Ok i understand the robot killing his men - thats bad. But as to how "he is willing to murder every living being to achieve his goals" - How did I miss that?
Is it really obvious that President Eden is really a malicious power hungry maniac?

It just seemed like a serious wtf moment to me. Didn't make a lot of sense at all. Or maybe I missed a major component in the plot and didn't realize it sooner?
 
The Chef said:
Question about the president:

So he wants me to take that FEV to the purifier and tells me his grand idea of getting the united states back on his feet. All sounds great to me. But then it gives me the dialogue option to convince him to destroy himself?
I read that totally puzzled and thought ....why would I want him to destroy himself? Did i miss something?

I had to read up on the wiki article about him to discover that "His charisma and optimism mask his ruthless nature; he is even willing to order the robots in the facility to gun down his own troops to aid the Vault-Dweller's escape (should the player choose to help him) and murder nearly every living being in the Wasteland to achieve his goals."

Ok i understand the robot killing his men - thats bad. But as to how "he is willing to murder every living being to achieve his goals" - How did I miss that?
Is it really obvious that President Eden is really a malicious power hungry maniac?

It just seemed like a serious wtf moment to me. Didn't make a lot of sense at all. Or maybe I missed a major component in the plot and didn't realize it sooner?
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Only pure people would survive, aka only the humans in the vaults and in the enclave. All the other wastelanders would die.
 
Geeker said:
Only pure people would survive, aka only the humans in the vaults and in the enclave. All the other wastelanders would die.
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I just had him destroy himself. Super mutants and ghouls are people too lol. Besides Eden is just a computer program.
 
Stupid computer, too trusting.

"Ya sure, I'll dump this in the water. By the way could you destroy yourself?"
*computer blows up*
*tosses vial*
 
Ferrio said:
Stupid computer, too trusting.

"Ya sure, I'll dump this in the water. By the way could you destroy yourself?"
*computer blows up*
*tosses vial*
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My character, Gamma Judy, was an Eden Girl through and through. When I was low level and eating mole rat meat in the dark just to survive, it was the calming dulcet tones of President John Henry Eden who was my only company. His stories and vision of a restored America stayed in my heart. Of course they would, he is after all the President of 'your heart.'

So Gamma Judy was good in that she helped humans and tried to make the Wastes a better place. She was however a complete rascist. I killed every ghoul I could, cutting off quest lines in the doing. I roasted Falkes alive even though she would have followed me. My 'very good' character did sink to neutral after wiping out every inhabitant of Underworld. These people are mistakes, after all, they were never meant to be. They would have no place in America's bright future.

McDowell's voice was probably my most favorite video game character of all time. He added such authenticity to the role and he what's more, he totally changed the way my character saw the world.
 
Geeker said:
Only pure people would survive, aka only the humans in the vaults and in the enclave. All the other wastelanders would die.
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Ok that makes more sense. Must have missed that little tidbit.
Would the wastelanders die by means of the FEV I put in the purifier?
 
Dyno said:
My character, Gamma Judy, was an Eden Girl through and through. When I was low level and eating mole rat meat in the dark just to survive, it was the calming dulcet tones of President John Henry Eden who was my only company. His stories and vision of a restored America stayed in my heart. Of course they would, he is after all the President of 'your heart.'

So Gamma Judy was good in that she helped humans and tried to make the Wastes a better place. She was however a complete rascist. I killed every ghoul I could, cutting off quest lines in the doing. I roasted Falkes alive even though she would have followed me. My 'very good' character did sink to neutral after wiping out every inhabitant of Underworld. These people are mistakes, after all, they were never meant to be. They would have no place in America's bright future.
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:lol
 
The Chef said:
Ok that makes more sense. Must have missed that little tidbit.
Would the wastelanders die by means of the FEV I put in the purifier?
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I'm guessing they would if they had a high rad contamination, idk


LOL Dyno, that was classic
 
Dyno said:
My character, Gamma Judy, was an Eden Girl through and through. When I was low level and eating mole rat meat in the dark just to survive, it was the calming dulcet tones of President John Henry Eden who was my only company. His stories and vision of a restored America stayed in my heart. Of course they would, he is after all the President of 'your heart.'

So Gamma Judy was good in that she helped humans and tried to make the Wastes a better place. She was however a complete rascist. I killed every ghoul I could, cutting off quest lines in the doing. I roasted Falkes alive even though she would have followed me. My 'very good' character did sink to neutral after wiping out every inhabitant of Underworld. These people are mistakes, after all, they were never meant to be. They would have no place in America's bright future.

McDowell's voice was probably my most favorite video game character of all time. He added such authenticity to the role and he what's more, he totally changed the way my character saw the world.
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Thats some awesome roleplaying right there :lol
 
Diablohead said:
If you are going for full achievements/trophies then you have to play the game 3 times anyway, so no biggie if you forget first time around.

The game is too fun to care anyway, replaying is more fun :lol
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Or you could just sit at neutral karma, and reload and change it to bad and good at the achievement levels ?_?
 
Fixed the stuttering radio music by installing Creative Alchemy...but the game crashes after a few minutes with it enabled. Uninstalled it and now back to stuttery music and no crashes. Really wish Microsoft would've just left direct sound alone when making Vista.
 
Completed finally... I see what people are saying about the ending but as others have said, it's all about the journey.

I was quite disappointed that they didn't use the same ending system as the other fallout games though.
 
I played through the main story twice, and neither time could I bring myself to
kill Eden
. Sure, he's crazy, but who isn't in the game? If someone could just work on him to accept mutants and ghouls as people too I think he would be a fine president.
 
Dyno said:
My character, Gamma Judy, was an Eden Girl through and through. When I was low level and eating mole rat meat in the dark just to survive, it was the calming dulcet tones of President John Henry Eden who was my only company. His stories and vision of a restored America stayed in my heart. Of course they would, he is after all the President of 'your heart.'

So Gamma Judy was good in that she helped humans and tried to make the Wastes a better place. She was however a complete rascist. I killed every ghoul I could, cutting off quest lines in the doing. I roasted Falkes alive even though she would have followed me. My 'very good' character did sink to neutral after wiping out every inhabitant of Underworld. These people are mistakes, after all, they were never meant to be. They would have no place in America's bright future.
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On my second playthrough I'm considering RPing a self-loathing Vault survivor. Feels guilty about being lucky/fortunate enough to survive the nuclear apocalypse while others weren't/didn't. Wants to leave the Vault because she believes she can help the Mutants, Ghouls, the afflicted...the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

When she emerges, however, and begins exploring the lands, she's going to discover that truly, nobody deserves to live. There is not a decent soul among the human survivors. Megaton is a cesspool. No Ghoul respects themselves enough to desire anything more than being subservient to human masters..she'll have a particular problem with Gob at Moriarity's Saloon. And the Mutants? While she'll respect their raw strength, she will be mortified by their brutality and exterminate as many as she can.

When she reaches the Family, she's going to make sure to use Bloody Mess. She'll be most disgusted with their pathetic attempts to justify and rationalize their own existence.

It will be a systematic destruction of every living thing. Animal, dog, human, ghoul, mutant, survivor. Everyone.

Extermination.
 
The Blue Jihad said:
On my second playthrough I'm considering RPing a self-loathing Vault survivor. Feels guilty about being lucky/fortunate enough to survive the nuclear apocalypse while others weren't/didn't. Wants to leave the Vault because she believes she can help the Mutants, Ghouls, the afflicted...the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

When she emerges, however, and begins exploring the lands, she's going to discover that truly, nobody deserves to live. There is not a decent soul among the human survivors. Megaton is a cesspool. No Ghoul respects themselves enough to desire anything more than being subservient to human masters..she'll have a particular problem with Gob at Moriarity's Saloon. And the Mutants? While she'll respect their raw strength, she will be mortified by their brutality and exterminate as many as she can.

When she reaches the Family, she's going to make sure to use Bloody Mess. She'll be most disgusted with their pathetic attempts to justify and rationalize their own existence.

It will be a systematic destruction of every living thing. Animal, dog, human, ghoul, mutant, survivor. Everyone.

Extermination.
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Ending was such garbage. Why not Fawkes, Charon? Ugh.

All in all it was a decent RPG, but I enjoyed Mass Effect more. Being a hardcore Fallout 2 fan--which btw is still the best RPG ever made--it fell short in so many respects. Not much variety of guns. Can't upgrade guns. Can't be a made-man, marry (straight or gay), have sex w/ Brahmin, buy weapon upgrades, kill children, own a car, kill carjackers who stole your car, grow a sixth finger, sleep w/ others to complete quests, trek down to NCR and get a free set of Power Armor you could actually wear... the list goes on and on. Fallout 2 just gave you so much freedom and options (granted I only played as the goodie-too-shoes).

Fallout 3 feels like what Oblivion should've been, but doesn't feel like Fallout. A solid RPG though.
 
AAAAAAHHHHH noooo my main file is worthless now, I just found out I missed the Raven Rock bobblehead though I was thinking it was a different area to that part near the end of the game, damn it, after spending a good 6 hours playing and finding the others as well as doing quests.

I know I could probably unlock some achievements still using that file but I will start again anyway, I need to make a good build for the future anyway since i've learned how important each type of skill is or not, I think I will put less points into big guns this time around.
 
sugaki said:
All in all it was a decent RPG, but I enjoyed Mass Effect more. Being a hardcore Fallout 2 fan--which btw is still the best RPG ever made--it fell short in so many respects. Not much variety of guns. Can't upgrade guns. Can't be a made-man, marry (straight or gay), have sex w/ Brahmin, buy weapon upgrades, kill children, own a car, kill carjackers who stole your car, grow a sixth finger, sleep w/ others to complete quests, trek down to NCR and get a free set of Power Armor you could actually wear... the list goes on and on. Fallout 2 just gave you so much freedom and options (granted I only played as the goodie-too-shoes).
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With all this technology it's funny how games are becoming more and more limited.
 
sugaki said:
Ending was such garbage. Why not Fawkes, Charon? Ugh.
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I just beat this 10 minutes ago, and i seriously agree. I was dumbfounded by the ending...my only response after watching the final cinematic was "You're joking, right?". I even went back and tried different things (turning on the purifier with low radiation count, sending in armored suit lady) and still your character is unplayable after the end.

For a game all about exploration you'd think they'd give you the option to do so even after beating the main quest.
 
starchild excalibur said:
I just beat this 10 minutes ago, and i seriously agree. I was dumbfounded by the ending...my only response after watching the final cinematic was "You're joking, right?". I even went back and tried different things (turning on the purifier with low radiation count, sending in armored suit lady) and still your character is unplayable after the end.

For a game all about exploration you'd think they'd give you the option to do so even after beating the main quest.
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Yeah thankfully I had saved about 5 minutes before the ending so I could just resume my adventure, I also told fawkes to wait since he would kill steal a lot :P
 
starchild excalibur said:
I just beat this 10 minutes ago, and i seriously agree. I was dumbfounded by the ending...my only response after watching the final cinematic was "You're joking, right?". I even went back and tried different things (turning on the purifier with low radiation count, sending in armored suit lady) and still your character is unplayable after the end.

For a game all about exploration you'd think they'd give you the option to do so even after beating the main quest.
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DLC will remedy that.
 
Diablohead said:
Yeah thankfully I had saved about 5 minutes before the ending so I could just resume my adventure, I also told fawkes to wait since he would kill steal a lot :P
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I know. I sent the bastard off on his own. Then I hear shots, so I race over only to find he killed a deathclaw on his own, and just quietly strolls away.
 
Varna said:
With all this technology it's funny how games are becoming more and more limited.
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Well, I haven't played Fallout 2, but I find this statement, in general, to be kind of ridiculous.
 
Ok.... I'm going to give Fallout 3 one last chance today before I throw it out the window and move onto Dark Sector.

I'm level 4, I've done a few random missions (disarmed bomb, fixed water leaks, done 2 book challenges for Moira, and been to Arefu to find Lucy West's family dead). But I cannot venture into the wasteland as everything seems to kill me. A Mireluke to nearly all of my ammo to get him down (as well as the help of a passing slaver) 3 Mole Rats killed me off, 3 mercs did the same. I have fuck all ammo, my 10mm pistol (which is my best weapon) does 5 damage, there is no ammo to be found in Megaton and now the game wants me to go into DC to the GNR. There is no way I'll survive the journey thanks to my pathtetic ammo count and puny little weapons.

What the fudge? Am I missing something obvious, have I upgraded in all the wrong skills, or am I expected to sneak around the wastelands trying to avoid everything (and if the answer to this is yes then its going on ebay).
 
Go to the DC mission. You get some decent weaponry there. After that it really becomes a walk in the park. Never had problems with a lack of ammunition except for the very beginning of the game.
 
Looks like you built a fucked character. Have you put emphasis on some weapon? That leads to more crits when going in VATS style with that weapon, so you'll score more headshots.
 
sionyboy said:
Ok.... I'm going to give Fallout 3 one last chance today before I throw it out the window and move onto Dark Sector.

I'm level 4, I've done a few random missions (disarmed bomb, fixed water leaks, done 2 book challenges for Moira, and been to Arefu to find Lucy West's family dead). But I cannot venture into the wasteland as everything seems to kill me. A Mireluke to nearly all of my ammo to get him down (as well as the help of a passing slaver) 3 Mole Rats killed me off, 3 mercs did the same. I have fuck all ammo, my 10mm pistol (which is my best weapon) does 5 damage, there is no ammo to be found in Megaton and now the game wants me to go into DC to the GNR. There is no way I'll survive the journey thanks to my pathtetic ammo count and puny little weapons.

What the fudge? Am I missing something obvious, have I upgraded in all the wrong skills, or am I expected to sneak around the wastelands trying to avoid everything (and if the answer to this is yes then its going on ebay).
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You DO use V.A.T.S., don't you?
 
sionyboy said:
Ok.... I'm going to give Fallout 3 one last chance today before I throw it out the window and move onto Dark Sector.

I'm level 4, I've done a few random missions (disarmed bomb, fixed water leaks, done 2 book challenges for Moira, and been to Arefu to find Lucy West's family dead). But I cannot venture into the wasteland as everything seems to kill me. A Mireluke to nearly all of my ammo to get him down (as well as the help of a passing slaver) 3 Mole Rats killed me off, 3 mercs did the same. I have fuck all ammo, my 10mm pistol (which is my best weapon) does 5 damage, there is no ammo to be found in Megaton and now the game wants me to go into DC to the GNR. There is no way I'll survive the journey thanks to my pathtetic ammo count and puny little weapons.

What the fudge? Am I missing something obvious, have I upgraded in all the wrong skills, or am I expected to sneak around the wastelands trying to avoid everything (and if the answer to this is yes then its going on ebay).
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Well, I'm no expert in this game, but roaming around with a 10mm pistol I wouldn't recommend.. I'm at level 12, I'm no "sneaker" at all, I try to wipe out everything I see, and for me the struggle-balance is perfect as I have to generally carefully plan and set up my stuff and how I do the fighting, conserving ammo and medicine, taking various meds to gain some advantage if the enemies are strong. Playing around with the VATS trying to maximize its impact. Even with missile launchers and good weapons, surprise encounters make me feel like I'm hanging in a thin thread at times. I like that. It forces me think instead of playing it as a mindless shooter. But yes, maybe you've distributed the points in the wrong direction, I don't know. Just don't expect to be easily killing off everything around you with only 5 damage..
 
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