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Guys I finally got to finish this game but I got a couple of Q as well as some glitches i would like some of you to check out.

In the final mission Project Purity. Do I have to load a previous save file to finish other missions and play the expansions? Cause it wont let me leave. it says the door is locked

And the glitch I found was on the options menu on the 360. Whenever I want to adjust audio it goes 4 bars up and when I go down 3 bars down. When I want to change pips boy color it gives me 2 options only. Has anyone encountered this?
 
SixStringPsycho said:
Guys I finally got to finish this game but I got a couple of Q as well as some glitches i would like some of you to check out.

In the final mission Project Purity. Do I have to load a previous save file to finish other missions and play the expansions? Cause it wont let me leave. it says the door is locked
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Do you have Broken Steel DLC? If yes, you can finish the game, and then, play the other expansions. If no, you will have to reload previous save file.
 
gregor7777 said:
That sounds awesome. Anyone tried it yet?
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I tried it. It is awesome. Its a little rough around the edges, but its very entertaining. There are big resistance VS Terminator fights all over the map, and Terminators appear out of nowhere and are INSANELY tough (the way they should be). The Terminators look amazing, and you can make yourself into one.

On the bad side, the terminator character creation needs more options, the sound is a little off, and characters drop way to much ammo early on. It was also a little buggy, and I couldn't get past a certain part without it crashing so I uninstalled. I did enjoy what I played though.

Right now I'm using Marts mutant mod, 20th century soviet weapons (amazing weapon pack), perk pack (more perks), and badass super mutants (Makes super mutants only use big weapons and gave them a major health upgrade so they feel like fighting terminators, rather then scrubs).
 
Nearing the end of Point Lookout (I think), and it's probably my favorite DLC so far... love how there are all these little quests to do, and some actual exploration instead of linear pathways. So I'm at level 28, with about 1.5 levels to go to get the final set of achievements... but I'll wait for the final DLC to do that.

Anybody else think one of the monsters looks like Sloth from the Goonies?
 
I've started playing this again since first beating it when it originally released.

I'm really getting into it now and enjoying it more than my original playthrough. I want to be prepared for when all of the DLC releases for the PlayStation 3.
 
Is anyone else having constant crashes in the Sacred Bog in Point Lookout? There's an area in there where it CTDs every time I cross this invisible boundary. Bethesda fucking sucks at programming.
 
ChoklitReign said:
Is anyone else having constant crashes in the Sacred Bog in Point Lookout? There's an area in there where it CTDs every time I cross this invisible boundary. Bethesda fucking sucks at programming.
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I had one crash when doing fast travel, but the only other bug I found is when I went to:

the Dunwich building, back in the Capital Wasteland, to burn the evil book
, the compass location wouldn't appear in the proper point.
 
Just to confirm, once I'm done with Point Lookout can I then finally return this game? I have had it from my rental service since February, and every time I've thought returning it a new DLC has popped up.
 
Has Mothership Zeta been confirmed as the last DLC pack? I can't believe, that after purchasing Mothership Zeta, I will have spent as much on the DLC as I did on the actual special edition (got it from the CC firesale)
 
Sometimes I wish the Chinese Stealth Suit was never created. It makes everything too easy. I know I don't have to use it but it seems like such a waste to leave it at home.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Sometimes I wish the Chinese Stealth Suit was never created. It makes everything too easy. I know I don't have to use it but it seems like such a waste to leave it at home.
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Wait, it actually makes you invisible or what?
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Sometimes I wish the Chinese Stealth Suit was never created. It makes everything too easy. I know I don't have to use it but it seems like such a waste to leave it at home.
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Yes it does, but for me it's the best thing to happen to the game. I'm pure %110 stealth! I love it, hell I played Oblivion like that to! I've used it ever sense I got it. I also was able to only get about 75% of one level from beating all of Point LookOut. I would have probably of gotten 3 or 4 levels with out it! It's ridiculous I have to play the game like that, but I just know it will kill the game for me if I can't get EXP anymore! Bethesda is fucking shitty a designing a good level system. I beat POL today, and wanted to start a quest I haven't thought of in awhile. "Trouble at the Home Front" well the game as to be a glitchy fucking mess, and I couldn't get the quest to pop up. It fucking boggles my mind how shit like this gets past QA, when it takes them fucking 2 month between DLC! I love this game, I do, but some times, I just want to throw it out the window!
 
ChoklitReign said:
Is anyone else having constant crashes in the Sacred Bog in Point Lookout? There's an area in there where it CTDs every time I cross this invisible boundary. Bethesda fucking sucks at programming.
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Yeah, on 360 I had it hard crash my system 3 or 4 times in there, only place it happened.
 
knitoe said:
Almost invisible, shimmers like being the Predator.
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Yeah, but in this game that doesn't really matter. While crouched with the stealth suit, you're always like that, and it's exactly like using a stealth boy. You can crouch walk anywhere, even into a bunch of enemies, and they won't blow your stealth. I was even able to beat enemies to death while stealth crouched and none of the other enemies reacted.
 
finished The Pitt today, it was a solid DLC but I still liked Point Lookout a bit better. Also, it looks like there is a bug if you play PL before the Pitt that causes you to fall through the roofs of building in the scrapyard area. Happened to me while trying to get the last of the ingots. The roof looks normal, except bullets go through it and so do you as you walk over it. I just reset my system and that seemed to fix it, others are reporting that they had to delete PL and then it worked for them. Now on to Broken Steel.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Sometimes I wish the Chinese Stealth Suit was never created. It makes everything too easy. I know I don't have to use it but it seems like such a waste to leave it at home.
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I eventually just shelved it. I play a stealth kill character, with my character build, the CSS broke the game.

If you've leveled up all the critical hit perks, a sneak attack critical at point-blank range using the stealth suit and the terrible shotgun can one-hit kill pretty much everything in the game except for albino radscorpions and behemoths. And a sneak attack hit from the shishkebab w/pyromaniac using VATS will not only kill pretty much any human opponent, but will keep you completely stealthed from nearby enemies.
 
I have got a pretty big problem with Fallout3 now.

I was playing it perfectly for the last few weeks.
I resintalled it, with the same dvd and now:

Launch menu, select play, Black screen, CTRL ALT Delete, task manager: fallout3.exe not responding...

its driving me nuts.
 
So I finished Point Lookout over the weekend, and got level 30 as well. 1450/1450 achievements. I must say that Point Lookout is far and away the best DLC for Fallout 3. It was simply amazing, and I can't wait to play back through it with another character someday. The amount of free-roaming quests was very impressive, and the quests themselves were so well done.

The best part, to me, was the Chinese spy quest, that was just fantastic, and had so many "holy shit!" moments. It was very well written, had a lot of different locales to visit, and the ending was the best sidequest ending I've seen in the game as a whole.
 
I just started a new character for a good karma very hard playthrough(my 80 hour file kept crashing, so I turned off and on all my mods and expansions, which worked except now I'm lvl 30 with no bonus perks or loot), and I've gotta say, not as hard as I'd thought it'd be. ...except the time there was an inexplicable deathclaw right outside of vault 101. That kinda sucked.

Starting stats:

Strength 9
Perception 5
Endurance 1
Charisma 1
Intelligence 9
Agility 9
Luck 6

Lockpick, Repair and small guns tagged. I think I'll head straight to the alien crash site to make things a little easier until I get some real equipment, I'll have repair maxed at level 4 so that should help.

Current plan of action:
1. Get Science bobblehead in vault
2. kill raiders on bridge outside of vault, raid dilapidated farmhouse nearby(decent armor, sniper, flamer, hunting rifle)
3. head to megaton, repair water pipes and disarm bomb for quick cash, sell off loot and use money to repair sniper
4. grab Strength bobblehead
5. pick up dogmeat and alien blaster, hit arefu and super mart on way back
6. walk the earth
 
I was kinda done with Fallout 3 after being very disappointed with the last 3 dlc's (The Pit was okay though) but I decided to get Point Lookout anyway. I'm so glad that I did. It hardly feels like Fallout 3, but that's alright. This is what I wanted the other dlc's to be: different from the main game but with the same kind of gameplay.
 
Flib said:
What's the best time to start the dlc, as far as levels?
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You could do anchorage and the Pitt at any time, they're pretty easy. Broken Steel you have to have beaten the game already of course. I personally thought that Point Lookout was the hardest, but then again it's the only one I played on hard. All the DLCs(except broken steel) give you everything you need to beat them, so I wouldn't worry about it too much, honestly.
 
God's Beard said:
You could do anchorage and the Pitt at any time, they're pretty easy. Broken Steel you have to have beaten the game already of course. I personally thought that Point Lookout was the hardest, but then again it's the only one I played on hard. All the DLCs(except broken steel) give you everything you need to beat them, so I wouldn't worry about it too much, honestly.
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I beat the game on 360 when it came out, and just started playing it again on PC with all the expansions, so I'm getting itchy to try out the dlc since I've gone through most of the other content before. I think I'm level 7 at the moment.
 
Great, I played through about ten hours before realizing that SPECIAL maxes out at 10, I put my INT up to 10 and I haven't found the INT bobblehead. Sigh...fuck.

Guess I better reboot my "leaving Vault 101" save...
 
I rebought a copy of Fallout 3 from a GAFer (PS3) after I heard DLC announcement. My first playthrough was terrible anyways, and I want to be bad this time. Any ETA on PS3 DLC?
 
Operation Anchorage might come this thursday on PS3... We'll see.

I so mad after the game right now, cause I'm out from a 2 hours long, hunt through the Wasteland for Nuka Cola Quantum and got 10 (3 left for completing the Nuka Cola Challenge) and I quit the game.

Now I'm back and for some reason, all auto save were disable and I'm all good to start again... :(
 
I'm working on beating the game (for the first time) played it on 360 when it came out but recently bought it on pc, along with operation anchorage and pitt.

Haven't installed them yet because I dont know what happens when i do. i dont want to get overwhelmed with places and quests. So after I beat the game, do i just install both and then pick which area i go to first?
 
dorkimoe said:
I'm working on beating the game (for the first time) played it on 360 when it came out but recently bought it on pc, along with operation anchorage and pitt.

Haven't installed them yet because I dont know what happens when i do. i dont want to get overwhelmed with places and quests. So after I beat the game, do i just install both and then pick which area i go to first?
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Anchorage & The Pitt can be accessed before the end game, Broken Steel needs to be accessed after you finish the game. I don't know about Point Lookout but I suspect it can happen before the end game.
 
Point Lookout is a really nice expansion. I really wish they would just keep going past Mothership Zeta. Just leave a small team building add ons and keep right on trucking.
 
8bit said:
Anchorage & The Pitt can be accessed before the end game, Broken Steel needs to be accessed after you finish the game. I don't know about Point Lookout but I suspect it can happen before the end game.
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Yeah i just want to finish the game first, so i dont get side tracked and miss a quest achievement
 
Tobor said:
Point Lookout is a really nice expansion. I really wish they would just keep going past Mothership Zeta. Just leave a small team building add ons and keep right on trucking.
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I think they've kind of gotten themselves into a corner with the DLC. Unless they make new uber-weapons, higher level cap, and (decent) perks it doesn't seem like an RPG. However the existing DLC has already sort of DBZ'd the game - Deathclaws are supposed to be a terrifying creature in the Fallout world, but a level 30 character can take down groups of Deathclaws without breaking a sweat.
 
Got a great eBay deal and bought a practically new Fallout 3 for cheap last week. Just started playing, initial settings:

Strength: 5
Perception: 5
Endurance: 5
Charisma: 8
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 5
Luck: 5

I figure I'll have to get on people's good side and wow them with my AMAZING WIT. :P
 
I can't download Point Lookout from the Games for Windows Market Place. Is there an issue or is this something on my end?

Edit: Never mind. It's working now.
 
8bit said:
Anchorage & The Pitt can be accessed before the end game, Broken Steel needs to be accessed after you finish the game. I don't know about Point Lookout but I suspect it can happen before the end game.
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It costs 450 caps or so to get there though so it's at least a mid/late game area.

I still need to buy all the DLC...I might wait for the disc version.
 
This game is one of my all time favorite games. I can't get enough of it. A game hasn't captured me like this in YEARS!

I agree with the statements about the stealth suit, but I can't stop using it lol. It's so awesome. The best thing about this game is the way how you can go about playing it. I'm maxed now but earlier in the game I used to fight one on one with most enemies. Now that I have a dart gun I've changed my start. I also now destroy enemy guns if I'm facing a swarm of them. I love seeing them charge at me with fists swinging only to be laid out with my Metal Blaster:lol
 
Playing game again with new character. At lvl 8 & 50 stealth stat, monsters can see me very far away. It's not all powerful until you are close to max character stats & perks, but by then, aren't you suppose to be "all powerful" anyway.
 
mattso said:
I found charisma to be pretty useless. But then again my strategy was/is usually to shoot... everything.
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lol. I reset my settings before I left the Vault:

Strength: 7
Perception: 5
Endurance: 7
Charisma: 4
Intelligence: 5
Agility: 6
Luck: 6

Figured I needed more strength/Endurance/Agility/Luck, can't reason with animals I'll encounter. Good thing I changed it too, every fricking animal under the moon came after me.

So I was doing the quest to irradiate myself. I figured I'd do 200 rads, no need to take on 600. I turned to the Mets game and saw the Mets losing 3-0, and the backup OF playing 2nd base for some reason...

It was at that point I decided to go for 600 rads...

EDIT:
Ended up with Rad Regeneration. Sweet.
 
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