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[GhaleonEB]

Is DR the only stats one should really look at when deciding if a new armor is better or worse (and it's weight ratio, of course)? I mean, I'm 14 hours in and I'm still using a police uniform I found in the Vault without much problems :lol

I assume so. I'm on only my second suit of armor, now 40 hours into the game. Armor didn't seem to be much of a priority. :lol

Speaking of priorities...I've run into what seems to be a permanent glitch. I can't get into the at tunnel at Shalebridge. I select to enter it, it goes to black screen with the little dial spinning around like it's a fast load. Yay.

And then it stops. Hard system freeze, can't even pull up the guide to boot to the dashboard. I've turned off and reloaded, going back to the the tunnel three times now, and I get a full system crash every time I try to go in. The dial even freezes at the same point. (It's been frozen at the black screen and unmoving dial the entire time I've been writing this post.)

Is this a known bug? There's an entire dungeon that I can't go into or the system crashes?

The QA issues in Oblivion were the reason I didn't pick up Fallout 3 at launch, and I'd assumed crash-level bugs like this would be fixed by now.

Edit: make that four system crashes now. I hope there's nothing good in there, as the game sure as hell doesn't want me to go in. :lol

 

[Unregistered007]

I wish the DLC was a lot longer.
After Alpha Protocol I have NO FAINT in New Vegas.

 

[Minamu]

GhaleonEB: i haven't reached the spot you're at but installing the game (if you're on the 360), reducing your number of saves, turning off autosaving and clearing the cache are all viable tips I've seen on gamefaqs regarding general crashes. Try that ^^

 

[Scipius]

Speaking of priorities...I've run into what seems to be a permanent glitch. I can't get into the at tunnel at Shalebridge.

Edit: make that four system crashes now. I hope there's nothing good in there, as the game sure as hell doesn't want me to go in. :lol

Shalebridge is known as one of the glitchiest areas in the game; those caves are filled with bugs in more ways than one.

You could try waiting 72 game hours for everything to respawn and try again, but there's nothing of any real value to be found in there anyway.

 

[Sanic]

I wish the DLC was a lot longer.
After Alpha Protocol I have NO FAINT in New Vegas.

I wouldn't say i'm worried about NV, but I won't at all be surprised if it ends up being...nothing special. I'm actually more concerned with Obsidian screwing up the atmosphere, writing, and quest design. Basically everything outside of the gameplay.

 

[Marvie_3]

Disbaling autosaves is a good idea for the DLC too. I've had a couple autosaves corrupt themselves while in the DLC missions. Thankfully I kept manual saves as well

 

[Barberetti]

Am I the only one that likes be a complete loner? I've run into multiple possible companions, and have told them all to piss off. I work alone.

Yeah my main character is a loner. I prefer the challenge of doing everything myself.

I tried a couple of the companions out on my second run through the game with my "psycho female" character I'd made for a laugh. Charon and Clover I think. One had Brotherhood of Steel armour, and the other had Outcast armour. We ran into a couple of giant radscorpions and both the companions died. I laughed and went on my merry way.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

Posted this in the LTTP thread but figure I'll ask here as well
Does anyone know of any good mod guides for the PC version? That or can anyone recommend some of the best mods for the game?
I'm mostly interested in UI/visual mods, but if there are any must have gameplay ones I'll look into those as well.

heres my mods post that I try and maintain

 

[Anticitizen One]

Broken Steel only changes the final outcome of the ending; everything leading up to it is still the same with Broken Steel installed. You won't miss a thing.

If you like to explore and want to avoid hitting the level cap at 20, then get Broken Steel and its accompanying raised level cap before you start a new run.

Everything is the same but new enemies will show up during the original games quests

 

[blame space]

I only completely wiped out one town in my playthrough. First spoiler line is the town name, if you're that sensitive...

Spoiler

It was the mission where you had to rescue the children from Paradise.

There was a dude guarding the only entrance to the town and I had to do some fetch quests and give him money or something. I was in a lazy mood so I just killed him. Then his friend ran at me so I shot him too. Then I was like well fuck it, I'll just take out the entire town find the key and rescue the kids. So that's what I did. I didn't spare anyone, even the doctors. It was cool walking around and there was no one left!

I've always wondered what I missed, I'm sure there were other ways of breaking the children out. Or even siding with the villagers and keep the children captive...

:lol wait, this isn't what you're supposed to do? blowing that bitch doctor away was so satisfying..

 

[rainking187]

Probably not buying another Bethesda game after this. The game is great, but there was apparently no quality control on the PS3 GOTY version. And to top it off they didn't even patch it, and I've heard no plans to. Whatever. I've had three or four freezes just in the DLC and I've only done two of them so far. I'm just glad I'm almost done.

 

[B1gg_Randall]

Im really thinking bout picking this up...I had it on Xbox 360,but I stopped a lil after you find your

Spoiler

DAD

And its only 8.99 for the PS3 version at Gamestop this week!!!!!!

 

[kyo_daikun]

Probably not buying another Bethesda game after this. The game is great, but there was apparently no quality control on the PS3 GOTY version. And to top it off they didn't even patch it, and I've heard no plans to. Whatever. I've had three or four freezes just in the DLC and I've only done two of them so far. I'm just glad I'm almost done.

Only 3 or 4? On point lookout I think I had 30 stops+ alone...

 

[rainking187]

Only 3 or 4? On point lookout I think I had 30 stops+ alone...

By stops do you mean when it temporarily freezes? Cause I've had a lot of those, I was talking about when it locks up completely and I have to restart the system. I've only beaten Operation Anchorage and The Pitt so far though.

 

[beelzebozo]

By stops do you mean when it temporarily freezes? Cause I've had a lot of those, I was talking about when it locks up completely and I have to restart the system. I've only beaten Operation Anchorage and The Pitt so far though.

my roommate has had around 5 separate freezes while playing UNCHARTED 2.

 

[kyo_daikun]

By stops do you mean when it temporarily freezes? Cause I've had a lot of those, I was talking about when it locks up completely and I have to restart the system. I've only beaten Operation Anchorage and The Pitt so far though.

I mean full PS3 crashes where I have to restart it, lookout was the worst then broken steel (probably about 10 lockups)

The dlc really screwed the PS3 version unfortunatly.

 

[rainking187]

I mean full PS3 crashes where I have to restart it, lookout was the worst then broken steel (probably about 10 lockups)

The dlc really screwed the PS3 version unfortunatly.

Yeah, they really fucked it up. When I was playing The Pitt I swear it dropped to like 1 fps for a while. It was like I was watching a slideshow instead of actually playing it.

 

[Marvie_3]

Yeah, they really fucked it up. When I was playing The Pitt I swear it dropped to like 1 fps for a while. It was like I was watching a slideshow instead of actually playing it.

That's happened to me on 360 a couple times. I love this game but it still amazes me how many bugs/glitches there are.

 

[isamu]

I mean full PS3 crashes where I have to restart it, lookout was the worst then broken steel (probably about 10 lockups)

The dlc really screwed the PS3 version unfortunatly.

I played the game on PC and it was a crash fest. It is because of this that I am avoiding New Vegas like the plague.

 

[Minamu]

I haven't had any problems whatsoever in about 17 hours. Knock on wood. I've only had a couple of half-second framerate hitches overall. Maybe it's because it's installed, but it seems a lot smoother than Oblivion ever did on the 360 for me.

 

[water_wendi]

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/40300/New-Vegas-pre-orders-outgun-Fallout-3

According to Bethesda it seems that pre-orders for New Vegas have surpassed those for Fallout 3. Thats a good sign. Also wasnt sure where to put this since NV has like 3 different threads and this isnt newsworthy enough for its own thread.

 

[JambiBum]

So I'm watching The Speed of Life on discovery channel and I'm trying to figure out who the narrator is. Realize that it's fucking Three Dog from Fallout 3.

 

[ElFly]

So I'm watching The Speed of Life on discovery channel and I'm trying to figure out who the narrator is. Realize that it's fucking Three Dog from Fallout 3.

BOW WOW

 

[Minamu]

29 hours in and just reached Tenpenny Tower I ran into a glitch with the main quest that made me revert to an old save so I lost about an hour in Rivet City (talked to Li before I went to Three Dog. Couldn't find my way over there at first). Those Yao Guai's up at Raven Rock were tough as nails :lol And then I find that I can't even enter the damn place >_< Raiders with rocket launchers are annoying too... Managed to get small guns to 100 without the bobblehead Stupid books!

Am I supposed to build my own shotguns etc from scratch or something? Sure, my regular combat shotguns do massive damage to Super Mutants (killed the Behemoth without nukes), but they're not exactly unique or anything :S Or is it perfectly normal to still be using that+hunting rifle+assault rifle at lvl 16?

These glitches makes it about scary to go around exploring though Wouldn't want to run into another achievement breaking glitch or something that screws up the quest order.

 

[Marvie_3]

The Yao Guai's constantly provide my favorite physics-related moments in this game. I love blowing their heads off with a combat shotgun in V.A.T.S. and then watching their bodies fly up in the air and do a dozen flips. :lol

 

[rainking187]

So I'm watching The Speed of Life on discovery channel and I'm trying to figure out who the narrator is. Realize that it's fucking Three Dog from Fallout 3.

I hate Three Dog. So many times I've walked into a building and hear someone talking so I get ready for a gunfight only to realize it's the goddamn radio.

 

[JambiBum]

I hate Three Dog. So many times I've walked into a building and hear someone talking so I get ready for a gunfight only to realize it's the goddamn radio.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[ElFly]

29 hours in and just reached Tenpenny Tower I ran into a glitch with the main quest that made me revert to an old save so I lost about an hour in Rivet City (talked to Li before I went to Three Dog. Couldn't find my way over there at first). Those Yao Guai's up at Raven Rock were tough as nails :lol And then I find that I can't even enter the damn place >_< Raiders with rocket launchers are annoying too... Managed to get small guns to 100 without the bobblehead Stupid books!

Am I supposed to build my own shotguns etc from scratch or something? Sure, my regular combat shotguns do massive damage to Super Mutants (killed the Behemoth without nukes), but they're not exactly unique or anything :S Or is it perfectly normal to still be using that+hunting rifle+assault rifle at lvl 16?

These glitches makes it about scary to go around exploring though Wouldn't want to run into another achievement breaking glitch or something that screws up the quest order.

It's not a glitch. If you talk to Li before talking to threedog, the game just lets you skip a couple of questsl where you'd help threedog with his antenna (I've always hated him for not directly telling you where James was. No, fuck you 101, you are going to be my errand boy before I direct you to Rivet City).

Thing is, the game kind of forgets to tell you where the radio is if you speak to Li first. A possible solution is to talk to Moriarty first to start the gnr radio quest, before going to Li. Going directly to Li is something you'll find yourself doing a lot in replays, cause she has the super important intelligence bobblehead.

Chinese Rfles are so much better than regular assault rifles. And yeah, hunting rifles are pretty sweet in general, but you'll see yourself replacing them with one of the unique versions,but before I did that, I was still using hunting ones from time to time, even when I got plasmas on the side. Thing is, Hunting rifles in VATS do a lot of damage, while they are kind of a chore to use outside of VATS.

And yeah, you should be grabbing the weapons out of corpses, and repairing them together to improve their condition. Don't lose sleep over getting the schematics to build weapons. Those schematics weapons aren't that important.

 

[water_wendi]

It's not a glitch. If you talk to Li before talking to threedog, the game just lets you skip a couple of questsl where you'd help threedog with his antenna (I've always hated him for not directly telling you where James was. No, fuck you 101, you are going to be my errand boy before I direct you to Rivet City).

You can convince him to give you the info if you have enough Speechcraft. If you do that and then take up the mission to repair the GNR signal, he even gives you a bonus reward because you helped him out even if you didnt need to. IIRC its a key to a room you cant lockpick with a bunch of stuff in it.

 

[ElFly]

You can convince him to give you the info if you have enough Speechcraft. If you do that and then take up the mission to repair the GNR signal, he even gives you a bonus reward because you helped him out even if you didnt need to. IIRC its a key to a room you cant lockpick with a bunch of stuff in it.

Oh yeah, but that quest is still available even if you skip it at first by talking to Li first. It just plays out differently.

 

[disappeared]

Doing TWO separate run-throughs right now. The first, about 20 hours in, Peacekeeper with ZERO humans killed. I'm sticking by that rule for the entire game, and it's been hard as ffffuuuuuu...

The second run is one I've never done before. Specced out for Big Guns and explosives and Heavy Armor. About five hours in, just running around killing everything with missiles, flamer, minigun. Bloody Mess makes everything fun.


Also, fuck Bethesda for not bug-testing their shit. I expect freezing on PCs, but for the 360 version of all things to freeze four times in two hours!?

 

[tokkun]

Am I supposed to build my own shotguns etc from scratch or something? Sure, my regular combat shotguns do massive damage to Super Mutants (killed the Behemoth without nukes), but they're not exactly unique or anything :S Or is it perfectly normal to still be using that+hunting rifle+assault rifle at lvl 16?

The Combat Shotgun and Hunting Rifle are bread & butter weapons for a Small Arms character as they are easy to repair, they do solid damage, and their ammo is plentiful.

 

[Minamu]

Thanks for the replies I agree that the combat shotgun is good stuff. I currently have around 500 shells on me at all times and my money troubles seem to be a thing of the past with around 8000 caps even though I have a pre-war themed house with all the special equipment purchased :lol

Maybe I should try one of those Chinese rifles again. I'm not a huge fan of burst weapons in other games but the regular assault rifle is burst during VATS anyway Found the shop that wants me to bring 20 rifles yesterday so I've been doing that instead. I think I have 6 schematics at the moment but I've only made a rock-it launcher and the shishkebab so far. Totally wrong weapons for my class. I do have Harkness' laser rifle but never tried it because my energy weapons are in their 20's I believe (managed to get the perk from Zimmer as well ).

Alright, back to work. That final book quest won't finish itself.

 

[rainking187]

Any good places to grind? I've already beaten the main game, all sidequests and all the DLC, and I still need like a level and a half before I can get to level 29 and then use that perk that bumps me up a level. I'd like to get all the level 30 trophies before I move on to a new game.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

Any good places to grind? I've already beaten the main game, all sidequests and all the DLC, and I still need like a level and a half before I can get to level 29 and then use that perk that bumps me up a level. I'd like to get all the level 30 trophies before I move on to a new game.

the Bethseda buildings

 

[Fantastical]

I just started playing this game and it made me like 50's music. :lol

Also, whenever I'm in someone's house I'm afraid to steal anything. Are you supposed to every now and then?

Also, if you murder someone in their house with no one watching, will people still come after you? I tried to kill Moriarty and the whole freaking town came after me.

Love the game. Picked up the GoTY edition in a Gamestop sale.

 

[Marvie_3]

Also, whenever I'm in someone's house I'm afraid to steal anything. Are you supposed to every now and then?

You're not supposed to, but you can get away with it most times as long as there is no one else in the house.

Also, if you murder someone in their house with no one watching, will people still come after you? I tried to kill Moriarty and the whole freaking town came after me.

Depends on what town you're in.

 

[Minamu]

Any good places to grind? I've already beaten the main game, all sidequests and all the DLC, and I still need like a level and a half before I can get to level 29 and then use that perk that bumps me up a level. I'd like to get all the level 30 trophies before I move on to a new game.

What have you been doing? I'm more than halfway to 30 and I haven't even seen half of the locations you can find (I've found maybe 70 now but I've only entered 50ish maybe) and I'm not halfway through the available quests yet :S Are the last 10 levels insanely rough to get or something? :S

 

[rainking187]

What have you been doing? I'm more than halfway to 30 and I haven't even seen half of the locations you can find (I've found maybe 70 now but I've only entered 50ish maybe) and I'm not halfway through the available quests yet :S Are the last 10 levels insanely rough to get or something? :S

You need roughly 4,000 exp per level for most of the later levels. It's easy to get exp when you're doing quests, but when you're just kind of wandering around at the end it gets hard to find enough things to kill to level up. Anyways, I did it, and I'm not going to replay it anytime soon. Good game, but I'm prety sure that whatever I play next will involve me pointing at the TV screen while sobbing and saying "Look someone actually tested this game, you can tell!" I had the game freeze on me again 17 exp away from level 29.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Alright, hit the current level cap of 20 a while back. Not sure what I need to do to get past it, but the last page at least confirmed it goes higher eventually. :lol

A few random thoughts:

I like that this game lets me be a truly horrible bastard. Example: selling my loot to a traveling salesman, then blowing his head off with the combat shotgun, taking all my stuff and caps back, then taking HIS stuff and caps, and then selling it all again back in town. It let me afford a remodel of my shack! That's my kind of game. I just traded in seven ears and it made me happy.

I go alone, and that means Dogmeat is dog meat. Sorry, chap. The dog in Fable II annoyed the fuck out of me and I sure wasn't going to let Bethesda's robot-like version of a dog get in my way. I just wish I wasn't experience capped so I could have seen how much he gave me. Dude absorbed more shotgun blasts than a Mirelurk Hunter.

I'm wishing there were more weapons, armor and enemies. I haven't seen anything new in quite a while, and the weapons I'm building have all been disappointments. There's a sense of sameness creeping into the dungeons (train stations, buildings, etc) where I can recognize the "parts" the maps were made from the same way you could in Oblivion. I'm hoping there's some kind of variety ahead; I'm missing Oblivion's more diverse environments.

I'm juggling a nice handful of quests now, and they're diverse and creative enough that I don't feel like I'm doing constant fetch quests; those are plentiful enough little distractions (scrap metal, Nuka-Cola Quantum, etc.) And I don't have the sense that I've advanced the main plot very far at all, having just arrived at Rivet City.

Speaking of which: if I sold a bunch of Nuka-Cola Quantum a while back, and they're gone from the shop, did I hose that quest?

 

[Aaron]

I'm wishing there were more weapons, armor and enemies. I haven't seen anything new in quite a while, and the weapons I'm building have all been disappointments. There's a sense of sameness creeping into the dungeons (train stations, buildings, etc) where I can recognize the "parts" the maps were made from the same way you could in Oblivion. I'm hoping there's some kind of variety ahead; I'm missing Oblivion's more diverse environments.

I'm juggling a nice handful of quests now, and they're diverse and creative enough that I don't feel like I'm doing constant fetch quests; those are plentiful enough little distractions (scrap metal, Nuka-Cola Quantum, etc.) And I don't have the sense that I've advanced the main plot very far at all, having just arrived at Rivet City.

There will be new enemies when you advance the plot to a certain point. The DLC also have new enemies.

Speaking of which: if I sold a bunch of Nuka-Cola Quantum a while back, and they're gone from the shop, did I hose that quest?

Depends on how many you sold. There are I think twice as many in the world as you need for the quest, and DLC areas might add some. You're probably screwed, but it's a valuable lesson in Fallout 3 that never sell anything but junk. Store it until needed.

 

[GhaleonEB]

There will be new enemies when you advance the plot to a certain point. The DLC also have new enemies.

Depends on how many you sold. There are I think twice as many in the world as you need for the quest, and DLC areas might add some. You're probably screwed, but it's a valuable lesson in Fallout 3 that never sell anything but junk. Store it until needed.

Thanks on both counts. I only sold or consumed ten or so, so I should be okay. I've started hoarding anything that looks useful accordingly. Glad there's new stuff to shoot ahead.

Gonna try to find an android tomorrow.

 

[tokkun]

What have you been doing? I'm more than halfway to 30 and I haven't even seen half of the locations you can find (I've found maybe 70 now but I've only entered 50ish maybe) and I'm not halfway through the available quests yet :S Are the last 10 levels insanely rough to get or something? :S

The amount of experience you get is based on the difficulty setting. If you have it set to Easy, you get less XP. I imagine that was what he did, since I played on Normal and hit level 30 long before finishing all the game's content.

 

[tokkun]

Speaking of which: if I sold a bunch of Nuka-Cola Quantum a while back, and they're gone from the shop, did I hose that quest?

I did the quest still had like 20-30 left over at the end.

Anyway there is a Perk in Broken Steel that lets you make Quantums from normal Nuka-Cola, so the total number is pretty much unlimited.

 

[Aaron]

Thanks on both counts. I only sold or consumed ten or so, so I should be okay. I've started hoarding anything that looks useful accordingly. Glad there's new stuff to shoot ahead.

Gonna try to find an android tomorrow.

You should advance the main quest some. There's quite a bit of cool stuff you haven't seen yet.

 

[BlueTsunami]

I did the quest still had like 20-30 left over at the end.

Anyway there is a Perk in Broken Steel that lets you make Quantums from normal Nuka-Cola, so the total number is pretty much unlimited.

That perk plus being able to make a Nuka Grenade (or better yet 3 from 1) + high explosives and explosives perk = everything owned

 

[Minamu]

You need roughly 4,000 exp per level for most of the later levels. It's easy to get exp when you're doing quests, but when you're just kind of wandering around at the end it gets hard to find enough things to kill to level up. Anyways, I did it, and I'm not going to replay it anytime soon. Good game, but I'm prety sure that whatever I play next will involve me pointing at the TV screen while sobbing and saying "Look someone actually tested this game, you can tell!" I had the game freeze on me again 17 exp away from level 29.

Either my game is broken, or yours is. I had my very first freeze yesterday and it was on a loading screen so thankfully, the game had autosaved 20 feet from that spot. So, it took almost 38 hours before it crashed. Seems pretty solid to me. Oblivion was a lot worse in my experience. And I've done several 6+ hour plays so far.

 

[Karud]

Either my game is broken, or yours is. I had my very first freeze yesterday and it was on a loading screen so thankfully, the game had autosaved 20 feet from that spot. So, it took almost 38 hours before it crashed. Seems pretty solid to me. Oblivion was a lot worse in my experience. And I've done several 6+ hour plays so far.

What's the size of your savegame? It should not crash below 10MB (on PS3).

 

[Minamu]

What's the size of your savegame? It should not crash below 10MB (on PS3).

Counting the autosave, I have 11 files and most are 5 or 6 MB each. I've made about 90 saves in total though but most are just overwritten and I decided to delete a few a while back. I'm kinda OCD over free space on hard drives :lol

Edit: Well shit! That came back fast to bite me in the ass :lol The achievement for Scientific Pursuits never unlocked because I cleared out Jefferson Memorial before I was supposed to (dit it before I even found Rivet City and Three Dog). Since I was dumb enough to delete my saves, my oldest save is from lvl 15 which isn't good enough. Back to lvl 1 yeehaw!

 

[tomchoucrew]

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