Fallout 3 Help

[Siuki]

I'm at the beginning of the game right now, and these are my stats:

Quest: Find the Museum of Technology

Level: 5

Wearing: Armored Vault 101 Jumpsuit, Vault 101 Security Helmet

Using: Hunting Rifle (Current Damage 17)

Actual Stats(SPECIAL):

STR: 6
PER: 6
END: 8
CHA: 3
INT: 5
AGI: 8
LUK: 4

Skills specialized in:

Small Guns: 60 points
Lockpick: 50 points
Sneak: 76 points

Perks:

Educated
Gun Nut
Thief(2)

I'm having trouble in the game and I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong. I've typed in my basic character sheet as an aid to the experienced Fallout 3 players of the Escapist in hopes of critiquing my current build and seeing if they have and tips or recommendations for me.

 

[-Samurai-]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

 

[Siuki]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

 

[mattttherman3]

Well, if all else fails, turn the difficulty down. Oh and if you see fire ants, I'd run, unless you have a ton of stimpacks.

 

[-Samurai-]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

Yeah, that kinda sucks. Once you start exploring you can start to fast travel. It really is a shame we didn't get some sort of mutated horse to ride around. But the terrain probably wouldn't allow it.

 

[octafish]

I'd start bumping up repair, maybe. What problems are you having? Getting destroyed by Super Mutants? Being discovered sneaking?

 

[TheComedown]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

easiest thing to do is just explore and do some side quests first to lvl up a bit before you go running around DC, i hit the lvl cap before i really started the main quest just by running around doing side quests and i still haven't even come close to all that's available.

 

[Siuki]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

Yeah, that kinda sucks. Once you start exploring you can start to fast travel. It really is a shame we didn't get some sort of mutated horse to ride around. But the terrain probably wouldn't allow it.

The would probably give me radiation poisoning, but it would be totally worth it.

Well, if all else fails, turn the difficulty down. Oh and if you see fire ants, I'd run, unless you have a ton of stimpacks.

Would the Quest XP change relative to the difficulty? If so, I could see an easy XP exploit.

 

[WorldCritic]

Just level up and turn the difficulty down if you have to. Oh and if you find one of the five Super Mutant Behemoths wandering around the wasteland, make sure you have some allies and heavy weaponry.

 

[mattttherman3]

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

Yeah, that kinda sucks. Once you start exploring you can start to fast travel. It really is a shame we didn't get some sort of mutated horse to ride around. But the terrain probably wouldn't allow it.

The would probably give me radiation poisoning, but it would be totally worth it.

Well, if all else fails, turn the difficulty down. Oh and if you see fire ants, I'd run, unless you have a ton of stimpacks.

Would the Quest XP change relative to the difficulty? If so, I could see an easy XP exploit.

Yes, the xp goes down, but not the quest reward xp I believe.

 

[Yureina]

The game is pretty rough during the early levels. Honestly I avoid downtown DC until I am past level 8 or so. By then i've done several side-quests, shot up a huge amount of raiders, and gotten myself some pretty serious firepower. Downtown DC is a rough place almost no matter what level you are at. Don't go there without some good weapons.

 

[lacktheknack]

Simple answer: Stay out of the city area until you're at level ten. Faff around to get to level ten.

If you're trapped in D.C.: Lower the difficulty to easiest, escape, and reset the difficulty. Ignore the main quest for a while.

Also, for future builds: Strength pairs best with endurance, intelligence pairs best with perception, and agility pairs best with charisma.

Also, you will hate hate hate hate hate HATE Little Lamplight unless you have the "Child at Heart" perk (I always get the perk just for Little Lamplight alone).

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

What are you having trouble with? Finding quests, game to difficult, etc?
What I did was stick around megaton doing quests there until I was a high enough level to go into the city.

 

[Tenkage]

Keep doing some more side quests, I recommend heading over to Catterbary (SP) Commons to doa quest Called the super Hero Gambit, help the Robot Hero take care of the evil villain (Meaning kill her) and you get a sweet Laser Pistol

 

[Siuki]

I'd start bumping up repair, maybe. What problems are you having? Getting destroyed by Super Mutants? Being discovered sneaking?

Super Mutants are the problem. Takes me forever to take em down by Hunting Rifle while they have the same weapon. I'm thinking of bumping up repair, now that I see how useful it is.

There really isn't a wrong way to build a character.

The beginning of the game can be somewhat difficult until you really start to gather armor and weapons and ammo, and get some more perks and points into your skills.

Just stick with it for a bit and you'll start to notice that those Raiders are pushovers.

Yeah, I've been checking around other forums and most of the people there said that it would get easy at around Level 7ish. I'm just having a lot of trouble getting around from place to place. Movement is slow and I have to take several subway dungeons to make it to the next area. The exploding head from a critical hit is what's keeping me going.

Thanks. I'll keep pushing until it gets easier.("That's what she said" joke inbound)

easiest thing to do is just explore and do some side quests first to lvl up a bit before you go running around DC, i hit the lvl cap before i really started the main quest just by running around doing side quests and i still haven't even come close to all that's available.

I'll do that. On a side note: Seriously? I can't wait to teleport back to Megaton and start wandering then.

 

[Siuki]

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Sounds good, thanks. I've got some wandering to do.

it's kinda hard for me to give big tips without spoiling some of the game.

if you are really, really stuck to the point you aren't enjoying the game type "fallout wiki" into google

Already did, haven't read much into it yet.

What are you having trouble with? Finding quests, game to difficult, etc?
What I did was stick around megaton doing quests there until I was a high enough level to go into the city.

Sounds like a good idea, know any good ones to start me off?

Keep doing some more side quests, I recommend heading over to Catterbary (SP) Commons to doa quest Called the super Hero Gambit, help the Robot Hero take care of the evil villain (Meaning kill her) and you get a sweet Laser Pistol

I already have one(it's great) unless you're talking about a different one. I'll do it anyways for the XP. Laser Rifle is awesome. Need to make my 27 shots with it count.

 

[cheftacular]

You have sneak? Basically run through DC until you find something scary, then a) sneak, headshot, kill, move on, OR b) sneak, move on. If all else fails, level up a bit before trying to get through DC. I remember when I first got Point Lookout I had just started a new character, and when I ran to the DLC marker, I got slaughtered by Overlords and Raiders.

 

[Yureina]

I'll do that. On a side note: Seriously? I can't wait to teleport back to Megaton and start wandering then.

He's totally serious. I've got a very heavily modded PC version of Fallout 3 that, among countless other things, slows my XP gain speed to 1/3rd of its normal pacing or so. I'm at level 18 after 50 hours of play on my current character, and even with that I still hve HUGE amounts of game content to go through, including about half of the quests, all of the DLC's, and most of downtown DC. If I didn't have my XP slowed i'd have hit level 30 a long time ago.

This game is gigantic.