The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[Thirtysomething]

Does anyone know the console command to alter the length of the day/night cycle? It's too fast for my liking at the moment and I'd like to set it so that about 2 hours real-time is 12 hours in-game time, or thereabouts.

Nevermind - after much scouring of the internet I found the answer, and it's the same as in Oblivion apparently.

If you want to adjust the speed of in-game time, press ` to bring up the console and type (without quotes) "set timescale to x" - x being the number you want to set it to.

If you set it to 1, that's real-time, as in 1 minute in-game time takes 1 minute to pass in real-time. If you set it to 2, it will double this, so one minute in-game takes 30 seconds in real-time, and so on. I believe the default value for this is 30, meaning 1 hour in-game passes every minute of real-time (I think...I could be wrong my maths isn't too good) so an in-game day takes 24 real minutes to pass.

Whatever - the default value is far too fast for my liking, and that is how it's changed.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

I'm having problems creating the rail spike rifle, can anyone tell me where the heck can you get a pressure cooking pot? I seriously can't find one nor can i buy it!

The supermarket. The survivalist quest's one.
In the back, left side. In the room with the robot if I recall correctly.

Anyone find the Alien laser btw? I've found plenty of alien energy cells near a relay tower.

Random encounter. You'll hear a "boom" and if you investigate the crash site the alien will have it on his corpse.

Enough about the rail-gun though, has anyone got the nuka-cola launcher? I'm really regretting flogging nuka-quantum every time I found it...

The quantum cola thing makes nuka cola grenades, no?
I build about 10 my first playthrough. They're basically grenade-nukes. Less then the Fatman's nukes though.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I don't know why this thread keeps going to page 2. Is fallout 3 really that boring?

....New video :3

Spoiler: Shishkebab!

[http://www.xfire.com/video/3c59e/]

Very Hard, level 14. 100 sneak.

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Love how the "Butcher Pete" song comes on during the video "He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'" SLASH!
I have all I need to make this weapon, but I can't find a workbench, should probably buy one for my room

If you set it to 2, it will double this, so one minute in-game takes 30 seconds in real-time, and so on. I believe the default value for this is 30, meaning 1 hour in-game passes every minute of real-time (I think...I could be wrong my maths isn't too good) so an in-game day takes 24 real minutes to pass.

That's...not right...

two 1950's style families with their strange meat pies might be a good place to start.

So I judge you've been to Andale too, has anyone else, if not, try to find it!

Spoiler: If you have not been to Andale and do not want the "surprise" ruined then do not click this

Inbreeding cannibals FTW

 

[jarowdowsky]

Random encounter. You'll hear a "boom" and if you investigate the crash site the alien will have it on his corpse.

Just managed to track it down based on what you said - realised why there was a load of the cells nearby the relay tower - the alien basically hit it, dropped loads of cells, kept flying west, smashed through a house and I grabbed the pistol from its cold dead hands in the crash site on the other side.

Crazy powerful weapon - think I'll put it somewhere safe so I don't get tempted to burn through the ammo.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

Just managed to track it down based on what you said - realised why there was a load of the cells nearby the relay tower - the alien basically hit it, dropped loads of cells, kept flying west, smashed through a house and I grabbed the pistol from its cold dead hands in the crash site on the other side.

Crazy powerful weapon - think I'll put it somewhere safe so I don't get tempted to burn through the ammo.

pfff. Give me A3-21's plasma rifle any day.

 

[jarowdowsky]

Ha, not knocking the skin-jobs runner killer - it's my weapon of choice (if only because you can find more ammo for it...)

 

[Jumplion]

Damnit, I'm feeling left out here.

I'm going to get Resistance 2 next weekend, and when I'm well and through with that me and my friend (who already has Fallout 3) are going to swap games and then I'll get Fallout 3.

With all these games coming out, I need to save my money god damnit!

I really wish I had Fallout 3 right now ._.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Damnit, I'm feeling left out here.

I'm going to get Resistance 2 next weekend, and when I'm well and through with that me and my friend (who already has Fallout 3) are going to swap games and then I'll get Fallout 3.

With all these games coming out, I need to save my money god damnit!

I really wish I had Fallout 3 right now ._.

I won't even have a damn 360 till after christmas. And then, we'll see if I have the money to even buy it. ;-; I'm a sad panda.

 

[Jumplion]

Damnit, I'm feeling left out here.

I'm going to get Resistance 2 next weekend, and when I'm well and through with that me and my friend (who already has Fallout 3) are going to swap games and then I'll get Fallout 3.

With all these games coming out, I need to save my money god damnit!

I really wish I had Fallout 3 right now ._.

I won't even have a damn 360 till after christmas. And then, we'll see if I have the money to even buy it. ;-; I'm a sad panda.

I shall feel your pain brother from another mother. Guess i'll play LBP and the Alone in the Dark demo 'till then.

Don't watch my videos! NO REALLY DON'T DO IT! BIG SPOILERS AND STUFF LIKE THAT!..

...don't watch them...
...don't.

(Is my ultimate reverse psychology working yet Mister Freud?)

I already watched the first part(s) of the game, and I never even finished the main storyline in Oblivion, but I'll try to restrain myself.

PS. If feels good to finaly get some "You've been quoted" messages in my inbox.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

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the Alone in the Dark demo 'till then.

Just so you can laugh at how bad it is or what?

 

[Jumplion]

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the Alone in the Dark demo 'till then.

Just so you can laugh at how bad it is or what?

I 'aint laughing no more, I deleted it the peice of crap. What I probably should have said was the Mirror's Edge demo

 

[Altorin]

anyone who doesn't think that the classic "Doesn't take itself too serious" humor in fallout 3 hasn't paid too much attention to the computer systems.

I'm reading a Memo on one in the L.O.B. enterprises building

"As standard policy, all employees are required to carry low-grade military class weapons at all times (see NR policy#A12. In the event of a hostile takeover, your desk can be used as a makeshift barricade. Position the desk between yourself and your opponent, then crouch behind the desk while firing any weapon approved on form 843-2.

NOTE: Cafeteria privileges will be suspended in the event of a hostile takeover."

I lawled.

 

[Altorin]

all of these LOB terminal entries are funny

"In the event of extreme winter (nuclear) conditions, all employees are required to proceed to human resources and complete forms D87-a, D87-b, H04-1, and A14-3, addendum 7. In accordance with company policy #L83, employees will be issues iodine tablets, personal geiger counter, meal rations, and sworn into the sovereign L.O.B. Republic."

 

[Hey Joe]

Just finished the main quest, spoiler be below.

Spoiler

How friggin' ironic is the giant robot marching toward the capitol building, taking down enclave soldiers while booming things like "The United States will never be defeated!", given that the robot was a tool of the US government originally. That, and President Eden himself is a computer. Had a good ol' chuckle at that one.

I chose not to infect the water purifier because I just couldn't bring myself to doom Gib, the ghoulie back at Megaton, and because of my awesome-o-tastic speech skills, I got President Eden to destroy the enclave headquarters.

General impressions, this game had a weird reverse difficulty curve. In that it was really difficult coming out of the vault but got ridiculously easy toward the ending, that being said my small guns skill was up to 100, so guns made short work of enemies at that stage.

The story had moments of greatness, but nothing that really made my jaw hit the floor, but what Bethesda did really well is just create a really well developed game world that felt lived-in. That helped me engage with the game, and therefore it was a really cool ride.

I'm off to start a new game. This time, I'm going to be the most evil bastard I can be.

 

[Thirtysomething]

If you set it to 2, it will double this, so one minute in-game takes 30 seconds in real-time, and so on. I believe the default value for this is 30, meaning 1 hour in-game passes every minute of real-time (I think...I could be wrong my maths isn't too good) so an in-game day takes 24 real minutes to pass.

That's...not right...

It probably isn't, no. My numerical skills basically suck so I didn't really think about it long, and I was paraphrasing what I read on some other site Google threw up. What I should've said was low number=slow, high number=fast, and a value of 4 or 5 seems to strike the right balance (for me anyway) where a day seems to last a few hours.

I set it to 800 for curiosity and you can literally see the sun moving across the whole sky in the space of a minute or two.

Also, does it ever rain?

 

[waffletaco]

If you set it to 2, it will double this, so one minute in-game takes 30 seconds in real-time, and so on. I believe the default value for this is 30, meaning 1 hour in-game passes every minute of real-time (I think...I could be wrong my maths isn't too good) so an in-game day takes 24 real minutes to pass.

That's...not right...

It probably isn't, no. My numerical skills basically suck so I didn't really think about it long, and I was paraphrasing what I read on some other site Google threw up. What I should've said was low number=slow, high number=fast, and a value of 4 or 5 seems to strike the right balance (for me anyway) where a day seems to last a few hours.

I set it to 800 for curiosity and you can literally see the sun moving across the whole sky in the space of a minute or two.

Also, does it ever rain?

God you don't want it to rain. Be glad that it doesn't. (if it doesn't) Well actually, rain would probably be just like still water, +1 rads/sec. Too bad you can't have 0 rad/sec in water. I had like 80% rad resist on my first guy. He took the 25% rad, cyborg, and armor +radX.

that being said:

Spoiler

the ending REALLY surprised. Wasn't expecting to die. I assumed I had a better shot at surviving cause I'm part robot and I was only receiving 5-7 rads/sec.

 

[Hey Joe]

I'm finding much easier to be a heartless bastard than a virtuous saint. How much of this is due to the developers juxtaposing the player's actions with the harshness of the wasteland and how much of it is me just being sharper the second time around?