The Official Fallout 3 Thread.
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That's cool. The mods are the main reason I got the PC version instead of the Xbox 360 version. I'm looking forward to some really cool mods. Some armor that actually protects you that you can find early on in the game would be nice. Also, some drug that cures radiation poisioning and/or heals you better than what I've found so far. I suppose the weak potions and the relative scarsity of everything makes the game more realistic, but the game is hard enough without making the powerups sparce.Richard Groovy Pants said:
Once you have a house you can buy a Infirmary which can get rid of all your rads for free. And a laboratory which can make drugs/detoxify you.dukethepcdr said:
I think I'm done with power armor. It feels so cheap. With med-x, I have 80 dr so I'm pretty much safe from anything other than nukes and missile launchers. (haven't met anyone who used a fat boy on me) I pretty much robo-copped their butts all the time. (especially with VATS it's a lot like robo-cop.) I bought the infirmary and the lab from Moira and then gave her a bullet between the eyes and got my money back + the rock-it launcher schematics and mats for it. Feels good to lay some wastelander justice! (Not gonna go through minefields for that sick midwestern lady). That being said, I'd have to say that Moira has given me a ton of stuff. 2 perks, a schematic or two, lots of xp and locations to explore... I probably shouldn't have killed her 
:loads early save file:
Moira: :midwestern accent:
me: :bang bang: "aww I forgot to buy the house stuff! :/" :reloads again:
Too annoying but pretty darn useful and friendly
:loads early save file:Moira: :midwestern accent:
me: :bang bang: "aww I forgot to buy the house stuff! :/" :reloads again:
Too annoying but pretty darn useful and friendly
Yeah, they really could have done without the accent.waffletaco said:I think I'm done with power armor. It feels so cheap. With med-x, I have 80 dr so I'm pretty much safe from anything other than nukes and missile launchers. (haven't met anyone who used a fat boy on me) I pretty much robo-copped their butts all the time. (especially with VATS it's a lot like robo-cop.) I bought the infirmary and the lab from Moira and then gave her a bullet between the eyes and got my money back + the rock-it launcher schematics and mats for it. Feels good to lay some wastelander justice! (Not gonna go through minefields for that sick midwestern lady). That being said, I'd have to say that Moira has given me a ton of stuff. 2 perks, a schematic or two, lots of xp and locations to explore... I probably shouldn't have killed her
Moira: :midwestern accent:
me: :bang bang: "aww I forgot to buy the house stuff! :/" :reloads again:
Too annoying but pretty darn useful and friendly
I'm on my second character after finishing the game the first time, and I have to say that it's quite weird at the beginning to hear Liam Neeson's voice coming out of a black dude, esp. because his facial features don't quite fit the skin tone. My character looks more Indian than black, but that was intentional on my part after some fiddling with the nose/eyes/chin.
I have to give the game credit for doing a better job with the races than most other games I've seen. It is *very* hard in most games to make a character that actually *looks* black.
P.S. I say "black" instead of the PC "African-American" because not all blacks are from Africa and they certainly don't all live in America. Feel free to refer to me as "white" instead of the goofy high-sounding "caucasian".
I haven't seen Dogmeat anywhere.
I have to give the game credit for doing a better job with the races than most other games I've seen. It is *very* hard in most games to make a character that actually *looks* black.
P.S. I say "black" instead of the PC "African-American" because not all blacks are from Africa and they certainly don't all live in America. Feel free to refer to me as "white" instead of the goofy high-sounding "caucasian".
I haven't seen Dogmeat anywhere.
Heh, yeah, certainly they could have done better, but I think they deserve *some* kudos for doing it better than many other games, at least. Personally, I would have liked it better if they'd kept your father looking pretty much the same and just said that you looked "just like your mother" early in the game. That, and couldn't they give The Neeson some more- dignified dialog? It's difficult to hear such an actor abused like that.Codgo said:
I also find it weird that they included Hispanic as an entirely separate race. I hadn't noticed that Hispanics have strikingly different features. The examples certainly don't look all that different, apart from going overboard on the spray-on tan.
Okay, so I started a new and delightfully evil character and blew up Megaton, JUST to see Moira die. I return to the bombed out city only to find... ghoul Moira. What. The. Hell. She's not even remotely disturbed that her whole town, store, and friends were annihilated in an atomic blast, and continues speaking to me about her goddamn Wasteland Survival Guide.
By the way, is there any way to find out who puts the Talon Merc contracts out on you? Don't ruin it for me, just give me a hint on how to get the quest or whatever. Another thing, has anyone else found the Alien Pistol near the Arlington Library? I found it on a lone Raider and was quite confused. It looks like something out of a 1950's comic book.
By the way, is there any way to find out who puts the Talon Merc contracts out on you? Don't ruin it for me, just give me a hint on how to get the quest or whatever. Another thing, has anyone else found the Alien Pistol near the Arlington Library? I found it on a lone Raider and was quite confused. It looks like something out of a 1950's comic book.
JMeganSnow said:
I have read he is in the Scrapyard, which is near the Minefield. I haven't had a chance to get over to there to confirm it. I just finally made it to Rivet City, a few hundred Super Mutants later... I side track easily. I fear if I don't thoroughly search every building in a new area I will forget to come back to it later.
I've been there, no Dogmeat. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a "random encounter", and I freakin' hate those things. Not because there's anything wrong with the encounters per se, but because they always show up at the most illogical moments imaginable, usually while I'm busy getting my ass shot off by raiders and/or supermutants.Slycne said:
I've had *two* of them show up in the parking lot of the Super-Duper mart, one involving a fight between ghouls and wastelanders over an improbably placed refrigerator full of purified water. I didn't really have time to do anything before they'd all killed each other.
Then some lady shows up out of the blue while I'm fighting off some raiders in that same parking lot and yells "THIS BOMB IS ABOUT TO GO OFF!!" I still haven't figured out what THAT was about. She ran off while I was killing the raiders and nothing else happened.
I would be perfectly content if they'd just *placed* the encounters in reasonable spots or made them an occasional hazard of rapid travel as in the original Fallout games, where sometimes you get kicked out with a "you have found X" message. But no, they had to make the encounters part of some sort of complex random scheme and fubar them.
P.S. in addition, I've had a couple of regular encounters get screwed up by the random wandering monsters because the friendly NPC's began "fleeing" and wouldn't stop. Either that or they were killed or went hostile or some such annoying thing. I also hate not being able to wander through the wilderness without encountering some inexplicable solitary wandering monster every fifteen feet.
I've played sandbox-style games that had no random encounters (Gothic) and it was much more enjoyable to wander around, so much so that it didn't really bother me that there was pretty much no fast-travel system until quite late in the game. If you blundered into a group of monsters, you could run away quickly and they wouldn't chase you. If you weren't quite quick enough, they might chase you, but with luck you could outrun them or scrape them off on another group of critters.
I really wish they'd done something similar with Fallout 3. The endlessly spawning bad guys with ranged weapons you can't outrun and the encounters fubaring each other is getting old.
P.P.S. It also doesn't help that the monsters can almost always detect you before you can see *them*.
It's funny, because I was fine with the "All map locations revealed" mod in Oblivion, but I don't think I'd be comfortable using it in Fallout 3.
because of the level 20 perk Explorer.
It would feel too much like I was cheating, giving myself a level 20 perk at level 1.
because of the level 20 perk Explorer.
It would feel too much like I was cheating, giving myself a level 20 perk at level 1.