The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[DirkGently]

Start Overs?

I'm not really that far into the game and I'm already considering starting over. Now that I have an idea of how the game works, I'm finding that I made some poor choices in character creation and in some of the actions I've taken so far. Have any of you Escapists started the game over yet? If so, what changes did you make from your first time playing to the second one? I'm thinking of bumping up my starting stats in the ability to open things and hack computers and to be sneaky. I'm thinking that maybe I need to be more sneaky in this game to do well.

while I've not yet done so, I considered it. I had a bit of a rough patch in the beginning until I said fuckit and blew up megaton. Then after I got my apartment (which I can't upgrade because of the stupid ***** leaving). Up your medicine skill as it makes your rad-x more efficient. And if you're playing with bad karma just steal everything, break into stores, etc. While I realise I did make such good choices in character creation, I still want to get to know the game better now that I've got more guns than I know what to do with and some pretty beast ones at that. I still want to finish the story (though now that I've got power armor I'm going to go kick me some ass.

Medicine is certainly worth the points to level up. You'll use less stimpacks and less rad-x and rad-away. Try to use less food-healing items and no stimpacks or anything when you can sleep.

Also, the people talking about Lucas Simms's house; he's got a bobble head in there, in case you didn't know.

 

[waffletaco]

Grrrr... random blue screen of death that restarts my entire PC.... It isn't so bad when I'm in a town because I have it set to autosave everytime I use a door, but when I've been wondering the wastes for the last hour or so and am so immersed in the game I forgot to do my last few quicksave-every-so-often's.... I'm just glad I shave my head regularly or I'd have no hair left.

Also, Dogmeat is an idiot! Stop running into combat you stupid mutt, let me handle it. When I ran out of stimpacks and he died, I used my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Powers and resurrected him (only because I felt sorry for him for being so stupid), but then he just wondered off and was unresponsive to my attempts to communicate. Hows that for gratitude? Good riddance, next game I get him I'm gonna treat him really badly and abuse him till he whimpers in misery.

I think when you revive him via console like that, you reset his A.I and he goes back to wherever you found him. It's happened to me in oblivion in that one quest where I have to rescue Count Inardys's son from the oblivion gate. He died, but I resurrected him but he just sorta wandered off. I didnt need him but as long as he was alive I still got the best quest reward as opposed to him dying and just getting gold or his thanks or his grandma's urn or whatever.

 

[neoman10]

combat armor and helmet+hunting rifle=101 airborne look-a-like

thats what i get from it

 

[Thirtysomething]

Grrrr... random blue screen of death that restarts my entire PC.... It isn't so bad when I'm in a town because I have it set to autosave everytime I use a door, but when I've been wondering the wastes for the last hour or so and am so immersed in the game I forgot to do my last few quicksave-every-so-often's.... I'm just glad I shave my head regularly or I'd have no hair left.

Also, Dogmeat is an idiot! Stop running into combat you stupid mutt, let me handle it. When I ran out of stimpacks and he died, I used my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Powers and resurrected him (only because I felt sorry for him for being so stupid), but then he just wondered off and was unresponsive to my attempts to communicate. Hows that for gratitude? Good riddance, next game I get him I'm gonna treat him really badly and abuse him till he whimpers in misery.

I think when you revive him via console like that, you reset his A.I and he goes back to wherever you found him. It's happened to me in oblivion in that one quest where I have to rescue Count Inardys's son from the oblivion gate. He died, but I resurrected him but he just sorta wandered off. I didnt need him but as long as he was alive I still got the best quest reward as opposed to him dying and just getting gold or his thanks or his grandma's urn or whatever.

Oh right ok so does that mean I'll run into him again if I'm wondering around near his spawn point, and then it'll trigger his "joining me" sequence again? I hope it doesn't bug out; I want my suicidal, stimpack sucking mongrel back so I can tell him bad dog!

 

[waffletaco]

Grrrr... random blue screen of death that restarts my entire PC.... It isn't so bad when I'm in a town because I have it set to autosave everytime I use a door, but when I've been wondering the wastes for the last hour or so and am so immersed in the game I forgot to do my last few quicksave-every-so-often's.... I'm just glad I shave my head regularly or I'd have no hair left.

Also, Dogmeat is an idiot! Stop running into combat you stupid mutt, let me handle it. When I ran out of stimpacks and he died, I used my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Powers and resurrected him (only because I felt sorry for him for being so stupid), but then he just wondered off and was unresponsive to my attempts to communicate. Hows that for gratitude? Good riddance, next game I get him I'm gonna treat him really badly and abuse him till he whimpers in misery.

I think when you revive him via console like that, you reset his A.I and he goes back to wherever you found him. It's happened to me in oblivion in that one quest where I have to rescue Count Inardys's son from the oblivion gate. He died, but I resurrected him but he just sorta wandered off. I didnt need him but as long as he was alive I still got the best quest reward as opposed to him dying and just getting gold or his thanks or his grandma's urn or whatever.

Oh right ok so does that mean I'll run into him again if I'm wondering around near his spawn point, and then it'll trigger his "joining me" sequence again? I hope it doesn't bug out; I want my suicidal, stimpack sucking mongrel back so I can tell him bad dog!

That could be the case. Be sure to check Tenpenny/Megaton or Vault 101 first.

 

[Thirtysomething]

Goddamn I just BSOD'd AGAIN! This never happened to me until now, and the last couple of days I've been playing the game a lot. Why suddenly today?

 

[klc0100]

Only brought the game a few hours ago
So far: I got out vault found city with big bomb got a huge headache.

Now I must wait for this pain to pass before offering my soul to the game.

 

[Laughing Man]

Hmmm, well what can I say. Bought this game yesterday gotta say it is basically Oblivion set in a post apocolyptic setting with guns. Big difference is Oblivion looks so much better. I am not saying the graphics are bad it's just the nuclear war zone look is never gonna be as pretty as the Great Forest.

Anyway I'am doing a mission that involves killing some fire ants and since I started the game it's crashed three times. Twice whilst trying to use the VATS system and once whilst using the fast travel.

Unacceptable is the only word I'll use, I am lead to believe that the game is built on the same engine that Oblivion was, played that game through twice and it never, NEVER crashed. I was especially shocked to see the crash when I quit the game (I suppose technically that makes four crashes), something that early Oblivion did but was resolved by one of the patches.

I am not one for patience with games that crash for no real reason, mostly because I've installed and played a whole host of games over the years and never had an issue with any of them. I'am putting this game on hold and going back to Far Cry 2 until a patch shows up that resolves at least the crash during the VATS combat.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Grrrr... random blue screen of death that restarts my entire PC.... It isn't so bad when I'm in a town because I have it set to autosave everytime I use a door, but when I've been wondering the wastes for the last hour or so and am so immersed in the game I forgot to do my last few quicksave-every-so-often's.... I'm just glad I shave my head regularly or I'd have no hair left.

Also, Dogmeat is an idiot! Stop running into combat you stupid mutt, let me handle it. When I ran out of stimpacks and he died, I used my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Powers and resurrected him (only because I felt sorry for him for being so stupid), but then he just wondered off and was unresponsive to my attempts to communicate. Hows that for gratitude? Good riddance, next game I get him I'm gonna treat him really badly and abuse him till he whimpers in misery.

Really? I find him quite useful in combat, he takes down average super mutants in a few hits, I don't know what crack your smoking, but maybe try chucking less grenades during a fight so as not to hit your allies, mm?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

combat armor and helmet+hunting rifle=101 airborne look-a-like

thats what i get from it

Because this game is set in the a retro-future 1950?

 

[ThaBenMan]

Ok, I tried shooting the rocket launcher like you guys said to, and it worked a charm. I am happy to report that I made those Super Mutants my bitches

Now I'm in Hamilton's Hideaway, exterminating all the radscorpions. Good times.

 

[Tattaglia]

Ooh! Ooh! Me! Has anyone...

Spoiler

... saved Vault 101 after receiving the Emergency Broadcast from Amata? I picked it up in Megaton and convinced the Overseer to open the Vault up to the world. I felt damn proud of myself, with Amata being the new Overseer and all. Then she kicked me out. Apparently I wasn't trusted by the Vault inhabitants. So I shot everyone and left. Fuck 'em for being ungrateful, I say.

 

[Arachon]

Havn't even met Dogmeat yet... But he will forever have a place in my heart, after the outstanding performance in Fallout 1 (Dogmeat fought better than me and Ian combined D: )

 

[Altorin]

combat armor and helmet+hunting rifle=101 airborne look-a-like

thats what i get from it

Because this game is set in the a retro-future 1950?

I don't know if you're being facetious, but fallout 3 is set in 2277, 200 years after china dropped a nuclear bomb on the white house and started the nuclear destruction.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Hmmm, well what can I say. Bought this game yesterday gotta say it is basically Oblivion set in a post apocolyptic setting with guns. Big difference is Oblivion looks so much better. I am not saying the graphics are bad it's just the nuclear war zone look is never gonna be as pretty as the Great Forest.

Thanks for explaining how I feel about this game. Dead on. My only other gripe with this fantastic game is the lack of money had by the merchants. I have too much stuff to sell, and they don't have the money.

 

[Solytus]

Just found a mod on a site that makes all the map locations show up. *giggle*

100% QUEST COMPLETION HERE I COME!

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.

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.

Cool! I'd better start saving up my bottle caps. I bet that house is expensive. Do you have to buy a house in a certain spot or will any house do? I saw one in Megaton that might be for sale since it says it's not occupied, but you need a key to get in it. I was kind of hoping after the bad guy in Megaton killed the Sherrif and I killed the bad guy, that I would get the Sherrif's house, but apparently not. Couldn't even get anything from it without it being stealing. I guess the whole point of going to his house was to see his now orphaned kid. I tried to help the kid out but he didn't seem to need it. Kind of a pointless side track in the game but oh well.

Spoiler

You get the house when you disarm the bomb for the sheriff

And he's dead...for you.

Actually, You might still be able to get the quest. In my game, the sheriff kicked the bucket while I was doing the quest, and the game just told me to report back to his son, Harden, who gave me the key to the house. So try talking to his son before giving up. =D

 

[DirkGently]

Hmmm, well what can I say. Bought this game yesterday gotta say it is basically Oblivion set in a post apocolyptic setting with guns. Big difference is Oblivion looks so much better. I am not saying the graphics are bad it's just the nuclear war zone look is never gonna be as pretty as the Great Forest.

Anyway I'am doing a mission that involves killing some fire ants and since I started the game it's crashed three times. Twice whilst trying to use the VATS system and once whilst using the fast travel.


Unacceptable is the only word I'll use, I am lead to believe that the game is built on the same engine that Oblivion was, played that game through twice and it never, NEVER crashed. I was especially shocked to see the crash when I quit the game (I suppose technically that makes four crashes), something that early Oblivion did but was resolved by one of the patches.

I am not one for patience with games that crash for no real reason, mostly because I've installed and played a whole host of games over the years and never had an issue with any of them. I'am putting this game on hold and going back to Far Cry 2 until a patch shows up that resolves at least the crash during the VATS combat.

Really? Maybe you should uninstall and reinstall and perform the various computer maintences. I've been playing on the Xbox and it's frozen twice on me. Both were the end of my gaming sessions because I had been play for over six hours straight, and one was in the middle of a fire fight adnthe other when a gernade exploded right as I entered vats. And a car, or too, iirc.

Also, I haven't gotten that signal. But I'll dropping by to pick it up. I don't know if I can get it as I've made megaton go bye bye. I'm still kinda enjoying Highwater Trousers at the moment.

EDIT: Also, what is it with everyone calling it "Oblivion with guns"? Have none of these people played the game for longer than ten minutes? I suppose if you're a veteran of older, more complex FPS/RPGs like the original Fallouts or say System Shock 2, Fallout 3 might seem like oblivion with guns, but as someone who has played Oblivion to death a thousand times over, it most certainly isn't. Does it use the same engine? Yes, but that's about it.

 

[waffletaco]

EDIT: Also, what is it with everyone calling it "Oblivion with guns"? Have none of these people played the game for longer than ten minutes? I suppose if you're a veteran of older, more complex FPS/RPGs like the original Fallouts or say System Shock 2, Fallout 3 might seem like oblivion with guns, but as someone who has played Oblivion to death a thousand times over, it most certainly isn't. Does it use the same engine? Yes, but that's about it.

And here comes somebody who is a veteran of the original Fallout games AND System Shock 2. To be fair, Fallout 3 gives the player far more freedom than System Shock 2, especially when it comes to player customisation. The combat feels somewhat similar in the whole "guns deteriorating, slow fire from pistols" sense to System Shock 2, which is a good thing, in my opinion. In terms of the style, it feels somewhat Fallout-like, but the dialogue system is stuck in the past. The characters don't do anything to create immersiveness - I felt more immersed when I had just a dialogue box and a simple 2D sprite, and that's not to say that a 3D character can't create a sense that you're actually talking to a person - just look at Half-Life 2!

You don't talk to anyone in half-life 2. If no one is barking orders at you or asking for help, they're talking to each other.