The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[ThaBenMan]

I really hope that in like 30 years, when I get my Xbox 9000 virtual reality console, they make Fallout 8, and the map is the entire United States. How crazy would that be?

Well it would take a loong time to get from one side to the other.

I'd just love to see what they do with my home state (Maine)

Or another country would be cool - England or China or Australia.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Just got the game, and by god am I enjoying this! I've just died for the first time, running out of ammo while being shot at by my first Talon Company Mercs. They're... pretty tough. As in, really tough.

Don't feed the Yao Guai.

....Never mind, you'll get it later, the hard way.

Perhaps, but these chaps have foreheads of steel. When you can take three bullets to the face and continue to shoot at me, then I'll be impressed.

*puts on a pyramid head and asks who will do the honors.*

I am a heartless bastard yet I still have Talon Company after me even though I have been evil since the opening moments of the game..

They attack everyone, but if you have bad Karma you don't come across them in random encounter squads across the Wastes.

 

[orifice]

I've heard talk of going back to vault 101 for some reason. But when I tried the vault door closed and apparently I don't know the new vault password! Can anybody enlighten me? Is there a way to re-enter the vault?

 

[Rshady]

It is possible to get back.

***Spoilers Ahoy!***

After you finish a certain part in the main quest, you'll pick up a radio signal which activates a quest allowing you back into the Vault.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I've heard talk of going back to vault 101 for some reason. But when I tried the vault door closed and apparently I don't know the new vault password! Can anybody enlighten me? Is there a way to re-enter the vault?

After you finish The part of the story where you're dad goes back to Project Purity with a bunch of others, you walk near Vault 101 and get a distress signal asking for help.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Can anyone tell me where a good place to buy ammo is? As I'm wondering around, and constantly have very little ammo, for any of my decent guns...

Also any recommendations on how to get my karma up would be helpful.

 

[jezz8me]

first time I played through I went to Springvale School instead of straight to Megaton and ended up clashing with about 30 raiders in total. ;< Do not recommend.

Same with me and i do this every time i make a new charecter. It is great training and all the raiders are seperate so not hard at all.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Can anyone tell me where a good place to buy ammo is? As I'm wondering around, and constantly have very little ammo, for any of my decent guns...

Also any recommendations on how to get my karma up would be helpful.

I just use megaton and Ratchett city, If you explore enough and get the scrounger perk it's easy to find ammo.

And there's a few little quests you can do, just keep an eye out. Also there is a man outside big cities begging for purified water if you really need good karma.

 

[frozenshad]

Can anyone tell me where a good place to buy ammo is? As I'm wondering around, and constantly have very little ammo, for any of my decent guns...

Also any recommendations on how to get my karma up would be helpful.

I was looking around last night and I found this on ign,

Hint: Infinite Good Karma in Megaton

Here's another technique for infinite good karma. If you head to Megaton, you can find the church for the Children of the Atom, religious people who worship the undetonated nuclear bomb which Megaton is built around. There's a priest who will be near the bomb or in their building. Talk to him and he'll ask for donations. Give him donations, and you'll get a positive karma boost. Do this as much as you want for as much karma as you desire.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Here's another technique for infinite good karma. If you head to Megaton, you can find the church for the Children of the Atom, religious people who worship the undetonated nuclear bomb which Megaton is built around. There's a priest who will be near the bomb or in their building. Talk to him and he'll ask for donations. Give him donations, and you'll get a positive karma boost. Do this as much as you want for as much karma as you desire.

There's a church in Rivet City that allows the same karma-for-caps trade; go in donate to the priest. (His young acolyte can't accept donations; he'll refer you to the Father.) I'd forgotten all about that until you mentioned the Church of Atom.

You can also gain karma by refusing payment for completing a quest sometimes, but I can't remember which ones off the top of my head. There are some dialog items (generally ones telling the truth or news of something long lost) that can grant karma too.

-- Steve

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Well, I'm stuck. I set off on a proud journey to the GNR building, with Jericho for some backup, and I've been walking for hours. I went through all of the subway tunnels and resurfaced just North of my destination, Friendship Station. I tried to walk south. It was blocked off. I tried to walk West, then into the thing. I've circled the entire perimeter, and the whole thing has got conveniently placed walls of rubble. I didn't expect this difficulty, but I've still got about 17 Stimpacks and a decent amount of ammo. How in the name of The Holy Pancake can I get there? Have I missed something? I've been probing all around the surface and there's no way in. I've been along all of the subway tunnels, but none of them lead up to the surface.

I just followed the pointer on my HUD obsessively through the tunnels until I came up from one station and ran into a Brotherhood of Steel patrol fighting some Super Mutants. Once the Mutants are dead, you can go up to the patrol; they're en route to GNR to relieve it from an attack, and will let you accompany them to the tower. Follow them closely or you're bound to get lost.

Once the area around the tower has been cleared of Super Mutants you'll find the front door to the tower remains locked against the attack, but there's an intercom to the right of the door you can use to ask to be let in.

-- Steve

edited to add: the Fallout Wiki says the station I left was Chevy Chase.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Can anyone tell me where a good place to buy ammo is? As I'm wondering around, and constantly have very little ammo, for any of my decent guns...

Also any recommendations on how to get my karma up would be helpful.

I was looking around last night and I found this on ign,

Hint: Infinite Good Karma in Megaton

Here's another technique for infinite good karma. If you head to Megaton, you can find the church for the Children of the Atom, religious people who worship the undetonated nuclear bomb which Megaton is built around. There's a priest who will be near the bomb or in their building. Talk to him and he'll ask for donations. Give him donations, and you'll get a positive karma boost. Do this as much as you want for as much karma as you desire.

That's not really a hint. You can do the same thing in Rivet City, or with any beggars you find around by giving water.

 

[Bling Cat]

Well, I'm stuck. I set off on a proud journey to the GNR building, with Jericho for some backup, and I've been walking for hours. I went through all of the subway tunnels and resurfaced just North of my destination, Friendship Station. I tried to walk south. It was blocked off. I tried to walk West, then into the thing. I've circled the entire perimeter, and the whole thing has got conveniently placed walls of rubble. I didn't expect this difficulty, but I've still got about 17 Stimpacks and a decent amount of ammo. How in the name of The Holy Pancake can I get there? Have I missed something? I've been probing all around the surface and there's no way in. I've been along all of the subway tunnels, but none of them lead up to the surface.

Aside from looking out for what A. P. Nym said, the station you should be coming out of is Chevy Chase North.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I just use megaton and Ratchett city, If you explore enough and get the scrounger perk it's easy to find ammo.

Ratchett city?

 

[Bling Cat]

So I'm looking for subway stations north of the GNR building eh?

Yes. The station leading to it is Farragut West, which is directly east of the Super-Duper Mart.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I just use megaton and Ratchett city, If you explore enough and get the scrounger perk it's easy to find ammo.

Ratchett city?

I get the feeling he meant Rivet City. Makes more seance.

 

[waffletaco]

I just use megaton and Ratchett city, If you explore enough and get the scrounger perk it's easy to find ammo.

Ratchett city?

I get the feeling he meant Rivet City. Makes more seance.

maybe someone got the GECK already?

 

[NeedAUserName]

Can I ask how people first got to Rivet City, because after puzzling over it for about 2 hours, and discovering a sizable amount of locations, I eventually just stayed as south to the map as possible and went that way. But there has to be an easier way, which I neglected.

 

[Alex_P]

Can I ask how people first got to Rivet City, because after puzzling over it for about 2 hours, and discovering a sizable amount of locations, I eventually just stayed as south to the map as possible and went that way. But there has to be an easier way, which I neglected.

I concluded that D.C. itself had turned into a horrible maze early on, so I avoided it. There's pretty much a single above-ground path through the citified parts of Virginia, which gets you out to the Pentagon (Citadel). You mostly face Raiders along the way; there is at least one big Raider group, though.

Then I just popped a Rad-X and hopped into the river.

I swam to the Jefferson Memorial (and cleared it, which I'm sure made things simpler later), then walked/swam to the Rivet City marker. Then I wandered around like an idiot for 15 minutes because I didn't notice the giant bridge thing.

-- Alex

 

[Alex_P]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but...

Fallout 3 is a very menu-happy game.

I'm playing it on PC and I'm very annoyed by how often I have to go dancing through menus.

How the hell do you actually navigate through all of that stuff with a console controller? It seems like it would be a horrible experience.

-- Alex