The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[Amnestic]

Oh, I am enjoying myself since I started again. This time I have so much more ammo, health and caps. I haven't even reached Megaton yet, but I've already got 400 caps. I found the woman called Silver, took her money in exchange for helping her, then capped her and looted her whole house. I'm a sick, sick man.

Huh. When I succeeded a speech check for helping her she gave me 400, then I killed her and she had an extra 100 on her ;o

But yeah, killing Silver gives you a tidy sum to start the game with. Then again, 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.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

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..

 

[fat american]

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.

Well that's the good side of playing a neutral protagonist. You stay in good terms with everyone. The Talon Company only attacks you if you're playing a goody two-shoes character and on the other hand if you're playing a sick fuck people will send the Regulators after you.
It's actually pretty funny looting their bodies and finding a note saying: 'KILL RICHARD!!!'. That always makes me chuckle a bit.

Really becuase I'm so evil I'd burst into flames like Marylon Manson at a baptist revival and they still attack me.

I thought it was funny since I took the Regulator perk because there's more evil people than good people in the game. She told me all I had to do was bring in bad people's fingers and she'd give me money. You have no idea how badly I wanted to start choppin' off ma fingers.

 

[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?

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

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.

 

[laikenf]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

I went back to Vault 87 to see if Cross and Dogmeat were still there, but nope. Now I'm hoping that they'll return to their "home" locations, which would be the Citadel for Cross and Vault 101's entrance for Dogmeat. I haven't seen either of them yet, but hope springs eternal...

-- Steve

 

[laikenf]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

I went back to Vault 87 to see if Cross and Dogmeat were still there, but nope. Now I'm hoping that they'll return to their "home" locations, which would be the Citadel for Cross and Vault 101's entrance for Dogmeat. I haven't seen either of them yet, but hope springs eternal...

-- Steve

I did get back together with Dogmeat at vault 101, but I'm gonna go check the Citadel to see if I can come across Paladin Cross. Damn man I had that woman armed to the teeth and we just OWNED the waist land together; good times man, she will be missed if I never see her again.

 

[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