The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[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

 

[Alex_P]

Hmm have you tried using the 1, 2, 3 keyboard keys? I didn't knew that those shortcuts existed so I usually had to open up the pipboy to switch from my sniper with my rifle. Then someone pointed out those shortcuts and I never used the menus again.

Oh and to loot bodies you could just press 'A'. Always faster.

I use the number keys obsessively. I still spend a lot of menu time field-repairing equipment and dumping items when I was overburdened, though.

I'm wondering how console players get by without the mouse and 1-2-3 keys... I'm guessing there's something the game does with the two sticks and D-pad to make it all work?

-- Alex

 

[ThaBenMan]

Hmm have you tried using the 1, 2, 3 keyboard keys? I didn't knew that those shortcuts existed so I usually had to open up the pipboy to switch from my sniper with my rifle. Then someone pointed out those shortcuts and I never used the menus again.

Oh and to loot bodies you could just press 'A'. Always faster.

I use the number keys obsessively. I still spend a lot of menu time field-repairing equipment and dumping items when I was overburdened, though.

I'm wondering how console players get by without the mouse and 1-2-3 keys... I'm guessing there's something the game does with the two sticks and D-pad to make it all work?

-- Alex

It's really not that bad, VATS helps a lot, and if you're used to playing FPS games on a console then you'll be fine even out of VATS. And you can hotkey stuff in your inventory to the d-pad. I'm getting along splendidly with my Xbox version

 

[Tattaglia]

Hmm have you tried using the 1, 2, 3 keyboard keys? I didn't knew that those shortcuts existed so I usually had to open up the pipboy to switch from my sniper with my rifle. Then someone pointed out those shortcuts and I never used the menus again.

Oh and to loot bodies you could just press 'A'. Always faster.

I use the number keys obsessively. I still spend a lot of menu time field-repairing equipment and dumping items when I was overburdened, though.

I'm wondering how console players get by without the mouse and 1-2-3 keys... I'm guessing there's something the game does with the two sticks and D-pad to make it all work?

-- Alex

Stimpak hotkey is UP. RadAway hotkey is DOWN. So handy when fighting Glowing Ones, I can tell you.

 

[DeathQuaker]

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.

In case you're still looking--after Raven's Rock, I found Paladin Cross in the Armory (part of the Laboratory) at the Citadel.

The annoying part was I just wanted to get the stuff off of her that she had been carrying for me. I had a high sneak and she still noticed when I picked her pocket and went hostile (because I took MY stuff she was carrying for me), so I had to fire Fawkes, rehire Cross, take the stuff, then fire Cross, and then chase Fawkes down before she left the Citadel so I could rehire her. I didn't want to travel with Cross anymore; at least Fawkes came to look for me unlike SOME people....