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It takes a couple of days for him to show up... just keep adventuring, and you'll eventually get a pop-up telling you that Dogmeat is waiting for you.FireFly90 said:
Just in case, though, you might want to keep a game-save from just before you sent him away... I've heard unconfirmed chatter that Dogmeat can be killed by random encounters while trying to get back to Vault 101. I don't know that's true for certain, but it could be.
-- Steve
Sorry, I can't remember exactly how to get there, but keep an eye out for little signs scrawled on the walls with an arrow and the Brotherhood of Steel sigil [http://duckandcover.cx/features/bible/BOS_symbol_2.gif], those will send you in the right direction.fish food carl said:
I've already finished all the quests, beaten the game twice, and I'm on a third play. 47 of 50 achievements( 14n, 20n, and 50 speeches.)
I'm level 7 and have 60+ in Medicine (THIS IS A GODSEND), Repair, and Science (science is mostly useless, except for later levels it will let me get the Cyborg perk... my 3 lvls in Daddys boy and Gun Nut helped.
With my 9 Int i've also been able to put 4 pts a lvl into small guns so thats up to 50 now. I suppose i'll start upping energy weapons next.
And if you think Perception is useless I dunno what game your playing. Perception is the stat that lets you detect enemies with the little bar on the bottom of your screen, and lets you know when your in danger- go into stealth mode and look at the messages. You can know when an enemy is looking at you even if you can't see the thing, or if there are enemies behind that rock, or what direction enemies are in. Honestly I wish my perception was higher.
PS: my characters stats are 4 str, 7 perception, 4 end, 9 int, 5 cha, 6 luck (because I wanted Mysterious Stranger).
With my 9 Int i've also been able to put 4 pts a lvl into small guns so thats up to 50 now. I suppose i'll start upping energy weapons next.
And if you think Perception is useless I dunno what game your playing. Perception is the stat that lets you detect enemies with the little bar on the bottom of your screen, and lets you know when your in danger- go into stealth mode and look at the messages. You can know when an enemy is looking at you even if you can't see the thing, or if there are enemies behind that rock, or what direction enemies are in. Honestly I wish my perception was higher.
PS: my characters stats are 4 str, 7 perception, 4 end, 9 int, 5 cha, 6 luck (because I wanted Mysterious Stranger).
To find GNR select it as your main quest, the dotted line on your world map will lead you to the station outside of DC you have to go through. Just pick your way through it from there.
EDIT: WHups! Sorry for double post, didn't realize I had two windows open.
EDit: Rather then make a TRIPLE post there was more stuff I wanted to talk about. The game is good but the occasional quick and glitch is troubling (also the collision detection is shit, especially with bullets, don't even TRY to fire from cover). Also every enemy seems to have gone to some elite sniper training school where they learned to hit me behind cover acrossed a river with their Assault rifle.
My playthrough has been rather odd- I told on Mr. Burke to the sherrif, Mr. Burke spasmed a few times, fired his gun at the cieling (never went hostile) then followed the sheriff outside. Next thing I know Mr. Cowboy hat is dead. I then went on to diffuse the bomb. Now I know the Talon Mercenaries come after you after this, but actually I found THEM before they found me- I found their HQ at Fort Something Something in the south east and went through the place (it was pretty brutally difficult at the time) and escaped by the skin of my teeth- but having killed their commander, taken his stuff, and looted alot of weapons and ammo. I'm only lvl 7 but I am SWIMMING in laser pistol rounds and thanks to my high repair I was able to repair one up to almost 100% condition (along with all my other weapons I'm able to get copies of). Too bad it only does 6 dmg, but when i'm tramping around in Power Armor later i'll be glad to have it since Energy Weapons are influenced by perception, not agility.
I can't CONCIEVE of how this game might be with a pure melee character...
EDIT: WHups! Sorry for double post, didn't realize I had two windows open.
EDit: Rather then make a TRIPLE post there was more stuff I wanted to talk about. The game is good but the occasional quick and glitch is troubling (also the collision detection is shit, especially with bullets, don't even TRY to fire from cover). Also every enemy seems to have gone to some elite sniper training school where they learned to hit me behind cover acrossed a river with their Assault rifle.
My playthrough has been rather odd- I told on Mr. Burke to the sherrif, Mr. Burke spasmed a few times, fired his gun at the cieling (never went hostile) then followed the sheriff outside. Next thing I know Mr. Cowboy hat is dead. I then went on to diffuse the bomb. Now I know the Talon Mercenaries come after you after this, but actually I found THEM before they found me- I found their HQ at Fort Something Something in the south east and went through the place (it was pretty brutally difficult at the time) and escaped by the skin of my teeth- but having killed their commander, taken his stuff, and looted alot of weapons and ammo. I'm only lvl 7 but I am SWIMMING in laser pistol rounds and thanks to my high repair I was able to repair one up to almost 100% condition (along with all my other weapons I'm able to get copies of). Too bad it only does 6 dmg, but when i'm tramping around in Power Armor later i'll be glad to have it since Energy Weapons are influenced by perception, not agility.
I can't CONCIEVE of how this game might be with a pure melee character...
I'm kind of getting annoyed from being ambushed by Talon mercs so much. Don't you think they'd step back and think "Oh shit, this guy's killed like 50 of us, maybe we should stop fucking with him..." I'm sure they're losing a lot more than whatever the bounty on me is. But noooo, they just keep coming...
Oh well, at least I'm having no trouble repairing my combat armor...
Oh well, at least I'm having no trouble repairing my combat armor...
Man, I rushed getting Science maxxed so that I could hack more terminals... more out of curiosity than min-maxing, really. Reading the logs is part of the fun for me. (And turning enemies' turret defenses against them never gets old.)TsunamiWombat said:
With a 100 Science and a 98 Lockpick (which I can boost with Mentats) there ain't no place on the map I can't get into...
-- Steve
oh and big guns were pretty useless
small arms were great at the start, and by the time you were done with them you needed plasma weapons. big weapons sound cool but plasma is way more useful
maybe if there were zombie horde rushes like in left 4 dead the flame thrower would be awesome...but nah
the ar21 (w/e) plasma rifle is pretty easy to get and it's the best weapon i ever found. not much stood up to me after that.
i did science and lockpicking because i wanted to get into places, too...but honestly, its not that useful. the stuff you can read with science off terminals is neat, kinda, but not really that useful at all. considering that 100 points into energy weapons would make you unstoppable...it's kind of unbalanced. there should be more to gain from it...at least better info or extra quests or something.
lockpicking is handy if you want to get rich. usually anything science terminals unlock can be unlocked with lockpicking (though it sometimes needs a little more lockingpicking than science)
melee weapons were nice since you could just bash endlessly unlike in fallout 1/2 (you had to use action points) i didn';t bother with unarmed.
medicine isn't that useful. its nice when your stim packs heal more...but you could just get lockpicking instead and end up with a lot more goodies. plus later on i hardly used med packs and i had like 60. the fact that you can instantly heal without needing vats points also made it cheeze.
barter wasn't that useful. if you were really that poor...just kill a shopkeeper when no one is around and steal all their stuff then sell it back to another shop keeper, lol.
speech was handy if you wanted to complete things the easy (non-combat) way. sometimes you could skip longer quests with it. but you didn't NEED it.
repair was pretty important if you ask me. doesn't seem like it until you realize how it works.
stealth sucked. i thought it was cool but things detect you too easily even with 100 stealth. bonus damage is nice but meh, by the time you have enough stealth to sneak up on things you could just kill them normally pretty easily. i never needed it...i only used it for fun here and there
i think speech, repair and small arms to start and plasma to end it. if i had extra points i might get lockpicking. and start with 9 int for sure (you can find a +1 int bobble head later), so you have extra skill points
actually...you get a laser gun pretty early on...you might be able to get away with start with plasma and avoiding melee/small/big all together. then you'd have extra points to put into something else. melee is useful at the start even at a low level...and small arms are worthless at the end so save your points. yeah.
repair is still nice but you could probably hold off until later when you start finding more/better stuff. you gotta be careful at the start...and just rob everything lol.
oh yeah, explosives are also useless. just sell those things for caps.
small arms were great at the start, and by the time you were done with them you needed plasma weapons. big weapons sound cool but plasma is way more useful
maybe if there were zombie horde rushes like in left 4 dead the flame thrower would be awesome...but nah
the ar21 (w/e) plasma rifle is pretty easy to get and it's the best weapon i ever found. not much stood up to me after that.
i did science and lockpicking because i wanted to get into places, too...but honestly, its not that useful. the stuff you can read with science off terminals is neat, kinda, but not really that useful at all. considering that 100 points into energy weapons would make you unstoppable...it's kind of unbalanced. there should be more to gain from it...at least better info or extra quests or something.
lockpicking is handy if you want to get rich. usually anything science terminals unlock can be unlocked with lockpicking (though it sometimes needs a little more lockingpicking than science)
melee weapons were nice since you could just bash endlessly unlike in fallout 1/2 (you had to use action points) i didn';t bother with unarmed.
medicine isn't that useful. its nice when your stim packs heal more...but you could just get lockpicking instead and end up with a lot more goodies. plus later on i hardly used med packs and i had like 60. the fact that you can instantly heal without needing vats points also made it cheeze.
barter wasn't that useful. if you were really that poor...just kill a shopkeeper when no one is around and steal all their stuff then sell it back to another shop keeper, lol.
speech was handy if you wanted to complete things the easy (non-combat) way. sometimes you could skip longer quests with it. but you didn't NEED it.
repair was pretty important if you ask me. doesn't seem like it until you realize how it works.
stealth sucked. i thought it was cool but things detect you too easily even with 100 stealth. bonus damage is nice but meh, by the time you have enough stealth to sneak up on things you could just kill them normally pretty easily. i never needed it...i only used it for fun here and there
i think speech, repair and small arms to start and plasma to end it. if i had extra points i might get lockpicking. and start with 9 int for sure (you can find a +1 int bobble head later), so you have extra skill points
actually...you get a laser gun pretty early on...you might be able to get away with start with plasma and avoiding melee/small/big all together. then you'd have extra points to put into something else. melee is useful at the start even at a low level...and small arms are worthless at the end so save your points. yeah.
repair is still nice but you could probably hold off until later when you start finding more/better stuff. you gotta be careful at the start...and just rob everything lol.
oh yeah, explosives are also useless. just sell those things for caps.
Anyone ever watch that Mentalist Show? I think I"ll make Patrick Jame, 10 intelligence, 10 perception, 10 luck, and 1 to strength, 1 to endurance and an 8 to agility.
This'll be fun...
Nerd Rage perk FTW
This'll be fun...
Nerd Rage perk FTW
Not that hard actually, I"m tearing everyone apart with the Fisto! and my Trusty Super SledgeTsunamiWombat said:
Also, anyone find the Ripper to be rather unsatisfying, I really figured it would be much better, but it really kinda sucks.
I'm not sure how great that would've been, it's an RPG and unless they expanded the world, it wouldn't be that much fun.Aro2220 said:
Also, anyone think Bethesda should stop making the Elder Scrolls MMO and start making a Fallout MMO? It could be set across the entire united states!
EDIT: Damn, Probation! Whatever, I wasn't eligible for the Morpheus Badge anyway, and at least it's not a ban!