Fallout 3 - Official Thread

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Radscorpions have one weak point if you could call it that.

Grenades.

[Monkeyboy]

Quick question - once I'm out of the vault for the first time, how the cunting hell do I save my cocking game?

Just spent well over an hour being shot at, used all my health packs, blundered my way into a train tunnel and got killed by some bear traps and explosives.

Can't see anywhere in the manual or in the in-game help where it tells you how to save, FFS.

Press start>save. Have you played video games before, Dean?

[Stanley]

It's ocd crack this game. So many times I've saved just to see what's around the next corner. Didn't get to bed til 3am, and I'm not talking game time.

Down south, The Alexandria, Nuka Cola, Flooded Metro

After cleaning out the NC factory I came upon some kind of raider outpost with shitloads of ammo and nik-naks. Dumb fucks decided it was a good idea to have a base surrounded by wrecked motor vehicles; nuclear powered motor vehicles

I leave Dogmeat at home now and just take him for a walk now and again. I'm too balls out to need him in combat, and he had a bad experience with fire the other day. I found a dog bowl for him too.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

I had some fun at the Overlook Drive-in, when a stray shot blew up every single wrecked car in the lot. The screen shook like a motherfucker. I couldn't even find the enemy's corpses to loot.

[Twinbee]

Press start>save. Have you played video games before, Dean?

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Save is greyed out when I'm out in the open! Can you save anywhere, or do you have to be at checkpoints, etc?!?

[moosegrinder]

Greyed out? Seriously? That's a bit odd, you may not be able to save until you get to Megaton then but I thought you could save in the vault. Not sure if you can save while in combat. Either way, go south east to Megaton. Don't wander, don't dilly dally, go there.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

The only time I've seen an inability to save on the PC version is during main story cutscenes where you don't have control (such as the age transitions in the Vault) and in conversations. At every other point, I was able to save (when not in the air!). I was under the impression it was the same for all versions.

[David Kenny]

Why do people seem to think the music in the game is from the 50s? It's all from the 1940s or earlier (I think the Inkspots were recording in the late 30s). What gives?

[Rudi von Starnberg]

The US' culture is said to have stagnated in the 50s in the Fallout timeline, so rock and roll never developed, and thus we have pre-50s music as the popular stuff much later. People call it 50s music because the overall culture in the game is very 50s in nature, regardless of the recording dates of the music featured.

[David Kenny]

The US' culture is said to have stagnated in the 50s in the Fallout timeline, so rock and roll never developed, and thus we have pre-50s music as the popular stuff much later. People call it 50s music because the overall culture in the game is very 50s in nature, regardless of the recording dates of the music featured.

I don't know why it bugs me actually, but it does. I should probably just accept that not everyone is as interested in the genealogy of doo-wop as I am.

[moosegrinder]

Bingo bango bongo I don't wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no noooooooooo.

It needed more tracks, really.

[hereticboy]

I'm a mighty, mighty man, I'm young and I'm in my prime!

[moosegrinder]

Is the song "Butcher Pete" about a guy who kills women, a guy who rapes women or a guy who seduces women? Am I reading too much into it?

[womblingfree]

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Save is greyed out when I'm out in the open!

The only time I've seen Save greyed out is when the game's auto-saving, which would be happening if you'd just stepped out into the open.

[David Kenny]

Is the song "Butcher Pete" about a guy who kills women, a guy who rapes women or a guy who seduces women? Am I reading too much into it?

I reckon it's about a guy with chronic priapism. Part two is even more bizarre.

....

Well, they let ole Pete out of the jail

He went back to his store

All the women who payed his bail

Were waitin' on Pete to chop some more

There's an old woman, who's ninety-two

Lives down the street

She said, one thing more I wanna do

Is find ole Pete and let him chop my meat

Pete went to church one Sunday night

He gave the preacher a fit

That crazy Pete started a fight

When he went hackin' on the pulpit

Well, they put him in jail again

They tried to give him life

Pete beat the case, he pleaded insane

They gave him back his same ole knife

Well, he got out of jail on Sunday night

Monday he tightened his grip

He started to China to see the sites

Went nuts again and chopped up the ship

Brought ole Pete back to town

To electrocute him there

But Pete was crazy like a clown

He chopped down that electric chair

He's a maniac!

He don't do nothin' but hackin'

[des]

Is the song "Butcher Pete" about a guy who kills women, a guy who rapes women or a guy who seduces women? Am I reading too much into it?

I don't think you're reading too much into it. It's a pretty nasty song. See below:

Hey everybody, did the news get around

About a guy named Butcher Pete

Oh, Pete just flew into this town

And he's choppin' up all the women's meat

[Chorus]

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'

He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat

Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife

He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop

All you fellows gotta watch your wifes

'Cause Pete don't care who's meat he chops

Ever since Peter flew into town

He's been havin' a ball

Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around

Single women, married women, old maids and all

Wakes up in the morning, half past five

Chops from sunrise to sunset

I don't see how he stays alive

Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete, yeah

The police put Pete in jail

Yes, he finally met his faith

But when they came to pay his bail

They found him choppin' up his cell mate

That Butcher Pete is a crazy man

Tries to chop down the wind and the rain

Just hacks on anything he can get

Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothing yet

[El Stevo]

I like the one where the owls are the hootiest.

[Lorfarius]

Is there any point in the game where you get to fly over the landscape?

[moosegrinder]

Well, the pigs ARE the snootiest, too.

I reckon it's about a guy with chronic priapism. Part two is even more bizarre.

....

Well, they let ole Pete out of the jail

He went back to his store

All the women who payed his bail

Were waitin' on Pete to chop some more

There's an old woman, who's ninety-two

Lives down the street

She said, one thing more I wanna do

Is find ole Pete and let him chop my meat

Pete went to church one Sunday night

He gave the preacher a fit

That crazy Pete started a fight

When he went hackin' on the pulpit

Well, they put him in jail again

They tried to give him life

Pete beat the case, he pleaded insane

They gave him back his same ole knife

Well, he got out of jail on Sunday night

Monday he tightened his grip

He started to China to see the sites

Went nuts again and chopped up the ship

Brought ole Pete back to town

To electrocute him there

But Pete was crazy like a clown

He chopped down that electric chair

He's a maniac!

He don't do nothin' but hackin'

[David Kenny]

Well, the pigs ARE the snootiest, too.

My reaction exactly.

[spacedinvader]

At what point should you stop doing main quests if there is still other side-questing that you want to do in the wasteland?

I've just gone through Little Lamplight to Vault 87 and I've got the feeling that I might be down here till the end if I carry in with this mission. Should I turn round and go out the way I came to get on with some super-terranean stuff and come back here later. Or will there be a convenient break in the main mission if I continue with this one?

[Jarik]

Is there any point in the game where you get to fly over the landscape?

Stand too close to an exploding car.

I found that out the hard way.

[Lorfarius]

No, but I wish there was. The game needed a jetpack. I must've hopefully launched myself off Tenpenny tower a dozen times in the hope that I might grow wings.

I guess the main reason I ask is about half way through the main story when you first meet

the Enclave, they show up in at least one helicopter and park it right before your eyes. I was hoping you could at least hop into one for a lifet somewhere.

[moosegrinder]

At what point should you stop doing main quests if there is still other side-questing that you want to do in the wasteland?

I've just gone through Little Lamplight to Vault 87 and I've got the feeling that I might be down here till the end if I carry in with this mission. Should I turn round and go out the way I came to get on with some super-terranean stuff and come back here later. Or will there be a convenient break in the main mission if I continue with this one?

You can go right through to the next part and then do your side thingies before going back

to the citadel to start the final part.

[Dudley]

At what point should you stop doing main quests if there is still other side-questing that you want to do in the wasteland?

I've just gone through Little Lamplight to Vault 87 and I've got the feeling that I might be down here till the end if I carry in with this mission. Should I turn round and go out the way I came to get on with some super-terranean stuff and come back here later. Or will there be a convenient break in the main mission if I continue with this one?

You're fine but you are quite near the end.

A character will say "I hope you've done everything because we're not coming back here for a while".

You'll get an opportunity to leave, and save, and do everything then.

[davejm]

Save is greyed out when I'm out in the open! Can you save anywhere, or do you have to be at checkpoints, etc?!?

You don't have pipboy active when trying to save do you?

[spacedinvader]

Great, thanks guys.

[Stanley]

No, but I wish there was. The game needed a jetpack. I must've hopefully launched myself off Tenpenny tower a dozen times in the hope that I might grow wings.

It needs something. I find it hard to believe that with all the junk lying around no one has bothered to build any vehicles. I'd ride one of those kids trikes if I could. The vehicles in Half-Life 2 spring to mind, in fact this game reminds me a lot of Half-Life 2.

[Lorfarius]

You don't have pipboy active when trying to save do you?

Also I dont think you can save when enemies are near.

[Not Thread Owner]

Is the song "Butcher Pete" about a guy who kills women, a guy who rapes women or a guy who seduces women? Am I reading too much into it?

It's about a guy who shags all the women in town.