Fallout 3 - Official Thread

[mayor_mike_haggar]

yes

It is called the Fallout New Vegas thread.

[GrannySmiths]

Recently had to start this again. My PS3 YLODed so I lost all my game saves since my last backup (before i started playing this) so when I got my new slim I started from scratch again. It's horrible going from a high level right back down to basics with hardly any caps and weapons. Not to mention having to do EVERYTHING again

[iwan_canobi]

I started playing this again, as I had only done 30%ish of the side quests before. I'm annoyed though, I spent aaaages doing the Nuka Cola challenge, and the Violin one, didnt realise I was offline, recovered my gamertag at a friends house and hey presto lost the 40 gamerscore for those two quests.

Only way to get them back is to revert to a previous save and do them again, but seeing it took around 4/5 hours in total I really cant be arsed!

[Dandy_Sephy]

Nuka Cola can be done much quicker with Broken Steel after you pass the original level cap, so you can always go back and do it at another point. Can't help regarding the violin though

[GrannySmiths]

The Violin level can be done pretty quickly if you do it after the brotherhood of steel shows you there whereabouts of all the vaults mean you can skip the whole vault-tec part of the mission and pretty much make your way straight to the vault.

[waddie]

Vault-Tec HQ is always optional, surely? Doesn't it just add a marker to the map? The Vault will still be there either way.

[GrannySmiths]

Vault-Tec HQ is always optional, surely? Doesn't it just add a marker to the map? The Vault will still be there either way.

as far as I was aware if you did the mission before you were shown the vault locations you had to go to vault-tec to find where the vault 92 (or whatever it was) was located.

[Not Thread Owner]

I found all the vaults before going to VaultTec HQ.

[meatbin]

yes

It is called the Fallout New Vegas thread.

I've searched and searched but I cannot find!

yes

It is called the Fallout New Vegas thread.

I've searched and searched but I cannot find!

[Jacopo]

I've searched and searched but I cannot find!

I've searched and searched but I cannot find!

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=205901&hl=fallout&st=0

[meatbin]

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=205901&hl=fallout&st=0

Thank thy!

[Stolly]

Well having pretty much fallen at the first hurdle when I tried playing this way back last year, I've finally really got into the game. I'm maybe a dozen hours in and although I'm still at a weeny weeny level, I think I'm starting to get into my stride. The sheriff of megaton got murdered early doors but I then killed the killer, I've cold heartedly killed some random woman in the ladies toilets, I've broken into the armoury and destroyed the robot guard there, I've killed Moriarty and a couple of his hangers on and got hold of all sorts of useful stuff and info at his saloon, I've opened up the map of the wastelands a fair bit, albeit mostly close in, killed various vagabonds and strays, completed a few quests and picked up tons of stuff and junk. I haven't found a dog for a pet yet but will at some point I'm sure. At long last I have loads of ammo and have been especially enjoying the shotgun.

I think it was the saving system and that as a player you need to save all the time that I really misunderstood last time of trying. Once you realise that you must save a lot (and not just rely on the autosave) and then try things out, it becomes so much more fun. The other thing I've found out this time is that I can really piss npc's off but, after a while (a couple of game days maybe) they seem to forgive me

[df0]

I have bitched about this in the NV thread (you might have read my posts ) but am I the only one who suffers from a pretty broken game? It freezes far too often (none of any other game do, I swear my PS3 locked up more times in 3 months of Fallout 3 than in its 4 year life cycle) and generally plays like a dead dog. Framerate <15, freezes (loading?) outdoors, crashes on actual loading screen, button presses not recognised etc. The list goes on.

I find it impossible to immerse myself in the universe when I have to worry about "when did I save for the last time?" every time the game decides to freeze/load/stutter *which is as mentioned before far too often*

[friedgold]

I had absolutely no problems with it until I visited The Pitt - crashes have been a constant hazard while I've been there.

[Stolly]

It freezes far too often (none of any other game do, I swear my PS3 locked up more times in 3 months of Fallout 3 than in its 4 year life cycle) and generally plays like a dead dog. Framerate <15, freezes (loading?) outdoors, crashes on actual loading screen, button presses not recognised etc. The list goes on.

I've only had one screen freeze thus far (playing on PS3). The framerate doesn't worry me but seems okay anyway. As for button presses unrecognised, the only problem I had with that was on pressing L2 (third/first person view switch) and that was because I was doing it wrong - a press doesn't do anything but a quick flick works every time

[Jigsaw Monkey]

I've sunk about 85 hours into this so far- level 29, got about 5 locations left to visit then I'll do the 'Take it Back' mission followed by all the dlc. Any recommendations which order they should be done in?

[locke_211]

I'd do anchorage, mothership zeta and the pitt first, since they're smaller scale and more like relatively long side missions, so very good but not what you'd want to end on. Bear in mind the pitt is the only one where you can go back and forth between its own area and the wasteland.

Then point lookout and broken steel, in either order, depending if you want to finish with a extra bit of the Fallout 3 main story or a very big new area.

[df0]

I finished Broken Steel first to continue the story. Followed by Anchorage and Pitt, both pretty short and straight forward). Will probably do Zeta next and Lookout last

[df0]

For fucks sake! Now I get a 100% freeze when I try to start the Zeta DLC.

I can not believe the praise this game gets. Bugs, crashes, freezes, issues. I have worked with Alpha codes that were less buggy than the retail version of Fallout 3

[noob]

ive just started playing this again after leaving it for quite a while. im on some mission to deliver a chap some keys or something in the underworld from 3 people. its annoying me now so have decided to visit some places i have yet to. i want some more missions to do

[Not Thread Owner]

I have bitched about this in the NV thread (you might have read my posts ) but am I the only one who suffers from a pretty broken game?

No. Both games are pretty badly bugged, more so on the PS3 than the 360, less so than on the PC (mainly because on the PC you've hardware configuration to take into account too).

I was lucky in FO3 and lucky (so far - 28 hours in) on NV not to have been hit by many bugs. None that have broken the game, anyway.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

New Vegas is substantially less buggy on PC, actually, since it's already had two patches.

[Stolly]

New Vegas is substantially less buggy on PC, actually, since it's already had two patches.

This kind of shows where Bethesda's heart is - I was really quite suprised when I restarted Fallout 3 on my PS3, some 18 months after my last effort, and not find a single update patch at all. Its not as if they won't have received some feed back on bugs and crashes in the interim!

[Stolly]

Okay I am fucking loving this game now. Absolutely superb . I have got to stop listening to Enclave radio though - John Henry Dean, the president, is starting to brainwash me...

[MrPogo]

Today I learnt you have to be just as careful with guns in games as you do in real life... I gave some purified water to one of those "tramps" you occasionally see laying around just outside towns, and whilst he was giving me the "thank you for saving my life!" speech I put the controller down, hitting the shoulder trigger in the process, and blasted the poor chaps head off. The "You've just earned karma" message that appeared on the screen was swiftly followed by a "You've just lost karma"...

[FinalityJack]

I've become absolutely absorbed by this game - it really is playing to my obsessive must-collect-everything nature.

It's great listening to GNR and seeing how my legend is spreading throughout the wasteland, with Charon as my wingman growling when I faf about looking for some pre-war money to scavenge instead of busting some raiders in the head.

[Stolly]

I've become absolutely absorbed by this game - it really is playing to my obsessive must-collect-everything nature.

It's great listening to GNR and seeing how my legend is spreading throughout the wasteland, with Charon as my wingman growling when I faf about looking for some pre-war money to scavenge instead of busting some raiders in the head.

Still loving it here too; I have Jericho as a side kick at the minute and, last time I looked, my karma rating had me down as an evil reaver . I still haven't completed that many missions but I'm (well me and Jericho are) gradually opening up more and more locations and my combat shotgun is fast becoming the bollocks. No real plan to what we are doing but we're now meandering in the direction of a museum I think to do something or other for 3 Dog. Even though I can use Jericho's pockets too I seem to get stacked out on collected stuff really quick nowadays - I'm now following a routine of getting to a location, firefighting with any bad guys and critters on the way and when I get there, ransacking all the boxes, furniture and cupboards that I can find, then having a sleep before visiting a shop (usually crater side supply at the mo) and hacking off somewhere else to start the process over. Although I have been playing the game quite cautiously, especially before I had a team member with me, I suspect I've only died 4 or 5 times so far in the whole game (playtime circa 40 hours) and am probably putting the kiss of death on things by saying that my character stolly is feeling a pretty tough hombre-ess if I say so myself.

[Stolly]

Fantastic - I've finally battled, probed and circumnavigated by way to rivet city.... and even found the way in without too much trouble . I think I've now got 50 or so locations found in this game and can't have covered much more than 60% of the world map yet.

[FinalityJack]

I've completed the main quest and most of the non DLC sidequests, I'm now going to clear Mothership Zeta first before tackling the rest.

When I reached the Citadel I hired Star Cross Paladin and fired Charon to have a bit of a change of pace having stuck with him for about 50-60 hours. After a few quests I missed his growls and the blast of his shotgun so I searched Underworld to find and re-hire him. Except he wasn't there, from reading the Fallout wikia it appears that he may have got stuck somewhere or some Talon company mercs took their revenge from all their bretheren we killed throughout the Wasteland.

I go back to the Ninth Circle every now and then with Dogmeat to buy ammo and sell some crap to Sydney, but really the first thing I do is look at Charon's corner to see if maybe, just maybe he'll have made it back.

[Not Thread Owner]

Aside from when Fawkes rescues you, and for the few minutes after finding Dogmeat, I didn't use any companions at all. I don't think I really saw the point. Would have made all them loot hauls a hell of a lot easier if I had though!