Fallout 3 Thread

[largon]

Jow Stahl has nothing to with Walter's disappearance. Stahl just "hangs around" in the water processing plant at nights. Doc can tell you that...
Walter has a knack of getting himself killed by falling off various places, due to a glitch. Use console to resurrect him.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Theres some side mission where your'e supposed to fix all the leaks in the pipes at Megaton and Walter is the one you ask.
But yes the other guy sitting at his desk did seem suspicious.

Yeah, he vanished some time after that. I gave him a lot of scrap metal and eventually, he never showed again. I never found his corpse either.

The NPC was Deathclaw, I think it was at Old Onely?
I fired a missle at it and he took off up into the air like superman and kept on going.

Deathclaw? The only Deathclaws I've seen are those gastly beasts--no NPCs.

My bother has seen the worm thing on his system, it moves on angles really fast but in one area.
If I chuck a frag grenade at it, then it stops and becomes whatever it was supposed to be.

Nope, never seen anything like that.

Can't say I have been to Girdershade yet.

It's on the far west of the map on the road. It only has two small houses under an elevated highway, I think. Nothing too impressive.

Another glitch this is the graffiti on the side of buildings off in the distance flickering.

I haven't noticed that.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Anyone else hate how slow you run/walk....

At the main menu, hit tilde to bring up the console.

Then type, setgs fmoverunmult 7

Can increase over 7 but if you use 3rd person view the animiation is all screwed up.

 

[largon]

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Not a single type of power armor gives enough strength to negate the weigth of the armor itself....
Bethesda = bunch of retards.

 

[zaqwsx]

Anyone get the new patch? and did you have any problems trying to install it?

 

[jimmyme]

anyone else feel...well....small...lol
no seriousle...Its the same sensation as I have with oblivion....for me its like the camera in first person is slightly too low. Makes the already pretty bland sense of interaction in the world even worse...anyone?

 

[Mussels]

you wouldnt happen to be really tall in real life, would you?

 

[_jM]

Is this game worth buying? I will be buying Far Cry 2 monday and the wife says I can buy another if i want (yes.. i have to ask the wife befor i make a purchase:shadedshu) I have been looking into this game since it came out and i must say it looks pretty sweet. Is it really worth 50$?
Thanks guys

 

[Mussels]

its waaaaaaaaaaay better than far cry 2.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Anyone else hate how slow you run/walk....

Yep.. I noticed it too.. well it was obvious.. bethesda made that speed default so that it will take more time when travelling on foot... giving the illusion that the map is huge where in fact its smaller than oblivion's.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I'm trying to make my way to the Galaxy Radio station but I found the National Guard Armory instead. I'm almost through the National Guard Armory (I think) but I don't know how to get to the radio station. Please tell me I don't have to go underground at "Friendly Station". I hate not being outside. The other route was full of "brute" super mutants.

Also has anyone raided the fort were "Black Talon" hangs out? I got pretty deep into the bunker but never finished it. Any ideas whats in there?

 

[farlex85]

I think you do have to go underground to get there, at least I did, but not necessarily through Friendly. Where is the Black Talon hangout? I got jumped by them at one point, they apparently have a bounty on my head (I wonder if I found out by who) for being a do-gooder. I'd like to pay them a visit. Plus I want their armor.

 

[Laurijan]

Really helped much disabling FFDShow for fallout3.exe no crashes anymore.. i though the game was unplayable before doing the before mentioned.. Where in the world do i get enough ammo in the game to kill all those bastads coming at me when i walk around outside of Megaton?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yeah, you have to go through the Friendship Heights. If you can't stand the creepiness, turn the audio off. It helps a lot.

I don't remember anything too important being in Talon Company Fort. They do have a lot of good loot to pillage though.


The speed you run feels about right. I love fast travel.



Edit: In Friendship Heights, there is several Radroaches at the beginning and end. In between, there are serveral Ghouls. The first Ghouls are in the rooms on the right hand side--they try to get the jump on you while you take care of the Radroaches on the left. XD

 

[Zehnsucht]

A recommended MOD

I highly recommended the better pacing mod. My second run on FO3, and playing on the hardest setting is a challenge. Not to mention that now you have to actually do lots of quests in order to level up:


http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=80

Better game pacing is reached by reducing XP rewards for combat, lockpicking and hacking, thus focusing the big XP gains on doing quests.

I felt that fallout, especially on the high difficulty settings, punishes you for exploring by upping your level way too fast. consequently you could only see about 1/10th of the game before hitting the level cap and having only top-of-the-line enemies.

now this takes a lot longer, and you get to explore more and be introduced to better items and enemies at a better pace that matches the size of the game.


In addition to reducing XP from random exploration, I've raised the ratio at which radiation accumulates by %500 and raised the players movement speed by roughly 10% (which feels exactly right, fps style. try it)

With this mod I'm almost constantly radiated, but it's more realistic...

The description for installing is strange, what I did was to extract it to the Data folder, and when you launch the game go to data files and select the better pacing mod.

 

[largon]

It's just absurd they even cut many of the weapons that existed in FO2. There's no M72 Gauss Rifle, no Red Ryder BB LE, no Louisville Slugger, no Jackhammer, no CAWS, no different types of miniguns, no weapon upgrades and not even the freakin' Bozar .223.

I hereby quote myself to declare; there's no pulse weapons in FO3, either.
I already miss my YF-EC manufactured YK42B pulse rifle...

And boy, does the new Enclave power armor look silly compared to the one in FO2. The new look doesn't scream "Respect my authority!" like the old...

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

And boy, does the new Enclave power armor look silly compared to the one in FO2. The new look doesn't scream "Respect my authority!" like the old...

Indeed. there was once a time where encountering an enclave with a powerarmor MKII brandishing an avenger mini-gun would spell insta-death.

 

[Mussels]

Indeed. there was once a time where encountering an enclave with a powerarmor MKII brandishing an avenger mini-gun would spell insta-death.

maybe you guys are on easy or something, i'm getting pwned occasionally... stupid deathclaws and mirelurk kings.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I got my laser rifle early on and all the VATS perks so I make relatively quick work of them. The only times I have died so far is because I either drowned or got radiated. The Giant Radscorpions have been giving me the most trouble especially now that they always seem to attack in groups of two. Those and the Sentry Bots are real hard to kill just because of their damage resistance.

 

[Mussels]

I got my laser rifle early on and all the VATS perks so I make relatively quick work of them. The only times I have died so far is because I either drowned or got radiated. The Giant Radscorpions have been giving me the most trouble especially now that they always seem to attack in groups of two. Those and the Sentry Bots are real hard to kill just because of their damage resistance.

deathclaws + mirelurk kings make giant scorpions seem weak.

i take sentry bots in two hits, mmm EMP greande thingies.

 

[Widjaja]

Yeah I find deathclaws be the worst since you don't caome across many Behemoths.
I didn't think mirelurk kings were all that bad.
I guess they're the ones who lay the eggs since there are no Mirelurk Queens.

I have level 2 animal friends so most the other animal inhabitants do not attack and attack enemies for me.

 

[Mussels]

yeah but the mirelurk kings tend to be in enclosed spaces, which doesnt work so well for a sniper/las rifle character.

 

[erocker]

Lol, I was taking a hooker to Rivet City and when we walked out of the door of the "Party house" There was an Enclave Officer fighting a molerat. I killed him, and found a key on his corpse. Then I noticed a cage to his left and immediately went to open it. Mistake. The Deathclaw inside immediately lunged out, raised his mighty death claw and with a big "swoosh" proceded to remove the head of my newly aquainted hooker friend right in front of me. It was beautiful and sad at the same time. Then with two mighty swings of it's arm it cut me into bits. Esc. Load.

 

[Widjaja]

yeah but the mirelurk kings tend to be in enclosed spaces, which doesnt work so well for a sniper/las rifle character.

Yeh I found the laser rifle too weak.
If you go into the Deathclaw Sanctuary you'll find a nice weapon.

Recently my main weapons have been the Deathclaw melee weapon, 10mm Sub-machine gun and the flamer.

I also find having your weapons repaired to a high level makes them much more accurate and deadly.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Mirelurk Kings are easy compared to Hunters because you can hit their head from any direction. The Hunters are bad because only their head is weak and if you can see their head, they sure as hell can see you. Mirelurk Hunters is really the only enemy I find the sniper is worth using.

I've only come across Deathclaws out in the open where I know they are coming. They actually go down relatively easy in VATS with a good enough weapon.

Giant Radscorpians though take ~12 solid hits in the body with a laser rifle in perfect condition. So when two of them come at you, I have to back pedal a long ass way unloading 24 shots, reloading, and unloading a few more. The damn things are very fast too and there's no telling one isn't gonna sneak up behind you while you back pedal. Yeah...I hate em...

It's a shame how plasma rifles really aren't readily available until you are almost done with the game.