Fallout 3 Thread

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

deathclaws + mirelurk kings make giant scorpions seem weak.

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

Yeah.. acursed death claws. You should shoot em in the eye . 3 headshots with my sniper rifle will suffice though. (I have a critical damage based character: 10 luck + finesse perk + better criticals + bloodymess for a 5% damage boost. ActionBoy + That lvl 20 grim reaper perk in which refreshes your APs everytime you kill someone in VATs.) And if you start it off with a sneak attack critical your on your may to m-m-monster kill since time is slow on vats, you can squeeze an ample amount of sneak attack crits on em. Plus reaping em off in VATs really is fun

 

[FordGT90Concept]

By the way, you are immune to damage in VATS. I was in Arlington Library and a guy with a missile launcher was position just right so I couldn't hit him in the head. He launched a missile at me and I saw it in slow mo coming at me (OMGWTFBBQ) and it exploded. The last three shots which were aimmed at a separate enemy succeeded so I got all my action points back thanks to Grim Reaper perk. I went back into VATS and finished off the missile carrier. Everyone got killed in the room and I had no extra damage on me. Had I not been in VATS when that missile hit, I probably would have died.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Cant wait for the expansion pack ^^

 

[Widjaja]

If they make an expansion pack.

I hope so, as the game is a big seller.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I love this game. If it were a man I would become its gay bitch.

 

[Zehnsucht]

By the way, you are immune to damage in VATS. I was in Arlington Library and a guy with a missile launcher was position just right so I couldn't hit him in the head. He launched a missile at me and I saw it in slow mo coming at me (OMGWTFBBQ) and it exploded. The last three shots which were aimmed at a separate enemy succeeded so I got all my action points back thanks to Grim Reaper perk. I went back into VATS and finished off the missile carrier. Everyone got killed in the room and I had no extra damage on me. Had I not been in VATS when that missile hit, I probably would have died.

It probably missed you. I've died in VATS several times by missiles. Playing on hardest with 1 in endurance makes it a tad harder. Not to mention the better pace mod...

 

[bigtye]

I have only just started playing but since getting out of the vault I'm crashing every 5 minutes or so. Going to try those sound codec fixes that were mentioned earlier. Damm it's so fun but so frustrating when games won't work!!!

Tye

 

[FordGT90Concept]

There is a patch out which you could try but it doesn't appear to fix much. It needs more patching.

 

[bigtye]

Yeah I'm beginning to discover that. Many threads out there with constant desktop crashing and different fixes for each one. Sound codecs, securerom, vsync settings etc. I'm having no luck at all at the moment and its killing me.

Especially when I can read 14 pages of posts of people having little problem with the game and talking about how much fun it is.

Tye

 

[Widjaja]

I didn't bother with the patch as my only real issues are missing persons.

First one wwas Walter who I mentioned earlier and now it's some guy at Girdershade.
The woman asks if I had seen him and well. . .nah.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Roland at Girdershade only shows up after you talk sit through the lady's speech about Nuka-Cola. I know that if you use the Black Widow perk on him, he disappears and never comes back. I'm in the process of getting 30 Nuka-Cola Quantums and haven't checked back since accepting the mission (not Black Widow this time). Roland is a generally buggy character it seems.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Roland at Girdershade only shows up after you talk sit through the lady's speech about Nuka-Cola. I know that if you use the Black Widow perk on him, he disappears and never comes back. I'm in the process of getting 30 Nuka-Cola Quantums and haven't checked back since accepting the mission (not Black Widow this time). Roland is a generally buggy character it seems.

Hey man whats your Karma? Even when I try and be bad I still have angel wings.

 

[farlex85]

Hey man whats your Karma? Even when I try and be bad I still have angel wings.

How bad are you being? Stealing things, or killing when possible? The ladder will get you more bad points, and certain events, such as blowing up/saving Megaton, seem to hold more Karma points than others.

 

[Laurijan]

I read on a website that playing Fallout 3 in windowed mode prevents it from crashing so often and found that to be true.. i also added Fllout3.exe to the FFDShow exeption list..

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Hey man whats your Karma? Even when I try and be bad I still have angel wings.

How bad are you being? Stealing things, or killing when possible? The ladder will get you more bad points, and certain events, such as blowing up/saving Megaton, seem to hold more Karma points than others.

I blew up Megaton (killing all the poor saps in Megaton prior to blowing it up), killed every Ghoul I could see (including those North of Arfu, in the tunnels West of Tenpenny, and all of them in the Underworld), made 4 people and 1 child into a slave, and constantly stealing stuff from people's homes. I think my rating is the "Scourge of Evil" or something like that. There's very few things I did that were "good."

Roland has no "Karma" dialogs though so you don't have to be good or evil to do his stuff. He has Speech (pay more for each bottle of Quantum) and Black Widow (three-way) dialog options.


Also, to clarify: After you talk to the lady and accept the Quantum quest, you have to go outside and you will be immidiately confronted by Roland.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I guess I have to much of a "moral bone" to even be mean to polygon people. I think my karma is like "Defender of all thats good".

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Heh, yeah. This is my second play through and I am intentionally being evil. Not too much is different, really. The Karama dialog option is few and far between.

 

[JC316]

Hey man whats your Karma? Even when I try and be bad I still have angel wings.

Heh, then I must be on evil SOB. I am a pirate of the wastelands. Even the fucking slave traders are scared shitless of me. I get loot from em, just to keep me happy.

 

[erocker]

Anyone know if you can destroy the "President" in the game?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

You can't directly but if you have high Speech (might have to have good karma too), you can convince the President to self-destruct.

 

[ShadowFold]

Yea I had him self destruct. Had 100 speech tho.

 

[bigtye]

I think I may have fixed my crashing by lowering my graphics settings and getting rid of AA. It looks like the autodetect settings where too high and as soon as I got out of the vault I would only be able to play for a few minutes outdoors.

Since lowering the settings I have played for 20 minutes without crashing. Odd the game should get it so wrong.

Tye

 

[Mussels]

I think I may have fixed my crashing by lowering my graphics settings and getting rid of AA. It looks like the autodetect settings where too high and as soon as I got out of the vault I would only be able to play for a few minutes outdoors.

Since lowering the settings I have played for 20 minutes without crashing. Odd the game should get it so wrong.

Tye

a possibility occured to me: could you be experiencing the 2GB address space issues some people had with other games (supreme commander, stalker) due to a 32 bit OS?

is anyone having these problems, NOT on a 32 bit OS?

 

[bigtye]

Are you giving me an excuse to go buy 2gb more ram?
I thought more than 2gb on 32 bit OS was kinda useless?


Tye

 

[Mussels]

Are you giving me an excuse to go buy 2gb more ram?
I thought more than 2gb on 32 bit OS was kinda useless?


Tye

its not ram usage, its address space. I remember previous games crashing when they hit 2GB of ram usage, thats all - lowering in game graphics settings sometimes reduced their ram/address space usage, therefore preventing or delaying the crashes. 64 bit OS users dont have that problem.

to make this more clear: even if you have 8GB of ram, those games crashed when they used 2GB of it. its not about running out of ram, its just that they hit a ceiling and crashed.