Fallout 3 Thread

[ShadowFold]

Sweet.. My friend knows a guy that owns a recording studio and I wanted to record some stuff for a whole new area I want to make for the game. I'm thinking I am gonna make a replica of my house and surrounding area and do some cool stuff with it. I have good ideas for mutant hideouts and good places where I can see people surviving the nuclear holocaust.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

under 72Hz on CRT's causes flickering, which leads to eyestrain and headaches. irrelevant on LCD.

I second that. 60 Hz makes my eyes bleed (not literally of course). I use 85 Hz because that's the highest my KVM really wants to go...

 

[Widjaja]

I had to get glasses because of using a CRT.
They have come right since using an LCD.

 

[Mussels]

I had to get glasses because of using a CRT.
They have come right since using an LCD.

i ahd the same thing when i was younger actually. i had bad eyesight (long sighted as opposed to near sighted) and all my problems went away after getting my first shiny 19" LCD (as opposed to a 14" CRT)

 

[Laurijan]

so far i haven't even touched the main quest and I'm lvl6 with the scoped magnum, sniper rifle, souped up chinese AR, combat armor...I lay waste to everything with one shot

Where in the game you get a scoped chinese assult rifle?

 

[Widjaja]

Just finished the game and. . . . [SPOLIERS]

The ending was dissappointing.
Big guns blazing battle like stalker and a short hurried up ending.
At least you could live in Stalker and feel good about it.
In Fallout 3, I still felt like I lost when I went for the good ending as at the end it says "the war never ends. . . " with all the endings.
Also yeah you die.
Also I had my radiation resistant companion with me but he won't go in there to switch on the water purifier!
Good game bad ending no matter which is chosen.

Is there anyway to get to the whitehouse?

 

[newconroer]

Where in the game you get a souped chinese assult rifle?

Spoiler(no fancy hidden script so read at your own discretion)

Laurijan, when you goto the Museum of Technology, there's monitors on the walls in several locations, both in the main lobby/atrium area, as well as the other zone within it(I forget the name, but you just go through a door to get there). Some of the monitors when viewed, will have an additional entry at the bottom of the list. They will say either 000, 001, or 002. You have to click on that, and proceed until it brings up a list of numbers. You want to choose the one that's a prime number or a derivative of a prime number. Find all three monitors and repeat the process. Upon completing the third one, you'll get a message telling you that you can unlock the safe> gun cabinet(which if you look around for, you will eventually find within the Museum). However that's NOT where the assault rifle is.

Now, upon doing this mini-quest, Prime and Jiggs(supposedly) attempt to meet up somewhere in the Capital Wasteland. It will put a marker on your map for Jury Street Metro Station. When you arrive there, get your bearings and then start looking for Prime. I won't tell you what he's doing, or where he's at, but I will say he's not far, and he's still in possession of the Xuanlong Assault Rifle.

Without doing the mini-quest in the Museum, Prime and Jiggs never attempt to meet, and you'll never get the rifle.

Fully repaired it should do about 65sh damage.

Warning: Make sure to save before you finalise the third monitor entry. There's a known bug that sometimes you still won't be able to open the safe and then the gun cabinet and ultimatley not be able to find the Xuanlong rifle later on.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Spoiler(no fancy hidden script so read at your own discretion)

Laurijan, when you goto the Museum of Technology, there's monitors on the walls in several locations, both in the main lobby/atrium area, as well as the other zone within it(I forget the name, but you just go through a door to get there). Some of the monitors when viewed, will have an additional entry at the bottom of the list. They will say either 000, 001, or 002. You have to click on that, and proceed until it brings up a list of numbers. You want to choose the one that's a prime number or a derivative of a prime number. Find all three monitors and repeat the process. Upon completing the third one, you'll get a message telling you that you can unlock the safe> gun cabinet(which if you look around for, you will eventually find within the Museum). However that's NOT where the assault rifle is.

Now, upon doing this mini-quest, Prime and Jiggs(supposedly) attempt to meet up somewhere in the Capital Wasteland. It will put a marker on your map for Jury Street Metro Station. When you arrive there, get your bearings and then start looking for Prime. I won't tell you what he's doing, or where he's at, but I will say he's not far, and he's still in possession of the Xuanlong Assault Rifle.

Without doing the mini-quest in the Museum, Prime and Jiggs never attempt to meet, and you'll never get the rifle.

Fully repaired it should do about 65sh damage.

Warning: Make sure to save before you finalise the third monitor entry. There's a known bug that sometimes you still won't be able to open the safe and then the gun cabinet and ultimatley not be able to find the Xuanlong rifle later on.

Did you guys find the Chinese pistol that shoots fireballs? Or the flamethrower thats called "the burn-master"?

 

[ShadowFold]

Did you guys find the Chinese pistol that shoots fireballs? Or the flamethrower thats called "the burn-master"?

A pistol that shoots fireballs? I must know where to find it!

 

[Mussels]

nah but i found 'the terrible shotgun' that does some ridiculous amount of damage. i was doing 60+ when i only had 40 skill in small arms.

 

[phanbuey]

jesus... 60+?!?!... so much for me trying to be a "hammer guy" with my "super sledge" that does 18 damage...

 

[LittleLizard]

i just have the game two days ago and now i have an outcast power armor, a laser rifle and i only have 3 quest more to finish the game.
did you know that after blowing up megaton you can still finish the book for moira

 

[Mussels]

i just have the game two days ago and now i have an outcast power armor, a laser rifle and i only have 3 quest more to finish the game.
did you know that after blowing up megaton you can still finish the book for moira

trust me, theres 20x more side quests than there is main quest.

 

[newconroer]

Hey Mail,

The pistol, I'm unfamiliar with unless you mean Smuggler's End, or Colonel Autumn's Laser Pistol.

The best weapon, though I hadn't mentioned it in the other thread, is the Firelance, which is the special Alien Blaster. To acquire it comes through almost complete randomness and luck from any npc or situation/encounter. Though some have said that when a Vertibird from the Enclave flies over, there's sometimes an explosion and something on fire hits the ground. This would be the weapon, with some accompanying ammo.

The terrible shotgun is definatley one of my main use weapons. Maxed out it does just under 90 dmg.

A full A3-21 does 68 I believe and is more potent vs heavy armor enemies.

One of the other fun guns is the Blackhawk, which is a named .44 pistol. Dmg should be 55-60.


Some other's of mention are:

Kneecapper (slightly less damage than the Terrible Shotgun, but it's a sawed-off, so two shots only)

Reservist's rifle (scoped/sniper rifle, increase critial strike, same damage as normal sniper at max)

Victory rifle (scoped/sniper rifle, 100% knock down of enemy on a critical strike)

 

[LittleLizard]

trust me, theres 20x more side quests than there is main quest.

i know but i first want to finish it, then im going to start a new character to just do side quest like a monkey

 

[Mussels]

i know but i first want to finish it, then im going to start a new character to just do side quest like a monkey

thats exactly what i did. my next time through, i intend to do it as an evil speech/charisma character. something of a smooth talking sociopath who murders everyone, unless they benefit me.

 

[LittleLizard]

thats exactly what i did. my next time through, i intend to do it as an evil speech/charisma character. something of a smooth talking sociopath who murders everyone, unless they benefit me.

my actual character is a good guy, next one would be a girl... a VERY BAD GIRL

 

[thraxed]

I found the pistol that shoots fireballs.. Though its not really fireballs, it just inflicts fire damage for 5 sec after it hits. I cant give you the exact location but its near what i thought was called church falls down (somewhat west of the citadel, nw of the library), its in a "office building" atleast that what the door says when you approach it, not really well marked, but its in a suitcase on the supervisor's desk. Max damage was about 20.

 

[psyko12]

It is called "Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese Pistol", from chinese god of flame/fire zhu rong

 

[Tatty_Two]

Without reading every page of the thread.......is this game worth adding to my Christmas list?

 

[LittleLizard]

It is called "Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese Pistol", from chinese god of flame/fire zhu rong

anyone knows which is the best energy weapon and were i can find it?

 

[RadeonX2]

Without reading every page of the thread.......is this game worth adding to my Christmas list?

YES you should great game

 

[psyko12]

YES you should great game

+1 to that, especially the downloadable contents and editor is coming out

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Reservist's rifle (scoped/sniper rifle, increase critial strike, same damage as normal sniper at max)

It's only got a clip capacity of three though. Still, great for killing Mirelurks.

 

[ShadowFold]

Without reading every page of the thread.......is this game worth adding to my Christmas list?

I wouldn't be surprised if it got GOTY from most game sites. Its a great game and with GECK Construction Kit coming soon it will only get better from here