Fallout 3

Coriolanus

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Polar101

I got the DLC recently, and I've now completed Anchorage and The Pitt. I'm at level 18 - should I try Point Lookout next, or finish the main quest (just missing the last bit there)?

Coriolanus

Polar101 wrote: »

I got the DLC recently, and I've now completed Anchorage and The Pitt. I'm at level 18 - should I try Point Lookout next, or finish the main quest (just missing the last bit there)?

You have Broken Steel I presume? If you do, go ahead and finish the main quest if that's what you want to do. If you don't, don't. There's loads of other quests to do in the main Wasteland, or head off to Point Lookout.

Stercus Accidit

Some interesting mods in this, its a short film style thing aka a machinima done in fallout 3, I thought it was fairly enjoyable.

Looked like the .223 pistol or 14mm pistol from F2 made an appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lubh7ouKnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJDR0YGtPw

Coriolanus

/adds item to growing list of threads for Fallout forum, namely: Video/Machinima thread.

Josey Wales

I've gone back to this game today because I never completed it and I'm waiting on Mass Effect 2 to be patched. I has been 18 months since I played and I've put in 35 hours so far on the save.

I went back to Tenpenny Tower to store some items and rest but I can't find my room. All the beds are marked red as I approach which I think means I can't sleep in them. I'm not sure though.

All the residents seem to be gone to and there are no ghouls living there either.

What floor should my room be on?

Monotype

I think you go straight ahead after going in the front door and take the lift.

Coriolanus

You monster! You,killed everyone! -sob-

Josey Wales

Found it eventually. I took the lift to the top floor and walked around the balcony to find it.

Testament1

I must get back into this aswel once college is done. Still have a good bit to go in the game I'd say. From what I've played of New Vegas so far I think that this is a much more enjoyable game.

Sephiroth_dude

Testament1 wrote: »

I must get back into this aswel once college is done. Still have a good bit to go in the game I'd say. From what I've played of New Vegas so far I think that this is a much more enjoyable game.

I have all 4 dlcs still to play :-|

Monotype

Same here. I completed everything (I think) in the game and bought GOTY 6 months ago and still haven't taken it out of the plastic.

Josey Wales

I still have all the DLC to do as well. I got it all free with Playstation Plus.

Hank Scorpio

just thought i`d post this, it never fails to make me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pguySwRbmdg

TerrorFirmer

started playin it only about 2 weeks ago, finally. have about 45 hours into it, finished the main quest, got the game of the year edition with all 5 expansions for 15.99 preowned in game, great bargain.

so far, only played anchorage and mothership zeta; anchorage is absolute tripe, zeta i haven't finished yet but is just as bad. fallout does not work as a straight up shooter at all.

Coriolanus

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

started playin it only about 2 weeks ago, finally. have about 45 hours into it, finished the main quest, got the game of the year edition with all 5 expansions for 15.99 preowned in game, great bargain.

so far, only played anchorage and mothership zeta; anchorage is absolute tripe, zeta i haven't finished yet but is just as bad. fallout does not work as a straight up shooter at all.

Point lookout and not broken steel, the other one, are the best.

marco_polo

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

started playin it only about 2 weeks ago, finally. have about 45 hours into it, finished the main quest, got the game of the year edition with all 5 expansions for 15.99 preowned in game, great bargain.

so far, only played anchorage and mothership zeta; anchorage is absolute tripe, zeta i haven't finished yet but is just as bad. fallout does not work as a straight up shooter at all.

Think you started off with the weakest two, neither are really all that worth playing IMO. My rating of the five DLC pack would probably be

1) Point lookout
2) The pitt
3) Broken Steel
4/5) Who cares:p

Hank Scorpio

marco_polo wrote: »

Think you started off with the weakest two, neither are really all that worth playing IMO. My rating of the five DLC pack would probably be

1) Point lookout
2) The pitt
3) Broken Steel
4/5) Who cares:p

Agree, lookout is really weird, good few side quests aswell. The pitt is pretty hilarious towards the end, maybe its cause I played with such bad karma

Mothership zeta is incredibly rubbish :mad:

kearneybobs

Never actually did finish Point Lookout and Zeta. Oh well. Might get round to them...someday.

TerrorFirmer

I'm reverting to an older save now, I'm giving up on Zeta. Crap gameplay, frustrating beyond belief, crap enemies, appalling weapons.....it's actually sullying Fallouts good name in my eyes, and I can't have that. Going to give Point Lookout a go.

Josey Wales

With the PSN down I've come back to Fallout 3. Up to the fifty hour mark now. I'm trying to complete the Head of State quest at the moment. I've run into a problem though. I have done every thing that was asked of me and now I just have to meet the character who gave me the quest at the Lincoln Memorial. Trouble is that he hasn't turned up yet.

I'm hoping if I continue playing he will eventually show up.

calex71

Josey Wales wrote: »

With the PSN down I've come back to Fallout 3. Up to the fifty hour mark now. I'm trying to complete the Head of State quest at the moment. I've run into a problem though. I have done every thing that was asked of me and now I just have to meet the character who gave me the quest at the Lincoln Memorial. Trouble is that he hasn't turned up yet.

I'm hoping if I continue playing he will eventually show up.

Wait 2 days and fast travel to there, that should do it. Failing that check and see if he is camped at the temple of union.

Adyx

Josey Wales wrote: »

With the PSN down I've come back to Fallout 3. Up to the fifty hour mark now. I'm trying to complete the Head of State quest at the moment. I've run into a problem though. I have done every thing that was asked of me and now I just have to meet the character who gave me the quest at the Lincoln Memorial. Trouble is that he hasn't turned up yet.

I'm hoping if I continue playing he will eventually show up.

Go into the metro station where you're supposed to meet them, wait at least 24 hours then exit again and they'll all be there. This is a widespread bug and has happened to me on every play-through. The above solution has never failed me.

Josey Wales

So I decided while I was waiting on the guy to show up at Lincoln Memorial that I would do some exploring. I finally found Dogmeat. After 50 hours and completing the main quest I thought that I'd never come across him.

He was only with me a little while and then I accidentally found myself in the Mothership Zeta DLC. I was walking toward a crashed UFO. I'd been told before it had some good loot but I never came across it before. I should have known that it would trigger the Zeta DLC.

I've heard some bad things about this DLC. Any idea how long it is?

Harps

About 3-4 hours if I remember correctly, its just a corridor shooter so theres not much exploring or anything that would make you want to take your time.

Quite a poor dlc but you get a few decent weapons out of it and the epoxy is useful for repairing weapons so collect as much of that as you can

Josey Wales

Harps wrote: »

About 3-4 hours if I remember correctly

Harps wrote: »

Quite a poor dlc but you get a few decent weapons out of it and the epoxy is useful for repairing weapons so collect as much of that as you can

Hmmm, longer than I hoped.

I'll make sure to collect some epoxy though.

Fanny Cradock

Josey Wales wrote: »

Trouble is that he hasn't turned up yet.

He texted me earlier to say he was stuck in work and would be a bit late. There was a problem in sector 7-G or some such.

Josey Wales

I finished Mothership Zeta earlier today. I didn't really enjoy it. I thought it was good fun at the start but there was no variety at all. Just one corridor after another filled with aliens to shoot. There were a couple of challenging sections when the number of enemies chasing you is quite high.

I collected as much of the alien epoxy as I could find. Excellent stuff. I also found the really powerful MPLX Novasurge. Can't wait to stroll around the wasteland with this gun.

Josey Wales

I have another Fallout 3 question.

I've just undertaken the Strictly Business quest. I've used the Mesmetron on Red, the doctor from Big Town. Now that she has the collar on I told her to go to Paradise Falls. She just ran off.

Will she get there without me following her?

Sephiroth_dude

I Installed Fo3 on my laptop,I'm using windows 7 and it keeps crashing,I can play for maybe 2minutes and then It crashes and have to restart,its really unstable,Is anyone else playing this on windows 7 having the same problems?

Burgo

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I Installed Fo3 on my laptop,I'm using windows 7 and it keeps crashing,I can play for maybe 2minutes and then It crashes and have to restart,its really unstable,Is anyone else playing this on windows 7 having the same problems?

No problem when I played it, Win7 Profession 64bit.
game fully patched? latest drivers?

Sephiroth_dude

Burgo wrote: »

No problem when I played it, Win7 Profession 64bit.
game fully patched? latest drivers?

fully patched ya and latest drivers,Its really annoying

Burgo

Does the laptop meet the min specs for F3?

Sephiroth_dude

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/analysis.aspx according to this I can,the laptop spec is


Its a sony E series laptop

Intel Core i3 370M / 2.4 GHz Dual-Core,Mobile Intel HM55 Express
4 GB ram
512mb ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Monotype

Have a look at the detail settings - e.g., shadows. Try switching them off a few at a time to see if there's any effect.

Sephiroth_dude

Monotype wrote: »

Have a look at the detail settings - e.g., shadows. Try switching them off a few at a time to see if there's any effect.

I'll try that,I uninstalled it because it was pissing me of so much so much re install.

Monotype

You might have success with the unofficial patch if the above doesn't work.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3808#

Sephiroth_dude

Do I have to have it fully patched before I install that community patch?

Monotype

According to the description, it supports version 1.1 and above.

J_E

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I Installed Fo3 on my laptop,I'm using windows 7 and it keeps crashing,I can play for maybe 2minutes and then It crashes and have to restart,its really unstable,Is anyone else playing this on windows 7 having the same problems?

I had this problem, here is the solution, should work for you.

Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3
Find the line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add another line after it and insert:

iNumHWThreads=2

This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze.

Sephiroth_dude

Cydoniac wrote: »

I had this problem, here is the solution, should work for you.

think that did,haven't had a crash yet

ChunkyLover_53

I had the CTD issue with FO3 when I reinstalled on a new machine with Win7

A guy had posted on the Steam forums that the fix was to download VLC player.

I did and it hasn't crashed since. Just throwing that option out there in case anyone is still stuck with crashes.

Zero-Cool

Hey lads, my GF is finished with Skyrim and is looking for a similar game to play. I recommended Fallout 3 GOTY as I wouldn't mind playing the DLC myself but I'm reading awful stuff on the PS3 version of glitches and freeze problems. I remember when I was playing through FO3 on ps3 before, I had no problems.

Is the GOTY version that bad on ps3?

Sephiroth_dude

sheehy83 wrote: »

Hey lads, my GF is finished with Skyrim and is looking for a similar game to play. I recommended Fallout 3 GOTY as I wouldn't mind playing the DLC myself but I'm reading awful stuff on the PS3 version of glitches and freeze problems. I remember when I was playing through FO3 on ps3 before, I had no problems.

Is the GOTY version that bad on ps3?

She'll definitely enjoy it,has she new vegas or obvilion?

Zero-Cool

I have new vegas but didn't get far, I much preferred FO3. I hated Oblivion as well but mostly for it's levelling system. She isn't a big gamer so wanted to suggest something I knew was good. Just was worried it would keep freezing the whole. She got used to it in Skyrim but at least it was patched okay in that.

Sephiroth_dude

Ya I heard the ps3 version had it's problems alright but FO3 is such a fun game

Zero-Cool

Yeah, think i'll just get it hope for the best. Saw thr GOTY on zavvi.com for 16 euro but might look around town for it 2nd hand since all dlc is on the disk. Thanks man.

Sephiroth_dude

sheehy83 wrote: »

Yeah, think i'll just get it hope for the best. Saw thr GOTY on zavvi.com for 16 euro but might look around town for it 2nd hand since all dlc is on the disk. Thanks man.

your welcome

Zero-Cool

After more reading, it looks like the GOTY is a disaster with freezing problems where these were mostly fixed in the original FO3. With that, I ended getting FO3 from Gamesnash for 6.99. Bargain!

I might even play through it again myself. In the 4 times I played through it already, I never found that dog.

Sephiroth_dude

sheehy83 wrote: »

After more reading, it looks like the GOTY is a disaster with freezing problems where these were mostly fixed in the original FO3. With that, I ended getting FO3 from Gamesnash for 6.99. Bargain!

I might even play through it again myself. In the 4 times I played through it already, I never found that dog.

He's in the junkyard if I remember correctly