Fallout 3

Captain Slow IRL

I think you're on about Hamiltons Hideaway - a cave just east of Arefu (not far from Paradise Falls iirc.
When you go into it, keep to the right and you'll stumble upon a little room with a workbench, you have to fight 2 radscorpions to get to it. There's a raider and a few more scorpions/radroaches if you go exploring, nothing too difficult.

Not The Real Scarecrow

completed it today.Bit of advice for anyone who wants to keep the game going for as long as possible,avoid the main quest for as long as possible, as when the game is finished, thats it.I'm gonna go back to an earlier save and play through from there as there was a load of stuff I missed out on.
Excellent game though,just didn't want to complete it so quick.With out giving anything away the last mission starts in the citadel where the big robot will be activated.If you follow this quest it will be the last one in the game.

Selkies

Meatwad wrote: »

completed it today.Bit of advice for anyone who wants to keep the game going for as long as possible,avoid the main quest for as long as possible, as when the game is finished, thats it.I'm gonna go back to an earlier save and play through from there as there was a load of stuff I missed out on.
Excellent game though,just didn't want to complete it so quick.With out giving anything away the last mission starts in the citadel where the big robot will be activated.If you follow this quest it will be the last one in the game.

I think I'll be completing this game as slow as possible.
There is just so much in this game to do

Anyone know what shop is selling this the cheapest? In Dublin not an online shop.

Captain Chaos

I think HMV are the cheapest, I think its about €52.99 or there abouts.

Captain Slow IRL

Here's the link if above doesn't work.


There is only limited ammo available, but this gun is fookin powerful! (excellant against the fire-ants!)

faceman

Has anyone managed to get the

super mutant

friend? Where abouts can I locate him?

faceman

faceman wrote: »

Has anyone managed to get the

super mutant

friend? Where abouts can I locate him?

Just play through the main quest, hes locked in a jail cell.

U need really good karma to get him tho.

Captain Chaos

I got a strange bug in this game the other night. My charater just kept walking, I could not stop. The function of the Y and B buttons swapped around and when I pulled the trigger to fire just one round went off and then a round every 10 seconds or so even when I was not pressing the trigger and just walking around normally.:eek:

Exited the game and loaded it back up, everything was fine. wtf

I thought my controller was on the blink but the same thing has happened to others on my friends list.

faceman

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I got a strange bug in this game the other night. My charater just kept walking, I could not stop. The function of the Y and B buttons swapped around and when I pulled the trigger to fire just one round went off and then a round every 10 seconds or so even when I was not pressing the trigger and just walking around normally.:eek:

Exited the game and loaded it back up, everything was fine. wtf

I thought my controller was on the blink but the same thing has happened to others on my friends list.

the game is riddled with bugs. I have already returned one disc as it was regularly giving me disc unreadable messages. I have heard other reports of glitches during the GOAT test and people getting "stuck" in rocks in the wasteland.

Just make sure you save your game regularly! Dont rely on autosave! (especially when crossing the wasteland!)

c - 13

Hit my first bad bug there last night in the top east area of the map (around the republic of dave area) When I walked East by NorthEast the top two thirds would fill with black polygons and flashes of red. Couldnt see where I was going at all, I could only see the map icon at the bottom. When I stopped walking or turned around and walked backwards in the same direction it stopped ?

Hopefully thats the only area of the map thats affected.

Oh yeah, and the people in the republic of dave can walk through walls too. I couldnt find dave for ages becasue the guy was standing inside the wall of his office.

Burning Eclipse

I got my first bug 2 nights ago. Returned to GNR

after putting the antenna on the washington monument

and the door was locked... Just would not open. That's a story stopping bug for a lot of people. Apparently very common though.

Easily the most worrying one I've read about is the bug where all your items stored in your house in Megaton disappear...

faceman

Btw, when you find Vault 61 and travel through it, its completely normal for the screen to turn purple and characters to disappear and reappear. I thought it was a bug but seemingly its part of the game! :eek:

Captain Slow IRL

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

Easily the most worrying one I've read about is the bug where all your items stored in your house in Megaton disappear...

What?!

RossFixxxed

faceman wrote: »

Btw, when you find Vault 61 and travel through it, its completely normal for the screen to turn purple and characters to disappear and reappear. I thought it was a bug but seemingly its part of the game! :eek:

it is yea, he's seeing his father, and the people he lost in vault 101. Tripping out a bit!

Still loving the game but dead space has crept up on me and I MUST FINISH!

nevaeh-2die-4

This game is frickn amazing.

I have been glued to it since I got it!!

A few questions

How do you check how much time you have played? ( I think I have put in about 20 hours & still haven’t even put a scratch on how much I have to do)

How do I check my karma??

armour87

To check your karma go into the pip boy, left trigger to data and its under status then AFAIK.

Game play time is listed when you load up a file I think.

Awesome game.

Just met Dogmeat last night

Anyone find a Laser Gatling gun yet? Was in the National Archives next to the Jefferson Memorial last night, got an sweet weapon, the Lincoln Repeater. Uber powerful and accurate.

Crouching makes you more accurate in VATS I think too.

Does anyone here not use VATS? I read in some reviews this was a flaw in the game but tbh I really like it, cool death scenes and headshots and even better stuff if you use VATS with a Sledge or Sword

faceman

armour87 wrote: »

Does anyone here not use VATS? I read in some reviews this was a flaw in the game but tbh I really like it, cool death scenes and headshots and even better stuff if you use VATS with a Sledge or Sword

I expected more from VATS. YOu dont get enough XP to go to town on it!

armour87

Higher your Agility the more AP you can use in VATS, I can do about 7 headshots with a magnum in it now. My Intelligence, Strength, Perception & Agility are all at 9.

Or you can just smack out with some Jet...Scarface style!

faceman

Yeah im addicted to whiskey, vodka, beer, jet and Med-x tho in the game!!!

armour87

The addictions really mess with your stats and drastically lower important things like Endurance and Agility. You can buy an infirmary for your house off Moira Browns Craterside Supply in Megaton, you can then cure all radiation, addictions and broken bones. You might need a high medicine though and the infirmary is around about 1700 caps for me, although my Barter is quite low.

Got addicted to Scotch last night myself lol, love the little happy face that pops up "You have become addicted to Scotch," ...Great!

I think there's spoilers in this post so SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got the game at the weekend and think its great. I did the blood ties mission where you have to deliver a letter and then you have to track down the family.

After I completed this mission I did the mission for Mr Burke where you blow up megaton. Should I have left this one for awhile? Did I do it too soon? I got the info off your man in the pub about the dad so was there anything else I needed to do in Megaton before I blew it up? I have a previous game saved so can go back. What did most people do.

1) Blow it up early on
2) Blow it up but leave that mission for awhile
3) Tell on Mr Burke

faceman

I accidentally missed Megaton and managed to get to level 6 or 7 or something before I went back there. I didnt blow it up tho cos

cos they give you a gaff for disarming the bomb and you can purchase alot of useful stuff to store in your gaff such as an infirmary as already pointed out. There are also other sub quests there.

Mountjoy Mugger

Deleted User wrote: »

I think there's spoilers in this post so SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Use those spoiler tags! That's what they're there for.

Mountjoy Mugger

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

Use those spoiler tags! That's what they're there for.

Sorry I dont know how to use spoiler tags!!

c - 13

Deleted User wrote: »

Sorry I dont know how to use spoiler tags!!

[+SPOILER]Enter Text[/SPOILER] (Remove + to get it to work) theyre also at the far right of the icons at the top of the reply text box.

You miss out on a couple of handy sub-quests that can help make a few quid at the start of the game, a free place to store your gear in megatron (but you get the tenpenny tower suite instead so no big issue there).

The sub-quests include -

Leo Stahl & His Chem Addiction
Fixing the leaks in Megaton
Bringing scrap metal to Walter
The Wasteland Survival Guide for Moira (Can be gotten off her in Underworld if you blow up megaton)

PixelTrawler

Reached level 20 today and its taken the edge of the exploration that you cant level any higher - bit of a mistake that one.


Whats the point of an RPG without increasing XP (I'll still finish the story but its one of the main drivers of the game taken away)

faceman

Solyad wrote: »

Reached level 20 today and its taken the edge of the exploration that you cant level any higher - bit of a mistake that one.


Whats the point of an RPG without increasing XP (I'll still finish the story but its one of the main drivers of the game taken away)

I expect when they release the DLC, they will raise the cap higher, similar to WOW

armour87

Since NXE has anyone installed the game? If so are there any improvements?I've only gotta 20GB but if I'm going to install a game it may be this one as the loading is a bit tedious and my 360 is quite noisy reading the disc.

Climate Expert

armour87 wrote: »

Since NXE has anyone installed the game? If so are there any improvements?I've only gotta 20GB but if I'm going to install a game it may be this one as the loading is a bit tedious and my 360 is quite noisy reading the disc.

Loading maybe marginally quicker, xbox is much quieter.

It did crash out on my first attempt to play it after installing which was worrying but its been plane sailing since that.