Fallout 3

[Krandor]

Go upstairs, it's on the table in the room to your left. It's easy to spot because everything else in the house will be marked by the red text signifying it will give you bad karma, the bobblehead won't have this.

[Kyo]

Hacking is a bit hard for me still... 4 tries seems a bit too few. Was confusing as hell at first also. Reading the manual helped, and also clued me in to the "[]" things in the terminal that MIGHT give your tries back or remove a dummy word.

Love Lockpicking, plan on getting that to at least 50 (@25 now) so i have a good shot at most locks.

Couldn't agree with you more though Kyo, this game is fun as hell. Oh, saw you mention that you didn't have a scoped rifle in the other thread...

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Didn't you get the one from Arkansas in Minefield? Once you 'meet' him i am sure you will be more than happy to take his off his cold dead body. Actually, no idea if it truly is scoped (in game) but it looks exactly like a .50 Cal so yeah... I quit last night shortly after getting it so i haven't used it.

Well thats the thing at the time I was super low on ammo and was outta stimpacks due to trying to figure out how to disarm mines so I didnt kill him yet, but he was up there shooting at me so I know where he is, ass hole pissed me off with that sniper rifle.

Also one thing I didnt mention, being able to map stuff to the D pad is really cool and convient too and the pip boy is rwally fast and easy to see, I cant find one problem with the game ive seen.

[Krandor]

For those aching for boosts to their SPECIAL stats

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I ran along the quest chain "Those" while heading down to the sewers to do the Survival Guide quest involving the rat "repellant." I won't get into the details, but when you get to the part involving killing 5 nest guards but leaving the queen unharmed, if you don't kill her, you get the option for either +1 STR/25% fire resist or +1 PER/25% fire resist

Also had my first assassination attempt a little while ago (playing a "good" game), and also, once you find his radio signal, Three Dog will give reports about your exploits during his news broadcasts. Just snagged my first missile launcher but god is ammo expensive for it.

[Kyo]

Yeah with the missle launcher if you dont have big guns boosted some its inaccurate as fuck.

Also ive tried testing out what someone saying if you bump into someone while their talking it ends their speech and it hasnt done that for me at all.

[Slott]

PC version seems to suffer from crashes here and there ;/

[Kyo]

Graelinn I found a sniper rifle in a diffrent location just outside of megaton, im excited now >:O

[Zosi]

Didn't get to play much tonight because I was stupid and didn't start the Steam dl before I left for work, but the bit I've seen is amazing. My doubts about Bethesda's ability to continue the Fallout series have vanished. Can't wait to play tomorrow and continue.

[Krandor]

My doubts about Bethesda's ability to continue the Fallout series have vanished.

This for sure, I really didn't expect them to get it right, but the atmosphere is pretty much perfect, and the VATS system is an excellent interpretation of the combat system.

[Haiko]

PC version or PS3 folks?

[Tekki]

Definitely had a holy shit conversation with my roommate today. I spent 4-5 hrs on the main quest and he had done the same when i went into work today. I came back, we were both headed to Rivet(sp?) city but our approach was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy different. Was very awesome to see how different our paths were.

[Kyo]

This for sure, I really didn't expect them to get it right, but the atmosphere is pretty much perfect, and the VATS system is an excellent interpretation of the combat system.

Well spoken, but I did expect them do an incredible job, which they did.

[Tekki]

Im also glad they promised to continue the series, past F3 expansions, a F4...

[Kyo]

Me too tekki, I just expierenced my first assassination attempt, waxed their asses, they gave good xp too, sent 3 dudes after me.

[Kael]

I just made it to Megaton. :D

WTF at the Mister Belkes dude lol


I have a question though. I picked up extra armor and weapons from raiders. Can I only sell items up to whatever an NPC may have? I sold some misc items to Gob. Then I sold some armor, but I stopped getting caps. D:

[Zeb]

They run out of caps until you buy something from them or if they perform some service for you IE: repair items, repair you. Also a helpful hint early on, do the quest for the guy in the water plant in Megaton, he will then buy scrap metal for caps, which can be some good early dim.

My question, what are people doing about ammo shortages? Went up to Arefu and getting my ass whooped without a decent amount of ammo.

[Furoris]

http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-3...s-109603.phtml
SecuRom Confirmed... here we go again...
bah and I was looking forward to buy this later down the road for PC version after I get a new desktop for the mods... guess it's 360 for now though...

[SamanosukeShiva]

can you kill the weapon/ammo shop NPC and loot the stuff?

[Zosi]

http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-3...s-109603.phtml
SecuRom Confirmed... here we go again...
bah and I was looking forward to buy this later down the road for PC version after I get a new desktop for the mods... guess it's 360 for now though...

While I dislike SecuROM as much as anyone else, this isn't the online activation/activation limit bullshit that was in Spore and Mass Effect, it's just the normal (shitty) SecuROM CD protection that's been pretty commonly used for ages. I bought my copy from Steam, and as far as I can tell, it did not install SecuROM at all.

Like I said, I'm as against DRM as much as anyone, but... BethSoft said there'd be a CD check, and that's what this is. Can argue all you want about how they should've picked a different brand, but they all have pretty much the same problems. Oblivion also had (an older version of) SecuROM, but they removed it in one of the later patches and changed it to a much simpler CD check due to complaints. Pretty likely they'll do the same with Fallout 3.

[Kenai]

For the people having problems finding Ian West

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there is a room in the back of the lab of the two Ghouls who want Sugar Bombs with a few radiation barrels. You can open the manhole cover there and head through that way. Just watch out for those damn crab monsters, and the bombs/beartraps.

I said this in the other thread, but I find this game fantastic, probably my GoTY. There's a few minor bugs I've found but nothing that really mattered to me, and the amounts of "epic" moments I've had already make up for the silly but almost never serious fun I had in Fable 2.

A few Bobbleheads I found:

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The one on your dad's desk before you leave the Vault, the one in the Sherrif's house at Megaton, and one in Vault 106 (maybe it was Vaul 108? something like that), which isn't that far from Vault 101. My friend also mentioned that there's one in the house of "the important lady" in River City or whatever it's called.

[Kyo]

They run out of caps until you buy something from them or if they perform some service for you IE: repair items, repair you. Also a helpful hint early on, do the quest for the guy in the water plant in Megaton, he will then buy scrap metal for caps, which can be some good early dim.

My question, what are people doing about ammo shortages? Went up to Arefu and getting my ass whooped without a decent amount of ammo.

He gives you caps and xp which is really nice, as far as ammo shortage its almost common, you just have to scavenge everywhere and collect junk and everything.

Also the people who buy and sell stuff their caps replenish every other day as well.