Official Fallout 3 Spoilers/Hints/Strategy Thread™

[Siralin]

It was somewhere under old olney, I believe, at least I think it was...Dont quote me on that. There was a holotape with it too, so I assume that it only pops in one place.

[Kyo]

This is probably a dumb question but where the hell is the Super Duper mart Pharmacy? I've been to the Super Duper Mart and got the key but haven't been able to find the Pharmacy for the life of me.

It's in the back of super duper mart last room in the back left corner, hard to miss it.

[Correction]

This is probably a dumb question but where the hell is the Super Duper mart Pharmacy? I've been to the Super Duper Mart and got the key but haven't been able to find the Pharmacy for the life of me.

It's behind a locked door. Either pick a lock on a metal box for the key or hack the terminal to open the door. Ammo/guard robot inside. I'm not sure if the guard robot eventually turns on you but activating him spawns a lot of raiders inside the mart itself, so be ready for it.

[Wintermute]

3) Random wanderings in the Wasteland. I sniped one of those brain robots from a pretty good distance away (not VATS, just crosshairs) and when it died... it dropped dead. Then half a second later i hear a crash next to me, turn around and there it is right next to me... saved me some trouble of having to walk all the way over to it to loot it.

I was walking about and saw a hostile on my radar so I decided to solid snake over the hill with my hunting rifle.
Just before I got over the hill a Radscorpion shot up about 100 feet and crashed down on the floor by the Trader it'd been fighting. Probably the strangest bug I've seen.

Saw a radroach get stuck under the floor too, but Dogmeat managed to kill it anyway.

[Zanz L. Barre The 3rd]

Holy fuck, ventured the Deathclaw Sanctuary... Scary shit.

Inside, though, is a Bobblehead, 2 magazines, and an energy gatling laser called "Vengeance." The laser has possible instant death disintegration, so it's pretty fun lol.

[Zeb]

Got Fawkes as my copartner. He's pretty funny when he starts attacking and that gatlin laser is nice. Who is everyone else using?

[Siralin]

HAHA TOO FUN


Yeah, I've been using Fawkes. Dogmeat stays in my house at Megaton. And I bought that Ghouls contract just to watch him off his old owner.

[Wintermute]

Starting to very much hate Dogmeat. Fucking thing charges anyhting with a pulse, saw it get roasted more than once by the ants and the robobrains are frying him regularly...

Sucks because he used to be so useful for getting free Sneak-Crits on raiders. Suppose he's taken one too many Minigun rounds to the face.

On the subject of ants, where the hell am I supposed to find the source for the quest "Those"?

[Null]

That's why I keep him in my house. He drove me nuts one to many times. First time I got him I was on my way to a minefield. Easy to tell how that ended.

I thought Paladin Cross would be great, but she tends to do stupid things. I gave her a plasma rifle but she likes to use her melee weapons all the time and rarely shoot at people. So now she is in the dog house with Dogmeat.

[Kael]

Starting to very much hate Dogmeat. Fucking thing charges anyhting with a pulse, saw it get roasted more than once by the ants and the robobrains are frying him regularly...

Sucks because he used to be so useful for getting free Sneak-Crits on raiders. Suppose he's taken one too many Minigun rounds to the face.

On the subject of ants, where the hell am I supposed to find the source for the quest "Those"?

In the shack, you get info and get side quest to look in the subway tunnels. You'll find a scientist down there who gives you a quest. If you complete the test you get +1 to either STR or PER, and 25% Fire Resistance.

[Gulkeeva]

Starting to very much hate Dogmeat. Fucking thing charges anyhting with a pulse, saw it get roasted more than once by the ants and the robobrains are frying him regularly...

Sucks because he used to be so useful for getting free Sneak-Crits on raiders. Suppose he's taken one too many Minigun rounds to the face.

On the subject of ants, where the hell am I supposed to find the source for the quest "Those"?

Dogmeat died on me one day randomly going out to get "weapons"... he went out.. 2-3 game days later "dogmeat died" O_o

Oh and I found a nice cool toy... alien blaster. its like 100% crit, insta rapes everything you shoot at! Headshot and supermutants die instantly!

[fren.]

Are Moira's quests worth completing?

I'm up to the molerats one and I haven no interest in it as the end rewards to don't seem too hot. Should I just

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kill her and Lucas and loot all of their shit before blowing up Megaton?

Originally Posted by Deejay
Jeez, is ammo that hard to come by in this game? I just started, went to Megeton, talked to the Moirtory guy who told me to go to the radio station.

On my way there, I ran into a little boy asking me to save his father from the fire ants. I spent about 10-15 killing all of them but I'm out of ammo and can't finish the quest. Should I bother getting more ammo to help him?

I'm on this mission and I wasted all of my ammo on the ants roaming outside. Got to the subway and I was all out..pulled out my sledgehammer and ran around in circles swinging away and barely took any damage. The ones crammed in the passageway were the hardest as you had to eat the breath attack or let Dogmeat handle it.

Starting to very much hate Dogmeat. Fucking thing charges anyhting with a pulse, saw it get roasted more than once by the ants and the robobrains are frying him regularly...

Sucks because he used to be so useful for getting free Sneak-Crits on raiders. Suppose he's taken one too many Minigun rounds to the face.

On the subject of ants, where the hell am I supposed to find the source for the quest "Those"?

I fast traveled to Super-Duper mart and the boy came up to me and I started the quest from there.

[Kyo]

Their worth it for really easy xp, the actual rewards are decent, nothing special.

[Gulkeeva]

Well she did give me a "regenerate limbs" thing when your super radiated... I guess thats not bad! I sort of wanted to blowup the place too... I didn't want to go looking for the thing though to try blowing it up... sat n shot at the bomb for a bit nothing happens ;/

oh and.. has anyone found anything good as or better then alien blaster? its kind of low on ammo, and wondering for more ufo sites... takes awhile. 1-3 shotting everything possible is pretty cool though!

[Wintermute]

Meh, can't navigate the bloody subway, went looking for the Ant bastard to finish the quest and wound up in Super Mutant central.

Want to get to the History Museum to pick up Lincoln's Repeater too, Hunting Rifle has really lost its kick now even at near full durability, barely scratching mutants.

Getting tired of bullshit rubble walls blocking what would otherwise be crossing the street.

[Slott]

You can get shady hat from moiras quests, the one with the mirelurks...1 perception, 5 sneak. I still use it at end game (Not a fan of power armor)

[Rysa]

Are Moira's quests worth completing?

Once you finish all of them and if you do the optional parts, you get a perk based on how many optional parts you do and how you answer her questions when you go back to turn in her quests.

While wandering around DC I found the Hubris Comic building. Inside they had a working terminal in there that let you play a text based "choose your adventure" type games. I completed the game but I didn't seem to get any reward for it. IIRC there were some skill books in here as well. In the very back near the printing press was a crazy guy with a minigun wasting the ghouls inside. He also had some turrets set up. He had some ok loot and had a few of the Nuka Cola Quantums.

[Siralin]

oh and.. has anyone found anything good as or better then alien blaster? its kind of low on ammo, and wondering for more ufo sites... takes awhile. 1-3 shotting everything possible is pretty cool though!

I still haven't picked this weapon up and have been fine without it. I typically use the Sniper rifle/Blackhawk (Scoped .44 from Agatha) for long range, Lincoln's repeater/Xusomething assault rifle for mid-range, and combat shotgun/silenced 10mm/Vampire's Edge (Stolen from Vance's sword case) for close range.

The repeater and blackhawk are very nice if you don't have trouble finding/buying .44 ammo. I typically sneak around though, so sneak attacks/criticals are key.

[Zosi]

I did Those! last night, and it pretty much completely sapped my ammo and stimpacks. I wish I had waited and went in with a better weapon, the 10mm pistol and 12 rounds of sniper rifle ammo just didn't cut it. Ended up finishing the nest guardian guys with my stash of proximity mines looted from Minefield and running back with nothing but 50 10mm bullets and a baseball bat to protect myself with.

As for the stat stuff I posted about earlier, I ended up going 4/6/4/6/8/7/5, and it's working fine. Tagged lockpicking, repair and small arms, got Strength bobblehead and Ant Strength, and I'm having no issues carrying loot. Repair helps a ton with that, since I can use up multiples of heavy stuff like armor to make a single valuable item. Lockpicking is useful, but it hasn't really proven itself worth the tag yet. Rockin' the Chinese Assault Rifle at the moment for my main weapon, but something that doesn't use three bullets per VATS round would be kinda nice for those times when ammo isn't raining from the sky.

[Doombear]

Holy fuck, ventured the Deathclaw Sanctuary... Scary shit.

Inside, though, is a Bobblehead, 2 magazines, and an energy gatling laser called "Vengeance." The laser has possible instant death disintegration, so it's pretty fun lol.

Oh hell yes, Deathclaw Sanctuary was a blast! Scaaaaaary!

I had Paladin Cross with me for a while, but she was more annoying than not. I left her outside of Paradise Falls and went on a killing spree in there without her. She was just a pack mule essentially, so i could load up on a bit more when i went back to Megaton. Sent her back to the Citadel after that though.