Official Fallout 3 Spoilers/Hints/Strategy Thread™

[Kiarax]

How do you repair your items? I haven't been able to, ever.

Get two of the same items, go to whichever one you want to fix up and press the repair button. It'll use up whichever item you use to repair it. You can repair unique weapons with different items, Lincoln's Repeater can use Hunting Rifles to be repaired, Wazer Wifle can use Laser Rifles, etc etc. It's mostly the same type (like Terrible Shotgun, which is a Combat Shotgun, uses Combat's to be repaired) but there's a couple that use other things like the Repeater.

[Elesirdur]

And there are some items that cannot be repaired, like the T-51b power armour since no other one exists, and the Alien Blaster because getting a second one isn't easy. However, anything can be repaired by NPCs with a repair skill, but only to their ability limit. I haven't found a NPC with a repair skill over 55 yet and I've put a lot of play into my games.

[Kiarax]

Go to uh... damn, I forgot the name of the little town. The one on the far east side of the map around the centre somewhere. Upgrade the junk trader to max and he has something like 85 repair skill. Great for repairing stuff you can't do yourself.

[Kyo]

Canterberry Commons?

[Null]

Yeah, go to Canterberry and invest in all the merchants. Should cost you around 15000.

[Kiarax]

Yeah, go to Canterberry and invest in all the merchants. Should cost you around 15000.

Whoa what? There's 4 of em, I had killed two by the time I got there but the two live ones were 200 and 500 to upgrade, so 1400 for the both of them. Do they get more upgrades after the second?

[Kyo]

Yeah I killed one of them as well, havent made my way over there however.

[Elesirdur]

The annoying thing with those traders is that they roam around and it's hard to find exactly who you want, when you want.

[Kiarax]

Fast Travel to a town, they go to almost all of them, if it's not the trader you want wait 24 hours until you get the one you want. Can almost always get whichever you want doing that, although sometimes I've waited 24 hours and then no traders have shown up for days, in which case I'd just travel somewhere else.

[mootsfox]

Get two of the same items, go to whichever one you want to fix up and press the repair button. It'll use up whichever item you use to repair it. You can repair unique weapons with different items, Lincoln's Repeater can use Hunting Rifles to be repaired, Wazer Wifle can use Laser Rifles, etc etc. It's mostly the same type (like Terrible Shotgun, which is a Combat Shotgun, uses Combat's to be repaired) but there's a couple that use other things like the Repeater.

This is the answer I was looking for, thank you.

There's a note you get that has the trader route. They cover the southeast quadrant mostly, in a circle fashion.

[Elesirdur]

Oh yeah, I know about the trader route it's just frustrating (to me at least) when I just want to get some ammo or repairs I don't want to spend 10 minutes waiting and hoping that guy shows up instead of the junk vendor.

[Lurking Badger]

If you are looking for some more ammo for the alien blaster, here's where to find some.

Go to Jury Street Metro Station. Take the road west out of the area and follow the road til it ends. From there head west and you will enter an area of razed concrete buildings and craters. Inside a big crater there is a military truck on its side. It's cargo has spilled out - alien power cells.

[mootsfox]

I also found them randomly while doing a quest.

[BRP]

This is without a doubt the greatest thing pertaining to Fallout 3

YouTube - Fallout 3 - Wasteland Dancin' (Umpa)

They should have made this the ending.

[Not Kuno]

This is without a doubt the greatest thing pertaining to Fallout 3

YouTube - Fallout 3 - Wasteland Dancin' (Umpa)

They should have made this the ending.

Holy shit. Thats fucking amazing.

[Kyo]

That was pretty damn cool.

[mootsfox]

Holy fuck, they need to edit that into the ending.

[Akucaen]

Anyone else do Agatha's quest to get the violin out of vault... I honestly don't remember. It's nice though since you get slightly better background music than GNR [which destroys the mood sometimes] or the "nothing" background music that goes away inside any building. It's usually just the violin solo from classical tracks and kinda puts me back into the mood and atmosphere after being jarred out.

Plus you get access to a decent ammo cache if you're low on ammo. The vault just has a few mirelurks and botflys, so there's not a lot of risk/reward, mostly just... reward.

[Norellicus]

DLC and creator's kit being released for 360 and PC soon! Good thing they got that patch out to fix all the bugs in the core game so they could shift focus and get us the DLC quickly.

Oh wait...

[Null]

Anyone else do Agatha's quest to get the violin out of vault... I honestly don't remember. It's nice though since you get slightly better background music than GNR [which destroys the mood sometimes] or the "nothing" background music that goes away inside any building. It's usually just the violin solo from classical tracks and kinda puts me back into the mood and atmosphere after being jarred out.

Plus you get access to a decent ammo cache if you're low on ammo. The vault just has a few mirelurks and botflys, so there's not a lot of risk/reward, mostly just... reward.

I used that station all the time. I found the music to be VERY relaxing. My favorite station.