Fallout 3 [spoilers, etc]

[kERRA]

OK, a GIS for 'furry fodder' was kinda weird.  I'll go get something else, but I still say that cartoon dog is cute 

[schild]

OK, a GIS for 'furry fodder' was kinda weird.  I'll go get something else, but I still say that cartoon dog is cute 

You wouldn't if I showed you cartoon dogs like that with the body of a horse and the cock of a giant mythical beast hidden in a tiny green thong while it was milking itself.

Just sayin.

[kERRA]

That's ...quite an image. 

On-topic, I could swear I saw someone say on an earlier page that the waser wifle can injure child NPCs, but clicking through I can't locate it.  If that's true I'm making a beeline for Lamplight.

[schild]

That's ...quite an image. 

On-topic, I could swear I saw someone say on an earlier page that the waser wifle can injure child NPCs, but clicking through I can't locate it.  If that's true I'm making a beeline for Lamplight.

Rattran said it. I never ended up at lamplight. I was too upset after finding out that I'd freed the child slaves instead of keeping them as slaves myself. I bought them with hard earned caps too. And by hard-earned, I mean murdering and thuggery.

[kERRA]

Yep, me too.  I thought I'd get to send them to my Tenpenny suite to be housemaids.  It was up there on the wtf scale with when my character drank out of the toilet I activated.  I think I'll go settle the waser wifle question right now.

[kERRA]

Test result:  No, the waser wifle does not wender children wifewess.   

[ashrik]

Not without the right user mods, it won't

[Nazrat]

I played through as a walking messiah and even I wanted to slaughter the punks in Little Lamplight. 

I will be installing that mod when it becomes available. 

I am debating playing through while only using pistols.  That should make things interesting.

[shiznitz]

SMG, laser pistol and .44 should do you just fine but you better pump END for HPs, sneak and take the DR perk.

[Sky]

You can get boozed up, kill all the adults in the wasteland in a frenzied orgy of destruction, but you can't kill kids and no titties. Our society makes me chuckle. Freedom, indeed.

[Murgos]

You can get boozed up, kill all the adults in the wasteland in a frenzied orgy of destruction, but you can't kill kids and no titties. Our society makes me chuckle. Freedom, indeed.

Can you smoke the cigarettes you find lying around?  I haven't tried, I know the animations are in the game, I've seen some of the NPC's do it.

[Sky]

Not sure, but at least it's gubmint-approved tobacco, not the demon weed 

[Rishathra]

There is a smoking 'emote' that you can activate with a console command, but it doesn't actually use any cigarettes.

[Kitsune]

Becoming an alcoholic is actually a fairly positive thing in Fallout, at least once you've hit level 20.  Time to hit the vodka!

[lesion]

http://static.bethsoft.com/fo3/geck.zip

Save Arroyo.

[rattran]

Only once of the times I got the Wazer could I shoot the little bastards, so I'd chalked it up to a glitch.

Still was some of the best fun in the game. Right there with making nice with the inbred cannibal families.

[Rishathra]

Want.

[kERRA]

Only once of the times I got the Wazer could I shoot the little bastards, so I'd chalked it up to a glitch.

Still was some of the best fun in the game. Right there with making nice with the inbred cannibal families.

I haven't been able to reproduce it.  Then again I don't know if the invulnerable flag is set as a per NPC global or if it's inherent in the 'child' physical template.  Whatever it is, it's not related to the setpcyoung command.  Regardless of what integer I used the command just set the PC back to the 16-year-old hair/face and changed 'pain' exclamations to the kid version.  ..Which, weirdly, is the same actress making different grunt noises.

[apocrypha]

Want.

What the hell is that? Want too 

Just finished my first run through, sooner than I was expecting, bit annoyed that the main quest line locks you in with no warning really. In fact the whole main questline was kinda shite I thought. Seemed of such little consequence and the whole idea that
By the end I had the Xuanlong Assault Rifle, A3-21's Plasma Rifle, The Terrible Shotgun and Vengeance. Found myself using the plasma rifle and assault rifle the most and by the end it was just too easy, especially wearing Enclave Power Armour (preferred that to the unique ones because of the +STR) . Defintely putting it on "Very Hard" next run through, although that increases XP and I'm not sure I want to hit the level cap any faster 

I also played through as good, pretty much maxed karma most of the way through. Once I twigged which items had the highest caps:weight ratio I was never short of money or ammo so I felt no need to steal too much, apart from all the Nuka Cola Quantum I could get 

They patched in Trophies on the PS3 half way through my run so I'm gonna have to do a 2nd run through to get all the early ones anyway, thought I'd try an evil character this time, although I always find that *really* hard in games. I'm far too much of a bleeding heart tbh. I was dying to have more questing related to the whole "Vault-Tec were evil bastards" thing. I actually got angry about the stuff I was finding the the Vaults... I can't turn it off even in a game ffs! 

Oh and followers? Fawkes rocks, balls to the rest 

Edit: post needs more smileys. 

[murdoc]

Want.

Looks cool, but the expansion sounds  to me.

[Sky]

I think I missed the named assault rifle. Did the Museum of Tech quest, but the body never showed up. I filed it under buggy, along with that guy from megaton (that you turn scrap metal into) disappearing. Moriarty hasn't been around for a few weeks, either.

[apocrypha]

That's a shame because it ended up being probably my favourite weapon. Decent damage, relatively fast rate of fire, cheap & plentiful ammo, easy to get Chinese Assault Rifles to repair it, good durability and not so overpowered that you insta-kill everything (hello A3-21's Plasma Rifle).

Plus I liked the noise it made 

[kERRA]

Oh and followers? Fawkes rocks, balls to the rest 

She must be smarter on the PS3.  I went back to Charon in my PC 'good' game because any opening narrower than a standard doorway confused her into baffled meandering.

[apocrypha]

Yeah she struggled a bit with some of the geometry on the PS3, couldn't handle rocks and things at all, but she warps back to you when you get far enough away anyway. Plus she can carry a metric fuckton of loot 

[ghost]

I just started this.  It seems a little slow. 

Do you guys typically VATS or not when in combat?

[Bunk]

It varies. At level 20, I hit heads 95% in VATS at medium range, but with the Lincoln it's just as easy to snipe in real time. You tend to need VATS more at early levels to conserve ammo. Later on you use it just for the convenience of quickly killing shit with headshots. Or blowing the backs of their skulls off from two feet away in slo-mo...

I'm still running around post main quest (yay mod) with my 1st character. Level 21 (yay another mod), and there are still a ton of locations I haven't visited. Just found a unique sledge called the Tenderizer and gave it to Cross.

[Rishathra]

I think I missed the named assault rifle. Did the Museum of Tech quest, but the body never showed up.

Is there a chance you missed the body?  I ask because it doesn't really show up as a "body," more like a bunch of bloody bits, so it's easy to miss if you're looking for an actual corpse.

As to the mystery weapon, physically, it resembles a gauss rifle from Fallout 2, but that image makes it look more like an energy weapon, and they have stated in interviews that there will be a scoped energy weapon in Operation: Anchorage.

[stray]

I finally decided to launch this sucker. I did a little research and boosted Intel and Luck pretty high.. Something like this:

STR 3
PER 6
END 4
CHA 6
INT 8
AGI 6
LCK 8


Apparently Charisma is "worthless", but I said fuck it anyways. I don't believe it.

Got derailed and saved my game in a fucked up spot. Kept on dying trying to get to Megaton, but finally made it...

Anyhow, it feels like Oblivion. I hope I'm wrong.

[Murgos]

Anyhow, it feels like Oblivion. I hope I'm wrong.

You're wrong.  It does seem like it very early on but it diverges quickly.  Str 3 though?  That might be a mistake, not for difficulty reasons, just the tediousness of going back to sell or put away stuff.

[schild]

To be fair, it always FEELS like Oblivion.

The world is just 1000x more compelling. Which makes it worth playing. The gameplay, however, is mostly shit and the enemy variety is laughably bad.

[shiznitz]

I just got the MedTech prototype armor but it doesn't auto-heal me ever.  I have stimpacks and Med-x in inventory. I do like that it is only -1 AGI.

To anyone playing for the first time, DO NOT explore Casey's Garage until the story sends you to that area. I found it early and missed the entire Enclave storyline. Still having fun though.

Most effective weapon against Deathclaws:
[spoiler]Flamer - they only hit me 2x before they die. Gatling laser is very good too but ammo is scarce.[/spolier]

[schild]

You have to drop to 25% health for the prototype medical armor to use a Med-X.

The note/instructions for the prototype armor say that this one can only do med-x. It doesn't use stims. They spoke of another armor that does stims, but it doesn't seem to be in the game.

[shiznitz]

You have to drop to 25% health for the prototype medical armor to use a Med-X.

The note/instructions for the prototype armor say that this one can only do med-x. It doesn't use stims. They spoke of another armor that does stims, but it doesn't seem to be in the game.

I got down to three little bars of health, heartbeat pounding. Nothing. Maybe I didn't have Med-X then...

[murdoc]

Most effective weapon against Deathclaws:
[spoiler]Flamer - they only hit me 2x before they die. Gatling laser is very good too but ammo is scarce.[/spolier]

WORST SPOLIER EVAR

[Sky]

I don't carry Med-X because it's addictive. I found addiction to be a PITA.

Deathclaws: shoot their legs with the Lincoln, finish with assault rifle. Don't get hit! /spolier

Casey's garage: fuck! That's probably my biggest grip with the game. I hate when exploring fucks up the plotlines. That r dum. Not so tough to key a door to the quest so you can't ruin it.

Also, I went back looking for the stupid named chinese rifle again. I guess I missed a note that starts that side quest and when I did the computer hack quest, it shut down the side quest availability. Going through my note log, I found neither of the notes the wiki mentions. Ah, well.

Also: I think I fucked up the whole slaves from the temple of the union thing by fast travelling. Again: Ah, well. No way I was going to herd those assholes all the way through Washington to the memorial, ffs.