Wayno's Wasteland Wanderin': Fallout 3

Oh my GOD!

The game ended! WTF?!!

So I go notify Elder Lyons of the Enclave's attempt to poison the Wasteland ANC they recruit me to the BOS... We go open up a can of whip ass on Project purity and the game freaking ends!!! Why? I have so much more exploring to do!

So I went back to my last save and made different decision (RIP, Paladin Lyons ) and I'm still able to play.

I was scared for a minute there...

Yea, caught me by surprise too!

Ahh, chivalry is dead as well 'eh?

Saving your game has been very useful for me!

Dude... Somebody is getting sued!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thebookofeli/

this movie looks just like Fallout 3.

I'm so there on 1.15.10!

On one hand if it is the premise with similar characters, you know like a direct link it will be Ok, and I'd likely go see it but I prefer to kick the shit out of my own hillbillies.

On the other if it's fresh really the the premise has existed for a few decades, like Omega Man, and certainly Planet of the Apes comes to mind.
Indeed they may be targeting us as an audience considering the popularity and following of the game, especially since this one came out from Beth.

Like blood bait to a big old yellow catfish.

edit: downloaded the QT stuff, interesting....

ALphaman so you like Malcom McDowell playing the american president?

I knew I knew that voice! Ol' Doc Sorin is President Eden!

Liam Niesan plays your dead beat dad.

OK.... So I've been wondering around the Wasteland and I cleaned up some loose ends in Rivet City as well as Canterberry Commons and Tenpenny Tower. I was able to find the Bobbleheads in Deathclaw Sanctuary as well as WKML Broadcast station. Them I decided that it's time to follow up with the BOS DLC. On my way to liase with Paladin Tristan somewhere far southwest on the map. There, we fought alongside Liberty Prime against an Ebclave stronghold there... but on my way, I came across an abandoned building named Dunwich something and I decided for a quick detour. The place was full of feral ghouls and one named Jaimie... I found a few of his hollow recordings, but not enough to figure out what was up before he attacked me. I had to kill him. Later on, I found the Melee Bobblehead.

So I continued on to Paladin Tristan and attacked the Enclave. Liberty aprime was fried to bits and of course, I had to figure out how and why the Enclave did this. Downloaded some encrypted data and took it back to the Citadel.

So then I'm off to some point North East that was full of Deathclaws to retrieve a Tesla Coil. I was able to pickpocket my first person there... An Enclave soldier. I planted a Frag mine in her pocket and watched her explode. I now have a new purpose in life!

at this point, I've retrieved 11 Bobbleheads, and played over 100 hours! The Tesla Coil was retrieved and I decided to take a break. I then went onto my daughter's profile and started a new game... This time as an evil bastard!

Back into the Vault, this time with 4's across the board except for 10's in Strength and Luck. I play it cool at first. I start the Wasteland Survival Guide, Get Simms to trust me... but this time, I take Burke's offer. I plant the device right away... I get the info about Dad from Moriarty, and later on I rob and kill him. Off to Tenpenny Tower... Where I'm now welcomed! I get a suite next to Alister Tenpenny and Burke. I still haven't decided what to do with the Roy and the Ghouls who want to live there.

I return to the ruins of Megaton and I bump into a ghoul-ified Moira! Still quirky! She decides to take of for Rivet City when she was attacked and killed by an Enclave asshole!

So here I am... I can start over from my exit from the vault and try to save zombie Moira, or rely on the Tenpenny sales lady.

Ahh, Zombie Moira, yea, if you're not too far past then I'd go back for her. I only went the evil route once so I figured it was worth it to make sure to capitalize on whatever she had to offer. I didn't have an issue with her getting wacked, but that may be because I fast traveled away from her as she turned and headed off to Rivet City.

I've found in my "travels" that if you hang with someone as they travel then the chances of them getting attacked are considerably higher, at least in my experences.

There is one pathway that it's best to clear the way for prior to her departure from you at the end of that particular quest, can't quite remember the name and the kiddo has the game back atm and I'm brain farting.
You'll meet her either through stumbling across her in the National Archives on The Mall or through the funky "muesum" curator at Rivet City when he sends you on a quest for the Decleration of Independence.
Two notes on this quest, one as mentioned before, clear a path for the girl from Rivet City through the underground/subway closest to the entrance of RC through to the museum district/the mall. Do it before hand or stick with her like glue but she needs to get to RC as she becomes an ammo merchant after sheheads for Underworld. Again this is at the end of the quest when you two go back to RC and split up, but then you can jilt her and get bad karma and if she does make it back to The Museum of History/Underworld after not clearing the way for her, she'll be an enemy. Your choice there.
The second is, you will meet an interesting, um.., character in the lower levels of the National Archives. Save is your friend here, prefferably when you walk in the front door the first time, then work it out from there which other points in the event you save.
Pay close attention to the verbal exchanges since depending on how you handle it you can get bad or good karma, of course, and you'll get caps either way, but not from "him".
Only clue I'll give for the good side is one word combo, forgery pays.

Oh, and if you didn't make a full search of the Deathclaw Santuary, make it a point to do so, there's a sweet little item deep in the bowels of the place, one well worth the effort for the firepower.

I love dropping a mine in someone's pocket, it makes my day.

Roy will be an interesting decision, just be sure to talk to Daring before you act on that, finding his manservent will pay off with another key for your chain and a prize which even though he gives you the key when/if you take the items it will give you bad karma.
The head guard at Tenpenny will deal weapons/ammo there as well but you probably knew that.

Dunwhich? You'll be back, and the place you'll be directed back there from will surprise you, floored me. Plus there was something I entirely missed there where Jamie was and it was as plain as the nose on my face.

Triston has another mission for you, you'll love it. You will eventually have the option to level not only the Cidadel, but Rivet city, Megaton, and another place or two I can't recall. Oh yea, you want some bad karma, this option will lay it on you.

Glad you're enjoying it, it really is one of the best games I have ever played.

Alphaman if you enjoy fo3 get dragon age its bioware fantasy rpg game where you can be a badass. Its also a very dark and gritty setting like fallout 3. Plus there be lesbian loving in that game.

The Dunwich Building is a big nod to H.P. Lovecraft, and takes it's name from the story the Dunwich Horror. Apart from that there are no other things about it that reference any specific Lovecraft story, but the small storyline of Jaimie that can be gathered from the holotapes is very reminiscent of Lovecraftian tales.

I'm bogwalking in Point Lookout ATM, and I've finished Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta. Does anyone know if there is any clothing item that can repair the Chinese Stealth Armor? Basically it is the only thing I use now, and the repair merchants in Point Lookout blow.

Yep. Oddly enough it was just on the tube not long ago so I watched it as a refresher.

Recon armour does the trick. I buy up whatever of it I can, usually Crow manages to get a set or three in. I buy any I find from any of the merchants because the CSA is pretty much all I use too. I lurves to get my sneak on.

There is an exploitable glitch that will allow the hardware guy to repair to 100%, I just went back with my MIRV to get it fully repaird. I will load up all the specialty stuff, especially anything rare or unrepairable otherwise that I want fixed to that level and hop on the boat.
That adds two months to my life so I don't do it often.

chinese stealth armor can be repaired with any one-piece equipment like advanced rad suits

I going to have to disagree with this but since the kid has the game I can't be 100% sure.

I am 99.999% sure though that Recon is the only fix.

Vault Wiki agrees with me.

Oh Shit! I think I just killed Flava Flav!

Flava! Get up! Speak to me!

Does Fallout 3 really turn into a much more entertaining game as it progresses? I only made it a few hours into the game before I quit. Got out of the vault, started the Wasteland Survival Guide for Moira, accepted Burkes offer and melted Megaton City then did the mission for the guards at Tenpenny to go kill a bunch of ghouls or whatever in the busted underground train station.

I don't know, just seemed... boring to me. I think I probably missed the point of the game, but I expected there to be a lot more to kill while wandering around in the Wastes. And I know jack shit about distributing the skill points, pretty much put them all into weapons and melee skills at the point where I stopped.

Just kinda felt like a RPG blended with a decent FPS that severely lacked in enemies to kill. I do accept that I probably didn't give enough time to the game to really appreciate it, but it definitely didn't grab me right from the start.

Yea, it's a shame to be forced to kill him, unless one is working the bad end of the spectrum then it's all good.

His minigun is in shit shape though.

From your perspective I can see where it would be boring, you live in a real battlefield these days.

The idea I've found is the differing combinations of possabilities your interactions produce is interesting, a kind of curiosity to learn all there is to the game. There are the achevements as well, and the challange of getting them all for a "completion" of the game as it were.

I kind of like it but there is a saturation point where even the hardcore players like myself get bored with it. Usually when I hit that point, and really it varies by the previous decisions and their outcome, I go back to a particular point and change it up a bit.
More often than not it's to acqire a particular specialty item previously missed since some of them become unaccessable after a particular point in the missions, like the Energy Weapons Bobblehead or in the game you played, it would be the Strength Bobblehead that was sitting on Simm's desk when you smoked Megaton. Two of the achivements are collecting ten, and then twenty, or all of them.

It's something to do, a mental excersize kind of thing. The only achievements I haven't gotten are the most evil at level 30 and the neutral ones. Part of the challange is to hit the mark at the right place to pull it off.


I downloaded the first Fallout demo last night after running across it and really this game is hands down a much, much better production as a first person game. That one seemed alien to me and I've never really been much for the turn/rpg thing anyway, I'm a point and shoot kinda guy.

It's certainly not for everybody. My son thinks it's boring too after playing the Call of Duty games. For me, I was exhilarated when I was kicked out of the Vault with no knowledge of the Wasteland and no way to house, fed and take care of myself. I actually put myself into the game. Making my way in that world while keeping my morals was... cool.

I'm pleased to say my daughter took an interest in gaming long ago and we've spent many hours as a dynamic duo on the Halo series.
She finally got pissy about getting her Fallout game back last week so I had to relinquish control until I manage to scrounge up thirty bucks to get my own.

no, you were right, Caboose, I checked the Fallout 3 wikia, must have had it mixed up with something else

Fallout 2 has a lesbian shotgun wedding.

Lesbian shotgun weddings have fallout 2 as well

See, I seem to remember something about them changing it up for some reason, I'd have to go to the Bethesda forums to find it. At one time you could, but like a lot of the glitchs and exploits found some of the fixes corrected them, and on the full package release I think they made it a point to wrap that package with all the fixes in.

Again, I could be off on which targets were obtainable, I was pretty sure you could lay waste to them all but it's been months since I read it and if it shows a malfuntion in the system so it won't fire on them then I guess I need to look into that. I'll go back on my version if I can get it back from the kiddo and make that run, I've just never had the heart to smoke the Citidel.
I had over a thousand hours in before I could bring myself to do the evil parts as it was.

Last thing I want to do is give erroneous information in this thread though so I'll look into it here. Thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, I sneak pretty much constantly while indoors, I think quite a few of the DLC sections would have been ridiculous without it. I would wear other clothing if there were a point, on occasion I will wear something different and just walk around in third person for kicks. If it were an MMO... then I might have different outfits for different events.

Yeah, the chick on the Mothership could repair to 100%, but she died due to my negligence and now I have a good back-stock of alien epoxy which if used with a weapon equipped (and maybe it has to be out) it will repair a good chunk.

There is also a glitch with the CSA that will allow multiple headgear to be equipped.

Picked up another copy yesterday, back to The Wasteland we go.

Had the freakiest dream last week, well it was a nightmare really. It was like I was in Dunwich and the family was lost in there somewhere. I was upstairs looking and calling out for them when I spied a board nailed from below over a head sized hole in the floor. I stomped the board down and stuck my head down to the hole and called for them again. That's when things came alive as I heard footsteps running up the stairs and much to my displeasure and sadness it wasn't them but a shitload of pissed off folks coming closer in a semi circle.

I woke up about then and felt like shit about it all, a fail moment as it were.

Yea, yea, too many hours on it, I know.

I'd gotten to a point in Broken Steel that I couldn't get past. I was in Adams Air Force Base, out of stimpaks and surrounded by redlined on my enemy meter. Everytime I tried a different way, I ended up dying. So I took a break from Fallout 3..... Last night, I decided to pop it in after a matter of weeks and I finally beat it! It turns out, that it was the climax!

Now it's off to The Pitt and then I'll revisit Point Look Out.

The Pitt will prove interesting for the most part and contains some goodies and a couple of achevements to get.
Unfortunately, no dogs or companions can join you, and Werner is a real dickweed about it so if you're a dog lover it may chap your ass.

A word of warning, whatever you take with will be confiscated but you will be able to get it back, just make sure after you do the three pitt fights to then check the big silver box on the floor in the arena room before you head to meet with the head honcho Asher. I have read where these items disappear if not reacquired but can't be sure about that. Better safe than sorry I say.

Also you might want to make it a light load going in because there's a lot of stuff to haul back. I usually find a locker or trash can there to stash stuff and make multiple trips to get it all.

Also keep track of the ingots you collect, I tend to do it in multiples of ten to keep track. There are 100 of them and each ten gets a reward from what's his face at the door going into the steelyard. They're everywhere, even in some really hard to get to places, but they can all be acquired.

Radiation and health is an issue, but during the initial stages between fights and such you can go out to the entrance area and there's a woman who will heal you up. The rads will be knocked down after each round of fighting. If you have some radaways just be sure to take them with you so you have them after you get your stuff back.

When you speak with Asher, there are two ways to go, one will endear you to the slaves, well somwhat anyway in they won't be enemies, and the other will do so with the Raiders. The Raiders will trade if you chose that route but there's little to be had tradewise the other way.

Go kick ass and enjoy!