Anyone know an easy way to get .44 ammo? Lincoln has been silent for too long now :x
Shops sell it so just travel around and talk to merchants and you will find ammo for it. I usually never break 100 rounds though since I use the scoped magnum a lot.
Scrounger perk may have been good, but it seems like most of the .44 ammo I've found has been from merchants. 5, 10, 5.66 seems to be 90% of what I find in ammo boxes. I've got thousands of each and no use for them.
Even flamer fuel seems more plentiful than .44 ammo.
Also, what in the hell is in the basement at Springfield Elementary?
I went down there, but there were about a billion ants and I was just getting creeped out because they were coming from everywhere.
Those raiders you'd been educating were attempting to dig a tunnel into Vault 101... Well, they managed to find a giant ant nest. Just be glad those ones weren't breathing fire.
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edited November 2008
Too many spoilers. Need to stop reading this damn thread and get my copy already.
I've had it for a couple of days thanks to an awesome boyfriend. I haven't gotten too far in it, but I'm having more fun than anyone should in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of death.
Spoilers for the Family:
I've just finished the quest line with the Family. It is one of the most gloriously fucked-up things I have ever seen, especially if you spend the time to dig into the dialog. IAN FUCKING RIPPED HIS OWN PARENTS APART IN A MOMENT OF INSANE BLOODLUST, AND THEN THE PSEUDOVAMPIRES OF THE FAMILY DRANK THEIR BLOOD TO PROTECT HIM. It's been a while since I've played a game that rewards going through the dialog tree in that way, and I am loving it. Reminds of the old-school Lucas Arts games.
That's not what I took from that quest at all.
I was under the impression that the vampires did it, or the head vampire did it, and simply brainwashed the kid into thinking he did it so he would join their clan.
If you dig a bit deeper into his history...
He admits that he once tore a man's throat out with his teeth to save his sister's life. She used to hug him to make him not kill people when he went crazylike.
Leveling mods strike me as a really clunky deal, why not just set your level manually if you want to see low level enemies? The console commands are quick and easy. That crippling mod looks like a wonderful thing to me though.
I've had it for a couple of days thanks to an awesome boyfriend. I haven't gotten too far in it, but I'm having more fun than anyone should in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of death.
Spoilers for the Family:
I've just finished the quest line with the Family. It is one of the most gloriously fucked-up things I have ever seen, especially if you spend the time to dig into the dialog. IAN FUCKING RIPPED HIS OWN PARENTS APART IN A MOMENT OF INSANE BLOODLUST, AND THEN THE PSEUDOVAMPIRES OF THE FAMILY DRANK THEIR BLOOD TO PROTECT HIM. It's been a while since I've played a game that rewards going through the dialog tree in that way, and I am loving it. Reminds of the old-school Lucas Arts games.
That's not what I took from that quest at all.
I was under the impression that the vampires did it, or the head vampire did it, and simply brainwashed the kid into thinking he did it so he would join their clan.
If you dig a bit deeper into his history...
He admits that he once tore a man's throat out with his teeth to save his sister's life. She used to hug him to make him not kill people when he went crazylike.
Leveling mods strike me as a terrible waste of time, why not just set your level manually if you want to see low level enemies? The console commands are quick and easy. That crippling mod looks like a wonderful thing to me though.
Yeah, I got that far as well. I dunno. For some reason in my head I separated those two events. I must have missed where his sister kept him from doing it again.
I'm free to do whatever the fuck I want right? Cause I'm not particularly interested in doing the main quest at the moment.
Yup. Just be careful about a vault way out in the west (?) as if you go into it, it will drastically sequence break the game.
oh really? shit. what's the name of it?
Casey's Garage is the entrance, or some such. If you come across something with Garage in the name and it's a building with an interior go elsewhere. It's in the northern bit of the south western quarter of the map.
If you go in there you skip pretty much all of the of the city, a looooooot of gametime, but those bits are mostly skippable as you go along anyway, depending on what you do.
Honestly I dont know how anyone can play F3 without scrounger and fortune finder.
by destroying everything in your way
works great for my dude
Since ammo weighs nothing and sells for at worse 2 bullets to 1 cap... you don't even need to bother with either perk.
One waltz through a Super Mutant infested area and I came out with 1000 5mm rounds for miniguns. That's 500 caps to buy ammo with, or whatever.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to make ammo weightless... *sigh*
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Madpandasuburbs west of chicagoRegistered Userregular
edited November 2008
Hmm I was able to get to Rivet city fine, found a few quests there not related to dad. Same with DC metro area, my map looks like someone was playing location darts with a nail gun down there. Oh well, I'll try to not sequence break on my evil play through.
I took the ammo perk but not the extra caps one. Whenever I think I need a lot of caps, I'll use a stealthboy and go on a five fingered shopping spree in a shop area. I have like 15 stealth boys... I figure I can let one go now and then.
I have about 90 stealthboys on my person, and I find on average another 4-10 per enemy I kill.
Oh wait, those are rifle bullets. But the dead can no longer see, so it's all good! I don't have ammo problems, but I choose my weapon for the situation. Almost always hunting rifle. Close combat calls for a combat shotgun. I have a chinese assault rifle for crowd control, and a 10mm smg for when I don't want to waste rifle or assault rifle ammunition.
The commando perk is awesome, combined with my 70 small guns skill. VATS quickly became an object lesson to the evildoers of the wasteland!
In F1 and F2 I'd be tweaked out in power armor and have high strength and 200pounds of my inventory would be ammo.
also, with scrounger and fortune finder, I find way more than 500equivilant caps you get from selling ammo, in every place i go to.
I remember walking out of one place with about 1500 caps, between fortune finder and a good luck score.
I don't know. That limitation made me play a little smarter. Knowing that I'd have to give up weight to carry the ammo. That level of resource management is part of what contributed to the "surviving the wastelands" aspect of the series itself...
at least up to the point when one headshot from my sniper rifle killed 90% of the mobs in the game.
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In F1 and F2 I'd be tweaked out in power armor and have high strength and 200pounds of my inventory would be ammo.
also, with scrounger and fortune finder, I find way more than 500equivilant caps you get from selling ammo, in every place i go to.
I remember walking out of one place with about 1500 caps, between fortune finder and a good luck score.
I don't know. That limitation made me play a little smarter. Knowing that I'd have to give up weight to carry the ammo. That level of resource management is part of what contributed to the "surviving the wastelands" aspect of the series itself...
at least up to the point one headshot from my sniper rifle killed 90% of the mobs in the game.
So you used the rifle? I just used the pistol you get from killing the new reno arms dealer. It was a sniper rifle... but cut down to the size of a pistol. Man, that gun got me all the way to like level 22 where I pumped my energy weapons skill high enough to be a threat to the enclave. (FALLOUT 2)
Those of you doing a lot of exploring, you might want to wait until you've reached the part of the main story where you... Uh, how to not spoil anything... Where you can get taught to use power armor. It (events in the main story, not the armor) adds significantly to the random encounters you can find while exploring, and it's much more fun.
I love shooting down Enclave helis. Particularly if I notice them quickly enough to kill the guys who get out with the GIANT explosion.
On an unrelated note, I've explored pretty much all of the map but I can't find
the downed alien spacecraft nor the randomly exploding one
. Any tips on locating them so I can finish the game and move on down my playlist?
I took the ammo perk but not the extra caps one. Whenever I think I need a lot of caps, I'll use a stealthboy and go on a five fingered shopping spree in a shop area. I have like 15 stealth boys... I figure I can let one go now and then.
Nice... I have the caps one and will take the Ammo perk right after taking Commando. Caps is nice, I randomly get 25-75 caps from random boxes AND they seem to respawn faster than the rest of the areas (read: I can leave a place, come back in, and some of the random desks will have caps in them out of the blue).
However, all things considered, I probably would have been better off skipping the Caps one and just getting hte Ammo perk, since you can sell Ammo for Caps.
Those of you doing a lot of exploring, you might want to wait until you've reached the part of the main story where you... Uh, how to not spoil anything... Where you can get taught to use power armor. It (events in the main story, not the armor) adds significantly to the random encounters you can find while exploring, and it's much more fun.
I love shooting down Enclave helis. Particularly if I notice them quickly enough to kill the guys who get out with the GIANT explosion.
On an unrelated note, I've explored pretty much all of the map but I can't find
the downed alien spacecraft nor the randomly exploding one
. Any tips on locating them so I can finish the game and move on down my playlist?
I posted in the previous thread the location of the alien spaceship. Complete with ridiculously powerful alien blaster.
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So you used the rifle? I just used the pistol you get from killing the new reno arms dealer. It was a sniper rifle... but cut down to the size of a pistol. Man, that gun got me all the way to like level 22 where I pumped my energy weapons skill high enough to be a threat to the enclave. (FALLOUT 2)
Yea, in Fallout 2 I used the sniper or gauss... (I don't remember) not sure and a pulse rifle for non-ballistic shots.
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I never asked for this!
I live in Texas, so not so much, but I went and voted anyway. :P
Well, back to my murderous sledgehammer rampage.
Someone mentioned a super easy way to do it but I can't find the instructions. Something about sneaking through a different entrance?
Even flamer fuel seems more plentiful than .44 ammo.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=80
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=85
I'm always sad how shooting people in the legs doesn't do much and I agree that I too hit the level cap waay too soon.
I never asked for this!
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=78
Flash map for the game! Now everyone can know where everything is quickly.
I never asked for this!
I went down there, but there were about a billion ants and I was just getting creeped out because they were coming from everywhere.
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That give syou the main mapmarkers
theres alot of places that dont have mapmarkers, too.
If you dig a bit deeper into his history...
Leveling mods strike me as a really clunky deal, why not just set your level manually if you want to see low level enemies? The console commands are quick and easy. That crippling mod looks like a wonderful thing to me though.
I'm free to do whatever the fuck I want right? Cause I'm not particularly interested in doing the main quest at the moment.
Yeah, I got that far as well. I dunno. For some reason in my head I separated those two events. I must have missed where his sister kept him from doing it again.
Yup. Just be careful about a vault way out in the west (?) as if you go into it, it will drastically sequence break the game.
You're free as a bird the moment you leave, yep. Keep in mind that it is possible to accidentally skip half the main quest, but otherwise go nuts.
oh really? shit. what's the name of it?
How much am I missing if I did this accidentally, the only other main progress quest I made before finding said vault
Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
If you go in there you skip pretty much all of the of the city, a looooooot of gametime, but those bits are mostly skippable as you go along anyway, depending on what you do.
You've missed a lot.
Various side quests, and other side quests that open up while you do those, plus the cool DC Metro scene and Rivet City, as far as I know.
by destroying everything in your way
works great for my dude
Since ammo weighs nothing and sells for at worse 2 bullets to 1 cap... you don't even need to bother with either perk.
One waltz through a Super Mutant infested area and I came out with 1000 5mm rounds for miniguns. That's 500 caps to buy ammo with, or whatever.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to make ammo weightless... *sigh*
Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
suddenly all my money, and thus ammo and stimpak problems, disappeared
I'm glad they did.
In F1 and F2 I'd be tweaked out in power armor and have high strength and 200pounds of my inventory would be ammo.
also, with scrounger and fortune finder, I find way more than 500equivilant caps you get from selling ammo, in every place i go to.
I remember walking out of one place with about 1500 caps, between fortune finder and a good luck score.
I'd be pretty miffed if ammo had weight.
Oh wait, those are rifle bullets. But the dead can no longer see, so it's all good! I don't have ammo problems, but I choose my weapon for the situation. Almost always hunting rifle. Close combat calls for a combat shotgun. I have a chinese assault rifle for crowd control, and a 10mm smg for when I don't want to waste rifle or assault rifle ammunition.
The commando perk is awesome, combined with my 70 small guns skill. VATS quickly became an object lesson to the evildoers of the wasteland!
at least up to the point when one headshot from my sniper rifle killed 90% of the mobs in the game.
So you used the rifle? I just used the pistol you get from killing the new reno arms dealer. It was a sniper rifle... but cut down to the size of a pistol. Man, that gun got me all the way to like level 22 where I pumped my energy weapons skill high enough to be a threat to the enclave. (FALLOUT 2)
Yeah, its mainly the being railroaded, when the rest of the game had been really good at letting you do whatever you wanted.
On an unrelated note, I've explored pretty much all of the map but I can't find
Nice... I have the caps one and will take the Ammo perk right after taking Commando. Caps is nice, I randomly get 25-75 caps from random boxes AND they seem to respawn faster than the rest of the areas (read: I can leave a place, come back in, and some of the random desks will have caps in them out of the blue).
However, all things considered, I probably would have been better off skipping the Caps one and just getting hte Ammo perk, since you can sell Ammo for Caps.
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