I do have to babysit dogmeat a bit, but it makes for fun situations when I try to run around covering his ass while he runs from one enemy to the next.
Star Paladin Cross is great too, since I gave her a minigun, a flamer, and a few frag grenades. I never see her take any damage, either.
Essentially it's just the three of us wandering around and killing anything that moves as quickly as possible.
I didn't have any followers until I picked up Fawkes. He rips things apart with his gatling laser, and should he ever die, I get to take his humongous hammer. All good things.
Is it worth it to get my Small Guns pretty high over 100%? I'm sitting at 101% and just leveled and I'm not sure if I should put some more points into that, or start working on my non-tagged skills now.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
It's not worth going over 125%, but yeah I would say stay at 101% unless you really feel you can't hit stuff at your favorite distances and even then you should stop at 125 or at the VERY latest at 150.
I can't increase my skills over 100 on console. Is this a PC hack?
Is it worth it to get my Small Guns pretty high over 100%? I'm sitting at 101% and just leveled and I'm not sure if I should put some more points into that, or start working on my non-tagged skills now.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
It's not worth going over 125%, but yeah I would say stay at 101% unless you really feel you can't hit stuff at your favorite distances and even then you should stop at 125 or at the VERY latest at 150.
I can't increase my skills over 100 on console. Is this a PC hack?
Has anyone tried to dissuade their father from pursuing the water filtration immediately? I think I recall dialogue options about "why do we have to go after this right now"? I've been reviewing some of my issues with the game and one of them is that filtered water doesn't seem to be the largest priority, and I was wondering maybe there is a better ending in getting your father to work on the more major threats first and water second. Such as the enclave, super mutants, town defenses, etc.
This might sound far fetched but I figured I'd ask in case anyone had tried those dialogue options.
Yeah. I agree here, the main quest to me I give so much hate towards because the first part is basically just "Follow our famous voice actor" and I just couldn't get into it for that reason. On the other hand Fallout, Fallout 2, Baldurs Gate, Planescape, Mass Effect and such forth gave me a reason to do something that at least seemed fairly logical in the sense of "Other stuff is going to happen and it's not going to be good!".
The worst part is that the "famous voice actor" pretty much phoned it in and came across as kind of a douche. He didn't sound like he really meant any of what he was saying and just wanted me to do all of this shit for him. Unfortunately, the opening birth scene was the worst in this regard. For being pretty good in such a shitty movie (Episode 1), he did not inspire any enthusiasm or sense of urgency or importance as your father. I wish John Henry Eden was my dad.
John Henry Eden is probably the best performance in the game. Everyone else is either mediocre or weird and awkward, but he's just perfect.
Especially the "old man" voice. Way too obvious that it's the same guy over and over and over again.
I also think it's the fact that Malcolm McDowell has done the most voice acting in video games of the people in Fallout 3. He's certainly used to the medium, as he gave what I thought was a great performance as Admiral Tolwyn in the Wing Commander games. He's also done extensive work as a voice actor (as opposed to just being an actor) in many other things as well.
Like, if I had to get famous actors for a game, I would be hiring him first and Tim Curry, who gave a really convincing performance as Stratos in Sacrifice shortly after.
I wish you had the ability to mount documents that you find onto poles and use them as battle standards in the game.
Having a three-foot pole sticking out above your head with the Declaration of Independence waving above as you wade into battle would be awesome. That's the first thing I thought of when I found it in the National Archives, immediately after "I'm not handing this over to some smoltz in Rivet City."
Or let me attach it to a pole and wave it around, or something. It could provide some kind of fear or morale-depreciating effect on opponents, or provide a boost to allies or something. Basically I want to be able to use the documents of our country as some sort of rallying item, and wave it around a bit instead of it sitting in the inventory slots.
Also, to chime into the voiceover discussion, I thought whoever played the sheriff of Megaton did a great job. He was laid back, yet you could tell from his voice that he actually did care about what was going on.
Has anyone tried to dissuade their father from pursuing the water filtration immediately? I think I recall dialogue options about "why do we have to go after this right now"? I've been reviewing some of my issues with the game and one of them is that filtered water doesn't seem to be the largest priority, and I was wondering maybe there is a better ending in getting your father to work on the more major threats first and water second. Such as the enclave, super mutants, town defenses, etc.
This might sound far fetched but I figured I'd ask in case anyone had tried those dialogue options.
those "I don't want to do this right now" dialogue options are just the main quest on hold until so you can do other things, all you get as a reply from them is "oh ok than, see you later" there is only the water purification ending thing.
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
I usually went in the 130-150 range for small guns in FO2. I like being able to shoot people in the eyes at night from across the map.
While those are certainly good things, I usually found myself not needing it, but that it's due to my playstyle (love to close in and sledgehammer people to death) which is why I suggested he go for around 100-125 and only higher if his playstyle demanded it.
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
Yeah but if you don't want to download a mod you can make them killable by changing two 0's to two 1's in a .ini file or just mark a child in the console and set him to non-essential, voila he is killable.
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
You just set their status to unimportant or something like that. Kind of like important unkillable characters except you can now target them.
I've said it before, but Fawkes is leagues beyond the other followers. He carries a gatling laser with unlimited ammo and can take so much damage that I'm pretty sure he could kill a behemoth by himself.
So I was checking out Evergreen Mills from the cliff that surrounds it. My trusty homeboy Charon was hanging out while tried to get a good look using the crap scope on the sniper rifle. I take a wrong step and slide all the way down into the town. I look around, Charon must still be at the top of the cliff because he apparently didn't follow me down. I am fucked anyway so I decide to have some fun and start picking off raiders left and right, I am actually doing really well and make my way towards the entrance to the town.
Then I hear the sound of the combat shotgun and spin around to see Charon clearing out raiders as he comes to find to me. Which is pretty bad ass and alittle funny to watch. Funny because I gave Charon a pre-war bonnet to wear. So everything is going well until I see a behemoth. Oh, he is locked up, everything is cool. Wait.. Charon is running over to him and.... he unlocks the cage.
It takes the behemoth about 5 seconds to rip his head off as he desperately tries to put down the monstrosity he has just unleashed. I turn to run, but no long, the brute tracks me down and disembowels me.
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
The piccolo renditions of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie were relaxing to listen to as well.
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edited November 2008
Even after I knew the
Enclave were there to kick my shit in
, I continued to listen to the radio broadcasts.
Then Butcher Pete came on while I was working my way through Paradise Falls, and I fell in love.
I found those broadcasts to be deliciously ironic in nature, but I quickly grew tired of all of the radio stations. After they started repeating a couple of times, I shut them off.
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edited November 2008
I like how the Enclave station adds messages after a certain point in the story quest.
I found those broadcasts to be deliciously ironic in nature, but I quickly grew tired of all of the radio stations. After they started repeating a couple of times, I shut them off.
They could have used way more licensed tracks.
It is also annoys me when Eden signs off, only to promptly sign right back in again. Kinda distracting.
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
Yeah but if you don't want to download a mod you can make them killable by changing two 0's to two 1's in a .ini file or just mark a child in the console and set him to non-essential, voila he is killable.
You can also set Dogmeat as essential, and then he becomes invincible.
Ohh, I see.. interesting! Some kind of console command then?
For normal immortal people, yeah, but children are different. No idea what the command is to disable their godhood, but the mod works just fine anyway.
I've said it before, but Fawkes is leagues beyond the other followers. He carries a gatling laser with unlimited ammo and can take so much damage that I'm pretty sure he could kill a behemoth by himself.
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I kill him every single game now. It doesn't even matter what alignment or anything else I am. I fry him every single time for that load of complete bullshit he fed me in the purifier. If there was a way to get me to completely and utterly despise an NPC, Bethsoft sure did find it.
I've said it before, but Fawkes is leagues beyond the other followers. He carries a gatling laser with unlimited ammo and can take so much damage that I'm pretty sure he could kill a behemoth by himself.
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I kill him every single game now. It doesn't even matter what alignment or anything else I am. I fry him every single time for that load of complete bullshit he fed me in the purifier. If there was a way to get me to completely and utterly despise an NPC, Bethsoft sure did find it.
Hi-five, me too. Fawkes can eat a million dicks. A million of his own dicks.
How bout this, asshole. It's your destiny to fucking burn.
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He tells you its your destiny to go get fucked up in the purifier
If you do the sensible thing and ask him to do it.
Is Fawkes central to the story then? I don't really want a mutant companion - nor any at all.
I only had him tag along because I had good karma (thanks to slaughtering all the slavers to get into little lamplight sigh) and because I didn't really care anyway. When I got to the purifier, dear God did I realise how shitty the ending of this game actually was. I had read everyone say it sucked, but I damn near threw the controller through the TV when he fed me that line of bullshit about it being my "destiny" to die there or some nonsense. Hey fucknut, you're a fucking radiation immune supermutant who could trivially activate the damn thing and then we all leave to drink our fresh water
It's alright though, because I then
Inserted Henry Edens modified virus into the purifier. It gave me quiet solace knowing I had just killed that fucker with me
But man, that reduced my opinion of the whole game so heavily.
Was anyone else a little disappointed in the companion AI? It seems like as I'm exploring the NW part of the map, I have to jump down cliffs and other natural "barriers" that the AI won't go over. It's pretty damn frustrating when I do then Fawkes needs to run like a mile to the east and die on me.
appear outside the enclave base kicking ass when you escape if you've released him (I dunno if he does it anyway if you don't), he's incredibly durable, has an infinite ammo laser gatling gun and I just couldn't be bothered firing him so he was there with me at the end.
And AI pathfinding is crap. They didn't expect you to take shortcuts? Jump over a small thing rather than walk all the way around? But your allies will charge straight through a locked door if you noclip through it.
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edited November 2008
So I should basically kill him in the most painful way conceivable to a thousand Dark Gods, the moment I first lay eyes on him? Then drag his corpse through the desert while stopping to nuke it every 10 minutes, then finally dropping him into the dark radiated ocean?
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So I should basically kill him in the most painful way conceivable to a thousand Dark Gods, the moment I first lay eyes on him? Then drag his corpse through the desert while stopping to nuke it every 10 minutes, then finally dropping him into the dark radiated ocean?
To all of you PC players, instead of just uploading videos of yourselves killing children(not that there's anything wrong with it) in Fallout... Please post videos of President Eden's speeches, they relax me... One might say, his speeches are the wordiest and his voice the soothiest.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
Yeah but if you don't want to download a mod you can make them killable by changing two 0's to two 1's in a .ini file or just mark a child in the console and set him to non-essential, voila he is killable.
You can also set Dogmeat as essential, and then he becomes invincible.
Less talking about the cool stuff you can do on the PC, and more posting videos of John Henry Eden, president of America, president... of your heart!
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Oh ok, I have that.
PSN: Threeve703
I can't increase my skills over 100 on console. Is this a PC hack?
This might sound far fetched but I figured I'd ask in case anyone had tried those dialogue options.
Don't forget Mark Hamill.
You mean Krusty the Clown?
Or let me attach it to a pole and wave it around, or something. It could provide some kind of fear or morale-depreciating effect on opponents, or provide a boost to allies or something. Basically I want to be able to use the documents of our country as some sort of rallying item, and wave it around a bit instead of it sitting in the inventory slots.
Also, to chime into the voiceover discussion, I thought whoever played the sheriff of Megaton did a great job. He was laid back, yet you could tell from his voice that he actually did care about what was going on.
PSN: Kylogue
While those are certainly good things, I usually found myself not needing it, but that it's due to my playstyle (love to close in and sledgehammer people to death) which is why I suggested he go for around 100-125 and only higher if his playstyle demanded it.
If it helps, you can't kill children in the PC game either, at least as far as I know. Is there a mod or something that allows it?
Yeah but if you don't want to download a mod you can make them killable by changing two 0's to two 1's in a .ini file or just mark a child in the console and set him to non-essential, voila he is killable.
You just set their status to unimportant or something like that. Kind of like important unkillable characters except you can now target them.
So I was checking out Evergreen Mills from the cliff that surrounds it. My trusty homeboy Charon was hanging out while tried to get a good look using the crap scope on the sniper rifle. I take a wrong step and slide all the way down into the town. I look around, Charon must still be at the top of the cliff because he apparently didn't follow me down. I am fucked anyway so I decide to have some fun and start picking off raiders left and right, I am actually doing really well and make my way towards the entrance to the town.
Then I hear the sound of the combat shotgun and spin around to see Charon clearing out raiders as he comes to find to me. Which is pretty bad ass and alittle funny to watch. Funny because I gave Charon a pre-war bonnet to wear. So everything is going well until I see a behemoth. Oh, he is locked up, everything is cool. Wait.. Charon is running over to him and.... he unlocks the cage.
It takes the behemoth about 5 seconds to rip his head off as he desperately tries to put down the monstrosity he has just unleashed. I turn to run, but no long, the brute tracks me down and disembowels me.
Nice one, Charon.
The piccolo renditions of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie were relaxing to listen to as well.
Then Butcher Pete came on while I was working my way through Paradise Falls, and I fell in love.
PSN: Threeve703
They could have used way more licensed tracks.
It is also annoys me when Eden signs off, only to promptly sign right back in again. Kinda distracting.
PSN: Threeve703
SetEssential 1 - Sets the NPC as essential.
0 of course sets him non-essential.
Yep, its always handy to keep an eye (err, an ear) on the different stations.
For normal immortal people, yeah, but children are different. No idea what the command is to disable their godhood, but the mod works just fine anyway.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=376
You need to be registered there to get the mod, but it's worth it. That's pretty much the go-to place for mods.
Ending
If you have him with you at the end
If you do the sensible thing and ask him to do it.
Hi-five, me too. Fawkes can eat a million dicks. A million of his own dicks.
How bout this, asshole. It's your destiny to fucking burn.
Is Fawkes central to the story then? I don't really want a mutant companion - nor any at all.
Wow, that's really lame.
It's alright though, because I then
But man, that reduced my opinion of the whole game so heavily.
And AI pathfinding is crap. They didn't expect you to take shortcuts? Jump over a small thing rather than walk all the way around? But your allies will charge straight through a locked door if you noclip through it.
EG: Dumb and dumber.
That would be a start.
But it isn't enough.
Less talking about the cool stuff you can do on the PC, and more posting videos of John Henry Eden, president of America, president... of your heart!
PSN: Kylogue