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OFFICIAL FALLOUT 3 MEGATHREAD (LOCATION OF THE FAMILY IN OP - STOP ASKING)

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Knob wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    Okay so I'm gonna go pick this up.
    If this turns out to be another Mass Effect I'm gonna kill you all.

    what was wrong about ME?

    absolutely nothing except for ascot's tumor that makes him hate awesome stuff

    "Man if this turns out to be awesome, I'm going to be so pissed guys!"

    That being said.. I don't have enough money to get F3 now, maybe a bit later (much D:)

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    if i hear the word mod come out of mori's mouth one more god damn time

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  • humblehumble Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Knob wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    Okay so I'm gonna go pick this up.
    If this turns out to be another Mass Effect I'm gonna kill you all.

    what was wrong about ME?

    absolutely nothing except for ascot's tumor that makes him hate awesome stuff

    yea ME was awesome

    i need to pick it up again

    humble on
  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    awwwwwwwwww yeah 8-)

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    its not actually terrible at all!

    Wren on
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  • scarlet ave.scarlet ave. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    if i hear the word mod come out of mori's mouth one more god damn time

    Unless it's to say "The release date for Fallout3 mod tools has been announced," that is.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Hey ave, tell your brother next time he's in town to say who the hell it is when he leaves me a voicemail. I thought it was a wrong number

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I hated ME so much.

    ascot on
  • scarlet ave.scarlet ave. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Javen wrote: »
    Hey ave, tell your brother next time he's in town to say who the hell it is when he leaves me a voicemail. I thought it was a wrong number

    Dude is still in Boston for the day, if you're around.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'm working a double shift today, unfortunately.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    I hated ME so much.

    we all hate you

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  • sdrawkcaB emaNsdrawkcaB emaN regular
    edited November 2008
    Wren wrote: »
    awwwwwwwwww yeah 8-)

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    its not actually terrible at all!

    where the hell did you get that

    fucking 75 damage goddaaaaaamn

    sdrawkcaB emaN on
  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    tagging big weapons was such a mistake, theyre impossible to find on enemies

    I have one mini gun that I can use because it broke, a missile launcher and flamer with no ammo and a rock-it launcher that does less damage then my power fist

    Oden on
  • scarlet ave.scarlet ave. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oden wrote: »
    tagging big weapons was such a mistake, theyre impossible to find on enemies

    I have one mini gun that I can use because it broke, a missile launcher and flamer with no ammo and a rock-it launcher that does less damage then my power fist

    Once you get to about level 12, head to DC and fuck up some super mutants, like every third one has a minigun.

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    i am so bad at being mean to people in this game

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  • scarlet ave.scarlet ave. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'm about to start over with an evil character. My wife has been watching me play on occasion, and basically forced me to be a good character because she can't stand it when I'm mean to NPCs.

    I told her that was alright this time around, but next character will be evil. And I'm going to try to make it look like her, and name it after her.

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  • sdrawkcaB emaNsdrawkcaB emaN regular
    edited November 2008
    Oden wrote: »
    tagging big weapons was such a mistake, theyre impossible to find on enemies

    I have one mini gun that I can use because it broke, a missile launcher and flamer with no ammo and a rock-it launcher that does less damage then my power fist

    This is basically how I feel and why I went with small guns. Big guns are fun, sure, but they just are too rare, weigh too much, and the ammo is too expensive.

    The rareness factor is a big one that nixes them imo. Guns just break way too fast unless you can find replacements. That's why I use the assault rifle and hunting rifle almost exclusively, and only bust out the combat shotgun/chinese assault rifle when I really need to or when I have an extra in my inventory for repairs (preferably both).

    Lack of armor still blows though. How do you guys deal with that

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I don't know duder, I'm finding missile launchers all over the place now. which is good and bad. good because hey, missile launchers! bad because hey, everyone is shooting missiles at me!

    just be sure to scrounge up a couple and combine them with repair first, instead of just using them when they're nearly broken.

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    i can't say i'm struggling with a lack of anything really. Stuff i can't find replacements for i use the store. Also saving up whatever you use and goddamn farming the spots you know their wearers hang out in helps.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oden wrote: »
    tagging big weapons was such a mistake, theyre impossible to find on enemies

    I have one mini gun that I can use because it broke, a missile launcher and flamer with no ammo and a rock-it launcher that does less damage then my power fist

    This is basically how I feel and why I went with small guns. Big guns are fun, sure, but they just are too rare, weigh too much, and the ammo is too expensive.

    The rareness factor is a big one that nixes them imo. Guns just break way too fast unless you can find replacements. That's why I use the assault rifle and hunting rifle almost exclusively, and only bust out the combat shotgun/chinese assault rifle when I really need to or when I have an extra in my inventory for repairs (preferably both).

    Lack of armor still blows though. How do you guys deal with that

    roughly three hours into the game I found a BoS corpse

    now to train for power armor

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  • Frosty the Snow PlowFrosty the Snow Plow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The times you die are pretty amusing if you have the Bloody Mess perk :lol: The dude you're used to seeing slow-motion clean shoot off three heads in a row suddenly just kinda has his limbs fall off.

    That said, normal difficulty is pretty damn comfy, you don't die much if you're smart, but battles, especially early ones, can still get pretty damn exhilarating. All running away with 20 life, searching through your inventory for anything. Risking radiation poisoning and addiction just for another 30 life. And then getting that lucky crit in vats, just barely making it.

    It's not even masochistic, it's just plain satisfying.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Wren wrote: »
    awwwwwwwwww yeah 8-)


    its not actually terrible at all!

    where the hell did you get that

    fucking 75 damage goddaaaaaamn
    I can't check in game right now, but there's a HUGE raider camp near the nuka-cola crazy fan bitch (she lives in a town under a bridge that consists of exactly two houses). the camp itself has a super giant huge mutant in a cage outside and inside is a small building complex thats standard then downstairs it leads to an underground raider bazaar.

    anyways, I got my shotgun somewhere in there. maybe off a raider or something I don't know, I was just going through my inventory after and noticed it.

    edit: come to think of it, it might have been off the neutral merchant in the bazaar. he dropped like 60 shotgun shells which I thought was odd and I can't remember if I really looked at his gun

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    So yesterday I finally made the long, argueus trip to the Arlington Library. I'm a few minutes away from it when I encounter a camp of raiders across a highway congested with broken cars. I enter VATS and paw away at a raider wielding a Missile Launcher until she drops the damn thing, engage in a high intensity fire fight with the remaining bastards using my trusty Chinese Assault Rifle, and proceed to reprogram a nearby turret to fight another group of raiders that came at me across an overpass.

    As the last of the second wave are mowed down by the turret I breath a sigh of relief, and turn to scavenge the corpses around me, when I hear the zing of a bullet hitting a nearby lamppost. I quickly turn around to realize that there was a third group of raiders hiding by an old metro entrance. Now what's important is that at this point I'm pretty much done for. Left arm close to being crippled, a near broken Rifle, and a 10mm gun with very little ammo. I quicksave, pray to god, and turn to face them.

    This is when the awesome happened.

    I entered VATS quickly, my trusty 10mm gun in my hand, when I realized I did not lock on to any raider. I had, in fact, locked on to the grenade a raider just threw at me. Figuring this is my only chance to take on the incoming attack, I target the grenade (with 28% of success) and fire. My first shot hit the thing dead on, causing the raider who threw it to lose her arm and her head. To my dismay, the rest of the raiders seemed fine, still coming straight at me. But, and this is the nice part, they came at me through the congested highway, filled with the debris of ruined vehicles. Ruined, nuclear powered vehicles. Vehicles who were now, thanks to the exploding grenade, on fire. Can you guess the next part, children?

    "Duck, aaaaaand coooooover!"

    The mushroom cloud that explosion caused must've been seen all the way to Fort Independence. I couldn't even find the raiders' bodies afterwards. I did manage to find enough ammo and stimpacks to keep me going in their camp though, so that was all right.

    did I mention I fucking love this game?

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  • sdrawkcaB emaNsdrawkcaB emaN regular
    edited November 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Oden wrote: »
    tagging big weapons was such a mistake, theyre impossible to find on enemies

    I have one mini gun that I can use because it broke, a missile launcher and flamer with no ammo and a rock-it launcher that does less damage then my power fist

    This is basically how I feel and why I went with small guns. Big guns are fun, sure, but they just are too rare, weigh too much, and the ammo is too expensive.

    The rareness factor is a big one that nixes them imo. Guns just break way too fast unless you can find replacements. That's why I use the assault rifle and hunting rifle almost exclusively, and only bust out the combat shotgun/chinese assault rifle when I really need to or when I have an extra in my inventory for repairs (preferably both).

    Lack of armor still blows though. How do you guys deal with that

    roughly three hours into the game I found a BoS corpse

    now to train for power armor

    OK, yeah, there are a few types of armor which are decently abundant. Raider armor, Merc armor (though much, much less common than raider armor, but when you find groups of people wearing it you can definitely grab a bunch), and power armor (though I imagine I'll probably end up killing a decent amount of BoS to grab more). And presumably enclave armor once I actually find any of them.

    Right now I'm wearing Metal Armor which I got off the
    Slavers that hang out at the lincoln monument
    but I'll dump it soon just because they'res nothing to repair it with and I hate spending caps on repairs

    sdrawkcaB emaN on
  • DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I run around wearing a hockey mask because my character is named Coach Bombay

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I hardly think it's fair that I lose karma for exterminating a nest of vampire larper faggots

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    ok, uninstalled the game. Won't let me load anything now. Gonna wait until my new motherboard gets here in a week before trying anything again.

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  • AretèAretè infiltrating neo zeed compoundRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    you know what the best thing is?

    when i pick pocket something i need and then as a token of my appreciation, i drop a live grenade into their inventory.

    nyuk nyuk nyuk

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    do they explode??

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  • AretèAretè infiltrating neo zeed compoundRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    well yeah, it is a live grenade after all

    also, where do i find the dog?

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    man I am really taking this game slow

    like 12 hours in and I'm barely where everyone else seems to be

    where the heck is Tenpenny Tower anyway?

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    man I am really taking this game slow

    like 12 hours in and I'm barely where everyone else seems to be

    where the heck is Tenpenny Tower anyway?

    South of Megaton, you can't miss it

    I seemed to be going in a rather quick pace

    I'm already at level 10

    and if I'm not mistaken, the game is capped at level 20

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Minefield quest:
    Is the landmine Moira needs for the optional quest a unique mine because I keep picking up frag mines and that's not it.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    msuitepyon wrote: »
    Minefield quest:
    Is the landmine Moira needs for the optional quest a unique mine because I keep picking up frag mines and that's not it.
    I just gave her a mine I took from somewhere else and lied about it

    I guess I could've actually gone there but fuck that bitch I ain't stepping into a minefield because of that book

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    No it's any old landmine. Frag mines worked for me.


    I think I'm going to pick up Scrounger at level 8 because goddamn I am always out of ammo. I carry like 5 guns just so I can use my meager supply of bullets for each.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    captaink wrote: »
    No it's any old landmine. Frag mines worked for me.


    I think I'm going to pick up Scrounger at level 8 because goddamn I am always out of ammo. I carry like 5 guns just so I can use my meager supply of bullets for each.
    I am thinking about doing this

    can anyone vouch for scrounger or is it not really worth it?

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I figured I picked up a bunch of mines, but the quest wouldn't say that it was complete. When I go back to Moira, I have the option to lie about getting a mine for her but not actually giving her a mine.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    i really want this game

    someone should post some pictures.

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  • KingMoleKingMole Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    My new character is named Paddy O'Connolly. He is addicted to every alcoholic beverage in the game, and goes around punching people in the face who he disagrees with.

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Hooray stereotypes.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Fandyien wrote: »
    i really want this game

    someone should post some pictures.

    ask and you shall recieve

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