Fall Out 3

DuVeL · October 01, 2008, 07:38:17 AM

Quote from: King85;246178Got very over excited believing this was out on the 1st, the place I read that had a typo and its not actually out till the 31st oh the humanity!

Awww :nevermind:
I've preorderd it from play.com through the affiliates link here; http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=19810
It should arive after the LAN!:yahoo:
I just hope it's not like Fall Out 2 where I got stuck on some quests and had to start from the beginning again (savegamefiles acting up).

And yes King85, as OB said, write a hello.
Some know you allready from the CSSserver but some don't.
You remind me of my brother though; -=[dMw]=-King....:g:

DuVeL · October 29, 2008, 09:30:05 AM

Review here; Fallout 3 Rated; 9 out of 10.
play.com posted it to me yesterday so hopefully tomorrow I should have it.

Tanales · October 30, 2008, 11:14:05 AM

yeh i should have it by then to

King85 · October 30, 2008, 02:54:12 PM

Did anyone get it yet?

DuVeL · October 30, 2008, 03:47:05 PM

Nope, but it needs to be send by mail from the UK for me.
I'm expecting it tomorrow or Monday.

DaRkLiGhTeR · October 30, 2008, 10:24:10 PM

me brother just got the limited edition version for the xbox i shall post my findings when i actually get the chance to play it

Carr0t · October 31, 2008, 09:54:15 AM

Yeah, Play.com posted my copy on Tuesday, along with a copy of Red Alert 3. RA3 turned up on Wednesday, so I was hoping i'd get Fallout 3 yesterday, but no joy. Fingers crossed it's waiting for me when I get home from work. Unfortunately i'll be spending most of the evening before people come around to be social making toffee apples.

King85 · October 31, 2008, 08:06:55 PM

I got it today, its amazing, I have neck ache from playing for so long, this is all.

Tanales · October 31, 2008, 10:01:59 PM

ive had it since yesterday and its brilliant imo, it defenetly have the fallout feeling

DuVeL · November 06, 2008, 08:09:10 AM

Question; I found 2 important looking books but I can't seem to read them as in previous Fallout games. Any suggestions on this?

What do you guys think off setting up tips and hints for eachother?

I didn't blow up Megaton (defused the bomb aswell) and now I get huntingparties after me. They are a tad easy but have nice guns and armour (only came upon 1 squad so far) and it seems I have a 1000$ bounty on my head because I told the sheriff that 1 guy wanted to blow up the bomb (he's at the bar in the right corner), if you follow the sheriff then make sure you watch his back. Helping the sheriff out will also get you an place in Megaton (good for storage and you have your own butler) and loads of XP.

I've found Dogmeat allready in the game when going for a quest.
He was at a junkyard near some bodies by a large shack. He's a good helper so far and seems to be able to find some good ammo/food/weapons. If you head out Megaton and keep moving towards the quest where you have to dismantle bombtraps you'll find the junkyard.

Repairing;
I found this out to late in the game.
If you've found several the same weapons or armour, you can repair the one with the other.

In every Vault are mister bobbleheadtoys, try and find them (not sure what they'll do in the end).

Carr0t · November 06, 2008, 10:11:33 AM

Quote from: DuVeL;249856Question; I found 2 important looking books but I can't seem to read them as in previous Fallout games. Any suggestions on this?

How do you mean 'important looking'. Any books/magazines you can pick up that are actually named (e.g. Pugilism Illustrated or Groknar the Barbarian rather than Burned Book) will appear in the 'Aid' section of your Pip-Boy. Click on them, and they'll give you a 1 (or 2, if you have the perk) bonus to a relevant skill, e.g Melee for Groknar.

QuoteI didn't blow up Megaton (defused the bomb aswell) and now I get huntingparties after me. They are a tad easy but have nice guns and armour (only came upon 1 squad so far) and it seems I have a 1000$ bounty on my head because I told the sheriff that 1 guy wanted to blow up the bomb (he's at the bar in the right corner), if you follow the sheriff then make sure you watch his back. Helping the sheriff out will also get you an place in Megaton (good for storage and you have your own butler) and loads of XP.

I didn't *tell* the sheriff about the guy wanting me to blow up the bomb, cos when I tried that I didn't have a big enough gun to kill the dude before he capped the sheriff (and I liked that guy, so I reloaded several hours of game to keep him alive), but I still got the house just for defusing the bomb. Reloaded and did the explosion option just to watch the pretty mushroom cloud though, then went back to my previous save. I still have the bounty on my head, and have had 2 groups come after me so far.

QuoteI've found Dogmeat allready in the game when going for a quest.
He was at a junkyard near some bodies by a large shack. He's a good helper so far and seems to be able to find some good ammo/food/weapons. If you head out Megaton and keep moving towards the quest where you have to dismantle bombtraps you'll find the junkyard.

I'm not entirely sure I know where you're talking about here. Bombtraps = Mines? The quest Moira sends you on to go to the playground in the centre of the village called Minefield, and bring her back a mine? Sorry, I R being thick. Can I find him by going on a pretty much straight line form Megaton to that place then? I ran across to it from the settlement on the bridge being terrorised by the Family, so I think I might have missed him. Need to find him now.

QuoteI found this out to late in the game.
If you've found several the same weapons or armour, you can repair the one with the other.

Aye, and it not only increases it's damage mitigation, it increases the monetary value of the armour too. So if you run out of bag space and want to pick more up instead of dropping stuff see if there's anything you can 'combine' in this way. you won't get so much cash when you hand in, but it saves running backwards and forwards so much (which I find a hassle even with fast travel, and is especially annoying if you reach your weight limit while on the way to somewhere new). Also, they don't have to be *exactly* the same all the time. For example, a lot of the various types of Raider armour can be used to repair each other, not just identical armour types.

QuoteIn every fault are mister bobbleheadtoys, try and find them (not sure what they'll do in the end).

Fault? I've only found 2 so far (1 in Vault 101, 1 in Megaton). Once you've got a house you get a mounting unit to put them all on, but I don't know if you need to do that before you get the effect (I don't think so). IIRC there are 31 in game. Each gives you a 1 point bonus to *something*. Sometimes skills, sometimes S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats. I think the one in the vault gave me a bonus to the medicine skill, and the one in Megaton was for Strength.

DuVeL · November 06, 2008, 10:50:07 AM

Book, will try and aid it then. Think I found a book about medicine or such allready. Forgot the name but could check out at home.

Bombtraps = mines yeah.
When you move from Megaton to the village called Minefield it's off on the right a bit when you walk in a straight line.

When travelling or such, you could use the buffops and like beer and such to carry more stuff.

There's also vault 106 which is left (while facing megaton) from vault 101.

That's what I have for now...

DuVeL · November 07, 2008, 09:26:39 AM

Fallout 3 patch allready; LINK

Bug Fixes
Fixed occasional crashes when exiting the game or using Alt F4 to exit.
Fixed crashes when using Alt-Tab while binks or credits were playing.
The game now restarts properly after title updates finish installing.

Other stuff;
Try and go for the more difficult quest. If there's an option for the quest a bit more difficult, try that, it's worth it.

DarkAngel · November 07, 2008, 04:51:43 PM

I played it loved it, somehow accidently uninstalled it and deleted my saved games :ranting2:.

Guess ill have to start again.... :angry:

Awsome game tho :doh:

T-Bag · November 10, 2008, 10:20:25 PM

Anyone else find this the shortest game ever?
I bought it Saturday, but it took forever downloading so I only played it for an hour that night. Before I quit I created a windows live profile, and next time it started up it didn't show my saves so I started again on Sunday. Played a fair bit Sunday and I completed it today. Can't be much more than 10 hours gameplay.

Worst of all the game ends when you complete the main quest. No wandering round afterwards. It feels more like a mod for oblivion than a game it itself.

I'm going to have to load up one of my saves from before the final quest and do some of the other stuff I was putting off till later.

Oh and one thing that bugged me LOADS (**SPOILER HIGHLIGHT TO READ**) From Vault 87 I rescued that "I'm immune to radiation and I'll get that G.E.C.K for you, and then team up with you" bloke. I brought him along on the final mission cause he seemed pretty cool. I come across the chamber and hear "It's flooded with radiation, it'll mean certain death for one of us" I think to myself...I've got a plan to get around this. Talk to him, and he says "nah, I don't fancy walking in there and typing 3 lousy numbers into that machine so you (my only friend in the whole world), or that innocent paladin don't have to die." What's that all about? Couldn't afford the voice over guy to do an ending which goes "Mutants and Man team up and save to world"?