Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

That's what I use.
Just finished the Tenpenny quest; I played nicey nice and made normals and ghouls kiss and make up. Very funny spoileriffic coda that I'll refrain from sharing here... but I lol'd!

where do you get abe lincoln's repeater? (I know I could google it but that would feel even more like cheating than asking on here)

American History wing of that museum that has Underworld in it.

I think when you're hunting down the Constitution, it's in that same vault area.

this game is great but it totally gobbles time

I stumbled onto vault 92 last night, weird atmosphere in there

I should probably have waited until after exams to start this game.

ok, i have now reached the point in the main quest where i was advised upthread to pause before finishing. i have mint condition plasma rifle and tesla armour, which together with the bobblehead i just swiped boosts my energy weapons to a handy 100. i haven't decided exactly how to spend my last hours before leaving the capital wasteland, but it will probably include some kind of rampage. i am excited by this prospect.

Some of the most fun I've had in Fallout has just been wandering through Downtown DC - particularly the less explored, more out-of-the-way parts. You should do that :)

oooooooooh prototype medic power armour

Get the 'Backgrounds' app for iphone, and you can find this nice little graphic, or just stick it on there yerself:

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vault boy on your iphone!

my friend at g4 got herself a promo pipboy

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wanted to kill that bitch

Holy shit, that's insane. Clunky and very very in-jokey.

The cheap way of doing combat is grabbing that plasma rifle from Rivet City early on (easy quest to get it). That thing is a monster and I basically used it throughout the entire game.

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yeah, that thing almost ruins the game. My energy weapons skill sucked and it didn't matter.

the railroad gun is fun just for the sound and pinning someones head to the wall.

Yeah, the plasma rifle is given a bit early on. I only use it for blasting droids, mainly. Supermutant, human, and ghouls explode better with a shotgun.

still working the basic weapons template mostly, even though i'm 40+ hours in, mostly because of my steadfast avoidance of the main quest i suppose (although the modded chinese pistol i have that shoots flaming 9mm is great for laffs and sneak shots.)

also, shooting tenpenny in the face was well worth the slight tweaking of that quest. plus, i got good karma for it!

OK so I ended up w/the WORST outcome of the replicated man quest

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you probably thought you were being all "good guy superhero" and protecting people's identity by giving fake machinery to the hunter. ha! serves you right for trying to be altruistic!

I wasn't, I just couldn't be bothered dithering about out on the wasteland, finding pinkerton, etc. laziness more than moral fortitude!!! story of my life

Oh, Pinkerton is in Rivet.

now do I need to wait for the enclave to turn up before I can get a plasma rifle or is that it?

yah, tht's the annoying thing, I went and found him afterwards anyway

this game is so great; I was really vacillating for a while there (cos there's so much going against it, talked about at length elsewhere tho not least the v.clunky engine) but I have been pouring time into it; something v/satisfying abt trawling the wasteland helping individuals out w/their stories.

the kids in little lamplight don't seem to mind tht I sold one of their pals into slavery

how does it work, if I've already killed everyone in paradise falls (+50xp for eulogy jones' ladies? yes pls)

what happens to the grown-up kid when you first hit lamplight? I refused to escort him and then he just turned up loldead

the one who wants to go to big town? if you escort him, I think you can then have him as a side-kick

the side-kicks are a bit useless (I ended up bagging charon the ghoul) but the mysterious stranger is badass (and pretty useful)

charon tried to catch one too many of my grenades.

i tend to leave dogmeat at home because he's such a stimpack sucker and it makes me nervous he's gonna get killed every time.

Dogmeat lasted approx 3 minutes for me, killed in crossfire between talon Mercs and Regulators while i hid. fuck that dumb mutt.

So when you play as evil does Three Dog broadcast about how much of a bastard you are? I hate it that this game demands that I replay it again. Im saving a bunch of things on my first play so there will be some newness for game 2.0.

Fawkes the Super Mutant has been a pretty helpful companion. That laser minigun thing does some decent damage.

I also typically leave Dogmeat at home. I like the idea of having a dog in the game and all that, but dude gets killed too easily in combat.

My dog survived my whole first game! I just reloaded whenever he died. (I saved ALOT.)

so I've just left ravenrock, if I report to the citadel is that it all over?

Yes.

i'm playing as a scientist/repair/medicine type. am i a moron?

Medicine + Repair were pretty worthless for me. But they'll probably be cool for you (and let you make cool custom weapons.) I think the only concern might be combat skills.

http://kaiju.net/junk/fallout3kulture.jpg

Escapee from the Wing-Nut Right-Wing Cartoon blog?

hah the funny thing is that i was going to recommend maxing up repair and medicine while boosting strength luck and agility as the strategy that worked best for me, although i i find myself wishing i had started science and lockpick higher.

yeah, science and lockpick seem pretty essential (though I maxed the perk that adds +5 to science, rather than plowing points into); put my points into small guns, sneak (don't use it much), lockpick and repair

also, fuck one fire ant

anyone know where my old room is in vault 101? I can't find it on any of the levels : /

someone please explain that cartoon to me.

I think its a lorelol.

it's essentially old-school political cartoon style "omg, they be rapin' my fav game franchise" shit with, as far as i know, little to no irony. funny thing is Fallout 3 is at least as good as the original games if not better. so JOKE IS ON THEM.

ah, it's from the purists

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217529/

Erik Dellums, voice of Three Dog, played Dog 3 in She's Gotta Have It

I did not know that.

Chick who plays Amata was the reefer girl in Walk Hard:

http://www.inbaseline.com/Images/27214/27214_small.jpg

liam neeson's your pa

so much blood on my hands