Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Ouch, Mordy. Bad luck.
Found the downed UFO!

So, I'm finally playing this! I'm in Megaton (newb).

One question - I accidentally tried to lockpick the armory before it was open for the morning. The robot inside tried to kill me. Then everyone in the entire town tried to kill me. Is there any possibility that things will ever return to semi-normal, or should I just reload an hour back (I forgot to save like a dumbass)?

If you wait a couple of in-game days things should be cool. The select/back button brings up your "wait for how many hours?" option if you didn't know that already.

Actually, I've been actively searching and failing to find the "wait for __ hours" button. I'm playing it on PC, so there is no select/back button. I will check out a FAQ really quick.

Oh right. Yeah, I've got no idea what the button is on the PC.

hit "T", which is the wait key. Tells you so in the controls screen.

My main problem lately is not finding people easily. A couple people I needed to talk to in Tenpenny Tower were hiding outside and I eventually gave up on finding Ted Strayer in Rivet City (even though I've seen him before) and am going to go back there later to complete that quest.

Is there any quest in the main plot that really changes your ability to do other quests? I've been avoiding the main plot but finally made it to the point where I can get inside the Citadel.

haha hte fireants was one of the first i did.

i'm playing it kinda screwy... just now getting into the main quest.

lots of wandering and stumbling into weird quests.

love it!!

yeah settled into it now, doing a lot of 'running away' lol

lol you suck haha

lol i call it 'survival'

(and ammo saving because i'm a miser)

I'll tell you what I do suck at though, lock picking. I have no idea.

i am king of the lockpicking so feel free to ask whatever you want. btw, if you use a light touch, you should get about 5 or 6 tries out of a single bobby pin, and the mechanics are actually a lot simpler than they seem at first.

actually wait, if you are playing on PC, i can imagine that the lockpicking might be a total fucking nightmare, unless they have some crafty rumble function translation worked out.

i'm on ps3, but with no rumble. does that help?

I don't know how you could do the lockpicking without rumble.

oh that's just GREAT

yeah that would really really suck.

just watch for the twitching

that sounds like a nightmare.

I finally found the mall, went to the Lincoln memorial and went in the backroom to meet the head guy aaaaaaand.... nobody there. No way to talk to anybody to give you permission to enter. No way to get into the memorial, cuz they shoot you if you go up the stairs. So fuck it; I killed everyone. Took about a half hour of heavily fortified firefighting. Meanwhile my girlfriend googles the lincoln scenario, because I'm bitching about "what weird bug is this where you can't even try to talk to them" and tells me that I just missed a big quest tree of stuff that involves putting lincoln's head back on. Great. Restart. Why won't this asshole show up in the back room so I can talk to him?

Forks, that quest involving returning Lincoln's head actually requires you to wipe out those guys anyway. You get the quest from The Temple of the Union which is a ways north of DC, kind of along the main road.

Er, at least the "good" resolution to the quest involved killing those guys anyways.

fuck this game for it's crashing, at critical times. seriously fuck it forever.

i think you're just so bad at it it's literally crashing your system

damn dude u can't even operate a game

i have still only had this crash once (LOUDLY KNOCKING ON WOOD HERE), but it was at one of the worst possible times.

in the "act"?

wow did i just spend a ton of time finishing the reillys raiders quest

That's an amazing quest.

ya that's a fun one.

are yall playing on hard?

Absolutely.

Okay, I need to make a second disc of electronic THE FUTURE music when i get home tonight and then load both on xbox hd. I will post here once i get my gumption right.

Can't...get it...out of...my head!!

The roads are the dustiest
The winds are the gustiest
The gates are the rustiest
The pies are the crustiest
The songs the lustiest
The friends the trustiest

Waaay back home (back home!)

The trees are the sappiest
The days are the nappiest
The dogs are the yappiest
The kids are the scrappiest
The jokes the snappiest
The folks the happiest

Waaay back home
Dont' know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I'm a weary exile
Singing my song of lone-li-ness

The grass is the springiest
The bees are the stingiest
The birds are the wingiest
The bells are the ringiest (the hearts...)
The hearts the singiest (the arms...)
The arms the clingiest

Waaay back home

(What about the sun?)
The sun's the blaziest (and the fields?)
Field's the daisiest (and the cows?
Cows the graziest (and the help?)
The help's the laziest.
The boys (are the witiest)
The girls (are the prettiest)

Waaay back home

(The pigs are the snootiest)
(The owls are the hootiest)
The plants the fruitiest
Stars the shootiest
(The grins the funniest)
The smiles the sunniest

Waaay back home
Dont' know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I'm a weary exile
Singing my song of lone-li-ness

The food is the spreadiest
The wine is the headiest
The pals are the readiest
The gals are the steadiest
The love the liveliest
The life the loveliest

Waaay back (Waaay back)
Waaay back Home (No place like home)
Sweeeet home

Mmm. Love the music from this game.

yeah there really isn't anything that this game does wrong, music included.

Oh, good news on my lost copy front. My friend bought a Best Buy 360 and is giving me the $50 gift certificate to make up for my stolen copy. So I guess I will be rebuying it.

i always think its saying the something is the horniest

they must have been stoked to dig up that "i dont want to set the world on fire" song

at first the limited number of songs worried me, but they just fit so well, and add a ton of ambience, I.E. when you come across a bunch of raiders with galaxy news radio tuned in and it just sort of creeps up on you as you approach their hollowed out camper after slaughtering them.

also, huge points to whoever thought of the selectable radio station pipboy thing, and allowed for an off option as well.

the "into each life some rain must fall" song was a stroke of genius too

My fave by far is Butcher Pete.

Hey everybody, did the news get around
About a guy named Butcher Pete
Oh, Pete just flew into this town
And he's choppin' up all the women's meat

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat

Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife
He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop
All you fellows gotta watch your wifes
'Cause Pete don't care who's meat he chops

Ever since Peter flew into town
He's been havin' a ball
Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around
Single women, married women, old maids and all

Wakes up in the morning, half past five
Chops from sunrise to sunset
I don't see how he stays alive
Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete, yeah

The police put Pete in jail
Yes, he finally met his faith
But when they came to pay his bail
They found him choppin' up his cell mate

That Butcher Pete is a crazy man
Tries to chop down the wind and the rain
Just hacks on anything he can get
Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothing yet

Well, they let ole Pete out of the jail
He went back to his store
All the women who payed his bail
Were waitin' on Pete to chop some more

There's an old woman, who's ninety-two
Lives down the street
She said, one thing more I wanna do
Is find ole Pete and let him chop my meat

Pete went to church one Sunday night
He gave the preacher a fit
That crazy Pete started a fight
When he went hackin' on the pulpit

Well, they put him in jail again
They tried to give him life
Pete beat the case, he pleaded insane
They gave him back his same ole knife

Well, he got out of jail on Sunday night
Monday he tightened his grip
He started to China to see the sites
Went nuts again and chopped up the ship

Brought ole Pete back to town
To electrocute him there
But Pete was crazy like a clown
He chopped down that electric chair

He's a maniac!
He don't do nothin' but hackin'

My favorite (I think I've said this before) is Andrew Sisters + Danny Kaye's Civilization.

Fuck, reilly's raiders took FOREVER for me since I couldn't figure out how to find their headquarters. The game goes much better when I don't cheat and look at online guides, though.

Nothing's better than stumbling across the wasteland, seeing some distant landmark, and finding out if it's some random ruins or a waypoint on the map. Now that I've got that quest done and get money for it, so much the better.

Finding the alien gun right before I went to the deathclaw-infested city was lucky, since my armor doesn't really hold up well to deathclaw attacks.

is EVERYONE playing this on hard? i figure it's going to take me long enough to finish anyway that i might as well play normal and thus waste less life-hours playing a video game.

no, i'm doing my first playthrough on normal, basically to allow for not worrying too much about progress and fucking around.

Okay, where's teh reilly's raiders thing.

have you been to underworld yet? not sure if you can get the quest until you've talked to reilly

where's underworld?

In the Museum of History.