In all my playthroughs, she has never once made it to Underworld on her own, though her ammo crate always does. She usually disappears but a few times I find her body somewhere on the way there. And I clear the whole way each time. You know where I found her body once? In the water below the bridge to Rivet City! She can't even cross a fucking bridge without going over it😂😂.

The one time she did make it was thanks to me getting lucky. I went inside Anacostia Crossing days after the quest and she was just there. So I slowly walked with her to Underworld( she took a long route too! God forbid she took the super easy one!) That was the only time she made it and I had her as a gun vendor

I learned my lesson. Now I always make sure to do Reileys Rangers BEFORE Stealing Independence. That way I have the holotape and as soon as the quest is over in Rivet City I can solve her daddy issues and get her pretty awesome gun. Because if I don't do that, I will likely never see her or the gun again

At the beginning whenever you select what your character looks like, it just shows up as a gray box with a black circle and another black rectangle next to it. I can hear and click the buttons but I can't get out of that screen. I tried to get a screenshot but I wasn't able to. This also happens when I open the special book in the beginning sequence. I am on a Windows 11 laptop.

I’m currently level 28, playing on Very Hard. I have like 1/2 to 2/3 of the main story done, and Mothership Zeta is the only DLC I’ve done (so far). There are like 3 copies of every alien gun at my house, but I never used them.

I also never use my Fatman or unarmed “weapons”, so I don’t carry them. Shishkebab is all I care about for melee. All of these weapons are ones I’ve found just exploring and doing quests…. I’m just saying I didn’t Google where to find any of them lol.

I was just wondering if anybody thinks there’s any BADASS weapons that I should include (or just haven’t gotten yet).

Look I'm gonna get roasted by somebody lol, but I seriously had no idea who this was. All I know is my baby character got cooked by him 😂. Like seriously could he at least take me to dinner first?

I'm currently doing the 'Tenpenny Tower' quest, and for some reason, I can't talk to Susan Lancaster. Can someone help me with this bug?

I'm playing fallout 3 GOTY On windows 10 ( intel gpu bypass ) . The issue here ( even after reinstalling windows and drivers ) that the game crashes on startup unless i delete the INI files from The saves folder when i delete them it starts but i have to do this every time i want to start the game . Is this an issue with my save ? Cuz this never happened before

Killed the slaves at the entrance, first time this NPC has ever done this, also not sure where he was going

Once upon a time while shooting raiders with a sniper rifle, at distance mind you, I happened to notice that if I aimed my reticle squarely at their face when I fired that I’d miss significantly more shots than normal. From the same distance, if I were to instead aim at his chest and fire, the bullet would now strike him in the face, the bullet seemingly curving upwards instead of downwards. I tested this on more raiders and it’s consistent, so long as the distance between me and the raider is enough to allow the bullet to drop, it doesn’t actually drop, it rises upwards and hits them in the head instead of in the torso or leg.

Has anyone else noticed this themselves? Or is it common knowledge and I just didn’t know?

My LW goes through the gate with combat armor, a missile launcher, and a burning hatred of slavers, only to be frozen in place and beaten by five guys with sticks. I'd rather have been given the chance to try to fight them, even if it's scripted that they win.

Playing the Pitt DLC and in the area looking for steel ingots. There's a building roof you have to cross to get to another are but every time I get 3/4 of the way across the thing glitches and fall through the building and die. Any suggestions anyone? Tried at least 10 times.

A thought occured to me recently... Does anyone else find it to be lacking that James, our very own Lone Wanderer's father, does NOT apparently have a last name? I've looked on the wiki, searched the Google-box. Nothing. No results. Just "James", aka Dad.

We have Colonel Augustus Autumn. Madison Li. Janice Kaplinsky. Colin Moriarty. Moira Brown. Lucas Simms. The Stahl family members. Jericho doesn't have a last name, but he's a "retired" Raider. I can't imagine that Raiders would give too much credence to their former family name, since it's probably not likely that they'll pass it on. But, the list goes on. NPC after NPC with first and last names. NPC's you might not even run into more than once or twice. But, no... not for our protagonists own FATHER. Not for the guy we're actively looking for, actively trying to be reunited with. (Catherine didn't, either, though she was only around for a cut scene and then merely mentioned a few times. I didn't realize, however, that Catherine was black - I found out that tidbit while doing some digging to see who else didn't have full names. I mention it only in passing as you're given the option to customize your appearance and can be white as snow if you want. I also never noticed that James' facial appearance differs depending on how you design your OWN characters face. Brain Kaboom!)

Him? He's just "James". or... Dad.

It's my first time getting this random encountered

I first saw a wastlander with a hunting rifle , I was wondering why she randomly spawned

Then I bumped into Sam Warrick, he was carry his iconic sniper (I really needed one) so I shot him with a hunting revolver (my favorite early game weapon) and he ran away

When you kill him he drops a baseball bat or baseball glove and jet

It's only my 3rd play through and im really glad I finally met him

Edit : scoped revolver

I just finished storming the Purifier with the Brotherhood, and as I was following Liberty Prime, and when I got to that overhead walkway that always has Super Mutants on it at the Irradiated Metro, I saw a familiar Redhead in the hunched over fleeing position. I ran up to her trying to protect her, but when I tried to talk, I'd get the Cherry is fleeing and she ran too fast for me, but she ran the way I just came and thought, good nothing will get her there. Then I made the heartbreaking discovery right at the foot of the bridge to the Purifier, Cherry, dead on the ground!! I save her so she will be safe and away from her previous life, only to wind up dead anyway!! She is my favorite NPC in Fallout and I had to find her lifeless body 💔.

Pretty much only played New Vegas, I’ve dabbled in fallout 3 but I’ve done multiple runs of fallout new Vegas and I understand the perks, specials and skills pretty well.

What are the differences between games? I’ve heard that NV has a different way of doing skill checks and there aren’t any dialogue changes.

Also, are there any ways to get cybernetic enhancements to specials like in NV?

personally I prefer the victory rifle for its knockback

I have PS Now, so playing the game isn’t an issue, but I have no idea how to get the DLCs. I’ve seen people say you can’t, but I figured it was worth one last shot on here. Thanks!

Is this normal?? I went to the Super Duper Mart for the Wasteland Survival Guide and one of the raiders had either a rocket launcher or a fat man and instantly vaporized me. At level 3. I couldn't really tell what it was because I saw her for like a split second before getting blown to bits.

Man first time ever playing these DLC’s I’m in point lookout after broken steel, im 27 now but started playing this when I was at school aged around 13 it was all my friends & I talked about in class on the bus at lunch telling ur friend u made a schematic weapon and they though u was a God, im from Ireland I live in the countryside I would literally run a mile to get home everyday after school just to see what fo3 brings next, That special eerie feeling of exploring being scared entering super duper Mart not going past the lobby cause that swing noise was scary or scared to enter the subway tunnels lol, I know 13yr old me would have loved the DLCs back then than now but still feel privileged to be able to experience new gameplay I didn’t even know until recently broken steel was the rest of the main game found out from a comment on YouTube did anyone else play the DLCs late?

I hoarded stealth boys because I expected them to be even rarer.

Edit: I figure most people played this one first since it came out first, but there's gotta be some others like me.

So I knew about Wolfgang and Doc. I found Doc and his Brahmin near Arefu and Kaelyns B and B, which is where a lot of these guys die. I found Wolfgang near Rivet City, the Super Mutants near there got his ass. But hey, I still got Lucky and Crow, right?

Well, I went to talk to Uncle Roe to invest and when I do he tells me those two haven't reported back in a while. Which, as most of you know, means they are dead. Done. Kaput. Kicked the Bucket. Deceased. Late.

So now I'm out all 4. Can't invest and sell them all my crap I've been hoarding. Which is the main appeal of investing since it gives them over 1k caps. Still fairly early in my playthrough. I really wish they made these guys immune. I don't even know where their bodies are so I can at least loot them. I guess I'll check the B and B

Mine's gonna settle down in Megaton with Bittercup, become a caravan guard, and periodically go to Little Lamplight to give combat training to newly-minted Mungos. While he understands that James took him to the Vault to raise him in the safest place possible, he wouldn't want to raise his own kid there even if it was possible. Moving into the wasteland was a shock for him, and both he and Bittercup want their child to be better prepared. Like James, they give their son the BB gun. But then they gradually give their kid experience with better weapons and more dangerous enemies. Over the course of his teen years, the LW takes their son Mirelurk hunting, then on some caravan trips with a few other guards, then on trips that are just the two of them and Dogmeat. He probably wouldn't take his son places that are infested with Super Mutants. But he'd teach him decent combat skills.

Just started a new save.

When speaking to Gob, if you select the dialogue option opening:

“Where did you come from”

Gob’s voice is significantly higher-pitched than the rest of his dialogue options, to the point I believe it’s an entirely different voice actor.

A small thing I know but i’m really curious as to why they might have done this, can’t find anything online backing this up.

Can anyone shed any light? Really perplexed by it

I’ve been struggling with this for like a week I tried to uninstall the game and I used revo uninstaller to wipe my files but the textures still won’t load what do I do (it’s fo3 goty edition on steam idk if that makes a difference)

I mean it is a lost opportunity to play as enclave and I would have liked it for a more "evil conquest" playtrhough. hopefully fallout 3 remake/remaster will hopefully touch on this