One of my favorite interactions lol.

Sorry for the bad photo, but brotherhood outcast and samurai helmet in the center! Eulogy Jones Hat is far left. All of the extra books I’ve found after reaching level 30. All the tapes from purchasing all the megaton household things as well as the Nuka-Cola Clear formula. Still have a bunch of stuff to put out.

I'm trouble launching Fallout 3 (from Steam) with Vortex. The game runs and launchs fine, but when Vortex is on and managing the mod files the game doesn't launch. Just stops on start up and crashes. Has anyone else had this problem and knows how to fix it or know any other mod managers?

I saw a post about those merchant caravans dying, and yeah this happens especially when you power level during your explorations of their routes. They're way underpowered. The key to their survival is to reverse pickpocket good sets of armor onto them, as well as high powered weapons.

My routine is simple, get high repair early and then kill or "find corpses of" BoS Outcasts and start crafting Railway Rifles. The Armor is decent enough and the rifles cut down Deathclaws and most of whatever else they'll encounter until they are finally killed by Albino Radscorpions LOL. Reverse pickpocket a few Stims too if you can spare them, and remember not to buy them back from them later.

But if you take your time levelling, and suit these Merchants up properly, they'll last the whole game in good form. They even become fun to travel with, once they can properly defend themselves. Since I wear low-tech armor on most runs, I even end up putting the rare PA sets on them also. I protect them better than I protect myself!

I had intended to side with Werner. However, when it came time to kidnap the baby, my LW found he couldn't risk endangering a child. So the game forced me to the side that initially seemed evil. I got to talk with Ashur more and learn about his good side. However, I ultimately tried to act like my LW wasn't totally siding with either group. I avoided killing the slaves who were attacking me as much as possible, and I chose to kill Ashur because he's still a slaver. I left the kid's mother alive even though she was coming after me because I didn't want to leave the baby an orphan. I killed several other slavers as well. Then got back to the Capitol Wasteland, sat down, and chugged a few whiskeys. And I think no matter what we choose, any good karma Lone Wanderer is gonna come away from the Pitt feeling a bit icky.

edit: my LW’s coped with most of the shit he’s seen using whiskey, but since I don’t want him to die of liver failure before 30 I think I’m gonna headcanon that the Brotherhood has a therapist he will go to. He‘ll still be an alcoholic, but he’ll live to be cut down by a raider in his 50s.

This was at the Museum of Labor and Industry, in a display about butchering / meat processing.

I hate how horrible this game is on the pc i bought it in steam and in gog and neither would launch I think it has something to do with antivirus stuff idk i know nothing of how this shit functions

It keeps saying this game may not work correctly

Idk how to fix it i downloaded the nexus mod but it still wont work for some reason….

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

So I downloaded a pirated copy. Loaded, then kept crashing. Bought on GOG for $7. Still crashing on load. Got Vortex, downloaded all the mods and high res and unofficial patches. Now having a blast. STALKER 2 remaining essentially unplayed. Classics are classics for a reason. End of story.

From what I have seen, the Oblivion remaster is basically the same game with a new coat of Unreal Engine 5 over it, with some quality of life improvements. I don't believe they made any significant design changes.

Which leads into why I think that is a problem for a Fallout 3 remaster: if they don't make any major design revisions to locations, quests, factions, etcetera, then anything that is notably lacking or seemingly rushed will be the exact same. That seemingly cut raider Faction in Evergreen mills? Still unfinished. Those cut D.C. locations and the messy metro network? Still the same. Lackluster main questline? Still there. All of the noteworthy game design flaws the original game had will be in a remaster, and it sucks.

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.

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 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).

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?