[Traveller]

Nice, I'll check out Rivet city. I could fast travel back to Megaton; fast travel always feels like cheating though.

[Aptorian]

I constantly fastravelled. Mostly because I have a tendency to hoard anything and everything I get in contact with.

Even after I had purchased everything I could for my home, had a bazillion rounds of ammo for every weapon, had over 10.000 caps, etc. I still hoard and save up. It's a desease!

[Hoods_Balls]

Whenever you are trading just buy everything the vendor has that is useful...like all of there stimpaks, then sell all your stuff, the more money you give them the mopre they have, and you can sell them useless junk to get your caps back.
just always buy all the stimpacks or other healing items/ammo that do not have a weight to them. This way you get everything usefull and can always go gather crap to sell back for your caps.

[Traveller]

This game is just sooo great. I just had a shootout with super-mutants in the Planetarium, with the show going on in the background 10/10 for atmosphere. A bit later, as I left the station, I caught a bunch of mercs unawares - when I searched them (what was left) they had a warrant out for me - 1000 cap reward! Useless bastards, I hope it goes up a bit now.

I'm loving the way the NPCs all seem to have a life - there are gunfights going on in the distance, whether you're there or not; there's much more of an impression of a living environment than Oblivion.

Good tips regarding trade thanks. Missiles are great currency, as they don't weigh anything, and cost a lot.

[Camel]

I got Fallout 3 two days ago, and I love it! I'm having a ton of fun with it. I've basically been doing side quests out of Megaton so far. I finished chapter 1 of Moira's quests. Having a good time with it.

Anyone got any tips for getting a lot of cash early on? I think I'm level 5 or so. My next stop is Germantown HQ and then the radio tower, I think.

[Stalker]

meh, cash doesn't even matter that much.

Just explore the area and find items and caps. The items you can barter and you'll find better weapons. By the end of my game I had over 150 health packs, that I found, and many high level weapons and insane amounts of ammo and cash.

When I sell my gear I just use the caps at the same store to buy ammo and other various items to repair my armor. I don't think I ever actually spent over 50 caps at any one time.

[Sparkimus]

If oyu have the scrounger and extra found caps perk, it's worth it to do the rescue mission at the hospital. I think I picked up the radio transmission outside the musuem of history. I went into that one with about 15 stimpacks and 100 caps and left it with about 125 stimpacks and well over 2000 caps.

[Traveller]

Yep, just done this mission. No scrounger perk, but managed to get a load of caps, ammo and stimpaks.

Go to the infirmary at Underworld to start.

On a different subject.. when I did the Blood Ties quest, I wiped out the Family, but freed the boy and got him back to Arefu. I got 'quest complete,' gained karma, and they all thanked me. I even heard a bit on the radio about how their problem had been resolved.

I went back there again yesterday (to pinch the repair bobblehead) and they are now all hostile towards me, the ungrateful bastards.

(Anyone else found the crashed alien spaceship? It has an alien blaster that melts a supermutant in a single shot...)

This post has been edited by Traveller: 09 January 2009 - 02:11 PM

[Stalker]

Well I bought the DLC- Operation Anchorage as soon as I got back from classes and put a good 2 hours into it so far (haven't finished yet- I want to savor my moneys worth).

I've seen some mixed reviews, mostly people feel it is too short but fun overall. Honestly the length doesn't bother me because its great to be playing new content (new weapons, outfits, environment is alaska). So I'd say that if you enjoyed the game and put a lot of time into it get the DLC. I put 40ish hours into the game before starting on the DLC so for me it was an obivious purchase, and worth it.

[Aptorian]

Traveller, on Jan 5 2009, 04:58 PM, said:

(Anyone else found the crashed alien spaceship? It has an alien blaster that melts a supermutant in a single shot...)

I never found the weapon. I did find one ufo though, but it only had energy cells which I sold to the rebel Stell Armor dudes for AK47 ammo.

[Camel]

Aptorian, on Jan 27 2009, 10:26 PM, said:

Traveller, on Jan 5 2009, 04:58 PM, said:

(Anyone else found the crashed alien spaceship? It has an alien blaster that melts a supermutant in a single shot...)

I never found the weapon. I did find one ufo though, but it only had energy cells which I sold to the rebel Stell Armor dudes for AK47 ammo.

So I beat the game yesterday, as well as getting every achievement there is that doesn't require me to start a new character. A few of the achievements are impossible to get in just one play-through, so I'll have to go back later and get the other six. Got the rest though.

I was disappointed in the ending, but the rest of the game was pretty awesome.

[Stalker]

You can get all the achievements in one playthrough. I almost did, except I did the main quest a little out of order so I missed one from that- Scientific Pursuits gah. I don't mind making another character though.

[Knight of Bowen]

i just wanna get an idea how people have played the fallouts 1-3? and how it was sorta an underground game.. i could never find any1 to talk about it with way back when. anyway just wanted an idea thats all, fallout rocks!

[Traveller]

Finally finished the game. I'd reached level 20 quite a long way before I actually finished it, and completed a LOT of missions. Although, I'd been collecting all these weapons, ammo and caps for ages, and then the game ends...

Great game though - I got a good 65 hours out of it without getting bored. The ending was ok, but I preferred wandering around with my big supermutant buddy, finding Enclave soldiers to blow up.

Just a few days until Empire TW release now...

[Sparkimus]

God I'm itching so bad to play again. I stopped completely once I reached level 20 in anticipation of the level cap removal in march.... The wait is unbearable!

[Soulessdreamer]

I found the best combo to be small arms with 10mm submachine gun, Chinese then Xulong assalt rifle, combat shotgun and sniper rifle. unitl I did achorage and got the guass rifle that is.

Was always running short of ammo for the sniper rifle even with one shot sneak attack crits, carried it anyway just for the zoom. Character really needed binocs IMO.

Shot gun still works best on beasts and mutants at close ranges

Am loving grenades

If you are nutral karma you can get the army robot to be your follower, from the robot peddler.

As to caps things like scrap metal and prewar books generate small but consistant cashflow

Back before I got my megaton house I stored everything in a nuka cola machine and a first aid box.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/ info on all the fallout games

TTFN

[cerveza_fiesta]

So I should buy this right? Good game as far as anybody here's concerned?

[Dr Trouble]

Did you read this thread? Basically unanimous praise.

Redundant question is redundant.

[Aptorian]

cerveza_fiesta, on Mar 6 2009, 01:16 PM, said:

So I should buy this right? Good game as far as anybody here's concerned?

Yes buy it! Just don't pay too much attention to the main story quest as it is relative short. There's tons of stuff to discover outside the story.

[cerveza_fiesta]

yeah, I was kind of joking. I'm totally going to pick it up when I have time + money.