That is just a model and texture resource, not a full, usable mod. You would need This mod to actually have a driveable motorcycle. You could just use the other mod to replace the model and texture, and make it look different.


The whole history is scattered in bits and pieces across the half-dozen or so Fallout games, like the history in the ES games. Some of it also comes directly from Chris Avellone, one of the early developers. He created the Fallout Bible to start putting it all together. You can find out all the particulars here.

The remnant of the White House is in the game. Go to Pennsylvania Avenue in DC and you can see it through a fence. It is deep in the ruins, so not easy to get through. Use this map to navigate the maze of the ruins. It is based on an earlier one I found, and then added in things that were missing (like all of L'Enfant Plaza). There is a utility tunnel nearby that will take you under the White House, and has a door to the basement. It also get used in Broken Steel to lead you to the final encounter zones, but those areas will be blocked off of course unless you are doing BS. Most things from RL are in the game: The Capitol Building, The Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jeff Memorial, and so on. A few things got changed, like there is no Smithsonian Air and Space Museum anymore, instead they have a Museum of Technology, and little things like that. The city of Bethesda is even in the game, where the devs got their name from (and its crawling with Raiders! )

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 1 2014, 12:13 AM

Caille cleared out the Vault Tec Headquarters, and learned the locations of the local vaults. Continuing through Vernon Square, she finally made to Our Lady of Perpetual Misery Hospital. After a long crawl through the mutant-infested hospital, she crossed over to the Statesman Hotel. Fighting her way to the roof, she found Reilly's Rangers. Thankfully she had picked up a fission battery on the way, and one of the Rangers was able to use it to get the express elevator going again. Of course there were plenty of muties waiting at the bottom. But they fought their way out, and Caille made it back to Ranger HQ for her reward. A suit of Ranger Battle Armor.

It is really nice armor, better than her Winterized Combat Armor. But unfortunately, Caille is a Winter Soldier, so green armor (or the black retexture I have) just does not work for her. So the armor went into a locker back home in Megaton.

Now, it is off to take a tour of the Vaults, starting with 106, as it is the nearest to Megaton.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 1 2014, 04:36 AM

No coincidence, I imagine..!

Oh, it's one of those esp-less 'modder's resources' thingies? Thanks for warning me. And thanks for the history links.



Ha that's so crazy! .. It's almost sacreligious to some people who hate video games I'm sure, to portray our nation's First House in such a way.

I have heard about Bethesda crawling with raiders, I think Lopov may have told me about this. I wonder if it's kind of a subtle jab at the town of Bethesda, since Bethesda Softworks is actually located in Rockville (which is the next town over).

Sunday, August 19, 8:32 PM

Joe King is still in Megaton, and he's lost touch with Cho Zen~Wahn and Marge N. Overra. I imagine he's having a hard time coming to grips with his new reality. Joe's got his father to look for (and stay focused on) and Marge always seemed like a semi-military brat type when I was RPing her last summer. Like, she's really into computers and gadgets and that side of things, which kept her mind occupied. Joe, on the other hand, seems the most like a mixed-up teenager with no real idea what he wants to do with himself. Not during his first couple days in Megaton anyways.

Although we can't sleep in Megaton (in the vanilla game) without buying a house or a wh0re, Joe's been staying with Lucy West. And I'm RPing it that she's kind of nurturing him, and probably the two of them have hooked up or something.

Monday, August 20, 6:33 AM

Well, whatever bond was between Lucy and Joe is now over. She caught him stealing some cram and bubble gum and so now he's got nowhere to stay. In an effort to please her, he's decided he'll try going out in the world to find this Arefu place she keeps talking about.

9:34 AM

Joe King has found Springvale Elementary School, which seems deserted. Before leaving Megaton, he decided to move several giant ant corpses away from the town's entrance. Although he does this for God knows what reason, the reason I'm having him do it is because I have heard that corpses in this game respawn wherever they are dragged, so I'm experimenting to see if these ants will wind up where he left them (which is several hundred yards away from Megaton). If this works, it'll be good because there will be no more cluster-[censored] of enemies which wind up respawning over and over in front of Megaton, killing poor Deputy Weld over and over.

Another cool thing is: if this works, it means it'll be possible to have raiders (especially the more dangerous ones with bombs and rocket launchers) respawn in ... interesting areas. Like next to Super Mutants, for instance. One of the probs I had with Marge last summer was she kept getting bombarded with respawning enemies in key areas, many of which had these incredibly dangerous weapons. Remember?

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 4 2014, 09:02 PM

Sounds like you´re having a ball in the Capital Wasteland, Renee!

I´m active there again too now, pretty fun even though I´m 400 hours in

After deciding on whether to side with peaceful Goodsprings villagers or ruthless Powder Gangers, A.P. Hoffman finally made up his mind - although he was once a member of the infamous Talon Company, he doesn't want to get involved with gangs anymore.

That's why he's currently doing jobs for Eddie, the leading Powder Ganger at the NCRCF, to convince him that he's on their side, but when the opportunity arises, he'll turn his back on them and help the villagers.

Among other things, he bought a 9mm pistol scope for his 9mm gun. A.P. Hoffman was once a sniper but after he lost his right eye when an unknown man in a checkered suit shot him, he had to get acquainted with short-ranged weapons. So a 9mm gun, modified with a scope, is now his primary weapon, for toughter figths he'll switch to a caravan shotgun.

Ahh, nice to see a New Vegas tale, I should be back in the Capitol wasteland myself pretty soon. So what does A.P. stand for?

In Fallout 3 it stands for Action Points..


So, yeah... Running around shootin´ things and getting things shot by. Stockpiling ammo and caps!

Albert Peter. But his name in the game is just Hoffman.

Today something remarkable happened! Thanks to me going down Irradiated Metro I found a place I haven´t been to in my 400+ hours; L´Enfant Plaza!!

I don´t do dungeons so much anymore and I have avoided said metro because of its name, but it wasn´t so bad and it gave me what I always want; more unexplored areas!

Awesome that you're still able to find new places after so many hours. I probably discovered something new in FO3 each time I played it, there's a lot to be found in the Metro.
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After realizing that NCR are just a bunch of incompetent idiots, Hoffman cleared Primm of Powder Gangers by himself. The entire exploit lasted a little less than 12 hours, beginning around 8 PM and ending around 7 AM in the morning.

This post has been edited by Lopov: May 18 2014, 10:41 PM

Powder Gangers. Are you talking about this guy? He looks tough.

Yeah, these guys. They're not so tough but there are plenty of them though not all of them are hostile.

Their combat notes from the Wiki.

This post has been edited by Lopov: May 19 2014, 02:35 PM

I always think of them as being Power Gangers, and imagine that the Power Rangers are chasing them...

For practically stealing their trademarked name!

There's one old man in Primm that'll always name them "Powder Gangsters" but what's funny is that developers actually added a dialogue line where you can correct him about it. I can't remember what's his reply, though.

Ok, so besides L´Enfant I have now also discovered the White House and I´ve found some nice things along the way. All in all I´ve had some very fun Fallout 3 moments as of late!

After switching to Windows 8 I seemed to have some trouble launching Fallout 3 GOTY (which is apparently a very common problem) through steam. I've FINALLY got it sorted, so now I can join you guys! Although resolving the problem had left the game with lag, it's better than no game at all!

My character, who I've been thinking about for a while, is called Quistis. Quistis is her surname, but goes by it as she absolutely HATES her first name (I have yet to find out what it is). She is a brawler, but knows how to take care of herself. Her tagged skills are Melee, Medicine and Speech.

Currently she is in Megaton, having just diffused the bomb. Luckily for her, the bomb was a basic in explosives and was something she learned during some volunteer classes at the Vault, so she was able to deal with it... and was rewarded with a house!

She will probably stay a while. Megaton feels safe, and after the day she has had she needs to recuperate to figure out her next move. Tomorrow she will ask around about the location of her father.
I will post a screenie of her once I finalize her look.

Very cool. Glad you sorted that out, Rihanae. Why did you get Windows 8? Did you have 7 before? ..