I have tried pickpocketing that special key from Dave every single game, but he ALWAYS wakes up and catches me, which ends in his death and then me fleeing the town. (So, usually sneak into his safe before attempting it, no sense leaving town without the Nuka Quantum/that special gun/etc). But if I could pick his pocket for that key, I'd leave his gun behind, I never use it afterward anyway. Just can't leave without that key!

I loved that Gary place! Though I was a bit confused when I first found it..


Well, I managed to sweet-talk her to give me her suit and just move on No luck on The Mechanizer though

Today Molly ventured deep into the heart of the DC Ruins. She wrangled up the communications dish from the Virgo Lander in the Museum of Technology, and installed it on the Washington Monument for Three Dog. However, what originally brought her down there was the Harry Hamlin from the Temple of the Union. She scouted out the Lincoln Memorial for him, and found that it was indeed free of super-mutants. But not free of slavers. So Molly commenced to chopping, and now there are plenty of slavers, plenty of pieces of slavers at least...

She also stopped by the Museum of Natural History and sold off her excess loot in Underworld. While she was there she ventured into the feral section, and chopped the bad ghoulies down to size. Molly scooped up a pile of Lincoln goodies in there, including the hat and repeater. She took them all back to the Temple, and sold them to Harry Hamlin. Not many of my characters would do that. But Molly doesn't use guns, and the hat makes her mohawks disappear. So she did not mind giving them away.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 25 2015, 03:58 AM

Funny thing when I went through the Lincoln Memorial first time. Even though I pretty much take whatever isn´t nailed down (like any Fallout player ) I completely disregarded the Lincoln thingies. I remember looking at Lincoln´s Voice, noticing I could pick it up, but then I just turned around and left

Had to come back later when my collecting was in full bloom to scoop it all up

Misa tagged along behind Molly to retrieve that Virgo dish for 3 Dog, but while Molly was helping the Temple of the Union Misa slipped off to Hamilton's Hideaway and nabbed the weapons cache, lol.

That whole Temple of the Union questline was really well done; both sides had their arguments and kept the player neutral till either someone got trigger happy (I've had the slavers turn on me for no known cause) or you chose a side and caused the other side to jump on you. I really like that quest, and what a great battle you have against those slavers if you don't side with them! That is one tough battle!

Yeah, Lincoln's figurine, diary, coin collection - they find a place on Misa's desk, she never lets them go. The hat she wears frequently, and the Repeater - it just goes in her file cabinet for storage, she doesn't release it. Maxical was the same when she visited the Wasteland - loved that Lincoln paraphernalia.




This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 25 2015, 06:51 PM

Now it is Molly who has fallen behind! A few nights ago she finished up her business with the former slaves and Treydog, and she went exploring through Dupont Circle. It was there that she found a dry sewer that led her to Our Lady Of Perpetual Misery Hospital. Last night she cleaned that out, and followed it to the Statesman Hotel. FO3 players know what happens there. The next thing Molly knew, she was rescuing Reilly's Rangers.

Now she is working her way through the metro tunnels to Ranger Headquarters. Though I think she might head to Rivet City first. She has not explored the subway between Museum Station and there, so she could mark that off her list of places to see. Rivet City is also a good place to sell off her loot, which has piled up, even after a few stops at Underworld Outfitters.

Ooh, she IS behind Misa now! Misa is currently Geo-Mapping the wasteland for Reilly. That is funding her for the time being while she determines whether to search for Daddy James The Black or follows an odd transmission she has been hearing.

Ben Nevis has a rendezvous with a certain surgeon and a giant teddy bear at the Red Racer factory.

And no that does NOT sound like you think it sounds.

Cross my heart...

!!!!


Misa went to Anchorage and had a great time. Then when she returned, she cleared the Talon Company Headquarters, Evergreen Mills, and then decided to go to Point Lookout. Right now she just helped the obnoxious Desmond to clear his mansion of Tribals and stumbled across some info on a spy.

The truth is, she doesn't feel like spending much time at home relaxing since Crowley is due to show up there stewing for a fight. Right now we've been testing to see if he will show up while she is out in the field so she can kill him somewhere other than inside her Megaton home.

Molly visited him last week!




Desmond was really annoying. My last character who did Point Lookout helped him kill the brain in a jar at the very end, and once that was done, turned around and killed Desmond too. That is what he gets for being rude.

You are still way ahead of Molly. She finally got to Reilly's Ranger's hq yesterday and picked up her suit of armor. She spent the rest of that day clearing out Seward Square (the area the Reilly HQ is in). From there she went to the Capitol Building, which she spent today clearing of mutants and Talons. Afterward she returned to the Mall, and finished clearing up the last few spots there, which was basically just the National Archives. She broke into the safe with the Bill of Rights, and helped Button Gwinnett foil the Redcoat plot to steal the Declaration of Independence. Afterward she headed back to Vernon Square, and tackled Vault Tec Headquarters. That clears out most of the DC Ruins east the Potomac. All that remains now is Takoma Park, L'Enfant Plaza, and Pennsylvania Ave. I think she will probably clear out all of them, and then perhaps try her hand at Point Lookout.

Well, while Molly was in Canterbury Commons/Cardoza Factory/etc - Misa was doing the Mall stuff (she hasn't even found Canterbury Commons or the Cardova yet).

Misa almost died several times in Desmonds, those tribals fight like hell! This whole game so far, nothing has brought down her health like they did.

Anchorage is about my favorite of the DLC (other than not being able to return there) - and for the first time I found all 10 intel this time!

When she returns to the Wasteland from Point Lookout, I should have a list of the Keller tape locations (I'm missing 1 and 3) and be going to get that prototype MVRP Fat boy gun just because I like doing that quest.

Actually, I've only ever used that gun a couple times and it somehow didn't kill 5 Enclave Soldiers or their Deathclaw pet (who were all stuck inside an enclosed fence - caged in, and still couldn't kill them! So since then I've never bothered trying to use it, but still like getting it.

I need to Google the locations of those two Keller tapes, and while I'm at it need to check on Bobblehead locations. Misa has 9 of the Bobbleheads, and I know one is inside Raven Rock. I picked up the ones I remembered where they were, can't remember the others, lol.

You had me rolling with how you handled Desmond! SPEW !!!! I didn't remember the brain till you said that, still don't remember the quest - but I do remember reading a book called "Donovan's Brain" for school; where the brain was controlling the scientist and they had to kill the brain - wonder if that is one of the Easter Eggs?

Hi Rosa !!

Red Racer was really cool. Ben had fun using the Miss Launcher to scare the life out of the muties in the office. Watching the missile spin around on the ground and no quite knowing what will happen next was insane fun!

I also found a fire hydrant in a toilet cubicle at Red Racer. I love that Beth puts unexplained things like that in their games.



Ahhh, L'Enfant Plaza. Now we are talking!!!! My favourite place in downtown DC.


mALX, great to read your adventures with Rosa in the Wasteland. Misa and Molly, they sound like a awesome pair. Look out DC!!!!

Keller Tapes

Took me sweet time to discover that place. Only did that last year I think

Hey Wolf, it is great to see you back in the Capital Wasteland again! Arooo!

Molly finished out the rest of DC today. East of the Potomac at least. Afterward she even made time for a trip up north meet Agatha. That led to an expedition to Vault 92, whose location Molly already knew thanks to her recent trip to Vault Tec Headquarters. She returned with both a violin and sheet music. So now she is packing the Blackhawk. I think she is going to put her Railway Rifle on the shelf, and try that for those pesky ranged opponents from now on.

With all that done, I think the next ground for Molly to stomp upon will probably be Point Lookout.

The Blackhawk is one of my favorite guns in the vanilla game!


It may be cheating, but one of the things I lived with for all these years playing Fallout 3 on the 360 was what happens when alien power cells and Firelance land on a roof instead of the ground (you lose); or when your player is backed into a corner and can't escape and enemies are closing in fast (you lose again) - or like what happened to me yesterday, you get caught behind a faulty mesh and can't escape; have to reload a previous save and redo a lot of gameplay - grrrr!).

Well, thanks to something I read on here last week, I suddenly discovered that in the PC game you can toggle clipping and get out of situations that on the 360 would have been hopeless.

So yesterday for the first time I tried using clipping to find my alien power cells and to get out of a mesh glitch that had my character trapped in a mountainside when she somehow got below the rock mesh. On the 360 that would have meant reloading a previous save, redoing a lot of gameplay. Not having to reload/redo - it was awesome !!!

Any more PC only game tricks or tips anyone wants to share, I'm all ears!

Misa needed a break from Point Lookout, so came back to the Wasteland for a while. She has not gone and collected the seeds needed to infiltrate the Tribals yet. Before leaving though, she did go check out that sub the spy wanted blown up. Although it would have been great to see a huge explosion in the water, Misa did not blow up the sub - did not want to help the spies (although i did consider saving, blowing it up, then reloading the save so it never happened, lol).




This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 2 2015, 06:54 AM

Ha! And we both know the answer to that. You were too busy counting the 200,000 caps your character has collected by now.

Meanwhile here I am still back on 45,000 and wondering just how Mirocu does it...

Runnin´, shootin´ and lootin´. Nothing more to it

Oh Thank you for this! I really appreciate that! I saw where you'd posted this a little late, had already Googled the Keller tapes and Bobbleheads locations and had just posted the screen of all the Bobbleheads when I read it,

Still, thank you so much!

Molly took a little side trip to the National Guard Depot to plunder the place, and get the Small Guns bobblehead. She has not found all the Keller tapes yet, so she could not get into the bunker, yet.

Then she headed off for Point Lookout. Goodness, I am having so much fun there! This is my favorite of all the FO3 dlcs. I love the spooky atmosphere, with the ever-present mist, and looming clouds, fetid swamps, and brooding mansions. It is like being an old Black and White horror movie, like the original Wolfman or Dracula.



Here here for cheating! Seriously, that TCL command has gotten me out of many of those exact same situations, where I was stuck in some section of landscape and unable to escape. Fallout 3's console commands are basically the same as Oblivion's, you can get them here.

The Force Weather command is the same as in Oblivion - FW - but the codes for each type of weather are different. The values for clear weather are 5CF9C and 64609. Not sure if there is really any difference between them. You can get all the weather ids out of the GECK if you are really interested in changing the weather with the console.

Adding or removing perks is the exact same command as in Skyrim Player.AddPerk {perk id} and Player.RemovePerk {perk id}.

You can repair your stuff like a merchant (without needing spare items) by typing Player.srm. player.setweaponhealthperc {value} sets your equipped weapon's health to the value you put in.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 3 2015, 03:58 AM

I've used the "Player.additem" - never thought about the perks, I guess I'd have to figure out the id's for the ones I wanted, lol.

One thing I like about being on the PC is that I can play around more with the game and try out things I was never able to before - like before I always HAD to take perks that were utile instead of fun. Since I've been on the PC I've been taking ones I always wanted to try but hated to waste a perk on just in case, lol.

I've also been unlocking doors a lot by console instead of lockpicking. Just kind of like a spree because for the first time I CAN do it, lol. I'll simmer down after a while and get back to doing things right, it is just so cool to be able to do it this way for right now.

But yeah, the clipping - if needed in the future, it will most def be used rather than reloading a save!





This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 3 2015, 04:30 AM