Edited: I was wrong about the ages:

The schematic is the Rock-it-launcher; and if you break into the safe as a teenager and take it, then break in again before leaving the vault it has reset and upgrades the schematic to version 2 - just confirmed this. The 300 caps has disappeared from your inventory, but the schematic and Bobblehead are still there.

I wondered if you can break in at age 10 (take a side jaunt before going downstairs to shoot the gun) and maybe leave the vault with a version 3 schematic? I might try that next time I start the game from scratch.

Edited: Tried, you can't


But you do leave the vault with version 2; and Moira sells version 3 to you as soon as you reach Megaton and have the caps to buy it. (or she may give it to you in payment for your services on the book, can't remember).



That ant quest sounds Awesome! I didn't remember it, but how awesome if you could have the giant ants friendly (or at least neutral)!

I think I've only done Shalebridge once, went in with Fawkes and he died in the ant tunnels; I am guessing it was in the unfriendly ant tunnels now; but I was so ticked off that he couldn't survive a few ants that I took him to Tenpenny towers and left him in Tenpenny's suite like a big green turd - kind of a statement to Tenpenny for all the attacks on me over saving Megaton.

on me blowing up Daddy James! SPEW !!! That vid makes me laugh every time I think of it, especially the baby talking that sounds like it is saying "Bye-bye, Daddy bye-bye" - I showed it to my son and got him laughing hard, which is really hard to do!

Yeah, that vid author has a bunch of awesome vids, like the Enclave being at your birthing - hilarious!








I have; you have to approach it from the north (NOT the side the super mutant camp is on). Wear the best radiation protection you can and hotkey the rad-away and rad-x - and run while hitting them repeatedly.

I even got the puny loot from in front of the door; I think it is an advanced radiation suit and a thing of Rad-x - can't remember now, but I used to always put it on the map.

What I did: saved as soon as it registered Vault 87 is found; then turn and run back out of the danger zone and save.

Then I'd heal up and get my radiation to zero; take a rad-x and fast travel to Vault 87 (it drops you in front of the door) to grab the loot from the dead scientist laying in the dirt in front of the vault door.




This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 15 2015, 08:46 PM

Very clever way to get at that loot at Vault 87! Fast traveling there saves you half the trip, and gives you a few precious seconds to click on things laying on the ground before the radiation kills you.

I have done the run at the Vault 87 entrance as well, maxxing out rad resistance and hot keying rad away. You are just constantly hitting that hotkey. There is not much there to see though, and you cannot open the door.

Funny thing is, I never did it with my ghoul character Medusa. Thanks to a mod I use to play ghouls (which of course I tweaked massively), she didn't take damage from radiation, but rather it gave her buffs. She even glowed at 1000 rads like a glowing one. She just never got out in that neck of the woods. She spent most of her time exploring the DC Ruins.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 15 2015, 06:11 PM

OMG, how cool!

Hey, I just had to amend my above comment; I just went in game and tested it out - was remembering it really wrong about how young you could get into that safe. You can't get in till the day of the goat - get the schematic then; and again when you leave (upgrades to version 2); then you have to get the third upgrade from Moira or somewhere else. Sorry for the false info it wasn't deliberate - memory giving out on me, lol.




This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 17 2015, 03:43 AM

It could be fun to try to reach Vault 87 I guess, but it´s simply too much fun running around killing things

Played some Fallout 3 today with Cho Zen-Wahn. Really enjoyed it for about an hour or two, but then I had to be somewhere. But it looks like I'll be into this game for a good while again. Something about it charms me.

Cho wound up trying to deliver the Lucy letter to somebody in Aremfu (I think) and met Evan West. That was cracking me up. I'm a lover of bad language, under certain circumstances I just find it funny. So when Cho wound up going in one of the houses and the guy was like "Who are you, get the [censored] out!" I was rolling.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 16 2015, 01:01 AM

I broke into the Tenpenny Tower Player suite and slept in the bed and made the robot tell me jokes. Other than that, I killed a bunch of ghouls (feral and otherwise) in the Warrington Station and now am listening to 3 Dog dis me.

Ha! mALX and Rosa, I should have known that you two would have both done Vault 87 before me. I swear while I play Beth games I find scrawled graffiti that says, 'mALX was here,' or 'Beware the Stringy Bosmer.' Lol.

I feel like I am always playing catch up to you two. Oh well , not to complain. In celebration of this moment Ben is planning to remove all his clothes and run stark naked to the front door of Vault 87 and back again. At least he can then say he has joined the club. Like Maxical in that orphanage always taking a dare!

Stay tuned. 11 Eastern / 9 Central.

Renee- Cho Zen-Wahn souns cool. A Chinese Officer sword would go perfect.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 16 2015, 07:54 AM

There ya go. I actually RP that there was a huge secret stash of memorabilia in Vault 101 from our times, and that Cho managed to find a bunch of Ichiro Suzuki videos. He is infatuated with baseball and Ichiro, basically. I was wondering why he carried around his baseball bat for such a long time after I created him.

There are a couple of playable ghoul mods out there. You could use to one play Cho as a pre-war ghoul. Molly's game is getting stale now, and I am thinking of rolling a new toon to beat the game with. If I stick with playing FO3, I might make the new character a ghoul.

In other news, Molly has been hatcheting her way through the north-west quarter of the map. My last FO3 character Oda Hidetaka explored everything south and west of the Potomac. So one of my goals with Molly has been to explore everything north and east of the river. She has that almost done, as well as having cleared out a huge amount of the areas south as well.

Yesterday Paradise Falls fell to Molly's axe (and a minigun she picked up from one of the guards). Today the Roosevelt Academy was purged of super-mutants. Molly also tackled the Deathclaw Sanctuary, which is no longer a safe place for Deachclaws. That also means one more bobblehead to go I think. She wrapped up with exploring west of the Sanctuary, making the complete loop of the raised highways that run over the river at the far western edge of the map.

All she has left is to head north along the riverbanks, and probably loop back south at Raven Rock. She has never been to Solstheim.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 16 2015, 11:02 PM

After a marathon of gaming today, Molly collected all of the bobbleheads. She is my first character to ever do so. So that is a milestone for me.

She also completely explored the north west of the map. That makes everything north of the river, and a lot south of it as well. One of her last stops was Shalebridge, where she helped the friendly ants against the big mean ones next to their nest. Afterward it was time for Vault 87. Molly made a run at the door. Actually she made several runs at the door! She finally managed to get to the door and back out alive, but it literally took every Rad-Away she had. About 120 of them. And she still had about 200 points of rads when it was all over and done with. But now I have the Vault 87 marked at discovered on my pipboy!

With that I think Molly is done. At least in Fallout. I might start playing her in Skyrim now. But OTOH, I found a neat sniper rifle mod a few days ago, and I have been thinking of playing a sniper character. So I might try a new character in FO3 first. Maybe I could do the main quest with her this time.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 17 2015, 02:25 AM

I'd wear some power armor with high radiation protection, lol. I've got a screenshot of Misa dead in front of it, lol.

WOO HOO! Molly is way ahead of Misa now. I also started a new character to test out that Vault 101 safe with Mother's fave quote on it; and it did feel fresh, took her to Megaton so Misa could finish out. I love the Raven Rock/Liberty Prime on the bridge/and BOS DLC, so will continue on with Misa; but the lure of starting a new character I def felt and understand.

Fantastic news Rosa!! 20 Bobbleheads and the Vault done as well! Ha! I knew that those things were important. In fact that is what a completed character means to me, charging down that final hill and into the depths of colossal radiation. After all Beth has put the highest rads ever in a Fallout game for a reason. I looked it up- 3617 per second!

Interesting that you are thinking about Skyrim. Which of the two games (F03 or Skyrim) is more heavily modded on your current rig?



I will give it a go tonight. Naked sounds more fun though- your hair flying back, the wind rushing past your bare skin, a loud scream of madness crying out from your parched throat! If that doesn't work the power armor will be next. Lol.

It won't work, lol. I didn't realize how high the radiatikon was, Holy Crap!




This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 17 2015, 06:31 AM

Nice getting that Vault 87 mark, SubRosa! Not to mention all the bobbleheads! I´m still missing three...

Just got the Vault 87 location!

The naked run worked lovely. Ben had nothing on except a pair of bikie goggles. I used those just in case he was spotted by somebody and word got back to Megaton. We cannot have his cool Mr Burke reputation ruined over one little dare that went wrong. Ben's natural resistance is 62% so it didn't take much to bump it up to 85% (via one RadX).

The run there and back used up 75 Rad Away to grab the location marker. If I was going to play with the door or raid the items I could see it hitting close to (or over) 100. I must go back and have another go trying that.

Agatha's music was playing at the same time just to give it the 'Chariots of Fire' feel.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 17 2015, 09:01 AM

Another 87 hunter? What´s up with that? Are you trying to get me to do it as well and laugh when I fail?

I have been wanting to do it for years and casually mentioned has anybody else completed it. Naturally mALX and Rosa have kicked my butt and beat me to it. So, I just, HAD, to do it too! Come Mirocu, jump in brother, and grab that location. Fallout is not complete without having it.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 17 2015, 09:21 AM

I don´t know. It´s the last location that hasn´t been discovered and has a different icon in my Pipboy. That makes it unique, rare.... AND I LOVE RARE STUFF!!!

GAAAAH! You killed 3 Dog?