Yeah mALX, you don´t wanna miss out on any of the fun


I think my bottle cap collecting OCD is what keeps me having fun with Fallout 3. I have explored most nooks and crannies which is always my biggest drive regarding any game and I have so many guns and so much ammo it´s ridiculous. I´ve also maxed out my levels of course so I don´t have any drive there.

I may miss out on a few places due to not doing the MQ but meh, that´s no biggie. I have seen most anyway. No small questlines left either and only three bobbleheads and I know I can´t get them all, so collecting bottle caps is what keeps me going. But not only that, I also collect anything Nuka-related, teddy bears, lunchboxes, pencils etc etc.


Plus, it just never gets boring capping raiders whilst listening to 3Dawwg!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 5 2015, 08:59 PM

I'm big on collecting too, just different objectives. Rare or unique weapons/armor/items; Bobbleheads; skill and pre-war books; BoS Holotags; Nuka Cola Quantums; Nuka Cola trucks; intact Garden Gnomes; teddy bears; scrap metal; bottlecaps.

The scrap iron is sold under contract, of course - to Walter until/unless he dies. The rare and unique items are kept whether I use them or not, either displayed or kept in the bedroom file cabinet. Nuka trucks and Gnomes are always on display; teddys always on the bed. Skill books are used up; pre-war books either sold or displayed.

Quantums = sold, then used to make grenades - but THIS game I used the console to open the Nuka machine (since it required an unattainable key in all my 360 games) and stole the quantums back after getting paid and the quest ending, lol.

Actually, we collect the same things it seems

I also collect Damaged Garden Gnomes, pre-War money, red and blue passcards, mininukes and Radscorpion Glands (have 1000 now, would have more but I sell them off regularly). But I never sell off the pre-War books and I regret selling to Sierra.

There´s probably more I collect...

I forgot the prewar money; mini-nukes and Fatmen; subway passes; Office ID; etc - yeah, I collect them too. And I have a bunch of Riverboat tickets too - usually carry one of each of those passes just in case I turn on a robot to clear the enemies out; that way they don't look at me as an intruder too.

I keep the prewar money too, just like having it. The mini-nukes - love to see them blow up stuff, lol.




This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 5 2015, 10:25 PM

Ha! mALX stop teasing yourself there! That is what feathers are for.

Broken Steel is epic and a great finish for the adventure. Just focus on completing everything else before you consider even that part of the game!!

Collecting items is so much fun. I have an army of gnomes around the balcony railing at Megaton, the giant teddy bear sideways in the chair beside the Nuka Cola machine, skill books and Wasteland Survival guide laying out on desks and a heap of Quantum all over the ground.

Oh, and empty milk bottles and tin cans outside the door ready for recycling. I wonder why they are never picked up?? And the broken monument of cartons dedicated to the fall of the UN.

Wolfie, this begs for some screenies of your Megaton home!

Agree with Mirocu - but more! I think we all should decorate our Player homes our way and submit screens for everyone to enjoy!

These are being posted on the FO Screenshots thread, in case anyone was looking for them here.


Since I never played FO3 on the PC before, I've been experimenting with doing quests in different ways; and testing out perks I never was able to use on the 360 (because my build had to keep my character alive, no room for fun stuff)

Well, since I've got the PC game I've been trying out all kinds of new things - just because I can now; the pressure is off.

Two perks I've tried that I never had tried before are the "Black Widow" and the "Animal Friend"

Quests - I never used to deal with Mr. Burke on the 360, just quickly boosted my explosives skills enough to diffuse (or should that be de-fuse?) the bomb so I'd have a place to sleep and heal up.

So my first game start on the PC I decided to deal with Mr. Burke for the first time; and was totally shocked when he shot down Sheriff Simms! Well, that wasn't going to happen, so I reloaded the save and this time shot Burke as soon as he reached for his gun. Did not get in trouble for it or get bad karma - but it was not a very fun or satisfying addition to the questline, may as well have just gone straight to the bomb.

So I reloaded that save again, and this time used the "Black Widow" option - propositioning Burke. I was stunned when Benny Burke immediately hurried off to tell Tenpenny to let Megaton live - okay, that was worth doing; but it didn't stop there! I just walked past Moriarty, and he stopped me to inform me he was not the post office, and I needed to tell Burke to quit writing me letters at his tavern! He handed me a letter from Mr. Burke - SPEW !!! I have been rolling laughing since I read it, OMG it was hilarious !!!

So I looked it up, there are four letters that come seven days apart, so I'm not fixing that bomb till I've seen all those letters, ROFL !!! This is a blast, I am so enjoying this - NEVER expected this !!! Fun!

The second Perk I've never tried before, I did discuss some on here - the Animal Friend perk. Somehow I thought it would be something like deer hunting for meat, that just because the Yao Gao's don't attack Misa; she could still hunt them for their meat - NO. Never again.

I killed four Yao Gao before doing the Yao Gao cave - have not killed one since; in fact started a new game because I did not want to play anymore with that character, I felt that awful about killing the Yao Gao's after getting that perk. Here is why:

The female Yao Gao lay down at your feet and make a purring sound if you use your "hand" to "pet" them. The males won't do it, but they don't attack.

Anyway, it made me feel horrible that I'd killed those four, sickened. So I started a new Misa - Asian Misa. Now, she will still eat Yao Gao meat, but will only kill them BEFORE taking that perk; and only if they attack her first.

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I also just tried out for the first time the Perk that adds a secret guy who pops up and helps you in a really tough battle; can't remember the name of it. The first time he showed up, I'd completely forgotten about taking the perk, and never did see him in my vats - but I suddenly heard this noise and didn't know what it was - scared the heck out of me! He popped up twice since I took the perk, neither time when I was overwhelmed in battle - and the three times I was completely overwhelmed in battle he did NOT show up, lol. Oh well, it was still fun once I realized what that sound was.






This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 9 2015, 02:14 AM

I love the Black Widow perk. Besides the new dialogue options with people like Mr. Burke, it also gives you a 10% bonus to damage vs males. Since there are a lot of men in the game, it does help.

Animal Friend can make life a lot easier if you do a lot of traveling. Many of those annoying encounters on the road will stop, and sometimes you will get a helping paw, if a bad guy is near an animal.

That last one you mentioned is the Mysterious Stranger. He only appears when you are in VATS mode, and he vanishes once more once you leave VATS. That is what makes him so mysterious! But that .44 Magnum he packs can really even up the odds.

I didn't realize (or remember is more apt) that the Black Widow gave a bonus damage against male enemies! That is good to know! This Burke thing is the first time I've really seen a fun difference from using that perk option, the other times I've used it there has only been a slight difference in dialogue and barely worthy of using it - this is an actual fun event that continues, and involves other characters too - and the notes are hysterical!

Are there any other situations where using the Black Widow produces a fun outcome like this?

The animal friend perk has made a huge difference in traveling! I rarely if ever fast travel, and this perk has made traveling so much easier! And so far the dogs and Yao Gao have both come to my aid against raiders and robots; and once a giant rad scorpion.

What bothered me is that they put that additional action in the Yao Gao - laying down at your feet and making that pleased sound - that just killed me when I saw it and realized I'd been breaking my share of the truce by hunting them when they weren't attacking me - it genuinely upset me, I had to dump that game.

Oh, that is probably why I never saw the mysterious guy the first time, I heard the sound and jumped out of vats - it scared me, I thought my game was crashing or something, lol. The second time I actually saw him.

That mysterious stranger's 44 magnum - I consoled that gun just because I am trying out everything I couldn't do on the 360, that is a great gun!

You´re just like Renee when she first started to play Oblivion on the puter - going nuts with all the new options available!


I didn´t like the Burke thing either too much. And I had to reload several times before I managed to save Simms, even using VATS he was much too fast for me and Simms doesn´t take a whole lot. He should take lessons from Sir Richard Rose from Sunset Riders...

He needs to wear a bullet proof vest, he dropped like a stone and never got even one shot out.

Sorry for not replying sooner Mirocu. I have been off debating the merits of the next ES game!

The problem with screenies is that Ben was played entirely on 360. As there are no house mods there I go crazy with house designing on the 360. I never use a theme as that only gets in the way of things and I love placing items all over the house. Even something as simple as the clear drinking cup sitting on a Big Book of Science on the bedroom desk makes me smile when I see it.

I also have a murderous looking axe leaning against a wall on the ground level. Just a little reminder that I need to return to Point Lookout and finish things off. When on PC I never use Megaton and prefer to go with house mods.

The strange thing is that I cannot find them at Fallout Nexus. The authors must have taken them down for some reason. I must get my act together and show some pics.

The first house was a small mini bunker right outside Megaton, close to where Micky sits and asks for water. It had an armory with all weapons silhouetted on the wall where they hang. It is a cage structure that reminds me of the weapon lockup at the entrance to the corridor with Hannibal Lecter. So cool!

The second house was a vault under the road outside the Super Duper Mart. It was a huge personal vault that had a tunnel/drainage section that led to the door. The vault was quite large and extended under the road.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Apr 11 2015, 04:26 AM

I only got the PC game a few months ago - played on the 360 for years, and know exactly what you mean about decorating by "hand." It is really frustrating and time consuming, but so rewarding when you finally get it right! I saved every time I'd get something an inch closer to perfect so I could just go back to that point if I messed up,

I had fishing poles, that special shovel, yeast, and moonshine from Point Lookout. The hardest hand setting up though was always the shelves in that Megaton house kitchen and living room.

And then the darn Robot Wadsworth knocks stuff down after all your hard work!


By the way, I built Wadsworth a room and altered his AI package so he can't leave that room now. The Player can walk up to him there for food/drinks/haircuts/jokes; no more knocked over stuff or being blocked in your bedroom!

I used to always decorate by hand back in Oblivion, and of course the result was finding out why the physics system is called Havok. So now I almost never do, except for a few things, like the teddy bears on the Megaton bed, and sometimes some trophies on the bedroom desk.

Same here, the desk and bears, placing the gnomes and Nuka trucks downstairs; and until this last game I never got a theme package (so usually did something with those shelves too - they were excruciatingly hard.

Yeah, that is enough frustration for me in one game, lol. It is so much easier in the CK, but darn! Can't collect them and use it!

One of the first mods I ever had in Oblivion (before I knew how to use mods) was one that helped you place items like books on shelves, not sure how it worked, but it made decorating so much easier! I haven't been able to find it in years, think I lost it in a hard drive crash and it is no longer on Nexus. Would like to see that one reproduced for all the games!








This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 11 2015, 09:26 PM

That´s what you gotta do


But what aboot the bulb..?


I´d ask for the mod if I hadn´t already fired him because -


"And that, children, was when I grabbed my shotgun"

I have disabled him, but he is really hard to sneak up on without getting the option to "talk" instead of the "disable?" you are trying for. I had to block him in the spare room and wait long hours in sneak several times over before the disable option showed up.

I think he might have meant disable him through the console. Just open the console, click on him, and enter in disable. Voila! No more Wadsworth.

Actually, I did mean filling that leadhead with even more lead which is what I really did