Fallout 3

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

The Rock-It launcher is the best weapon in the game.


Nothing like shooting a wad of cash at someone.
Or..other things.

[DJ111]

On the 360, you press the R3 button while you're looking at the object.

[Ack-Ack]

The Rock-It launcher is the best weapon in the game.


Nothing like shooting a wad of cash at someone.
Or..other things.

Load it up with scalpals, knives and butter knives.  You can pin the head to walls with it, one of the reasons why I like to use the Rock-It and Rail Gun.


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[Ghosth]

Went to Dukov's  hangout, ended up killing him and the girls, then loaded the rokit with empty whiskey bottles. Had over 130 rounds of ammo by the time I was done. Only real disadvantage is to carry much ammo brings a pretty heft weight penalty.

Hadn't thought about butter knives. Good tip.

I like the railgun against supermutants. Hit em twice in the chest, then they will bend over, hit them in the top of the head once or twice and they are down.

[moot]

Has no one else ditched a couple of weapons to just use the .44 rifle instead?

[Fishu]

Has no one else ditched a couple of weapons to just use the .44 rifle instead?

I usually carry almost every type of weapon, just for in case
Better be prepared than sorry

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Nail bombs.


Heavenly goodness.

[Ack-Ack]

Has no one else ditched a couple of weapons to just use the .44 rifle instead?

Lincoln Repeater is my main weapon for long range shots, Alien Laser Pistol for close in work.


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[DJ111]

I'm packing the Lincoln Repeater for my main Wasteland weapon.

When I get into it with Enclave or Outcasts I switch to my Plasma Rifle.

I switch between the Blackhawk .44 Mag and the Terrible Shotgun when I'm indoors.

I rarely use the Alien Blaster anymore, unless the s__t hits the fan and I need things dead now.

The T-51b armor is pretty sweet too.

[Ghosth]

Well after playing for 2 weeks, exploring not even a third of the map. I did finally finish the main story last night.

Compare to Cysis, which I ran through in 2 days then deleted off my puter since I was positive I'd never play it again.
Compare that to Fallout3 and there really is no comparison.

Love the time they lavished on the terrain. Wide open in places, yet lots of tunnels to explore, some problem solving, tons of action. I've just scratched the surface on how character changes will change gameplay.  I already have a more evil female character out of the vault ready to swing into action. Just noting the differences in how others interact differently keeps things interesting.

Not to mention running around out in the wasteland at night and having a pair of Monster bears sneak up on you and scareing the living crap out of you. Or running into a pack of deathclaws in Old Olny. Still get shivers up my spine from that session.

Not to mention that I'm sure there are going to be scads of mods for this, to do anything and everything you can imagine and some you can't.

Yes Fallout 3 is a winner and will be played by me daily for a long long time to come.
Gets a 9.5 out of possible 10 from me.

Fav mods so far, I like the no bouncy grenades, the Hunting rifle to 5.56 and 10 shot clip, and the Xrepair mod that lets me use scrap, wrenchs etc to repair up my weapons.

Next on the list of things to do, more Melee and unarmed fighting.
Lots of experimenting with character choices.

Exploring ALL the map.

One question to add to this, I've noticed that I seldom use Vats, but I am leveling up quite quickly. Where someone else uses Vats a lot, and is having trouble leveling up beyond 5 or 6. Has anyone else noticed a tie in there?
Less XP for killing in Vats, or more XP for not using it? Or is it just a difference in weapons choices, and I am leveling up faster because I'm killing a lot more?

[moot]

I actualy had a behemoth charge me outta nowhere on the second night out of 101... Still wearing the 101 jumpsuit, hehe.

Vats actualy improves accuracy on at least a few weapons, as far as I could tell. I dont know about XP, but it should be mentioned in a wiki or the manual, I'd think.

One of the things the game most needs that I don't think mods could fix are voice actors.. There's too few of em. As good as some of them are, e.g. Sarge, they're way too recycled.

[Fishu]

Vats actualy improves accuracy on at least a few weapons

Besides improving rate of fire it does also improve accuracy. If you shoot an assault rifle on full auto it will be shooting each and every shot all over, but with VATS you can get every shot straight into the hole of the first bullet. However the percentage at greater ranges may be worse than what you could achieve by shooting manually, usually apparent with the single/semi fire rifles.

[Delirium]

Fav mods so far, I like the no bouncy grenades

I tried that mod, but the nades didn't go anywhere. They stayed at my feet when thrown and a ! icon appeared. I had to remove that mod...

One question to add to this, I've noticed that I seldom use Vats, but I am leveling up quite quickly. Where someone else uses Vats a lot, and is having trouble leveling up beyond 5 or 6. Has anyone else noticed a tie in there?

I haven't seen a difference, my biggest complaint is I had a henchman (the retired Raider from Megaton) that killed alot of the targets and I got no experience for it. I haven't used a Henchman since...

I use the Enhanced Night sky mod, the slowest experience mod (takes 4x as long to level), and the 1 day respawn rate mod. This ensures you don't cap too fast but you always have something shoot at.

[Ghosth]

Dogmeat can be handy, especially for roaming the wastelands. Keeps things from sneaking up behind you. When you hear that low growl stop and do a 360. Ussually its a radscorpion or bear sneaking.

Skullmoshes laser mod has some nice weapons.
Really like the Laser sniper rifle, but it makes life pretty easy. 1 shot kills on most things, even deathclaws and guys in power armor will fall to 2 well aimed shots.

Finding them was tough but eventually ran into a caravan that had them.
Also it reworked the plasma rifle into a repeating carbine. Awesome for when tons of firepower is needed.
And it reworked a laser pistol into a SMG, dumps a 30 round clip in less than 2 seconds.

Whoooooooeeeeeeeeeeee!

[moot]

Anyone else only able to fire some guns (e.g. laser pistol, rifle) fast only in narrow ROF ranges?
And there's definitely some auto-aim going on, in average difficulty mode at least. Disabling it's probably doable with just a console command.