Gray fox, I’m pretty sure the way to use perks for the first 4 levels is intense training, intense training, educated (the one that gives extra skill points, I forget the title) and then comprehension (extra point from books). I saved all my books till level 4 and used them all at once, once I had that perk. With one of my characters I have read 31 books, meaning that would be an extra 31 points while other perks give you around 10. Never take the one that gives you more EXP, its a total waste with how much there is to do in the game. Also, Can you use “here and now” at level 20 to hit 21? I have the feeling you can, which would make it a shitty perk until level 20, but then becomes awesome and just gives you a grip of skill points.
Are there any more guns that have special abilities? I found this one chinese pistol that does fire damage, but that’s it.
I’ve found a few unique guns.
Burnmaster
Terrible shotgun
Abe’s Repeater
A3-21’s laser rifle
The Shocker
Vance’s fire sword
Burnmaster and the terrible shotgun are awesome.
Godamn the pc version should be called Bugout 3. I can’t play the game at all.
the moment i stepped outside i get like 2 fps
wtf
My computer runs fallout 3 just fine.
I would say it’s buggy because of random the NPCs act. WTF, why are they running away from me, but when they get stuck on a wall and I go up to them they are asking for help?
Anyways, yeah… the game isn’t too bad I suppose.
I enjoyed the first 30 mins when your in the vault, but once I left I was like “meh”.
So much time does it take to finish the game, considering I play through most of what the game has to offer?
^ Well, I have 26 hours in and barely touched the main plot.
If you play ONLY the main story, I would say about 20 hours. All the side quests would add about 200.
If it’s any consolation you can change what level you are in the console and once I hit level 20 it’ll be changed to 15 to keep the progression up.
Main story is 10 hours.
rush down no you cannot take here and now at level 20.
The best builds or more broken builds as far as I understand it goes like
Str and End can be shit. Perception you want to be like a 5 or 6 I wanna say?
Int you need to have be nine. Agi you want pretty high, and luck either a 4 or 5.
(all of this depends on the points you get in the beginning I forget what the sum is)
Make your first perk Intense training to cap int at 10 so that you get the most amount of skill points possible.
Next perk you want to get is the one that gives you extra skill points per level (forget the name)
The next one you want to get is comprehension. Since there are 25 skill books for each skill in the game that gives you 50 points in everything. Plus theres a bobblehead for every stat and every skill so I think that gives you another 12.
So if you get 38 points in every skill plus the books and bobbleheads you should be maxed in every skill.
Seriously if you have ANY inclination to do anything other than the main story (which is why I’d assume you’d buy a sandbox game) do NOT get swift learner or here and now. They are wastes of perks considering you get to level 20 if you explore most of the content anyway.
The one that gives you more ammo and more bottlecaps is also pointless. I have like 10k caps right now, and I have a barter skill of 15 so I cant imagine what someone who went speechcraft would have. Also I have more ammo than I’ll ever use so more ammo is a waste of a perk too.
good perks to get:
-Finesse
-Better criticals
-Commando
-bloody mess
-Mysterious Stranger
-sniper
-toughness
-robotics expert is kinda meh but it’s decent I guess
-gunslinger
-grim reapers sprint
-fast metabolism
-Cyborg
-adamantium skeleton
-action boy/girl
Same I’m getting low fps, a lot of crashes and various game related bugs. And I know my computer can run the game perfectly.
i’m not experiencing any problems on my pc
So I’m 600 rads full and I have to go back to moira but the arrow is pointing inside the craterside supply which is locked WTF?
Check the time.
if you went to the grocery store at 4 am in the morning they wouldn’t be open >.>
I’m a die hard fan of Fallout and Fallout 2, and i’m still really enjoying Fallout 3 !
It’s really a great game that has nothing in common with oblivion (which i also enjoyed but less than this one, and less than fallout 1&2). Alright…same engine. That’s it.
The post apocalyptic feel is great, and it’s still really bloody and messy (check Andale 
).
Runs perfectly on computer.
bloody mess really isn’t worth it .
until you watch your first kill afterwards.
totally worth it.
Pretty much. Any perk that gives you a straight boost to skills is a complete waste in this game. If Bethesda had actually implemented “tagged” skills the way Blackisle had(rather than simply making it a one time +15 to a skill), there might be a reason to use them but meh. Tagged skills were actually significant in Fallout 1 and 2 because each point spent actually counted as 2. You could also boost a skill up to 200 but any point invested beyond 100 gave you diminishing returns to the point where getting any skill maxxed took a long ass time. Add to that the fact that books could only raise a skill to 60 ish and the game was balanced despite not having the level 20 (15 in Fallout 1) level cap.
I gotta say I really hate this level 20 cap, there are far better ways to balance a game, but Bethesda seems intent on using the same model they did for Oblivion. I loved Fallout 2 because you ended up being such a badass at the end of the game. Now I just don’t get that sensation. If you do any bit of exploring, you hit the cap long before the end of the game and you can still blow through the whole thing even on the harder difficulties by exploiting the shit AI. I just want to be able to run into the line of fire and laugh off every little bullet coming my way. sigh
And power armor blows in this, grr. If there’s one thing that needed to kick major ass it was the Power armor and Bethesda had to go and fuck it up.
I like the game alot, I really do, but you can’t deny that so many of the locals (dungeons) have that same-y feeling you get from the Elder Scrolls games. No doubt they are a little bit more fleshed out and there are more unique locations, but you get the same homogeneous vibe as in Daggerfall/Morrowind/Oblivion. That might be fine for those games, but Fallout was always about the characters and that’s taken a backseat to this ridiculously huge expanse of ho-hum dungeon crawling.
I hope they make an expansion pack to address this. As it stands the game is quite good, but it could easily be phenomenal with a few minor tweaks and design changes.
My next guy will probably go with unarmed combat(the ninja perk and paralyzing palm seem too damn good). Seems you can easily tailor your guy to take advantage of it in this game, although ironically enough it doesn’t seem as in-depth as fallout 2 where you had a whole assortment of hand-to-hand moves. Hopefully it’s better than melee, because I’ve been sorely disappointed in that even with the skill maxxed out.