Charon is a beast. It was pretty cheap when I had Charon, Sidney and Dogmeat at the same time haha. Then again, after a while those fuckers stopped healing by themselves.
I probably had Mysterious Stranger show up a quarter of the time lol.
Which ones do you have? I will tell you if I have some that you don’t.
Charron rocks. The only one that I think is better is Fawkes.
I remember when I had sidney and dogmeat following me, and I had to go get some ink. I had no idea how to get to the place, so I ended up swimming for a long ass time. Once I got to land, I was chased by a bunch of mirelurks and a mirelurk king (for the record, mirelurks are creepy, but mirelurk kings are creepy as HELL. Only things creepier are cerberus), and my partners were nowhere to be seen. Oh, and I ran into a sewer, and the damn mirelurk king actually got through the damn door. Anyways, I wandered around for like an hour, and my dog eventually caught up, but Sidney didn’t, so I figured that she died. But after a while of doing what I had to, she magically appeared behind me.
Anyone else lose a partner, and then have them reappear out of nowhere?
I hate Mirelurks, they’re more annoying than Super Mutants
You want to know what the most annoying enemy BY FAR is?
Cars.
Seriously, on countless occasions, I’m doing just fine, and then I suddenly die immediately because some damn car blows up.
What’s a good build for first timers?
I’ve played through the game for about 11 hours and I managed to royally fuck my guy up…
So I’m restarting my experience with fallout (which isn’t bad). The game’s too good to get boring anyways.
Depends on the type of character you want.
As far as skills go, here are the ones I reccomend you should focus on no matter what path you take: Medicine and Repair.
If you want an easier time early on, then put points into Small Guns. Big Guns and Energy Weapons will payoff later.
Don’t bother with Lockpick and Sneak unless you are going to be evil or neutral.
Open your manual and check out the requirements for perks. Set your stats to prepare for the ones you want. Personally, I put three points into the stat I wanted the most, and then two points into another, are one point into two others. The rest were at 5.
I have the ‘Terrible Shotgun’, ‘A21-Plasma Rifle’, ‘Vengeance’, and the sniper rifle you pick up off a drifter in a busted up church that nabs you the coordinates of Oasis(I can’t remember it’s name at the moment).
Constantly. I have a save just before the very end, and I have Fawkes with me. that dumb brute runs at top speed toward the horizon the instant I set foot out of whatever city I’m in, and I usually don’t see him again until I enter a dungeon or wait for an hour.
“Hey!!! That pixel is a threat!! I’ll be back much later!! Bye!!”
Annoying.
^^Reservist’s rifle.
That one was funny because there’s no way to get up there and you have to get it from the bits of gib that falls of the guy. I repaired over it by mistake with a regular sniper rifle though 
special weapons
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There’s a nice hunting rifle called Ol’ Painless that you can steal in Republic of Dave that’s locked in the vault. It’s pretty damn accurate and has a faster fire and reload rate.
There’s that’s sword you could get if you kill The Family that’s terrorizing Arefu called Vampire something something.
In Fort Bannister, the head of the Talon mercs has a knife called Occam’s Razor
In Flooded Metro you could get unarmed weapon The Shocker and in the derelict power plant across the MDL13 power station you could get the Fisto!.
In lamplight, you could buy the Wazer Wifle from a kid.
Sydney has her Ultra SMG.
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Eugene (Gatling Gun): Gotten by doing the Reilly’s Rangers quest.
Alien Blaster: Located at Alien crash site.
Blackhawk (.44 Magnum): Do Agatha’s quest and then ask for a reward.
Wazer Wifle (Laser Rifle): Talk to a certain kid at Little Lamplight.
Sydney’s 10mm “Ultra” SMG: After doing the quest with her, tell her about what actually happened to her father (after finding a holotape by him) and she will give it to you. You could probably get it by killing her too.
Xuanlong Assault Rifle: I got it off of some random body I think.
I reccomend you check out the Fallout wiki for details on whatever you want to find.
Thanks for the advice, guys. Repped.
Oh, I will eventually. With Bethesda games, I try and avoid using the Wiki until I’m done putting serious time into it. The fact that I’m asking for advice on message boards means that time is probably now…
What are some cool special items that are very helpful in increasing stats?
I’m talking about something like Ledoux’ Hockey Mask (+25 AP and indestructible), the Lucky 8 Ball (+1 luck if carried on your person), Ranger Battle Armor (+10 small guns +1 luck +5 AP, best all around armor in the game IMO)? Lucky Shades give +1 luck as well although you can’t wear it over the Ledoux Hockey Mask
The Xuanlong Assault Rifle is fucking awesome. The only weapon I think is more effective that i’ve found is the A21 Plasma Rifle thingie… I’ve got a ton of special weapons - most of which have already been mentioned… I even got the special Pool Cue Stick lol.
The best weapon in the game can only be gotten from a random special event… You go to certain places on the map and it has a chance to have an event take place… If you get the event where the UFO blows up in the sky, it’ll drop a special alien blaster that has the highest DPS in the game… Apparently it’s crazy super powerful, but the ammo for it is in very short supply in the entire game.
I havn’t played in awhile… I got to the little lamplight part and just havn’t turned the game on since… Imma try and finish the game sometime here soon… i’ve done most of the sidequests already.
Where is the super sledge? And is it everything I dreamed it would be?
Nukalurks are twice as annoying. Thinking about it makes me want to tear a hole into a wall.
This game is so fucking awesome why did I ever put it down.
I will not be able to give a fair assessment of the game until I get a super sledge.
Aren’t they carried by Mutant Masters? I’ve come across a handful of them - im not a H2H guy so I can’t comment, but I wasn’t impressed when I tried it out on some roaches 
Lincoln’s Repeater is a fucking BEAUTIFUL weapon. I just have to say that. I didn’t think to keep it the first time around…I’m SO glad I did this time.
http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/wiki/Fallout_3_Weapons#Super_Sledge_Hammer
If super sledge doesn’t do that much damage it’s because you didn’t a lot too many points to strength and melee weapons.
That’s probably why… My Small Arms are skill is pretty high so thats why my guns are higher damage… I have 10STR but my melee skill is about 20pts lower than my small arms (at least). Oh well.