That works on all difficulties, if you exit before the computer locks you can just try again with 3 new chances, its how I can hack things with my meager science skill.

On the Robot Factory Quest for Moria:

No need for Plasma Grenades. The Robots are inert till you plug in the module, and then it's a simple matter of reprogramming them (Here's hoping your Science is high enough!).

Big day today! I got plans for the railgun and assembled it! Went up several levels and got my Lockpick up to 75. I wiped out the town of slavers, and got my power armor training from the citadel!

I find that I'm leveling too fast now. i don't want to hit the level cap before I'm done exploring and reading books and stuff.

tenpenney towers pissed me off.

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Killing the yuppie bigots gives me bad karma? ...what kinda world is this game set in!...i guess that just means im gonna have to do stuff differently on my next play-thru.

Im on my way to Rivet City for Moira...im barely at level 8 and i still havent found any good armor i can use and find more of to repair...i dont wanna wear filthy raider clothes!...

ive got way over 20-25 hours into the game i havent played the Main Quest at all.

I bumped into a Robo-Brain that killed me...then when i went back to try and fight it again...i couldnt find it at all...ah well...

Its too bad Mirror's Edge has to come out this week.

Ew. Raider armor. Even in my most desperate hours, I never once picked up that trash.

You can still get stats from books.

ok maybe im an idiot...but after exploring sewers and finding Underworld, i finally went back to moira to tell her i completed the RobCo part and accept the Rivet City part...

So i fight some supermutants near the Jefferson memmorial, get to a sign that says "Rivet City"...the game acknowledges me as having found it...and now i have no idea how to actually GET INTO the city...

anyone wanna give me a hint or tip? pretty please? =]

There's a mostly destroyed steel structure with ramps. Go to the top floor of that structure and find the security intercom.

Alternatively, if you look at your map and Fast Travel to Rivet City, it will place you right in front of the entrance. Look imeediately to your left for the intercom and they'll let you into the city.

So is there a quest to wipe out paradise falls and free the slaves or is that just something that you can do?



I picked it up repaired it and sold it for a load of caps! That stuff is pretty much the main reason to fight them.

i knew it had to be something simple like an Intercom...i need to stop playing on less than 3 hours sleep.

Found the Weston Armory today, be sure to go in there with some Rad-X or a Rad Suit and also 100 Lockpicking or Science.

The Guns! THE GUNS!

Heh, yeah that place was fun. Bitch and a half to get in, but so TOTALLY worth it. Don't forget to jack the repair skill so you can actually carry everything out.

Well, I didn't go in on a quest, but clearing out the slavers and freeing the slaves ended up completing a quest, so I guess theres a Quest for it.

I had a VERY profitable day today. I got three named unique weapons! Jack the Ripper and Vengance the Gatling Laser were both found in a Deathclaw cavern in the NE and there was a church just west of there that I snagged a great Sniper Rifle from too!

I'm level 18 now too. I'm feeling pretty damn invincible

So I wandered into Evergreen Mills for the first time. Freeing the Behemoth and watching him go to town on the Raiders was entertaining.

And while I haven't entered the main complex yet, I have to say it was...interesting...to wander into the Northern Shack, get attacked by a Male Raider coming down some stairs, and then get attacked by a Female Raider wearing Sexy Sleepwear upstairs.

Uh...did I come at a bad time?

I forgot to mention that i also found the Alien blaster. It does incredibe damage, but I'm betting once I run out of ammo, that'll be it.

There's actually more ammo out there than you think. There's an overturned military truck in a crater which has more, and the brotherhood outcasts have some in the deepest levels of their bunker. Thats all I know of, but there's probably more.

HA! I found the republic of dave! I know a guy who would get a major laugh outta this!

I found a second bobblehead. It is in Paradise falls inside Eulogy Jones house. I discovered that as I lay waste to the entire town. At one point, I just whipped out the 10MM submachine gun and started bursting anyone close as I walked through the town Terminator style. Yeah, there is a quest for the killing all the slavers, somewhere, as when I got done, it gave me 900 XP and an achievement for it. I was just going to explore paradise falls, but the two guys at the front started shooting at me. I also wiped out the guys at the Lincoln memorial. They weren't too hard, as I was able to use the combat shotgun to just totally annihilate them. None of them had anything tougher than a combat shotgun, so they weren't that hard. Now I just have to find some runaway slaves for that quest. I also finally found another group of super mutants with a captive right outside Rivet City. That was a fun little discovery.

Speaking of discoveries, I have found the Outcasts at their fort near the robot factory. I haven't gone in there yet though. I wonder if any of them can teach me to wear power armor? Tonight, I plan on exploring that area some more and see if I can find some new places to get some side quests.

btw, my Karma is through the roof.

Only way to learn power armor is from a dude at the Citadel after you arrive there from the main quest. Talk to the administrator, then find the teacher out in the courtyard.

Not with that massive chip on the shoulder/superiority complex they have.

Funny how the Outcasts are labled so, yet stick to the Brotherhood's traditional goals. Heh.


"He look, its one of the local wildlife"

"hey native, don't you have some rocks to bash together?"

Jerks

Okay: where is the hugging protectron in the statesman hotel? I've run through those ruins half a dozen times now, and I still CANNOT find it.

It's in the lounge area. If you come through the double set of doors and are looking straight ahead at the bar, in the back to the left will be a staircase. Just behind that, there is a door way into a small room - kinda blueish if I recall. Theres a bunch of knocked over racks in there and in the back of this little room is a protectron laying on the floor.

Anyone unlock the Model House in Minefield? I wanna know whats in it.

I didn't, but I think I have my lock pick skills high enough now to go back and see.

Well, last night I finished the Blade Runner Quest, and he gave me the plasma riffle. That doesn't seemed to do that much damage on machines like the other energy weapons do. Is plasma for living creatures instead? After that, I found the runaway slave girl and she told me where the Temple of the Union was. I got the slaves transferred from their refuge at Temple of the Union to the Lincoln memorial. Then I went exploring in the Northwest, as I had been shown on the map where a couple areas were. I freed a few more captives, activated two radio signals, explored 4 of the 5 Satellite towers, and found a deathclaw refuge. I am a little disappointed in how they made them look in this game. I was remembering/expecting to be bigger and beefier, but in this game they are tall, thin, agile, and fast. The first time I found one, it managed to cut my head off fairly quickly. However, the second time that I faced one, it quickly meet it's end thanks to my Combat shotgun. That gun has become my go to gun for that area as the Giant Radscorpions are like tanks!

Deathclaws are terrifying in Fallout 3.

In Fallout and Fallout 2, their main threat was the fact they were so damn tough.

In Fallout 3, they're not only tough - but the bastards are FAAAAST. Out in the open, they're easy enough to deal with (Shoot their legs, run around), but in confined areas? *shudder*

I figure that once I get my armor upgraded, I am going to go back and wipe out their nest.

Eeeeh. I haven't found the Sanctuary yet, but I did fight my way through Old Olney - which is infested with the buggers.

Even with solid armor and a good weapon, a Deathclaw in close range will mess you up. And more then one? Good Game.

Can anyone tell me if the gattlin Laser canon requires both big guns and energy weapon skills?

It's a Big Gun, not an Energy Weapon.

Ahh. That sucks then. I guess I need to bump up my Big guns skill.

Thank you! I spent a friggen DAY wandering around trying to find the third floor of the hotel to get to the maintenance room. I didn't get (but do now) that they counted the hospital as the first floor, the midlevels as the second floor and the lounge as the third.

Yeah, I decided to just go wandering around the wastelands after that mission, and reported back to reilly since I was in the area. I got paid nearly THREE THOUSAND caps for mapping. Rock! Plus I had to make like three different trade runs while doing it, so it was more like 6 thousand.

It occurs to me that I should have said that the stairs are to the right, not to the left. It seems you found it anyway.

I need to go report back to Reilly sometime.

Just two pieces of randomized loot.

I know, I was disappointed too. I figure the Model House is a leftover from a abandoned quest line. So far in my travels, it's completely unique to that single house in Minefield.

Truth be told... I found it before you replied. It came with the realization of how they treated the floors for this mission. But since you were kind enough to reply, I wanted to thank you anyway.

Yeah, that model house was a big disappointment, I was hoping for a Lockpick Bobble head.

Does anyone know of a map for all that bobble heads?

Check the Skill/Equipment/Collectible Guide on GameFAQs.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/game/939933.html

Claimed the Terrible Shotgun today. Smiling Jack might be a merchant, but I wanted his gun.

No karma penalty for making his head go pop either.

A 67 power Shotgun is a vicious, vicious thing.

So where exactly do you get the last two keys to get into the fort? I got the three from the people that Crowley sent me after. IF I kill Tenpenny does he give me the last two?

Tenpenny holds the key.

He also gives good Karma when you make his head asplode.

Shazam! Level 20! Picked up Grim Reaper's Sprint for my level 20 perk. I took every VATS related perk I could and it's really payed off. Reaper's Sprint pretty much ensures that I can make everybody in the room's head explode as it refills the action points when someone dies from a VATS strike.

Yeah, I've grabbed most every VATS perk myself (Save Gunslinger, but I skewer towards Rifles more then pistols). I should really change up my playstyle to see how the game handles when I have a character not so combat oriented.

He didn't have the last two keys. I gave the other 3 keys to Crowley and that ended the quest, but now what do I do? It seemed that Crowley took off towards the fort but when I got there, all I saw was a bomb storage place, an office building, and the CO's Quarters. is the door in the CO's basement the one that you need the 5 keys to open?




Yeah, that with Action Boy, Sniper, and Commando really makes VATS combat amazing!

I'm not certain there. I have yet to take on that quest and find Fort Constantine. Too busy poking around the map.


But I do know you shouldn't have given Crowley the keys.


EDIT: Okay, I got the quest, scoped it out. There are actually only the three keys. You kill Tenpenny just because.

EDIT of an EDIT: Got the T-51b. Not impressed by it. Probably gonna ditch it in favor of Enclave Tesla armor or just go back to my Luck-a-palooza combination of Shady Hat, Lucky Shades, and Ranger Battle Armor.

So I just need the 3 keys to get the armor? Is it through the locked door in the CO's basement?


I just got a quest last night to find 30 bottles of Nukacola Quantum, but I can't seem to find any place that actually has that much of it. The plant said to look in Paradise falls, super duper mart, and some other place that I have never heard of. Any ideas on where I can find 28 more bottles of the stuff? Do merchants randomly get it when they restock?

I tried to do the Tenpenny tower quest, but the only ways I could do it were to either let the ferals in or just kill off the Ghouls. The ghouls gave me a Ghoul mask, but it wasn't as good as my Metal helmet and I lost Karma for doing it that way. If I wiped them out, I just got a few hundred caps. Was there a way to do that quest and get a better item if Tenpenny were still alive? Speaking of which, Crowley came back to the Underworld with a new set of armor. I wonder if I go back to an earlier save and follow him into the fort to get the armor first?

Quantum nuka cola isn't stocked in any store that I found. It is plentiful in the world at large though. When I was told about the quest, I started keeping bottles of the stuff. Keep in mind I sold like 5 of them before I heard about it. I STILL got 34 of them, and I have yet to hit the nuka cola plant, where you get a minimum of three of them.

You see, I am worried since I made around 10 or so Nuka-grenades before getting this quest. I am concerned that I won't have enough to get to 30. I saw that there was someone looking for the formula in the factory, can I find it and make more of them?

Actually, you CAN spur the nuka cola plant into production once more, and make it spit out some more quantum. There is a caveat however; and I will let you discover it yourself.

There's enough Nuka-Cola Quantum in the world to complete both the quest itself and the optional quest of giving the Quantum to the guy.

But it's basically all merely ones and twos. The three locations you can get from the Nuka-Cola plant all have six to twelve (Though I haven't scouted Paradise Falls yet).

It takes a long time to accumulate the Quantum. It's one of those quests you pick up and work gradually toward. I think I was like Level 5 when I got it and Level 16 or 17 when I finally turned it in.

I think I've read that there's 94 Quantum bottles total.

Well, you see, I just got this quest at level 20, so I have sold off a lot of the quantum that I have found over the course of the game. So with that blunder, killing of Tenpenny and the ghouls, and the loss of the best armor in the game, I decided to reload to an earlier save. I was fortunate enough to save it right before I gave the keys to Crowley. So I went back to that save file and I lost about 4 hours of gameplay, but I managed to make most of it up last night. I went into the Fort via the door in the CO's basement and using the keys I was able to get to the power armor in the fort as well as all the other loot in there. I still have to clean out the bomb storage area of robots and loot, as well as do the ghoul situation at Tenpenny tower, but now I have restarted the quantum cola challenge quest and I have around 7 bottles now since I haven't made any grenades at this point.

How exactly do you restart the factory? Last time I went all the way through there without seeing anyway to do that. Do I have to deal with the Foreman? I'd much rather do that than hunt down bottles at various locations.

Also, for some reason, the guy in megaton that bought my scrap off of me has disappeared. Any idea on where the guy has gone? Even the ghoul that wanted scarp metal is gone at underworld. I guess the outcasts might want to buy it from me. Man, those guys are weak. I saw two of them get wiped out by two giant Scorpions. Fortunately, I was able to wipe the floor with the scorps and help myself to some more power armor and energy weapons.

I went to evergreen mills last night killed off everyone there except smiling Jack, then went outside and shot the behemoth to death with an assault riffle. Someone said that the Smiling Jack had a unique combat Shotgun, is that true? Should I go back and take it from him?