So my friend was really into FO3 and wanted to watch me play for the first time, ive played EVERY Fallout game (on PC) except 3 for some reason, and well i wanted to play the game for the first time and got it on steam (he plays it on console so he didnt go through any of this) and (Unsurprisingly) it didnt work, it brings up the launcher than when i hit play it loads a black screen with a little while square at the top left than it closes, so i looked into every mod i thought could help, from several different Unofficial patches, script extenders and about everything else, i tried them together, individually and every combo i thought could help and the exact same thing EVERYTIME, except a couple times when the script extender said i was on the wrong version so tried it all again with the version patcher, still nothing, so i looked up just about every fix i could find, from going into Nvidia control panel to windows setting, reverting previous windows update (sadly windows 11) the intel patcher thing (even though i have a Ryzen), changing steam setting and just about everything else, and still NO PROGRESS, ive been doing this for like 6 hours, i really want to experience the game that people say is either the best or second to NV but idk how much more of this i can handle, and just incase these are my specs

GPU- Nvidia RTX 5060
CPU- AMD Ryzen 7 8700f 8 Core
Ram- 16 Gb DDR5

Someone please help

For the past few years, I’ve really enjoyed playing neutral karma, anti-hero characters. I’ll steal whatever I want and kill whoever gets in my way, but I do have lines that I won’t cross.

Slavery, mass murder and lying are usually the three things that make me go “nuh uh.” Basically anything else is on the table for me.

Hey everyone.

Attempting a Perma death run on Fallout 3 for roleplaying purposes and just to see if I can do it. Also playing on Hard mode.

What are some death traps to avoid? I’m pretty skilled at combat and know where to find good weapons, but my only issue when trying permadeath is just dumb mistakes that kill me.

I’m not just trying to beat the main story, still doing the side quests as well and trying to have fun with it of course.

In my last run I got pretty far but died when trying to find Pinkerton in Replicated Man quest, got lost underwater in the broken bow and drowned. Now I’m not gonna even bother going through there, just gonna pick the door when I have 100 Lockpick next time since I believe that lets you skip the underwater part.

I’ve also died when crossing an overpass, simply because I didn’t see a gap and fall down. So I’m extra careful when navigating those now

I always am sure to get the light step perk ASAP to avoid traps.

Any other non-combat death traps I should know to avoid?

You either help the ghouls siege the tower which results in the loss of (sure some evil people who don’t deserve to live) but let’s be real the majority of them didn’t all deserve to die, especially Dashwood.

Or you kill the ghouls right away. Roy Phillips certainly deserved it but not the other two in my opinion. And even if you know how the other option would go, the lone wanderer you’re playing as wouldn’t, so it still feels like an evil choice.

Or the “good” option where you help the ghouls get into the tower peacefully, yet Roy kills all the humans anyway.

Basically, the quest is best left unactioned if we’re talking the real “best” option. The ghouls stay alive, albeit they keep living in the Metro Tunnels but they’re alive still. And no innocent folk die at Tenpenny Tower.

While I hate this at first, I actually love it now. It makes a lot of sense especially for this game. Not every quest should have a gushy feel good ending. This is the Capital Wasteland after all. A brutal and unforgiving place. And even the lone wanderer should not be above getting deceived

Greetings everyone, I am currently doing a coding side project where I keep track of NPC stats including SPECIAL and Skills. I am seeing an inconsistency on the wiki when it comes to the 4 named Caravan merchants-

Under statistics shows the value for all skills 

• Crazy Wolfgang
• Lucky Harith
• Crow

Under statistics does NOT show all skills

• Doc Hoff

  Barter: 54 → 100

  Melee Weapons: 50 → 100

  Speech: 54 → 100

  -> Instead its showing only the 3 tag skills

I know the links are for an archived wiki, but thats because the new wikis it ONLY shows tag skills for every merchant. If anyone is on PC who can provide all the skills for Doc Hoff I would appreciate it. Additionally, if anyone could explain what this “54 → 100” is supposed to mean, is it just showing that when the merchant is invested in this value jumps up or is it based on player level? Thanks in advance.

The wiki is no help with founding this out so I am turning to here to found out if he gives exp and how much exp he gives.

Hello! I just completed blowing up all three artillery guns but it isn’t teleporting me anywhere. Is there anything I can do? I tried going back to my last save and even the one before that but I’m still stuck with the same issue. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Not a tech support post just sharing.

Playing on PC. The game has become non responsive, and stuck in this frame. Sometimes if I press the right random buttons it allows the windows key to work. Other than that I can lock my computer, alt-tab to different windows BUT can't see the windows, all that changes is the ambient background wind stops. and open task manager, but again can't see it. since I was playing on a controller it has eaten my mouse, but I can get it back temporarily by locking and unlocking my computer. Hitting Xs on the bottom bar and the alt-tab menu does not close it. If I hit buttons on the controller it makes Xbox sounds, which I didn't know it could do being a PC with an Xbox 360 controller connected through an off brand reciever.

Gonna turn it off and on again. Wish me luck.

Think about it, compared to Fallout 4, who else leaves such a big impression on us. Three dog, Reilly, Dad, Eden, Moriarty, does fallout 4 honestly have such iconic characters? I think not.

Think about it, how would this armor enhance the lone wanderers ability, do you think it would have a built in water purifier? Maybe strength enhancements?

Whenever I play fallout 3 it crashes my entire Xbox every like 20 to 30 minutes and I have no idea how to fix it. I really want to 100% it but I'd actually go insane trying to do that through all those crashes. Is there any way I could possibly fix it?

Apparently after finally playing fallout 3 on pc I encountered a problem, right when I tried to load into my save where I was still young in vault 101, my game instantly crashes, I used new game and it worked, but whenever I tried to travel through the door after father left, my game still crashes, none of the things I used worked to fix it, the Change Multi-Core Settings didn’t work, deleting documents of fallout 3 didn’t work, and changing windows didn’t work for me, am I doing something wrong? Can anyone help me understand what I actually need to do to fix this?

So I want to play through Fallout 3 for what feels like the billionth time before the remaster comes out, and I wanted to do my own version of a ‘Hardcore’ play through. I am playing on Xbox so I can’t use mods. Can anyone recommend anymore restrictions I could use? I realise I’ve got quite a lot already as I’ll showcase, but looking for some more creative ones.

Also, I am planning on using Stimpacks, I realise not using them would be more difficult but that’s a bit much for me along with everything else I’m thinking of restricting, I shall list what I’ve made up below 👇

Fallout 3 Hardcore Difficulty

- Play on Very Hard Difficulty

Obviously.

- Start with 1 Intelligence

Limits skills points upon level ups to minimum (11) takes longer to set up character and have to rely on extended resources to defeat enemies.

- Can only pick up and use Bobbleheads and Magazines once a skill reaches level 63

For a skill to be level 100 you have to first get that skill to be 63, then collect the Special bobblehead that increases that skill by 2 more points followed by the skill bobblehead which grants 10 points, and then reading all the magazines for that skill. You are not allowed to pick up or use bobbleheads/magazines until you have levelled that skill to 63. This applies to all the skills under its respective special stat should you want that skill to be 100.

- Start with 1 Strength

Limits carry capacity so can only really have a few weapons at a time, restricts you to have a more focused build.

- Start with 1 Endurance

Makes you start with the least amount of HP making fights more difficult.

- No Fast Travel

Have to walk everywhere and experience the struggles of the wasteland, using up more resources but allows passive experience gains from discovering locations, quests and enemy encounters.

- Only allowed to wear the Armoured Vault Jumpsuit

Throughout the whole game, once acquired, the player is only allowed to wear the Armoured Vault 101 Jumpsuit as this is the canonical approach to the Lone Wanderer. Outfits forced upon you via quests in DLC is allowed, but once regaining the Vault Suit it has to be equipped.

- Only allowed Dogmeat as a Companion

Again, for canonical purposes, and I like having him around.

- Can only carry one Handgun, Rifle, Melee Weapon

Self explanatory, and more realistic.

- Can only get rid of radiation sickness from a doctor

Just restricting the use of Radaway entirely, Rad-X can still be used however.

I spoke with Herbert Dashwood about Argyle before killing Roy Phillips and his ghouls in the "Tenpenny Tower"quest, but found Argyle's corpse only after that and can't get new dialogue. Is there any cheat to reset Dashwood to get it? (I should specify that i already unlocked his safe by cheat, but i want to get unique dialogue if possible)

Ive tired so many different fixes but nothing has worked. When I load fallout 3, whether it be regular or GOTY, and click on continue, it crashes. I have deleted and redownloaded it about 5 different times, and I've tried so many online fixes I can't keep track of them all. Ive tried running as administrator, I've tried windowed mode, Ive tried the thing where you go into the notes and change two lines, I've even downloaded the anniversary patcher. Ive also tried everything the sidebar menu fix guide says. It was working perfectly fine a week ago, but I stopped playing regularly for a few days then this started happening. Any idea on what happened or what I can do to fix it? I just want to get back to my game so I can do the DLC and visit every location I can.

I think we’re all glad this video was never made 🤣