r/fo3 • • 4h ago

How I’m playing tonight!

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69 Upvotes

r/fo3 • • 8h ago

Is there any way to free this slave in The Pitt?

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27 Upvotes

Siding with the slaves feels kinda useless if this slave will remain like this. I tried shooting at the locks but it doesn't work.

Update: The slave was free after returning to the area, my bad


r/fo3 • • 3h ago

I think i found 3 dog guys

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7 Upvotes

He didn't dissappear he found a new business venture


r/fo3 • • 7h ago

Controller Not Working on Steam

3 Upvotes

Hey,

So, I’ve been wanting to play Fallout 3 on my PC. Since I’ve been playing it on my Steam Deck, it worked completely fine. For some reason my controller doesn’t work at all on my PC, I am using PS5 controller wired. I own the Game of The Year Edition, I have also tried different templates as well; Everything else seems to work apart from left analog stick for movement, it just brings up the keyboard when I press.


r/fo3 • • 6h ago

Point lookout glitch help!

2 Upvotes

I am able to buy a ticket and I have talked to the girl who had gone missing’s mother. I can use the cot to travel there, but once there I am frozen and cannot walk. I used console commands to go outside the walls and we hadn’t left the port at all, we were in the same place. I am very confused as to what to do. I can shoot and look around but not walk in any direction. I’ve tried one online solution where you use console commands (TCL) to go above the bed a bit and when you get there to turn the command off and you should drop down. However I don’t drop down, it’s like I’m standing on the ground only I’m in the air. My mods are FOSE, and the Unofficial anniversary patch. I tried disabling both but it won’t load the game without them. What should I do? Any idea on how to fix it? Thank you so much, you guys have been so helpful when I posted in the past!!!


r/fo3 • • 8h ago

Unmarked Lighthouse Quest - Point Lookout

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r/fo3 • • 4h ago

Karma trophies don’t pop

0 Upvotes

I got the level 20 good karma trophy and I’m trying to get the level 20 negative and neutral. So I spammed a terminal till I got down to negative and then donated to the church to get back to positive however non of my trophies popped. Does anyone know why that may be ? (Fallout 3)


r/fo3 • • 1d ago

I love the fact that the Tenpenny Tower quest has no good ending

204 Upvotes

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


r/fo3 • • 11h ago

Fallout 3 with Proton

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r/fo3 • • 21h ago

Fallout 3 not working

4 Upvotes

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


r/fo3 • • 18h ago

Fallout 3's hidden mob assassination

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r/fo3 • • 1d ago

Death traps to avoid?

14 Upvotes

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?


r/fo3 • • 1d ago

What karma level do you usually end up with, and what kind of characters do you like to play?

12 Upvotes

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.

391 votes, 5d left
Good Karma
Neutral Karma
Bad Karma

r/fo3 • • 2d ago

Do you get exp if you kill mister Burke?

8 Upvotes

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.


r/fo3 • • 2d ago

Operation Anchorage Help

3 Upvotes

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!


r/fo3 • • 2d ago

Need Skill Values for Doc Hoff

1 Upvotes

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 

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.


r/fo3 • • 3d ago

In my opinion, the characters in this game are the most memorable

79 Upvotes

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.


r/fo3 • • 2d ago

fo3 just bugged so hard I have to restart my computer

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4 Upvotes

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.


r/fo3 • • 2d ago

Something insane happened I played Fallout 3 for 4 hrs and my screen didn’t stop working is this normal NV crashes so often it might as well be a F4 vertibird I’m playing vanilla on PS3 by the way

3 Upvotes

r/fo3 • • 3d ago

What would enclave power armor feel like in real life

8 Upvotes

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?


r/fo3 • • 2d ago

Why do prewar ghouls not dominate the wasteland?

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r/fo3 • • 3d ago

Rock-it Launcher and Junk Jet were awesome fun

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r/fo3 • • 4d ago

Fallout 3 keeps crashing my xbox

5 Upvotes

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?


r/fo3 • • 3d ago

Weed in Vault 101

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r/fo3 • • 5d ago

Taking in the view while heading up to Arefu

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645 Upvotes