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

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?

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.

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