Fallout 3 - Hidden gems and random discoveries
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I think Broken Steel had more random little easter eggs than the entire rest of the game.Squidwogdog said:
So... many... gnomes...
haha, I was looking at this thread and playing Fallout, so i fat-traveled to Andale to see what the fuss was about, my lock pick isnt 100 yet so i thought i'd talk to some people and i came across this one from Bill Wilson:
"Family first, and any man who says anything different is saying something wrong...
And you should hit that man...
With a stick..."
Its his response to: "What do you do around here?"
"Family first, and any man who says anything different is saying something wrong...
And you should hit that man...
With a stick..."
Its his response to: "What do you do around here?"
ever had a glitch where super mutants keep re-spawning in the ruins of DC and it never stops?... yeh not very nice let me tell you...poor Dogmeat =( *sigh*
ahhh yes i remember another 1...while taking a stroll randomly through the wastes i come across some of the BOS that have broken away from the rest, talked to them, carried on walking. Came bk a while a later, all 3 dead and 4 super mutants walking off didn't think anything of it and looted them.
again while walking past this location they are alive again(don't ask how cause i was baffled at this point) and i see 5 raiders charging from no where getting mowed down by a laser gattling, unfortunately one had either a missile launcher or a fat man...
crippled all the way to megaton only to get killed by a feckin bloat fly -_-'
ahhh yes i remember another 1...while taking a stroll randomly through the wastes i come across some of the BOS that have broken away from the rest, talked to them, carried on walking. Came bk a while a later, all 3 dead and 4 super mutants walking off didn't think anything of it and looted them.
again while walking past this location they are alive again(don't ask how cause i was baffled at this point) and i see 5 raiders charging from no where getting mowed down by a laser gattling, unfortunately one had either a missile launcher or a fat man...
crippled all the way to megaton only to get killed by a feckin bloat fly -_-'
He pretty much just gave out a video, witth where he found the information.Swoop said:
>.>
Just saying.
Anyone notice the car crash? it's just a little ways from Smith Casey's and right next to a abandoned military encampment. Just a car with a tree right in front of it. and two corpses a few feet in front of it...
the time I shot a yao-guai with a rocket and it shot up like... well a rocket only to have it land on my head, and being at low health, the damn thing killed me. that was a lot of fun. oh and killing the entire town of megaton, then dropping a bomb on it. I always found it funny. I'll blow up your town, but first I'm gonna kill you all and take your stuff, because that's how the vault dweller rolls son!
Okay, I'm resurrecting this topic a little. Mostly because I've no interest in starting a new thread just to say this. But I wanted to mention a couple of things about one of my most recent playthroughs.
I was slogging my way through as evil. And I had to stop. I cannot go on. It is sucking the life out of me, I tell you. I simply can't do it. The achievements just aren't worth it. I'd rather have another go at ME2 on insanity than this.
With that being said, there were a couple gems I encountered when trying the evil route that I never saw on my 6 playthroughs as a goody-goody two shoes. Spoiler tagged in case you haven't done this.
I was slogging my way through as evil. And I had to stop. I cannot go on. It is sucking the life out of me, I tell you. I simply can't do it. The achievements just aren't worth it. I'd rather have another go at ME2 on insanity than this.
With that being said, there were a couple gems I encountered when trying the evil route that I never saw on my 6 playthroughs as a goody-goody two shoes. Spoiler tagged in case you haven't done this.
So, if you blow up Megaton, Moira shows up there as a ghoul. Her reaction to being a ghoul is pretty darned funny, even if I did have to nuke a town to get it. She thinks it's a great opportunity to run experiments on ghouls. I wonder if she would include her experience in her survival guide? I never got that far.
And Deputy Weld outside of Megaton, only his head is left, and he repeats the message: "Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe. We Promise."
I carried his head all the way back to Tenpenny Tower to remind myself of the cost of evil every time I entered my luxury apartment building. Yes, I am strange.
I realize these are probably well known by people who played through as evil, but I know at least one other person who I've told about the Moira thing who was shocked she survived. So just in case there are others like me, too wimpy to play evil... and who are searching dead topics on this forum...
And Deputy Weld outside of Megaton, only his head is left, and he repeats the message: "Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe. We Promise."
I carried his head all the way back to Tenpenny Tower to remind myself of the cost of evil every time I entered my luxury apartment building. Yes, I am strange.
I realize these are probably well known by people who played through as evil, but I know at least one other person who I've told about the Moira thing who was shocked she survived. So just in case there are others like me, too wimpy to play evil... and who are searching dead topics on this forum...
The wacky part about that ufo rocket thing that drops the firlance is this, you know how sometimes npcs will pick up stray weapons? I found a firelance on a talon company merc in my second game, he must have picked it up somewhere thoughtfull of him to leave it to me when he died.neosman8 said:
I love the Dunwich Building portion of the game. It's not as scary if you bring your trusty Ghoul Mask but there are still some scenes of the building before the bombs fell which are all really eerie. Not to mention the two Raiders who were supposed to meet up there and were both killed. Anyway: I love the lovecraftian climax to that area where you fight the insane, though not feral, ghoul who believes he is summoning one of the Elder Beasts...or possibly a Great Old One...right in front of that horrific, godless, (gibbous) statue.
Ah the Medic Power Armor. 45b power armor with USarmy markings and no annoying BoS emblems. And It TALKS!
Going through the Acorage Memorial and reading up on all the great depth it has, DAMN those mercs for taking them out that way.
And my most lovly stuff, Mods turned on: Fook2, Marts mutant mod, Alternate start: roleplayers, and Sharing and Caring companions.
Choosing to be a Talon Company merc named Shrike, and can then walk peacefully through the talon company's headquarters with not a single issue besides the occational attack from the Outcasts.
I can then recruit my fellow mercenaries to come with me, a fireteam with an abundance of BADASS. Doing hundreds of jobs for the Talon Company, increasing our rep, and doing goodwill missions like arming the kids at Big Town with AKs and leather armor, we aint use'n em. *taps his chest* Advanced combat armor and american firearms, we dont need that 'red' stuff.
Talon Company!
Going through the Acorage Memorial and reading up on all the great depth it has, DAMN those mercs for taking them out that way.
And my most lovly stuff, Mods turned on: Fook2, Marts mutant mod, Alternate start: roleplayers, and Sharing and Caring companions.
Choosing to be a Talon Company merc named Shrike, and can then walk peacefully through the talon company's headquarters with not a single issue besides the occational attack from the Outcasts.
I can then recruit my fellow mercenaries to come with me, a fireteam with an abundance of BADASS. Doing hundreds of jobs for the Talon Company, increasing our rep, and doing goodwill missions like arming the kids at Big Town with AKs and leather armor, we aint use'n em. *taps his chest* Advanced combat armor and american firearms, we dont need that 'red' stuff.
Talon Company!
That is awesome! I heard that could happen. Somewhere I read it was pretty dangerous if you encountered someone who had either the Firelance or the Alien Blaster.ma55ter_fett said:
But that would have been the best loot ever for me.
Wandering around a part of Washington D.C. I had never seen before, I walked into a prewar clothing store, still in excellent condition. I had just fought a Super Mutant Overlord that had a Fat Man, so I need a break - I spent a while dressing up in silly hats and prewar clothing. Then 3 raiders popped in, and I tore them up with my combat shotgun, still dressed in a bonnet and spring clothing.
In Hubris Comics, I found a computer terminal that had a video game on it - a little text-based adventure game. I beat the game, must have been really fun to someone from the Capital Wasteland. It was a nice change of pace.
I closed a door in my dad's face as a baby, so I could escape the vault as a 1-year-old. I wandered around Megaton (everyone acted as if Dad had left 18 years ago). To get my karma low enough to hire Jericho, I decided to throw some grenades around in Moriarty's. I jumped onto a counter and went into VATS, leading to the most hilarious VATS sequence ever.
I decided to follow a freed Wasteland Captive, to see where she would go. She wandered into the crossfire between Raiders, Tenpenny's Mercs, Water Caravan Guards, and a pack of Yao Guai (all of these factions are hostile to each other). I took some shots at the Mercs from across the river, which caused the Mysterious Stranger to show up in the water. When MS is in the water, he simply treads water and doesn't attack, so he stayed there swimming and watching the epic battle.
I found a working Mr. Handy in Germantown, I told used a terminal to make it "tell a bedtime story". It went over to two small skeletons in a bed, and read "There Will Come Soft Rains":
For me, that was the most emotionally powerful moment I experienced in Fallout 3, or possibly any video game.
Oh, and I once sledgehammer'd a Protectron into the ground and watched it get launched about 50 feet through the air by a physics bug.
In Hubris Comics, I found a computer terminal that had a video game on it - a little text-based adventure game. I beat the game, must have been really fun to someone from the Capital Wasteland. It was a nice change of pace.
I closed a door in my dad's face as a baby, so I could escape the vault as a 1-year-old. I wandered around Megaton (everyone acted as if Dad had left 18 years ago). To get my karma low enough to hire Jericho, I decided to throw some grenades around in Moriarty's. I jumped onto a counter and went into VATS, leading to the most hilarious VATS sequence ever.
I decided to follow a freed Wasteland Captive, to see where she would go. She wandered into the crossfire between Raiders, Tenpenny's Mercs, Water Caravan Guards, and a pack of Yao Guai (all of these factions are hostile to each other). I took some shots at the Mercs from across the river, which caused the Mysterious Stranger to show up in the water. When MS is in the water, he simply treads water and doesn't attack, so he stayed there swimming and watching the epic battle.
I found a working Mr. Handy in Germantown, I told used a terminal to make it "tell a bedtime story". It went over to two small skeletons in a bed, and read "There Will Come Soft Rains":
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
For me, that was the most emotionally powerful moment I experienced in Fallout 3, or possibly any video game.
Oh, and I once sledgehammer'd a Protectron into the ground and watched it get launched about 50 feet through the air by a physics bug.
I love the random stories that people come away from this game with. There are enough to fill several books from all of our random encounters.Generic_Dave said:
Yours reminded me of a somewhat similar situation that happened when I was only a few hours into the game - having left the vault for the first time and wandering the wasteland. I'm now well over 100 hours into the game (a lot of mods), so I'll try and remember it to the best of my ability.
I came across a burned out church, and a good distance from it I ran across some raiders. I took them out, and proceeded to head inside the church. What happened next was so fast - it must have happened all in a second - like a blur, and I hadn't saved recently so I couldn't reload to try and figure out what took place or if I could have done things differently.
As I walked through the doorway of the church, a man on fire screamed at me and then started running straight toward me. Gunfire started going off, and then an explosion went off close to the man. I was mad at myself for not scouting the outside of the church first, thinking I had walked into a trap. I opened fire on the man to keep him from getting to me. He fell, and gunfire continued to pour into the church through holes in the walls; several raiders had approached the church and I had to fight them off. After the fight, while looting bodies I approached the man to find that he wasn't a raider after all. The raiders must have been chasing him, and he ran in through the back of the church as I came in the front. With the explosion, gunfire, and him running towards me I mistook him as a threat and killed him.
I can't remember if it was that he was on fire, or the place was just mined - but either way, I killed him, and he was an innocent. It bothered me for a while that I didn't check my fire and just opened up when he ran towards me.
Don't feel bad... the raiders always set that guy on fire, it's scripted.SmugFrog said:
It's the little church near Arefu, I remember it well from my first playthrough as it was my first time getting annihalated by a flamer!
The first time I ever played this game was on a friend's PS3, and I just jumped on with his save file. He was just about to run into GNR for the first time. So I get there, still getting used to the controls when out of nowhere this huge fucking thing appears and I'm all like "aw shit!" I almost drop the controller and in recovering it pushed a button. I noticed I had equipped something called a "fat man". "Cool" I thought, "probably some kind of missile launcher, this'll take care of it" So I figure out what button is the boom-you're-dead one and push it. Words can not describe the pants wetting excitement when that mini-nuke hit that behemoth and I learned that I had in fact just launched a nuke in an fps. Nor can words describe the pants shitting terror that occurred when the smoke cleared and the thing was not dead. This was my first experience with Fallout 3.
i was enjoying my victory of getting the T5-1b power armor, and turned my player around to take a screenshot and upload it to deviantart. But I shat a corvega and two nuka colas when i saw deh debble lookin' back at me (with a little stupid smile) on the front of my armor (csn be seen below ur headz. so i literaly flew to rivet city (fallout 3 mod).
Another time at the jefferson memorial, i was walking through the walls using the console command TCL (toggle collision) and when i stepped our of the map a little. I stumbled across two mysterious letters MQ (main quest?) then as soon as i left the place. an enclave soldier literally fell out of the sky and killed my character.
Another time at the jefferson memorial, i was walking through the walls using the console command TCL (toggle collision) and when i stepped our of the map a little. I stumbled across two mysterious letters MQ (main quest?) then as soon as i left the place. an enclave soldier literally fell out of the sky and killed my character.
Brilliant wasteland encounter between myself, a group of raiders and a couple of super mutants. Having whittled the fight down to one raider with a baseball bat and one mutant with a nailboard, the two of them decided to set on each other instead so I took a ringside seat for the next minute and a half while they duked it out. When they finally decided the winner- the raider- I got out the shotgun. "Step up and claim your prize son". BLAM. Having the bloody mess perk enabled just added to the scene, it was a one shot shower of gore.
Laughed my arse off, a totally random moment.
Laughed my arse off, a totally random moment.