Fallout 3 - Hidden gems and random discoveries

[t.tocs]

You went back to sleep after putting out a fire in your house? That's hardcore.

So, just for the record, it went something like this...

RING RING RING

You: What's that noise? fire alarm? Let me check
*you check and find the 360 on fire*
You: Fire? A fire in my house? How dare you
*you put out fire*
You: *Yawn* I'm tired...threat eliminated...let me return to bed
*8 hours pass*
You: Maybe I should get breakfast...oh wait, there was that fire last night that so rudely interrupted my sleep, let me go check on it...

 

[seongjun]

My intriguing moment was when i just got out of the Meresti Train station and I noticed red blips appear one in front and two behind I quickly looked around and nothing, so i thought it must be up so when i looked up 3 giant rad scorpians dropped down and toke turns killing me.

thankfully that didn't happen next save.

Oh and you know those Brotherhood knights you can help out with their initiate stuck in one of the buildings due to super mutants? after I completed that for a whole 2 days they followed me to middle of nowhere, they followed me back to Megaton, followed me to the dunwich building hell they ever helped kill most of the enemy.

then when a deathclaw came round they all turned tail and ran xD

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Oh and you know those Brotherhood knights you can help out with their initiate stuck in one of the buildings due to super mutants? after I completed that for a whole 2 days they followed me to middle of nowhere, they followed me back to Megaton, followed me to the dunwich building hell they ever helped kill most of the enemy.

then when a deathclaw came round they all turned tail and ran xD

Can't really blame them to be honest...

360 started on fire. I was asleep on the other end of the house. When I heard the fire alarm, i got up quickly and ran to where the smoke was, I saw that my 360 was on fire. I dont know how though, anyways I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out. I went back to sleep afterwards because I was up the past 3 nights previous. When I finally woke up I went to go check on the 360, it had melted, along with the ps3 it was sitting on. I had both consoles since they came out so I dont know what caused it.

maybe it's just me, but leaving a console atop another one seems like a bad idea, fire or no fire.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I remember I came upon a yao Guai and a Mother Brain (those robots with brains in them) having a battle, needless to say the Yao Guai won but when it did the Robot flipped out and started having a seizure all over the waste land, literally, I don't know what caused it but it was pretty funny, anyone else encounter this?

 

[Battenbergcake]

After playing Fallout 3 for about 2 hours i discovered like oblivion i didn't like it =D

No offense it's a great game in it's own respect but vast open worlds don't cater to my play style.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I recall randomly stumbling upon a door in the ground which led to a maintenance/basement type area. On my way down the stairs I'm greeted by a plunger with a pyramid of glasses. Very funny Bethesda. As I continue down I see a traffic cone stuck under a lawnmower. I keep going and see a room on my right with plungers sitting at a table with random science equipment and one of those screen things standing nearby and blocking my view of the left side of the room. I enter and take a left and blood is completely covering the walls, with tens of innocent plungers surrounding a lone traffic cone. There was a plunger on an operating table with blood all around and operational tools and pliers and other instruments on a tray to the side. It was horrible.

Unfortunately, I've no idea where I found this. But damn, did I get a kick out of it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

After playing Fallout 3 for about 2 hours i discovered like oblivion i didn't like it =D

No offense it's a great game in it's own respect but vast open worlds don't cater to my play style.

Then I suggest researching games before buying them... Bethesda are known for exactly that!

I remember I came upon a yao Guai and a Mother Brain (those robots with brains in them) having a battle, needless to say the Yao Guai won but when it did the Robot flipped out and started having a seizure all over the waste land, literally, I don't know what caused it but it was pretty funny, anyone else encounter this?

It's one of the many physics bugs in the game.

Robobrains have terrible trouble with terrain as well, especially when they're knocked over.

 

[katsabas]

Ummm, Harold. Fuck, I love that tree.
Also, near Fort Independence, it started literally raining Raiders. FIIIRST TIIIME IN HIIISTORY...

 

[DoctorNick]

Lets see, what oddities have I witnessed...

Well, one time I was walking north-east of Tenpenny Tower when BAM! A giant albino radscorpion flies past ass-over-kettle about five feet away from my face! I looked at the direction it came from to see what happened only to get mobbed by four deathclaws. That was bad enough on its own, but I had been feeling like emulating Mad Max so all my character had on him at the time was the leather armor [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Leather_Armor_%28Fallout_3%29] and a sawed-off shotgun. Yeah, barely made it out of that alive.

What else, oh! Once I was heading towards the radio beacon with the 'my boy is very sick' transmission (sad in of itself) when I noticed two random dudes under a rock overhang right next to the little fenced-in enclosure that had the radio tower in it. They were surrounded by mines and upon noticing me they tried to run only to get killed by the mines. I had saved just a minute before so I reloaded to see if I could save them. After reloading when I returned to the same spot I got there just in time to see them get mauled to death by a pack of mole-rats! Determined to talk to one of them at this point I reloaded again, and this time one of them was absent. The remaining guy (who was a named character, I don't remember his name offhand) tried to mug me so I gave him six caps at which point he tried to run, but only ran about ten feet before crouching down in terror. He's still there even now and every time I try to talk to him the game just says that so-and-so is fleeing.

That's all I remember offhand, if I come up with more later I'll post again.

 

[Mr. Cuddles]

I remember fondly this one time I was happily skipping around the mountains around Oasis, not paying much attention with my keyboard on my lap, Then out of no where, a deathclaw jumped me with a roar, I was so shocked by this I threw my keyboard and fell off my chair, sitting quivering in the corner while you watch you character get mutilated is an intresting feeling, but I never play games with my keyboard on my lap ever again.....

Another time I found a radio-mast with a shack next to it, (can't remember name sorry) But I wandered inside and found a completely skinless raider, dead. It was just like the bloody mess perk, all of him was still in a rather comic pose of shock though veeeeery creepy, I looked this up and aparently it's a bug, but I still thought it was brilliant.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

So, here I am, F-ing around In Old olney Sewer, Going hunting for a deathclaw...Yes, I was looking for death claws to test out My deathclaw gluantet (Batteries Not included!) Until came upon a percuiler sight:

Three dead bodies, A wastelander, A BOS, and a Raider. I was surpised but noticed the sweet ass Armor The BOS kid was wearing.

Now, I know this guy isn't in great need of a perfect suit of armor, and since I need a suit of armor that will save my life.

I took his tags, so I can sell them back at the Citadel.

Put the suit on...

"Listen up you god-damn puke! You are now wearing Prototype Medic Power Armor. You take care of me and I'll take care of you."

... and I shat myself from the awesomeness.

Turns out Me and Med-x Became friends afterwards. He the only one who came and help me at the end of the game!

"It's time to kick some ass!"

 

[wells02]

finding a note on some cliff, next to a box containing chinese pistol.

explaining someones love for their family and a very emotional goodbye. that was my 4th playthrough.

I don't remember the note that well

 

[Godavari]

I remember going into the museum of technology and looking around at the computer terminals. There are three that have secret messages on them, and if you manage to decipher them you get led to a safe with several hundred caps, and a note that says "meet me at such-and-such subway station". If you go the place, you find a named dead body carrying even more loot. That little mini-story made me very happy.

 

[richasr]

One of the Super Mutant Behemoths, I think near Jury Street Metro, there's a train track with some up-turned carriages, and a small cage type thing with a bear, there's no one around, not a sole then you walk over a certain spot and turn around, there he is, big fuck off Behemoth fills the screen.

Another would be walking across cliff-tops (cliff top shack? not sure) and hearing an explosion, looking down and watching the Enclave in a huge fire fight, explosions galore.

Republic of Dave; rigging the election and then watching Dave leave for Old Olney. Head there later and he's trapped at the end of an alley-way with Deathclaws around the area, remembered a an earlier quest so sniped him in the head and took his key.

Fast travelling to Vault 101 and making my way over the cliff towards a huge barn, when I suddenly see wastelanders running for their lives, followed by a Deathclaw, that was fun.

 

[Meggiepants]

I remember going into the museum of technology and looking around at the computer terminals. There are three that have secret messages on them, and if you manage to decipher them you get led to a safe with several hundred caps, and a note that says "meet me at such-and-such subway station". If you go the place, you find a named dead body carrying even more loot. That little mini-story made me very happy.

I love those mini stories. One of my favorites is the Keller family one. It's tragic and captivating. And you get the Experimental MIRV for following it through. There's another little one in the Statesmen Hotel. And I still get a kick out of the crazy note in the Germantown Police HQ every time I pick it up, the flying banana's note.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I remember going into the museum of technology and looking around at the computer terminals. There are three that have secret messages on them, and if you manage to decipher them you get led to a safe with several hundred caps, and a note that says "meet me at such-and-such subway station". If you go the place, you find a named dead body carrying even more loot. That little mini-story made me very happy.

Plus it gives you the best gun in the game, the Xuanlong Assault Rifle.

Another time I found a radio-mast with a shack next to it, (can't remember name sorry) But I wandered inside and found a completely skinless raider, dead. It was just like the bloody mess perk, all of him was still in a rather comic pose of shock though veeeeery creepy, I looked this up and aparently it's a bug, but I still thought it was brilliant.

That is one creepy bug... happened me in Seward Square.

There were a pair of eyes, a jaw and a bunch a body fragments just suspended in the air, like some morbid anatomical model. Freaked me the fuck out, so it did.

 

[Tiny116]

The first time Dogmeat died; I was so attached to him that I had to reload my previous save to prevent his death.

Lol i've done that as well!
two things that don't mix with dogmeat, deathclaws and Fire!

 

[Generic_Dave]

I was loping across the wasteland one evening, following the Potomac with my trusty dogmeat at my side. When a wasteland settler bolted out of the ruins, firing an assault rifle over my head. I turned to look at what she was firing at. A Super-mutant was trundling up the river-bank and being a good natured sort, I took its head off. The settler had run past me at this stage, and then turned and again began firing. She grazed dogmeat, and I, naturally perturbed, took her head off too. 'Cheeky *****' I thought, 'I saved your ass, I did'. I sauntered over, to loot her corpse, but before I got there, three undesirable folk passed me by and two proceeded to kneel beside my victim in an apparent bid to loot my kill. The one who didn't casually came over to me and tried to sell me some "strange meat"...

...and it suddenly clicked...the settler hadn't been firing at the Super-mutant, she had been running from these folk, and I had mistaken their fire for hers. And the bullets which hit my trusty canine were theirs too, I just couldn't see them in the rubble...I felt a sudden pang of guilt for this poor girl who I had saved and cut down in the space of five seconds. It was the first and only time I've ever felt guilt over killing an NPC in any game. I stood their a moment, aghast at these barbarous fiends, obviously intent on cutting more produce from her young bones.

Then I killed them, I felt no joy in it. Merely a cold resignation.

I think what was most wonderful about this was that it was totally unscripted, no bugs, no placement by Bethesda...I returned to the same spot on subsequent playthroughs just to see...it was a live world, and and she had just been going about her business and I could have saved her...but didn't...

 

[ZacOfTheZombies]

I was battling a Deathclaw and it was hurt pretty bad so it started to run away. I flollowed it over a hill and on the other side was, litterally, millions of them. Apparently the game glitched and made millions of copies of the wounded Deathclaw. I sat there transfixed at the site of the horde as they all turn in unison and begin running back at me. I frakin ran like a wus. Great glitch or greatest glitch?