Fallout 3 question, any answer appreciated.

[AkJay]

Fairly simple question, in Fallout 3, your character pretty much leaves the vault and goes into the world. In that world, he runs, jumps, and... swims? how does the character in Fallout 3 know how to swim, they make no mention of a swimming pool in any of the vaults, and you are not born with the natural talent, so how does the Vault-Dweller know how to swim like a fish?

 

[Valkyira]

never actually thought of that to be honest. Well thought!

 

[Snekcid_Eillib]

You've just blown my mind.

 

[Aunel]

mind control,

or if you have to cross a lake, with raiders following you, you learn quick.

 

[Ligisttomten]

They have books that teach you how to handle a gatling laser, sneak like a chinese commando, hack a computer like there's no tomorrow. What makes you think there's no books about swimming?

 

[AkJay]

They have books that teach you how to handle a gatling laser, sneak like a chinese commando, hack a computer like there's no tomorrow. What makes you think there's no books about swimming?

Well for one, never actually found a swimming book, have you? for two, more then 90% of most books in the Fallout universe are burnt to a crisp, but then again i guess i am just nitpicking.

 

[paragon1]

Don't forget that he's(she's) carrying lots of heavy armor (power armor, if you play like me) probably more than one kind of weapon, hundreds (if not thousands) of bullets and bottlecaps, stimpacks, and whatever else you happen to be dicking around with. Anyone know anyone wno could swim all day long with that stuff? Me neither.

To answer the original post, I'd say it was the same place he(she) developed the ability to convince the leader of a remnant faction of the U.S. Government to abandon his dastardly plans with one speech challenge.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

O.O...... MY... GOD!!!

 

[electric_warrior]

maybe there's a reason that no one's ever noticed this before

 

[Internet Kraken]

Survival instinct?

 

[ActualOvaltine]

Only a Communist questions such things.... COMMUNISM IS A LIE!

 

[skcseth]

Survival instinct?

This.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

why do you make a big deal about knowing how to swim without practice when there are giant flys and mole rats running around and you can take about 30 bullets to the head and still live?
No offense, just wondering why.

 

[Chipperz]

Vault 101 came with a pool, but the Overseer shut off access to it when the player was still young, so they don't remember it. This doesn't matter, because James took the player there when they were very, very young and when they got into the Wasteland, they remembered.

It's all in the files in Vault 101, you need to have Science 100 as a starting character to hack them, though...

 

[Iammatt]

the pipboy is able to freeze time so they can target a part of the enemy and see their percent chance of hitting that part.Im guessing it could also help them swim

 

[TopHatTim]

They have books that teach you how to handle a gatling laser, sneak like a chinese commando, hack a computer like there's no tomorrow. What makes you think there's no books about swimming?

Well for one, never actually found a swimming book, have you? for two, more then 90% of most books in the Fallout universe are burnt to a crisp, but then again i guess i am just nitpicking.

hes right. you see all the commando books and agility books giving you a better agility...how does he know how to lockpick? how does he know how to hack?
how can he repair everything?


its all in the skills and books.


Not to mention when people pour boxes of bullets to your face...you get the instinct and common sense.

 

[deathstrikesquirrel]

I know, it just throws off all of the realism in Fallout 3, doesn't it?

 

[Specter_]

they make no mention of a swimming pool in any of the vaults, and you are not born with the natural talent, so how does the Vault-Dweller know how to swim like a fish?

But in other vaults you have flooded rooms. So maybe they had a waterleak they were too lazy to fix, "cause we don't need that room anyway" and after it got flooded about half way, they decided to use it for recreational purposes as a swimming pool.

 

[Grensen]

the radiation in the water pushes you through the water, yeah it somehow knows where you want to go and moves you, the character just mimics the movements because he's bored or dead.