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Need help with "Tenpenny Tower" quest.

I killed most of the people in Tenpenny Tower, and it said quest added. (Tenpenny Tower, of course) It said I should talk to Roy and tell him the ghouls could come in, but I can't get to Roy. Gustavo's body disappeared and Herbert "Darling" Dashwood doesn't have the key to the stairs behind Tenpenny Tower, so I can't go through there. Warrington station is locked, and I can't get in. :S What could I do?

You basically f'd yourself, you should've pickpocketed the sub-basement key from Gustavo. Sub-basement's in a door outside tenpenny, but inside the walls, much like the bunker entrance in Fort Independence or Bannister, go in there and hack the terminal, thus letting the feral ghouls in.

Crazy Wolfgangs' "magic" repair skill change

An odd thing happened to Crazy Wolfgang once when I had him repair some stuff for me. He had a repair skill of 95 (which meant that he could repair to 97%). Now I already have enhanced his repair skill by giving him a pair of Workman's Coveralls (via reverse pickpocket) but that only made it raise to 85. Now here's what happened:

Wolfgang and his escort were traveling across the metal scaffolding next to the Jefferson Memorial when they encountered some Super Mutants. By the time I got there they had pretty much cleaned house. When I approached them, Wolfgang was standing near the ramp that leads down to the Gift Shop door (he was also standing partially in a scaffolding rod that was behind him). I engaged in trade and had him do a repair. That's when I noticed he had the 95 repair skill. Since then he has only had the 85 repair skill no matter where I find him.

I am running the game on the 360. I have all of the available DLC's to date. I am running the game from my HD. Any clues as to why this happened and more importantly, how do I make it happen again?

I'm not exactly sure but the clothing he was wearing before may have given him a higher repair. Also, it is possible that the 95 Repair is a glitch, but was undone once you reverse pickpocketed him. This resets the repair back to the value after fully investing in him in Merchant Empire. ΣΔ 20:37, December 14, 2011 (UTC)

When is Broken Steel coming out for the PS3?

Seriously, I'm going to shoot myself if I have to wait much longer. Or just try to trade it in with the PC version...

PC is the way to go. You can have a perfect copy of anything, including Chase's awesome Coat. Nitty 05:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Possible/Probable GOTY Edition Release Date

This is just an idea, but Bethesda said they want to release the GOTY edition in October, right?

They might've missed their chance to release FO3 on October 23rd, but I bet they'll do their damndest to release the GOTY Edition on that date.

Chris122990 04:01, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Fallout 3: GOTY

According to Game, [1], the GOTY Edition is slated for release on October 16th in the UK for an RRP of £39.99 (£29.99 Game discount). John117sSock 19:43, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

The GOTY

I have Fallout 3 on ps3 and i've had it for about 3 years I've got just about everything and I now have the GOTY edition.I was wondering if there was any way possible I could load my regular fallout 3 file on the GOTY.

You can, but you should start over and play the add-ons, it's alot more fun to do them when you start, my advice, do Point Lookout after you've done Pre-Broken Steel.

Game of the Year edition.

Does the new GotY edition have all the patches incorporated?--62.194.205.184 18:23, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

I don't believe so. But, shouldn't we have an article saying the differences between standard game and game of the year?Kill Maim 07:12, January 23, 2010 (UTC)

Just a question about Game of the year edition

I was just wondering if the game of the year edition has all the content included on the games actual disk, or if it is on a seperate disk? And if it is on a seperate disk, I want to know if there is any way to play the addons with out having to save them to your hard drive, see, my 360 didn't come with a hard drive so I don't have the memory space to save the addons. Superinsomniac 01:03, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Just buy a hard drive, man, you'll be glad you did, particularly when it comes to stuff like DLC and XBLA. You can get a 20gb for ~$20 if you know where to look, though I recommend getting something bigger because 20gb HDs are really 13gb due to the system taking up a lot of it for some sort of "system purpouses." Dethtoll 05:58, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you do need a hard drive for the game of the year edition. I got the game of the year edition hoping for the same thing, because my 20gb hard drive is almost full. The 5 DLC packs come on the second disc, and they are all relatively small files with the total being around 2.2 gbs. However, you can also play the game on disc 1 without any DLC, or install one DLC pack at a time, to save space. --Keverosh 22:32, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Time listed is wrong

In the section 'Behind the Scenes', seventh item, It says every single clock in Fallout 3 stopped at about 10:47.

The time on most clocks is actually 9:47. You can tell because the hour hand hasn't reached the number 10 yet.

Except, in Minefield (Ridgefield),

The fancy clock in the Zane house stopped at 11:16, and is hanging upside down. There is also a common white clock stopped at 9:47.

The Gillian house has two, one upside down in the kitchen stopped at 11:16, and one upstairs hanging right side up also stopped at 11:16. There is also a common white clock stopped at 9:47 in the children's room.

The Benson house also has two like the Gillian house, except the upstairs clock is tilted to the right a little.

The Gibson house doesn't have any clocks.

And, in Tranquility Lane

Houses that have a fancy clock are stopped at 11:16

If you select your Pip-Boy, you will instead see a wrist watch stopped at 2:55.

And, in Fort Independence

A Nuka-Cola clock is stopped at 5:45

If nobody has any objections, I will edit the main page in a couple days to correct the time from 10:47 to 9:47 and note that not all clocks in the game are stopped at this time.

SerSteve 22:22, November 22, 2009 (UTC)SerSteve

Also, in the Statesman Hotel Mid Level, right after you enter after passing over the bridge from the hospital, there's another clock stopped at 11:16.

Add a date

In the very first paragraph, the year of the game release is missing: "It was released on October 28 in North America<...>" Those with divine ability to edit the article should add year 2008 in that line. ;) --TheBearPaw 12:18, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

I've added it. -- Porter21 ^(talk) 12:26, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Rivet City tsunami ?

"The central hub of civilization in the ruins of the former capital is Rivet City, based in and around the remains of an aircraft carrier carried far inland and beached by a catastrophic tsunami whose waters have long since receded."

This *needs* to change, it's grossly inaccurate and from the in-game evidence actually impossible. A tsunami powerful to strand the Rivet City carrier in downtown DC would've also obliterated the surrounding area. By obliterated I mean absolutely flattened.

It's much more likely that the RC carrier acted under standing orders to use its reactors to supply DC with power, which would explain its being docked at the Washington Navy Yards. Such orders exist in our world and have been actioned by US nuclear carriers and subs in the past, precedent exists.

Hi! Hey, I know about that precedent too. That concept makes sense to me too, unless the Potomac River isn't deep enough. Is it? I know that the U.S.S. POTOMAC AG-25, formerly the U.S.C.G.C ELECTRA, and the U.S.S. SEQUOIA AG-23, and the U.S.S. MAYFLOWER PY-1, later to become the U.S.C.G. MAYFLOWER WPG-183, would be docked close enough to be used by POTUS,to be convenient enough for use before the days of Marine One. However as yachts, they were much smaller in draft than an aircraft carrier would be. But anyway, the whole tsunami concept reminds me of the movie "2012", which is only next year now as I write this. The scene with the U.S.S. JOHN F. KENNEDY CV-67,ya' know. Which my the way, to me, looked like someone had finally agreed to pay for it becoming a floating museum, or else the aircraft on the flight deck shouldn't have been able to surf all the to the White House where the wave seemed intent on finally crashing, and thus depositing the ship on it. On a side note to the side note, that scene and the scene with the fancy new type of cruise ship, seemed to me, to be foreshadowing the design of the new arks. As in how massive would the minimum size need to be, and what hull type, et cetera, would work best for the arks. Probably to demonstrate to ship lovers in the audience that might be wondering what type of surface ships might survive, since nuclear-powered submarines might be default anyway. Hey, it's 2011 now! Where's that promised "2013" TV-series?! To borrow a phrase from Peter David... "But I digress." Leo Star Dragon 1. 70.129.174.55 03:14, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea what you said, but in my opinion, the water was alot deeper, but now, over 200 years, it is extremely shallow for an aircraft carrier.

Regardless, the idea of a tsunami is preposterous and irrelevant anyway, to the current circumstances of Rivet City. ΣΔ 03:44, December 14, 2011 (UTC)

Additional Items in Japanese Censorship

So I'm currently playing through the Japanese version of Fallout 3 on the PS3, and apart from the couple of changes listed I have also found a number of other lesser known changes.

-Cannibalism perk is changed to 'Mystic Power', references to cannibalism have been removed from the description, and the pip-boy image has been altered to remove blood stains and body parts.

-No fingers for Lawbringer (possibly ears too, haven't played as Contract Killer yet) this is replaced with a scroll of paper which seems to provide proof of the guy being a bad dude, I'm assuming there is an equivalent for the Contract Killer path.

218.127.154.202 05:05, December 20, 2009 (UTC)Galan

I think they also sensor out, not entirely, the "Power of The Atom" quest, Mr.Burke I think appears as Tojo, and instead of him being evil, he's a good guy with a long beard that honorably killed Lucas Simms and tells you," DISARM BOMB NOW! OTHERWISE NO GIFT FO' CWISTMES! (Christmas)

Censorship

Hello,

i want to say that in Germany is Fallout 3 also censored. There is no blood anyway, the robots doesn´t explode and you can´t shoot the head off or other parts of the body. That is also notable in the part "censorship" isn´t it? Maybe anyone can edit that.

--Maurice

What's Germanies problem with gore anyway? If the other countries don't have a problem with it, then why? Tezzla blah blah blah 06:57, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah man Germany has some problem with rating things low. For example Call of Duty 2 is rated M. WTF? And then there's a bunch of movies that are banned there that are like barely Teen here. But then they legalize hookers. Germans are sensitive on violence I guess.--95.168.109.63 02:41, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

There's plenty of reasons (not really good ones, but understandable ones). I believe Wikipedia has a page on it. Australia on the other hand... my God what is up with their censorship? Dreadhand 20:36, August 23, 2010 (UTC)

Ummm, FO3 in Australia went uncensored mate, just Morphine -> Med-X change. Or are you talking about Aussie censorship in general? --Johnny Trash ^(Talk) 02:46, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

The Germans are really, really bitchy about their image ever since we tore down the Berlin Wall. It largely has to do with the fact that they don't like to be associated with Nazis. That's why they really get sensitive about issues like violence. Especially child violence. Of course, they shoot themselves in the foot with the ego they have in the end.Shdowhunt60 15:58, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Let's not be prejudicial or anything here... I respect Germany and their decisions of censorship. However, I sincerely doubt it has any effect on shaping the morality of society. ΣΔ 03:46, December 14, 2011 (UTC)

Fallout 3 Game of The Year Edition and The New Xbox 360 Slim

You cannot install the add-ons from the second disc because the new Xbox 360 4 gig version does not regester the "Memory Unit" as a hard drive. Don't know if this is will ever be fixed during a Live update or not. You can however still download them from Xbox live. 184.60.24.160 00:54, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

That's strange, I have a slim, and also have the GOTYE, But the addons are on a seperate disc of course, Mothership Zeta on my disc is included with the others, all one disc containing all 5 addons Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, And Mothership Zeta, and Point Lookout... Your Xbox may be Broken, because I installed the addons easily, and now I've completed them all, and draining the wasteland of it's every resource. :|

End date?

Can FO3 actually end after awhile, like Fallout 2? NukaBot 22:03, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

The only way to get Fallout 3 to end is to activate the purifier without Broken Steel loaded. --Kris 22:05, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Question to addons and Goty

Hello i am german, I have been directed here by the german wiki.

I bought F3 uncut in London and my question is whether i can play on a german xbox 360 F3 english with german addons. There is a special offer in a store (broken steel, the pitt, anchorage, and point lookout for 15 €). So i want to ask, if it works together. Xbox Live is still too expensive (800 MS each). Are there downloadcodes in the Goty (40€)? Could I use the uncut main game wiht the donwloadcodes togehter? The Internet doesn´t have a concrete answer and the german wiki neither.

Strange Saint

StrangeSaint 10:00, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe you should move to America, just saying. Oh and uh, let me answer your question, they made a Game Of The Year Edition, it should come with the present add-ons.

Touching Story

My girlfriend allways cry in the end when i choose to sacrifce my self in the good of mankind :D

... cool story bro... Gheart 00:49, November 14, 2010 (UTC) ... tell it again... --Liam1127 01:19, May 7, 2011 (UTC) ...neat trick, making your hand cry. *Laughs cruelly* -ΣΔ 03:42, December 14, 2011 (UTC)

This isn't a forum, don't treat it as such. If you want to tell other people about how great the game is, then either make a blog post or go to a place that's more appropriate.16:00, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Possible sequel, besides New Vegas?

I was thinking of like a next Fallout, since they have made NV already, they should, if they will, or can, make a Fallout 4. Now, I know this is a pretty stupid idea, right? Well, if you have ideas, and comments, post them here. I'll

put a few.
 

My Ideas:

-Not set in the U.S. Maybe China, Russia, etc.

-No luck skill (maybe), I think it's pretty pointless.

New creatures, Bethesda, ( if they make a new one ) Just HAS to get new creatures, like mutated polar bears, Giant eagles, or even tunnel snakes, (giant snakes that come up, and out, in, and about, lol, that basically will be a challenging opponent, I'd imagine they could come up with something like a-- alternative to super mutants.

Nothing is that destroyed, why? Why would you want it to be? I mean, come on, if you really want the expierience to be genuine, you'll need to have little destruction, so maybe half of it would have to be based in a rural area, this could include add-ons, possibly. But if they were to make a new one, I'd think it wouldn't need them. So, tell me what you, think, and make new ideas. I'll list down subjects, you can make your own.

I'd suggest having someone for a character such as someone like a Think Tank scientist, except he/she wouldn't be a brain, he/she discovered a terrible secret in the settlement of bio-chemists, I don't know, maybe he/she found out they're making a superhuman, super FEV Virus thing, I don't know. He/she is banished, this much like Veronica from FNV, only you aren't still in the organization. They re-take you, finding out in your records that you are the perfect lab-rat for the new Super FEV expierement, your character would initially refuse, and escape the base, initionally, not optional,(so basically a cutscene would be nessecary in this respect) opening up the FEV Gases, or liquids containers, and exposing the crazed Chemists, which would then create a

new enemy, for Russia, China, or Greenland, someplace with a little life, not a city, anyways, the enemy would most likely be a Super mutant like thing, so basically, your character f**ks the place he's living in, you'll need to get out of there, obviously, and do anything besides staying there. You should have at least 5, or more factions. One being Remnants of the BoS, and Enclave United. One being maybe some Snow Sheperds, (A tribe, well-equipped with Sniper Rifles, Anti-Material-Rifles, 44. Revolvers, Hunting Rifles, Hunting Shotguns, and few Energy Weapons.) But that depends on Area, if it were going to be set in china, besides Russian, Canada, or Greenland, and yes, I am sick of the U.S. in this game. If it were city regions and Forest Regions, like China, or India, you'd HAVE to have some sort of Raiders, like People in China, a main enemy. You know? Like skilled troopers, wearing anything they can get their hands on, and having silenced weapons like pistols, Assault Carbines, and SMGs. The main thing I think would be cool is the Remnants of your previous allies, Ultimate Super Mutants, with maybe, uhh-- this may sound dumb, Orange, or White Super Mutants, maybe even a rare super mutant, like a burned one, pitch black, found in caves of the Snow Desert, or Jungle Paridiso.

New Weapons: Gatling Laser, but with proton charge packs, instead of negative-electricity charging electrons, maybe with a green, or blue beam. Plasma Launcher, kind of like a lava launcher, if they're real, I'm pretty sure they aren't, but you catch my drift, right? And maybe some blue plasma, to give it kind of a Halo edge.

New Locations/Decorative ideas: Nuclear Power plants, like in Russia!

Enemies/characters:Enclave and BoS united? Awesome. Maybe they can like, I dunno make some super weapon, since they're both technology makers, and hoarders. It'd be a shame not to make them in the game, it would have to be in Greenland or Canada, somewhere close to the U.S.

Vehicles?: Vertabirds, with gatling Chainguns? And uh... maybe like one of those go-karts from Rage.

Allies: Definitley Snow Sheperds, Obviously, how I describe them, it'd make a good, and taken-for-granted ally, since they have access to good tech, remember, no demanding, just suggesting.

Why this should be made: It would complete Fallout, since this is an old game, why not end it with somethig spectacular?

Why this shouldn't be made: I don't have reasons myself, but if you do, post them, and put honesty into it.

Easter Eggs: NO Aliens, I've think we've had about enough, if we were to have aliens, I would, how should I phrase this?"Puke my f***king eyes out."

Random encounters, same as above really:

Storyline ideas/changes to my ideas:

Factions: BoS and Enclave, maybe they can be allies, don't have to. Snow Sheperds, Chinese Raiders with pre-war chinese stealth books, obtained from chinese posts, they learn their techniques, to steal, and get any valuable recourse, since they are poor and need food and weapons, and if I'd create this game, witch I can't, I'd make them have panda, and tiger skins on them.

Creatures: Polar Yuo Gui! Tunnel Runner Snake! WHY am I exited?! Because, I just, wait...what? Whatever, back on subject. Flying Giant Vulture/Eagle, with basically no feathers except for the neck and wings, with mutated, rotten, burned skin.

Other: Snow effect, if in a polar region, raining, with rain drops, same with snow, because you don't want it down right easy, you need to have realisticness, if that is a word, in a game. Hail, Sand Storm, and some wind, witch would move the screen to the right or left, depending on winds, so, what I'm saying is, if it were made, I'd personally, want it to be awesome, I can describe that in other words.

Post Regular comments here, of how awful I am at suggesting things, I don't know, whatever, but don't put anything vulgar. Before you start bomboarding this subject, let me explain, I'm not demanding anything, I'm just seeing if anybody wants a Fallout 4, and maybe, just maybe, Bethesda could see this.

Your OTHER ideas:

Dude, your brain idea sounds exactly like the main antagonist of the first Fallout. Could you come up with ideas that are A. Original and B. Don't sound like wacky-zomg-what-if scenarios?

Oh, I should put this...

Talk Section: Main antagonist? Where are you getting at? What if? Okay, tough guy, I'm saying "what if" scenarios. Because I previously did not know they were making a Fallout 4 in progress. These are just suggestions and small talk conversations. You don't have to be so hostile. Be Original? Do you think Fallout is original? No. Neither is any game, people copy off little things that they like, and want to use themselves. It's called copyright, and I am sorry if I am being a di**.

When will bethesda take responsibility for there BROKEN games?

OK ive had enough. Seriously. I wanted to get fallout 3 broken steel so i can extend the game, however, there is no way in hell im paying 9.99 for that add on. So i bought game of the year edition for $15 and got all the add ons. Well, ive run into issues and ive read on it, and im one of millions with the same issue. It will NOT stop crashing. First, im playing on a slim 160GB PS3. Well, no other ps3 games freeze on it besides fallout new vegas or the original fallout 3. (coincidence?). Well, on the original non DLC game, i could play up to 8 hours without issues, however with GOTY Edition, i can only play for maybe 1-3 hours. Ive been told that the reason of these freezings are actually to do with that crappy crash prone DLC "Point Lookout". I wish they would release a patch that would allow us to turn off certain DLC on the GOTY Edition, because i want to try to narrow down the issue. Im tired of all bethesda games i have freezing. Its not cool, and fallout 3 is a fantastic game that got slapped in the face with GOTY edition. Speaking of this, there getting a GOTY Edition AKA Ultimate edition pack ready for new vegas. Who in there right mind will buy that with all the issues fallout 3 GOTY edition gives? I hope they give some kind of way to turn off certain DLC, because on that game, i bought honest hearts and lonesome road. Honest hearts was fine with a few lags, lonesome road was a freeze nightmare. Need help. Has anyone found ways on slightly stopping freezes? --216.176.21.131 21:49, February 14, 2012 (UTC)

9.99 ain't so much. If you don't want the add-on disc, or discs, the only other way you can get them is to get Xbox LIVE gold, and redeem a code. And turn an add-on off? I don't get how add-ons affect the normal wasteland, the only DLC that changes the wasteland's appearance by the slightest bit is Mothership Zeta, and the other being Broken Steel, for a train tunnel, and bunker. This game is ALOT better with the DLCs, don't even tell me they aren't, they made my Fallout expierience a whole lot better, if you're glitching or lagging, freezing, etc. You should switch to the Xbox 360 Slim, if you already have one, the disc might be cracked, scratched, or laser burned.