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Images, discussion, videos, advice - anything & everything related to Fallout 3.


Images, discussion, videos, advice - anything & everything related to Fallout 3.


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1) Posts must directly relate to Fallout 3.

2) Image macros / Memes are not permitted as posts.

3) Unnecessary profanity, flaming, personal attacks, etc. will be removed.

4) Lore / Game / Dev bashing with no addition to discussion will be removed.

5) Use spoiler tags when applicable.

6) Posts promoting piracy will lead to a ban.

7) Tech support requests who have clearly not checked the sidebar fix guide will be banned for 7 days.

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/r/fnv - Fallout: New Vegas

/r/fo4 - Fallout 4

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/r/GalaxyNewsRadio - For submitting old school music in the style of Galaxy News Radio.

/r/ImaginaryFallout - For your art of the Fallout series.


/r/fo3

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Anyone else get a little sad when NPCs will say "don't be a stranger, come back anytime to visit" then they have no dialogue options besides them thanking you for finishing their quest and saying goodbye?

Thinking specifically of Lucy West and Karen Schenzy. They seemed really cool and wish I could hang out with them and ask them more questions about their background and how they feel about life in the wasteland.

1 Comment
2024/12/04
10:48 UTC

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What happen to the Lost Liberty wabbajack modpack?

What the title says, I want to replay fo3 with a modlist and Lost Liberty seems fine but now it's gone from wabbajack any know why? is there another site with the modlist? are there similar modlist oit there for fo3?

0 Comments
2024/12/04
08:13 UTC

3

Fallout 3 144fps 144hz.

so i got a stock installation of Fallout 3. whats the mod tree i need to follow to get the game to work at 144fps. ?

6 Comments
2024/12/03
23:30 UTC

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Just found out you can make Arkansas non-aggro!

Since learning about Arkansas's story, I've been sympathetic, and wished I could non-aggro him, and I just found out you can!

If you enslave him, then go to Paradise Falls and free him, he won't be hostile to you anymore, and he'll go back to Minefield. He'll be hostile to everyone else tho, so if you wanna free the other slaves, free 'em before you free Arkansas, and only free Arkansas once all the other slaves are gone. Breadbox and that other one who doesn't leave will probably be killed by Arkansas. They clearly didn't hire a voice actor for Arkansas, because if you talk to him, he'll have text as tho he's talking, but no voice will actually be heard. He thanks you for freeing him and says he's going to the Temple of the Union to help free more slaves, but he actually just goes back to Minefield

10 Comments
2024/12/03
20:31 UTC

127

Sent him on his way back home

4 Comments
2024/12/03
19:08 UTC

1

I have a problem-

Basically I tried to use console commands in order to get the winterized Chinese armor and commando hat from operation Anchorage. However everytime I try to it says it was gifted to me but when I open my inventory it didn’t show up. I have the dlc installed and idk what to do. I tried to also spawn in some of the operation Anchorage Chinese soldiers however they would appear then immediately disappear after I exited the console command menu

5 Comments
2024/12/03
05:56 UTC

17

Can you own property in game?

I just wanted to find out if you can buy a house like in Skyrim or if can atleast claim a house etc.

26 Comments
2024/12/03
00:20 UTC

186

How to make Ness from Earthbound in Fallout 3

12 Comments
2024/12/02
22:00 UTC

133

First play through and missed the quest specific energy weapons bobblehead. Goddammit Janet!!😩

Why lord?? WHY???!!!!

29 Comments
2024/12/02
08:27 UTC

1

(HELP) Cheif Gustavo missing.

I finished tenpenny tower letting both humans and ghouls live tbere, and he’s been at the front desk before. Now, no matter what I try, he’s nowbere to be found. Does anybody know his Schedule, or better yet main locations? (I accidentally sold him the Gauss Rifle.)

11 Comments
2024/12/01
20:54 UTC

9

Is there any way to get locked out of a bobble head

I am planning to grab almost perfect at level 30 and then double back and grab every bobble head available. However I’m kind of nervous about accidentally locking myself out of that as I’m doing anchorage rn and it seems very easy to lock yourself out of the special perk by missing an intel. I just want to know if there are any quests I should avoid triggering if I want to get every single bobble head and end up with a special of 10?

27 Comments
2024/12/01
17:33 UTC

10

can't get into vault 87

hey i'm at little lamplight and i can't get into vault 87 and i don't know what is going on, macready won't give me the option to open the gate nor will joeseph give me the option to open the door

any help appreciated, thank you

16 Comments
2024/12/01
13:35 UTC

1

Diego stood up Angela but she got a good boy as a replacement

2 Comments
2024/12/01
10:28 UTC

729

Tell me this don’t look like Harold

Found this on TikTok from someone’s thanksgiving diner

42 Comments
2024/12/01
08:03 UTC

31

Anyone know how to fix this?

It keeps booting me off anyone know how to fix it? ( i use steam )

31 Comments
2024/12/01
07:26 UTC

7

Does anybody know where Paulie Cantelli is?

I need to lose karma, and I can’t find him in his room or the market.

6 Comments
2024/12/01
04:19 UTC

4

Can't get broken steel version

My fiancé wanted me to play fallout 3 but come to find out the broken steel isn't added on to fallout 3 on the Xbox one we downloaded it on but however if he were to install it on the same account on xbox on his pc the add on would already be on the game on his pc. Could someone explain to me why this is?

0 Comments
2024/12/01
00:41 UTC

5

Pitt stealth boy exploit

I didn't do any research on this exploit, just figured it out dicking around killing raiders in the Pitt last night. Wearing the Chinese stealth suit, you can pick them off and they won't know where you are unless you fuck up, but all the slave bosses will go hostile. That is until you pop a stealth boy. Doing so immediately returns all the raiders to green status. Kill raider, everyone aggros, pop stealth boy, nobody realizes it was you. Crazy crazy

Edit, you probably have to remain hidden for this to work. If anyone explicitly sees you shoot another raider I have no clue if it still works

4 Comments
2024/11/30
18:29 UTC

4

I left RL-3 to wait in my Megaton home. He's gone! Help?

I left him to wait in megaton house with dogmeat, I had a message after a few in game days that dogmeat was waiting outside Vault 101. I go retrieve him no issues. Return to Megaton and RL-3 isn't there anymore, neither is he at Canterbury Common.

I've waited a few game days to allow time for RL-3 to get there and still no joy. Where is he as I want a new companion but can't find that damn gutsy baaaasterd!! I have never had this issue before in my other playthroughs.

Any help would be great. I'm playing on ps4 stream.

2 Comments
2024/11/30
09:59 UTC

1

Teleport to prologue

Is it possible to coc to the scenes from the beggining such as birthday or taking the G.O.A.T. exam? Does not seem to be listed anywhere

0 Comments
2024/11/30
06:13 UTC

120

Give your bodies to Atom, my friends!

12 Comments
2024/11/30
05:26 UTC

7

Broke a lock and I think I’m stuck…

I tried to open the locked door after the set of Ghouls at Farragut West Metro Station on the Following in His Footsteps quest. I broke the lock and says I need a key, l've looked everywhere in the station and can't seem to find it, any idea where it is?

6 Comments
2024/11/30
00:57 UTC

0

Temple of the Union (Hannibal..is dead..?)

Hey y'all, this isn't my first playthrough of Fallout 3 but this is the first time this has happened. I went to the Temple of the Union to do the quest Head of the State because it was one of my favorite quests from previous playthroughs. I unfortunately vaguely remember that when I showed up the temple of the union members were already fighting something? I just don't remember what but immediately when that was dealt with they turned to me and started shooting me. Like 400 saves later and over 10 levels later I realized after trying almost everything in the book along the lines of leaving the mesmetron in my house, not taking companions etc,...that Hannibal Hamlin was nowhere to be found. While I was getting shot up by the other members I strolled around the place and yea. He's just not there, and that Caleb was low health likely from the og attack.

I'm way way way too far in the game at this point to remotely consider going back that far but I assume there is legit no way to complete the quest with Hannibal gone? 🥲🥲 I did not hurt him or any of the members so man this feels really damn unfair but...🥲🥲

2 Comments
2024/11/29
23:43 UTC

116

Should i buy fallout 3 for 6$?

In this period there are a lot of discounts on steam and i wanted an opinion on buying fo3 on pc in 2024 (it's the game of the year edition)

89 Comments
2024/11/29
19:33 UTC

116

She’s about to ruin someone’s day

It’s been amazing playing fallout 3 again! My only one complaint is I still really need a couch table so I don’t have to balance the laptop on me. With out one my chronic back pain flares up terribly. So I only get to play an hr at best.

8 Comments
2024/11/29
16:25 UTC

5

Fallout 3 crashing several times in and around Hubris Comics. Is this a bug? Or is my save corrupted?

Hi,

I'm 11 hours into playing Fallout 3 for the first time. My game (on PC) keeps crashing in and around the Hubris Comics area. Is this a known fault in the game or is my save ruined?

Thanks.

8 Comments
2024/11/29
15:27 UTC

41

Say whatever, but raiders sure know how to have a good time

2 Comments
2024/11/29
15:00 UTC

0

Most Bizarre Bug Ever

Hey guys, so my dad is currently playing through fo3 on xbox series x, and he's requested my help with sorting out a bug. Usually I'm pretty good at this stuff, but this is such a bizarre and elusive bug idk where to start.

So the issue is, his gun won't fire at all when the trigger is pulled. It fires once when you load in, and then the only way to get the gun to fire is if you perform another action. So... if you pause the game, when you unpause the gun will fire. If you access the pipboy or jump, the gun will fire, etc.

For melee weapons it's just constantly swinging over and over with no way to stop it.

Reloading a previous save does nothing. It isn't the controller either, since it works just fine for other games.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is the save file corrupted or what?

Thanks y'all!

19 Comments
2024/11/29
02:15 UTC

114

How did James... survive outside?

Playing through FO3 again, and I tried searching this up but couldn't really find any answers. Getting to Megaton, easy - if you are lucky. But the route to Rivet City? The metro is dangerous and a survival horror experience to a doctor.

Maybe your dad is a utter bad ass, but I feel like any raider would be a problem to him.

Maybe this is explained somewhere and I'm dumb, but nobody really answers this question. 😅

49 Comments
2024/11/28
20:51 UTC

17

what dog breed is dogmeat?

im bad at telling dogs breeds but pitbulls and pugs so idk what breed he meant to be

19 Comments
2024/11/28
16:35 UTC

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