Thread: Fallout 3!

I played the first one and loved it anything with a post apocalyptic feel is for me.

necromancy

The only thing hard for me to do is hacking the computers. When it says 3 out of 6 correct is it saying "3 letters are right" or "3 letters are in the right order"?

need help with this bad Ive been locked out of a couple of computers.

http://www.1fort.com/blog/fallout-3-...d-much-better/

This comes from Chronos in the comments to the Fallout 3 hacking tip I tried to explain earlier today, but I got some parts of it wrong. I didn’t realize it was always some sort of brackets, I thought it was just random characters like asterisks and pound signs and such.

I’ve never seen the asterisk thing Chris mentioned - but I *have* seen it with brackets. If two of the same type of brackets ({}, [], (), , etc.) are on the same line and face each other (One opening bracket followed by one closing bracket), then you can click on the LEFT one (Not the right) once and get the bonus from it (Either removing a bad password or refreshing your tries). Each opening bracket will only work once, but a closing bracket can work multiple times if there’s more than one opening bracket of the same type on a line.

One other thing about hacking - I found this out in the instruction manual. When you try out a word, the number indicated correct is not just how many of the letters are correct - it’s how many of the letters are both correct *and* in the right position in the word. Very important distinction there - as soon as I figured that out, hacking became a lot easier.

He was kind enough to throw in some lock-picking tips, too:

I hate how the game explained how lockpicking works - it’s confusingly worded. Basically, somewhere within the 180 degree arc that you can move the bobby pin around, there’s a range of angles that you can put the bobby pin into and then attempt to rotate the lock and successfully open the lock. On very easy, the range is so wide that you’re almost guaranteed to just immediately try and open the lock without moving the bobby pin, and you should be able to open it. The harder the lock, though, the smaller the range gets and the more randomly placed the range is. If you’re not in range when you try to open the lock, you’ll only get so far before the lock halts - the farther you get, the closer you are to the angle range.

Thanks, Chronos! I thought the game was pretty sketchy with its instructions on how to do these two things, and this definitely helps a lot.

use those bracket thingies!

and if you get down to your last guess and have no clue, close out and reopen the terminal, evrything will reset but you can continue to try till you get one.

just got this the other day, still really new just got out to megaton and plan on going NW to deliver a letter to someone's family..I tried to make the trip twice already and was ambushed both times by raiding parties. Did well the 2nd time when I was prepared for them, though the 2nd time I got too heavy by all the raider loot so I was slow trying to grab cover/run away from the flame thrower!