Question : Does fallout 3 support custom soundtracks from our MP3s? For some reason, I suddenly got the urge of listening to Rage Against the Machine while playing. It sounds incredibly fitting for some reason.

Well if you have a 360 you could play MP3s you have on your 360's hard drive. Or, do like me -- I have my 360 networked with my PC so I can stream songs from my computer, which works really well since I don't have to bother ripping albums to the 360.

It's not so much the location but the level. The levelling of enemies is similar to Oblivion but once you've explored an area the enemies are fixed (ie a high percentage of enemies at your current level plus a low chance of encountering things like giant radscorpions, yao guai, deathclaws and mister gutsy. There are only 5 super mutant behemoths in the game, so super mutants aren't much of a threat (it's pretty easy to cut through the brutes once you have a good enough weapon).

I imagine deathclaws become more tolerable once you've got the power armor though, it's easy enough to do damage to them, but they're very fast and will usually kill you in two or three hits.

You can play music directly from your 360 HDD

Stream it from the computer

Or use a Zune and just plug it in to listen to it.

I've done all and I have to admit they work quite well.

I got the game yesterday. Frick, it's awesome. Not too far in yet. Love it so far.

Once you get high enough level, Deathclaws and Yao Guai will be a cakewalk. Honestly I never had much problem dying, instead I had to worry about Dogmeat or Charon dying. Then I got Fawkes later on and he just seems to be an insane killing machine. Having high sneak for sneak attack criticals, high repair for good condition weapons, and high small guns skill also helped in making things die quickly.

At what point should I expect to find Dogmeat and what not? Is it part of the main plotline or is it something I could miss?

You find Dogmeat in scrapyard south of minefield, it's not part of the story or any quest.

Yeah, you should be able to find him really, really early into the game, considering the survivial guide quest sends you to Minefield really early on. I actually didn't get him until a lot later though.

I've been to the Minefield about 10 hours of gameplay ago, never found him. I shall seek him out tonight! I think I have the scrapyard unlocked too. I hope to god I didn't shoot him. >.<

It's certainly not in the main plotline. I'm in the dark on this as well. The only companions I've had were Star Paladin Cross (who I promptly got killed by Super Mutants or something) and Fawkes.

Oh yeah, he's very easy to miss if you don't explore much around Minefield. When you get near the scrapyard, you'll see a dog fighting some raiders. After all of the raiders are dead, he'll come up to you and you can get him to follow you then.

Oh ****. I think I saw that and killed him.

Dammnit!

you... you MONSTERRRR *runs away sobbing*

Ahh, well then you're screwed it looks like... To be honest though, I never found Dogmeat nearly as useful as the humanoid companions. Charon's shotgun is brutal and Fawkes tears through stuff with his gatling laser.

So I find myself doing the exact same thing I did in Oblivion--exploring the almost endless landscape, and loving every second of it.

I need to get to GNR so I can really start the game.

Go up north and kill the super hero wannabes.

That was fun, I killed the Ant queen and used her chainsaw sword to kill bucket head.

Anyone want to take some screenshots for me? Google images is being a ***** right now.

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What kind of armor is that, and where did you get it?

it's armor from the guards in vault 101

it's not very good, but goddamn does it look slick

EDIT: This game's cinematography, which is obviously randomized and unpredictable, keeps me coming back again and again. I got the day off work and have been playing ALL DAY, and I still haven't even gotten to the radio station. Just been cruising around.

God I love this game.

I have infiltrator armor, I think.

It looks really stupid, but I get 20dr out of it.

yeah, I met a brotherhood of steel paladin and was tempted to kill him for the power armor, but I don't have the training for it

I tried killing one, didn't work out so hot.

But now I have the railway gun, I might give it another shot.

Really? I thought it was pathetically easy, all things considered... I actually killed him, realized I didn't have the training, then reverted back to my save to prevent the loss of karma.

This was like 10 seconds after I got out of the vault and didn't feel like going to megaton.

I had a hunting rifle, and a pistol.

He had a huge machine gun and two robots..

Ah. I kinda blindsided him after he got done killing some super mutants. Got him down a fourth of his health before anything happened to me haha.

Anyone know if you can make a user radio?

You can't use power armor until you get training (you get it through the main quest), and when you get training, you get a free set of power armor (not the amazing stuff, but still a good set)

Good grief, this game is beyond amazing. I have not enjoyed a single-player game like this in forever. To be honest, this is going to be a game that I will remember for a long, long, long time to come.

The sides quests are marvelous. Beyond marvelous, really.

Today, I went deep into enemy territory to retrieve the Declaration of Independance itself, then saved a merc squad named Reilley's Rangers, after I recieved a distress signal from them on my Pip-Boy's radio. And boy oh boy do I love blowing up Muttie heads with my combat shotgun. BLAM!

I also built myself a Rock-It Launcher, a canon that I can load with any junk I have on me (empty bottles, tin cans, teddy bears, what have you). Pretty nifty if you ask me, and nice when you want to conserve ammo (or when out entirely) and don't want to rush in with a melee weapon. Just grab whatever's around you in the area, load it up and blow up creatures! I can't help but laugh when a head explodes in a thousand pieces on impact of a nuka-cola bottle. I love V.A.T.S.

There is so much to do its really unbelievable. I must be 30 hours of gameplay in, if not a little more, and I'm only at the part where I found Doctor Li in Rivet City, in the main plotline. I believe I'm still a long way for a completed game.

Oh, and for the record I did find Dogmeat last night. He's been tagging along since and to be honest, at first I thought it was great to have a pal, a bit later on his constant blocking me in tight spots and growling started to annoy me. Eventually the mutt started to charge enemies all over the map, this happened about 3 times, each time resulting in his doom. I'd usually reload but after the third I'd have enough. Didn't reload, he's dead, good riddance.

you could have asked him to wait for you at Vault 101. murderer.

I finally got around to buying this today. Went to circuit city for their closeout and all they had left was the special edition marked down 10%. So I got it

Just got out of the Vault (after killing everyone) but it's saturday night so that's all I can accomplish for the day. Graphics are ****ing sweet!!

I'm on the Riley's Rangers quest. I really don't want to walk all the way to the Ranger compound, but I guess it's on the way to Rivet City.

I think I've done every sidequest I could come across so far, including the "big town" quest.

I'm on level 11, I have dogmeat, and I haven't even gotten to Rivet City yet/barely scratched the main quest.

I really like this game.

Dogmeat's actually been fairly smart for me. Apart from the time he went and attacked three Mirelurks on his own when I was trying to hold a higher position, he's never charged enemies wildly. He even followed me in a retreat from a number of Super Mutants who attacked while I was busy with a Talon Merc company. Generally, though, if I notice a group of strong/heavily armed enemies ahead like Super Mutants I tell him to wait until I come back.

Oh, he did die one other time. But that was because I wasn't expecting the Behemoth, and Dogmeat was stupid and tried to bite it's foot.

The Ranger compound is dangerously close to the Capitol building which has some pretty intense battles.

Oh yeah, even if you aren't in heavy weapons a missile launcher is a MUST to have around. Got a group of 5 or more super mutants in a cluster trying to turn you into dinner?

Make them say hello to mister missile.

Feh, say hello to mister "1 shot to the head from the Lincoln's Repeater fully repaired with 100 small guns"

good ol' lincoln and his repeater.

Hahaha.. I one shotted a Deathclaw just a bit ago. Fully repaired lincoln's repeater + commando perk + sniper perk + better criticals perk + bloody mess + sneak attack crit to the head.

Oh, and he exploded into a thousand gibs. THIS GAME IS AWESOME.

Man havent had this much fun in a long while.

Becoming ah part Ant was amusing. As was getting a house in Megaton after The Sherrif and the white suited guy shot one another.

I am now debating becoming a bizzare dr who wanderer or a duster/hat wearing dude.