I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree (until I’m vindicated when the G.E.C.K. comes out :p). I apologize for misreading your comment.
OK, so I’ve been at level 20 for a good long time now, and just recently made my first visit to Three Dog. I bypassed most of the “Following in his footsteps” quest by talking to Dr. Li first, so I have Scientific Pursuits going on…mostly I want to explore a lot before the main quest ends everything; unfortunately it means that sometimes I stumble on some main quest areas and might inadvertently screw things up.
Dogmeats died (both of them) in a valiant battle. I was OK with suddenly having two Dogmeats when I used the cheat to bring him to my location after losing him, but I didn’t want to resurrect him with a cheat, so I bought Charon’s contract in Underworld to replace my furry companion.
I got kind of ticked at the level cap, so I devised some new rules, in re: cheats. For example, if I find a unique weapon or armor or other item legitimately in the game, I allow myself to add a duplicate for the purposes of repair/having the item in top condition after it deteriorates. I found Firelance and the Alien Blaster legitimately in the game; I gave the Alien Blaster to Charon and kept the Firelance for myself. If I’m not going to be able to level up, then dammit I’m gonna keep my Firelance in top condition. For regular weapons, I rely on finding them in the game. So far I’ve only duplicated the Firelance for this purpose, and I intend to keep it that way.
On the other hand, I will not use cheats to heal myself, add skill points, SPECIAL points, perks, quest items, etc. I actually played through almost a half hour of the game with literally 4 hit points left, surrounded by enemies so I couldn’t fast travel to Megaton to regroup, but I refused to cheat to get me through it.
So basically my only two cheats have been: summon Dogmeat when I lost him (and inadvertently gaining a second Dogmeat) and replacing one worn-out unique weapon (the Firelance) with a top-condition version.
I posted a wish list for the expansion/next installment earlier, and I’d like to add a few requests:
[ul]
[li] VATS needs to be modified, IMO. If I target a Raider’s head with five shots, and the first shot doesn’t kill her, and she starts moving behind cover, I still end up firing five shots at where I THINK her head will be behind a wall or something. This is something that the first two games avoided with the AP combat system; if you noticed that the enemy has ducked behind cover, or that some obstacle is blocking your line of sight, you could move and, if you still had APs left, target the enemy again. [/li]
[li] I really want some more variation in the NPC models. I get ambushed by Talon Company Mercs and it’s like I’m being attacked by the Clone Troopers.[/li]
[li] Just a suggestion here; barter seems pretty useless. Right now I have more caps than I can spend and I really don’t need anything other than Stimpaks and Radaway. Why would anyone ever waste skill points on barter unless they were trying to make things REALLY hard on themselves? Combine Speech with Barter, make it Diplomacy, and be done with it. [/li][/ul]
On a side note: in the Museum of History, there is a pretty well-designed T.rex skill and torso laying on the ground. The remaining skeleton shows the T.rex in an upright posture. Now the posture was correct as far as what most mounts looked like in the 1940s and '50s, but the three-digit manus went the way of the dodo by the late 40s in most museums. I think the type specimen at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh had three digits for a while, but the one at the American Museum of Natural History (after the sale of the type specimen to Carnegie) did not. At the Smithsonian, there was not, to my knowledge, a skeleton of a T.rex at all during that time period, cast or otherwise. Please correct me if I’m wrong here.
They even did the dinosaur in a 50s style?!
Another handy console hint; if you come across an NPC who’s dead, but you want alive, pop up the console, click on their remains and type ‘resurrect 1’, and they’ll recover. Or just ‘resurrect’ and they’ll pop back into the game world unharmed and sometimes unclothed. Useful for keeping people like Missy Regulator alive.
The skull and most of the skeleton is relatively accurate, at least moreso than I’ve seen in any other game, other than the posture. When T.rex was first discovered, the manus was unknown, therefore paleontologists made an assumption based on Allosaurus specimens that T.rex had three digits, so the first mounts had three prominent digits.
Later, T.rex manus fossils were found with two main digits. Mounts were adjusted accordingly.
In a late twist, one of the most recent T.rex finds confirmed that T.rex did indeed have a (very reduced) third digit. Not substantial enough to qualify as a third visible finger on the live animal, perhaps, but enough so that the first guess (three digits) was not so far off after all.
Anyone know what’s happened to the two mods…
xp limit increased to 30,
keep playing after main story.
Have gone from here - http://www.fallout3nexus.com/ ?
I have today decided to replay f03 but with those two mods applied. now I can’t find them!
wait. Found them. It turns out my search tactics were bad…
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=586
By the way, Three Dog can go out and scav himself some new damned tunes, okay? “I don’t want to set the worrrrrld on fiiiiiireeeee” - I get it! It’s irony! I got it the first time! The game is how many hours long,and you only bothered to program how many hours of radio station? Arrrrgh! (Yeah, I could turn him off, but what if he has another nice thing to say about my exploits? Don’t want to miss anything.)
My mom came by to bring her poor sick little baby some soup and Kleenex and a milkshake, and I was blowing the heads off feral ghouls (my, it certainly has gotten easier!) while some 50’s slow dance prom classic moans in the background and she said “WHAT on earth are you watching?” “'S a game, Mom.” “Well, it’s clearly not for mothers.”
I only listen to GNR on rare occasions when I want to hear if I’ve done something good. Not only do the songs get repetitive, Three Dog annoys me something fierce. “It’s Three Dog, AOOOO!” or worse “Thanks for listening, chilllldren!” Gah.
So I get by on the background music, which I find sets the mood a lot better than GNR.
I wish you could get the combat plus of Bloody Mess and turn off the exploding corpses. Sometimes it’s hard to find enough intact body to search. 
Ah, but I love the fact that you can search the smallest gobbet of flesh, and it can still have something like a missile launcher hidden in it. Who knew raiders liked to hide their ammo in their spleens?
And as for the radio, yeah, it’s a mite disappointing they didn’t include more tracks. I really loved the weird ambience created by crawling across the wasteland to the sound of golden oldies, and since they’re largely in the public domain I can’t really see what stopped them having a bit more variety. Minor gripe, though.
I’d actually argue that Bloody Mess offers a significant tactical (strategic?) benefit in that you can kill enemies at range and often have a little enemy-giblet land close enough to you that you can loot their corpse without having to get close to the main body of enemies.
I like the realism of searching dead animals and just finding meat - somewhere I read a hilarious explanation of why rats and bats are carrying a lot of gold in other games (saved up, bought the ring, proposing tonight!) and it’s nice to have the reality check. However - where the hell are these feral ghouls hiding the bobby pins?
I’m a level 20 Last, Best Hope of Humanity and Three Dog’s already forgotten about me. All he bangs on about are the BoS, Evergreen Mills (which I’ve massacred and freed the ungrateful slaves) and Grayditch (I did the quest for that ages ago too).
If you want another radio station and like violins do the quest Agatha’s Song, which you trigger by finding her house (it’s a bit north of the Bethesda ruins).
Presumably in what’s left of their hair. They were Human once.
I once heard him start giving news reports and not stop until I zoned.
I ended up going with primarily laser weapons. It can be a real bitch to find the tiny little pile of ash after you’ve sniped something from long range. But it’s worth it when the little gray pile the size of a molehill contains a full suit of armor and a missile launcher.
They should almost make the lasers more powerful but not have anything left to scavenge as a trade-off.
How do you get these to work? I downloaded the level cap increase mod, saved it in the “Data” folder as per the instructions, but when I start the game there is no “Data files” type option on the splash screen, so I can’t put any kind of checkmark next to the level cap increase files.
Does Fallout 3 play fine out of the box or am I going to have to download a few patches first?
On the PC I think it plays well out of the box, but I do seem to get occasional crashes if I do something like hit quicksave and then do something intensive. I hear there’s a patch for that.
Except when graphics settings are cranked up to the max.