Fallout 3

I guess we\'re talking mainly about weapons selection, not armor.  You don\'t need to carry a selection of armor, just one good set.  Make sure it\'s a set you can repair using armor salvaged from the dead.  I mainly use the Reilly\'s Rangers battle armor.  It\'s pretty good, and you can repair every time you kill a Talon Company Merc.  I love killing Talon Mercs.

I realized that I didn\'t need all the weapons I was dragging around, so I left many behind in my house in Megaton.  Eventually you don\'t need caps, so there\'s no point picking up weapons to sell.  Here are the things I use regularly:

Hunting Rifle
Chinese Assault Rifle
Plasma Rifle  (the special one from the android)
Dart Gun
Terrible Shotgun  (another one from a side quest)
Sniper Rifle and/or Scoped .44 Magnum

With those, you can do it all.  Ignore the minigun, rocket launcher, flamethrower, all pistols, all laser weapons, etc etc.  I heard Biwwy\'s Wazer Wifle is supposed to be good, but I didn\'t bother to find out.

Oh yeah build lots and lots of Nuka Grenades.  Those are extremely useful.

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Thanks fellas....looks like i\'ll be getting rid of my weaker weapons then....like my pistol and laser pistols....it\'s kinda hard for me to part with the minigun,rocket launcher flamethrower and even the laser rifle.....one thing i did notice about the missle launcher is that it\'s not as powerful as i thought it was....one more question....what house do you guys have in megaton?

I must\'ve missed that one...i know that you can rent a room in one of the bars there, but you guys actually have a house there?


Currently i find myself using the assault rifle, the combat shotgun the mini-sub machine gun, frag grenades and pulse grenades (for those annoying robots)....

Lastly...how do you guys find the missing android?....i have the quest for it, but i don\'t know where to look for him.

In Megaton that big nuke there in town - you can do a quest where you can rat out a guy who wants you to blow it up and the town gives you a house - alternativley you can blow up the nuke, and you\'ll be given a luxury penthouse in Tenpenny Towers.

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Well i actually told the mayor of megaton (that black dude)that some guy wanted to blow up the the town, and he told me to follow him so i could see some megaton justice or something along those lines, but he ended up gettin\' his ass killed...i guess at that point i could\'ve killed that guy in the hat that shot him, but i didn\'t.

Right now i\'m not sure who\'s in charge of megaton...people are walking around there as if they hardly notice the head of the town was killed. I just go back there every now and then to sell scrap metal to that old-guy in the water maintenance facility.

Plasma Rifle + 100 energy weapon skill = 1 shot kill everything

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Uhm...i just got caught by the enclave( i was retrieving the GECK device) and now i\'m trying to escape the enclave hq....i\'m at the part where all of my weapons are gone....long story short i did manage to get my hands on enclave armor and plasma rifles, but am i going to get my original weapons back? the action was so frantic and i haven\'t had time to look for my original set of weapons.

Currently i\'m in the middle of fighting my way out of the headquarters, but is there any way to find out the location of the weapons i originally had before i was captured?

Plasma Rifle + 100 energy weapon skill = 1 shot kill everything

Also...


Lincolns repeater + 100 Small Weapons skill.


I use that, a Chinese Auto Rifle, or a Fat Man. That\'s it.

I also wear this...


http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/T-51b_Power_Armor



Sorry LIC, I dont remember that part.

Lincoln\'s repeater is an awesome weapon, no question.  Only problem is that it fires .44 mag ammo, and that is not as common as other types of ammo.  Hold on to it for "special occasions..."  
 
Clips:  Once you are captured by the Enclave, and you wake up restrained in a room talking Col. Autumn, there is a speech path where they give you back all your original equipment.  I thought that was the only way it would work, but apparently not.  You give Autumn the brush off, don\'t give him the code, and eventually President Eden intervenes by intercom.  You can take all your stuff from the locker that\'s in the room or in the hallway; I don\'t remember exactly.  Maybe you just ignored the locker on your way out.
 
I hope you\'re keeping lots of saves so you can replay the conversations different ways and see how they turn out.

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I actually checked my locker and got all of my equipment, but my weapons were missing from the locker....and at some point after i was cleared by Autumn, the guards started attacking me...so i just kept running until i made my way to the presidents office which you know ended up bein that supercomputer.....and like i stated before, i managed to get enclave armor suits and weapons, but i can\'t seem to find the original weapons that i had when i was captured.

That\'s weird.  I found all my weapons in the locker.

If you still have a save from before that scene, go back and try it again.  I found some quests don\'t work right the first time.  It seems like I did everything I was supposed to do, but it didn\'t give me the achievement.  (XB360)  I replayed it from the save, and it worked right the 2nd time.

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Ok thanks...i\'m not going crazy then. It must be some type of weird glitch in the game.



*edit* It also turns out that glitch is hurting me big time....not only did i not receive my weapons from that locker, i realized it also did not give me my bobby pins, in which i had over 40.....so i\'m walkin\' around not able to unlock doors to new area\'s or ammo or safe\'s, because of this problem.

I should\'ve created a seperate save, but i didn\'t think i would have to worry about something like this. Now i\'m trying to find a vendor that has s**tload of bobby pins,...the locker also did not give me my bottlecaps in which i had over 3000....damn glitch.

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Ahhh...i\'ve finally finished the game...i received the perk that showed me the locations of EVERYTHING on the map, so it kinda took me longer to finish(which isn\'t a bad thing)....i never thought i would like a game like this, but i ended up loving it....the only knock was that i felt i was kinda too powerful towards the end, but i kinda liked it that way since early on in the game i was getting my ass whooped by super mutants and those murlock creatures.........great game tho.

I keep hearing rumors that the dev\'s are going to release all of theor dlc on a single disk, and i\'m hoping that it\'ll be for both xbox and ps3 cause i\'ll definitely pick that up.

[Viper_Fujax]

the only one i was looking foreward to was the space ship one and i guess thats the worst of the 4. Pitt and the swamp one look pretty good but Im not into it enough to fork out money for it

I bought this game months ago and totally forgot to install it and play it (PC)... I know what i\'m gonna do tonight.

How many hours did you guys put into it?

Hoping it will keep me busy until Modern Warefare 2 comes out.

Don\'t know how many hours I put into it but it will surely keep you occupied until MW2 is out. If for some reason it doesn\'t, I believe its up to 4 DLC packs for it.