Fallout 3

Main Quest Walkthrough, Weapons, Skills, and Tips

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I've started a Guide to Fallout 4, with a mobile friendly design, and promise to cover it much more extensively this time around.

This Fallout 3 Guide is pretty much completed, and covers most quests, but who knows when it can ever hit 100%, as I do all of this on my own and Fallout 3 is a massive game. The walkthrough is however, fully functional and I must state my progress through the game thus far

Carl the Wastelander made it to level 20 with very high skill in all weapons, lockpicking, science, medicine and has all stat bobbleheads. The only bobblehead I missed was energy weapons, because I accidentally went through that door in Raven Rock that leads to the President.

My character has collected all of the unique guns in the game and has a locker full of stuff so huge that he'd never have to really worry about caps again. The only skills I'm lacking in are sneak, unarmed, melee and, of course, barter. I would make some changes on yet a third play through, which would be having higher luck and lower charisma, and perhaps being a bit more toward neutral/evil. It would be easier to get by in the early game with a little thievery! I would also try to get to 100 lockpick and science earlier, so that I could access some of the more treasure-filled rooms in many of the locations of the waste.

I might also invest a bit more in small guns early on, with some stealth because I think I only got a few stealth critical hits in during my game with a lowly 30% stealth.

This guide was writen for the PC version of Fallout 3, but I'm sure it's still good for the XBOX 360 and PS3 versions of the game. Anyway, enjoy the guide!

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Strategy Guides

Bobblehead Locations Guide - Hunt down every Bobblehead location to push your Wasteland Wanderer to his limits.

Big Guns Guide - Learn the location of all the Big Guns in Fallout 3, from the Burnmaster to the mighty MIRV Launcher

Energy Weapons Guide - Contains the locations of all the rare laser and plasma weapons in Fallout 3. This is my personal favorite weapons type.

Skills Guide - Information about each skill in Fallout 3 and how each will benefit your character.

Small Guns Guide - Learn to find Lincoln's Repeater, Railway Rifle and other cool small guns weapons in Fallout 3

Fallout 3 Cheats - Cheating can ruin your Fallout 3 experience, but once you've put in over a hundred hours in the game like me, you might want to play around some to see what you can do. I compiled the list of my favorites that I might use for making another character just to play around with.

Fallout 3 Main Quest Walkthrough

Following in His FootstepsGalaxy News RadioScientific Pursuits
Tranquility LaneThe Waters of LifePicking up the Trail
Rescue from Paradise*Finding the Garden of EdenThe American Dream
Take it Back! - The awesome Finale to Fallout 3

*For Many this may as well be a main quest

Fallout 3 Side Quest Walkthroughs

Agatha's House

Agatha's Song - This quest gets you the Blackhawk if you get her both the Soil Stradivarius and Music Paper.

Big Town

Big Trouble in Big Town - You can get a +1 luck bonus doing this quest if Timebomb survives this quest, as well as 300xp and some items.

Canterbury Commons

The Superhuman Gambit - This quest will reward you with Caps, Experience and even offers the chance to get A unique laser pistol, Protectron's Gaze or a unique Knife, Ant's Sting.

Grayditch

Those! - Doing this quest will get you a special perk, ant's sight or ant might. These increase perception and strength, respectively. Both also come with a 25% increase in your fire resistance, permenantly!

Megaton

Blood Ties - This quest can lead to the hematophage perk, as well as schematics to the mighty Shishkebab flaming sword.

The Power of the Atom - Do this to get yourself a house, where you can rest, collect bobbleheads and store weapons without worrying about them disappearing.

Wasteland Survival Guide Chapter 1 - This is a great quest to start the game with. It will really help your income get going, and you'll find some nice gear and goods on the way.

Wasteland Survival Guide Chapter 2 - The mole rat repellent stick can be won during this chapter, a useful item to have in the early game.

Wasteland Survival Guide Chapter 3 - Completing the third chapter of this quest, depending on how you responded to Moira, will give you a unique Perk that increases poison and radiation resistance. You can even get a modification to it that increases your critical hit chance!

Oasis

Oasis - Do this to get the barkskin perk, or some other decent items for stealthy players.

Fallout 3 Console Commands

Rivet City

Stealing Independence - This quest, to find the Declaration of Independence in the National Archives, rewards you with the schematics to the Railway Rifle. You'll also be able to pick up Sydney's 10mm 'Ultra' SMG.

The Replicated Man - This Quest can get you A3-21's Plasma Rifle, which is very powerful, along with the Wired Reflexes Perk.

Underworld

You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head - Completing this quest and getting all the keys leads to the mighty T-51b Power Armor

Vernon Square

Reilly's Rangers - This quest will get you either the powerful custom minigun Eugene or Ranger Combat Armor. Also, after completing the quest you will be able to get a second, repeatable quest from Reilly to turn in discovered map locations to her. She'll give you 30 caps each. This is an excellent source of income throughout Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 Screenshots Gallery

Warning: May contain spoilers!

The S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book, which allows you to set up your character's starting stats

Dad gives you a small task in the nursery, leading to one of the more interesting character creation systems I've seen in games.

I had no idea the significance of this scripture and how it cleverly tied to the main quest when I first started.

Be sure to talk to all the guests at the party to get all your presents! Talk to Dad last.

Bethesda tweaked the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system a bit in Fallout 3. I can see how it was necessary. I was a bit thrown that perception doesn't affect range any more, but everything else is very similar to the previous games.

I was excited to get a gun, having built my character around small guns. I accidentally left this behind during my escape from the vault but believe you can retrieve it from your quarters.

Carl poses for a picture by Dad before time-warping to sixteen years of age.

I just had to take a picture of Amata. She's quite pretty, and I didn't even have my graphics turned up on high at the time.

The blood looks great in VATS. I was definitely impressed with this shot of Officer O'Brien taking a hit.

It can be intense when enemies get this close, but with VATS you are invulnerable for a time.

Arkansas loses his head. That sniper rifle is mine!

Man, Fallout 3 looks GREAT! Love the skin textures here.

You can drink from toilets, but that doesn't mean you should. Find a sink at the very least!

I'm sure his friend will hit me with the bat, but I'm wearing combat armor!

Some of the things people leave hanging around in the wasteland can be pretty disturbing.

Showing off that nice mid-level armor!

A nice mist of blood as the feral ghoul drops to the floor.

It's nice when ammo gets so plentiful you don't mind blowing it on mole rats.


The super mutant behemoth you encounter during the main quest. Way impressive how he swings that fire hydrant around.

Getting into the slumber pod to go to tranquility lane was cool!

Betty from tranquility lane gave me the creeps.

The watch from tranquility lane replaces the pip boy.

Power armor in Fallout 3

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Fallout 3

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peter says...
Good guide. Very helpful. I played this game 2 years ago. Played poorly missed tons of special weapons. Got side tracked on stupid stuff but your guide has already made the game way more fun & challenging. I'm 66 years old and having a ball. Thanks
You're welcome, thanks for letting me know how much it's helped you. It's always encouraging to hear that, plus you're awesome for demonstrating what we all know in that gaming is fun for all ages :)
15th December 2013 1:22pm
insanity88 says...
Do you have any guides for the DLC's

Fallout 3 Nexus

7th September 2014 1:41pm
neil says...
The best guide for fallout 3, i have found. If you wrote guides like this for other games, there would be no reason for people to look else where.
12th October 2014 3:04am
ricky says...
At paradise falls the slaver who gives u'some of the loot we found' keep pressing a to talk to him and he will give u infinite stims ammo which u can sell ul never run short again
31st January 2014 6:56pm
Red says...
So I'm working on fallout 3 on xbox360 right now. I reached level 20 about a week ago, and have been continuing the game as normal but have not received any experience points toward leveling up again, how do I get the XP I'm supposed to be getting? I should've leveled up 2 times by now
15th April 2016 4:44pm
Robert Mozingo says...
Great guide. Sent a donation. Very professional look and quality. Thanks. Bob.
3rd February 2016 10:45am
Robert kissee says...
Need help with fall out 3
27th January 2016 6:44pm
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  • VERTEX SHADER: 3.0
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