Fallout 3 - storing items

[Mr. Natural]

******* possible spoiler - Sheriff *******

I abandoned Far Cry 2 for a while and started back on Fallout 3 and now getting hooked on it. I'm still fairly early in the game just reaching level 4. I have a dilemma though in which I'm sure someone could advise. I've found lots of good weapons and the dilemma is I can't carry it all and I need to find a place to store stuff. I know if I put it in a locker or something which isn't mine it could disappear in time. I just ran into the scenario where I told the sheriff in Megaton about the guy who wants me to blow up the bomb. The guy kills the sheriff and I kill that guy. I've read the scenario's that result from that situation, so no need to explain what I may or may not miss out on. I think I'd rather reload and prevent that from occurring if I can find a place to stash my stuff. For now I went to the sheriff's house and put some of my stuff in his locker since he is dead. But I see that the house is still not mine even though I have the key to his house. So the question is, is there a place I can store stuff early in the game since I don't have my own place yet?

[shizakapayou]

Find his kid, he'll give you the key to your own house. I think storing stuff in random containers is fairly safe, but your house is the best bet. The kid is somewhere in Megaton, just wander around a bit.

[RangerRick]

Find his kid, he'll give you the key to your own house. I think storing stuff in random containers is fairly safe, but your house is the best bet. The kid is somewhere in Megaton, just wander around a bit.


Yes, the son will, but if I recall correctly, don't you have to complete a certain quest for that to happen?

I thought you had to disarm the bomb to get the key?

[tonofclay]

If you choose to go the other route and blow up megaton you will get your own luxury suite in Ten Penny Tower :)

[RangerRick]

If you choose to go the other route and blow up megaton you will get your own luxury suite in Ten Penny Tower :)

Didn't go that route, but that's good to know!

[shizakapayou]

Yes, the son will, but if I recall correctly, don't you have to complete a certain quest for that to happen?

I thought you had to disarm the bomb to get the key?

Yeah, that's true. That situation does need to be resolved. I don't think it requires much skill to do it.

[Mr. Natural]

The son approached me as I was stashing stuff in the house. No key was given at that time so I guess I'll reload so I can try to get my own pad.
Thanks much.

[Contagious Rage]

Haha, I used the dead sheriff's house to store my stuff, too. His kid was always hanging around inside and the game wouldn't let me take him out. It became an awkward relationship and, in my mind, I pretended I was his surrogate father since the game wouldn't oblige me. I used the upstairs lockers to store my weapons, armor, and miscellany and often left food and drink in the refrigerator in return.

Can't say his warming up to the situation was ever ostensible, but then he never did tamper with my stuff...

[Mr. Natural]

From what I've read you're better off disarming the bomb because residents will frequently walk up to you and give gifts. Another thing I've read is if I let Burke go after either situation I'll have to deal with assassins chasing me throughout the game. So I'll still need to kill him. Sheriff's gun is one of the better ones to have and I found my first bobblehead in the Sheriff's house so I'll lose that if I reload.

That's all I know for now as far as spoilers. I prefer to not look ahead in a game but this was one time I thought I'd check.

[shizakapayou]

I killed Burke, and Talon mercs chased me the whole time. Shouldn't be any need to reload an earlier save, just deal with the bomb.

[Contagious Rage]

From what I've read you're better off disarming the bomb because residents will frequently walk up to you and give gifts. Another thing I've read is if I let Burke go after either situation I'll have to deal with assassins chasing me throughout the game. So I'll still need to kill him. Sheriff's gun is one of the better ones to have and I found my first bobblehead in the Sheriff's house so I'll lose that if I reload.

That's all I know for now as far as spoilers. I prefer to not look ahead in a game but this was one time I thought I'd check.
I killed Burke, and Talon mercs chased me the whole time. Shouldn't be any need to reload an earlier save, just deal with the bomb.

I had residents give me gifts for doing the Survival Guide quest (I think it was that quest anyway). All the gifts were crap though, just random low-level food items and water that I often just tossed to the ground right in front of them because I didn't want that junk weighing me down. I didn't bother disarming/arming the nuke on my first character so I'm assuming all the people giving me gifts were refugees who were surviving thanks to my guinea pig work.

RE: Talon Merc attacks, I always thought this was just something the game did based on your karma. If you were a goody-goody you get the Talons stalking you, and if you're bad you get some vigilante group. Because I didn't go either way on the nuke or kill Burke and I still got Talons after me (despite often robbing people blind I think I still was Savior of the Wastes). I did mention Burke's plotting to the sheriff though (not knowing he'd run just right in and get himself killed), so maybe that event actually triggered the mercenary ambushes. Not that I minded the ambushes that much; it was like someone was thoughtfully delivering free Talon Combat Armor and some decent weapons to me every few days.

[Kalbrecht]

RE: Talon Merc attacks, I always thought this was just something the game did based on your karma. If you were a goody-goody you get the Talons stalking you, and if you're bad you get some vigilante group. Because I didn't go either way on the nuke or kill Burke and I still got Talons after me (despite often robbing people blind I think I still was Savior of the Wastes). I did mention Burke's plotting to the sheriff though (not knowing he'd run just right in and get himself killed), so maybe that event actually triggered the mercenary ambushes. Not that I minded the ambushes that much; it was like someone was thoughtfully delivering free Talon Combat Armor and some decent weapons to me every few days.

Nope - there's no real trigger, those occurrences are based on karma alone.

Getting your own house in Megaton is recommended, if anything for the robot who can style your hair, and provide clean water!

[Mr. Natural]

Unfortunately I did not read the follow ups to my last post until just now. Last night I reloaded previous to the above mentioned scenario. I tried disarming the bomb but learned I had to have level 25 explosives. So upon reaching level 5 I boosted that stat and as soon as I return to Megaton I will give it another shot. If you don't hear back you'll know I blew myself up. :lol:

After a long search I finally found The Family and tonight hopefully will be passing Lucy's letter along. I just found the hideout and elected to stop before talking to anyone. If you post any spoilers to this I won't be reading them unless I run into a problem. After my visit with the Family I will be returning to Megaton to attempt disarming the bomb. After visiting Hamilton's hideout I find myself with plenty of weapons but no money and little ammo so I will be working on that problem as well.

[bossjimbob]

If you pop some mentats it should raise your explosives by a few points.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mentats

[tonofclay]

Haha funny thing about the family...i opted to blow up megaton and never even got that quest line...I came across them when I was playing the other day from a save before I beat the game and ended up just murdering them all ;)

[Kalbrecht]

If you pop some mentats it should raise your explosives by a few points.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mentats

Yep - so far the only real use I've found for Mentats! heh.

[chip5541]

Just searching about and not focusing on teh main story I have already reached the level limit and I'm not too happy about it. I still wanted to focus on my conversation skills. I have a dealing were strong skills would most deff help but alas I may have to kill the ant queen.

[pcfreak]

Are any of you fellas suffering with crashes? I bought Fallout 3 a bit back but can't get far into the game because of constant crashing to desktop. I checked out the official forums and tried all the recommended hotfixes. I then tried customer support, and they said that it may be that my system was below the recommended requirements, even though I sent them full details??

It's doing my head in reading about what fun everyone's having playing when I can't play any longer than 5 mins. As I said, I have tried all the recommended stuff, from rolling back my drivers to disabling certain effects, nothing seems to be working. The new patch hasn't helped either.

Cheers,

Stuart

[Colt]

I then tried customer support, and they said that it may be that my system was below the recommended requirements, even though I sent them full details??


Haha, if you're using the PC in your sig that should be ample. Sounds like a cop out by their support line...

Vista or XP?

[pcfreak]

Vista 64, it did get me a little irate when they tried blaming my rig:p:

[shizakapayou]

I managed alright for a while, but there came a point where I started seeing more crashes. The worst was trying to re-enter the Vault, as that always resulted in an immediate crash to desktop. That was fixed with the most recent patch.

Anyway, you're far from the only one. The game's pretty well known for being buggy as hell.

[pcfreak]

Yeah, I figured as much from the posts on the official forum, just been reading some of them. Looks like I will leave this one till they manage to patch the probs out (hopefully soon).

[chip5541]

I am getting crashes on occasion. Usually if I exit the game and go back in later. A reboot and close my virus checker and it seems to be ok.

[tonofclay]

I got crashes every once and awhile...it was never really a big deal or anything though, never lost any real progress or anything.

The biggest problem I encountered while playing was getting stuck sort of between a wall and some other object or somethin...couldn't move anywhere or do anything. I tried blasting myself out with mines and stuff to no avail hehe. Ended up reloading from a point maybe 15 minutes previous, that was a bit of pain but even that wasn't so bad.