Forum:Enclave Soldiers Before Waters of Life

I've come across one on the south side of Fort Constantine, just south of the missile launch silo, a couple times with Broken Steel loaded. He's got standard armor and a laser rifle. If that's a random, then I've hit that same random in that same location, at least twice. I usually approach from the south after picking up the Endurance bobble (bobble run). Levels always up above 20, before vault 112. Pinkynperky04 20:00, November 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that is a random encounter. He is supposed to be there.LW556DCJ 20:39, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

I encountered a lone Enclave soldier fighting giant ants. He was armed with a lazer rifle and Outfitted with Enclave Power Armor. He was hostile, and a bitch to kill. I was playing with all of the DLC, on a fairly fresh install, and no mods. I had not completed "Following in his Footsteps", let alone "The Waters of Life". He was near a destroyed house Northeast of Megaton, the same that contains the Chinese Army Manual. I was level 4, on the PC. Anyone else seen anything similar?--Hollow Points 02:14, November 1, 2009 (UTC)Hollow Points

Yeah, its happened to me before. It happens when you make a new game and have or recently deleted an old save that had the Waters of Life completed. The game gets confused, and ends up spawning the trooper without checking first. One bug explained, three million to go......LW556DCJ 03:43, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

I've encountered Enclave soldiers in two places, early on. I deleted all my game saves on my PS3 and then traded in my original disc toward the GOTY. I started a new game on the GOTY and encountered a soldier at level 3 or 4. I went to super duper mart as my first quest out of Megaton and after finishing at the store I headed toward the river where the two super mutants spawn (across from Farragut West.) Before I even got near the river, I spotted an enclave soldier. Luckily I had the sniper rifle from outside Megaton and handled him easily.

A little later, I encountered one by Dukov's Place. He was shooting at radroaches. This was in the spot where the Enclave has the deathclaw cage by Dukov's later in the game. Both of these encounters occurred before I played any of the add-ons.

I'm thinking that playing the GOTY, with all the add-ons, somehow enables the Enclave soldiers in the game as random encounters earlier on in the game. LVTDUDE 06:12, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

Has happened to me as well, and I don't have the GOTY edition Jack &quot;the drifter&quot; Vance 06:19, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

Well, its just evidence that the game is a bit over on the bugs and exploits.LW556DCJ 06:26, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

I don't have GOTY, I have all the DLC. This was a new install of the game, and Windows 7. Strange.--Hollow Points 19:40, November 1, 2009 (UTC)Hollow Points

i played this game over and over before the DLC came out for us PS3 user's, and not once did any enclave personel show up before the water's of life questand i'm positive that its not the bug you guy's are suggesting, because i haven't re-done that quest in some where close to 4-5 months and i just encountered one on my new save file not even 5 minutes ago! was doing pretty much the same thing as the guy 5 post's up (please remember to post your ID) was on my way to the super-duper mart some brotherhood outcasts were fighting a death claw at the burnt out house, while walking my way back i saw lazer fire, ran to the scene and one Enclave just finish off all 3 of them. saw me and tried to go for the flame, i quickly used my combat shot gun i got off of one of the raiders and scored a critical hit on his head! good thing to, his HP was much higher then a normal Enclave soldier. on his death he cried out to Eden which i've never heard come out of a soldier's mouth opan death, so this is deffinetly a new random encounter added by one of the DLC's. Hero of the wastes 8:20PM November 2, 2009


 * Every post on this page is signed. You might be confused by the fact that I used these things called paragraphs in my post.  LVTDUDE 01:33, November 3, 2009 (UTC)