User talk:RDE206

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 * Ausir 03:17, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Tactics weapons
Thanks for adding the missing weapons! Ausir 23:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Weapon info
Where can this FO3 weapon info be found? Ausir 15:55, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This information can be found in the Citadel Laboratory. There are only files on four weapons though.  RDE206 16:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Which ones, aside from the Laser Rifle and the Assault Rifle? Ausir 16:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The 10mm Pistol, as well as the Laser Pistol. I added the information for the 10mm Pistol, but we have to make a new Laser Pistol article.  We probably have to split the 10mm Pistol page too, it's not the same gun anymore.  I'm trying to get better images of the guns right now as well.  RDE206 17:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What's the name of the FO3 laser pistol? Ausir 21:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is the AEP7 Laser Pistol. I'm getting the image and writing the stuff up for it now.  Go ahead and create an article and disambiguation page I guess.  RDE206 21:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Too bad we don't have the names for other weapons that are obviously different from their FO1/2 counterparts, like the Combat Shotgun. I guess I can make disambiguation pages for them too, though, and just call them Combat Shotgun (Fallout 3) (or maybe Drum Magazine Combat Shotgun?), with the original at Winchester City-Killer Combat Shotgun. Ausir 21:45, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * As for the infobox margin, fixed. Ausir 21:51, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I suspect that we'll have to do this with all the similar weapons, since they are all obviously different. Except maybe the 10mm SMG.  I know that the Plasma Rifle and Plasma Pistols are different, but what is strange is that characters will indirectly refer to the Plasma Rifle as a Winchester P94 model even though it doesn't even look like one.  I'm not sure if Bethesda intended these weapons to be different models, or just the old guns with new looks?  RDE206 21:53, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Lyons only says "After all, they say, "everyone knows how to make another human, but the secrets to making a P94 Plasma Rifle are all but lost." but he might simply refer to a saying from the West Coast Brotherhood, which does use the P94, and not to the model used in FO3. Ausir 21:58, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

For the plasma weapons, we can use Enclave Plasma Rifle and Enclave Plasma Pistol, based on what the BoS say in the game: "The Enclave seems to have developed advanced plasma-based weaponry.", "I heard those Enclave soldiers are equipped with Plasma weapons. Lucky bastards." Ausir 22:06, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Just as a curiosity, how did you get the pictures for some of the weapons like the Railway Rifle or the Lincoln's Repeater? They look very clean, like they were snapshots taken with the weapons in question viewed in a 3D object software. Thanks CRoss 21:41, 3 November 2008 (UTC)


 * What I did was take the pictures of the weapons in-game, at a resolution around 1280x1024, with good lighting from the sun. I used a photo editing software to select the gun and exclude the background.  Anti-alias to enabled to give it a clean, semi-transparent edge.  I take the selection of the gun, paste it on a white background, and shrink the whole picture to reduce edge irregularities even more.  RDE206 02:44, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Any idea on what to call the FO3 Gatling Laser other than Gatling Laser (Fallout 3)? Or the Combat Shotgun (maybe Drum-Magazine Combat Shotgun)? Ausir 03:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I think those are our best options right now. If I find any other references in the game that differs the Gatling Laser or Combat Shotgun from the Fallout 1 or 2 versions, I'll tell you.  We just got lucky with the four "generic" weapon names, maybe there's another terminal that'll describe the other weapons.  RDE206 03:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, also the fact that the Plasma weapons in FO3 are made by the Enclave and that the Hunting Rifle uses a different ammo caliber, so I could call it .32 Hunting Rifle. Ausir 03:26, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Weapon Images
Words can't express my gratitude. <3

Can you also post some images of items (Stimpaks etc.) commonly found in the game? :) Shaur M. S. Grizlin 18:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * If you guys want me to obtain pictures of all the in game items, I can do that. I'll take a while though; I can probably get ~25 new pictures a week.  RDE206 22:11, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Would be great! Ausir 22:12, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Please put item images you upload in Category:Fallout 3 weapon images. Ausir 23:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

FO3_weapon
Any specific reason the you removed the |200px from the FO3_weapon template? It's now impossible to put a larger image there, it has to be scaled correctly to start with...
 * --Mirar 18:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it was scaling small images up and large images down. I'd like to keep my images at their exact resolution so that they look the best. If the image is too large, an easy solution is to scale it down. If you want to throw on the automatic image scaling thing, use something like 300 or 250px. 200px is too small in my opinion.
 * --RDE206 21:56, 22 November 2008 (UTC)