Talk:Fawkes/Archive 2

Unexplained Bug
In Broken Steel DLC, some time after you awake, you may find Fawkes using a super sledge even if you didnt find anyone using it and you didn´t told him to use Melee weaponry! Strange right? (Confirmed in 1 PS3)

He's Male
"Later entries on the same computer indicate that all test subjects were destroyed after failure, so Fawkes was put in the cell some time afterwards."

I’m pretty sure when you first meet Fawkes he says the other Super Mutants put him in the cell. If I’m right all this talk about Fawkes originally being female are completely unfounded and it should be removed from the article XD


 * It is unfounded. It comes from people reading that test subject D624 was female and that the terminal at Fawkes' cell says it contains test subject D624. They however love to ignore that another terminal entry says:


 * This terminal entry refers to all test subjects in the group which includes D624. Plus the terminal entries are roughly 200 years old; Fawkes would be a Behemoth if he was that old since Vault 87 mutants grow bigger with age. -- Porter21 (talk) 16:13, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The terminal of Isolation Room 01 states that one of the specimens, B164, is in there, but when you examine it there are two dead Wastelanders and one dead Raider in it. The corpses are rather "fresh" unless you want to speculate about FEV and/or radiation preserving them.

That is another clue that the specimen information might not be accurate.


 * Well,if he was a behemoth,at least you wouldn't be scared of albino radscorpions anymore.or the weird HickDicks. Blackhole Dawn 16:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

75.67.28.251 04:10, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * He's male, there are holotapes of Fawkes' old personality; he was a security officer named Shelton Delacroix who was really one of the last to be turned into a Super Mutant. While inside the Vault, he was one of the first to realize what was going on, as he saw an unconscious guy being dragged from the dorms to the labs by two Vault Scientists. He even described the FEV test subjects, who all were grossly deformed. When the scientists came for Shelton after finding one of his old recordings, A friend in the security team told him to run before they found him. Eventually, they found him in the reactor room, and he became a test subject, Fawkes, who later attempted to record another holotape in vain, throwing the machine in anger. At least, according to the GECK. --Vladimir Lem 02:00, October 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm going to call shennanigans on that claim unless you can produce the FormIDs of the notes to which you refer. --MadCat221 04:18, October 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * Quest ID: AudioHolotapes. Editor IDs of the topics: MQ08SheltonTape01-MQ08SheltonTape05. It does appear that the tapes never appear in game, because no note labeled MQ08 refers to that note, but this seems to be the only information that refers to Fawkes' true identity. --Vladimir Lem 00:57, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

He's probably male too. He said Super Mutants put him in the cell. I don't think super mutants can use terminals.

Where is he?
After completing the last quest before starting broken steel (the 2 weeks after thing) I went to underworld to see if fawkes was there but he wasnt! WHERE IS HE!?

Some people have found him wandering around the Citadel.Ripvanwinkle111 02:59, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

After completing Broken Steel...Fawkes will show up at the citidel and you can pick him up as a companion again....~Kerplowned

i have had the same problem after compleateing the broken steel dlc i went on to do rillys ragers but inside the hotel i had to tell fawkes as he could not get past a door but the later i got the messege that he had returned but he was not there? (iv looked in the citadel but he not there)

I had this problem. Try fast traveling to Jefferson Memorial. Outside, on the large, raised circular platform is where i found him. Getting up there is kind of a chore- you have to go on the catwalk with the yellow bars, jump atop of the barrels and onto the railing, and make your way across them until you can leap onto the circular platform. can fawkes equip other weapons the you give to him

Yes; however, his default weapons' stats are much higher than most weapons you can give him. This makes it difficult to get him to use other weapons.--Ripvanwinkle111 04:03, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

I have this problem but what seems to have started it was that I escaped from Raven Rock, and Fawkes was there. I recruited him and all that but then I realized I forgot to grab the bobblehead. Crap. So I reloaded the autosave, reentered and searched only to find that I couldn't go back to 2C. Damn. I left and re-escaped, Fawkes never showed up and there were no ally markers on the compass. I figure he'll show up sooner or later. I finish the game, start Broken Steel. Don't see Fawkes anywhere in the Citadel unless there's a specific place he's to be, try checking Jefferson Memorial, nothing there. The only thing in front of Underworld is Griffon trying to sell Aqua Cura/Pura/whathaveyou. So I've been searching and searching in all three areas and I find no trace of him, not even an ally marker. Is he gone forever? JackMcFist 22:49, November 17, 2009 (UTC)JackMcFist

Same Problem here dude anyone got any suggestions apart from:

Edit by Smothier:

People who are having troubles finding Fawkes:

Most of the time Fawkes will be in/or around the citadel. If he isn't there,look for him at Project Purity,Vault 101,Your megaton home (if you have a house there or if you haven't blow megaton) He won't be found in Vault 87 if you freed him before and he appeared to you at Raven Rock, so scratch that. Chances are he is in the Citadel, so i suggest you carefully explore every inch of the citadel to try and locate him. The "Return to the Underworld" way,i believe it requires you to have been to the underworld before or/and wait a total of 7 in-game days untill you get the message. -Jefferson Memorial -Vault 87 -Citadel -Travelling forward and back from the Pitt -Raven Rock He is in NONE! of these places.

You can also find Fawkes inside of the Museum of Technology, by the Aqua Pura sales stand. 91.105.32.140 00:05, November 28, 2009 (UTC)

Thats the museum of history your talking about, not tech. JerichoRCDF 17:58, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

I cant find fawkes at all he was at the citadel and i fired him to which he said to find him at the museum of history but he is not there. So dissapointed sometimes this game sucks badly. 121.214.214.70 19:37, January 23, 2010 (UTC)

if hes stuck in the infirmary doorway, walk behind him and slowly push him out

once hes out of the door way and hes befriended you, then he will go back to following you

Fawkes in Little Lamplight

 * (PC, fully patched)Fawkes has difficulty entering Little Lamplight.

In my first instance it took me about 2 minuste to get him out the first time, I guided his direction along the length of the steel gate of Little Lamplight (a pain, if you have a line of follower).

The Pitt bug?
I played through the mission wherein you retrieved the G.E.C.K. from Vault 87. I was playing as an evil character, so I did it myself and then killed Fawkes using the option on the terminal outside his room (Terminate Test Subject or something like that.) Flames shot out of the walls and Fawkes died (netting me negative karma in the process). I then went to the Pitt, and as soon as I got there, a message popped up that said that Fawkes had returned to the Museum of History (where he goes when you usually dismiss him). Upon returning to the Capital Wasteland, I traveled to the Museum of History and sure enough, there was Fawkes' corpse lying in the middle.

(on Xbox 360) If you attack Fawkes enough for him to become hostile you can make him revert back to being friendly by using a stealth boy and hiding out of sight or even just using the stealth boy right in front of him.--213.104.213.137 00:04, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Remove "Fawkes cannot jump" note.
NPCs cannot jump. Period. There is no reason to have a note that says this on a character page. 70.190.158.11 19:34, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

Bug fix for Jefferson Memorial issue
I dismissed Fawkes before finishing the game. I then found him on top of the Memorial. You cant get up to talk to him. I shot him in the head about 3 times with the 44. When he started firing back I went in the memorial. The people with books were running scared. After a few minutes everyone inside calmed down. I went back out side and Fawkes was not longer red and he was off the memorial (360)

does fawkes randomly kill people?
when he says something about his instinct pulling him away, does this relate to anything? i went to the nuka cola challenge lady and after handing her 3 quantums fawkes wacked out his gatling laser and mowed her down in two shots. I also encoutered this in rivet city with pinkerton, and after him remodelling my face fawkes shot him, why does fawkes randomly do this? and is pinkerton that key? i already completed the replicated man and the wasteland survival guide, im also happy with the way my character looks, is there anything else i need him for?
 * Yes, Fawkes starting gunning down Megaton Settlers with his Gatling Laser and Charon joined in the fun. Jerhico began running down the ramp and Charon started shooting. I think it's a bug as I reloaded the auto-save and no one died.--KnightNapier 03:45, December 6, 2009 (UTC)

Same thing. When I was at the Temple of the Union, and I was finished conversing with Hannibal Hamlin, Fawkes went berserk and started to kill everyone. I reloaded a save and he didn't go berserk. Somewhere else I think Charon went berserk too, but I'm not sure. This guy said it was probably because Fawkes was a Super Mutant, and people criticized and mocked him, and he got angry and started to kill everyone. Same thing with Charon. Kirbyt1210 13:33, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

No Fawkes after Raven Rock?
I'm having a pretty bad bug. I just finished The American Dream, got outside of Raven Rock... and there was no Fawkes to be found. He is not around the Citadel either and I'm kind of hostile in the Underworld, after shooting Mr. Crowley. Any clue where he is or if it's a bug?


 * I encountered this bug as well. After escaping Raven Rock he never showed up. Used the moveto command in the console and found him standing a short ways off from the entrance to Raven Rock, with no weapon. He's pretty much useless now since he won't use most weapons, and I can't give him his gattling laser.

Fawkes invicible 360?
I had fawkes as a follower at level 26 only broken steel installed. In megaton (undestroyed) he took 20+ vats mini nukes via fatman.

My Fawkes is invincible. I tried to kill him because I was bored and health just wouldn't deplete, this is actually very useful as I just let him fight most of the time to conserve my health and ammo but for some reason he never had the super sledge in his inventory. Has anyone else had this?

I too have had this at level 29 I got two of his health bars, level 30 I cant get one even after 30 min of play and 100 stims. also no super sledge at any point.

I thought fawks just had a normal sledg hammer but when i told him to switch to melee he just used his fist.--Radraider 21:00, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

I just picked up Broken Steel for the PS3. I made it to level 21, and then decided to test my followers, Dogmeat and Fawkes. I started with Jack, which took out Dogmeat in a matter of seconds, before he could even launch an attack. Feeling pretty cocky, I took Jack to Fawkes. After ~15 seconds of whiring blades of death, Fawkes had only lost 2 bars off of his health. Thinking this was a weakness in the weapon and Dogmeat, and having been killed by Fawkes, I decided to even the score with the Experimental MIRV. I shot him at pointblank range in a small room using VATS to target his head; he lost two bars of health. While this should mean that it is technically possible to kill him, practically Fawkes is invincible; I cannot fathom the creature that could stand against him in a fight. Keemonto 02:36, September 26, 2009 (UTC)


 * So he is still invincible on PS3? Does Bethesda even give a shit about these glitches anymore? Surely they must have stumbled across them on some forms or something, I know this site pops up as the 1st result in google for many fallout 3 related terms. 68.192.9.90 02:18, October 20, 2009 (UTC)

Further testing has shown that, even at level 30, it is indeed possible to kill Fawkes, though it is very difficult. At level 30, with 100% in Big Weapons, Melee Weapons, Unarmed, Energy Weapons, and Small Weapons, and with Finesse, 10 Luck, Snide Guru, Iron Fist Rank 3, Ninja, Pyromaniac, Better Criticals, Bloody Mess, and 10 Strength, I managed to kill Fawkes with three shots of the Experimental MIRV, attacking him with Jack until it broke, attacking him with the Terrible Shotgun until it broke, attacking him with the Firelance until it broke, and then slashing at him with the Deathclaw Gauntlet until it was down to ~50% condition; all weapons began at 100% condition. In addition, it cost me ~100 stimpacks and broke my armor, even though I dodged most of his fire by pinning him in a corner and standing as close as possible (post MIRV shots). I think it's safe to say that he's tough, though not actually invincible. Keemonto 21:31, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

I did an interesting test on fawks once at level 15. I brought him to the top of a satcom array Told him to wait, And laid all bottle cap, frag, plasma, and pulse mine I had in my inventory at his feet. (witch added up to about 30-40) I then tossed a plazma grenade on the mines. This made the equivilent of A meteor strikeing him. Only took half his helth and blew him back a few feet. Since I tecnicly only hit him once he was still friendly so I wasted the most of my grenades on him in vats and when the smoke setteld... no more fawks! after about 3 secondes the mesage poped up and i looked of the sattelite and saw his boddy roleing down a hill. It turns out i did about 75% of the damage and the fall from the dish did the rest. So there you have it! Fawks can be killed, at least on level 15 that is.--Radraider 20:47, October 3, 2009 (UTC) After observing where the HIGH WATER TROUSERS nukes fall from orbit from the top of the SAT DISH I stationed Fawkes at an exact location of a stike and hit him with one of the HWT nukes. It moved him a few feet but he did not show any health bars lost.In a fight and using a Gatling Laser, Fawkes against 3 Albino Rad scorps at once shows no observable loss of health .I use the Vengeance Gat laser at damage 255 and the Chinese Stealth Armour. Level 30 360.

The easiest way to kill him I found is to get a critical shot with a gauss rifle of a victory rifle then crouch and reverse pickpocket a grenage onto him, killed him instantly but when I try to attack him normally his health just will not deplete 1 bit and he never had his super sledge in his inventory in the 1st place :S--195.93.21.72 13:26, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

Ok Fawkes is not invincible but he is weirdly and insanely durable for some reason (which is a good thing to be honest)it took me the Firelance until it broke (BD: 156) several hundred rounds from the Destabilizer (BD: 198) and a couple hundred rounds from Vengeance (BD: 336)and maybe a tiny little bit of help from some Megaton citizens.

The reason is because Fawkes is categorized as a creature. This causes him to level up multiplicatively with the player. In other words, by the time you're level 30 Fawkes has 30 times as much health as he was "supposed" to have. Dogmeat in Broken Steel has this same problem. They become all but invincible and remove much of the challenge (and thus fun) from the game.--Ocdscale 18:21, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

If you want to kill Fawkes the best way is to fire Him and then Reverse Pickpocket a grenade.--71.92.156.4 13:43, December 31, 2009 (UTC)

Dogmeat only levels to 20 unless yu got him after installing Broken Steel DLC. This makes Dogmeat easily killable if you got him boefore installing it.

He is very much killable at lvl 30 in broken steel. you just need to have paralyzing palm, lots of alien epoxy, and approx 12,000 rounds for vengeance. be chem'd up to the max too. it still takes forever.


 * I took Fawkes and Dogmeat to Evergreen Mills for the first time (around Level 17), and since Dogmeat is killed so easily, I spent most of the fight against the Raiders protecting him. After we'd killed most of them, I couldn't find Fawkes. So, I looked around, and found and Fawkes delviering the finishing blow to a Behemoth. He single handedly-killed a Behemoth.

Fawkes is bad-freakin'-ass. Ryo626 01:47, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

I killed him with ease..I set stimpak as a hotkey...i went through about 60 stimpak..i used about 80 shots with the plasma gun and got him against the wall where he wasn't hurting me and used the ripper(chainsaw) until it broke and shot him a couple more times with plasma gun and down he went

3 INT and 5 CH? Really?
The only articulate super mutant (minus Uncle Leo) has an intelligence of 3? And 5 charisma? Does Fawkes look charismatic to you??? 68.192.9.90

Yes,he does have an INT of 3 and a CHA of 5.Deal with it. The Daddy http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout11ty/images/5/51/Banhammer.gif 13:17, September 27, 2009 (UTC)

That is disappointing, since in the Fallout universe Having an INT of 3 or below essentially is what makes one mentally retarded. Fawkes is no retard, in fact, he appears more intelligent then most humans.--216.220.115.175 23:51, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

I agree. If I were to rate his intelligence, I would have to give him 9-10 points. Part of this is considering the fact that he learned so much in the little time he studied in that isolation room in Vault 87. The rest would have to be divided between his interesting philosophy, articulation, and various other qualities. I have no idea as to why they would rate his intelligence level so low.
 * 9-10 is genius-level intelligence. Sure, Fawkes is intelligent (7, maybe 8), but he's not a genius, otherwise, he'd have long since broke out of his holding cell. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 23:12, November 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * The stats were just copied from a regular Super Mutants. Most Super Mutants, as you can gather, aren't very smart nor charismatic. The developers probably just thought it was easier to do it this way, as what good would an intelligence of 7 or 8 do to the player? Fawkes can't hack computers, or repair guns, or even use a stimpak. So what would be the point? The player was never supposed to know. --Vladimir Lem 18:05, November 23, 2009 (UTC)

He's smarter than most scientists and knows so much philosophy so he should have 9-10 int. (AtheistMetal)

He does speak very intelligently and in a somewhat 'old-fashioned' style, using "I shall" and so on, like Paladin Cross and such serious characters. I'd rate his intelligence at 7 or 8 at the very least. :Starshade 16:05, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

One's intelligence and how smart they are are two very different things. Intelligence is one's capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity. You could be the most intelligent person in the world and not know how to do math, since you never learned how to. I'm not disagreeing with your opinions that Fawkes' intelligence stat should have been set higher, I just want to make sure that you all understand what intelligence is. BrenMan 94 22:43, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

unconfirmed bugs

 * If the player does not release Fawkes from Isolation Room 05 and retrieves the G.E.C.K. on his/her own, Fawkes will still be in that cell if the player ever decides to return. Later, if you talk to Fawkes through the intercom, it will cause a dialogue conversation that was meant to happen when you escaped Raven Rock. Despite being locked up (and in fact, even if you insulted him pledged not to release him), he thanks you for rescuing him and, the player's karma permitting, Fawkes can glitch out of the cell and then follow you normally through the course of the game. This is handy for players who couldn't find a way to release Fawkes to begin with. However, in some cases Fawkes will not be carrying a Gatling laser, and will use only a super sledge in combat.
 * I can confirm this, and if you are victim to this glitch, you will be able to recruit him as a follower even if you have one. Kyuseiseki 22:10, December 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * During the Vault 87 encounter, if you take Fawkes' Super Sledge from him, he will continue to hold his hands as if holding an invisible sledge. He will also stop heading towards the G.E.C.K., instead standing in place. (Observed on PC, although with numerous addons)
 * It is also possible that in Vault 87, if you do not release Fawkes and get the G.E.C.K. yourself but open the doors as Fawkes instructs that after completing the main storyline (And having the Broken Steel DLC) that Fawkes can be seen in the Citadel walking around. If you speak to him he will act like he is following you but when you respond with "Let's go" he will continue to walk around aimlessly and not follow the player. (Happened with a "Very Evil" karma rating)


 * It is possible that even after rescue, Fawkes will remain in Vault 87 somewhere either outside Isolation Room 05, near the G.E.C.K. room, or somewhere in between, and not meet you outside Raven Rock. If you go back to the Vault and find Fawkes your dialog options will be the same as they are right outside Raven Rock.


 * If Fawkes is fired in the presence of Liberty Prime the robot will start attacking him and almost always kill him as Fawkes will fire back. He will apparently not respawn after words.


 * It is also possible for Fawkes to glitch outside of Raven Rock. If the player had a companion and they were not dismissed before being taken to Raven Rock, Fawkes will accept an invitation (Karma permitting) but remain rooted to the ground inside the Raven Rock gates.
 * NOTE: It is possible for him to glitch similarly outside of raven rock. He will be unarmed (as opposed to carrying a gatling laser) but will otherwise function as normal. Upon reaching the end of the normal campaign, however, he will not move into the airlock and you will not be able to activate the airlock controls, which will prevent you from proceeding to the Broken Steel DLC.


 * Fawkes may sometimes keep his Gatling Gun out, and just hold it in his hand, instead of putting it away after combat.


 * When you first meet Fawkes, he may have two copies of 'Fawkes' Super Sledge' for you to take (if you're feeling particularly greedy).


 * Sometimes when you are fighting something and Fawkes is shooting it and you walk through a door at the same time and then go back you will hear the gatling laser firing, but Fawkes will not be shooting.


 * The gatling laser floats at the side of Fawkes but will not be holding it (this is a common bug that can affect any NPC).


 * When you leave your Megaton House and go directly down the hill to the Megaton Clinic, Fawkes may sometimes get stuck at the bottom and when you try to push him out, or you leave him there for a few moments, he will become hostile or even die.


 * After being fired, Fawkes can be found at the Project Purity (just outside the force field) instead of the Museum of History (bad pathfinding?).
 * Sometimes after beating the game (after Broken Steel is installed), Fawkes will disappear and not appear at any of the above spawn points. Lame.


 * If Fawkes is fired right after entering the Jefferson Memorial during Take It Back!, he might appear standing on top of the entrance and will be unable to re-hire. (Possibly occurs if Broken Steel is installed)

--Kingclyde 04:00, October 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * When Fawkes is killed by a randomly spawning enemy just south of Oasis after waiting 72 hours, it will say FOLLOWER WARNING! Fawkes has return to the museum of history and his dead body will be layed next to the mammoth just inside the entrance.

xbxo360 possible bug: 2 followers
(in this case, Charon and Fawkes) Dudehman 17:39, November 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure which DLCs you may/ may not need. When I went through vault 87, I had no DLCs, and at the time I got 2 followers, I had Broken Steel, and Operation Anchorage.
 * Have Charon as a follower when you go through Vault 87, and instead of freeing Fawkes, take a few Rad-X and get the GECK yourself. Charon is unaffected by Radiation, as he is a ghoul.
 * After I finished all the DLCs listed above, I returned to Room 05 and talked to him. He had the same dialogue as if I had freed him, and the option to get him as a follower was given.
 * He ignores the fact that Charon was already with me and followed me.

Fawkes Stuck in Raven Rock
When i fast travel to the raven rock with Fawkes after starting Broken Steel, we respawn to the front of the collapsed building i was in front of the rocks but Fawkes was under some grating on the left wher i was standing, he get out of there by himself allmost immediately and start fireing 2 enclave soldiers who didn't attack us just go hide. After i killed those two cowards Fawkes was running toward a fence and didn't stop running. Well i think that it was just a little bug but when i go and speak with him, he speaked with me like normaly but when i stop speaking (saying lets go and not stay here)and start moving he dont follow, just stands there with hes gun holding down. Disable, enable dont work killin resurecting dont work, fast traveling wont work, same with quiq saving and loading, leaving there coming back, fireing him dont work, change place and console moveto player dont work, so what i am gouing to do?

by: Räisänen

often fawkes just randomly runs away. plz explain
 * p

Really surprised this hasn't been noted...
Edited, should have checked archives

I Reverse pick pocketed perfect condition hellfire armor and gatling lasers onto everyody in that first area of the citadel so thats about 14 brotherhood members. I then equiped a Jericho, clover, butch, cross, charon, and sticky with the best equipment in the game, and then there is dog meat and the robot, so thats about 20 ish allies. I then brought fawkes there, fired him, and then attacked him, making all my followers and the citadel hostile towards fawkes. It was definitely quite the light show when everybody blasted him at ounce. however, to my surprise fawkes killed them all, even while I was unloading everything I had into his head while he was fighting them. He didn't atack me because I used a stealth boy after he went hostile. fawkes is the most broken uneven character in the game.


 * With BS, he has 500 health per level rather than 500 health total (dev error) so he is so goddam hard to kill 68.192.9.90 01:31, November 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly, he can took 20 mininukes from a full condition fatman with big guns at around 80 and only was down to half health, he is pretty much immortal Setimir92 21:22, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

Karmatic Shifts
Will Fawkes still follow you if your Karma goes down to Neutral. I'm planning on getting RL-3 as companion number four and I was just wondering how many times I had to kill Dogmeat and money I had to put down for buying RL-3 and getting my Karma back.--KnightNapier 03:53, December 6, 2009 (UTC)

He still follows you, yes, but if you accidentally fire him, or if something happens that makes him "go back to the Museum of History", like if you teleport onto Mothership Zeta, travel to Point Lookout, etc. you'll have to regain good karma to get him again.

Harry Potter
This probably means nothing, but I was just watching the movie with my mom(#6), and mom said "Fawkes" out of nowhere. Then I remembered that the phoenix is named Fawkes. Like I said, probably nothing. Just thought it might be interesting to explore since our Fawkes was 'reborn' as a supermutant. I see no reference potential, but it is good coincidence material. Just had to share, sorry. JerichoRCDF 02:16, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

is this normal?
I gave Fawkes a bunch of my equipment while in Vault 87 in anticipation of making him a follower after Raven Rock. But when I had him join me, his inventory was empty, and all the items I gave him was gone. Is there any way to recover that equipment?
 * Yup, that's completely normal and as far as I remember, there is no way for you to get that stuff back. I think. Setimir92 22:33, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

Fawkes is a reference to Guy Fawkes, also mentioned quite a bit in V for Vendetta. Guy Fawkes Day is the 5th of November. Fawkes in Fallout talks about it.

The Man from Room 5
I noticed in the Fawkes page that there was some contention over his gender because of the female specimen mentioned as being the occupant of his cell. Also, his name is an obvious reference to Guy Fawkes. I would just like to point out that I believe it is thus in fact a reference to V for Vendetta because his cell is no.5, the same as V who is also called "the man from Room 5". Like V, Fawkes does not remember his past and was part of a series of government experiments, deemed a failure and kept in isolation, and also endowed with incredible physical prowess. In the graphic novel V describes how the only thing that kept him going was a scrap of paper left by the previous occupant, a woman. Although in Fawkes case it was the terminal he educated himself with. There are a few parallels one could draw between the two so I was just wondering if I'm onto something or quite mad. 80.239.242.118 16:03, December 19, 2009 (UTC) D.Smith, South Africa.

I believe your onto something, the one thing that makes me believe is "V describes how the only thing that kept him going was a scrap of paper left by the previous occupant, a woman". The previous occupant was a woman, and replaced by a man. Kind of like Fawkes, where the terminal says that the occupant is a woman, but Fawkes is actually a boy. So the woman occupant must have been a failed subject and Fawkes was moved into there for studies of why he's different than other Super Mutants.


 * I completely agree. I came here to suggest this reference, as I was surprised that it wasn't in the article.--blacxthorne 16:21, January 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe this idea should be reexamined. The arguments here and at Talk:Fallout_3_cultural_references have considerable merit. -132.183.138.24 01:22, February 3, 2010 (UTC)

Bug
I finished Raven rock I didn't Locate fawkes anywhere near the entrance but I did find him walking around the citadel gate I fired charon and tried to recruit fawkes but all he says that he is not welcome to the places I go what is wrong with him?

Broken Bow
I had Fawkes following me when I went to Pinkerton and Fawkes came in the room with me as normal then he started "falling" through the ground while yelling combat phrases. After he came back up a Mirelurk attacked me with about half it's health gone.... After this Fawkes continued to fall through the floor until I arrived at Pinkerton.

What happens if you don't free him?
He remains in Vault 87 indefinitely (possibly until you drop by again and free him)? And he doesn't come to your rescue in Raven Rock? I had to wonder. :Starshade 15:47, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, oh. I didn't see the stuff above. Sorry, you don't need to care about this part. I'll have it erased if necessary. :Starshade 15:52, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

take away reilly's rangers bug
i didn't know about the bug with fawkes until after i completed reilly's rangers. i walked up (i had fawkes as my only companion) and no one did anything. it took me about a minute to find butcher, and all the while fawkes was right next to brick, and no one did anything to her (i say fawkes was female).

P.S i just noticed that bethesda claims fawkes was a guy, A.K.A male, and the reference is Guy Fawkes. anyone else notice that? and also i'm on xbox 360, every DLC except mothership zeta, and in the broken steel portion of the game, no GOTY. i decided to do everything before ending broken steel, but i soon found out that you may continue the game after completion to do missed or forgotten side quests.

Minor problem
I've had Fawkes as a companion for quite some time now, I'm on ps3 and I thought it would be worth mentioning these glitches I encountered. One was where he started wielding his super sledge, but when I talked to him about changing his combat style it said he was using a ranged weapon. Simply telling him to swap to melee than back fixed this but now I can take his supersledge whenever I want. The other one I thought is worth mentioning if anyone else had this problem. As soon as I entered the museum of history, fawkes simply died. Simply reloading my auto save from when I entered brought him back to life and I've never encountered it again, but I guess it should be worth saying just in case...

“We can go to the crazy mirrors Murray. It'll make your nose look smaller” Oscar Maddison

From twodog

fawkes 15000 hp
Have any idea why Fawke's hp would be 15000 at level 30? I met Fawkes when I was level 30, and it was just until now when i was at rivet city and wondering his hp, did getav health and came up 15000. On the wiki it says his was over 200k as an estimate. Has anyone actually did getav health on him? If not then his hp looks like every level it goes up 500 as at level 1 he would have 500 and 30 would be 15000. Gary 23 03:27, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

actually, thats exactly what happened. when they were making broken steel (i guess) someone messed up the script and instead of fawkes simply having 500 health, it is now 500 health per level. so instead of 500 health, he has 15000 health. that makes him nearly invincible. i think it's the same for dogmeat, too, but not any other followers (atleast not star paladin cross). Wrpen-99 14:34, February 26, 2010 (UTC)

Not a Guy Fawkes reference!
He is most certainly not a reference! Until substantial evidence or Bethesda confirms it and it has been discussed in this section it is not a reference! Heres my argument against:


 * Fawkes:


 * 8 Foot Tall
 * Peaceful
 * Zen Buddhist
 * Complains about his sanity wearing away
 * Fears he may become like his 'brothers'
 * Guy Fawkes:


 * Failed Revolutionary
 * Planned to destroy English Parliament hereby destroying English democracy
 * Hateful
 * Worked as a gang
 * Although not the ringleader of the aforementioned group he certainly is the most famous

Response to above

 * In-game, Fawkes says he gets his name from "a man who died for what he believed in." Doesn't mean the mutant and the revolutionary are very similar, only that the mutant's name is indeed a reference to Guy Fawkes.--Gothemasticator 18:25, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Reference for gender clarification quote has been purged from Beth pages
Our reference for the gender issue on the article page has been purged from the Bethesda forums. Anyone got the text saved somewhere? I'm going to leave the broken reference there as a reminder until we find a replacement.--Gothemasticator 20:52, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Fawkes leveling.
Hi, I'm currently running through the game with a good character. I am level 17, I've just recruited Fawkes from outside of Raven Rock. I have Broken Steel loaded, and I was wondering, does Fawkes level with the character, or is it a set level? I can only assume he does, but I would like a confirmation. Thank you in advance. Tin Daddy 14:09, March 25, 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Knight Captain Ski (talk) 23:31, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

Fawkes Using Grenades?!
I've just entered the Satellite control thing of the mobile crawler in Adams air force base with both Fawkes and Star Paladin Cross. Of course Star was using nades but wat surprised me is that Fawkes has a plasma grenade equipped which i can see on his hip. His gatlin laser is not on his back any more and so the assumed truth that fawkes only uses the Gatlin might be false. I dont see why hed be using the nades anyways, i have the precision gatlin gun in his inventory so I'm wondering why hes not using that with its superior damage. Anyways, someone needs to go in and change any statements saying that fawkes only equips his gatlin laser. - Flashback(to impatient to login ;)

Another Jefferson Memorial solution (Xbox 360)
I encountered this glitch as well (xbox 360), where Fawkes appears on the top of the Jefferson Memorial entrance, after completing the main quest. However, using the elevated platform/walkway next to the entrance, I was able to get to him. I jumped onto the barrels of "AuqaPure," then up onto the railing, then ran along the railing, toward the Memorial, and jumped over. Once on the other side, I was able to simply walk up to him, re-recruit him, and fast travel away. He now follows normally, and appears at the Museum of History when fired (as he should). I hope this helps. CrunkKillington 23:22, April 10, 2010 (UTC)