Forum:Recommended Quests before activating Broken Steel?

Are there are Quests (thinking mostly Minor and/or Unmarked) that you would recommend be completed before Broken Steel is activated? I'm about 1/3 of the way to Level 16 and I was trying to wrap up all the Minor and Unmarked quests before I hit 20 and had to turn BS on, but there's no way I'm gonna make it.

I figure to start I'd want to finish as many that feature lots of Ghouls or Super Mutants. So: Reiley's Rangers (which I just wrapped up), Big Trouble in Big Town, Stealing Independence, and getting the Bobblehead from the Dunwich building.

Am I missing any, and/or are there other things I should consider before enabling BS? Thanks! -- JazzX Talk 01:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Head of State, Shoot em in the head, Blood ties, Those.. that one with the Mechanist and Ant-Nutter Woman. The Nuka Cola challenge, Gradys secret mission, the Keller tapes, the one with the android if you didnt finish it, the museum of technology secret (Prime's bounty), the Nuka Cola Clear thing.. and of course all the bobble heads kept me busy for a while. I was level 20 for about 6 weeks doing a lot of the wandering and killing so be ready to max out. If you want any extra caps while you do all that, I recommend the Lawbringer Perk so you get fingers from all the Talon assholes and Raiders while you comment a semi-genocide across the wastes. Sulfate 10:54, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

The new enemies drop more XP, so you might level up faster with B.S. installed. I did come across a feral ghoul reaver at level 12 though, which was a bit unfair, and retrieving the G.E.C.K. from vault 87 with BS installed is a pain in the ass - nothing but overlords with tri-beam lasers (at level 26 anyway). Once you complete Take It Back, Old Olney gets altered, as well as the project purity site, so grab the medic power armor, and don't try stashing extra loot inside the Jefferson Memorial hoping to reclaim it after your coma. It'll be gone.

Starting the Take It Back quest seemed to shut down most of the other quests in the original, pre-broken steel storyline. Is that still the case? Imp of the Perverse 10:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)