Talk:Fawkes

Bugs entering small rooms/areas with Fawkes
(PS3) Majoirty of the time I enter small rooms with Fawkes, there's an audio glitch that sounds like Fawkes is firing his Gatling Laser. But observing him, he's not doing anything. The further you get from the door, the quieter the audio glitch gets. This happens in Little Lamplight and small metal shacks in the wasteland, that I remember as of now. 76.172.249.120 21:14, May 26, 2010 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, in response to the person above, I experience the exact same thing, same platform.

70.126.216.230 03:59, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

This also happens if he has a Minigun in his inventory. 76.172.249.120 00:27, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

This also seems to happen when you enter the caves under Oasis. MirvMaster

is, Tenpenny Tower, still on PS3.

JASPER42

This also seems to happen, if you have him wait somewhere and you enter a room alone. 76.172.249.120 11:59, June 9, 2010 (UTC) That also seems to happen to Fawkes when you enter the caves under Oasis.

Oh, and also I'd like to add there are Brotherhood Outcasts nearby and one has a Minigun/Gatling Laser. Dunno if this affects this at all, but thought it might be worth noting.

JASPER42

Happened to me at the Jefferson Memorial quite a few times, same console The Hawk 09:00, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

I found it happens a lot when he's attacking and you are looting. The sound sticks to him or an object and never shuts off. In the Presidential Metro, I got the sound stuck on Fawkes 2 or 3 times. I had to load an exterior cell (Capital Wasteland) to stop it, but every interior cell, it is back. Only saving reloading solves this. Isn't there a purge attached sounds console command? Sheesh. KaisarDragon 20:20, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Raven Rock Glitch
I see to be experiencing an issue with Fawkes, where he is basically glued to the ground outside Raven Rock. I have used resetai several times, he runs up to me, and says "What have you got on your mind?" (a generic Fawkes opening), I can interact with him, but that's it, disabling and re-enabling doesnt work, making him hostile, then ressurecting him doesnt work, I have yet to kill him and respawn him.

70.126.216.230 03:59, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

Same here although making him hostile does allow him to move but what go does that do me. He talks like everything is normal, so when you say let go he agrees then when you walk away he just stays there. He doesn't ever try to run or turn around even from 100ft away. Then he appears after i wake up into broken steel and acts like he was with me the whole time and brings up that he can go into the chamber to start the purifier for me. He says that in the Citadel after i had already started and completed that mission. So i thought that everything was fixed now but no he still won't move. Now he is glued to the floor in the Citadel med room. What is going on?? Anybody help me?

Possible Note for "Other Interactions"
I was running an evil character so I didn't/couldn't recruit Fawkes outside Raven Rock. I was also feeling hardcore, so I wasn't fast-traveling. Turns out Fawkes and I were headed the same direction, and just after crossing the river I got a pop-up notifying me Fawkes had died. For a super-tough super-mutant, I guess he couldn't handle some of the high-level encounters in that part of the map - deathclaws, packs of mirelurk hunters w/kings, and Enclave patrols. Maybe players should be warned that if they don't recruit Fawkes at Raven Rock but want to preserve him for later use they should escort him to the Museum - which seems like it might be a fun job to do anyway.

What level were you? because if your level is 20+ he has like 150,000 hp The Hawk 09:01, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe he fell off a cliff or off the map entirely. Fawkes just can't die unless a bug got him. Seriously. KaisarDragon 20:12, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

No,Fawkes can only die from about 3 Deathclaws + or 10 Mirelurk Hunters + He will most likely die from a fall really high,for example: The Fort Contantine mountains are extremely high,if you try to climb down.Fawkes will fall, (Because NPCs aren't complex) And then he will die,I also find it odd that when you Trade with him he has nothing,even though he has a Vault 87 jumpsuit and Gatling Laser,I really wish I could put some Power armor on him...

64.136.26.230 09:07, July 21, 2010 (UTC)Going Crazy
Has anyone else seen Fawkes go crazy and kill everyone in the room (not you) at random points for no good reason. This happened to me in The Republic of Dave (no survivors).

JASPER42

Only when I killed Dave, other than that nope. 76.172.249.120 01:17, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Fawkes turning hostile on Reilly's rangers and on Dave used to be mentioned in this article, not sure why it was taken out. It can also happen with Sierra_Petrovita. Is this worth mentioning under "bugs?" Wickedjacob 07:51, June 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Now that I think of it, recently Sierra has been "fleeing" whenever I enter her shack with Fawkes. But I have in past and that hasn't happened before. 76.172.249.120 12:03, June 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * I did, in fact put this in bugs but it got taken out. I have also seen Sierra fleeing, but even while I'm alone. This often happens if there are Radscorpions out side attacking the Brahmins outside. She stupidly runs towards a large radier (and later) Enclave populated area, and hides in a corner. She may get stuck insde a nearby truck and becomes impossible to remove.


 * JASPER42
 * Same thing for the Republic, also happened in the Regulator HQ, but he didn't try to kill Sonora Cruz (the leader).
 * Odd. 74.109.248.224 23:22, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Odd. 74.109.248.224 23:22, July 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * What are your guys stats at the time, Karma, Charisma, Strength, anything that could cause someone to think twice about attacking Fawkes, cause he occasionally mentions that its 'amazing no one attacks him' and I've almost always had epic high Karma by the time I recruit him. It might have something to do with your character whether people attack/run away from him rather than it being a straight up bug.Kre &#39;Nunumee 23:36, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe Fawkes taking his anger on random people because he's been stuck in a cell whole life. If he kills someone i like (rarely cos' I kill people who annoy me) I'll kill him in combat! With fists doing over 600 damage it can happen.XxX64.136.26.230 09:07, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't EVER go to Megaton with Fawkes as a companion. At first, it happened when we were at Moriarty's and he and Jericho started exchanging fire. I figured, "That's OK Fawkes, knowing Jericho... I'm sure he made the first move." But then he fired on Maggie; and at everyone in Megaton. I had to fire him for punishment. At the time, both Simms and Moriarty were dead so random Mutie attacks were happening all the time to Megaton. I wasn't sure if this had anything to do with it?
 * I can't EVER go to Megaton with Fawkes as a companion. At first, it happened when we were at Moriarty's and he and Jericho started exchanging fire. I figured, "That's OK Fawkes, knowing Jericho... I'm sure he made the first move." But then he fired on Maggie; and at everyone in Megaton. I had to fire him for punishment. At the time, both Simms and Moriarty were dead so random Mutie attacks were happening all the time to Megaton. I wasn't sure if this had anything to do with it?
 * I can't EVER go to Megaton with Fawkes as a companion. At first, it happened when we were at Moriarty's and he and Jericho started exchanging fire. I figured, "That's OK Fawkes, knowing Jericho... I'm sure he made the first move." But then he fired on Maggie; and at everyone in Megaton. I had to fire him for punishment. At the time, both Simms and Moriarty were dead so random Mutie attacks were happening all the time to Megaton. I wasn't sure if this had anything to do with it?
 * I can't EVER go to Megaton with Fawkes as a companion. At first, it happened when we were at Moriarty's and he and Jericho started exchanging fire. I figured, "That's OK Fawkes, knowing Jericho... I'm sure he made the first move." But then he fired on Maggie; and at everyone in Megaton. I had to fire him for punishment. At the time, both Simms and Moriarty were dead so random Mutie attacks were happening all the time to Megaton. I wasn't sure if this had anything to do with it?

Confirmation on equipment
I can confirm Fawkes doesn't have his special Gatling Laser if you wait until after Raven Rock, I don't think this should be in the bug section either because it wouldn't really make sense for him to have it if you didn't free him before Raven Rock.--Thq95 16:31, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

Unexpected Death
Whilst wandering through Vault 87 looking for Overlords to kill, I came across the area in which you find Fawkes the first time round. That being the specimen chambers, some with failed FEV subjects. I was fooling around with a terminal and activated the failsafe to exterminate the subject. Fawkes was standing just outside the chamber and as I activated the failsafe (failsafe looks to be gas then fire) and entered it, Fawkes died instantaneously. I should note that this happened long after recruiting him but was incredibly strange nonetheless. I don't consider it a glitch but something that was supposed to happen if the Vault Scientists wished to destroy a subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.251.219 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

The exterminate option seems to be scripted to kill whatever was in the chamber. So number 5 terminal will insta kill Fawkes no matter where he is at. The gas/fire does nothing. It is for show. I noticed this when Sid got out and was running around, then I used his terminal's exterminate. He was no where near his cell and dropped dead. KaisarDragon 20:15, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Fawkes will not equip ANY melee weapon given to him!
This is starting to get on my nerves. No matter how much I struggle, my efforts just seem to be wasted. I can't get this stupid mutant to equip the damn Shishkebab. So I accepted that and moved on. Later on I decide fine, he won't equip the Shishkabob that's no problem, but he should at least be able to equip a regular old Super Sledge. I think to myself "It should work, he's a super mutant. After all they use Super Sledges. Maybe they just can't use Shishkebabs. Understandable." So I try to equip him with a plain old Super Sledge and he STILL refuses! I'm at the end of my patience with him. I understand he does fabulous damage as it is with the Gatling Laser (Aside from the horrible lag time that's involved in the rotating barrel before the gun allows itself to be shot off), but I would like him to use melee a bit too, without it having to be his fists because he's not good at all with his fists. Is this seriously some sort of bug or did the developers just decide to be idiotic and purposely make him only use his default gear only and nothing else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lionheart777 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

i can easily get him to use melee by giving him his super sledge and he wont stop using it. ThatWhiteboy98 07:16, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

-When I had Fawkes he would use his super sledge, it is possible that he lost it in V87 and he thinks he still has it. Keep in mind that this is only specultion. Posible solutions to your problem, if he thinks he still has his unique super sledge then equiping him with a better wepon should cause him to equip it, if not then start a new game and tell me all about it :) -It is possible to fix this using the following console command:

This will add Fawkes's Super Sledge into your inventory where you can then give it to Fawkes, he will now be able to melee with it as normal!

Try telling him to USE MELEE...No companions use melee weapons when they're told to use ranged... dumbass. John Lukas 15:25, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

Fawkes and Star Paladin Cross glitch
(360) after the vault 87 mission i came out of Raven Rock expecting to be greeted by Fawkes........  i waited a little while and he never came........  a few weeks later I decided to check Vault 87 with Star Paladin Cross, and when I entered the test labs area she disappeared i thought she was stuck in the other area, I get to the room where the enclave catches you and Fawkes runs out as if he just met me at Ravens Rock. So i had my convo with him and got him to follow me. just out of curiosity i kept going towards the GECK and before the stairs i found Star Paladin Cross "Dead" but when i walked up to her she was still blinking and it said "Talk" Star Paladin Cross, her gun that i gave her was on the ground too. It dawned on me that she might hate Fawkes for obvious reasons. aka he is a super mutant. so i reload my save out side of little lamplight because she wouldn't get up and Fawkes lost after a few minutes and killed her already lifeless blinking corpse, BUT this time I left Star Paladin Cross outside. I got back to the stair case and Fawkes comes to me the same way as before, but lo-and-behold there is Star Paladin Cross just Standing there like i had left her there, but when I talked to her she acted as though she was still following me. So I told her to wait and then I talked to her again, she was still acting like she was following me, but she wouldn't move an inch. this glitch happened on June 29th 2010, and I had all the DLCs. so it is very recent and very odd. Zayvorne Akal

Behind the scenes Confusion
On the behind the scenes with the interview with Wes Johnson he says he was and IS male, taking he knows a lot about super mutants shouldn't he of just said was since they lose all genderly organs? The Hawk 09:07, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

According to the chief physicians terminal in vault 87, near where you find Fawkes; "...After only three days, subjects B440, B164 and D624 (all our female specimens) are all exhibiting a unique change..." If you choose the "Identify specimen option on the Isolation Room 05 terminal where Fawkes is being held, it says subject D624, suggesting that Fawkes is (or was) indeed female according to in-game cannon.  Given that Fawkes is wearing a vault uniform, (s)he was probably there when the chief physician was still typing these journals.  Other isolation rooms contain wastelander raider bodies though, which almost certainly weren't originally there, so I suppose it could be reasonably said that room occupants were shuffled around.  I'd think though that this little tidbit of information was probably meant to be discovered, and it was in fact Emil Pagliarulo that was mistaken. Chotch 20:42, October 16, 2010 (UTC)Chotch

Fawkes was a man before he was turned in to a super mutant. 20:45, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

See also the cut content section. His pre-War name was Shelton Delacroix; though being cut content, this isn't canon but it does support him being male. -- 21:05, October 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is no confusion. Fawkes is/was male. The female specimens were in the cells before Fawkes was put in a cell.--Gothemasticator 21:07, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Not sure why everyone's so adamant about it. It seems to be ambiguous at best, and probably deserves to be at least noted in the main article. Who knows, maybe that's why they cut out the Shelton Delacroix bit, because it conflicted. Really, my point is; this wasn't just a comment that the voice actor made, there is in-game evidence that suggests it. Chotch 05:43, October 19, 2010 (UTC)Chotch

This was resolved a long time ago, developers confirmed on the Fallout 3 forums that Fawkes is male.--Thq95 12:22, November 16, 2010 (UTC)

I know I'm just some anonymous poster, but males and females in Fallout 3 have different walk/run cycles. Fawkes has a Female walk cycle on the PC. Follow a few random male and female NPCs in town till you can spot the difference and then follow Fawkes as he walks to the G.E.C.K.-- 18:01 August 11, 2011 Mountain Time
 * That doesn't apply to super mutants; they all walk like that. And it's called a "walk animation" not a "walk cycle". -- 00:37, August 12, 2011 (UTC)

It is very obvious...In my opinion,I believe all the Vault's Security and Scientists turned into Super Mutants,and Threw Shelton Delacroix or Fawkes if you will in a cell.That explains why he is in a female's cell.You can also tell this is true when he is bashing his super sledge on other Mutants,after he kills them,he will always say something different to each and every one of them,for a example,the 3rd# to the last one Fawkes kills,he will say,"Your time here is...DONE!" He will also say to one of them,"How foes that feel?!" Or something similar to that. That could reveal who threw him in a cell. The one he says that to was a Brute,that might be a mutated security guard,becuase Security is most likely stronger than a scronny scientist.

fawkes laser gatlin bug
Fawkes Laser Gatlin many times glitches and when he is done shooting, the sound continues even through the next time he shoots.
 * That's not a bug with the weapon but rather a general game bug, it affects many weapons. Kris (talk) 00:17, July 22, 2010 (UTC)

Dealing Fawkes some serious damage
Some know how, some figured out but there's an easy way to take out Fawkes at level 30.

Requirements: Chinese stealth armor (Operation: Anchorage), 2 Hockey masks(Different condition)

Okay, here's how you do it: First put on the Chinese stealth armor. Then equip one of the hockey masks, then try to equip the other. See that you're not equipping the other hockey mask. Keep on equipping the other hockey mask. Look at your stats and you see that its past 5 unarmed then go back and rapidly tap the equip button with the unequipped hockey mask and you will rapidly get +5 unarmed every time you tap equip on the unequipped hockey mask.

Try equipping an unarmed weapon to increase damage.

Try beating up Fawkes now?!

WARNING: Going higher than 30,000 may crash the game, or make it freeze! XxX64.136.26.230 23:08, July 28, 2010 (UTC)

There's no way to tell what your unarmed skill is after it hits 100. The game will only show "100" but your skill continues to rise John Lukas 15:30, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

Vault 87 bug (Xbox 360)
I found a very annoying bug with Fawkes.

When you find him in vault 87 and he gets the G.E.C.K. for you, and you get captured by the Enclave, Fawkes remains in Vault 87.

So I didn't encounter him when I left Raven Rock even though my karma was very high.

So after alot of searching and thinking I returned to vault 87, and with succes. I found Fawkes there. But when I found him, my other followers (Dogmeat's puppy and Charon) just died.

Actually, they didn't die but something even worse happened.

Every time I entered a building my followers just fell on the ground, they didn't die but just fell on the ground and didn't do anything. They were still alive since I could see them on the radar.

I also could still talk to them, but when I talked I got their inventory screen instead of talking.

So now, I only have Fawkes and a useless Charon and a useless Puppy.

I hope anyone knows how to deal with this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.28.100.56 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

This is a known bug. Kris (talk) 18:59, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Weapon Switching
I've since tried to get him to equip Vengeance on several other 360 consoles owned by friends, he will not equip anything but his basic gatling laser in those versions of the game as well. All versions had the entire DLC package content (Pitt, Broken Steel, etc) so I can't say for sure this bug is persistent in vanilla versions but it seems to be a regular occurence if you have all of the DLC. Mictlantecuhtli 11:44, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

To switch his weapons you have to have the version of fawkes you get if you wait and let him out of his cell after raven rock, this way he wont have his unique gatlin laser and then you can equip him some of the other weapons. --Thq95 07:22, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

And even then he will only equip stuff that a supermutant can equip (non unique stuff), regular gatling laser, hunting rifle, Chinese assault rifle etc.

Death after finding the LW at Raven Rock
I was doing a playthrough, and I just had blown up president Eden and was escaping Raven Rock. As usual, I knew Fawkes would show up with his new gatling laser, so i decided to open the console (rewardkarma -800), so I couldn't get Fawkes as my follower (afterwards, I did a rewardkarma 800). I then ran towards Fort Constantine, to have it on my map and gain loads of caps from "You gotta shoom them in the head", then on my way, I saw "Fawkes has died" - what the fuck. I opened the console - tgm and moveto.fawkes. He had been killed by one fucking yao guai and two vicious dogs. How is that possible? Bug?

If you don't aqquire Fawkes as a follower,his hit points will be very well under what he normally is,since he's most of the time 150,000 + He will be reduced to 500.

game seriously bugged
ok i had just gotten Fawkes from Raven Rock and had him as my companion... then, i was outside Dukov's Place and in that corner to the left of his house that was a dead end, i had killed all but 1 radroach, and guess what...? Fawkes died killing a RADROACH! he just pulled his Super Sledge out and the roach attacked him he died, he had FULL health. i said aloud "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" .... o.O i think the game was really bugged...

Yeah, stop lying to get attention. it's not funny John Lukas 15:31, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

Me llamo Shelton Delacroix
So, yeah, surprised the crap out of me when I found all that stuff I just posted hiding in the GECK. Anyway, for completeness, here's the full text of all of the holotapes. I'm sure these will need to be put somewhere. -- Yukichigai

What? No
No, no, the article got it wrong. There ARE unused holodisks in Vault 87. I have the first, but the rest are nowhere to be seen. Am I just going crazy or did someone make a mistake? The Unknown User 03:50, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

NONE of the holodisks were used in the game. So it's impossible that you have even the first one. John Lukas 15:33, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

Isolation room 05
The article states that Fawkes is confined in room 0, while he is actually in room 05. No account so can't edit. 66.44.76.103 06:08, April 16, 2011 (UTC)

A Sledgehammer instead of a Gatling Laser? What in the death's name?!!!
So, I was playing Fallout 3 GotY on my PC and I was looking for Molerats to "test" the repellent stick on, so I went to Vault 106. Nearby, I found a broken house. I went there and was attacked by Raiders. I wanted to see how Fawkes "handles" them with his Gatling Laser and all of a sudden, he runs up there with a Sledgehammer! I had a LOT of trouble getting him to equip the Gatling Laser. Talking about tactics, firing him, telling him to wait and fast-travel to the area, using the console cheat "resurrect", giving him 1000 Electron Charge packs or whatever Gatling Laser ammo is called, Googling it up. Heck, I even tried getting him to equip Vengeance but none of it works. If you got an idea, heard of a way to get rid of it, know a way to get rid of it or anything like that then you're more than free to share it on my page. If your idea works, I'll congratulate you, feature you on my page, write down your idea and your nickname below and you'll get good ol' good karma. Please! P.S. Any ideas where to find more Molerats other than Tepid Sewers will be welcome! --Andrey (White storm) 10:35, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

There are 3 molerats behind megaton

Location
I'm unsure of the trigger to change it, but I'm on the Broken Steel quests and Fawkes is at the Museum and says he'll remain there, so at some point obviously he decided to wait there instead of Raven Rock. A heads-up in case anyone can clarify and wants to add it to the article. Doreiku Kuroofangu 11:22, July 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * If you dismiss him, he goes to wait at the Museum of History. He has always done that. Scar: "Say 'ello to my little friend!" 11:25, July 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well the article says "he will be at the Museum of History inside the lobby and right outside of Raven Rock after the quest The American Dream", which worded as is implies that he goes to Raven Rock. Should be reworded then if this is common knowledge. Doreiku Kuroofangu 11:44, July 25, 2011 (UTC)

Fawkes waits in different places if dismissed
Fawkes should wait in the Museum of History if he is dismissed, but i noticed that whenever I fire him (I like to switch Companions regularly because I get tired of the same qoutes over and over), he goes to the Citadel! Anyone else have this problem, or have him waiting somewhere else besides the Museum of History or the Citadel? 69.234.136.24 03:01, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

Fawkes tapes
The holotapes really could be for just some other man who got mutated I really don't think they are from Fawkes. Could it be changed to suggest that stronger? Sorry if I'm posting this wrong or in the wrong section/page.

Nickolski


 * Let me point you to this part near the end of the "identity" section:
 * It is important to note that, although Fawkes shares the same voice as most of the Capital Wasteland's super mutants, he is explicitly defined within the game's dialog files as being the speaker in the final recording.
 * In short, the tapes are all made by Fawkes, period. The is still some question as to Shelton turning into Fawkes though, but only because these tapes were cut from the final product; wanting to remove Fawkes' previous identity may have been part of the reason behind that. -- Yukichigai 21:32, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

Fawkes' intelligence - retained vs regained
Wow, I did not expect this to be such a contentious issue. Here goes.... Apparently there's some confusion as to whether or not Fawkes stayed intelligent following his mutation, or if he had to work to get to that point. Short answer: he had to work at it. Here's his response if the Lone Wanderer remarks on how amazing it is that Fawkes is well-spoken (emphasis mine): "Yes. I suppose it is. When my captors placed me here, they were too stupid to realize this room contained a working terminal. I've spent all my life teaching myself to read and speak based on the information stored on the Vault's Mainframe. Ironic, isn't it? Surrounded by the world's history and yet my world consists of this tiny room." Aside from this text there's also the final cut holotape, wherein Fawkes speaks with very little intelligence. It's not strictly canon, but it at least partially reaffirms Fawkes having to teach himself to be intelligent and civil. On the opposite end of things, there are no overt indicators that Fawkes was intelligent immediately following his mutation. In short, he was another dum-dum after he was mutated, just like all the other Vault 87 mutants. -- Yukichigai 02:17, October 26, 2011 (UTC)

Infinite Health Glitch? (PS3)
I have recently shot about a thousand rounds strait of my gatling laser into Fawkes. He didn't lose a single health point. I played a game purposefully without my Megaton house by not doing anything with the bomb, waited fawkes right by the bomb, detonated it. After I did that he still didn't die. I let him get a beatdown for 5 minutes strait from a Super Mutant Behemoth, didn't even drop a single health point. Is thisthe glitch that gives him nearly infinite health when the Broken Steel add-on is installed? I think not, it must be infinite health. You would at least see his health bar drop slowly if all this happened right? 8:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Might be a different bug that affects his health possibly? User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 13:04, 12 June 2012 (UTC)