Forum:What's the dumbest thing you've ever done in Fallout 3?

Mine? I sold my operation anchorage rifle, FOR THE DAMN BULLETS!User:Denis517 06:07, june 20, 2011 (UTC) OMFG I played the game with no add ons, got to lvl 20 and finished it. I was very proud of myself. I bought the add ons (after discovering them) and i saw you could continue the game with broken steel. The game bugged because (and i found this out after) i hadn't gotten the latest patch and installed them in a random order so it fked up. I raged but eventually started again (a new game). I played until i was up to the rotunda (project purity) after completing all quests, add ons, all location and all unique guns and bobblehead. Same thing happened. I was literally screaming. 150 hrs gone. I did it AGAIN and finally found out why it had bugged. I lived happily ever after. --Wade Thatcher 10:46, July 5, 2011 (UTC)Wade Thatcher

the dumbest thing i did was getting all the keys for the commonwealth and take the t-51b power armour whitout finishing the quest: you gotta shoot em in the head... the funniest dumbest thing must have been when i filled the top of the tennpenny tower whit bottlecap, plasma, pulse, frag mines and blew my self up whit the experimental mirv:D i flue so high and lost my legs and arms, was really funny until i got outside the map and i had to turn of the console....................... so remember to have auto save on! i had to go 10 lvls back...

I dropped the Chinese Stealth Armor. I know, I'm a fucking idiot. I was overencumbered and the CSA was broken. At the time I didn't know I could use Recon Armor to repair it, so I dropped it. MR Sergeant 00:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC)MR Sergeant

this is actually fun. i went to tempenny tower. went to the balcony. took out the mirv jumped and shot it down BLOOMHBAHBOOM i hit the roof of the game.oh and the dumbest thing was that i killed EVERY SINGLE BROTHERHOOD OF STEAL OUTCASTS.it was early in the game and i saw thier armor so i killed them. 19 lvls later they were hostile so i decided screw it. went in fort independance killed every last fucker... been a good day ever sincesigned. J0HN the extortionistsis

Wasted all of my Fatman ammo trying to kill Dogmeat. The Mercenary - - - LOL! THAT is funny!Pgoon 20:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

- -  -  I didn't have a Fat Man on me, but I tried to kill Dogmeat while we were both Level 30 and it took me over fifteen minutes. MR Sergeant

Walking into old olney at lvl 4 with only a poor condition hunting rifle and the srmoured vault 101 jumpsuit... you know how it ended Sasquatch99 01:51, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Jumped onto a shelf tipped over a desk in vault 106 that I knew would trap me and forgetting to save two hours prior. Biggest waste of 20-odd minutes ever. Do not jump on desks in vaults, you may get trapped. Bullet Sponge 01:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I jumped from the highest point of Rivet City to the water below made it then tried it again and hit a sharp rock Five Star Genral Of The Dead BigDog 03:26, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I sold my Armored Vault Suit,so I could buy a Wasteland settler suit.--ChicagoWanderer 03:39, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

First playthrough, GNR plaza, level 5, I wasnt paying attention to the quest log and didnt know that there was a Fat Man on one of the corpses. Behemoth spawns. I have a 10mm pistol and a 50% condition hunting rifle. 15 minutes and a broken hunting rifle, ~75 .32 rounds, ~60 10mm rounds, and my entire stimpack reserve later, the behemoth dies with me at 2% health... >.> WouldYouKindly 04:09, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Lvl21, Presidental Metro Line, saw three Reavers for the first time and went up to them with Lincolns Repeater at very hard. Not a smart move. They killed me in three seconds. Gabriel Cortez 11:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Reavers are immortals too! LOL First time I played Presidencial Metro they are busy fighting the robots, I was in "hard" setting. Tried the Plasma Rifle, Lincons Repetear, Chinese Assault, granades, plasma granades, nuka granades and everything else. Luckly I had Fat Man, i don't carry it regularly. Brfritos 18:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Found 5 overlords at level 5 outside of GNR,1 hour,50 stimpacks,2 suits of leather armor and 500 microfusion cells and the overlords go down,with me at 1% health,sadly,a vicous dog spawned randomly and killed me. Mr.75  19:06, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

- -  - That's not too dumb. You're just unlucky. :p MR Sergeant

I shot Fawkes 3 times....--Friday 19:50, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I just tried to kill a Behemoth with a shovel and got my a$$ handed to me in nice tiny pieces. Five Star Genral Of The Dead BigDog 21:48, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I've accidentally used unique weapons to repair vanilla weapons on several occasions.--98.215.132.216 04:54, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

I decided to take on Paradise Falls at about level 6, on Very Hard, with a hunting rifle and assault rifle (it was my first playthrough, so I didn't have any uniques even at that point). I got stuck up on Eulogy's balcony, ducking back inside to regenerate AP, and ended up so low on health that I drank all the quantums I'd picked up trying to replenish it. Either that or blowing off the replicated man quest my first time through by giving the android component to Zimmer. Imp of the Perverse 06:07, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Stopped playing... Pararaptor 07:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Somewhere between not knowing unique weapons were UNIQUE and stealing a wrench from Moriarty's. That was before i knew that red = theft... Extremofire 17:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

First play through, lev5 or so. Early in the game, but had spent hours in and around megaton exploring, looting, making caps, side quests, etc. Accidentally stole something from Moira's shop. when everyone started shooting at me, I ran out the front door which switched my auto-save. The only other save I had was my very first save out of Vault 101. I tried for like an hour to reload the auto-save and make it out of megaton without dying but no luck. I had to start all over from 101. :-( Pgoon 20:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

My first time through fallout 3 I had a lvl 8 character and I had no idea that quest characters couldn't die. So after tranquility lane I didn't fast travel and I followed dad all the way to rivet city, I tried my hardest to keep him from dieing. Only later when my friend played the same thing did he not only shot 48 missles at him ...he fast traveled! Pickpocketed a Fat Man and 15 nukes onto Kenny. I didn't think he'd actually use it that close, like normal NPCs do when you're really close and they have missile launchers. BIG MISTAKE. When I went down the ladder to his room, he blasted the hell out of his own room, killing me, which reloaded the auto-save.... the rest is history. Had to restart to the save BEFORE i gave him the Fat Man. 2 hours.

didn't realize that the pip boy had a light on it until about 20 hours of game play in.(unsigned)

- -  - Hahaha, me too.--98.215.132.216 17:51, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

You know that giant blast furnace in the Steel Yard in the Pitt? Well after spending an hour searching for steel ingots and gathering them all up from the exterior, I climbed all the way to the top in search of stragglers. I was having fun jumping from railing to railing until I made it all the way to the top. That's where I found a ledge that looked tempting, then after a majestic running leap, I gracefully fell 30-something stories to my doom. Made a nice crater too, those ingots are heavy. Then I got to start alllll over again. Fun times.--DashMan54 17:34, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I once went out into Springvale,where I promised my friend Dayan I would test out the MIRV.Two monthes later I finally got it and he warned me how strong it was and how big the spread was.Seeing as his character was at a low level and he wasn't even that good at Fallout at the time, I didn't listen.So,Ishot it at a building and one of the nukes hit a car near me.Broke everything accept my chest.Even worse,mister MIRV was fully repaired so,I was left with two HP and a dead Fawkes.Sad Sad. HuangLee 22:38, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I fought a fist fight with a Deathclaw. Don't think that was stupid I was just bored.Doctalen 04:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

me and the overlord were outta ammo so we just started having a fist fight that fight lasted ages--Hellfire Soldier 09:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Jumped onto a desk to hide from Robots, and I got stuck, but I had my autosave from five minutes agho and I was like "Hey, maybe if I saved over that, I could restart and it'd be fine!" Huh, what do you know DIDN'T WORK. So I had to restart like thirteen levels ago, hours of gameplay wasted, I was so pissed at myself. :(

Does jumping off Tenpenny Tower with Tenpenny's sniper rifle trying to VATS Gustavo count as stupid? Or running into Ol' Olney with Dogmeat? Or going into that Raider farm south of the Republic of Dave with Mirelurk Kings after me and getting owned by a missle launcher? If so, then yes. Omega-Ginger

You know rocket jumps, like from Team Fortress 2? Yeah, I tried one of those from the top of Tenpenny tower. I ended up blowing my legs off, then hitting the ground, bouncing up 10 feet and fell into an alcove, never to be found again. Oh, the humanity! -Kastera

i done the same thing off of the point lookout lighthouse but with a fat man and forgot to save beforehand. ThatWhiteboy98 02:41, July 7, 2011 (UTC)

- Found this Wiki after having finished the original game - (crap!). Unfortunately that meant that a few areas were now out of bounds - for example I could not get one of the bobbleheads because the location was destroyed. Oh well, at least I'm using the info contained here now. And there is much contained here that enhances replay and further wandering. Cattus the Wanderer 00:57, April 14, 2011 (UTC)

Found my first Feral Ghoul Reaver. Thinking, "Hey, this missile launcher should get rid of it easy." 5 seconds later... "Oh poo..." Great Mara 00:42, April 21, 2011 (UTC)

- Oh my ef'n GOD!!! - I just found out about the light on the Pip Boy (I'm already at level 28) - I thought it was a bug when the screen suddenly got bright (rarely though) for no apparent reason. I am a little peeved at my stoooopidity. And I consider myself to be an astute player - Duh! What else don't I know? Must....Read.....More! Need a tablet so I can read this Wiki while watching tv, lying in bed, on the throne, whenever and wherever.
 * Found my first Feral Ghoul Reaver. Thinking, "Hey, this Fat Man should get rid of it easy." 5 seconds later... GodlessMunkey 03:30, September 27, 2011 (UTC)

Is there a downloadable version? I know it would be a snapshot but there's so much valuable goodness here already.Cattus the Wanderer 18:46, April 25, 2011 (UTC) --- I scratched my disk... Frobrosho 13:46, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

I stupidly walked into a raider who had a missile launcher thinking "oh she won't be stupid and pull the trigger if i am 5 feet away from her right?". Well I was wrong... VbirdPilot89 04:40, June 14, 2011 (UTC)VbirdPilot89

-- So nobody else decided to pick a fight with Fawkes? I was bored, but hadn't specifically planned to shoot him in the face, would have beefed up my armoury otherwise... But to set the scene, I had a hundred and fifty alien power cells left with my blaster, 6 nuka grenades and the terrible shotgun, had gone on a killing spree in megaton and ended up in the armory, twatted the mister gutsy in there and then knowing I wasn't going to save this little sesh decided to turn on Fawkes. So he gives it the 'sorry it has to come to this' (to paraphrase), I jack up on chems, and turn into Tony Montana. Frigging hell, it took me half an hour, possibly longer, but I killed him. DEAD. It was a wasted half hour, I felt like a bastard. Actually, maybe this should be in the 'most pointless thing I've done' category as opposed to stupid... Tactictoe 18:32, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

Frag Mines x 50 + BB Gun Pellet x 1 +Corrupted previous saves + Dogmeat = Dumbest thing I have ever done... Grammarlad(talk) 18:30, June 25, 2011 (UTC)

Completing the Paradise Falls quest but set the slaves free later and let Arkansas go first. Flak got his head blown off >_> EB683

I never transfered my saves from my old Xbox (Max skill. completed every quest, collected everything, and explored everywhere) --KKotton 18:38, June 25, 2011 (UTC)

1)Recruted Sticky and Gave him Tesla Armor, I Didn't get it back.2)Jumped off Tennpenny Tower for the "Get Injered Part of The Wasteland Survival Guide.3)Set the explosive on the Chimera Tank Gas Container and stayed near it to see where it was.4)Stole the Baby right in front of Ashur.5)Charged a Reaver with a Combat Knife.6)Pissed off Liberty Prime7)Didn't look behind me in Jury Street Metro.


 * I don't think it's stupid to give sticky tesla armor. He looks so cute, all small and child-like. What would be dumb is to give him your T-51B. When i did that quest I gave sticky tesla armor and and a plasma rifle and I gave red and shorty enclave armor. Zac hemker 00:15, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

On my very first play through of Point Lookout, I went to Calvert Mansion. I only had two or three rifles, a couple of pistols, and one set of armor. When I got there, Desmond needed me to help him fend off the Tribals that were invading the mansion. I thought, "I've got an Assault Rifle, a Chinese Assault Rifle, a Hunting Rifle, and a 10mm and a Scoped .44mag pistols. These guys should be easy, right?" Wrong. I got killed four times, even when I got one of the Double Barreled Shotguns the Tribals were carrying. I left Point Lookout alone for a few months before going back. When I did, I was packing Unique weapons, the Eugene minigun and Vengeance Gattling Laser to name a few. This time, I killed the Tribals.--Ryker6123:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)~4:45pm 7/9/2011 "For the struggle of survival is a war without end!"

When I first started playing I died of Radiation Poisoning thinking if I got enough Rads i'd turn into a ghoul --Hello New Californa Rebublic How We Doing 08:16, July 13, 2011 (UTC)

I kept jumping off the bridge in the Pitt, trying to find a way down to the water's edge so I could explore without dying of massive radiation. After several failed tests, I can conclusively state that there is nothing there. Glad I wasted my time. Zac hemker 22:26, July 13, 2011 (UTC)

I missed a lot by skipping side quests the first time through, so I started over because I didn't realize that once you finished the main quest, that was it. As to when I started over, I was leading Dr. Li and her crew through the tunnels to get to the Citadel, and I told her to wait for me. I went into the room, cleaned house, and she wasn't there! I thought I had lost her for good, so I went back to my previous save (about 2 hours). It turns out she just goes around a corner and I would have found her if I had backtracked a little further :-/ I also didn't get the plasma rifle on the Replicated Man quest, but I just couldn't go through that underwater maze of finding Pinkerton again.

Level 10, megaton, hadn't saved for like 3 hours. found a minigun, killed everyone in megaton, and then went to load a previous save at level 7. >.<

For several playthroughs I thought Talon combat armor was better than plain combat armor. -- 17:30, July 21, 2011 (UTC)

Went 1v1 with a deathclaw on very hard with no armor or weapons and stangely I won O.o NZPD

Before I even got the game, my best friend told me a little bit about it, and all he really said was something about Grayditch. So, when I got the game, I assumed Grayditch was the only inhabited place in the game. By some luck, I wandered straight from the vault to Grayditch, and did this maybe 3 times and died, before finally looking somewhere else. That, or thinking I could take on a pack of 4 deathclaws with a BB gun and 10mm pistol. --With care and happiness,  Supermutantslayer450'  You will know the truth... And the truth will set you free..  02:30, July 27, 2

I thought the Deathclaw was trying to hug me -.- THERES NO LOVE IN THE WASTELAND!!!!!

I fell asleep while I still had my thumb on the joystick, then I fell off of a broken overpass

Spent hours manually shifting karma loss items in buildings like Craterside Supply into a big pile out of sight of anyone... and then my thumb twitched. That isn't half bad until you consider I attempted it again five times before finally saying to myself 'hell, there's maybe eighty caps worth of junk I'm actually gonna sell here (I rarely use high barter as six hundred caps is easy to maintain because I rarely need repais on account of really only using a 10mm pistol and a hunting rifle despite carrying eighty pounds of gear with me. Sixty extra pounds in savings isn't going to do me much good, and I'm not afraid to spend an hour fast-traveling to sell all my loot... and I usually clean out a building as a matter of principal) and I can always get this stuff if I really need it after I reach the level cap and know for sure that I can go around and murder everyone' I also stupidly kept repairing a vast quantity of weapons I had even though I had a good hundred pounds of useful weight left. All in all I think I've cheated myself out of almost a thousand caps. (Also with regards to the Economics page on the wiki, I disagree with selling a Plasma Rifle at 50%. The entire Wasteland is a caps factory, and you can always buy stuff from the merchant to bridge the gap between your selling and his available caps. Very useful when you're low on caps and want to get some items you wouldn't otherwise buy on a tight budget. My own attitude around weapons and gear (I collect at least one of everything but rarely actually use 95% of it) means that I have no real need to buy stuff except stims if anything. So far I've gone from 1-10 using only a 10mm and a hunting rifle. I buy ammo simply to assure myself that I'm not going to run out, and if I logged all the ammo I got from looting and what I bought I'm very sure I'd be running a surplus. A very big one. (On New Vegas though thats a bad thing on Hardcore, as I hate not having ammo, and if I'm lugging around a minigun, only having five hundred rounds feels oh so wrong. I have 3k normal, 2kHp, 1k Ap and twelvek surplus and I still feel I don't have enough. I see minigun, I think SPRAY.) ExcelSaga 17:20, October 7, 2011 (UTC)

I gave the Abraham Lincoln stuff to Abraham Washington. :P Gary 42 20:06, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

I deleted all my saves just so i would play my new one my best story was lv 20 i was being so stupid.But thankfully after i got the goty and got to lv 30.Midnight lance 21:09, October 20, 2011 (UTC)

2 things,I killed Carol when trying to kill Greta for Azkhazural,and I went to Rivet City and First killed Flak to get the key to their room then tried to kill Shrapnel(this was when i didn't know he's essential)and i was murdered by commander danvers because i forgot to heal up.--Sacred Mentalist 21:58, October 20, 2011 (UTC)

After finishing the main plot and Broken Steel quests, I got surprised by a level-up without a recent save, and didn't take the Light Step perk even though I had been promising myself for 2 or 3 levels that I would. I then proceeded to try casually exploring downtown DC... Spent the next 10 hours of gameplay kicking myself every time I got a limb blown off (which was often). Dcheesi 18:57, October 27, 2011 (UTC)