Forum:First playthrough help


 * Alright, I've waited a long time to play this game. Ever since we got my bro's xbox for his birthday. I still can't believe it got to Tennessee from Texas in 2 days. But enough ranting, time for my first playthrough questions.

I don't know a lot about the gameplay, but I know it's nearly impossible to get stuff for your house at lvl 4. I'll be able to get a LOT more caps when I'm higher leveled and got more skills, such as barter, and get more loot too. But I just need to know where to get about 700 caps, since I got to 792 with Silver's stash. And I wanna know what reward the quest for Agatha's violin gives. Thank You I want that hat. What do you think about that? 04:57, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

well ill take a crack at it, first of all I've never left a vendor with even 1 cap, due to using the infinite money glitch (but i assume you want to do things legitly so ill not mention more about that) well as for the rewards from any quest simply look up the quest on this wiki, lots of people spent time and diligently fought off trolls messing up pages so that people could look up information to help themselves, as for in beginning i usually save/reload till i convince simm's to give me max money to fix bomb, i talk to the other guy about blowing it up then i tell simm's to go kill him, oh yeh...dangit i forgot, i also take the sniper rifle/stuff from the stash rock near megaton, anyway as i was saying, i let burke kill simm's, i shoot burke in the head, take both there items, usually because simm's gear is pretty good, then i get the money from the kid (i really feel bad for him..but it is a wasteland) then etc etc, id go on but honestly one of the best things in fallout 3 is setting up your own way of getting through the game, going different path's, using different weapons, being evil or good, and so on, really there are so many different ways to play i managed to make the game last a whole year before i was sick of it, there's just so much to do, and if at all possible at least get the broken steel dlc, the others are nice but if u can only get one, get broken steel. Toolazytomakeaaccount 08:13, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

The established RPG paradigm for making money applies to FO3 as much as other games: Kill, loot, sell, repeat as necessary. Hal10k 15:11, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Can people help me with making money? i'm level 6 or 7 and still having a hard time. in Oblivion i was a neutral/ evil/ heroic Dunmer. My F3 guy is totally good like me, so i know how much easier it would be to make money if my morals bent and "accidentally" cut open a rich guy. but i cant rely on stealing and murdering like i did with my Dunmer at low levels. so anyway, any good ideas to make honest money that wont bore me? Dunmer999 21:16, October 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * You should try getting the fortune finder perk dunmer, you can get like 50-100 caps in containers where you couldn't get 1 before. And I did the Moira quests, sold her back all her rewards, killed a few raiders, and sold all their mini-nukes. I finally got the raider theme, and now I'm going to do the tenpenny tower quest. my dude's short on money, and he don't care for gouls since they killed his dog, so he'll kill Roy Phillips. And now he'll be searching for a new companion, maybe Fawks, since he's searching for another friendly supermutant after meeting Leo in Megaton.

Now Cori is a reaver, and got his first taist of the Talon Mercs. He's got the mutagens of a fire ant now, so he's good at fighting supermutants. And I got a few big guns: a minigun, rocket launcher, and a flamer. I'd been wanting to use big guns as my primary since I knew we were getting the game. Now here's where I need a little help, I need to know where it is easy to get med-supplies, besides stores, since I'm poor. Like if there's a city where they're abundant. ANd I just like, out of the blue, fell off some high rocks when I was running. I fell on top of the spaceship. Maybe I can look up the location of the Firelance. Cori may also be interested in buying a certain mercenary to be his follower. I'll report back later with some more First Playthrough Questions. I want that hat. What do you think about that? 00:49, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

well first firelance is a rare event, in fact you could go to all event locations in the wasteland and not get the event once, so its easier to just save before activating a random event spot then go into it, check if its firelance, then if it isn't reload and retry, as for finding supplies there are a couple small settlements where you can efficiently decimate the populace and take a modest amount of supplies, as for big guns as a main its pretty good, although its harder to repair/keep up, like i had gotten the minigun out of operation anchorage through the glitch and since it doesn't lose condition the only problem is loss of ammo, of course i started out small guns and varied my skills, maxed explosives, melee, small guns, big guns, etc etc, as for talon merc's hold on to there armor, i know you didn't ask but its very helpful for repairing riley's ranger's combat armor, pretty much the best light weight armor in basic fallout 3 no dlc's any questions though ill gladly try to help, but before asking a question about something try looking it up on the wiki, lots of people have worked hard on these pages so that they became a wealth of information. Toolazytomakeaaccount 01:06, October 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ya, it's kinda useless asking those questions when lots of people work hard on forums that have the exact same answers, so I'll look up on stuff sometimes. But I do appreciate everyone's help. The next questions I ask will be extremely well thought of and only on things I'm realy confused about and the forums didn't help at all, since these vault dwellers really work hard on these forums.

Thank You I want that hat. What do you think about that? 00:24, October 19, 2010 (UTC)