User talk:DashMan54

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 * Ausir(talk) 15:12, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Somah repair skill 100
So it looks like User CleanUp decided to... clean up the thread, but I'd still like to test with you if you're willing.

Once you've beaten the ship, return to the Wasteland with whatever loot you may have and sell it all, literally, including all unquie weapons and whatnot for the caps. Then save a game in the capital wasteland so it will become your most recent save to "continue" with after loading the game up again after reinstall. Reason being, once you've reinstalled the DLC the loot from the ship will be considered "rhelic" and removed from your inventory (with the exception of alien power cells, since those existed prior to the DLC due to the Alien Weapon looted from the original recon craft theta.

At that point, delete the Mothership Zeta DLC from xbox settings->memory->games->fallout 3. After that, load up your most recent saved game in the capital wasteland (your old saved games from the mothership will still be there, so you can pick up where you left off in your previous run should you choose to, but don't for the moment. You'll get the rhelic notice after loading the game. After that, save the game again in the capital wasteland. Once finished, go back to the dashboard to reinstall the Zeta DLC. Load the game up again, do some traveling until you get the "new broadcast has been discovered" notice and start Mothership Zeta initial quest all over again.

If you ignore the exploration for looting, its a very quick run to get to the point where you defrost your companions. Talk to Somah and go through dialogue options saying "this is crazy.." etc when she says she has to charge you to repair. Keep up the dialogue (without being mean) until you simply say you wont do it, and the conversation ends.

Talk to the medic and recruit him to go through the cryo labs with you. Finish the cryo section with him (making sure he doesn't die). This should be quick if, again you avoid all looting and simply run to blow up the generaor. After that's done, go back and talk to Somah and recruit her for the robot assembly area. Before entering the area, accept her offer to pay... her repair skill should still be 75 at this point.

Finish the robot assembly area with her (keep in mind she keeps talking about taking back some of the "awesome" crap with her, not to mention seeing her tinker with other things like the transporter. After you blow up the generator with her, return back to the engineering section. After you leave the robot assembly area with her and return to the engineering section, talkt o her again about repairing stuff, and her repair level should now be +100 instead of +75.

That's what worked for me and my friends after I gave them this advice, and seeing as you're a seasoned player I'm really curious if it will work for you as well.

Please let me know if this works for you as soon as possible. My aim is in5omni4c, and my email is dan.haskell@gmail.com

Hopefully this works, and we can finally post a work-around to get everyone her +100 repair skill.

Deleting the DLC
It may be possible for you not to have to sell off you equipment beforehand. Try this first - save a game on the wasteland before you delete the DLC (just in case). After that, exit the game and delete the DLC. Then immediately install the DLC again before entering the game. Once you load up your last save, you'll still have all of your loot from your previous MZ run, but I'm not entirely sure if the game will allow you to start the MZ quests all over again.

If you don't get the notice about the new signal this way, then my instructions above will work perfectly :) If you DO get the notice, that will be infinitely cooler since you'll get to double up on all the loot from MZ... rare ammo included! And trust me, I have close to 300 hours of play as well, so we're in the same boat when it comes to protecting our loot! Chianti 23:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC)