Forum:Aliens? someone help me out

Hey everyone.

Well ive been a huge Fallout fan since day 1, and when I heard F3 was coming out, you better believe I was the first person at my local Gamestop to reserve it.

So as im playing, and after some quests and some levels, im fairly comfortable with it.

I was walking out of a train tunnel,( I forgot the location, but im not sure it matters), and a couple of cars blew up next to me. So after some frantic running and stimpack poppin, I survey my surrounding. I expected bodies, but I found none. What I did find however, was a crap load of Alien Power Cells (ammo) scattered around the train yard. Weird I thought, maybe id see more, so I camped that spot for a whole day (real life day, not in game day) and saw no UFOs, or alien dudes at all.

I went exploring, and found a crashed UFO, which is where I picked up my Alien Blaster, but I cant seem to make any connection at all.

Are the Aliens, or lack there of, just in the game for shits? or is there something im missing? I thought those big Satcom arrays might hold a key, however there wasnt anything there but loot and raiders.

Is there a way to "summon" them? Do they only show up at certain times in certain places?

Someone help me out a bit hahaha. —Preceding. Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * That would be two alien random encounters in the game. All that and nothing more. And don't forget to sign. 98.111.94.56 04:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As mentioned in the Alien Blaster article, the explosion scattering Alien Power Cells is a random encounter. The only way to cause them is to visit locations. Every time you approach a location, there is a chance of a random encounter. Camping a spot will not cause a random encounter, and in fact is a pretty good way to prevent random encounters. There is also an overturned military truck with radiation that has a lot of the alien power cells. —ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 06:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)