User talk:Gunner Bill

Gunner Bill has apparently been playing Fallout 3 for 250+ hours of his life!!

I've taken a break from the main mission just prior to the final battle for Project Purity (after finding I was destined to die!!) to finish my exploration of the DC Wastelands.

Me, Fawkes and Dogmeat make a rare old team and if you meet up with us out there you'll find us to be courteous and willing to help...

This is still my first run through which I've done using the "good side" of the force. After seemingly struggling for caps for a while my earnings have suddenly sky-rocketed and I find myself with 33000 of the jingley little buggers! Needless to say my pad in Megaton is well pimped up. Just how many teddies can I put in my room?

I've played countless FPS inlcuding HL, HL2, COD (all), BF1942 DC etc. etc. and most recently R6 LV (1 and 2). I have to say FO3 is simply the best game I have ever played by many orders of magnitude. Is this a common feeling?

Finding the Vault has added to this enjoyment, answered alot of questions and instead of spoiling the sense of discovery has only added to my amazement at the shear depth to this game. Praise to Bethesda!

Is it just me but is FA3 also the fastest loading game out there? - It sure seems so.

Any comm's on the game or my additions to the articles is more than welcome.

Cheers,

Gunner Bill

Teddy Bear
You have a Teddy Bear collection?!! OMG I have to copy you. AshRandom (Talk) 19:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Teddy Bear Collection
Err doesn't everyone? rofl. It seemed like the natural thing to do. Discovering that huge bear way up north was a real bonus I can tell you, that and the Sewer Waystation factory! Mmhh this isn't doing my cold hearted mutant killer image any good at all. Gunner Bill 20:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Huge bear, is there a screenshot?! A teddy bear factory?!?! Maybe I should have spent less time killing things and more time hunting for teddies ;) [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 20:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

The Sewer Waystation instead of having pumping gear in it like you might expect has a factory conveyer system inside with about 20 teddy Bears on it ;) Somewhere up North in one of the Sat complexes is a barricaded exit (no clip required to get in) but you can see this huge teddy bear in it. Which I just had to have :)

How do I take a screenshot? Gunner Bill 20:36, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think you just hit printscreen if you're on the PC. If you're on the console you're relegated to taking pictures of your tv. [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 20:48, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

How did you manage to get the big one, i tried everything, of course, i play on the xbox... so i cant use codes to get in, to ashrandom, its in the same sat tower as the chess set with all the mini gnomes.. Britton 15:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

It's in SatCom Array NN-03d, check it out on here in "places"... With no-clipping on the PC it's easy to get, unfortunately I have no idea how to do this on a console. That's why PC is better!! lol. Gunner Bill 21:19, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool, hey, someone take a screen shot and lets host it on that page. ;) [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 21:32, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Pah, now I'm going to have to take that giant bear all the way back there just for a photo shoot. How messed up is that? Really think about it - disturbing on many levels - rofl. Gunner Bill 07:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Mission accomplished, all things bear are recorded. Incidently you can take a console screenshot, although the message doesn't appear until you log back into the game you do get sequential pictures. Gunner Bill 14:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Your teddy collection found itself a place on the Teddy Bear page, the Giant Bear will too hopefully? ;) [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 14:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Ha superb, the "giant" teddy from the SatCom tower is in the chair. Admittedly not very giant anymore but still double the normal size. This teddy always shrinks when you drop it out of the inventory. I now have the giant teddy from Red Racer so will tidy my room and update asap!Gunner Bill 19:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow! And here I thought I was the only one with a teddy bear collection! Admittedly I'm simply a neophyte. I have them all on my bed upstairs in Megaton. I've spent some careful time on the 360 and have them all sitting up and facing towards you as you walk in. (It's a lot creepier actually than you'd think it would be.) Only have about 30 so far. :((( ABCoLD 07:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Enclave Soldiers Doing Push-Ups
I just happened upon an Enclave Field Outpost near Aerfu. As I sneak approached to get a better shot it became apparrent that the officer was working the boys out. Two soliders doing push-ups under the supervision of a hot female officer! How bizarre. Pics to follow. Gunner Bill 19:45, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Starting Over
I decided to start again, life was just too easy with my character fully loaded. More importantly my daughter (of all people!) insisted on starting her own game on the big PC so I was envious of all that starting over fun. Of course she's not listening to a word of advice which is why after the same number of gaming hours I have 2000+ caps, bag loads of Ammo, Combat Armour and A3-21's plasma rifle and she's still wandering around with no caps, a stick and some shabby Painspike Armour. This is probably just a taste of life to come.

Ha!

I've started my Teddy Bear collection early this time so hope to have the room chocker by the end.

Gunner Bill 16:30, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Butch Cloned in Weird Timeslip Incident
Note: I wanted to add this to the Butch page as a bug/exploit but wasn't sure - admin advice please!

This happened in my daughters playthrough. Broken Steel was loaded and with a very good character she completed the main story line by repairing the purifier, all well and good.

Afterwards she noticed that her follower Butch was missing. After searching in vain in all the usual haunts (Muddy Rudder) and backtracking to recent locations Butch could not be found.

I was asked to help and I used the player.moveto console command to take me to Butch.

This is where it gets weird. Her character was taken to Butch who was waiting for her at the purifier at a "time" before its repair. The Brotherhood scribes were not in residence and there was none of the extra facilities installed. We didn't want to continue the game like this as it would probably have messed up her game progress.

We checked he wasn't there in "realtime" by going to the purifier normally. He wasn't there.

As a work around and an attempt to circumvent this "timeslip" I did the following:


 * Fired Butch, watched him leave and waited 24 hours for him to make his way back to Rivet City.
 * Used the player.moveto console command to jump to Moira Brown in megaton.
 * Fast travelled to the purifier and established I was in the correct time sequence.
 * Visited the Muddy rudder and found two Butches!!

The original Butch was present with all the equipment he was carrying for my daughters character and there was a cloned Butch in his original tunnel rat outfit. Voila!

The Butch clone had the ID ff0010ba which is different to the standard Butch ID of 002a4e8. Cloned Butch followed when original Butch was ordered and fought with us. However at some aprarrently random point the cloned Butch would turn hostile and require to be killed. In this case original Butch joined in the killing.

Is that odd or what?

Deleted file
My mistake. I've restored the file. It looked like a near-featureless blob of color on the monitor at work, but viewing it on my monitor here at home it's clear that it's NOT poor quality at all. I apologize for my error. -- 12:04, September 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * To clarify, I didn't restore it because it looks better on my monitor at home, I restored it because you asked. However I do need to move it; you shouldn't have to do anything but if you like, you can point it to the new location which will be the same filename with "user" on the front. You can click the picture to get the exact name once I've moved it. It's part of the new naming convention for user images. -- 12:06, September 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * The file can now be found at File:User Butch clone.jpg. -- 12:08, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Porting FO3 character to NV
Hi,

I saw your post about porting your character here:http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Are_you_going_to_port_your_Fallout_3_Character_to_NV%3F

and I would love to port my own character. The only problem is, I have no idea how I would do that. Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

--- Sorry to whoever you are! I've been away for a while.

The porting wasn't anything high tech. I just wrote down all the perks & other stats my FO3 character had and then replicated them through all the cheats into my FO:NV character.

I also "took" a representive bunch of cash and a bunch of weapons that such a character could carry from my FO3 inventory.

That's all. A bit time consuming though.

I didn't however add any of the skills that enable you to creat food and artifacts in NV.

Gunner Bill 17:05, August 2, 2011 (UTC)