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This guide is aimed at people who want to get more out of their Fallout 3 experience. This is no easy thing, so be prepared for some technical stuff along the road, but it is doable for anyone who is eager to learn. Even though it is a classic, Fallout 3 does have its flaws: it is notoriously difficult to get it running more or less stable on Windows 7, 8 and Since I've been looking at a lot of guides and posts on how to install Fallout 3 properly, and on how to fix and tweak it, I've decided to write a Steam guide of my own on it.

Keep in mind that I only did all this on a Windows 7 pc - I am afraid I am not familiar with Windows 8 or Windows 10 yet. I know there are lots of guides on this subject already available, so why write another one? Well, first of all: I have already done this for myself. I always keep track of any mods installed, used, played or rejected, so I have the basic notes already here.

Secondly: I like to share my knowledge, and the things I find out, with fellow gamers. Also, I noted several of my Steam friends thought the idea of a new guide on Fallout 3 to be a good one, and they told me it definitely would be useful.

And thirdly: several of the guides, or even of the tutorials and series dedicated to modding Fallout 3 out there, date from a couple of years ago. This is true for the great series of tutorials on "Modding Fallout 3" by Gopher on his YouTube channel. What he tells and explains is excellent, but some of the mods he mentions have been reworked, repatched, or even removed since then. Especially the way the mods interact with other and need to be configured properly in order to work together, has undergone major revisions and improvements the past years.

I will be referring to several of Gophers video's, so be sure to check out his YouTube channel. Another really well done series of tutorials - and very much up-to-date - are the video's made by Xuul on his YouTube channel.

These are excellent as well and I do recommend these highly since they are very much to-the-point and accessible for anyone with an average pc knowledge. At the current version updated december , the guide has reached its final state. This means that I've discussed the majority of the mods I have been using myself.

Now that Fallout 4 has appeared on the scene, almost all of the modding activity has turned towards that game, an new mods for Fallout 3 are few, which is not to say there aren't any. But I do want to keep the adventure of modding the Capital Wasteland alive, since it is a lot of fun to do, and I plan to play through the game a third and final time next year, using a different set-up switching to Mod Organizer and a completely different character build.

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Modding tools: LOOT. Modding tools: FO3Edit. Essential mods: User Interface related mods. Major optional mods: Visuals. Major optional mods: Advanced Recon Series. Minor but interesting mods. Fallout 3 is a classic game. Bethesda better have hired in a good director for the voice talent to boot. This chap looks like Fallout's Harold the Ghoul, even if he doesn't have a tree growing out of his head. Maybe another sign of Bethesda's standpoint on art design. The question is, if you can blast bits off thundering great mutants, can they do the same to you?

Still, imagine this slow-motion scene coming after you've selected a risky shot in a paused combat sequence - satisfaction is not the word. What weapon you were using We made our reputation by doing big and crazy - things people hadn't tried before.

We feel that we've gotten good at it now. The same will be true of Fallout 3, when you're out in the wastes. You could be walking along and there'll be a diner off to the side, you'll wonder what's over there - and it'll turn out to be a Raider base and there's mutated bodies hanging from the ceiling," explains Hines.

If you want to play the game hardcore, you can sit and wait and watch these guys over a period of time and figure out what their schedule is - go in while they're out or when they're sleeping. The start of the game though, as it was with Oblivion, will be inherently linear -although perhaps not in the temporal sense. There's probably no need to bore you with the way the action cuts in and out of various events of your childhood, nor with the fact that many of your perks, stats and abilities will be selected at various points within this.

So let's just cut to the meat and reveal that when you're born, a left-click of your mouse will make you cry. And then, when you're a year old and escaping from your wire-fence playpen, the same button will make your character say stuff like, "Dadda! As soon as you're out in the wilderness in your late teens, everything opens up before you - the landmass is smaller than that in Oblivion, but Bethesda insist that it won't necessarily feel that way.

The idea is that being forced to travel around on foot, with no real idea of what direction stuff lies in, will force you to appreciate your immediate environs more - as well as give you a strong sense of exploration. Much as in the original Fallout games, where you'd only be told settlements were vaguely to the south or were completely unmarked. This 'less is more' ethic extends to NPCs as well, having a more limited number of wordier tykes milling around, rather than the hundreds of three-line conversation 'tell me rumours!

In the new scenes on show in Pete Hines' presentation, the improvement was marked - when bickering with a childhood bully there are at least six or seven different retorts to your foe, for example. We're also promised that there are at least 60 voice actors and that the more recognisable ones from Oblivion 'You have my ear, citizen!

When they talk to each other they can do it by name," he explains. They understand that this person is someone they have a certain sort of relationship with, and so they can talk about a certain set of things. When the player sees that it's more realistic. The more we can do to make characters believable when you walk past them, the better. What of Dogmeat though? We touched on him last issue, but now his full range of capabilities has been laid bare.

You talk to him as if he were a real person - no doubt causing a few raised eyebrows in the wastes - and can tell him to help out in combat, scavenge the vicinity for food, weaponry or stims a which could take him up to two in-game hours if hard pressed or simply to head back to the entrance to Vault and wait for you there.

He won't level up or learn anything new "He's just a dog," says Hines but if he dies then he's dead J for good - and you won't meet any other muscular, English-comprehending canines either. Dogmeat's a one-off. I've A Confession to make: I never played the original Fallout games. There's no real reason why, they just passed me by somehow. I really can't answer that question satisfactorily.

So I wasn't one of the people fearing the integrity of Fallout 3, especially as I liked Oblivion more than Moirowincl you can spit on the floor and call me names now. However, I haven't been 'grabbed' at all by this one. At least I can have a stab at answering this one. I don't think it's the scenario, as the radiation-soaked landscape and post-apocalyptic settings interest me.

Maybe it's the potential of playing Oblivion, maybe it is the cool-but-lacking-in-any-required-skill VATS combat system? Maybe there are just too many other games that offer me an experience I haven't yet had before which links back to the playing through Oblivion point. I think Fallout 3 will be a game I complete to say "I finished it". But there isn't any other reason for me to do so. Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard.

What Can Be said about Fallout 3 that has not already been said earnestly and with stabbing finger motions in a pub by Will Porter already? Not a whole lot, it must be said. The sprawling post-apocalyptic adventure captured the imaginations of millions, and the downloadable content, at the very least, scrubs memories of Oblivion's horse armour right out of our memories.

In exchange for a booster shot of Rad Away, lead designer Emil Pagliarulo offered up some inside info on the game's development. What a nice guy. We knew we needed to somehow replicate the body-targeting system used in Fallout and Fallout 2, but in a realtime, primarily first-person, environment And we also knew we needed to make it really visceral. Todd Howard had this image in his head of the crashes in the Burnout series - in those games your vehicles' smash-ups get repeated in slow-motion - somehow applying that to whatever cinematic mode we came up with.

It's both tactical and visually exciting, but it's also very fast and easy to use. Really VATS is everything we had hoped it would be. At the same time, you have to be confident in your own creative abilities, and confident in your team. You have to trust your own creative judgment. If you can't do that, then what's the point? The whole reason we acquired the Fallout license was so that we could make a Fallout game we wanted, one we thought would be great. That's what we did, and it was definitely the right way to go.

For us, it was more a matter of doing tons and tons of concept work before finally deciding on the appropriate art styles. Especially for the really key visual elements, things like the Pip-Boy , the Vault suit, all the robots - we really wanted to make sure we nailed them at the concept stage. It was a challenge trying to find one that was both appropriate and wasn't too oppressive. It's a wasteland, so everything's dead, so the atmosphere is pretty darned bleak.

So the trick was making the world seem dismal, but not so much that it's depressing to actually play through. We made a conscious effort to make the gameplay identical for both male and female characters. If your character is female, and you take the Black Widow perk, you'll do extra damage against male characters.

The majority of enemies are male. So if you go that route, you'll have an easier time. It was unintentional - a by-product of the way the systems worked. So in that sense, it was a very specifically crafted moment. You leave the Imperial Prison, and emerge out into this beautiful forest scene. How can we make a wasteland beautiful?

And there were other things to consider, too. Like, what if the player decides to wait while in the Vault, and they end up leaving at night? How will the wasteland look then? We knew that initial introduction to the Wasteland would be critical to the way people responded to the game. A great guy, and a consummate professional. It was as if the Dad character was sitting there in his lab, making his holotapes.

Todd and I sort'of looked at each other; you could feel this sort of creative electricity in the air. It was amazing. Every piece of clothing modifies a skill or attribute.

So what they lack in damage resistance, they tend to make lip for in skill or attribute modification. And it makes sense. If I'm a doctor, I'm going to perform my medical duties better wearing scrubs with medical equipment stuffed in the pockets than I am wearing raider armour. They definitely give your character much more personality.

But Tranquillity Lane is morbid enough. I wish I could give you an answer as to where that quest came from. Gamers can begin with a pre-generated character or build their own, modifying the character's skills as they progress through the game.

Yet the most impressive feature is the ability to target specific body parts and blow 'em away with a vast array of weapons. You'll be able to watch headless enemies wilt to the ground covered in their own filth as you pick the pockets of their comrades. While you may need to be heavily packed Pentium with 32 MB RAM , the bounty for this most-wanted title is steadily climbing. In Fallout, you're a survivor of a nuclear war. Emerging from your shelter after the holocaust, you must brave the terrors of your new world.

Every change results in a different cause-and-effect scenario, creating unlimited gameplay possibilities. Gamers looking for a true RPG definitely have a lot to get excited about with Fallout. Fallout brings old-school sensibilities to the electronic RPG realm, as well as great graphics and extremely adaptable gameplay.

In , humans--the lucky ones, anyway--live in giant underground vaults that shield them from atomic radiation. When your vault is crippled by a busted water purifier, you're elected to explore the outside world and find a solution. Fallout's strength lies in its flexibility. Players can easily create any type of character through a simple interface. The game's plot isn't linear, either; you can seek out people who'll help you build a new water chip, or just steal one from another vault, or you can even blow off your quest altogether.

Just be ready for the consequences. The iconic, mouse-driven interface makes navigation and combat a breeze though it's worth taking a peek at the manual, too. Conversations come to life through eerily realistic facial animations, and the main graphics shine with detail, while expressive dialogue and other crisp audio elements complete the post-apocalyptic scene.

Interplay set out to create a "real" role-playing game for the PC, and it's more than succeeded. Even mild fans of RPGs will find Fallout easy to fall into. World War Three has come and gone with the attendant nuclear holocaust, and life is rough. Stop me if you've heard this before