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Books only give me 1 point each.

I see by my map that I need to visit the Republic of Dave :)
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Just went through Tranquility Lane, found Yaoguai and baby Deathclaws. Almost got killed when four raiders rushed me just outside the substation to the south... One of them has a laser rifle! Junk status, of course. Made it home. I'm heading back out to strip them of all armor. THEN maybe I can go do that next one i.e. the sad development, and I'll need plenty of grenades it seems.
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I was selling today and noticed I have 69 grenades. good money.
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Okay, lead Dr. Li to the Citadel. The flight was... hilariously bad. Turns out the enclave's armor weakness is... frag grenades. Using VATs to throw a grenade and it goes KABOOM! One grenade will take out one suit of armor. MUCH easier than using rifle shots, esp. my rifle shots suck, even with energy weapons. And ONLY Dr. LI survived the trip. The rest of the crew simply... disappeared along the way. Also, Dr. Li ran all the way back to the other zone when I told her to wait. WTF? Finally made it to the Citadel, traded, grabbed weapons, got Power Armor Training so I got additional carry weight. AND Star Captain whatshername volunteered to be my companion.

Then went on to Camp Lamplight. Met a combat bot on the way and its laser shreded me, man. That was bad. The supermutants were actually not a major problem at this point, unless they have lasers or got very close to me. Grrrr.

I should go back and strip all the enclave armor off those goons and sell them to the Brotherhood.

EDIT: Did just that, but kept TWO suits for myself, a Mk II and a Hellfire set. Cost like 600 caps to repair the Hellfire suit, but it's probably worth it. I thought I saw a Tesla Trooper suit but I can't seem to find it. And yes, I backtracked all the way to that fateful room. Scoured the area, then all the way through the Taft Tunnels. Found a place to climb up to gain access to those dead troopers, and Star Captain is the perfect mule to carry stuff. :) She ended up carrying like 3 suits and helmets. She started wearing one, so I didn't sold 1 less helmet than I should have. :) AND she can't die. :)

Blew up an Eyebot, and somehow it gave me extra enclave locations. Hmmmm... Unfortunately, as I said, my guns suck, including energy. VATS only helps when it's really close. Sniper scope doesn't help at all, as I have too much shaking to make the shots really count. Ended up wasting a ton of ammo. Now that I also cleaned up Lamplight and that Supermutant camp to the north of it, but not into the caves, turns out I just passed by Camp 87's public entrance... where rads' will kill you really quickly. It's time to go exploring underground.
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Made it to Little Lamplight, they want me to rescue their friends from Paradise Falls. And I just arrived. The guy handed me the Mesmertron.

I think I'll go back, drop off the loot, then back to kill every slaver in the camp. Never did like those sanctiminious asses.
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Im waiting until I do that 30 chinese rifle quest for them. I think I have that many now or close to it.

I do have 30 nuka quantums. Sierra is SO stupid though I may just kill her.
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Ive decided to just skip it all and go straight to the purity quest .

Im really curious though about the Brotherhood in this game. Am I missing any fun stuff with them and Sarah Lyons? If I fooled with them Id have to go to the Citadel and Im not sure how to get there. I see it but its a metro tunnel hell and i just spent an HOUR trying to get to the cemetery with no luck. I HATE THE METRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I swam to the Jefferson Memorial so i can just do it and be done.
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Regarding the Brotherhood citadel...
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You get to the citadel when you do the purity thing, watch your dad die, then escort Dr. Li and the survivors through the tunnels through Enclave and ghouls to the Brotherhood Citadel or did you do that already?
I killed everybody in Paradise Falls that was hostile to me. Which, unfortunately, includes Crimson. And one of the girls is invincible and can only be knocked unconscious. But I did rescue all the slaves that wanted to be saved. The railway rifle is a great gun for this. One shot and the guy dies immediately. Accuracy and range is better than expected. In fact, the ragdoll effect was the guy did a full 360 flip. Two shots will take out a supermutant if I can get a good headshot. So what I do is I shoot the arm so the mutie lose the weapon. That gives me a lot of extra time to shoot it in more vulnerable areas. If it's a melee mutie, I shoot it in the leg(s) instead.

I went to the Lamplight camp and found the vault, met Fawkes, and I pretty much had cleared the whole place already. Met the "surprise" and I'm enjoying the hospitality of the Enclave at the moment.
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I just did that tunnel run to the Citadel. What happened in the water place surprised me as I had totally forgot that happens.

I was only at Little Lamplight once and could find no way into the vault in there. Is there an exit on the surface?..i should look now that I have a map showing all places. May go back.
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Vault 87 via Lamplight
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There *is* an entrance via the backdoor of Lamplight. You have to bug the "mayor" about it a couple times, and then you have to survive the muties in the caves. You'll miss out on the kid's antics and their quests, in the Lamplight caves, like take the grown kid to Big Town, and so on.
Fought my way through Lamplight, Vault 87, found Fawkes, got the GECK... Poof, ended up at Raven Rock. Had to fight my way through the troopers. It was a tough fight and my railway rifle was indispensable, and even then I had to mix grenades and rifle. I ended up addicted to like 3-4 chems I was seeing weird colors. :) I did manage to pick up an enclave suit... PA, and so on. I'm wearing the Hellfire version from a prior acquisition. I got the Eden supercomputer to self-destruct, and I found Fawkes outside. And I found the "Robo-Thor" suit, which isn't actually powered. I just got back to the Citadel and got the Lyon's Pride suit. Where's a workbench so I can fit it to myself? ARGH! And they gave it to me in deplorable condition! Ended up giving back most of the money on repairs alone.

Have to find the smithy and fit the suit to me so I can join the fight. We'll see Liberty Prime at work, I guess. :)
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I like how the railway rifle sticks ghoul heads to walls and makes a happy little toot toot sound when doing it.
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I'm having problems with the final mission. No matter what I tried, the game just CTD when Liberty Prime is on the bridge shooting at the Enclave troops. Usually it happens right after he breaches the first photonic barrier, then blows up the first vertibird. Then POOF, CTD. Some said this is caused by Fawkes as the companion. I dismissed him, but it still crashes. I change the configator settings to minimize the decals and whatnot. I changed texture to small. I turned off most of the threaded stuff. Nothing. I turned off shadows and trees, I turned off water transparency... Nothing. I've been trying something for past two hours. I think I'm about to give up on this game.

EDIT: ARGH, I'm so close. I did some location hopping. I jumped to a location near the destination, then back out. I killed like half a dozen Enclave guys by myself and Fawkes. I sniped those Enclave guys on the walkways. So I basically cleared the way for Liberty Prime. Except when I jump back and tried to follow it, it walked 2 steps, and it's back to CTD. I think I need to make longer jumps.

EDIT: Darn it. He's right on the bridge to the memorial, and he's just STOPPED there! He took two steps, and it's back to CTD. ARGH!!!!!!!

EDIT: I give up. I've tried a dozen different settings in the Configator, I've fast travelled out of the area and back. As soon as Liberty Prime walked two steps, CTD. I've tried teleporting, I've tried moving it. It walked to the bridge, and stopped. Then as soon as I get close, he starts walking, and two or three steps later, CTD. I've fiddled with every parameter I can think of. ARGH!

AFICT, this caused by the mods, but there's no telling WHICH mod. Only the unofficial patch is supposed to mess with Liberty Prime, and I've already created merge patches. Grrrrrr!
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I am so ****ed I am tempted to start over, albeit with less crap mods. Clearly I went overboard and broke the game.


Some reactions on the mods:

Fallout Wander's Edition -- While I like the FWE's concept, it just made me feel weak overall. I'm barely level 12-13 when I got to the end of main questline. I was expecting to hit Lvl 20. I can probably tweak it from within the FWE's menu though. Hmmm... Maybe I can keep it and turn most settings back to vanilla, so I have to drink and eat and rest occasionally? I also left a lot of loot behind when I don't have the lockpick skill (whereas in the vanilla game I can usually pick almost any lock). It also includes CRAFT and CALIBR, which makes guns fun and crafting possible.

GNR Enhanced -- While the songs are in the mood, I just skip the radio altogether, for the most part. Not really needed.

CASM -- autosave is essential in FO3 that's as crash-happy as it is.

Unofficial Patch -- you need this too, essential stuff.

DarNifiedUI -- good for the menus, really

Project Beauty -- makes the characters more realistic, good to have

EVE -- what's not to like about energy weapons looking good? The main version is now the Paradox Merged version too.

WeaponsModKits -- Optional but enjoyable. You have to buy the mods, and they are EXPENSIVE, hundreds of caps each (close to a thousand when you suck at barter). But when you got an assault rifle that's god a scope AND extended mags, you'd feel like a badass. :) Obviously, this is only if you don't like the built-in guns. You can probably skip this.

MMM or Marts Mutant Mod -- download the Paradox Merged version, not the standalone.

RH_Ironsights -- download the Paradox Merged version if you want a better "aimed" mode for your guns

Dynamic Crosshair -- FO3 is not an FPS, and this doesn't really help that much.

JIS-SelectFire -- gives your gun a selector switch, if it's supposed to, among semi-burst-fullauto. Not really necessary except for immersion.

Blackened patch -- this merged FWE / MMM / EVE / Project beauty patch helps

More Map Markers -- this added map markers to places that's not on the plain map.

BetterGame Performance -- removed useless clutter objects like rocks and burned books to make the game go faster

TinCanCrafting -- lets you make those bobby pins if you can't find enough of them.

I am also adding...

DCInteriors -- opens up a lot of buildings instead of everything boarded up. Should be a lot of fun.

Dree Perks -- a pack of interesting perks

Fellout -- improved lighting, sky, etc. etc.

MoreGore -- never hurts

Realistic Interior Lighting -- should be fun
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I tried starting over, using FWE's "alternate start", and it's a MUCH faster process, as you can choose to be wastelander, regulator, or more than a dozen other starting possibilities, including as a Talon Merc. You can even choose how many attribute points you want instead of taking the GOAT test. What I don't get is why would regulator start me with a LASER pistol rather than normal revolvers or such. Eh? And no ammo anywhere inside Regulator HQ.

EDIT: Took out 3-4 raiders, had to hide and let them rush me so I can headshot them at close range. But kinda ran out of ammo. Not much of that around. The alternate start had you start all around the Wasteland, instead of near the Vault and do the escape thing, so walking to Megaton is a challenge. :) Heck, a baby deathclaw spawned right next to the brahmin corral next to the Regulators HQ! A dog, a boar, then a baby deathclaw joined in. Argh. Lost two brahmin before I can take out all of them.

I think I found the problem... It was FO3 stutter remover. Found a note that It was causing people problems. There's also a note that Windows 10 can cause problems too. Grrrrr. Had to edit the Fallout Stutter Remover INI and added NVAC.DLL
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Daehawk wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:53 am Heres a pic of me and my new robot buddy named Buttons. He loaned me one of his wigs so we could be besties.

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It was FO3 stutter remover.
I couldn't use that. Everytime I installed it my game would crash at startup. Finally gave up after 3 tries. I also read it can do the opposite of what it wants to sometimes.
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Have I said I hate the metro?? Well I do. I just want to go to a location that sounds fun. Im standing 2 feet from it on the map but its on the other side of a blocked alley. Sooooo take the metro..yay me. Come out and Im 5 miles from where I was and all I did was go in one side and out the other. Go back in end up south of the place. *(^&^T*&(*()&(*9 ..I HATE the Metro.

Think Ill watch a video......oh great......
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For grins, I'm trying one of FWE's alternate starts. This time I picked "Mechanic". it left me in front of Robco, with a Robco jumpsuit, a lead pipe, and a railway rifle. Went through the whole building, killed all the rad roaches and mole rats, used up all the stimpacks I got, and was left barely alive. Hmmm... Supposedly, robots will NOT attack me (I get "robot friendly" perk, apparently) though I doubt this works for the Robco quest. Not sure if I want to keep going though. I much prefer my guns run.

Seems the best way to start is create a character, ANY character, tag explosive, small guns, and barter or whatever skill you think you enjoy (speech, lockpick, etc.) You want explosive to start at 25 so you can disarm the bomb in Megaton, to get the house to store ****, and small guns for just general survival. Even with a few kills against random fauna LVL2 should be fast. Fast Travel to Vault 101's exit, then walk over to Megaton. Then the game starts as any other.
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I couldn't disarm Megaton for a bit. Had to lv la couple times. I think I always tag small guns, lockpick, and science. If I later take the perk to tag another i either do medicine or energy weapons.

This go Im not using but one energy wep..the special plasma one I got from a certain guy in Rivet City I think it was. I sometimes dick around with a lazer if stuff is too easy.
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Ah, the A3-21 Plasma rifle. I got that one in my previous gameplay.

I also got Drifter's Laser Rifle, which is a unique Watts 2000 Rifle, and it's one heck of a laser. :) It's modded from Reservist's Rifle by FWE.

According to FWE's weapon list, it has the base damage of 90. Only Gauss rifle and Alien Blaster has higher base damage. Victory Rifle's base damage is only 80.

I just checked FWE's weapon list and H&K CAWS is better than Combat Shotgun or Pancor Jackhammer. CAWS has a 16 shot magazine and firing rate of 4. Combat shotgun is 12 / 1.5, and Pancor is 14/1.8. So if you have the ammo, CAWS is a real "street sweeper". The catch is CAWS needs 35 AP, whereas Combat shotgun is 30 AP. So if you use VATS Combat shotgun or Pancor may be better, but if you play in realtime, CAWS is one heck of a close-range weapon.

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Ran into Harold. Think Ill do as he himself asks and not the kooks running around him.
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Daehawk wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:52 pm I couldn't disarm Megaton for a bit. Had to lv la couple times. I think I always tag small guns, lockpick, and science. If I later take the perk to tag another i either do medicine or energy weapons.
when you analyze the perks, it seems meds and science are often up paired together, as is lockpick and sneak.

Daddy's kid -- +5 sci +5 md

Thief -- +5 lockpick, +5 sneak

Scoundrel -- +5 speech, +5 barter

Gun nut -- +5 small guns, + 5 repairs

Little league -- +5 melee, +5 explosives

They each have 3 ranks (5 if you use FWE)

Tag behaves differently with FWE, because leveling is much slower, and thus tag means skill points are DOUBLED with a tagged skill. Apply 1 pt, get 2 pt skill gain. Hmmm... Game obviously want you to tag small guns early, and energy weapons for late game. So med, sci, lkp, btr, spc, or rep? Choose two. Probably most useful will be med, to get more use out of stimpaks (FWE doesn't let you heal via eating), then repair, as you can raise both small gun and repair with GunNut. Med can be raised with Daddy's kid. Tag perk is not until level 16, which is a really late perk. Also, low explosive skill means defusing the bomb in Megaton will take a couple levels.

I don't play a charmer character so speech isn't that important, but low barter is going to hurt my pocketbook.
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Im pretty much at the end now. ive tied up the loose ends and am ready to speak to the Brotherhood about the water.

It took me all game but I reached my max carry weight of 5,200 lbs. Wasn't sure what was wrong until I saw that. I repaired all guns and armor and that got me to town. Sold all I could to people and now am at 3500 lbs. May simply drop it all. no one has the items or money to get it from me.

I lost Clover and have no idea where she is. I had Clover and the Brotherhood paladin with me when the Enclave kidnapped me. When I got out Fawkes was waiting and I joined him up. But Im tired of his maniacal laugh and want Clover back. I cant recall where I was when I got kidnapped. Thinking she may be there. I set her home to Megaton but she is not in my house. Maybe she is in town somewhere.

Once I find her Im ready.
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Found her. I looked for over an hour. I went all back through Vault 87 thinking she was where I got kidnapped. Nope. I went around different places ....nope. I gave up and went to get Charon from Underworld and he refused to join saying I had a companion. DOH. So I gave up and went home to Megaton and this time she was in my house!

Scared me for a sec as she wouldn't join either. I had to dismiss Fawkes first. I had him sitting in my house but seems I needed to fire him first. Now she is my bodyguard again.

I have NO idea where Star Paladin Cross ended up. I had her and Clover with me when I got kidnapped. Guessing she is back at Brotherhood headquarters.
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FWIW, companions travel to wherever they have designated as 'home', but they travel in real time. Sometimes they just take a while to get there.
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Yep, Paladin Cross walked back to the Citadel by her own when she can't find you in Vault 87.

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I'm starting over, this time as with FWE's alternate start as a regulator (i.e. law enforcement) and I can keep fingers from all the evil folks and I get caps for it. ;) FWE lets you start with extra SPECIAL points.

Regulator HQ is close to Fort Constantine, a raider hideout. I carefully bushwacked like 8 of them but used up almost all my existing ammo of .32 and EC cells (laser pistol), even including whatever I salvaged off the bodies. There are probably a few more raiders inside, but I've had enough. I fast traveled to Vault 101's nav, then walked over to Megaton. With minimal fuzz, and I got leveled to 2 pretty quickly, I got enough in explosive (25) to disarm the bomb, and got my house. (I guess I can't kill Burke now and get his silenced pistol now, eh?)

I still get the occasional freeze-ups. I think I'll have to disable Stutter remover altogether. I tried disabling a key section as per some recommendations, but it didn't help that much.

I think I'll head back to Fort Constantine and bushwack the rest of the raiders, and hopefully don't die. I want to hand in those fingers. THEN I'll head to Super-Duper Mart.
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I thought you were using a mod that let you craft ammo from junk?
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I haven't found a workbench yet, except the one at Moiras. As I said, I'm just starting out.

Any way, I am starting to hate the FWE modifications. It's just... "too intrusive"?

I may try a new mod called "Custom Beginnings". It's NOT on NexusMods, but rather at Trollworks. I like the idea of custom start (not a vault dweller)

http://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/trol ... re.203659/

Basically, I want a custom start, but without all the changes FWE brought to the table.

Oh well, another new game start. :)
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And Im done. Finished it up. Actually finished it a few times. I got done then realized I hadn't been to the white house .So went there. Finished again and realized I forgot to do that return to the vault quest and went and did that. Amata is my woman :P Then finished it again. Wish Fawkes would have simply turned it on but without DLC he refuses. kinda silly someone has to die there like that.
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Daehawk wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:58 pm And Im done. Finished it up. Actually finished it a few times. I got done then realized I hadn't been to the white house .So went there. Finished again and realized I forgot to do that return to the vault quest and went and did that. Amata is my woman :P Then finished it again. Wish Fawkes would have simply turned it on but without DLC he refuses. kinda silly someone has to die there like that.
Yeah, with the DLC, he's like "oh yeah, I could just do that."
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Okay, I've setup a new profile in NMM without FWE, but I installed the Grenade and Spring Hotkey so I get that back at least. I've added a few convenience and visual mods, but that's the main gameplay mod.

I've added Revamped Leveling and Practice Made Perfect, which lets you gain skills through usage and controls levelling better (instead of it happening in the middle of wasteland, you can defer the allocation until you reach your home or whatever ) Iv'e added Custom Beginning too. I got the stuff sorted, so I think I'll be trying this alternate start pretty soon.

Dang, I didn't realize how hard FWE is, as compared to how easy vanilla game is. FWE does not allow heal with food. Healing is minimal, and it also has crippling effects and you need to use "triage" (with medical braces and surgical supplies) to stop the "body part crippled" effect (which gives you severe penalties, like no running, or accuracy affected). With vanilla FO3 you can find a sink and drink to heal until you're full and just deal with radiation later. I just emptied out Weaver Armory (mostly) and nabbed a missile launcher, among other things. I'm just exploring landmarks right now, trying to find a merchant.
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I returned to Fallout last summer for another go. I got as far as retrieving the US Constitution.
Then I found out Morrowind Rebirth Mod was compatible with OpenMW and I just got as far as joining 12 factions.
Now, after reading your experiences KC, I want to take a break from Morrowind and get back into Fallout.
Just as I'm trying to get the "full experience" in Morrowind, I modded out Fallout so that I could play Fallout 3 inside Fallout New Vegas.
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FWE really messed with the setup. It lowered the Megaton bomb disarm to 25 (it was 55 in vanilla) and the pipe repair from 40 to 30). My skills aren't anywhere to par. On the other hand, I'm rather enjoying the alternate skill system (Practice Makes Perfect, or PMP) where your skills improve based on how much you use stuff rather than just adding skill points (kinda borrowed from Morrowwind and such). I'm just collecting raider fingers right now, went through Bethesda ruins and the two buildings. I may try grabbing the throwing stuff to see if I can improve explosives that way? Wonder if that works... Hmmm!

Alternate start so far is interesting. It removed "Following your father" quest, in favor of you being summoned by the Outcasts to an outpost far to the south. it also started me off at Lvl 19... Which means I have quite a bit of catching up to do, as my XP is low as heck. :D I just walked slowly to Megaton and tried to pick up some of the familiar quests, like Arefu, power of the atom, repair the pipe leaks, and so on. And I'm finding combat *MUCH* easier than with FWE. Being bushwacked by 3-4 raiders, one of whom has a missile launcher, should be death, but somehow I managed to survive that encounter, had to resort to assault rifle, not hunting rifle. I was able to clear Super Duper mart without taking a single hit, with judicious use of mines and sneak.

(According to alternate start's author, you may encounter the lone wanderer in the wasteland as an NPC! Hahahahaha!)
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I found it way too easy. I set it to hard and even with missiles hitting me and cars blowing up around me I didn't die. I got a hurt leg or arm sometimes bout it.

For explosives and if you can unarm mines then go to Minefield. Just be aware that idiot sniper targets explosive cars and such near you.
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I just went through Minefield, and I killed Arkansas with ONE shot, I swear. I happen to have a sniper rifle... and plenty of ammo. I saw him in the building ahead, my VAT chance is too low. So I did manual aim. My crosshair was drifting all over the place, but when it settled over him, I press the trigger, and POOF! One critical hit and he's out. Next is to sweep the mines... and voila, got that chapter written.

I have a mod that left two items inside Mr. Burke's house in Megaton. I decided I want that, so I told Lucas about Burke's betrayal. We ran up to Moriarty's I armed laser pistol, and the moment Burke's pulled his silenced 10mm, I hit VATS and put 4 shots into his noggin... Except he didn't die! WTF?! I had to hit him 3 more times. I walked outside, and there's Lucas dead on the ground. Darn it. RELOAD! This time, I used 10mm SMG. And voila, Burke's toast. Nabbed his key, walked into his room and nabbed my night-vis visor. (It's the mod "Advanced Recon Night-Vis Goggles")

Found Agatha, agreed to look for Vault 92 if I ever do.

Not sure what the mods did, but the repair prices are RIDICULOUS. It's like 1000 caps to repair a rifle from 20% to 70% or something like that. Fortunately, prices for guns are much better. A nicely repaired gun is worth like 900 caps. The problem is the merchants don't seem to have a lot of caps, unless I just spent that much on repairs. Argh.

Oh, and I've been playing for the past 3 hours, and it hadn't crashed even once. Hmmmm....
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Dave Allen wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:20 am I returned to Fallout last summer for another go.
Oh, you're running Tale of Two Wastelands. That's one ambitious mod, trying to run FO3 in FNV. I'm not touching that yet. :D

So far, I think I found what's causing my crashes... and it may have NOTHING to do with FO3. It's my background changer. I set my screen manager to change my wallpaper every 30 minutes. I didn't notice, but my FO3 also crashes at about the same rate. I turned that off, and I hadn't crashed yet. EVEN ONCE.

I also removed Stutter Remover, so I don't know how much of that is important. I'm happy to be running crash free. There's one "catch", I can't alt-tab. Even with Game Companion or another fake fullscreen app, I can't alt-tab at all. Well, it's not that important. With CASM active I don't lose much gameplay even if I had to end task.

I did notice a couple instances of bad/missing texture, but that's probably because I goofed up with one of those blood texture mods.

I am also using WyreFlash to build my bashed patch instead of FO3 edit 's mergedpatch. It seems to help too.
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Current load order, as compiled by Wyre Bash:

Active Mod Files:
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[xml]00 fallout3.esm [CRC: C092218B]
01 Anchorage.esm [CRC: A4BA9D10]
02 ThePitt.esm [CRC: B38B3E44]
03 BrokenSteel.esm [CRC: 30011B79]
04 PointLookout.esm [CRC: D92704D8]
05 Zeta.esm [CRC: 1D017E23]
06 Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch.esm [Version 2.3.2] [CRC: 7AAABC4D]
07 CRAFT.esm [CRC: AE67CA57]
08 CALIBR.esm [Version 1.4] [CRC: 67CE3320]
09 Project Beauty.esm [CRC: 06AA1298]
0A EVE.esm [Version 0.99] [CRC: 3C10D833]
0B Advanced Recon Tech.esm [CRC: F19C92D7]
0C DCInteriors_ComboEdition.esm [CRC: F85A5358]
0D DarNifiedUIF3.esp [CRC: 33D1F89A]
0E CustomBeginning.esp [CRC: 4FE16254]
0F CustomBeginningGOTY.esp [CRC: 8A60B34A]
++ Project Beauty- Broken Steel.esp [CRC: DA6E632C]
++ Project Beauty- Point Lookout.esp [CRC: 431457E1]
10 FO3NoTint.esp [CRC: 6CCEE0A1]
11 CASM.esp [CRC: 40AAEFBB]
12 MoreMapMarkers.esp [CRC: B7F1FA75]
13 JIP Selective-Fire.esp [CRC: CE472142]
14 Advanced Recon Tech.esp [CRC: 7B11D089]
15 BetterGamePerformance.esp [CRC: 72748F72]
16 Fellout-Full.esp [CRC: 1C4CD93B]
17 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp [CRC: 2E7841D0]
18 Advanced Recon Gear.esp [CRC: 494D15A6]
19 Advanced Recon Armor.esp [CRC: F58E6888]
++ Advanced Recon Armor-Easier Stealth.esp [CRC: EA635750]
1A Dree Perks.esp [CRC: B51003F8]
1B TinCanCRAFTing.esp [Version 2.0] [CRC: A37E7C24]
1C PAL - MERGED.esp [CRC: 509E6C42]
1D FO3 Wanderers Edition - More Gore.esp [CRC: AC109173]
1E Sprint- and Grenade-O-Matic.esp [CRC: 9102E322]
1F PracticeMakesPerfect.esp [CRC: EA3EF4F1]
20 Revamped Leveling.esp [CRC: CC24AA30]
++ Quieter Mole Rats.esp [CRC: 3F519404]
21 Realistic Interior Lighting.esp [CRC: 409A2BD8]
++ HZSmoothLight - FO3.esp [CRC: 5F362055]
22 Dogmeat Leather Armor - no crafting.esp [CRC: 1D4E8294]
23 LeatherBackpack - eng.esp [CRC: 822DDFED]
24 Bashed Patch, 0.esp [CRC: 25A05B50]
[/xml]
The ++ ones have been merged into that last one, "Bashed Patch" to reduce the load order count.

Despite 1D "FO3 Wanderers Edition More Gore" name, it does NOT require FWE. Weird, eh? I've tried it with and without, I still get the occasional weird texture problems.
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My current objective is to level once more by killing a lot of critters and raiders, so I can allocate a few more points to explosive so I can get my Megaton house ASAP. I'm tired of carrying 7 guns around (sniper rifle, hunting rifle, assault rifle, shotgun, silenced 10mm, 10mm SMG and Laser Pistol). There's also a nice trap I want to disarm in Bethesda West building. It has FIVE combat shotguns rigged to a pressure plate, but it can wait.

I want to go hunt mirelurks at the Anchorage memorial too, to prepare myself for the upcoming Survival Guide mission. (I know, it's kinda cheat when it says you can't kill anything DURING that mission, but you can do it BEFORE you get the quest!) But I haven't gone east yet. Hmmm...

Turns out the "Level 19" thing is a side effect of Revamped Leveling or Practice Makes Perfect, forgot which mod. It pretends you are at level 19, so the enemies do not "scale up" with you. Not sure how that works. :)
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I could alt tab about 50% of the time. Half the time it alt tabbed fine. 40% it would alt tab but Id have no mouse to use and it would crash on trying to go back to the game. and 10% of the time it would alt tab and no mouse and then go back to game fine.

I also went to the memorial and cleared it out not knowing she would have me go there later. Didn't hurt anything.

I had a bad body texture the entire game and never could solve it. It was on the dirty raiders. Other people in town and such were clean and were right textured but the raiders were always messed up badly. I finally had to just leave it that way the entire game.
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