111.GIRDERSHADE
Only 2 shacks in this “town” enter SIERRA’S house and talk to her. She will offer you a tour and will give you the NUKA COLA CHALLENGE quest. She wants you to bring her 30 [NUKA-COLA QUANTUMS].
Exit her shack and RONALD will be waiting, wanting you to bring HIM the NUKA-COLA QUANTUMS. With a speech check you can get double caps from him, though you probably don’t need caps at this point.
Head back to MEGATON to heal/store/buy. Go to MOIRA in CRATERSIDE SUPPLY and finish the ROBCO Wasteland quest, and receive a [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE], now pick the last quest the LIBRARY. It will be marked on your map.
Grab 30 NUKA COLA QUANTUMS from your house (you should have plenty by now) and return to GIRDERSHADE. Give them to SIERRA and she will reward you with about 1200 caps and a [NUKA GRENADE SCHEMATIC].
Go to RONALD’S shack and talk to him about GRADY and you can pass a speech check to get 300 caps for your item. Go ahead and kill RONALD and get it back, along with his [KNEECAPPER] shotgun. Now fast travel over to the NUKA-COLA FACTORY.
112. NUKA-COLA FACTORY
Lots of little things to do here. You’ll enter the FACTORY FLOOR. a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL] once you enter in a hole in the ceiling in a filing cabinet. a [DEANS ELECTRONICS] in the cafeteria, [TUMBLERS TODAY] past MILO under a safe. MILO the shipping foreman, kill him for his keys and password.
Activate the conveyor belt machine to produce 3 [NUKA-COLA QUANTUMS] to be produced. The machine breaks.
The STORAGE AND MIXING VAT area holds some rare NUKALURKS but other than that not much in the area. ) The OFFICES holds a few items. The body of WINGER MERCIER holds a note that starts JUST FOR THE TASTE OF IT quest. Also a [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE] and [LYING CONGRESSIONAL STYLE] are about.
Now fast travel to the FlOODED METRO and head east, going towards the ARLINGTON LIBRARY. Just before you get there there will be a Raider outpost in the 2 story building on your left in a fenced in area. If your lucky you might have a ENCLAVE patrol land via helicopter to add to the confusion. Kill and loot the area, and then head around the LIBRARY to the right, where a TALON COMPANY outpost is set up. There is a [NIKOLA TESLA AND YOU] on the top level table.
To the left of the Library entrance is a PULOWSKI PRESERVATION SHELTER which has a [GUNS AND BULLETS]. Now enter ARLINGTON LIBRARY.
113. ARLINGTON LIBRARY
When you enter the Library you will meet SCRIBE YEARLING. She will help you log-in to the Library computer at the desk, plus she will want you to help find PRE-WAR BOOKS, which she will give you 100 caps and 10xp each. There are 3 areas in the LIBRARY, and there are Brotherhood soldiers who will help you clear each area. Let them do most of the work, you can loot their POWER ARMOR if they die. There are Raiders and radroaches about.
In the MAIN LIBRARY you can find a [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE]
In the MEDIA ARCHIVES you can find [TALES OF A JUNKYARD VENDOR] in the pool room, [TUMBLERS TODAY] in the download room along with a [NUKA-COLA QUANTUM]. Make sure to access the archive computer to get the full data Library download to complete the optional part of the WASTELAND SURVIVOR GUIDE quest.
Continue to the final area, the CHILDREN’S WING. About are a [GUNS AND BULLETS] and [LYING CONGRESSIONAL STYLE]. On the way out give your [PRE-WAR BOOKS] to SCRIBE YEARLING for some caps.
Fast travel back to MEGATON. Talk to MOIRA and finish the WASTELAND SURVIVAL GUIDE quest. You will gain a [LYING CONGRESSIONAL STYLE] along with the SURVIVAL GURU perk. Fast travel back to ARLINGTON LIBRARY and head to the northwest, where the ALEXANDRIA ARMS building is. Enter.
114. ALEXANDRIA ARMS
A 2 story hotel that a bunch of Raiders have taken up residence in. Clear out the building and loot the area. a [DUCK AND COVER] is on the ground floor south area, and a [NUKA-COLA QUANTUM] and [GUNS AND BULLETS] on the second floor.
Exit the building and fast travel to the NUKA-COLA FACTORY and head north along the road. As you pass under the overpass, take a left and head to the back of this building where a ENCLAVE outpost is set up. There are 4 ENCLAVE members here. Kill them, loot, and go north up the steps to DOTS DINER. Inside is a [US ARMY FLAMETHROWER RECIPE].
Go southeast towards the overpass and go east along the road. It will swing around north and you’ll have a car parking lot on the left. Might be a few Raiders about. Blow up the cars in the lot on the way north. Keep going north to the top of the hill (past the car lot) and on the left is a huge warehouse, the RED RACER FACTORY. ) At the top of the hill on the left is a overturned trailer with some radioactive barrels. Lying on the road is a [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN].
Look east and you’ll see a little parking lot with 2 ramps going up on either side. Go up the right ramp and straight east is a alleyway with a Raider outpost. Kill everything and you’ll find [GUNS AND BULLETS] and [US ARMY FLAMETHROWER RECIPE]. Now head over to the RED RACER FACTORY and enter.
115. RED RACER FACTORY
This building consists of the FACTORY floor with lots of ghouls running around, and the OFFICES where Super mutants hold up, and a an evil scientist, the SURGEON is waiting with a missile launcher.
In the regular FACTORY you will find [DC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE] under a bucket on top of a machine in the northeast area which you have to drop down to. [DEANS ELECTRONICS] under a bucket near the main entrance on top of another machine.
In the CEO OFFICES, you can find [NIKOLA TESLA AND YOU] behind a locked door, and a [NUKA-COLA QUANTUM] in STEFAN’S cell. The doctor SURGEON has a special lab coat which is nice, but probably not needed at this point.
Leave the factory and head northeast. You will quickly come to a sunken expressway. Stay on the top of the wall and head east and north around towards a bridge over the sunken expressway. (A broken down truck is under it). On the bridge is a SCAVENGER where you can find a [DUCK AND COVER], [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN], and a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL].
Keep heading east and you will come to a SEWER pipe, probably guarded by a few ghouls. Inside are a few ghouls and some minor loot. Exit and go north and you’ll see a door on the left big building. Enter the OUTPOST and kill the few enemies inside. You will find a [NUKA-COLA QUANTUM] in the room with the encaged Super Mutant.
Fast travel to the IRRADIATED METRO and enter.
This tunnel system leads to L’ENFANT PLAZA. It is the home of a few ghouls. You can find a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL] about half way through the tunnels on some electrical equiptment.
Continue on and exit into L’ENFANT PLAZA SOUTH.
117. L’ENFANT PLAZA
A Super mutant infested place, you arrive on the south end. Clear out any Super mutants about. Near the north side a ENCLAVE helicopter might drop in an unload some troopers. Just northeast from the IRRIATED METRO you will find a small burial mound with a cross. Click on the cross to get a note.
Just northwest of the metro is the CAPITAL POST building. Some minor loot is inside. West of that is MADAM JEALLE’S, which houses some misc loot also.
There is a cafe in the middle of town with some items, and to the north under the overpass is a little sleeping area with a [US ARMY FLAMETHROWER RECIPE]. On the west side is a PULOWSKI PRESERVATION SHELTER with a [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE].
The HAZMAT DISPOSAL SITE L5 tunnels are to the far northwest but you’ve already been in those. Go ahead and fast travel to PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SOUTH.
118. PENNSYLVANIA AVE
This area is a large hub for metro stations, but there isnt’ really a whole lot to do here. There are some Super mutants in the area so take them down. The metros in the area are..
- PENN AVE/GEORGETOWN METRO to the southwest
- PENN AVE/THE MALL METRO to the south
- PENN AVE/SEWARD SQUARE METRO to the southeast
- METRO CENTRAL to the east
- FREEDOM STREET STATION north ) To the northeast is a sewer entrance but you’ve already been there. Just to the southwest of the sewer entrance is a SCAVENGER in an underground alleyway.
Near the PENN AVE/GEORGETOWN METRO is a small hotel which houses a BROTHERHOOD outpost. Inside you can find a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL].
Finally to the Northwest is the WHITEHOUSE UTILITY TUNNEL which you can take to the ruins of the WHITE HOUSE. In the tunnel is a [PUGILISM ILLUSTRATED]. Once you exit into the WHITE HOUSE ruins, at the top of the steps is a [FAT MAN] and 3 [MINI NUKES].
Go to the PENN AVE/SEWARD SQUARE METRO and enter. You can just exit again there isn’t anything in here. Last, head north to the FREEDOM STREET STATION and enter.
This is a complicated little area with ghouls about. There is a [TUMBLERS TODAY] on a lit table. Continue through the tunnels to the northwest where the exit to VERNON SQUARE is. Go ahead and exit.
120. VERNON SQUARE
This DC area has a bunch of areas in it we want to hit. First once you exit the FREEDOM STREET metro tunnels you will want to enter the first building to the east, a run down 3 story building with some minor loot. Proceeding through the back of this building you will find the LADY OF HOPE HOSPITAL which we need to enter in order to save REILLY’S RANGERS.
119. FREEDOM STREET STATION
116. IRRADIATED METRO
16 comments
I got the reserivist's rifle from Arkansas in minefield… not from drifter.
what perks do i pick after level 20? you dont give any more.
I am REALLY REALLY grateful that you put this very extensive and detailed walk through. I literally follower it to a T, and everything you said happened. I even blew up the cars in the order. I still enjoyed the game with a walkthrough and I just wanna say thanks A LOT!
(You like the super mutain of Fallout3 Walkthroughs) naww but thanks!
Now I would' ve used ChickHen to flash custom firmware to his psp but he updated to 5.55. So I was wondering if the Half Byte Loader program would be able to run the 5.50 D3 installer at all, since I noticed the program is beta and apparently as many problems left, long enough to flash firmware without bricking his psp.
im currently doing the quest "take it back" and for some reason when i leave the citadel and begin the journey. liberty prime does NOT move. i have no clue wtf is goin on. did i miss something?? his diagnostics on the terminal shown 0 power to mobility. so how the hell does he destroy the energy field barrier on the bridge?
How do I jump on the back of Army Trucks? I can't seem to get at the ammo boxes on the back of the truck!
hmmm whats the intellegence for? i cant find any reason to use it i normally get str agi and endu
If you get Broken Steel DLC theres a perk you can get that raises all your SPECIAL stats to 9. If you hold off until then to get the bobbleheads, you could have a maxed out player. Be careful when using this guide, and do your research about what DLC can do for you first
Adding all 5 dlc's would probably double the size of this guide, and certain things in this guide (what perks to get, etc.) could REALLY screw you over. Best example?
it fails to account for DLC that became available after the original release of the game.
This walkthrough is a GREAT way to start off the game. The pure freedom in fallout 3 makes it amazing, but it can make it horrible too. This guide starts you off slow. However, I wouldnt use this walkthrough to play the ENTIRE game, because its alot more fun to find places people on your own. Theres just one more flaw in this guide:
Why raise the barter skill so high? It seems worthless is there a reason, is there something cool to earn, that's why you raise it up?
what do you do in the level to find your dad i have been on that level since last year and i still dont know what to do if you know tell me because i want to see what you do not just stay on the same dum level
gd tips m8 il will try them ty
it wont pass the speech test for the bomb wtf!
it didnt level up after i broke into simms house and i followed th guide