Fallout 3 Walkthrough and SuperGuide

You start the game by watching the Intro.

1) New baby. You are born, and choose your sex, name and appearance. Pick a appearance you like, you will see your face often during VATS fighting. Fast forward a year.

2) BABY STEPS (Quest). Follow your Dad’s instructions. Walk towards him. Next open the gate when he leaves and look at your special book. You will choose your stats for the Prologue. Make your strength 10, luck 10, and perception 1. Average the rest out evenly for best melee ability without worrying about dying. Follow Dad out of the room. Fast Forward to age 10. You arrive at your 10th birthday party and get your Pipboy.

3) GROWING UP FAST (Quest). Talk to Amata in front of you and get the [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN] do not use this yet. Talk to Old Lady Palmer and get the [SWEETROLL]. Talk to Stanley and get the [KID’S BASEBALL CAP]. Butch will eventually come to start a fight. just dodge him and soon the fight will be broken up. Talk to your dad to continue.

4) Once he opens the door enter the hallway and run into Beatrice who will give you a poem. Before going downstairs, head upstairs to where Officer Kendell is. Get behind him and crouch. Save game. Pick his pocket (reload if you fail) until you get his [2 STIMPAKS]. Wait for the Overseer to come up stairs and listen to his conversation. Bastard. Now go all the way downstairs to the left to the reactor room and talk to Jonas. Dad will enter and give you a [BB GUN] and [BB AMMOx50]. Follow him through the door to the test range. Shoot all 3 targets then shoot and kill the Radroach that enters. Hit R2 to enter V.A.T.S Mode to aim. Stand for the picture to be taken. Fast forward 6 years to age 16.

5) FUTURE IMPACT (Quest). When done take the [MEDICINE BOBBLE-HEAD] that is on the table, this increases your Medicine skill +10. Enter the next room and take the [STIMPAK] that is on the doctor tray cart. Go out into the hallway where Amata is being harassed. Talk to Wally Mack and trick him into being angry with Butch. They will leave. Go in and talk to the teacher. Ask to skip the test and you can just pick your skills. TAG melee weapons, repair, and small guns for the Prologue. Leave the room. Fast forward 3 years to age 19.

6) ESCAPE (Quest). You are woken up the Vault is in turmoil. Time to fight and Escape!. Amata gives you some picks and [10MM PISTOL]. Open your dresser and take your items. Go to the Desk and take your BB gun, ammo, and the [BASEBALL BAT]. Open the first aid kit on the wall and take the items. Enter inventory and equipt your bat and hat/suit. Ready your bat and save the game.

Run out into the hallway and to the right and run towards Kendell. Attack and kill him. Then kill the roaches. Use V.A.T.S if you want. Search Kendell and take his items. Equip his security helm/armor. Save again. Continue down hallway and Butch will come out asking for help for his mother. Follow him, quickly run into the next room where his mom is under attack from 3 roaches. Kill them before they kill her. If they do, reload and try again. Search roaches and take the [VODKA] bottles on the floor. Butch will thank you and give you his [TUNNEL SNAKE OUTFIT]. If you are hurt head to the bathroom and drink or use them to heal. Save the Stims.

Continue to the lunchroom and kill the 3 roaches there. Search body. Run upstairs and kill roaches fighting Officer Gomez. Enter shop with Andy and take [2 STIMPAKS] by the fallen cart. Continue down the hall and enter the room you will see 2 people talking. Save game. Follow the one guy down the hallway you will encounter 2 guards. Kill them fast they have guns. Make use of V.A.T.S. Take their stuff, continue upstairs and kill some more radroaches. You’ll fight Security Chief Hannon. Take his stuff and enter room with dead mechanic on the floor. Search him and toolbox and take items. Save. Continue and enter room where Amata is being interrogated. The guard will attack. Kill him. If the Overseer attacks for some reason reload. Talk to the Overseer and threaten Amata to get his password and key. Search all lockers/desks in the 2 rooms and take the items.

Continue to next research area, drink from water fountain to heal if needed. Save the stims. Search Jonas body and the 2 desks about and take all the items. Head to the room on the left and talk to Amata. Enter the back room and search the dresser and take items. Enter room next door and take items. Time to enter the Overseer door. Search the next room and take all items, then use the computer terminal to open the Secret tunnel. Go in and you’ll get to the vault entrance. Note the locked door on the right. Activate the keypad and the door opens. Amata comes to talk to you but get ready, the locked door opens and 2 more guards come out. Kill them and take their stuff. Enter the door they came through and go into the north room for more stuff. Run back through the Vault and you’ll find more Radroaches to kill. Head back to the vault door room. Enter your inventory and repair any items you can combine in order to save space and make your items better. Now this is going to be your permanent save game, so that way if you replay you don’t have to do the prelogue again. Go ahead and save, then head to the vault exit. You will be able now to redo everything and pick your stats/skills to what you want.

You should have

• Vault Lab uniform (+5 science)
• Vault utility uniform (+5 lockpick/+5 repair)
• your medicine bobble-head
• your Grognak book (you didn’t read this yet right?)
• about 16-18 stims, radroach meat, and a bunch of misc items.

Your new character you want to have the following stats.

• Strength: 6
• Perception: 6
• Endurance: 6
• Charisma: 1
• Intelligence: 9
• Agility: 6
• Luck: 6

And TAG Repair, Lockpick, and Explosive. Its now time to begin the game.

As you level up, you do not want to raise any skill above 50. With the +10 you gain per bobble-heads, plus the 40-50 skill points from books, you want to keep skills about balanced for now. You want to get lockpick and science to 45 (you get +5 from outfits), and speech, repair and your small guns skills to 50 asap. The rest can raise after.

As for perks, pick these perks at these levels. Lv2: Luck +1 Lv3: Perception +1 Lv4: Educated Lv5: Comprehension (now you can use books as you find them) Lv6: Toughness Lv7: Gunslinger Lv8: Strong Back Lv9: Commando Lv10: Finess Lv11: Endurance +1 Lv12: Sniper Lv13: Silent Running Lv14: Cyborg Lv15: Pyromaniac Lv16: Actionboy Lv17: Better Criticals Lv18: Concentrated Fire Lv19: Admantium skeleton Lv20: Grim Reapers Spirit

As you find items to sell, these are the items you DO NOT want to sell to the general store. Save these items at your house. I suggest the desk and locker right by your bed..so you can sort items and rest quick.

DO NOT SELL to the general stores…or use

• Scrap metal
• lunch box
• sensor module
• cherry bomb
• Nuka-cola Quantum
• Tin can
• Turpentine
• Abraxo Cleaner
• Pre-war books

The following items you want to keep about 10 of, sell the rest

• Paint guns
• Toy cars
• Radscorpion poison gland
• surgical tubing
• wonderglue
• leather belt
• deathclaw hand
• medical brace
• fission battery
• conductor
• firehose nozzle
• pilot light
• lawnmower blade
• motorcycle gas tank
• motorcycle handlebars