Fallout 3

Skaw said:
But inside, you'll definitely want to bring along Dogmeat and a companion.
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You can have a companion and dogmeat? D;


Must go get dogmeat!
 
Speaking of the Capitol Building. I had Star Paladin Cross glitch out towards the end of my trip, when I exited in to the West-side warzone. She started picking up every weapon that dropped and immediately used them.

And yeah, Tyrath. It sucks that the good karma companions only come so late in the story. You can get Star Paladin Cross before going to Vault 87. And Fawkes after Raven Rock, which is immediately after Vault 87. It doesn't seem Charon is tied to any Karma level, though.
 
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Fawkes > All by far. So much HP and Def and a super powered megahammer.
 
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It'd be pretty bad if they gave you the hands down best companion right at the beginning. You have to earn the right to be able to sit back and do nothing and still earn xp.
 
Makelith said:
It'd be pretty bad if they gave you the hands down best companion right at the beginning. You have to earn the right to be able to sit back and do nothing and still earn xp.
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Yeah, but he comes in way too late imo. I was already level 19. Granted, I did a buttload of sidequests.

Also, Liberty Prime was afuckingmazing. "Composition: Titanium Alloy. Threat to mission: ZERO PERCENT."

The only thing that would've made Liberty Primes walk of destruction even more enjoyable is if he threw down with a Super Mutant Behemoth.
 
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I think I saw a post by Tyrath asking if you could capture Susan Lancaster without getting caught. You most deffinatly can :P. What I did was wait in her room till it was around 2AM. If you dont know where her room is, just wait till its that time and follow the little marker. It should be in the first floor suites. Well, just sneak up to her bed and make sure you stay [Hidden]. Just use vats to get her in one shot and you got her.

When I did this the guard standing right outside her door didnt get alerted. I'm sure it should work for you as well.
 
Do I have to fire my current companion to get a new one or can i just tell her to stay somewhere when I want a new one?
 
Sketchzter said:
I think I saw a post by Tyrath asking if you could capture Susan Lancaster without getting caught. You most deffinatly can :P. What I did was wait in her room till it was around 2AM. If you dont know where her room is, just wait till its that time and follow the little marker. It should be in the first floor suites. Well, just sneak up to her bed and make sure you stay [Hidden]. Just use vats to get her in one shot and you got her.

When I did this the guard standing right outside her door didnt get alerted. I'm sure it should work for you as well.
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I'm pretty sure you got lucky then. I tried it multiple times and every time when she ran out she alerted the guard and they tried to kill me. Tried 5-6 reloads on saves.
 
I think your current companion goes away when you hire a new one. I havent hired a companion yet, aside from Dogmeat, so Im not really sure.
 
Makelith said:
I'm pretty sure you got lucky then. I tried it multiple times and every time when she ran out she alerted the guard and they tried to kill me. Tried 5-6 reloads on saves.
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Sorry for the double post.

Your probably right. I was surprised when the guard standing outside didnt begin to attack me. I mean, she ran out the door screaming and crying with a wierd thing on her neck. I was still [Hidden] when she ran out the door though. Maybe thats why I didnt get caught..?

Or it could possibly be because I have the PS3 version. I hear its a wee bit buggier than other versions.
 
Sketchzter said:
I think I saw a post by Tyrath asking if you could capture Susan Lancaster without getting caught. You most deffinatly can :P. What I did was wait in her room till it was around 2AM. If you dont know where her room is, just wait till its that time and follow the little marker. It should be in the first floor suites. Well, just sneak up to her bed and make sure you stay [Hidden]. Just use vats to get her in one shot and you got her.

When I did this the guard standing right outside her door didnt get alerted. I'm sure it should work for you as well.
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Oh I just took her by force since I was planning on killing everyone there anyways:wink: I'll keep that in mind for flak though, thanks.


Sketchzter said:
I think your current companion goes away when you hire a new one. I havent hired a companion yet, aside from Dogmeat, so Im not really sure.
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I don't think Dogmeat counts. I have Clover and Dogmeat at the same time. And stupid Clover keeps jumping headfirst into every enemy and dying lol
 
You have to fire/part ways with them first, to take a different one. You can always opt to get them back. Dunno if you have to pay again for the evil companions though, but Fawkes and Cross can just be found and taken again.
 
Edit: I found it >.O

So I'm on the 3rd main quest right now and I'm lvl 13 lol.. I sidequest too much
 
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Tyrath said:
Edit: I found it >.O

So I'm on the 3rd main quest right now and I'm lvl 13 lol.. I sidequest too much
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Yeah, after the first trip to the Jefferson Memorial, I pretty much stopped the main quest and finished up all the side quests I had accumulated. Which ultimately led to more side quests that had to be wrapped up as well.
 
I just found the memorial once I started the main quest again, and am once again wrapped up in side quests from the Underworld ;|

And I think i'm gonna ditch Clover for Charon soon as I find a cheap way to get him. He has regen for his hp which should prove to be awesome.
 
I'm level 11 now and I still haven't bought my dad's whereabouts from Moriarty. Right now I'm working on rescuing Riley's Rangers, but while I'm in the area I'm going to hit the valu-tec HQ if I can ever find the damn thing.

Just out of curiosity, what is the max level? I've been saving the "gain a free level now" perk for higher levels since It'd take more experience to get those later levels.

Only companion I've run across so far has been Jericho, and I'm too much of a good guy to get him unfortunately.
 
Btw I just swapped companions from Clover to Charon. From what I can tell, you can get them all(long as no Karma conflicts exist) to "join" you but you can only have 1 follow you around at a time + Dogmeat.
 
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a current companion WILL go away once another is recieved. this is for all companions EXCEPT for dogmeat. you can have the dog and another actual companion. dogmeat will not leave if another is aquired
 
Bajaratt said:
I'm level 11 now and I still haven't bought my dad's whereabouts from Moriarty. Right now I'm working on rescuing Riley's Rangers, but while I'm in the area I'm going to hit the valu-tec HQ if I can ever find the damn thing.

Just out of curiosity, what is the max level? I've been saving the "gain a free level now" perk for higher levels since It'd take more experience to get those later levels.

Only companion I've run across so far has been Jericho, and I'm too much of a good guy to get him unfortunately.
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20 is the highest level.

Also, Reilly's Ranger's has the best Small Guns Armor as a reward. 1 DR less than Enclave/Brotherhood Power Armors, and no Agility minus effect. AP+5, LK+1, and Small Guns+10. You can also repair it with the bajillion Talon Merc outfits you'll find.

You need to bring back all three members of the Rangers though, and you can choose between it or Brick's minigun "Eugene." Though, you can also probably get both by looting Brick's corpse if she were to fall in battle. Can probably get the armor and the matching helmet if Butcher dies too. Otherwise, theres no way to get the helmet.

On the downside, I'm not sure if you can do the geomapping for Reilly if her rangers don't make it, which nets you caps for every map marker you find. It's retroactive too, so you can get a considerably hefty amount of caps when you talk to her about it after getting the module. Which is extremely helpful for getting the money to invest in the caravan merchants after completing The Superhuman Gambit quest, which nets you gift items(one of which is a unique helmet from Crow) and boosts their repair skill to 75, for those that didn't put points in Repairing. It costs 700 caps per merchant(200 first time, 500 second,) so you'll need 2800 to get the maximum investment on all 4 of them. Which isn't entirely necessary if you just want a repair npc, but it'll make things a bit easier since you won't need to memorize where that one specific merchant is on his route.
 
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