Fallout 3 Discussion

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  I'm in the same position, but came across super mutan brute and got distracted before getting too frustra... : nevlos
  • Hey there Fallout 3 suck buddy! : Finestaut
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  look around for the brotherhood of steel, they should be fighting super mutants : oHnOES
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    I've run into them a few times, Once they sent me into a building after one of their compatriots, but he : Finestaut
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      there should be a huge war going on where you are if you followed the markers on your map and went in the : oHnOES
      • Guess I took the wrong tunnel. I'll go back to megaton and start over. Thanks. : Finestaut
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        I must've done something different because when I got there, there was no war, just mutants everywhere. : mroizo40
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          it was probably random but it was fucking cool because they had laser pistols and shit : oHnOES
          • i walked into a war : italiano3d
• That bit took me ages. It's really hard to find the right route, especially overland (don't think you can... : Don Soleone
• the best way i found to get to the radio station was to backtrack through the tunnels a bit. turned out ... : senor135

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• if by dying you mean a flash bang or something drops and the screen goes white... that is suppose to happ : Helios150

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  George Clooney : skitzo
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    and I maxed out his charisma! : skitzo
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      I think you're going to have to take the lady killer perk and wear the sexy underwear : mroizo40
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        I just found the sexy nightware last night and lady killer was the first perk i picked! : skitzo
        • I think my next play through I'm going to make a high charisma/intelligence female and get the black wido... : Horn
• Whyll Which is my post apoc rendition of my own name. : DrZettl
• Alfred Parker. I can't wait to start eating people. : Horn
• Doom Lord : CrustaR
• I usually call my guys Bruce Wayne in single player games... hehe. : barichnikov
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  Snarf Fucklestein : Haku-Jin
  • lol. great. : Goblin au
• Zithro Powers. I don't know why, I thought of it randomly. : dpgagnon
• Eastwood gun slinging lady killer mcbadass :-o : riedlos
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  Nice Tits ( . Y . ) adolescent, I know, but funny to see it on the kill contracts people have taken ou... : Caboose
  • Take out Nice Tits : PlayfulPuppy
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  Doug. : Degenerate
  • lol : hamachi
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  Adam. (Because when I get done in the wasteland he'll be the only guy.) : Fyunch Click
  • Sup same character name buddy? : CrazyPants
  • It also sounds like Atom : spiderfill
• Stupid Asshole : two50six
• Lexington. : skankcore
• Roland (it's my middle name) : Juno
• Abacus : deepburnt
• Dick Dong : tomservo
• Hazard : bagelcc
• Max Bangor. : Finestaut
• Dirk Hardball : Penis Brittle
• Rocksteady : Goblin au
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  Cockfoster. : Splinebastard
  • That's the end of the piccadilly line no? : RogerDandy
• I also made one called Homeboy2000K whom I promtly radiated to death in a very shallow pool of water as s... : Splinebastard
• I just did the old trick of using the first thing you look at. Newborn baby is now called 'Machine tha... : PlayfulPuppy

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  It's possible to get one in Megaton, but you have to save all villagers at once. Now how do you do that? ... : Don Soleone
  • not sure only option i have is to activate. not disable. : italiano3d
  • nm got it working. thanks : italiano3d

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• I'm finding myself more and more in the same boat these days. I still enjoy the feeling of exploring open... : etherealrhythm

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• Stealing Independence is pretty cool and it's right near the location for a main quest job so it can be d... : Degenerate

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• Sure you can sell things. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out how. : Don Soleone
• You should keep some of the "useless" items, sometimes you run into some idiot who wants vasts amouts of ... : Splinebastard

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  Alright, bout four hours of Fallout 3 so far I guess? More, probably. My feelings are somewhat changed. I... : SpaecKow
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    I disagree with this statement: "The direction should be coming from the story, and the atmosphere, but i... : DinK
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      One of the things I like most about games like this is that *I* direct how I progress and what I do. ... : SpaecKow
      • Speak for yourself, but I'm doing things for "story" reasons, even if they're not always explicit quest r : Arcanum
  • Yeah I totally agree with you SpaecKow. The quests were far more interesting in the previous games. Many ... : kevgspiesses
  • Strange I really like Three Dog, although he isn't a very "deep" character. I totally enjoyed all his rad... : Don Soleone
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  I'm not with you on all of this, but the fetch quest for the radio DJ was really jarring. Up until then, : Caboose
  • Yeah don't get me wrong, this is just me, I personally don't like these characters, if others do then mor... : SpaecKow
• It wasn't as bad as I had feared. They have however removed what made the series great. The ability t... : Splinebastard

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  Haha crazy. I think i bumped in to Hoss outside from one of the metro stations near Megaton (Marygold?).... : SigENeaT
  • That's the same place I bumped into him for the first time. He's a moron. Charged right through. He died ... : Caboose
• I also had a strange moment: I ran into Palladin Ross with another brotherhood guy at the Marygold Statio... : Don Soleone

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• Yes the items there are related to another quest. Come back later. : mroizo40
• Down in the sewers I found experimental self-MedXing power armor!!! : Majuju

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  Random pictures of me punching super mutants: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryatrick/punchingmutants... : guido anchovy
  • Very entertaining. I'll have to try the unarmed route for a playthrough. : skankcore
  • That first shot is so awesome. : pupismyname
  • hahaha you punched him so hard his head flew off : deject
  • And I thought beating them to death with the spiked wood was fun :( : Mondo
  • holy lol : tomservo
• I can't believe you took on the Behemoth. I figured my melee character wasn't going to have much luck so ... : Caboose

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• I ran into a stuttering problem on 360 too. Something in the world geometry got borked and I saw several ... : Caboose

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  Man they would have to stand in place for a long time. I used that pool to irradiate myself all the way ... : mwasher
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    not if you are close to the bomb, it goes 2 a sec : oHnOES
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      600/2 = 300 seconds 300 / 60 = 5 minutes : mwasher
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        oic... : oHnOES
        • im not very smart : oHnOES
      • shoulda drank the water too.... woulda given you +20 every time you drank it.... took me only like 1 minu... : riedlos
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    If you're doing that for Moira, you can drink the water which gives you 20 rad/sec while you're drinking.... : deject
    • Nothing like tasty toilet water to give a nice glow. : Horn
• He died anyways in my game. Before I did anything with the bomb. : afrochops
• Then how come the annoying preacher never keels over? : skankcore
• You know, I don't actually think that's the case. I'm fairly certain NPCs don't actually get irradiated. ... : lplasmatron
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  Actually, it's not the irradiated water. You can tell because the preacher is always in it but he never d : Caboose
  • heh I did this to a security guard and regular guy in Rivet City. Up on the top observation deck from the : judge
• Megaton spoilers: If you rat out Burke to Simms, there are several ways that quest can end with Simms' de : Finestaut
• Yeah, I noticed that too. In my game Nova is lying dead on one of the stairs? Also Walter who is in cha... : mnsnota

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  He showed up as red on the compass so I killed him. Took all his crap, too. : skankcore
  • Put on his jacket before you talk to traders/merchants for +5 barter skills. : skankcore

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• If you help you get the blueprint for it : Mondo
• If you've killed who? The kid from the town, Ian, is (stupidly, in my opinion) still linked to the town's : Caboose

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• As far as I can tell the answer is no. Perception no longer governs your % to hit with all ranged weapons... : fyrie

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  I've only broken one or two so far. Just don't hold down WASD long enough that the pressure breaks the b... : Sapiens
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    Bobby pins always break on the third failed try, so as long as you quit out and restart the minigame afte... : Caboose
    • thats cheating :( : oHnOES
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      That's not true at all. I've gone longer than 3 tries without breaking them. It's a matter of being gen... : valael
      • or feel a rumble : oHnOES
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        I thought I'd gone longer than 3 tries too, until I went back and experimented with it. I'm playing on... : Caboose
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          no matter how fucking hard i try, even on easy locks, the bobby pin breaks on the 3rd attempt. this is o... : mwasher
          • I guess that's a 360 thing then, maybe something to do with the controller. Only time I lose bobby pins ... : valael
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            You're just bad at it :P I read this thread last night and went and tested it out, the furthest one made ... : Juno
            • PC or 360? : Caboose
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  I have no idea what I'm doing with the keyboard mouse. This is one instance where I wish I had a controll... : Pettytheft
  • Pro tip, when the lock stops moving dont move the mouse or it will snap the pin. : SigENeaT
  • It's really not complicated. Like at all. You move the mouse back and forth to change the angle of the ... : DinK
  • How to pick locks: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18324245#itemanchor_18324245 : Arcanum

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• I've gotten a couple of random drop laser rifles off of some bounty hunters who were after me. : SeaLlama
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  There are guys wandering around near Wheaton Armory (in the eastern wilderness, kinda close to the scrapy : Caboose
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    Maybe I should think about using Small Arms for a while until I can find an easier cache of EW supplies. ... : Psigun
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      I don't think you can really avoid using small guns in this game. It doesn't mean you have to tag it tho... : Caboose
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        Do tag skills even matter that much in this game? In the originals, your tag skills raised at twice the ... : Finestaut
        • No -- tag skills are one of the many things from the earlier games that Bethesda didn't really capitalize... : kevgspiesses
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  One fell out of the sky that's better.... : Mondo
  • "firelance" it's badass : Mondo

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  Yeah, I loved that. I had to kill him. I wouldn't feel right doing anything else. : valael
  • I decided to give his the ointment so the wastelands would one day flourish : warcrow
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  I'm on my way there. Harold's in the game then? : SpaecKow
  • ;) : warcrow
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  I found a small cave back there in one of the pools where Harold is. Did anyone else go in there? I bump : Caboose
  • Nevermind, it's just the shortcut exit for the Harold's Heart quest line. Nothing special. : Caboose
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  Quest Rewards for that area (in case any of you are power-gaming it and will make your choice based on lo : Caboose
  • Hmm, correction on that first one - I got the +10 Speech item info from someone else, but when I loaded t... : Caboose

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  if you look in the subway station where the drug making ghoul is theres a closet and a manhole cover that : Degenerate
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    yeah, that's where I went and it led to another train station. are they down in that tunnel somewhere? al... : edgewise
    • yeah theyre there down in one of the dead ends : Degenerate
    • Booby traps are awesome!! Free frag mines and grenades! At a certain point the tunnel bends off to th : Caboose

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  I think it means you have 3 letter in the right positions. : deject
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    Yes, it does. : skankcore
    • i didnt know this until like yesterday. i felt so stupid for not realizing that : oHnOES
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  Since nobody is reading the manual you probably don't know about the bracket bonuses either. If you find... : DinK
  • What!!! I thought I read the manual, but did not pick EITHER of those up. And here I thought the hacking ... : nevlos
  • Oh snap! That's awesome! : Arcanum
  • I didn't read the manual since I bought it on Steam. :( : deject
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  Here's how to hack: 1. look at the words and find the ways that big groups of them are similar. (Maybe ... : Caboose
  • nice explanation. i really dont have to use paper though. i didnt know or forgot about the enclosed c... : oHnOES

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  Yes I got the level 2 of that schematic - I bought it from a caravan (he randomly travels the wasteland, ... : mroizo40
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    Hmm, sounds like I'll have to stop fast-traveling so that I can bump into the caravan dudes more often. ... : Caboose
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      The first caravan dude you see (outside of Megaton) gives you a clue as to the best place to find caravan... : tashtego
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        The town he mentions? Does it get put on your map after that, or do you still have to explore for it? : Caboose
        • it's on your map. it's way the fuck over on the east side of the map. there's a really, really funny ques... : tashtego
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      I followed a caravan around so i could see where they were going and so that i had some traveling buddies... : alphablu
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        Which guy was it? I've invested in a couple of them, it's neat : Juno
        • I forget, his name started with an H, maybe Hi or Ha.. he was a weapon seller though, that's where i got ... : alphablu
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          Is the investing worth it? I haven't been back to Canterbury since finishing off that AntAgonizer vs Mec : Horn
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            Did you ever find The Mechanist? I went all over that fucking factory/forge and couldn't find him anywher : tashtego
            • Yeah, he's definitely there. I think there's a hidden switch for the door into his room. IIRC you have to : Caboose
• I just bought a level 2 from a merchant, so it's definitely possible. It's not listed as level 2 or anyth... : Caboose

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• this post is on the little comment box. spoilers and all : oHnOES
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  Same for me. Although only after I reloaded because I didn't do anything about it the first time. I expec : Caboose
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    i just let him get shot because his naivete offended me : dirge23
    • LOL : Mondo
  • I was too slow :[ : kpxkrnjc
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  My zero points invested in any gun skill pretty much ensured that poor sap's fate. : Admiral Crunch
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    I hope you're wearing his outfit in rememberence : Mondo
    • I love his cowboy hat :P : Juno
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  I let him die so I could kill both of them and take their stuff. : edgewise
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    If you kill them both I don't think you get a house of your own. You can use Simm's house,, I think, but : Caboose
    • You can- his son gives you the house when you disarm the bomb. That's what I have done in my game. It's n... : tashtego
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  Huh, did he survive? He still died on me even though I critically hit Burke and he died before taking the... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • He didn't die before taking the shot. If you don't kill him while he's in his draw weapon animation, he'... : Arcanum
  • Yes and thanked me : Mondo

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• i took care of em, I sided with Roy Phillips and let the Ghouls in through their metro access. They turne : cygnus
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  When I find Burke, I'm gonna kill his ass until dead just on principle. : Arcanum
  • Then you should eat it. : mroizo40
• Weird- in my game he died very quickly. I'll have to let him live next time to see all this that you are ... : tashtego

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  You can only have one real follower ( and Dogmeat), so if someone else is following you, it's probably no... : lplasmatron
  • I have Charon and Sydney . I can heal Sydney but not Charon . I'm guessing that Sydney will leave : mroizo40

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  http://www.shacknews.com/frame_laryn.x?root=18329797&id=18329797&mode=refresh : judge
  • http://a.bebo.com/app-image/6898668102/5411656627/PROFILE/i.yaquiz.com/img/q/u/08/05/30/600px-OB-npc-Luci... : The_Archon

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• I shot a grenade that a raider was holding. It blew up, but the raider didn't die. : Arcanum
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  I shoot the arm so the weapon is in better condition when I loot their corpse : derelict515
  • This man understands the true spirit of Fallout. : Caboose
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    Injuring their leg is fun. They'll start limping away once they take enough damage. :D : Arcanum
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      I survived my first super mutant encounter by crippling his ass while one of those armored crab people wa... : Admiral Crunch
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        shit like this is making this game so awesome. : Juno
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          I got one of those Fire Ant Guardians frenzied so it started attacking another guardian so I just sat bac... : deject
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            Same here, antennae shots ftw. : skankcore
            • Even better, throw down a mine and aggro them so they walk over it. They move so slowly that the antennae... : Caboose
  • I generally shoot the arm, but I figured it'd take too much to cripple a mutant arm. And the grenade e... : DrZettl
  • Hilarious statement when taken out of context! : nevlos
• I shot the flamer out of the hands of a raider and she left it on the ground, pulled out a pistol and kep... : grendel
• Holy crap I'm going to start putting points into small guns just so I can do this. : Caboose
• hah ive used my sledge hammer on guys and it usually gets a critical hit, sometimes enemies drop their we... : -=kodiak=-
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  I swear I had a super mutant bat a mini nuke out of the air back at me. : nurglich
  • President Eden did say he was going to bring back baseball. : mroizo40
  • You are kidding right? It didn't fly back to you!? : Don Soleone
• Say what? Now THIS I have to try. : avatar_58
• That's pretty cool that you can do that. : kevgspiesses
• Yes I did this with a missile launcher as well, felt clever! : chungathebunga
• Yeah, I shot a grenade out of the air before it got too close to damage me. Badass. : megarust32
• Hell yeah, man, I'm a gunslinger like that. I don't wear no armor, slows me down on the draw :P : Juno
• Some raider bitch was chasing me with a flamer and her right arm was my highest percentage chance of a hi... : deject
• I caused some righteous hilarity by hitting a frag grenade in a mutants hand with my sledgehammer. : Finestaut
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  Can you bat grenades back? I dreamed of it last night, and haven't had a chance to try! : nevlos
  • I haven't used a bat, but every time I've successfully attacked a grenade, it's gone boom. : Finestaut

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• So from skimming the thread I think I've found the answer. : Wadmaasi
• That's hilarious. It's like a Naked Gun gag : spiderfill
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  yeah, I killed him as he whipped his gun with VATS and got good karma for it. The sheriff is safe and sou : cdbeckman
  • I must not have enough skill with Small Guns, 'cause that's what I did. Some other threads have said you... : Wadmaasi
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    But you don't get this stuff: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18321468#itemanchor_18321468 if you do ... : Fyunch Click
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      If you save him you get your own house in Megaton with a robot servant and a display case for the bobbleh : Caboose
      • I did this too. Smashed his smug, sunglass-wearing face in like a watermelon. Lucas Simms just effin' va : Finestaut
      • you still get the house if you disarm the bomb, you just get it from his son. : Fyunch Click
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  Like everyone said, pop VATS and mow him down as he's drawing his firearm. The sheriff actually thanks yo... : nevlos
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    I suspect what's really going on here is that Simms' death is a scripted event, not an actual combat acti : Finestaut
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      If you pay very close attention, you can see the gun's action work. Other than that, yeah, I think you'r... : Arcanum
      • I wasn't kidding in my original post: I shot the gun out of his hand 3x, and each time another one just r... : Wadmaasi
      • I actually went through this several times. On more than one occasion, he was down before he had a chanc : Finestaut

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  hit select! : oHnOES
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    I'm a PC. So, ESC, prolly? : Wadmaasi
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      i think its T on the pc. theres a 'wait' button thankfully : oHnOES
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        Son of a bitch, it's right there on page 2. Thanks! : Wadmaasi
        • its cool, i didnt know about it either : oHnOES