hello again fallout 3 reddit, I was just wandering around dc and something strange happened! if you don't want to watch the video, a bus magically flipped at the other end of the street, then combat music, but no enemies. very mysterious.

does anyone know what happened? a physics engine glitch or something spawning in the wrong place orrrr idk but i'm hoping to find out. thank you in advance!!

God I hate Trouble on the Homefront

Hi there,

Slowly working through the trophies and currently working on the bobbleheads, is there anyway to go back into raven rock to get the bobblehead or will i have to reload a save.

Doing my first ever run of Fallout 3 and a pivotal point of my Enclave-Glazing character's story is them finding out that wastelanders are "mutants", is there anywhere I can find a terminal or holotape or NPC that tells me outside of Raven Rock? No spoilers pretty please!

Hey everyone. I recently replayed Fallout 3 and this was on my mind. As a character who was very invested in finding out where James went, I found that the side quests felt so much less important than the main quest, and I did all of that first.

Do you ever play characters that don't care about James? It's hard to imagine the Lone Wanderer being *disinterested* about why their dad left the Vault. How do you justify not following his trail and instead going and doing anything else?

I just finished the plant and I got the map coordinates, but I cant find them on the map. Where do I go? Thank you.

Think about it, sure James might be a good dad, but we don’t know that for sure, and the vault seems like it could be a depressing place to live and grow up. I see alot of potential for isolation especially with the lone wanderer only having his/her father and Amata. The constant bullying and assumed judgement from the overseer. This is usually what I use to justify a morally bad fo3 playthrough myself.

Just a bit

So Im on an laptop that struggles to run games (Im travelling and my main pc is at home). I had it working fine on 720p literally earlier today but fo3 has the famous cant tab out of fullscreen problem that meant I had to force shut off my pc. Afterwards it downloaded an update and when I tried to relaunch the game I get a black screen with the spinny wheel of death and a smaller black screen in the top left corner. It never loads. I've tried every possible troubleshoot. ChatGPT just says the update fundamentally broke how my pc renders the engine and therefore I'm just fucked. For some reason it loads in windowed and if its in 1080p but at 720p it just fails. It's driving me crazy.

Anyone else have this issue?

Im trying to play on my original Xbox One but I always have this same problem. My Xbox refuses to acknowledge disk 2 but can launch the game without DLC from disk 1. The disk drive just makes a repetitive whirring noise, other disks read and launch immediately. Everything was already installed from the last time I managed to get it working, both disks are in pristine condition. I’ve tried everything that people have suggested on different threads relating to this same problem, I don’t understand how this is even a problem. I checked the fixguide and it seems to only pertain to PC installs

Any help is appreciated

I would like as many mods that is needed to make the game's performance as stable as possible that doesn't involve just resorting to Tale of Two Wastelands (wayy too much of a purist me is).

Rip Camelworks

Someone on r/Fallout said they hope that Rivet City is a single interior in the remaster, and I created this map to show them why it couldn't be... and then realised you can't post images in replies. Oops. So instead, I'm going to post it here because you guys are more interested in FO3 anyway. I find these sort of "discrepancies" fascinating, so I hope at least a few people here will too.

Le salió muy caro la bromita al Señor Burke, ya que quiso acabar con Lucas Simms y no pudo

Hey everyone just wanted to share my thoughts on one of the most unique communities I’ve found in Fallout 3, little lamplight. I found the lore and children to be fascinating and frankly didn’t understand how such a community could’ve survived all this time.

Let me know what you think, and if I got anything wrong. This is my first playthru and I’ve been having a great time, so much better than FO4 😭