This October will mark Fallout 3’s sixteenth birthday and while the game certainly looks dated compared to the video games on offer today, many of its quests are still top-tier. From detonating an atomic bomb for another character’s sick amusement to helping influence an election out in the wasteland, Fallout 3 offers a good amount of diversity in its quest design. While not every quest in the game is to write home about, the ones that will be covered today absolutely are.
Help Moira Create The Wasteland Survival Guide
Fallout 3 is home to a settlement called Megaton and in that settlement is a woman by the name of Moira Brown. While Moira can seem naïve when talking with the player, she means well, especially considering she wants to put together The Wasteland Survival Guide. The guide is meant to help people when traversing the wasteland and she needs the player’s help to do it. It’s a multi-stage quest that will see players traverse much of the wasteland in search of not just supplies, fight monsters, etc.
If instead, you’re the type of person that likes playing evil characters in video games, you can try and talk Moira out of creating The Wasteland Survival Guide. If the player is successful in doing so, they’ll gain the Dream Crusher perk. Dream Crusher is a pretty useful perk that reduces an enemy’s chance to critically hit you by 50%, a 30% discount at Moira’s Craterside Supply, and gives Moira an extra 18 points to her repair skill. Seems pretty good and all it took was killing someone else’s dream, however monstrous that may be.
Blow Up A City In The Power Of The Atom
Speaking of Megaton, The Power Of The Atom revolves around the city of Megaton or should I say, revolves more around its destruction. The city of Megaton is built around an atomic bomb and is considered an eyesore by Allistair Tenpenny and the others who live in Tenpenny Tower. If you want to play an evil or morally grey character you can blow up Megaton and as a reward, you’ll be given a room to stay in whenever your character visits Tenpenny Tower. If you’re worried about killing Moira and ending The Wasteland Survival Guide early, you’re in luck because she becomes a ghoul and you can still finish the quest.
Fallout 3 also gives you the option of not becoming a mass murderer by detonating an atomic bomb and you can get a quest from Megaton’s sheriff Lucas Simms to disarm the bomb instead. Disarming the bomb means Megaton doesn’t become a smoking hole in the ground surrounded by radioactive fallout and you gain 200 Karma. You’ll also gain a house to live in whenever you visit Megaton.
Shoot People In The Head In You Gotta Shoot’Em In The Head
You Gotta Shoot’Em In The Head is a bit of a trick quest in Fallout 3. In the ghoul capital Underworld, you can obtain the side quest from a ghoul named Mr. Crowley who wants the player to find three separate keys while also shooting each target in the head. Once the player collects the keys they can either give them to Crowley and gain the reward thus ending the quest. The trick to the quest is following Crowley to an old military fort where a stash of T-51b Power Armor is held which is why Crowley needed the keys. Players can then kill Crowley and take the power armor for themselves.
Become A Vampire In Blood Ties
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The Fallout games aren’t scared to tackle dark subject matter and that’s also the case in Fallout 3 with the quest Blood Ties. Players can get this creepy quest as early as Megaton by speaking with Lucy West who wants the PC to deliver a letter to her family in the Arefu settlement. Once the PC reaches Arefu, they’ll find out vampiric and cannibalistic treachery is afoot as a group called The Family has been attacking Arefu.
The Family has also taken in Ian West, the brother of Blood Ties quest giver Lucy West after Ian killed and drank the blood of his parents. While you can channel your inner Van Helsing to kill The Family and “rescue” Ian, you can instead broker a deal between them and Arefu. Doing so makes The Family and Arefu become allies and also opens up the ability for the player to learn the Hematophage perk. If the player has the Hematophage perk and drinks a blood pack, they’ll gain 20 Hit Points which depending on how many blood packs the player has, can be a good way to earn back health.
Influence An Election In Election Day
In Fallout 3 there’s an area called the Republic of Dave which contains an unmarked quest called Election Day. If you’ve taken the quest You Gotta Shoot’Em In The Head, you’ll need to visit the area to get the key from RoD’s leader, Dave himself. The player can present themselves as an ambassador of the wasteland with a successful Speech check to get the key that way. Another way to get the key is to rig RoD’s election ensuring Dave loses and someone else wins.
To make sure Dave loses, the player will need to either get Dave’s son Bob, or Dave’s first wife Rosie to run against Dave in the election. Rosie is easily the best choice due to wanting to improve the Republic of Dave while if Bob wins, he just becomes more of a jerk similar to his father. After persuading either one to run, you’ll also need to steal all the votes for Dave out of the ballot box ensuring Dave loses. Once Rosie or Bob wins, Dave will leave his former republic and go to settle in Old Olney where he can most likely be found dead or can be killed by the player; completing two quests at once.
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