I went through an entire playthrough and a half of Fallout 3 before I noticed the little red tick marks for nearby enemies. Before that I periodically went into stealth mode to see if it said CAUTION

EDIT: Just decided to read through the rest of the thread and saw the http://wiki.empiresmod.com/images/d/d3/Thread_Necro.jpg

My hearts out to you bro. There was something about FO3 that I didn't know for about a year but when I found out it made my whole life easier. Can't remember what it was but it was something I used very often. But anyway I feel your pain.

Seriously. I didn't know about the inventory sorting or the continuous drinking ... this after an embarrassing amount of hours playing FO3 and FONV. :shakehead:

Not to be facetious (well...)

R T F M

and the corollary:

R T F W (Wiki)


It's all in there.

I didn't know that either :sadvaultboy:

What?!?

Son of a-
:swear:
:brokencomputer:
:banghead:

This makes two of us. They don't look like buttons to me. I call it poor user interface design.

The first though that came to my mind was 'What buttons???" I've never even clicked near those reverse-arrow-line-termination things. Not even by accident.

AKA you! lol jks

now that's funny!

It's something you could do in the original games too.

I played FO3 for a long time and 200 hours into NV before I saw in a forum that I could turn on a flashlight by holding the pip-boy button down.... would have saved me hours of scrounging in the dark.
I still do not know how to bind stuff to keys.... but I rarely switch weapons or use health items anyway.

Bah-ha-ha-ha! Awesome. :facepalm: all these hours playing FO3 and NV Nd I never caught the scroll arrow thing.

I did get the flashlight, at least.

For stoopids stories: in FO3 I somehow made it all the way down to Rivet City, through the subways, following the MQ and all, without figuring out that opening a container marked with red type meant you were stealing the stuff... so I checked out a trash can in the Rivet City Marketplace, and thought, "Hey, cool! A pack of ciggies!" and took it.
And was gunned down in slow-mo in about three seconds by 12 armed citizens. :tongue: Wait! What?! But-- I--

Hold down the key you wish to bind to and click on the item. Easy enough.

Well, thing i just learned now was that the Strip has http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Magazine_vending_machine. And only because it was the random article on the Vault :facepalm:

I never knew how to put away my weapon, I always got in trouble at Paradise Falls, it doesn't even say in the manual how to do it, I had to google it because even the wiki didn't have it.

I remember playing Morrowind for 3 months before realizing you could pick people's pockets.

LOL, I never knew that either. Just found out by reading this thread. Doh!

Me neither, after 100 hrs I discovered it by accidentally holding down the R key for too long.

Also, I had no idea that the there was a console, kept opening it by mistake and reloading.

Its a conspiracy we all took part in to trick you. How did you manage to find us out! :brokencomputer:

Just to add my two cents: after playing FO3 since it came out I never knew that I could hold some stuff in front of me and move it around (on PS3 push down R3 to lift and again R3 to release). I spent hours trying to figure out how to get items inside those little wood boxes stacked on the shelves or to decorate my crib on a more personalized way. A couple of times during a gunfight I got it accidentally activated and found myself carriyng around a dead body but I tought it was a bug.

Only untilI I got FONV and after watching that tip during the Doc Micht introduction, that's when it hit me : That is how you get that pesky stuff inside the boxes. Also very usefull when trying to steal items when you're being "DETECTED" : Just move it around until getting to a "HIDDEN" spot (no problem at all as long as you don't put it in your pocket) and then pick it up/steal it.

I had no idea about the continuos drinking. Thanks for that one.

"exploding pants" was probably the funniest one i discovered.

i was crouched down and pick pocketting someone, accidentally got a twitch in my mouse finger, clicked and gave them a hand grenade only to notice it start flashing something like "live grenade"

KABOOM !! legs and body parts go everywhere.
hahaha

Thanks for the continuous drinking tip. I never fill my health to full when drinking water because of the insane amount of time i'd have to click X and for the animation to finish .

As for the hotkeys for weapons, i rarely use them. It becomes a nuisance because it feels so blocky to use. Maybe because i'm used to Red Dead Redemption's weapon selection system (Giant wheel to select weapons).

How do you kill the hostages AFTER you've died? :whistling: