New Fallout 3 screens and details

by Terrence Stasse { Jul 7th 2008 at 8:45PM }

In a second fan Q&A over at Bethesda, Todd Howard has answered a collection of fan questions taken from the forums. The questions asked range from armor and inventory to children, non-human creatures and more. Check the list below for a quick run down. Oh, and Todd also released a few new screens too.

Armor sets come in two pieces, body and head
Inventory limit is based on weight
Children and essential NPC's are unkillable
Good/Evil karma system relating to in-game choices
Crimes committed against specific groups are known to all in the group throughout the game world
NPC's navigate via a mesh instead of via a point to point system like in Oblivion and Morrowind
Like Oblivion the game uses a skill list and those skills determine maximum possible effectiveness in battle

More after the break

Gallery: Fallout 3

Faces are customizable, but not bodies
The player can crouch and sneak around
Many of the old Fallout traits return, only now as skill perks
Fast travel is only available to places you've been before
Not all non-humans are hostile: "some can be reasoned with and even hired."
Player "perception" functions like the Oblivion compass

Tags: bethesda, bethesda-softworks, fallout, fallout-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bluezy @ Jul 7th 2008 8:55PM

Sounds good. Can't wait.

Shwan @ Jul 7th 2008 8:59PM

wow to be honest i expected there to be more customization out of this game but still good enough for me

SovietSpartan @ Jul 7th 2008 9:32PM

Dude this game is gonna be so awesome. You can blow peoples legs off with a SA VZ61.

SovietSpartan @ Jul 7th 2008 9:33PM

Dude this game is gonna be so awesome. You can blow peoples legs off with a SA VZ61.

guidedbyvoip @ Jul 7th 2008 11:20PM

I heard that you can shoot peoples legs off with a submachine gun!!! How AWESOME is thT!!

SovietSpartan @ Jul 7th 2008 11:22PM

SA VZ61 "Scorpion" (also in COD4 and MGS 3) is a submachine gun btw lol. I think thats the gun in the picture, but I could be wrong.

refinedsugar @ Jul 7th 2008 10:04PM

Wow. Should I be more or less scared about the transition now? Bullet points like those make it seem like Oblivion 1.5 with a touch of post-apocalypse and not a Fallout game.

Dimeadz @ Jul 7th 2008 10:26PM

" You will find lots of junk as you progress through the game which can be converted via schematic diagrams to create what we've been promised will be amazingly powerful weapons."

Taken from http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/pc/previews/131888.Fallout-3/page3/

guidedbyvoip @ Jul 7th 2008 11:22PM

I have been sold on this game from the initial announcement, but deets like these make me want to preorder the uber-edition.

P7 @ Jul 8th 2008 12:06AM

Damn, one of my proudest moments was managing to finish Fallout 1 *as* a child killer. When you did that *nobody* in the game liked you. Nobody. :)

Niko_Bellic @ Jul 8th 2008 12:34AM

In the GAME nobody liked you? Oh i see :)

P7 @ Jul 8th 2008 12:38AM

I suspect the results would be the same in real life ;) Maybe even harder to finish that game.

Maverick Saturn @ Jul 8th 2008 9:32AM

Can't wait to get my hands on this game, they are trembling.

Although the head and body armour thing...hmm, no gloves or trousers?

JHTM @ Jul 8th 2008 12:21PM

i believe that the orig fallout games 1, 2 and tactics were simply one set of armor - I THINK anyhow, i agree though it would be cool.

Personally i cant wait for this game - who like me remembers the time the Fallout 1 demo came out for the PC and you shot someone for the first time with the sub machine gun and you got the awesome execution annimation ??? i mean come on how cool was that !!!

the key to this games success is how it translates into the 1st and 3rd person environment and how well the turn based - esque VATS systems turns out. Personally i cant see why anyone would want to play this game in FPS - i find that viewpoint old hat now and wouldnt do Fallout's art justice - i mean we all want to see our avatar in his shiny vault 101 boiler suit right ?? ;)

hopefully bethesda deliver a quality game like oblivion - my money is on them delivering and delivering big !! then again i am majorly biased towards the fallout IP