Fallout 3 (Collector's Edition) Cheats (PC)

If you're running out of room in your inventory and don't want to ditch any of your gear,
consider trying to find a companion character. These companions can be found at various
places throughout the world and will agree to join you on your journey (temporarily). You
can trade equipment with these characters, which will allow you to dump your equipment on
them, making you virtually unencumbered. Consider this option when you not only need help
with bad guys, but help carrying your crap as well!

If you want to avoid breaking precious Bobby Pins when picking various locks in Fallout 3,
exercise patience. If you've failed opening the lock on the first two tries, chances are a
third try will break the Bobby Pin. If you back out of trying to pick the lock and then
immediately reattempt it, however, your Bobby Pin's strength will reestablish itself,
giving you several more tries. Repeat this technique to never break a Bobby Pin.

Outside of towns like Rivet City and Megaton, you can find thirsty Wastelanders who ask
you for Purified Water. Each time you give these guys a bottle, you will get a slight
boost to your karma. Do it more and more, and you'll gain more and more karma. You can
theoretically do this as much as you want to any of these thirsty characters for as much
positive karma as you desire.

If you are having trouble carrying with over-encumbrance, this cool trick could help you
tote around some extra gear. First go through and clear an area of enemies, then grab
(Click the right analog stick) a 55 gallon drum. They are ubiquitous in most areas. Fill
up the drum by physically picking up items and dropping them in and you'll have an instant
"shopping cart" for all your stuff. You can even fast travel with it -- but when you
appear at your destination the drum falls to the ground and you have to pick it all back
up again. 
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There are 8 followers in Fallout 3.  You must have a certain Karma level for most of them.
 Below is a list of the followers and how / where to get them:

Butch - In Rivet City, after completing Trouble on the Homefront [Neutral Karma]



Sergeant Rl-3 - A robot who can be bought of a wasteland-wandering salesman named
Tinker [Neutral Karma]


Fawkes - Must be saved in Vault 87 [Good Karma] 



Star Paladin Cross - Found in the Citadel [Good Karma]



Jericho - Found in Megaton [Evil Karma]



Clover - A slave bought in Paradise Falls [Evil Karma]

Charon - A ghoul whose contract must be purchased Ahzrukhal in The Underworld [Karma
does not matter]



Dogmeat - A dog found in the Scrap Yard [Karma does not matter]

If you want to earn infinite amounts of good karma, head to Big Town. If you go there at
night, the town will come under attack from a Super Mutant raiding party. For each Super
Mutant you help the few residents of Big Town slay, a small amount of good karma can be
earned. Repeat this process as much as you want for the amount of good karma desired.

Note: this cheat only applies to the Operation Anchorage downloadable content pack.  As
soon as you are able to control your own strike team, you'll be able to get specific
weapon loadouts from a terminal.  If you give these to the Quartermaster, you can go get
another loadout.  Drop all the new stuff and talk to the Quartermaster.  He'll give you
your stuff sans ammo.  That's no problem though, since you can head to the ammo dispenser
for more.  Pick up the weapons on the ground when you're ready to go, or repeat for all
the weapons you can handle.

Head due north from the MDPL-13 Power Station and you'll soon find a small mountain.  On
the east side of this mountain you'll pick up a Recon Craft Theta radio signal.  This will
occur when you are just a bit north of an imaginary horizontal line through Greener
Pastures Disposal Site to the far east.  Search the east side of the slope for a destroyed
house and you'll soon come across the source of the signal just west of that: a downed
flying saucer.  Its pilot can be found below the open cockpit (beware the radiation!). 
Near the pilot is the Alien Blaster and a bunch of ammo rods.  This powerful weapon gets
critical hits frequently and is the bane of Behemoths.  You'll find ammo for it randomly
throughout the wasteland if you're lucky, so use the ammo you'v got sparingly!

The Prototype Medic Power Armor is in Old Olney in the far northeast corner of the world
map. Since you'll encounter many Death Claws, you may want to set the difficulty to "Very
Easy" before exploring this area. On the southern-most street Old Orney is a manhole. Use
it to access the sewers. As you make your way through the sewers, you'll come across a
ladder on your left. Keep moving past it and a downed Brotherhood of Steel Initiate will
be on the ground.  You can take the armor from the corpse.  Here's the kicker: it talks! 
Oh, and it auto-administers Med-X when your limbs are damaged.

Here's a great tip (though it will be obvious for some people).When you hack a computer in
the game, you have four tries to hack it successfully. If you don't hack it successfully
on the fourth attempt (as in, you don't guess the proper password), the station you're
trying to hack will permanently shut down. But if you only try three times and bail out of
the process before trying for a fourth time, the password will reset, giving you three
more options. You can do this indefinitely without risking shutting the terminal down.

Here's a glitch that will allow you to get infinite amounts of experience (as long as your
Speech skill is high enough). Try the following steps:

1.) - Go to Big Town and find the NPC named Pappy.

2.) - Select the dialogue choice “You came here with Bittercup, right?”
If this dialogue choice doesn't show up, find Bittercup, exhaust all of her conversation
chains, and then try speaking with Pappy again. ([Speech 100%] should appear next to the
dialogue choice if your Speech skill is at its highest. If it's not there yet, don't risk
trying to convince him. Speech failure will result in this glitch permanently
disappearing.)

3.) - Selecting that dialogue option successfully will net you six experience
points. Speak to him again and you can get the experience again. Repeat as much as you
want for as much experience as you want.

To try this, you'll need to have the Mister Sandman perk activated, which will mean you
have to be at least at level ten. You'll also need a sneak skill of at least 60. If that
fits your character, then travel to Andale. Andale is full of kids that can't be killed
(killing kids in Fallout 3 is an impossibility). During nighttime, when everyone in Andale
is sleeping, break into various houses and kill the kids while sleeping using the Mister
Sandman perk. They won't die, but you'll still be rewarded experience for having killed
them. You can then repeat the process over and over again for infinite experience points.

Here's a great (albeit cheap) way to gain lots of experience. Before you do anything
that's going to net you some experience (such as picking locks, hacking, et cetera),
change the game's difficulty setting to Very Hard. Then, hack the computer or pick the
lock (or whatever). Successfully doing so on a harder difficulty level will get you more
experience. You can also utilize this technique on mortally-wounded enemies to gain more
experience from them as well. Just be sure to change the difficulty back to a more
manageable level when you're done!

When you're hacking, the excess symbols between viable passwords selected and used to your
advantage.  You'll need to find clusters of symbols bracketed by parentheses, such as
(%$*!^*&&), which can be highlighted as a whole.  Submitting this should result in
a removal of a bad password or fully replenish your attempts.  Remember: you can always
back out and restart to avoid lockout.  Happy hacking!

The game's five Super Mutant Behemoths can be found at the following five locations:
Evergreen Mills, Galaxy News Radio, Jury Station, Takoma Industrial, and The Capitol
Building.

If you have a sneak rating of at least 60, you can attempt this infinite goods trick,
which takes place at Fort Independence. Head to Fort Independence with a bunch of Scrap
Metal in your inventory. Once there, speak with Protector Casdin and tell him you've got
junk you'd like to give him. In return, he'll offer up 5.56mm Rounds, Frag Grenades,
RadAways, and Stimpaks, and you can choose which you want. Then, save your game (in case
you fail the following) and steal your Scrap Metal back from the Protector. Sell the Scrap
Metal back to him over and over again, thereby netting you infinite amounts of 5.56mm
ammunition, Frag Grenades, RadAways and Stimpaks.

Here's another technique for infinite good karma. If you head to Megaton, you can find the
church for the Children of the Atom, religious people who worship the undetonated nuclear
bomb which Megaton is built around. There's a priest who will be near the bomb or in their
building. Talk to him and he'll ask for donations. Give him donations, and you'll get a
positive karma boost. Do this as much as you want for as much karma as you desire.

To bring up the cheats console during gameplay, hit the tilde (~) key. Then, insert the
cheat listed below on the left for the corresponding result on the right.
 

addspecialpoints X - Add indicated amount of Special Points (X = amount)

addtagskills X - Adds indicated amount of Tag Skill Points (X = amount)

advlevel - Level up your character one level

GetQuestCompleted - Complete current quest

getXPfornextlevel - Gain one level

help - List all console commands

modpca Y X - Add indicated amount of points to your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats (Y = stat
type, X = amount)

modpcs Y X - Add indicated amount of points to your skills (Y = stat type, X =
amount)

player.setlevel X - Set player level (X = level)

player.additem 000000F X - Get indicated amount of caps (X = amount)

removefromallfactions - Remove player from all factions

rewardKarma X - Add indicated amount of Karma Points (X = amount)

setpccanusepowerarmor X - Toggle Power Armor use (X = 0 or 1)

setspecialpoints X - Set Special Points (X = amount)

settagskills X - Sets Tag Skill Points (X = amount)

tcl - No clipping mode

tmm1 - All mapmarkers

tdt - Toggle debug display

tlv - Toggle leaves

tgm - God mode

For a list of weapons, armors, items, etc., please click on this archived article.

Here's an interesting way to avoid becoming encumbered by holding too much gear and too
many items. Say you pick up a heavy piece of gear, like forty pound Power Armor, but when
it's added to your inventory, it makes you encumbered. Drop the item and then press the
right analog stick (or corresponding button for PC gamers) to pick the item up and hold it
in front of you. Since it's being held and is therefore not part of your inventory, you
won't be charged for its weight and can get to where you need to go from there without
being too encumbered.

If you want your character to have a pet dog in the game, then head over to an area known
as Scrapyard, which is northeast from Megaton, just over the river. The dog is
automatically named Dogmeat, and you can get him at any time, whether it's early in the
game or otherwise. The dog can attack enemies endlessly and cannot die.

An amendment from druidfire1: Dogmeat can die. Keep him healed using
Stimpaks! Once he's dead, he's dead for good.