Fallout 3 (Survival Edition) Cheats (PS3)

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're heading into seemingly-hostile territory or simply want to survey the area
around you for enemies you might not yet see, try hitting the VATS button over and over
again as you make your character turn around, searching all angles. Doing so will alert
you to any enemies you may not yet see by zooming in on them in VATS mode. You'll
realistically be unable to do damage to your foes from such a distance, but it's a good
way to spot foes before they spot you so you know what you're getting yourself into before
the crap hits the fan.

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.

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!

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's an awesome technique to save Action Points (AP) used in VATS. If you're feeling
confident when fighting an enemy or group of enemies, simply aim at an enemy in VATS, but
don't fire. You'll retain your AP but still be aiming at the part of the enemy's body in
question that you were in VATS. If you shoot quickly enough, you should still strike the
desired area without having to expend any AP whatsoever.

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 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 great technique, if you're carrying too much stuff and find yourself
encumbered. You know how you can search downed enemies' corpses for the goods they carry?
Well, you can also place your own goods onto the corpse. Since corpses tend to stay around
after they die seemingly indefinitely (or, at least, for a good long time), you can drop
presently unneeded items onto the corpse of a foe you've slain, and then go back at a
later date to get your stuff back. This is a great way to never become encumbered.

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!

Here is a great way to earn seemingly infinite amounts of caps, items, repairs and
ammunition.

Find any shop-based trader. The supply shop woman in Megaton is an ideal choice. She has
some high value items that you would otherwise spend a fortune on, including all the stuff
for your house and a schematic for the Rock-It Launcher.

1. Sell her any stuff in your inventory that you don't need and complete the transaction.
 This will boost the amount of money she has.

2. Find something in your inventory that you have two of, or that you have one of as well
as her. Sell this found item to her.

3. Check that the two like items are of different values once they are in her inventory.
The bigger the difference in value, the better and the lower the cheapest item is the
better.

4. Now buy back the cheaper of the two like items and complete the transaction, but do
not leave the trade session. Look for the item in your inventory. The game should have
glitched and the item should have gone up in value dramatically and should be 100%
repaired, even though when you sold the item initially it wasn't.

5. If it isn't 100% repaired for whatever reason, sell the item back to her anyway and
repeat step 3-4, trying a different item if necessary.

6. From here, the game will remain glitched and you will be able to sell the same item
high and buy it back low until you have drained her money completely. If you want, you can
hold onto the item as it will be fully repaired - simply keep it on the final round which
will leave her with a small amount of money.

7. Either sell the item back to her again once she is out of money, or if you are keeping
it, sell her something else of high value and she will owe you that amount. The
transaction price will go dim and remain at whatever amount of money she has left.

8. Search through her inventory and find stuff you need. Stimpaks, ammo, miscellaneous
item, weapons and armor are all fair game. Eventually, the transaction price will light up
again and you may owe her a few caps depending on how much of her stuff you added to the
deal. Complete the transaction.

9. If you wait three days she will have new stock and around 350 caps. The longer you
wait, the more robust her inventory will become and the more caps she'll have for you to
take when you're ready to do this all over again.

Addition by smrtby123: if you do this with a completely broken item, then it will
cost nothing to "buy" back.

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.

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!

In the Publishing wing of Hubris Comics, some terminals will allow you to play a
text-based adventure (ala Zork: The Great Underground Empire) called Reign of Grelok
(beta).  The objective of this game is to kill Grelok, for which there is no physical
reward.  Study up on your text-based adventures before venturing out on your quest: Use
the commands N S E W for directions, and use basic terms to speak to people.  Don't forget
to swear!