
Today, the DLC Broken Steel was released for Fallout 3. Check the tags before you continue reading fag, you’ve been warned.
Now, as per usual with Bethesda, something went horribly wrong by releasing this on schedule (even though they did delay it once already). This is of course that nobody using GFWLive can play it! So PCfags got screwed on this one for the time being. Some XBROS got screwed too, but I didn’t, and that’s what counts.
Moving on, I was actually pretty pumped for this release. There are several new perks and a level cap of 30 with this add on (which you must purchase to get these, poor person). The majority of these perks suck, actually, but extra stat points and a few good perks make it alright. A few examples - Puppies, which revives Dog Meat, means I will actually bring Dog Meat with me outside of the cave he’s been sitting next to for thirty hours. When you hit level 30, you can pick a perk called Nuclear Anomally, where you explode when you drop below 20HP. I think this probably kills you, but holy shit, that sounds fucking awesome! You are a nuclear weapon of walking asshole. Just imagine the possibilities on your dick characters - you can be a murderous, rampaging asshole who, when finally stopped, takes out everyone anyway. Then there’s also a perk called “Almost Perfect” which boosts all your stats to 9, so you can probably plan the perfect character around that…or something. The best part, of course, is that all other perks are still there, so you can pick Ninja AND Grim Reaper’s Sprint. Dr. Bro, if you’re reading this - combined with a weapon from the DLC called the Man Opener, which is essentially a fully automatic, much more damaging Death Claw, you become pretty baller. Too bad POS3 doesn’t get DLC for Fallout 3 (but I heard it looks shittier anyway). Moving on again!
You basically beat the game the same way as you did initially. Instead of going to the main menu, though, the screen blacks out into loading, and you wake up in the shitty excuse of a Pentagon. You can tell the Brotherhood to fuck off instead of helping them, I think, but I wanted loot, so I helped them. It starts off with you going to beat the shit out of the Enclave again with Liberty Prime, and this is pretty cool, until the Enclave decides that they’ve had enough of your games and calls an oribtal strike on you. This would be cool, except it basically blows Prime to pieces. He hasn’t been fixed when I finished this quest, by the way. As anyone who’s played Fallout 3 and has half a brain can tell you, the Brotherhood is a bunch of retarded lazy assholes, so instead of fixing up Prime immidiately, they opt to let you, lone person with a questionable background, to save the Brotherhood. This is awesome, actually, for reasons yet to be explained. So, you go off to Old Olney or whatever its called and retreive a Tesla Coil. You get to control Death Claws, sort of, this would of been awesome but I didn’t really get to use it since I was impatient and wanted to get shit moving.
Once you get the Tesla Coil, you once again take orders for no reason and go to an Air Force base. Via the Presidential Metro….this came off as “oh great another fucking train level” but for once its semi interesting. There’s about 50 Sentry Bots, ghouls, rapists (new ghouls), and a working train that you ride in to the Air Base. Now, I have the game set to Very Hard (because I’m boss) so I took the pussy route and snuck past most of the Sentry Bots. You’ll eventually run into some knock off Portal AI that tells you in order to get to the base, you have to stop an “intrusion”. Or you can shut down the sentry bots and kill everything, but the new enemy is quite a bitch. The Sentry Bots that become friendly then become fucked up after about a minute or so because of the new enemy, Rapist. It’s called Reaver Ghoul in game but don’t let that fool you, this thing is a god damn fucking rapist. There’s about five of them total, and they all have more HP than any other enemy in the game it felt like. They throw little green grenade shit balls, which read as gore in VATS, so I guess they’re falling apart at you with really stupid powerful attacks. Once this is done, it’s on the train, choo choo, off you go.
Now you arrive in a fairly large Air Base and move to some crate to pick up a conveniently located new weapon, the Tesla Cannon. It’s basically a weaker version of Liberty Prime’s lasers, but it’s a nice weapon. Now you work your way to the Air Base to lower a ramp located on the Mobile Crawler (it’s weird) the Enclave ride around in. Yes, once again the bad guys put switches in dumb places. There was a shit load of stuff going on, mainly the war between the Brotherhood and the Enclave, and for some reason there are about 30 Hellfire Enclave (steroids) walking around aimlessly looking for me, so I once again did the manly thing : snuck through everything. There’s also about 80 Vertibirds just flying wherever the hell they want to, and I shot one out of the sky because it looked ugly. Like I was going on about though, once you hit the switch, the “Mobile Crawler” (giant oil tanker on wheels?) opens up, and you go back to it.
This actually was a fairly big…crawler, thing. I disabled something and a random nerd ran up to me. I shit you not, this guy, in the middle of a warzone, Bethesda decided that it’d be an interesting idea to put some asshole here. As far as I could tell, after he gave me his story, he did jack shit. I didn’t bother killing him because he had a Sentry bot and a Gutsy with him, those things annoy me. So, crawling through the crawler, randomly killing shit since I’m in a Chinese Stealth suit, get to the top. The terminal for the Orbital Strike, since Sattelite weapons are located in the middle of computer rooms, yeah whatever. This is where the cool stuff was! Because, while there were a few targets, I figured, “shit only one will work but let’s try it”.
Megaton - ERROR: Sattelite not in proper orbit
Rivet City - ERROR: Sattelite not in proper orbit
Canterberry Commons - ERROR: Sattelite not in proper orbit
Mobile Crawler - This is only for self destruct! Needs final confirmation. Confirm?
Nah.
Pentagon, “The Citadel” - Warheads launched!
Wait, what?
So the quest updated accordingly, as though I had blew up the Crawler. For some reason, the Crawler actually had a huge explosion too, although it didn’t do anything to it. So you hop into the hijacked Vertibird, and fly back to the Citadel….except, they can’t contact it.
FUCKYEAHIBLEWUPTHECITADEL!
You get there, shits in flames, basically like a firebomb hit it. Everyone got pissed and tried to kill me while I leveled up since I finished the quest. I actually reloaded after this point though, because it’s the same karma you get from blowing up Megaton, and I was playing my neutral character.
So, back track a bit. You get on the hijacked Vertibird, and land near the Air Base control tower. You watched a -lot- of missiles blow the Crawler, some random Brotherhood guy cheers, and you get back on the bird and return. Then you don’t get shit, as usual, and you have two quests that are open forever - the Kill Supermutants for some reward I haven’t bothered to find out yet (because I quit after beating this quest), and the “Bring me Sensor units to fix Liberty Prime!” quest, same as the last one.
Enclave still spawn randomly, so you still get the Hellfire armor (which is like a common T51b), so…it’s all good. There are a few things I didn’t actually bother to check, such as “Is tat water clean”, but eh, who cares.
The ending sucked for this quest in my opinion, but so did Fallout 3’s original one, and you get to keep playing. So this is worth buying, and if you don’t, you’re a faggot.
THIS IS 11/10 MATERIAL! And also 1,412 words too long.
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